The Fine Brothers love to spoil everything, In past years, we've featured their popular videos 100 Movie Spoilers in 4 minutes and Spoiling Every Best Picture Winner in Oscar History. After seeing all of the big movies of 2009, the brothers are back once again. Their latest video spoils 50 movies released last year (including…
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After Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton will continue his trend of re-imagining other classic films with.... Weekend At Bernies. You can watch the LandlineTV-produced faux trailer now, embedded after the jump. Featuring Nick Ross, Rob Hugel, Will Storie, Nicole Shabtai and Tim Martin. Written by Landline. Directed by Paul Briganti. Shot by Noah Yuan-Vogel. Music…
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What are you doing today? Hopefully not much, because if you're in one of the 27 cities listed on the Flynn Lives page associated with Disney's upcoming film Tron Legacy, you might want to be ready to run out and meet a 'local operative' wearing a Flynn Lives t-shirt. What will you get if you…
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This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. THE INFORMANT! The true tale at the core of The Informant! is not one that would appear to lend itself very well…
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Everyone who grew up in the 1980's probably remembers the classic HBO Starship intro which played before all the big picture presentations. Watching the retro intro brings back so many memories for me of watching and discovering so many new movies with my parents. MondoTees has found a great vintage 1983 making-of documentary showing how…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Logic and subtlety are the last things viewers should expect from Law Abiding Citizen, an absurdly enjoyable B-movie thriller…
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This video from documentary filmmaker Lance Bangs shows the cast and crew of Where The Wild Things Are playing a practical joke on director Spike Jonze. They decided to hide the filmmaker's Vespa scooter, and covered him with yogurt and rice after he realized it was hoisted into the rafters of the sound stage. It…
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We usually don't feature a non-movie-related television commercial unless it is directed by a famous director, or a director who is signed to an upcoming project, but there are exceptions for every rule. Nike Sportswear's Just Do It - "Human Chain" is a 60-second spot which took over two years to complete (from what I…
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Honda created an 8-minute short film about Robots titled Living With Robots. As part of the short doc/advertisement, they interviewed Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman -- the screenwriters who wrote Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Mocking Honda for reaching out for such robotics "experts" would be wayyyy too easy, For those interested, you…
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What would have happened to the McFly Family if Marty had given in to his mother's advances when he went back in time to 1955? Our friends at College Humor have created a short film to explore this idea, titled Back to the Future Sex Scenes, embedded after the jump.
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The Henson Company continues to create some of the best viral video content on the internet.... now if only someone would fast track another one of their movies into production, maybe we could see some of this magic on the big screen. The latest video features Beaker's very sad performance of the famous Kansas-performed ballad Dust…
Read MoreIn anticipation of the third episode of the Sixth and Final Season of Lost tonight (and yes, LA X was a two-parter, so this is the third episode), I have prepared a bunch of Lost videos I had been meaning to include in VOTD over the past week, but for one reason or another, never…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. A SERIOUS MAN Some films rely on your willingness to invest a great deal of time and energy to analyze their themes…
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At the end of each year we usually publish a couple video montages showcasing the best movies of the last 365 days. /Film reader Paul Proulx decided to take it one step further and put together a video montage of the films of the last decade - the films of the 2000's. Watch the montage…
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/Film reader Dano e-mailed me to point out that a track on the score for James Cameron's Avatar sounds suspiciously similar to a track on the score of Glory. Of course, both films were scored by composer James Horner. I understand that composers tend to use the same instruments and tones for different dramatic beats.…
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Jeff Wells has posted three awesome clips of Quentin Tarantino telling stories from the Directors on Directing panel in Santa Barbara this weekend. I've embedded all three after the jump. The first clip is about how directors raise the bar on each other and Tarantino recounts a story Brian DePalma told him about Martin Scorsese…
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Hopefully you've enjoyed our coverage of Sundance 2010. There still may be a few more Sundance-related pieces kicking around in the near future but in the meantime, I thought I might share some of the things I learned from my very first year at Sundance. I've always dreamed of going, and for the most part,…
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UPDATE: IndieWire reports that The Weinstein Company picked up The Tillman Story today. The company has been the frontrunner to buy the film for the past week. Original article follows. Purchases at Sundance didn't come fast and furious this year -- do they ever anymore? -- but in the wake of the festival a few…
Read MoreEditor's Note: Filmmaker Jake Scott has been blogging his Sundance experience on /Film. You might not know 42-year-old director Jake Scott yet, but you will. You definitely know his father Ridley, the filmmaker behind such films as Alien, Gladiator, and Blade Runner (Jake worked in the editing room during the school holidays). Chances are, you've…
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I'm bunching up two different Cool Stuff posts here, but just as I was about to highlight the two great new Alamo Drafthouse posters for The Wolf Man and The Wolfman I saw this tasty little Soylent Green t-shirt that I thought folks might get a kick out of. And because the shirt is from…
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I think we're now one small step closer to /Film: The Movie. There's a weird science / aliens among us / Sasquatch-spotting blog out there called The Museum of SuperNatural History, and it has just been optioned as fodder for a DreamWorks movie. The studio doesn't yet have a script or even a concrete idea…
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The South By Southwest Film Festival have announced their complete Feature Film line-up for their 2010 fest, which runs March 12 - 20, 2010 in Austin, Texas. Notable films include the Saturday Night Live movie MacGruber, Jay & Mark Duplass' Sundance hit Cyrus, Bernard Rose's Mr. Nice, Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's…
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If someone were going to make a documentary about Kieth Richards you'd expect them to at least talk to Johnny Depp. The actor has openly idolized Richards, and based some of his Pirates of the Caribbean character Jack Sparrow on the Rolling Stones guitarist, going so far as to have Richards appear in the third…
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/Film reader Kashif Pasta sends along word that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp recently gave a TED Talk at TEDxVancouver, and the video of his 13-minute presentation is now online. So you undoubtedly know about TED talks, and of TEDx, the independently-organized TED events around the world. We had one recently in Vancouver, where Neill…
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The two-part two-hour premiere of Lost: Season Six aired tonight on ABC. Feel free to discuss the show, your theories and speculation in the comments below.
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The nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards have been released, and there are a few small and pleasant surprises in the list. The list of ten films nominated for Best Picture is causing some sensation, as District 9 is among the group. Lest that make you too hopeful, The Blind Side also got a…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. ZOMBIELAND The zombie film's usual affixation to the horror genre has been broken. Even Shaun of the Dead acknowledged the unfortunate realities…
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Last week we featured a video of Lost's Ocean 815 crash in 24-style real time, complete with split screen. Pyram1dhead, the guy who created the original video, has returned with a follow-up, a prequel of sorts, combining clips from eight episodes, showing what happened to all the characters at the airport before they boarded the…
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After the Tron Legacy Trailer Premiere Event in Los Angeles (video blogged here), Alex from FirstShowing and I were talking with director Joseph Kosinski and learned a bit of news. After telling Joseph how wonderful I thought it was to see the trailer fill so much of the huge IMAX screen, creating a more immersive…
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First we heard that Angelina Jolie opted out of a Wanted sequel to star in Alfonso Cuarón’s space thriller Gravity. But then we learned that Gravity might not be next for Jolie after all (although I've heard she's still in talks). Now The Hollywood Reporter has word that Jolie is in talks was filmmaker Darren…
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One of the movie magazines I subscribe to is Entertainment Weekly. Amazon is offering an incredible deal on a one year subscription to the weekly movie magazine, for only $10. Yeah, that's right -- $10 for 52 issues, one full year. The only catch is that it is an "auto-renewal" subscription, which means that after…
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James Cameron's Avatar and Pixar's Up took home almost all the awards at the Visual Effects Society honors. Avatar took home six, while Up took home three. The only nominated category Avatar didn't win was Compositing in a Feature Film -- sadly, that was the only category that Neill Blomkamp's District 9 won. Full award…
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Liev Schreiber is ready to fight. He's got his eye on a biopic of Chuck "The Bayonne Bleeder" Wepner, a heavyweight boxer from New Jersey who has been said to be the inspiration behind Sylvester Stallone's Rocky. (Let's not have any grumbling that a Philly icon like Rocky may be based on a guy from…
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Out and about to promote She's Out of My League, Jay Baruchel has been commenting on the various other projects he has coming down the pike. Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse is still in the works, it sounds, though there's no new news; the hockey drama Goon, which Baruchel has co-written with Evan Goldberg…
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It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies that offer proof. Slashfilm’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a new trailer for a provocative indie, a mini review or an interview. Man, how about the Birdemic craze that rollicked across the internet last week and continues to tremor…
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Briefly: Actress Milla Jovovich revealed on Twitter that the teaser trailer for Resident Evil 4 will be attached to A Nightmare on Elm Street, which hits theaters on April 30th.
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In devising the soundtrack for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Edgar Wright has chosen specific bands and artists to sub for the fictional musicians of the comic strip. Pilgrim's band Sex Bob-omb have had their tunes supplied by Beck, Broken Social Scene will be providing the noise of Crash and the Boys and Metric were…
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I just returned home from the Tron Legacy event in Los Angeles, held at The Bridge IMAX Theatre. The event was actually to premiere the first Tron Legacy movie trailer, which will be attached to Alice in Wonderland next week. After the jump you can watch a short 10-minute video blog I recorded with Alex…
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Earlier this week it was reported that Angelina Jolie had dropped out of Wanted 2, effectively killing that film (no great loss) and that she would instead star in Alfonso Cuarón's upcoming 'space thriller' Gravity. Cuarón doing a space thriller? Fantastic. Doing it with Jolie's financial pull? Potentially incredible. But now it seems the report…
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Updated: The actual footage is now viewable in a video embedded after the break, at the bottom of the post. The upcoming The Princess and the Frog Blu-ray from Disney is going to feature the first teaser footage for their upcoming toon Tangled, formerly Rapunzel. Interestingly, the teaser itself features no title at all, which…
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Though their recently deceased TV series Dollhouse was not the ratings hit it perhaps should have been, definitely when you consider the heights it ultimately reached in creative terms, the signs are good for an imminent upcoming collaboration between geek god Joss Whedon and his buttock-whupper muse Eliza Dushku. Dushku was stopped last night on…
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(Warning: possible spoilers for Avatar contained in this story) Will Sigourney Weaver reprise her role as Dr. Grace Augustine in an Avatar sequel? The question might sound stupid to anyone who has seen the movie, but remember what happens when you assume... Sigourney Weaver appeared on the TV show "Le Grand Journal." The actress is…
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Earlier today a rumor cropped up that Marvel was delaying production on The First Avenger: Captain America due to trouble with director Joe Johnston. As the rumor went, he'd either been fired or had walked. I didn't run the story at the time because the rumor seemed seriously thin and driven in part by negative…
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Michael Bay has been vocally against the growing popularity of 3D films, at last year's theatrical exhibitors ShoWest convention making the very unpopular statement that "I think it might be a gimmick." He added that he didn't know for sure, and that he was "looking forward to [James] Cameron's picture." And Avatar came, and became…
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Someone has created a Venn Diagram giving us a visual representation of the many different haircuts and head-wear actor Denzel Washington employs in his movies. I'm not sure who created this image. I found it on Paul Scheer's blog, where he commented "Finally someone breaks it down". Scheer discovered the diagram on ziesgotyouhigh.
