Current TV's Rotten Tomatoes internet show takes a look at Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and the similarities to the Chung Yun-Fat's 1987 Honk Kong action film City On Fire. This, of course, isn't a new observation. To fill in the history, here is wikipedia: Reservoir Dogs was, according to Tarantino, his version of Stanley Kubrick's…
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. HOT TUB TIME MACHINE Hot Tub Time Machine is so aware of how absurd its storyline is that it doesn't even attempt…
Read MoreWhen the trailer was released for Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, many people noted the similarities/parallels to the filmmaker's previous film Lost in Translation. Of course, both movies are about a girl and her father figure getting to know each other while living at a four star hotel. /Film reader Joel Norn put together a video comparing…
Read MoreMissSheenie has created a mash-up using Star Trek and Ke$ha's song "Tik Tok": Working on the Enterprise is pretty much a non-stop party as far as I'm concerned. (Probably because the only parts I pay attention to are the Kirk/Spock moments, Scotty when he's drinking, Chekov when he's macking on his girlfriend and doing no…
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. SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE Nobody will ever acknowledge this, but She's Out of My League is likely to do more good…
Read MoreIf you haven't figured it out yet from the trailers, there is a heavy musical component to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Today, after months of speculation, Edgar Wright revealed the tracklisting for the upcoming motion picture soundtrack. Yes, Beck provides the music for the four SEX BOB-OMB tracks, with the actores providing the vocals.…
Read MoreI'm a late Avatar convert. It took months of being assaulted by the plaudits of critics and audiences until I was even ready to entertain the notion that a Nickelodeon show could actually be deserving of such praise, and several more months after having watched it to wipe clean the shame I felt for not…
Read MoreOne of my favorite shorts in the past few years is Sean Dunne's The Archive, about Paul Mawhinney, the man who amassed the world's largest collection of vinyl records. Now Dunne is back with a slightly longer, equally good character portrait: The Bowler, which documents the life of bowling hustler Rocky Salemmo. Here's Dunne's recap…
Read MoreI don't consider myself a dork, but I'm proud to be a California geek. Regardless, this music music video by Skyway Flyer titled California Dorks, a parody of Katy Perry's California Gurls, made me smile. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Skyway Flyer's California Dorks The Original Song/Video: Katy Perry's California Gurls LYRICS: VERSE…
Read MoreThere's a new trailer for Middle Men, the film that follows the career of Christopher Malick. He's no relation to Terrence Malick; rather, this is the guy who first enabled the proper monetization of porn on the internet. By providing credit card access to porn sites, he essentially became a funnel for cash. We've seen…
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. YOUTH IN REVOLT The lackluster box office performance of Youth in Revolt does not bode well for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.…
Read MoreWhy settle as being called the best film of all time when you could also be called the best remake of all time? Mark Potts (Simmons on Vinyl) and Singletree Productions have created a faux movie trailer for a proposed remake of Orson Welles' 1941 cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane. The trailer is a rather obvious…
Read MoreMagnet Pictures has released a new Red Band movie trailer for Neil Marshall's survival thriller Centurion on Hulu. Watch the trailer right now embedded after the jump. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Plot Synopsis: CENTURION AD 117. The Roman Empire stretches from Egypt to Spain, and East as far as the Black…
Read MoreIt all started when Leandro Copperfield decided to watch all the movies of his two favorite filmmakers over a ten day period. Copperfield edited together a seven and a half minute video mash-up of the films of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers. The finished video features clips from more than 500 scenes, cut to…
Read MoreLast year, we featured a beautiful zombie short film titled I Love Sarah Jane. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out right now. It was screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and many regional film festivals around the world. And aside from being awesome, it is notable for featuring Mia Wasikowska, who…
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. SHUTTER ISLAND In the hands of the right person, a so-so script can become a near-masterpiece. No film provides better evidence of…
Read MoreFreddieW has created an action short film using light painting to create the weapons and explosions. "Enough with the rainbows and flowers - it's time for guns and missles! This is the true power of light painting: every weapon at your fingertips." Watch the short film now after the jump, followed by a behind the…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Blu-ray available as single-disc and 3-Disc Combo Pack: Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) I'd call Alice in Wonderland…
Read MoreAnyone who has been to Los Angeles knows that we have traffic problems. There are lots and lots of cars driving around this big city. San Diego State University’s film graduate Ross Ching decided to make a short film showing Los Angeles minus the cars. I live in Los Angeles. I drive in Los Angeles.…
Read MoreThings change fast. A year ago, the young distributor Apparition looked like one of the most promising new kids on the block. It came out of the gate with a varied, ambitious lineup of interesting films, anchored by Terrence Malick's forthcoming Tree of Life. But in a tough market only a few had commercial potential.…
Read MoreIt's been a tumultuous week for Scream 4, which recently began shooting. A few images and behind the scenes videos hit the internet -- not earthshaking stuff, but probably not a good thing for a film that has tried very hard to remain mysterious. And Lake Bell and Lauren Graham both dropped out. (Though Graham's…
Read MoreLast year, Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted) produced Black Lightning in Russia. The movie was directed by Alexander Voytinskiy and Dmitriy Kiselev, the latter of whom edited Night Watch and Day Watch and pulled second-unit directorial duty on Wanted. The original Black Lightning looked like a slick, commercial adventure about a student whose fortunes turn…
Read MoreSomehow this hasn't already happened, and it probably goes without saying that the idea is fairly perfect: Meryl Streep is in talks to play Margaret Thatcher, in a film from her Mamma Mia! director Phyllida Lloyd. THR says that Thatcher would cast Streep as the British Prime Minister in a story set in 1982 as…
Read MoreSince Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman started to work his way back to the spotlight, he's been talking about making two movies. One would be for adults, and one for kids. And now there's word that one of these two films is being developed for Universal by Judd Apatow, with Reubens and Paul Rust writing.…
Read MoreWe haven't talked much about the film LOL, a remake of a French comedy, because it is a Miley Cyrus picture. Not really what most of our audience is clamoring to learn about. But on this Eclipse eve, why not report that Twilight co-star Ashley Greene is joining the cast along with everyone's favorite sorta-tough…
Read MoreLast week we reported that Lake Bell left the cast of Wes Craven's Scream 4 due to supossed "scheduling conflicts". Now Ghoulsonfilmis (found via: arrow) reporting that Lauren Graham is also leaving the project due to "date conflict and script changes." Graham was going to play Kate, the mother of Emma Roberts' character Jill Kessler.…
Read MoreScreen Gems has released the first high resolution production photo of Christina Aguilera in her live-action big screen film debut Burlesque. USA Today is calling the photo a "first look" but there have been other low res photos and set videos online in the past. Check out eight photos from the movie after the jump.…
Read MoreIt's been a while since our last movie poster round-up, and a lot of one-sheets have hit the local multiplex and are now online. After the jump you will see posters for the following films: Academy Award-nominated documentary director Nanette Burstein's fictional feature debut Going the Distance, Get Low starring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray,…
Read MoreAs more and more comic book properties are snapped up by production companies, it makes sense that actors are starting to get in on the creation of comics on the ground floor, the better to develop properties in which they might eventually star. The latest actor to get into the comics biz is Sam Worthington.…
Read MoreMuggleNet noticed something suspicious about a shot from the latest trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The shot features Hermione has her wand in hand. While the shot of Emma Watson's blood covered hands was included on the Half-Blood Prince DVD, Warner Bros has cleaned up the clip for the theatrical trailer. This…
Read MoreHas Josh Hutcherson been cast in Sony's upcoming Spider-Man, to be directed in 3D by Marc Webb? This headline may seem familiar, as it is the same headline we ran in early April when the rumor was first reported by IESB. In late May, a short list of actors in line for the role leaked…
Read MoreThis week King Kong returns to Universal Studios Hollywood in the form of a state of the art 3D attraction as part of the studio tram tour. As you may recall, a couple years back a fire burnt down the old animatronic Kong attraction and a big section of the backlot. Universal worked with Peter…
Read MoreDreamWorks Animation's How To Train Your Dragon opened to a lackluster $43 million in its opening weekend, leading many to call the movie a financial failure. Great reviews (like the ones on /Film) and incredible word of mouth led to a larger and longer than expected run at the box office. The movie has now…
Read MoreSo, reportedly the Mafia Wars rumor that cropped up yesterday isn't true, so we can breathe a sigh of relief that we may never see a film based on that particular bit of gangster fiction. But there are a million stories in the naked city, and Warner Bros. is said to be pulling a few…
Read MoreShock has learned that the M. Night Shyamalan-produced supernatural thriller The Night Chronicles: Devil will hit theaters on September 17th 2010, up from the announced February 11th 2011 date. Also, Fox Searchlight has moved Mark Romanek's big screen adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go from October 1st 2010 to September 15th 2010…
Read MoreDavid Fincher is developing his adaptation of the Stieg Larsson novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and has been talking to Daniel Craig for the lead male role. That's spot-on casting, but there's another big puzzle piece: Fincher still has to find an actress to play the data-gathering expert Lisbeth Salander. He's reportedly looking…
Read MoreThe Onion News Network has a report on an Al-Qaeda attack on the nation's capital which was called off to reportedly spare the life of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. Watch the video from this late breaking news report, embedded after the jump.
