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How Would John Carpenter's Vampire Hunters Fare vs. 'Twilight' Vampires?

By Ryan McKee (Subscribe to Ryan McKee's posts), Posted Jul 9th 2011 12:05PM
Filed under: Features, The Twilight Saga, Horror

John Carpenter, whose new movie 'The Ward' opens this weekend, has been terrifying audiences since the 1970s with such classics as 'Halloween,' 'The Thing' and 'Christine.'

His 1998 film 'Vampires,' though, may have arrived around a decade too early. The current 'Twilight'-inspired vampire craze would likely have shot the film well past its $20 million box office take. While it occurs in a much darker world than Stephenie Meyer's depiction of sparkly vampires, it should still interest Twi-hards.

Why? The 'Vampires' series is about various vampire hunters who track and kill evil bloodsuckers. Edward Cullen and his like-minded "vegetarian" family do much the same thing in the first three installments of 'The Twilight Saga.'

Carpenter and Meyer should think about joining the two series a la 'Alien vs. Predator' or 'Freddy vs. Jason.' Were that to happen, these are the hunters from 'Vampires' -- 'Vampires: Los Muertos' and 'Vampires: The Turning' -- that the Cullens should team with to take down the evil Volturi.
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Ferris Bueller and the Best Teen Computer Hackers in Movies

By Ryan McKee (Subscribe to Ryan McKee's posts), Posted Jun 10th 2011 9:00AM
Filed under: Features, Best and Worst

June 11 is the 25th anniversary of the iconic '80s masterpiece 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.' Every bit as enjoyable to watch today as in 1986, the John Hughes and Matthew Broderick collaboration deserves proper tribute. Since the film is such an original, Moviefone decided to come up with a unique list to honor it: how the best teen computer hackers in movies came about.

There are plenty of great hackers in movies. Everyone from Seth Green as Lyle in 'The Italian Job' to Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in 'The Matrix' and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' are great characters, but they're all adults. The teen hacker is an odd thing, and when done correctly they're incredibly fun to watch.
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The 7 Best Viral Marketing Campaigns in Movie History

By Ryan McKee (Subscribe to Ryan McKee's posts), Posted Jun 7th 2011 11:15AM
Filed under: Features, Best Movies Ever, Summer Movies

'Super 8' hits theaters June 10, and the viral marketing campaigns for it have been spinning like mad. Director J.J. Abrams loves a good viral campaign and is probably one of the few directors who actually thinks about it as he's constructing the initial movie. The success of 'Super 8''s marketing remains to be seen, but there are plenty of online hints and movie references that nerds (ourselves included) will be digging through for months.

'Super 8' already has intrigue and mystery down, which you'll see are two big factors in a successful online promotion. Below, we take a look at the seven best viral marketing campaigns in movie history.
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The Biggest Memorial Day Openings Ever

By Ryan McKee (Subscribe to Ryan McKee's posts), Posted May 24th 2011 8:00PM
Filed under: Features, Box Office, Summer Movies, Best and Worst

Memorial Day weekend is upon us, and for most that means beach, sun and water sports. For us, however, that means big summer movies are officially here. Whether accurate or not, Hollywood views box office totals from this weekend to predict how the summer will go like Punxsutawney, Penn., uses a groundhog's shadow to forecast winter's end.

This doesn't always hold up. Despite last year's Memorial Day box office haul being the lowest in 17 years, Hollywood still had one of its most profitable summers ever. The following five movies will tell you one thing about what type of movies do well over Memorial Day: huge action-adventure sequels.

Opening this weekend, 'The Hangover: Part II' and 'Kung Fu Panda 2,' have the "huge" and "sequel" parts down. But they'll be trying to break into the list as the only raunchy comedy and animated film in the top five. Can they do it? Read the breakdown and decide.
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6 Things You Didn't Know About Johnny Depp

By Ryan McKee (Subscribe to Ryan McKee's posts), Posted May 19th 2011 3:20PM
Filed under: Features, Summer Movies, Celebrity Gossip

Seeing Johnny Depp on red carpets and doing press for his new movie 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' is not a new thing. Many readers may not remember a time when Depp wasn't doing that. After all, he's been in the public eye for over 27 years. In 1984, he appeared in 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and has worked consistently ever since. Not bad for a Kentucky boy who dropped out of high school to pursue rock star dreams with his band Six Gun Method.

While Depp is absolutely a household name, he never basked in celebrity the way some actors do; he would usually shrink away from the spotlight whenever possible. The average person may be able to name a dozen movies he's in but not tell you two things about his personal life. That's too bad, since he's quite an interesting fella –- as these six facts prove.
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Laziest Slackers in Movies: 8 Characters Who Are Happiest Doing Nothing

By Ryan McKee (Subscribe to Ryan McKee's posts), Posted Mar 21st 2011 10:00AM
Filed under: Features

The slacker character has grown from being background comic relief to the lead role. The upcoming film 'Your Highness,' for example, stars Danny McBride as Thaddeus, a prince who prefers boozing and smoking it up to ruling the kingdom. Judd Apatow has built an entire comedy franchise around the slacker, and Seth Rogen is an A-list star because of it. We're not here to degrade the slacker, but to celebrate the character with our own top 8 list. (Originally, we wanted to do a top 10 list, but we felt coming up short seemed appropriate.)

Note: Readers may have issues with some of our omissions. With so many options out there, we only picked those who accomplish almost nothing in their films. That ruled out the likes of 'Bill & Ted' and Wayne and Garth, who have slacker personae but actually get a lot done. We also considered the motivation for slack. If the character is simply a pothead, that didn't warrant a spot. The laziness had to run deeper than that.
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10 Funniest Movie Aliens

By Ryan McKee (Subscribe to Ryan McKee's posts), Posted Mar 15th 2011 9:00PM
Filed under: Features

Paul is a Judd Apatow character mashed-up with 'E.T.' A slacker space alien who gets stuck on earth and needs to get home. Instead of finding good-hearted, impressionable children to help him, he gets two grown comic book geeks. Of course, hilarity ensues and most alien stereotypes are shattered.

In honor of 'Paul's' release this weekend, Moviefone has collected cinema's ten funniest aliens. Choosing these creatures is more difficult than you would think. There are more space comedies than you would think. It's odd because UFO nerds are constantly wondering whether aliens will be friendly or warlike, but you never hear anyone wondering if they'll be hilarious.
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