If you follow Errol Morris on Twitter, you'll know that he's been finishing up a new film called Tabloid. For the most part, we haven't known much about what the film covers, as he's been quite oblique in referencing the project. But the simple fact of Morris making a new movie is exciting enough. The…
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I just saw this video on my twitter feed, tweeted by Mike Gaines (who some of you know as the mastermind behind the scenes of the Totally Rad Show), of Henry Thomas' audition for E.T.. I know I must have seen this clip before on the DVD release, but I wanted to share it with…
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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. SHERLOCK HOLMES Robert Downey Jr. charms and amuses yet again, and composer Hans Zimmer offers up a wonderfully oddball score, introducing the…
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Motherhood, the 2009 film written by Katherine Dieckmann and starring Uma Thurman, recently opened in the U.K. in one theater. Theoretically, the exclusivity was supposed to drive buzz for the film, which has Thurman playing a harried New Yorker juggling the CRAZY responsibilities of motherhood, marriage, and work during the course of one day. Unfortunately,…
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Update: A representative from DreamWorks tells us that the short film "was not commissioned by Steven". Michael Koerbel's 3-minute short film "Head On" has been making the Internet rounds today. Koerbel, a third year graduate student at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, claims that the project was commissioned by Steven Spielberg. While I'm unable…
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If you've ever seen a film by Alfred Hitchcock or Stanley Kubrick, then you're probably familiar with the title sequence designs of Saul Bass. Some of the title sequences he's more notable openings include The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), Vertigo (1958),…
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If you own the DVD/Blu-ray release of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, then hopefully you've seen the hilarious special feature: Quentin Tarantino’s Camera Angel. On a normal movie set, a clapboard operator announces the scene numbers before each take. For the letters following the scene numbers, the clapboard operator usually employs the International Radio Operator Alphabet…
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A couple months back, John Wells' film The Company Men premiered at Sundance. At the time, as evidenced by this interview conducted by David Chen, Wells didn't seem fully confident that the film would get picked up. But the film found a home, as The Weinstein Company has picked up US distribution rights to the…
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What if Garfield was just a figment of Jon's imagination? I mean, we'd all love to have a walking talking orange cat voiced by Bill Murray, but most of understand this is not a possibility. CollegeHumor has provided a new edit of the 2004 film Garfield: The Movie which reveals that Jon was just a schizophrenic. Watch the…
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. BREAKING BAD (SEASON 2) Season 2 of Breaking Bad opens with a disturbing but seemingly innocuous shot of a charred stuffed bear…
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New Zealand's Wellington Airport have announced plans to pay for the construction of a Wellywood sign above Miramar Wharf to celebrate the heart of New Zealand's film industry. Peter Jackson's WETA Workshop, the special effects / production facility behind the Lord of the Rings films, District 9 and Avatar, is located within a mile of…
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When Wonderland is threatened by a pop-music hating Queen Of Hearts, pop music sensation Lady Gaga returns to her homeland to kick some evil ass... but mainly dance, sing, and weird it up. Watch Black20's epic mashup of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and the music videos of Lady Gaga, embedded after the jump.
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. UP IN THE AIR As a drama, Up in the Air offers the best of both cinematic worlds; it contains all the…
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If you've been reading /Film for a while, then you know about my love for old vintage behind the scenes featurettes. Some of the ones we've featured in the past include The Goonies, The Making of the computer graphics for Star Wars, The Shining, and Ghostbusters II Slimer Suit/Puppet Test Footage. Today I bring you…
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The film and media portion of South by Southwest (SXSW) kicks off in Austin next week, and two films have just been added to the lineup. Austin's own Robert Rodriguez will screen footage from Predators, and Gela Babluani's 13, a remake of his own 13 Tzameti, will screen as part of the festival's SX Fantastic…
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. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE With his adaptation of the classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are, co-writer/director Spike Jonze took…
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I recently had the opportunity to chat extensively with director Samuel Bayer, who's directing the upcoming remake for A Nightmare on Elm Street. We'll have the full audio and text of the interview up on the site tomorrow, so be sure check back for that. In the meantime, I can reveal that he's explicitly stated…
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In December 2009, it was reported that James Cameron was developing/producing "a Shane Salerno-scripted (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem) sci-fi action script for Fox, described as an ‘event’ film set in the future." Soon after we learned that the film was actually a 3D remake of Fantastic Voyage. So who will direct this 3D remake of…
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Henry Selick, the Oscar-nominated stop-motion animation director of Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Monkeybone,will be returning to Walt Disney Pictures. Selick began his animation career at the mouse house in the 1970's, and will be returning to the Burbank-based studio in an exclusive long-term deal to make films for…
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ScreenGems has released the first photos from Paul W.S. Anderson's video game movie sequel Resident Evil: Afterlife on MySpace. Hit the jump to check them out. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] Official Plot Synopsis: Screen Gems and Constantin Film present Resident Evil: Afterlife, the next installment in the widely successful “Resident Evil” film franchise has begun…
Read Moreremoved at request from WB /Film reader Dave BC sent over a link to some photos which claim to be from the hybrid live-action/computer animated feature adaptation Yogi Bear. I'm unable to verify if these are real or not, but they sure look like it. If you know anything, shoot me an email or comment…
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker and Beastly star Alex Pettyfer is in talks to play the lead character in Dreamworks' Michael Bay/Steven Spielberg-produced D.J. Caruso-directed teen sci-fi alien adaptation I Am Number 4. The screenplay adaptation was written by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, which kind of makes sense if you think about it…
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I love Fast Times at Ridgemont High and I like Clueless plenty too, but pretty much every other Amy Heckerling picture has failed to click with me - and her last movie I Could Never Be Your Woman almost broke me. I remember when I was 16 and I shuffled off to see Look Who's Talking…
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When we talked recently about the possibility of another Harold & Kumar movie, one of the big questions was not 'will the film happen?' but 'who will be in it?' as co-star Kal Penn had left acting over a year ago to take a job as the associate director of the Office of Public Engagement…
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Back in 2007, Bourne Ultimatum, Hot Fuzz and Dead Man's Shoes actor Paddy Considine unveiled his directorial debut, the short film Dog Altogether (you can see a promo shot at the head of this post). Over the next eighteen months or so, the film went on to win a number of awards, including the BAFTA…
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Leonardo DiCaprio is eyeing the lead role in the proposed biopic of original FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The project is being written by Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black with Clint Eastwood attached to direct, and Brian Grazer on board to produce. This would be DiCaprio's first collaboration with Eastwood. According to Deadline, DiCaprio is…
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Marketing for Iron Man 2 has ramped up this week: First we were greeted with an international movie poster, and a domestic version of the poster sans Mickey Rourke. Yesterday Marvel launched a viral website for the film promoting Tony Stark's Stark Expo 2010. And last night we got a glimpse at the Black Widow…
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Remember what we said just a week or two ago about David Fincher and his ever-expanding list of possible projects? About how they're always subject to change? At the time it looked as if he might direct Pawn Sacrifice, the Tobey Maguire-produced film about Bobby Fischer and his 1970s showdown against Soviet chess master Boris…
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Lionsgate has just released what I might call an outrageously confident trailer for Sylvester Stallone's new film The Expendables. Why confident? Because one of the selling points for the film has been that it unites not just all the guys in the primary cast -- Stallone, Statham, Li, Rourke, and many more -- but that…
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Big week for Anna Faris. We've just been covering What's Your Number?, an R-rated comedy starring the actress, and now she's tapped, more or less, as the new Goldie Hawn. Faris will star in the remake of Private Benjamin, in which a spoiled woman joins the Army after her husband dies on their wedding night.…
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Sheldon Turner worked on a couple films that might be called...undistinguished (remake of The Longest Yard, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) but then wrote a spec adaptation of Walter Kirn's novel Up in the Air. That adaptation, to his great fortune, led to Jason Reitman's film of the same name and landed Turner an…
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After the break you'll find my interviews with Matthew Vaughn, director and co-writer of Kick-Ass, and Jane Goldman, his collaborator in adapting Mark Millar's original comic books into a movie screenplay. The interviews are spoiler free, though we do talk around a few key plot points. As well as talking Kick-Ass, Matthew confirms that he's…
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Thanks to those ever-dependable news-n-rumour goldmines, the premiere red carpet and good ol' Twitter, we've got a tidy little pile of Thor and The Avengers business to get through. Let's get on with it. Nugget one. Thor's rumoured cameo in Iron Man 2 may have been confirmed. We already showed a screen capture from an…
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Kaley Cuoco (who plays the character Penny in The Big Bang Theory) has signed on to star alongside Russell Brand in the Easter Bunny comedy I, Hop. Described as "the world's worst houseguest," Brand plays an Easter Bunny who is accidentally injured by an unemployed slacker played by James Marsden, who is then forced to…
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I have a feeling that the controversy surrounding The Last Airbender's casting won't die down anytime soon. At a recent round table event, several journalists gathered to chat with Shyamalan about the film. He answered some general questions about it (check out io9's full coverage of the event), but inevitably the conversation steered towards the…
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Former Variety writer Nicole LaPorte has a book coming out in May called "The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks". The New York Post has gotten an early look at the book, and has published a listing of some of the more shocking claims.…
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I just learned that the Steve Barron-directed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action movie hit theaters exactly twenty years ago today - on March 31st 1990. I remember dragging my father to the local multiplex and waited in a line that stretched around the block to see this film on opening night. We're all getting old...…
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Marvel has released a new character poster for Iron Man 2, and HBO has released another teaser poster for True Blue Season 3. Check out both, after the jump. Marvel Entertainment and Paramount Pictures has released a new Iron Man 2 character poster features a close-up look at Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. This Iron…
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Stephen Dorff (Blade, Public Enemies) is the latest actor to join 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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In what looks like it may be a repeat of the RIAA's litigation against individual music piraters, Eriq Gardner at THR, Esq. is reporting that over 20,000 movie torrent downloaders have been sued recently for copyright infringement by US Copyright Group in Washington D.C. federal court. Five lawsuits have been filed against people who illegally…
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As you've probably read, part of the storyline of Iron Man 2 involves Tony Stark's attempt to bring back Stark Expo, a world fair-like industrial and scientific exhibition which his father, Howard Stark, first launched in the 1960's. The mystery of the 1974 Stark Expo is a centerpiece of the new film. As part of…
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If you're a Star Wars geek, than chances are you've seen the YouTube short films Ryan vs. Dorkman and the sequel RVD2, which has now been viewed over five million times. If you haven't, I highly recommend you check them out (I've embedded RVD2 after the jump). Michael "Dorkman" Scott has since produced a bunch…
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Weeks after the monster success of The Hangover, Warner Bros and director Todd Phillips began talking about a sequel. Since then we've heard rumors that the story might be set somewhere outside of Las Vegas, possibly in Thailand. But while Phillips has promised that all the original cast would "definitely be returning for another adventure",…
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As you may have noticed over the past month, Disney has been teasing the release of Pixar's Toy Story 3 by releasing more information, photos and video of each of the new characters, week by week. We've been trying to keep track of all the new characters as they have been revealed. After the jump…
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Briefly: We just presented an international poster for Iron Man 2 the other day, and now we've got the domestic version of the (presumably) final one-sheet. [via MySpace] The big difference? No Mickey Rourke. While the international version featured an explosive image of Rourke's character Whiplash, here that blast is replaced with a much less…
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There's a real art to cutting a good trailer. While the basics have remained the same over the years, some aspects of that art have changed greatly in the past two decades. Watch the original trailer for Tron, for example, and you'll see a good tease for the film and the story, but one that…
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Yesterday I riled a few people up with a conversation about red-band trailers. (You guys like them; we get it.) Today we'll flip to the other side of the coin, as IGN has new bloody and restricted clips for George Romero's Survival of the Dead and a UK trailer for [REC] 2. Check both out…
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In 2001, 22-year old surfing superstar Jay Moriarity drowned while free diving in the Maldive Islands. Now Moriarity's life is set to hit the screen directed by Curtis Hanson, with Sean Penn possibly set to take a supporting role. We don't have a lot on the picture; Production Weekly reports via Twitter that Hanson will…
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We've talked about What's Your Number? a couple of times before, for a few reasons. There's the script, which hit the 2008 Black List when it was called Twenty Times a Lady. There's the director, Mark Mylod, who is returning to features after working on Entourage and The United States of Tara. (He made the…
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Sony Pictures has released some new production photos from Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt in Phillip Noyce's thriller Salt in anticipation of the Thursday premiere of the film's second movie trailer on Apple. The film tells the story of a CIA officer who is outed as a Russian sleeper spy, and must evade capture by…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the day today is a choice between two Sherlock Holmes collections, each 54% off: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Granada Television Series 12-DVD set for $96.99, 58% off the $230msrp. Photo seen above. The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection for $59.99, 54% off the $130msrp. The Collection is comprised of all 14…
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Back in November 2009, Roland Emmerich told MTV that not only are they developing an Independence Day sequel, but he hopes to film it as two-back-to-back movies.At the time I just thought he was throwing outrageous claims into the wind, seeing how far they may travel. Since the first film was realized in 1996, Will…
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20th Century Fox has released the second movie trailer for the new Tom Cruise action/comedy Knight and Day. Directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line / 3:10 to Yuma / Girl, Interrupted), the film centers on a fugitive couple (played by Cruise and Cameron Diaz) on a "glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and…
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It's Tuesday again -- LOST day to many of you /Film readers. And today's t-shirt of the day over at TeeFury is another Lost-inspired design. Artist Jared Stumpenhorst created the MSLED (Make Something LOST Every Day) project, which is a 365 project on Flickr. His Lost-inspired design 922044:16 is available in Slate tee for Men,…
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Accepted/Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink is attached to direct Werewolves of Reseda, and ensemble wish-fulfillment R-rated comedy (ala The Hangover) with a horror twist. According to the tracking boards, the screenplay by Brian Frank tells the story of a group of guys who gradually turn into werewolves, which somehow benefits their suburban family…
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AMC have today officially announced their order of a six-episode first season of The Walking Dead, adapted from Robert Kirkman's comic book series. Frank Darabont is writing and directing, at the very least for the pilot episode, and that's recommendation enough for me. The series is set to premiere during AMC's annual marathon of horror…
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Is the red-band trailer the new Joe Camel? The cartoon character allegedly used for years as a means to lure kids to cigarettes was retired in 1997 after a suit was brought against R.J. Reynolds claiming that sales of Camels to underage kids had skyrocketed since the US introduction of the ad character in 1988.…
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David Hayter, writer of X-Men, co-writer of Watchmen and the voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid games, has been close to claiming the director's chair more than once. He was in line to helm Watchmen at one point, and almost got a Black Widow film off the ground long before the character…
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Update: The project is not based on a pitch by Auburn. Vespa Pictures and its principles Jeff Vespa and Ilene Staple optioned the book, attached Auburn to adapt it for the screen, and then partnered with Timur to produce the film side-by-side. All three will take producer credits. We're hearing that William Morris Endeavor (WME)…
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UPDATE: This was predictable enough that I could have started a countdown: Mark Millar claims this is not true; he says Vaughn turned down the film months ago. Per the doubts expressed below, here's hoping that's the case. Original article follows. It doesn't take a big stretch of the imagination to guess that Matthew Vaughn…
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With director Brad Bird on the top of the list to direct Mission: Impossible 4, and the filmmaker's strong stance against sequels, I doubt we'll see a follow-up to Pixar’s The Incredibles any time soon. But Disney has teamed with video game developers Media Molecule to release Incredibles-inspired downloadable content for the popular video game…
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MGM cash flow issues or not, work must be continuing on the next James Bond film, formally or informally. For months now we've known that Peter Morgan has been working on the script, so at the very least there's likely to be a partial draft and an outline in place. More than enough to start…
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Godzilla never stays dead for long. Granted, the 1998 Columbia TriStar version directed by Roland Emmerich seemed to kill off any ambition to make further Godzilla movies in the States, simply by virtue of being truly awful. But now Legendary Pictures, the company behind 300 and The Dark Knight, is bringing an American Godzilla back…
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The long, long wait for a sequel to The Dark Crystal has left me feeling doubtful about whether or not we'll ever get to see the film at all. Consider me heartened, then, to report that Brian and Wendy Froud seem quite certain the film is on the way. The Frouds are the designers of the…
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One of the closest things to a sensation at Sundance this year was Exit Through the Gift Shop, the film that is a documentary both by and about the reclusive and anonymous British graffiti artist Banksy. Now the film is getting an interesting release strategy that will have it in three cinemas on April 19…
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Dubai-based advertising agency Tonic were asked to communicate that Burger King stays open until the wee hours of the morning, and the resulting advertising features some of horror's favorite villains. Thomas and Kris came up with the following campaign showing the villains of the night that we know all to well, enjoying their favourite meal…
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Ip Man made my list of the best films of last year (it was a long list, I admit) and I've been keenly anticipating the second installment since the credits tolled on the first. The appeal is largely in seeing Donnie Yen, in the title role of Ip Man, Wing Chun master and Bruce Lee's…
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There was recently some doubt that Bryan Singer would direct Fox's X-Men prequel X-Men: First Class. The director seemed to have been set to make the film in December of last year when he announced that a deal had been signed to reunite him with Fox. But Singer has to make Jack the Giant Killer…
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Today's T-Shirt of the day over at teefury is a Star Wars parody design titled "Artoos Premium Beer". Australian artist James Lillis created a design which shows what a popular beer brand might look like in George Lucas' droid-obsessed galaxy far, far away. The bad news is that with all of TeeFury's t-shirts, the design…
