A Failed Attempt vs. No Attempt I must say I'm not really a fan of Ang Lee's Hulk, which was released 5 years before the studios decided to allow a remake (or a sequel?) in order to erase from memory all the traces of the original. Lee's film was a double disappointment for me because a) it didn't work well as a Hulk adaptation and b) it marked the major failure of a talented director, whom I first got to like with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (a name that was frequently spelled in Hulk's...
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So, we can take for granted that somewhere out there in Tinseltown, some Machiavellian studio executive has a collection of really rare original Incredible Hulk comic books. He had his people buy them up back in the early 90's when the comic book movie thing had hit really big, and he was sure that cornering the market in Hulking memorabilia had him sitting on a gold mine when the big green guy finally made it to the cineplexes. And then Ang Lee took the story and sensitively created...
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Director Louis Leterrier made The Incredible Hulk just five years after the comic book character last hit the big screen - because he was "disappointed' with Ang Lee's effort.
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Too soon. That was the general consensus when a new “Hulk” movie was announced to release only five years after Ang Lee’s now-reviled bomb. I don’t remember hating Ang Lee’s film that much. It showed flashes of brilliance, but imagine the powers that be, only five years later saying, “We’ve done it again, started all over, and now it’s better than ever!” I agree with the consensus. Too soon. I understand what Marvel aspires to do. With high interest in lucrative comic book films...
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Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee is filming a movie about the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair in the Town of North East. Lee is making "Taking Woodstock" with James Schamus, who produced "Brokeback Mountain," the film that earned Lee a 2005 ...
Batman and the The Dark Knight paved the road for the recovery of D.C. Comics and Warner Bros.’ related movie projects. Now, it looks like Superman’s turn to get his big red “S” out of the phone booth and back in the game. In keeping, the headlines are turning toward that Last Prodigal Son of...
More Articles: James Schamus and Ang Lee will reunite on Focus Features' "Taking Woodstock." Lee will direct and Focus prexy Schamus will pen the comedy based on Elliot Tiber's memoir "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, Concert, and a Life ...
A new movie by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee will begin production in Columbia County later this month. Lee is making "Taking Woodstock" with James Schamus, who produced "Brokeback Mountain," the film that earned Lee a 2005 Oscar for Best ...
Crash! Bash! Rend! Roar! Rip! And, moreover, what a jolly pleasant surprise. 'Norton plays Banner with exactly the intelligent conviction you'd expect' Five years after venerable Taiwanese director Ang Lee tripped himself up with his over-earnest ...