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What makes a film "bad?" Well, for starters, these kinds of movies fail to have any redeemable qualities or their flaws prominently outweigh everything they have to offer. In fact, some legendarily bad movies are widely known because they're so terrible. I'm talking about the likes of Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" or 2010's "Birdemic: Shock and Terror." However, movies in this vein still offer something meaningful despite their nonsensical nature, as there's fun to be had with an egregiously bad premise. For example, a franchise like "Sharknado" induces plenty of unintended laughs, where the escalating events are so baffling and cringe-worthy that the films become an outlet for mindless entertainment.

But what about a movie that is insufferably, irredeemably bad? As in, so bad it's currently the lowest-rated film on IMDb with a rating of 1.9 out of 10? If you've never heard of 2008's "Disaster Movie," you're probably better off not knowing,...

No matter how hard our tech overlords try to convince us otherwise, when it comes to something like film, everything is subjective. But if we're going to live in a time when art is reduced to percentage scores and easily-digestible metrics are the only thing that makes navigating the endless sea of "content" on offer easier, then we might as well embrace our current moment and ask the question — what is the worst movie of all time? Of course, there is no definitive answer to this query, but that hasn't stopped Rotten Tomatoes from giving us its closest approximation.

Plenty of movies have earned a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score, Jim Carrey's "Dark Crimes" being one example. But have you ever heard of "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever"? Me neither. But this 2002 action thriller, in which Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu face off as opposing agents, has managed to distinguish itself, though...

After working together on the 2021 version of Wrong Turn, director Mike P. Nelson and screenwriter Alan B. McElroy are re-teaming for the Brazil-set creature feature Titan – and Deadline reports that Kiana Madeira of the Fear Street trilogy and Jessica Rothe of the Happy Death Day movies are set to star in the film!

The story Titan is set against the backdrop of Brazil’s Curuçá River in the present day. When a team of young doctors embark on a local humanitarian mission through the Amazon rainforest, it soon becomes clear that not everyone – or everything – is happy to see them. Their arrival draws the attention of an ancient predator, the “Boiúna”. This ancient killer, dominant on land and water, clashes to reclaim the jungle. The ensuing fight for survival blurs the roles of hunter, prey, and hero.

The film is coming our way from the Resident Evil franchise makers at Constantin Film and Jb Pictures.

A sprawling gun show — billed as “14 Acres of Guns & Gear” — was the main attraction at the the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Houston this past weekend. And even in the aftermath of the carnage in nearby Uvalde, where 19 children and two adults were massacred by a teenager with an assault weapon, NRA members poured in by the thousands to gawk at the gun industry’s latest, sexiest, deadliest wares.

In addition to the expected panoply of pistols, revolvers, shotguns, and Ar-15s, the showroom featured one booth with...

The story of a hitman who spends 12 hours touring the city with a long list of targets is a deathly plod

Lacking much else, this VOD-bound actioner offers two unexpected comebacks for the price of one. The star is Mark Dacascos, erstwhile straight-to-video stalwart aiming to convert his nifty John Wick 3 cameo into a second leading-man career. Behind the camera is Wych Kaosayananda, formerly just Kaos, the wildly overhyped Thai tyro exported at the height of Hollywood’s millennial Asian-cinema fetish to oversee megaflop Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever in 2002.

His latest is a baby step up from that – cheap, self-produced tat being preferable to aggressively expensive corporate tat – but still feels underpowered. Ironically, it’s the kind of B pic a studio would have bulked up, cut tighter and transformed into a halfway worthy rental prospect.

Come Aug. 26, virtually all roads in the lucrative U.K. and Ireland cinema market lead to Warner Bros.’ “Tenet.” In most of the countries’ cinemas on that date, you can watch any movie — just as long as it’s “Tenet.”