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I know you've watched the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World teaser trailer probably 15 times (we know this, we've checked our website analytics), and you probably (like me) searched through these 66 high resolution screencaptures looking for your new computer desktop background... but it's still possible you might have missed something. Thankfully GamerVision has done…
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Are you curious to hear what Kenneth Branagh's Thor looks like? A user named IndustryKiller posted the following description in the comments of an AICN tackback. While I can't 100% confirm the following to be legit, and it sounds in line with what industry friends have been telling me. Everyone looks absolutely perfect, right down…
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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 premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review, or an interview straight outta Nilbog. Since I last spoke with director Michael Stephenson for Slash, his documentary Best Worst Movie…
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Modern Family star Sofia Vergara has been cast in the big screen adaptation of the Smurfs. Vergara will play a live-action character named Odile, a powerful executive at a high-end French cosmetics company who is married to the main live-action character played by Neil Patrick Harris. Jayma Mays (Glee) had previously been cast in the…
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Here's a brave new idea in movie marketing: take the first act or two of your movie out on the road and play it to people months before they can buy themselves a ticket to the full thing. This is Disney Pixar's latest bold move in Toy Story 3 promotion, and I hope it pays…
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According to Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar himself, he has been offered the writing gig for X-Men 4, by which he seemingly means the projected next picture with the core group of adult mutants and not just a rewrite gig on New Class. He's happy to announce this offer to the world right now, apparently, because he's…
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There's two big fingers out there pointing, and each is aimed at a flashing light that says "Sorry, more Hobbit delays". The first indication comes from a report at The One Ring. They are carrying quotes from an "absolutely reliable" source inside the production who tells them that the ongoing MGM sale is having a…
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This month, Roger Christian's Battlefield Earth won the Razzie for "Worst Movie of the Decade," an award that screenwriter J.D. Shapiro (Robin Hood: Men in Tights) accepted in person. Today in the New York Post, Shapiro offered a mea culpa, explaining how it is he got involved with the "suckiest movie ever" and what it's…
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Lots of cool film-related stuff happens in Boston, Massachusetts and not that many people are here to document it, preserve it and spread the word about it. Special screenings, Q&As, panel discussions — we have them all, and frequently too. /Film Boston aims to be a bi-weekly column that will bring you audio and video…
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Caroly Giardina at The Hollywood Reporter has a fascinating feature on the postproduction process for James Cameron's Avatar. Cameron's technical standards were so high that he wanted as many different versions of the film as possible, so that the film could be optimized for different types of settings. Add to that the already taxing process…
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Update: Most slots are now filled - and one of them not by the actor we originally assumed... Tom Hanks has used a Twitpic to unveil some previously unannounced members of the cast for Larry Crowne, his upcoming sophomore effort as writer-director. That's the picture at the head of this story. Can you descry each…
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The Red Vic Movie House on Haight street in San Francisco has been producing limited edition posters to celebrate the 30th year of one of the last great movie houses. Two of the posters I really love were created by Zoltron. I must warn you that both prints are completely sold out. The first is…
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Update: Henry Jenkins has told me via Twitter that he was referring to Purefold and had missed the update that the project was no longer happening. As well as being interesting in all the ways you'd think an interview with Steven Lisberger, creator of Tron, would be interesting, a new video chat conducted by Henry…
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Earlier this week it was revealed that Alice in Wonderland screenwriter Linda Woolverton was penning the script for Tim Burton to possibly direct titled Maleficent. The project is the previously rumored revisionist retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story that focuses on the Mistress of all Evil. But who could play the evil queen? I'll just…
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Even though /Film's name clearly singles out movies/film, I've always considered /Film a site for visual non-interactive media geeks - be it television, short films, comic books, music videos, commercials, genre-focused books...etc. And you may have noticed from time to time we write about these other things. "Visual non-interactive" means we rarely cover video games,…
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Earlier this month it was reported that this season of 24 would likely be the last for the series as the ratings have dropped and Fox seems disinterested in continuing production. At the time it was mentioned that the studio is considering shopping the series to other networks, but everyone believed that interest would probably…
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The ever-fruitful and edgy creative partnership between director David Cronenberg and actor Viggo Mortensen continues, with today's announcement of a sequel to their captivating 2007 Russian mob film Eastern Promises. The pic above perfectly conveys our expectations. Deadline reports that producer Paul Webster is overseeing the project, which now has a completed script by Steve Knight,…
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In May, Brendon wrote about a 25-page short story distributed online titled The Variant, written by screenwriter and director John August. At the time August said that the story "was and maybe still is supposed to be part of an anthology of short stories written by well-known screenwriters." Here is a short synopsis written by…
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How appropriate that a studio called Drac might be the latest group to suck some life out of Orson Welles. The effects company has done good work on films like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but I'm not sure I can get behind this new effort. Christmas Tails will be a 3D live-action/CG hybrid…
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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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Still not sold by M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender? Check out this badass Japanese trailer that Paramount Pictures released overseas. The trailer features some new special effects footage and focuses mainly on the action. Watch the trailer embedded after the jump and please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Plot Synopsis: Based…
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Latino Review is reporting a rumor that Louis Leterrier, director of The Incredible Hulk and Clash of the Titans, is circling a big screen adaptation of Brian K Vaughan's Y: The Last Man. If you haven't yet read the series, pick up the paperback (or the new hardcover) of the first volume, as I very…
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This is one of those articles that seems like pushing a rock uphill -- possibly unfamiliar names in the title, a movie that we don't have much info on, etc. Why should you care about Cool Water? For one, because the newly cast Tahar Rahim is amazing in Jacques Audiard's A Prophet. And because Emir…
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Tracy Morgan is set to take a turn in a police drama called Son of No One, in which he'll play a role originally set for Terrence Howard. Co-stars are Katie Holmes (continuing her comeback streak), Juliette Binoche and Channing Tatum, with Ray Liotta and Al Pacino. Dito Montiel directs. Channing is the lead character,…
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Briefly: Well, it's not quite Brian De Palma, but it's also not Akiva Goldsman. And did we really think that Paramount was going to a big-name director for this quickie sequel to Paranormal Activity? So: Tod 'Kip' Williams (The Door in the Floor) will direct Paranormal Activity 2. The hire was announced on the film's…
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David Michôd's Australian crime film Animal Kingdom debuted a couple months back during Sundance, where it drew a full slate of rave reviews. (Including one from our own David Chen.) At the time we presented a teaser trailer for the film, where the footage was cut to 'All Out of Love' by Air Supply. (You'll…
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While Jurassic Park 4 might never hit the big screen (or at very least, it is a long ways off), another sequel to the Steven Spielberg-directed series is in the works -- in the form of a comic book series. IDW Comics and Universal Pictures have announced a new comic book series beginning in June…
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Last September I wrote about the very ambitious startup Anyclip, which at the time aimed to let you find a clip of “any moment from any film ever made.” The site was in beta for some time, and it finally launched a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, the company wasn't able to convince Hollywood studios to…
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Walt Disney Pictures has released a new international movie trailer for Jon Turteltaub's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The trailer is basically a variation on the trailer released late last year in the states, but includes a bit more dialogue, action and a better look at Alfred Molina as the film's villain Maxim. Shockingly, I've been hearing…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day has The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection for only $26.49, 56% off the $60msrp. The set includes The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers and Duck Soup. As with all of Amazon's Gold Box Daily Deals, the price will diappear at midnight (Friday night) -- so get…
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I, like many of you, was amazed at the 70mm IMAX action sequences from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. Nolan decided not to shoot his latest film Inception using the same IMAX cameras. Of course, filming a movie in IMAX is very restrictive, and not an easy achievement. Nolan admits as much to Collider, saying…
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20th Century Fox has released the full length trailer for Marmaduke, the big screen adaptation of the Brad Anderson-created comic strip. For Phil and Debbie Winslow, moving their family from Kansas to the O.C. is a big deal. For their enormous Great Dane "Marmaduke," (voiced by Owen Wilson) however, the move means a whole new…
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Update: Robin Hood has now been confirmed as the opening night film in an official statement. The Cannes Film Festival is set to kick-off on May 12th, just two days ahead of Ridley Scott's Robin Hood being unleashed in several countries, including the US and UK. It would be perfect timing, then, to have the…
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/Film reader Dan A just sent over this snap of a sign he spotted outside of his local Blockbuster video store. Looks like Blockbuster is becoming more desperate -- the rental company has already reinstituted late fees and is staring bankruptcy in the eye. With a downshift in DVD revenue, Hollywood believes low-cost rental services…
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The Anaheim and Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau have issued a public letter announcing their intentions to make the Anaheim Convention Center the new home of Comic-Con, when the convention's contract with San Diego runs out in 2012. Anaheim touts their 1.6 million square feet of convention space, the fact that they have 12,000…
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A bunch of new posters and character banners have been released today for films including Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, DreamWorks' Shrek Forever After, the comic book adaptation The Losers, and a teaser poster for the third season of HBO's True Blood. Check them out, after the jump. International Robin Hood Poster thanks to BadTaste: SHH…
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Universal Studios Orlando has finally announced the date of the public grand opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter -- June 18th 2010. Universal has also finally released the details of the centerpiece attraction, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, "a revolutionary, 360-degree theme park experience and first-ever combination of live-action, advanced robotic technology…
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We've heard a couple of times already that Netflix's Watch Instantly service would be coming to the Nintendo Wii. Today, a new post at The Netflix Blog tells us that the time of streaming video on your Wii may soon be upon us. According to the post, they have already started shipping out instant streaming…
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John Singleton has signed on to direct The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner's next project -- a Bourne-styled action film called Abduction. Lionsgate acquired the spec script after a week long bidding war in February. Rumor has it that the project sold for close to $1 million. Singleton is of course the two-time…
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How awesome was the teaser trailer for Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World? I know I've watched it at least six times now. I'm surprised at how many cool visuals Edgar and Universal were able to cram into under 90 seconds. There is certainly a lot of cool visuals which are worth pressing the…
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Grosses for Avatar and Alice in Wonderland are already high, but 3D movies will soon see even more inflated box-office tallies, thanks to price hikes that go into effect tomorrow, Friday March 26. Theaters owned by Regal Entertainment Group, Cinemark Holdings and AMC Entertainment will push 3D ticket prices higher, with the percentage increase set…
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Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel Paprika has already been adapted into animation by Satoshi Kon, but back in August of last year it was announced that a live-action feature version would be directed by Wolfgang Peterson. Now Peterson has issued a brief update on the adaptation, and he sounds like he's planning for it to be big,…
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I'm pretty curious about the Anthony Hopkins film The Rite, which is based upon the book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, by Matt Baglio. The book is about the real-world practice of exorcism, and the Michael Petroni script is said to be faithful to it. Hopkins will play "a priest who is…
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After a series of sometimes unbelievably cheeky teases, the first teaser trailer for Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World has been released onto the internet. This is clearly just a teaser, and there's obviously going to be more work needed in getting mainstream audiences as hooked for this as the geek faithful, but it's…
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Remember when Frank Miller was set to direct a new Buck Rogers film? Then remember when The Spirit arrived, was a shambling mess, and tanked, after which news on the Frank Miller / Buck Rogers front went quiet really fast? Well, a Buck Rogers revival is still in the cards, and I'll let you make…
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You thought that Hollywood was scraping the bottom of the barrel when they began greenlighting movie adaptations based on popular toy brands and board games. Now the toy manufacturers are developing new toy brands with the goal of simultaneously turning the properties into a big screen features, brining new meaning to the phrase "Toy Movie".…
Read MoreMandate Pictures is producing Diablo Cody's next project, an original screenplay titled Young Adult that Cody wrote last year. The trades are touting the project as Diablo reteaming with "the team behind Juno", but we should clarify: that just means Mandate, and doesn't include director Jason Reitman. No director is yet attached, but Mandate is…
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I usually don't write about projects that don't yet have a buyer, but I'm a big fan of comic book writer turned screenwriter Brian K. Vaughan, and have been watching his every move. Vaughan is best known for the critically acclaimed Y: The Last Man Series and various other comic books including Runaways. Vaughan joined…
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Today it has been revealed that Angela Bassett and Gattlin Griffith have joined the cast of Martin Campbell's big screen adaptation of DC Comics' Green Lantern. Oscar-nominated actress Bassett (Malcolm X, Boyz n the Hood, What's Love Got to Do with It) will play Dr. Amanda Waller, a former congressional aide and government agent who…
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Paramount Pictures has released a new full length movie trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. I was somewhat impressed by the original teaser trailer which accomplished everything in one continuous (yet stitched together) shot. The television spot which aired during the Super Bowl had me completely sold. To me the spot had all…
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20th Century Fox has released a new featurette for the Robert Rodriguez-produced, Nimrod Antal-directed Predators. The new video takes a look at the character Royce, who is played by Adrien Brody. Watch the video now, embedded after the jump. Here is the official character description from the site: "PREDATORS, a bold new chapter in the…
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I've been tracking Attack the Block pretty closely so far, and providing I can keep the scent, I'll be up its backside until the premiere. According to director Joe Cornish, the film is "a lean, mean action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien creatures" and "a comic book…
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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? In October we got a couple answers, as Paramount Pictures…
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Since July 2009, three different teaser trailers have been released for Illumination Entertainment's computer animated feature Despicable Me (you can see them here: one, two, three). Each one is a little bit more confusing then the last, none of them showing what the movie is actually about. Well, today Universal Pictures finally decided to do…
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Just a few hours after word of James Cameron's hatred for Fox News host Glenn Beck spread across the internet, Beck fired back on the opening segment of his show this evening. In his monologue, Beck referred to his Antichrist reference as a joke (here's the CNN transcript for full context) and added: The best…
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Any straight guy who sees The Runaways will have difficulty standing up to go text outside, what with a 15-year-old Dakota Fanning seducing Japan in a bustier, snorting coke, and tonguing KStew. I mean, what does it all mean? And it’s only moderately less awkward discussing the burgeoning sexuality and punk hedonism of young girls with…
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What's the surefire way to attract more geek interest in a film? Cast Liam Neeson. (Not sure if this is really going to work for Chloe, which is opening limited now, but that does also boast Amanda Seyfried in a sexed-up role, just FYI.) Precious director Lee Daniels has been moving forward on Selma, and…
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UPDATE: According to The Wrap, Foxx's "agent said through his publicist that there is 'no truth' to the story." Did Marshall misspeak? Is the deal not done? Unknown. Original article follows. No surprise that a big-screen version of Laverne & Shirley might be in the works (slightly surprised that it has taken so long) but…
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Noah Baumbach's latest film Greenberg is opening to fairly strong reception, and while there's that word that he's helping rewrite the heist film Tower Heist for Brett Ratner, I figured that it might be a moment before we heard anything for certain about Baumbach's next directorial project. But Baumbach is already signing to direct The…
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UPDATED: Now with audio! When your last two feature films have grossed over $3 billion worldwide at the box office, you can pretty much say whatever the hell you want. And that's exactly what James Cameron did at a press junket yesterday. The Hollywood Reporter covered the junket, which was promoting the home video release…
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Back in January it was rumored that Disney was developing another revisionist re-take on one of their cartoon classics for Tim Burton to direct. Maleficent, a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story that focuses on the Mistress of all Evil. Heatvision confirms the previous reports, adding that Alice in Wonderland screenwriter Linda Woolverton was penning…
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Will Smith has to make a big choice when it comes to his next project: Men in Black III for Sony or the fantasy-adventure The City That Sailed for 20th Century Fox. Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder, Idiocracy) is penned the screenplay for Men in Black 3, and Josh Brolin had been rumored to be involved…
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At last year's theatrical exhibitors ShoWest convention, Michael Bay voiced the following unpopular statement in front of a room full of theater owners: "I think [3d] might be a gimmick." But after Avatar changed the game, Paramount began pushing the director to produce Transformers 3 in 3D. Bay even showed signs of budging. But it…
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The Good News: BleedingCool has learned that a 83-second teaser trailer for Edgar Wright's big screen adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World will premiere this Friday. London /Film readers take note: the teaser trailer for Scott Pilgrim will be attached to prints of Kick-Ass, which hits theaters in the UK this Friday. The Bad…
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As you may have noticed over the past month, Disney has been teasing the release of Pixar's Toy Story 3 by releasing more information, photos and video of each of the new characters, week by week. We've been trying to keep track of all the new characters as they have been revealed. After the jump…
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/Film will be recapping episodes for the third season of Breaking Bad, starting with last Sunday’s premiere. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for every recap and the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous write-ups on the second and third season of Breaking Bad, click here. Sunday’s premiere, entitled "No Mas," was a…
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Michel Gondry has quite a few projects coming up, from The Green Hornet to some sort of project with Bjork, and Megalomania, an animated film based on the imagination of his son. In the meantime, however, he's got The Thorn in the Heart, a documentary about his family that evidently features some of Gondry's characteristic…
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It's a note that Mamet addressed to the writing staff of the now-canceled CBS show The Unit, in which he lays out some guiding principles.
