'Sopranos' Creator David Chase Returning to HBO

HBO is teaming up again with David Chase, once again, for a miniseries showing us Hollywood's history.
The miniseries will be titled "A Ribbon of Dreams," and will start in 1913. It will follow two characters as they become movie pioneers, then studio moguls. Real-life figures like John Wayne, Bette Davis and Billy Wilder will be part of the tale.
Chase will write and executive produce the project, his first for TV since "The Sopranos" ended its HBO run two years ago.

Reliving The Madness

March Madness tips off next week, and no matter who you are, you’re going to be filling out those brackets to try and win some cash, a gift card from work or to simply capture some all important bragging rights.
So, in honor of the NCAA Tournament, I put together some events in March Madness history that have become legendary.
Since this is Connecticut, I’ll start with one of the greatest upsets in NCAA history that involved our UConn Huskies. I know a lot of UConn fans want to forget about this, but we have to be honest with one another, it was an impressive game that deserves to be mentioned.
The game I’m talking about is when George Mason defeated UConn, 86-84, in 2006 which allowed the underdog to advance to the Final Four. Simply put, no one ever thought that 11th-seeded George Mason would take home the victory, but the team was that year’s Cinderella.
If you watched the game, and I know you probably did, I would bet you thought the Huskies had this game in the bag when the Patriots trailed by 12 points in the first half and later by nine in the second half.
The turning point was when George Mason hit six 3-pointers in a row in the second half and went on to create some March Madness history.Now that you’ve relived some not-so-pleasant memories, let’s move on to some more great March moments.In 2005, Arizona and Illinois locked up and the Illini found themselves in an early 15-point hole. Illinois was No. 1 for most of the season and everyone was surprised to see it down by double-digits to the Wildcats.Led by Luther Head, Illinois went on a 20-5 run and tied the game late on a 3-pointer. Illinois was then able to hold on and defeat Arizona 90-89 in overtime.
Now, since I made UConn fans relive a dark part of their history, I’ll lighten up your day with a great moment involving the Huskies.In 2004, UConn went up against heated rival Duke, and the Huskies trailed by 11. But in the second half, UConn was able to push forward and scored 45 points to erase the deficit and take home a dramatic 79-78 victroy. The key player that turned everything around for UConn was Emeka Okafor. He spent most of the first half on bench due to foul trouble, but when they brought him back in for the second half, he turned things around.
Okafor scored five points, grabbed three rebounds and completely shut down Duke’s offense during the final four minutes which turned a 75-67 deficit into a one-point victory.
The last trip down memory lane is arguably one of the best NCAA basketball games in history, and that was back in 1992 when Duke went to head-to-head with Kentucky.If you were too young to catch it live, check out ESPN Classic.
Everyone remembers “the shot” by Duke’s Christian Latettner that makes every sports highlight reel known to man.
His buzzer-beating, turnaround jumper gave Duke a 104-103 victory over the Wildcats.
Latettner made every shot he took that night and ended with 31 points, seven boards and three assists.
That shot made Latettner one of, if not the, best clutch performer in March Madness history.

Watchmen Earns $4.55 Million During Midnight Showings

Watchmen has earned $4.55 Million in 1,595 theaters during its midnight showings. Yet The Dark Knight still has it beat with $18 Million in its midnight sales.
Watchmen is the biggest release so far this year. It will open on 7,500 screens and be in 3,611 theaters that is including its 124 IMAX screens.

The biggest movie opening for the month of March is 300, which earned $28.1 million in its opening day and went on to gross $70.9 million for its opening weekend.

Halloween 2 Photos Hit the Web

Here are the photos of the new Halloween movie that will be directed by Rob Zombie and released on Aug. 28, 2009. I can't really say much about them, Michael Myers is sporting a really large beard though, hopefully he gets rid of it as the movie goes on. The picture of the farm house in the middle of nowhere looks like it could be cool if they include it in the story.

