In our Joe Carnahan interview, the producer of El Chicano explains why filmmakers need to be "riverboat gamblers" to get movies made.
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Joe Carnahan's new film The Grey opens this week, and the movie is a return to the early promise of Carnahan's movie Narc, which was released in 2004. The Grey is a solid little movie that combines familiar characters with tense action and survival situations, and it should do pretty well with audiences. And if…
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One of the perks of being a film fan is there's always something to look forward to. We wait and wait for a project to come together and, once the credits roll, we're immediately looking forward to the next thing. Sometimes it's what's coming out next week, other times it's a sequel and in the…
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Joe Carnahan still isn't sure which of his two greenlit films will go into production next, but he gives us this update: "There are two actors that I'm interested in for [White Jazz]. Both are available and both are apparently keen on the script. But it's all speculation at the point. [Killing Pablo] on the…
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A couple weeks ago Joe Carnahan was debating publicly about what movie would be his next project. Would it be the Pablo Escobar bio Killing Pablo or the big screen adaptation of White Jazz? Earlier this week Smokin' Joe posted a mysterious photo on his blog (seen to the right) of Juggernaut from the X-Men…
Read MoreEarlier today we told you that Joe Carnahan was considering shooting Killing Pablo before White Jazz. He's now asking the help of his blog readers to help him make a decision. And in an unprecedented move, he has publicly published both scripts online for you to help him make a decision. Is he crazy? Well…
Read MoreGeorge Clooney and Chris Pine leave the big screen adaptation of White Jazz, so what is writer/director Joe Carnahan to do? Kill Pablo instead? That is an option that Smokin' Joe is currently considering. Caranaha's Pablo Escobar biopic, titled Killing Pablo, was finally greenlit earlier this month, after years of development. Carnahan originally planned to…
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So first Joe Carnahan looses Chris Pine who jumped ship to JJ Abrams' Star Trek, and now George Clooney is leaving the White Jazz ship due to "scheduling issues." Carnahan was scheduled to go into production early next year, and Clooney is currently shooting the Coen Bros' Burn After Reading, and trying to finish his…
Read MoreChris Pine has dropped out of playing Junior Stemmons in Joe Carnahan's White Jazz, which means he's 100% confirmed to play Kirk in JJ Abrams' Star Trek. I know, I know, we already had a Carnahan story earlier today, but this is some breaking news as Pine was undecided when the news broke a couple…
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All this talk of a potential strike has got me thinking: Will the strike actually happen? All my friends who are currently working at Hollywood studios believe it will and have told me that the studios are preparing like it's the end of the world. Instead of preparing for the worst, why aren't the studios…
Read MoreI was talking last night to a group of friends about how we all really want JJ Abrams' Star Trek to be good but with the casting announcements that have been made so far, I'm starting to get a bit worried. What happened to the days when Matt Damon was rumored to be playing Captain…
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The characters of Junior Stemmons and Glenda Bledsoe have been cast in Joe Carnahan's upcoming adaptation of James Ellroy's White Jazz. So who will be playing Stemmons and Bledsoe? Carnahan won't say. "I cant reveal their names but rest assured, the choices will shock and amaze: Pissing off some while pleasing many more," says Carnahan.…
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