Read MoreThe above tweet was filed by Damon Lindelof on Tuesday. Returning from his well deserved post-Lost vacation, Lindelof is ready to get to work full time on scripting the Star Trek sequel with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. We are now exactly two years away from the announced release date of June 29th, 2012. The…
Read MoreWriter/director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim, Hot Fuzz) talked briefly with Box Office Magazine about his big screen adaptation of Marvel's Ant-Man which has been long in development. Wright says he hasn't yet started writing a second draft of the script, and won't be able to until September. He also talks about…
Read MoreThe first teaser trailer for Paranormal Activity 2, which is attached to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, is now online and embedded after the jump. The trailer begins where the last film ended (so if you haven't seen the first movie, prepare to be spoiled). While I admired the low budget minimalistic effort of the original,…
Read MoreIn one of the worst title changes of the last few years, Warner Bros has apparently decided to change the title of the fifth Final Destination movie from Final Destination 5 to 5nal Destination. What do you think? I guess it isn't quite as bas as the Fast and the Furious sequel title 2 Fast…
Read MoreRJ Torbert of Funworld, the manufacturer of the Ghostface halloween mask which has become infamous due to the Scream movie trilogy has been leaking information about the latest sequel on... twitter (where else, really?) Here is what RJ wrote on twitter: I expect there to be 2 diff masks, however I will say this, things…
Read MoreIn April, it was reported that The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a remake project that has been kicking around the studios for over a decade, had new forward momentum. 20th Century Fox had hired a new screenwriter: The Pursuit of Happyness scribe Steven Conrad. Now Risky Business is reporting that Pirates of the Caribbean…
Read MoreEarlier this month, Walt Disney Pictures announced their plans to invade Comic-Con this year with a huge push for the upcoming 3D sequel Tron Legacy. Banners have begun to appear around San Diego, promoting the upcoming comic convention and Disney's Tron (including a shot of Jeff Bridges with a light disc). Check out all the…
Read MoreThe history of Rise of the Apes, the Planet of the Apes prequel to be directed by The Escapist's Rupert Wyatt, goes back a few years. It was set in motion at Fox by Scott Frank, who developed a script called Caesar, which was intended as "a hard science fiction film about humans that use…
Read MoreHulu, the free web portal that offers ad-supported content from News Corp., NBC Universal and Disney to viewers in the US, has been planning for months to launch a paid subscription version of the service. A preview of the new paid iteration, called Hulu Plus, is being rolled out today. The LA Times reports that…
Read MoreWe've known for a while that Martin Scorsese was about to commence principal photography on his adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which will be shot as his first 3D film. The primary cast has also been known for a while: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz. Usually I wouldn't post…
Read MoreSplitReason is selling a fun Empire Strikes Back-parody t-shirt called "Home Sweet Taun Taun". This beautiful winter get-a-way may smell bad, but it will keep you warm. It comes pre-furnished, includes HD cable service, and is only a 4 hour walk from the nearest rebel base camp. 100% cotton (doesn't feel like cardboard), printed on…
Read MoreTerry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has undergone quite a few changes. Since Gilliam first attempted to shoot the film in 2000 with Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort, the project has been put on hold, recast (with Ewan McGregor and Robert Duvall) and undergone at least one rewrite. We'd previously heard that the…
Read MoreA couple weeks back, Paramount Pictures released a teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski's computer animated feature film Rango.Well actually, the teaser trailer wasn't really a trailer at all -- it was actually a video announcement piece for the website - RangoMovie.com. The website featured the same open road location seen…
Read MoreUpdate: Risky Business contacted Radar exec Mike Weber who claims this rumor is not true but jokes "it's starting to sound like a good idea for a movie." Briefly: I haven't played the Facebook game Mafia Wars, so I can't offer any insight into how it might become a movie. (I've hidden all Mafia Wars…
Read MoreThe big studio moviemaking cliche is that for any fairly obvious idea there's always some serious competition. So there are multiple versions of The Three Musketeers in development, a bunch of Wizard of Oz-related projects jockeying for position, and plenty more. And I bet you didn't know that the remake / new version of Conan…
Read MoreA Bigger Boat and Anchor Bay Entertainment have released the first five minutes of The Disappearance of Alice Creed online. The movie is about the kidnapping and ransom of a daughter of a rich businessman. The hostage Alice Creed is played by Gemma Arterton, best known from playing the princess in Prince of Persia: Sands…
Read MoreSheldon Turner became the original impetus for Jason Reitman's film Up in the Air when he wrote the original spec script based on Walter Kirn's novel, and he's got his own directorial debut set to film in the coming months. The revenge drama By Virtue Fall will be based on his own original screenplay, and…
Read MoreLatinoReview is reporting a rumor that Caleb Landry Jones (Friday Night Lights, The Longshots, The Last Exorcism) is Matthew Vaughn's top choice to play Sean Cassidy aka Banshee in X-Men: First Class. Banshee is an Irish mutant named after a legendary ghost from Irish mythology, said to possess a powerful cry. According to wikipedia, he…
Read MoreGrand speculation time: The Pixar Blog has put together some tweeted info and discussions with undisclosed sources to come up with the theory that Bono and perhaps The Edge are writing a song or music of some sort for Brave, the in development Pixar film that was formerly titled The Bear and the Bow. The…
Read MoreProduction has begun on Wes Craven's Scream 4, and the first videos and photos have begun to appear online, including a look at Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott, now a decade older and with short hair. Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell has posted a photo from the set of Neve Campbell as an older, short-haired Sidney…
Read MoreBriefly: When Disney shuttered Miramax last year, one of the handful of films left in limbo was Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, a remake of the 1973 TV movie of the same name. The remake was written and produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by newcomer Troy Nixey. It's a good sign that…
Read MoreDo I now need to be attentive to developments in Warner Bros.' Lego movie? We knew the studio was attempting to put together a film based, somehow, on the colorful building blocks that have been a part of so many childhoods. Now the studio has not one, but two directors on the project: Phil Lord…
Read More"It's a world where everybody fights!" Wu-Tang Clan producer, occasional film composer and once-in-a-while actor RZA has spent years working on his kung-fu movie debut, Wu-Tang Vs. The Golden Phoenix. The Shaw Brothers and other kung-fu influences that have flavored his music since the debut of the Wu-Tang Clan have been poured into this film,…
Read MorePersonally, I never really thought the Smurfs comparison/knock of Avatar was all that clever or funny (even when done by the South Park guys). But Louise Mundo's new Threadless tee "Little Warrior" is kind of funny, and a cool illustration. The t-shirt premiered today, and is selling out rather quick. Only $18 plus shipping, so…
Read MoreWarner Bros has released a new movie trailer for the first part of the final installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I'm at an airport with crappy wifi, and am unable to watch it myself. But you can watch it now, embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts…
Read MoreJapanese director Takashi Yamazaki (Returner, the Always films) has been working for a while on Space Battleship Yamato, aka the live-action remake of the anime that was released as Star Blazers in the US. We saw a teaser trailer in January that suggested a great deal about how the film would look, even as it…
Read MoreIn 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 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: Jake…
Read MoreThe news that Peter Jackson is negotiating to direct the two halves of The Hobbit hit the internet Friday afternoon, not quite as a bomb, because many had expected it, but with resounding effect nonetheless. Still, it seemed a strange thing, given that the problems that forced Guillermo del Toro to leave the film --…
Read MoreIn celebration of the season premiere of Entourage season 7 this week, comedian/actor Paul Scheer released a FunnyOfDie short about his nonexistent "Terrible One Man Stage Show of Entourage." If Scheer actually wrote and performed a one-man Entourage show at the Upright Citizen's Brigade, I would actually buy a ticket. Watch it now, embedded after…
Read MoreWe've seen one very brief teaser trailer for Rango, the CGI animated film from Gore Verbinski that features Johnny Depp as the voice of the main character. That teaser was just an animated fish swimming across the frame, against a desert highway background. So, not much to go on there. A new teaser or trailer…
Read MoreBriefly: Alice Eve, the lead actress from She's Out of My League, is in talks with Fox to play Emma Frost in Matthew Vaughn's upcoming X-Men: First Class, reports Deadline. Not long ago, very tenuous rumor had suggested the role might go to Rosamund Pike, but Pike has also been linked to the role of…
Read MoreWe haven't really heard or seen much from Scott Stewart's Priest since the set visit video that aired during the Canadian version of Entertainment Tonight in March (watch it here). Over the weekend, the first production photo featuring Paul Bettany was released online (discovered by BloodyDisgusting). See the full image after the jump. Official Plot…
Read MoreThe idea that Marvel Studios would set up a TV division makes perfect sense, and the company has followed through today, announcing the establishment of a small-screen endeavor called Marvel Television. Sadly, there's a chance we can expect the Marvel TV projects to look a lot like Heroes, as Marvel has set that show's exec…
Read MoreSpike Lee's last dramatic feature was two years ago (Miracle at St. Anna) and in the meantime he's worked on documentaries like Kobe Doin' Work and the follow-up to When the Levees Broke. But he's been circling a few possible new dramatic features, and now seems to have settled on one option: the terrorist action…
Read MoreParamount Pictures has released two new video clips from M Night Shyamalan's big screen adaptation of The Last Airbender. Last week we posted a 41 second clip shows Sokka's (Jackson Rathbone) reaction to the ships of the Fire Nation approaching (click here to watch it). The first 22-second clip shows Aang battling Fire Nation soldiers…
Read MoreAs you know, the new trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was attached to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and won't be online until later today (Monday, June 28th 2010) at 4:00 pm PST. A few sneak peek photos have leaked online to tease the new trailer, check them out after the jump. Thanks…
Read MoreWe've had little bits of news about George Miller's fourth film in the Max storyline, Mad Max: Fury Road, but until now nothing terribly significant. The casting of Tom Hardy in the lead role was a great step in the right direction, and now the actor is starting to talk about the film, which shoots…
Read MoreAmsterdam's Cinema Expo is the international version of ShoWest. It is where exhibitors and movie theater people gather to check out the latest wares and see some footage from the upcoming projects Hollywood wants them to book and promote in their theaters. Last year, Cinema Expo was the first public premiere of footage from James…
Read MoreAfter many years of waiting (and one convincing headfake back in January), Universal has finally confirmed in a press release that the Back to the Future Trilogy will be released on Blu-Ray on October 26, 2010. It will be sold as the "25th Anniversary Trilogy" and will also be available on DVD. Details about the…
Read MoreA month ago we posted Iron Baby, a cute little video clip that did more or less exactly what the title promised by casting a baby as Iron Man. OK, not really my thing, but some people got a kick out of it. But I've got a much greater weakness for dogs, and especially machines…
