Much of the industry had predicted THE KINGDOM would win the weekend. I predicted an upset for THE GAME PLAN, and, as it turns out, it will coast to an easy 3-day win. DARJEELING LIMITED has opened huge Saturday with almost $37,000 per location and Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION picked up another $23,000 at its…
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A "Disney-fied" Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has beaten Universal's big budget Middle East-set action-thriller The Kingdom for a weekend box office win.The Game Plan (Buena Vista) generated $5.7M on its opening day, and the family movie will likely score an estimated $19.38M after kids flood America's multiplexes on Saturday and Sunday. Meanwhile, the Peter Berg-directed…
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will test his box office muscle this weekend with the PG-rated Buena Vista comedy The Game Plan. This guy is a charismatic screen presence, but he's apparently been "Disney-fied" according to critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives The Game Plan a Fresh score of just 36%, although MetaCritic gives it a marginally better…
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On Saturday, Resident Evil Extinction (Sony) dipped an estimated 9%, but still managed to rake in $8.64M. With a 63% drop on Sunday, exactly what Residet Evil: Apocalypse fell on its first Sunday, the zombie scarefest will finish the weekend with $23.59M, enough to make it the biggest opening of the franchise. Meanwhile, Good Luck…
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As expected, RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION will easily win the weekend topping GOOD LUCK CHUCK. David Cronenberg's EASTERN PROMISES has expanded strongly, and Sean Penn's INTO THE WILD has opened huge. THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES... had a so-so opening, and THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB is a disappointment. The third and, reportedly, final chapter of…
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Entering the weekend, Jodie Foster's last 3 films had all debuted with more than $20M on opening weekend. Neil Jordan's The Brave One (Warner Bros) will snap that streak, as the new street vengeance thriller opened to $4.8M Friday. That will translate to an estimated $15.1M weekend, which is well below industry expectations and Warner…
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Jodie Foster returns to America's multiplexes this weekend as sort of a feminist Death Wish-style Charles Bronson in Neil Jordan's THE BRAVE ONE (Warner Bros) on 2,755 screens. Unlike fellow 40+ stars Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock, Foster seems to gaining clout at the box office. After a remarkable career as a child, which included…
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A few films have sold at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Here is a round-up of the deals so far. In Bloom to Magnolia Pictures [added 9/12] George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead to The Weinstein Company for $2 to $2.5 Million Alan Ball's Nothing is Private to Warner Independent and Netflix's Red…
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I've been finding less and less time to post reviews while I'm here at the Toronto Film Festival, so here is a rundown of the films I have seen thus far with my ranking (linked to the connected review when available). I hope to catch up on some of the reviews I have missed so…
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James Mangold's remake of the classic Western 3:10 TO YUMA rustled up another $5.23M on Saturday, and the well-reviewed genre pic will finish the weekend with a respectable $14.23M. That's right in line with industry expectations, but Lionsgate was almost certainly hoping for an upside surprise. That number will give YUMA the 3rd-best opening weekend…
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As expected, 3:10 TO YUMA has won the 3-day weekend. After grabbing just over $5M on Friday, it will likely top $15M for the weekend. Oscar winner Russell Crowe and Batman Begins star Christian Bale have lassoed the Friday box office crown, and 3:10 TO YUMA (Lionsgate) will ride away with a surprisingly easy 3-day…
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At a glance, it looks like 3:10 TO YUMA (Lionsgate) should edge SHOOT 'EM UP (New Line) for the weekend box office win, and the Western will probably carry the day, but it's less of a sure thing than you might think. Neither movie will be a box office juggernaut. YUMA has Un-Aided Awareness of…
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Michael Myers is the new Labor Day box office king, but he's bleeding after dropping another 19% on Sunday. Halloween (MGM/Weinstein) still managed a $6.94M day and closed the book on a 3-day of $26.46M, but its projected 4-day of $31.32M is much softer than you would expect after almost $11M on Friday. Superbad (Sony)…
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The 2007 version of John Carpenter's 1978 classic HALLOWEEN was definitely frontloaded. MGM/Weinstein's remake/re-imagining of the Michael Myers slash-fest took a dramatic 20% drop on Saturday for a day 2 gross of about $8.65M. Based on the drop, I'm revising HALLOWEEN to a 3-day of $27.28M and projecting a 4-day take of $32.83M. That's very…
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Michael Myers has returned from the dead to slaughter all box office competition. The all-new MGM/Weinstein version of HALLOWEEN has exploded for an estimated $10.5M on Friday, and it's headed for a 3-day of $30M and a spectacular 4-day Labor Day weekend of $35.775M. The success isn't a complete surprise. Director Rob Zombie has scored…
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Check out this very cool new poster for National Treasure: Book of Secrets. One thing Disney knows is how to design a killer poster. Too bad the film's script isn't up to the same level (Check out the previously released Movie Trailer). Check it out after the jump. National Treasure: Book of Secrets hits theaters…
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Rush Hour star Jackie Chan has posted the following unflattering entry on his blog: "When we finished filming, I felt very disappointed because it was a movie I didn't appreciate and I did not like the action scenes involved. I felt the style of action was too Americanized and I didn't understand the American humor,"…
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A new possible viral website for the JJ Abrams produced top secret monster flick Cloverfield/1-18-08 has appeared online. I must first note, that no one is sure if this is actually a legitimate website created for the Cloverfield online game, or if it is what the people in online reality gaming call a "gamejack". As…
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20th Century Fox and Hugh Jackman have brought Swordfish and Hitman screenwriter Skip Woods to revise ("more than a polish") David Benioff's draft for the upcoming X-Men spin-off prequel, Wolverine. Director Gavid Wood, whose film Tsotsi won the Academy Award in 2006 for Best Foreign Language Film, has been out promoting his new film Rendition,…
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Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood premiered as a super secret film at Fantastic Fest in Austin Texas this week, and most people are calling it the best movie of both the year and Anderson's career. We weren't there to see the film itself (you can check out a trailer at this link), so…
