Medicom Toy Corporation produced this cool unique Star Wars Vinyl Collectible 8-inch Darth Vader, but it was only made available in Japan. Made in extremely limited quantities, it sold out quickly. Sideshow Collectables has produced a limited edition 16-inch version of the figure, which is now available for pre-order for $199.99. This Vinyl Collectible Doll…
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LEGO Master Model Builder Dan Steinenger constructed this giant 8-foot tall R2-D2 unit as part of the recent Festival of the Masters event which happened from November 9th to 11th at the LEGO Store at Downtown Disney in Orlando, Florida. Steinenger was assisted by children visiting the store. The R2 droid squeaks with sampled sound…
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Busted Tees has beaten Kevin Smith to the punch, and has produced a t-shirt based on the fast food version of the infamous Lord of the Rings line which was featured in Clerks 2. Reminds me of the "Ringers" marketing that Burger King includes on their french fry packaging (seen below). Â Cool Stuff is a…
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This Christmas I received one of the coolest gifts I've ever gotten from my friend Elaine (not to give her too much credit as I picked it out - it was actually one of those "You show me what you want I'll show you what I want" type of deals). The gift in question is…
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Gentle Giant announced at Comic Con this past summer that they had acquired the license for Indiana Jones. Releasing in July will be the first in the line of Indiana Jones mini busts, the first of which features Indiana Jones in his trademarked leather jacket, fedora and whip from Raiders of the Lost Ark. This…
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Meet the Spartans (Fox) has pulled off the upset weekend win with a likely $18.58M 3-day, holding off Sly Stallone's disappointing Rambo (Lionsgate), which should finish the frame with $17.28M. Heading to the Super Bowl in Phoenix tomorrow, so no time for in depth analysis, but the rough numbers are below. EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY…
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Please someone tell me this isn't true. THR is reporting that Sony Pictures Classics has closed a deal for Jonathan Levine's The Wackness. The deal is said to be in the low seven figures. The Wackness is one of my favorite films of the festival. The buzz around Park City on shuttles and in lines,…
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I'm getting ready to jet off to Phoenix for Super Bowl 42, where I will be covering the game for ESPN, so I'm doing a "bare bones" version of my normal weekend estimates. Meet the Spartans (Fox) has apparently won the day Friday with an estimated $6.5M compared to Rambo's opening day of $6M, but…
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Film industry tracking points to a Cloverfield repeat weekend win. History points to a 50%-55% drop forThe J.J. Abrams-produced monster flick to a likely take in the $21M-$23M range. The battle will be for #2, and I'm calling for an upset. The Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer spoof movie Meet the Spartans (Fox) has an overall First…
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Anyone who writes on the web knows that it shares a lot in common with pinball; it's a never-ending session of sending out information, aiming for certain point beds, watching it randomly bounce around and occasionally fire back at you in a barrage of lengthy emails, rapid comments, angry message boards and the savored angry…
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I haven't found much time to blog while here in Park City. I'm already way behind on my reviews already. But I thought I'd drop by and share a few interesting things that have happened: I ran into Quentin Tarantino outside of Hell Ride at the Egyptian Theater in downtown Park City. I approached Tarantino,…
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First off, with Cloverfield (Paramount) and 27 Dresses (Fox) opening huge, the movie industry is off to a spectacular 2008 start. In the first 21 days of January 2007, the total domestic box office recorded was $508.2M. By the end of business Monday (1/21), the overall business will be at an estimated $600M. That's 15%…
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Yesterday I commented on Cha Cha's txt service which is being promoted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The human search company had set up exit polls a all the venues with the idea that you could txt Cha Cha with your mobile phone and find out the buzz on a film you may be…
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The big rumor going around Sundance is that U2 is holding a private concert (possibly tonight after the premiere of U2 3D at the Eccles). It's the hottest ticket/invite of the festival, only problem is, it doesn't exist - or so say the publicists behind the film. I have heard that U2 is having a…
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Paramount's 2008 is off to a spectacular start. The J.J. Abrams-produced Cloverfield has delivered a monster opening day of an estimated $18.25M, and it will easily coast to both the All-Time January 3-Day record and the All-Time 4-Day MLK weekend record. The Friday number is a tough call because there's no clear answer about where…
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The star-studded premiere of Cloverfield (Paramount) was last night (Wednesday, January 16) at the studio lot on Melrose. Young Hollywood was out in full force, including everyone from Lindsay Lohan, Patrick Stump and bandmates from Fall Out Boy and, of course, the cast of MTV's The Hills (with LC, Audrina and Whitney not giving the…
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Sundance Meta: We're tracking the Sundance Buzz so you don't have to! A pair of tickets to the premiere of U23D currently has a high bid of $610 on eBay. Entertainment Weekly takes a look back at 11 Influential Sundance Movies /Film has the Movie Posters for American Teen, Goliath, Bottle Shock, The Wackness WiReD…
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I'm at the airport waiting for a plane to Park City, Utah. January is usually considered a horrible time for new movie releases, but it's my favorite time of the year. For the last five years I've been making the trip to the Sundance Film Festival. For a film fanatic, Sundance is the greatest place…
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Rob Reiner's The Bucket List (Warner Bros) appears to have narrowly edged Sony's First Sunday for a second day, although it's a photo finish for Saturday. I'm estimating $8.12M for the oldster road movie versus $7.87M for the Ice Cube/Tracey Morgan comedy. Both films will likely come in above the 3-day targets I set for…
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The star power of Oscar winners Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman has lifted The Bucket List (Warner Bros) to a solid $6M Friday in its expansion to 2,911 locations, and the oldster road comedy will give director Rob Reiner the best opening of his career. After opening to $10,000+ per location on 16 screens on…
Read More The last couple years, Utah local Jill Adler (from OnTheSnow.com) wrote a couple Sundance blogs for the site. This year she returns, and has an update on Sundance 2008 before the big storm of people hit Park City. The Sundance Fest's locals ticket weekend came and went but not before the tickets to all of…
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) continued its box office roll on Saturday getting a 39% lift from Friday, posting an $8.86M Saturday. Assuming a 37% Sunday dip, Nicolas Cage's treasure hunting sequel will bring home a 3-day weekend of an estimated $20.81M and a new cume of $171.62M. Sometime on Monday, NT2 will surpass…
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) will officially become Nicolas Cage's biggest hit ever some time next week. The continuing adventures of treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates has scooped up another $6.1M on Friday, lifting its domestic cume to $156.9M. The holiday blockbuster will likely deliver a weekend haul of $18.9M, more than enough to…
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Matt Dentler just sent out the first batch of announced titles for the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival. The MIT/Vegas gambling heist adaptation 21 will open the fest. Other films include Dreams With Sharp Teeth, a doc about sci-fi author Harlan Ellison, Michael Radford's (The Post Man) Flawless starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore,…
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A couple years ago Alex Merkin made a short film called Across the Hall, which ran the film festival circuit. Entourage's Adrian Grenier starred, and festival-goers compared the Merkin short to a modern day Hitchcock flim. On February 6th Merkin will go into production on an expanded feature length version of the film noir thriller…
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Artist David Flores hails from Southern California and you may have spotted a recent collaboration he did with The Simpsons Movie and retro-skateboard staple Vans a while back. He recently created this vinyl collectible of Disney's Mickey Mouse for the Japanese toy company Medicom, which is just one work he's done of the character. Check…
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One film that's already being touted as the next Cloverfield even more so than Cloverfield 2 is the recent Slamdance Film Festival sensation Paranormal Activity: Evidence of a Haunting. The indie, handicam-style haunted house flick, shot in a week's time by video game designer and upstart director Oren Peli in his own house, has been…
Read More "We're Not Looking For Home Runs" - Tom Bernard, Co-President of Sony Pictures Classics (aka Where Good Films Go to Die) [indiewire] Smart Movie Executive Quote of the Day "When you have a quality film of this caliber made by amazingly talented filmmakers and actors who truly believe and support a project, you can only…
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The nation's largest online movie ticket company, Fandango, has released some stats for Disney's theatrical concert extravaganza opening this weekend, Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour. For those who don't know but secretly care, the movie is in 3D. What does a $15 ticket buy in 3D? Well, how about:…
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The actor with the best perma-squint in showbiz, Choke's Sam Rockwell, has just signed on, alongside Flight of the Conchords Jemaine Clement and youngster Michael Angarano, to star in director Jared Hess's comedy Gentlemen Broncos. Angarano will play a teen attending a writer's convention (what fun those are) where he discovers that his idea has…
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Another new photo from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has popped up, this time on theRaider.net. Cate Blanchett looks very angry, but Harrison doesn't appear to be fased. The photo appears to be part of a magazine spread, possibly Empire.