Read MoreWe've been following the developing cast of Horrible Bosses fairly closely. The film, in which three friends make plans to bump off each others' three awful bosses, could be a great little comedy if things work well. The last big role to cast has been the third of the title's horrible bosses, and now an…
Read MoreIn March, a story came out of Deadline that a stop-motion animated Addams Family film is being developed with Tim Burton as likely director. Burton's reps quickly issued a denial, saying that he "has not lined up any of his upcoming projects." When Brendon reported on the story and the denial, he surmised that Deadline's…
Read MoreThis is a pretty small update to the story about the casting of Sony's upcoming Spider-Man, to be directed in 3D by Marc Webb. We've had one major leaked actor shortlist, which was later augmented with a couple more names. And despite rumors that Sony liked any given actor over the others, the casting process…
Read MoreEver since Guillermo del Toro walked away from The Hobbit (which is now going to be directed by Peter Jackson) the question has been: what will he direct next? The man has no shortage of projects to choose from, having announced or been attached to a load of options over the past couple years. He…
Read MoreKnight and Day is what you get when you throw together two aging stars trying to be cool, $100+ million (most of which was spent on mediocre CGI), a script written by a guy whose most recent claim to fame was his role as an extra in Senseless (the 1998 David Spade trainwreck) and stir…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released a clip of the Fantasia-inspired scene featuring Jay Baruchel and Teresa Palmer from Jon Turteltaub's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Official Synopsis: THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE WALT DISNEY PICTURES and JERRY BRUCKHEIMER FILMS Website and Mobile site: Disney.com/Sorcerer Become a fan on Facebook: facebook.com/SorcerersApprentice Follow us…
Read MoreElias Koteas has never been one of the more high-profile character actors out there, but he's always one of my favorites. (Not because of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where he played Casey Jones, but for films like Crash and The Adjuster.) Directors like David Fincher and Martin Scorsese have started using Koteas, which has…
Read MoreLast week it was reported that Leonardo DiCaprio had signed on to star in a biopic of original FBI director J. Edgar Hoover directed by Clint Eastwood. Today at the press conference for Inception, DiCaprio was asked about the potential upcoming project, and the star confirmed that he is in talks for the role: "Yeah,…
Read MoreColumbia Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for director David Fincher's adaptation of The Social Network. The teaser doesn't really reveal much, and mostly consists of sound bites over on screen text. Watch it now, after the jump. The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield and Joe Mazzello. Columbia Pictures has given…
Read MoreUniversal Studios Hollywood have released the second part of their Making of Peter Jackson's King Kong 360 3-D behind the scenes documentar. The attraction opens next week at the California-based studio/theme park. The four minute video gives "an insider view into the storyline of "King Kong 360 3-D", backstory of the Kong character and designing…
Read MoreTrailers 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…
Read MoreWe have a couple updates on previously reported casting news today. It looks like Lake Bell won't be in Wes Craven's Scream 4, and Teresa Palmer is now claiming that she was never cast in Mad Max 4: Fury Road. Full details on both departures, after the jump. Actress Lake Bell has revealed on Twitter…
Read MoreThis doesn't quite top yesterday's WTF, the Sir Billi sizzle reel with an animated Sean Connery, but it comes pretty close. Little Obama is a film loosely (very loosely) based on the part of President Barack Obama's childhood spent in Indonesia. And it comes complete with sequences in which he's bullied by local kids, then…
Read MoreLA Times reveals that not only has Paramount Pictures spent $150 million for the production budget of M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, but they also invested over $130 million on the film's marketing campaign. The article claims that The Last Airbender is "more than twice as expensive as any of Shyamalan's previous eight films."…
Read MoreBriefly: Here you go, fans: be happy. THR is reporting that Peter Jackson is negotiating a deal to direct the two halves of The Hobbit himself. He's talking to Warner Bros., MGM and New Line right now, and Deadline says that he's been busy extracting himself from other obligations. What does that do to Tintin?…
Read MoreShock Till You Drop has learned that the first teaser trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 will be attached to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which hits theaters next week -- on Wednesday, June 30th 2010. Tod 'Kip' Williams (The Door in the Floor) is directing the movie, and shooting began recently. The script is by Michael…
Read MoreCouple weeks ago, the big news was that Sam Raimi had not only been offered the director's chair on Disney's Wizard of Oz prequel Oz, the Great and Powerful, but that he'd taken the job. And while the idea of Raimi directing a big-budget 3D Oz film for Disney doesn't seem like the greatest move…
Read MoreEarlier this month, it was also reported that Matthew Vaughn wanted Michael Fassbender of Inglourious Basterds and Hunger for the role of Magneto in X-Men: First Class. At the time it was sais that the actor was also being pursued to play the bad guy in Sony's Spider-Man reboot, but the actor can only do…
Read MoreJonny Lee Miller has joined the cast of the fifth season of Showtime's Dexter. 37-year-old Miller has had roles in Smith, Eli Stone and the tv mini-series Emma. You might remember him as Dade Murphy/'Crash Override'/'Zero Cool' in the 1995 film Hackers, Sick Bot in Trainspotting, and Simon Sheppard in Dracula 2000. Variety reports that…
Read MoreTeeFury's t-shirt of the day is a parody the Joker from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. Titled "Why So Serious", the design features a Panda eating a watermellon. The t-shirt is only $9 (plus $2 shipping in the US) but it is only available TODAY and TODAY ONLY. So buy it by midnight tonight (Friday,…
Read MoreParamount Pictures has released a new video clip from M Night Shyamalan's big screen adaptation of The Last Airbender. The 41 second clip shows Sokka's (Jackson Rathbone) reaction to the ships of the Fire Nation approaching. Watch the clip right now after the jump.
Read MoreCharles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd hasn't been portrayed in as many movies as some of the most famous real-life gangsters -- he's no Capone -- but he's certainly had his share of turns on the screen. Channing Tatum played him in Public Enemies; Martin Sheen played him on TV; Steve Kanaly played him in Dillinger.…
Read MoreThere's a new matrimonial drama brewing at Mandate Pictures -- Great Hope Springs is based on a script by Vanessa Taylor, and it's the sort of film that, from a distance, might not seem too interesting. But with Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges finalizing deals to star and Mike Nichols looking to direct, this might…
Read MoreEarlier this week, it was reported that M. Night Shyamalan is shopping his next screenplay around Hollywood, trying to find someone to produce his next directorial effort. At the time we knew very little about the project, as that's the way Shyamalan likes it. Apparently only a few studio execs have read the script, and…
Read MoreNot much to say here -- Little Fockers is the third film in the unlikely series spawned by Meet the Parents. The upside is that, based on this trailer, the movie seems to be slightly less about the children of Ben Stiller's character than you might guess. The downside is that, based on this trailer,…
Read MoreEvery once in a while we hear about Sylvester Stallone working on a pretty serious project that goes beyond a Rambo sequel (the last one was plenty serious!) or an idea like The Expendables. With the lingering Oscar shadow of Rocky and the pleasure of Copland I get interested. Last time Serious Sly started talking…
Read MoreSuddenly, space sells. Two stories today have it that Fox is launching back into the outer reaches of space, thanks to the success of Avatar. In addition to developing the sequel to James Cameron's massively successful film, Fox 2000 is the lead contender to buy a spec called Ion, with Channing Tatum attached to star.…
Read MoreThis isn't a gag: Pierce Brosnan and his son Sean Brosnan are teaming up to co-star in a film called Bonded, which will see them in an "Oliver Twist-esque" thriller based on a story that took place in California in the early '90s. Mo Ramchandani directs and wrote the script about "a Mexican teenager called…
Read MoreDevelopment on a sequel to The Dark Crystal has been crawling along for several years. In May things kicked into gear, however, when The Henson Company announced that Undead and Daybreakers co-directors Peter and Michael Spierig would direct The Power of the Dark Crystal from a script by Craig Pearce (Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet).…
Read MoreLest you thought that Inception was going to change things overnight, or that studio execs really are going to start buying original ideas in droves, here comes news of a Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots movie to prove that this remains the summer of our cinematic discontent. Pajiba reports that Mattel and Mendeville Films are working with…
Read MoreI've been waiting for Fernando Meirelles to make a new film I can really love in the same way I loved City of God. The Constant Gardener had its high points, but Blindness was a serious disappointment in a lot of ways. So, especialy since the news comes in the midle of a dispirited summer…
Read MoreUniversal Studios Hollywood have released a five minute making of featurette for Peter Jackson's King Kong 360 3-D, which opens next week at the California-based studio/theme park. The video is actually part one of four, and we'll post the upcoming segments as they are released. This segment shows the history of the King Kong attraction,…
Read MoreDavid O. Russell's The Fighter finally has an official release date: December 10th 2010, just in time for award season. I'm sure the film will premiere at one of the September film festivals (Telluride, Toront, Venice). We also have some minor release date changes for DreamWorks Animation's sequel Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom…
Read MoreSir Sean Connery has been absent from movie screens since 2003's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Retiring on a high note can be difficult, but LXG is a more ignominious way to end a notable career than anyone would have predicted. So, to ensure that comic book misfire isn't the end point of his illustrious…
Read MoreLast week, Paramount Pictures released a teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski's computer animated feature film Rango.Well actually, the teaser trailer wasn't really a trailer at all -- it was actually a video announcement piece for the website - RangoMovie.com. The website featured the same open road location seen in the…
Read MoreI know that /Film isn't a gossip site, and we rarely report on lawsuits (especially more personal cases like this). But anyone who has seen the new documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work will probably be interested in this late breaking update. If you haven't yet seen this documentary, you should seek it out.…
Read MoreThis past month, we've seen quite a few photos from Frank Darabont's small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead. First we got a look at some of "the walkers" (aka zombies) in make-up, a first zombie production photo, another production photo showing Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes, as well as some awesome set photos. More…
Read MoreFilm Junk reminds us that a milestone has just been crossed: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has become the highest grossing video game movie adaptation of all-time. The film might be a bit of a finacial disappointment as far as Disney is concerned, but Jerry Bruckheimer does have bragging rights. The movie is…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the Fraggle Rock: The Complete Series Collection on DVD for only $37.49, 63% off the $99.98 suggested retail price. The deal will only be good until tonight (Thursday) at midnight. So act quick!
