Facebook has starred in movies, we’ve seen a movie about Facebook and now, for the first time, you’ll be able to watch movies on Facebook. Warner Brothers just announced they’ll be the first movie studio offer movies directly to Facebook. Starting March 8, they’ll “begin testing an offering of selected movies for purchase or rental through Warner Bros. Entertainment’s Facebook movie Pages.” The first film available is Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, the most financially successful movie in Warner Brothers history. If you “Like” the movie on Facebook, you can choose to rent it for $3 and then watch the movie, comment during it, pause it and more, right on your Facebook page, for 48 hours. In the near future, you’ll also be able to purchase full movies and do the same thing. Read more details after the jump. Read More »
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Oh, Warner Bros., you are crafty. Instead of just selling plain old DVDs of popular films like The Dark Knight and Inception, the company has now created ‘app’ editions of each film for the iPhone and iPad. There’s a lot of marketing speak that goes along with the apps (” a fully-loaded, connected viewing experience that gives consumers the first five minutes of a feature film and a portion of bonus content that can include games, trivia, soundtracks and soundboards”) but what it comes down to is coming up with a new way to sell the same movie to people all over again. Which, if you’re into that sort of thing, is fine.
The apps, which come with some bonus features and the first five minutes of each film, are free. Getting the entire movie will run $9.99 for The Dark Knight and $11.99 for Inception. (It’s newer!) Some of the app bonus features for Inception seem to be exclusive to this particular release. Much more info and some images are after the break. Read More »
What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 32 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If you have any interesting items that we might’ve missed that you think should go in /Film’s Page 2 – email us!
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Most people who talk about Christian Bale in The Fighter liken his performance to a complete transformation. /Film reader Matt Ellerbrock has created an infographic showing how Bale has transformed himself for different roles over the years.
With the recent release of David O. Russell’s “The Fighter,” starring Mark Walberg and Christian Bale, I’ve often found myself explaining to friends and family the incredible body transformations Christian Bale has gone through since filming “The Machinist” (2004). I typically resort to googling images of the actor to compare, and have done this enough to discover that there are some composite images from a few of Bale’s roles, but nothing comes close to showing us a more complete picture of just what he’s gone through over the last 8 years of his career. This image is my attempt to remedy that.
See the infographic after the jump.
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Warner Brothers has always been one of the most successful and cool studios in Hollywood. In the past decade, at the movies alone, they released the Harry Potter films, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Hangover, The Matrix, Watchmen and Where the Wild Things Are just to name a few of their geeky successes. They also have an slew of Best Picture winners from Casablanca to The Departed and they’re well known for developing relationships with auteurs like Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese. Then there’s all their animation, television production and much more.
So, it’s no surprise to say that their VIP Studio Tour, a two hour plus, small group tram ride all over their Burbank, CA backlot, is a must for film and television fans visiting the Los Angeles area. You’ll see everything from where Gremlins and The Lost Boys were shot to sets from Gilmore Girls that were repurposed for Pretty Little Liars and more. Plus you get to stop into two of the most awesome museums imaginable, check out some working sound stages (for us they were Chuck and Two and a Half Men) and maybe even run into a celeb or two. Read more after the break. Read More »
Microsoft reported today that the new Halo game Halo: Reach generated more than $200 million worth of sales in the U.S. and Europe on its launch day. $200 million is a lot of cash, bigger than the opening of any Hollywood film in the history of cinema… right?
It seems like every year a big video game title is released, and huge dollar figures are reported, resulting in a couple journalists to speculate that video games is beginning to overtake Hollywood in the entertainment industry.
Well… Not even close.
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With Inception, The Prestige and each of his Batman films, Christopher Nolan has firmly established himself as one of the rare filmmakers working today who can not only produce complex, character-driven entertainment on the studio’s dime, but can command an audience while doing it.
Women viewers, though, would be forgiven for dismissing themselves from that audience, for reasons that likely hadn’t even occurred to Nolan’s male fanbase. Read More »
Expectations for the Star Trek sequel are high; info on the project is low. At this point, I’m eager to learn anything I can about what to expect from the next adventure with the USS Enterprise, even if it’s only vague hints and references to other billion-dollar-earning properties.
Last time we heard about the film, producer Bryan Burk made mention of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films as an example of what they were trying to achieve with the sequel. Apparently that wasn’t just an off-handed remark, either, as now co-writer Damon Lindelof (co-creator of LOST) has expanded on the comparison in a recent interview. Read what he had to say after the break. Read More »