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Jon Stewart is more than a sharp comic and (unexpectedly) a reliable voice for news analysis. He has worked as an actor, and is now making a foray back into producing. Stewart has optioned the rights to the life story of journalist Maziar Bahari, who was arrested in 2009 during the Iranian election protests. Bahari…
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Briefly: Here's the theatrical one-sheet for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Apparently, this is a movie about gloomy, intense stares and making choices. And I thought the issue of pregnancy wasn't going to crop up until the final chapter, Breaking Dawn. Regardless, the promo mold isn't being broken for this poster, which you can see after…
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UPDATE: The quotes in the story below have apparently been around for a while, so if you're looking for the latest Anchorman 2 denial, this isn't it. I'm leaving the story since obviously they're new to some of us, but don't take this as the final word on the film. Original article follows. You more…
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Last year we featured Ibraheem Youssef's minimalistic movie posters for the films of Quentin Tarantino. The Toronto based designer/art director has returned with a new set of simple and clean poster art focusing on the films of Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic. Youssef plans to complete the series with…
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Hollywood is fully in thrall to 3D and 3D conversion at this point. The numbers for Avatar and Alice were just too good to pass up. So there's the upcoming Clash of the Titans to join Alice in the vanguard for post-converted 3D movies (no matter how dodgy it may look) and now Warner Bros,…
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Here's a nice little surprise, if you've been hoping to see Kevin Smith's non-commerical, 'bleak and dark' Fred Phelps-inspired horror film Red State. According to the director's own Twitter feed, the film has a green light and will shoot before the hockey film Hit Somebody, which he has been working on parallel to Red State.…
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Attention /Film London readers: we're doing a last-minute meetup tonight (March 23rd) at Fitzroy Tavern (16A Charlotte Street) at 7:30pm (or as you guys put it, 19:30). I'll be there along with /Film's own Brendon Connelly, Collider's Frosty, FirstShowing's Alex Billington, and possibly other special guests. Please come join us and have a drink. As…
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Sony has announced that they will be bringing a computer animated adaptation of Popeye to the big screen in 3D. The film will be released under the Sony Pictures Animation label, with Sony Pictures ImageWorks handling the computer animation. The real-look Popeye image above is probably far too scary for the animated film adaptation, but…
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Dimension Films has finally confirmed what we have suspected for months now, Wes Craven will direct Scream 4. The film will go into production in Spring 2010 for a April 12th 2011 release. Previously: Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette have all committed to the fourth film. Scream 4 is being written, concurrently with…
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Amazon is selling The Twilight Zone Complete Definitive Collection 28-DVD set for $111.99, 63% off the $300 retail price. For the first time ever, find all 156 complete episodes of Rod Serling's groundbreaking series in one box set, packed with exciting extras! Travel to another dimension of sight and sound again and again through these…
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Emma Stone (Superbad, Zombieland) is in early talks to star in the big screen adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel The Help for DreamWorks. The story follows a black maid in 1960's Mississippi who breaks "the unspoken code of behavior governing Southern households" when she speaks candidly about her experiences. Tate Taylor, a childhood friend…
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Earlier this month we told you that the Monorail Trains at DisneyWorld Resort would be skinned to look like Lightcycles, in an awesome effort to advertise Tron Legacy. Disney Parks Blog now has video of the monorails in action. After the jump you can see lightcycle-skinned trains zoom by leaving a trail of colored light…
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It's like it's 2003 all over again. Or 2007. Spy Hunter may not be the video game that has had the most failed movie development attempts, but after having John Woo, Paul WS Anderson and Dwayne Johnson keen to get it off the ground, it is one of the more high profile denizens of development…
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Not long ago, Twilight's Kellan Lutz was rumored to be one of the prime contenders for the role of Conan the Barbarian in the upcoming film by director Marcus Nispel. Though Lutz didn't get the role (it went to Jason Momoa) that was perhaps an indicator that we'll be seeing more of the actor in…
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Warner Bros has released a new movie poster for The Losers. Check out the full one-sheet, after the jump. Official Plot Synopsis: An explosive action tale of betrayal and revenge, “The Losers” centers around the members of an elite Special Forces unit sent to the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. But the…
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I'm about as interested as it is possible to be in Sylvain Chomet's upcoming The Illusionist. My interest is based on the fact that the film is the intersection of Chomet's visual sense, somehow both a quaint and fantastic evocation of the everyday as seen in The Triplets of Belleville, and the storytelling impulse of…
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The casting search for Steve Rogers aka the title role in The First Avenger: Captain America has finally come to the end. Marvel Studios and director Joe Johnston have hired Chris Evans for the role. A few weeks ago a short list was leaked, containing the actors that Joe Johnston was considering for Steve Rogers,…
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Because it has been a minute since anyone had much to say about the next James Bond movie, a couple of rumors -- one already debunked, the other possibly based at least vaguely in truth -- have cropped up. In the interest of keeping the record as clean as possible, I present both for your…
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Over the weekend, news began to spread of a fire that broke out on the set of the latest Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, destroying a set from the wizarding school of Hogwarts. I have just returned to my London hotel from the very same set, at Leavesden Studios in Watford,…
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Among the onliners, I seemed to be the one who wasn't doubled over with laughter while watching the first 'safe' trailer for Get Him to the Greek. The film vaguely follows on the heels of Forgetting Sarah Marshall by casting Russell Brand once more as rocker Aldous Snow. But it diverges by having Jonah Hill…
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Last week we featured an awesome picture of Batman fighting a giant great white shark with a lightsaber. How do you follow that up? With the Dark Knight battling the dark lord himself, Darth Vader. The image was created by Licasfilm-licensed artist Dave Dorman. Check out the full image, after the jump. via: TDW
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Last week there was some confusion when a Deadline report suggested that Tim Burton would shortly begin work on a stop-motion animated film based on The Addams Family. That report was quickly denied by Burton's publicist (in a way that still leaves us wondering if it is a film that will happen) but there's another…
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Michaelbay.com was updated this morning, with Bay writing that he has "just locked in" Frances McDormand and John Malkovich as cast members for Transformers 3. According to Deadline, McDormand will have a major role in the film as the National Intelligence Director, while Malkovich will play "Shia's character's first boss." Those who think that the…
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We've just been hearing that, in addition to directing X-Men: First Class, Fox may be interested in tapping Bryan Singer to direct a fourth X-Men movie that fits directly into that series' established continuity. There is also implication that Fox wants him for Wolverine 2. Which is all well and good, but a man only…
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Madonna is lining up some impressive talent for her sophomore directorial effort. W.E. already features Vera Farmiga and Abbie Cornish, and has now added Ewan McGregor. The film features parallel narratives. In one, McGregor will play King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry the American woman Wallis Simpson, played by Farmiga.…
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UPDATE: Now with English subtitles. Well worth another look. Picture quality is better too, actually. I won't make any bones about it - I think this first full trailer for Luc Besson's The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc Sec looks simply superb. I've embedded the trailer below the break and fully recommend you check it…
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Brian Rood decided to create a Steampunk-variation of the classic Star Wars Stormtrooper helmet. What is Steampunk you say? According to wikipedia, Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used-usually the 19th century. The stories are often set…
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Warner Bros has released 41 production photos for Louis Leterrier's remake of Clash of the Titans. The film screened for press this past week. I haven't seen the film yet but I've heard it isn't that great. At ShoWest, I did see a 7-10 minute presentation of post production-converted 3D clips from the film, and…
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Update: Click here for an update on the fire and what was destroyed. A fire broke out at the London-set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at Leavesden Studios on Friday night. Those of you who haven't read the book might not want to read the following, as it reveals details about the film's…
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Warner Bros in in the process of acquiring the live-action movie rights to the Japanese manga Bleach. The bad news is that 50 First Dates and Get Smart director Peter Segal is in talks to produce. I haven't really liked Segal's vision thus far and most people agree that et action-quotient of Get Smart was…
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Fans of Edgar Wright's BBC television show Spaced (dvd here) converged on Trafalgar Square in London over the weekend for a flash Mob. Hundreds of fans re-enacted the slow motion finger gun battle from episode 5, season 2. Watch videos of the flash mob, after the jump. photo via: Rob Harbour
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Usually the season premiere of a television series doesn't necessitate a post at /Film---cue the "This is not /TV!" commentators---but Breaking Bad is an exception. Several of our staffers feel the AMC drama is the best series going, and one or two of us would gladly argue it ranks with the best ever. At 10…
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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 SXSW premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review or an interview. The new documentary, Dirty Pictures, opens with a shot of two old folks naturally sitting and chatting…
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Below the break you can see a non-official production trailer for Steve Lawson's vampires 'n' gangsters movie, Dead Cert. This trailer was cut for next weekend's Memorabilia event in Birmingham. It was also clearly cut for fans of the genre, not exactly pushing the boat out for a wider audience. If you have both From…
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Next month, one of my favorite independent and more outspoken directors of late, Ti West, will begin shooting a follow-up to last year's breakout hit about Satanic Panic The House of The Devil. Filming on location in Connecticut (where THotD was also shot) and entitled The Innkeepers, the film is said to follow "the last two staffers…
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That headline might seems like a strange clash of conflicting stories, but they're closely tied together by one thing: back in February, news bubbled up that Penelope Cruz would be taking the lead in Lars von Trier's sci-fi disaster movie Melancholia; then one day later, we heard she wouldn't be doing it all and had…
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If Chris Evans fancies adding another comic book character to his resume, then the coveted mantle of Captain America is reportedly his for the taking. Heat Vision warn that he'd have to free himself from an obligation to headline the rom-com What's Your Number? with Anna Faris before he could take the role, but I'd…
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According to John Barrowman's Big Gay Nemesis, Neil Patrick Harris, when he returns as Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible, it's going to be in a feature film. What's more, he doesn't think the record-breaking online distribution of part one is going to apply next time either. Is he thinking they're going for a theatrical release? That…
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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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Ever since Zombieland was a massive break-out hit, there has been a lot of talk about what director Ruben Fleischer will do next. A 3D sequel is in the cards, but he's been slow to take on any of the many films that have come his way. Now there are reports that say he could…
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In the new rock biopic, The Runaways, a glum Kristen Stewart sits poolside, suckling vodka from a water pistol before pushing it suggestively down the front of her stomach. In a separate scene, she coaches a bathing teenage band mate on how to get wet using a mental image of Farrah Fawcett and a shower…
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Briefly: It's like watching a horse race in slow motion. We've done plenty of talking about the actors who are in the running for Captain America. And while all the lists that have circulated aren't 100% confirmed, they've been echoed by enough different sources that they can be considered generally trustworthy. Now there's a slight…
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You've probably read Madeleine L'Engle's young adult novel A Wrinkle in Time. You might also have seen the 2004 TV adaptation which, as L'Engle reviewed, really wasn't very good at all. Now a group is having a go at a feature adaptation, spearheaded by producer Cary Granat. (Who, you may recall, is also behind the…
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We've seen some great animation in the recent past, but damn. The Czech film Kuky Returns looks like a wonderful blend of Spike Jonze, Jan Svankmajer, the Muppets and probably a couple others. (Such as the video game Little Big Planet, even.) But despite all those influences at play, it also looks very much like…
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After a premiere at Sundance and several themed screenings around the UK, Spike Jonze' roboromance I'm Here has now arrived online for viewing in its bittersweet entirety. You'll have to set aside 30 minutes for this one, so sneaking a peek in the office while the boss isn't looking might prove a little harder than…
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Miramax has released the movie trailer for The Switch, the romantic comedy formerly titled The Baster. The film was originally titled after the film's central maguffin, a turkey baster used for artificial insemination, but test audiences hated it. The script by Allan Loeb landed on the 2008 Black List (a listing of the best unproduced screenplays…
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Christoph Waltz may have earned worldwide fame thanks to his portrayal of Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds, leading to a flood of possible work in the United States, but he isn't leaving the European film industry behind. Waltz will direct a romantic comedy in Germany, based on a script he's been working on for some…
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300 producer Scott Mednick is teaming with Academy Award-winning screenwriter David S. Ward (The Sting, Sleepless in Seatle) to develop a feature film about the secret women's space program, based on Margaret A. Weitekamp's book Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program (Gender Relations in the American Experience). I've always been interested…
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The bad news is that Columbia Pictures is remaking the 1987 Gary Marshall film Overboard, produced by Will Smith. The even worse news is that Jennifer Lopez is in talks to star in said remake. I wouldn't be surprised if Smith has a new take on the story which transplants the film in China. Oh…
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Fred Dekker's 1987 movie The Monster Squad, written by Dekker and Shane Black, is a film that couldn't be made today. Not because it was groundbreaking, but because it has a blend of enthusiastic naivite, fun effects, and young actors that don't look like they were cloned from the same attractive DNA and grown in…
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One of the other notable things Warner Bros head Alan Horn said at the ShoWest presentation today involved how the studio hopes to fill the void that will be left by the studio's most successful franchise. After Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II hits theaters in July 2011, that will conclude the biggest…
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Universal Studios Orlando will make two major announcements next week regarding The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: They will reveal the key details of the theme park's main attraction “Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey" and announce the exact date of the park's grand opening. They have also provided us with a sneak peek video…
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We showed you footage of Predators the other day, and now the full trailer is here. Produced by Robert Rodriguez based on his story and directed by Nimród Antal, the film stars Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo, Laurence Fishburne and Walton Goggins. IGN has the trailer, and you can see a lower-res…
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Warner Bros will be releasing five movies in 3D in 2010 and nine movies in 2011. Alan Horn announced at ShoWest that all the studios tentpole movies, superhero films, and big special effects releases, will be distributed in 3D. He called it the new standard for the company. And yes, he was clear that this…
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At Warner Bros presentation at ShoWest, we were shown 7-10 minutes of Clash of the Titans clips, which were upconverted and presented in 3D. I will be completely honest -- it did not look great. It looked passable. General audiences might not notice the difference, but they will feel it. To me, the live-action post-converted…
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Even though the fourth film in the Final Destination series was titled The Final Destination, and touted as the final film in the series, Warner Bros head Alan Horn revealed at ShoWest that they will be making a Final Destination 5, because "we can't resist."