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I'm not one to get excited about spoof movies. The original Scary Movie is probably the last good one. When Dimension announced that they were going to spoof the superhero film genre, I actually got excited. There in lies the potential for a great geek film. But I was brought back down to earth when…
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The little film that could has now crossed the $100 million dollar mark, and is now the sixth biggest platform release of all time. Congratulations to Fox Searchlight, Diablo, Jason, Ellen, Olivia, and all the rest of the people who made this film. Check out the full press release after the jump. FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES…
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The nearly 70 percent drop in Cloverfield's box office take last weekend has not deterred Paramount Pictures from starting early talks with director Matt Reeves to helm a sequel to the Monster Movie That Ate the Internet. In fact, Variety reports that Cloverfield 2 (our title) may very well be Reeves next film, depending on…
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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…
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George Clooney's third directorial feature, Leatherheads, is set for release in April and today the film's rather snazzy official one-sheet was revealed. The 1920s pro-football dramedy finished shooting last May, but it seems like I've been hearing about this one for three years now; any longer and Will Ferrell's 1920s pro-football light bulb would start…
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In yet another sign that the worlds of high end street wear and evolving Internet geekdom are merging, the UK clothing company, Addict, and Lucasfilm have collaborated on an exclusive line of three Star Wars tees. Featuring quality illustrations by the artist Mitch aka Mitchy Bwoy, the shirts are part of Addict's Icons Series and…
Read More While the film is still a risky proposition, all buzz surrounding and emanating from Zack Snyder's Watchmen has thus far been positive. Actress Carla Gugino (Sin City) offered more than the requisite "it's been fantastic" remark in a recent encounter with MTV, parlaying info about her superheroine, campy fox Sally Jupiter aka Silk Spectre, and…
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"We are, like, major." The day all hardcore Kimya Dawson fans and Chan Marshall's Miami hangers-on have dreaded is here, as the Juno Soundtrack has taken Soundscan's gold medal, with 65,000 units sold. And take note, because this is the first time a soundtrack for a Best Picture nominee has dangled its legs from atop…
Read More Might Indiana Jones take down a UFO with a bazooka in this summer's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Doubtful, but a new image has popped up in the new Empire mag, with co-stars Karen Allen and the emotive kid from Project Greenlight looking hesitant in their awe over Indy's brandishing the…
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I have no idea why I'm posting this. It's probably because I found it funny for all the wrong reasons. It should also be noted that I'm still extremely sick with the flu... Although, I'm not exactly sure why that should be noted... Watch the Rambo review from Canadian YouTube user named "sexman". His profile…
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The teaser trailer for the 3D animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline played before select 3D prints of Beowulf. And I'm not talking about the early test footage Gaiman posted last month. I haven't seen this trailer online until now. /Film reader named Casty The Clown alerted me that the trailer is available on YouTube,…
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This is what happens when you get the sniffles and ignore the beat for a couple of hours: the world of Hollywood deals starts exploding with awfulness. Something in the Elm Street-verse started feeling askew a few weeks ago when Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, said he thought it was a good idea to remake…
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There is a thermometer in my mouth as I type this surrounded by cherry cough drop wrappers, but this news was too terrible to not germinate my keyboard. Director Mark Romanek has left The Wolf Man, the $100 million remake of the horror classic starring Benicio Del Toro in the title role alongside Anthony Hopkins…
Read More Check out the first photo of Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet (according to Time Magazine). Gus Van Sant is filming the biopic in San Francisco, where parts of the Castro District have been retrofitted back to the 1970's…
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Last week The Sun reported that director Terry Gilliam had his sights on Johnny Depp to finish what remains of the late Heath Ledger's role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. However, now comes word that Depp's reps tell People that "There have been no official talks, and he is currently working on Public Enemies…
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We've been following the development of a movie adaptation of Pia Guerra and Brian K. Vaughan's comic book series Y: The Last Man for a while now. The Vertigo branded comic book series is the best I've ever read. Eagle Eye and Disturbia helmer D.J. Caruso has been attached to the project for a while…
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One of the best films of last year which won't hit theaters until this year is Garth Jennings' Son of Rambow. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance film festival and was quickly snagged by Paramount Vantage. The buzz was so high on the movie that I was unable to get into a screening at…
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I always wondered why Adam Carolla never took off as a movie star. His comic timing and charisma has carried him through the popular long running radio show Loveline, and the popular television show The Man Show. Last year Corolla went out and filmed an independent comedy called The Hammer, which premiered at last year's…
Read More Hello again everyone, I've returned from Park City, but I've unfortunately caught the flu (which most people in Utah were referring to as "The Sundance Bug"). I know at least seven other people who caught this thing while working at Sundance, and one of my good friends, Frosty, even ended up flying home early. I…
Read More Eleven days ago, the character of Duke in Stephen Sommers's much hated-on G.I. Joe was said to be down to three actors: Lost's Matthew Fox, Fantastic 4's Chris Evans and Channing Tatum from the upcoming MTV-does-Iraq-War flick Stop-Loss. AICN now says that Tatum is definitely Duke. Tatum is 27, he was born in Alabama and…
Read More While 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…
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The first photos of Will Smith's costume from this summer's superhero-pastiche Hancock are here for your eyes. Personally, the trailer for Peter Berg's film caught my attention in the first place because the character was shown duking it out in mid-air out against highway signs wearing his signature rumpled street clothes. The new garb resembles…
Read More This post has been reposted for our Monday morning visitors. Just a couple weeks ago /Film was named the reader's favorite entertainment blog by Performancing.com. I've just been informed that /Film is one of the nominees for the big one, the Eighth Annual Weblog Awards, or as they're better known as The Bloggies. We're one…
Read More The award winners for the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild have been announced. DGA AWARDS Winner for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film 2007 Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men (Miramax Films/Paramount Vantage) Winner for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary 2007 Asger Leth - Ghosts of…
Read More It 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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Well, it came and it gave without takin', and two years later we're still waiting for All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, the highly regarded teen slasher from director Jonathan Levine. You've seen his name around because Levine followed up Mandy with The Wackness, one of the most buzzed-about films at this year's Sundance Film…
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Like two puppies in love, Harvey Weinstein and Nikki Finke had their requisite Sunday chat today, with Weinstein declaring that he's quite pumped up about Rambo's combined domestic and international box office potential, while Finke's sentiments are, adorably, the exact opposite. Serving as executive producer on the fourth Rambo film, which opened in second place…
Read More After mentioning it in various interviews over the years, Robert Redford has announced that his adaptation of Bill Bryson's nonfiction bestseller A Walk in the Woods will be his next project, with director Barry Levinson said to be on board as well. The meaning of the film's title is literal, and the plot follows Bryson…
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We all know that movie critics and fans of genre fare get along together like a giant serpent and Conan the Barbarian, but the maddening tug-o-war currently raging over Rambo's merits is ridiculous. Consider: On IMDB, the Sylvester Stallone sequel has a fantastic user-rating of 8.5/10 based on more than 4,000 votes. This consensus is…
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If it wasn't for the blasé title, Duplicity might have a more pronounced blip on 2009 movie radars. Director Tony Gilroy's debut, Michael Clayton, scored seven Oscar noms, including Best Picture and Best Director, and the cast to his follow-up is of similar caliber, with Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Wilkinson now joining Clive Owen…
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The major purchase making the press rounds and generating blog buzz from this year's Slamdance Film Festival, which ended Friday, is Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. Anchor Bay purchased the film, which hearkens back to '80s horror-comedies like House and Night of the Demons, for an impressive mid-six-figures with a theatrical release included in the deal.…
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A new photo of Pixar's WALL-E was published in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly (the one with Heath Ledger on the cover). I'm still at Sundance so I don't have access to any scanning equipment, but I was able to snap a make-shift photo with my Macbook pro's isight camera. Click on the image…
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BadTaste has posted a new image from Pixar's Up, which was released in an Italian Film Magazine. The image is from a sequence shown at Comic Con, which involved the 78-year-old lead Carl Fredricksen and a 9-year-old wilderness explorer stowaway named Russell, who are dragging Carl's floating house through the jungle ala a baloon in…
Read More Last year Disney decided to create live-action reenactments of classic Walt Disney Animated classics using some of Hollywood's biggest stars. Rachel Weisz as Snow White, Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella, Beyoncé as Alice in Wonderland... Disney has decided to create another series of these Dream Portrait Series Ads by photographer Annie Leibovitz. Check them out below.…
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The 2008 Sundance Film Festival comes to a close tomorrow, and the award winners have just been announced. Here are the major winners from this year's festival: Alfred P Sloan Memorial Prize: Sleep Dealer American Cinema: Grand Jury Dramatic: Frozen River Dramatic Audience Award: The Wackness Dramatic Screenwriting Award: Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera, David Riker…
Read More To continue with our unplanned /Film's Video Extravaganza themed day of blog postings, below you can watch a new television advertisement which features a cameo by Mr. Transformers/Armageddon - Michael Bay. Watch the television ad below.
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Move over Cloverfield Monster. Godzilla beware, a new monster is running amuck in Japan. Don't worry, it's only one of the coolest movie promotions of recent years. Columbia TriStar created this super-cool water-hologram to promote the release of The Water Horse. The hologram illusion uses a water screen created by a exact light projected on…
Read More At /Film we try not to post anything that would be considered celebrity gossip. Last week in one of my Sundance blogs I wrote about my unfortunate experience meeting Quentin Tarantino after a screening of Hell Ride. A reader who had read my posting just sent me this video showing Quentin Tarantino attacking a paparazzi…
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In Michel Gondry's new film Be Kind Rewind, Jack Black and Mos Def must rerecord classic movies to replace broken vhs tapes. The process is described in the film as sweding, or "re-making something from scratch using whatever you can get your hands on." At the Apple Store tour, Gondry was showing off a Be…
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Yes, it's already not cool to be looking forward to Semi-Pro, the latest sports romp starring Will Ferrell set for release on February 28th. The film's trailers and marketing unfortunately haven't done enough to prove that it's different from recent and arguably lame Ferrell cash-ins like Blades of Glory, even though it's rated R and…
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Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is a robbery. I saw 88 Minutes on the new release shelf of a movie rental store last summer and it is, without question, a straight-to-DVD Al Pacino vehicle and already pinned as the worst film of his career. And now, today we have a new trailer because…
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On Friday afternoon, JJ Abrams and the cast and crew of Star Trek sat down with TrekMovie.com to field questions from the fans. Here are the informational highlights: The first movie trailer first will "hopefully be in theaters early to mid summer." Production is scheduled to wrap the beginning of April 2008. Long time JJ…
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"Hey, little girl. Want to buy a lemur?" One film that no one around here seems curious about sans me is December's remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. I've read some recent interviews with Keanu Reeves and he seems to think this movie is going to drastically change the world for the better.…
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Chuck Palahniuk fans rejoice! Fox Searchlight, who just picked up the rights to Clark Gregg's big screen adaptation of Choke for $5 Million, has announced that the film will hit theaters on: August 1st 2008 Yeah, I know, seven months is a long time to wait. But hey, look on the bright side, it's getting…
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Smart People is probably the first adopted pedophile incest comedy, although I wouldn't really call it that (that's really just the subplot). Here is the plot synopsis from my early review: Dennis Quaid plays Lawrence Wetherhold, a miserable and pompous college professor who suffers a head trauma while trying to jump the fence at a…
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One of the best films of this year's Sundance Film Festival is the Assassination of a High School President, which I described in my review as "If John Hughes had made Chinatown set in a High School" or "Brick with a sense of humor." I was just able to score five video clips from the…
Read More Well, it's official: Martin Scorsese's mystery drama, due in 2009 and formerly known as Shutter Island, is now entitled Ashecliffe. New title is the name of the plot's asylum located on the fictional island off Boston harbor. No word on why the title was changed. I keep thinking of a fat kid with a pinwheel…
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"Mortimer, it sucks being homeless, how will we ever get back on top?" "Well, Randolph, you can start by giving me some of the blanket." "Mortimer! I've got it! Transformers...The Movie...The Ride!" "Randolph, we're back!...No, wait, that's already been announced." IESB reports with much enthusiasm that Paramount Pictures and Hasbro are planning to bring the…