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The Cloverfield/1-18-08 viral campaign started with a bang. But recently we've heard nothing from the JJ Abrams produced monster flick, until now. A sixth photo has now been discovered on the 1-18-08.com viral website. The photo pictures a japanese chef displaying some kind of food dish on a pan. If you play around with the…
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Six Flags is building a new Dark Knight themed roller coaster at three parks. The new attraction named The Dark Knight Coaster will open at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ, Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL and Six Flags New England in Agawam, MA in May 2008, just months before Christopher Nolan's…
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Earlier this week we told you about the biggest LEGO set ever released, the Star Wars Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon, which is now shipping. The set costs $499, has 5,000 pieces and comes with a heavy ring-binded instruction manual. We wondered how long it would take to put this sucker together, and now the good…
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Ben Affleck's directorial debut Gone Baby Gone is nothing short of one of this year's best. It's a great film, with a few unexpected twists. Ed Harris easily earns an Oscar Nomination before your eyes, and I think this might be Casey Affleck's breakout role. Our friends at Collider have five clips from this amazing…
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 Jessica Biel will not be playing Wonder Woman in the Justice League of America Movie after all. Earlier this week it was first reported that Biel was officially in talks for the role. But now Entertainment Weekly reports that Biel has officially passed on the role. Comic Book fans around the world rejoice! May-be now…
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A couple months ago it was rumored that the found ark of the covenant had something to do with the fourth Indiana Jones film. Then a poster released at Comic-Con 2007 showed Indy's hat and Whip on top of a crate with the words "Property of Dr. Jones" and a number. And the numbers supposedly…
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The Kingdom is one third a great action film, and two thirds CSI: Middle Eastern Edition (if there were such a thing). The movie tries to be more complicated than its core, which is a quasi-revenge story about a team of US Government agents who are sent to investigate a terrorist bombing in Riyadh, Saudi…
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Our friends at MoviesOnline.ca have posted a couple new photos from SAW 4. One of which is a HUGE spoiler, so don't continue after the jump if you don't want to know. Tobin Bell's character Jigsaw died at the conclusion of SAW 3, and the opening clip of SAW 4 features the autopsy of Jigsaw…
Read More There are a lot of new casting rumors for JJ Abrams's Star Trek circulating the web this week. Let's take a look: IESB has learned that Mike Vogel (Poseidon, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Cloverfield) is the frontrunner to play James T Kirk. TrekMovie is reporting that former Stargate Atlantis regular Paul McGillion has auditioned for the…
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Peter Berg's The Kingdom is front and back-loaded with some incredible action. The middle hour is, well, you'll have to wait for my review tomorrow. Universal Pictures has put the first four minutes of the film online for you to enjoy. I really think they should have included the first 10 or 15 minutes instead.…
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Wes Anderson regulars Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman are now confirmed as voices for Anderson's upcoming stop-animation adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Fantastic Mr. Fox. George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Anjelica Huston have been previously announced in various trade papers. But don't look for it to hit theaters any time soon, Anderson told MTV that…
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The Weinstein Co are re-releasing Michael Moore's Sicko this weekend, giving American audiences one more chance to catch this important documentary on the big screen. I can't recommend this film enough, it's one of the best of the year. And I'm sure it's no coincidence that Moore will also be making a second appearance on…
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UpcomingPixar have posted this teaser poster for Pixar's WALL-E. I'm not quite sure if this is real, but if so I really need to get this one-sheet for the office. And if it is legit, I'm guessing that it's probably European mainly due to the use of "cinemas". The poster is essentially an extended version…
Read More Did You Know: Hard Candy director David Slade (30 Days of Night) was actually originally hired to helm the Justice League of America movie (to be titled "Justice League")? According to IESB, Slade was on board with the project for three full weeks, complete with production office, before Warner Bros started to become scared by…
Read More Jackass star Steve-O let it slip today on the Howard Stern Show that a third Jackass movie is in the works. No, we're not talking about the Jackass 2.5 direct-to-DVD movie which is coming out later this year. I'm talking about Jackass: Number Three. "I was told to rest up for Jackass 3 which will…
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20th Century Fox has decided to move Scott Derrickson's remake of the classic 1951 sci-fi action film The Day the Earth Stood Still, from Summer to Winter. The film starring Keanu Reeves as an alien visitor named Klaatu, will now hit theaters on December 12th 2008. The movie was originally scheduled to go head to…
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You've heard us talk about Wes Anderson's 13 minute short film Hotel Chevalier which stars Natalie Portman (in the buff, kinda) and Jason Schwartzman. And now you can watch it exclusively on Apple iTunes. Fret not, it's completely free - just click this link, download and consume. Hotel Chevalier is set in a hotel room…
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Independence Day and Day After Tomorrow director Roland Emmerich says he turned down a James Cameron draft for his upcoming remake of Fantastic Voyage because... it was set in the future?! "Two years ago Jim called me up and said 'Roland I want you to look at the script for Fantastic Voyage – it's not…
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When Michel Gondry isn't directing crazy movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind, The Science of Sleep, or trying to solve a rubix cube with his feet or making things de-blend on YouTube, or making music videos, than he is making television advertisements (check out his previous HP ad here). FilmIck…
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Patrick Sauriol has scored a bunch of exclusive spoiler leaks from George Miller's upcoming Justice League of America live-action movie. Don't read any further if you don't want to know abything about the characters or plot of the film. The film will feature Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, a John Stewart version of Green Lantern, The…
