This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. THE ROAD The apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic subgenre has been worn out. Between recent outings such as The Book of Eli, 2012, Daybreakers, Doomsday, and…
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A couple days have passed since the Lost Series finale, but it isn't done with us yet. For those of you like me who missed the Lost-focused Jimmy Kimmel show on Sunday night, we have three alternative endings to Lost.Also, if you still have some unanswered questions, College Humor has put together a video has…
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The fourth and final Shrek film, Shrek Forever After, obliterated box office competition this past weekend. Earning over $70 million domestically, Shrek handily beat Iron Man 2, which came in with $26.4 million, and it destroyed MacGruber, which bombed with only a $4 million take. Given these numbers, the film looks like a financial success…
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According to the early Friday box office estimates, Universal's Saturday Night Live big screen adaptation of MacGruber bombed with only $1.6 million on Friday, headed for an estimated weekend total of $4.5 million. Not only did it lose out to the new Shrek film, but also the second weekend of Summit's romantic drama Letters To…
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Last week we featured a video montage which collected the overuse of "Get Out Of There!" in movies. But someone decided that wasn't the biggest movie dialogue cliche in cinema and created a competing video montage. Why do so many filmmakers overuse the quote "I Hate Muffins" in big Hollywood movies? Watch the faux video…
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. INVICTUS Some historical events function better as documentary subjects than they do movies. Admirable though the effort may be, Invictus is one…
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Having not yet begun my Cannes adventure, I thought I'd share some of the photos I took while in Paris. I posted a couple of these on twitter and received a bunch of feedback from readers asking to post more on the site. Even though most of the photos are not really movie related (some…
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What would you get if you mashed up two of this Summer's most anticipated yet completely different films: Christopher Nolan's Inception and Pixar's Toy Story 3? ScreenRant's video editor extraordinaire Mike Eisenberg has edited the movie trailer mash-up so that you no longer need to imagine the results. Watch it now, embedded after the jump.
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This year is my first year attending and covering the Cannes Film Festival. And while most international film lovers and critics consider Cannes Film Festival to be the most important film festival of the year, I have a confession to make: I've never really had an interest to attend. Why? It just never seemed like…
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For the past year IFC has bought up a lot of left-field, genre and oddball movies to distribute in the States. It started with Antichrist -- not such a weird buy, given the prestige status of Lars von Trier -- and then went to Valhalla Rising, Human Centipede (First Sequence) and Enter the Void, among…
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A Chinese filmmaker made this short 4-minute video which features a Terminator panhandling outside of a Apple Store in Beijing China. You'll have to watch the video to find out what might happen if the Terminator gets enough money to recharge his batteries.
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. EDGE OF DARKNESS Lest you be fooled by the trailer, Edge of Darkness is not an action thriller; it's a drama thriller,…
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In how many movies do you see the character tell another character to "Get Out of There!"? It happens a lot, so much so that our friends at Pajiba have been able to create a video compilation that lasts over four minutes. Watch it now after the jump.. and, ummm... "Get outta there!"
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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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Quentin Tarantino has led the jury at Cannes, in 2004, but his experience at the Venice Film Festival has been limited to programming a couple of sidebars in '04 and '07. That changes this year, as the fest has named Tarantino head of the 2010 competition jury for the festival which will run from September…
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The Muppets invade the LOST production offices with a group of Lost fans to try to uncover the secrets of the series. Will Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse reveal everything, or find a way to make them leave? Watch the video after the jump.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is launching an interesting project on hitRecord.org in conjunction with Christopher Nolan's Inception. I just recieved an e-mail asking /Film readers to be a part of it. You can read more about the project, direct for Joe, after the jump. From Joe: INCEPTION is coming out soon, and in conjunction with its release,…
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Sin City/Planet Terror/From Dusk Till Dawn helmer Robert Rodriguez recently directed a music video for fellow Austin-based musician Bob Schneider's "40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)," the first single off Schneider's latest album "Lovely Creatures." The video stars Kat Dennings, who is probably best known from Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and her small role…
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. NINE Beyond the beautifully orchestrated symbolism, and beyond the fanciful narrative, lies the inherent vitality of a struggling artist's uncompromised vision. I…
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In yesterday's edition of video of the day, we posted Conan O'Brien's interview from 60 Minutes, the first time he could contractually talk on television about what happened since leaving the Tonight Show. While his verbal answers said one thing, his expressions said a lot more. Funny Or Die have put the interview through a…
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If you missed it over the weekend, you can now watch Conan O'Brien's full interview from 60 Minutes embedded after the jump. This is the first time since leaving The Tonight Show that he has been able to talk on the record about Jay Leno, NBC executives, his beard and his new TBS cable television…
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So we've got Oscar-winner Bill Condon directing Breaking Dawn, the final stretch of The Twilight Saga, which may be one film or may yet be split into two. Today Condon published a note to Twilight fans via Facebook, more or less as a way of saying 'hello.' The first thing I noticed about this note…
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A couple weeks back, Megan Fox left Transformers 3 and soon after it was rumored that Victoria's Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley had been offered the role as Fox's replacement. It seemed almost like a sure thing, but we hadn't heard anything from official channels until now. Victoria's Secret has released a video announcing/congratulating Huntington-Whiteley's casting…
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Today's tee on T-Shirt Woot is a Flash parody design titled "Poison Apple". Anyone who owns an iPhone or iPad knows that Apple has refused to support Adobe Flash on the mobile devices. The t-shirt visualizes this decision using the famous DC Comics superhero. This design will only be available for purchase today (well technically,…
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We've called The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema the coolest movie theater in the world. The original Austin-based movie theater was created by an awesome man named Tim League. In July 2004, Tim and Karrie League sold the brand, intellectual property and rights to all future Alamo Drafthouse expansion, but retained ownership of the Austin locations (Village,…
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In the wake of yesterday's news that Guillermo del Toro has walked away from directing the two Hobbit films for MGM and Warner Bros., the big question is 'who will do the job now?' The first name that comes up is Peter Jackson -- after he essentially revitalized big-budget fantasy with the Lord of the…
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Tony Jaa has had quite a career in a few short years. He became an action star with Ong Bak, tried to become a director with Ong Bak 2, which led to a rather famous meltdown and mini-exile. And now, in the wake of the less than stellar Thai opening of Ong Bak 3, Jaa…
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Every year at Comic-Con, I've seen people dressed up as Steampunk versions of the Ghostbusters. I always thought the imagery and idea of Victorian era Ghostbusting team was cool. Threaless has printed a Steampunk Ghostbusting t-shirt, Riccardo Bucchioni 's design titled "Bustin' Made Them Feel Good". Available in Silver Fine Jersey Tee (or Silver American…
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Pixar produced this faux docu-television clip for the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International. It was basically created to introduce us to one of the new characters in Toy Story 3: Ken (of Ken & Barbie fame) voiced by Michael Keaton. At the time, I wasn't too sold on the addition of this new character... but…
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Over the weekend we received an anonymous e-mail from a /Film reader who claims to have seen Disney's next computer animated feature film Tangled (formerly Rapunzel). The film is due out November 24th 2010, and aside from an international teaser trailer and concept art, we haven't seen or heard much about it. So how does…
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Universal Pictures has released the first full-length movie trailer for Edgar Wright's upcoming action-comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Based on the comic book series written by Bryan Lee O’Malley, Pilgrim tells the story of a charming and jobless 22-year-old who must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil ex-boyfriends in order to win her heart.…
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We've featured many of the "Hi, I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC" videos in past editions of Video of the Day. Sadly, the "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" television advertisements have officially come to an end, but thankfully that won't stop ItsJustSomeRandomGuy's comic book movie television commercial parodies. In the 100th episode,…
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Derrick Comedy member and star of NBC's Community Donald Glover has started a campaign on twitter to get an audition for the role of Peter Parker in Marc Webb's 3D Spider-Man Reboot. The comic actor is encouraging fans/followers to retweet the hash tag #donald4spiderman. At the exact moment I'm publishing this article on Sunday night,…
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Someone probably saw this coming, after his frustrated-sounding comments the other day (with respect to MGM's troubles slowing down the films) but it is still a shock to see that Guillermo del Toro is no longer directing The Hobbit for producer Peter Jackson. del Toro announced his departure via long-running LotR fansite The One Ring,…
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Because I know that casting news on the delayed remake of Footloose is what you're all more hungry for than anything else, here's the only casting note that matters this week: Thomas Dekker (Heroes, Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, Kaboom, A Nightmare on Elm Street) is apparently the latest top candidate to play 'Two Degrees…
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Howard Marks is the most famous and possibly most successful drug dealer in British history. His autobiography, Mr. Nice, has been turned into a film starring Rhys Ifans, and now there's a new trailer that shows the film's free-wheeling '80s recreation in all its be-wigged glory. Ifans plays Marks, who imported tons of hash into…
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A couple weeks back we posted a promo poster I ran across at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Larysa Kondracki's The Whistleblower. /Film reader Dane S has sent over the promo trailer for the film, which I assume was being shown to distributors at Cannes. There is no knowing how long this trailer might…
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TeeFury's T-Shirt of the Day is a Star Wars parody: Jimiyo's "My Son" shows what might have happened if Chewbacca and Princess Leia had a one night stand one night on the Falcon. The good news is the tee is available for only $9 plus shipping. The bad news is it is available today, and…
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CBM got their hands on the official plot synopsis of the Martin Campbell-directed big screen adaptation of Green Lantern. Not that there are any surprises, you can read the whole plot synopsis and cast/crew details, after the jump. ‘Bringing the enduringly popular superhero to the big screen for the first time, “Green Lantern” stars Ryan…
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Reports are coming in (via Reuters, among other sources) that actor Dennis Hopper died this morning of complications from prostate cancer at the age of 74. Hopper passed away at his home in Venice, California. Hopper co-wrote, directed, and starred in the acclaimed film Easy Rider back in 1969, and achieved fame for his memorable…
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Every now and then, a movie comes around that receives nearly universal derision and spawns a wealth of delightfully vicious, brutal film criticism (Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen comes to mind). This week, that film is Sex and the City 2, whose creatively written reviews seem like they're much more fun to read than…
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In this bonus episode of the /Filmcast, Devindra and Adam are joined by Katey Rich (from CinemaBlend) and Myles McNutt (from Cultural Learnings) to discuss the controversial Lost finale, and look back at the series as a whole. Was it all a waste of time? Did we get the answers we wanted? Tune in to…
Read MoreNote: This post will be sticky'd to the top of the site until Monday. My biggest question going into Mike Newell's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (in theaters everywhere today) was whether or not Newell and Jerry Bruckheimer had successfully transcended the oft-disparaged genre of "video game movies" and managed to cobble together…
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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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MTV has released a new television promo for the upcoming 2010 Movie Awards featuring Tom Cruise not only reprising his role as Joel Goodsen from Risky Business, but also donning the fat suit to reprise his much talked about role as studio executive Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder. It appears that Grossman was on the…
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ABC has sent over full details on the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Lost: Season Six and Lost: The Complete Collection, including images of the box art. The complete series collection is housed in collectible packaging which includes: a Special Edition collectible ‘Senet’ Game as seen in Season Six, a custom LOST island replica, an exclusive episode…
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Let me first warn you: this is one of those blog posts which is based purely on very circumstantial information, so please consider not much more than speculation. Remember, speculation is fun.... Could Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson possibly be in line to play young Scott Summers (aka Cyclops) or young Magneto in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men:…
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Hatchet/Frozen helmer Adam Green will direct a big screen adaptation of Greg Taylor's young adult novel Killer Pizza for Chris Columbus' 1492 Pictures. The action comedy tells the story of a 14-year-old who gets a summer job at Killer Pizza, which turns out to be a front for a monster-hunting organization. What excites me most…
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Briefly: Legendary Pictures is going back to Clash of the Titans writer Travis Beacham for another potential summer blockbuster. The company has just "closed a high-six figure preemptive acquisition" of a 25-page treatment called Pacific Rim. If things go according to plan, the story will become a tentpole for Warner Bros. Here's how Deadline describes…
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In October of 2008 we heard from Neil Gaiman that a film was in development based on his novel The Graveyard Book. A few months later, Gaiman revealed that Neil Jordan would write and direct. And that, for the most part, is all we've known about the project. Now a report on the slate of…
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Gary Coleman has died at age 42. According to Radar, Coleman had been hospitalized in Utah since Wednesday, May 26th, after suffering what his family has been calling "a serious medical problem." Coleman suffered an intracranial hemorrhage, and slipped into a coma. He was pulled of life support on Friday morning. Coleman is probably best…
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Update: A few sources (but not yet Newmarket) are saying this is just a name change for international distribution. Peter saw the poster above at Cannes, where it may have been used only for sales purposes. So don't take that image as final. Original article follows. One of the more anticipated movies going into Sundance…
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Okay, I've grown to accept that we'll never get a real sequel to The Lost Boys. The 2008 straight-to-DVD sequel Lost Boys: The Tribe was beyond horrible. Warner Home Video has produced a third film, and this time around it looks like it focuses on the return of the Frog brothers. I'm not saying Lost…
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When I was a kid I believed Hoverboards were real. No, I wasn't particularly stupid -- I just was a bit gullible. During a Making Of Back To The Future Part II television special, director Robert Zemeckis said, in all seriousness, that the the hoverboards used in the movie were real, yet they were not…
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Last week there was news about the casting for Scream 4 that suggested Twilight's Ashley Greene, Lake Bell, Hayden Panettiere and Rory Culkin were all being considered for roles in Wes Craven's Scream 4. Yesterday it was reported by the studio that Emma Roberts had been cast in the new lead role, leading many to…
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We've passed on reporting a lot of non-news stories about the casting and start date for The Hobbit, because most lately have come from people who aren't Peter Jackson or Guillermo del Toro. At this point, those are the only two guys you should be looking for for news on the film. Now del Toro…
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Today in Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day (only good until midnight on tonight) is The West Wing - The Complete Series Collection for $99.99, 67% off the $299.98 MSRP. The show is highly acclaimed, winning 26 Emmys, including 4 for Outstanding Drama Series. This complete seven-season DVD set includes all 154 episodes on…
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Just a month ago, it looked like Ang Lee might finally get his adaptation of the novel The Life of Pi off the ground at Fox. A film based on the book, which depicts a boy stranded on a boat with a tiger, hyena, zebra and orangutan for 227 days after a shipwreck, has long…
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We've featured a bunch of Patrick Bolvin's videos in past editions of Video of the Day, including a Batman vs. Hellboy movie trailer mash-up, Iron Man vs. Bruce Lee, Bumblebee's stop-motion animated dance and Boba Fett's stop-motion Mandalorian Dance. The French Canadian autodidact director's newest video has gone viral, including a mention on Twitter from…
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Marvel Studios has hired British screenwriter Drew Pearce to write the big screen adaptation to Brian K Vaughan's Runaways. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist helmer Peter Sollett is signed to helm the adaptation. Pearce created the UK superhero comedy television series No Heroics, which was nominated for Best New British TV Comedy of 2008 at…
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Tonight I received a strange casting notice e-mail from Paramount Pictures. They are seeking 13-14 year old Boys & Girls for the lead roles in a new Paramount feature film. The strange part is that no previous acting experience is necessary and no film title, director or production company is listed. I have a suspicious…
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While no one has been officially cast as the young farmer Jack in Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Killer, a few actors have been name-checked as having meetings for the role, including Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus/Social Network star Andrew Garfield. The film, which was originally scheduled to begin shooting…
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A director has finally been hired for the pilot episode of the Steven Spielberg-produced Fox sci-fi television series Terra Nova: Alex Graves, who has helmed the pilots for The Whole Truth, Fringe and Journeyman, as well as directing episodes of Sports Night, The Practice, The West Wing and The Nine. Brannon Braga, a former producer…
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Do you like your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ultra-gritty, 'realistic' and with a lot of violence, but without a lot of particularly interesting violence? Then you're in luck! Paramount became the new home for TMNT last year when Nickelodeon paid $60m for global rights to the characters, and the studio has now handed the development…
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The worst thing about Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the release date. No one in Hollywood wants to go up against Christopher Nolan's Inception, even a film which is aiming at a clearly younger demographic. I've heard from a number of sources that Sorcerer's is actually pretty good and will surprise people who see it.…
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20th Century Fox has officially signed James McAvoy to play a young Professor X in Kick-Ass helmer Matthew Vaughn's X-Men series prequel/reboot X-Men: First Class. McAvoy is certainly a capable actor who has done the comic book movie thing before with Wanted. Discuss: Is McAvoy a good choice for young Charles Xavier? Here is the…
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This is one of the more unlikely pieces of remake news we've had in a while. Men in Black 3 producer Walter Parkes is working with screenwriter David Farr (Joe Wright's upcoming Hanna) to remake The Fallen Idol, originally filmed in 1948 by Carol Reed, just before he made The Third Man. Deadline says that…
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It's the news you've been waiting for! Well, OK, maybe not, because this is only very incremental news. But in a report about Warner Bros. upcoming release dates (like the newly dated Sherlock Holmes 2) there is word that WB is ready to move forward on The Flash, with other superhero films still in development.…
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Last week Megan Fox left Transformers 3 and it now appears that Victoria's Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is Michael Bay's top choice as Fox's successor. Heidi Montag, star of the MTV reality series The Hills, has recorded a video audition for Michael Bay, which she has posted online. Montag does have some acting credits on…
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With Lost now off the air, what is ABC to do? How about reboot another JJ Abrams television property? E! Online's "reliable" insider ABC sources claim that the network is talking about possibly rebooting JJ Abrams' Alias. According to the report, the talks are very early, and nothing has been greenlit just yet. But the…
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Last year, The Oatmeal published a comic titled "How Twilight Works" . Epipheo Studios decided to write/produce a three minute video adaptation of the comic strip. The video can be watched right now, after the jump.