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Dimension's remake of Clive Barker's original Hellraiser has been pushed back from its scheduled September 5, 2008 release to an undetermined date in 2009. According to Bloody Disgusting, the Weinstein Co. and Dimension were not popping bottles of Cristal over the script by French director team Alexander Bustillo and Julien Maury (Inside), though the duo…
Read More Director Terry Gilliam is said to have his sights on Johnny Depp to finish a presumable portion of what remains of Heath Ledger's role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The news comes from Rupert Murdoch's scandal-obsessed UK paper The Sun, complete with a quote from an unnamed studio source... "There is a point in…
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American Teen is without a doubt the best film of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. In my opinion, it's the first documentary with mainstream appeal. The movie was in an intense bidding war between Fox Searchlight and Paramount Vantage, with Vantage taking home the goods. American Teen follows four high school students through their senior…
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Diamond Select Toys has announced plans to release a series of Minimates (you know, those little LEGO looking figures) for the 1991 Academy Award-winning Best Picture The Silence of the Lambs. The minimate box set features Clarice Starling, Dr Lecter, Buffalo Bill and Hannibal the Cannibal. All four Minimates feature all-new Art Asylum sculpts and…
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Assassination of a High School President is a murder mystery set in a high school, without the murder. Assassination of a High School President will likely be compared to Brick in every review you read, and every conversation you have about te flick. Yet, Assassination is not a copy of Brick, in fact, it was…
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Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk bio-pic Milk is currently shooting in my hometown of San Francisco. But for some reason I'm stranded miles away in Park City. Anyway, the production designers are giving Castro street a retro make-over. The following photos shows work on some of the store fronts, which includes a new 70s psychedelic…
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As you probably know, I'm a huge fan of Chuck Palahniuk, best known as the author of Fight Club. I've attended, god knows how many of his public events over the years, and got the chance to sit down with Palahniuk in Park City Utah at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to talk about the…
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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,…
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Imagi Studios has a lot to prove in my opinion. They royally sucked the life out of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with last year's TMNT. I mean, that old Saturday Morning computer animated kids' show, ReBoot, is still exponentially more badass than TMNT, which had for source material one of the most freeing, original…
Read More Emmy Rossum has posted a new update from the sand dunes set of Dragonball (the big screen live action Dragonball-Z movie). Rossum describes the set located outside Dunas de Bilbao as "a sand dune desert." "I've been riding the motorcycle in 4-foot sand drifts since sunrise to get the shot just right. The wonderful, kind…
Read More If you've never had the pleasure of spending five or so minutes looking for an "unstuffy, blue skies" photo of Sam Mendes, try staring at a piece of gray construction paper until your eyes glaze over. At least this new, upcoming project sounds like a nice change of pace (color?) for the director of American…
Read More Don't worry, for those in the know, there's no big scoop. [Knee slap] But since development is moving forward on J.J. Abrams's Cloverfield-like project, a 2009 supernatural thriller directed by Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace), I wanted to put out an APB of sorts in case anyone's heard anything related to this project that…
Read More With Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones doc, Shine a Light, booked to play theaters in April, I find myself much more interested in Ruby Tuesday, an animated film from Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, the writers of the Beatles musical Across the Universe, that will utilize the Stones' music in a similar fashion. "We wrote…
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Quicksand? Stairs coming out of walls right out of an M.C. Escher work? A box labeled Roswell? Shia cracking teacher jokes to Ford? Is this what we can expect from the first trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that will be attached to The Spiderwick Chronicles on February 15th? The…
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It was announced today that the first two films in Pixar's sole and signature franchise, Toy Story and Toy Story 2, are headed back to movie screens October 2nd, 2009 and February 12th, 2010, respectively, with a complete digital 3D makeover, called Disney Digital 3D to be exact. The films will be an audience primer…
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"Keys are under the mat, Flipper." Will grizzled action vet Jason Statham put on a shiny fish-scale-sequined speedo to play the majestic, sea-dwelling Marvel superhero Namor the Sub-Mariner? Well, he's taken a meeting for the role but he's also exhibiting a little Vince Chase-like hesitation. IESB asked if there were any comic characters on his…
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Prior rumors that the next and 22nd installment in the James Bond franchise would be entitled 007 were way off, as today it's been announced by the film's producers that the official title is Quantum of Solace. The title is taken from a short story of the same name by Bond creator Ian Fleming. Said…
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Titan Books has released Sweeney Todd: The Official Movie Companion, a must have for fans of the new Tim Burton film. Written by Mark Salisbury, the only journalist on the movie's set, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has been compiled in close collaboration with Tim Burton and his production team, promising a…
Read More I'm running way behind of Sundance reviews, so I'm going to a quick rapid-fire run down to get a couple films out of the way. The plot synopsis for Adventures of Power is as interesting as you'll find. The film follows a former mine-worker named Power, who is ridiculed in his small town for his…
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Worst trailer, ever. Get smart, trailer. What has happened to us as a people? Steve Carell is a genuinely funny dude. Anne Hathaway is such a babe she can make guys who chop down trees for a living enjoy a movie about the dying publishing industry, and almost cry. How do you eff this up?…
Read More Jessica Alba is the Britney Spears of actresses. As Dennis Hopper says as he ashes, "It's a fact." Rumor is, Alba was invented a la Vanessa Angel on Weird Science for us movie blogs on slow days. Want to make a good and original Internet buck? Make a 2008 calendar with Jessica Alba fully clothed…
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At last year's Cannes My Blueberry Nights, the first English film from 2046's Kar Wai Wong, drew a memorably tepid critical response, with songstress Norah Jones's performance taking lots of the heat and sleet. Based on what I've heard from friends who have seen it, it has the potential to become the new Across the…
Read More Twenty-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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The production notes for the big screen adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's Choke includes an extensive interview with director/screenwriter/co-star Clark Gregg. Read the interview below. Check back tomorrow for my exclusive interview with Chuck. Adapting Choke What exactly drew you to the book? When I was given the book I was aware of Chuck. I had…
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People complain that Sundance has sold out. That every film in the festival features a big name movie star or a returning filmmaker. And for the most part, that might be true. But I don't think Sundance has sold out, at least not in the film selection. I think Independent cinema has changed into an…
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Funny Games is not a movie I would wish upon anyone I care about. People complain about movies like Hostel and SAW, referring to them as Torture Porn, well then Funny Games is Psychological Torture Porn. And by that I mean boring, and stupid. Why anyone would remake this film I will never know. Director…
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A new photo of Iron Man has appeared online and while it's similar to the many others belonging to Jon Favreau's Marvel champ, this is not unlike the thousands of photos of Kate Moss you've viewed over the years. Plus, Tony Stark's suit looks a little angrier than normal and he's flexing it like he's…
Read More Diablo Cody appeared on David Letterman to promote Juno. Watch her 8-minute segment thanks to the wonders of YouTube after the jump. Why? Maybe we're posting this because we love the movie and Diablo, or maybe it's just that I love the idea of a superstar screenwriter. I mean, really, how many screenwriters appear on…
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"Add Two and a Half Men to my chart." I'm not sure Rambo knows basic math, but from the looks of this spiffy new Rambo Death Chart (!!!) attached below, he's too busy chain-gunning evildoers and furry critter bystanders, anyhow. Wow. I'm talking "three kills a minute for the entire film" wow. For the sake…
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Earlier in the week when I ran into Jason Reitman, I asked him what he had seen. He stopped, looked me in the face, and slowly but demandingly said "American Teen", his favorite film of the festival. I tried to attend a press screening of the film earlier in the week, but with the buzz…
Read More If anyone remains unsure, Heath Ledger's filming and voice work on The Dark Knight were completed before his unfortunate death yesterday (click here for latest updates). However, it would seem that the status of his last film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which marked his second collaboration with director Terry Gilliam following 2005's The Brothers…
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Crabfu Steamworks has created this very cool Steampunk version of R2D2 named R2-S2. What is Steampunk you say? According to wikipedia, Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used-usually the 19th century. The stories are often set in…
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I am waiting for the moment when someone in "the city" says something with complete seriousness like, "Yeah, we were going to go to the Yeasayer show, but we ended up seeing the new Tyler Perry." You know Tyler Perry's movies are cultural Ebola when white early adopters can't find a way to post-ironically early…
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Numerous sites are reporting that the following poster is A.) new; B.) significant proof that Robert Rodriguez's straight-to-DVD Machete movie is moving forward or completed; C.) proof that, in hindsight, Grindhouse was the scuzzy masterpiece promised to us; D.) wall-worthy. Unlike the SAT, all of these bubble answers are wrong, even D.), which is wrong…
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Onto Bad Robot's viral marketing treadmill step millions of Star Trek fans today, as a site called NCC-1701.com can be discovered by clicking a red dot that appears near the "Under Construction" label on the December revamp's official site. The screen-shot below is what you can expect to find after noodling with the reception bars…
Read More Note: This story will remain on the top of /Film for the next day. Actor Heath Ledger, who plays the Joker in this summer's The Dark Knight, died today at around 3:30 p.m. EST. Ledger was reportedly found naked in bed in a state of cardiac arrest by a housekeeper who promptly called 911. He…
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Unless July's X Files sequel (still untitled) ends up being the franchise's equivalent to Waxwork, I'd say the following photo contains a detrimental spoiler. If /Film was the government or Matt Drudge, we might unleash the sirens and Code Red alerts right now. Am I glad I saw them? Not really. Actually, no way! Are…
Read More Recently while on Google Chat with Peter, I predicted that Paul Thomas Anderson would follow-up There Will Be Blood with an intensely signature sci-fi undertaking. You can look at the guy in interviews and gleam all of the sick projects dancing in his eyes and hiding in the best smirk in the business; he looks…
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I caught the press screening of Incendiary yesterday, but I'm now reassessing the film through a whole new depressing angle. The film stars Michelle Williams as a mother who loses her husband and 4-year-old son in a suicide bombing at a North London Soccer game. Williams' was not at the game because she was off…
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Morgan Spurlock explains that if there is anything he has learned in over 30 years watching movies, it is that if the world needs saving, it's best done by one man, and one man alone (usually Bruce or Arnold). You see, Spurlock wants to make the world safer for his soon to be born baby…
Read More Before we dive into today's non-Oscar-related news, this is a forum to express your thoughts on the nominations for the 80th Academy Awards. I'm not sure why I expected to grimace when the bigger categories were announced. Good choices, all. It's hard to say, for me at least, that any notable pictures were snubbed, except…
Read More Here are the nominations for the 80th Academy Awards: Best Picture Atonement Juno Michael Clayton No Country For Old Men There Will Be Blood Best Director Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell And The Butterfly Jason Reitman - Juno Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton Joel & Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men…
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The Academy announced the nominations, and BoDog has now announced the first day odds for the 80th Annual Academy Awards: Best Picture: No Country For Old Men 10/11 Atonement 3/1 Michael Clayton 3/1 Juno 7/2 There Will Be Blood 4/1 Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood 3/1 Ethan Coen & Joel…
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In my review of Clark Gregg's adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel Choke (which was posted just minutes ago), I nervously wrote a plea to distributors, hoping that this film would get the big screen release that it deserves. Choke is not an easy film to market. It contains a lot of nudity and sex,…
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I liked the last two Harry Potter films more than people who hadn't read the books. I've also noticed that the only people that seemed to like The Da Vinci Code were those who had read the Dan Brown books. Is it because they were hardcore fans with too much time invested, or is it…
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"Damn." Let's hope this isn't a sign of things to come in regards to the Academy Awards for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood: Jonny Greenwood's feted instrumental soundtrack for the film, seen as a shoe-in for Best Original Score, has been officially disqualified. The reason? The score contains preexisting music. Red Carpet District…
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If you find yourself in Paris between now and January 26th, the prescient boutique Colette is hosting an exhibition entitled "Planet of the Apes" showcasing the photography by Dennis Stock. In 1967, Stock was on location for the filming of the classic sci-fi flick starring Charlton Heston; his resulting photos cheekily contrast cast members in…
Read More Ready for some Dunst? Rocker-doting actress Kirsten Dunst is in serious talks to star alongside Ryan Gosling in All Good Things, the feature film debut from Capturing the Friedmans director Andrew Jarecki. Variety reports that Dunst would play a waif from the fable-staple "wrong side of the tracks," with Gosling as a "scion of a…
