Paul Tassi

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Favorite Movies: Memento, Battle Royale, American Psycho, Gladiator, The Orphanage, Sunshine, The Ring, read more The Prestige, A New Hope, The Last Crusade, Snatch, Fight Club, 300, Evil Dead 2, The Matrix, 500 Days of Summer, The Lion King, Shaun of the Dead, The Dark Knight, Love Actually, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Likes: Macaroni and Cheese, Pen and Ink, Soccer and Tennis, Halo and read more Smash Bros, Rum and Coke, Mila Kunis and Kristin Kreuk

The Last Airbender’s Aang heading to Cowboys and Aliens

Posted 16 years ago

Well, virtual unknown Noah Ringer now has TWO credits he can put on his IMDB page. After being plucked from obscurity for M. Night Shyamalan’s LAST AIRBENDER adaptation (which if he f*cks it up, so help me), Ringer now has...

Sacha Baron Cohen the latest possible Walter Mitty

Posted 16 years ago

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY is in what’s known as “development hell.” The adaptation of the 1947 Danny Kaye comedy has been languishing since 1994 when Steven Spielberg and Jim Carrey were going to take a crack at it....

Zooey Deschanel to Enchant some Numbers

Posted 16 years ago

Alright, so I don’t usually base entire stories off of 25-word Twitter announcements from Production Weekly, but I make an exception when they have to do with my uber-crush, Zooey Deschanel. Deschanel has been cast in ENCHANTRESS OF NUMBERS where...

A Star Wars Q&A with Harrison Ford? It’s happening

Posted 16 years ago

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, Lucasfilm is putting together a special screening of the film at the ArcLight Theater in Hollywood with all proceeds going to St. Jude Children’s Hospital. That’s all well and good, but...

Have a look at young John Lennon in new Nowhere Boy poster

Posted 16 years ago

NOWHERE BOY stars newcomer Aaron Johnson as a young John Lennon, and the first poster for the film has debuted which you can see below. It’s an interesting mish-mash of color, and Johnson kind of looks like Buddy Holly, but...

Hot mermaid lovin’ in Colin Farrell’s Ondine trailer

Posted 16 years ago

I’ve been hearing good things about Colin Farrell’s new mermaid movie, which is a phrase I never thought I’d write. It’s called ONDINE, and technically it’s not a mermaid movie, as Alicja Bachleda is playing a different kind of sea...

Harry Knowles vs. Roger Ebert over Kick-Ass

Posted 16 years ago

The movie press is all a-flutter today with Roger Ebert’s one star review of KICK-ASS hitting the net. He claims that though people will think him a square, he must object to the movie, and his criticism is mainly based...

If Akira Kurosawa made Star Wars

Posted 16 years ago

A very talented toymaker named Sillof had a thought. What would it be like if Akira Kurosawa made STAR WARS? Not such a far-out idea, considering STAR WARS borrowed heavily from many samurai stories and movies for its plot and...

Swedish crime thiller being remade with ultimate badass Zac Efron

Posted 16 years ago

Now that High School Musical craziness has been officially been replaced by some prepubescent kid named Justin Beaver(?), it appears HSM’s stars are free to try and go about the monumental task of re-directing their various careers. No one is...

Brad Pitt talks about the Tree of Life

Posted 16 years ago

If you’ve been wondering what Brad Pitt’s been up to post-Basterds, he’s a part of TREE OF LIFE, a drama by Terrence Malick premiering at Cannes this year. Empire recently caught up with Pitt and got a few brief words...

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