At the Omnimax cinema in Limerick, Ireland, customers can choose from 19 showtimes for Christopher Nolan’s keenly awaited and thrice postponed magnum opus. Over at the Cineworld in Wolverhampton, England, audiences have a choice of 29 “Tenet” shows on Aug. 26, while the Odeon in Cardiff, Wales, offers 16 shows, and the Vue Ocean Terminal in Edinburgh, Scotland, has 19.

For European cinema giant Vue, which opened ticket sales for “Tenet” at midnight on Tuesday, the film so far accounts for 60% of tickets sold in the U.K. on Wednesday. Vue CEO Tim Richards tells Variety that those numbers are only bound to get bigger.

“You’re going to see a slow start and...

From action filmmaker Wych Kaosayananda, director of Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and The Driver, comes the action-thriller Dead Earth, arriving today on DVD, Digital, and On Demand from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Interestingly, Dead Earth tells a parallel story to Kaosayananda’s The Driver, focusing on events that happen within the same post-apocalyptic world, with characters and locations intersecting between both films! In this post-apocalyptic action thriller, […]...

From action filmmaker Wych Kaosayananda, director of Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and The Driver, comes the action-thriller Dead Earth, arriving on DVD, Digital, and On Demand January 28 from Lionsgate. Dead Earth is a must-own film for fans of The Driver (as this film tells a parallel story) focusing on events that happen within the …

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From action filmmaker Wych Kaosayananda, director of Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and The Driver, comes the action-thriller Dead Earth, arriving on DVD, Digital, and On Demand January 28th from Lionsgate. Dead Earth is a must-own film for fans of The Driver (as this film tells a parallel story) focusing on events that happen within the same post-apocalyptic world, with characters and […]

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“Flatliners” is the worst reviewed movie of the Fall so far, and one of the worst-reviewed movies of the year. But it’s not the worst reviewed film of all time. Check which ones are, courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes, ranked by number of reviews. “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever” (2002) Average Score: 2.59 # of Reviews: 116 Tomatometer: 0 Cast: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu “One Missed Call” (2008) Average Score: 2.48 # of Reviews: 80 Tomatometer: 0 Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Edwards Burns “Pinocchio” (2002) Average Score: 2.36 # of Reviews: 55 Tomatometer: 0 Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi “A Thousand Words” (2012) Average Score: 3.18 # of Reviews: 54 Tomatometer: 0 Cast: Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Allison Janney “Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2” (2004) Average.

Netflix announced Tuesday that Lucy Liu would direct the first episode of “Marvel’s Luke Cage” when the series returned for its second season, and the news was met with a bit of head-scratching and ambivalence. Sure, Liu has had a successful TV and film career, but is still making a name for herself behind the camera.

Upon further examination though, this is a really savvy move on Marvel’s part. Here’s a breakdown of why Liu joining the Netflix series is great news:

Read More‘Hawaii Five-0’: Why CBS Must Quickly Solve the Show’s Lack of Asian American Stars More Attention to Female TV Directors

The industry appreciation for female film directors is on the rise, and we see the parallel trend happening on TV albeit in a quieter way. While the likes of Mimi Leder, Michelle McLaren and Susanne Bier are leading the charge, many more longtime,...

Very seldom do movies manage to unite critics in mutual abhorrence, but “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” is doing just that. The sequel to the 2009 Kevin James comedy about a bumbling security guard is not just being blasted in reviews, it’s been decimated ahead of its opening weekend. The alleged comedy currently has a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That puts it on par with other “classics” like the 1999 Dennis Rodman action flick “Simon Sez,” and the Antonio Banderas/Lucy Liu clunker “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever.” See Photos: 21 Movie Sequels That Took Forever to Hit the Big Screen Ouch.