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Found: Rob from Cloverfield, walking down Main Street in Park City Utah. Turns out that actor Michael Stahl David has a film at Slamdance called The Project. Glad to see that Rob made it out alive. Disclaimer: I apologize in advance for anyone who might think of this as a spoiler. Those who have seen…
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MTV's Movie Blog has posted the official one sheet for their satellite film branch's Iraq War drama Stop-Loss. Starring Ryan Phillipe, Timothy Olyphant and Abbie Cornish, the film is also notable for lead roles played by Brick's Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum. One wonders if the movie will end up being remembered more for starring…
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"Joleen is a woman stuck in yesterday." The trailer for Sleepwalking, the new film starring Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Hopper and Woody Harrelson, exemplifies a terrible grasp on the power of italics. As for the rest, it's sad to say as the cast is eclectic and has stories for days, but I'm…
Read More What Just Happened? begins in a test screening for Fiercely, a new movie starring Sean Penn. The film concludes with the graphic gun-shot death of the hero and his dog, definitely not a crowd pleaser. Poor test scores prompt the studio to request a new cut of the film, but the director doesn't want to…
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My editor, Peter, has the Chuck Palahniuk adaptation Choke stashed in a lil' box inside the fridge that is /Film, but he's givin' 'er at Sundance (yep, it's premiering there), so I'm raiding it. A "Meet the Filmmakers" Sundance Channel video with Choke's first-time director, Clark Gregg, can now be seen after the jump. We're…
Read More Hasbro has opened up pre-sale orders online for a 14" Cloverfield monster figure that includes two interchangeable heads (calm and agitated), 10 parasites, one Statue of Liberty head and hours upon hours of fighting off dust-mites. Obviously, an extremely jelz Godzilla is subbing in above because no images have been released by the company, but…
Read More In a film that already has one of the classiest casts for a horror flick in sometime, Emily Blunt has confirmed to Cinema Blend that she's starring in The Wolf Man for director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo). Set for release in February 2009, Blunt will presumably play the love interest to a lupine-trait-stricken Benicio…
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"Please, Oscar! Don't!" The Academy's famously snide sib, The Razzies, announced its nominations for the worst movies, performances and direction of 2007 today. Leading the lepers is the already cultish Lindsay Lohan stripper-twin-Blue Velvet-for-Proactiv-set thriller I Know Who Killed Me with nine noms, including Worst Picture. And that seals it: I'm finally going to consider…
Read More Is CIA agent and future President Jack Ryan up for competing with the likes of cooler action heroes like Jason Bourne? Moviehole says that Philip Noyce, the director of '90s Jack Ryan vehicles Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, has personally confirmed that he is not attached to a fifth film in the series…
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I just scored a video clip from Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me follow-up, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden. The video clip features Spurlock visiting a reality based personal protection training center where they teach him how to survive everything from hand grenade attacks to sniper attacks in preparation of his journey to…
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Tired of viewing that crappy YouTube handicam version? The teaser trailer for JJ Abrams' Star Trek is now online in high definition. I know a lot of trek fans are not to happy with this first look. I love the idea of trying to ground Trek in U.S. space travel history. I really think that…
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While on Holiday vacation back home in Boston I discovered this cool new line of Star Wars Urban vinyl collectible figures called Mighty Muggs. Usually the word vinyl means a toy is no longer a toy, and instead functions as art. This somehow raises the price value of a figure from the expect $10 or…
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When Sundance lead programer Geoffrey Gilmore introduced Sleep Dealer, he claimed that it would be hard to describe the film without saying that "it's unlike anything you've seen before." And while his claim is very true, Sleep Dealer very much reminds me of George Lucus' THX 1138. I am convinced that if Alex Rivera can…
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Dennis Quaid plays Lawrence Wetherhold, a miserable and pompous college professor who suffers a head trauma while trying to jump the fence at a car impound lot. Unable to drive himself around, his screw-up adopted-brother Chuck (played by the incomparable Thomas Haden Church) moves in and becomes his personal chauffeur (if he can ever remember…
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This is a forum for all of you piling out of Cloverfield this morning, afternoon, evening and throughout the weekend/month. Did you think J.J. Abrams's and Matt Reeves's film was a modern day classic? Did the monster meet your expectations? Did you expect [that] to happen? I'll be chiming in with my review shortly. This…
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Warner Bros. is re-releasing the well reviewed George Clooney legal thriller Michael Clayton on January 25th, one month before the Academy Awards. What's somewhat surprising about the announcement is that the film will return to 1,000 theaters around North America rather than a limited run in the usual cities. Is there really such demand? When…
Read More "You mean, that boy from The Goonies? Yippie-ki-yay!" Wowzers. Oliver Stone had hinted at making a feature on the life of the current American president when he did press for the Alexander Director's Cut, but who knew it'd come together this quick? Filming could begin as soon as April for the George W. Bush biopic,…
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The offical poster from landmark horror director George Romero's latest contribution to undead cinema, Diary of the Dead, has stumbled onto the Web. Diary is set for a theatrical release on February 15th, which makes me curious to see how it will perform in light of the similarly themed and wildly successful Cloverfield. Romero's fifth…
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"Make yourselves at home." It's Sunday afternoon, the news is slower than Nicole Kidman's mug and my photo captions are more tired than Neil Hamburger on his best night. But there is no stoppin'. The official website for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (typing that is like playing the bones, btw)…
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"If I give this to William, will he pipe down or turn into the ape from Altered States?" When is the last time you used "funky" in a sentence? Never, right? Supercharged actor William Hurt paid homage to James Brown when he spoke to MTV , nearly spoiling the unprecedented Hulk and Iron Man crossover…
Read More The Great Buck Howard should probably be called The Pretty Good Buck Howard, The Okay Colin Hanks or The Brilliant John Malkovich. Hanks stars as a young man who quits law school, moves to Los Angeles, and gets a job as the travel manager for the Great Buck Howard, a down-and-out mentalist (read: not magician)…
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So sometimes you owe your girl one. Sometimes she puts up with an absurd slam-bang, balls out guy flick and grins the whole time without saying a word. So for you guys who this weekend got so see 27 Dresses and not Cloverfield, feel my pain. But what an aesthetic anesthetic hour and a half…
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We've written about the Back to the Future minimates in the past. Minimates are little LEGO like figures produced by Diamond Select Toys. BTTF.com, the website for all things Back to the Future, has an exclusive "Enchantment Under the Sea Dance" two-pack featuring a rocking Marty McFly and Lorraine, both in prom attire. Available now…
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Look closely. Is it me or did Sarah Jessica Parker just finish stepping in a huge puddle of what Fletch would refer to as "gook"? How New York of you, poster. If you like to be amazed by things that are exponentially more gaudy and obnoxious than your friend's (okay, your) Lisa Frank notebooks from…
Read More From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine comes a dark dramedy starring Amy Adams (Enchanted, Junebug), Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada), and Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine). Rose's son is expelled from school after licking his teacher's leg, and in order to raise the tuition for private school, the high school cheerleader turned 30-something-year-old…
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There have been reports that audiences seeing Cloverfield this weekend are going wild for the attached Star Trek teaser trailer, but my screening was dead quiet. And I can't tell whether the mere four comments /Film received on our post about the bootleg version being on YouTube (still there) are a sign of disinterest, mild…
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The Yellow Handkerchief follows a 15-year-old Louisiana girl, a ex-con, and an awkward annoying young eccentric kid with a blue convertible go on a road trip to, well, nowhere. Just like the film. The whole story is pointless and contrived. How three perfect strangers ended up in a car together is fully explained but not…
Read More Director Zack Snyder has posted the two storyboards viewed below for his 2009 tent pole, Watchmen, on the film's official website. The storyboards, which map out scenes with Rorschach, can be seen as yet another gage of how faithful Snyder is staying to Alan Moore's championed graphic novel. Snyder goes into considerable detail about this…
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"...and it's really that easy." Chances are you haven't yet seen the Spanish science-fiction film, Time Crimes (aka Timecrimes; Los Cronocrimenes), but if you check out the early reviews, prepare to flip on your monitor's praise-wipers. Tom Cruise's United Artists just purchased the remake rights, marking the studio's first deal since cutting a deal with…
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Darren Lynn Bousman just finished editing REPO! The Genetic Opera!, but the SAW series director is already talking about sequel possibilities. In his latest blog entry, Darren writes: "If I have my way - I am only leaving one franchise to start another! Maybe this time next year as SAW VI is gearing up -…
Read More Note: I'm not calling this a review, because truth is, I only saw the first 33 minutes of this movie. Last year at Sundance I was kinda taken by Steve Buscemi's Interview, the first of a series of American remakes of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh's work. Theo, the great-great-grandson of Theo van Gogh, brother…
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It's hard to measure the gnarlitude I'm feeling this Saturday after Cloverfield, but every forthcoming movie I was looking forward to just got that much brighter. They've got the Tina Fey glow. Puked yet? Okay enough, Chud brings word that the first trailer for this May's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull…
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The buzz for Morgan Spurlock's Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? has hit an all time high, as Sundance enters into it's first weekend. The viral marketing in Park City has people talking. The Weinstein Co has hired a team to hand out faux milk cartons featuring a Osama MISSING advertisement at venues…
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Every year at Sundance I see a film during the first weekend that I absolutely fall in love with. Because it's only the opening weekend, I try not to claim that a film is the best of this year's festival. But usually my emotions win out and I make such a claim in a non-direct…
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"Look! What is that?!....Why, it's the Hollywood System!" Haven't seen the first Cloverfield yet? Well, get to it kiddo, because Cloverfield 2 has already been discussed, according to the probable smash hit's director Matt Reeves. "Only time will tell. While we were on set making the film we talked about the possibilities and directions of…
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Before I begin, let me say that I am not one who hyperbolizes my thoughts on movies that I like and dislike. I prefer to lurk and watch other people do that. For months, I have purposely avoided the viral marketing for Cloverfield because I didn't want the campaign to interfere with the actual movie…
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If you haven't seen Cloverfield, than read no further as we're about to enter spoiler territory. Where did the Cloverfield Monster come from? Japan? The ocean near an offshore drilling site (as hinted by the viral)? Not so according to director Matt Reeves, who supposedly told Film School Rejects that an easter egg within the…
Read More I received an email from long time /Film reader Glenn D, who was lucky enough to attend "Rob's Party" last night in New York City. Here is his report: First off, the setup and execution of the party was a pretty poorly crafted event. I understand the premise and it was great to see the…
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 The teaser trailer for JJ Abrams's Star Trek has hit the web in bootleg form. The trailer is exactly like the spy reported last week. Currently attached to Cloverfield, the trailer is likely to hit the interwebs on Monday or Tuesday, so just might want to wait for a high definition non-handicam version. But until…
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The glorious illustrated poster for Larry Bishop's Hell Ride has surfaced at STYD. Hopefully, we'll have a review of the Quentin Tarantino-vouched antithesis of Wild Hogs from its premiere at Sundance shortly. Until then, fly off a cliff and see it in its entirety after the jump! This one's definitely going to go up on…
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Colin Farrell plays Ray, a guilt-ridden hitman who is sent by his boss to Bruges, a little "fairy tale-like village". Ray's partner Ken, played by Brendan Gleeson, is more interested in sightseeing, touring churches and canals, while Ray is left contemplating the fatale mistake in their last job. While in Belgium, they have encounters with…
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Young@Heart is a documentary about a Massachusetts Senior Citizen's chorus that rocks out to everything from the Clash, Ramones and Sonic Youth, to Coldplay and James Brown. The film follows the chorus members and their director, Bob Cilman as they learn new songs, cope with illnesses and deaths of their close friends, and prepare for…
Read More Kindred offers a nice line of Movie Parody Tees, which includes takes aim at everything from Hitchcock's The Birds to The Big Lebowski, A Clockwork Orange to the Evil Dead. T-shirts are printed on 100% cotton, and are available for $24.99. Check out some of the more interesting designs after the jump. Cornelius Said…
Read More Compare the trailer to this December's Defiance to the trailer for October's Valkyrie. Both begin with solemn white words on black referencing the evils of Adolf Hitler, but only the former manages to build up the palpable suspense and the grave importance of its character(s)'s mission. That is until a jarring tonal shift occurs…
Read More Continuing his ascent as one of Hollywood's go-to lead actors, Mark Wahlberg is set to star as an international drug dealer in a still untitled film based on real events for Hancock's Peter Berg. The drug dealer in question is Jon Roberts, who a few of you may have seen in the shockingly good '06…
Read More Whenever I meet someone who will go to the mat for John Carpenter, that to me is a qualifier for friendship. In my mind, Carpenter is like Stanley Kubrick with holes in his jeans, or a joint to a $15 cigar, or Pabst Blue Ribbon to Heineken if I can be Frank. From 1976's Assault…