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The biggest and most expensive LEGO set ever has just been released, and pre-orders are starting to be unpacked in fanboy homes around the US. The Star Wars Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon costs $499, has 5,000 pieces and comes with a heavy ring-binded instruction manual. The Imperial Star Destroyer from a few years back held…
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I'm not quite sure we can take anything David Duchovny says at face value. This X-Files movie sequel has been in the works for years now, and there have been many rumors (most of which originated from the cast or series creator) that led to dead ends. But lately it seems like the film might…
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According to James Middleton, consulting producer for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Terminator 4 is moving forward after all. Apparently, the film will not be called "Terminator 4", but will instead be titled "Terminator: ____________" with no numbering. T3: Rise of the Machines scribes Michael Ferris and John D. Brancato are busy penning a new…
Read More Wes Anderson is one of my favorite directors, but I more appreciate his earlier work: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore (especially) and of course, The Royal Tenenbaums. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was good but not great, and went on to become a box office failure. The film, which cost more than the budgets of this…
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A Dark Knight special effects technician died during a "dummy film run" or a car stunt. But don't worry (yes, that's sarcasm), Warner Bros says that none of the cast was involved in the accident. Media reports said the vehicle was following a Batmobile stunt car when the 4x4 vehicle crashed into a tree. source:…
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I'm a sucker for long tracking shots. Orsen Wells, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scrosese, Brian DePalma, Paul Thomas Anderson, and most recently Alfanso Cuaron had a few all-in-one tracking shots in last year's Children of Men. One of the big buzz talking points at the Toronto Film Festival was a five minute sequence from Joe Wright's…
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Zack Snyder is hard at work shooting the big screen adaptation of Watchmen in Canada. Warner Bros has sent us a video diary introduction from Snyder, live from the set. He talks a little bit about the first week of shooting. And it looks like we'll be seeing more of these as the production progresses.…
Read More Remember the cute short film George Lucas in Love? It was a promising first effort. What if I told you that the guy who made that short went on to direct a few crappy pre-teen and high school films? Well it happened. Lucas in Love launched Joe Nussbaum into a career in Hollywood, and so…
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The question of the week has now become: Who will play Wonder Woman in George Miller's Justice League of America live-action movie. Yesterday we reported that Australian actress Victoria Hill had recently auditioned for the role. And now EW's industry sources are saying that Jessica Biel (The Illusionist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is in talks…
Read More Proving that drugged up drunk driving celebrities aren't the only ones to appear behind bars now-a-days, Die Hard director John McTiernan was sentenced to four months in prison on Monday for lying to federal agents. McTiernan was one of seven defendants who pleaded guilty in connection with the conspiracy and racketeering case of Anthony Pellicano,…
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Update: The short film is NOW available online. We've talked at length about the 17-minute Wes Anderson short film Hotel Chevalier which supposedly features a nude Natalie Portman and (a non-nude) Jason Schartzman in a semi-prequel to The Darjeeling Limited. The short which is being shown at festival screenings of Darjeeling, won't be attached to…
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The new 20-minute shorter special effects infused cut of Richard Kelly's Southland Tales premiered at a super special screening at the Fantastic Fest this weekend. Response seemed to be more favorable than the infamous Cannes Film Festival screening. /Film was unable to make it to Austin to catch the flick on the big screen, but…
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The opening to last night's season premiere of The Simpsons began where The Simpsons Movie left off. Wonder what happened to Spider-Pig? Or Homer's Pig Crap silo? Want to know what happened to Springfield? And what about a Simpsons Movie sequel? Bart writes on the chalk board "I will not wait 20 years to make…
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Science Fiction novelist Whitley Strieber has confirmed long running rumors that Transformers helmer Michael Bay is interested in directing a film adaptation of 2012: The War for the Souls. "I don't know if he will direct it for sure, but I know he is interested in directing it," Strieber told SciFi. "Michael Bay's company did…
Read More Australian actress Victoria Hill is one of the who knows how many contenders for the role of Wonder Woman in the upcoming Warner Bros The Justice League of America live action film. Hill supposedly did a screen test audition for the role in George Miller's upcoming DC Comics adaptation. Hill played Lady MacBeth in the…
Read More While doing some research on Juno (what else), I came across an unfortunate bit of news about an indie film which I've been tracking for some time, Jack and Diane. Bradley Rust Gray's film is about two teenage lesbians (Ellen Page and Olivia Thirlby), who meet in New York City and spend the night kissing…
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Here's the standard recap: I saw Juno at the Toronto Film Festival and in my review I said that it was "the best movie of the year (so far)" and it is this year's "Little Miss Sunshine". You may as well find another website to read if you want to avoid an overload in Juno…
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Congratulations to Troma Studios head Lloyd Kaufman, who was just named chairman of the Independent Film & Television Alliance for a two-year term. Kaufman is the guy behind such B-cult-clasics as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High trilogy, and Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD. IFTA estimates its 170 member companies produce more than 400 indie…
Read More Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Mrs. Doubtfire) has signed on to play Mary Todd, the wife of the sixteenth President of the United States in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. Based on the biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln), Liam Neeson (Star Wars: Episode I, Batman Begins)…
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Update #1: Paramount Pictures has apparently set June 29th 2009 as the official release date for Transformers 2, according to BoxOfficeMojo. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay have signed with DreamWorks to make Transformers 2, which will hit theaters in Summer 2009. However, Michael Bay wrote last week on…