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The common line amongst film fans is that Alfred Hitchcock is sacrosanct; his movies are not to be remade. He could do it (The Man Who Knew Too Much) but no one else should (Psycho). In some cases that's an understandable stance to take. Remaking Vertigo would be insane, because it stemmed so directly from…
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Everytime I visit a movie set, they usually take us to the art department to impress us with the concept images created for the production. And nine out of ten times, the illustrations are incredibly impressive. But the sad fact is that it usually doesn't get much better than the concept art. Do a google…
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If the '80s gave a sniffling speech at the Decade Achievement Awards, Harold Faltermeyer and his scores would be thanked somewhere after Shigeru Miyamoto and Super Mario Bros. and Magic Johnson's Lakers. A classically trained German composer with an affinity for rock and disco, Faltermeyer got his start in Hollywood assisting mustachioed electro-don Georgio Moroder on soundtracks…
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A couple weeks back, we told you that producer Lionel Wigram, a former Warner Bros creative executive who oversaw the first three Harry Potter films and went out to create/pitch/write Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, was developing an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic 17th-century adventure novel The Three Musketeers. No director or cast has been attached…
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Taylor Lautner's business people have been great about attaching him to a series of films in the wake of New Moon's outrageous success. The sum total of all the efforts has been to push his level of exposure and price tag higher and higher. But something had to give, and while it seemed like Lautner…
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IESB is reporting a rumor that Christopher Nolan's brother Jonah Nolan has been tapped to direct The Man of Steel. Would Warner Bros really give a first time-director the helm of a $150-$200 million movie? It sounds very unlikely to me. IESB claims that "the key reason behind Chris’ "Godfather" role is to help out…
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I'm excited about the upcoming version of Mildred Pierce to be directed by Todd Haynes. Already set to star Kate Winslet in the title role, the HBO mini-series has just added a couple more good names: Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood. Sure, Wood's career has been spotty, but there's something that suggests she can…
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You might recall that we've featured Jim Horwat's Movie Comic Illustrations on the site in the past: Back to the Future, The Big Lebowski, The Goonies, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and the Friday the 13th series. Jim has returned with a new print, which is a one-page illustration of…
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Danny Boyle is about to embark on the filming of 127 Hours, the story of mountain climber Aron Ralston, who was forced to amputate his own arm with a penknife after being pinned under a boulder. There have been a lot of questions about how the film would play, as most of the story involves…
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You might remember Adam Berg’s Dark Knight-Inspired Short Film Carousel which offered an exploration into one single frozen moment of time in a robbery gone wrong in one Hard Boiled-inspired continuous tracking shot. The Philips-funded short won the Film Grand Prix Winner: at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Well Philips is hoping to recreate…
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Warner Bros has released a music video to help promote the original music composed for Sherlock Holmes, timed to let the Academy members get one last look before casting their ballots. The video introduces the musicians behind the music: The musicians are Hans Zimmer, the composer nominated for his 8th Oscar for this score. The…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is Rocky: The Undisputed Blu-ray collection for only $37.99, 62% off the $100 msrp. The 7-disc set features all six movies thus far (Rocky / Rocky II / Rocky III / Rocky IV / Rocky V / Rocky Balboa) and the Rocky Anthology Bonus Disc. With all of…
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Hey, look, Kevin Costner is ramping up his output. He's got Company Men coming out this year. He's directing (at some point) a film called A Little War of Our Own, announced just a couple weeks back. And now his slowly simmering new team-up with Kevin Reynolds, who has directed Costner three times before, is…
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Christina Applegate (Anchorman), Alyssa Milano ("My Name is Earl"), Larry Campbell (Wedding Crashers) and Vanessa Angel (Kingpin) are the latest batch of actors and actresses to be announced for the Farrelly Brothers' comedy Hall Pass, which began shooting this week in Atlanta. (With Atlanta standing in for New England.) They join the already announced cast…
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I know this isn't much, but Michael Bay's official website has been updated with information big action sequences will be shot for Transformers 3 in Chicago and Moscow this time around. Of course, that doesn't really tell us much, as the Asian power plant opening sequence of Revenge of the Fallen was actually filmed at…
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So I have a bit of bad news for you guys: It looks as if the Wanted sequel will not be happening after all. Angelina Jolie pulled out of the project to pursue another film. That is where the good news comes in: Jolie left Wanted 2 to star in Alfonso Cuarón’s space thriller titled…
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Update: Killer Films has contacted us and issued the following statement "Christine Vachon of Killer Films is not producing The Lucky One. To the best of my knowledge neither Daniel Radcliffe or Lily Rabe is attached to star in the project." The original story follows: I think we now know what Daniel Radcliffe is going…
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Have you ever wondered how many computers it takes for Pixar to render their big screen 3d animated films or ILM to render giant transforming robotic aliens? I understand this area of filmmaking might not be interesting to everyone, but I find it fascinating. Besides being a huge film geek, I'm somewhat of a techie…
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Before Where the Wild Things Are, and even before Being John Malkovich, Spike Jonze was developing a big screen adaptation of the acclaimed 1955 children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon. Harold and the Purple Crayon tells the story of a curious four-year-old boy who draws his reality and lives in the imaginary world he…
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Briefly: Last week Walt Disney Animation Studios announced a new title for their 2010 computer animated release Rapunzel -- Tangled. Disney has released a new logo for the film. For those who care, you can see the logo above. Directed by Byron Howard & Nathan Greno (the co-director and head of story on Bolt respectively),…
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It's a good week for Stephen Fry. He was part of Craig Ferguson's successful 'experiment' to do an episode of The Late Late Show with no audience, for one. Highly recommend watching that, as their nearly hour-long chat was a great bit of television. And Fry's film Hallelujiah!, about the composer George Frideric Handel and…
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Everwood and Eli Stone writer Greg Berlanti has been named as the front running contender to direct Warner Bros. long awaited The Flash movie. It seems they've been keen to hand him one of their heroes for a while now, as he was signed to direct Green Lantern for a while before Martin Campbell came…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis are the stars of Burke & Hare, which unites the actors under the direction of John Landis. Based on the real-life exploits of Irish murderers William Burke and William Hare, who killed at least 17 people in Edinburgh in 1827-8, the film may not hew too closely to…
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Dreamworks Animation has released the third and final movie trailer for Chris Sander's How to Train Your Dragon. For those of you who don't recognize the name, Sanders directed Lilo & Stitch, and the unfinished American Dog (which was the initial development for what became Bolt). Sanders is now making a home for himself over at…
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Earlier this week it was reported that pro wrestler Shad Gaspard (part of the WWE tag-team Cryme Tyme) had auditioned for the role of Ukafa, the main villain in Marcus Nispel's upcoming remake of Conan the Barbarian. Well it looks like he didn't get the part. LatinoReview is reporting that the part will go to…
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To celebrate the release of the book Kick-Ass: Creating the Comic, Making the Movie (now available on Amazon for under $14), Titan Books has provided us with two exclusive clips of Kick-Ass comic creator Mark Millar talking about the characters, the casting, the moral backlash, how Jane Goldman made the film adaptation "more accessible", and…
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Want to see a few new tidbits of Iron Man 2 footage? Paramount has released a new behind the scenes look a the film, aimed at French audiences. Much of the new stuff is sourced from the Grand Prix shoot in Monaco. Sadly we don't see much new stuff from Whiplash, but we do get…
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Almost a year ago, we pined over the freakishly original, disorienting and bizarre trailer for Totally 4 Teens, a proposed series for [adult swim] that appropriated the zany format of a vintage Nickelodeon kid's show and then aspired to melt viewers' faces off. You may remember that we recently interviewed the show's creator and frizzy-haired host,…
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What is it with exorcism movies? Earlier today we had word that Anthony Hopkins had been cast in The Rite. Now there's another exorcism movie in the works called Miracle Workers, with Zach Galifianakis attached to star. STYD has the report, saying the script is "a buddy supernatural comedy in which the actor is put…
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Back in June, I had a chance to visit the set of Platinum Dunes remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street with a group of online journalists. This week we will be publishing the interviews we conducted on the set of the movie. After the jump you can read our interview with special effects make-up…
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Roland Emmerich has his long-term sights set on Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, which he recently talked about making in 3D with extensive mo-cap. But first he'll turn to the work of William Shakespeare. Or, rather, the 'controversy' behind the works. Emmerich's next film is Anonymous, described as a thriller, which leaps off from the idea…
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Anthony Hopkins is the first to board a film called The Rite, a supernatural thriller from New Line. The studio has had the property for a while, and casting Hopkins suggests that it is really moving forward. Mikael Hafstrom directs from Michael Petroni's script. But what is the film about? Read on... THR offers that…
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The quick-turnaround required to get another Paranormal Activity into cinemas this Halloween, and possibly kill the Saw franchise once and for all, will mean that Paramount will have to get production up and running very soon indeed. You probably recall that Saw almuni Kevin Greutert was given the helm before a little contractual black magic…
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Last month Universal held a test screening of an early cut of Edgar Wright's adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World in Las Vegas. We posted a collection of ten reviews from people who attended the screening, most of which were extremely positive (you can read them here). It appears that Universal just test screened…
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Warner Bros/New Line Cinema has released a new movie trailer for Samuel Bayer's remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. The new trailer gives us a much better sense of the film than the teaser trailer. We finally get a better look at the look and style of the nightmare sequences, and we also hear…
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Nicolas Cage and Ryan Reynolds in will headline the voice cast for DreamWorks Animation's 3D computer animated film The Croods. Lilo & Stich helmer Chris Sanders and Space Chimps helmer Kirk DeMicco are co-directing the caveman comedy, which was formerly titled Crood Awakenings when it was set up with Aardman Animation. The official plot synopsis…
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Bradley Cooper has pulled out of McG's next film, a romantic comedy called This Means War. According to EW, Cooper was forced to make the decision due to scheduling conflicts: The July start date for the Fox romcom overlapped with the start of The Hangover 2. Reese Witherspoon is still attached, but not yet officially…
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Making a small film in the US means raising money by whatever means are necessary, but other countries actually support the arts. Crazy idea, right? I'm sure there are issues with how public arts funding is doled out in the UK, but I love the fact that small films from proven talent can get some…
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Neil Marshall's upcoming film Centurion has generated a good bit of excitement based on Marshall's reputation and the bloody, grimy trailer released not long ago. That was an international trailer, because at the time the clips was released the film did not have US distribution. Now it has been picked up by Magnet, the genre…
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It looks like Ben Stiller's long-in-development sequel to Zoolander might actually be happening. Finke has learned that Ben Stiller has been working on a script with Tropic Thunder and Iron Man 2 screenwriter Justin Theroux. Paramount Pictures wants to keep the budget low (under $50 million) as the first film was not a box office…
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A new photo for Disney's Tron: Legacy has been revealed on the website PitCell.com. Apparently Disney is holding an exclusive limited event this Saturday in five cities around the world: New York, Los Angeles, London, Toronto and Sydney. More information and the full photo can be found, after the jump. Tickets will be released on…
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There's been a few little bits of interesting Mark Romanek business hit the web in recent days and I think a quick round up is in order. Firstly, Mark Salisbury wrote a piece for Time Out on The Wolfman, giving some clues as to why Romanek left the project and how the picture changed when…
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You may have seen Pixeloo's real life renderings of famous animated characters floating around the interwebs: Mario from Super Mario Brothers, Homer from The Simpsons, and Jessica Rabbit from Robert Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Brazilian 3D artist Raoni Nery has created an untooned version of Buzz Lightyear from Pixar's Toy Story films. See the…
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Heat Vision is reporting that Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler, Iron Man 2) is in talks to play Corin, Conan’s father in Marcus Nispel's Conan remake for Lionsgate. Meanwhile, SHH has confirmed that Sean Hood has been hired to give the script a last minute rewrite. Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer penned the original draft.…
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It's a big day for movement on the comic book movie front. We just had word on Marvel's casting approach to Captain America, and now there is some new detail about the next Superman movie from DC and Warner Bros. While recent reports that Christopher Nolan is mentoring the new Superman film were denied by…
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The BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards happened over the weekend, and Brendon filed his report on the site. To promote the award show, the BAFTA commissioned illustrator Tavis Coburn of Dutch Uncle to create a series of posters, one for each of the five Best Film nominees of the year…
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I like John Krasinski, but I just don't see the guy as Steve Rogers, aka Captain America. And yet he's one of the actors reportedly being eyed by Marvel to take the lead role in Joe Johnston's film. Who else is the studio looking at? The list is after the break. In addition to John…
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The rather tremendous Matthew Goode, maybe best known round here as Zack Snyder's Ozymandias, has let slip that he auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. Here's how The Telegraph reported matters: But just before we met, he’d auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in Guillermo del Toro’s two-part film of The Hobbit.…
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Hopefully you've read a bit of sarcasm into the title of this piece, because I truly expect that Tobey Maguire is quite likely happy to set aside the Spider-Man costume. There's a very specific challenge to making big superhero films, but after three of them I'd expect that the challenge of playing something like his…
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Back in June, I had a chance to visit the set of Platinum Dunes remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street with a group of online journalists. This week we will be publishing the interviews we conducted on the set of the movie. After the jump you can read our interviews with the kids in…
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Consider this a courtesy report on the fact that New Line is making a film based on the Warner Bros. cartoon character Speedy Gonzales, with George Lopez providing the voice of the character. Because, like the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies, the Garfield films, et al, this one is a movie purely for the kids.…
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With all the controversy surrounding director Roman Polanski's legal troubles, I was quite curious to see his most recent film, The Ghost Writer, which recently premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and opened in limited release in the U.S. last weekend. I found it quite entertaining, a solid thriller with decent performances by leads…
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As many of you already know, James Earl Jones is the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, but he was not the actor in the suit during filming. A couple weeks ago a video circulated the web, showing actor David Prowse's original performance (sans Jones voice replacement). We have had it on…
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Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto has signed on to star in Tarsem Singh's War of the Gods, a new Greek mythology epic which will be filmed in a like 300. Relativity Media paid mid-six against seven figures for the script by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides. Sleeper Code/Machine Gun Preacher scribe Jason Keller penned the most…
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Nikki Finke is reporting that Matt Damon is going to star in a biopic of Robert F Kennedy for New Regency. Directed by Gary Ross, and written by Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight. The film will be adapted from the Evan Thomas-penned biography His Life, published in 2000. Ross burst into…
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Update: Wes Craven has corrected this story on twitter: "SCREAM 4 - LA Times has it wrong. I'm still in talks but nothing has been finalized." The original report follows after the jump. Hidden in an LA Times article profiling horror director Wes Craven is the following mention: Craven recently finished “My Soul to Take,”…