Warner Bros. is being taken to court again by two Germany film companies that claim the studio breached a settlement agreement covering four films and is violating their copyright to Laws of Attraction, starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore. The Zweite Academy and the Erste Academy — together captioned and abbreviated as "Mhf" — previously sued Warner Bros. in 2012 over films that included The Whole Ten Yards, The In Laws and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. The plaintiffs produced the films and entered into distribution agreements with special purpose entities in return for a minimum guaranty, earmarked gross receipts and

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Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever (2002) Director: Kaos Stars: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Ray Park After a young boy is kidnapped by rogue special agent Sever, a former operative named Ecks is brought in to track her down and recover a dangerous weapon. But in an unbelievable twist, not everything is as it seems!!!! Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever is remarkable for many reasons. For one, the unnecessarily complicated title is just laughable. "Ballistic" is clearly a generic...

This story first appeared in The Hollywood Reporter's Afm Daily on Nov. 10. In 2002, Franchise Pictures brought what would become an infamous box-office bomb, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, to Afm. Starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu as rival secret agents who join forces against a common enemy, the action-thriller recouped just over $19.9 million of its reported $70 million budget. For Franchise, which had become known more for its big busts (Battlefield Earth, Get Carter) than its minor hits (The Whole Nine Yards), it was the beginning of the end. Franchise had been founded in 1997 by

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Some things should be left to the message boards. Or at least to the comic books. The question of “Who would win in a fight between…” probably goes back millennia. Prehistoric man would look at two different beloved cave drawings and ponder a battle between a bear on one wall and a lion from another. Maybe an early storyteller came up with the tale of this match, concluding the narrative with the animals teaming up and going after a common enemy: humans. Or, because they were man’s villains, the story probably went the other way, with the bear and the lion being manipulated by their prey to fight each other, the result being a draw where they both lose. The latter is basically updated in the movie Freddy vs. Jason. The former story is more apt for one in which two heroes are pit against each other. The upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is...

“Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever” director Wych Kaosayananda’s latest, “Tekken 2: Kazuya’s Revenge” (formerly “Tekken 2: A Man Called X”) has sneaked its way onto DVD, Blu-ray, and VOD this week. You can grab a copy of the movie from Amazon and other places if you’re so inclined, but frankly, after seeing this trailer for it I’m not sure if you’ll want to. And I actually liked the first “Tekken,” which starred Jon Foo, so I’m a bit disappointed the sequel is not only obviously working on a shoestring budget, but I’m not sure it even makes sense in the context of the last movie. Kane Kosugi, son of the legendary Sho Kosugi, stars in this one. If nothing else, the martial arts should look pretty convincing. But hey, maybe it’s just me. You can judge for yourself. Suffering from amnesia, a young...

Are prequels in the air this week or something? First, New Girl and now Community.

But while that New Girl episode used the extended flashback as a device to flesh out its characters' sexual and romantic hang-ups, "Heroic Origins" utilized the flashback to a more Community-appropriate end: to spin the tales of how each of the Greendale Seven hit the particular rock bottom that brought them to the school.

It was also a clever and tender tribute to the 2008 Angelina Jolie film Wanted (yes, that is definitely the first and last time that I, or probably any other human being, am going to write that sentence).

Late-aughts Angelina Jolie vehicles aside, the episode harkened back to the alternate timelines plotline of Community Season 3's classic "Remedial Chaos Theory," with its dextrous flipping between the past and present, and each of the Greendale Seven's pre-Greendale lives (well, except for that brief appearance by Pierce,...

Joss Whedon's blockbuster has a terrible name – but it faces stiff competition from the likes of B*A*P*S, Gleaming the Cube, They, Eegah, Sssssss and Phffft!

What's claimed to be "the most highly anticipated movie event of the year" is now upon us. It's the release of a film called Marvel Avengers Assemble. You what? People bent on vengeance often do cool stuff, but it usually amounts to a bit more than assembling. What's this lot's vengeful mission? To participate in a fire drill, or to begin the school day? And why would dried milk be the best fuel to fire up their deadly rancour?

In fact, some bodybuilders do rely on the popular Cadbury's product. As a handy source of concentrated protein, it's apparently much prized in prisons. However, powdered milk plays no role in Marvel Avengers Assemble.

Of course, if you're the educated type, you...

