Considering the dearth of info about the X-Files movie, any cache feels like a goldmine. In a video from the 2008 Paley Festival, mentioned in John Brownlee's post yesterday, Chris Carter Frank, Spotnitz and Mitch Pileggi speak on a panel about the film as candidly as they can without giving away anything at all. If the truth really is out there, will we ever get more than just bits and pieces of it?
If Hancock does succeed, it'll join a select few who have managed to nail a notoriously difficult genre. Here are a handful of films that cracked the superhero comedy code.
AMC announced today that acclaimed film actors Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ, The Thin Red Line) and Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings, The Da Vinci Code) have signed on for the network's reinterpretation of the highly influential 1960s cult classic, The Prisoner.
So summer is upon us and blockbuster season is well and truly here. Wanted has proven to have the goods though it's not really SciFi enough to include here, Wall-E has finally arrived, and all signs are that Hancock will be the summer's first outright flop - a big budget spectacle that absolutely nobody is talking about, opening to mediocre reviews against two vastly superior films. Sorry, Will, you've got another Wild Wild West on your hands. If Hancock ends up bleeding cash will studio suits re-think director Peter Berg's big budget adaptation of Dune? Time will tell ...
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