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It looks like Heroes is trying to collect some interesting writer/directors for the new spin-off series Heroes: Origins. Kevin Smith has already signed on to write/direct an episode. News circulated through the tabloid papers this past week that Quentin Tarantino was asked to pen and direct an episode (but he turned it down because he…
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One of the most talked about films at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival was a small indie horror flick called Teeth. The movie is about a High School student named Dawn who has teeth in her vagina. Yes, you read that correctly - teeth in her vagina. I enjoyed the flick, but not as much…
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While re-watching the trailer for Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, I was able to spot two instances of a Donnie Darko easter egg. Frank's Bunny head can be seen on a poster which is in the background of some scenes. Anyone have any idea what the text below the head on the poster says? Click on…
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A bunch of new posters were released today on the interwebs. Let's take a look at some of the good and bad marketing ideas after the jump. First up is the poster for Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, which features the tagline "This Christmas there will be no peace on Earth." Alien and Predator are head…
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At the Toronto Film Festival, we had the opportunity to interview Emile Hirsch about his new film Into The Wild.
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In a summer of threequels and big budget tentpoles, Transformers was probably my favorite movie of the bunch (blockbuster tentpoles). And now the film is being rereleased on the IMAX screen with a few more minutes of footage, and a hell of a lot more screen space. For the most part, the IMAX version is…
Read More No, this is not an old news item. Yes, Brad Pitt single handedly almost ruined Requiem For a Dream director Darren Aronofsky's third film The Fountain, b y walking away from the project weeks before shooting was to begin (Sets were almost completed, and the production shut down put hundreds of people out of work).…
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Variety has finally confirmed that George Miller (Happy Feet) will direct a big screen adaptation of The Justice League of America. Yeah, we know, this news leaked onto the internet on August 1st, but the trade papers are slow, and Warner Bros took a while to make an official announcement. Justice League will likely feature…
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The first three minutes of The Hunting Party are now online for your viewing pleasure. I had the chance to see this movie a month ago, and I can highly recommend it. The movie was released a couple weeks back in limited distribution, but has still failed to make over $175k in the United States.…
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In July, we told you that David Fincher would be releasing a Zodiac directors cut on DVD in 2008. The 2-Disc collectors edition would presumably feature a longer cut than the already lengthy 158 minute theatrical cut. Jeff Wells is now reporting that the director's cut has been screened at close to 180-minutes, which is…
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Since the now infamous Cannes Film Festival screening which resulted in a wave of bad buzz like never seen before, Richard Kelly has been trying to do damage control on his sophomore effort, a follow-up his hit cult first film Donnie Darko. Southland Tales has been re-cut, enhanced with new special effects (which evident in…
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Universal is releasing a sixth American Pie film this Christmas. Eugene Levy (For Your Consideration) is the only actor from the original trilogy to return for the sixth film. The cast of American Pie Presents: Beta House includes American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile alumni John White (How to Deal), Steve Talley (Peaceful Warrior), Jake…
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Dimension Films have finally announced the completed cast line-up for their upcoming superhero comedy spoof. The cast of Superhero includes: Drake Bell (Yours, Mine and Ours), Sara Paxton (Sydney White), Christopher McDonald (Happy Gilmore), Leslie Nielsen (The Naked Gun), Kevin Hart (Soul Plane), Marion Ross (Happy Days), Ryan Hansen (Palo Alto), Jeffrey Tambor (Hellboy) and…
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I just got home from a screening of Transformers in IMAX (more on that later), where they premiered another new trailer for Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf. Aside from the 3D coolness, I really have no interest in seeing this flick. The animation or motion capture looks as the story, which I'm sad to say was a…
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The photo to the right comes from Richard Kelly's upcoming film Southland Tales. Guess who the actor is behind the make-up. Right click on the photo t get a better look. Hints: He was the first and only guest on Michael Moore's 1997 Fox pilot "The Michael Moore Show" He was born in New Jersey…
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Resident Evil: Extinction is no good! Do not see it! Have I seen the movie? Nope. Sony won't let me, or any other reviewer, screen the film. Even though they are having nationwide screenings on Thursday, I have been told by ScreenGems that media is BANNED from attending said screening. It's really too bad, because…
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MTV have published the first photo from the Sex and The City movie, which features Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw and her love interest, Mr. Big (Chris Noth). I was never one to watch the television series, and a big screen movie excites me even less, but I thought I'd post this because someone reading…
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There have been a bunch of new release date changes announced in the last 24 hours, let's take a look. DreamWorks has announced that they are moving Monsters vs. Aliens 3D from May 15th 2009 to March 27th 2009. The monster film was originally scheduled to go head to head with James Cameron's Avatar in…
Read More Today I was invited to a special screening of footage from Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie in San Francisco. Seinfeld and director Steve Hickner were in town to present the footage and do interviews (I'll be posting the interviews at a later date. I would like to first start off by saying how unimpressed I have…
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We missed this one yesterday, but Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge!, Gangs of New York, Iris) revealed to Dark Horizons that he will play Horace Slughorn in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. "Who am I? He's called Horace Slughorn. He's a retired teacher of magic who's drawn back out of retirement because…
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Ryan Reynolds has been cast in SuperBad director Greg Mottola's next film Adventureland, which features The Squid and the Whale star Jesse Eisenberg as a college graduate in the summer of 1987, who was prepared to spend his vacation in Europe before starting Grad School. But when his father is laid off, he is now…
