'Band Of Robbers' Trailer: Tom Sawyer And Huck Finn Are All Grown Up And Still Up To No Good
The new Band of Robbers trailer reimagines Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as modern grown-ups still searching for that elusive treasure.
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Now Huck Finn And Tom Sawyer Are Being Rebooted... With Supernatural Elements
Briefly: Given the sort of scripts studios have been buying recently, I can't really fault a screenwriter for figuring that the couple months it takes to write a spec script "updating" classic characters and adding unrelated wild elements might be time well spent. Because while crazy stuff has been selling, from our perspective what are…
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Casting Bits: Scarlett Johansson In 'Can A Song Save Your Life?', Mia Maestro In 'Savages', Jake T. Austin In 'Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn', Brandon Fehr In 'Roswell FM'
Scarlett Johansson may seem like an unlikely lead for a Judd Apatow film, but in this context her casting actually makes a lot of sense. Johansson has signed on to star in Can a Song Save Your Life?, which will be written and directed by John Carney (Once) and produced by Apatow. The film follows “a…
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Holy Controversy: Religulous Reviews Hit Web
It is going to be quite fun watching film critics in the MSM tackle Religulous, the anti-religions (re: not anti-organized religions) documentary from director Larry Charles (Borat) and Bill Maher. Reviewing this film practically demands that one states his/her personal beliefs---sort of like with Iraq War docs, but, you know, bigger---and judging from two of…
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