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Warner Bros has announced a December 16th 2011 release date for the Guy Ritchie-directed sequel Sherlock Holmes 2, starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law. The film will be going head to head with the Brad Bird-directed Mission: Impossible IV, one week after Martin Scorsese's 3D movie The Invention of Hugo Cabret , and one…
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Bruce Willis is in talks to star in Antoine Fuqua's prison escape drama The Tomb. According to Deadline, Willis would play Ray Breslin, "the world’s foremost authority on structural security" who is framed and incarcerated in an escape-proof master prison he designed himself. Breslin is on a mission to escape, using MacGyver-like tricks, and find…
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Last week there was news about the casting for Scream 4 that suggested Twilight's Ashley Greene could end up playing one of the lead roles in the sequel -- a part more or less equivalent to Neve Campbell's in the original film. Now it looks like Emma Roberts is going to have that role. So…
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Based on the cast alone, Horrible Bosses is starting to look like one of the more promising studio comedies on the horizon. The film about three friends who conspire to kill each others' bosses already has Charlie Day and Jason Bateman as two of the three friends, and Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell as two…
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Anthony Burns makes his feature film directorial debut with Skateland premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as one of the 16 films which were selected from 1,058 submissions for the U.S. Dramatic competition. Skateland is a coming-of-age story which takes place in the early 1980s in small-town East Texas. Dramatic events force a 19-year-old…
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In April, Philips released their collaboration between five filmmakers from Ridley Scott Associates, called Parallel Lines. Scott's commercial division 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 it believed were most ground-breaking:…
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Warner Bros has released the first movie trailer for Everwood/The Broken Hearts Club helmer Greg Berlanti's romantic comedy Life As We Know It. Berlanti might be better known to /Film readers as the writer/producer of the Green Lantern movie, and the possible director of the big screen adaptation of The Flash. The movie stars Katherine…
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20th Century Fox has released an extended 3-Minute international (Taiwan) movie trailer for the new Tom Cruise action/comedy Knight & 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…
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There was a rumor a couple of weeks back that Tommy Lee Jones would have at least a small part in Captain America: The First Avenger. Now an interview with actress Hayley Atwell, who plays Peggy Carter in the film, has confirmed Jones' appearance. Atwell spoke on camera to press at the BAFTA television awards,…
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The Alamo Drafthouse has commissioned a couple artists to create posters for The Warriors and George Romero's Survival of the Dead. They will go on sale for a very limited time today on Mondotees. I've been told the time will be random, and they are sure to sell out qucik, so keep checking back on…
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On Thursday, Disney's Tim Burton-directed 3D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland will become the sixth movie to cross the $1 billion at the worldwide box office, and the first Spring release to ever accomplish the milestone. The film has earned over $332 million domestically and over $667 million in international markets. Wonderland joins the elite…
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Yesterday it was reported that Academy Award-winning USC grad Ari Sandel was in talks to direct the big screen adaptation of Neil Strauss' bestselling book The Game: Penetrating The Secret Society of Pickup Artists. So I thought it would be as good a time than any to feature West Bank Story, the short film which…
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Can a film be pushed into production through sheer force of will? Over the decades there have been multiple attempts to film Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. In the last decade the movie has almost been made a couple of times, but plans have always fallen through. Now producer John Aglialoro, who bought the book…
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While the Lost series finale has already aired, the story isn't completely over. Lost fans can look forward to a bonus 12-14 minute epilogue on the Lost Complete Series DVD set. What might it involve? Details after the jump (and yes, spoilers if you havent yet watched the finale). If you've watched the Lost finale,…
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Entertainment Weekly has learned that Showtime is in talks with Julia Stiles (The Bourne Series, 10 Things I Hate About You) to join the upcoming fifth season of Dexter (my favorite show on television by default, now that Lost and 24 have finished). Michael Ausiello has no idea what role Stiles may play in the…
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Since Sony announced a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, the big question has been: who will play Peter Parker and Spider-Man? Quite a few names have come up, but Sony has denied almost all, and evaded the issue as much as possible. Now a new shortlist has been uncovered, and it features a couple expected…
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Warner Bros. has been slow to sell Jonah Hex. The first trailer appeared just a month ago, and the film opens on June 18. But now there's a second trailer, and it is edited at a much more brisk pace. In part because of that change and in part because it chooses better footage, this…
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You'd think an epic WWII espionage thriller set in Shanghai, starring John Cusack and directed by Mikael "1408" Håfström would be an easy sell. But maybe not, if it's really just a trip to dullsville. Shanghai was pushed around on the Weinstein Company schedule for a while last year before being pushed off indefinitely. We've…
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Focus Features has announced dates for their 2011 releases, which includes: February 25th, 2011: Kevin Macdonald's Roman epic adventure The Eagle of the Ninth, starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Mark Strong, and Tahar Rahim. March 11th, 2011: Cary Fukunaga's big screen adaptation of Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Juid…
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This article requires a bit of backstory. Dennis Lambert is the subject of a 2008 documentary Of All the Things, which told his backstory as a songwriter ('Rhinestone Cowboy,' Nightshift,' 'We Built This City') and singer whose one album, awkwardly titled Bags and Things, bombed in the US but became massively popular in the Philippines.…
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HBO's Tilda, the very evidently Nikki Finke-inspired series spearheaded by director Bill Condon, may be edging further into The Devil Wears Prada territory. Diane Keaton is already on board as Tilda Watski, "the most feared woman in Hollywood," and now Ellen Page is signing on to play Carolyn, a studio assistant who falls under Tilda's…
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Commercial director and Ridley Scott protege Carl Erik Rinsch is in talks to direct a remake of Logan's Run for Warner Bros/Joel Silver. I think this is the perfect project for Rinsch, who in my mind, has always been destined for a effects-heavy sci-fi feature debut. You might recognize Rinsch's name as he was originally…
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It's very easy to geek up your living room or bedroom, but cool kitchen and bathroom items are definitely harder to find. As part of LucasFilm's celebration of 30th anniversary of Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, they have created a Space Slug Oven Mitt. Available exclusively on StarWars.com for $19.99. Ships in August 2010. [gallery…
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A live-action version of the comic strip (and sometimes animated show) Dilbert has been a long time coming. Last time we heard anything was in 2007, when Chris Columbus had bought the rights and was reportedly considering directing the film. Now there's a report that Phoenix Entertainment is developing a live-action Dilbert. Pajiba reports that…
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In April, Philips released their collaboration between five filmmakers from Ridley Scott Associates, called Parallel Lines. Scott's commercial division 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 it believed were most ground-breaking:…
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Buried director Rodrigo Cortés will next direct Sigourney Weaver in Red Lights, in which she'll play Margaret Matheson, "a para-psychologist who attempts to debunk a very reputable psychic who has just returned to the limelight after 30 years." What are the chances her character is named after author Richard Matheson? Pretty good. Cortés told Bloody…
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In 2005, Columbia Pictures acquired the film rights to Neil Strauss' bestselling pickup book The Game: Penetrating The Secret Society of Pickup Artists, and About A Boy director/screenwriter Chris Weitz was at one point attached to direct. The option expired, and rights returned to Strauss. Now Variety is reporting that Academy Award-winning USC grad Ari…
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Screen Media has released the trailer forFlatliners producer Rick Bieber's feature directorial debut Crazy. The film played a couple dozen film festivals where it won a handfull of awards (including best film, best soundtrack, best screenplay) and is going direct to dvd. The movie starring Waylon Payne and Ali Larter tells "the compelling story of…
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For serious devotees of the movie Airplane!, the fact that Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker (aka ZAZ) were heavily inspired by the 1957 movie Zero Hour is no secret. They talk about the film on the DVD commentary and have mentioned in interviews that Airplane! is based to some extent on Zero Hour.…
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Maybe you watched (500) Days of Summer and were charmed by the film's take on being smitten to the point of delirium and distraction. Or, maybe you watched the film and, more than anything else, wanted Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character to man up, realize that Zooey Deschanel just wasn't into him and that it was time…
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Have you ever heard of The Bechdel Test? The term/concept comes from a 1985 edition of Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For entitled "The Rule." The test points out the systemic problem with a lack of female presence in Hollywood films, and you might be shocked to learn how many popular films…
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Last week Megan Fox left Transformers 3 (or was not asked back, depending upon which report you believe) and immediately rumors began to swirl about her replacement. Names of a few actual actresses were floated as vague rumors (like Gemma Arterton) but then speculation focused on models, with one Victoria's Secret model, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, as…
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Because John Hillcoat has a strange machinima mini-film coming out to promote the game Red Dead Redemption later this week, I've been wondering about his other upcoming projects. And now we've got a report that Vacancy and The Hold 3D writer Mark L. Smith is writing The Revenant, which Hillcoat will direct, with Christian Bale…
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What a strange cast! Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, the sequel to the 2008 DreamWorks animated adventure film, has just added three actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michelle Yeoh, and Victor Garber. The idea of Yeoh and Van Damme being in the film is entertaining, but when it will be only as voice actors?…
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Paramount Pictures has released the movie trailer for the JJ Abrams/Bad Robot-produced comedy Morning Glory. The movie tells the story of a "hotshot television producer is set the challenge of reviving a struggling morning show program, despite the constant feuding of its high-profile anchors." Starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Patrick Wilson, and Jeff…
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Lionsgate has released the first movie trailer for the Eli Roth-produced horror film The Last Exorcism. I haven't read much about the project until now, so I was surprised to find out that the film appears to use the documentary style framing device employed by films like The Blair Witch Project. Watch the trailer now,…
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Trent Reznor may have disbanded the touring version of Nine Inch Nails, but he recently said the project is not dead. And now, just as his new band How to Destroy Angels prepares to release its first material, there is a new track that is being labeled as by Nine Inch Nails. Even better, it…
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Woody Allen announced today the full cast for his upcoming film production Midnight in Paris. The film stars, in alphabetical order: Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Owen Wilson, and co-stars Nina Arianda, Kurt Fuller, Tom Hiddleston, Mimi Kennedy, Alison Pill and Corey Stoll. The film is gearing up…
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29-year-old Brooklyn-based graphic artist Sean Gordon Murphy created an alphabet using nothing but illustrations of the Marvel Comics' X-Men character Wolverine. Check out a sample of the alphabet, after the jump. Head to Murphy's Deviant Art page for all of the illustrations.
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Mystery Team was released on DVD today everywhere (under $20 on Amazon right now or VOD now). To celebrate, Derrick Comedy has released a new original sketch called "Thomas Jefferson". Watch it now, embedded after the jump.