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The three Southland Tales prequel graphic novels have been combined to form this very cool collection. Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga will be available in bookstores everywhere in late October. This art shows both the the back cover and beginning/end flaps, which are an extension of the inverted American flag concept from the theatrical poster…
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Fox Searchlight has released a new batch of 13 production photos from Wes Anderson's upcoming film, The Darjeeling Limited. The official plot description follows: Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each…
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Some new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull details have been leaked. Don't read any further if you don't want any of the plot spoiled. In some scenes shot in early September, Indiana Jones is blackmailed by the Russian Army as they are both searching for a crucifix skull in the jungles…
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Zoe Saldana (The Terminal, Guess Who, and James Cameron's Avatar) has been cast as Uhura in JJ Abrams' Star Trek. Played by Nichelle Nichols in the original series, Uhura is from the United States of Africa and speaks Swahili (her name means "Freedom"). She remained part of the USS Enterprise bridge crew throughout the series…
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MTV has posted the trailer for Weirdsville, a movie I caught at the Toronto Film Festival. I hope to have the review up later today (I'm still working, working, working on all the stuff I never got to), but the flick is pretty funny. The film follows a pair of slackers who get in way…
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Cinematical have posted the official movie poster for Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. I wasn't really a fan of the first film, but the footage that Disney premiered at Comic-Con has given me new hope for this sequel. It appears that they have tried to pump up the plot with more action sequences,…
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Update: The good people at Fox Searchlight has sent me a higher resolution version of this poster, which they have also assured me is ONLY a Toronto Film Festival Teaser Poster. So expect a Theatrical teaser poster in the next month or so. While I was in Canada, I was able to snag this cool…
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Transformers director Michael Bay says he will probably leave preproduction on a Transformers sequel so that he can work on another film before the big Hollywood strike of 2008. 'Transformers 2', well that's another story. Iching [sic] to work pre-strike (June) so I might jump ship and come back a year or so later cause…
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The Wes Anderson "My Life, My Card" American Express commercial was one of my favorite's for a long time. The Rushmore director is back making some tv spots for AT&T which are "designed to highlight how AT&T helps connect people to their worlds wherever they live and work." The advertisements take place all in one…
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Terra is one of those movies that might not find an audience because it doesn't fit into one of the neatly organized categories that we have created for cinema. It's a sci-fi story, told through computer animation, but it's not a comedy, and isn't necessarily geared towards young children (aside from a cute little robot…
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The Fountain was one of my favorite movies of last year, but I have yet to buy the film on DVD. For a film fanatic with a DVD collection that reaches somewhere in the thousands, you might be wondering why I have chosen not to make the purchase. Simple: the lack of extensive dvd extras.…
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I know we told you that it would be online earlier this month, but now Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly assures us that the trailer for Southland Tales will be "released this week in a very big way." Whatever that means. We've been looking forward to this for a while now. Kelly has also officially…
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I must reluctantly admit that I have yet to see Funny Games, the home invasion horror/thriller from Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke. The film got some great reviews and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival in 1997. Time Out described it as "a masterpiece that is at times barely watchable". Warner…
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Son of Rambow was probably the biggest hit of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, sparking a record bidding war, which ended with Paramount Vantage taking home the goods. The film was originally set to hit theaters on July 20th 2007, but was pushed back to an unknown 2008 date without reason. Many people speculated that…
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Son of Rambow was one of the most talked about movies at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. But it was one of those films that I was never able to squeeze in to me schedule for one reason or another. Not seeing Rambow is my biggest regret of Sundance 2007. From Garth Jennings, the director…
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Oscar winner Sydney Pollack (Tootsie) tells Helen De Winter in her upcoming book that movies are like Fast Food now-a-days: "Beginnings and endings are not interesting, audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick," Pollack…
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I have returned from Canada! This means that the usual 10+ news updates a day will resume beginning tonight/tomorrow. But this doesn't mean that the Toronto International Film Festival coverage has ended. I was able to see 29 movies at the festival, but due to my hectic schedule, I was unable to review them all…
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I've been ranting and raving about Jason Reitman's new film, Juno. You've probably already heard me claim that it's the best film of the year so far, or even "this year's Little Miss Sunshine". That the script, soundtrack, and performances are all top notch. And now you can see the film for yourself (or at…
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I never planned on seeing Ping Pong Playa, but it became one of those films that I heard people talking about in between sleeping, screening and eating. I think Jen from Rotten Tomatoes was the first one to mention it to me. Not that she had seen it, just that she had heard good things.…
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The movie trailer for Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola's first new film in 10-years, is now online. Coppola adapted, produced and directed the movie based on the 1976 novel by Romanian-born religious historian Mircea Eliade. The short teaser trailer looks interesting, but doesn't really show much, or at least it doesn't show much in…
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Alan Ball's feature directorial debut is more Six Feet Under than American Beauty in tone, and more of the latter in story. There are more than a few structural similarities to Beauty, including the typical but still wonderful Thomas Newman score, an older man who becomes sexually infatuated with a young girl, and a series…
