The influential, powerhouse filmmaker Tony Scott breaks down scenes from three of his most stirring works, Man on Fire, Revenge, and True Romance, in three exceptional audio commentaries. Scott talks style, shooting with 100-year-old cameras, Tarantino, and more.
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Neveldine/Taylor give a long needed update on a possible Crank 3, and also talk about their dream to remake The Warriors. What would that even look like?
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Maverick was a phony. So says Amy Nicholson in our latest video essay collaboration which reveals why you're wrong about Top Gun.
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The danger zone will be located right in your local IMAX theater. Looks like Paramount has come up with a plan for the 3D version of Tony Scott's classic 1986 action film, Top Gun after reportedly being uncertain about how and when to release it. Top Gun is getting an IMAX 3D re-release on February 8, 2013,…
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In the wake of the tragic suicide of director/producer Tony Scott, there was some small murmuring about the future of Top Gun 2. Scott had been developing the sequel to his 1986 hit along with Tom Cruise, David Ellison's Skydance Productions, and Paramount. And while the news one the film was hitting the web at…
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In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave, Devindra, and Adam are joined by C. Robert Cargill (writer of Sinister) to remember the films of Tony Scott. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast@gmail.com or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us next week when we'll be reviewing Jaws, now out on Blu-Ray. Download or…
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With the exception of Machete Kills, which is a sequel to 2010 film, everything in today's Sequel Bits is pretty old school, featuring characters or properties that have been around at least a decade. After the jump: Joss Whedon talks a little bit about The Avengers 2 Bruce Campbell says the new Evil Dead is…
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We're shocked to learn tonight that Tony Scott, the brother of Ridley Scott and the director of films such as The Hunger, Top Gun, and True Romance, died today at the age of 68 due to an apparent suicide. Sources report that Scott leapt from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro at 12:35pm this…
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Paramount has quite a few sequel projects in the works of late, with Star Trek 2 in the finishing stages and plans for a Top Gun sequel, a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, and Transformers 4. We talked about the plan for that last film earlier today, but the same interview that gave up…
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For a little while now, we've known that Paramount, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and potentially director Tony Scott want to make a sequel of some sort to Scott's mid-'80s Tom Cruise blockbuster Top Gun. Last year Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz, writers who contributed to X-Men: First Class, were tapped to craft the new Top Gun…
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Tony Scott, like his brother and a few other filmmakers such as Guillermo Del Toro, always seems to have a large collection of films in development. That makes pinning down his next project difficult. But now we might have a 'next film' for Tony Scott. Wouldn't you know it, this is one that seems a…
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Every couple months there seems to be an incremental update on the feature film version of 24. Most of these updates amount to saying that the project isn't dead yet, but that it isn't really moving full steam ahead, either. Now Mark Bomback (Unstoppable, Live Free or Die Hard, Total Recall) is about to turn…
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Well, it's not nearly as good as Peter Weir going back to Master and Commander, but at least someone at Fox is interested in making a nautical thriller. Kind of. Tony Scott has signed to work with Fox once again as producer and director on a drug-running sub thriller called -- seriously, this part isn't…
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Our last couple editions of TV Bits have been filled with mostly good news, but today's is more of a downer, what with shows getting axed, a guy getting hurt, and, well, do you consider a Fred Durst sitcom bad news? At least AMC has some nice things to offer, including a new trailer for…
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Briefly: Paramount is in the first stages of converting Tony Scott's iconic 1986 film Top Gun to 3D. Four minutes have been converted so far -- mostly featuring one of the film's big aerial combat sequences -- and screened today at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam. The company behind the conversion, Legend3D, is pushing…
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Let's get the good news out of the way first. It's a big announcement day for the Scott brothers, with the more frenetic Tony Scott's publicists dropping word that he's still working to make Hell's Angels. Specifically, he wants Jeff Bridges to play iconic Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger. That's great casting. I'm not going…
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Whether it be Johnny Depp, Matthew Modine or Walter Matthau, we've become accustomed to seeing pirates on the big screen. However, hot off the financial success of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, it seems as if those peg-legged, eye-patched, parrot-shouldered scoundrels could be soon making it to the small screen too. Fox is…
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Last summer, people from around the world filmed themselves going through their daily lives and put the videos on YouTube. Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, State of Play) and producers Tony and Ridley Scott then went ahead and made a movie out of those videos, editing them together to show a snap…
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Twenty-five years ago, I have the distinct memory of opening my local newspaper, turning to the movie page, and pointing to the words "Top Gun." Even at six years old, the power of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer was hard to deny and my grandfather took me to see Maverick, Goose, Iceman, Slider and…
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Movie geeks have a weird relationship with Mark Millar. We simply adore his work: Civil War, The Ultimates, Wanted and obviously Kick Ass, but we get supremely frustrated with his penchant for saying things that seem far-fetched. For example, with one of his latest comic books, Nemesis, Millar was out in force well before the…
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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 21 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…
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Tony Scott has really made it. In a news report broadcast on China's state-run CCTV about an air force training exercise, there was a brief shot of an exploding aircraft. The shot is cut into the video to seem as if it is part of the footage shot for the segment, with the explosion being…
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Produced by Ridley and Tony Scott, directed by Kevin Macdonald and shot by the world, Life in a Day is epic. Culled from 4,500 hours of videos submitted from 192 countries, all shot on July 24, 2010, the film provides a snapshot into how people of all cultures, ages and walks of life spend a…
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It's difficult for me to remember the last Tony Scott film I unabashedly enjoyed. I'd probably have to go with his 1998 film, Enemy of the State, which had a great, frazzled performance by Will Smith and a kinetic style that actually dovetailed nicely with the film's message about our surveillance society. Pretty much everything…
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Even as a kid, two films I never thought I'd see sequels to were Top Gun and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Both Eighties hits certainly could have continued with their storylines but there wasn't a need because each wrapped up in a cohesive and satisfying way. In fact, if it wasn't for each film working…
Read MoreBriefly: This is just a quick update on the developing Top Gun sequel, but it is an interesting one in that you've got to wonder how it might affect the story as it goes through the studio mill. Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie, Wolverine 2) is being targeted to write Top Gun 2, and…
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Recently when we heard that Paramount was looking to woo Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott back to the studio to make a sequel to the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun I cast aspersions upon the idea that Tony Scott might actually direct a sequel. But I was wrong -- Tony Scott said this weekend that he…
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