Aug 19 2008
R.L. Stine and Goosebumps to the Big Screen
The best thing R.L. Stine ever did was the create the freaky Nickelodeon television show Euureka’s Castle. Oh yeah, and he also happened to be the best selling children’s author of all time with his extensive catalogue of 90’s horror tales Goosbumps(Let it be know that I hated these cheesy scare stories, although mostly because I hated to read at that age).
Well now, thanks to Sony Pictures, nostalgic twenty somethings everywhere will be able to enjoy these pseudo literary tales with their children, girlfriends, and little friends with the Big Brothers Program. Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander, screenwriters of Man on the Moon, Agent Cody Banks, and Ed Wood, are hired to write the scripts. Is it just me or would you rather see big screen adaptations of Eerie Indiana and Are You Afraid of the Dark?? Was anybody out there actually a fan of these books?
I have always thought of the Olympic opening ceremonies as a little overdramatic and dare I say cheesy. Well thanks to a 300 million dollar budget and the artistic vision of renowned Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, 2008’s Bejing ceremonies were legendary - despite the frequent flood warnings and technical difficulties interrupting the broadcast thanks [...]
Bret Easton Ellis strikes again; Wayfarers, New Order, drugs, sex, and rich LA brats. Welcome to the first look at “The Informers”, the film adaptation of Ellis’s 1994 novel of the same name in which he also wrote the screenplay.
“The drama is set over the course of a week in 1983, in the chillingly [...]
In the 1950’s Hollywood was producing around forty westerns per year, that number fell to twenty during the 60’s, around ten per year in the 1970’s through 90’s, and in the new millennium, we are lucky to get five westerns each year. But when those westerns are of the caliber of 2007’s “3:10 [...]