In news that should warm the hearts of budding screenwriters everywhere, one of the most talked about scripts in Hollywood right now comes from a writer who, until very recently, nobody had even heard of.  Brooklyn native Aaron Guzikowski signed with the Endeavor talent agency just two weeks ago.  Now, his screenplay for a film entitled Prisoners has attracted the attention of nearly every major studio in Hollywood and has already drawn a commitment from at least one major star.

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Rob Spence, a 36 year-old Canadian filmmaker who injured and later lost his eye due to a shotgun mishap is planning to have a camera implanted in his prosthetic eye.  Once in place, the camera, which he calls an “Eyeborg,” will be used to film documentaries and raise awareness about surveillance in modern society.

According to Spence, “In Toronto there are 12,000 cameras. But the strange thing I discovered was that people don’t care about the surveillance cameras, they were more concerned about me and my secret camera eye because they feel that is a worse invasion of their privacy.”

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These days, a film generating a healthy amount of buzz on the internet weeks or months prior to its release is nothing unusual, but the amount of hype surrounding the March 6th release of Watchmen is bordering on unhealthy. Don’t get me wrong, I hope Watchmen kills at the box office and I suspect it likely will. It’s not like it has a lot of competition, and a big opening weekend could give it the momentum it needs to be a certified blockbuster. Nevertheless, it certainly has some factors working against it. Are any of these things enough to turn Watchmen into a full on box office disaster?

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Winning an Academy Award must be a fantastic feeling. Just imagine, after years of hard work, one day your peers finally take note and say “you were the best this year.” Either that, or they say “sucks that you died so early, we really thought we’d get a chance to make it up to you for screwing you over in 2005. But better late than never, right?”  Which ever way it happens, an Academy Award is a special moment, and everyone treats it as such. Or at least in a perfect world they would. Sometimes, they pull stunts like this instead…

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Much like Rob Zombie’s quite excellent version of Halloween, the latest installment in the Friday the 13th franchise has been billed as a remake of the 1980 slashtastic original.  The problem with that is, in the original flick, Jason’s mom did all the killing. Fast forward to 2009 and nobody wants her cockblocking their quality time with her son. Other than a brief re-enactment of that iconic scene where she gets her head flown with a machete, which comes right at the beginning of this film, momma Voorhees mostly sits the bench this time around.  So technically, this is more like a remake of Friday the 13th Part 2, but for the people behind the film to admit that would just be stupid. But questionable remake status doesn’t mean it’s not worth your time. Continue Reading