The saga of Franchise Pictures, one of the biggest Hollywood blow-ups of all time, isn't quite over. On Tuesday, Warner Bros. was sued in California federal court for allegedly distributing three films -- The Whole Ten Yards, The In-Laws and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever -- without a proper license. The claims come from a German production company that owns the copyright on the films and licensed Franchise to distribute them before that company went bankrupt. Oh, and there's a David Bergstein element here too. According to the lawsuit filed by Mhf Zweite Academy Film Gmbh, the company granted Franchise the

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So many obviously-not-good movies get made in a given year, there’s really no point in singling out individual ones or acting particularly surprised when a movie that looks bad fails with the critics. That is, unless a film manages to pull the bad-movie equivalent of Shooting The Moon and achieves a dubious 0% Rating on Rotten Tomatoes, an achievement of futility that’s so rare and requires so much across-the-board luck (and badness), it’s actually kind of impressive: Way to go, A Thousand Words! You’ve entered elite ‘memorably-forgettable’ company alongside Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and the Roberto Begnini Pinocchio. Just to put that 0% in perspective, check out the ratings on these other Eddie Murphy movies: 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Yup, all of those scored higher than A Thousand Words. Sorry, dude! We promise we’ll spend the rest of the day watching standup clips and quoting Coming To America. On the plus side,...

It may have a terribly off-putting title (and let’s face it, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever standard terrible) but ‘Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes’ backs that up with an even more off-putting premise.

Emanuel is a troubled 17-year-old girl who babysits her new neighbour Linda’s “baby,” which is actually a very life-like doll. She goes along with the delusion while befriending Linda, who happens to be the spitting image of her late mother.

After acting in Francseca Gregorini’s egregiously insufferable previous feature Tanner Hall newly appointed movie star Rooney Mara was slated to play the titular Emanuel before scheduling conflicts got in the way. Now Skins alumni Kaya Scodelario has stepped in and news is that Jessica Biel is in final talks to maniacally inhabit the shoes of the nutty neighbour.

Scodelario’s Emanuel was previously described as “a young, troubled woman who becomes obsessed with her mysterious,...

With Eddie Murphy's Tower Heist arriving in theaters this Friday, November 4, I felt I should finally post another installment in my "I Finally Watched..." series and get to that Netflix copy of The Adventures of Pluto Nash that had been sitting on my coffee table for the last month or so. But if you're expecting a lambasting similar to what I gave Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and Skyline, I'm sorry, that's not going to be the case. At least not entirely... No, Pluto Nash isn't good, in fact it's quite bad, but it's not bad in the way its reputation would lead you to believe. It's not offensively awful or even a film I would immediately turn to in conversation if we were discussing bad films. In fact, if you cut out a few of the sex jokes and the swearing this would play more like an innocent PG-rated film for 8-10 year-olds,...

Good news, people who ironically watched Clash Of The Titans then actually thought it was decent but that may have been because you watched Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever earlier that day (I can’t be the Only one, right?) A rogue paleontologist (not the same one who crapped on the triceratops) is currently arguing that a massive monster-sized squid not unlike the mythical kraken may have actually existed: The kraken, which would’ve been nearly 100 feet (30 meters) [Ed Note - Thanks!] long, or twice the size of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis, likely drowned or broke the necks of the ichthyosaurs before dragging the corpses to its lair, akin to an octopus’s midden, according to study researcher Mark McMenamin, a paleontologist at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. There is no direct evidence for the beast, though McMenamin suggests that’s because it was soft-bodied and didn’t stand the test of time; even so,...

If you've been following me for any length of time, you probably know that I'm not a fan of lists. The best of the year lists are something of a mandatory enterprise at this point, and I have several other efforts at best of something lists (mostly as a result of dares), but I don't like them. They don't make a lot of sense, especially where numbering is concerned, and they don't actually deliver any great value. Of course, they do deliver in the one sense that they are a good way to get a feel for a critic's tastes, but beyond that, they are a kind of industry in-group nonsense.