Scream 4 News

On Jan. 12, 2009, Bloody-Disgusting.com exclusively announced that Kevin Williamson will be returning to write the script for Scream 4 and the word on Wes Craven is that he still on the fence on whether or not to return to direct.
It has also been confirmed that the Wesinteins are defiantly moving forward on Scream 4 and are also trying to talk Wes Craven back to direct.
It is also said that this will be a younger version of the Scream movies and I guess they mean that they’ll be taking the story back to a high school environment. I’m all for that, but they need to also buckle down and get a good cast, because the original cast from Scream was great and really made the movie believable.
I also think that the movie can and will have a R rating, if it does have a PG-13 rating then we know we’re in for a movie that is going to suck and be like the Prom Night remake (note: no one watch that Prom Night remake it was awful).
I love the original Scream, it was on my 31 days of horror list and I consider it to be one of the greatest horror movies of all time, yet the sequels weren’t as good and I feel that might have been a little rushed. Now with Scream 4 I want them to take their time and really come up with an interesting story, one that can rival the original.
I know I've reported some of this before, but I'll continue to bring you updates on the project as they come in.
To read a little bit more about my thoughts on the original Scream, just click the link posted below.
http://jamesentertainmentedge.blogspot.com/2008/10/31-days-of-horror-scream.html

Friday the 13th Sequel in the Works

Jason Voorhees is making another trip to the big screen; sources have stated that New Line and Platinum Dunes are making a sequel to the recently released “Friday the 13th” reboot. They have also stated that Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, who are the ones who penned the reboot script, are working hard on the beginning stages of a new script.
People who are working closely on the project have said that it won’t be a sequel as much as it will be a follow-up, which I have some reservations about.
First, I think it might be a little difficult to get back Jared Padalecki and Amanda Righetti and those two actors are key to make a follow-up story to work. You might think what are they doing, well they’re rising stars and they are both on hit TV shows, Jared is on “Supernatural” and Amanda is on “The Mentalist” and I think they’ve already done the Friday thing and would want to try different things in their off times from their shows. I could be wrong though and they both might want to really do another Friday the 13th movie.
Now the box office has been kind to “Friday the 13th” it opened up first with a whopping $43.6 million and has grossed $60 in domestic and $18 Million in foreign putting its worldwide gross to $79 Million.
I’m looking forward to another Friday the 13th movie and you can read my review of Friday the 13th (2009) right here on this blog, just scroll down or hit the link under movie reviews.

Abrams To Bring Back Cloverfield

J.J. Abrams has stated that the team that was behind the hit “Cloverfield” is coming up with ideas for a sequel.
“We’re working on one right now,” said Abrams when asked about a Cloverfield sequel. “The Key obviously is with a sequel, certainly with this film, is that it had better not be a business decision. If you’re going to do something, it should be because you’re really inspired to do it. It doesn’t guarantee anything and it doesn’t mean that it’s going to work, but it mean you did what you did and not because you’re trying to make a buck. We have an idea for something that’s pretty cool that we’re playing with. It’s something that would be related to ‘Cloverfield’ and hopefully we’ll do something sooner than later, because the ideas are pretty sweet,” added Abrams.
The original film grossed an impressive $40 million in its opening weekend and it only had a budget of $25 million. It made $80 million in domestic gross and $90 million in foreign markets bringing its worldwide total to $170 million.
The movie focused on a monster attack on New York City and was shot documentary-style with a lot of TV actors. The film also had an impressive viral ad campaign that I think made the movie successful.
I am looking forward to seeing how they do another Cloverfield film; I’m just hoping it’s nothing like The Blair Witch Project sequel.
My thoughts are that they need to get rid of the documentary-style way of filming, because if they do use it in the sequel I think most people are going to feel tired of it and the other thing they need to make the story a little tighter. The first one left to many questions and I really want this one to answer all the questions we have from the first film and also make the sequel a more rounded story.
Abrams also stated that he will be producing the film and his longtime collaborators, Drew Goddard and Matt Reeves are serving as writer and director.