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A NSFW movie trailer for Showgirls 2 has shown up online... wait a second, Showgirls 2? Really? That's right, someone raised $25 million to shoot a sequel to Paul Verhoeven's controversial and widely panned 1995 cult film Showgirls. Directed by Marc Vorlander, Showgirls 2: The Story of Hope is about a stripper who dies from…
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Jason Segel and John Michael Higgins are in talks to co-star in Jake Kasdan's Bad Teacher. The comedy stars Cameron Diaz as Elizabeth Halsey, a foul-mouthed, conniving seventh-grade teacher who is dumped by her sugar daddy, and begins to woo the school's model teacher, and starts a bitter rivalry with his girlfriend, her squeaky-clean colleague…
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Jonah Hill has signed to star in The Sitter, a comedy described as Adventures in Babysitting meets Superbad. The story follows a suspended college student named Noah who gets talked into baby-sitting the eccentric kids next door -- two boys and a wild 8-year-old girl. Last year I had a chance to read an early…
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MTV has learned that Peter Berg's water based epic action adaptation of the board game Battleship will not be filmed in 3D. In this post-Avatar world, I think almost everyone assumed that it would be. A war between aliens and humans set on a Battleship seems like the perfect type of story to benefit from…
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Even with our well documented disdain for the project, we found the teaser trailer for The Karate Kid remake starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan to be surprisingly watchable (but it might have just been the very low expectations we had set). Word leaked in January that the film earned the second highest test screening…
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When Disney released Pixar's Toy Story, they almost didn't release a tie-in toy line. None of the toy manufactures wanted the license, so Disney ended up selling the worldwide master license to Thinkway Toys, a small Toronto-based company with a factory in China which mainly produced plastic banks in the form of film characters. Turns…
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Physorg has an interesting article about how Hollywood movies follow a mathematical formula that "lets them match the effects of their shots to the attention spans of their audiences." Here is an excerpt: "Psychologist Professor James Cutting and his team from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyzed 150 high-grossing Hollywood films released from 1935…
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When Joel and Ethan Coen announced their new adaptation of the Charles Portis novel True Grit, much of the primary cast came together quickly. Josh Brolin, Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges were all announced in short order. The last piece of the puzzle has been the actress who will play Mattie Ross. The girl propels…
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Just about the last person I'd expect to see making a short film to promote a video game is Neil LaBute, the theater director who has made films like In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors and the remake of The Wicker Man. But the team behind Sony's game Heavy Rain hired LaBute…
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I always love learning which actors were offered and turned down roles in films. Did you know that Sean Connery was originally offered the role of Morpheus in The Matrix? He supposedly turned down the role saying he couldn't understand the script. Years later, he said that he chose to do The League of Extraordinary…
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Gotta love the Onion. The paper/website is justly revered for comic 'news' articles that satirize every aspect of popular culture. But the video feed from the Onion News Network has become just as sharp as the print output. Take this piece, which purports to be a report on a series of ads directed by Lars…
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For the last few years there has been a lot of talk about Comic Con moving out of San Diego. The show was born there, but in the last decade, as 'geek culture' has exploded into the mainstream, the con has been bursting at the seams. Once a playground for actual comic book fans, the…
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Before Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Kevin James was just another comedian who had done well on TV before leaping into some mildly successful films. After Paul Blart, which had an exaggerated ratio between financial success and critical disdain, James suddenly became, to some people, the worst thing in movies. Can't say why, since I haven't…
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Back in June, I has a chance to visit the set of Platinum Dunes remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street with a group of online journalists. This week we will be publishing the interviews we conducted on the set of the movie. After the jump you can read our extensive interview with Platinum Dunes…
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You might think that the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy on Blu-Ray might be an exciting time for Middle Earth fans. Finally, a chance to see Peter Jackson's legendary trilogy in high definition, and without having to switch discs in the middle, no less! Head on over to the…
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If you've been reading /Film for a while, then you know how much we love long form interviews. James Cameron appeared on Charlie Rose on Wednesday, February 17th and gave a 30-minute interview. He talks a bunch about Avatar, the future of Avatar (prequels, sequels, novels), addresses the comparison to George Lucas' Star Wars, reveals…
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WhatsPlaying spoke to Elijah Wood, who is in Sydney Australia recording his voice for George Miller's Happy Feet 2. Not much is revealed in the video, but Elijah does drop a bit of news -- which I wouldn't consider a spoiler unless you haven't seen the first film. Wood's character Mumble the tapdancing penguin is…
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You may have noticed that on Monday we published our set visit report for Samuel Bayer's remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. You will also see on set interviews with the cast and crew of the film throughout the week. The reason we're running everything this week is because this is the week our…
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Hyde Park Entertainment and Parkes/MacDonald Productions have acquired Kenny Golde's spec screenplay Killer. The contained thriller was originally written with the intent to produce the film on a low budget. I heard that the screenplay was originally making the rounds at Paramount's new low-budget film division and Fox Searchlight, but quickly made its way up…
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Earlier this month I mentioned in a brief casting note that Danny Glover had been cast in Dragon Fire, a low-budget reworking of Moby Dick that would shoot in Utah, with a white dragon standing in for the more traditional white whale. Glover is Captain Ahab, and Vinnie Jones is in the film not as…
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This is a little nugget of info that's worth a chuckle but perhaps little more: a Reuters report says that Italy's health ministry has confiscated a great many 3D glasses -- as many as 7,000 -- from Italian cinemas. Why? the ministry believes that improperly cleaned glasses could represent a 'hygiene problem'. I keep wondering…
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Sony has hired Shane Black to bring pulp hero Doc Savage back to the big screen. I've been waiting for Black to step back into the director's chair for five years now. His feature directorial debut, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, is one of my favorite films of the past decade, mostly due to Black's incredible…
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Confessions of a Shopaholic star Isla Fisher is set to star in a high concept romantic comedy titled Kiss and Tell for Universal Pictures. Based on a pitch by Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens, the story follows a woman who discovers she has the ability to see the exact length of a long-term relationship, and…
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Peter Markle (Youngblood, Hot Dog... The Movie) has written and is attached to direct Immersion. The thriller follows a group of hardcore juvenile delinquents who are waiting to be tried as adults, and are granted "one last chance at redemption." "Venturing into the wilderness to participate in a brutal survival program, the teens encounter something…
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We've previously featured a photo of a group of Zombified Disney Princesses from ExCeL London in a past edition of Page 2. This new photo, which has been circulating the interwebs today, was taken at Midlands MCM Expo 10, and adds some male Disney characters to the mix. Click on the image above to enlarge.…
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Hot Toys is releasing a Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1/6th scale Sarah Connor Collectible Figure as part of their Movie Masterpiece Series line. I'm always amazed at the detail that goes into these figures, The movie-accurate Sarah Connor collectible is specially crafted based on the image of Linda Hamilton in the movie, highlighting the newly…
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I don't usually cover "wish fulfillment stories". For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, an interviewer at a junket asks a movie star, director or screenwriter if they'd ever do another sequel or remake of some popular movie. When faced with this question, the interviewee almost always says something like they'd…
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Ian McShane is in talks to play the villain in Rob Marshall's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment of the Disney theme park ride turned movie franchise. McShane will play Edward Teach, better known as the legendary pirate Blackbeard, a notorious black-bearded pirate who operated around the West Indies and the…
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In late 2009, screenwriter Derek Haas (Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma, The A-Team) created a website called Popcorn Fiction, which he described as "a place where new popular short fiction could flourish, and Hollywood could have a new resource for cultivating great ideas." Haas commissioned some very talented writers to pen stories for the site, including…
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It's a slow news day, and that means rumor time! You might remember that, over a year ago, Stephen Chow stepped away from the director's chair for The Green Hornet, supposedly to work on his own big Hollywood movie. Shortly afterward, it was said to be a vehicle for Jack Black and Anne Hathaway, and…
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The twin animators Stephen and Timothy Quay made their name based on a stunning set of short films such as The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer and Street of Crocodiles. The latter was based on the short story collection of the same name by Polish author Bruno Schulz. Now the Quay Brothers are embarking upon the…
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It looks like they have begun to test screen David Gordon Green's new comedy Your Highness, starring Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel. After the jump you can find a round up of comments from IMDb, Twitter and other sources, from TEN people who claim to have attended the recent test screening…
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Back in June, I has a chance to visit the set of Platinum Dunes remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street with a group of online journalists. This week we will be publishing the interviews we conducted on the set of the movie. After the jump you can read the short interview with actor Jackie…
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Since it was first announced I've been pretty thrilled for The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. The UK show stars David Cross as a doltish American sent to London to head up the promotions for an energy drink. He makes what might be called his best effort, but things go…poorly. The show is UK…
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The Farrelly Brothers start shooting their new film Hall Pass in Atlanta this week, and the cast just got an injection of additional talent. Stephen Merchant and J.B. Smoove will join Owen Wilson, Jenna Fischer and Jason Sudeikis in the film about two husbands (Wilson and Sudeikis) who are given a free pass to have…
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On Thursday June 25th, I had the opportunity to visit the set of Platinum Dunes' remake/re-imagining of A Nightmare on Elm Street. The film is directed by Samuel Bayer. Many of you might not immediately recognize the name, but Bayer is the man responsible for many of the classic alternative videos from the 1990's (Nivana's…
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Natalie Portman has developed a pretty good 'four for me, one for them' approach to picking roles, with V for Vendetta, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and Thor being her big studio films since escaping the Star Wars prequels, and many an indie or picture in between. Her production company Handsome Charlie Films has got movies…
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Do you remember the 2003 action crime thriller S.W.A.T. directed by Clark Johnson, starring Colin Farrell, Samuel L Jackson, Jeremy Renner and Michelle Rodriguez? Yeah, me neither. Well the film made Sony over $200 million in worldwide box office receipts, which is apparently enough to warrant a sequel. Columbia Pictures, Original Film, and producer Neal…
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25-year-old Massachusetts-based graphic artist Brandon Schaefer has created an impressive collection of retro-minimal movie posters. The Ghostbusters-inspired posters above have been making the internet rounds recently, but Schaefer has a huge portfolio of posters, some of which can even be purchased as prints on inPRNT.com. Check out some of his posters, after the jump. [gallery…
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This is a 1 minute teaser trailer for Judd L. Tilyard's upcoming short film Frame 137. The film is a sci-fi action piece based on the work of James O'Barr creator of the Crow, and made with his permission. The comic first appeared in Dark Horse Presents, and was expanded by Judd Tilyard into a…
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Business Pundit created a great infographic displaying some of t interesting numerological trivia behind the biggest award show in show-business: The Academy Awards. What is the average age of a best actor or actress? How much does an awards campaign cost a movie studio? What percent of actors have their career plummet after winning the…
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It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies, excluding Valentine’s Day starring every safe, boring white actor ever, that offer proof. Slashfilm's Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a new trailer for a provocative indie, a mini review or an interview. In 1986, a supernatural moto-fantasy about a…
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Ever since Laika Entertainment released the stop-motion aniamted 3D adaptation of Coraline, everyone has been wondering what the studio might be up to next. Coraline director Henry Selick's departure from the company, made a lot of animation fans uneasy about the Portland-based stop-motion animation studio's future. Laika also recently cut their computer animation division (128…
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Pro wrestler Shad Gaspard (part of the WWE tag-team Cryme Tyme) revealed over the weekend that he had auditioned for the role of Ukafa, the main villain in Marcus Nispel's upcoming remake of Conan the Barbarian.Details after the jump. Here is what Gaspard wrote: Now it’s down to me and several others to see which…
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Kevin Smith has exclusively told NHL.com that Seann William Scott will be taking the lead role in his Ice Hockey picture, Hit Somebody. Here's an exact quote: Seann William Scott, who worked with Smith on Cop Out, will play Buddy, the title character in Hit Somebody. The script, based on a Warren Zevon song with…
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Tonight saw the 2010 awards of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts take place at London's Royal Opera House. The BBC have broadcast the ceremony since, both in the UK and on their BBC America channel though - rather appallingly - this broadcast was purposefully scheduled to not take place live but after…
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After a week-long bidding war for The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner's next project -- a Bourne-styled action film called Abduction, Lionsgate has come out the winner. Rumor has it that Dreamworks had come close to nabbing the project, but that was not the case. I'm not sure how much the deal was…
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A new YouTube video gives us the first online look at moving footage from Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, and what we see is simply stunning. The film has premiered this week at the Berlin Film Festival to some wonderfully positive reviews, the most encouraging of which come from those who had doubts about Chomet's previous…
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Regular Green Lantern comics scribe Geoff Johns has today tweeted about his trip to "Green Lantern town a.k.a. New Orleans!!". According to his first tweet "Ryan IS Hal. And Mark Strong is going to be a brilliant Sinestro" and according to his second, "Kilowog, the Guardians, Oa...all breathtaking. The age of Green Lantern is upon…
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In the summer of 2008, Robert Henderson of Grandview, Missouri used a digital camcorder in a theater to record a video of The Dark Knight. His plan was to use that recording to sell DVDs, but he was apprehended as part of an MPAA investigation. We've now learned (via The Wrap) that Henderson was recently…
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Paramount Pictures has premiered a new television spot for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender during the Olympics on Saturday. I was somewhat impressed by the original teaser trailer which accomplished everything in one continuous (yet stitched together) shot. But the television spot which aired during the Super Bowl had me completely sold. To me…
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Coming out of the European Film Market is our first piece of Attack the Block sales art - sampled above but revealed in its entirety and complete with tagline below the break - and an expanded synopsis for Joe Cornish's film, "this year's Shaun of the Dead". There's really not much spoiled by the new…
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Aaron Guzikawski's hot-sale script Prisoners has certainly been around the block a few times, and in public too. The latest status report comes from Deadline Hollywood Daily who have Leonardo Di Caprio in the frame to take a lead role. They note that Leo is rather selective about which directors he works with, so his…
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There will be critics who call The Ghost Writer "a refreshing throwback to the taut political-conspiracy thrillers of the '70s" and "an enjoyable treat that offers smart flashes of Roman Polanski in his prime," and this praise, genuinely expressed or not, is unfortunate. Watching the film, I was convinced that had a "blind" screening been…
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We might have finally found out information about Pixar's mystery boy and his dinosaur film. An anonymous source responded to our story last night and confirmed that is is a Pixar short film called "Night And Day". Teddy Newton, a storyboard artist on The Iron Giant, Character Designer for The Incredibles and Presto, makes his…
