Cultural humor alert: Sacha Baron Cohen will produce and possibly star in a film for Fox Atomic entitled, Accidentes, a pitch from Borat co-writer Peter Baynham. Here’s the logline:
“The protag will be a lawyer of Latin descent who transforms from contingency attorney to hero of the working class when he helps an immigrant win a [...]

Because everyone has been wondering, Nikki Finke explains why Hollywood probably won’t make Grand Theft Auto: The Movie.  In its first week, Grand Theft Auto IV sold approximately 6 million copies worldwide and grossed over $500 million, more than most movies make theatrically. So it seems only logical that Hollywood would be interested in bringing [...]

Is it just me or does the teaser poster for The Rocker look a lot like the posters for Judd Apatow’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up?

The Rocker follows the story of Robert “Fish” Fishman, the drummer for an eighties hair band.  He’s living the rock n’ roll dream… until he is kicked out of [...]

School of Rock with teens instead of squirts equals this new trailer for The Rocker. Example: “You don’t ask your parents for permission to rock!” And if you watch closely Rainn Wilson (yes, veddy good on The Office) even begins to resemble Jack Black in SoR near the end.
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Jason Reitman has officially signed on to team up with Jim Carrey on a comedy titled Pierre Pierre (yay!) for Fox Atomic (barf). You first heard about this project on /Film in early December 2007, before Juno became a monster hit at the box office.
Pierre Pierre was ranked the 11th hottest screenplay in Hollywood in [...]

I’m not a pro wrestling bash-er. I use to be a fan back in that big boom. I actually believe there is untapped talent in the organization, and am shocked that World Wrestling Entertainment has been unable to produce one single watchable movie.
That said, I think Vince McMahon should give up on his movie dreams. [...]

Karyn Kusama has signed on to direct Jennifer’s Body, Diablo Cody’s follow-up to Juno. The story follows a demon-possessed Megan Fox who begins eating boys in her small Minnesota town. It’s one of those stories that could be pretty cool or really bad depending on how the material is handled.
Kusama broke onto the scene with [...]

Our friends at FilmSchoolRejects has a first look at Rainn Wilson in the upcoming Fox Atomic film The Rocker. Too bad the movie is gonna suck. I recently came across two reader submitted test screening reviews of the film, and sadly, prospects don’t look good:
This review is from “Ralphie”:
“Not very good. Think of it this [...]

We loved loved LOVED Juno, so we’ve anxiously been following blogger turned stripper turned author turned screenwriter Diablo Cody’s bevy of upcoming projects. The one project that seemed more interesting than the rest is a horror movie titled Jennifer’s Body. Megan Fox is signed on to star as a “girl who eats boys.” Cody describes [...]

It seems like Diablo Cody is writing every other movie in Hollywood these days, and that’s certainly not a bad thing. I find saw Cody’s Juno at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is the best movie of the year so far, and a shoe in for a Best Screenplay Oscar nom (and Ebert believes [...]

“Everyone thinks they’re right in a War, but everyone still dies in the end,” Detective Wallis tells Nick Hume in Death Sentence.
I’ve always found vigilante stories fascinating. To me, it’s one of the big appeals of Batman (and how Christopher Nolan is handling the character. However, I must admit, while I was excited to see [...]

Fox Atomic wants everyone to know that just because their big brother (20th Century Fox) has pulled out, doesn’t mean that Fox’s genre division won’t have a presence at this week’s San Diego Comic Con. Check out the press release below.

Fox Atomic Announces Presence at San Diego Comic-Con 2007
LOS ANGELES, July 23 — Fox Atomic [...]

This weekend MTV broke the news that Sunshine director Danny Boyle had an idea to direct a 28 Weeks Later sequel. Today I was lucky to sit-down with Boyle to talk about his new film Sunshine and to hopefully extract some new details about 28 Months Later.
“I’ve got an idea for it. I didn’t think [...]

28 Weeks Later is a perfect example of what I like to call the “Blair Witch Project Effect.” That is when a low budget indie film is given a big budget glossy Hollywood sequel, and the resulting film lacks all the magic of the original. One of the things that made 28 Days Later so [...]

28 Weeks Later has a new international poster. Fox Atomic decided to go the bloody route with this one-sheet. I’m guessing that MPAA has no jurisdiction over foreign film posters, because I don’t think this would fly in the States. Click on the poster for a better view. Thanks to IMPAwards for the heads up.
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