Posts from ‘July, 2009’

It came to The Take Three’s attention last week that we were inadvertently leaving Grant Park off our weekly run-down of free outdoor summer movies– our apologies! The Grant Park movies, which began July 14 and will run every Tuesday night through August 24, are actually part of the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival, separate from Chicago Park District’s Movies [...]

Tim Burton’s directing talents will return to theaters late next winter in his big-screen adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland.” The film doesn’t debut until March 5, 2010, but the movie trailer hit the internet this afternoon, one day in advance of Burton’s appearance at Comic-Con in San Diego. Burton will be showing scenes from the movie [...]

  This morning’s “Red Eye” reports that Lebowski Fest, an annual festival dedicated to the Coen brothers’ 1998 cult classic “The Big Lebowski,” will visit Chicago September 13-15. Celebrating its eighth year, the festival includes trivia and costumes, and boasts 13 host cities. The film starred Jeff Bridges as The Dude and John Goodman as [...]

Recent buzz about Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe potentially joining the cast of the upcoming “MacGruber” movie got The Take Three thinking about how often Lorne Michaels really hits the mark when adapting “Saturday Night Live” sketches into films. With over a dozen produced since 1980′s “The Blues Brothers,” even “SNL”-diehards are bound to admit [...]

Another weekend is over too quickly, and it’s back to work in this mild Chicago summer. Keep yourself distracted this week with Chicago Park District’s free Movies in the Park summer series– spread throughout the city and bound to be playing at a park near you. This week boasts something for every member of the [...]