Read More The big strike of doom (WGA and SAG) is approaching, and the Hollywood studios are hoping to push as many projects into production before then. ComingSoon has gotten their hands on a memo which is circulating around the major talent agencies. The memo lists all the movies that the studios are hoping to push into…
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Paramount has provided us with this new Optimus Prime Transformers IMAX movie poster. I'm not sure I dig the grey and white gradient background, but that seems to be all the rage these days online. Yesterday we reported that the running time for the IMAX version is five minutes longer than the theatrical release. Check…
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Lionsgate has released a new teaser trailer for SAW 4 which features a VERY gory autopsy of Jigsaw. I'm still not really looking forward to this one, but I must admit that the autopsy reveal is a pretty clever way to open up the story. Watch the teaser after the jump. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/saw4teaser2.flv 320 260] SAW…
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We hated George Romero's Diary of the Dead, and by the look of the emails and comments we have gotten, we're not the only ones. As we reported earlier this week, The Weinstein Co bought the film, because, well, it's marketable - even though it may be god awful. And don't get me wrong, I…
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I think most of the video game companies have come to the realization that selling film adaptation rights to Uwe Boll is a bad idea. Boll, who snapped up the rights for quite a few video game properties years back, has become one of the most hated people (probably only next to Jack Thompson) amongst…
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The Babysitters is a dark indie comedy about a teenager babysitter who turns her business into a call-girl service for married guys. It's not as ridiculous as it might sound. Shirley is a 16 year old high school student who babysits for neighbors on weekend nights for extra cash. One night one thing leads to…
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SuperHeroHype is reporting that the IMAX release of Transformers has been timed at 149 minutes, a whole five minutes longer than the film's theatrical release. When the big screen rerelease was announced, director Michael Bay said tat it would contain two minutes of extra footage. So who knows, maybe its five minutes of extra giant…
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Did you know that the average age of a starting prostitute in New York City is 13 years old? Underage teenage prostitution is a big problem in the big apple. Very Young Girls is an intensely moving, disturbing yet eye-opening look at this world which is normally ignored. Some of the girls featured in the…
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Hack action director Rob Cohen has posted the first photo of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor on his production blog. I don't understand why anyone is still interested in this series? Rachel Weisz dropped out, Jet Li is the new Mummy, the story sounds really, really lame, and oh yeah, the guy who…
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Apple is working on adding 30-day movie rentals to the iTunes movie store, according to CNN sources. It is believed the plan will allow customers to rent a movie for 30-days for $2.99. Apple would also allow transfer of he movies to iPod video enable devices. This is a step in the right direction as…
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Update: I just heard back from Fox. Apparently the release change will only effect the international release of the film. AvsP2 will still hit theaters in the United States on December 25th 2007. Don't get too excited for that red band trailer for Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, because the film has just been bumped back…
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Lionsgate has announced that they will release Sylvester Stallone's John Rambo on January 25, 2008. January is pretty much considered the kiss of death, where bad films go to die. Aside from Star Wars Special Edition, no other film has made over $29 million on a January opening weekend, and only five January releases have…
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Cinematical has posted the new theatrical poster for Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, and it doesn't look good. Don't get me wrong. I want Southland Tales to be good. Even if it isn't good, I want it to make money just because I feel Richard Kelly somehow deserves it. But when a movie distributor clearly has…
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Not only is Juno one of the best movies of the year, but it also has one of the best movie soundtracks of the last five years. It's kind of like a Wes Anderson film in the way that it will expose you to a whole new compilation of music (and more specifically Kimya Dawson's…
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Based on the bestselling book by Jon Krakauer, Into The Wild tells the true story of Christopher McCandless, a college graduate who one day decides to emancipate himself from his family and the material word. He leaves all his possessions, giving his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked his way across the America,…
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I want a scrap metal Yoda sculpture, but am unwilling to pay $1,300+. Anyone want to buy it for me? Who knows if these metal sculptures are officially licensed by LucasFilm. I'm guessing not because if they were, they would likely be double the price. I also think the droid below is pretty kick ass.…
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The Simpsons Movie is the sixth biggest movie of 2007, beating such contenders as 300, Ratatouille, Live Free or Die Hard and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. It's easily the biggest tv-to-film adaptation of all time. The film will likely end its run with $500 million worldwide, not bad for a $75 million…
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As we said in our review, Jason Reitman's Juno is not only our favorite movie of the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, but also probably my favorite film of the year thus far. If Searchlight markets this thing right, it could be the next Little Miss Sunshine. Even better than that, it has more appeal…
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Last week we reported hat TRON director Steven Lisberger is finally set to make his return to the big screen after a 19 year absence with a film co-authored by Jessica Chobot titled The Soul Code. We told you that for years Lisberger has trying to get a TRON sequel off the ground. Well it…
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Update: We have now added the official film logo, as seen above. Shia LaBeouf revealed the official title for Indiana Jones 4 during the MTV Video Music Awards: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. As you may remember, the title was one of six we reported last month when LucasFilm registered a…
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Paramount have finally released the teaser trailer for Jon Favreau's Iron Man. It's essentially the same exact thing that was shown at Comic Con 2007. Check it out after the jump. Tell me what you think. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/ironman.flv 470 194] You can also watch the trailer in high definition at Apple.com.