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I don't think it is a spoiler to tell you that the last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, ends with an epilogue showing what happened to the surviving characters in the decades following the events of the books. Many of you have probably already read the book, and know that David…
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Is there something in the air this week? Out of nowhere come a series of three odd Tarantino-related news bites and rumors. First up, there is the new production of The Switch, based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name. The other way to talk about The Switch is that it is a prequel…
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Deadline is reporting that Brad Peyton will soon become the director of the sequel to 2008's Journey to the Center of the Earth. The original film was directed by Eric Brevig, and while his return to the director's chair would have been an optimal situation, Warner Brothers wants to release the film by fall 2011…
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Briefly: Paramount has picked up a new novel for Michael Bay to produce, to bookend his I Am Number Four project over at DreamWorks. Gideon's Sword was just bought by the studio, reportedly in a seven-figure deal, and Bay will develop and produce a film adaptation through his company Bay Films. Variety says the deal…
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It's probably been awhile since most of you have seen any work by director Mark Romanek. After directing One Hour Photo in 2002, Romanek quit Universal's Wolfman remake amidst reports of production troubles. However, it looks like Romanek's next film will soon be in theaters. Romanek tweeted last night (via The Film Stage) that the…
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LionsGate isn't really the studio most people think of for cutting edge 3D CGI animation. In fact, despite having a film or two in release, I don't ever think of LionsGate with respect to animation, at all. But they're trying. The latest attempt to capture the hearts and minds of audiences is Alpha and Omega,…
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Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer have acquired a pitch from screenwriters Terry Rossio and Bill Marsilii for low-seven figures against $3.5 million. For those of you who don't know -- this kind of price for a pitch in Hollywood these days is HUGE. So what is it about? The epic space adventure pitch is called Lightspeed.…
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In July 2009, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to travel to the Toronto-based set of Edgar Wright's upcoming action-comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. As you know from reading the site, I'm a huge fan of the comic book series written by Bryan Lee O’Malley and have been very excited to see…
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Amazon is selling Firefly The Complete Series on Blu-Ray for $27.99 with free shipping, 69% off the $90 msrp. Not sure how long this offer will be good for so act fast. And I know this doesn't really count as a "geek" deal as much as it counts as a DVD "deal", but Amazon's Gold…
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In July 2009, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to travel to the Toronto-based set of Edgar Wright's upcoming action-comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. As you know from reading the site, I'm a huge fan of the comic book series written by Bryan Lee O’Malley and have been very excited to see…
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If you haven't already seen the UK trailer for Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me, go watch that now. Then come back here. Because IFC has released a domestic trailer and poster for the film, which adapts Jim Thompson's daylight noir novel of the same name, but this new trailer isn't nearly as effective as…
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I'm surprised it has taken this long after the release of Mass Effect 2 for a deal like this to go down: Legendary Pictures has picked up the rights to the BioWare game series Mass Effect. I Am Legend and Thor screenwriter Mark Protosevich has been assigned to write. THR says that Avi and Ari…
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Ridley Scott wants to shoot his Alien prequel (or possibly back to back prequels) in 3D. We thought that was just Scott doing what he always does -- riding the current wave of popular cinema and doing his own tricks as he does. Turns out there may be more to it than that. If Vulture's…
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Martin Scorsese is still holding on to the idea of making a biopic about Frank Sinatra, and is talking more about his approach to the film. Quite a few names have been thrown out as possible Sinatras, but his dream team for at least one segment of the film would be to have Al Pacino…
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Briefly: We saw Howard Stark, father of Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) in Iron Man 2, played by John Slattery in his best Walt Disney tribute mode. We've known that the character would be a part of Captain America: The First Avenger, but not who would play him. Now Dominic Cooper says he's the man.…
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Even though this year's Cannes was a more low-key affair than the last couple years, without a lot of obvious stand-out award magnets, I think the Palme d'Or win by Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, by Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, probably came as a surprise. In the first place, Weerasethakul (who kindly…
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Mario Van Peebles is currently directing Curtis Jackson in Things Fall Apart and, based on Jackson's past thespian efforts, that's not terribly exciting. But now Ray Liotta is joining the cast, so that's a positive turn. Jackson is playing "a star football running back...who faces a personal tragedy as well as his own mortality while…
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As you know, it is the 30th anniversary of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. To celebrate, LucasFilm has been releasing some col new books, art prints, posters, and collectibles focusing on the original trilogy sequel. One of my favorite posters from Empire was composed by Japanese artist Noriyoshi Ohrai. Apparently, StarWarsShop recently discovered one…
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Sam Rockwell is considering a role in an indie comedy called Sweet Baby Jesus, in which he would join the unlikely trio of Bette Midler, Kim Cattrall and pop star Pixie Lott in a story that is a literal comic retelling of the Christian Nativity. Deadline reports Rockwell's interest, saying that he'd play Joe, "a…
Read MoreWe've already covered the numerous posters that have been released for Christopher Nolan's Inception here, here, and here. But in my humble opinion, this latest batch of character posters is the most badass of them all. The posters hit the web this morning on sites such as Moviefone, Omelete and Empire. As with many character…
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This 1927 Paramount Studio map of California's geographical facsimiles for feature films was used by The Motion Picture Industry as a Basis for Bond Financing. Who knew that the New England coast could be found in Santa Cruz? via: flickr / buzzfeed
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Update: THR says that Fox has also hired writer Daniel Casey to work on the film. No details are given on whether he's working from Kyle Ward's draft or a new script. Original article follows. We've known since at least last summer that Fox is likely to make a sequel to Hitman. The original film…
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We've seen a lot of parodies of the three wolf moon t-shirt, but this Star Wars parody might be the best yet. It features three Ewoks from Return of the Jedi and "That's no moon. It's a space station." Available on StarWars.com for $21.99.
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Briefly: It isn't often that you hear that a film seeks to emulate the tone of the 2000 Clint Eastwood film Space Cowboys. A studio making a movie featuring characters who are over 25? Insanity! And yet here's Grudge Match, a writer's pitch that Warner Bros. bought and will develop as a feature. Tim Kelleher…
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Paul W.S. Anderson's 3D adaptation of The Three Musketeers is racing to the big screen. Variety is reporting that Orlando Bloom has signed on to play the Duke of Buckingham and British comedian James Corden has been cast as the servant Planchet. Orlando Bloom in yet another period film adaptation? How obvious... The previously announced cast…
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The 63rd Cannes Film Festival has come to a close. And while I still have a couple more reviews to file, I must first write about the awards. As you know, Tim Burton presided over the official Jury this year at the festival, and Sunday night the prize winners were revealed during the closing Ceremony.…
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On Friday, The New York Times held a live talk with the creators and stars of the series Lost. You can watch the entire 100-plus minute talk in High Definition after the jump. At the time I'm posting this, I'm still in Cannes, about to board a six hour train to Paris. I'm contemplating two…
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Major Hollywood studios are in discussions with Time Warner Cable to offer movies on demand in people's homes just 30 days after films hit the multiplex. The concept is being called "home theater on demand", with the idea being that consumers would be offered the recently released movies in High Definition for $20 to $30.…
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What many critics suspected has turned out to be true: this year's line-up at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival has been disappointing. Many have complained that the films as a whole have been overlong, dark, depressing, and lacking hope. I would tend to agree with most of these criticisms. After a week of searching, I…
Read MorePlease Note: This post will be sticky’d to the top of the site for the remainder of the weekend. Traditionally, Saturday Night Live spinoff movies are a dicey proposition. The good ones are few and far between. Most try to stay too close to the sketches that spawned them, and never make a case for…
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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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Universal Pictures has released a new "NCM First Look" featurette for Illumination Entertainment's computer animated feature Despicable Me (you can also see the previously released trailers here: one, two, three, and four). Watch it now, embedded after the jump. In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a…
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If you were following the Disney sale of Miramax earlier this spring, there was the point where it seemed almost a foregone conclusion that Bob and Harvey Weinstein -- the guys who started Miramax in the first place, and named it after their parents -- had successfully wrangled a deal to regain control of the…
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Derrick Comedy (DC Pierson, Donald Glover, Dominic Dierkes, director Dan Eckman, and producer Meggie McFadden) will be appearing at Laser Blazer on 10587 W. Pico Blvd in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 5th 2010 from 2:00pm-3:30pm to sign copies of the Mystery Team DVD and hold a Q&A. Full details after the jump. Here is…
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Last year we heard that Xavier Gens (Hitman) would be directing a film called The Fallout that was said to be in the mode of Assault on Precinct 13. The story has a group of people taking refuge in the basement of an apartment building after an explosion devastates New York City. Now the film…
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At the conclusion of director Brett Ratner's online chat with Empire Magazine, the "filmmaker" told a joke involving Steven Spielberg's trip to heaven: Now, I have a joke to leave you with. Steven Spielberg dies and goes to heaven, and St. Peter says, "Oh, Mr Spielberg, we're so happy you're here. God has a very…
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has sent us exclusive information about the upcoming Predator "Ultimate Hunter Edition" Blu-ray which hits stores on June 29th 2010. The new release will feature an all new digital restoration of the film, a new sneak peak at Predators, and an all-new retrospective documentary entitled "Evolution of the Species: Hunters…
Read MoreI've been hearing great things about Jonathan Liebesman's Battle: Los Angeles for a while now, and apparently Sony Pictures also think they might have a winner on their hands. They have moved the sci-fi war movie from it's original February release (one of the worst months to release a big action movie) to the coveted…
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Only a couple months have passed since theater exhibitors decided to jack up the price on movie tickets in response to the popularity of 3D films. Today, with Shrek Forever After about to hit screens in IMAX 3D, prices are rising again, some as high as $20. According to The Wall Street Journal, several theaters…
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A bunch of new movie posters have been released over the last week. One sheets include a quad poster for Get Him to the Greek, Megamind, international poster for Sex and the City 2, international posters for Predators, a motion poster for Buried, four new one-sheets for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Eat Pray Love. Megamind…
Read MoreReports that Megan Fox left Transformers 3, and not the other way around, are looking more plausible now. The Wrap has a source "close to the actress" who claims that Fox walked away from the film because Michael Bay was "verbally abusive." Fox "had enough and decided to get out early." This squares with previous…
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Gary Oldman has joined the voice cast of DreamWorks Animation's upcoming sequel Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom. According to HeatVision, Oldman will voice a character named Peacock. Longtime story exec Jennifer Yuh Nelson makes her feature directorial debut, in a story following continuing adventures of Po, the Kung Fu panda. The original all-star…
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There's a new UK TV spot for Christopher Nolan's Inception: a sixty-second clip that does a good job of getting the idea of the movie across without seeming to give away too much. Didn't want to watch the last full trailer when you heard it showed off too much? This is the clip for you;…
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With MacGruber set to hit theaters, Wanrer Bros/New Line is fast tracking development on a big screen adaptation of the hit television show MacGyver (development was first announced in March). Raffaella and Martha De Laurentiis are producing, along with series creator Lee Zlotoff. Risky Business is reporting that Jason Richman has been hired to pen…
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In National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Nicolas Cage's character Ben Gates goes after the President of the United States' book of secrets.
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/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. The calamitous, nail biter episodes that were "Sunset" and "One Minute" were followed by two quieter if unsettling installments. The first,…
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The first questions about Scream 4, which has taken many years to come together, revolved around which members of the cast would return. Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson, who kicked off a new wave of horror interest with the first Scream, have got Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox all signed to return. But…
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With the series finale of Lost set to air this Sunday (I'm still trying to figure out how I'll be able to watch it live while in Paris), a bunch of cool Lost-rated videos have hit the web. So here is a short round-up. Lost star Michael Emerson demonstrates how to say everyday phrases ominously…
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James Franco was just cast in the Planet of the Apes prequel, which instantly makes me a bit more interested in that movie, but in the meantime he's also booked a smaller picture. Franco will star in Ricky Stanicky, a comedy by Jeff Bushell, writer of Beverly Hills Chihuahua. That dubious credit aside, the spec…
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Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Nanette Burstein (On The Ropes, American Teen) makes her narrative feature film debut with the romantic comedy Going the Distance. The raunchy screenplay placed highly on the Black List, but it appears to have been tamed into a generic mainstream romcom starring Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Christina Applegate, Ron Livingston and Charlie…
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Back in February it was revealed that Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock was working with Joss Whedon on a documentary about Comic-Con. We now have the complete details on the film, which will be titled Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan's Hope. COMIC-CON EPISODE FOUR: A FAN’S HOPE will begin shooting in June and culminate…
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Feels like Akiva Goldsman's name has been all over the place recently. In addition to his many completed producer credits of late (Fringe, Jonah Hex, Fair Game) he's producing the Paranormal Activity sequel and was once erroneously thought to be a directorial contender. He's producing the Toxic Avenger remake. He's writing and producing the Dark…
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In April, we posted an awesome infographic created by Chilean-based graphic designer Juan Pablo Bravo showing "100 pixar characters" with their estimated sizes. Today Bravo has posted a follow-up, featuring 250 characters from Walt Disney Animated Films. The characters are shown grouped by movies in chronological order, with their respective names in english and spanish.…
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James Franco (Spider-Man/Milk) has been cast as the lead in 20th Century Fox's Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. The Escapist helmer Rupert Wyatt will direct from a screenplay by Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa. Franco will play "a young, driven scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans…
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The first movie trailer for Ray/An Officer and a Gentleman helmer Taylor Hackford's new film The Love Ranch is now online. The indie drama is based on true events, and tells the story of the married couple who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada. The film stars Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Gina…
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CBS has released trailers/previews for their new television line-up, which was announced this week. Shows include William Shatner in S*** My Dad Says, the Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci reboot of Hawaii Five-O, The Defenders, Blue Bloods, and Mike & Molly. Watch them now, after the jump. BLUE BLOODS A drama about a multi-generational family…
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Robert Ludlum didn't entirely write the Covert One series of books; before his death, he co-wrote some and merely 'oversaw' or produced others. But his name's on there anyway, which makes them just that bit easier to sell to audiences who wouldn't mind seeing another Bourne film. So get ready for a Covert One movie,…
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Walt Disney Pictures has given us an exclusive clip from Pixar's next short film, Day & Night, directed by Teddy Newton. The short, which will be attached to Toy Story 3, features two characters, one filled with day, the other filled with night. While the "inside" of the characters is computer animated, the Day &…
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20th Century Fox has released the first teaser trailer for Blue Sky Studios' computer animated film Rio. Directed by Carlos Saldanha (Ice Age, Robots, Ice Age: Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), and starring Anne Hathaway, Neil Patrick Harris, Rodrigo Santoro, George Lopez and Jake T. Austin, the story follows "a nerdy macaw who…
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Italian-German reporter/comedian Daniele Rizzo decided to interview the cast and crew of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time dressed as Jake Gyllenhaal's character, and pretending to be the long lost son of Tamina and Dastan. The results vary depending on who he is interviewing, but Sir Ben Kingsley really plays along with the gag while…
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It has been assumed for a while now that Marvel's upcoming superhero team-up film The Avengers would follow the continuity of the original comic books run, and involve a plot where Loki would unleash the Hulk. Here is more information on that comic storyline from Wikipedia: "Loki's schemes eventually came to include Earth itself and…
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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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Believe it or not, A Christmas Story was the first film I ever saw in a movie theater. Which is probably one of the reasons I feel more of an attachment to the film than most. I would be afraid to add all the hours of passive viewings over the years. When I was younger,…
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When the artist Frank Frazetta passed away ten days ago, we saw a lot of hastily-assembled tributes to his work. Somehow, not many people pointed out Fire and Ice, the film on which Frazetta collaborated with animation director Ralph Bakshi. But the film will get attention now because, after years of trying to get a…
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Dreamworks Animation has finally released a full length trailer for their upcoming superhero comedy Megamind. DWA's supposed answer to The Incredibles looked like the exact opposite of anything I'd want to watch in the initial teaser trailer. But this new full length trailer has me a bit more excited. The opening, which is an obvious…
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"I may be a thief and a liar, but I am going to tell you a true story." Those are the words of Leonardo Notarbartolo, spoken from prison as he was serving a sentence for taking part in what has been called the heist of the century. Last year, Paramount optioned a Wired article that…
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Do you remember those Little Golden Books? They were a staple from my childhood. Pixar Animation Story Artist Josh Cooley (Cars, Ratatouille, Up, George & AJ) is working on an awesome "Lil' Inappropriate Golden Book" titled Movies R Fun. Cooley has been working on this compilation of movie art for two years and will be…
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If you've been reading the website for a while then you know my love for indepth long form interviews with actors, filmmakers and producers. /Film reader Joe L informs me that DreamWorks Animation head Jeffrey Katzenberg just appeared on Charlie Rose last week. I've always been fascinated with the history of Disney Animation (and highly…
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One of the films that has generated the most interest and buzz at Cannes this year is Biutiful, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. This time, the director of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel wrote the film himself, having parted ways with creative partner Guillermo Arriaga. Despite mixed reception, the film…
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Last time Warner Bros. tried to reinvent the classic Looney Tunes stable of characters, the result was a disaster. The Loonatics Unleashed featured absurd 'extreme' versions of the characters that were booed off television within two years. Now WB is trying again with a new cartoon series and a set of 3D shorts that will…
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It looks as though Kevin Costner's Waterworld wasn't a complete and massive waste of time and resources after all. While he was working on that film, Costner paid scientists millions of dollars to develop a device that could do what his fictional character's invention could do in the film: purify ocean water. Working prototypes of…
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Just over a month ago we reported that Paul Greengrass, the director of Bloody Sunday, United 93, Green Zone and the last two Bourne films, would make quite a stylistic change by taking a job directing the remake of Fantastic Voyage that James Cameron is producing. Now, as it turns out, he won't do that…
Read MoreSo Megan Fox is out of Transformers 3 and her replacements are already being discussed. But it seems that Fox is not willing to let movie studios or film journalists write her narrative. Proving that she will not go quietly into that good night, representatives for Fox told People magazine that it was in fact…
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According to The Live Feed, MTV is ready to pick up a TV series based on the 1985 film Teen Wolf. The original movie starred Michael J. Fox as a high schooler who finds his groove after becoming a werewolf. The new series will star teen heartthrob Tyler Posey (Lincoln Heights, Brothers and Sisters, Smallville)…
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That was fast. It's been only hours since the first report surfaced that Michael Bay and Paramount had decided against bringing Megan Fox back into the fold for Transformers 3, and already there are recasting rumors. Some might be a slight bit premature. But decisions can happen fast, especially with only weeks left before the…
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Just as we hear that Megan Fox has been given the boot by Michael Bay for Transformers 3, there is news that secondary Twilight players Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene will remain employed for the last film(s) in the series. See, while Summit is reportedly ready to say, "yeah, we're splitting Breaking Dawn into two…
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Briefly: Note to actresses: might not be a great idea to refer to your directors as Hitler. We don't have a lot of info right now, but Deadline is reporting that Paramount will not be picking up Megan Fox's option to appear in Transformers 3. Reportedly, the decision came down to Michael Bay, and he…
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The film Winnebago Man traces a legacy of viral videos from the days of VHS tape trading to the early intersection of web videos and YouTube. Inspired by a montage of outtakes in which a motorhome pitchman curses wildly while making television commercials, documentarian Ben Steinbauer tracked down the man in the montage, Jack Rebney,…
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In April, Philips released their collaboration between five filmmakers from Ridley Scott Associates, called Parallel Lines. Scott's commercial division 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 it believed were most ground-breaking:…
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Gustavo Hernández's The Silent House is a Uruguayan horror movie which was shot in one long 79-minute continuous take. Got your attention? Ever since I first discovered Goodfellas (scene embedded above), I've been fascinated in the long tracking shots of filmmakers such as Scorsese, Kubrick, PT Anderson, De Palma, Altman, Welles, Cuaron and Hitchcock. I…
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The Huntington Post has put together an awesome five minute compilation of bully characters from 1980's movies. So many jerks, so many memories... what happened to all these guys? Watch the video now embedded after the jump.
