Tweet UPDATE: The answer? No. So much for reckless speculation! Still, I do love Andrew Garfield. I’m still on vacation, and I’m not supposed to be writing! But I couldn’t help but cobble together a quick note about the success of The Karate Kid, which beat out The A-Team last weekend in the box office [...]
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Will ‘The Karate Kid’ Push Donald Glover Into ‘Spiderman’?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 16th, 2010
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That Was Fast: Web Series Remix “How to Make It In America”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 25th, 2010
Tweet Also filed under: “Things that make me feel old at the age of 25.” How quickly can one create a series riffing off a new HBO show? In a few weeks, apparently. Smoke DZA, a rapper I’ve never heard of — excuse! This is a film and TV blog! I don’t do music — [...]
"V" From Fascists (1983) to Obama (2009)
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 24th, 2009
Tweet V airs its winter finale tonight before resuming episodes in March 2010. If you haven’t seen ABC’s V yet, I’ll spoil it for you: the Vs symbolize President Obama. Countless articles have spelled it out: io9, Chicago Tribune, BreitBart, and Entertainment Weekly, among many others, have already foregrounded the debate. It’s very obvious. In [...]
“The Prisoner:” Then (1967, McGoohan) and Now, (2009, AMC)
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 1st, 2009
Tweet Number Two: “Let’s make a deal. You cooperate, tell us what we want to know, and this could be a very nice place. You may even be given a position of authority.” Patrick McGoohan (Number Six): “I will not make any deals with you. I’ve resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, [...]
Fame (1980), Fame (2009), and Fame!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 3rd, 2009
Tweet UPDATE (9/26/10): One year, I decided to check in on Fame‘s B.O., and it looks like it made a killing overseas and pulled in $77 million worldwide, which means it probably broke even and perhaps made a profit. UPDATE (2/12): Click here for a post with comments from Barry Miller, who played Ralph Darcy [...]
