I like those statistics.

Routh comes across like a little kid playing in the dress up box.

Whoever plays Superman, I really hope they cast someone who's physically BIG. Reading All Star Superman brought home to me that Clark Kent seems clumsy because he comes off like a big oaf, while Superman needs to look like he really can lift up a passenger plane without breaking a sweat. Brandon Routh didn't cut it.…

I think Snyder lacks restraint, and his films all suffer because of it. Some are OK despite moments of excess (Dawn of the Dead, Watchmen), others are fucking dreadful, juvenile jizzheaps (300).

Sometimes considered first American narrative film lasting a whole reel. Definitely considered first western.

The eye slice happens in, like, the second scene, and its often featured on the poster. Its not a spoiler, surely, to know about something that happens at the start?

Actually, almost all very early silent films broke the fourth wall. Narrative cinema (which doesn't directly acknowledge the viewer) didn't become standard until after 1907, if not later.

For info, Naveen Andrews was also a heroin addict throughout much of his early career - including the filming of The English Patient.

Surely you lose two points for explaining the joke?

Me too - although, frankly, I think it has irrevocably fucked me up in some ways. I still find Killer Bob the apex of scariness.

For some reason…
Zack forgot to mention that Joe Hill is Stephen King's son. So it falls to me…

No, no Gluper and infallibleopiniongenerator. That's definitely not the twist. Its… ah… um… something else. Something to do with… ah… plants gassing people? Maybe?

I really love them, but dull is a reasonable complaint. They are the most captivating boring books I know (a bit like the movie). Not much happens, when there is any action, O'Brien often doesn't bother showing it - he focuses on Maturin's angst, what they are eating, the minutiae of the rigging and sail arrangements.…

Also, rebooting it now makes it much, much harder for Marvel to do a reboot if the rights ever do revert.

Don't forget James Bond. That was rebooted with Bond played by an angry mound of ham.

For me, the more I knew about the cylons, the more disengaged I became from the show (although I only really became aware of this in S3). I liked it best when they were nasty, unknowable machines with weird schemes. Once we found out they have feelings, and live in a big disco in the sky, it slowly turned to shit.

We're not going to talk about Judy. No, we're going to leave her out of it.

Dunk is quite right - I got it the wrong way round. 80% for distributors for the first two weeks, dropping quickly thereafter. However, most analysts do still stand by the 50% overall claim - My figures are from Howard Vogler's 'Entertainment Industry Economics,' which is the standard book on the subject - although,…

Exhibitor fees - the so-called house 'nut.' Its not an exact science (every distribution deal differs), but as a general rule, its pretty regular. When a movie opens, the theatres will take around 80% of ticket sales, but as a movie stays on release, the percentages quickly drop.

From the director of the final episode of Dark Angel!