Read MoreOn the off chance that an appearance by Patton Oswalt isn't enough to get you pre-rolling for the third Harold & Kumar movie, now there is some confirmation that Neil Patrick Harris will appear in A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, making him three for three in the series. We've already had reports that he…
Read MoreIn February, ComingSoon reported that the Walt Disney Company revealed during their first quarter earnings call yesterday that Pixar's Cars 2 has been pushed back to a December 2011 release. Disney quickly contacted us claiming that no release date change announcement was made. At the time we just assumed it was a screw up in…
Read MoreI would never have guessed that the director of Flightplan and The Time Traveler's Wife might turn out the most entertaining-looking under the radar comic book adaptation of this summer. But I grinned all the way through the trailer for Robert Schwentke's Red, which adapts Warren Ellis' graphic novel about a group of retired CIA…
Read MoreParamount Pictures has released the final press kit for M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender and the final 29 high resolution production photos (which includes a bunch of new unseen images). Find them now after the jump, along with the production notes from the film. .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top:…
Read MoreEven if this wasn't one of the most listless summers in recent memory, we'd be pretty well-primed for the arrival of Christopher Nolan's Inception. Given that the studio summer slate has been so utterly dull, Inception is something I know a lot of people are desperate for: a smart, imaginative thriller with a big-budget visuals,…
Read MoreOver a year ago M. Night Shyamalan put together a deal with Media Rights Captial to create a label called The Night Chronicles. The first of three films for the label, Devil, is in post-production now. So it's time to move forward on the second, to be called Twelve Strangers. We don't know much about…
Read MoreNakatomi has a new Back to the Future-inspired art print titled "DMC-12". Designed by the artist Anville, this 6 color hand-pulled silkscreen features metallic and fluorescent inks and measures 18x24. It was previously only available to the members on the Nakatomi mailing list, but the few remaining copies are now available to the public. This…
Read MoreIn April we learned that Breck Eisner, director of The Crazies, had signed on to direct the remake of Escape from New York, set up with producer Neal H. Moritz's Original Films. The report claimed that Eisner would be developing based on Allan Loeb's draft, which sounded horrible. Earlier this year we learned a bit…
Read MoreI had heard rumblings a few weeks ago, and now Variety confirms what I've heard -- Matt Damon is in talks to star in director Cameron Crowe's (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) adaptation of Benjamin Mee's bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Damon would play Benjamin Mee, a widowed father who buys a dilapidated zoo in…
Read MoreWarner Bros has informed us that while the new movie trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be attached to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse on June 30th, the trailer will be made available online Monday, June 28th around 4:00pm PST. So you won't have to subject yourself to the Twilight sequel to see…
Read MoreWe're in speculation-ville here, so don't take this all too seriously yet. The short answer to the headline's question: probably not in a huge way. Mission: Impossible is an established franchise with an audience base and an appeal that goes beyond Tom Cruise, so even if Cruise's action comedy Knight and Day doesn't find an…
Read MoreWho will play Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes 2? How about two-time Academy Award winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis? SHH is reporting a rumor that Guy Ritchie is hoping to get Day-Lewis to play Moriarty in the Sherlock sequel. For now lets consider this nothing more than an unconfirmed rumor. Last year, it was rumored that Brad…
Read MoreIMAX and Walt Disney Pictures announced today that the Robert Zemeckis-produced Mars Needs Moms starring Seth Green and Joan Cusack, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Pixar's Cars 2, will all be released in IMAX 3D (in addition to the traditional 2D and 3D releases). Mars Needs Moms is not much of a…
Read MoreSeems that World War I is the new World War II, at least as far as movies are concerned. After years of movies and TV that exploited the backdrop of WWII (some to very good effect) we're now starting to see a few high-profile films that go back to the more gruesome trench warfare of…
Read MoreThis is the trailer Fox should have released in the first place. We've seen one domestic trailer for Nimrod Antal's Predators, produced by Robert Rodriguez based on his story treatment, and a load of clips and photos. But none of the materials have shown the movie a lot of people hope this will be. This…
Read MoreLast year, Genki Wear released two Star Trek branded cologne fragrances for men: "Red Shirt" (the tagline on the box reads "Because tomorrow may never come") and... "Tiberius" (in reference to James T. Kirk's middle name, tagline reads "Boldly Go"). Last month it was announced that Genki would be adding a third fragrance to their…
Read MoreOK, first up, no great surprise that when Neill Blomkamp's representatives finally spoke up about the rumor that he would direct The Hobbit, their response was, "uh, no." At the end of last week a report from The One Ring, firmly characterized even there as rumor, suggested that Blomkamp was the choice to direct The…
Read MoreHundreds of Twilight fans began lining up Monday outside the Nokia Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, as the premiere of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is set to take place on Thursday night. By Tuesday, the area outside of Nokia Plaza had been turned into a tent city by the 500 fans camping out, each hoping…
Read MoreIt's taken a while for Warner Bros. to get a plan together with respect to the live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's six-volume manga Akira, which Otomo previously directed as anime. That 1988 version became a landmark effort in anime, setting a bar for the remake that many fans consider impossibly high. But the anime, massively…
Read MoreWhen it was first announced that Scream 4 would be the first part of a new trilogy written by screenwriter Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven, some wondered what connection it would have to the original three films. It was soon after announced that Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette had committed to…
Read MoreWill Wild Thing return to the plate for another at-bat? Last year, Bob Uecker revealed that he's been contacted from the creative team behind the first three Major League films, and that they are developing a Major League 4. I noted at the time that I wouldn't expect Charlie Sheen to reprise the role of…
Read MoreThe Academy Awards have usually taken place sometime between the last weekend of February and the last week of March. Deadline is reporting that the possibility of moving up the 2011 Oscar Ceremony to sometime in January was discussed at Tuesday night's Board of Governors meeting of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.…
Read MoreFour-time Academy award nominated writer/director/producer Jason Reitman and his Right of Way Films production banner have optioned movie rights to Saturday Night Live writer Simon Rich's novel Elliot Allagash. Rich will adapt his book for the screen, and while Reitman intends to produce the adaptation, THR is unsure if he will direct it or not.…
Read MoreJohn Lithgow has signed on to join in 20th Century Fox's Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. Lithgow joins James Franco (Spider-Man/Milk) who is set to play the lead, "a young, driven scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes." Lithgow will play Franco's Alzheimer's-stricken father. and…
Read MoreBefore you get too excited, let me first warn you that I'm not talking about the horror film Troll, or its infamous best worst movie sequel Troll 2. Also, when I say DreamWorks, I'm not talking about the Steven Spielberg-produced live action division... This weekend Toy Story 3 took in over $110 million at the…
Read MoreThough he's making a comeback to live-action film with The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (already released in some European countries) Luc Besson has been known in the last decade more for writing and producing than directing. Most of his directorial work has been in animation (the Arthur films) and his last live-action film to…
Read MoreRuben Fleischer got his start in commercials and music videos, but his feature film debut Zombieland made Hollywood pay attention to the filmmaker. Columbia Pictures is trying to keep him in the fold, announcing today that Fleischer will develop and direct Babe in the Woods, a screenplay written by Mike White. The story is described…
Read MoreUpdate: Warner Bros has since contacted Tim clarifying that Nolan doesn't own/use this golf cart. It was apparently created by a Batman superfan who works on the lot. Original story follows: Christopher Nolan has been working hard to lock a final cut of his latest movie Inception. /Film reader Tim G spotted Nolan's custom Tumbler-styled…
Read MoreFox is trying to figure out a strategy to put to work adapting Richard and Florence Atwater's WWII-era childrens' book Mr. Popper's Penguins. Earlier this year it looked for a moment like Noah Baumbach and Ben Stiller might reunite post-Greenberg to make the film. But that didn't work out and Fox has continued to look…
Read MoreNo one seems to be able to get a movie based on a Jonathan Lethem novel off the ground. The latest attempt may come from David Cronenberg, however, and he's got a pretty damn good track record when it comes to getting difficult material from the page to screen. (Think Dead Ringers, Crash, and Naked…
Read MoreShane Carruth's Primer is one of the movies that completely blew my mind. It was my first time at the Sundance Film Festival, and I was working as a volunteer. I had heard about this film which was made for next to nothing ($7,000) which had something to do with time travel (one of my…
Read Morepolaroidgirl spotted a prius in Los Angeles with a vanity license plate on a Prius that reads "IMDB ME". Only in LA... via: LAist
Read MoreWarner Bros has released a new featurette for Christopher Nolan's Inception, giving us a better look at the characters who inhabit the story. The two minute featurette plays less like a behind the scenes interview piece (in fact, there ate no interviews at all), and more like a character-centric movie trailer. Screw it, I'm just…
Read MoreLionsgate has released an international movie trailer for the upcoming 3D computer animated movie Alpha & Omega. Directed by Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck, the family adventure comedy tells the story of two mismatched young wolves are thrown together by circumstance. The voice cast includes Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci, Dennis Hopper, Danny Glover,…
Read MoreDisney is a studio that knows how to mine its back catalog; no other company has been as adept at re-releasing films to an eager audience. Looks like the latest to be mined will be The Lion King, which the studio is working to convert to 3D. Along with news on that, we've got updates…
Read MoreIt's been a few days since our last Movie Poster Round-up, and the one-sheets have been building up on my computer desktop. After the jump you can find new posters from films such as: Rob Reiner's Flipped, four character posters for the 3D animated film Alpha & Omega, Conviction, a high resolution copy of the…
Read MoreOur long national nightmare is over! The Footloose remake finally has a cast. Now I can rest easy tonight. Mostly because no one I care too much about is in the movie, which Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow, Black Snake Moan) is still directing. OK, there's Dennis Quaid, playing John Lithgow's role, but he's been…
Read MoreMovie studios usually make deals with second-tier toy manufactures, resulting shitty movie tie-in toys. Look at the Iron Man action figures as an example of this -- the plan was clearly: produce them cheap, sell more. Who cares about quality anyways? After seeing Tron Legacy, every kid will probably want to buy a lightcycle toy…
Read MoreKristen Bell is in talks to join Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski in Ken Kwapis' (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, He's Just Not That Into You) big screen adaptation of Whales. Based on Tom Rose's nonfiction book "Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event" about three California Gray whales who…
