http://www.mainstreammoviessuck.com The blog of a frustrated would-be moviemaker Sun, 18 May 2008 00:02:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Directed by: Joshua Seftel Written by: Jeremy Pikser, Mark Leyner and John Cusack Starring: John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, Ben Kingsley and Dan Aykroyd The gist: A government assassin is sent to a Middle-Eastern warzone where he is assigned to kill a rogue leader while posing as a chaperone for ... http://www.mainstreammoviessuck.com/articles/war-inc/ Startling news just in! Startling in that it hasn't been reported until today! It seems that way before the Great WGA Strike of 2007, there was a problem regarding screenwriting credits between George Clooney and the Writer's Guild of America. Clooney, who's upcoming movie Leatherheads was based on a 17-year-old script ... http://www.mainstreammoviessuck.com/articles/was-the-writers-strike-really-over-george-clooney/ Lionsgate released this press release yesterday announcing that they're partnering with Apple, Inc. to distribute iTunes-ready media alone with their DVDs. Whether the actual iTunes media will be contained on the actual DVD is unclear, but the process is you insert the DVD into your computer, enter a code, and ... http://www.mainstreammoviessuck.com/articles/lionsgate-teams-up-with-apple/ Commit this mug to memory. Within a couple of years, it'll be everywhere. For those of you who don't know who this is, this is Anton Yelchin, a fresh, up and coming actor who so far as been featured in movies like House of D, Alpha Dog, and Charlie Bartlett, which ... http://www.mainstreammoviessuck.com/articles/im-calling-it/ This is related to my previous post on studios getting sued. Now that the WGA is officially back behind their desks (it wasn't officially until last night), NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press may be eyeballing a lawsuit against them. According to Nikki Finke, the two are bitter about the writer's ... http://www.mainstreammoviessuck.com/articles/one-more-hollywood-lawsuit-in-sight/ Came across the red-band trailer for Seth Rogen's upcoming Pineapple Express. Honestly, even though it's partly a stoner comedy, this is probably the most original thing I've seen in a VERY long time. I look forward to watching the movie when it comes out. "That is good weed... that is good ... http://www.mainstreammoviessuck.com/articles/red-band-trailer-for-pineapple-express/ Now that the strike is (unofficially) over, Hollywood can finally move on and get to work... business as usual. Right? Not quite. This week alone, Hollywood studios have been slapped with THREE humongous lawsuits (more like 2 big ones and one mediocre, but publicity-worthy). First up is New Line Cinema, which has barely ... http://www.mainstreammoviessuck.com/articles/strike-is-over-studios-still-screwed/ In what turned out to be a pathetic attempt to resuscitate the HD-DVD market after Warner Bros. announced they were going exclusively Blu-Ray, Microsoft announced that they were lowering the price of the HD-DVD player add-on for the X-Box 360 by $50 to $129.99. The push was further enhanced by ... http://www.mainstreammoviessuck.com/articles/hd-dvd-counters-blu-ray-beats-it-back-down/ My headline says it all. Not much else to say except remakes are as strong as ever... LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - MyNetworkTV is returning to the scripted arena with a new half-hour comedy series starring rap artist and reality-TV star Flavor Flav. The network has ordered 13 episodes of "Under One ... http://www.mainstreammoviessuck.com/articles/flavor-flav-rips-off-the-fresh-prince/ This is an update to the Mark Romanek leaving Wolf Man post. Well, sadly, Universal found a director to take over The Wolf Man. Why sadly? Because he's only got 2 weeks to prepare to shoot the movie, and because his Jurassic Park was the least impressive of the three. I ... http://www.mainstreammoviessuck.com/articles/universal-stuffs-joe-johnston-into-the-wolf-man/