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Our Cali pals at Freshjive sent over two shirts to /Film from their 2010 Spring Collection featuring stark, eye piercing portraits of Harry Dean Stanton and Dennis Hopper. Spring is in the air and we look forward to rocking the proverbial shit out of these $26 tees watching random airings of Meatballs---which sure, starred neither actor---with take-out margaritas and…
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We haven't reported much on The Greatest, which stars Carey Mulligan as the pregnant girlfriend of a young man (Aaron Johnson) who is killed in a car crash. When she tells his grieving family (Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Johnny Simmons) that she's pregnant with his child, they take her in, despite the objections of his…
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Here's a piece of marketing for Clash of the Titans that is at least commendably sneaky. Go to the UK version of Google. Search Kick-Ass. What do you get? In the main results, just what you'd expect to: IMDB, the official site and so on... but over in the sidebar of sponsored advertising? First of all,…
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The DreamWorks Animation film Megamind has gone through few changes: last fall Robert Downey, Jr. dropped out as the lead of the voice cast, and was replaced by Will Ferrell. Then the film got a new title when the original OoberMind was changed to the current Megamind. When Peter reported that change he said the…
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An adaptation of the video game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men has been in development at Lionsgate, with a script by Kyle Ward and Bruce Willis seemingly set to star as Kane. Now Jamie Foxx is apparently the co-star, news which first cropped up on Ward's Twitter feed. That update has been deleted, but Deadline…
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Just hours ago, I talked about the Jackie O biopic script that has Steven Spielberg as an advocate, and likely as a producer. We've filled a lot of page space talking about Spielberg's producing projects as he's been slow to set up a directorial follow-up to his Tintin film, still in a long post-production process,…
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While Warner Bros. might well have Bryan Singer under contract to direct Jack the Giant Killer, it seems Fox are keen to lure him back to their X-Men franchise, and not just for First Class. Though he's already attached to that one, producer Lauren Shuler Donner is also keen to tap his skills for a…
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Update: MTV have received a statement from Burton's representation that says "There is no truth to the story. Tim has not lined up any of his upcoming projects". I'm pretty sure this official line in no way undermines the validity of Deadline's reporting - they won't have just made this up. We're obviously just a…
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Abbie Cornish gave one of last year's great performances in Bright Star, and was rather overlooked when awards time came around. She has, however, won a better sort of recognition for a good performance: more work. The actress will appear in Neil Burger's Dark Fields, and in W.E., the sophomore directorial effort from Madonna. Variety…
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A few weeks ago we wrote a piece about an upcoming collaboration between Philips and five filmmakers from Ridley Scott Associates, called Parallel Lines. RSA was asked to create a series of groundbreaking short films in a genre of their choice, using "the same unifying theme." RSA directors submitted forty-five treatments and Philips selected five…
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Briefly: Steven Spielberg still doesn't have a new directorial project, but he's shepherding yet another film as producer. Spielberg is helping sell Jackie, a Noah Oppenheim script based on the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The LA Times reports Spielberg's involvement with the script, which centers on Jackie O' perspective on the days immediately after…
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It's been almost 40 years since psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted his infamous Yale experiments, in which he showed that people are willing to electrocute a random stranger to the point of death in the context of a science experiment. Milgram was trying to show something about the human condition, and gleaned insights that were particularly…
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Director John Landis' was asked during his appearance at the BFI in London if the one-hour documentary "The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller" would ever be released on DVD or Blu-ray. CHUD reports that the director confirmed that the doc, along with the remastered longform video, would be coming soon. Apparently the lawsuits and royalty…
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Before a screening of Kick-Ass at ShoWest tonight, Lionsgate premiered the first movie trailer for Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables. I've never really been into trailer descriptions, and I didn't have a notepad on me, so I'm not here with a play by play of the new trailer. I will tell you this: It was incredibly…
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The good news is that LucasFilm is developing a new Star Wars television project. The bad news is that it is another animated series focused towards children, but this time an even younger demographic. According to IESB, Lucas is in preproduction on an animated series based on the Star Wars: Galactic Heroes toys. If you've…
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The latest project to fall into the laps of prolific hoarders Amanda Seyfried and McG is a movie based upon Sabrina Rudin Erdely's Rolling Stone article The Girl Who Conned the Ivy League. I've just read the original story to get a handle on what the movie would be about, and in basic terms, it's this:…
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Sony has released the first movie trailer for Ryan Murphy's adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love. Julia Roberts plays "a happily married woman realizes her life needs to go in a different direction, and after a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey." Watch the trailer now, embedded after the…
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When it was announced that Sony would be remaking The Karate Kid with Will Smith's son Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan as the Mr. Miyagi character, I was livid. Every once in a while on /Film we'll preclude our headline with "Worst Idea EVER:", which is kind of a running joke because we run 20-30…
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In a particularly delayed case of "you reap what you sow", the current administration at Sony Columbia are finding a little bit of an issue in some of their legacy contracts from the 80s. I've often heard that the three lead actors from Ghostbusters and original director Ivan Reitman have had power of veto over…
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At ShoWest I was handed an promotional booklet listing all of Sony's upcoming releases, and noticed a few unreleased photos for films to be released in Late 2010-2011. After the jump you can see photos from the Adam McKay-directed Will Ferrell-starring comedy The Other Guys, the Untitled James L Brooks Comedy starring Reese Witherspoon, a…
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UPDATE: Neil Patrick Harris says on Twitter that Hank Azaria will play a live-action Gargamel in the film, not voice an animated version of the character. Original article follows. We've had a good bit of casting for The Smurfs (not Smurfs: the Movie, as we'd seen it written before) so far, including Neil Patrick Harris…
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Joe Corroney has been providing Lucasfilm with official Star Wars artwork for books, games, trading cards, comic books, posters and magazines since 1997. He recently created a set of propaganda posters which he's selling the original art for $250 a piece. Check out the images after the jump, and see more of Corroney's art on…
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Yesterday, Peter took snaps of the teaser poster for Edgar Wright's upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the film based on the series of graphic novels by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Now we've got a clean high-res version of the poster, and a version formatted as a desktop wallpaper. I know some people think that this…
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In December of last year Paul Thomas Anderson started to reveal plans for his next feature. The script is being called The Master (provisionally, perhaps, and that may well not be the actual or final title) and follows a man who creates a 'faith-based organization' that mushrooms into an empire in the '50s. So: a…
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Jason Statham is starring in director Simon West's remake of the Charles Bronson thriller The Mechanic. He's got Ben Foster along for the ride, presumably taking over the role played by Jan-Michael Vincent in the original, and Donald Sutherland as well. Now there's a sales trailer to show off what West is doing with the…
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After In The Loop, Bruno and Borat, here comes another Brit-spawned comedy set to punch a few red buttons and play hacky sack with your political hot potatoes. Four Lions is the first feature film directed by Chris Morris, creator of the astonishing Brass Eye, Jam and Blue Jam and the significantly less successful Nathan…
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In June 2009, I had the opportunity to visit the Vancouver set of Tron Legacy (you can watch our set visit preview video blog here). Over the course of the next couple days I'll be posting a few of the transcripts of the roundtable interviews that we conducted on the set with the cast and…
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Are you keeping up with the Conan casting? Jason Momoa is in,and as Conan no less; Mickey Rourke is out, replaced by Ron Perlman; Stephen Lang has been rumoured then confirmed... and on and on. The latest break is that Rose McGowan has been handed a role. But, hang on - isn't she supposed to be getting…
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At ShoWest, there are a lot of standees fr upcoming movies on display, some of which have not ever been seen before, and others that were made specifically for the show. I've included a small collection of photos of some of the standees I found more interesting, or had not yet been featured online. Films…
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CBS Films premiered the first production photo from their upcoming action film Faster in today's edition of USA Today. The George Tillman Jr.-directed revenge thriller stars Dwayne Johnson as "an ex-con pursued by cops and killers as he sets out to avenge his brother's death." The photo above was taken from a promo poster on…
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Sigourney Weaver is the latest actress to join Clueless director Amy Heckerling's romantic horror-comedy Vamps. The film stars Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as two young female vampires living the good life in contemporary New York "until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality." According to…
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When Conan O'Brien parted ways with NBC not long ago, he became bound by a clause that says he can't host a new television show until September. There's nothing in his exit contract about a comedy tour, however, so last week Coco announced a string of dates for live shows across the country. Fortunately for…
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Two big new HBO shows are coming soon with significant talent involved. There is The Wire creator David Simon's new Treme, and Boardwalk Empire, with a pilot directed by Martin Scorsese. Each show gets a new trailer this week, and both are fantastic. I'm a bit partial to the one for Boardwalk Empire, if only…
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Earlier today I had the opportunity to watch an early unfinished cut of Lee Unkrich's Toy Story 3 and Teddy Newton's Pixar short film Day & Night. Due to the uncompleted nature of the feature film, we've been asked not to give a full formal review. Instead I've recorded a short spoiler-free video blog with…
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I was walking into a dinner at ShoWest with Steve from Collider when I spotted this theater standee displaying the first movie poster for Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. As with any of the marketing materials on display at the exhibitor convention, this could just be an early promo item: but it looked…
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The Peter Jackson-produced, Guillermo del Toro-directed two-film adaptation of The Hobbit will begin shooting in June. This according to actor Ian McKellen, who is returning as Gandalf. He wrote the following on his official website: THE HOBBIT's, two films, start shooting in New Zealand in June. Filming will take over a year. Casting in Los…
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Before I hit you with a paragraph of jargon and numbers, let me tell you that you can just skip right ahead to below the break and find out what on earth all this tech talk has to do with Pixar (and get to the second Pixar story too, for that matter). Right. Are you…
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Amazon is selling Chan-wook Park's 2004 film Oldboy on Blu-ray for only $8.99, 74% off the $35 msrp. I'm not sure how long that price will hold, so act now while you still can get the deal.