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This isn't a retitling and director change for the Planet of the Apes prequel. It is yet another change for major talent behind the camera on an adaptation of the Dark Horse comic War Monkeys. After going through a couple of potential directors since 2008, now David Ellis, who helmed the second and fourth films…
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The PlayStation3 game Heavy Rain is a multi-character detective story, of sorts, that focuses around a mysterious figure called the Origami Killer. The game is deliberately cinematic in many respects, so it's no surprise that the film rights have been up for sale. Now, the rights auction is about to close and it looks like…
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The past few months have been a fascinating journey for late-night host Conan O'Brien. After a bruising battle with NBC, which ended with an agreement stating that he could not publicly disparage NBC nor appear on television for about six months, O'Brien is finally ready to make the return to late night. TBS has just…
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In the race to get a new version of The Three Musketeers to screens, it looks like Paul W.S. Anderson is pulling ahead of Doug Liman. Way ahead. Anderson's film has had most of the cast set, and now is fitting the last puzzle pieces together. Juno Temple is in talks to play one of…
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Another week, another batch of new movie posters have hit the multiplexes and are now online. One-sheets include: Splice, Salt, Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Jonah Hex character banners, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Last Exorcism, and Charlie St. Cloud. Australian Poster for Salt (via:…
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The above photo was released in Maxim Magazine's May issue which featured rare behind the scenes photos from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. So now we know how that opening crawl was created... And here are a couple of other cool photos from the article: via: StarWars
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Jon Favreau has revealed the first set photo from his upcoming big screen adaptation of Cowboys and Aliens on Twitter. The photo was taken during camera tests, and gives us a little glimpse into the costumes from the movie. Check it out now, after the jump. Official Plot Synopsis: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig)…
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What if Boba Fett wasn't an intergalactic bounty hunter in Star Wars, but instead was a Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler? Captain RibMan's design titled El Boba is now available on Tee Fury. Of course, the design is only $9 but also only available today, and today only. So jump on it now... or never. Cool…
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Brad Anderson is a filmmaker I keep expecting to break out at any time. He's made some great smaller thrillers with cultish appeal (Session 9, The Machinist) and built a good parallel career directing episodes of well-loved television shows: The Shield, The Wire, Treme and Fringe. But he hasn't had the crossover movie yet. Now…
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Men in Black 3D, written by Etan Cohen and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, is really gearing up. The film has recently locked in Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Josh Brolin. Now, confirming a rumor from months back, Jemaine Clement is in 'final negotiations' to join the film. Who will he play? That's after the…
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If you were haunting US comic shops in the mid to late '80s, you probably remember Manga gaining new exposure through the translation and publication of a few key titles. One was Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, and another key step in Manga's stroll towards the mainstream was Mai, the Psychic Girl. The story of a teen…
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How does a good idea become a terrible movie? That's the perennial question in Hollywood, where the intersection of creative ideas, business sense and big egos can so easily produce something very different from what was originally intended. That seems to have been the case with Robin Hood, which was originally meant to be based…
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U.S. Copyright Group's plans to sue people for downloading films via Bittorrent has not gone as smoothly as planned. Progress on some of its initial lawsuits has been stymied by Time Warner Cable, and other cable companies might also cause problems. But as of this writing, it is still planning on moving forward with a…
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Another promo poster I ran across at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival is a teaser one-sheet for Larysa Kondracki's The Whistleblower, which stars Rachel Weisz as Kathryn Bolkovac, "a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal." The drama co-stars Vanessa Redgrave, Monica…
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We've posted a lot of Lost stuff lately, but bear with us. Show's about to end, and if you aren't on the boat with the people who are completely wrapped up in it, the worst of the endgame fandom will be over soon. Actually, if you're not a Lost fan, I've got the perfect video…
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The good news: Disney is finally giving a domestic release to Tales From Earthsea, the 2006 film directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son Goro Miyazaki that adapts stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. The bad news: it will still be Tales From Earthsea, which wasn't up to the high standards set for Ghibli films by the…
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I really want to write more about Melancholia, the upcoming film from Lars Von Trier, but we just don't know very much right now. What we do know today is that John Hurt has joined the cast. Always great to see him in a new film, and it will be nice to see him really…
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Warp Films have acquired the rights to Christopher Farnsworth's vampire novel Blood Oath and its follow-up Black Site, with plans to fast-track the book franchise the big screen. But this is not another Twilight -- The novel is about a vampire secret agent named Nathaniel Cade who was captured by the United States Army just…
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Another promo poster/image I came across at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival marketplace is for the Adrien Brody thriller Wrecked. The film tells the story of a man "who returns to consciousness after his car crashes into a ravine, with no idea who he is or how he got there" and "must overcome incredible odds…
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Pajiba is reporting that Drew Barrymore has resurrected Surrender Dorothy for a possible follow-up to her directorial debut Whip It. This Wizard of Oz sequel was first announced in 2002 with a script by hot shot Zach Helm (who has become known as the mainstream version of Charlie Kaufman, with Stranger Than Fiction and Mr.…
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Do you want to see Eddie Murphy get back in his fat suit from The Nutty Professor? If so, he's writing a movie just for you. Murphy says he's working on the script for a third film in the series that was last seen on screens ten years ago. And what about Beverly Hills Cop…
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Improv Everywhere decided to recreate the opening scene from Ghostbusters in the main reading room of the New York Public Library. "The New York Public Library approached us about a month ago and asked if we would want to stage an Improv Everywhere mission on their property. The library is facing serious budget cuts, and…
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Threadless released an awesome Lost/Ghostbusters parody t-shirt yesterday. Nacho Diaz Arjona's "Smokebuster" design is available for $18 on Slate American Apparel tee. Teefury also released an awesome Back to the Future/Lost parody design appropriately titled "Constant". As always, the good news is that you can snag one for only $9. The bad news is that…
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It's been a couple days since my last long Cannes update. Once the first weekend hit, things got really crazy at the festival. It is becoming clearer to me that this year's theme at Cannes is about death, dying, mortality and legacy. In my last Cannes blog, I wrote about Mike Leigh's new film Another…
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Your superhero movie franchise is dying, what is a Hollywood movie producer to do? Try a giving the property a gritty-style reboot... of course! College Humor takes on the new Spider-Man reboot and this growing Hollywood trend in a new short film, embedded after the jump.
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There's a chance you read that headline and said, "um, who?" Wayne McClammy is the director behind the videos 'I'm Fucking Matt Damon' and the star-studded rejoinder 'I'm Fucking Ben Affleck' that aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2008. (McClammy has also done directing chores on The Sarah Silverman Program and directed Silverman's The Great…
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The Pirates franchise has been on a tumultuous road as of late, with former Disney chairman Dick Cook's departure potentially putting the fourth film in jeopardy. But it looks like things are back on track for now, as Disney chairman Rich Ross has just made it official today that Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger…
Read MoreAdrien Brody has joined the cast of Midnight in Paris, the upcoming Woody Allen movie with a title that now, sadly, sounds far too much like a sex tape. As is so often the case with Allen, the cast is becoming quite impressive: it already featured Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Michael…
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Warner Bros, Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Fox have announced new release dates for a sixteen films to be released over the next three years. We have information and dates for all of the films, after the jump. New Line's follow-up to Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve will be released on December 9th 2011.…
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Bunch of comic book and comic book movie-related stuff broke over the weekend, so here's a quick recap of the most important points. First up, Collider took part in a conference call with Joss Whedon, who is tapped to direct The Avengers for Marvel. The frequently self-deprecating Whedon said of his own abilities, “I have…
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Deadline is reporting that Walt Disney Pictures has made a 7-figure pitch deal for a live action re-imagining of the classic fairy tale Cinderella, to be written by The Devil Wears Prada/27 Dresses scribe Aline Brosh McKenna. It is unknown how much, if any, the new take will deviate from the original. I assume that…
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Last week we heard that Chopper and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford director Andrew Dominik would direct Naomi Watts in Blonde, a biopic of Marilyn Monroe. Now there's already what appears to be the first image of Watts as Monroe, snapped at Cannes. Best guess is this is a photoshop…
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Another one of the promotional posters I've come across at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival is a promotion one-sheet for Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive starring Ryan Gosling. You may recall that the project was originally set to be helmed by Neil Marshall with Hugh Jackman in the starring role. The film is now gearing up…
Read MoreLast week during Lost Live: The Final Celebration, ABC network executive Barry Jossen read a letter George Lucas wrote to Lost executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. In the letter, Lucas finally admitted the obvious -- he had no idea where the story was going when Star Wars just came out, and that "the…
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The first time Terry Gilliam tried to shoot The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, he had stars Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort. That production ran into myriad difficulties and was shut down (as chronicled by us in other articles and in the doc Lost in La Mancha) but Gilliam is about to try again. Last…
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NBC has announced their 2010/2011 television line-up. After the jump you can find trailers for most of the new television shows set to air on the network. The full NBC schedule: MONDAY 8-9 p.m. - "Chuck" 9-10 p.m. - "THE EVENT" 10-11 p.m. - "CHASE" TUESDAY 8-10 p.m. - "The Biggest Loser" 10-11 p.m. -…
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George Romero and Dario Argento go way back. Argento helped Romero finance Dawn of the Dead in exchange for international distribution rights. Argento cut his own version of the film for various European markets, changing it quite a bit in the process, which led to Romero saying that Argento never really understood the film. The…
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DamonCarltonAndAPolarBear.com has reopened for business, and is selling a bunch of newly produced LOST-inspired t-shirts, posters, prints and totes. They are unvieling a new poster almost every day it seems leading up to the series finale. In celebration of LOST's final season and to bring finality to the LOST poster series,8 top designers and artists,…
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Now there are two 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea films. Just over the weekend we heard that Disney has been quietly re-developing the film version that was sunk last year. Instead of McG directing, this one may have David Fincher at the helm. Here's where it gets complicated. Fox also has an adaptation of Jules…
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Gregg Araki's Kaboom recently debuted at Cannes to some interesting buzz. The only thing I've previously seen of Araki's is his 2004 film, Mysterious Skin. That movie was undeniably provocative and polarizing, and it looks like Araki has definitely not lost his touch when it comes to dividing audiences. After the jump, see three clips…
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Briefly: This is basically just an article to anger all the existing fans of Battle Royale. Sorry about that. Toei is preparing a post-converted theatrical reissue of Battle Royale for release in late November of this year. This isn't a remake, a new version or a sequel. Just a conversion of the existing film from…
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Rogue Pictures has released the first photos from Tarsem Singh's new Greek mythology epic Immortals. 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 recent draft of the script. Warner Bros had toyed around with the idea of buying…
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Over the weekend, Damon Lindelof posted a link to YouTube user ttheblackbox's epic fan made series finale trailer for LOST, which supposedly took 32 hours to edit. Watch it now after the jump. The series finale of Lost will air on May 23rd 2010.
