Hallmark Entertainment Producing Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits Sequel This is actually news from last year, but I hadn’t heard anything about it! Hallmark is doing it? Odd. I mean, the original was a pretty dark movie that ends with a kid orphaned because his parents do something stupid.

Fox411 reports that an attendee of a “Kill Bill” showing in N.Y.C. shouted out “That looks like it’s gonna be great!” during the trailer for “Return of the King.” (Of course, it was Elijah Wood, so he may be a bit biased.) It’s not the wittiest comment made by a hobbit, though. In the actor’s…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy finally gets approved. I have no clue what took so long. Jay Roach, the Austin Powers director who tried to make the film for six years, now cannot direct it because he’s working on sequels to Austin powers and “Meet the Parents.” (That has to truly suck…missing out on…

Chuck Dixon used to have a website (hopefully soon to return) which listed his favorite war movies. For him and everyone else who likes war films, here are the best war films chosen by members of the military (from USAA Magazine poll, reposted by John McCaslin): 1. “Twelve O’Clock High” 2. “The Bridge on the…

Unfortunately, Bubba Ho-Tep was not released nationwide (yet) as I’d hoped. (My local movie site in Rochester lists it among the upcoming films so I’m hopeful that my little city won’t be skipped over entirely.) The Bubba Ho-Tep site lists release dates for some cities…and Bruce Campbell will be appearing at the shows in Chicago…

Now here’s a guy who loves Hooterville! Actually, the whole site about TV Show Crossovers is a good waste of time. I mean, a good way to waste your time.

Yah, dot’s right. Even though the lahst Terminator was a good Terminator, I think it was a good Terminator, and people ask me, ‘Arnold, are you going to do anottah Terminator?’ I tell dem, yah, I’d like to do anottah Terminator, but I won’t be able to until I’m done running Caulifornyah. Sorry, I know…

Last week we reported on Academy Awards without screeners and how this decision was going to hurt independent films’ chances at the Academy Awards and thus at the box office. Today, several people have weighed in on this. Fox 411’s Roger Friedman devotes almost his entire column to the outrage about this decision. As far…

…is called “Big Fish.”

One of Bill Wiist’s Von Fange Brothers characters is starring in an independent movie: David Von Fange in “Tastes Like Chicken” It follows a small-town superhero with the ability to put the emotions he’s feeling on to other people. A teaser trailer is now online. The film is directed by writer Carlin Trammel (writer of…