Author Archive for Pumpkin Escobar
New American Reunion Trailer Continues To Reunite Us With Familiar Laughs
Some people really questioned my choice to include AMERICAN REUNION on my list of most anticipated flicks. I mean, it’s the fucking fourth sequel to an old franchise (not counting all the shitty direct-to-video installments). Everything about it should have elicited as much as hate I could muster, but as soon as the marketing material [...]
A Good Day To Die Hard Finds A Son For Bruce Willis… Finally
It’s been a long time coming. Fox has been setting out to cast the perfect dude as the son of legendary bad-ass John McClane (played the eternal bad-ass Bruce Willis in all the DIE HARD flicks). They’ve been looking for the guy since October, and then we got an updated shortlist in November that included [...]
Disney Hires Edgar Wright To Work With Johnny Depp For The Night Stalker Remake
It seems there was some news last summer about Johnny Depp and his production company Infinitum Nihil working out a deal with Disney for a couple of flicks. One was about Paul Revere, known for that famous line “The British are coming,” thereby warning neighboring cities to gather their militia troops to prepare for the [...]
The Movie Formerly Associated With The Matterhorn Ride Gets Writer Ehren Kruger
It’s pretty hard to take screenwriter Ehren Kruger seriously. (Can you really take the guy who wrote Ben Affleck’s REINDEER GAMES, seriously?) Sure, he has tons of tentpoles under his belt, but most of them haven’t been all that great. Some are more entertaining than others, but none of them are really all that good. [...]
Billy Bob Thornton Movie Will Not Be Based On His Relationship With Angelina Jolie
Apparently last week, Variety had reported about Billy Bob Thornton’s brand new movie, that he’s going to co-write with Tom Epperson, and direct called AND THEN WE DROVE. It was going to be a road movie where the protag picks up a wild chick and begins a relationship with her. At the time, an “insider” [...]
Jim Caviezel Faces Off Against Arnold Schwarzenegger And Sylvester Stallone In The Tomb
I don’t know what it is about me, but I just keep finding actors I almost completely miss. They’ll have ridiculously extensive filmographies, but I’d probably have seen maybe 1 and I wouldn’t remember whether or not they were even in there. That’s almost the case with Jim Caviezel. I hadn’t heard about him until Mel [...]
New Men In Black 3 Images Don’t Inspire The Need To Wear Any Suits
I’ve been a proponent of this new MEN IN BLACK 3 flick for a while now. Even though the trailer was a little weak, I still had the desire to see this flick because of how much I enjoyed the other flicks and Josh Brolin’s ridiculously well-done impression of Tommy Lee Jones’ Agent Kay really [...]
Rolling Out New Posters For Three DreamWorks Flicks, Lockout, The Hunger Games, And Frankenweenie
Well, it’s looks like we’ve got a fair amount of posters today to tantalize your optic receptors. Although half of them are pretty shitty (and they’re all from the same big company, so it makes sense), the rest of them are relatively cool. Let me get through the first very shitty half really quickly, and [...]
Valley Girl Musical Remake To Be Directed By Clay Weiner
VALLEY GIRL was one of those 80′s movies that I never really got a chance to watch. I’ve seen my fair share of 80′s flicks being broadcast on TV, but VALLEY GIRL wasn’t one of them. Hell, I don’t even remember hearing about that flick until just recently. From what I know about the flick [...]
I’m Pretty Stricken By The Struck By Lightning Trailer
When it comes to the massive hit known as GLEE, I never really got too much into it. I saw the first few episodes and realized that the show wasn’t for the me. It had some fantastic singing and great comedy writing, but the drama was way too cheesy and instantly turned me off. That’s [...]
Summit Gets Their Red 2 Director
Despite some people’s take on RED, I had a great time with it. The action was fun and Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, and Bruce Willis altogether was possibly one of the coolest ensemble casts around. Despite the flick not being the most wonderful, the flick is carried almost 100% by the interaction between [...]
Mark Millar Seems To Think Kick-Ass 2 Is Still Coming
There’s been a lot of doubt cast over the KICK-ASS sequel. The comic book is well underway with the penultimate issue of Kick-Ass 2 released in December. The last word we got about the KICK-ASS 2 movie was when Mark Millar, the creator and writer of the comic book, sat down and talked about how [...]