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David Lynch has dipped into the world of advertising more than once. His ads for Calvin Klein's Obsession, for example, were lush black and white glamour shoots featuring Benicio del Toro and Heather Graham. (Before Graham appeared in Twin Peaks.) Now Lynch has directed Marion Cotillard in Lady Blue Shanghai, a sixteen-minute film/ad for Dior.…
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Those of us who live in major cities may have been fortunate enough, at one point or another, to happen upon a movie in the process of being filmed. The near-universal reaction is understandable: most people will whip out a camera and try to take a picture or shoot a short video. If you're lucky,…
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Bill Gaines is one of the most important figures in comic book history. In the '50s he was the man behind E.C. Comics, which with titles like Tales From the Crypt and Weird Science became a scapegoat for juvenile delinquency. A Senate Subcommittee investigation into the effects of horror comics led to a skewed public…
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In December of last year, we got word that the Andy and Lana Wachowski were putting together a film "about the Iraq War, from the perspective of the future." The source was a set of comments and photos from Arianna Huffington, who seemed to be taking part in a shoot related to the project. At…
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The Cowboys & Aliens cast keeps getting better and better. Starting with Daniel Craig and Sam Rockwell, then there was the addition of Harrison Ford (I'm praying for a career revival here) with Olivia Wilde and Noah Ringer. Now director Jon Favreau will also have Paul Dano and Clancy Brown to work with, and Keith…
Read MorePlease Note: This post will be sticky'd to the top of the site for the remainder of the weekend. Ridley Scott's Robin Hood is out in theaters everywhere today, but regardless of whether or not the film is any good, it will probably get steamrolled at the box office this weekend by Iron Man 2…
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A Nina Simone biopic has been slowly crawling toward a start date for some time. Now it seems to be more firmly in the 'go' column, with long-attached Mary J. Blige set to star. But rather than presenting a comprehensive take on the singer's life, the film "will focus on Simone’s relationship with her assistant…
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A few months ago, U.S. Copyright Group tried to sue over 20,000 people for downloading indie films such as Uwe Boll's Far Cry. Seeing some modest success with that plan, they arranged to follow it up with a new lawsuit, targeting people who had downloaded The Hurt Locker. The original idea was to use software…
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When authority figures unequivocally apologize for wrongs they have inflicted upon people, it can help accelerate the healing process. Maybe the same can be true for celebrities and their apologies too. While at the Cannes film festival promoting Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Shia LaBeouf let loose about his thoughts on Indiana Jones and the…
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A bunch of new casting bits hit over the weekend, and can be found after the jump including an update on who Cameron Crowe is in talks with a new star to play Marvin Gaye, Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood sign on for "a sexploitation-serial-killer-slasher-road-movie circa 1989", Dustin Hoffman to star in a new…
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The first weekend has finally hit at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, which means bigger crowds, longer lines, and more hub-bub about the star studded premieres on the red carpet. It also means that some of the more anticipated films of the festival have begun to premiere. The photo above shows the crowd of people…
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File this one under the "it came out of no where" department: Walt Disney Pictures has hired David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) to direct 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. You didn't see that one coming, did you? Fincher doing a four-quadrant family action movie for Disney? Apparently, Fincher has developed a new take on the…
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MediaBistro is reporting that 20th Century Fox is developing an animated television series based on the 2004 Fox Searchlight film Napoleon Dynamite. According to the report, most of the original cast from the Sundance cult classic has signed on to reprise their roles from the film, including: Jon Heder as the title character Napoleon Dynamite,…
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A couple months ago, there were rumors that director Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) was interested in directing an adaptation of Benjamin Mee's bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. ComingSoon has noticed that some of Crowe's regular crew (for instance, production designer Clay Griffith) have recently been hired for the production, which 20th Century…
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I'll get this out of the way right now: awesome. Bruce Willis can do great work when he's paired with a strong, determined director. I figure Rian Johnson will be pretty determined when he gets on the set of Looper, his third feature. So I'm happy to see a report that not only seems to…
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The /Filmcast Interview is a series of conversations with actors, directors, and other key figures from the entertainment industry. In this episode, David Chen speaks with Vince Gilligan, the creator and showrunner of Breaking Bad, about how The X-Files inspired him, why he finds science so appealing, and the psychology of Walter White. Breaking Bad…
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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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The viral ad / backstory campaign for the J.J. Abrams film Super 8 kicked into gear in a big way earlier this week with a series of frames at the end of the teaser trailer that point obliquely to a website, ScariestThingIEverSaw. Quite a few small clues were available at the site right off, but…
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Another early promo poster I've discovered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival is for Darren Lynn Bousman's remake of Mother's Day starring Rebecca De Mornay. Check out the full poster aftger the jump. Plot Synopsis: The sadistic members of a villainous family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new home owners and their…
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UPS driver/father Rick Russo modified his baby's Baby Trend Trendsport Lite baby stroller to look like an AT-AT Imperial Walker from the Star Wars films. You can read an interview with the father on ThingAMaBaby.
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Yesterday it was announced at Cannes that Rebecca Hall (Frost/Nixon) and Dominic West (The Wire) have signed on to star in new supernatural thriller titled The Awakening. Today at the festival I came across a promotional teaser poster for the film, which will begin shooting in June. Check out the full teaser poster now, after…
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After a year of wrangling and new talent, I'm still going to be surprised when the cameras start to roll on Moneyball. Director Bennett Miller and Sony seem determined to give me that surprise, however. They're in talks now with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright to bolster the cast, which still includes Brad Pitt…
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I admire Volkswagen for their support of independent film over the past decade. If you attend a regional or big time film festival, you're likely to see them listed as a sponsor on the big screen before each film. In the past, we've featured some of their "See Film Differently" television spots which featured film…
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Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps had a screening in France a couple days ago, and the primary Out of Competition screening was this morning. Reception to the film seems to be generally positive, with a few mixed notes. But what about a third movie? As director Oliver Stone has been doing the press rounds…
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A few days back it was announced at Cannes that David Cronenberg has cast Colin Farrell and Marion Cotillard for his upcoming adaptation of Cosmopolis. While making my morning rounds at the Cannes Film Festival this morning, I came across an early promo teaser poster for Cronenberg's film. See the full art, after the jump.…
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We haven't covered Iron Sky much, despite the fact that it is a sci-fi comedy about Nazis attacking Earth from their base on the moon. We haven't done a lot of coverage because there hasn't been much to cover besides a pre-production teaser and the basic concept itself. But now the production has shot some…
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Briefly: More Transformers 3 news is coming in, but this is not quite as much fun as Shia LaBeouf's comments from yesterday. But Firefly and Dollhouse fans will be happy about the fact that Alan Tudyk has now been cast in the film. His role hasn't been revealed, but we don't know much of anything…
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Sam Worthington cannot be stopped. He hasn't really distinguished himself in his last few big movies, but those movies have generally done rather well. You might have heard the numbers on Avatar by now. So he's become one of the bright young lights as far as studios are concerned. In addition to the many other…
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The Cannes Film Festival is more than just a festival. They also have a large film market where distributors try to market and sell their films to international territories. I started off my day on Thursday by attending a buyers screening. At Cannes, press are allowed admission to some of the buyers screenings, but only…
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Your first reaction to that headline is probably going to be your jaw hitting the floor. But pick it up and relax. Yes, Charlie Kaufman has evidently done some script work on Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom. But it's just a polish, not a major rewrite. Still, does this mean that we'll see…
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Whoa. Color me psyched. Regular readers know that a few of us here at /Film are big fans of Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, thanks to films like the Pusher series and Bronson. Refn has made small, non-studio pictures so far, though the upcoming Drive, with Ryan Gosling, brings him closer to the studio fold.…
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/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. In movies, when bank robbers and gangsters grumble, “I’m never going back to jail, they’ll have to kill me,” the statement…
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When Samuel L. Jackson was signed to a nine-film deal by Marvel, you had to bet that part of the attraction of the deal was that he'd eventually get a pretty big role, if not a star turn, in one of the studio's projects. So far, Jackson's Nick Fury has been a small part of…
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Briefly: Not going to spill a lot of ink (keystrokes, whatever) for this one, but the pic above shows Ryan Reynolds in some of his mo-cap getup for Green Lantern. Does this help confirm our earlier report that the costume he'll 'wear' for the film will be primarily CGI? It certainly doesn't debunk it. Beyond…
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Well, these are pretty much the quotes of the day, and if the heart of entertainment is still beating, they'll inspire a little flame war between Shia LaBeouf and Michael Bay. While promoting Wall Street 2 in Cannes, LaBeouf is naturally being asked about Transformers 3, and he promises a more affecting movie with a…
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The Argento family is having a busy week. From the Cannes marketplace, there is news that Dario Argento will make a new, 'faithful' take on Dracula, in 3D. And then his daughter Asia Argento, who had sworn off screenwriting after The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, is back with a new film called A…
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I know that Marilyn Monroe is an American icon, but do we really need two biopics of the actress in the works? On one hand, there's My Week With Marilyn, which started development last year. Scarlett Johansson was originally slated to star, then Michelle Williams stepped in. And now there is Blonde, which adapts the…
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Nowhere Boy is a story of John Lennon's childhood (as played by Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson). The film premiered as the closing night film at the London Film Festival, and screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival to mixed to positive reviews. Nominated for 4 BAFTA Film Awards, including Best Supporting Actress, Outstanding British Film,…
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The documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival to acclaim. JOAN RIVERS - A PIECE OF WORK takes the audience on a year long ride with Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life; it peels away the mask of an iconic comedian, laying bare both the struggle…
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Ever since the release of Rambo 4 (which was titled simply Rambo), Sylvester Stallone has been touting another sequel for the John Rambo franchise. Rumors abounded of a homecoming tale, a film tinged with sci-fi, and, based on one of Stallone's last updates, a south of the border tale in which Rambo finds or avenges…
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I received an e-mail a few minutes ago from a publicist pointing me towards a video claiming to be leaked footage from behind the scenes of the movie Knight & Day. The video features Cameron Diaz practicing kicks with Tom Cruise and a stunt coordinator. Cruise looks away for a moment and is greeted with…
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While at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, I ran across this early poster art for the John Landis horror comedy Burke & Hare. As you know, the film is based on the real-life exploits of Irish murderers William Burke and William Hare, who killed at least 17 people in Edinburgh in 1827-8, the film may…
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Graphic artist Ricky Linn created an awesome new Star Trek infographic, 15 Things About Star Trek You Probably Didn't Know About Star Trek. Check it out, after the jump.
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More or less since the moment that Avatar was released there has been talk of a sequel. Franchise potential was built into the story from the start. When the film became a staggering financial success, the talk only intensified, to the point where there has been word of pre-production work already beginning. James Cameron spoke…
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Up until now, the main thing that most readers might know about Wayne Wang's new movie, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, is that Hugh Jackman has a small appearance performing a song during one scene. The film will start to get a lot more exposure soon, as Fox Searchlight has picked it up for…
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What if Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall were adapted into a broadway musical? Arnold Schwarzenegger performs "The Mountains of Mars" from "Total Recall: The Musical" in a video embedded after the jump. via: boingboing
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Were you excited last week to finally get Saving Private Ryan on Blu-ray? Were you less excited to see that the disc seemed to be exhibiting an audio sync problem, causing the sound of shells and explosions to be heard before they actually hit? Well, the problem wasn't your player. It's the disc, and Paramount…
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Fans of Role Models and Wet Hot American Summer, take note and rejoice: David Wain will direct Wanderlust, a comedy written by Wain, Paul Rudd and Ken Marino. Rudd and Jennifer Aniston will star, with Judd Apatow producing. The project came up a few days ago when Apatow said he would be working with Wain,…
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Ever played the "Tycoon" series of video games? Games such as "Railroad Tycoon," "Transport Tycoon," and "Rollercoaster Tycoon" were like "SimCity" on a smaller level, allowing you to manage one company and compete for world domination in its business. The "Rollercoaster Tycoon" series was particularly popular, spawning two sequels, several expansion packs, a board game,…
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Screen Gems has finally released a trailer for their teen comedy Easy A starring Emma Stone (Superbad, Zombieland). After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl (Stone) sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school – until…
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Florian Bertmer and UK artist Olly Moss have both created awesome new posters for The Evil Dead, in connection with the recent screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin Texas. We've featured Moss many times on the site in the past (Locke inspired Lost poster and t-shirt), and is probably best known for his popular…
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Over the past few months we've started hearing about Terra Nova, a TV series for Fox with Steven Spielberg on board as one of the producers. The show has been said to involve time travel, dinosaurs and some other sci-fi elements. Few details have been known, and while we still don't know a lot, there…
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Photographers try to snap photos of stars on the red carpet at the Palais In this Cannes Blog, I include some photos from my first day in Cannes, give some commentary about my experiences thus far, and provide a mini review of Ridley Scott's Robin Hood. I arrived in Cannes on Tuesday, and was met…
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What is it with HBO and dramatic recreations of classic documentaries? Last year there was Grey Gardens, and now the network is lining up Cinema Verite, which will be a dramatized behind the scenes take on the 1973 PBS doc An American Family. The original series was a big deal; it frankly portrayed family troubles…
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Early last year, Slumdog Millionaire screenwriter Simon Beaufoy wrote an adaptation of Paul Torday's novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The script was well-received, making the 2009 Brit List of unproduced screenplays. Some time after that, Bill Condon came aboard the project to direct. But his new responsibilities on Breaking Dawn preclude making the picture.…
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Hurley from Lost sure does say "dude" a lot. Jezebel decided to edit every single "dude" from the six seasons of Lost thus far into one video montage. The clip, which lasts nearly four minutes, can be found embedded after the jump.