Read MoreProduction began today in Michigan on the stoner-sequel A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, as screenwriter Jon Hurwitz announced on Twitter. Also on Twitter, star John Cho revealed that Patton Oswalt was on set "in my vicinity, holding a sketch pad, duct tape, and a reel to reel audio recorder. Eeesh." Oswalt tweeted in response:…
Read MoreAn 8-minute clip from the documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, takes a look at the unintentional "gayness" of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. Watch the clip now, embedded after the jump. Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy is now available on DVD. via: NYMag
Read MoreAs more and more graphic novels and comic books are adapted to the screen, studios are broadening the search for possible directors. It's not just proven talents in action, horror and fantasy, but established vets of just about any stripe. Earlier this year we heard that Samuel Bayer (A Nightmare on Elm Street) wanted to…
Read MoreAt this year's Sundance Film Festival, one of the most talked-about pictures was The Tillman Story. The film drew generally great reviews and was quickly the object of an acquisition bid by The Weinstein Company. Now there's a trailer that paints Amir Bar-Lev's documentary not just as a portrait of a huge, terrible lie, but…
Read MoreIn May, some set photos from Marcus Nispel's new Conan the Barbarian movie leaked online, giving us our first look at Jason Momoa (Stargate: Atlantis) in costume as the film's title character. Now Nu Boyana Film Studios has released the fist official production photo. Hit the jump to see the full thing. Based on Robert…
Read MoreSony Pictures has released the first movie trailer for Michel Gondry's big screen adaptation of The Green Hornet starring Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz and Michael Pena.. The comedy tone of the project might come as a surprise to most, and the big action shots seem unlike anything Gondry has ever produced.…
Read MoreIn October of 2008 Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige talked about the studio's desire to develop a film centered around Dr. Strange. He said, "I’d say in the next year, year and a half, as we start putting together our film slate for 2012 and 2013, I would not be shocked if we saw Dr.…
Read MoreGentle Giant is producing a series of Star Wars bookends, two of which have been announced and are available for preorder: the Trash Compactor scene from A New Hope and Jabba's Palace scene from Return of the Jedi. And a special Star Wars logo bookends is available exclusively from Borders. Hit the jump for more…
Read MoreWe just had a couple of official snapshots earlier today and the trailer debuts in a few hours, but right now there is one minute of footage from Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet available for streaming. We'll have the full trailer when it goes online, but in the meantime you can get a pretty good…
Read MoreJustJared.com has posted a few images from the set of Transformers 3. Michael Bay is shooting at Playa Vista in Los Angeles, for a scene which has Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox's replacement Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson and some military troops being chased by an evil Decepticon, who... (possible spoilers follow after the jump) ... tips…
Read MoreIn a world were Hollywood is searching through bins of action figures, toys and board games for ideas for the next big tent-pole movie franchise, it's easy to believe that a Pinkberry movie isn't out of the question. It's not about the story anymore, its all about the IP, merchandising and product tie-ins. The William…
Read MoreUpdate: As a few people have mentioned, Fright Night, which will be in 3D, also now has a release date: October 7, 2011. Amazing it has actually been given an October date. The cast of the Fright Night remake, directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl), has been shaping up quite nicely. The…
Read MoreIn 2008, we posted a fan-made design we believed was closest to what a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would look like in real life. Turns out we're wrong. A real life Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle would probably look something more like binome's Worth1000 entry for "Reality Cartoons 3".
Read MoreBriefly: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender opens soon, and advance of that opening he's apparently trying to set up financing for a new script that he's penned. Details are thin right now, but he reportedly has some notable talent attached: his The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable star Bruce Willis, plus Gwyneth Paltrow and Bradley…
Read MoreLast week we posted a new trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife which premiered on G4TV's Attack of the Show. The trailer was quickly pulled off of YouTube, but is now online in High Definition. If you missed it previously or would like to see it in higher res, hit the jump. Please leave your thoughts…
Read MoreMike from Red Letter Media (AKA the guy who put together the epic, 70-minute review of The Phantom Menace and the 90-minute review of Attack of the Clones) has moved on past sci-fi and is now doing shorter video reviews. The newest is a twenty five minute dissection of the Patrick Read Johnson's 1994 film…
Read MoreCarter Beats the Devil is one of those novels that made a big splash, was quickly optioned and then dropped right into development hell. But now it is getting a second chance at Warner Bros., with Michael Gilio set to script. (He wrote the draft of Treasure Island for WB that Paul Greengrass is reportedly…
Read MoreUniversal Studios has released video footage from last week's grand opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Watch it now embedded after the jump. I've also included a few other well-produced unofficial fan-made videos from the opening, giving you a tour of the Orlando-based Hogwarts. And here are some unofficial fan videos:
Read MoreWe've seen quite a few behind the scenes and on-set photos from Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen as the title character and Jay Chou as his sidekick Kato. Now Sony has released the first two official photos, in advance of the trailer that will premiere tonight. These images are much like the…
Read MoreJon Turteltaub's The Sorcerer's Apprentice is inspired by the sequence in the Walt Disney Animated film Fantasia. While the film takes the 8 minute scene of classic animation and expands on the idea greatly, the movie does feature a sequence inspired by the original animated Mickey Mouse segment. Disney has released a new featurette that…
Read MoreCrazy film theories don't have to be the hidden intention of the creator and might just be an alternative interpretation of the events.
Read MoreThe fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film, On Stranger Tides, began production last week in Hawaii. Disney has sent out a press release to commemorate the occasion, and while normally this sort of thing is just a lot of hot air, in this case there is some useful information contained therein, at least if you're…
Read MoreGot a few thousand bucks to spare? Then you might be able to get in on the bidding for the charity auction in which producer Bryan Singer is auctioning off a chance to visit the UK set of X-Men: First Class. If you don't have any money to spare, you might still want to check…
Read MoreMichael Shannon (The Runaways, Jonah Hex) and Jamie Chung are in talks to join Joseph Gordon-Levitt in David Koepp's on-the-run chase thriller Premium Rush. The story follows a 20-something-year-old bike messenger who somehow gets involved in a chase across New York City. And we're not just talking about a little chase but big budget William…
Read MoreAmazon 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. Also, Amazon has a couple dozen Blu-Ray movies on sale for just $10 each: 2001: A Space Odyssey Basic Instinct (Unrated Director's Cut)…
Read MoreIn April, I recorded a video blog with Steve from Collider in which we discussed the future of Marvel feature films. In the video, Steve pitched the concept of a live-action television series called Marvel Heroes where the comic turned movie studio could introduce third tier comic book superheros to mainstream audiences. The idea being…
Read MoreCriss Cross Media decided to recreate the opening of the original Toy Story film in live-action using real toys. Andy is playing with Woody and his toys...Will Woody save Bo Peep from the evil One-Eyed Bart? Watch the clip embedded after the jump.
Read MoreIt’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…the Boosh! "We were going to do [a tour of America]," Noel Fielding admitted to an enthused, sold-out crowd last…
Read MoreSteven Spielberg's JAWS was released in movie theaters thirty five years ago today, on June 20th 1975. At the time, movies were released slowly, in a few theaters in major cities. As word of mouth spread, distributors would expand the release to more and more markets. Jaws was the first film to have a "wide…
Read MoreThis article concludes /Film's recaps and discussions for the third season of Breaking Bad. A spoiler warning applies after the jump for the recap and for the comments section. Meth heads welcome. For previous recaps, click here. The season three finale, “Full Measures,” differed from those of previous seasons with a grisly cliffhanger that incidentally and tragically pushed…
Read MoreIn part because of the runaway success of Alice in Wonderland, a story like The Wizard of Oz is hot stuff in Hollywood right now. So there are loads of Oz-related projects in the works: Disney's Oz, the Great and Powerful, to be directed by Sam Raimi with Robert Downey, Jr. starring; the Polish Brothers'…
Read MoreSomeone at the Vatican is taking the Blues Brothers line "we're on a mission from God" a little too seriously. Over the years, Catholic authorities at the Vatican have endorsed a number of films as being recommended viewing for good Catholics. It's mostly the expected stuff: The Passion of the Christ, It's a Wonderful Life,…
Read MoreLots 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…
Read MoreAmazon is selling Toy Story 1 and 2 on Blu-ray for only $30 total when you purchase them together, a discount from the suggested retail price of $80. I'm not sure how long this deal will be good for, so head over to Amazon and scroll down to the "Best Value" section and click the…
Read MoreIt's hard for me to believe that the first Toy Story film was released way back in 1995, but it's really been 15 years since we were first introduced to the adventures of Andy and his toys, led by sheriff Woody and spaceman Buzz Lightyear. Today, Lee Unkrich's Toy Story 3 is out in theaters…
Read MoreColumbia Pictures has released the first movie poster for director David Fincher's adaptation of The Social Network. Check it out now, after the jump. The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield and Joe Mazzello. Columbia Pictures has given the film a rumored $47 million budget. Based on Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires:…
Read MorePixar loves to hide Easter eggs in their films, little references to movies and characters from the animation studio's past and future. two years ago we put together a compilation of WALL-E easter eggs, and last year we published a listing of easter eggs in Up, so we decided to do the same thing for…
Read MoreThere is now a second teaser trailer available for The American, directed by photographer Anton Corbijn (as a follow-up to his film Control) and starring George Clooney as a soon to be retired assassin hiding out in an Italian village. The first teaser, released in May, was a slow burn that made the film look…
Read MoreEarlier this week, comic book writer Geoff Johns (Green Lantern, The Flash) uploaded some screengrabs from test footage for a live-action Blue Beetle television series. Apparently DC/Warner Bros is searching for a television show to replace Smallville, and this is one of the possibilities. Johns said that he will show the full test at Comic-Con,…
Read MoreWhen the Rotten Tomatoes twitter account announced that Toy Story 3 still had a 100% fresh rating with over 130 reviews and counting, I got excited. I've seen the movie twice now, and it deserves all the praise it has and will recieve. The reason I got excited is that it had the chance to…
