Before walking into "I am Number Four," we were warned that is was "the worst combination of Michael Bay and 'Twilight.'" That, coupled with the fact that it was penned by infamous "memoirist," James ...
Adapting young adult fiction has been a reliable approach for Hollywood, especially in a post-"Twilight" world. That stupid lightning in a bottle phenomenon gave rise to multiple imitators, whether it ...
FILM REVIEW: This alien-goes-to-high-school movie with young Alex Pettyfer tries for a “Twilight”-like mix of teen angst and otherworldly effects. By Kirk Honeycutt Alex Pettyfer and Teresa Palmer ...
A new I Am Number Four featurette has been released by DreamWorks, and its great introduction to both the film and its characters. The film is about a young man (Alex Pettyfer) who has escaped from ...
Sorry “I Am Number Four,” but I Am Not Impressed. Let me give you four reasons why: * The mythology adapted from Pittacus Lore’s young-adult science-fiction novel comes across as scatterbrained and ...
The first trailer for I Am Number Four has just made it online, and if director DJ Caruso set out to make a movie that looks like a mix of Twilight, Blade and every generic teen superhero movie ever ...
DreamWorks, not Paramount, is finishing a deal today to pre-emptively purchase the movie rights to I Am Number Four, an unpublished science fiction book, for Michael Bay to produce and possibly direct ...
Coming of age is difficult enough without having to do so on a planet that is not your own. That is the premise of the science fiction/action film I Am Number Four, which explores the experience of ...
Underneath its slick surface, I Am Number Four has everything: A promising teens-as-aliens, Roswell-esque storyline brought to life by producer Michael Bay, whose excesses are tempered by genre ...