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Congratulations to Michael Moore, whose movie Sicko has just become the third biggest documentary of all time, surpassing Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Check out the press release after the jump. Michael Moore's 'SiCKO' Becomes the Third Highest Grossing Documentary of All Time Surpassing 'An Inconvenient Truth' NEW YORK, Sept. 9Â -- "SiCKO," Michael Moore's…
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George A Romero's Diary of the Dead is a concept with out substance, an idea without a clue. Romero, who is largely responsible for the zombie film genre, has decided to return to a low budget no star concept. Diary follows a group of film school students (and their professor) as they go on the…
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David Cronenberg is a director that tends to polarize audiences. Either you love him, or you hate him. I'm one of the few people who sways back and fourth depending on the film. I was a fan of his earlier films, and really ended up digging A History of Violence. And I was very excited…
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Remember David Schwimmer? He played Ross on Friends, and now he wants to be a director. His feature film debut, Run Fatboy Run premieres at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. I was able to get an advance look at the film, although I wasn't expecting much going in. The reason I wanted to see the…
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Lionsgate gave us the teaser poster for Religulous, the upcoming documentary from Borat director Larry Charles. The poster features Bill Maher's face on a grilled cheese sandwich with the tag-line "Do You Smell Something Burning?" Check out the poster after the jump, we'll have some extensive coverage of today's Toronto Film Festival screening and question…
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Last week I wrote an embarrassingly positive review of James Wan's Death Sentence. One week later I'm in Canada for the Toronto Film Festival to review another vigilante film, but this time I'm not quite as excited. The Brave One is a more artfully done film, with a less convoluted story, and some otherwise great…
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Juno is not only the best film of the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, but it's also the best movie of the year (so far). For days I've sat in dark screening rooms filled with other movie critics. And let me tell you, for a group of people who should love movies, critics are some…
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Sorry for the lack of updates as of late, but we're in Canada for the Toronto Film Festival. So excuse me for cutting this short. The new movie trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. This film looks very old school intense. Based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil, There Will Be Blood is…
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Warner Bros has picked up the rights to bring the classic anime series Robotech to the big screen. Tobey Maguire is producing the film, with plans to star. Robotech refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or…
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Bad News: Sony has decided to greenlight a sequel to last year's computer animated film Open Season. Good News: Open Season 2 is scheduled to go direct to DVD in 2009. While we at /Film do not condone the direct-to-DVD sequel, we find it less painful when it's a movie/franchise we don't feel personal attachment…
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AintItCool have posted the teaser movie poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. The 20 minute block of footage shown at Telluride is said to be the best thing shown at the festival, and Anderson certainly has a great track record (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love). Check out the full…
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Captain Mike Across America is not as strong as most of Michael Moore's other documentaries. It's also not quite as funny. But that's probably because it's a very different film than any of Michael's previous works. In the same way as Dave Chappelle's Block Party is very different from every other Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine,…
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When Jackass: Number Two was released theatrically, Johnny Knoxville was telling selected press that they still had plans to shoot more footage. "There's some stuff I'm still wanting to shoot, and we might shoot in November. It's not for a three, it's just because it's something I really want to do, and I said I…
Read More Tomorrow I'll be in Canada for the Toronto International Film Festival. But today I have a huge gripe to share with "The New AT&T". A few months back I purchased an Apple iPhone, which with the exception of a few little things, I love to death. Am I angry that Steve Jobs dropped the price…
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Update: The short film is NOW available online. Yesterday we angrily reported that Wes Anderson's 17-minute short film Hotel Chevalier starring Jason Schartzman and Natalie Portman will not be showing before The Darjeeling Limited after all. Many of you probably didn't care (I mean Wes Anderson was so 5 years ago, right?). Well now you…
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Many people have recommended the Preacher comic book series to me, but I've yet to pick it up. For several years, a film adaptation was in the works by Kevin Smith's production company - View Askew Productions, with James Marsden attached to play the lead. In November 2006, it was announced that Mark Steven Johnson…
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The critics and fans pretty much hated Rob Zombie's Halloween remake, so it makes us wonder why Zombie didn't take his own advice. The following quote comes from ArrowintheHead. Apparently Rob Zombie said the following quote in a 2002 interview. "I feel it's the worst thing any filmmaker can do. I actually got a call…
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Jeff Garlin claims that he is the "only animated character that speaks" in the upcoming Pixar film WALL-E. Until now we've known that much of the film featured nonspeaking computer animated robots, which communicate with R2D2-like sound effects. We know that some of the story takes place aboard the luxurious star-liners here humans have been…
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The UK's Daily Mail has just posted a new photo from the upcoming Bryan Singer-directed Valkyrie. The film stars Tom Cruise as Count Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg in his plan to kill Adolph Hitler. The photo shows Cruise's character and his team of co-conspirators as they look over plans to assassinate Hitler. The Daily…
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Entertainment Weekly has published a bunch of behind the scenes photos from upcoming fall movies. The above photo is from Ben Affleck's directorial debut Gone Baby Gone. Ben consults with star and brother Casey Affleck about his upcoming scene. We're really excited to see this film. I loved Mystic River, and have always followed Affleck's…