Worst lists, are even worse. They also have more baggage built into them. For one thing, to be included in the list, you have to admit you've watched the thing. Thus, there are clearly worse movies than any on this list,...

Well, after the dust has settled, it turns out that Cowboys & Aliens has narrowly edged out The Smurfs for #1 at the box office. Adorkable Chris Hayes will anchor a new weekend show on MSNBC starting September 17th. It will air live on Saturdays from 7 - 9 Am Et, and Sunday 8 - 10 Am Et, amidst shows about brawls caught on camera and psycho stalkers.

Dave Koz performs at the Grammy Block Party

Production is going forward on Die Hard 5: Keep Your Damn Hands Off My Medicaid!, with Bruce Willis reprising his role as that guy from all the other Die Hard movies. Allison Janney and John Benjamin Hickey stopped by Watch What Happens Live last night, and in the clip below, you can see a surprising tidbit about John and Andy Cohen revealed.

Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever star Lucy Liu is is joining the cast of Southland. She'll "guest star...

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Ron Howard wants to direct a big-screen version of 'Spy vs. Spy,' the Mad magazine cartoon where two bomb-toting spies -- one dressed in white, one in black -- engage in endless, absurd battle.

The film will be a "highly visual action comedy," more along the lines of, say, early John Woo than 'Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever,' we hope.

The classic comic, which began in the '60s, hasn't been made into a movie before, although it was the inspiration for Woo's 'The Killer,' with its frequent, iconic stand-offs between cop and assassin.

'Spy vs. Spy' has also been turned into a TV series (see a clip after the jump), a board game and three video games.

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Captain America: The First Avenger comes out next month. Not just “Captain America,” as everyone in the universe will refer to it for the rest of time (except for the occasional dad calling it “Flag Spider-Man”) but “Captain America: The First Avenger,” the latest of a mostly new breed of movies with unnecessarily cumbersome titles that no one will ever actually say. Sure, the lengthy titles sometimes help to distinguish between installments in a franchise, or slightly aid Google searchers, but there’s still something elementally strange about tens of millions of people going to see a movie without ever actually saying (or knowing) the official title of the film. Below, a list of 30 Movie Titles No One Has Ever Actually Said (Colon: Curse Of The Last Returning Title Sayer (Part 2) Movie): 1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine “We better add ‘X-Men Origins’ before ‘Wolverine’ so when we make 30 more films in the ‘Origins’ franchise,...

Photo: Warner Bros. I was completely out of the loop when it came to Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, a film predominantly known at this point as the worst reviewed movie of the last decade by RottenTomatoes standards. So, when I decided I would follow in the footsteps of my previous look at Skyline and regularly take a look back at movies considered to be among the worst ever that I had not yet seen, there was no better place to start.

In short, yes, this is a bad film. Terrible in fact. Is it the worst? That's all relative to the discussion. Worst in what way? Plot? Characters? Execution? Entertainment? In all honesty, this is a film I would consider a perfect entry in a new age of grindhouse. All I could think of while watching the inexplicable amount of explosions, lack of story and silly predicaments was of Robert Rodriguez...

On this week's episode of The Golden Briefcase, Tim & Jeremy are joined by Matt Patches of Ugo and Film School Rejects to go over their Picks of the Week, the newest in DVD/Blu-Ray releases, new trailers for Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class & Darren Bousman's 11-11-11, Tim's warning to avoid Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and much more! The topic of the night was mistaken identities in film (in honor of Unknown hitting theaters). The guys talk about some of the most well-known examples and whether or not this plot device is over used. They also honor Alfred Hitchcock as the true godfather of this method of storytelling. The Golden Briefcase is also broadcast Live on Tuesday nights starting at 7:30Pm (Pst). You can listen in via our Ustream page or by visiting our own live page right here on Fs. The podcast is just as fun...