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I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone just typing that title. The other day we told you that Ben Stiller was looking to take the lead in a film called Trump Heist (likely to be retitled Tower Heist) which had formerly been conceived as a "black Oceans 11". Brett Ratner has been attached to…
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Disney Parks has confirmed that the Francis Ford Coppola-directed/George Lucas-produced Michael Jackson sci-fi action 3D musical short film Captain EO will return to Disneyland's Tomorrowland beginning on Tuesday, February 23rd 2010. As a tribute to the magic, music and messages of “Captain EO,” the 3-D musical adventure is returning to the Tomorrowland theater in which…
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Organizers announced today that a special 25th Anniversary event taking place in Astoria on June 4 - 7, 2010 to celebrate the classic 80's adventure/comedy The Goonies. This event is follow up to the 20th anniversary which brought thousands of fans across the world to visit the cult film locations, meet some of the cast,…
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How does "an ensemble comedy/horror hybrid set in deep space" sound, especially when the script in question is described as being similar to Zombieland? That's the vague description for The Something, a spec script that has been picked up by Universal. That pseudo-logline is one of three bullet points for this story, but the other…
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What will Steven Spilerberg's Tintin look like? The motion-capture work for his adaptation of Hergé's classic comic character was shot last year, with Peter Jackson and WETA now working on post-production. We have yet to see a single design that shows off what the character will look like when the film appears in theaters next…
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Apparently there was a secret Los Angeles screening last night for Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. It must have been pretty exclusive, because I can't seem to find any details in all the usual places. A friend of Jeffrey Wells' friend attended, and wrote up a short review for Hollywood Elsewhere. Here is…
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If you've been on twitter, then chances are you've run across Justin Halpern's popular Twitter account s***mydadsays, a collection of crazy and hilarious quotes the 29-year-old writer father says and he publishes online for all to laugh about. Back in November, it was announced that the twitter account was being adapted into a CBS sitcom,…
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Walt Disney Pictures has finally released a movie trailer for Waking Sleeping Beauty. At the Telluride Film Festival last year, I had the opportunity to see this great documentary. The directorial debut of Oscar-nominated Disney producer Don Hahn (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast). is an honest look at the behind the scenes going-ons…
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Owen Wilson is often thought of in light of his broad comedies, but he's not stuck doing silly stuff. There's his long association with Wes Anderson, a project currently in the works with James L. Brooks, and now Wilson has signed on to be in Woody Allen's next movie. We don't yet know what the…
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I wonder how Yankees fans might feel about a couple of die-hard Red Sox fans working on a film about two '70s NY Yankees players. And then I wonder how Boston would react to those same two hometown guys donning pinstripes. Ben Affleck is now attached to direct and possibly star in The Trade, a…
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Walt Disney Pictures has released a new featurette for the big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Titled "Creating an Epic", the three-minute video takes a look at the huge locations with grueling conditions, large set creations, large cast of extras, enormous scope, and "amazing" visual effects.…
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Paramount Pictures has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to George Gallo's R-Rated crime dramedy Middle Men. The film, which recently made its world premiere at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, stars Luke Wilson, James Caan, Giovanni Ribisi and Gabriel Macht. Middle Men tells the true story of Jack Harris "the straight-laced businessman who helped launch…
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You might recall that last August, Pixar fans spotted some concept artwork featuring a boy and his dinosaur, on sculptor Greg Dykstra's wall in behind the scenes b-roll footage for Pete Docter's Up. Someone asked Pixar story supervisor Ronnie del Carmen about the artwork on Twitter, and he responded saying that he does know what…
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Sometimes we just love to feature big expensive geek stuff no one can afford. Today's Cool Stuff falls in that category. Sideshow Collectibles is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back with a Boba Fett Life-size Bust. Created in conjunction with Spectral Motion effects house, the Boba Fett Life-size Bust has…
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Lionsgate has released a new red band movie trailer for Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of the Mark Millar comic book series Kick-Ass. As you know, I've been very critical of the marketing for this film thus far. I've not only seen the preview footage at comic-con, read part of the comic, but I've seen the entire…
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I hope you had a chance to read the Vanity Fair profile on John Hughes that we featured on the site yesterday. If you put it off, browsed by it, and just didn't find the time -- here is your second chance. I've been wondering since reading the piece, just how many screenplays Hughes completed…
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I love the Zatoichi movies. Love 'em. One of my shelves has a pile of Zatoichi DVDs thirty cases high. The tale of a blind swordsman with amazing moves and a penchant for gambling certainly has no shortage of material for the dedicated fan: it spawned twenty-seven films and a one hundred and twelve-episode TV…
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Prana has released a movie trailer for the upcoming animated Bollywood feature film Koochie Koochie Hota Hai, directed by Tarun Mansukhani (Dostana). The film is a quasi-animated take on Karan Johar's Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (the highest grossing Indian movie of 1998) and marks the 12 year anniversary of its release. The popular Bollywood on-screen…
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Harry Potter publisher Barry Cunningham proudly declared that he had found the next world-shaking smash when he signed up authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams and published their book The Highfield Mole, renaming it Tunnels. It doesn't seem that he was quite right - there's three Tunnels books so far with a fourth to come soon and…
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Brian Bendis is a well known, well respected bestselling comic author. He has won critical acclaim including five Eisner Awards (the comic equivalent of the Oscar), and remains one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. Bendis was behind the Spider-Man comic book reboot, Ultimate Spider-Man, which he continues to write ten-years and…
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Focus Features has released a new three and a half minute featurette for Noah Baumbach's new comedy / drama Greenberg. Titled "Behind the Scenes: Brave At Our Age", the featurette has sit down interviews with the stars, Ben Stiller, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Greta Gerwig, talking about the story, movie, and director. It…
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A full length international movie trailer for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps has been released in The Sun. The trailer shows a lot more than the domestic teaser trailer (probably giving away too much of the plot this early on), and sports a much better soundtrack: the Rolling Stone's song Sympathy For The Devil. Watch…
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Worth 1000 is famous for their photoshop contests. Their latest, Mate a Movie 15, asks graphic artists to take two or more movies, and combine them to make one much funnier movie. I've included some of my favorites after the jump, most of which have some play on Avatar. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] See all…
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You've likely seen the latest Toy Story 3 trailer by now, which demonstrates that there will be a whole bunch of new characters populating the film. There are full-size character posters for two more of the new additions, each of which comes complete with an almost sickeningly cute name. One of the characters is actually…
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Almost a year ago Catherine Hardwicke signed with Warner Bros. and Appian Way to direct The Girl with the Red Riding Hood, a "gothic retelling" of the Little Red Riding Hood story. There hasn't been much public movement on the film since then, but Hardwicke is still attached, and the studio now has a lead…
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After a fairly short time on the market, Steven Soderbergh's film Contagion, to be shot later this year, has been bought by Warner Bros. The studio was bidding against Summit and other studios to nab the film, which already had a big cast attached (Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow)…
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MTV recently sat down with director James Cameron, and the result is a bunch of interesting, but not necessarily newsworthy, bits. I've embedded some of the more interesting video clips after the jump. Cameron talks about the Avatar Sequel, which he confirms will involve the same characters from the first film, including the humans, who…
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The latest issue of Vanity Fair has an outstanding set of articles on the late filmmaker/screenwriter John Hughes, something I would say you can't afford not to read. Details after the jump. Photographer Dan Winters offers a peek into the director's archieves, including memorabilia and props from some of his films, scans of some of…
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I loved the hell out of The Messenger. Oren Moverman's film about two soldiers assigned to notify next of kin about soldiers' deaths was tense, empathetic and moving. It dealt with trauma better than Brothers and boasts a trio of fantastic performances. So I've been excited to hear about Moverman's future films, and now it…
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John Moore will direct a big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Final Orbit, produced by Gale Anne Hurd (Terminator series, Aliens, The Incredible Hulk). Moore was an Irish commercial director who became a feature filmmaker with Behind Enemy Lines, Flight of the Phoenix, The Omen, and most recently Max Payne. The graphic novel, which…
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Carla Gugino (Watchmen, Sin City) has joined the cast of Faster, the George Tillman Jr.-directed revenge thriller starring Dwayne Johnson. It seems logical that Gugino is the replacement for Salma Hayek, who at the last minute (January 31st) dropped out of the project due to supposed "scheduling issues". If so, that is definitely a step-up…
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Super-Size Me director Morgan Spurlock is supposedly teaming-up with geek writer/director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) for a documentary about San Diego Comic-Con and fanboy culture. Sources tell E! that Spurlock and Whedon are currently searching for three super geeks to follow around at this year's Comic-Con, and the three months leading up…
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Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Big Fish) and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) are both in talks to co-star in Ninja Assassin and V For Vendetta director James McTeigue's upcoming period thriller The Raven. Renner is also in talks with Universal Pictures for Peter Berg's big screen adaptation of the board game Battleship. But The New York…
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Universal Pictures is looking to bring the American Pie franchise back to the big screen, but not as a reboot, but a fourth film in the series featuring the cast of characters from the original trilogy. That's right -- Jim, Stiffler, Nadia, Oz, Michelle, and all the gang. LA Times reports that the studio is…
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At awards shows, the death of a filmmaker is usually confined in the video montage celebrating all the big names in the film community that had died during the previous year. But the 2010 Academy Awards will feature a separate and special tribute to screenwriter/director John Hughes. Oscar hosts Steve Martin (Planes Trains & Automobiles)…
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We've been hearing for a while now that a new Mortal Kombat feature film was in the works, be it a new sequel directed by Christopher 'mink' Morrison or a reboot written by screenwriter Oren Uziel, author of the Black List 2009 entry Shimmer Lake. But a pesky reoccurring lawsuit might keep the video game…
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Paul Feig and Judd Apatow were the core creative team on Freaks and Geeks, with Feig taking point, working as a writer on all episodes and producing the series with Apatow. In the years since the show's brief run the two have found scant opportunity to work together. Now a comedy written by and starring…
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Premiering at next month's SXSW Film Festival in the movie mecca of Austin, Texas is The Ride, a thorough and serenely choreographed doc on young professional bull riders, rodeo entertainers, and the lucrative, tradition-heavy subculture that supports them. To some, the flick will appear an unlikely release from VICE Films, part of the media-and-culture empire that…
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"They only met once, but it changed their lives forever." Michele Rosenthal's "The Breakfast Club" art print is a tribute to one of the greatest teen movies of all time. Available as a digital print on heavy paper, 11.5" x 7.5", signed by the artist on the reverse, for only $10. Check out the full…
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While I'm not wild about Francis Lawrence directing Water for Elephants, some of the cast additions have me more and more interested. We already knew that Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon would be the primary leads for the picture, which takes place in a low-rent traveling circus. Sean Penn was in the mix as one…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the X-Men trilogy and X-Men Origins: Wolverine on Blu-Ray for only $50.99, 58% off the $120 msrp. The deal will only be good until midnight, so get it while you still can.
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OK, the title of this piece is sort of a bait and switch. You see the name Steven Spielberg and "dinosaurs", and certain associations immediately spring to mind. But this isn't Jurassic Park: The Show, nor is it something that Spielberg is likely to be very involved in beyond the executive producer stage. But in…
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Many changes were wrought to Joe Johnston's The Wolfman during production, many of which we talked about yesterday. One of the last-stage changes was a switch from Danny Elfman's original score to a new one by electronic/rock composer Paul Haslinger. Originally working as part of Tangerine Dream in the mid '80s, Haslinger had a part…
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We haven't known very much about Red Tails, the film that George Lucas has been producing about the WWII Tuskegee Airmen. The film was shot last year and has been in post, and there hasn't been an image or a scrap of footage released to the public. The most significant info about the film comes…
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Dreamworks Animation has released a bunch of viral featurettes for How to Train Your Dragon, showing lessons that can be learned while training the different species of dragons from the film. The animation and creature/set design in these videos don't impress me at all. For me some of the footage approaches would I might expect…
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James Cameron's Avatar has surpassed $2.35 billion worldwide, and keeps on going. A sequel is almost definite, but won't be seen on the big screen for a couple of years, at very least. But that doesn't mean we have to wait until 2012 or 2013 to return to Pandora. Producer Jon Landau revealed to MTV…
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Empire Magazine has released a three and a half minute mini-documentary they recorded on the set of Kick-Ass. They talk with director Matthew Vaughn, stars Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Mark Strong about the making of the film. The featurette is tightly cut together, but I'd almost much rather see a 15-20 minute…
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Steve Wiebe, noted Donkey Kong competitor and star of the 2007 documentary The King of Kong, recaptured his title as the Donkey Kong Junior World Record Holder. Billy Mitchell still remains the world record holder for regular Donkey Kong. Here is the update from Twin Galaxies: On behalf of Twin Galaxies, I'd like to congratulate…
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen, The Losers) will star alongside Sam Worthington in The Fields (formerly titled Texas Killing Fields), to be directed by Michael Mann's daughter Ami Canaan Mann from a screenplay by Donald F. Ferrarone. Morgan will play a detective "transplanted from New York." Previously: Worthington will play Jake, a "tough-minded misanthropic Texan, who…
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Doug Liman (Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and the upcoming Valerie Plame spy drama Fair Game) will direct Attica, an insider’s view of the 1971 four-day Attica state prison rebellion from a screenplay written by Geoffrey Fletcher, the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of Precious. It is definitely a powerful subject, which is deserving of…
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I'm not sure if these production photos are new, but I certainly haven't seen them posted around the movie news web space. Universal Pictures has released two photos from Little Fockers, the third film in the Meet the Parents series. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] Little Fockers will introduce Gaylord and Pam Fockers as parents of…
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Spike Jonze has produced a new live-action/animated adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life. The film, a collaboration between the National Film Board of Canada and Warner Home Video, will be included on the Blu-Ray release of Where The Wild Things Are, which hits stores on March 2nd.…
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For years, guys in high school have barely wondered what the source is to the mysterious glitter found on their clothes for days and months after vacating a girl's bedroom. Has Etsy finally let the immortal, sparkling, man-shaped, phallic-necked, vampire pillow out of the bag? This week, photos of $35 Twilight-themed "manllows" like the nightmarish one above---the Robert "Pasty" Pattison…
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It seems like every week one of the Hollywood studios announces a new board game or toy movie adaptation that pushes the limits on believability. Some nights while I'm writing up news, I wonder if I'm actually a minor character in one of those Hollywood satires that paints Hollywood executives as bumbling idiots, trying to…
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Deep Discount is selling the 5-Disc Blu-Ray Complete Collector's Edition of Blade Runner for only $13.99 (with free shipping), $26 off the $40 suggested retail price.