Read MoreBased on the successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, M Night Shyamalan's live-action feature film The Last Airbender tells the story of four nations tied by destiny - Air, Water, Earth, Fire. In the movie, the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. "A century has passed with no hope in sight to change…
Read MorePut this one down as a significant but believable rumor. Since Guillermo del Toro walked away from directing The Hobbit, there has been plenty of speculation about who might take his place. For obvious reasons, Peter Jackson's name keeps coming up, but there are a number of reasons that he is unlikely to do the…
Read MoreUpdate: As expected, the book sparked a bidding war between four Hollywood studios and Warner Bros. Pictures and De Line Pictures ended up winning the rights. Cline will write the screenplay adaptation of his novel, to be produced by Donald De Line (Green Lantern) and Dan Farah. [deadline] In one of the largest deals ever…
Read MoreTrailers 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…
Read MoreSony has released an international movie trailer for Ryan Murphy's adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir Eat Pray Love (in March they released a domestic trailer). Julia Roberts plays "a happily married woman realizes her life needs to go in a different direction, and after a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey." …
Read MoreAnthony Anderson and Marielle Jaffe have joined the ever-growing cast of Wes Craven's horror sequel Scream 4. The news was buried in a recent EW piece on Lauren Graham's casting. No word on what new characters they will play, but we have speculation after the jump. Anderson has played a cop on Law and Order…
Read More20th Century Fox believes releasing a movie trailer as a movie trailer is not enough, so they've taken it to the next level and have released the new Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight and Day trailer as a playable video game. Interesting concept, horrible execution. Click here to watch/play it now. Press release after…
Read MoreOne of the films opening the LA Film Festival, which started last night, is Hello Lonesome, a low-key indie romance and debut feature from Adam Reid. (He's the guy who directed the trailer for the book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, oddly enough.) The film follows three odd-couple pairings with what looks like an appropriate, if…
Read MoreA new Batman fan film is now online called "City of Scars". The 30-minute short tells the story of Batman, who is "pushed past his psychological limits to the point of focusing only on revenge on all who stand in his way." When the Joker escapes from Arkham and murders the parents of a young…
Read MoreWhen author J.D. Salinger died in January, there was immediate speculation that the movie rights to his landmark novel The Catcher in the Rye might finally be sold. Producers and stars have tried to make a movie for years, but after the resounding failure of the one film based on a Salinger story (My Foolish…
Read MoreThe film Margin Call, essentially sounding like a dramatization of our recent economic crisis, has come together very fast. We first heard about it at Cannes, when sophomore writer/director J.C. Chandor and his producers lined up Kevin Spacey and Zachary Quinto as part of the cast. (Quinto is one of the producers, so he lined…
Read MoreI love seeing Danny McBride break out as a legit talent -- The Foot Fist Way, Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express got him in front of audiences, but the HBO show Eastbound and Down really made his name. Now, as the second season of that show prepares to air, there's word that McBride will get…
Read MoreUniversal Pictures has released yet-another new movie trailer for Illumination Entertainment's computer animated feature Despicable Me (you can also see the previously released trailers here: one, two, three, and four). The movie will hit theaters in only a few weeks (July 9th) but with Toy Story 3 hitting theaters today, Universal is trying their best…
Read MoreToy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich revealed on MSN (and later confirmed on Twitter) that Toy Story 3 is not the last time we'll see Buzz and Woody -- and he's not talking about the costumed characters at the Disney theme parks. Don't worry Pixar fans, Disney is not pushing out another sequel -- Toy…
Read MoreParamount Pictures International has released the full length movie trailer for Stuart Beattie's directorial debut Tomorrow When The War Began. You might recognize Beattie's name as he is a big Hollywood screenwriter behind such films as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Collateral, Derailed, 30 Days of Night, Australia, and G.I.…
Read MoreWe have a look at the first two official production photos of Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary. In the film, Depp plays a doppelganger for the late Hunter S. Thompson for the second time (Terry Gilliam's classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas being the first). In Bruce Robinson's new film, Depp plays Paul…
Read MoreBack in the old days, people would sneak onto the side of a movie set and snap unwanted photos, and send them to a movie news website for us and other to post. Now it seems like all the set photos are coming from the filmmakers themselves. This morning we have new set photos from…
Read MoreOver the past few months, movie studios like Universal and Warner Bros. have decided that the best way to increase their DVD revenue is to establish exclusive 'sell-through' windows for new films. So we've seen Netflix agree to wait 28 days before sending new Warner Bros. films to subscribers, and Fox and Universal have filed…
Read MoreTrue Blood star Alexander Skarsgard has been cast in Peter Berg's water based epic action adaptation of the board game Battleship. According to HeatVision, Skarsgard will playthe brother of Alex Hopper, the Commanding Officer and lead in the film played by Taylor Kitsch. Skarsgard's character will be "a straight and narrow naval officer whom Kitsch,…
Read MoreThe Wrap is reporting that the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) is embroiled in a controversy over whether or not to list ages in its database. Several influential Hollywood guilds, led by the Writers Guild of America, West, are trying to get members the right to remove their birth dates from IMDB. IMDB, though, isn't too…
Read MoreShowbiz411 is reporting that Benjamin Walker (star of the Public Theater’s “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” has been cast as r. Henry Philip "Hank" McCoy (aka Beast) in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. The character was played by Kelsey Grammer in X-Men: The Last Stand. Also, Entertainment Weekly confirms the earlier rumors that Michael Fassbender is…
Read MoreAs if we didn't see this coming, Disney has announced that Tron Legacy will return to San Diego Comic Con International in 2010 for a panel and showfloor presence. Judging by last year, and WonderCon, I'm sure we'll also have some viral awesomeness as well. Head after the jump to read the full press release.…
Read MoreBack in March, a bunch of news came out about a biopic of founding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Milk's Dustin Lance Black wrote the script, and it was at Universal before the studio passed. The film ended up at Warner Bros. and Malpaso Productions, with Clint Eastwood set to direct. There was a rumor…
Read MoreBloody Disgusting is reporting that Don Cheadle (Iron Man) and Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) have been offered roles 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. If they sign on, they would join James…
Read MoreI'm considering buying a bar of Fight Club soap, just so that when friends/guests use the bathroom in /Film headquarters, they will see the pink bar sitting in the soap dish next to the sink. But if you're going to go with geek soap, why not go all the way and buy a bar of…
Read MoreAs you know by now, Disneyworld is planning to relaunch the Star Wars ride Star Tours with a new 3D version in 2011. We now know when Star Wars 2 will launch: May 10th 2011 in Walt Disneyland in Anaheim (current ride closes on September 8th 2010) May 17th 2011 in Walt Disneyworld in Orlando…
Read MoreOne of the films I really loved at this year's Sundance Film Festival was The Duplass Brothers' Cyrus, a comedy about "a recently divorced depressed guy who meets the woman of his dreams, who he learns lives with her 21 year old son." The film stars John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, and Catherine…
Read MoreGillmore Girls star Lauren Graham has been cast in the horror sequel Scream 4. The rumor was first reported on Ghouls on Film on Tuesday. The news was confirmed by Graham on Leno last night. Graham will be playing Kate, the mother of Emma Roberts' character Jill Kessler. Previously: The first part of a new…
Read MoreFox Searchlight has released the trailer for Tony Goldwyn's Conviction, the "inspirational true story" of Betty Anne Waters (played by Hilary Swank), "a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's unjust murder conviction."…
Read MoreIn conjunction with I Am 8-Bit, Universal Pictures is throwing an "epic" Scott Pilgrim vs. The World party tonight in Los Angeles during E3. Full details after the jump. A SUPER FUN PARTY, and you're invited! If you're not attending E3 and would still like to attend the party, we're not judging you, we like…
Read MoreI'm not sure why you would want to add all 49 Nicolas Cage movies available on DVD to your Netflix queue, but someone has created a website called CageFlix that allows you to do just that in one simple click. Cageflix is the internet's leading Nicolas-Cage-centric, batch queue management tool for Netflix. It adds all…
Read MoreOK, here's a great idea. We're going to take The Brothers Grimm and mash it up with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. You know, have 'dark fantasy' versions of Red Riding Hood, Jack the Giant Killer and Hansel and Gretel teaming up to solve a murder mystery. Who says there is no longer any reverence…
Read MoreIt's been a few days since our last movie poster roundup. Today we bring you new one-sheets for Anton Corbijn’s The American, Middle Men, Knight and Day, and Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D. Check them out, after the jump. The American: (via: Apple) Middle Men: Despicable Me: (via: IMPA) Knight and Day Resident Evil: Afterlife (via:…
Read MoreThat's, uh, some kind of cast. Never thought I'd live to see the day where Gary Oldman shared the screen with Dane Cook, but it's coming, thanks to the casting director of Girls, Guns & Gambling, who apparently has quite the sense of humor. (And, no, it's not Christian Slater's mom, veteran casting director Mary…
Read MoreIn 20 select cities, Disney/Pixar will be presenting a Toy Story trilogy marathon in 3D (which includes an advance screening of Toy Story 3) on Thursday, June 17th. Check out the full listing after the jump. via: Lee Unkrich
Read MoreThe Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando Resort kicked off its grand opening celebration on Thursday night. In attendance were Harry Potter film stars Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Bonnie Wright, Oliver Phelps, Daniel Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Warwick Davis, Rupert Grint and James Phelps. Hundreds of people gathered in front of Hogwarts castle for…
Read MoreAs you know by now, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese is directing a 3D adaptation of Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret (one of the projects that has been on the director's slate since 2007). Scorsese has said in the past that he's "very excited by 3D…But if the camera move is going…
Read MoreWe've seen a teaser and a full trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Edgar Wright's adaptation of the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Now there's an international trailer that sells the tale of Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) a bass player and sorta-slacker who falls for Ramona Flowers (Mary-Elizabeth Winstead) but must defeat…
Read MoreOver the past week there have been several rumors about the possible lead casting for Steven Spielberg's new film War Horse, which is based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo and the successful play based upon the book. English actor Eddie Redmayne was said to have one of the lead roles, and Tom Hiddleston the…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS In the recent months, we've been trying to not post as many set photos as some of them can be rather boring. But every so often, some really cool snapshots come along. After the jump you can see photos from the set of The Hobbit and Frank Darabont's AMC television series adaptation of…
