Good day, defenders of all things radiation-filled. This is the weekend of Godzilla ! Even though Gareth Edwards' update on the monster legend doesn't quite share the horror genre cred of its original source material, it was a bigger blast on the big screen than many horror films are, so I'm still roaring in celebration.
Two of Australia's favourite actors - Bryan Brown and Sam Neill - have joined forces to make the new ABC drama, Old School.
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Christian Slater's career hasn't quite been the same since he got "Bolled," starring in Uwe Boll's Alone in the Dark in 2005, but he remains a likable actor. Unfortunately, Way of the Wicked, in which he plays a priest tracking a kid who may or may not be the Antichrist, isn't the starring vehicle fans would hope for. Read about it in my review of Way of the Wicked.
...More acquisition news out of Cannes... Screen Daily reports that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has acquired UK rights to The Last Showing featuring Robert Englund from The Philm Company and SC Films.
Best mates or bitter rivals after 20 years? Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger promoting The Expendables 3 at Cannes.
Swiss artist and designer HR Giger, the genius behind the creature in the movie Alien, was synonymous with challenging works, often showing macabre scenes of humans and machines fused into hellish hybrids.
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As expected, the Godzilla reboot reigned supreme at the box office in its opening weekend, earning an estimated $93.2 million. That's the second biggest opening of the year, trailing only Captain America: The Winter Soldier's $95 million, and it's already earned almost as much domestically as the entire run of last year's similarly plotted giant monster movie Pacific Rim, which took in about $102 million in the US. Can you say Godzilla 2?
...In Steven Spielberg's box-office behemoth Jurassic Park, geneticists arrogantly believe they can tame Mother Nature with cutting-edge science.
One of the most talented actors in Hollywood till date, Bill Paxton is also the most under-rated.