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Last week Warner Bros moved Sylvain White's comic book adaptation The Losers from its previously announced release date of April 9th to June 4th 2010 in order to give Warner Bros' other release Clash of the Titans more breathing room. Clash had been recently pushed back to an April 2nd release due to a last-minute…
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Quentin Tarantino, Upper Playground and The Weinstein Company have teamed up to present, The Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds -- a benefit for Haiti this Thurday, February 18th 2010 from 6:00-9:00pm in Downtown Los Angeles. A bunch of artists have created their own posters based on Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. You can check out eleven…
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When I look at director Mike Newell's filmography, I'm impressed by its breadth, depth, and quality. It's difficult for me to imagine that the same man who made Donnie Brasco also made Four Weddings and a Funeral, and also made Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Yet despite (or perhaps because of) his eclectic…
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Brief news on Contagion, the recently announced Steven Soderberg viral thriller penned by Scott Z. Burns. The film already has a hell of a cast: repeating Soderbergh star Matt Damon plus Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law are all in the lineup. Now Gwyneth Paltrow has joined as well, making this a cast that…
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Today's lesson is: indecision will cost you. As the long saga of Universal's new version of The Wolfman unfolded, it often seemed to outside observers like the studio and producers didn't know what movie they wanted to make. Original director Mark Romanek walked at the last minute, Joe Johnston was hired to replace him, then…
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Ray Winstone is currently starring in 44 Inch Chest, which was written by Sexy Beast writers Louis Mellis and David Scinto. Mellis and Scinto have since stopped working together, and Scinto is now poised to make the jump to director. As leading man in his debut Night Flower, he's tapped a reliable presence: Ray Winstone.…
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Author Dean Koontz has penned a series of books presenting a revisionist take on Frankenstein, which places the monster in modern New Orleans and incorporates some elements from Poe and detective fiction. (Or: he's partially penned a take, as the first book was co-written with Kevin J. Anderson and the second with Ed Gorman, though…
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In December, Summit Entertainment announced that they would be working on their own action-heavy Dracula remake, entitled Vlad, with a script by actor Charlie Hunnam, music video director Anthony Mandler in negotiations to direct, and Brad Pitt producing via Plan B. The film is planned as an action-oriented take on Dracula as a young prince;…
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The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles regularly has guest programers -- Screenwriters, directors, actors curate a selection of screenings at the historic revival movie house, now owned by Quentin Tarantino. Programers in the past couple years have included Edgar Wright, Diablo Cody, Joe Dante, Patton Oswalt, Eli Roth, and many others. Starting Friday, Jason…
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Yesterday, a rumor was quickly making the rounds that Lars von Trier had approached Martin Scorsese at the Berline Film Festival about doing a remake of Taxi Driver, possibly even featuring Robert De Niro, reprising his role as Travis Bickle. The reported plan was to enforce a set of extreme restrictions ala The Five Obstructions.…
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Out Today: Warner Bros has released an ultimate 35-film Clint Eastwood retrospective touted as the largest ever DVD box set featuring a single artist. Clint Eastwood: 35 Films, 35 Years at Warner Bros. contains 19-discs (16 of which are double-sided) containing 34 Warner Bros films that Eastwood either headlined and/or directed. The 35th "film" included…
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Screenwriter Chris Sparling made a name for himself with the one-man, one-location script Buried, which landed on the Black List, an industry insider list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year, and premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Huge buzz (read my review) resulted in a bidding war which ended with Lionsgate spending…
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OK, obviously the big crazy Martin Scorsese news today is that Lars von Trier challenged him to make a new Taxi Driver, but following the gameplan set forth in The Five Obstructions. (In that film, Von Trier challenged Jorgen Leth to remake his own film The Perfect Human five different times, each with a different…
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One of the most uninteresting parts of the Academy Awards are the boring speeches filled with "thank yous" to agents and producers. This year's producers of the Academy Awards, Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic, want to avoid these kind of speeches, and thus have asked this year's Academy Award nominees to prepare not one, but…
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Written and directed by Peter Stebbings, and starring Woody Harrelson and Kat Dennings, Defendor is a superhero dramedy which centers around three characters: an everyday guy who comes to believe he's a superhero, his psychiatrist, and the teenager prostitute he befriends. It's part Kick-Ass, part Sopranos, and part Kpax. I screened the film at the…
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Gizmodo found this simple infographic on OnlineSchools.org showing how 3D works, from the old red and blue Anaglyph technology, to the new polarized glasses and 3D projection, to our no glasses 3D future. Check it out, after the jump.
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Walt Disney Pictures' viral marketing campaign for Tron: Legacy is gearing up once again, with a new website and countdown clock unlocked. Will a new trailer be revealed on February 24th? Details after the jump. For those of you who don't remember, in July I received a package which included two arcade coinds that read…
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Last week we posted a new trailer for Toy Story 3 which revealed a whole bunch of new characters. We even did an extensive write-up of all the fun Pixar easter eggs that can be found in the trailer. Over the weekend, Walt Disney Pictures released an international version of the trailer, which features a…
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Cinema Spy has started a new rumor claiming that Chris Pine (who played James T Kirk in JJ Abrams Star Trek) is the front runner to play Captain America in Joe Johnson's The First Avenger: Captain America. Wow, what short attention spans we all must have. It was only a week ago when the director…
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You might remember that, last May, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh was announced as the director of The Magnificent Eleven, a modern remake of The Magnificent Seven that centers around a group of UK footballers (i.e. soccer players, which I pray doesn't really require explanation) who rally around a Tandoori restaurant. We still don't know that…
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It's a day for discarded project news. First there was Nicolas Winding Refn moving away from Jekyll and The Dying of the Light in favor of Drive, and now we hear that Austrian director Michael Haneke is switching up the subject of his next film. Originally he'd planned to make a film about the humiliation…
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OK, I'm stunned. What is there to possibly say about the news that actor Andy Serkis and multi-hyphenate Nick Cave are planning a motion-capture version of The Threepenny Opera? It's an idea that sounds so mad and so perfect I can't imagine not rushing out to see it. But mo-cap? Granted, if that's the technique…
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This is easily my favourite film news story of the year so far. According to reports coming out of the Berlin Film Festival, Lars von Trier and Martin Scorsese are to team up for a remake of Taxi Driver and that Robert De Niro will star, presumably still in the role of Travis Bickle. This…
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I know it seems like we've had a lot of posts lately about Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, but that's what happens when a guy who has been making interesting movies for several years starts to nose around studio films. He got attached to a lot of projects in short order, and now some of…
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Remakes, remakes remakes...but is it a different scenario when the director of an acclaimed foreign film signs on to remake his own movie for English-speaking audiences? That's what's happening with Terribly Happy, the dark, Coen Brothers-flavored Danish film that cleaned up at the major Bodil Awards in 2009 and is Denmark's submission for the Foreign…
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Over 100 Star Wars fans broke into an an massively epic lightsaber fight in Bristols Cabot Circus, a shopping mall in Bristol, England. The flashmob was organized online through facebook, and took place on February 13th 2010. Watch some videos after the jump. Another video: Another video: Another Video: via: bonniegrrl
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I'm not sure why anyone needs an all-in-one Blu-ray Disc/VHS Tape player, but the retro-tech part of me thinks it is cool (...but I'm also the type of person who still owns the Back to the Future trilogy box set on VHS...). I remember a year or so ago when it was impossible to find…
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The last teaser trailer for Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment's upcoming computer animated film Despicable Me had a lot of people scratching their heads. Who are these little yellow guys with glasses, gloves and blue overalls, and what do they have to do with a film about an evil villain who is plotting to steal…
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The annual Toy Fair takes place this week in New York City. Sadly, we are unable to attend. But thanks to the wonders of the internet... we've had a chance to browse most of the new toys and collectibles that premiered at the event. After the jump you will find a round up of some…
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Something tells me that Kathryn Bigelow won't have too much trouble finding more work in the future after the massive critical praise and award hype for The Hurt Locker. We've previously reported that she's re-teaming with Hurt Locker writer Mark Boal for the Latin America-centered Triple Frontiers, and there's also word that she's attached to…
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Some small progress on Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's Jonah Hill-ified 21 Jump Street movie, as Columbia Pictures have formally tagged Friday August 5th 2011 for it's Stateside release. That leaves quite a healthy window, so production won't necessarily be starting too soon, but it's a commitment. Well, at least as much of a commitment as…
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Lucky McKee's May is, not to put too fine a point on it, one of the best horror films of the last decade. Angela Bettis starred in the title role, a lonely young lady who is moved to extreme measures in her search for a friend. Bettis and McKee later reteamed on the Masters of…
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Roger Friedman is reporting a rumour that the team remaking Arthur are keen to bag Meryl Streep for a role. The part in question would be the do-over's equivalent of the valet played by John Gielgud in the original and despite the sex change, they'd still be using the name Hobson for the character, at least…
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It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies, excluding Valentine's Day starring every safe, boring white actor ever, that offer proof. /Film’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a new trailer for a provocative indie, a mini review or an interview. The first half-hour of Police, Adjective features several…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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According to Vulture, test screenings of The Baster have revealed a popular distaste for the title. Okay, in and of itself the title is barely offensive but it would seem these test audiences are finding it a little too on the nose in how it makes the film's central maguffin, a turkey baster used for…
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Mike Newell (Prince of Persia, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Donnie Brasco) has signed on the write and direct a yet-to-be-officially-titled feature film based on the book The Terminal Spy by Alan Cowell, the New York Times' London bureau chief when the events narrated in this book reached their climax.. The 448-page book…
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Bradley Cooper has signed on to star in filmmaker Joe Carnahan's thriller The Grey. Carnahan directed Cooper in the bigscreen adaptation of The A-Team, due out this summer. The story is about a group of Alaska pipeline workers who crash land while flying back into civilization after being remote for a few months.The survivors begin…
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Russ mentioned in his Casting Notes post earlier today that a bunch of studios were in a bidding war for The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner's next project -- a Bourne-styled action film called Abduction. Rumor has it that Dreamworks has won the bidding war. Update: Dreamworks has contacted us and the studio…
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A few weeks ago we premiered an exclusive four-phase progression of the computer rendering of the Cheshire Cat in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Walt Disney Pictures has released a few more sets as part of their Wonderland Wednesdays promotion, including Matt Lucas' transformation into Twdledee and Tweedledum, The White Rabbit from sketch to CGI,…
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This is really just confirmation of a story that broke last August: director Todd Haynes is adapting the classic James M. Cain novel Mildred Pierce into a television mini series starring Kate Winslet. That's the old news. The new stuff, which confirms speculation from last summer, is that HBO has bought into the project and…
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Most of the deals to come out of Sundance have been fairly small, from a monetary perspective. There's just not much cash in indies these days, so the glory days of massive buys at the fest seem to be gone for the time being. And now along comes this reported deal for Vincenzo Natali's film…
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Walt Disney Animation Studios's 2010 computer animated release Rapunzel has been retitled Tangled. Producer Roy Conli explains: "Hey everyone, I'm Roy Conli, producer of Disney's next animated film. I have some exciting news to share, and it was important to me that YOU guys – the Disney fans – hear it first. I want to…
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I seem to be one of the few who didn't think that yesterday's Get Him to the Greek trailer was the funniest thing since 'Man Getting Hit in the Groin by Football,' but that doesn't mean I don't have a soft spot for Russell Brand. After Forgetting Sarah Marshall, how could you not? So I'm…
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The new trailer for Toy Story 3 hit the web yesterday. If you haven't watched it yet, watch it now here! As you probably know, I'm an obsessive Pixar fanatic and love finding all of the little easter eggs that the animators/designers hide in the films. In the past we've taken a look at the…
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I can see why people grimace when the phrase "Kevin Costner directs" appears. There's Waterworld and The Postman and, yeah, those movies are trials. (Waterworld, Costner's uncredited/contested effort, is actually a really entertaining trial when approached in the right light, but still.) They're also notable for being not at all the sort of vanity actor-turned-director…
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I like the 'men behind the lines' movie. It's a great action flick setup that never really goes out of style. It was good enough for Quentin Tarantino and Inglourious Basterds, and I hope it'll be good enough for Centurion, Neil Marshall's follow-up to the insane and ridiculous (those are good things) Doomsday. We've seen…
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David Twohy and Vin Diesel are confirmed to be reteaming for a third Riddick picture. Unsurprisingly, this one is said to be leaner and meaner than the second installment, the astonishingly baggy Chronicles. This is how Variety put it: ...insiders say the third outing will hew closer in tone to the cult hit Pitch Black…
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Today we're happy to debut the excellent poster for Marco Bellocchio's Vincere, which premiered in Competition at Cannes last year before hitting Telluride, TIFF and the NYFF. IFC opens the film in the States next month. Vincere is the story of Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), who was reportedly the first wife of Benito Mussolini and…
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In 2007, it was announced that Jerry Bruckheimer would be producing a new adaptation of The Lone Ranger, with Pirates of the Caribbean/Shrek screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio penning the script. A year later, in 2008, it was revealed that Johnny Depp had been cast as Tonto, and George Clooney was rumored to be…
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Producer Lionel Wigram, a former Warner Bros creative executive who oversaw the first three Harry Potter films and went out to create/pitch/write Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, has hired screenwriter Peter Straughan (The Men Who Stare at Goats) to adapt Alexandre Dumas' classic 17th-century adventure novel The Three Musketeers. The plan is to update the story…
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Overture Films has sent us three exclsuive photos from Breck Eisner's remake of The Crazies, starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker and Joe Anderson. I also heard a rumor that Eisner might be a guest on an upcoming edition of the /Filmcast. Check out the photos after the jump. Photos: [gallery columns="2" orderby="ID"] Official…
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Kate Mara (Iron Man 2, HappyThankYouMorePlease) and Amber Tamblyn (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) are in talks to co- star alongside James Franco in Danny Boyle's (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) next film project, 127 Hours. The film tells the story of Aron Ralston, the mountain climber who amputated his own arm to…
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Meanwhile, horror writer/director/producer Eli Roth will reteam with StudioCanal and Strike Entertainment to produce a psychological thriller titled The Other Woman. The film will be directed by Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland, who are currently writing the screenplay. Botko and Gurland also wrote The Last Exorcism (previously known as Cotton), which they had originally planned…
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As if we didn't see this one coming, Nikki Finke has confirmed with her high up sources that Summit Entertainment will film the two-film adaptation of Breaking Dawn, the last film in the Twilight series, back-to-back beginning in Mid-October 2010. It is a smart move for Summit to act quick on the remaining chapters of…
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Universal Pictures has released the first movie trailer for the Forgetting Sarah Marshall spin-off, Get Him to the Greek. The story, written and directed by Nicolas Stoller, follows a fresh-out-of-college record company intern named Aaron Greenberg (Jonah Hill) who is assigned by his angry record company boss Sergio (Sean "P-Diddy" Combs)to transport an out-of-control rock…
