Is Sam Raimi trying to make me look like an idiot?

Late last year I had the oppertunity to interview Bruce Campbell (which you can listen to here, or  read right over here).  During the interview, I asked Bruce if there had been any development on the Evil Dead 4 front, since Sam Raimi, the initial trilogy's creator, had announced he and Bruce had been talking about a fourth film.  Bruce told me he and Sam were both so busy on upcoming projects (a new directing gig for Campbell, and the Spider-man sequels for Raimi) that it most likely wouldn't happen, at least not for a while.  So after I interviewed Bruce, I immidiately posted an update on Evil Dead 4 claiming it wouldn't be happening.

Well goddamn you Sam Raimi, stop trying to make me look like a fool!  Cinematical reported today that Raimi, talking to Empire Magazine, revealed that he and his brother Ivan are already at work on a script for Evil Dead 4!  This is exciting news, but don't get too excited.  So far there are seven pages, and it sounds like they're just notes about what they'd like to do with Ash this time around, where they'd like the story to go.  But either way, thanks for breakin my balls Sam.

Weakends Episode 3: Growing Weaker

Sorry for all the freakin delays with this. I had a shit ton of technical difficulties* when making this. It was actually recorded Wednesday, the 19th. This week Tom gets down and dirty with some upcoming Summer releases before he and G.Rett (myself) get to

The Top 5 Stories for the Weak of 11.14.08 - 11.19.08

5. Little Fockers is in the works

4. Seth Rogen is making porno for Showtime

3. War Monkey's is going to be Crazy!

2. Spike Jonze dishes out some Where The Wild Things Are tidbits

1. New Star Trek Trailer!

As always, you can check out the podcast here, or head direct to the episode in the sidebar. Let us know what you think of the show in the comments. If you have any suggestions or would like to e-mail us some comments, do so at filmadelphiablog [at] gmail.com and we'll be glad to read em on the air!

*if anyone knows where I can get a free GarageBand upgrade for OSX I would much appreciate it. Right now it only lets me edit up to 30 minutes of sound.

Weakends Episode 2: A New Format

Filmadelphia is finally trying to get on the ball! Since we've found ourselves far too busy to update the ol blog throughout the week, we've changed the format of Weakends a little bit. Instead of blatantly ripping off the /filmcast, we've decided to do our Top 5 Stories of the Weak. We round up all the news for the week and pick our top five and talk about em! Sounds exciting right? It gets even better, G.Rett and Tom have finally decided on a schedule and should actually be updating every Friday! (Maybe Thursday, any opinions on that?)

Also, we haven't given up on the blog. Although Tom is far too lazy, G.Rett is still going to try and make an effort to put some posts up throughout the week. Have no fear, filmadelphia is going to return in a big way with Weakends.

Check out the new episode right now!

Let us know what you think of the new format in the comments!

Show Notes:

Top 5 News Stories for the Weak of 11.7.08 - 11.13.08

5. Baz Luhrmann on the ending of Australia
4. Joe Johnston is directing The First Avenger: Captain America
3. Jeffrey Tambor says the Arrested Development movie is a go
2. Ridley Scott is directing Monopoly
1. The new Watchmen trailer

Weakends Has Finally Arrived! Episode 1: An Interview with Bruce Campbell

It's finally arrived folks, and just in time for your weekend.  The first episode of Weakends!   Weakends is filmadelphia's (supposedly) weekendly podcast, that features me and my friend Tom discussing the week in film news. 

We're kicking things off with an in-depth interview with Bruce Campbell, star of the Evil Dead series, and director/star of the upcoming My Name is Bruce.  His new movie will be here in Philly on Nov. 5, followed by a Q&A with the man himself.  The movie is hilarious, and I would absolutely recommend everyone get out and try to get to this screen.  The man's a blast to talk to.  

Over the course of the interview, we talk about the process of making My Name is Bruce, as well as some of the key players on screen and behind the scenes.  We get into a discussion about Darkman, making and starring in B-movies, his television career, and what the deal is with Evil Dead 4.

You can check out the episode here, or over in the side bar.  I've also posted the true first episode of the show, that Tom and I recorded back in the summer, after Pineapple Express came out, here, as well as in the side bar.  UPDATE: If you'd like to read the text version, click here!

As of right now, due to conflicting schedules, we will air random episodes as we randomly make them.  So look forward to more Weakends in the future! (But probably not next weekend.)

Leave us some comments!

The Matrix: Bingloaded

This is an update to yesterday's post about Stephen Tobolowsky's hilarious reenactment of The Matrix: Reloaded on Monday's /filmcast.

Today, /film provided a five-minute snippet of just this segment for those of you who don't feel like listening to the whole podcast (and shame on you, it's extremely entertaining) or can't figure out how to scroll 14 minutes into the podcast (and shame on you for being just too damn lazy to do so).

Let us know how you feel about Stephen's take on Reloaded in the comments.

Bing: Reloaded

I mentioned it already in my first post, but I can't give enough love to the /Filmcast. On Monday nights they broadcast live at 10pm, and these guys have a really entertaining show that I recommend jumping in the live chat for. It's a lot of fun. Just this past Monday they had "Bing!" Ned Ryerson, Stephen Tobolowsky on as a guest (some of you may know him better as Bob Bishop on NBC's Heroes). If you're not familiar with this guys work, hit his imdb and make some random selections, this guy is great in just about everything.

The point of all this ass kissing is to point you 14:30 into the podcast where Stephen acts out the Matrix: Reloaded. It is hilarious and made me want to go back and rewatch the movie, using my incredible imaginative powers to envision Stephen Tobolowsky as Neo (Wachowski's, you can both thank me later when The Matrix: Revisions puts your careers back on track). I actually happen not to hate Reloaded. I thought it was at least watchable, although I suppose it didn't do too much for me as I never saw the third (although I still plan to).

Let me know what you think of Tobolowsky's take on the film, and please do drop by /film to check out their podcast. They had Kevin Smith on as a guest a couple weeks ago to review The Dark Knight, and it was great.

Welcome!

Filmadelphia is finally up and running! Filmadelphia is an idea my friend Tom and I had to create a place for our bemoanings about hollywood. We hope to provide daily opinion pieces about the latest film news and movies coming out, as well as links to interesting movie related websites and news articles. We're also in the process of figuring out how to publish our own weekendly podcast. If anyone has any information on this (I'm a little iffy on this RSS feed thing) please e-mail us at filmadelphiablog@gmail.com. We need all the help we can get!

Speaking of the podcast, we plan on doing a weekendly podcast called "Weakends" because movie blogs never update over the weekends, so they end up being pretty weak news wise. We figured we'd get something up on saturdays in which we'll take a nod from /film's /filmcast and talk about what we've been watching over the week, review any new films we may have seen, and discuss the weeks biggest film news. We're hoping to have guests from around Philadelphia's geek community, as well as others from the internet film community.

That's all from me for now, but keep up with us, we promise to be an exciting and up-to-date blog with interesting things to say.