Jan 19, 2012 | Forbes
George Lucas, whose headstone will surely read, “I created Star Wars…and Greedo shot first,” has announced that he will be retiring from big-budget movies in order to make smaller art-house films. The New York Times wrote, “I’m retiring,” Lucas said. “I’m moving away...
Jan 19, 2012 | Forbes
Arrow-wielding DC Comics character Green Arrow is getting a pilot, courtesy of the CW. Entitled Arrow, if this pilot is successful, it could very well fill CW’s live-action superhero gap, created when Smallville vacated the air in 2011. But out of all the characters...
Jan 17, 2012 | SyFy
You find all sorts of strange things in drawers. Broken pencils. Bits of string. Charles Darwin’s slides. An even more broken pencil sharpener. Wait … what was that third thing? That was likely the thought process of Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a...
Jan 17, 2012 | Forbes
Via Geek.com Movie budgets have been skyrocketing to absurd rates ever since Kevin Costner spent $175 million in 1995 dollars to make Waterworld. But you know which movie’s budget wasn’t absurd? Star Wars. As we all know, George Lucas spent $11 million to make his...
Jan 17, 2012 | Forbes
Oh gods, behind you! Take a look at this picture of actress Noomi Rapace (via L.A. Times). It’s from the upcoming Ridley Scott movie, Prometheus. And it’s scaring the hell out of me. One of the reasons I adored the Alien movies (well, some of them, anyway) is because...
Jan 17, 2012 | Forbes
Writer/director Joss Whedon is still in post-production with the upcoming movie, The Avengers, to be released on May 4, 2012. But he won’t have much of a chance to unwrap his fingers from the director’s bullhorn. Next month, he’ll be starting his next movie, a...