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Warner Bros Pictures has released 30+ high resolution photos from Kevin Smith's buddy cop comedy Cop Out, starring Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollak, Guillermo Diaz, Ana de la Reguera and Seann William Scott. Check them out after the jump, along with the production notes from the film. Click on any of the…
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At first glance it appears that Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg, the screenwriting/directing team credited with ruining the spoof movie genre (Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, Scary Movie series, Date Movie) have run out of material in the Hollywood genre world and are now going to take aim at the Los Angeles independent…
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This is a story with details so obvious and so easily expected that there is barely any reason to report them. Really, I'm just doing this to bum out the hardcore Isaac Asimov purists who are already despondent at the idea of Roland Emmerich getting his hands on the Foundation Trilogy. It's all in the…
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Now that Santa Barbara-based hedge fund Pacificor has gained the rights to the Terminator Franchise, everyone is wondering what the future of the franchise might hold. William Wisher, the uncredited co-writer of Terminator and credited co-writer of Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (shared with James Cameron) has written a detailed 24-page treatment for Terminator 5, and…
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It was just a few days ago that we heard a prequel/reboot of Mr. and Mrs. Smith is under consideration. But why bother, when there's Killers, a movie about a woman who marries a seemingly perfect guy, only to discover that he's a government operative/assassin? Of course she gets in on the action, turning this…
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Box Office is reporting that Warner Bros has decided to bump Sylvain White's comic book adaptation The Losers from its previously announced release date of April 9th to June 4th 2010. It is assumed that the new Summer release was to give Warner Bros' other release Clash of the Titans more breathing room. Clash had…
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The Rock/Double Jeopardy screenwriters Douglas Cook and David Weisberg are attached to write a a big screen adaptation of the first-person shooter time-travel war video game Darkest of Days. Joe Roth (Alice in Wonderland, Knight & Day) is producing and CAA is currently shopping the project to the hollywood studios. In Darkest of Days the…
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The indie comedy/thriller Salvation Boulevard got an interesting trio of actors today: Pierce Brosnan, Ed Harris and Jim Gaffigan have all joined the cast. What's the story? The film "is set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will…
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The Terminator rights sale saga just keeps on going. At the beginning of this week, Sony and Lionsgate were jointly bidding for the rights to the Terminator franchise. They lost out to Pacificor, the hedge fund that had loaned money to Halcyon to buy the Terminator rights in the first place, before calling in the…
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The second and final full trailer for Pixar's Toy Story 3 has been released online via MySpace. It is packed with new characters and detail, and suggests that the scope of this film might be a lot bigger than I think some of us were expecting. Check it out after the break. The first full…
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Screen Daily is reporting that Alicia Silverstone will reunite with Clueless director Amy Heckerling on her latest project, a vampire romantic comedy, entitled Vamps. Apparently, it will "be a modern-day tale of two young female vampires living the good life in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice…
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Not that we didn't expect him back for another go around, but Tyrese Gibson has confirmed that he will be reprising his role as Sgt. Epps in Michael Bay's Transformers 3. In a post on Twitter, he confirmed by saying that "Yes I will for sure be in Transformers 3.. Get Ready!! Epps is here…
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Dennis Lehane is an author known for his Boston-based mystery novels, three of which have already been adapted to the big screen. Clint Eastwood's Mystic River was award-nominated but underrated, Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone was one of the best movies of 2008, and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island hits theaters next week (I saw it…
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You might recall that back in October we told you that New Line/Warner Bros had signed Wedding Crashers and Fred Claus director David Dobkin to produce and possibly direct a new film in the National Lampoon's Vacation series which would follow Rusty Griswold, the son of Clark Griswold, who is now a father in his…
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Screenwriter Chase Palmer has been hired to write a draft the big budget remake of Dune for Paramount Pictures. Taken/District B13 director Pierre Morel came aboard the film early this year after Peter Berg departed the project. Palmer has been brought on board to work some of Morel's ideas into original scribe Josh Zetumer's screenplay.…
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Disney will finally release a new trailer for Lee Unkrich's Toy Story 3 tomorrow, but if you can't wait, a 30-second preview has shown up online. You can watch it now, embedded after the jump. I've also included some snapshots of some of the new toys that Woody, Buzz and the gang meet at the…
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At the Telluride Film Festival last year, I had the opportunity to see an good documentary called Waking Sleeping Beauty. The directorial debut of Oscar-nominated Disney producer Don Hahn (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast). is an honest look at the behind the scenes going-ons of Disney Animation, from the years 1984 to 1994,…
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Writing about films that don't have a real title can be confusing, so I'll try to make this clear. I'm With Cancer was once the title of a comedy / drama that will star Seth Rogen, James McAvoy and Anna Kendrick. That title has been abandoned for some time, so for the time being it's…
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/Film reader Rolo Tomassi has seen Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables, and provides us with a short, spoiler free review of the early cut, after the jump. Context: As always, remember that the film isn't finished until the junket press screenings. This early cut of the film might be very different than the movie which hits…
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Last week, I journeyed to Santa Monica to visit the offices of Illumination Entertainment. Started by Christopher Meledandri, the producer behind Opportunity Knocks and Cool Runnings, who helped acquire and oversee Blue Sky Studios, the computer animation studio which produced the Ice Age series and Robots. Meledandri produced Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, The…
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How often are Lars von Trier and a tentpole franchise like Pirates of the Caribbean part of the same story? Yesterday we mentioned that Penelope Cruz looked like a lock to star in Melancholia, the next film from Lars von Trier. Now it seems that she won't be doing that after all, in part because…
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A couple years back, New Line Cinema was trying to remake John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi actioner Escape from New York. They first hired Live Free or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman, who got replaced with Brett Ratner. I wasn't excited about either of the two filmmakers rebooting Snake Plissken, although Wiseman's production design background made…
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MGM has released a second green band movie trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine, a new sci-fi comedy starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Lizzy Caplan, Crispin Glover and Chevy Chase. The film follows a group of best friends who’ve become bored with their adult lives: "Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped…
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Sony Pictures has confirmed that the upcoming Spider-Man reboot will be distributed in 3D. The studio hasn't revealed if the movie will be filmed using 3D cameras or be converted in post production. I assume the former, since the decision is being made during pre-production. The new movie which still remains untitled (I'm betting on…
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Paramount Pictures has released a new movie trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender on Yahoo. I was somewhat impressed by the original teaser trailer which accomplished everything in one continuous (yet stitched together) shot. But the television spot which aired during the Super Bowl had me completely sold. To me that spot had…
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The last time we heard about the movie Drive, Neil Marshall was talking about it as one of his next projects. Hugh Jackman was to star in the film about a guy who is a stuntman by day and robbery getaway driver by night. But it's been quite a while since the film was mentioned…
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This is unexpected. Evidently Warner Bros. really liked what Albert and Allen Hughes did with The Book of Eli, because the brothers are reportedly finalizing a deal to direct the long-discussed live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's manga Akira. Originally floated in early 2008 as a two-part film to be directed by Ruairi Robinson, the films…
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We've heard a lot of back and forth about MGM's proposed Robocop remake, most of which is has to do with whether Darren Aronofsky, the director originally hired to tackle the film, is still part of the project. The last official word, in late summer '09, was that Aronosky was still part of the project,…
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Expect to see many posters showing off newToy Story 3 characters before the film opens this summer. The image above teases a bunch of the new characters to debut in the sequel, and shows two new characters, Peas-in-a-Pod and Ken, the latter voiced by Michael Keaton. (Expect questions about Ken's sexual orientation in 3..2..1..) We've…
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Update: Disney says that the ComingSoon report is false and that the film will come out in Summer 2011 as originally scheduled. The Walt Disney Company revealed during their first quarter earnings call yesterday that Pixar's Cars 2 has been pushed back to a December 2011 release. This si the third release date change for…
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Warner Bros wants audiences to know that Louis Leterrier's Clash of the Titans remake is being released in digital 3D so they created the "very subtle" new posters and banners to promote the release. Check out the new "The Clash Begins in 3D" advertising art after the jump. Click on the images to enlarge and…
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A couple weeks ago it was reported that Flight of the Conchords director James Bobin has signed on to direct the new Muppet film for Walt Disney Pictures. The screenplay written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), was titled The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made, but has now been renamed The Greatest…
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If you've been reading /Film for a while, then you know my obsession with minimalistic movie poster design. We've featured many of these simple 2-4 color streamlined posters on the site in the past, but never anything having to do with television. Graphic artist Albert Exergian has created a bunch of minimalistic posters for some…
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Universal has purchased David Guggenheim's spec Safe House for $600k against $900k, winning out against two other movie studios in a bidding war. The action thriller tells the story of a CIA agent who becomes the only survivor after a CIA safe house attack, and must help a dangerous prisoner avoid being killed as they…
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The first story details from Columbia Pictures' big screen adaptation of The Smurfs has leaked on SpoilerTV in the form of a casting call. The film, which is a CGI/live action hybrid, is being helmed by Raja Gosnell (Scooby Doo and Beverly Hills Chihuahua). The casting call is for two characters, both described as "Major…
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When it was first announced that JJ Abrams and Tom Cruise were reteaming to co-produce a fourth Mission Impossible film, a lot of factors were unknown. Would it be a reboot, a spinoff? Would Tom Cruise return as Ethan Hunt? Would JJ Abrams also direct? Well now we finally have our answer -- Paramount Pictures…
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Tron isn't the only classic Disney property to be revitalized by Joseph Kosinski. After he finishes Tron Legacy, Kosinski will turn to a new version of The Black Hole. (As a producer, possibly as director.) The 1979 original was the most expensive film Disney had made at the time, and pioneered the use of computer…
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Famous comic creator Stan Lee sent out some tweets today claiming that he has met with director Edgar Wright regarding an Ant-Man movie, which Marvel is "prepping", according to Lee. We know that Wright has been developing the project for a couple years now, and put the comic book adaptation on the backburner once he…
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The cast for Jim Sheridan's new film Dream House has shaped up to be pretty impressive. We've had Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts so far; now Rachel Weisz has entered the fray. She'll play Craig's wife. He's "a successful publisher who quits his Gotham job and relocates his wife and two daughters to a quaint…
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One of the short films we were left raving about at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was an animated film titled Logorama. I was convinced at the time that the short would never see the light of day due to the obvious legalities involved. But I guess since it has now been nominated for the…
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In October of last year Lars von Trier revealed his next movie, Melancholia, a 'psychological disaster film' with sci-fi overtones. In true von Trier fashion he revealed little else about the movie, promising only "no more happy endings!" If you've seen Antichrist, or any of his other films, you know that a von Trier happy…
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Steven Soderbergh is putting off his Liberace biopic in favor of something with a little more heat and conventional appeal. Instead of Liberace, this fall Soderbergh will now shoot a script called Contagion by his The Informant! writer Scott Z. Burns. Said to be "an action-thriller about the outbreak of a deadly virus," the script…
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I'm sure quite a few people have called for something like this in discussions about what Warner Bros. should do to make Superman work on the big screen: the studio is reportedly turning to Christopher Nolan to act as a "godfather" to help shepherd development of a new Superman film. Before we go further, at…
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Could Saw VII be the final installment of the popular horror movie franchise? Screenwriter Patrick Melton, who co-wrote the last three Saw films and the upcoming seventh movie, claims the the series will probably end with the seventh installment, and they have even planned to wrap up the lingering questions. The following quote comes from…
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The producers of Fox's hit action serial television series 24 have been talking about doing a big screen movie adaptation for years now. I just assumed that it was one of those things that would never happen, and that the made for television movie prequel they did last season was an easy out. Well it…
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The Terminator movie rights went up for auction today, and Sony Pictures and Lionsgate were bidding frantically back and fourth from 3:00pm to 8:00pm tonight. But as the dust cleared, neither movie studio came out the winner. Halcyon accepted a $29.5 million bid from a Santa Barbara-based hedge fund Pacificor, the debtholder which pushed the…
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Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, The Player) has been cast in Martin Campbell's big screen adaptation of the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern. According to Heat Vision, Robbins will play Senator Hammond, a former astronaut and the disapproving father of the movie's villain, Dr. Hector Hammond (played by Peter Sarsgaard). The doctor comes…
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If you happen to use the bathroom while being stalked by a serial killer or a ghost/monster, watch out, because they're right behind you. Last year we posted a video compilation showing the many moments from horror movies where the protagonist is trapped with bad cell phone reception. Today we've found another horror video compilation,…
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Francis Ford Coppola Winery is offering a 25% off coupon code for a couple of the Skywalker Ranch Wines: 2006 Merlot and 2006 Chardonay. The coupon Code is "THEFORCE" and is valid until February 15th 2010. For those unfamiliar with the origins of this wine, Viandante del Cielo is made by the winemaking team at…
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We haven't done much coverage on the film Passion Play, which stars Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox. The first big piece we ran on the film was prompted by Toby Kebbell dropping out and Bill Murray stepping into his role. Now we've got the first image from the movie, above, and a few quotes from…
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Last week some quotes came out of a Cop Out roundtable interview where Kevin Smith talked about the notion of accepting money donated from fans to finance his movie Red State. Smith said that he would match donations based on the plan that had been considered so far (a point I think a lot of…
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Prefix has learned that the French band Phoenix is working on the score/soundtrack/sound design for Lost In Translation/Virgin Suicides director Sofia Coppola’s next film Somewhere. Thomas Mar, the frontman for the group had this to say about the project: “It’s very minimal,” said Mars of the new work. “It’s almost like sound design. It wasn’t…
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Update: Cnet has issued the following retraction: "Netflix now claims that it incorrectly acknowledged 1080p streaming in the company's 2010 development road map. A Netflix representative has clarified that the company plans to bring 5.1 surround and closed captioning to its streaming HD videos later this year, though 1080p Watch Instantly is not on the…
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Universal Pictures has a couple more minor release date changes, including a new date for the Forgetting Sarah Marshall spin-off, Get Him to the Greek. The story, written and directed by Nicolas Stoller, follows a fresh-out-of-college record company intern named Aaron Greenberg (Jonah Hill) who is assigned by his angry record company boss Sergio (Sean…
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Within the next few years, you can safely expect to see just about every film genre reworked for teens -- the last few that haven't already been fed into the Teen Machine will be lined up right quick. Not that there's anything wrong with that, necessarily. Skewing a film young doesn't mean it will be…
