According to spies for Fox411, War of the Worlds may be the most expensive movie yet. I’ve got a solid new figure for the budget on “War of the Worlds.” Are you ready? Not counting promotion: $182 million. With promotion, think more like $230 million. This week I was watching my new Jaws DVD, in…

K-Lo points out that there’s a little-known third Brady Bunch movie from 2002 called The Brady Bunch in the White House in which Mike Brady becomes president of the USA and then appoints his wife as Vice President. Now…how bad must this movie be? Consider: * The IMDB page doesn’t have much of anything on…

Herbie: Fully Loaded, which features a far more cartoony Herbie car, inspires this question: The car seems to be self-aware, able to make decisions on its own, and able to communicate with Maggie on an emotional level, and sometimes with pantomime or by example. Why then is everyone, including Lohan, so fixated on how fast…

There’s this joke that is impossible to relate in clean company, and I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve heard it once in an unofficial (and perhaps counterfeit, although the voices and animation are spot-on) South Park clip of Cartman telling the world’s dirtiest joke. Turns out that the Aristocrats joke makes the rounds, with comedians…

This Steve Carell movie, The 40 Year Old Virgin, looks to be amusing.

The ‘Ex’ files: Wilson eyes Regency lead Luke Wilson is in negotiations to topline “Super Ex” for Regency Enterprises. Ivan Reitman is on board to direct the feature, which is being produced by Gavin Polone from a script by Don Payne, an Emmy winner as “The Simpsons” writer/co-exec producer. The story centers on a man…

Universal Rethinks Boxing Film Plan Why did “Cinderella Man” fail? Because it’s called “CINDERELLA MAN”! That is just the worst title I’ve ever heard. If you are going to go to a movie about a tough guy doing everything he can to make it during the Depression, don’t conjure up mental images of a pretty…

Earning His Wings features this terrific appraisal (emphasis mine): The rugged charm of “Batman Begins,” which stars Welsh actor Christian Bale, lies partly its refusal to join the visual-effects arms race that the summer-movie season has lately become. When Nolan does turn to digital wizardry, he uses it to amplify the action, not supply it.…

Mark Steyn’s Batman Forever review resurfaces to mark the debut of Batman Begins. That last Batman film series got so bad so quickly that I’d like to believe that this new film is an all-new start.

Despite this link, you don’t really want to watch this Flightplan trailer as it gives away far too much of the movie’s story. I’ll sum it up for you: Jodie Foster (with some sort of youth implant so she looks 25 now) is in an ultimate locked-room-mystery: her daughter disappears in the middle of a…