John Carter Writers Already Thinking About A Sequel
I wasn’t always the biggest proponent of JOHN CARTER after seeing that first trailer, despite my love for Andrew Stanton. It got a little better after seeing that Japanese trailer, but it’s still a little hard to get excited for this type of flick. Overall, this adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough’s Barsoom series seems like [...]
Simon Kinberg Talks A Lot About Magneto In The X-Men: First Class Sequel
So just a few weeks ago, we got confirmation that Matthew Vaughn would be returning for the X-MEN: FIRST CLASS sequel… Hell fuck yeah. I had my doubts at first because of how X-MEN ORIGINS just destroyed anything the franchise ever built up, and I’ve never been the biggest fan of James McAvoy, but when [...]
The Original Cast Of Transformers Probably Won’t Be Returning For The New One
Recent news regarding TRANSFORMERS 4 came last week when Lorenzo Di Bonaventura started talking about how Michael Bay will be coming back to direct and how it will probably end up being a reboot, or in his terms, an “evolution” of the series. By then, I was begging the question of why bring back the [...]
Tony Scott’s Getting A Lucky Strike With Vince Vaughn
So Tony Scott’s been behind some of the biggest movies around like BEVERLY HILLS COP II, TOP GUN, and ENEMY OF THE STATE. He’s also worked pretty frequently with Denzel Washington in MAN ON FIRE, DEJA VU, and the recent bad-ass remake of TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3. The last flick he made was [...]
The New Intruders Trailer Didn’t Intrude On Me Too Much
I heard about INTRUDERS around the time I started writing here, but I had no clue what it was about. At that point, I hadn’t seen the first trailer to it. I was more learned about the goings-on with its director, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and his attachment to a remake for THE CROW and one [...]
Andy Serkis Goes From Actor To Motion Capture To Director
I don’t know too much about Andy Serkis, but like a lot of people, I was introduced to him after the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy turned him to Gollum. Since then, I’ve seen him crop up a few times in very different places, but often under Peter Jackson. For instance, he got a huge [...]
Guillermo Del Toro Wants To Direct A Fairy Tale Adaptation
Not really understanding why Hollywood is running back to fairy tales and other such literary works for movies nowadays. When you got about 3 Snow White movies coming, you can imagine I’d be a little annoyed at more and more fairy tales. At first, I was fine with it, mostly because of how much I [...]
Gina Carano Will Be Kicking More Ass In Another Actioner
I’ve been hearing pretty good things about HAYWIRE and how the gorgeous Gina Carano can kick some major fucking ass. But the problem is that she can’t act for shit. (Please don’t hurt me, Ms. Carano) All in all, she’s not an actress, she’s an MMA fighter and that’s where she probably belongs. Kicking ass [...]
Angelina Jolie Almost Confirms Her Role In Maleficent
It’s strange to think that just a month ago, while reporting on MALEFICENT getting its director in Oscar-winning production designer Peter Stromberg, I was not into the idea of seeing Angelina Jolie play oh-so evil and wicked Maleficent from Disney’s SLEEPING BEAUTY. But now, having just read this new story, I feel like she’s absolutely [...]
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura Says That Michael Bay Will Be Back For Transformers 4
When it comes to the announcement of TRANSFORMERS 4, I’m pretty confused. I remember hearing about how Bay wanted to finally get out of the franchise and do different things again. I mean, wasn’t that the reason why he decided to make a trilogy and not more than that? Paramount announced their decision to continue [...]
Pumpkin Escobar Enjoyed His Stay In The Secret World Of Arrietty
I got into Hayao Miyazaki’s work just about a couple years ago. I’ve always enjoyed KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE, but that was just one of those movies I enjoyed in passing while I was growing up. After being introduced to SPIRITED AWAY, I made sure to watch many more of his films including his classic MY [...]
Michael Keaton Might Actually Be Doing Beetlejuice 2
I knew Seth Grahame-Smith was the guy to keep your eye on. Last time BEETLEJUICE was mentioned on here, it was a comment by Grahame-Smith assuring fans that he really wanted to do right by everyone when his intentions for the BEETLEJUICE sequel came up. He seemed so genuinely in love with the original and [...]
Adam McKay Ensures Us That The Boys Will Be Without Sony’s Involvement
It seems that for a while there Sony was involved in producing an adaptation of a graphic novel called The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The graphic novel followed the adventures of a band of superpowered CIA operatives called “the boys” whose job was to control, detain, and if necessary, take out superheroes in [...]