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Twitch has posted a short teaser trailer for the upcoming animated film from Japan's Studio Ghibli titled Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers). Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who served as a key animator on Hayao Miyazaki's classics Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle or Spirited Away, makes his directorial debut. And at 36-years-old, Yonebayashi becomes the youngest person to…
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I'm not sure that you can really call this a 'reboot', but there's word that Fox and Regency Enterprises are working on a new Mr. and Mrs. Smith film that would, in effect, be just a new film story entirely. The new movie, called Mr. and Mrs. Jones, would essentially be a way to keep…
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Good news for Drive Angry 3D, the new film from Patrick Lussier that already starred Nicolas Cage and, one would presume, a lot of cars: William Fichtner and Amber Heard are both joining the cast. The appeal of both should go without saying; too bad All the Boys Love Mandy Lane hasn't had a proper…
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Last year we reported that Danny Boyle's abandoned project The Texas Killing Fields had got a new lease on life and a couple of attached stars: Sam Worthington and Bradley Cooper. While Cooper's relationship to the film is currently uncertain, multiple sources are now confirming Worthington's involvement. Michael Mann will produce the film for his…
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You're going to be seeing this one everywhere today, so let's get it out of the way quick. In a report about David Goyer leaving FlashForward, Nikki Finke pegs script duties on the third Batman movie as one of the primary reasons he walked away. The direct quote from Goyer was pretty vague ("As my…
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Below the break you can read what director Gerard Johnson and star Peter Ferdinando told me about their film Tony, aka Tony: London Serial Killer. This film is perhaps our first real candidate for bona fide cult status in 2010. There was a /film exclusive clip from the film in last Friday's /film UK update.…
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File this story in the "I wish I were joking" pile: Gary Marshall's ensemble romantic comedy Valentine's Day doesn't even open until Friday but Hollywood is already planning a sequel. According to Finke, the film's producers have hired screenwriter Katherine Fugate write another holiday-themed film as a follow-up titled New Years Eve. The sequel/spin-off will…
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Things haven't been going as planned for FlashForward, ABC's Lost-replacement sci-fi drama that debuted last fall. Ratings have dropped steadily for the series since it launched, it lost Marc Guggenheim as its first showrunner in November (who was replaced by co-creator David Goyer), and then ABC decided to extend the show's hiatus until March to…
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Back in November, we told you that Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo would be reprising their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold from the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, but not for another big screen sequel (not yet, at least...). The Griswolds reunited instead for an advertising campaign for HomeAway launched during the 2010 Super Bowl.…
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Hot on the heels of the news that Olivia Wilde (House) is joining the cast of Jon Favreau's Cowboys and Aliens, we finally have a release date for the film from Universal. The studio announced on Friday that they're carving out a prime summer spot for the film, which stars Daniel Craig, on July 29,…
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Universal Pictures' prequel to John Carpenter's cult classic thriller The Thing is gearing up to begin shooing in Toronto in mid-March, and the studio has begun to announce the cast line-up. Heat Vision has learned that Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Grindhouse, Scott Pilgrim) and Joel Edgerton (The Secret Life of Us, Kinky Boots) have been cast…
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In an article in the Sunday Mail, Bill Murray has confirmed that he will be appearing in Ghostbusters 3. He also revealed some spoiler-ish details of what he will be doing in the third installment of the sci-fi comedy franchise. You can read those details, after the jump. You have been warned. It has been…
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Walt Disney Pictures has released the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Superbowl television trailer. The new television spot gives us a look at some of the film's tentpole special effects-filled sequences. You can watch it now, embedded after the jump. As always, leave your thoughts in the comments below. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/ppsuperbowl.flv 550 230] OFFICIAL…
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After the break you'll find the next two installments of my "Frogumentary", focusing on The Princess and the Frog animator Eric Goldberg and clean-up animator Marshall Toomey. You may wish to catch up on part one first. I want to extend my congratulations to Goldberg who last night won a richly deserved Annie Award for…
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The 37th Annual Annie Awards were held tonight and Pixar's Up ended up walking away with the Best Animated Feature Film award. The Annie for best animated feature has matched the eventual Oscar winner almost every year, except twice, since the Academy Awards first created the category in 2002. You can find a listing of…
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As is to be expected, director Joe Johnston was bombarded with questions about The First Avenger: Captain America, as he appeared on the junket scene to promote his new film, The Wolfman. Collider, The LA Times, Shock and AICN collectively learned a bunch of bits about the next Marvel comic adaptation. I've included the highlights…
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It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies, excluding The Tooth Fairy starring The Rock, that offer proof. /Film’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a new trailer for a provocative indie, a mini review or..."what do you mean Merlin wasn't real?!" Attention hosers: it's the return of FUBAR! And much…
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Is Christopher Nolan's Inception going to be a gigantic mindfuck? In a recent interview with the Inquirer (not Enquirer), star Leonardo DiCaprio talked about what it was like working on the film, even though he (and the other cast/crew) didn't always understand what was going on, even while they were filming: The material and its…
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Poland-based commercial director and cinematographer who goes by the nickname Macgregor (real name, Miguel de Olaso) has released a teaser trailer for an upcoming independent aci-fi action film titled KORE. First discovered by Twitch, who compares the futuristic cityscape to "the world of Ridley Scott's Bladerunner as filtered through the grime of Neill Blomkamp's District…
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Earlier tonight, news broke that Twilight star Taylor Lautner had signed on to play the title character in the upcoming 3-D superhero adventure Stretch Armstrong. What we didn't know at the time is that the announcement coincides with a release date shift for Hasbro's big screen adaptations. The "epic action-adventure" film Battleship will now hit…
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Yeah, you read that headline correctly. Somehow it makes sense that the kid who was in one of the early unnecessary entries of the current wave of 3D movies, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl 3D, will now topline one of the latest unnecessary entries in the current wave of 3D movies. But while…
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Atonement director Joe Wright is assembling the key cast for his teen assassin film Hanna, which already has Saoirse Ronan as the female lead. Now the movie that Brendon called "a kind of Nikita-meets-Leon, Kick-Ass-meets-Bourne mash-up" has a male lead: Eric Bana will play (I'm assuming) Hanna's father, who has spent most of the girl's…
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We've known that this would be happening, but a last-minute Friday report from Mike Fleming at Deadline Hollywood confirms Daredevil as the latest superhero reboot. David Scarpa, writer of The Last Castle and Fox's The Day the Earth Stood Still remake, is scripting. No other talent is announced at this point. Peter Chernin, who is…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Given the fact that Marvel and DC Comics characters have proved to be the new mainstays for summer moviegoing, I'm surprised that we haven't seen a new documentary that reaches deep into the history of either company. That might be about to change as Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch (who directed and produced Spellbound, Rocket…
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Nine may have crapped out at the box office last year, but the movie musical isn't dead by a long shot. There has been news this week that Russell Crowe may be the comically unlikely leading man to appear opposite Beyonce in a new version of A Star is Born, for one. (That may end…
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Universal Pictures has released the upcoming Superbowl television spot/trailer for Ridley Scott's Robin Hood on Yahoo. Watch it now, embedded after the jump. In 13th century England, Robin Hood (Russell Crowe) and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance…
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I've heard that the folks over at Walt Disney Pictures are going nuts for Tron: Legacy, and think it will be huge. A new report coming from AICN claims that Disney might also developing some spin-off television series spin-off for 2011/2012 (probably for Disney XD). No word on if it would be animated or live…
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A couple weeks back it was rumored that a third Gremlins film was in the very early stages of development, and that it was being created with 3-D in mind. If that is true, someone forgot to tell executive producer Steven Spielberg and screenwriter (now director) Chris Columbus. i09 cornered Columbus on the red carpet…
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It's difficult at this point for me to reconcile the directorial work of Luc Besson with his endless string of writing and producing projects. I'm still trying to wash the taste of From Paris with Love out of my mouth, and then a new teaser trailer for The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec drops in…
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Entertainment Tonight ran a behind the scenes feature on Christina Aguilera's live-action big screen film debut Burlesque. Steven Antin's contemporary musical tells the story of Ali, "an ambitious small-town girl with a big voice" played by Aguilera, who "tries to escape a hollow past by performing in a neo-burlesque club in Los Angeles." The film…
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The Sony-owned genre label Screen Gems has announced that they will be converting the upcoming graphic-novel adaptation Priest to digital 3D. The move follows Warner Bros, who decided last week to convert Clash of the Titans and the last two Harry Potter films to 3D following the success of Avatar. The film, directed by Legion…
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Every year AMC Theatres presents the Best Picture Showcase, an all-day event showcasing the five films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. But with this year's bump to 10-nominated films, I didn't expect the traditional event to take place. I was wrong. AMC will be showcasing all ten movies nominated for best picture…
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Kevin Smith has been talking about the film Red State for a couple of years now, and his description has been enough to keep the project high on fan wishlists. "It’s this weird f***ing dark little seventies horror movie that nobody wants to make," Smith says. Despite the difficulty in getting funds for the film,…
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Below the break are the first installments of The Frogumentary, my videoblog from Walt Disney Animation Studios. It takes us behind the scenes of Disney's The Princess and the Frog and the studio's return to hand drawn animation. If you, like me, live in the UK, today's the day the movie opens nationwide for you…
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Original Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell are going to film a new low-budget horror picture this summer called Insidious, with Wan directing from a script by Whannell. Making the project a bit more interesting, Oren Peli, Jason Blum and Steven Schneider, the guys behind Paranormal Activity, are producing. Variety says that the Paranormal…
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Last we heard, Lionsgate held the top bid for the rights to the Terminator franchise, a $15 million purchase and a 5% cut of future gross. Variety now has word that Sony Pictures has submitted a big on Thursday, the last and final day to submit offers. The future of the Terminator franchise, which includes…
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Author Joe Hill is following in the steps of his father Stephen King, and making the transistion to Hollywood. His book, Heart-Shaped Box is being developed into a big screen thriller by director Neil Jordan over at Warner Bros, Mandalay Pictures has optioned his upcoming novel Horns, and his graphic novel, Locke & Key was…
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Two bits of Marvel news tonight: Director Joe Johnston, who's helming the upcoming The First Avenger: Captain America, recently told Sci Fi Wire that they need to cast the Cap soon, "We have a very short list, but we're still juggling actors here. I'd say within the next couple of weeks we'll have ourselves a…
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Amazon's week of HBO Television series Gold Box Deals continues with Oz: The Complete Seasons 1-6 for only $86.99, 64% off the nearly $240 retail price. As with all of the Gold Box Deals, the price will vanish Friday Night at Midnight. So get it while you still can.
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When I first laid my eyes on the alien weaponry in Neill Blomkamp's District 9, I thought to myself... I hope Sidehsow, Weta, or someone produces some nice prop replicas, because those things are cool. Today WETA announced that they will be releasing prop replicas of two of the alien weapons from District 9 -…
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Too bad Russ has already filled the week's /Film: The Movie quota, because this post is writhing on the floor for our fave bad joke. Director Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Kinsey) is developing and writing a proposed half-hour series for HBO set in the hectic and catty world of Hollywood movie blogging. If the network takes the next…
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Screenwriter Chris Sparling made a name for himself with the one-man, one-location script Buried, which landed on the Black List, an industry insider list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year, and premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Huge buzz (read my review) resulted in a bidding war which ended with Lionsgate spending…
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I'm a huge fan of Kevin Smith, and have loved every movie he's released thus far (yes, even Jersey Girl). But the first trailer for his new film, a buddy cop comedy which he didn't write, Cop Out, had me worried. I've read the script, and thought it was mildly entertaining, and I was hoping…
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Now that Danny McBride and Jody Hill ostensibly have the keys to the kingdom by way of their new production company, Rough House Pictures, the world of comedy better watch its stagnant ass. Hill is attached to direct, and McBride to star as a "beaten down, hardboiled private investigator," in a new action-comedy called L.A.P.I.…
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This funny Lost/Avatar mash-up has just gone viral around the twittersphere. Spoiler fanatics, be warned: it contains photos from the premiere episode of Lost Season Six (so if you haven't watched that episode yet, you might want to stay away). Also, it will probably only be funny if you follow the television series Lost.
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Walt Disney Picrtures has premiered two new character posters for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. The new one-sheets feature the Cheshire Cat (voiced by Stephen Fry) and the White Rabbit (voiced by Michael Sheen). Head on over to MTV to see the posters in higher resolution.
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Waxy.org's Andy Baio, who has been tracking the illegal online leak and distribution of Oscar screeners since 2003, reports that fewer screeners were leaked online this year than ever before. Only 14 out of 34 nominated films available on the bit torrent sites, the lowest percentage in history. Not only that, but Baio is reporting…
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Disney's Touchtone Pictures and DreamWorks' have issued a public casting call, searching for the lead role for Shawn Levy's futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel. The film, set to hit theaters on November 18th 2011, tells the story of a father and his estranged 11-year-old son who enter the world of robotic boxing. You see,…
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What if Wes Anderson directed the reboot of Spider-Man? Who would it star? What would it look and sound like? Imagine no longer because Jeff Loveness decided to show us, in a parody trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man movie that will never happen. Embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader stmccoll for the tip.
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McG's next film may be his first romantic comedy; the director is in talks to direct a film called This Means War for Fox. We've reported on this project very briefly before, but had very little info at the time. McG's talks suggest that Fox is really pushing the film forward. As we last mentioned,…
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Given the fact that zombies evidently can't be stopped as the subject of live-action films, I'm fairly surprised that we haven't yet seen much in the way of animated walking dead. That might change if the film A.D. is given a chance to get off the ground. Here we have a teaser trailer that also…
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UPDATE: According to THR, Columbia Pictures reps and Lerman's own people are saying that he is not "the lead candidate" to be the new Peter Parker. So, while Lerman may have taken meetings with Sony, he is not 'in talks' (i.e. he is not currently working on a deal) for the role. Original article follows.…
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Simon Pegg has Tweeted a link to the extended cast list for John Landis' Burke and Hare on IMDB. He indicated just one mistake on the roster - John Cleese will not be appearing - but called the rest of it "pretty spot on". Not only does this mean that Spaced's Tim and Daisy, Simon Pegg and…
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We haven't seen any new footage of M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (aka the original Avatar) since last June when the teaser premiered. The film has been test screening this week, with two very mixed reader reviews showing up on AICN. Not being all that familiar with the animated series on which the film…
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Last night the full feature line-up for the 2010 SXSW Film Festival was announced, which includes the premiere of the Star Wars fan documentary The People vs. George Lucas. With that announcement, we have also been given a new teaser trailer, embedded after the jump. Official Information from the producers: THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS…
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Amazon continues their week of HBO Television Series DVD deals with another great Gold Box Deal of the Day: Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seasons 1-6 for only $89.99, 62% off the nearly $240 suggested retail price. The price will only be good until midnight, so get it while you still can.
