Posted in April 24, 2010 ¬ 12:17 pmh.Nick
While researching this article I came across an older, similar piece on Entertainment Weekly about the difficulty in getting gay movies greenlit in Hollywood. It lists some gay movies stuck in perpetual development hell and some at the starting block.
One of the gay movies that EW namedrops as being ready to roll is a celluloid [...]
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Posted in April 14, 2010 ¬ 9:07 pmh.Nick
The sticky matter of releasing B- gay movie I Love You Phillip Morris in the U.S. is taking on more twists and turns than the true story on which the movie is based. In fact with its tally of failed break-out attempts now standing at 3, the release schedule of this film is catching up [...]
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Posted in April 10, 2010 ¬ 2:53 pmh.Nick
What gives? I Love You Phillip Morris has apparently been pulled back, yet again, from a U.S. release. This gay movie starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, which has already become a modest hit internationally ($8 million dollars and counting), will likely now never see the inside of a movie theater in the States.
After opening [...]
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Posted in March 26, 2010 ¬ 6:38 pmh.Nick
The duo behind new gay movie, I Love You Phillip Morris, had some big hurdles to clear in bringing this story to the screen. First off, how do you make an audience care about a character who is a compulsive liar and a con-man and brings most of his troubles upon himself?
Second big problem is [...]
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Posted in February 17, 2010 ¬ 9:15 pmh.Nick
Hollywood stars don’t often have much to say that’s interesting, relevant or worth reporting, so when they do and its about gay movies. the little antenna thing on my desk starts whirring uncontrollably.
And very occasionally a movie star comes out with something that makes you think “couldn’t have put it better myself – enough said.”
So [...]
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Posted in February 1, 2010 ¬ 8:44 pmh.Nick
I Love you, Philip Morris has been knocking around for so long now I was surprised that it still hasn’t been released. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel for this ambitious gay movie and it hits US theatres on 26 March and UK cinemas 9 days earlier on 17 March.
This expensive [...]
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Posted in January 13, 2010 ¬ 3:52 pmh.Nick
This year is shaping up to be a good’en for gay movies. I’ve put together a list of some that I’m looking forward to in 2010, and you should be too…
…The producers of Make the Yuletide Gay leave the camp comedy behind and step in a different direction with Sticke Figures, a drama about a [...]
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Gay Movies, TrailersBear City, Eyes Wide Open, Give me your Hand, Howl, I Love you Phillip Morris, Judas Kiss, Raging sun Raging Sky, Release, Soundless Wind Chime, Sticke Figures, Ticked-off Trannies with Knives