It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it. The Canadian Press reports that more than 40 Members of Parliament, Senators, and their staff members have signed up to see a special screening of Young People Fucking in Ottawa on Thursday night: Among an early list of RSVPs obtained by The Canadian Press are four Conservative MPs. The list included three Liberal MPs and two New Democrat MPs, including Bill Blaikie, an ordained minister. Several Liberal Senators are on... Read more

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. The American Trap — CDN $261,295 — N.AM $261,295 — 100%Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay — CDN $6,990,000 — N.AM $35,908,000 — 19.5%What Happens in Vegas — CDN $5,450,000 — N.AM $54,246,000 — 10.0%Made of Honor — CDN $3,870,000 — N.AM $39,061,000 — 9.9%Forgetting Sarah Marshall — CDN... Read more

Heads up, anyone who might be in the Vancouver area June 7: Ken Priebe — animator, author, speaker, teacher, blogger and film critic for Hollywood Jesus, among other things — is organizing a four-hour animation festival that day at Cedar Park Church in Delta. A story in yesterday’s Delta Optimist says there will be “different stations with activities including claymation, drawing cartoons, creating simple flip books and more”, as well as “a program of award-winning animated short films ‘from all... Read more

Hat tip to Russell Lucas. Read more

Last month, the Times of Malta posted what was probably the first picture from the set of Agora, Alejandro Amenábar’s upcoming film about the 4th-century philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria. A few days ago they posted another. Looks impressive enough. I wonder when we’ll see the actors in costume. Oh, wait, there appear to be some more photos over at Notas de Cine, which give us a better look at the costumes, etc. — though it is not clear whether the... Read more

From yesterday’s Variety article on the musical adaptation of Saved! (2004; my article), the comedy about a Christian high school student who gets pregnant by her gay boyfriend: Even as quirky musicals go, “Saved” is an odd bird. The general trend for screen-to-stage adaptations is to make everything larger than life — broadening the comedy, heightening the romance and rendering the characters sufficiently loud and cartoonish to play to the back row. But the creative team behind the tuner adaptation... Read more

I may never watch Reservoir Dogs (1992) the same way again, after seeing Tim Roth leap all over the place in this clip from The Incredible Hulk: Click here if the video file above doesn’t play properly. Read more

This is too big to reduce to a mere newsbite. ComingSoon.net reports that Warner Brothers has released the following synopsis for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, which began shooting a couple weeks ago: In the highly anticipated new installment of “The Terminator” film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered... Read more

Let’s tackle this bunch in reverse-alphabetical order. 1. This may not technically be a remake, but it’s close enough for me: Variety reports that Mike McNulty, who produced the documentary Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997), will co-produce a dramatic film about the clash between the feds and the Branch Davidians called, simply, Waco. The director attached to the film is Rupert Wainwright, who last tackled religious themes on the big screen in the ridiculously sensationalistic supernatural thriller Stigmata (1999)... Read more

I don’t know if any clips are available online, but if any of my readers are in New Zealand, you might have heard me on Outrageous Life with Laurel McCulloch earlier today, talking about The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian — which apparently hasn’t opened over there yet, despite the fact that director Andrew Adamson hails from there and the film was partly shot there. It was a fun chat, though I wondered if I explained C.S. Lewis’s thoughts on... Read more