Back Seat Producers

Written by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue, Directed by Joel Schumacher  Bravery is shaping up as my theme of the week over at Girls with Glasses.  And this woman tops them all, hands down.  Joel Schumacher (“Lost Boys” and “Batman & Robin”) directs and Jerry Bruckheimer (“Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Pearl Harbor”) produces this [...]

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Brendan Frasier has been signed to star opposite Harrison Ford in an as yet untitled true-story based drama from Double Feature Films. Frasier plays biotech executive John Crowley whose two children were diagnosed with a fatal neuromuscular disorder, Ford plays the oddball scientific genius whom Fraser turns to for the pioneering treatments his kids need [...]

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#1 Paul Blart: Mall Cop from Sony holds the #1 spot for a second weekend. Cop earned $21.5 million in 3144 theaters this weekend. Budget for Cop was $26 million. #2 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans from Screen Gems debuts at #2 this weekend earning $20.7 million in 2942 theaters. Budget for Lycans was $35 [...]

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In 1941, in Nazi occupied Eastern Europe near the Belarussian Forests, four Jewish brothers, Tuvia, Zus, Asael and Aron Bielski flee to the forests to hide after discovering their parents killed after a hunt for Jews. The brothers survive by their wits and very soon, they take more in with them, beginning construction of a [...]

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Howdy!  To all regular (and not-so-easily-categorized) readers of “Back Seat Producers,” I send greetings!  Tony and the gang have invited me, Melanie Young, on as an estrogen-heavy contributor of DVD reviews.  I’ll be attempting to post here a couple times a week, though I also post daily over at my regular blog: http://glassesgirls.blogspot.com – which I [...]

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Korean Western The Good, the Bad, the Weird leads the list of nominations for this year’s Asian Film Awards. The film, about a chase for treasure through the wilderness of Manchuria, collected eight nominations, including best feature film, director and cinematography, as well as a two way nod for Jung Woo-sung and Lee Byung-hun in [...]

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#1 Paul Blart: Mall Cop from Sony debuts at #1 this weekend Cop earned $33.8 million in 3144 theaters this weekend. Budget for was $26 million. #2 Grand Torino from Warner Bros. drops to #2 Torino earned $22.2 million in 2972 theaters this weekend bringing its gross to $73 million. Budget for Torino was $33 [...]

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Movie Prize Pack Giveaway From Henry Selick, visionary director of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, and based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling book, comes a spectacular stop-motion animated adventure – the first to be originally filmed in 3D! Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning) is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door and discovers [...]

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Still catching up.  As near as we can tell/remember we are releasing these in the order that we recorded them. We joke about this being the “Recently Dead Guy” podcast.  This is reflected once again as this episode is being released just a few days after news that Ricardo Montalban has passed away. In this [...]

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Randy “The Ram” Robinson is a pro wrestler who’s best days are 20 years past, and now he ekes out a living doing small local shows and working for a store. At one of his shows, he sustains a load of brutal injuries and then has a heart attack and suddenly starts to realize his [...]

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