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In addition to the films playing each year at the Cannes Film Festival every year, Hollywood pays millions to install banners, billboards, and hotel front skins on the Croisette to promote upcoming releases. Most of the advertising has never been seen before anywhere. This year's marketing offerings include Kane & Lynch, the Jack Black 3D…
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Just a month ago we featured the short Pixels: Retro Gamers, which depicted a bunch of classic gaming characters and icons attacking New York City. Patrick Jean's short had a lot of style and no shortage of technique. But the idea was a pretty self-contained one. A short featuring attacking game icons is great, but…
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It has been a while since Tsui Hark was on top of the Hong Kong film scene. But for anyone who was knee deep in HK flicks through the '80s and '90s, the name should still be enough to pique some interest. If you didn't have the good fortune to live through that fantastic movie…
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The 1976 Cal Arts Character Animation Class in Room A-113: Back: Joe Lanzisero, Darrell Van Citters, Brett Thompson, John Lasseter (pencil in mouth) Leslie Margolin, Mike Cedeno, Paul Nowak, Nancy Beiman; Middle: Jerry Rees, Bruce Morris, Elmer Plummer, Brad Bird, Doug Lefler; Front: Harry Sabin, John Musker The memo posted after the jump has been…
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We've been waiting to see footage of George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau, which stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in a loose adaptation of a Philip K Dick short story, Adjustment Team. Now there's a trailer, and it is hard to tell what the movie is, exactly. There are moments which will remind you of…
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Earlier today it was reported that District 9 star Sharlto Copley was forced to drop out of the Michael Bay/Steven Spielberg-produced D.J. Caruso-directed adaptation of James Frey and Jobie Hughes's teen sci-fi alien book I Am Number Four due to "scheduling conflicts with his upcoming press obligations for Fox's The A-Team." As we all know,…
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Officials in Paraguay and Argentina feel pretty touchy about the perception of their countries, specifically as it relates to the tourist trade. Want to make a movie that might cast part of those countries in a less than flattering light? Don't expect them to cooperate. The Hurt Locker creators Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have…
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Though he took a long break for a number of different reasons, since his return to zombie movies with Land of the Dead in 2005, George Romero has been steadily expanding his 'Dead' universe. Now he's saying he's got ideas for two more ...Dead films in him, possibly to be shot back to back, and…
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Tim Burton has got Dark Shadows brewing, supposedly to shoot later this year, but in the meantime he's going to continue to be attached to various projects as creative consultant, producer and possibly director. One new project that may have Burton involved on some level is a film based on Monsterpocalypse, a board game that…
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Gary Whitta has come a long way in a few years. Once the editor of PC Gamer magazine, Whitta wrote The Book of Eli and at least one draft of the live-action Akira movie(s). Now another script of his, Reaper, has been given a new title, Undying, and found a star in Kurt Russell. THR…
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Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker) and Evangeline Lilly (Lost) have been cast in Shawn Levy's futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel. The film, set to hit theaters on November 18th 2011, tells the story of a father and his estranged 11-year-old son who enter the world of robotic boxing. You see, in the future, human…
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Foresight Unlimited has announced that Universal Soldier IV will go into production this fall, with stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren (who both co-starred in the third installment Universal Soldier: Regeneration)" in 2009. John Hyams is also returning to direct the project, which will be released in 3D. I'm not sure if we're ready…
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One month ago, Ain't It Cool News broke an exclusive story about a new film based on Gaiking, a giant mech member of the Shogun Warriors. The Shogun Warriors were popularized via a number of manga and anime TV series during the 1970s, not to mention the legendary Japanese toy line that was licensed by…
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Remember that lawsuit from awhile back that targeted 50,000 individuals who pirated a bunch of relatively unknown indie films like Uwe Boll's Far Cry? It was filed by the U.S. Copyright Group (hereafter referred to as "The Group") in an attempt at creating a new "revenue stream" for the financiers of those films. Turns out…
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A bit of bad news: District 9 star Sharlto Copley is leaving Michael Bay/Steven Spielberg-produced D.J. Caruso-directed adaptation of James Frey and Jobie Hughes's teen sci-fi alien book I Am Number Four. Variety reports that he is being replaced by Timothy Olyphant (Live Free or Die Hard, Hitman, Justified). Copley had to bow out due…
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Ever watched a DVD copy of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho in your home theater and wondered how it would feel like if you could be surrounded by those immortal, screeching violins while Janet Leigh's scream blared through your glorious center channel? Now, your dreams can come true. To coincide with the 50th anniversary of the film,…
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Universal has released three new movie posters for Illumination Entertainment's computer animated feature Despicable Me. Check them out now, after the jump. In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden deep beneath this home is a…
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Warner Bros has announced that Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch will be released in IMAX 3D, in addition to the previously announced digital 3D release on March 25th 2011. Snyder's adaptation of Watchmen was also released in IMAX, and Snyder seems to like releasing in the huge screen format. The film is part of Warner Bros…
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The Pixar Blog has finally confirmed something we've suspected for quite some time, Pixar's newt has been officially canceled. The film's entry was missing from the new Disney encyclopedia Disney A to Z, and author Savid Smith confirmed to the blog that "the film has been cancelled." Floyd Norman commented earlier this year on animation…
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Darren Aronofsky is still willing to work with Brad Pitt. Despite the fact that their collaboration on The Fountain went south, with Pitt departing before production began and Aronofsky eventually downscaling and recasting the movie. And despite the fact that Pitt also bailed on The Fighter, before Aronofsky left that movie and David O. Russell…
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Last summer as Comic Con was in full swing, David Cronenberg announced that he'd direct an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel Cosmopolis. At the time he'd been trying to get The Matarese Circle made at MGM with Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington. But Cruise bailed and Matarese was left belly up. Cosmopolis got put…
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Last year, one of the more contentious aspects of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was an Autobot duo, Mudflap and Skids, who seemed to embody an impressive collection of racist, urban stereotypes. Yesterday there was word, based on a spy account of some Transformers 3 activity, that the twins would return for the third film.…
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As Cannes kicks into gear we might start hearing about a few new films that have been assembled enough to scour for distribution deals before production. One such film is Judge Dredd, which we covered last night. Another is Margin Call, from writer/director J.C. Chandor. The film has lined up Kevin Spacey and Zachary Quinto…
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When Matthew Vaughn was announced as director of X-Men: First Class, you wouldn't have been errant in guessing that this news would quickly follow. Vaughn and Jane Goldman worked closely together on Stardust and Kick-Ass, so it was logical to guess that she might contribute to First Class as well. Indeed, we're now hearing that…
Read MoreOverture Films have sent over high resolution digital files of the first three photos from the Let The Right One In remake/adaptation Let Me In, directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) and starring Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road), Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass) and Oscar®nominee Richard Jenkins (The Visitor). As you may recall, we posted these images over the…
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Paramount Pictures has finally released the official high definition quicktime movie trailer for the Steven Spielberg-produced JJ Abrams-directed super secret project Super 8. You may have watched a bootlegged handicam version on YouTube over the weekend, but now it is officially online. The teaser trailer is sure to wet your appetiate, and head on over…
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The remake of Fright Night started off with a great piece of casting, as Anton Yelchin will play Charley Brewster, the young guy who fears for his life when he discovers that a vampire has moved in next door. Now we've got a name for the vampire -- Colin Farrell will play the role originated…
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If you've seen more than one movie by Quentin Tarantino, then you've surely noticed his signature POV trunk shot. The shot even has its own wikipedia page (take that Scorsese Squeeze!). Here is the background from wiki: The Trunk shot is a camera angle used in cinema when one or more characters need to retrieve…
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How is it that there are competing Three Musketeers movies? Just as Doug Liman is confirmed as director for the Warner Bros. production, which is being fast-tracked to begin production this fall, we've got word on the cast for the other Three Musketeers movie, to be directed by Paul WS Anderson for Summit. According to…
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Our friends at the Totally Rad Show have thrown down the gauntlet, and challenged /Film to compete against them in their annual Summer Movie Game. David Chen, Russ Fischer and I (Peter Sciretta) will compete against TRS's Dan Trachtenberg, Alex Albrecht, and Jeff Cannata. The game is to decide what will be the highest grossing…
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Back when Jon Favreau first came on board Iron Man, he wanted the villain to be the Mandarin. That didn't happen. Instead of a guy with ten rings of power, we got Obadiah Stane. But an organization called the Ten Rings was referenced in both the first and second films as a set-up for the…
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We've been hearing about the possibility of a new Judge Dredd movie for some time. Now the project has taken a big step closer to being real: in a deal made just prior to Cannes, where the film will be shopped around for distribution, Andrew Macdonald's company DNA Film has made a deal to finance…
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It's Tuesday, which means only one thing - LOST night! Threadless and Teefury have each released a new Lost T-Shirts. Details and photos after the jump. Teefury's shirt design is m. Brady Clark's ABAETERNO, which is a great reference to Ab Aeterno, the ninth episode of season 6 of Lost. The good news is the…
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Last week we posted a batch of new concept photos and concept art from Tron Legacy. It turns out there were a lot of concept art images and renderings that we missed. Check them out, after the jump. Click on the images to enlarge as each one is in high resolution. .gallery { margin: auto;…
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Coming off the not-so-positive early reviews, Universal Pictures has decided to release one final trailer for Robin Hood, packed with action and loud music (or so I hear, I'm currently and Paris and unable to watch the embed due to Hulu's annoying international policies). From what we've read about the film in early reviews, it…
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On the heels of their previously announced action-comedy, 30 Minutes or Less, from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, actors Danny McBride and Aziz Ansari are attached to star in a second planned comedy feature, this one currently untitled. Specifics about the project were not revealed in today's press release, but it originates from a pitch credited…
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It's not easy going through life with an unremarkable name like "Dave Chen." I know three Dave Chens personally, one of whom works in the same office as me, making e-mail mix-ups a frequent occurrence. But despite reservations about my own name, I can take comfort in the fact that I wasn't named after a…
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I was left flabbergasted by the news that Chuck Russell would be directing a new 3D version of the Arabian Nights...or, at least, he's directing a film called Arabian Nights. It seems to bear a passing resemblance at best to the original collection of folk tales. The film is about "a young commander who, after…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS I was happy about the news that Jason Momoa (Stargate: Atlantis) had been cast as Conan in the new film by Marcus Nispel. He seems like he can act, and he's got a look that will not only work for the part, but quickly differentiate this version from the Schwarzenegger original. Now we've…
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/Film reader Daylan P just forwarded me a link to a cool infographic by ~dehahs breaking-down the narrative character chronology in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Check out the whole graphic, after the jump. Click on the image below to enlarge: Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool…
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A couple weeks back I got the opportunity to chat with Justin Theroux, the actor-turned-director-turned-screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for Tropic Thunder, and penned Iron Man 2, which is the main topic of discussion. Read the full interview below. Q: Okay, so we should start at the beginning. Justin Theroux: Alright. <laugh> Q: How do…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Spy pics rarely do a makeup job justice. But a makeup design that takes a very literal approach to recreating a comic character's look can also be dangerous. Take the photo above, which is reportedly of Peter Sarsgaard in makeup (but not full costume) as Hector Hammond, one of the villains of Green…
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To promote this year's Star Wars Weekends, Disney has published a new set of print advertisements showing Star Wars characters enjoying Disneyland. Check them all out after the jump. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] via: Adoftheworld
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We've been hearing about a possible Luke Cage movie for a few years now, and with Marvel Studios gearing up for some lower budget comic book adaptations, could it be soon before we finally see Cage on the big screen? The Los Angeles Times mentioned that Marvel has already begun talks with "a notable Hollywood…
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We've heard a couple of rumors about Red Tails, the World War II flick about the Tuskegee Airmen produced by George Lucas and directed by Anthony Hemingway. But until now we haven't seen any photos or images. You can see a few behind the scenes shots after the break, culled from a large collection of…
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Warner Bros has released three new television spots for Christopher Nolan's Inception. Watch them now, embedded after the jump. TV Spot #1: TV Spot #2: TV Spot #3: via: themoviemash
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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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Ridley Scott's Robin Hood is set to open up this year's Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night, but early reviews have begun to leak out over the weekend. The reviews range from mixed to not-so-positive. Check a sample of excerpts after the jump: Variety: ""Can you not sing a happy tune?" growls a not-so-merry man…
Read MoreNote: This story will be sticky'd to the top of the site for the weekend. Jon Favreau's Iron Man took a lot of people by surprise. It was Favreau's first tentpole film, for one thing (unless you count Zathura), and his seamless blend of action, CGI, and practical effects cemented him as a credible and…
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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...GAH, bugs! When I learned of Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, a documentary on the profitable Japanese subculture and love of insect…
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Yesterday we saw the first image from Let Me In, the new adaptation of the same novel that spawned the Swedish film Let the Right One In. The first image showed only Chloe Moretz as Abby, the vampiric young girl who forms an odd friendship with Owen, a boy in her new apartment complex. Now…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day on Saturday is 62% off three different television show box sets from the 1960's and 1970's: Get Smart - The Complete Series Gift Set for $74.99, 62% off the $200 msrp. The Waltons: The Complete Seasons 1-9 for $103.99, 62% the $276 msrp. Gilligan's Island: The Complete Series…
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Hayden Christensen has signed on to star in Snakes of a Plane/Cellular/The Final Destination director David R. Ellis' big screen adaptation of John Case's thriller novel The Genesis Code. Kevin Bernhardt, who wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Peaceful Warrior, penned the adaptation. The story follows a former national security expert, played by Christensen,…
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Late last year, the MPAA filed a request with the FCC to be able to "send movies fresh from the box office" to American homes. In other words, studios could broadcast new or recently released movies to cable and/or satellite subscribers, essentially creating a new release window prior to DVD release. In some cases, this…
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You may have seen the movie trailer for the Steven Spielberg-produced JJ Abrams-directed sci-fi film Super 8 attached to Iron Man 2 or bootlegged online, but did you notice the Easter eggs hidden at the end of the trailer that launched the film's viral marketing efforts? Yesterday I noticed that during the last seconds of…
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On Easter Sunday, I landed in New Orleans to sweat and drop by the set of RED, yet another comic book adaptation, but one packing the following A-list cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren (as a tea-sipping sniper with a 50-cal machine gun), Mary-Louise Parker, Star Trek's Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Richard…
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There are screenplays that are as well-engineered and powerful as the armor Tony Stark built for himself in the movie Iron Man. And then there are those that...aren't. But a sloppy script can still be charming and fun enough to pass a couple hours when acted out by people like Robert Downey, Jr., Sam Rockwell…
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Titanic 2 is one of those jokes that everyone has made at sometime over the past decade. It's the one sequel no one expects will ever be made. There was even a great mock trailer produced four or five years ago. Guess what.. someone has just completed principal photography on Titanic 2, and it isn't…
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We've already told you that the new trailer for Christopher Nolan's Inception is attached to prints of Iron Man 2. What you didn't know is that the trailer is already online (kind of...). According to NolanFans, the trailer began playing at noon inside the movie theaters in the virtual city of the Mind Crime online…
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Remember a couple weeks ago when we told you that Barry Sonnenfeld had confirmed Will Smith for Men in Black III and that the film would be in 3D? Well, now those two facts are double-confirmed (slow news week) but Deadline offers a new tidbit of info: Sony has set the film for May 25,…
