For more than a decade, international car manufacturer Nissan has waged an intense anti-union campaign against workers trying to organize at its manufacturing plant in Canton, Mississippi. Thousands of activists, workers, civil rights leaders and elected officials plan to march on the plant, 20 miles north of Jackson,…
Paramount Pictures has had a family movie called “Monster Trucks” on their schedule for a while. In my head, I always figured it was about large trucks with big wheels that run over smaller cars. Kids love that stuff! Well, the first trailer is here and it’s not that. Monster Trucks is about monsters who hide in…
Everyone who seems to know agrees that Rob Lowe has joined Danny Glover, Lucas Till, and some other less-famous people to make a live-action/CGI hybrid action/comedy movie about monster trucks. I know, right?
Filmmakers have taken quite a liking to Detroit in recent years. Its, as a writer for Time put it during the magazine's grand experiment yearlong reporting extravaganza on the city, "gritty backdrop" and Michigan's lucrative film incentive program has bolstered the production of a number of Hollywood blockbusters…
The Detroit Auto Show is often attended by a ton of famous celebrities, like the Jalopnik staff and some other, less important people. But at least one celebrity has come to Detroit to stage a protest outside the big show, and that's Danny Glover, the star of the Lethal Weapon movies.
If you missed Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen this past weekend, robogasmic warfare wasn't the only mankind-threatening destruction you would have seen. 2012 promises apocalyptic Bentley-jumping, aircraft carrier-capsizing and falling skyscraper-avoiding stunt flying.