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Could we be seeing Spider-Man, Ghostbusters, District 9 and 2012 in Digital 3D in 2011? Maybe... Last month it was reported that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment would begin to release 3D movies on Blu-ray for the first time, beginning this summer with the computer animated release Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (with additional 3D…
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Columbia Picturres has finally decided to step up development of the big screen adaptation of Dan Brown's latest book, and Da Vinci Code sequel The Lost Symbol. The studio has hired Steven Knight, whose credits include Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things, who also penned drafts of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and The Chronicles of Narnia:…
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Our stateside readers who dig serial killer procedural-thrillers in the vein of Zodiac and Silence of the Lambs should make a blood-scrawled note of Britain's Red Riding Trilogy. This Friday, the epic triptych begins a one week run at IFC Center in New York City, complete with two intermissions and a free popcorn (caution to…
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Universal Pictures has given the greenlight to a fifth film in the Fast and the Furious franchise. And in an apparent attempt to one-up the ridiculousness of the previous titles, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Fast & Furious, they have come up with the brilliant (yes, sarcasm) title "Fast Five." The studio has inked deals…
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Back in November, we told you that Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo would be reprising their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold from the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, but not for another big screen sequel (not yet, at least...). The Griswolds reunited instead for an advertising campaign to be launched during the 2010 Superbowl. The…
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Though the territory was already covered to some extent in Almost Famous, Zooey Deschanel will star in a half-hour dramedy pilot for HBO based on I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, the memoir by famous band-aide Pamela Des Barres. Famous for sleeping her way through a succession of rock and screen stars in…
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Why hasn't there ever been second series of Watchmen comics? It's not as though Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons actually own the characters. Well, apparently, any talk of a sequel had been squashed, time and again, by Paul Levitz, former president of DC comics. He was very protective of the title, even denying the creators…
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A quick note, and hopefully one of the last stories we'll have to run about Avatar breaking yet another box office record. This week, James Cameron's current film overtook his last one in the domestic box office tally. In its full theatrical run, Titanic grossed $600.8 million while Avatar has now taken $601.2 million in…
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I first ran into the work of Philip Ridley when I was about nineteen and found his first feature, 1990's The Reflecting Skin, in a Calgary video shop. I don't love his wild little rural coming of age tale tinged with horror, but I have to respect it for having the ambition to be something…
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The fact that Clash of the Titans was being pushed back to April 2 to accommodate a last-minute conversion to 3D has been accepted as fact, even though Warner Bros. hadn't officially said anything about the plan. Now there's an official press release from the studio that removes any doubt. Yes, Clash of the Titans…
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There's been even more gossip about a projected third Kill Bill film from Quentin Tarantino than about his long-delayed Whole Bloody Affair recut of the first two parts. The latest loose-lipped culprit to go sowing wild rumours is Daryl Hannah. Hannah was speaking to UK TV channel Film 24 about her role in Raoul Ruiz'…
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There's two new music promos of note for film enthusiasts, one from a music video director who branched into movies and the other, vice versa. You can see both Michel Gondry's promo clip for Mia Doi Todd and David Lynch's introduction clip for Ariana Delawari's album Lion of Panjsheer embedded below the break. There's no…
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It says a lot about the performance of Christian Bale as the murderous banker Patrick Bateman that, when most people hear the title American Psycho, they immediately think of Mary Harron's 2000 movie rather than the original novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Can any cohort of singing and dancing performers hope to upstage Bale's Bateman,…
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Thanks to a slew of new streaming deals with several independent film distributors, Netflix is adding about 300 indie titles to their Watch Instantly library. According to their press release, distributors include "The Criterion Collection, Gravitas Ventures, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Regent Releasing." For Criterion, the new films will be in…
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Deadwood: The Complete Series is on sale for only $74.99, 58% off the $180 msrp, as part of Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day. The Black Hills of South Dakota. Witness the birth of an American frontier town - and the ruthless power struggle between its just and unjust pioneers. In an age of…
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Paramount might force Michael Bay into filming Transformers 3 in 3D following the success of James Cameron's Avatar. Bay has been vocally against the growing popularity of 3D, at last year's theatrical exhibitors ShoWest convention making the very unpopular statement that "I think it might be a gimmick." He added that he didn't know for…
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During a quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, Fox chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch revealed that he is in "very early talks" with Director James Cameron about greenlighting a Avatar sequel, adding that Cameron "has ideas" for a sequel, and that "We will be pushing for one." Well, duh! And while Fox deputy chairman, president and…
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A couple weeks ago we featured a cool Iron Man macbook decal which transformed the glowing apple logo into Tony Stark's arc reactor. Today we bring you another Iron Man macbook decal, this time in full color. The other big change is that the glowing apple logo fits into Iron Man's arm blaster. Skinat is…
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Hey, I didn't know Jeff Bridges was in a remake of Logan's Run! He looks really awesome in this first image from...oops. That's Bridges in Tron Legacy, isn't it? And is that a disc attached to his back, or is he just happy to have an Oscar nomination? Refresh yourself on details about the dual…
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Oh, hello there, new international red-band Kick-Ass trailer. Want to know a little more about the world of Matthew Vaughn's new 'realistic' superhero movie, based on the comic of the same name by Mark Millar? This tasty little clip will probably do the trick. It's a nice combination between the Hit Girl red-band clip and…
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While Hollywood held its breath in anticipation of this morning's Oscar nominations, a few new casting notes slipped out, mostly for upcoming indies. For example, Orlando Bloom will take the lead role in The Good Doctor, which he'll produce as well. Written by John Enbom, the film is about "a frustrated doctor looking to impress…
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In November, when the twenty films submitted for the Best Animated Film Oscar were submitted, we noted a couple of titles that might have been unfamiliar to readers. One of them was The Secret of Kells, which we introduced as "an interesting hand-drawn film about a ninth-century boy who rebels against his guardian’s orders and…
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What a weird set of potential buyers for Catfish, the documentary hit that has already been tagged as the next Paranormal Activity. Not that Catfish is anything like Paranormal Activity at all, except for the fact that it is a low budget documentary-style film (more on that in a second) and is now being courted…
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I'm not sure if I'm alone in feeling this way, but I currently consider M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender one of my most anticipated films of 2010. As a fan of the original TV series, I've been consistently impressed with what we've seen of the film so far --- particularly the teaser and some…
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It seems like we've been writing about Jon Favreau's Cowboys and Aliens forever, but now the project finally seems to be moving forward. We previously reported that Robert Downey Jr. is out (most likely because of Sherlock Holmes 2), and that Daniel Craig is replacing him as the lead gunslinger. Today we learned that Olivia…
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Today's Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day is Six Feet Under: The Complete Series for only $67.99, 62% off the $180 msrp. Along with all the episodes and hours of bonus features from all five seasons split over 24-discs, this set also includes an exclusive illustrated booklet with character obituaries and memories from the…
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Lakeshore Entertainment have given the greenlight to a big screen adaptation of Kevin Grevioux’s upcoming Darkstorm Studios graphic novel I, Frankenstein, with production scheduled to begin in July of 2010. The contemporary fantasy thriller tells the story of the original monster of Victor Frankenstein, who "stands between the human race and an uprising of supernatural…
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Walt Disney Pictures has released a new high resolution photo of Anne Hathaway as the White Queen from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, along with a question and answer from the actress. Both of which, can be found, after the jump. Click on the below image to see it in high resolution: Anne Hathaway received…
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The first real character design image from Columbia Pictures' big screen adaptation of The Smurfs has leaked on UGO. The film, which is a CGI/live action hybrid, is being helmed by Raja Gosnell (Scooby Doo and Beverly Hills Chihuahua). Head on over to UGO to see the full photo of the supossed leaked design. What do…
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If you've been following /Film for a while, then you know that we love minimalistic movie posters. But these concept posters by graphic designer Jamie Bolton are probably the most sparse we've seen so far (and I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing -- I'd love to hear your thoughts). After the…
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Miramax may be closed, but the story ain't over yet. Disney has tried to shop the company around for sale in the past, and even offered the name to Harvey Weinstein for a reported $1.5 billion. But no one bought, and last week Disney closed down the company, ending the company's 31-year run. But Disney…
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Back in October we ran a piece of promo art for Ong Bak 3. That's the second sequel to the sensational Thai kickboxing movie Ong Bak, which instantly established star Tony Jaa as an action film hero. When we ran that piece, we knew that the film was already almost done, after having gone into…
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You may have heard about Avatar. James Cameron's 3D juggernaut has reportedly topped $2b globally as of this weekend, and seems poised to dominate the box office for weeks to come. 3D showings are sold out days in advance in major cities, and there's every reason to believe that the film has at least another…
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Documentary filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady have previously demonstrated their ability to present controversial issues and people in an even-handed way. Their 2006 film, Jesus Camp, which documented a Pentacostal summer camp for children, was praised for the way it revealed the indoctrination of children by the religious right. But that film's subjects actually…
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We've seen a couple trailers for the Louis Leterrier remake of Clash of the Titans, but they've been mostly monster and action shots so far, seemingly aimed at those who know the original film. A teaser isn't meant to give any indication of story, so we'll give that one a pass, but watch the first…
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UPDATE: MTV was the first to hear back from Stewart's publicist, who says the actor is not involved with the film. The title says it all. Based on an email sent to AICN, which says that actor Patrick Stewart mentioned he is soon to be working in Australia on a film with director George Miller,…
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The Guardian published an article over the weekend, asking the question "Why are there so few female filmmakers?"It's something that most film writers/bloggers have wondered for a while now. And it has come up again just in time for the Academy Awards, where many believe that Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow will have a fighting…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day has The Sopranos: The Complete Series DVD set for only $119.99, 60% off the $180 msrp. The deal price will only be good until midnight.
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Louis Mellis, one half of the writing team behind Sexy Beast and 44 Inch Chest (currently in limited release in the US) has been tapped to write The Princess' Gangster, about the reported affair between Princess Margaret, younger sister of England's Queen Elizabeth II, and charismatic actor/tough guy John Bindon. It was tabloid stuff decades…
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The Golden Raspberry Foundation has revealed its nominations for the worst films and performances of 2009. The contenders for the latest batch of Razzies include most of the films you'd expect to see on the list: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen; G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Pink Panther 2 and All About Steve. All…
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There's been a lot of problems getting a fourth Bourne script in good shape. Writers have come and gone, Paul Greengrass left the project and Matt Damon even said he wouldn't do another one unless Paul came back. So, I reckon the following bit of news was pretty much inevitable, if a little quicker coming…
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The Universal Studios backlots were set ablaze in June 2008, destroying sets and one of the park’s signature attractions — King Kong. The ride has been part of the park’s tram tour for over 20 years. But when the fire destroyed the attraction many speculated that Universal would replace it with a ride based on…
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Kevin Smith has been talking up the hockey drama Hit Somebody as his next project for some time now, and it looks like he's finally begun pitching the film to studios. A few days ago Smith tweeted that he was heading to WB to pitch the film. If they don't bite, surely someone else will…
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It's only been a few months since the release of Ricky Gervais' The Invention of Lying, so I was surprised to learn that his next feature, Cemetery Junction, is gearing up for an April 2010 UK release. We featured a teaser for the film back in July, as well as some comments from Gervais in…
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MTV has released a new redesigned logo, after a 30-year run with the classic iconic Frank Olinsky-designed logo we all grew up with. The redesign isn't that much different, mostly a one color close-up. The big change is the exclusion of the "Music Television" tagline, which had run underneath the original. Of course, this is…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every week I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already…
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This week on The Tobolowsky Files, Stephen and Beth in Illinois find that trying to grasp success out of the jaws of failure isn't as easy as it's cracked up to be. The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love,…
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss the difficulty in crafting a good Comic-Con documentary and the virtues of Brett Ratner. Special guest C. Robert Cargill (AKA Massawyrm) joins us from Aint It Cool News. Also, special thanks to /Filmcast listeners Daniel G., and Tom in Houston…
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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In this episode of The Tobolowsky Files, Stephen recalls one of his first years "off the beaten path" as he and Beth go to Illinois and encounter genius, insanity, and a ghost. The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love,…
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The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles is a great place to see a movie. Not because it is the most comfortable theater or the most state of the art, but because it is operated and attended by people who really love movies. I've only been there a few times, but the experiences have been…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already…
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Hopefully you've read Esquire's very moving and deeply detailed piece on Roger Ebert, which appeared online Tuesday morning. The article opened with a large photo of Ebert as he is today: his face slack after losing his lower jaw, but eyes vibrant and perceptive. Written by Chris Jones, the article peers into Ebert's life as…
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss their thoughts on upcoming renditions of Akira and the Riddick franchise, lavish some love on Adam Reed's Archer, and see the return of Adam Quigley's much-loved "Shit movie of the week" segment. Special guest Dan Eckman, whose film Mystery Team…
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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In this episode of The Tobolowsky Files, Stephen shares dating tips for actors gathered from his years of experience picking up women in bars. Also, some special, uplifting stories and music from Fox's television show Glee. The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already…
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, Adam Quigley and Russ Fischer discuss their thoughts on this year's Oscar nominations, reflect on the novelty of 3D upconversion, assess Taylor Lautner's career, show some love for Drew Barrymore's Whip It, and share theories about the final season of Lost. You can always…
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I love Christopher Guest, both as an actor as a director, so I was intrigued when I heard he'd be shooting a series of viral commercials to help promote the U.S. Census (Huh?). One of the ads aired last night during the Super Bowl, costing taxpayers $2.5 million (a fact which has caused some consternation).…
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already…
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The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky. In this episode, Stephen and Beth return from France and experience some unexpected changes in their world. You can always…
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Michel Gondry and Bjork aren't exactly strangers. The two have worked together for several of Bjork's music videos, and Gondry initially wanted her to star in The Science of Sleep. but she refused to return to acting after her miserable experience with Lars von Trier in Dancer in the Dark. Now it seems that the…
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Well, what's this? Does Terrence Malick have yet another film in the works? According to Nikki Finke he does. She's reporting that the reclusive, methodical filmmaker is prepping "an as yet untitled love story" for which he's written a script. Claim is that he's got Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Olga Kurylenko and Rachel McAdams on…
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss the art of the new Wall Street teaser, reflect on the business of indie cinema, and offer some of their favorite films and disappointments from Sundance 2010. Special guest Steve Weintraub (AKA Frosty) from Collider joins us this evening. You…
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Web designer Christian Annyas has created a website, Movie Titles Stills Collection, focusing on the art of movie titles in feature films. Annyas explains why he started the website: I've seen a lot of movies over the years, and to prove I've sat through at least the first ten minutes of them I started making…
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