Jeff Gerrard is the king of commercials. With 3,500 spots under his belt and a decade-and-a-half stint as president of the Commercial Casting Directors Association, there's no question that he knows his way around the ad world. But Gerrard, who is based in Sherman Oaks, Calif., isn't just about commercials. He also boasts an impressive feature-film résumé that includes "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" and the Steven Seagal vehicle "Half Past Dead." More recently, he's been hard at work casting "microseries" like "My Manny" for TBS—short, advertiser-sponsored episodic bits that run during the commercial breaks in popular shows.Accidental CareerIt was all an accident. I was an actor for 15 years, and I loved every second of it. I used to audition for a company called Bci Casting quite a bit in commercials. They called one day after they'd seen a couple of shows in town I'd directed. They said, "Can you come in and help us?...

Leonardo DiCaprio once posed the immortal question: "What's in a name?" But instead of allowing his beloved Claire Danes to answer, he just kept prattling on about roses and feet and the next thing you know they're both dead in a sea of neon crucifixes. The moral of the story: Titles matter. I mean, that tragedy was almost called Romeo & Ethel, The Pirate's Daughter. What's more, that story actually was once called Romeo and Juliet, but it wasn't until Baz Luhrmann infused it with that sexy ampersand that anyone cared. Proof, meet pudding.

Hollywood has long understood the power of a strong title, and films are often endlessly renamed throughout their long production cycles in order for the studio to arrive at the perfect thing to slap on the marquee. While that practice hasn't prevented a few truly terrible titles from getting out there (I'm looking at you, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever.

As any video game or movie fan knows, it’s next to impossible to produce a decent movie based on a video game, let alone one based on a fighting game. Many have tried, from Mortal Kombat with Christopher Lambert to Street Fighter with Jean Claude Van Damme, and then again with Kristen Kruek. None have ever succeeded because they try to add backstory to an already luscious universe.

With that in mind comes the upcoming adaptation Tekken. The film is based on the popular Japanese fighting game of the same name. In the film, a rebel decides to go up against the evil Tekken corporation through a global fighting tournament called “Iron Fist”.

The script comes from Alan McElroy, who has penned other genre films such as Spawn, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, and the Wrong Turn films. The very first trailer just hit, with thanks to Teaser-Trailer.com, and...

A couples of months ago, I was bouncing around IMDb doing some research on The Expendables and buried deep in the cast listing was Gary Daniels and on his bio page was a listing for the movie version of Tekken. The movie was listed as ‘in development” so I wasn’t too worried but in the back of mind I knew this frightful omen could become a reality.

Alas, my fears have been confirmed, for today we bring you the first trailer for Tekken. The film is based on the wildly popular arcade fighting game from the 90’s which has become a home console hit today. Back when I frequented many an arcade establishment, Tekken would have many quarters lined up across the top with guys waiting to play the winner of each match. Unlike Mortal Kombat , which was two-dimensional, Tekken was one of the early pioneers of 3D game play.

The Tekken movie has been completed for a little while now and lack of activity, including finding a distributor in the USA, has made many people think that this will be just another terrible video game adaptation. Something has finally emerged from the production in the form of its first official poster.

The film follows Jin Kazama (Jon Foo) in his attempts to rid himself of the devil which plagues his soul and confronting his father, Kazuya Mishima (Ian Anthony Dale) and his grandfather, Heihachi Mishima (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa).

In the year of 2039, after World Wars destroy much of civilization as we know it, the remaining territories are no longer run by governments, but by corporations; the mightiest of which is the Mishima Zaibatsu. In order to keep the masses down, Mishima sponsors the King of Iron Fist Tournament, or Tekken, in which fighters battle until one is left standing, who...