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A couple weeks ago we told you that Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Pictures bought the rights to make a movie based on Todd McFarlane's revisionist take on L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz will be titled "OZ". Well, IGN spoke with McFarlane about the new movie project and it was revealed that Michael…
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TRON director Steven Lisberger is finally set to make his return to the big screen after a 19 year absence. Following TRON, Lisberger directed the bad John Cusack film Hot Pursuit and the even more horrible sci-fi adventure Slipstream, starring Bob Peck, Mark Hamill and Bill Paxton. And it's not for a lack of trying,…
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Variety has officially announced Sacha Baron Cohen's next project, a follow-up to Borat based on another one of his Ali G show characters, Bruno. One problem, didn't we report this months and months ago? Didn't we also hear that production on the film had already begun? We had reports of a Bruno sighting at the…
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Check out this evil new poster for Disney's upcoming live-action/animated tale: Enchanted, after the jump. For some reason, I'm more excited to see this film than I probably should be. Source: Meyemind
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The title for the JJ Abrams produced monster flick has been in question since day one. Originally it was codenamed Cloverfield (presumably named after the street and airport near Bad Robot's production office). On set they used a bunch of different production names: Slusho!, Cheese, and Chocolate Outrage. You can see by this exclusive photo…
Read More The following is an editorial by Zack Lawrence. It was sometime ago that Hollywoodland was filled to the brim and boiling over with egocentric, megalomaniacal movie stars all fired up and ready to set your living room ablaze. They were an army of few, A-Listers with twenty million dollar picture deals and blockbuster movies giving…
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Last week we relayed a Dark Knight spoiler report which claimed to reveal who exactly was in the casket at the publicly shot Chicago funeral sequence. It didn't quite seem right to us - the facts just didn't add up. Well, apparently the facts weren't right. Find out who is in the coffin after the…
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Scarlett Johansson is going to reteam with music video director Samuel Bayer (Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around…Comes Around") to make a heist film. "It's called 'Brilliance' and it's about diamond thieves, and we start shooting this winter. So many things came together in all the right ways. It really was a case of 'what goes…
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Update: The short film is available online. Watch it NOW. We've learned that Wes Anderson's 13-minute short film Hotel Chevalier starring Jason Schartzman and Natalie Portman will not, according to trade reports and Jeff Wells, be showing before The Darjeeling Limited after all. Hotel Chevalier acts as a prequel to The Darjeeling Limited. The short…
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Michael Cerenzie Black Water Transit and Christine Peters' new production banner, CP Productions have officially announced that they have bought the rights to make the stupidest video game adaptation of all time. Okay, they didn't exactly make the announcement with that context - I'm pretty sure they actually believe this is a good idea. According…
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Growing up a child of the 80's, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was one of the shows I watched (along with many of the other series which are now pop culture nostalgia items on that VH1 show and in references on Family Guy). So it pains me to learn via our friends at…
Read More Since Kevin Smith has finished the first draft of his horror film Red State, he's been talking about the film all over the view askew message boards. Like him, or hate him, one thing you must admire is how accessible Smith makes himself to his core group of fans, and how very honest he is…
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A little bird on my shoulder is telling me that the trailer for Richard Kelly's Southland Tales will most likely hit the web tomorrow. In anticipation, we present you with this new clip [via: filmick] which we swear we've somehow seen before (so maybe it isn't new? My memory fails me). The shot scene features…
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Due to the Labor Day weekend, news is at a standstill. Warner Bros has announced that Helena Bonham Carter has signed on to return as Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film adaptation. Carter is the first name outside of the main three that has been confirmed for the film.…
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Rob Zombie has signed a two picture deal with Dimension Films, Halloween has already broken the Labor Day weekend record (aiming to take $32 million) ,well over the film's estimated $15 million budget (despite god awful reviews from both fans and critics). But the question now becomes, will they make a sequel (And if so,…
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Our friends at SolaceinCinema have published the first photo of Quentin Tarantino in Takashi Miike's (Ichi The Killer) Sukiyaki Western Django (aka Sushi Western). Tarantino is a friend of Japanese Director Takashi Miike, whom he asked to perform a cameo in Eli Roth's Hostel. As a result of Miike doing so, Tarantino performed in the…
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ObsessedwithFilm is reporting that casting has begun on the Justice League of America movie in New York, Vancourver and Toronto. Warner Bros have hired casting directors Susan Shopmaker (The Holiday, Mean Girls), Michelle Allen (Dead Like Me) and RDC Casting (The Shipping News), and sides have been posted for multiple roles on an industry audition…
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It seems like the report from last week might be true after all. Rumor had it that Corey Haim might not be able to film his scenes in The Lost Boys 2 DVD sequel due to visa issues. Now Warner Bros has released the official press release announcing the project, and Corey Haim is not…
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Okay, so we're finally starting to work on a site redesign. As you can see with the early sneak peak mock up above, we are keeping with the same color scheme that you know and love, reduced the advertising area, and have added a ton of new features (including a usable sidebar and top menu).…
Read More The following editorial is written by Zack Lawrence. Ok, we all knew Hot Rod was going to crash at the box office worse then a spectacular wreck on Rod's moped. But I am here to vehemently defend its greatness as one of the funniest movies of the year. Not Oscar worthy, I assure you, but…
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