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MacGruber premiered last night at SXSW in Austin, and the early reviews have begun to hit the interwebs. I've included some excerpts after the jump. CinemaBlend: "MacGruber is not, even for a second, half as clever as the SNL sketches it’s based upon. Instead it’s an unending string of easy scatological jokes which, despite being…
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Briefly: Today is a Toy Story 3 day in a couple of ways. While Peter just saw the film at ShoWest, we've got a new character poster to show off. Not quite equivalent things, are they? The new character is Sparks, and he's basically the robot of every boy's dreams...in the late '50s, at least.…
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The Tourist, the romantic thriller starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie that remakes the French film Anthony Zimmer, has been shooting for a while after taking a very long and winding road to set. Now director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others) has two new actors to work with: Paul Bettany and Rufus…
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Hot Toys has announced a new addition to their Movie Masterpiece Series: Iron Man 2 1/6th scale War Machine Collectible Figure. The movie-accurate War Machine collectible is highly detailed and fully deployed, specially crafted based on the image of Don Cheadle as the well-received character War Machine in the movie, highlighting the well equipped armor,…
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UPDATE: Deadline says that Goldsman is onboard as executive producer, not director. The site says he's helping shape the story in advance of the May shoot date. Original article follows. The creation of Paranormal Activity 2 has been a fairly odd process. Paramount had hired Saw VI director Kevin Geutert to helm the film on…
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Just yesterday we heard that Martin Scorsese's adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret was looking to add Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley to the cast. Now it looks like the two lead child actors have been chosen, as well. Asa Butterfield will play the titular Hugo Cabret, and Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass) will play…
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Loud and proud Muppets fan Jason Segel has not only written the fluffy ones' upcoming movie, but as The Hollywood Reporter unsurprisingly reveal in their Heat Vision blog, he's signed on to play the lead role. According to their piece, the plot is under wraps but... er... I've read two different drafts of the screenplay,…
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It was about time Fox spoke up and put James Cameron's wagging tongue to rest. Finally, we have the officially announced plans for Avatar on DVD and Blu-ray, and they're trying something a little bit different... The first release comes this April. Just as Jim said, the US launch will be on April 22nd which…
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I was asked to participate in an awesome charity event called the Night of 140 Tweets. Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel put together a night at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. 140 actors, actresses, directors, producers, comedians, porn stars, and writers were invited to read one tweet, live on stage. It was…
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DreamWorks' has hired 11-year-old Canadian Dakota Goyo for the lead role in Shawn Levy's futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel. Goyo has worked mostly on Canadian television, but appeared alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Hartnett in Resurrecting the Champ and more recently in the Woody Harrelson indie superhero dramedy Defendor. The film, set to…
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If you believe all the recent reports about The First Avenger: Captain America, it appears that Marvel Studios and director Joe Johnston are very undecided when it comes to which actor will wear the red, white and blue tights. At the Wolf Man junket last month Johnson said that casting needed to be complete by…
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TechCrunch is reporting that Fandango has begun pushing out a mobile ticket program that will bring movie tickets to your cellphone. Instead of printing out a paper ticket after buying a ticket online, you'll receive a 2D barcode via a text message, which the ticket-taker will be able to scan. Since the movie theater employees…
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In June 2009, I had the opportunity to visit the Vancouver set of Tron Legacy (you can watch our set visit preview video blog here). Over the course of the next few days I'll be posting a few of the transcripts of the roundtable interviews that we conducted on the set with the cast and…
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The day after the world learned of Michael Jackson's death, I found myself in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada revisiting my 1980's childhood. Its not what it sounds like. I was on the set of a sequel to a film I had first seen 27 years prior. If you had told me as a kid that…
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I'm always fascinated by the stories behind the pageantry of Hollywood (like this story about the convoy of limos carrying celebrities to the Oscar ceremony last weekend), so when I heard that KCRW's The Business would have an exclusive interview with Oscars producer Bill Mechanic, I knew it would be a must-listen. Mechanic produced this…
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Over the weekend, Kick-Ass premiered at the South by Southwest festival to rapturous reception, and screened to press in New York this evening. While I've seen a few voices on twitter that aren't impressed (that's to be expected) by and large the film is being eaten up left and right. Perhaps it is inevitable, then,…
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British sketch comedian and lauded short film director Jim Field Smith has just seen his debut feature She's Out of My League open to a respectable $9 million or so. Meanwhile, he's already at work on his follow up, the Black List approved Butter. It might be a spoiler - though also, very possibly not…
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A Goofy Movie begins with Max Goof on his way to the last day of school, and if all goes right his life will change. Turning cartoon into real life, this animated to live-action short adaptation was created for under $100 over the course of six months with a borrowed camera, over 90 supportive friends…
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Check out this first look at Scott Stewart's Priest aired during the Canadian version of Entertainment Tonight on Friday. You can watch it now embedded after the jump. Official Plot Synopsis: Priest is set in a world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. Paul Bettany is Priest, a legendary warrior priest during…
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If you're a regular reader of /Film, then you know that Gallery1988 in Los Angeles hosts some of the coolest pop culture-focused art shows in the universe. We've featured a lot of art from their Crazy4Cult shows in past editions of Cool Stuff. Their latest show, The Greatest Moments in Sports History, is sports related.…
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Scanning across the web it seems at first glance that Michel Gondry has a slate of upcoming projects to compare with even Guillermo Del Toro's monster heap. On closer inspection, however, it might appear that he's only got a handful described in various different ways, and certainly not too many to handle. Every one sounds…
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I would actually watch this version of The Bounty Hunter... via: TDW
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The forward momentum on casting The First Avenger: Captain America seems to be moving rather slowly. Sure, casting Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull is a great start, but there is still that famously contentious shortlist of possible actors to play Steve Rogers, aka Captain America. That list has had a couple names knocked off,…
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Martin Scorsese's upcoming adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret had already been sounding pretty good. One of the living masters tackling his first family oriented film? How could that not be intriguing? Now he's got two new names that could liven up the cast: Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen. Even better: Kingsley would…
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I really have no idea where this image of Batman fighting a shark with a lightsaber originated from, but it is definitely full of awesome. Lets not forget Batman's 44-year feud with the great white monster. After the jump I've included a clip from Batman: The Movie (not the Tim Burton-directed movie, but the 1966…
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Forest Whitaker recently dropped out of the Abel Ferrara retelling of Jekyll and Hyde, in which he would have starred opposite Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson. But he's looking at a role in Little Treasure, an indie that would shoot in Shanghai, with Michael D. Olmos directing. Josh Goldstein wrote the script, which has an American…
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Ah, spring, the season when we hear about a whole bunch of possible new David Fincher projects that he'll very possibly never end up actually making. We love it when Fincher does make a movie, but between each one there's always that long span of time where he'll be attached to one feature after another.…
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On Saturday Night I had a chance to see Mystery Team again for the first time since the 2009 Sundance Film Festival midnight premiere. Mystery Team is one of those movies that I get e-mails week after week, from readers thanking me for recommending the film, as they probably wouldn't have otherwise sought it out.…
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UPDATE: We've learned that this is NOT the official poster. It is actually a fanmade poster which partially replicates a limited teaser poster handed out at SXSW this year. Original story follows. UPDATE 2: We now have the official teaser poster! We have replaced the fanmade one with the original one. Hit the jump to…
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Last week, Walt Disney Pictures released the first photo, a promo title treatment, for Pixar's next short film, Day & Night, directed by Teddy Newton. The photo, seen above, featured two characters, one filled with day, the other filled with night. At the time we speculated that the short might be a 2D animated film,…
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Actor Peter Graves, most famous for his roles in the Mission: Impossible television series and the Airplane films, passed away on Sunday afternoon from natural causes at the age of 83. According to his publicist, the actor was returning home from brunch with his family to celebrate his upcoming 84th birthday, when he collapsed on…
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A couple weeks back it was reported that Angelina Jolie pulled out of Wanted 2 to pursue another film: Alfonso Cuarón’s space thriller titled Gravity.A few days later a conflicting report suggested that Jolie would not be starring in Gravity after all, but instead be part of the Bret Easton Ellis-scripted The Golden Suicides. And now…
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Green Lantern will begin filming on Monday (March 15th) in New Orleans (according to CBM they "will be shooting a bar scene at the Old Point Bar, 545 Patterson Drive, New Orleans during the day"). And as production begins to gear up, we have some last minute casting news from Heat Vision: Taika Waititi and…
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Our hopes of seeing Mickey Rourke as papa to Jason Momoa's Conan were shattered when Rourke left the project for Tarsem's War of the Gods -- but now it appears that there's another badass on the horizon for Marcus Nispel's Conan remake. Vulture is reporting that Ron Perlman -- of Hellboy and Sons of Anarchy…
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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 SXSW premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review or an interview. We just heard Robert Pattinson dies from being inside the WTC on 9/11 in his new classic…
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Lots of cool film-related stuff happens in Boston, Massachusetts and not that many people are here to document it, preserve it and spread the word about it. Special screenings, Q&As, panel discussions -- we have them all, and frequently too. /Film Boston aims to be a bi-weekly column that will bring you audio and video…
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Earlier this week it was reported that this season of 24 would likely be the last for the series as the ratings have dropped and Fox seems disinterested in continuing production. At the time it was mentioned that the studio is considering shopping the series to other networks, but everyone believed that interest would probably…
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Robert Rodriguez premiered footage from Nimród Antal's Predators at SXSW on Friday, and Fox has put the put the 2-minute sneak preview online. Watch it now on the official Predators movie website, or embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Plot Synopsis: Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a…
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In October 2006, Netflix launched a contest that challenged entrants to improve its recommendation algorithm by 10%. The winner(s) would receive $1 million, dubbed the Netflix Prize. It was a win-win: Netflix received relatively cheap R&D, while everyday statistics enthusiasts had a shot at making a big payday. The results of the competition came down…
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It takes a bold designer to take on the iconography of Alfred Hitchcock. Between his own sensibilities and collaborations with designers like Saul Bass and cinematographer Robert Burks, Hitchcock's films have some of the most memorable images in the mainstream film canon. So here comes graphic designer Laz Marquez with a series of four poster…
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Very unexpected news from the Disney camp today: the studio has just issued a press release saying that, after production finishes on Mars Needs Moms, the Robert Zemeckis studio ImageMovers Digital will be closed in 2011. We don't have a lot of details on the closing right now, but a statement from Walt Disney Studios…
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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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Dustin Hoffman may be ready to make his directorial debut. He's in talks to helm Quartet, which is being written by Ronald Harwood based on his play by the same name. The story is about an aging, retired intelligence agent who has to fend off violent attacks by younger, better armed operatives. Oops. Wait. That's…
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We know very little about Terrence Malick's new film Tree of Life, said to be a generational family drama. We know it stars Brad Pitt as part of the film's elder generation, and Sean Penn as the adult version of Pitt's son. Beyond that, plot details are sketchy as Malick's team has been very good…
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"Telephone," the newly released and incredibly hyped music video from avant-garish pop star Lady Gaga, sees her teaming Thelma and Louise-style with Beyonce in the hot yellow Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill. Why? We guess it's relative to Gaga's appreciation for renegade female empowerment, something Quentin Tarantino's bloody classic expresses like few films before or since. According…
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A new version of Heavy Metal, the 1981 animated anthology film with stories based on the comics magazine Heavy Metal (originally Metal Hurlant in France), has been batted around for the last couple years. At various points a whole laundry list of directors have been 'confirmed' to helm segments: David Fincher, James Cameron, Guillermo del…
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Joaquin Phoenix famously 'retired' from acting a year ago (after finishing Two Lovers) to start some sort of career as a rap MC which may or may not be fodder for a documentary or other film product of sorts involving Casey Affleck. It's all a bit murky, really, but I don't think anyone has ever…
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Is there any point to doing a Harold & Kumar movie without Kal Penn? We may find out, as John Cho is now saying that the proposed third film in the series, A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas could end up shooting this summer for a fall release. Cho is promoting FlashForward, and told Collider…
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20th Century Fox has hired Rupert Wyatt to develop and direct a prequel to Planet of the Apes. Wyatt directed The Escapist which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to medium buzz and decent reviews. I wasn't taken by the movie, but I know it was one of Alex from FirstShowing's favorite movies of…
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Marvel has released two movie trailers for Iron Man 2 thus far (first on here, second one here). Our friend Vic from screenrant decided to edit the footage from both trailers into an extended trailer that runs almost four minutes in length. The result is surprisingly pretty cool (but obviously, the collective footage nothing we…
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ComingSoon has an exclusive first look at Pixar's new short film which will be attached to Toy Story 3 on June 18th 2010. As we previously reported, it is titled Day & Night, and was directed by Teddy Newton, a storyboard artist on The Iron Giant, Character Designer for The Incredibles and Presto, who makes…
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While Marvel Studios still has yet to announce their final choice for Captain America, they have revealed their choice to play the film's villain. HeatVision reports that Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, Lord of the Rings) is in final talks to play the villainous Red Skull in The First Avenger: Captain America. In the comic books,…
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A.J. Bowen, Amy Seimetz, and Joe Swanberg have been cast in Adam Wingard's thriller A Horrible Way to Die. Written by Simon Barrett (Dead Birds), the story follows an escaped murderer (Bowen) in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend (Seimetz), who has fled to start a new life in a small town. Swanberg plays the ex-girlfriend's new…
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While there is nothing concrete, industry insiders and Deadline are speculating that Steven Spielberg might make Robopocalypse his next directorial feature film. DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday have acquired the property in November in a pre-emptive deal. Daniel H. Wilson's unpublished manuscript (due in 2011), Robopocalypse tells the story of "the fate of the human race…
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USA Today got a chance to chat with filmmaker James Cameron who filmed the unannounced Black Eyed Peas concert with 3D cameras in New York's Times Square on Wednesday night. Cameron dropped a few interesting news tidbits, including information on the 3D release of Titanic, a possible extended cut rerelease of Avatar this Fall, more…
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DreamWorks Animation has released a second movie trailer for Shrek Forever After, the fourth and final installment of the Shrek franchise. The full length trailer will be attached to How To Train Your Dragon, which hits theaters on March 26th 2010. I probably shouldn't say anything about that film, but I will say this --…
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The new trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse just hit the internet this morning and fans all over the world are collectively flipping out about it as usual. But there is one fan whose reaction I actually took time out of my day to watch on Youtube, as I have in previous years: Emma Clark,…
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Relativity Media announced today that Peter Farrelly (of the famous comedy directing team The Farrelly Brothers), Brett Ratner, actress Elizabeth Banks, Bob Odenkirk and Griffin Dunne (The Accidental Husband) are directing a sketch comedy feature film. More directors are expected to be announced shortly. Originally set up at Overture Films, the yet-to-be-titled comedy project takes…
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Back in December, Empire Magazine wrote something along the lines of "In a perfect world, every movie would be made by the Coen brothers." This prompted a discussion between /Film reader Angel Diaz and her friends about who the Coens would cast in their version of Star Wars. A few hours and a photoshop session…
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A couple days back, Alan Cumming told MTV News that director Quentin Tarantino would be playing Papa Smurf's right-hand man, Brainy, in Columbia Pictures' big screen adaptation of The Smurfs. But a publicist for the Inglourious Basterds director has denied the filmmaker's involvement. But you would assume Cumming would know what he's talking about considering…
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It looks like Sam Worthington is going to have another block to bust and another tentpole to erect because he's the first talent to be tapped for a new, big-screen take on Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future. If you don't know Dan Dare, then I expect you simply aren't English. He's as famous over…
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Disney and Lionsgate have released a batch of new posters for Toy Story 3 and Kick-Ass. We have a short roundup, after the jump. Lionsgate has released two new "Call to Action" character posters for Kick-Ass on MTV. Click on through to see the posters in high res. And check out the International Toy Story…
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MovieScore Magazine has confirmed that Academy Award winner Michael Giacchino will be writing the score for Andrew Stanton's adaptation of John Carter of Mars. This shouldn't be a huge surprise considering Giacchino's relationship with Pixar: Giacchino has been working with Pixar for some time, providing the score for The Incredibles, Ratatoille, Up, and short films…
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Martin Scorsese is still promoting Shutter Island in various markets, which has led to a handful of big interviews that dive into the subject of various possible projects for the director. We know he's working on The Invention of Hugo Cabret now, and intends to make the Jesuit drama Silence (delayed some time ago in…
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On the blah blah rounds to promote her latest picture The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, producer Nina Jacobson has let slip the main talent attached to upcoming project One Day. She revealed that as well as director Lone Scherfig, BAFTA nominated for An Education, there's also potential stars Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess in…
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So much for those 'please turn off your cell phone' messages before movies. A new German horror film called Last Call is pushing a new 'interactivity' gimmick that will have one member of each theatrical audience receive a call from an onscreen character during the film. The ghost of William Castle approves. Jawbone (via Gizmodo)…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is Futurama: The Complete Collection for $84.99, 58% off the $200 msrp. The Comic Con Exclusive set includes all four volumes of Futurama, as well as 4 feature-length adventures: Bender´s Big Score, The Beast With A Billion Backs, Bender´s Game, Into the Wild Green Yonder all contained in…
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In December 2009, we told you that Paramount Pictures was launching an intiative to develop of slate of 'micro-budget' movies, based in part on the success of Paranormal Activity. Each of these new films would have $100k to play with, and would theoretically get a theatrical release. Now the business plan has a name, Insurge,…
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Just as the teaser hits for the new Twilight movie, here's word on a film that could be the polar opposite of Eclipse. Directed by Matt Reeves, Let Me In is the remake (or re imagining, as some have said) of the Swedish film Let the Right One In. It stars Chloë Moretz, who is…
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Yesterday we posted ten seconds of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight series. Now we've got the full trailer for the David Slade-directed chapter, which, based on this trailer, brings the love triangle between Bella (Kristen Stweart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) much closer together. One of the classic…
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A bunch of new release dates were announced overnight, including the Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried, the computer animated/live-action hybrid 3D film Smurfs, Jonah Hill's big screen adaptation of the television series 21 Jump Street, and Crash writer/director Paul Haggis' new film The Next Three Days. Details after the jump. Buried Lionsgate announced a release…
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Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You Man) and Ed Helms (The Office, The Hangover) have signed on to star in The Duplass Brothers' stoner comedy Jeff Who Lives at Home. The Duplass brothers, Jay and Mark Duplass are writing and directing for producers Jason Reitman via his Right of Way Films and John…
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After the success of Guy Ritchie's reinvention of Sherlock Holmes, it seems like Warner Bros is digging through the archives for old properties or historical figures that could use a Hollywood tentpole revamp. In recent weeks the studio has announced a big screen adaptation of the popular arcade video game Space Invaders, a Guy Ritchie-directed…
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Over the past month, every week there seems to be a new casting announcement for The Farrelly Brothers' comedy Hall Pass. And even though the comedy has already begun filming, this week isn't any different. Variety reports that two more have joined the film, Richard Jenkins and Bruce Thomas (Kyle XY). Jenkins will portray Coakley,…
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Just days ago we told you about a proposed biopic of original FBI director J. Edgar Hoover that is being written by Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black. Now the film has a director attached, and it isn't who I expected to hear signing on. Clint Eastwood is now attached as the film looks for a…
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Steve Martin is in talks to join Jack Black and Owen Wilson in Marley & Me/The Devil Wears Prada helmer David Franke's bird-watching comedy The Big Year. Martin's role was originally set to be played by Dustin Hoffman. The film is based on Mark Obmascik's 2004 book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature…
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Universal Pictures has released a new two and a half minute movie trailer for Ridley Scott's Robin Hood on Yahoo. If you've been unsure about this movie (if you've been using the quip that it looks like Gladiator 2...), I definitely recommend you check out this final epic trailer. And besides, with Scott at the helm,…
