Results

I have to admit, trapped in my own selfish world, I didn’t even know that Butch was ill, but, since June, he had been battling lung cancer, which finally took his life Friday. Half of the pair that made up the best movie duo ever to reach the screen, he and Robert Redford appeared only in two films, both by the same director (George Roy Hill) and both unbeatable (”Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “The Sting”). When asked, years ago, why the pair never did another …

Gregory McDonald, author of the “Fletch” series of books, died yesterday at his home in Tennessee. McDonald started his career as a journalist for the Boston Globe, then went on to fiction, penning the successful mystery series (”Fletch”, “Confess Fletch”, “Fletch’s Fortune”, etc.) which was later turned into a couple of films starring Chevy Chase.
His passing at this time is unfortunate, in the light of the possibility that’s been kicking around for a couple of years now that the “Fletch” movies were getting a re-boot, with Kevin …

(via AICN) Very interesting article in Variety recently about some current troubles over at Fox and recent rocky returns, seems to explain a lot of questions — namely, what the heck “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” is doing as a summer release — and raises some gloomy exclamation points for the future (”Young X-Men” anyone?).
The article touches on the details behind some rumored problems on the set of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” that sound like they were getting close to what allegedly happened with Mathieu Kassovitz’s “Babylon A.D.”

1. Set the challenge to yourself that you will start doing X after you do Y; for example, you’ll continue working after you have achieved Level 6 ranking in Grand Theft Auto Multiplayer (I’m nearly there).

2. Set an arbitrary deadline for yourself that will hang over your head like some kind of swinging torture device in an old Roger Corman movie starring Vincent Price, so all you’ll be able to think about is this date and how every second is ticking, ticking, ticking, closer and closer …

3. Reformat your hard drive and reinstall …

(via MacMerc) Mac fanboys were secretly quaking in their boots a few weeks ago when it was announced that TV funnyman Jerry Seinfeld was tapped to take part in a $300 million ad campaign on behalf of Micro$oft as a response to Apple’s “Get a Mac” ads that have been chipping away at the software manufacturer and its Vista woes for well over a year now.
If this (see video below) is any indication of what MS has in mind, I don’t think Steve Jobs has a whole hell of a …

(via AICN) Don LaFontaine, a.k.a., “The Voice”, passed away yesterday in Los Angeles, and with him, ends an era of movie trailers. Most will know him from the recent Geico commercial, even though they have heard his voice for years.
LaFontaine’s career began as a recording engineer at National Recording Studios where he linked up with Floyd Paterson to produce promo spots for Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”. While working on “The Gunfighters of Casa Grande” in 1964, he filled in for a voice actor and his lifelong …

(via AICN) MTV Multiplayer reports in an interview with prosaic director Brett Ratner that he’d love to do a Guitar Hero movie, if Activision would ever let him. Guitar Hero, for those who don’t know, is a game where a song plays and icons light up on the screen. The challenge is to hit the same color keys on your controller so the song doesn’t sound bad.
Sounds like a gripping film, huh?
Hey, hang on, how far off is this from a challenge I set …

The trailer for the new Ron Howard film, “Frost/Nixon” is now online (Yahoo! trailers link - HD available). I’ve been looking forward to this. Nixon/Watergate is a topic, which, for some undefinable reason, has always fascinated me, and Opie does good historical movies (”Apollo 13″).
HOWEVER, boy, has the studio (Universal in this case) ruined things for me. WHY does EVERY trailer need to be structured exactly the same way: logos come on the screen, we get some intro snatches of dialogue, we’re introduced to …