Current Movies Blog

It’s Sunday morning! Get out of my dreams and into my car. Which is ironic because I don’t drive, unless there is news:

• - Paranormal Activity is shaping up to beat Saw VI this weekend–by being number one. [Movieline]
• - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sly Stallone and Bruce Willis walk into a church. Thats the joke. [AICN]
• -Here are 25 Jack ‘O Lanterns vomiting. Which is funnier than 25 drunk college kids vomiting near a lantern. [Listicles]
• -Here’s five tips on starting your Sam Rockwell Grassroots Oscar Nominatino campaign. [Awards Daily]
• -Here’s Jeff Wells taking your points apart piece by piece. [HE]
• -Anime News Network calls Nikki Finke’s site, “TheDeadline.com,” then sources Box Office Mojo. Hilarity to me. [ANN]
• -Finally, here’s a deleted scene from Twilight featuring sweet nips. [CH]

Oh, hello almost-long-weekend. I see you there over the horizon of another Thursday as we’re set to premiere a brand new episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show at 10:30 with reviews of Transformers: Racist Minstrel Show, My Sister’s Keeper and The Hurt Locker. But before then, let’s see what Sony has in terms of funny, why we like vampires and a new photo of Kevin Spacey.

• Sony has decided to re-plant Adam Sandler’s Grown-Ups on June 25th (making it the only thing released) and followed up with The Green Hornet on July 7th. Joy. [Variety]
• BREAKING: VAMPIRES NOW A TREND. THAT SUCKS. HA HA HA HA HA. ah. [NYT]
• Oddly, Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff looks like Kevin Spacey playing golf. [DHD]
• Today’s WTF Video comes from Bollywood. It involves He-Man. [ToplessRobot]
• The Many Faces of Chris Klein all make me think he’d swallow my soul. [Latino Review]
• Judd Apatow promises Funny People is better than getting your dick sucked at Star Trek. [MTV Movies Blog]
• Megan Fox is kind of growing on me with her wit and disdain. [Movieline]
• It is time for Fall Film Festival speculation! We just want Antichrist at New York Film Festival. [The Playlist]

-John Lichman

While still in production on his remake of The Hobbit, Guillermo del Toro has stopped to remind all of us that he really likes vampires. Not “pretty” vampires, as he intones in the video interview, but brutal and harsh ones that scare and don’t make millions of dollars like in The Twilight Saga.

Cinematical takes the time to note how wonderful it is to have someone like Del Toro co-authoring The Strain (BOOK ONE OF THREE OMG) with Chuck hogan, but they seem to forget Del Toro already did this story.

It was called Cronos. It also had Ron Perlman. It was an interesting and brutal take on vampirism.

In this new book series, the end of the world is coming and there’s going to be a vampire war that all depends on a Holocaust survivor in Spanish Harlem. So not only is Del Toro reminding us he made Cronos, but that he also liked parts of the Underworld series while focusing his real attention on The Hobbit.

UPDATE: We remembered we have Jen Yamato’s AIM and she is the head Vamp over at Jen’s Twilight Corner. We asked her for her official response to this news that Del Toro has come to take over yet another franchise (see previously: Hellboy, The Hobbit, horror films):