Posts by Zach Dionne
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Tom Cruise Wants to Make El Presidente With Jack Nicholson
Just more than 20 years after A Few Good Men dropped you-can’t-handle-the-truth bombs all over the place, costars Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson might make El Presidente. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the script’s about “a straight-arrow Secret Service agent who is assigned to protect America’s worst former president, an alcoholic and womanizing sleazebag who […]
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Afternoon Links: Guillermo del Toro’s Bringing Vampires Back
FX has ordered 13 episodes of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s book trilogy The Strain, with Carlton Cuse (Lost, A&E’s Bates Motel) set to act as showrunner. Funny thing is, del Toro went the book route only after he couldn’t get The Strain made as a TV show. FX is looking at July 2014 […]
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Monty Python Has Some Septuagenarian Silliness En Route
It’s a huge day for British news outlets and comedy lovers of a specific stripe: The five living members of Monty Python have announced a plan to reassemble. “We’re getting together and putting on a show — it’s real,” Terry Jones told the BBC. “I’m quite excited about it. I hope it makes us a […]
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Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Flees New York for the Desert
Superheroes rule everything, right? The box office, Netflix’s original programming department, prime time on ABC, the children’s fantasy market. Not Broadway, though, buddy. Nope. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is ending its New York run in early January, less than three years after opening, the Wall Street Journal reports. At $75 million, it was history’s priciest […]
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Afternoon Links: There’s Always More Breaking Bad
Thank goodness someone was thoughtful enough to film Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul reading the final pages of the Breaking Bad finale’s script. Paul is so good at tearing up that he even gets a little misty listening to Cranston read Jesse’s fate. Apparently the clip is part of a two-hour documentary about the making […]
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Preacher Might Finally Get Adapted, With Help From Seth Rogen and AMC
Two things happened over the weekend: Badass Digest posted an unverified report about Preacher — Garth Ennis’s graphic novel that has nothing to do with a Paul Bettany movie nor a Gerard Butler joint — receiving a pilot order at AMC. Then Seth Rogen tweeted, “Looks like about seven of years of hard work are about […]
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Box Office Top Five: The Best Man Holiday Can’t Stop Thor
1. Thor: The Dark World, $38.45 million (last week: no. 1; $147 million cumulative) Thor & Loki’s Excellent Adventure fell 55 percent from its opening weekend, but that’s not too shabby, considering The Avengers fell 50 percent in the same time frame, and Iron Man 2 and 3 both dipped closer to 60 percent between […]
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Afternoon Links: Batkid Saves San Francisco, Our Hearts
A 5-year-old leukemia patient named Miles got to play Batman Jr. on Friday, courtesy of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and 10,000 amazing volunteers in San Francisco. There was a packed itinerary — Batmobile driving, rescuing a woman the Riddler tied to the cable car tracks, receiving the key to the city — and a breathless live news stream. Photos […]
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A Brief History of Terrence Howard Explaining How He Got Screwed Out of the Iron Man Franchise
Terrence Howard helped build the Iron Man franchise, not in the sense that he played a character whose name I remember, but in the sense that he was in the first movie. But when Iron Man 2 rolled up two years later, Howard was gone and Don Cheadle was there, evidently playing the same guy, […]
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Will Smith to Take Manhattan on a Joyride Across the Ocean
That bit where Bugs Bunny takes a handsaw to the state of Florida, casting it forth into the sea? Will Smith and director Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum, Real Steel, The Internship) are gonna do that to Manhattan in City That Sailed. (No way this movie’s not getting a The before the title at some […]