Read MoreWelcome once again to our superhero news round-up. Today I have Nicolas Winding Refn explaining his take on a big screen Wonder Woman movie, Ashton Kutcher talking about how he auditioned for the role of Superman for Brett Ranter, DC Comics writer Geoff Johns talks about seeing Mark Strong's screen test as Sinestro in Green…
Read MoreA remake of Logan's Run or, more properly, a new adaptation of William F. Noland and George Clayton Johnson's novel, has been in the works for a long time. Warner Bros. and Joel Silver are now moving ahead with a 3D take on the story, to be directed by Ridley Scott protege Carl Erik Rinsch.…
Read MoreFirst up, this is not Gravity as in the Alfonso Cuarón 3D sci-fi space thriller that will have an insane opening shot. No, this is an altogether different film called Gravity. This one has been described as 'The Day After Tomorrow meets Taken,' and Clash of the Titans and The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier…
Read MoreLast year we heard that Tom Tykwer was working to adapt David Mitchell's massive post-modern novel Cloud Atlas for producers the Wachowskis. At the same time we heard that Natalie Portman had been linked to the adaptation, but there was no official confirmation and things have been pretty solid on the Cloud Atlas front since…
Read MoreThe first movie trailer for 20th Century Fox's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has shown up online on the Brazilian fan site MundoNarnia. I'm not sure when or where this trailer is officially suposed to premiere, but you can watch it right now embedded after the jump. Leave your thoughts…
Read MorePhotos removed at request of Fox A bunch of new photos from the Robert Rodriguez-produced, Nimrod Antal-directed Predators have appeared online. And these aren't just some boring photos of the cast looking off camera, these are photos of the actual Predator creatures themselves. Check them out, after the jump. Photos removed at request of Fox…
Read MoreA couple days after it was rumored that David Yates (director of the final four Harry Potter films) was Warner Bros top choice to direct The Hobbit films. It was later revealed that Yates was in fact one of a few directors that the studio had talked with about helming the abandoned two-film project, but…
Read MoreIn 2005, students of the French academy ESRA (Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle) started production on a computer animated short film called Above then Beyond. The film was completed a year later. In 2009, Pixar released their tenth computer animated feature film Up. A year later, people have begun to notice the similarities between the…
Read MoreSony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming big screen CGI/live action hybrid 3D adaptation of The Smurfs. It is exactly what you might expect. Watch it now after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below. More info: The previously announced voice cast: Jonathan Winters as Papa…
Read MoreBefore you ditch that crummy summer job and toss your cheesy pirate uniform and fish sticks out the window, borrow some $10s from the register and treat yourself to something nice. Like, say, this new tee from NYC's Acapulco Gold, which salutes talented actress Phoebe Cates and the wet-hottest moment in '80s teen cinema. Printed…
Read MoreHollywood is going crazy with Wizard of Oz sequels, prequels, reboots and re-imaginings. Earlier this week it was confirmed that Sam Raimi had signed on to direct the Wizard of Oz prequel Oz The Great and Powerful starring Robert Downey Jr. It has been previously rumored that Drew Barrymore is planning to direct a Wizard…
Read MoreDisney Interactive/Propaganda Games have released a new trailer for the Tron Legacy tie-in video game Tron Evolution at E3. The game will be available for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the PC, with portable versions on Nintendo DS and PSP, and a multiplayer version, Tron: Evolution Battle Grids for the Wii. The cinematic footage almost…
Read MoreIn response to the oil spill disaster, Spanish website The Blog of Chibiboto published a bunch of proposed movie posters for Finding Nemo 2, a co production of Disney/Pixar and BP. The film's title should probably be called "Saving Nemo". Check out a couple other poster designs after the jump. Head on over to Chibiboto's…
Read MoreRidley Scott talked a bit about his Alien prequels over this past weekend, but most of what he said is just reiterations and rewordings of info we've already had. But he's also talking a bit about 3D, and how he'll put the tech to work for the Alien films without sacrificing the atmosphere that made…
Read MoreWe have a few release updates for upcoming movies: Sony Pictures has announced that The Green Hornet will also be released in IMAX 3D, simultaneously with the 2D and 3D release of the movie on January 14th 2010. [thr] Paramount Pictures has moved M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender from Friday July 2nd to Thursday…
Read MoreWhat if I told you that the ending of the Lost finale was not the only ending filmed for the series? ...That Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse wrote a completely alternative ending to the series? Okay, well, it isn't true. The three "alternative endings" that Damon and Carlton premiered on the Jimmy Kimmel show is…
Read MoreMGM's dire financial troubles have already spelled doom or delay for several films: the next Bond movie was indefinitely postposed, The Hobbit is delayed to the point where Guillermo del Toro walked as director, and the Red Dawn remake is shelved for the time being, because the studio doesn't have enough money to release the…
Read MoreAmazon's has a special twitter dead today on the James Bond 11-Movie Ultimate Blu-ray Collection for only $99.99, 67% off the $300 msrp. This ultimate collection includes: Die Another Day, Dr. No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, License to Kill, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker,…
Read MoreDoug Liman may be moving from the adventurous romantic past to the technologically-obsessed future. While he's been prepping The Three Musketeers for Warner Bros., it now looks as if he'll skip that movie and take the directorial gig on the 'Groundhog Day with aliens' movie All You Need Is Kill. It doesn't come as much…
Read More(Note: Spoilers follow.) For those of us who couldn't give a toss about Twilight, there has still been some reason to anticipate one of the two halves of Breaking Dawn, the adaptation of the final book in the series. Specifically, there's a fairly crazy scene where Bella (Kristen Stewart) gives birth to her half-vampire baby.…
Read MoreWe have a few updates on Alfonso Cuarón’s 3D sci-fi space thriller Gravity starring Robert Downey Jr.. The film will apparently be 60% CGI, shot using a high balance of hybrid CG and live action elements like Avatar. And fans of Cuaron's long continuous takes will be excited to learn that the opening shot will…
Read MoreYesterday Russ wrote about how the box office performance of The Karate Kid would probably lead to a sequel, with a comment from director Harold Zwart saying that ideas have been discussed. Now Deadline has confirmed our suspicions -- Columbia Pictures executives are meeting with screenwriters to pitch their ideas on a sequel. It seems…
Read MoreIn March it was announced that Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes was developing a remake of Fred Dekker's 1987 movie The Monster Squad, written by Dekker and Shane Black. Producers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, and Rob Cohen have been meeting with writers, and have finally hired someone to pen the remake. Heatvision also reveals…
Read MoreSony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures has released the first official photo from the upcoming big screen CGI/live action hybrid 3D adaptation of The Smurfs. The photo features our first look at the computer generated Smurfs: Grouchy, Papa and Clumsy, in Times Square New York City. Check the uncropped photo out in full, after the jump. We…
Read MoreAustralian video remix artist Pogo's Upular, composed using chords, bass notes and vocal samples from the Pixar film Up became a viral video sensation. Now Pogo has returned with two more videos based on Pixar films, this time taking on the Toy Story series with Toyz Noize and Buzzwings. Watch the new videos embedded after…
Read MoreDepending on how closely you've paid attention to TV to film developments in the past few years your reaction to that headline is either going to be "um...what?" or "so, it finally happened." Regardless, I guess that whole thrust towards developing original ideas hasn't kicked in yet (obviously) because out of nowhere comes word that…
Read MoreWarner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures have released the first full length movie trailer for Zack Snyder's computer animated adaptation Legend of the Guardians, based on the popular children's book series Guardians of Ga'Hoole. If you haven't already seen the trailer, click here. The new trailer is basically an extended version of the teaser trailer, complete with…
Read MoreThe last time we heard about Ghost Rider 2, now being called Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance, there was a possibility that it would be moving forward without Nicolas Cage, because Sony needs to make the sequel soon or lose the rights altogether. (It could be Ghost Rider Shrugged!) Now there's a report that…
Read MoreThere are two films about disgraced 'super-lobbyist' Jack Abramoff. The documentary Casino Jack & The United States of Money is in theaters now. The other, a feature once called Casino Jack and now titled Bagman, is directed by George Hickenlooper and stars Kevin Spacey as Abramoff. A promising combination, to be sure, but if this…
Read MoreOver the weekend, comic book writer Geoff Johns (Green Lantern, The Flash) revealed on Twitter (spotted by Mel Valentin) that DC/Warner Bros is "hoping to develop a live-action show. Fingers crossed!" I'm guessing this is one of the WB's possible answers to the fastly approaching series conclusion of Smallville. Johns also announced that they "have…
Read MoreFox Searchlight has released the first movie trailer for Mark Romanek's big screen adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go. The book was named one of TIME’s 100 Best Novels (from 1923 to the Present), featured on many top ten books of 2005 lists, and a finalist in the National Book Critic Circle…
Read MoreWhen will we be able to see The Thing prequel on the big screen? Universal Pictures announced today that the movie will hit theaters on April 29th 2011, two weeks after Wes Craven's Scream 4, one week following Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, and a week before Marvel's Thor. John Carpenter's 1982 original was released…
Read MoreHBO has released yet another trailer, this time for Season 7 of the television show Entourage. I stopped watching the series around season five, and it doesn't look like much has changed. Watch the trailer now, after the jump. Entourage returns to HBO Sunday, June 27th at 10:30pm.
Read MoreThe big puzzle at the nexus point of cutting edge technology and consumer products is currently: how to bring 3D content to homes? Nintendo, which in the past decade has been steadfastly disinterested in putting technology first when releasing game devices, is suddenly leaping forward with a solution. At the company's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)…
Read MoreLast week we had a preview of some of "the walkers" (aka zombies) in make-up and a first zombie production photo for Frank Darabont's small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead. Today AMC Television sent over a new production photo showing Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes. Check out the whole photo, after the jump. We…
Read MoreAmazon has a great sale on few Blu-Ray movie releases: Forrest Gump Sapphire Series Blu-Ray for $11.99 Godfather Blu-ray for $11.99 Godfather II Blu-ray for $11.99 I'm not sure how long this sale will be valid, but the suggested retail price for all of the titles is $30, and the sale price is a 60%…
Read MoreIn answer to the question posed in the headline, all I can manage is "maybe, but I wouldn't bet anything important that the system will change." Box office returns are off this summer. Attendance is down 13% from last year, and even with 3D inflation pumping up a few films, overall revenue is off 7.5%.…
Read MoreHonorary 501st Legion member/artist Denise Vasquez created an Avatar-themed Stormtrooper helmet as part of the 501st Legion’s ongoing Star Wars-themed TK Helmet Art Project (which is kind of like the Vader project but with Stormtrooper helmets).
