Jason Statham's career has settled into a series of easily classifiable grooves. There's the good junk (Crank; Cellular); the slightly classier heist movies (The Bank Job; The Italian Job); and the absolute dreck sometimes redeemed by his presence and/or its own dreckiness (Death Race; War). But most importantly, there's the Transporter movies, which for me render most of the rest of his movies as "that stuff he does in between Transporter movies," and which seem to be the inspiration for the recent decision to sequelize Crank: it could be the next Transporter! In the Transporter series, the Stath — that's...
Filed under: Industry, Misc, Blu-ray, Other formats We'll be completely honest -- we had every idea that D-BOX would just fade away into the sunset just a few short months after we initially heard about it. Au Contraire! In just the past week, we've seen the outfit -- which is responsible for a rumbling Motion Code technology that enables you to "feel" the motions of the movie you're watching -- venture into the wide world of gaming and now into Universal's heart. Starting with the December 23-bound Death Race, D-BOX Motion Code will be available on select Universal Studios Home...
Filed under: Blu-rayBringing the "look-at-me" Web 2.0 feel to the set-top box, Universal's Death Race Blu-ray will include the ability for users to record a play by play video of themselves, and upload it to be judged and win unspecified prizes. On top of that BD-Live powered treat Digital Copy and DTS-HD MA audio should come home as part of the package. Beyond a December 23 release date (same as the DVD) little else is known for sure but in the meantime we'll need to update our Twitter, Myspace & Facebook statuses while taking oddly-angled cellphone pics in the mirror.Death...
StatShot is a weekly roundup of numbers you should know. We’ll be adding new data to this regular feature in the coming weeks. If you have a stat you want to share with readers on an ongoing basis, hit the contact button up top and send us a note. Indiana Jones is still cracking that whip at the top spot of Torrent Freak’s list of most BitTorrented movies. Get Smart jumped up a few places as well, perhaps powered by the news that there will be a sequel. The British indie flick Adulthood is a surprise that came out of...
StatShot is a weekly roundup of numbers you should know. We’ll be adding new data to this regular feature in the coming weeks. If you have a stat you want to share with readers on an ongoing basis, hit the contact button up top and send us a note. So have you read the rumors popping up on the web yesterday that there might by an Indiana Jones pt. 5? Ugh. Guess the Crystal Skull didn’t kill the cherished childhood memory enough. But Indy’s still got pull as people are BitTorrenting the heck out of his latest adventure. Indiana is...
StatShot is a weekly roundup of numbers you should know. We’ll be adding new data to this regular feature in the coming weeks. If you have a stat you want to share with readers on an ongoing basis, hit the contact button up top and send us a note. Righteous Kill may not have slayed at the box office, but the DeNiro/Pacino combo was enough to shoot the cop movie to the top of the most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, according to TorrentFreak. Other newcomers include the A&E TV movie The Andromeda Strain and the bawdy comedy College. Superheroes are...
StatShot is a weekly roundup of numbers you should know. We’ll be adding new data to this regular feature in the coming weeks. If you have a stat you want to share with readers on an ongoing basis, hit the contact button up top and send us a note. Even though superheroes like The Hulk keep smashing their way through TorrentFreak’s top 10 Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent, smaller film Boy A cut through the capes to break into the top half of the list. A was edged out by another newcomer, Mirrors, the Keifer Sutherland-starring horror movie that had a...
StatShot is a weekly roundup of numbers you should know. We’ll be adding new data to this regular feature in the coming weeks. If you have a stat you want to share with readers on an ongoing basis, hit the contact button up top and send us a note. This week, Robert Downey Jr. keeps his Iron fist clenched around the top spot as the most BitTorrented film this week (surprising that The Dark Knight hasn’t nabbed that spot). He’s joined by Jason Statham driving really fast in Death Race and Steve Carrell’s bumbling secret agent Get Smart, both of...
With his marginal reference to oral sex shot down by the MPAA, Kevin Smith has finally found a movie poster that won't offend the snowflake-pure audiences innocently heading in to see Death Race or Righteous Kill. This time, Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno gets little more than a napkin sketch under the headline, "Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks made a movie so titillating that we can only show you this drawing." (See the full version of the poster here.) On his blog, Smith says he thinks the poster is "simple and kinda ballsy." In my opinion, all...
About a month ago, when the Death Race trailer came out, I offhandedly mentioned to my roommate how bad it looked. He asked what happens in it, and my response was something like, "I don't know. It's just Jason Statham driving around in a car with guns, and some other guys are attacking him in their rival cars with flamethrowers and spikes." Him: "That sounds kind of awesome." Me: "Yeah, as I was describing it I was thinking how that sounded kind of awesome too. But it's actually not. Trust me." My point is, this trailer for Quantum of...
Why is Jason Statham so angry in this new Crank 2: High Voltage set picture? Probably because an evil mobster cut out his heart and replaced it with a machine, and now he has to shock himself every few minutes. "High voltage is an understatement," he said about the movie. "They locked themselves in a room for three days with five bottles of tequila and wrote the most offensive, outrageous script I've ever read." Click through for full frontal Statham (well, with clothes on) from the set of the world's most offensive actioner. Crank 2 is one of those ratshit...
Filed under: General Electric (GE), Time Warner (TWX), Viacom (VIA), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Film According to Boxofficemojo.com, last weekend’s top film, Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) Tropic Thunder, retained its number-one status over the past three days. It is estimated to have grossed $16 million at domestic theaters as of this writing. Of course, things could change, since the film currently in second place, Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) The House Bunny, is only about a million dollars behind the Ben Stiller comedy. I have a feeling, though, that Thunder will keep its top spot. It seems to have some decent momentum...
When the guys at Infurious Comics created Murderdrome (Death Race without the cars, looks like) and submitted it to the App Store as a free download, Apple told them that it did not "satisfy their 'community standards.'" Apparently, a super-cartoony depiction of someone getting decapitated and having his head used as a handball was enough to ban the app from the store for being too "adult." And now, the comic's creators want something that makes a lot sense—a content rating system for iPhone apps. While it may not make sense to rate every calculator app or variation on Breakout with...