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Over the years, we've come to expect the sight an actor playing twins or clones on screen to either be yanked for low-brow laffs and shenanigans (Multiplicity, Double Impact) or to spiral down a freaky reveal about the human condition (Dead Ringers, Moon, Big Love). The latest word on Leaves of Grass, starring the challenge-welcoming Ed…
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20th Century Fox has announced that a third film in the live-action/cg hybrid Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise will hit theaters in 2011. Titled Alvin and the Chipmunks 3D, the film will hit theaters on December 16, 2011. The film will be up against Steven Spielberg's The Adventure's of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, which…
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Walt Disney Pictures has premiered the final movie poster for the big screen adaptation of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time on UGO. The poster features Jake Gyllenhaal as the rogue Prince Dastan, Gemma Arterton as the mysterious princess Tamina and Ben Kingsley as Nizam. Click the link to see the poster in larger resolution.…
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Walt Disney Pictures bought the billboard located at Santa Monica/Westwood in Los Angeles for an entire year. Beginning in mid-December, the studio has been updating the location with new Tron Legacy advertisements,at the rate of one every month and a half. And it was revealed they will keep doing so up until the release of…
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Designer Chris Dimino created a cuckoo clock themed after Stanley Kubrick's classic The Shining. Dimino was challenged to create a cuckoo clock in which the clock itself, the cuckoo motion, sound, and the pendulum capture a moment in time fitting these elements to a concept. The solution was the classic moment from The Shining in…
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Just days after the full trailer for Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways slipped out across the web, here comes a music video showcasing Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart as members of the titular band - you can see it for yourself after the break. I don't know if I'll like this film or not, but I'm…
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We've been hearing for a while now that Disney executives are so excited about the upcoming sequel Tron: Legacy that they are planning to give it a big presence in the company's theme parks. We've heard rumors of a Flynn's Arcade in Tomorrowland, a revamp of the people movers and even a new Tron Legacy…
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Fox have decided to hold back release on Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel, subtitled Money Never Sleeps, until September 24th. This will put it up against Kevin McDonald's Eagle of the Ninth, Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians and Andy Fickman's You Again with Kristen Bell and Sigourney Weaver. I was surprised to enjoy the…
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As you may have noticed over the past weeks, Disney has been teasing the release of Pixar's Toy Story 3 by releasing more information, photos and video of each of the new characters, week by week. A couple weeks ago, we premiered an exclusive look at one of the new toys from the daycare center…
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It's a teaser for a trailer! The real trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will be online tomorrow in advance of the theatrical premiere Friday, where it will be attached to the Robert Pattinson film Remember Me. In the meantime, you can now see ten seconds from Eclipse. Here we get a truncated bit of…
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Remember when DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson denied that Christopher Nolan was overseeing the new Superman film? It's stories like this that make the movie rumor business so sketchy, because an official denial doesn't always mean that something isn't true. We know now that Nolan is overseeing Superman for WB as David Goyer writes the…
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I can't stop chuckling about Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. That's the Broadway musical version of the character that has gone way over budget ($50m+) and features music from Bono and The Edge. Granted, I have a great love for the show's director, Julie Taymor, and perhaps she can pull this one out of the…
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As the release date for Kick-Ass gets closer, original comic creator Mark Millar is already looking towards the comic sequel to his original creation, and the film sequel that will hopefully ensue. As such, he's talking about the direction the story will go, and dropping some big notes and spoilers along the way. Did I…
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The last time we talked about Guy Ritchie's King Arthur movie, it was suggested that a new script was going to be called for, superceding the Warren Ellis draft and now, we've found out who the new writer will be. The lucky winner is John Hodge, probably most famous for having written Danny Boyle's Shallow…
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You've hopefully seen Logorama, the CGI animated film that won the best animated short Oscar on Sunday night. Credited to the French team H5, which is made up of François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain, the short has led to a lot of curiosity about whether we might see a feature that displays…
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KTLA and TMZ are reporting that actor Corey Haim has died at the age of 38 of an apparent accidental overdose. Haim was found unresponsive in an Oakwood apartment last night. According to TMZ, Haim had been in and out of rehab over a dozen times, but had recently cleaned up. Haim achieved fame during…
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As /Filmcast listeners know, I'm a strong advocate for courteous movie watching. No talking, no cell phone usage whatsoever, no doing anything else obnoxious. In fact, I was just reading Linda Holmes' piece this morning, "The Shusher and the Shushed: Why It Matters When You Talk During Movies," and getting heartened that other people in…
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Variety is reporting something we have been speculating for the past month: Fox's hit television series 24 will likely end after the conclusion of the current eighth season. The studio and network executives have declined to comment. But is this the end of the show? Apparently the studio is considering shopping the series to other…
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According to a new piece at The LA Times, Warner Bros. are currently looking to push ahead with one of their two, long-in-development takes on the Wonderful Wizard of Oz story; meanwhile, Collider are reporting that no movement has been made on either project in over a year and that the Times piece is simply…
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There hasn't been much new on the Inception front recently, but I thought I'd cover some of the recent tidbits we've missed. /Film Shane T informs us that in the February issue of Empire Magazine, there is a very brief mention of Inception in the "On-Set Preview" section, where it states that writer/director Christopher Nolan…
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Disney has announced a release date for the Robert Zemeckis’ produced adaptation of Berkley Breathed’s children's book Mars Needs Moms! and Paramount Pictures has confirmed the release o fthe Steven Spielberg-directed 3D performance capture adaptation The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Details after the jump. Mars Needs Moms! will hit theaters on…
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Here's a little distraction for you, something to play with for a couple of idle minutes. In order to promote the DVD and BD release of Saw VI (out since January in the US, in UK stores this week), Lionsgate have whipped up a little Where's Waldo-style picture with Jigsaw's creepy tricycling puppet Billy hidden…
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A couple weeks ago a short list was leaked, containing the actors that Joe Johnston was considering for Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, in The First Avenger: Captain America. The list included John Krasinski (The Office), Scott Porter (Speed Racer, Friday Night Lights, Caprica), Mike Vogel (She's Out of My League, Cloverfield) Michael Cassidy (Smallville)…
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The majority of comic book fans seem to be upset that John Krasinski is the top choice to play Captain America in Joe Johnson's big screen adaptation The First Avenger: Captain America? Our friends at HijinksEnsue made a comic strip to show just how wrong (or awesome?) this potential casting might be. Check out the…
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She & Him is the musical collaboration of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel, previously responsible for the Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? tune that we featured last year. That one had a bank job video directed by 500 Days of Summer's Marc Webb while for this new song, In the Sun, the man…
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I'm embarrassed to admit that I still haven't seen the Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove despite all the huge acclaim and buzz (I hope to finally see it later this week). Louie Psihoyos' film follows a group of activists, led by renown dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, who use state-of-the-art equipment to infiltrate a cove near…
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One of the films I regret missing at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival is a campire rock musical titled Suck. Rob Stefaniuk's Canadian independent rock comedy tells the story of "a rock 'n' roll band that will do anything to become famous." In a post-Twilight age, it is easy to write off any young…
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Update: This story features a correction -- Liev Schreiber has not yet read the screenplay. Last week it was reported that screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie) has turned in a screenplay for Wolverine 2, and that a January 2011 start date decided for the comic book sequel. io9 reports that during that press…
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Robert De Niro has signed to play legendary football coach Vince Lombardi in ESPN Films' big screen feature Lombardi. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Munich, Benjamin Button, The Insider) penned the script. The National Football League is involved in the project, which means we probably won' see anything controversial in the movie (steroids, alcohol).…
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A couple weeks ago a short list was leaked, containing the actors that Joe Johnston was considering for Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, in The First Avenger: Captain America. The list included John Krasinski (The Office), Scott Porter (Speed Racer, Friday Night Lights, Caprica), Mike Vogel (She's Out of My League, Cloverfield) Michael Cassidy (Smallville)…
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Sacha Baron Cohen and Jemaine Clement are competing for a role in Men in Black 3. This according to Bloody Disgusting. While they don't know who the character is, the do have a name and that name is Yaz. To me, it sounds like an alien and not an agent, partly because it's a full…
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Back in December we got word that David Cronenberg would in fact shoot The Talking Cure, an adaptation of the Christopher Hampton play about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung that was floated as a possible Cronenberg project back in 2007. At the time, he seemed to have a fantastic cast lined up: Christoph Waltz as…
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Over a period that spanned many years, Wayne Coyne and his compatriots in The Flaming Lips made a movie called Christmas on Mars. The film is a weird psychedelic adventure that isn't for all tastes, but you have to respect it for at least one thing: Coyne wanted to make a movie, and proceeded to…
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Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson will feature in The Ledge, a "suspense thriller" (as opposed to non-suspenseful thrillers) that will mark the feature debut of writer/director Matthew Chapman. Terrence Howard and Charlie Hunnam co-star in the film about "a man (Hunnam) standing on a high-rise ledge who insists he must jump by noon as the…
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We've known for awhile now that Disney's upcoming fairytale animated film was renamed Tangled, even though it was based off the classic Brothers Grimm story Rapunzel, about a princess whose tower-length hair helps her to fall in love with a wandering prince. One could easily deduce that Disney was trying to appeal to a broader…
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Last month, after a screening of Avatar at the Writers Guild Theater for WGA members, James Cameron spoke with F. X. Feeney about his writing process throughout his career and in the creation of Avatar. I know a lot of people like to make the easy jokes, and write off Avatar for having an over-simplistic…
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A couple weeks ago a short list was leaked, containing the actors that Joe Johnston was considering for Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, in The First Avenger: Captain America. The list included John Krasinski (The Office), Scott Porter (Speed Racer, Friday Night Lights, Caprica), Mike Vogel (She's Out of My League, Cloverfield) Michael Cassidy (Smallville)…
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The trailer for Tron Legacy has appeared online via a viral puzzle campaign that jumps off from the multi-city scavenger hunt launched a couple weeks ago. You can check out the Flynn Lives viral site if you like, but for those who just want the very pretty computerized goods, you can skip right to the…
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How awesome was the movie trailer for Tron: Legacy? I know I've watched it at least five times now, and that doesn't count the two times I saw it in 3D at the Tron Trailer Premiere Event a week ago. But even then, I haven't seen everything. Especially in the world of Tron, the quick…
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Warner Bros has released a new theatrical poster for the big screen comic book adaptation The Losers, which kinda recreates the drawn Comic Con teaser poster. Check out the full poster image after the jump. Official Plot Synopsis: An explosive action tale of betrayal and revenge, “The Losers” centers around the members of an elite…
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Teefury's t-shirt of the day is a great LOST parody created by Spanish artist Naolito titled "Desmond's Replacement". Anyone who watches the television series Lost will understand the reference. And what is a Lost reference without a Polar Bear? The good news is that the tee is available for only $9 plus shipping. The bad…
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Briefly: Well, if I wasn't already excited about Luck, the show set in the world of California horse racing that is being assembled by David Milch and Michael Mann, I would be now. We already knew that Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Farina were in the cast, but now there is word that Nick Nolte will…
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While many countries offer direct public financing for films, in the United States the primary form of public film funding comes through tax credits. The state of Florida is considering a new tax incentive bill to draw film production to the state, and a provision in the bill would allow denial of tax breaks to…
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Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment have released high resolution images of a new Iron Man 2 in theatre standee and two new character posters, both of which you can probably find in your local multiplex beginning this week. They have also released a new production photo from the film. Check it out, after the jump.…
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During the filming of Jason Reitman's Up in the Air, I saw a set photo where George Clooney was dressed in a full-on NASA space suit, walking in an airport. That scene didn't make the final film, and I've always wondered what it was about, and where it fit. Up in the Air hits DVD…
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We snapped over 100 screenshots from the new Iron Man 2 movie trailer, and even we didn't spot this completely obvious shot of Scarlett Johansson's stunt double. No, we didn't think Johansson pulled off that move by herself. Nowadays Hollywood studios usually employ facial replacement in these type of sequences so that the audience never…
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Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment have released an updated official plot synopsis for the big screen adaptation of Thor, along with preliminary credits. No huge surprises, but a few confirmations. All the information is included, after the jump. The Official Plot Synopsis: Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present the epic adventure, “Thor,” which spans the…
Read MoreWe've been covering the development of Jack & Diane for over four years now. This predates the whole Twilight craze, and predates the breakout success of Juno. Bradley Rust Gray's film is about two teenage lesbians, originally set to be played by Ellen Page and Olivia Thirlby. "Jack & Diane meet in New York City…
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After going down well at Sitges and Sundance, Vincenzo Natali's Splice was picked up for distribution by Warner Bros. through their Dark Castle label. They've announced a 4th June release, which simply can't come soon enough. But what's this? A fly in the ointment? According to Fangoria, Natali is heading back to the edit room…
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Hey, remember Moneyball? How could you not? The film meant to be directed by Steven Soderbergh, which was famously shut down at the eleventh hour by Sony chief Amy Pascal, is still going forward. Bennett Miller is directing from a new script by Aaron Sorkin. Original star Brad Pitt remains part of the equation (which…
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Mike Flemming has learned that Sopranos creator David Chase is set to go into production on a music-driven coming-of-age rock drama in late summer/early fall. The unititled film will be Chase's big screen directing debut, and is said to be "about a bunch of guys who form a rock band in the 1960s." Chase wrote…
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Lionsgate has released a bunch of new outdoor art/posters/banners for Matthew Vaughn's big screen adaptation of Kick-Ass. Check out the digital images in high resolution after the jump. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] New Official Synopsis: “How come nobody’s ever tried to be a superhero?” When Dave Lizewski – ordinary New York teenager and rabid comic-book…
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When the utterly atrocious Alice in Wonderland made over one hundred million dollars domestic this weekend, what is the next logical story to fatten like a calf and then trot out in three glorious dimensions? The Bible, of course. One of the co-founders of Walden Media is working with Paramount to create In the Beginning,…
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The internet is abuzz that a new Bill & Ted movie might be in the works, but sadly the source of the speculation isn't that substantial. On the red carpet for the Academy Awards, MTV asked Keanu Reeves if we'd be seeing a new Bill & Ted sequel in the future. Reeves laughed and responded…
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A couple months ago I mentioned the Danish short sci-fi western Connected. That was when a very cool poster was released for the film. Now the whole thing is online, and you can see what happens when two people are forced to rely upon one another to survive in a blasted landscape. Connected is only…
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With the recent release of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, I thought we'd take a look at the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's tale, which was created 107 years ago. Recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight…
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The cast for Lee Daniels' next film, Selma, is really starting to shape up. A while back there was rumor that Robert De Niro would be on board as Alabama governor George Wallace, and that news was confirmed by Movieline. Daniels now also has Hugh Jackman in the cast (announced last week) and, seemingly, Lenny…
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Some of the best filmmaking stories involve fueds, and while the run-up to the Oscars in the press was largely concerned with the constructed narrative of Cameron vs. Bigelow, it was a smaller but far more real conflict that took center stage for a moment. In an Oscar telecast that was noticeably light on dramatic…
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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Lars and the Real Girl helmer Craig Gillespie is in final talks to direct DreamWorks' remake of Fright Night. According to the Times source, "a sweepstakes that included at least three directors appears to be coming to a close, with Craig Gillespie the man who will likely sit…
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Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment premiered the second movie trailer for Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2 on tonight's post-Academy Awards Jimmy Kimmel Live. The new trailer mixes a bunch of footage we've seen before, with extended cuts, before all hell breaks loose and all of a sudden Iron Man and War Machine are surrounded by…
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Earlier Tonight, Marvel released a new movie trailer for Jon Favreau's Iron Man. The trailer flys by pretty fast, so we've gone through and captured over 100 high resolution (almost-2000 pixels wide) screencaptures which allow you to take an extended look at all the action. .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top:…
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Earlier today, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore sent an e-mail out to his mailing list (a list I belong to) listing his top 20 films of 2009. In the e-mail, Moore hails the best movie he saw in 2009, a film which wasn't nominated, and wasn't even shown in the United States -- a…
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DreamWorks Animation has released a new clip from their upcoming film How To Train Your Dragon on ComingSoon. The clip features a Viking teenager named Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) who is attempting to tie a harness to a dragon's tail. The sequence seems like it would be a lot more impressive in 3D. Watch…
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The 82nd Academy Awards have begun. We'll begin to update our live blog of the award ceremony after the jump. Leave your thoughts, commentary, and predictions in the comments below! The award show has begun... Samsung is all over the commercial breaks, pushing their new 3D televisions. All because of Avatar. The show opened with…
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Even though Christopher Weekes' script The Muppet Man 'won' last year's Black List poll of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, there was every chance it would never make it to the screen. Essentially a biopic of Jim Henson peppered with fantastical scenes starring The Muppets, it would require the involvement somehow of both the…
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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 York premiere for a provocative indie, a mini review or an interview. Animal Collective's ODDSAC premieres in NYC On March 2, I downed a couple Bushmills and walked…
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The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation have announced the "dis-hours" for the year in film that was 2009. Michael Bay and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was the big "winner", taking home three awards: Worst Screenplay (Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci must be proud), Worst Director and the not so coveted "Worst Picture of 2009". Sandra…
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Weekend Weirdness' favorite J.C. directed a nearly three hour epic about The King starring his main man Snake Plissken, and yet the film was at risk of being forgotten by younger generations. How could this occur when the movie in question, John Carpenter's Elvis, is arguably a better country music biopic than Walk the Line, and…
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We might be closing in on the musical for people who don't like musicals (which will do until we find an outright cure for their curious condition). Over the last couple of years, Sin Nombre director Cary Funkunaga has been working on "a musical or an opera of some kind" with Zach Condon and Owen…
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The new Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight and Day was originally scheduled to be released on Friday, July 2, 2010, putting it up as counterprogramming against The Last Airbender and to some degree, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (which drops the following Wednesday). Variety now has word that the film will now be released on…
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The Independent Spirit Awards might not be as popular as other awards ceremonies such as the Golden Globes and the Oscars, but I'm a huge fan of nonetheless. One of the key elements of eligibility for the Spirit Awards is that nominated films don't have to have played in a theater; they just need to…
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Universal has released a first look photo at the Hogwarts Express, which has just arrived at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. Click on the image to enlarge. "The Hogwarts Express arrives at Hogsmeade Station as The Wizarding World of Harry Potter continues to develop at Universal…
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How I wish I could say this sounds like a good idea. Not long ago, when a list of possible Robert De Niro projects was released, we got the first indications that a sequel to Midnight Run might be happening. Now the sequel really seems to be moving forward, as Universal has hired a screenwriter…
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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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One of the shows that is really high on my 'to-watch' list is HBO's Rome. I have friends who were seriously devoted to it, and practically thrust the blu-ray set into my hands whenever possible. The wildly expensive show was canceled after the second season, and while quite a lot of story was crammed into…
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What would the offspring of Shrek and a Na'vi from Avatar look like? Latvia-based graphic artist Alexander Bickov created this mash-up he titled Shrevatar. You can download high resolution computer desktop wallpaper featuring the image on moinid.com.