Read More A couple of promising steps were taken this evening in regards to a possible end for the Writers' Strike that began last November. The first is a tentative three year deal pertaining to new-media made between the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that includes... Establishing DGA jurisdiction…
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The role of Duke in Stephen Sommers's G.I. Joe has been nailed down to three actors, according to a super confident Latino Review. The trio includes Lost's Matthew Fox, Fantastic Four's Chris Evans, and Channing Tatum from the upcoming Stop Loss. The previously rumored Sam Worthington is said to be out of the running due…
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Expectations for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are have cooled off a bit ever since the film was pushed back to 2009 due to purported issues with the titular creatures' elaborate special effects. Audience reviews from surprisingly early test screenings described the $80 million film as unapologetically melancholic, beautifully strange, and very "adult." But…
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The first photo of the U.S.S. Enterprise from J.J. Abrams's Star Trek has popped up over at Moviefone. It's both ominous and expectedly epic in feel, which is promising, and obviously there will be more of this in the teaser attached to tomorrow's Cloverfield. If you didn't catch it, we recently posted a description of…
Read More For kicks, we decided to remove the ghoulies, critters and Sloth Fratellis from this new still for July's sequel to The X Files. Mundane offices are scary enough (we took out the ancient, macabre fax machine, too). You can question the ethics behind this censorship, but we promise that we did not touch up Moulder…
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Downloading Nancy will premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The feature film debut of visionary music video and commercial director Johan Renck looks intense. Dubbed by some to be the best music video director in the world, Renck was just named one of Variety's 10 Directors to Watch. I've even heard some people refer…
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Here is the first batch of movie posters for films premiering at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Check them out after the jump. Enjoy. American Teen Starring: Â Â Â Hannah Bailey, Colin Clemens, Megan Krizmanich, Mitch Reinholt and Jake Tusing Screenplay By: Nanette Burstein Directed By: Nanette Burstein Plot Outline: American Teen intimately captures the lives…
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Something tells me we'll see Rambo lift up the head of a vanquished Predator before we see the following. Still, it's perfect midnight fodder. Variety is reporting via legendary gossip columnist Liz Smith that Quentin Tarantino wants to remake Russ Meyers' 1965 exploitation flick Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! with Britney Spears, Eva Mendes and Kim…
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I've written about some of the cool Juno t-shirt promos that Fox Searchlight passed out at the advanced screenings. But check out this killer Hamburger phone that was sent out to select critics. The box art features the quote from the movie: "Can you hold on for a second? I'm on my hamburger phone. It's…
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Goliath will premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Shot in Austin, Texas, Goliath is a film, a comedy at that, about a cat and one man's search for said cat. When the man got divorced, he got the cat, so he wants to find the cat. Did I mention that the man's life is…
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Paramount has launched the official teaser site for JJ Abrams' Star Trek. Right now the site doesn't have much more than a cool silver Trek badge logo, and the ability to register for updates. There is also an option which is "coming soon" called join the webmaster program. I assume that Cloverfield has convinced Abrams…
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So everyone, as of today, George Miller's Justice League film is officially off. Warner Bros. has cited a few reasons for its decision, chief among them being the studio's inability to procure expected tax breaks for filming in Australia and a desired script polish made impossible by the ongoing writers' strike. To which many will…
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Okay, on three, now push it, push it real good. Last year's trend of "I'm pregnant!" laffs continues into 2008 with a twist called Baby Mama. See, Tina Fey's character can't get pregnant, so she hires an uneducated chick from South Philly to be her surrogate, or as some might loosely refer to on "the…
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Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. It's a Hitchcockish film set during the early 20th century about Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), a silver miner turned oil tycoon that uproots his son H.W (Dillon Freasier), and sets off for Little Boston, where he…
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The following bit of info may not fill you up, but like the last piece of octopus on a platter of boring California rolls, I can't ignore it. I'm a glutton for cool "what if..." scenarios, especially when it comes to Rambo or Rocky, as those are all too rare. And hearing a real one…
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Earlier this week, Jeff Daniels and Colin Hanks were pegged for roles in Steven Spielberg's Chicago 7, which seems to have bypassed both Lincoln and Interstellar as the director's next project. There are also reports that Sacha Baron Cohen is not a lock for 7's lead role, that of '60s rabble rouser Abbie Hoffman. One…
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/Film Readers Red and Johnny are considered internet celebrities of the geek world. Famous for taking photos while wearing Stormtrooper helmets, in all sorts of poses and all sorts of locations: Doctor Offices, Farms, Convenience Stores, IKEA and even Niagara Falls. Red and Johnny got married in September 2006, and that's where this idea was…
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I saw it! It's alive! It's Huge! I just got home from a screening of Cloverfield, the JJ Produced monster film which has hogged the online hype since July. I don't have the time to do an extensive review of this movie, as I need to catch a plane to Park City for the Sundance…
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Tonight, the rabbit hole that is Cloverfield's viral marketing just got exponentially deeper and more bizarre. A digital manga comic book has turned up online, and while the Japanese panels have yet to be fully translated, the Bad Robot logo (J.J. Abrams production company) and a 2008 copyright for Paramount Pictures appear on the last…
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Last November's trailer for director Stephen Chow's $20 million extraterrestrial critter film CJ7 succeeded in drawing comparisons to E.T., and smartly kept its titularcritter tucked inside a UFO while a hyperactive kid acted a fool. Today, JoBlo got a hold of the first alien "pet" pics from the subtitled kids' film set for release on…
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Someone has posted the description of the JJ Abrams Star Trek teaser trailer over on the HollywoodChicago message boards, and I have confirmed through multiple sources that this is legit. If you don't want to know, don't read any further: Paramount logo. Bad Robot logo. Black, suddenly some sparks (very saturated, Michael Bay looking cinematography)…
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You know how Juno starts off like a brat smacking gum right in your damn ear canal and an hour later you're fiddling with the Raisinets trying not to cry in front of your girlfriend or boyfriend's impressionable lil' sibling? Well, the first trailer to Neil Marshall's Doomsday had a similar, sudden change in trajectory,…
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The Nines was one of the best films of last year, although, chances are you never saw it. I think John August's directorial debut didn't get much further than a couple screens, which is a crying shame if you ask me. Thankfully the film is hitting DVD store shelves later this month. I highly recommend…
Read More In what is shaping up to be one divine sledgehammer of a cannibal flick, Charlize Theron has signed up to star in The Road, based on the Pulitzer-winning apocalyptic novel by No Country For Old Men's Cormac McCarthy. Theron will star as the wife of lead actor Viggo Mortensen, a smallish yet vital role that…
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Paramount/LucasFilm has released a new photo from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, featuring Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf and Ray Winstone. Click on the photo above to enlarge. Indy 4 hits theaters on May 22nd.
Read More Kevin Smith has announced the supporting cast for Zack and Miri Make a Porno, kinda. Actually, he's uploaded a bunch of photos of eye close-ups as a tease. The View Askew fans are on the case, trying to match up headshots to the teaser photos. Who are these six actors/actresses? Find out at least four…
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Spotted last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is this table-top Star Wars Millennium Falcon Remote Control from Nikko (photo: GeekSugar). The remote slides out from the Falcon's backside, and allows you to control a DVD/CD Player inside of an R2-D2 Projector (pictured below thanks to WiReD). Crave has a photo (below)…
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/Film Reader Flax points out that a new photo has been uploaded to the Cloverfield viral website 1-18-08.com. The new photo features what appears to be a destroyed oil tanker, possibly off the coast of New York City (just a guess). Something is blurred out in the photo, I wonder what it could be. Cloverfield…
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Our friends at BoxOfficePsychics have pointed us to a listing of the films with the most instances of the F-word. Check out the f'n list below. F**k (2005) - 824 Nil by Mouth (1997) - 428 Casino (1995) - 398 Alpha Dog (2007) - 367 Twin Town (1997) - 318 Summer of Sam (1999) -…
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Daniel Plainview's "I drink your milkshake...I drink it up! [slurp]" is chugging along to become pop culture's new "...with fava beans and a nice chianti [slurp]," and nothing says "crossover art house hit" like a precocious YouTube mash-up. Kevin Kunze, presumably of the University of San Francisco, has set up DDL on a blind date…
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Marvel has released two new photos from the upcoming film adaptation of Iron Man. The first photo, seen above, shows Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) testing a gauntlet from the armor. Yes, this photo looks very similar to the photo that was released last week. The next photo, seen below, shows director Jon Favreau discussing…
Read More Fanboys' favorite ubermensch of suckage, Uwe Boll, may have directed his l-a-s-t big budget theatrical travesty with this past weekend's $70 million In the Name of the King: Dungeon Siege Tale. The Jason Statham and Burt Reynolds (!) vehicle grossed a mouthwatering $3 million over the weekend, but apparently did "okay" in, drumroll, Boll's home…
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So many years have passed without a release for the Weinstein Company's Fanboys we're surprised some kook hasn't retitled it Cannedboys for his own sad amusement. Today word arrived via AICN that Judd Apatow's producing partner Shauna Robertson is overseeing the film with possible reshoots and a major edit to the film's plotline involving a…
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The ten commandments spoof, The Ten, has already blown in and out of theaters and received a scathing gchat non-endorsement just seconds ago from Peter, but it's not everyday we get to see Winona Ryder perform numerous positions and techniques on a raunchy puppet. Unless you're a blogger or a night watchman, you're probably off…
Read More The severe void of female directors in Hollywood needs to cease, so maybe actresses with the urge like Drew Barrymore and now Scarlett Johansson can be a catalyst. Johansson, a New Yorker, is attached to direct one of the twelve short films that will make up New York, I Love You, a bookend to the…
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Walt Disney Pictures has revealed the first official image from The Princess and the Frog. Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls) stars as Maddy, Disney's first black princess. The Princess and the Frog is the first hand-drawn film Disney has committed to since the Pixar purchase. Watching the opening to Enchanted got me excited for a return…
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Most of us are aware of the viral baked cakes sent to the media to promote The Dark Knight, but back in December soft rocker John Mayer received something arguably cooler. Inside a package from a fictional company called Gotham Novelties, Inc., he discovered a limited edition Joker t-shirt and a worn playing card; its…
Read More Note: You are not having a deja vu, I've republished this post on Monday morning so that our weekday readers could hear the good news... /Film has been voted the Best Entertainment Blog in the 2007 Performancing Blog Awards. Because of you guys, we won the "Readers' Choice Award", after taking in 54% of the…
Read More Normally we try not to delve into the world of Hollywood Gossip, but this new bit is sad and likely of geek interest. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Roger Avary has been arrested today for suspicion of manslaughter and felony driving under the influence, after a passenger, 34-year-old Italian Andreas Zini, was killed in Avary's single-car automobile…
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Producer Tom Rosenberg has announced that Crank II will start shooting in April. "I think it's going to be bigger than the first one," Rosenberg told Collider, later adding " It's actually similar and more extreme, so what propels Jason is even more extreme than the drug that he took." Rosenberg confirms that the script…
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The UK's Mail on Sunday is reporting that the big screen adaptation of the seventh and final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, may be split into two separate films. This decision is an artistic one, rather than financial. Deathly Hallows is 784 pages in length, compared to the first few books…
Read More After she's done filming the lesbian werewolf movie Jack and Diane, might Juno starlet Ellen Page slip into a pair of roller skates for Drew Barrymore's directorial debut? Unless another famous gal's name rhymes with "Shmellen Shmage," that's what Shauna Cross, author of the novel Derby Girl and its adapted screenplay Whip It, tells Film…
Read More Last year Michel Gondry let word leak that he and his 16-year-old son Paul are working on an animated film. Last week /Film got the chance to speak to Gondry in San Francisco, and learned that Dan Clowes, the comic book artist, best known for the film adaptation of Ghost World, is writing the film's screenplay.…
Read More I have decided to republish an updated version of this popular blog post from last year, because it has again proved relevant. Okay, first off: Wrong might be a harsh word. It was used to get your attention. And got your attention it did. Extremely flawed doesn't make an interesting headline. This year's award winners…
Read More The Golden Globes totally sucked. A few notes: Someone needs to tell the Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight ladies that we don't care about them, their lame self-absorbed jokes. Most of the films and actors/actresses with foreign film backgrounds took home the gold, most times at the expense of better movies. Aside from nods to…
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/Film Reader Gianni V spotted this new Dark Knight advertisement at the Edwards Ontario Palace in Ontario California. A bunch of the Gotham Times newspapers were plastered over a large board. Click on the photo above to enlarge. Excuse the quality, it came from a camera phone.
