One of my favorite parts of the writing process is research, and it's great fun to go back to old press reports to see if stories were on target about movies, or if they were ridiculously off base.
Like Super 8, there was speculation and box office armchair quarterbacking about Cowboys and Aliens, which wasn’t based on a previous movie, TV show, or video game, and how it would potentially perform at the box office.
Colombia Pictures recently released a goof-ball trailer for the upcoming Smurfs film adaptation. The biggest thing I came away with: the Smurfs have grown up.
