Masters of Disasters

While Angel the Pig today reports of the possible Gore Virbinski remake of the 1988 cult comedy, Clue, due out in 2011, there are also reports of a Frank Marshall rehash of The Never Ending Story, due for 2012.

Wil Wheaton Has a Posse

The shrilly-voiced imaginative boy of Stand By Me, Wil Wheaton, was once immortalized in the “So & So Has a Posse” craze. He’s also got a blog.

What Would the Duke Say?!

Reading trivia today for the 1989 Christopher Guest movie, The Big Picture:

During filming they rented a luxury house for three days to shoot in, not knowing that actor Charles Bronson had just purchased a home across the street. Before the three days were up the crew had managed to kill Bronson’s cat by accident. The story is related in the book “I Killed Charles Bronson’s Cat”, written by the movies location manager Barry Gremillion.

Out of the Darkness: The Reviews of Writer/Director Alex Cox

Alex Cox, the writer/director probably best known for the punk-themed Repo Man and Sid & Nancy, recently published his diary of filmmaking, X Films, available from Soft Skull Press. In several parts of the book, Cox reiterates the nuisance of dealing with bureacracies, and in particular those that have been created by the Studios  (and continue to survive). As an advocate of reducing the strains of the abomination known as modern copyright law, it’s no surprise that some of his materials are available to freely download from his website. Among them, film fans, is a guide to mostly obscure cult films (see the Moviedrome Guides 1 and 2 on his website).