Those days are over. Costume dramas are all but dead (at least in theaters, they're still everywhere on TV). Comedies are the big thing now.

Some people actually saw the whole movie at midnight screenings; the order to pull the film came early in the morning, presumably after the Film Bureau opened for work. Hilariously enough, the Film Bureau actually released the official numbers for the midnight screenings, which in all likelihood will be the film's…

It's the same as the 11:00 version but with psychedelic Video Toaster filters

AMAZING FACTS: On some nights Carson Daly's show gets more viewers than Conan's

In other Jamie Foxx news: Django's Chinese release has been canceled on the day it came out. Some theaters had already held midnight showings and matinees, and screenings that were underway when the message went out were cut off. The official explanation is "technical reasons," which nobody believes. This happened…

What are "all of those countries"? The ones you mentioned, the ones I mentioned, or all of them together? I don't have much of an idea what people in Portugal or Argentina like, but I'm going to guess there's any number of Hollywood movies that were big in all of those places except maybe India (where Hollywood movies…

Maybe somebody who currently lives in India can shed light on this, but as far as I can tell The Simpsons airs in India on FX India, a satellite/cable channel that shows nothing but U.S. programming (mostly reruns from Fox/FX, but also stuff like Episodes and Big Lake). There used to be a Hindi dub, but that stopped…

It was an independent film from the '80s that is otherwise only memorable for misspelling her name in the credits ("Yeardly Smith").

The Sleeping Dead

It came out in Hong Kong in January, uncut. Their film classification is completely separate from the mainland's and allows stuff that would never get through north of the border.

It's had a few theatrical screenings. If you're not lucky to live in one of the places it's happened (Austin, LA and Philadelphia, I think), the changes are so minor that there's an online fan edit that's 100% identical to the real thing (except without the French subtitles that are on the only existing 35mm print).

I'm guessing what you saw is the Hong Kong release date. No imports have been announced for May yet (which is pretty normal, release dates for imported films are rarely announced more than a few weeks in advance) and the closest thing to a Western "horror" film ever released in mainland China is this (and even that…

hmm, looks like Kyle got off pretty easy

It was so underwhelming it convinced me that Bucky was gone for good, because if they were going to bring him back I'd figure they'd make a bigger deal out of his "death." Then I saw the sequel was subtitled "Winter Soldier" and that notion went out the window…but supposedly IM3 contains a pretty huge misdirect in the…

Hello. I'm a British person.

Her last words: "Margaret Thatcher survives"

a classmate of mine wanted to get bicep tattoos of Lenny and Carl as a devil and an angel respectively, not sure if he ever went through with it

did Groening and Mirkin really say "™" all of those times

There's also radio plays of the two Gently books. They're pretty good!

Yeah, this was basically a comedy version of Sherlock with some very low-rent sci-fi (a time machine! sentient AI!), occasionally punctuated by the phrase "the fundamental interconnectedness of all things" to remind us that this is supposed to be about a holistic detective. But they all play out like conventional…