Each year a poll of 150 development executives and high-level assistants is compiled called the Black List. The resulting list contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywood, which will not be released in theaters during that calendar year. The top three entries of the 2005 list where Things We Lost [...]

“Acting.”
Those new softcore teen ads for Gossip Girl have introduced your mag-loving aunt to “OMFG” (unless she reads EW, where it’s the same image with “OMG”) but that acronym is not appropriate for Austin Powers 4. I’m going to suggest PGN (please god no for EW) and PFGN for everyone else who cannot withstand [...]

Variety has officially announced Sacha Baron Cohen’s next project, a follow-up to Borat based on another one of his Ali G show characters, Bruno. One problem, didn’t we report this months and months ago? Didn’t we also hear that production on the film had already begun? We had reports of a Bruno sighting at the [...]

Unlike most people, I see the value of modern day remakes. Kids these days don’t want to watch an old classic in black and white. The dialogue, the stars, it just doesn’t connect. And there have been quite a few to do it right, for example remaking a literary classic like Taming of the Shrew [...]