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Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 7th, 2010 | View Comments

Good one, Hollywood: I nearly believed you when you said you lost money on HARRY POTTER 5

Whenever I explain to people that big movie studios (like Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, etc.) don’t make much annual profit (relatively speaking), I’m usually met with blank stares or open incredulity. “But Tentpole: The Movie: Sequel #3 made $xxx million!” they say; “of course they make billions of dollars every year!” That’s not actually the case. Why? Because,...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 31st, 2010 | View Comments

THE HOBBIT continues to go nowhere: director quits

The reason why we haven’t posted a single word on The Hobbit (prequels to Peter Jackson’s monster Lord Of The Rings trilogy) is because every irregular sliver of news has been boring, fluffy, or repetitious of previous news that nothing is happening. To summarise the few nuggets of real information so far exposed: Jackson and LOTR team writing; Guillermo del Toro directing; Andy Serkis, Ian...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 26th, 2010 | View Comments

Ridley Scott planning ALIEN prequels … in 3D

This news has been kicking around for a while, so it’s about time we weighed in on it with our take. It seems almost too good to be true, doesn’t it? That Ridley Scott would return to the Alien universe three decades later and shoot a prequel — or two — himself? After 25 years of crappy sequels and woeful crossovers, the guy who kicked the whole franchise off is coming back to reinvent...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 15th, 2010 | View Comments

PREDATORS sneak peek footage is ambiguous but reassuring

Robert Rodriguez is a name that can pull bucks. Nimrod Antal is not. Some people still think Peter Jackson directed District 9, because his name is the only one they recognise from the poster, but, as with Rodriguez on the Predators reboot, he just served as a producer, a kind of godfather and lightning rod for cash. So having Robert Rodriguez introduce the new sneak peek footage of Predators is a little odd...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 1st, 2010 | View Comments

Summer review round-up: the good, the bad and the ugly

Way back in the beginning of December, in our first week of existence, I posted a list of the five most anticipated films of the summer. Now that it is officially autumn (even if the weather obstinately refuses to accept this incontravertible truth), it’s the perfect time to look back over the past three months and put the summer releases in perspective. There were a few surprises, some hits and some...
Posted by Robin Hare on Feb 14th, 2010 | View Comments

DISTRICT 9 review: brains, brawn and prawns

The teaser trailer for District 9 is one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen. You know the one, where the totally weird and alien thing sits in an interview room, with its face blurred, and clicks and pops and grunts in response to some questions asked by off-screen humans. It hooked my attention and piqued my anticipation more than any other trailer I can remember, that cold, chilling image of an...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 12th, 2010 | View Comments

SPIDER-MAN 4 scrapped in favour of franchise reboot

Hollywood is officially broken. After a recent flurry of casting rumours (Anne Hathaway, John Malkovich as new villains), delays, script problems and fan plot speculation regarding the planned fourth, fifth and sixth Spidey flicks, Sam Raimi has finally had enough of Sony’s shit, and has officially left the building, taking with him Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, the heart and soul of the films, and any...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 7th, 2010 | View Comments

THE LOVELY BONES review: oh god when does it end, please stop, oh no, it’s still going

(Mild spoiler warning — the ending is discussed in brief detail) Watching King Kong was one of the hardest learning experiences of my filmgoing life: sometimes your favourite artists make shit. No matter how much you loved The Lord Of The Rings, the magic of the film lay as much in the ensemble cast, high concept dialogue, rich and immersive art design, memorable and stirring soundtrack, and the epic...
Posted by Robin Hare on Dec 2nd, 2009 | View Comments

Top 5 films to be released this summer: best and worst

It’s that time of year again: it’s sweltering hot, you’re putting the tree up, and you’re grudgingly contacting the rellies to discuss plans for Christmas and Boxing Day–summer is upon us once again. Soon the schools will open their floodgates and unleash a shrieking horde of children upon us, and TV channels are going to stop caring what you watch, resulting in some seriously...
Posted by Robin Hare on Nov 28th, 2009 | View Comments

4 reasons why 3D movies suck (and how AVATAR can fix them)

By now the hype machine has gotten through to every man and his dog: James Cameron is finally making a return to sci-fi action blockbuster goodness. But what’s this? It’s a cartoon full of blue people? And what’s THIS? It’s in 3D? Despite being around literally for a century, three-dimensional images haven’t really caught on at home or at the multiplex. With the revolution of...
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