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One of the seemingly eternal residents of Development Hell has been William Gibson's novel Neuromancer. While the novel has influenced more films than any of us could count, the various adaptations that producers have tried to mount over the years have all stalled out, most in the early stages. That might be for the best,…
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Still over six months to go until Tron Legacy is in theaters, but Disney continues to drop a steady trail of images and treats for Tron fans. There's a spiffy new lightcycle image (above; click for high-res) and, if you've got a few minutes to kill, a fully playable version of the game Space Paranoids,…
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News of a remake of Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In generated a lot of heat, and no small amount of anger. (The remake was announced before the original had been properly released in the US.) But some of the bile dissolved when people got a chance to see Let Me In star…
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Yesterday, Paramount announced that Mission Impossible 4 was being pushed back from May 27th to a December 16th 2011 release. We mentioned that Brad Bird had still not officially been announced as the director for the film, despite previous reports that he was in final negotiations for the gig. Empire got a chance to talk…
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Today's Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day is 55% off ABC Network television show box sets: Scrubs: The Complete Seasons 1-8 for $89.99, 55% off the $198 msrp Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Seasons 1-5 for $94.99, 55% off the $210 msrp Desperate Housewives: The Complete Seasons 1-5 for $89.99, 55% off the $200 msrp…
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Producer Avi Arad has will be on hand at Namco's 30th birthday for Pac-Man on June 15th (during E3) “to make an announcement about the worldwide premiere of his newest Pac-Man project.” Of couse, "Pac-Man project" doesn't necessarily mean big screen movie, but what else could it be? Arad is a Hollywood producer -- that's…
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With Avi Arad possibly developing a big screen adaptation of Pac Man, I thought it was time to round-up all the Pac Man Movie parodies from around the web. The funniest thing about these videos is that I don't think any of the filmmakers involved ever believed Hollywood would actually try to make a movie…
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Marvel is in final talks with British actor Toby Jones to play the evil scientist Arnim Zola in Joe Johnston's Captain America: The First Avenger (yes, they flipped around the title -- it use to be The First Avenger: Captain America). Jones is best known for playing Truman Capote in Infamous, Karl Rove in Oliver…
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20th Century Fox has released four new character-centric television spots for The A-Team. Watch them now, embedded after the jump. Hannibal: Leader of the A-Team Faceman: Trouble Shooter B.A.: Munitions Expert Murdock: Aviation Expert Based on the 1980's television series, The A-Team movie will follow a group of Iraq War veterans (changed from Vietnam) who…
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The /Filmcast Interview is a series of conversations with actors, directors, and other key figures from the entertainment industry. In this episode, I speak with actor Sam Rockwell about his role in Iron Man 2. Rockwell plays Justin Hammer, the CEO of Hammer Industries, and a direct rival to of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.).…
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20th Century Fox has given us an official production photo to premiere: Laurence Fishburne as Noland in the Robert Rodriguez-produced, Nimrod Antal-directed Predators. In the film, a group of elite warriors discover that someone has survived, a crazy scavenger named Noland who teaches them everything he knows about the Predators and other alien creatures on…
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Kevin Durand is in talks to join two DreamWorks sci-fi action films: Michael Bay/Steven Spielberg-produced D.J. Caruso-directed adaptation of James Frey and Jobie Hughes's teen sci-fi alien book I Am Number Four Shawn Levy's futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel Durand played bad guy Martin Keamy in Season 6 of Lost, Joshua on the Show…
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It's been a few days since we've done a movie poster rundown. Today we bring you a new IMAX poster for Christopher Nolan's Inception, Survival of the Dead Poster by The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlar, Splice, After Dark Films' The Task, and another poster for The Last Airbender. Check them all out, after the…
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/Film will be recapping and discussing each episode of the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recaps and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. With "One Minute," the most engrossing arc of the third season has landed in Hank's lap like a decapitated, shrunken…
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20th Century Fox has announced a June 24th 2011 release date for the Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. The Escapist helmer Rupert Wyatt will direct from a screenplay by Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa. Fox has released the official plot synopsis: RISE OF THE APES (tentative title) is an origin story…
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As you know by now, Disneyworld is planning to relaunch the Star Wars ride Star Tours with a new 3D version. LucasFilm has announced a special event to celebrate the end of the original Star Tours ride: "an out of-this-world, first-of-its-kind decommissioning party before Star Tours launches its final flights." "Taking place on August 14…
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Paramount has announced that Mission Impossible 4 will now hit theaters on December 16th 2011. The film originally had a May 27, 2011 release date, which we assume has now been filled with JJ Abrams' Super 8. Previously: When it was first announced that JJ Abrams and Tom Cruise were reteaming to co-produce a fourth…
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Disney has released a batch of new promotional photos for Tron Legacy (found via Filmofilia) which show men in helmets playing the Disc Game, which you may remember from the original film. From what we've seen from the trailer, these images don't appear to be taken on the set of the film. They instead appear…
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Last night we published one of the first descriptions of the super secret teaser trailer for JJ Abrams' Super 8 (you can read that description here, although I urge you to see it on the big screen in front of Iron Man 2 if you have the patience/will power to do so). We now have…
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While it appears that Comic-Con International may stay in San Diego after the city commits to convention center and hotel expansions, it isn't yet a done deal. Last week, CCI officials visited Los Angeles "to see the new LA Live facility and how things have changed downtown." Comic-Con Director of Marketing and Public Relations David…
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This isn't quite like nabbing some video of the sasquatch walking across your back yard, but it might be close. Over a year ago, Joaquin Phoenix announced his retirement from acting, grew a magnificent beard, started rapping, and fell off a stage. In his few public appearances (including one on Letterman) Phoenix insisted that the…
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I've been keeping tabs on the comedy that Kristen Wiig has been assembling of late, but now I'm a lot more interested in her possible follow-up film. Wiig is optioning Clown Girl, a 2007 novel by Monica Drake about a woman who performs as Sniffles the Clown and tries to avoid the seedy world of…
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Paramount Pictures has given us the oppurtunity to premiere the final movie poster for M Night Shyamalan's big screen live-action adaptation of The Last Airbender. Check it out in full, unwatermarked, after the jump. Click to enlarge. Official Plot Synopsis: Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, the live-action feature film is set…
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It's breakout time for Greta Gerwig. She had a slightly (very slightly) more mainstream part than usual in Noah Baumbach's Greenberg and a great little role in The House of the Devil (pictured above). Now there's a report that she is in talks to take Liza Minelli's old role in the brewing remake of Arthur.…
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We've told you that the super secret movie trailer for JJ Abrams next film Super 8 was attached to Iron Man 2. I have just received a reliable report from someone who has seen the trailer. I am 100% sure that this report is legit. Here are some spoiler free details: I can confirm that…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today has two NBC Network television show DVD Box Sets: 30 Rock Seasons 1-3 for $44.99, 64% off the $126 msrp. The Office Seasons 1-5 for $71.99, 64% off the $200 msrp As with all of the Gold Box Deals, the price will disappear at midnight (Thursday night)…
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Antonio Banderas and director Pedro Almodovar have made several movies together, but none since Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down in 1990. Now the pair are finally set to reunite in a film called La Piel que Habito (The Skin I Live In), which Almodovar calls "a terror film without screams or scares." THR pulled…
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Earlier this year it was announced that Legendary Pictures, the company behind 300 and The Dark Knight, was developing a new American remake of Godzilla with producers Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Brian Rogers. A director has yet to be announced, but I've heard that they are looking for a darker/more realistic take on the…
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20th Century Fox has announced yet another unfunny Ice Age sequel. Okay, it might be unfair to label the sequel unfunny at this point, but all indications point towards... Fox has announced that the 3D computer animated film will hit theaters on July 13th 2012. 2012 is turning out to be jam packed with sequels,…
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When news gets slow in Hollywood, we like to turn our eye to the even stranger stories in the real world. This week we bring you a Back to the Future marriage proposal, the story and video of a man dressed as Spider-Man who trapped a comic book thief during Free Comic Book Day with…
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Before he gets around to making Foundation, and consequently cutting out the hearts of Isaac Asimov fans with a rusty butter knife, Roland Emmerich is crafting a film called Anonymous. The idea behind the project is the oft-scorned theory that the works of William Shakespeare were actually written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl…
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A couple days ago, the trades announced that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in talks to possibly reunite with Brick director Rian Johnson in his sci-fi thriller titled Looper. It seems like the trades jumped the gun on the announcement as nothing is final, and they even botched the logline for the film. As it turns out,…
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Over the past couple days, we've been tracking a report about a super secret teaser trailer which has been digitally locked, shipped, and will play before Iron Man 2. Initially, HitFix broke the story that the project was a JJ Abrams project titled Super 8, and that it is rumored to be a Cloverfield sequel.…
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Joel McHale is in final talks to join the cast of What's Your Number?, the Anna Faris comedy based on Karyn Bosnak's book Twenty Times a Lady. The film has been gearing up for quite a while under director Mark Mylod, and already has Chris Evans, Matt Bomer and Ari Graynor in the cast, with…
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Talk about perfect casting. We've mentioned before that Hunger director Steve McQueen is making a film about the life of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musician / activist who essentially invented Afrobeat. Now there's word that Kuti will be played by Chiwetel Ejiofor. Because, really, was there anyone else who could take the part? It's a…
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Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Killer Inside Me has long seemed like one of the best bets of 2010. There was the lead casting: Casey Affleck as secretly sociopathic sheriff Lou Ford could be perfect . And then that sales trailer that suggested all the actors, including Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson,…
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"The original Star Wars saga as told by a kid with one heck of a LEGO collection." This stop-motion animated video is extensive, covering the entire original trilogy in just two minutes and thirteen seconds, and featuring many of the sets, locations, props, creatures, and vehicles recreated using real LEGO. Believe me, it's a lot…
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Because I know you're all hanging on this info: Summit has scheduled Breaking Dawn, the last film in The Twilight Saga, for release on November 18, 2011. For those keeping track, that's a year and a half after the release of Eclipse, the third film in the series, which makes Breaking Dawn the chapter that…
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Since Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass burst onto screens a few weeks ago, speculation has swirled as to whether or not the film performed well enough at the box office to warrant a sequel. A recent press release (via Forces of Geek) for the forthcoming CLiNT magazine, a joint venture between Millar and Titan Magazines, suggests that…
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[Updated to fix my earlier, erroneous release dates] One of my favorite films coming out of Sundance was the Duplass brothers' Cyrus (the film also screened recently at SXSW and IFFBoston). Turns out Fox Searchlight can't wait for you guys to see it too. Cyrus will now be opening in select cities three weeks earlier…
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Robert Rodriguez has released a special "illegal" movie trailer for Machete. Yes, that's right -- the feature length adaptation of the fake trailer created for Grindhouse, now has a real movie trailer. The trailer features a special "Cinco De Mayo message for ARIZONA", a political story which has been making headlines recently, but is actually…
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Amazon has two FX Network series box sets on sale as part of today's gold Box Deal of the Day: The Shield Complete Series for $59.49, 63% off the $160 msrp. All seven seasons of the Emmy®-winning, groundbreaking series in a collectible 34-page bound anthology book filled with photos, quotes and a special letter from…
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We don't usually do news posts anymore about filmmakers who have recently joined twitter, as it is such a common thing now-a-days. But I just received an e-mail informing me that Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard and producing partner Brian Grazer have joined the social web. And while their accounts are verified, they don't have…
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You may have read somewhere on the interwebs that Edgar Wright "is planning to return to Toronto for 3 additional days of photography" on Scott Pilgrim vs The World. But don't freak out -- aside from the fact that we've been bombarded by nothing but overwhelmingly insanely positive reviews from the early test screenings, you…
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Skip Woods is in talks with 20th Century Fox to write Die Hard 5. Woods is the screenwriter behind Swordfish and Hitman, and one of the writers on X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the upcoming A-Team movie. No information has been released on a possible storyline for the fifth installment, but Bruce Willis has said that…
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Emma Stone and Catherine Keener havce joined the voice cast of DreamWorks Animation's 3D computer animated film The Croods. Why You Should Care: Lilo & Stich/How To Train Your Dragon helmer Chris Sanders and Space Chimps helmer Kirk DeMicco are co-directing the caveman comedy, based on a screenplay originally developed by Monty Python alumni John…
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20th Century Fox has officially announced that Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn will helm the X-Men series prequel/reboot X-Men: First Class. When it was reported that they were fast-tracking this project into production, they weren't kidding. The film is set to go into production this Summer, and the studio has set a June 3rd 2011 release…
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20th Century Fox has released another new featurette for the Robert Rodriguez-produced, Nimrod Antal-directed Predators. You've seen the introductory featurette, the teaser trailer, the featurette focusing on Adrien Brody's character Royce, a Q&A with Antal /Rodriguez, an introduction to the character Isabelle played by Alice Braga, a look at Danny Trejo's character Cuchillo. In the…
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Earlier this morning, it Hitfix revealed that a easer trailer for a super secret JJ Abrams project was attached to prints of Iron Man 2. All we knew is the trailer is titled "Super 8", and is locked in a film canister "that has a coded electronic lock on it" with the final reel of…
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For the past couple months, we've been speculating about the nature of Day & Night, the new Pixar short film that will be attached to prints of Toy Story 3. We saw one still not long ago that made the film look like a 2D affair, with a real visual callback to some of the…
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Joe Johnston's Captain America: The First Avenger takes place during World War II, which makes it hard to do a lot of the Marvel Universe cameos we've become accustomed to over the past couple years. But you can expect to see one Stark in the film, just not Tony Stark. Jon Favreau has revealed to…
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Lets not act like this is some huge mystery. Most of us know what Christopher Nolan's Inception is about. And those of you who still don't get it, will certainly understand the concept after the new trailer hits attached to Iron Man 2 this week. Warner Bros has finally issued an official plot synopsis for…
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In 2004, Vanity Fair published an article co-authored by Hunter S. Thompson and Mark Seal called Prisoner of Denver. The subject, in a broad sense, was Colorado's legal system and the potential for injustice within it. Specifically, the article looked at the case of Lisl Auman, who was charged with murder and sentenced to life,…
Read MoreNO PHOTO It's a good day to be a fan of aging men with a violent streak. Over the last week we've had behind the scenes video glimpses of both the Coen Brothers version of True Grit and Jason Eisener's feature-length expansion of his fake grindhouse trailer Hobo With a Shotgun. Now we've got still…
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We've got a pair of vaguely conjoined stories about trouble in movie sales. Just as Blockbuster is looking at options to keep its business viable and thriving, another movie rental chain is dying: Movie Gallery will close all stores in the US and liquidate all holdings. Meanwhile, over on the Internet, YouTube launched a movie…
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Fox Searchlight has signed In Search of a Midnight Kiss helmer Alex Holdridge to direct The F-Word, a screenplay which was listed on the 2008 Black List (an insider Hollywood listing of the best unproduced screenplays of the year). The biggest surprise about the F-Word is that it isn't the four letter word F***. It's…
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When Harvey Weinstein used to have Hong Kong films dramatically altered for US release, the different cuts drew uproar from fans. Brett Ratner is doing something slightly different for the Bollywood film Kites. He's overseen an edit that trims about forty minutes of the original running time. But he's added something, too: the word remix.…