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If you were paying any attention to the marketing for Kevin Smith's Cop Out you quickly noticed that it was being sold as a Tracy Morgan movie more than anything else. Kevin Smith was an unknown quantity for a mass audience (difficult to fathom after being around for a while, but it's true) and with…
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I just heard about an interesting pitch that apparently just sold to Fox. The writing duo of Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly pitched a comedy called Premature Maturation, which is essentially the Tom Hanks movie Big, but with an ensemble of middle school kids who transform into adults and get into crazy misadventures ala The…
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Floria Sigismondi's account of the formation and early career of The Runaways is opening soon, and here's the first full trailer for the film. It's a a lot better than the teaser, as it goes slightly lighter on all the world-changing crap and shows off the characters and the LA dives and parties in which…
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I always find Infographics to be fun, which probably explains why we feature them a lot on /Film. OnlineMBA has created an Infographic which focuses on the Film Industry by the numbers, showing that even in a recession, Hollywood remains strong in the world of entertainment. Check out the full infographic, after the jump. Via:…
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Benicio Del Toro has signed to play g-man Jack Garcia in Making Jack Falcone. Garcia targeted the Gambino family, and was responsible for taking down dozens of made men. Garcia is Cuban-born, but managed to play an Italian so successfully that he was invited to become a made man himself. Steven Soderbergh is producing the…
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Academy Award repeat offender Nick Park is currently in the planning stages of a new, feature length movie to be produced in the same plasticine stylings as The Curse of the Were-rabbit. This time, though, he's not going back to West Wallaby Street and his cracking creations Wallace and Gromit are to be left on…
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If all goes according to his plan, Wanted, Kick-Ass and American Jesus creator Mark Millar will be directing his first movie this summer. He's got a considerable back catalogue of comics work that it could have been based on, much of which is in fact creator owned so he'd only have to negotiate with himself for…
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1408 screenwriter Matthew Greenberg has been hired to pen a remake of another Stephen King adaptation, Pet Sematary. Transformers/G.I. Joe/1408 producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is attached, and the project is set up at Paramount Pictures. Aside from the previous King adaptation, Greenberg's screenwriting credits include a bunch of subpar genre efforts: Reign of Fire, Halloween…
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Even with the onslaught of 3D news, Hollywood hasn't stopped signing new deals to remake some of the films from our childhood (or at least, my childhood). Tonight New Line Cinema and Warner Bros have announced that they will be returning to the Police Academy series. The police-based comedy franchise began in 1984, and spawned…
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Deadline is reporting that Oliver Stone has signed a deal to direct a big screen adaptation of Don Winslow's drug cartel thriller Savages, which the director hopes to helm after Wall Street 2. The 320-page novel will be published by Simon & Schuster in July (available for preorder on Amazon for $16.50). The book tells…
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Last month Universal Pictures announced that a fifth film in the Fast and the Furious franchise would be going into production titled Fast Five. The studio had inked deals with all the key players, including stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, director Justin Lin, screenwriter Chris Morgan (Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Wanted), and producer Neal…
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Lightstream Pictures has preemptively acquired and will co-finance Shrek franchise director-writer-producer Andrew Adamson's live-action fantasy adventure film Fountain City. The project is based on an original idea by screenwriter Joby Harold (Awake, Ronin). Harold is writing the script, which Adamson will direct. Storyline details are being kept under wraps, but Variety reports that the project…
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Noah Baumbach, whose new film Greenberg hits theaters later this month, says that he has been working on another screenplay with collaborator Wes Anderson. For those of you who don't know, Baumbach co-wrote both The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Fantastic Mr. Fox with Anderson, who produced Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale. Considering…
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A couple weeks ago a short list was leaked, containing the actors that Joe Johnston was considering for Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, in The First Avenger: Captain America. The list included John Krasinski (The Office), Scott Porter (Speed Racer, Friday Night Lights, Caprica), Mike Vogel (She's Out of My League, Cloverfield) Michael Cassidy (Smallville)…
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Shadowlocked has confirmed with Star Wars and Alien art-director Roger Christian that Ridley Scott's upcoming Alien prequel will be shot in 3D. Christian, who ran into Ridley at a recent film festival, hopes to work on the film, and breifly experessed his excitement for the project: "Ridley told me some of his ideas when we…
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The official countdown to the in-theater debut of the Tron: Legacy movie trailer continues (I call it "the slow tease"), with a fourth photo: Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) has entered the old Flynn's Arcade, which as you can see is boarded up, dusty, and covered in plastic. At the end of row is the old…
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Last night Chase Whale alerted me to a tweet from actress Amanda Bynes, who explains that she won't be appearing in The Farrelly Brothers' comedy Hall Pass after all. Bynes tweeted: FYI I am NOT in Atlanta doing a cameo in Hall Pass like people think!! I was, but I left because of scheduling conflicts!!!…
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The CW has renewed Smallville for a tenth season. I haven't watch the show in years (and even that was a few years after I should have stopped watching), but I know some of the /Film comic readers are still tuned in (or someone is?). For those who care, I've included the full press release…
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As you probably know by now, 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…
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You may recall that, last year, Warren Ellis mentioned he was working on a treatment for an Arthurian film that may or may not be a remake of Excalibur. Now Warner Bros. has evidently attached a director to the film: Guy Ritchie, ready for more adventure after scoring a success with Sherlock Holmes. Pajiba reports…
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We just saw the first stills from Legend of the Guardians, Zack Snyder’s computer animated adaptation of the popular children’s book series Guardians of Ga’Hoole. Now there's a teaser trailer online, which you'll also be able to see in theaters with Alice in Wonderland, starting this weekend. Yahoo has the trailer, which is quite worth…
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Warner Bros is going 3D crazy. Post Avatar, the movie studio has announced post production 3D conversions of the last two Harry Potter films and Clash of the Titans. Rumors have been circulating that the studio was also considering 3D for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Green Lantern. A few weeks back, director Martin…
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Briefly: Hey, that's a pretty good poster. Yahoo has premiered the final poster image for Pixar's Toy Story 3, and it's a nice top-down view of the movie's massive toybox full of characters. Just about all the new guys are crammed in there; to see any of them in more detail you can check out…
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ComingSoon has gotten their hands on the Russian Poster for Mike Newell's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Click on through to CS to see it in higher resolution. If you missed the recent movie trailer, which was released earlier this week, click here to see it now. OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE…
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The last time The Shadow hit movie screens, things didn't work out so well. The 1994 Alec Baldwin version directed by Russell Mulcahy suggested that the character might have a better home on radio and in the pages of pulp magazines and comics. Yet Sam Raimi picked up the rights to the character in 2006.…
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Filmmaker Tim Burton's "secret formula" is becoming less and less secret with each and every movie he makes. College Humor snuck a camera into Burton's office to see how Burton makes his magic, and develops his next big screen remake/adaptation. Watch the video, embedded after the jump.
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Disney are reported to have at least 20 stage shows in development at the moment, though it seems unlikely that they'll all see opening night. Of those that do, a number will not be Broadway productions, instead touring or being licensed to regional theatre companies. It's only the select few that will see The Great…
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In honor of the 25th Independent Spirit Awards, Eddie Izzard, William H. Macy, Viola Davis, Tim Roth, Juliette Lewis, Fred Willard, Frances Fisher, and Illeana Douglas have recorded a video talking about what the Independent Spirit means to them. Of course, it was created in fun, and without the pretension you might expect from the…
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Vincenzo Natali's film Splice, which was a hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival, will be coming to a theater near you this Summer. Joel Silver's Dark House Entertainment and Warner Bros will be releasing this odd "gene-warping creature feature" on June 4th 2010. Thanks to Box Office Mojo (via: Collider) for the date confirmation.…
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The story of Marco Polo has been brought to the screen before and will probably be adapted many times in the future. The next film about the explorer could be directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) as Warner Bros. has attached the director to a project based on a pitch by Adam Cooper and…
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We've been hearing rumblings of a Tron television series for the last month or so (first, second), and now Disney has confirmed the reports during their upfront presentation Tuesday evening. The mouse house has also revealed a new animated series for Marvel's The Avengers. The Tron animated series would be broadcast on the Disney Channel…
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Often with these aggregated casting pieces the idea is to group together a number of fairly small stories. In this case the names are big -- Robert De Niro, Rachel McAdams, Woody Allen, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carrell -- but the films are either ones we don't know much about or have recently covered in detail.…
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At the time this was published, we've already posted a total of 25 overwhelmingly positive reader reviews of an early cut of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World from test screenings (you can read part one here, part two here). Beyond that, we've posted mini reviews from filmmakers Jason Reitman and Greg Mottola. But…
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Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures will release the first movie trailer for Zack Snyder's computer animated adaptation Legend of the Guardians, based on the popular children's book series Guardians of Ga'Hoole, with Disney's Alice in Wonderland. But you don't have to wait until Friday to get a look at Snyder's first family film, as Warners has…
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Posted online as a showreel piece for the actor Federico Dordei, YouTube is currently hosting a clip reel from the ill-fated US attempt to remake Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright's sitcom Spaced. You can see it embedded below the break in all of its... er... glory. In case you don't recall, the creators…
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Warner Bros has released a new theatrical banner for Samuel Bayer's remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Check it out in full, after the jump. Click on the below image to enlarge: A Nightmare on Elm Street hits theaters on April 30th 2010.
