The Movie Overdose #34 – Adventureland and 500 Days of Summer
The return of the Cooper! Jon Cooper comes back to the podcast to have a chat about Adventureland. Tom and Sam have a think about (500) Days of Summer and the gents all think about the YouTube rental model. They go on to reminisce about Hackers, praise Fish Tank to the hills and have a [...]
News Morsels
Jake Kasdan has signed on to direct 2008 Blacklist screenplay Bad Teacher, about a cuss-heavy teacher and her rivalry with her sugar-sweet colleague. /Film is suggesting Rashida Jones may be up for the lead, but I’ve got to disagree with any suggestion Scarlett Johannson could to this kind of comedy as her rival. Prison Break’s [...]
Heroes of the East- Stephen Chow
Stephen Chow has been doing his ‘nonsense’ comedy for quite some time now. Please don’t think I’m being disrespectful by calling his brand of humour ‘nonsense’, since his style is actually refered to as ‘Mo lei tau’ in China, which literally means ‘with no source’ or in other words ‘makes no sense’. Of course this [...]
Uber Round Up
Scott Pilgrim has his very own movie website. Michael Sheen has joined up with the cast of New Moon, the upcoming sequel to Twilight. William Hurt is now in the cast of Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood adaptation/reimagining thing. Un trailer for Gerard Butler in The Ugly Truth. Watchmen scribe Alex Tse is to write an adaptation [...]
Heroes of the East- Donnie Yen
Now I wasn’t planning to write two columns in a row about martial arts stars, but after seeing Ip Man last week, I decided I was in the mood to discuss the career of Donnie Yen. Added to the fact that Ip Man was choreographed by Sammo Hung and you have quite a nice link [...]
Round Up
Twilight racked up first-day sales of 3 million for its DVD release. Warner Brothers is to open its archive for sale, offering custom made DVDs for $20 a pop. A biopic of Steve McQueen is in the works. As is one on Pancho Villa. Oh, and one about Judy Garland, starring Anne Hathaway. Kurt Russell [...]
Who Will Be The Green Lantern?
I don’t know too much about the Green Lantern as a character, but I know that the casting rumours at present are giving me no confidence or interest in jumping onto another comic book franchise. The most recent name thrown out has been Chris Pine, the man about the burst onto the map by playing [...]
Round Up
Activist investor Carl Icahn has revealed details of the offer he launched this week to purchase debt of around $325m in studio Lionsgate. He has said he will not push for a sale of the company if his offer, of between 73 and 75 cents in the dollar, is accepted. Judi Krant’s Made in China, [...]
Witch Mountain Director Gets Monster Movie
Andy Fickman, the director of the box-office topping Race to Witch Mountain, has been tapped to direct an adaptation of graphic novel Monster Attack Network. The book itself sounds like something of a rollicking adventure tale and, by the sounds of this Variety piece on the news, the film will take a similar route. It [...]
Welcome to the Movie Overdose!!!
Hello all who come across us! The Movie Overdose is a new movie podcast from us folks over on the rainier side of the pond which will take the form of a conversation on movies between me, Sam, and my longtime buddy and movie watching chum Tom. All of our conversations will then be edited [...]
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