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We last heard about Sony's upcoming Uncharted film back in November, when we found out that Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer (Sahara, Conan) had been tapped to write a script based on the bestselling PS3 video game. Now, from the LATimes, we've learned that David O. Russell is on the producers' list of possible…
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Over the past two decades, Street Fighter fans have been subjected to at least two, terrible live-action adaptations of the acclaimed video game series: Street Fighter, with Jean Claude Van Damme, and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li with Kristin Kreuk. In fact, the latter was considered one of the worst films of 2009.…
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Much of the world has received Iron Man 2 already (I've seen it with a paying crowd, and rather liked it), but the USA and Canada do not. Almost as though compensation for the wait, however, it seems that the film's prints are coming to North American cinemas with a special in-the-can bonus. Pretty much recreating…
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Yep, a killer tire. Yes, it seems like a joke, but is not. Rubber is a film written, shot and directed by Quentin Dupieux, and it will play as a special screening in the International Critic's Week competition (La Semaine de la Critique) at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival later this month. Want to know…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is 62% off CBS television series box sets: NCIS: Seasons 1-6 for $89.99, 62% off the $240 msrp. Medium: Seasons 1-5 for $63.99, 62% off the $170 msrp. Numb3rs: Seasons 1-5 for $64.99, 62% off the $170 msrp. Criminal Minds - Seasons 1-3 for $45.99, 62% off…
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Hollywood use to make a lot more big screen adaptations on live stage plays. These days, it seems that most stage plays are adaptations of Hollywood films. This type of closed circle leads to big screen adaptations of board games and action figures. Hairspray, 9 to 5, The Wedding Singer, Billy Elliot, Grey Gardens, The…
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Today's t-shirt at Ript Apparel is a Star Wars/Space Invaders parody design by Mexican illustrator RoboRock titled "Invader". The design features a lone green fighter sending one shot into an army of space invaders in the shape of the dark lord Vader. The good news is that the t-shirt is only $10. The bad news…
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in talks to star in two upcoming action films: Possibly reuniting with Brick director Rian Johnson for his third film, a sci-fi thriller titled Looper. And a on-the-run chase thriller directed by David Koepp titled Premium Rush. More information on both projects, after the jump. Johnson has described Looper as being "really…
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Jerry Bruckheimer is getting less Disney money to play with. Over the years, Bruckheimer has produced a great many films for the studio, many with lavish budgets and appropriately epic scale. None more so than the Pirates of the Caribbean films, which have grown ever more outsized and expensive. For the fourth chapter, On Stranger…
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Sam Rockwell will be re-teaming with Iron Man 2/Made director Jon Favreau, joining the cast of Cowboys and Aliens. Written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, the story takes place in the Old West, where “settlers and Native Americans wage a bloody battle for control of the land. But when the Earth is threatened…
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Since the great success of Mad Men, we've been waiting to see Jon Hamm break into movies in a huge way, but with the show still going, he's primarily taken supporting roles. He's shot parts for a couple forthcoming projects, like Ben Affleck's The Town, and Sucker Punch and Howl. Now he's in talks for…
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What is going on with Ghostbusters 3? Will it ever happen? And if so when? Pick a Ghostbuster, get a completely different answer. Last month Bill Murray dismissed the sequel as "just a myth," and that "all this talk is just talk." Over the past couple days Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd weighed in, and…
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Sony has released a new batch of production photos for the upcoming Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg-starrer Adam McKay-directed action/comedy The Other Guys. Last month we posted the teaser trailer (if you haven't yet seen it, watch it here now). Check out the photos after the jump and click on through to see the images in higher…
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Last week, Disney released the latest banner/billboard image for Tron: Legacy, art featuring the new four-wheel off-road light car (or whatever they decide to call it). Disney has just sent us the official high resolution digital film (3500 pixels wide) which makes for awesome computer desktop wallpaper. Even though we've already posted about the banner,…
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Focus Features has released the first movie trailer for Control helmer Anton Corbijn's The American on Yahoo. The movie stars George Clooney as "an artful assassin with a lengthy track record, constantly on the move and always watching his back." At first glance, this film seems slow moving and might require a large attention span, something…
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Steven Spielberg has finally chosen to next film, a big screen adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's World War I novel War Horse. DreamWorks acquired the rights to the novel in December 2009. The book was runner-up for the Whitbread in 1982. Here is the official plot synopsis from the 1982 novel: In 1914, Joey, a beautiful…
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Not so long ago, there was a rumor that Juan Antonio Bayona, director of the slow-burn Spanish horror/thriller film The Orphanage, would direct an episode in Summit's Twilight series. While that didn't happen (whew!) evidently there was something between the director and Summit, because he's now making his follow-up to The Orphanage under their auspices.…
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Last week it was reported that 20th Century Fox was in talks with Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn to direct the X-Men series prequel/reboot X-Men: First Class. Deadlinequickly responded claiming that "Vaughn's negotiations have been touch and go, and sources close to the director said he's passing. " Cinematical posted a list of eight directors Fox…
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Threadless has released a new Star Wars parody t-shirt design called Star Sabers created by Tal Zubalsky. The design is literally Star Wars, with two stars fighting each other with lazer swords. Available on Navy Fine Jersey tee for $18 or on Navy American Apparel zip-up hoody for $40. Cool Stuff is a daily feature…
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It appears that Michael Bay's Transformers 3 is begining to gear up as the casting news has begun to leak, including the possible new additions of Patrick Dempsey and Jamie Kennedy. Patrick Dempsey was recently interviewed by the Brazilian website BOH, and according to the google translation, the actor claims he has been cast in…
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A bunch of new movie posters have been released over the weekend, include two new one-sheets for M Night Shyamalan's big screen live-action adaptation of The Last Airbender, a higher resolution version of last week's poster for Christopher Nolan's Inception, a UK one-sheet for Shrek Forever After, a French poster for The Karate Kid, Sex…
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Platinum Dunes A Nightmare on Elm Street remake "killed" (pun intended) at the box office this weekend, taking in over $32.9 million domestically in its first outing. This is the biggest opening for the Nightmare series, and the largest horror opening for the months of both May and April. Apparently this was enough to get…
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Lionsgate has released the second movie trailer for Robert Luketic's upcoming action-comedy Killers, starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl on Hulu. Seems like just another middle of the road comedy from both stars. Watch it now embedded after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below. Trailer: Official Plot Synopsis: Trying to recover…
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Hasbro has begun licensing out their classic board game Operation to other popular licenses. In a previous version of Cool Stuff, we mentioned the Iron Man 2 version of the game. Das Chupa created this awesome Kick-Ass variation of the game, which is likely to never, ever, hit store shelves. Although it is a perfect…
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The story of LA rap group N.W.A is a fairly short one, and has been told already through the best means available -- their records and the songs and albums that members released after the group started to disintegrate. But what the hell, let's get a biopic together, anyway. Straight Outta Compton, titled after N.W.A's…
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Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is for two Fox network television shows on DVD: The O.C.: The Complete Series for $66.99, 63% off the $180 msrp. ncludes all 92 episodes on 28 discs and tons of extras. Bones: Seasons 1-4 for $84.99, 63% off the $180 msrp. Of course, with all of…
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UPDATE: More details have come to light, and they follow after the break. Last week we heard via tweet that Anchorman 2 wouldn't be happening, at least for the time being, as Paramount had passed on the film. The issue seemed to be budget. Then came a tweet from Ben Stiller, which seems to cast…
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Two weeks ago, I attended the worldwide press conference for Iron Man 2 in Los Angeles. In attendance on the panel were the following: Mavel producer Kevin Feige, Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Jon Favreau, Mickey Rourke, and screenwriter Justin Theroux. I usually don't post video or footage from these type…
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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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The web-digging sleuths at Stitch Kingdom have uncovered a series of URLs registered recently by Disney. They reveal plans for not one, not two but... oh, loads of new stage shows and musicals to be adapted from big-screen movies. Some of them have already happened, some we've known about for some time, while others are…
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We've already discussed that Sam Mendes and Adam Shankman were frontrunners to direct Oz the Great and Powerful, an origin story for the Wonderful Wizard that looks set to star Robert Downey Jr. as the titular warlock. Now, it's looking like Shankman is taking his campaign for the job into the public arena. Shankman's biggest,…
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At one point or another, we've probably all thought about the possibility of owning an exotic pet. How awesome would it be to terrorize your enemies with a 20-foot boa constrictor, or have a lion ready to back you up when a thief breaks in in the middle of the night? For most of us,…
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The most entertaining film released to date in 2010 isn't a tentpole, a potential blockbuster, a 3D epic or a high-concept fantasy. It is Exit Through the Gift Shop, a documentary that may be at least partially fiction. I hope it is partially fiction, but which part doesn’t really matter. Purportedly orchestrated by Banksy, the…
Read MoreI'm wildly curious about True Grit, the new version of the Charles Portis novel currently lensing under the supervision of Joel and Ethan Coen. For the past couple weeks I've resisted posting the many set photos that have hit the internet as the film shoots in New Mexico and Texas. Mostly because they didn't show…
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We missed posting this earlier this week, but I can't totally pass up the chance to highlight the trailer for Winter's Bone, the Grand Jury Prize winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival. I quite like the look of the photography here, which is mostly naturalistic, but with a tinge of something fantastic, like the…
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Ever since Sylvester Stallone turned most of the adult male population of Burma to bloody gibs in his return to the Rambo character, there has been talk of a fifth Rambo film. Just what the story might be has been subject to speculation. Rumors abounded of a homecoming tale, a film tinged with sci-fi, and,…
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Summer is fast approaching and Harmony Korine—the polarizing Nashville-based filmmaker irresponsible for directing Gummo and scribing Kids---has returned to combat the season’s flabbier atrocities. For everyone’s information, Korine believes his latest movie, Trash Humpers, should not be referred to in the press or elsewhere as “a movie” or “a film.” I think I see his…
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Can a parking lot serve as a metaphor for America? Can it contain both our noblest of intentions and our basest of instincts? Can it teach us lessons about the nature of mankind, and about the joys and tribulations of work? Director Meghan Eckman's first film, a documentary entitled The Parking Lot Movie, answers these…
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It appears that Sam Mendes, the Academy Award-winning director of American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road and Away We Go, is filming a commercial this week for Apple's new iPhone which will be announced later this month. According to Engadget, the series of commercials are being referred to internally as the Mammoth / N90.…
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In the latest edition of TCxBD (Television Commercials by Big Directors), we have an awesome three minute long World Cup spot that two-time Academy Award-nominated writer-director Alejandro González Iñárritu directed for Nike. Of course, Iñárritu's filmography includes Amores Perros, Babel, 21 Grams and the Cannes Film Festival premiere Biutiful. The spot is titled "Write the…
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Toyota hired filmmaker Jody Hill (Observe and Report, The Foot Fist Way) to direct the advertisements for the 2011 Toyota Sienna. The spots star Brian Huskey and Rachel Drummond as "the self-proclaimed world's greatest parents" in the world. These have been out for a few months now, but I just discovered them today. The funniest…
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I have a couple stories about the television series finales for 24 and Lost to end the week. First up, ABC has announced that three alternative final scenes were filmed for Lost, and will air on the Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost special later that night. Full press release after the jump. Also after…
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Tonight it was revealed that ABC has agreed to extend Lost's series finale by an extra half hour. The final episode will air on Sunday, May 23rd 2010, from 9:00pm to 11:30pm. The overrun will push back the local news, and the previously announced "Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost" post-finale special will now air…
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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 "Groundhog Day" and reveals some of the story behind the story, behind the story, behind the story. The Tobolowsky Files is a 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…
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Coming to you from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice. This week’s is a special installment with two big review pieces and some video reports. Fox have released the Blu-ray of Minority Report in the UK and Europe and they've taken a different tack to the Paramount…
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Kane & Lynch, the adaptation of the Eidos video game, was originally set to be directed by stunt coordinator Simon Crane. But things have reportedly changed, and we're told that Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx will now be directed by Wayne Kramer, who previously made the gonzo action picture Running Scared. Latino Review has the…
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In this bonus episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen and Peter Sciretta chat about the series finale of 24, give their thoughts on a potential 24 movie, look back on some of their favorite moments from the series, and try to figure out what the heck they're going to watch on TV next. You can…
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In this week’s /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley compare and contrast Lost with Battlestar Galactica and Shattered Glass. Special guest Dan Eckman joins us for this episode. Dan's new film Mystery Team is out on DVD today. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993.…
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The time is here -- the series finale of Lost has finally begun to air (first on the East Coast, and then the rest of the world follows). I know that many of the /Film readers are obsessed with this show, and I think it is important to have a place to discuss the final…
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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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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 the more promising films on the horizon -- rather far on the horizon, unfortunately -- is The Golden Suicides, scripted by Bret Easton Ellis. The story of an art world superstar couple who perished in a double suicide originally came up as a co-authored project between Ellis and Gus Van Sant. Now we…
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Stephen discusses life, death, squirrels, parrots, and the possibility of miracles. 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 stephentobolowsky(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or you…
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Nicholas Stoller has made a name for himself as director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the upcoming Get Him to the Greek, but he's also a writer. His script was the backbone for the Jack Black version of Gulliver's Travels that is now being promoted at Cannes, and he's the screenwriter behind Stretch Armstrong and…
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In this week’s /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley ring in their 100th episode by discussing piracy, movie adaptations of plotless games and toys, and the plot/casting of Rian Johnson's upcoming film, Looper. Rian Johnson joins us for this episode, with his unique banjo stylings and photoshop skills. Rian's episode of Breaking Bad…
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If at first you don't succeed, try again. And maybe even once more for good measure. Stephen tells the story of his three honeymoons. 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…
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Dreamworks has revealed the official plot synopsis for Jon Favreau's upcoming big screen adaptation of Cowboys and Aliens. Since the film is based on the comic book series written by Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley, we had some idea, but now the full plot details have been revealed. Official Plot Synopsis: 1873. Arizona Territory.…
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In this week’s /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley assess the history of Matthew Vaughn's relationship with the X-Men franchise and discuss the frightening implications of straight-to-TV movies. Special guest Vince Mancini joins us from FilmDrunk. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us…
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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 reflects on the connections between love, marriage, tomatoes, and the missing 80% of the Universe. 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…
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In this week’s /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley respond to Ebert's diatribe against 3D, and reflect, as usual, on the future of the Twilight series. Special guest Joseph Kahn, the director of Torque, joins us for this episode. Enter to win one of five copies of Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer by e-mailing slashfilmcast(at)gmail(dot)com…
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice. This week's is a special installment including 90 minutes of audio to stream or download. During last weekend's rollicking Fan Fest event at the London Film Museum, I was honoured to host three on-stage Q&As. The…
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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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