Twilight fans don’t know anything about vampires or vampire movies… So Skyler Stone decided to stage a Twilight intervention in Los Angeles. Twilight fans show up to what they think is the red carpet premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon only to discover that they are not going to be seeing Twilight, but instead will be forced into a vampire intervention. Watch the video after the jump.
Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 by Russ Fischer
This takes some balls. Joseph Gordon-Levitt did his first gig hosting Saturday Night Live this past weekend. He took the stage looking like a guy who could barely contain his excitement, and proceeded to launch into a recreation of one of the most famous song and dance numbers from any film musical: Donald O’Connor’s ‘Make ‘em Laugh’ from Singin’ in the Rain. And he nailed it! Read More »
Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 by Russ Fischer
Screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson had a big hit with Secretary in 2002. Well, maybe not a hit in the commercial sense, but definitely in the cultural sense; it’s a film that people still talk about, and which will likely continue to have a real presence for years to come. But Wilson hasn’t had a great many produced credits since then. Maybe her profile will rise once again thanks to Oprah and Harpo Films, which is making a deal with HBO to produce a currently untitled show about a woman who walks away from her family to live out a life of sexual fantasies in LA. Read More »
Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 by Brendon Connelly
This weekend, the 28th and 29th of November, there’s a huge Beatles convention taking place in Stamford, Connecticut. Amongst all of the merchandise sales and other such typical expo shenanigans, there’s also set to be an open audition for Beatlemaniacs wanting to try out for casting in what they’re calling “The Fab Four.” Of course, that the film “will be shot as a motion-capture feature like the current Disney release of A Christmas Carol” tells us everything we need to know - this is Robert Zemeckis‘ remake of Yellow Submarine.
There’s already some suspicion, though, that this casting call is nothing more than a publicity stunt. Zemeckis has already talked about the possibility of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr playing themselves in the film, there’s been a number of previous auditions, and even stories of name actors being up for the roles, perhaps even cast in them already.
Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
I’m not a huge video gamer, but I am a hardcore Back to the Future fanatic. So when I got sent this video of a mod to Electronic Arts’ Crysis and Crysis Wars, I just knew I had to share it. The mod is extremely highly detailed, including sounds and visual effects, but it goes far beyond that — it even allows players the functionality to time travel. Watch the entire video after the jump, especially the end. If you have the game, you can download the mod on crymod.com.
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Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Earlier this year, we featured an awesome fan made Green Lantern movie trailer, which was sort of a mash-up, combining scenes and sequences from a bunch of different movies with composited special effects. /Film reader movieboy has sent us another fan made Green Lantern movie trailer, this time a teaser trailer. This one isn’t nearly as good, buts more of a traditional fan film — shot and edited independently. I thought it was good enough to pass along. Check it out after the jump.
As Black Friday approaches, a bunch of really great movie deals are hitting the web. We’ll try to bring you a daily round-up of links throughout the week. The following deals are good for today, and possibly today only. Amazon is also doing a set of “Lightning Deals” which are only good for a specified set of hours. We have marked those hours below:
Good All Day Monday:
Amazon has some awesome deals on some select three Blu-Ray movie packs. Each of the listed packs below is only $21.99 each. That’s basically $7.33 for each Blu-ray disc.
I always find it amusing how these three packs are grouped. They usually contain one or two good movies and a film you’d never ever buy. But at the price, it’s probably still worth it for the two movies you do like. The Funny Guy Collection is probably the one exception, unless you’re one of those people that hated Napoleon.
Lightning Deals:
7am - 11am EST, 4am - 8am PST
11am - 3pm EST, 8am - 12pm PST
3pm - 7pm EST, 12pm - 4pm PST
7pm - 11pm EST, 4pm - 8pm PST
11pm- 3am EST, 8pm - 12am PST
Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 by Devindra Hardawar
It seems that Joe Dante’s The Howling is now up for remaking. Tonight we’ve learned that Joe Nimziki, a former studio marketing executive, will be making his feature film debut with The Howling: Reborn. Nimziki also wrote the script. The original Howling spawned a series of sequels that, from what I can remember, were pretty much all crap. Could this remake be any better?
Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
You might remember back in June that Sony hired a screenwriter, Kyle Ward, to develop a film based on the PlayStation 3 game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Our friends at LatinoReview are now reporting that Kyle’s deal fell apart at the last minute because Sony were unwilling to wait around, possibly as long as a year, as Ward was contractually obligated to pen Hitman 2.
They have instead hired the writing team Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, whose screenwriting credits include Sahara, the horrible adaptation of A Sound of Thunder, and the upcoming Dylan Dog adaptation Dead of Night and the Marcus Nispel remake of Conan. Donnelly and Oppenheimer’s produced projects aren’t too impressive, but they must have impressed someone to get attached to Conan and now the fast tracked video game adaptation Drake’s Fortune.
Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 by Devindra Hardawar
With New Moon ruling the box office this weekend, director Chris Weitz must be glad to put the failure of The Golden Compass behind him. In fact, he admitted as much in Variety’s announcement of his next project, The Gardener. He didn’t hold back at all on trash talking New Line, just check out some of the quotes after the break. Weitz also made it clear that he’s not retiring after this next project.