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The guys at Nerdcore sent me the 2008 Nerdcore calendar, which is a 12-month topless and fully-nude Not Safe For Work pin-up girl calendar featuring woman dressed as superheroes and villains. What makes this calendar cool is that it includes a little area at the bottom of each month showing you "Nerd Dates". Nerd Dates…
Read More While waiting online for the valet, Collider bumped into director John Singleton and ended up with some nice scoops regarding his upcoming take on The A-Team. Before we go any farther, I just want to say that Singleton is one of the most personable and persuasive directors I've ever interviewed. During production for 2 Fast…
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Matt Shapiro put together this incredible montage of clips in this short film entitled ""2007: A Year For Drama". Set to the song "Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova as featured in the movie Once, Shapiro reminds us of all the great films of this past year. Writing for a movie blog usually…
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Last month we spotlighted a few of the cool movie related t-shirts at SplitReason in Cool Stuff. The site offers a cool feature where upcoming designers can upload their designs, and readers can vote on what designs the t-shirt company should make next. One of the cool designs I voted for was this Matrix-inspired t-shirt…
Read More One of the main problems with the concept of 3D is people don't like wearing those annoying glasses. Sure, they have improved over the years. I remember seeing one of the early MAX 3D films with this big hunking plastic helmet (something larger than Darth Vader would ever wear) which cramped my neck. Real D…
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Since the first Cloverfield reviews have hit the web, fans have started creating art (some of it, pretty incredible looking) based on the descriptions of the Cloverfield Monster. Because this is potential spoilage, I have posted the photos after the jump. This is said to be the one that looks most like the real monster:…
Read More Here is another Writer's Strike Update from our undercover Hollywood correspondent Hooper X. Side Deals As was reported last week, United Artists formally completed their interim agreement with the WGA. The framework for the deal was the same as Letterman's World Wide Pants deal. But the week's much larger side deal came from an unlikely…
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You know Paramount is starting to reach the bottom of their pre-release cookie jar when they send out an email with a photo deemed "The Sexier Side of Cloverfied". And you know it's a slow news weekend when we actually post it. The production photo above shows Beth, played in the film by Odette Yustman,…
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 It was bound to happen sooner or later... IDrinkYourMilkshake.com
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The negative side of the cool viral marketing that the studios is doing is what people the Alternate Reality Gaming world call Gamejacks. The Cloverfield craze saw the emergence of Evan Haas and a few other sites which attempted to capitalize on the hype behind JJ Abrams' mysterious monster flick. I'm usually hesitant to report…
Read More In the upcoming Wachowski brothers big screen live-action adaptation of Speed Racer, Speed (Emile Hirsch) will be racing an actual racing team from Japan called "Autobacs Racing Team Aguri" (ARTA). In the movie, they'll be driving this futuristic car which was unveiled at the Tokyo Auto Salon this week. A life size replica car of…
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While on a trip in New Orleans, a scraggly psychic informed me that my moderately large eyes leave me perceptible to pranks and evils. If they were a little larger, I wonder, might I have been cast in The Lord of the Rings and now basking in millions? Elijah Wood, taking a break from his…
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Over at U.S. News & World Report, assistant managing editor James Pethokoukis has transformed into a sort of hedge fund swami, predicting that next week's Cloverfield will be the most profitable film of 2008. The key word here is "profitable." With a reported $30 million budget, average marketing costs and countless months of rabid Internet…
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One summer movie that we have not seen much presence on the Net for is Religulous, June's pro-agnostic documentary from Borat director Larry Charles and media personality Bill Maher. I think there is a huge market for this film in America, comparable to 2004's Fahrenheit 9/11 and its wide and diverse theatrical audience (remember all…
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I once lived in a party house with a huge pastel painting on the wall featuring famous men with famous mustaches. For some reason, Charles Bronson and Salvador Dali were the most prominent. Over cereal and beer each morning, I came to hold the former mustachioed legend in the highest regard and thus began to…
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Crawling out of the sewers over at Chud is the news that Liev Schreiber will grow a mane and fangs to play the villain Sabertooth in the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The intense Scream 3 actor had been pegged earlier for the role of William Stryker, a minor character in the canon and previously depicted…
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Bad news Rambo fans. Lionsgate has decided not to screen Rambo for press, aside from the few who attended the press junket in Los Angeles earlier this week. And even those journalists were subject to extensive Non Disclosure agreements which won't allow them to say a word. National press not doing interviews in Hollywoodland won't…
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/Film reader Ryan S sent in this photo of the beheaded Statue of Liberty from the Paramount lot. I'm being told that the statue is part of the promotion for the Cloverfield premiere, which will be held on the lot next week. Very cool. Check out the photos after the jump. Update: A few people…
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The big screen adaptation of Chuck Palahnuik's Choke is my second most anticipated movie of this year's Sundance Film Festival. The first Palahnuik film adaptation, Fight Club, had a great electronic score by The Dust Brothers, backed up by the powerful Pixies climax of "Where is My Mind". So what will Clark Gregg's film bring…
Read More When Hollywood needs a bankable actor to snag a Wild West outlaw, Pablo Escobar or a few thousand Terminators, they send for Christian Bale, so why not send him after John Dillinger? This summer's Dark Knight is in talks to star in the 2009 mobster drama Public Enemies for director Michael Mann. Bale's rumored for…
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Nu Image/Millennium Films has inked a deal with Lionsgate for the North American distribution rights for a new film series based on the Robert E. Howard-created character Conan the Barbarian. The new film will be written by Sahara scribes Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer. So if you had any hope for this new action…
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Yesterday, we brought you the movie trailer for Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park. Now IFCFilms has released the theatrical one-sheet. Check it out after the jump. Paranoid Park hits theaters on March 7th. source: AICN
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Breaking News: On January 17, 2003 a devastating earthquake hit Japan. This event was caught on tape by two American filmmakers. But it wasn't an earthquake. And it wasn't Cloverfield. It happened five years before. Like, duh. No, it was…MONSTER. And, oh yeah, it hits stores on 01-15-08. The source of everyone's favorite video store…
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Those of you who thought Miramax's movie critic mp3 reeked of high snobiety are going to fill up a paper bag with this one. Vulture, the venerable New York blog, has taken The New Yorker to task for one of the most stomach-churning movie poster blurbs ever. The lucky movie dunked in 10 gallons of…
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Harry Knowles of AICN has seen Cloverfield, and has posted a raving review. Here are a couple snippets: "CLOVERFIELD is a bold genre-reinvention unlike anything we've ever seen before." "The movie is f**king brilliant. It's what we were told it was going to be. An intimate perspective on an impossibly grand scale human disaster beyond…
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"For the last time, I'm not Traci Lords" War films were notorious for not connecting with audiences (and critics) last year, but the studios seem determined in 2008 to push one or two through to leave an indelible mark for generations. For one, I am glad to see such resilience on the part of Hollywood.…
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The teaser trailer for JJ Abrams' Star Trek has been quickly spreading its way across the interwebs. Only problem is, it's a fake. Or more accurately, a fan made creation by aspiring VFX artist Daniel Broadway. Either way, it's a descent effort, and worth a look. Check it out after the jump. Excited for the…
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Kevin Smith has always been a self professed "rehearsal Nazi", insisting on at least three weeks of actor/actress prep before cameras roll. But as Smith explains in his latest Blog entry, that he's learned to "lighten up and do more on-set tweaking than anything else." Smith explains his progress, going step by step through his…
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"Take that you *&%$ DVD!" A week ago, we ripped an official decision by Warner Bros. to release Lost Boys 2: The Tribe straight to DVD, and asked for fans of the seminal '80s horror flick back us up like Nanook. According to Corey Feldman via his ever-relevant blog, the film could still go theatrical…
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I know there has been an over abundance of Cloverfield posts the last couple days. And as the release date nears next week, it doesn't look like it's going to stop. So I apologize in advance for anyone who is sick about hearing this film, but I'm still super hyped. This morning I got an…
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You can now watch JJ Abrams' speech from the TED Conference from last March below. Abrams doesn't talk about any specific movie or television projects (Lost, Cloverfield, Star Trek), but instead gives some insight into the way he thinks and a "Mystery Box" which has has had since he was a kid, but has never…
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Flipping through The Star Wars Vault hardcover book (which I plugged in Cool Stuff a few days back), I came across an interesting bit of Star Wars trivia that I had never known before How Did George Lucas come up with the name for R2-D2? The amazing must-see photo answer after the jump. There must…
Read More Cloverfield news, much like the monster, is on a rampage. Paramount has released 25 production photos from the JJ Abrams-produced monster film. Check them out after the jump. As always, click to enlarge. Â Â Â Â Â On the eve of his departure for Japan, Rob (Michael Stahl-David) sees his going-away party as an opportunity to confess unresolved…
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A moody trailer for Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park is now online. With its overcast display of non-actors, sexualized youth, skateboard imagery, and a voyeuristic tone, it bares a similarity to the territory that director Larry Clark, of Kids and Wassup Rockers fame, has mined for years on the indie circuit. The storyline of a…
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I just got my hands on the production notes for Cloverfield. Below I have pasted an excerpt, where JJ Abrams, director Matt Reeves, and writer Drew Goddard talk about the monster like we've never heard before, in exteme detail. They also talk about the "parasites" and explain the long rumored flashback sequences (the way they…
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Last month I posted an article about the growing buzz behind Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me follow-up Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, where our faithful documentary filmmaker goes in search for the most wanted man in the world. A comment from the film's director of photography, Daniel Marricone added fuel to the…
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Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers is now aged more than a decade, and while it's common for fans to say that the film was ahead of its time, it's better to say that it arrived outside the time-space continuum altogether. In a perfect world, all movies would be $100 million midnight events satirizing various establishments while…
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New Line has released seven new photos from Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D. Yesterday they premiered the theatrical one-sheet, which seems as generic as these new production photos. I'm a sucker for 3D, so I'll be there opening night (or at a press screening, if they decide to have one), and chances…
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Burbanked offers up this mildly amusing one-sheet juxtaposition showing three new movie posters with a similar design schemes.