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Slow news day today, so there are a couple of small news items bubbling up. One is that the script for Wolverine 2 has been handed in, and a January 2011 start date decided for the sequel to Hugh Jackman's last mutant outing. Roger Friedman reports that Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie) has turned…
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Metropolis Graphics has created an exact replica of the prop map from Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits. There were at least two different versions of this map created for the film. The map used during filming and handled by the actors exhibits different detailing and color than the map seen during the credits sequences. This map…
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Robert Downey Jr will appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Sunday March 7th, following the Academy Awards, to introduce the world premiere of the new Iron Man 2 trailer. You can read the details in a press release after the jump. ROBERT DOWNEY JR. TO APPEAR ON "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE: AFTER THE ACADEMY AWARDS(R), ALONG…
Read MoreYou have to wonder how nobody saw this coming. Last week it was announced that Sacha Baron Cohen would be presenting at the Oscars this Sunday. Yesterday, his name disappeared from the presenters list. The reason for the dismissal, according to Vulture, was that Cohen was collaborating with Ben Stiller for an Avatar sketch that…
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Neil Patrick Harris has been racking up a hell of a lot of cred. He's done well on How I Met Your Mother and has parlayed the geek crowd's young memories of his Doogie Howser, M.D. role into a mature fanbase thanks to appearances in Starship Troopers, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the Harold and Kumar…
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I'll be honest and say that when I first heard a music video director would be doing a remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, one of the most beloved horror franchises of all time, I wasn't too crazy about the idea. Sure, we've seen brilliant music video directors such as Fincher and Jonze go…
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From day one David Slade seemed like an odd choice to direct a film in the Twilight franchise - and not least because of his controversial comments damning the first installment. With Eclipse, however, it seemed maybe like Summit were going for a slightly harder-edged feel by choosing him, and it even gave some undecided…
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Briefly: I just talked about this film yesterday, when Marion Cotillard was announced as a member of the cast for Woody Allen's upcoming film to be shot in Paris later this year. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is the film Allen shot in 2009, and has been planned for release in various markets…
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Today it has been learned that Disney has purchased a new batch of internet domain names. The most interesting domain in the batch is a domain for an Ant-Man movie: ANT-MAN-THEMOVIE.COM. Now, this doesn't confirm anything... but Disney doesn't usually purchase domain names without reason. Looks like they are considering an Ant-Man movie. When the…
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The official countdown to the in-theater debut of the Tron: Legacy movie trailer continues (I call it "the slow tease"), with a third photo: Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) inside the old Flynn's Arcade, which as you can see is boarded up, dusty, and covered in plastic. The Tron Legacy trailer will be attached to Alice…
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Stephen Lang's reward for acing his portrayal of the villainous Colonel Quaritch in Avatar could be another showcase role as the colourful bad guy. There's said to be a deal on the table right now that would see Lang taking the part of Khalar Singh in Marcus Nispel's Conan reboot. Here's how Singh was described…
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You'll probably be seeing a lot about this around the interwebs today, so might as well get it out there: a reported synopsis for Marvel's upcoming film The First Avenger: Captain America has been posted at featurefilmcasting.com. The casting notice, which you can read after the break, is primarily intended to draw principals and extras…
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I've had people tell me to read George R.R. Martin's fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire for years, but I've never been terribly interested. I'm much more taken with the idea of HBO's television production Game of Thrones, based on the first book in the series, primarily because of the talent involved. (That's…
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MAD Magazine has given us an exclusive look at Sergio Aragones' "A MAD Look At Avatar" parody comic strip from the next issue (#503), which goes on sale March 23rd. Sergio has been working with the magazine nearly since it's inception - if you've ever read MAD, you'll recognize his work. Check out the whole…
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On a recent trips around Disney's themeparks, WDWNet reporter Banks Lee rattled off a rather interesting series of snapshots. The ones taken around The Magic of Animation reveal not only a couple of new Toy Story 3 poster designs but a whole wealth of concept art, storyboard images and even a few full CG-renderings. I've…
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Anchor Bay has released a movie trailer for Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's upcoming thriller After.Life, which stars Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci and Justin Long. The story follows a young woman "caught between life and death... and a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but might just be intent on burying her…
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In June of 2009, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull co-star Shia LaBeouf told reporters that Steven Spielberg had "cracked" the story for Indiana Jones 5 and he thinks "they're gearing that up." But as far as I can tell, no screenwriter has been hired to turn that idea into a script.…
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In late-2008, we told you that Sherwood Schwartz and his son Lloyd Schwartz had signed a deal to bring Gilligan's Island to the big screen.But we haven't really heard anything about the big screen adaptation for over a year, until now. Variety reports that Warner Bros is developing the feature film with Atlas Entertainment. Charles…
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We knew it was bound to happen eventually: Warner Bros and producers Mark Gordon, Jason Blum and Guymon Casady are in talks to develop a feature film adaptation of the classic Taito video game Space Invaders. Warner bought Midway Games last summer, but the US publisher of Space Invaders does not own the theatrical rights…
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Earlier today, we published a story about how Samuel Bayer is not interested in directing a sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street, and hinted that he is developing an adaptation of a graphic novel. There’s a comic– I’m sure my agent would kill me for this, because I’m sure I’m not supposed to talk…
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We've heard Hollywood executives like Jeffrey Katzenberg fighting the big fight, making big claims, that one day, someday, every movie will be released in 3D, including dramatic indie films. We've even heard the likes of James Cameron make the same type of claims. But what about an old school filmmaking legend like Martin Scorsese? Read…
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You know about Bernie Madoff, the man who ran the the world's largest financial fraud scam of all time, but you might not know the whole story of Harry Markopolos. Who is Harry Markopolos? And why is his story gaining the attention of everyone in Hollywood? Markopolos is the man who tried to blow the…
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Briefly: Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada has confirmed on Twitter that screenwriter Zak Penn has turned in a first draft of the big screen adaptation of The Avengers. The film currently has a release date scheduled for May 4th 2012.
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We've not even had the tiniest glimpse of Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians aka The Guardians of Ga'Hoole yet, and the film is only six months from release. This weekend, though, the computer generated warriors owl will be arriving in a big way as their trailer heads out to cinemas. It's quite exciting to…
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We still know very little about Woody Allen's next film; he is one of the most protective filmmakers around when it comes to new projects. Typically Allen refuses to share any details about a work in progress, and he doesn't actually give a new movie a title until it is finished. We've now got one…
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Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, who together produced the animated film 9, are teaming up again to produce what could be a far more outrageous project: they'll shepherd an adaption of the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Screen Daily reports the deal, but doesn't have…
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I'm not sure where the comment section trend of suggesting Joseph Gordon-Levitt for every available male role went from the spirit of genuine fandom to outright jokester parody, but here's some fuel for the fire: James McAvoy has dropped out of the film formerly called I'm With Cancer, and will be replaced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.…
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Almost Famous is one of my favorite movies of all time, and Cameron Crowe used to be one of my favorite writer/directors. It is not that the filmmaker had a huge fall from grace -- I actually liked Elizabethtown more than most, despite Orlando Bloom's best efforts. It's that the filmmkaer is starting to become…
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Justin Timberlake, Molly Shannon and Eric Stonestreet have joined the cast of 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 substitute teacher, and starts a bitter rivalry with his girlfriend, her squeaky-clean colleague…
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Is HBO back? The answer seems to be "oh, my, yes!" In the past few months the once-dominant dramatic voice of cable has put new shows in development with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Todd Haynes, Jonathan Demme, David Fincher and more. (Like that Spielberg guy, whose Band of Brothers follow-up The Pacific looks insane.)…
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Editor's Note: Disney has released a new photo from the upcoming movie trailer (above, click to enlarge), which will be attached to Alice in Wonderland in theaters on Friday, and will debut online probably sometime next week. The mousemaniacs at Blue Sky Disney have filed a report on the studio's apparent plans for Tron, Tron…
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I'm not sure what your reaction was upon hearing that Arthur, the 'classic' '80s tale of class, alcoholism and romance starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli, was being remade. Mine was something along the lines of "...why?" The charismatic and free-spirited Russell Brand is taking on the role of a wealthy drunk staring down the…
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As you may have noticed over the past weeks, Disney has been teasing the release of Pixar's Toy Story 3 by releasing more information, photos and video of each of the new characters, week by week. This week we have been given an exclusive look at one of the new toys from the daycare center…
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Home Media Magazine is reporting that the Blockbuster Video movie rental chain will be quietly reinstating late fees in their brick-and-mortar locations, with a capped rate. Members who pay the $4.99 for a new release DVD will have five days to return the movie, instead of seven. A $1-per-day late fee will be assessed for…
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Walt Disney Pictures has released a new movie trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on IGN. The new trailer incorporates some of the new special effects footage from the Superbowl spot and new "Creating of an Epic" featurette, as well as a lot of never before seen sequences. I'm still not digging…
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HackingNetflix is reporting that Netflix has begun surveying customers asking if they would be interested in an application for the iPhone which would allow customers to instantly watch movies anf tv shows without an additional fee. Here’s the full text of the survey: “Imagine that Netflix offers its subscribers the ability to instantly watch movies…
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We've posted a few videos from the guys at How It Should Have Ended in past editions of VOTD (Video of the Day). Their latest episode takes an animated look at how JJ Abrams' Star Trek should have ended. Watch it now, after the jump.
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Dreamworks has acquired television writer/producer Justin Adler's spec screenplay The Escort, a R-rated unlikely buddy road-trip comedy which has been described as Dutch meets Role Models meets Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Tom McNulty (The Rocker, Date Night) is producing. The story follows a dysfunctional womanizing flight escort who is forced to travel with a 14-year…
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Against all laws of nature, Big Momma's House 3 keeps happening, though it probably won't be called that. Martin Lawrence is going to go back into rubbery drag for the third outing, and he'll be joined by Brandon T. Jackson of Tropic Thunder and Percy Jackson. Guess everyone's gotta eat, but why does it have…
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While appearing on the Late Show With David Letterman, actor Bill Murray admitted that the possibility of a third Ghostbusters film is his "Nightmare," calling the idea of another sequel "just crazy talk." He also said that (possible spoiler to follow) he told producers he would only appear in the sequel if they killed his…
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Composer John Debney will be composing an original score for the Robert Rodriguez-produced, Nimrod Antal-directed sequel/reboot Predators. Not a hugely surprising choice as Debney has worked with Rodriguez many times in the past, including Sin City, The Adventures of Shark-Boy and Lava-Girl, and the Spy Kids films. Debney got his big break with the 1993…
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Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures have decided to give Zack Snyder's animated adaptation of the popular children's book series Guardians of Ga'Hoole a new title: Legend of the Guardians. The new title is aimed at those who might not understand what a "Ga'Hoole" is or means. And while it may be easier for people to pronounce…
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LocateTV has created a wonderful infographic titled "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Oscars", which is filled with fun facts about the Academy Awards. For example, which person has won the most Oscars? What is the longest acceptance speech in history? Or the box office factoid above that this year's top two contenders…
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Before Gus Van Sant's film Milk was released, many people who didn't watch Big Love wondered "who the hell is Dustin Lance Black?" That's the young writer who made his name on Big Love, and whose name was credited large in trailers for his collaboration with Van Sant. After seeing Milk, the question was more…
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MTV recently talked to director Edgar Wright, who confirmed what many people who have read the screenplay(s) for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World had known for a while: the story diverges from Bryan Lee O'Malley's source material somewhere around book number three. Here is the quote from Wright: "After three volumes, it starts to take…
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Many critics and moviegoers alike have laughed at Avatar's element of value -- Unobtanium. For those of you who don't know, Unobtanium is not a real element, but is a real word used in the world of science. Derived from unobtainable + -ium, Wikipedia says the word is used to refer to "any extremely rare,…
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I talked a bit about The Oranges just the other day -- that's the indie that will put Hugh Laurie back on the big screen in a May-September romance with Leighton Meester. When I mentioned the film last week Catherine Keener was noted as being in the mix as the mother of Meester's character. Now…
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Update: Disney has sent us a new image from Tron Legacy. The image is from the forthcoming trailer, a scene that was also shown at Comic-Con. Kevin Flynn's son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) drives his bike to the old Flynn's Arcade to investigate after receiving a mysterious phone call from a Kevin's old disconnected office phone…
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There was some news recently that James Cameron might be producing or even potentially directing a film about Hiroshima. He'd optioned a book called The Last Train From Hiroshima, by Charles Pellegrino, a friend of the director. Now publication of the book is being halted, because publisher Henry Holt and Company "was not able to…
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This year's Oscars aren't for another week, but this past weekend was a big one for awards. We've already posted on the Visual Effects Society awards that were largely handed out to Avatar and Up. But France's big awards ceremony, the Cesars, went down over the weekend, with Jacques Audiard's widely acclaimed A Prophet scoring…
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Last year it was rumored that the Peter Jackson-produced Guillermo del Toro-directed two-film adaptation of The Hobbit would be filmed in 3D. del Toro was quick to deny the claims, stating "we are not talking about 3D, we are NOT writing the screenplay for 3D right now- we are hiring my DoP Guillermo Navarro to…
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Fox 2000 has won a bidding war with at least two other studios for the rights to make a big screen adaptation of British author Catherine Fisher's novel Incarceron. The book, which was released in the UK in 2007, reached stateside just a few weeks back, and is already on New York Times Bestsellers List.…
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How cool was this week's episode of Lost? Best episode of the season thus far? The two-episode final episode of LOST is in production and even has a title. Want to know what it is? Find out after the jump. For those hesitant to check it out, let me assure you that the title is…
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley geek out about the new Scott Pilgrim trailer, discuss the directorial capabilities of Brad Bird, and reminisce about the many crazy days of Jack Bauer. Plus, an old colleague joins us to recall some of the films he saw at ShoWest.…
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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 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 played…
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Stephen explores the secret world that children live in when their parents aren't looking. 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. You can always e-mail Stephen at…
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley get caught up on Breaking Bad, celebrate Chris Evans' selection as Captain America, and respond predictably to news that Platinum Dunes is remaking The Monster Squad. Special guest Dave3 joins us from Geeks of Doom. Congratulations to the winners of our…
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. FANTASTIC MR. FOX Fantastic Mr. Fox is as attuned to Wes Anderson's filmmaking idiosyncrasies as any of his past work, and yet…
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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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Stephen talks about the terrifying prospect of being lost, and the satisfying, yet uncertain, journey towards being found. 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. You can…
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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 June 2009, I had the opportunity to visit the Vancouver set of Tron Legacy (you can watch our set visit preview video blog here). Over the course of the next couple days I'll be posting a few of the transcripts of the roundtable interviews that we conducted on the set with the cast and…
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Just in case Chris Evans doesn't get the role of Captain America, he's lined up another gig that he can shoot right now. He's taken the lead role in Puncture, an indie drama about "a troubled young attorney who must come to terms with his own demons when taking on a healthcare giant." Adam and…
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley reflect on the winners and the pageantry of this year's Oscars, and discuss the future of the Superman, Captain America, and Batman franchises. Special guest Jeff Goldsmith joins us from Creative Screenwriting Magazine. Enter to win a copy of Kick Ass:…
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I suppose it isn't a big surprise given his genre leanings and the performance of Wanted, but Timur Bekmambetov is turning into one of those producer/directors that has a score of projects in development at once. Recently he's been tied to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with Tim Burton, he may still be doing Wanted 2,…
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It looks like Summit are trying to extend their reach even further than Eclipse's David Slade in picking a director for Breaking Dawn, the final Twilight film (or maybe films). Amongst their picks are three Academy Award nominated directors typically associated with more widely respected fare: Sofia Coppola, Gus Van Sant and Bill Condon. Now,…
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A couple weeks back we posted Alexander Bickov's Shrek and Avatar mash-up Shrevatar. One /Film reader made me aware of a Flickr account titled Avatizer which collects photo na'vi mash-ups. They have everyone, from Tiger Woods to Pee Wee-Herman, all transformed into Na'vi.
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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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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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Stephen talks about the Romance of Travel and the realities of shooting on location, relating some Rules of the Road he has gleaned from experiencing the good, the bad, and the very bad. The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life,…
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss the virtues of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, delve into the evolving career of David Slade, and show some love to Fish Tank, 7 Days, and Gambit. Special guest Eric Vespe (AKA Quint) From Aint It Cool News…
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FlowingData have converted some of the most famous movie quotes in this history of cinema into an infographic. Check it out, embedded after the jump. via: tdw
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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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One of my most anticipated television events of the year is the arrival of Breaking Bad: Season 3. The AMC original series, created by Vince Gilligan, has gone from strength to strength and cemented itself as one of the best shows on television (and, I would argue, one of the best TV shows of all…
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In this death defying episode, Stephen and Beth make some accidental life decisions in Illinois while Stephen has a brush or two with the Grim Reaper and finds help from a most unexpected source. The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about…
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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, and Adam Quigley try to figure out what Kevin Smith was going for in Cop Out, assess the career of David Goyer, and shower praise on Triangle, The Last Airbender, and the Muppet movies. Special guest Laremy Legel joins us from Film.com. You can…
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Update: Paramount claims they are not developing Grisby's but "would jump at the chance to take part in another Hughes creation." [risky] In Vanity Fair's profile of the late writer/director John Hughes, it was revealed Hughes didn't stop writing after leaving Hollywood in 1994. His sons found boxes of writings, more than 300 pocket notebooks,…
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Not too long ago there was word that Red Tails, the WWII movie produced by George Lucas and directed by The Wire's Anthony Hemingway, would be undergoing extensive reshoots. At the time, the report was that Lucas and producer Rick McCallum were quite unhappy with Hemingway's material. That seemed dubious, though the idea of reshoots…
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