I said last week that I wouldn't be putting together a list of the worst movies of the aughts, because it's an impossible task. There were too many bad movies over the last ten years to consider -- those Movie Movie parodies could make up half the list, easily, leaving another 195 movies to vie for the other five spots. It wasn't just mainstream movies, either. Every dickbag with a credit card and a camcorder thought he could made a movie (thanks, Kevin Smith), and there were enough indie studios out there to push them out of their box-office wombs long enough for us to realize that their little Napoleon Dynamite fetuses should've been aborted in the first trimester. It's hard enough putting together a top ten worst films for one year -- doing it for a decade is near impossible, and in order to do it justice, wouldn't I need...

Antonio Banderas' action film Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever has topped a new poll to find the worst film of the past decade.

The Spanish actor's 2002 movie, co-starring Charlie's Angel Lucy Liu, is number one on the 100 Worst of the Worst list, compiled by Rottentomatoes.com.

Critics gathered thousands of reviews from the last 10 years for the countdown.

Japanese horror flick One Missed Call closely trails Banderas' film at two, while Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio and comedies King's Ransom and National Lampoon's Gold Diggers round out the countdown at numbers three, four and five respectively.

Other notable entries are Heather Graham's Killing Me Softly in 12th place and John Travolta's Battlefield Earth at 27th.

Chris Klein and LL Cool J's sci-fi film Rollerball followed Travolta's flop at 28.

Reed’s Bargain Bin [1] is a recurring column where Reed Farrington tells us about a movie he bought for under $5, and whether or not he regrets the purchase. “Blowed ‘em up good, blowed ‘em up real good!” If Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok from Sctv’s Farm Film Report had been on Rotten Tomatoes’ (Rt) staff, then there’s no way that Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (Bevs) would ever be in the list of Rt’s worst movies of the past decade [2]. So, in the opinion of Reed Farrington, does this movie deserve to be at the top of that list? Well, that “worst of” list was the impetus I needed to finish watching this film that had been sitting in my stockpile for the past three years. I hadn’t realized that I had watched all of it up to the last ten minutes. Perhaps this is...

It's a little early for an end-of-the-decade list, but Rotten Tomatoes has unveiled the 100 worst movies of the past ten years. As you might expect, it's quite a doozy. I'll spare you the 90 "best" movies on the list and jump ahead to the worst reviewed films of the decade, ranked in order beginning with the most offensive:

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

One Missed Call (2008)

Pinocchio (2002)

King's Ransom (2005)

National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004)

Suberbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)

Strange Wilderness (2008)

3 Strikes (2000)

Redline (2007)

Witless Protection (2008)...

Ya know, it doesn't feel like we're nearing the end of another decade, does it? There's no special millennium celebration or Y2K nonsense to get excited about, so it seems people are just sorta whatever about the past decade as if it wasn't very monumental or iconic, except for the part where our African-American president said something geeky about Star Trek. But I bet all the best end-of-the-decade content is yet to come, and it looks like Rotten Tomatoes is getting things started by presenting us with the worst (reviewed) films of the decade ... which they probably should've waited a couple more months to launch since, ya know, we still haven't seen Avatar (I'm kidding Jim - I'm kidding! Calm down!).

So what's the worst reviewed film of the decade? Well, that honor goes to --drum roll please -- 2002's Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, starring the always enticing duo...

Today is National Punctuation Day, the most important non-religious nerd holiday that doesn't involve talking like a pirate.  Just think how different our lives would be without the comma, not to mention the semi-colon; we'd be lost without the period. Or the exclamation point! What about the question mark? (Seriously, we'd be screwed: see here.) To celebrate, we've assembled a list of our favorite punctuation marks in movie titles. Call them the Punctuaties (pronounced "Punk-shoe-Ay-shees" [on second thought, don't call them anything]). Best use of a comma in a bad movie by a great director White Hunter, Black Heart Lust, Caution Best use of a comma in a great movie by a great director Sex, Lies, and Videotape One, Two, Three Best use of a comma in the weirdest movie ever: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Best use of a possessive apostrophe: Schindler's List Jacob's LadderAdam's RibPrizzi's Honor Ocean's 11 Best use of a colon: Dr. Strangelove:...