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From Iron Man to early man, Jon Favreau's next directorial project is a fantastic leap in subject matter comparable to the 2001 bone toss. Fav tells MTV that he's revving up to start on Neanderthals, an ambitious-sounding motion-capture animated film parked at Sony Pictures that will not borrow its visual cues from Robert Zemeckis' lifelike…
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Last week I saw a press screening of One Missed Call. And by press screening, I mean a screening at 10:00pm pt the day before the film was released nationally. I'm not entirely sure why studios offer such last minute screenings, as most publications have a deadline earlier in the week. I think they basically…
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Juno is my favorite movie of 2007. Over the last couple months I've talked to hundreds of people who have seen the movie and have only met a couple people who didn't love it. There are three things that everyone always talks about after seeing this film: The incredible script by Diablo Cody, the amazing…
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Found this photo on Flickr. I wonder how many stupid people rent this direct-to-dvd rip-off thinking it's part of the AVP (Alien vs. Predator) series? The film has an estimated budget of $500,000, and is currently getting a 1.4 out of 10 user rating on the Internet Movie Database. Produced by The Asylum, a company…
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Tim Burton sat down with David Poland for a 40 minute interview to talk about his latest film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I really love long form interviews, and there are few directors in Hollywood that I find more interesting than Tim Burton (at least as a person). The most interesting…
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The first poster for this summer's Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D is now online, and yes, it's a poster for a movie, not some theme park extravaganza. Those stalactites almost look like the teeth of a giant monster. Weird. And is that Nessie in the background playing the old "I'm crushing your…
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Today the Directors Guild of America announced their annual list of nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. If you're leaving Earth before the Academy reveals their noms for Best Picture, it's a safe bet that four of the five films below will make the cut. But really, why not wait it out and enjoy some American…
Read More Gallery 1988 (7020 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038) is running an art show through February 1st which features art inspired by the comic creations of Stan Lee. Check out some of my favorites below. Here are a few photos from Collider.com. And here are a couple more thanks to io9.com:
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Paramount has released a new photo from Jon Favreau's Iron Man, featuring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, testing the armor's gauntlet mechanism (or so we assume). Click on the photo above to enlarge. Our friends at Screenrant have an exclusive look at a Iron Man fan film created by David Guivant. Designed as a…
Read More Exercising his key to the Hollywood kingdom, Guillermo del Toro says the time is right for him to shake a deathstick at the Harry Potter franchise. The mastermind behind Pan's Labyrinth and Hell Boy tells MTV that he's the perfect badass to envision Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and finale (for now)…
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The two movies I'm most excited to see at Sundance this year are Morgan Spurlock's Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden and the big screen adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's (author of Fight Club) novel Choke. Collider has gotten their hands on eight new production photos from the film. Check out the photos after…
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Yesterday i got the chance to sit down with Michel Gondry, and I'll be publishing that interview at a later date. But for now I have something special for you guys. After my interview, the music video turned film director made an appearance at the Apple Store in downtown San Francisco which was moderated by…
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Casting announcements were supposed to be made more than a month ago, is Justice League delayed? Rumor has it that the start date has been pushed back from March to April/May or even possibly as late as July, this according to IESB. The site the studio's concerns with the cast of unknowns as the main…
Read More Another day (or hour even), another foxy chick latched onto James Bond's arm (for starters). Daniel Craig's luck would have that European model-cum-actress Olga Kurylenko is now the official Bond girl in the 22nd installment, while the previously widely reported Gemma Arterton will play an M16 agent called Fields. What else needs to be said…
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IESB had the lucky chance to chat with G.I. Joe producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura the day after the third (or is it fourth?) fan backlash against the live action big screen adaptation (Coincidence, I think not!). If you haven't been following, yesterday it was announced that Marlon Wayans was cast as Ripcord (Boooo!) and Joseph…
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Miramax has pooled together a nice selection of film critics and personalities from the Internet for a winding discussion over the ending to the studio's acclaimed Cohen Brothers hit No Country for Old Men. It's an enjoyable freestyle conversation featuring Premiere's Glenn Kenny, Ain't It Cool's Harry Knowles, Rotten Tomatoes' Jen Yamato, Jim Emerson of…
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If anyone out there knows Mr. T, please go check on him to make sure he hasn't jumped off a bridge wearing his signature 700 pounds of fake gold. The Teddy Ruxpin of American gangstas, Ice Cube, hopes to play mohawked soldier of fortune B.A. Baracus in John Singleton's The A-Team. While we're updating The…
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Let's forget everything we think we know about the Justice League film for a second and look at the facts: George Miller, the guy behind Mad Max and Babe, is attached to direct; the screenplay is from two unproven writers; Christian Bale and Brandon Routh are not in it; and as of today Peter Jackson's…
Read More Karyn Kusama has signed on to direct Jennifer's Body, Diablo Cody's follow-up to Juno. The story follows a demon-possessed Megan Fox who begins eating boys in her small Minnesota town. It's one of those stories that could be pretty cool or really bad depending on how the material is handled. Kusama broke onto the scene…
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NBC is having a press conference this afternoon to announce they are canceling Sunday's Golden Globe ceremonies. That's right, the show won't even go on un-televised, which is probably a good move (imagine how boring the untelevised version could have been). NBC instead plans to run a press conference announcing the winners intercut with clips…
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Is it just me, or are the new Heroes action figures from Mezco Toyz really creepy looking? via: CoolToy
Read More Fans of William Gibson repeat after me: Woosah. Is the famous cyberpunk author's 1984 masterwork Neuromancer finally headed to the big screen with Darth Vader himself, Hayden Christensen, in the lead role? That's what sources are telling Joblo. Christensen would star as Case, a talented hacker whose poisoned nervous system reduces him to hustling Japan's…
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David Fincher sat down with MTV, and boy did he blab about a bunch of potential upcoming projects. First up he confirmed rumors that he wants to bring Fight Club to Broadway in 2009!? "One of the things I want at the 10-year anniversary is to do "Fight Club" as a musical on Broadway. I…
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We have been alerted that news footage from the Cloverfield Monster Destroying Chaui Station is now available in French, Japanese, Russian and English. No new footage is revealed, this is mostly just news coverage of the event from other countries around the world. Watch them after the jump. via: DVDplay
Read More My good friend Alex at FirstShowing.net, published his top 10 favorite movie posters of the year, and I was shocked at some of the badly executed photoshop designs that topped his list. I thought I could bring a whole new batch of posters to the table, so below you can find my top 20 movie…
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Barrack and Hillary, Kayne and Fiddy, Finke and Poland: Shall we now offer Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon memberships to the make-up-and-make-out-already club? It appears we shall, as yet another report from the set of December's Four Christmases has the bright-and-grizzled stars clashing and disrupting the set, this time over (not) filming a sex scene.…
Read More I really want to be excited for Paramount's big screen Live Action adaptation of G.I. Joe, but Stephen Sommers is doing everything he can to turn off the key fanbase. First Sienna Miller was cast in the film, a groan inducing announcement heard around the world. Storyline points leaked to the web and caused so…
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The Cloverfield viral game has finally begun to catch up with the film, which releases in less than two weeks. First up, Our friends at Uruloki informed us that Tagruato, the Japanese drilling company that owns Slusho, has just suffered a huge setback. The company has issued the following statement: "There has been an altercation…
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A new photo has begun to circulate across the interwebs (you can see it after the jump for spoiler purposes). It's a conceptual rendering of the Cloverfield monster, or another fan made hoax? The picture originated on conceptart.org in the profile of Peter Konig, an art director for Tippett Studios, which is supposedly working on…
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Whenever New Line sees dark skies, as they no doubt have with The Golden Compass, they make sure to rub their golden poobah, Fred Krueger, and send him back down Elm Street. A Deep Throat inside New Line has whispered to Bloody Disgusting that plans for Freddy vs. Jason 2 are off, as is the…
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You didn't expect Michael Bay to keep quiet about the recent developments in the DVD war. If you haven't been keeping up, Warner announced their exclusivity and New Line followed. Bu-Ray owns 70% of the studios, which puts the format as the likely winner of the war. When Paramount/Dreamworks announced their exclusivity with the competing…
Read More Details have have been kept tightly under wraps involving the upcoming Judd Apatow-produced Harold Ramis (Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation, Groundhog Day) comedy Year One. All that has been revealed thus far is the cast and creative list behind the film, which includes Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin), Jack Black, David Cross, Vinnie Jones, Juno Temple,…
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Filmmaker David Lynch bashes the idea of watching a movie on your cellphone in this segment from the Inland Empire limited edition DVD. Someone took the footage and added the music from Apple's iPhone commercial in the background. I once heard someone say the following theory (sorry, I don't know who to attribute this to).…
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Sure, every fan has probably considered it. But it's extremely rare when an entertainment journalist issues a long editorial admitting that he may not have dug deep enough for a giant scoop, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Jim Windolf has done just that. Regarding his Feb. '08 cover story on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom…
Read More I haven't been reporting on the Writers Strike as much as I would have liked to. Mainstream movie news always takes precedence over the Industry stuff (plus Finke and Wells pretty much have that arena well covered). A new /Film correspondent nicknamed Hooper X (an obvious nod to the character from Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy)…
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Over at Chud, there is a crazy-eyed-killah of a rumor going around that Harrison Ford is in cahoots with Steven Spielberg to star in his upcoming Lincoln, an ambitious film set to unravel the mystery behind the popular children's toy. Ford is purported to have a droopy eye on the role of Andrew Johnson, the…
Read More Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy has confirmed a story-point for the story of the upcoming JJ Abrams prequel/reboot. The actor revealed to CBS 2 in Los Angeles that the film actually features not one, not two, but THREE Spocks. "I am Spock, and there is another Spock and there is another Spock. There are a…
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Politically Correct University keg-hunter turned director Jon Favreau is all over our monitors today picking a fight with George Miller's un-geeky, tween-appealin' Justice League. Who's got his back you ask (Vince Vaughn's passed out)? Why, it's Marvel's brawny Avengers! Yes, Fav told MTV that he wants to throw a movie party with Iron Man, Hulk,…
Read More Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry will be making appearances at Apple Stores in New York, San Francisco and Chicago, to help promote his new film Be Kind Rewind. Apple has been on a roll with their directors series as of late. Most recently I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence made an…
