Bickering between filmmakers and actors on movie sets

I think we all remember the infamous Christian Bale’s audio tape of him yelling at a cinematographer on the set of Terminator: Salvation. Then a few years ago someone released the clip of David O. Russell screaming at Lily Tomlin on the set of I Heart Huckabees, this wasn’t the first time he got in …

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Hollywood Movie Draft Pitch III: Untitled Sci-Fi by Duncan Jones

As part Anomalous Material's Hollywood Fantasy Draft blog event, I posted my dream cast last week. Now check out the movie pitch below... tentatively titled ... The Renovaré Project (Renovaré is Latin for "to renew" or "to restore") LOGLINE: In the year of 3020, a fraction of the earth population are now living temporarily in …

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Guest Post – ‘X-Men: First Class’ Review

[WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS] Despite my high expectations and fear of being disappointed, I really liked X-Men: First Class. Director Matthew Vaughn did serve up the Bond movie/political thriller cocktail that he promised, and, contrary to his own statement, there is no sappy love song to gum up the works [rtm's note: see comment in this …

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Guest Post: A Birthday Tribute to James Purefoy!

James Brian Mark Purefoy is the super talented and ultra hunky British actor, and he turns 47 today, Friday, June 3. And "hunky" is not just my opinion: he was voted "Hunk of the Year" by a British television magazine in 1997. Well, as far as I'm concerned, he's very well-preserved and deserves a "Hunk …

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Hollywood Fantasy Draft Pitch III: My sci-fi movie’s dream cast

My pal Castor has created quite an addiction with his annual Hollywood Fantasy Draft event. Every year, we movie bloggers get to indulge in our fantasy of creating our own movies with our favorite actors. If you've been reading this blog for a while, chances are you've read my first movie pitch Hearts Want, a …

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Counting down to X-Men: First Class – 5 reasons I’m seeing this on opening night

In about 72 hours, the wait will finally be over! As you know I've been excited to see this movie for some time now. I love the X-Men franchise, I even enjoyed the third one to an extent, despite all the flaws and Brett Ratner's direction. I just re-watched the trailer of the first one …

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Weekend Roundup and The Way Back review

Happy Tuesday everyone! Hope everyone's had a lovely weekend. I definitely enjoyed my 3-day weekend though it sure went by real fast. I took a much-needed break from my computer which including blogging and reading other people's blogs, though I had planned on seeing more movies but only managed to see two of them. One …

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