Picture Steve Carell in an Acme Factory

Wasn’t Steve Carell born to be in a Looney Tunes plot? It’s going to happen, reports The Hollywood Reporter and Cinema Blend. And “Acme” is going to be pivotal, manufacturing gadgets and more, for the plot. The former boss of “The Office” should be perfect for this sort of cartoon line that ran amok so…

The offspring of Depp, Smith get juicy roles

Kevin Smith wrote it. Johnny Depp stars in it. “Yoga Hosers” sounds pretty cool right off the bat, does it not? I saw the name of the film and thought: What the … It’s the story of two 15-year-old yoga lovers, both named Colleen, who work at a Manitoba convenience story. They’re played by the…

When you used to be Governor, you can make up words

Arnold Schwarzenegger told the world on Instagram Wednesday that the fifth Terminator film will be called “Terminator Genisys.” The world laughed. Taunted. Asked him if he knew how to spell. Over on my Syracuse New Times Film News installment of my twice-weekly blog, I compared it to the way they willy-nilly come up with the…

You can expect a pretty Wild West from Tarantino in 2015

Word was, Quentin Tarantino was pretty steamed when his script for “Hateful Eight” was leaked online. He threatened to scrap it. Pick something else for his eighth movie. Now word is that the movie is on, shooting will begin in January, and the release will come before 2015 becomes 2016. That could make lovers of…

The Turtles are set for a noisy return, 23 years later

In 1991, a whole bunch of young Americans went ape for a bunch on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Word is that they’d like to go see the remake set for release come next month. But, of course, they might not like the changes that Michael Bay, he of the big and bad “Transformers,” is bringing…

Universal wants their monsters to match

The folks at Universal know they have a lot of cha-ching in their monster movie closet. So they’re making a move they hope will make the most of it. Put on the job are the folks who’ve already tuned some cash register music with “Transformers” and “Fast and Furious.” First up with by “The Mummy,”…

I’m here to gasp about a really long trailer

My Movie News blog over at the Syracuse New Times site this week takes a minute or two to discuss a topic that’s without a doubt a sore point. The long movie trailer. Too much. Much much too much. I found two stories about a trailer that runs 72 minutes. It’s for a movie titled…

The Rock shows his sensitive side, and it’s a nice touch

When his part in the reshooting of “Fast and Furious 7” was completed, The Rock gathered the filming crews around him and had somebody take a shot with his phone, or iPad, or something like that. Anyway, it was a personal moment for the world-famous big man, because soon enough, Dwayne Johnson posted the photo…

Let’s be thankful Eli Wallach, quite a character

Eli Wallach died Tuesday, and the actor was 98 years old. He got to work alongside the greats of many generations, in movies that your grandparents and parents and you, yourself, may indeed have loved. Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen and Al Pacino and Cameron Diaz. “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “The Magnificent…