Hollywood's Biggest Lies

Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that.

GEORGE A. ROMERO TALKS 'NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD' AND ZOMBIES

"Zombies cannot run. I say this definitively as the Godfather of Zombies."

We were thrilled to sit down with the incomparable, legendary horror maestro George A. Romero recently. The director of such zombie classics as

Night of the Living Dead

and

Dawn of the Dead

shared his stories about the difficulties of getting his debut funded and released, and how it became "a black film" after the assassination of Martin Luther King.

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WES ANDERSON'S 'THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL' TRAILER LANDS

Is The Grand Budapest Hotel the most Wes Anderson-esque Wes Anderson film yet? The first trailer seems to suggest as much.

The whopping ensemble cast features – take a deep breath – Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Saoirse Ronan, Mathieu Amalric, F Murray Abraham, Bob Balaban and Lea Seydoux (who recently starred in the director's ad for Prada); and not, as was reported early on, Johnny Depp.

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HOLLYWOOD'S BIGGEST LIES

Wait, are you telling me I shouldn't get all my information from Hollywood? So, I don't really need to be in daily fear of attack from a giant lizard rising out of the sea, and handsome businessmen don't find beautiful but unreasonably clumsy women irresistibly charming. Wtf, Katherine Heigl?!

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THE WEEK IN GIFS
Paramount Need to Back Off Darren Aronofsky's Noah

You'd think when you're working with such an esteemed director as Darren Aronofsky you'd have some element of trust that the guy knows what he's doing. But oh no, Paramount have decided to get their sticky, money-covered fingers all over his epically-proportioned Noah. Apparently, the studio are worried the film's final act may alienate and upset religious audiences and decided to only bring those concerns up now that movie's been made and all that crazy amount of money has been spent. The thing is, Paramount knew full well in the film's development that this wasn't going to be a literal translation from Bible to screen, considering it's based on a non-traditional graphic novel and Aronofsky has been outspoken that his view of Noah is as a "dark, complicated character". If they wanted a movie they could promote to relgious communities, why on earth did they choose Aronofsky to direct? Just get Mel Gibson to do it and we can all move on. It's too late, Paramount, sorry. Just suck it up and let Aronofsky do his thing.

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