Movie News Bites – 3/24/07

Takeshi Kaneshiro replaces Tony Leung in Red Cliff
“Japanese heartthrob Takeshi Kaneshiro, best known to western audiences as the romantic warrior in House of Flying Daggers, has replaced Tony Leung Chiu-wai as the lead on John Woo’s Chinese epic, Red…

Saturday, March 24th, 2007 | Posted in Back Door | No Comments »

Jet Li, the villain in The Mummy 3

“Director Rob Cohen (the man who brought you Stealth), has found his ghoul overlord for the second sequel to the hugely popular Mummy franchise, and if you read the headlines, you’ll already know that the man for the gig is…

Saturday, March 24th, 2007 | Posted in Back Door | No Comments »

Magicians spoofing The Illusionist and The Prestige

I just saw a trailer for Hot Fuzz last saturday when I went to see 300. Although I new about the film, I’d yet to see the trailer. Unlike

Monday, March 12th, 2007 | Posted in Back Door | No Comments »

And the Oscars go to…

2007 Oscar Winners:

Best Motion Picture: The Departed

Best Director: Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

Best Actress: Helen Mirren (The Queen)

Best Actor: Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)

Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin…

Monday, February 26th, 2007 | Posted in Back Door | No Comments »

Penelope, Palansky’s Burton-like film

Doing my usual perusal of the internet for more interesting films to see, I stumbled upon a trailer for Penelope, directed by Mark Palansky and starring Christina Ricci as a modern-day princess who was born with a pig’s snout due…

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 | Posted in Back Door | No Comments »

Movie News Bites – 2/13/07

Collin and Weisz get Dirty
According to Empire Online, “Colin Farrell has leapt aboard Philip Noyce’s drama Dirt Music, which already has its female lead in Rachel Weisz. The film will tell the story of a bored woman in a…

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 | Posted in Back Door | No Comments »

Scorsese win at DGA, hello Oscar?

One of the best and truly remarkable directors in the past twenty years (at least) has yet to win an Oscar! But, perhaps this year’s Academy Awards will Lucci (as in Susan Lucci) Scorsese and put the poor man out…

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 | Posted in Back Door | No Comments »

Flash a-aaaaaaaa!!

Flash up the ying-yang! It seems that Warner Bros, Universal and the Sci-Fi Channel are getting on the Flash band-wagon. Why? Why not?

Warner Bros. is set to develop a film adaptation of The Flash, as in the comic superhero…

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 | Posted in Back Door | No Comments »