Third Lord of the Rings Film Unveiled This Fox 411 report says that this is the year (well, technically/2004 is the year) that Lord of the Rings had dang well better get some Oscars. One wonders if the MPAA cannot judge the three Lord of the Rings films as separate films, since they are combining…

It’s my own fault. I’m arachnophobic and I always knew Shelob was coming because I read the Two Towers. I was watching the Two Towers movie, dreading and anticipating the moment that she appears, and then I looked at my watch and realized that the dreaded monster wasn’t going to make it in. So now…

MPAA head Jack Valenti has asked that the major studios not submit screeners for the Oscars because they inevitably get into the hands of pirates. Indeed, almost every Oscar-considered movie ends up on KaZaA long before they will debut on DVD (and often enough, while the movie is still in theaters), often with “screener copy”…

Ahem. Eric’s post on Monday about the new Lord of the Rings trailer struck me as being very late. After all, the trailer had been available ever since it was released on the tail end of a 10-minute look at Return of the King that came with the Two Towers DVD. Ah, but Eric didn’t…

I wasn’t aware that the man who performed “Make ’em Laugh” in ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ had passed away. Then again, I never thought he was still alive. I was also surprised to learn that the Make ’em Laugh piece was largely improvised while Gene Kelly was sick. Amongst his final words: “I’d like to…

Oscar-Winning Director Elia Kazan Dies at 94. I can’t believe that FoxNews didn’t have it’s own obituary to run and had to use this Associated Press obit. Talk about Fair and Balanced; the way this AP bio mentions his naming Communists, you’d never know Kazan was unrepentantly proud of it! Instead it paints him as…

Just a reminder that Christopher Guest’s latest mockumentary, A Mighty Wind, debuts on DVD today! This follows on the heels of his riotous movie about dog shows, Best in Show, and his earlier film about a small town play that hopes to go to Broadway, Waiting for Guffman. Highlights of A Mighty Wind include all…

I don’t know whether to file this under “Movies”, “Marvel” or “Toys and Games”! For the first time, a movie will be packaged with the videogame of the movie. Well, you know that’s too good to be true. It’s actually one playable level of the Xbox Hulk game.

I’m a bit late on this one. I imagine anyone who cares about Firefly must already know about this: ‘Firefly’ to become movie

The MNCBA also tipped me to this good article: Burned at the box office. It analyzes how all of the movies debuting this summer had a second week drop-off in attendance. Industry execs brush this aside as the “new blockbuster paradigm,” but there’s just no way that can be true. Good movies get good word…