There are two types of Ron Howard movies: those that are clearly award bait, (“Apollo 13,” “Frost/Nixon,” “A Beautiful Mind,”) and those that are not, (“The Paper,” “Ransom,” and “The Grinch.”) His most recent movie, an adaptation of Dan Brown’s best selling book, “Angels & Demons” is one of the later. [Read more...]
Dreamworks has announced that Steven Spielberg is developing a movie based on Michael Crichton’s next novel. “Pirate Latitudes.” “Latitudes,” is the first of reportedly several posthumous Crichtion novels to be published. (The book comes out in November.)
David Koepp, (screenwriter for “Jurassic Park,” “War of the Worlds,” and, um, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”
Of course, Spielberg and Crichton joined forces for “Jurassic Park,” and “The Lost World,” which worked out pretty well.
I’m thinking the “Pirates of the Caribbean,” movies may have both increased interest in pirate movies while at the same time, burned off that interest as quickly as possible. Plus, Spielberg won’t be taking a wink-and-a-smile approach to the pirate movie, I’m guessing. All of that said, if we’ve learned nothing in the past few months, it’s that Spielberg attaches himself to a lot of crap and very little of it ever gets made. That Matt Helm movie? Harvey? And what about Abe Lincoln? Wake me when shooting starts…
You ever have one of those nights where you just don’t want something too deep? Maybe you want to have a nice dinner, enjoy a glass (or a bottle of wine) and watch something that, while it doesn’t make you laugh out loud over and over and over, by the end you’re smiling. If that is what you’re looking for, may I present “Ghost Town.” [Read more...]
As a film aficionado, I should have done my homework, but when I popped ‘Ghost Town,’ into my blu-ray player, I had no idea it was Directed by David Koepp. Which wasn’t a huge surprise, given some of the same themes of ghosts with the “unfinished business” as found is ‘Stir of Echoes,’ albeit, a little less frightening. [Read more...]
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