iowahawk: The Reel World has a list of 2006 films. Love this: “If we’ve learned anything this year, it’s that the market is really hungry for more good, slow, imponderable stories and dim lighting,” and industry analyst Tim Jarrard of the trade journal Hollywood Reporter. “The industry has listened, and I think the public will…

Apocalypto – Teaser 1 This movie is going to be much harder to market since, unlike The Passion, people don’t know the story; a wordless trailer (to mask the lack of English dialogue) is just going to be strange. Nice to see Bagheera getting some screen time. Hat tip: Libertas.

Entertainment Tonight snagged an early glimpse of Apocalypto (directed by Mel Gibson). It’s a brief clip, with a rapid-fire mess of images (why is that suddenly so headache-inducingly popular?). This is the movie about the fall of the Mayan empire which will be entirely in the Mayan language. Hat tip to Libertas.

Opening a three hour movie on a Wednesday night that wasn’t a holiday appears to have been a serious boner (you know, like a mixup or a SNAFU) for Universal. Honestly, I had no idea this was opening on a Wednesday. Did you? How long ago did you know? In all the advertising for this…

Daily Box Office – Wednesday, December 14, 2005 shows a pretty poor showing for King Kong. Drudge Report is already hyping that it may be a bomb. Frankly, I run a geek news blog and I didn’t know until two days ago that it was opening on a Wednesday. Maybe that’s the problem? I bet…

Hudson Hawk gets its wings clipped by an Agony Booth Mega Review. I wish their site could post new reviews more often. This one’s hilarious just for the many pictures of Bruce Willis mugging for the camera. I never watched Hudson Hawk; the trailer, in which Bruce tried very hard to be funny as he’s…

Two weeks ago on the Dixonverse message board, we started talking about children’s books we’d enjoyed and wished they’d adapt into movies. Someone mentioned the book “How to Eat Fried Worms”; I remember reading that one as a kid. Turns out Walden Media, the family entertainment company that is producing Narnia Chronicles, has “Fried Worms”…

Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65. Here is his filmography. (No complaints about my subject line, please, as I rejected my first one: “Pryor’s Place moves six feet under.”)

– ‘King Kong’ sixth most expensive Hollywood film. This is fascinating, but Peter Jackson’s weight loss is even more impressive. Check out that picture! Someone’s been staying away from the craft services table.