Once again, while Us distributors race around beating each other up and pee their pants to bring audiences the latest lame movie idea, independent studios overseas are putting together some really interesting movies. Though it seems no studio or distributor is willing to take a chance with many of them in the Us. It’s a shame really, because there are some really cool movies coming out that I personally would like to see: Black Death, Solomon Kane, and now, The Tournament.

Today we have for you the trailer and several new images for the Scott Mann-directed action movie. Check them out after the jump.

Directed by Scott Mann of Mann Made Films, co-written by Jonathan Frank and Nick Rowntree, The Tournament looks to be a fun, action-packed thriller about a group of thirty top-notch assassins that converge on a different unsuspecting town every seven years to hold a “last man standing” style contest.

Fox has picked up Man and Wife, a spec script from Alan McElroy, for mid-six figures in a bidding war. Ralph Winter is producing the high-concept action-thriller.

The studio is keeping plot details under wraps but it is known that the story centers on a professional killer who is forced to pretend to be an ordinary husband, and the wife who learns to love her husband in a totally unexpected way.

Steve Asbell is overseeing for the studio, and Noah Rosen is exec producing. The deal closed Monday night.

Winter is best known for being a producer on Fox's X-Men movies as well as the Fantastic Four movies.

McElroy, repped by Hohman/Maybank/Lieb and Circle of Confusion, wrote The Marine, which starred John Cena. Other credits include Spawn, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and Wrong Turn.

Michael Corrigan, a former CFO at MGM, has joined Afterburner Films as vice chairman.

Afterburner, which CEO David Riggs founded last year, has embarked on a four-picture slate, kicking off with the action thriller Fast Glass, the indie company's second film.

Glass, a tale of California surfers who get caught up in airborne drug smuggling, stars Andrew Keegan, Brandon Quinn, Nick Carter, Greg Grunberg and Natalia Cigliuti. Writer-director Kim Bass (Ballistic) is helming the project.

Other titles on Afterburner's slate, which it will be offering at this month's Cannes Film Market, are the horror thriller Scareport, the treasure-hunt movie 50 Large and the love story Through the Cracks.

Afterburner's first feature, Succubus: Hell-bent, written and directed by Bass and starring Lorenzo Lamas, David Keith, Gary Busey and Kelly Hu, was released domestically by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Before MGM, Corrigan was a senior partner in the Entertainment, Media and Communications practice at PriceWaterhouse.

"Mike's experience as a media and entertainment executive makes him the right person at the right time for our growing company," Riggs said.

NEW YORK -- WWE Films has smacked down a high-six-figure sum for an untitled action pitch by Spawn screenwriter Alan McElroy. The pitch is being developed as one of the first features for World Wrestling Entertainment's Los Angeles-based film division, which is headed by president Joel Simon. WWE brass was keeping a tight choke hold on the pitch's plot, except to describe it as "high-concept." McElroy will pen the original screenplay, with Simon shepherding the project, along with WWE Films vp Jed Blaugrund. McElroy's previous credits also include last year's Warner Bros. release Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and 20th Century Fox's current horror rollout Wrong Turn. "WWE Films is here to extend the WWE brand into mainstream Hollywood movies and television shows, and this story does that perfectly," Simon said. McElroy is repped by Hohman Maybank Lieb.

Lucy Liu has signed with CAA for representation. Liu, who most recently starred on the big screen in a flashy cameo in Miramax Films' best picture Oscar winner, Chicago, next stars in Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle opposite Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore. She will follow that up with Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, also for Miramax. Liu rose to fame on David E. Kelley's Ally McBeal, for which she was nominated for an Emmy for best supporting actress. Her feature credits include Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever opposite Antonio Banderas, Hotel, Play It to the Bone, Shanghai Noon and Payback. The actress also has recently moved behind the camera, adding producing to her resume. She has an untitled pitch set up at Universal Pictures through Jersey Films and is on board to executive produce and star in an update of Charlie Chan at 20th Century Fox. She continues to be managed by Framework Entertainment.