Winners at Sunday’s 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:
Drama Series: “The Sopranos,” HBO.
Comedy Series: “30 Rock,” NBC.
Miniseries: “Broken Trail,” AMC.
Variety, Music or Comedy Series: “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” Comedy Central. Variety, Music or Comedy Special: “Tony Bennett: An American Classic,” NBC.Made-for-TV Movie: “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” HBO.Reality-Competition Program: “The Amazing Race,” CBS. Should have been “Top Chef”!
Actor, Drama Series: James Spader, “Boston Legal,” ABC. Should have been Hugh Laurie!!!
Actor, Comedy Series: Ricky Gervais, “Extras,” HBO. Should have been Tony Shalhoub!!!
Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Robert Duvall, “Broken Trail,” AMC.
Actress, Drama Series: Sally Field, “Brothers & Sisters,” ABC. Can’t she give a normal fucking speech?
Actress, Comedy Series: America Ferrera, “Ugly Betty,” ABC.
Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Helen Mirren, “Prime Suspect: The Final Act (Masterpiece Theatre),” PBS. Does she have to win every award she’s nominated for?
Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Terry O’Quinn, “Lost,” ABC. YAY John Locke!!
Release Date: August 31st, 2007 Director: Rob Zombie Writer: Rob Zombie Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Daeg Faerch, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, Pat Skipper, Dee Wallace Stone, William Forsythe, Ken Foree, Lew Temple, Danny Trejo, Hanna Hall, Danielle Harris, Adrienne Barbeau, Clint Howard, Courtney Gains, Daryl Sabara,
Heather Bowen, Brad Dourif, Udo Kier, Kristina Klebe Studio: MGM / Dimension Films Genre: Horror Official Site: halloween-themovie.com Rating: R for strong brutal bloody violence and terror throughout, sexual content, graphic nudity and language
Run time: 97 minutes Gross: $26,503,000 (US total) Rating:
August 31st, 2007 by Beth Accomando
Being a horror fan, Rob Zombie decided to make a courtesy call to John Carpenter as soon as Zombie got the directing gig for the remake of Halloween.
John, this is Rob Zombie.
Hi Rob.
Just letting you know I’m re-making Halloween.
So what do you want me to do?
I’m not saying you should do anything, I just wanted to tell you I’m re-making the damn thing!
Well have fun.
Zombie apparently took Carpenter’s advice. And while some may consider Zombie an upstart (or worse) for daring to remake Carpenter’s seminal slasher film, the new Halloween (opened August 31 throughout San Diego) serves up solid genre fare that reveals metal rocker Zombie is serious about his second career as a horror filmmaker.
Remaking Halloween wasn’t Rob Zombie’s idea; he was just hired onto the project. Various studios have been figuring out how to make money off the first Halloween movie for more than two decades, churning out multiple sequels including one, Halloween III, that had nothing to do with Michael Myers. Of late, Dimension had apparently been mulling over such ideas as Halloween: The Missing Years and a scenario in which Michael Myers meets Hellraiser‘s Pinhead. Oliver Stone was even mentioned as a possible director! Thank goodness Stone didn’t accept or else we might have had a 3 hour film that unearthed evidence of Michael Myers’ role in the Kennedy assassination. Mercifully all those ideas were rejected and Zombie was asked to direct and write the remake. Zombie calls his approach a “re-imagining” of Carpenter’s original.
In Zombie’s film, half the screen time is spent with the young Michael Myers and then the second half of the film condenses the material of the original film involving the adult Myers stalking some teens on Halloween night. Read the rest of this entry »
What a wonderful way to piss away three hours! Here you have a thriller based on reality, of the infamous Zodiac killer who toyed with the cops and the press for over twenty fucking years and was never caught.
So, for three hours we watch as a cartoonist (Jake Gyllenhaal)Â for the San Francisco Chronicle attempts what detectives, FBI and newspaper folks all throughout California were unable to do: Find out who the Zodiac killer is and bring him to justice! So, true to all fucking movie cliches, it becomes an obsession to the point where he goes completely squirrely, his wife dumps his ass and his job shitcans him. So, he wrote a best selling book, but that’s about it. . .the Zodiac killer still remains a mystery.
So, what’s the point of making a three hour flick about the failed attempt at catching a serial killer from almost forty years ago? Fuck if I know. Pointless, cliche ridden and boring. This gets two stars and five so-fucking-whats from me.
Release Date: August 31st, 2007
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