Jojo Rabbit and A Hidden Life could not be more different as films, but both understand the importance of standing up against Nazism.
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Netflix theatrical releases are being planned for its prestige dramas, including Alfonso Cuaron's Roma and the Coen Brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
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Is the latest movie theater ticket subscription service the right fit for you? Our AMC Stubs A-List review explains the pros and cons.
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MoviePass's parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics have acquired Emmett Furla Oasis Films with the intent of launching MoviePass Films, a platform for the company to produce original movies.
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Gunpowder & Sky will officially take over Prospect distribution, bringing the indie sci-fi film that made a big splash at the South By Southwest film festival, to a wide release.
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A day after MoviePass pulled its coverage of select AMC theaters, the subscription service released a statement suggesting this is a negotiation tactic.
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A few days after the kickoff the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, deal-making is in full swing. The well-reviewed drama The Spectacular Now, by Smashed director James Ponsoldt, is headed to newish distributor A24, while the crowdpleasing comedy Austenland, from Napoleon Dynamite writer Jerusha Hess, is nearing a deal with FilmDistrict. Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan's The…
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The Internet may offer endless opportunities for up-and-coming artists to promote themselves in theory, but when's the last time you actually took a chance on a title, filmmaker, or star you'd never heard of? Outside of a few tech-savvy cinephiles, consumers are still reluctant to devote their time and energy to movies they haven't so…
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Home digital delivery systems have been the talk of the town recently. Time Warner recently announced that it will be launching a premium VOD next summer, allowing consumers to view movies at home while they are still out in theaters (probably a month or two after initial release). The cost of this service was supposed…
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Not too long ago, we learned that the superlative Alamo Drafthouse theaters would be launching a film distribution arm. This evening, Drafthouse founder Tim League was in Boston, along with director Chris Morris, to promote Drafthouse Films' first movie, Four Lions. My extensive interview with Morris will go live on the site on Friday, but…
Read MoreAmazon is selling a double pack of The Fifth Element and Gattaca on Blu-ray for $16.99, which is a pretty cool sci-fi Blu-ray deal if you like the movies. Not sure how long the deal will be valid, so act fast. via: slick
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It has been a rough week for 20th Century Fox: First a huge batch of their Slumdog Millionaire DVDs get shipped without special features, then a workprint of one of their major tentpole releases gets leaked onto the internet. To that list, you can now add on one more mess: THR reported this past Tuesday…
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Yesterday, we posted the first, rather ace photos of Josh Brolin as the worst U.S. president of all time for Oliver Stone's W., and today brings word that the flick has picked up a distributor, Lionsgate, and is set for release nationwide on October 17th, 2008. Keep in mind that even though the film graces…
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"Slide to the left, now slide to the right." The Internets today: Tom Cruise's career is on life support, yadda yadda. Is the Internets correct? I'm not fond of talking about Tom Cruise around the water cooler, but I'd say the Internets are wrong. Does that make me a relevant revolutionary? United Artists, which is…
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Boo! in a duel sense. Bloody Disgusting reported over the weekend that Legendary Pictures has screened their nicely buzzed Halloween-themed anthology flick, Trick 'R Treat, in hopes of picking up a new distributor. According to STYD, Warner Bros. (Where the Wild Things Are, ahem) has categorically removed the film from its 2008 schedule for theatrical…
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"Dude, Indiana Jones killed Batman." Fandango, the online movie ticket provider, recently polled several thousand movie fans about their most anticipated summer movie and the site reports that May's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was not only numero uno (82%) but nearly doubled fan anticipation for July's The Dark Knight (42%).…
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"I'm back. [belch!]" Oh yes, to be bathed in ketchup-colored red by an R-rated movie trailer inside a cinema. It's been nearly a decade since the largest theater chain in North America, Regal Entertainment Group, showed its last restricted movie trailer but times are a changing. Regal will reintroduce the kid hating trailers before R-rated…
Read More"Michael Bay, go direct your 2012 movie over there." Update: Emmerich and Kloser's script was purchased by Sony Pictures, it was announced Thursday. The budget for 2012 is said to be near $200 million. Roland Emmerich, director of spectacle event films like Independence Day, Godzilla and the upcoming 10,000 B.C., is currently in search…
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I wonder if George Lucas has one of those Paint the Earth signs hanging on the walls of his mansions like in The Real World 3 (or was it 2?). USA Today has scored a somewhat muddy first look at what Anakin Skywalker aka Young Darth will look like in the upcoming Star Wars: The…
Read MoreAn image for Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has appeared online; actually, only half of the image, as the other half will apparently be conjoined on the film's official site this weekend. A source close to the film purportedly told Quick Stop that the massive influx of web traffic caused its site to…
Read MoreEric Bana says his villainy role as Nero in J.J. Abrams's Star Trek is nothing more than a "cameo." News to me. You? Here's another quote from the Aussie actor about his role: "It's just a great character, it's J.J. Abrams. It's a really well-written script, great part. Couldn't say no. I don't actually look…
Read MoreWhen the eldest Beastie Boy grows a serious gray beard, you know the film business is calling, and today brings news that Adam Yauch aka the rapper known as MCA has started an indie film distribution and international sales company called Oscilloscope Pictures. Anyone who's grabbed the nachos and grape soda and plopped down to…
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The G.I. Joe casting news marches on, blankly. The main villain in the film, the silver-headed Destro, will be played by theater actor David Murray [iesb.net], previously seen in Batman Begins as..."Jumpy Thug." A face you will recognize, actor Dennis Quaid's, is now set for General Hawk, the unkempt elder leader of the Joes. There's…
Read MoreWhile nothing has been officially signed just yet, it sounds like a lock that Hellboy 2 director and all around cool guy Guillermo del Toro will take over the directorial reigns from Lord of the Rings trilogy mastermind Peter Jackson and helm the two planned Hobbit films for New Line. Today's announcement in the trades…
Read MoreIt amazes and terrifies me that so few filmmakers are as open, interested and engaged in the torrent phenomena as director John August. You might remember that earlier this month we reported on August's curious announcement to fans that his indie film (and /Film favorite), The Nines, was available for illegal download online via Bit…
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Joining United Artists, the Weinstein Co. and Worldwide Pants in the "If we can do it, so can you" club, Marvel Studios and Lionsgate made interim deals today with the Writer's Guild that allow their studios to return to business as normal. We're very excited about our summer releases Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk,…
Read MoreTwenty-three days into the month of January, Michael Moore is getting proactive about his New Year's resolution: he wants one screen in every multiplex in America reserved for foreign films and documentaries. So, how's your newly implemented exercise regime going so far, everybody? Here's Moore... "People want to see documentaries, but there's a disconnect between…
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