John Ridley's (12 Years a Slave) new six-part miniseries, Guerilla, stars Freida Pinto, Babou Ceesay, and producer Idris Elba. Watch the Guerrilla trailer.
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Watch the Desert Dancer trailer. The drama follows the incredible true story of Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life to become a dancer in Iran.
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The still above from 21 Jump Street is an accurate representation of my reaction to the reveal that the sequel will be called 22 Jump Street. Also after the jump: Check out pics from Transformers 4's Texas set How much of Transformers 4 is set in China? Freida Pinto and James Franco won't return (duh) for more…
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We don't know a whole lot about Black Gold, the new film from Jean-Jacques Annaud (Seven Years in Tibet, Two Brothers). It stars Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong, Freida Pinto, and Tahar Rahim, the lead of A Prophet. The film was shot on location in the Sahara, with a script based on the book South of…
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You've got to hand it to Michael Winterbottom: he's a prolific director who isn't afraid to experiment. The results of his experiments are pretty hit and miss, but he's got as many hits as misses, and that's a better track record than many can boast. His latest is Trishna, which is also his third Thomas…
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Here's the third trailer for Tarsem's stylishly violent Immortals. (See the first and second ones if you haven't already.) I like this trailer a lot more than either of the previous ones; there's a good voiceover that explains the background and early plot beats, and helps contextualize some of the pretty shots we've been seeing…
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A second trailer for Tarsem's Immortals -- aka his Fight Club + Caravaggio + Clash of the Titans + 300 -- has arrived. There isn't a lot of new footage within, but there is a much greater focus on story this time out. If you watched the first trailer and wondered what the hell the…
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We can thank the MTV Movie Awards for the bounty of new videos today -- in addition to that new Breaking Dawn trailer, which I'm sure you all loved, we also have brand-new clips from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and The Help. See them…
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Do you feel like the Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer didn't give you enough of the film's full story? Then check out this new-ish featurette that explains a good chunk of the tale. I say 'new-ish' because this premiered during the Apes webcast that took place a few weeks back; this is…
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The official release of the trailer for Tarsem's Immortals is now out. Now you can see just what Tarsem meant when he said he was going for a sort of "Caravaggio meets Fight Club" approach -- really, it looks more or less like established Tarsem style as seen in The Cell and The Fall, filtered…
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The Weinstein Co. has released a trailer for Julian Schnabel's Miral, starring Slumdog Millionaire actress Freida Pinto. The film covers five decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Pinto playing a young woman who falls for a political activist (Omar Metwally, Munich) and becomes involved in the Palestine liberation movement. Watch the trailer after the jump.…
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Michael Winterbottom sure does love author Thomas Hardy. He has made two adaptations of the author's work -- Jude and The Claim, neither sadly among the director's best work -- and now is at it again. He's doing a version of Tess of the d'Urbervilles with the action transplanted to Rajasthan and Mumbai, and has…
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Good news for fans of director Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor, Game of Thrones), as his new film Win Win will open on March 18 instead of March 25. The film stars Paul Giamatti as "Mike Flaherty, a senior-care attorney and high-school wrestling coach in small-town New Jersey, he compromises his ethics to…
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It's difficult to say whether Black Gold, which seeks to tell a tale of rival Arabic rulers during the Arab oil boom of the 1930s, will be any good. But the film, which will be directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (Seven Years in Tibet) has an interesting cast: Antonio Banderas toplines, with Mark Strong, Freida Pinto…
Read More[Image removed at the request of FOX] Just Jared (via: BleedingCool) has the first set photo of James Franco, Freida Pinto, and Andy Serkis in The Escapist helmer Rupert Wyatt's Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. The photo is interesting because you can see Serkis in his performance capture suit, complete with…
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There's a new trailer for Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, to complement the international one released not too long ago. This version is shorter and focused a bit more on throwing out bon mots and a few bits of character. There's more plot in the international version, but this one still…
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Miral, the new film from Julian Schnabel, was picked up recently by The Weinstein Company, who will release the picture in December. That's far enough out that there isn't a domestic trailer yet available. But a French trailer has arrived, and you can get a very good idea of the film by checking it out.…
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This September, Woody Allen's latest film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, will be released by Sony Pictures Classics. The comedy already played the Cannes Film Fest, where it didn't quite electrify critics. (Peter didn't love it.) We don't yet have a domestic trailer from SPC, but for now there's a Spanish trailer that…
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The history of Rise of the Apes, the Planet of the Apes prequel to be directed by The Escapist's Rupert Wyatt, goes back a few years. It was set in motion at Fox by Scott Frank, who developed a script called Caesar, which was intended as "a hard science fiction film about humans that use…
Read MoreBloody Disgusting is reporting that Don Cheadle (Iron Man) and Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) have been offered roles in 20th Century Fox's Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. The Escapist helmer Rupert Wyatt will direct from a screenplay by Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa. If they sign on, they would join James…
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It's been a couple days since my last long Cannes update. Once the first weekend hit, things got really crazy at the festival. It is becoming clearer to me that this year's theme at Cannes is about death, dying, mortality and legacy. In my last Cannes blog, I wrote about Mike Leigh's new film Another…
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Rogue Pictures has released the first photos from Tarsem Singh's new Greek mythology epic Immortals. Relativity Media paid mid-six against seven figures for the script by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides. Sleeper Code/Machine Gun Preacher scribe Jason Keller penned the most recent draft of the script. Warner Bros had toyed around with the idea of buying…
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Quentin Tarantino has led the jury at Cannes, in 2004, but his experience at the Venice Film Festival has been limited to programming a couple of sidebars in '04 and '07. That changes this year, as the fest has named Tarantino head of the 2010 competition jury for the festival which will run from September…
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There has been talk in the last couple months that War of the Gods, the new film from Tarsem Singh, might be retitled. Dawn of War seemed to be an option at one point. Now the film has been given a new title -- Immortals -- and has gained a few new cast members as…
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Not long ago, Twilight's Kellan Lutz was rumored to be one of the prime contenders for the role of Conan the Barbarian in the upcoming film by director Marcus Nispel. Though Lutz didn't get the role (it went to Jason Momoa) that was perhaps an indicator that we'll be seeing more of the actor in…
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Because it has been a minute since anyone had much to say about the next James Bond movie, a couple of rumors -- one already debunked, the other possibly based at least vaguely in truth -- have cropped up. In the interest of keeping the record as clean as possible, I present both for your…
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Briefly: I just talked about this film yesterday, when Marion Cotillard was announced as a member of the cast for Woody Allen's upcoming film to be shot in Paris later this year. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is the film Allen shot in 2009, and has been planned for release in various markets…
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