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Our new friends at io9 have pointed out this new billboard advertising Oceanic Airlines. Last week the fictional airpline company featured in JJ Abrams hit tv show Lost issued a press release announcing their return to the air (the company had shut down after the infamous Flight 815 tragedy). It's interesting to see the network…
Read More The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed rumors that British actress Gemma Arterton has been cast as the new Bond Girl in Bond 22 (rumored to be titled 007). Gemma made her film debut in the 2007 St Trinian's movie St Trinian's. Production began earlier in the week, nearly a month behind the original schedule. Bond 22…
Read More After college, I kicked it around downtown Miami for a bit. While the city never became the new hipster mecca to replace Brooklyn as the, uh, booming condo industry promised, I did become aware that Fidel Castro has died approximately 1,000 times and that the locals like to celebrate each time like it's the last…
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Warner Bros has announced that they will release High Definition titles exclusively on Blu-Ray. "A two-format landscape has led to consumer confusion and indifference toward high definition, which has kept the technology from reaching mass adoption and becoming the important revenue stream that it can be for the industry," said Kevin Tsujihara. "Consumers have clearly…
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I can't lie: diehard fans of the original Prom Night from 1980 give me the creeps. It's not that it's a low rent slasher, it's just not very good, or even campy. If you want a comely Jamie Lee Curtis, revisit Halloween. She smokes a joint as "Don't Fear the Reaper" plays in that one.…
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"This is the First Time, I Swear!" With critics and sofa kings churning out their lists for best and worst films of 2007 like Jonah Hill drawing dicks, let's take a look at the movies that failed to reach general expectations, whether at the box office, creatively, or both. Some of these films carry repercussions…
Read More Paramount sent us this new (but uneventful) photo of Mike Vogel and Michael Stahl-David from Cloverfield. Click on the image above to enlarge. A new article in Variety reveals a few new Cloverfield tidbits. Here are the interesting pieces: The film started out as an "elaborate 60-page treatment" by Lost writer Drew Goddard. Cloverfield features…
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Unlike all of the non-entities on The Surreal Life, Corey Feldman still has something to offer us. His band is tres lame, but if you've caught The Two Coreys on A&E (which is also terrible), Feldman still possesses the upbeat work ethic and fresh face of a confident young blood like Shia LaBeouf. I get…
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Watchmen has surprised even the harshest of critics so far. Even original artist Dave Gibbons has praised the film's production for it's accuracy and amazing detail that Zack Snyder is putting into the big screen adaptation. So what about creator Alan Moore, who has been extremely vocal in the past against the adaptations of his…
Read More When I first started /Film, I intended the site to be a forum for film geeks to blog about film. We launched with 20 part-time writers. But that time has long past. Aside from our Box Office Guru Steve Mason and and occasional review or list, /Film is virtually a one man show. I've been…
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The rumors we reported back in August regarding a sequel to I Am Legend have apparently moved one step closer to the big screen. According to ShockTillYouDrop, author Richard Matheson just signed off sequel rights to his 1957 novel to Warner Bros. Meanwhile, the film's screenwriter, Mark Protosevich, continues to express his involvement with a…
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Warner Bros has released the first two photos from the upcoming Jim Carrey comedy Yes Man. The story follows Carl Allen (Carrey), "a man who signs up for a self-help program based on one simple principle: say yes to everything... and anything. At first, unleashing the power of "yes" transforms Carl's life in amazing and…
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20th Century Fox has announced that they are moving the Katherine Heigl romantic comedy 27 Dresses back a week from January 11th to 1-18-08. So now 27 Dresses is set to go head to head with Cloverfield. I'm guessing that Fox wants to take advantage of the 4-day Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday weekend. New…
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Bloody Disgusting has received word that two of the finest actors of a generation, Viggo Mortensen and Philip Seymour Hoffman, are in "talks" to star in a cannibal epic entitled Vanikoro from the director of Hitman, Xavier Gans. Vanikoro is part of the Santa Cruz Islands near Australia, where a French explorer found himself and…
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I lost interest in Todd Solondz sometime around Storytelling. Welcome to the Dollhouse was such a wonderful but painfully examination honest look at adolescence and Happiness was so disturbing, yet compelling. His later work seemed to lack heart, and serve only to shock. When Solondz' newest film Life During Wartime was announced almost two years…
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A sequel to Superman Returns has been in limbo since the beginning. Warner Bros was unhappy with how the film performed, and fans were unhappy with the lack of action and unnecessary out-of-canon third act plot twist. But director Bryan Singer showed up at Comic Con expressing his desire to make a sequel that would…
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In between threatening to show off his incredible "chocolate bar physique," Hell Boy 2 director Guillermo del Toro revealed to MTV that he is working on preliminary sketches for an upcoming "definitive take" on the Frankenstein monster. Del Toro says that his vision, which is in the earliest stages of pre-production, will not be a…
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Twitch is reporting that the sequel to director Bong Joon-Ho's hit Korean monster flick The Host is actually a PREQUEL. Korean comic artist Kang Full's script takes place three years prior to the original film, and the story revolves around the excavation of the Cheonggye Stream, an ancient waterway running through Seoul that was recently…
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"That ain't no etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet." - Rainn Wilson as Rollo in Juno Los Angeles-based Etch-a-sketch artist (who knew there was such a thing) Elliot Sharron recently saw Juno ("The best movie of 2007!") and sketched this picture of Michael Cera and Ellen Page from Jason Reitman's film.…
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I don't know about Rambo, but I'm certainly excited to see Rimbaud. The following piece of street art appeared in the Church MUNI stop in San Francisco. For those of you who don't know (and I didn't), Arthur Rimbaud was a 19th century French poet who has been identified as one of the creators of…
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Jason Retiman's Juno took in an estimated $15.7 million in 998 theaters this past weekend, earning the second biggest Friday night in "indie" film history. Fox Searchlight has decided to expand this little comedy into 2,000 screens starting this Friday. Juno has drawn comparisons to Little Miss Sunshine (I actually wrote that it was "This…
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Hollywood Elsewhere received an e-mail tip from a longtime reader who, over the Holiday, spoke to a below-the-line crew member on David Fincher's new film. The costume designer has been part of many high profile projects with big name directors, and is not easily star struck, but is calling the upcoming F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation…
Read More USA Today polled five industry analysis for their 12th Annual Media Prognostication Contest, and four out of five agree that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be the highest opening weekend of 2008 (over Hancock, Harry Potter, Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Dark Knight, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and…
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CoreyFeldman.net offers up two new photos from Warner Home Video's Lost Boys 2: The Tribe. Click on the image above to enlarge slightly. I'm still hoping Warner gives this direct-to-dvd sequel a theatrical run. It can't be THAT bad, can it?
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Cloverfield Billboards have been spotted in Times Square, and a new movie trailer aired during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. A couple new shots are featured, but the footage remains the same for the most part. Watch the new trailer after the jump. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/cloverfieldnewyears.flv 400 320] Cloverfield hits theaters on 1-18-08. source: CloverfieldClues
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The last couple days have been filled with Indiana Jones goodness, and it isn't about to stop just yet. Dark Horse Comics has premiered the cover for the comic book adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by artist Steve Anderson. The full cover, which contains very minor spoilers, can be…
Read More A couple days ago (last year even) it was reported that Sacha Baron Cohen had been cast as Abbie Hoffman in Steven Spielberg's The Trial of the Chicago Seven. I like many other movie journalists wondered when Speilberg was going to find the time for this project with Tintin, Lincoln and Interstellar on his plate.…
Read More Vanity Fair has a new feature article on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which includes a couple new behind the scenes photo shown above and below. Included is the first photo of Cate Blanchett who plays a Russian Agent Spalko. Below you can also find some quotes I've highlighted from the…
Read More Who is the most profitable movie director of all time? Steven Spielberg of course... But who is the second biggest money maker in Hollywood? That question isn't as easy to answer, is it? I decided to put together a listing of the Top 10 Most Profitable Movie Directors of All Time: Steven Spielberg Filmography: Munich,…
Read More One of Frank Darabont's upcoming projects is Tokyo Rose, the Iva Toguri D'Aquino biopic. Our friends at Collider talked to screenwriter Christopher Hampton who offered a few new details. "[It's] based on the story of Tokyo Rose, who was a Japanese American woman who was arrested in Tokyo right after the War, brought back to…
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One of the things I've learned over the past year is that interviewing celebrities is hard. Interviewing writers and directors is much easier. Stars, for the most part are charismatic but empty, while writers, directors, and talented actors have much more to bring to the conversation. One thing's for sure, I've never, NEVER showed up…
Read More This UFA German-inspired X-Men film poster was created by Disney designer Eric Tanner. He was responsible for some of the great retro Incredibles artwork. "I've always dug those UFA German cinema posters, especially the Metropolis ones. Using them as inspiration, I sketched up a little comp on a napkin. They're all gonna be sporting their…
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The Hollywood Reporter suggests in their year end film report that the sequel to Transformers has been pushed back from the Dreamworks-announced June 26th 2009 release date slot. Director Michael Bay posted a New Years greeting on his website, adding that "Transformers 2 will be coming soon." I'm not sure if that is a confirmation,…
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I was a huge fan of the now canceled television show Journeyman. A victim of a mixture of the writers strike and lower than expected ratings, the series' last episode aired a couple weeks ago. Almost makes me want to start a pointless letter writing campaign. But truth be told, Journeyman was actually slammed by…
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I'm on the West Coast, so I'm still waiting for the January 31st season four premiere to air. But I just wanted to put the question out to you guys... What did you think of the first episode of Season Four?
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Due to the lack of any extra time since the moment Sundance began last Thursday, this episode of the FightCast has been delayed until today. However, it's up now and I hope you all enjoy! In this week's FightCast, we fight about U2 3D, Cloverfield and briefly There Will Be Blood. We recorded the FightCast…
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While the general consensus seems to be that Dario Argento's most recent flick Mother of Tears was womp-womp, the Italian director is a modern legend of the cinema. There's just no denying. In the last 15 years, he's crowd surfed on top the frail hands of many a hipster and geek, and now he's officially…
Read More I haven't seen The Client since its release in 1994, but I can still remember Brad Renfro's debut performance in the John Grisham blockbuster. He was unlike most young Hollywood actors, from his genuine Nashville accent to the eyes that took in everything around them a little too deeply especially for a kid; and that's…
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