Read MoreThere's another odd wrinkle to the story about producer John Aglialoro hastily getting an Atlas Shrugged film into production in order to retain rights to the novel. When we reported on the film a few weeks back, Stephen Polk was set to direct. But yesterday, when we got info about the film actually going into…
Read MoreThe Karate Kid easily owned the weekend box office in its debut outing, thrashing The A-Team by a margin of two dollars earned for every one taken by Joe Carnahan's TV revival. With Will Smith's son Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan earning $56m, well surpassing expectations, do you think there will be a sequel? In…
Read MoreYesterday we posted a trailer for the video game sequel Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Today we have something even more impressive, the E3 2010 Cinematic trailer for Bioware and Lucas Arts' upcoming MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. Watch the six minute trailer embedded after the jump. Official synopsis: The Battle of Alderaan.…
Read MoreOn Friday we heard that the offer had gone out from Disney to Sam Raimi for the director's chair on Oz, the Great and Powerful. Now Raimi has accepted the job, which will make the origin story of the Wizard of Oz, starring Robert Downey, Jr., his follow-up to Drag Me To Hell, and his…
Read MoreHave you ever written a famous person a letter and not gotten a response? Yeah, me neither - who has the time, really? But I always find it interesting what kind of people actually response. A young man named Adam wrote a letter to Pete Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters Inc and Up, in 2008…
Read MoreIn May we told you that Warner Bros. would be reinvent the classic Looney Tunes stable of characters as a series of new 3D theatrical short films and a new 26-episode half-hour Cartoon Network television series called The Looney Tunes Show. The pitch for the new series is that Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck will…
Read MoreYesterday we reported a rumor that David Yates, best known as the director of the last few Harry Potter films: Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, and Part I and II of the Deathly Hallows, was the studios top choice to direct The Hobbit. As you know, Guillermo del Toro recently stepped down from directing…
Read MoreDirector/Screenwriter Corey Edwards has updated his blog with a note warning Fraggle Rock fans that "there are some dark days ahead, my friends." As it turns out, The Weinstein Company, who has been working with Edwards on a big screen Fraggle Rock movie, has begun a wide search for a new screenwriter to come aboard…
Read MoreWe've shown you quite a good bit of material from Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, including a Russian trailer. But this UK trailer for the film is the best look yet; it has a lot of new footage, and the quality is much higher than anything we've seen so far. We knew from stills that the…
Read MoreWe've known most of the cast of Edgar Wright's upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs. The World for some time, but a tweet from the director today revealed one more name we didn't previously have: Bill Hader. Wright said, "“Just did some final ADR sessions with Jason Schwartzman, Garth Jennings and Bill Hader.” He followed that up…
Read MoreUpdate: This story has been updated with an additional photo and both photos are now uncropped and high resolution images. Dreamworks/Walt Disney Pictures has released the first couple production photos from Shawn Levy's futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel.. Want to see a glimpse of what the robotic boxing robots of the future look like?…
Read MoreEarlier this month, concept art leaked for Marvel's Thor and Captain America giving fans a better understanding of what the future superheroes will look like. We've been posting some cool fan art posters for the upcoming superhero team-up film The Avengers. And now /Film reader Ray P sent over another cool fan rendering by someone…
Read MoreA couple new on set behind the scenes video pieces have appeared on the web today, including a visit to the set of Neil Burger's Dark Fields, where they are shooting "critical scene" on the streets of Philadelphia with Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper, and Entertainment Tonight's visit to the set of Juan Diego…
Read MoreI knew it was only a matter of time before science would allow for the invention of a real life Star Wars lightsaber. Of course, we aren't quite there, but we're getting close. Wicked Lasers took the direct blue laser diode components and made the world's first 445nm direct blue diode laser, the Arctic --…
Read MoreLucasArts has released a cinematic trailer for the video game sequel Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Stuff like this makes me yearn for another real Star Wars movie, or a good Star Wars live-action television series. Watch the trailer now, embedded after the jump. I've also included the debut trailer in case you haven't…
Read MoreFocus Features has released the first movie trailer for Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. Watch the trailer now embedded after the jump. It very much feels like a thematic/tonal sequel to Lost in Translation, another Coppola film about famous father figure connecting with a daughter figure (more metaphoric in the other film) in…
Read MoreSteven Spielberg's adaptation of the novel War Horse, scripted by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis from the novel by Michael Morpurgo, is starting to cast up. Last week we heard that Eddie Redmayne had one of the (human) lead roles, and now there's word that the second has been filled by Tom Hiddleston, who plays…
Read MoreHBO has released two new trailers for the upcoming second seasons of Danny McBride's sports comedy series Eastbound & Down and the Jonathan Ames-created detective comedy Bored to Death starring Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson, and Zach Galifianakis. Watch them both, after the jump. Eastbound & Down Season 2 Trailer: Bored to Death Season 2 Teaser:
Read MoreA new trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife premiered on G4TV's Attack of the Show. Watch it now in low resolution, embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Plot Synopsis: Screen Gems and Constantin Film present Resident Evil: Afterlife, the next installment in the widely successful “Resident Evil” film franchise…
Read MoreRobert Rodriguez has been distancing himself from The Weinstein Company, and starting to set up a new studio home at Fox. His last movie for the Weinsteins will likely end up being Spy Kids 4. He didn't direct Predators for Fox, but he was the prime mover on the project regardless, and the studio offered…
Read MoreLast week we published the first trailer for AMC Television's new conspiracy theory series Rubicon. And while the series won't begin airing until August, AMC has released the entire pilot for you to watch for free online. I have not yet had a chance to watch it, but judging from the trailer it looks to…
Read MoreI've been seeing on a few industry insider tracking boards that David Yates is supposedly the studios top choice to direct The Hobbit. Note: we have no real confirmation of any talks taking place, so for now take it all as purely rumor. Yates is best known as the director of the last few Harry…
Read MoreLast week there was word that Guillermo del Toro is working with Universal to develop a new Van Helsing movie. Not necessarily a sequel to the Hugh Jackman film from 2003, but another hybrid action horror film with the classic vampire hunter as the main character. The report was that del Toro would write a…
Read MoreThough many of us would like this not to be the case, 3D isn't going anywhere. In the past year, as the format has really exploded in Hollywood, The Dark Knight and Inception director Christopher Nolan has emerged as a figurehead representing old-school blockbusters. The director loves shooting film, as opposed to digital HD or…
Read MoreAt the multiplex this weekend, The Karate Kid and The A-Team topped the box office. You might almost think we are reliving the 1980's. The success of The Karate Kid probably has Hollywood on a search for more 1980's/early 1990's titles to remake, and Pajiba is reporting that a remake of Don’t Tell Mom the…
Read MoreGameTrailers has premiered a new video showcasing the gameplay in the upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs. The World video game. Here is more from the /Film tipster Lascelles L: "There is a show called Game Traielers on Spike TV. They tend to beat G4 on a lot of game stuff. They have early footage and an…
Read MoreThe latest issue of production weekly (via: playlist) is reporting that Amber Heard (The Informers, Zombieland) is in talks to play a young Mystique in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. Also, Pride & Prejudice/Surrogates star Rosamund Pike, who was previously rumored to be in line to play young Emma Frost, is now being pegged as…
Read MoreWe have a few superhero related mini movie news items to get to, so I thought we'd compile them in one post. After the jump you can see a low-resolution first look at Jaimie Alexander as Sif in Marvel's big screen adaptation of Thor, Jennifer Love Hewitt is campaigning to play Wonder Woman in the…
Read MoreCue a whole lot of irritated groans. A couple weeks back we updated on the remake of the extreme French horror film Martyrs, basically noting that (a) Mark L. Smith had penned a script and (b) the remake sounds, on the surface, like a terrible idea. What I didn't note at the time is that…
Read MoreNico Tortorella has been cast in the horror sequel Scream 4. The actor revealed the news on Twitter, stating "Huge news today!!!! Just officially got cast in Scream 4!!!! Today is always the best day of my life." Tortorella has previously appeared on television shows The Beautiful Life: TBL and Make It or Break It,…
Read MoreAtlas is finally shrugging towards theater screens. A few weeks ago we told you that producer John Aglialoro was going to get a feature version of Ayn Rand's novel together come hell or high water. And, indeed, cameras started to roll on Atlas Shrugged Part One over the weekend. Who are the star and director?…
Read MoreIt's not much to go on, but this first still from The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, is remarkable simply for the fact that it exists. There were so many recastings and director changes that I'm vaguely impressed by the fact that this remake of the 2005…
Read MoreSupermodel turned actor Gemma Ward (The Strangers, The Black Balloon) has been cast for a role in producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Rob Marshall 's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. According to the report from The Courier Mail, Ward has been cast in a "small speaking part" as a mermaid, but won't shoot…
Read MoreThe Huffington Post has edited together a five minute video compiling all the best Caddyshack quotes. Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfield are sure to brighten up your Friday. Watch it now, embedded after the jump.
Read MoreLast week we posted a new trailer for the highly anticipated Martin Scorsese-directed/produced HBO series Boardwalk Empire. If you haven't yet watched that trailer, what are you waiting for - click here now. Today we have another trailer from HBO, this time a teaser trailer for their upcoming fantasy series Game of Thrones. The series…
Read MoreIn the /Film discussion post on The Karate Kid, I wrote the following about Jackie Chan's performance in the film: "Chan is perfect as the grizzled landlord, perhaps because on some level, he’s playing a version of himself, a once-great fighter who is relegated to inflicting his martial arts prowess on teenagers." Turns out somebody…
Read MoreAccording to the Twitter account of Warwick Davis (who played both Flitwick in Griphook), the final day of principle photography for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows takes place today - Saturday, June 12th, 2010. Davis tweeted the following: The end of an Era - today is officially the last day of principal photography on…
Read MoreAmazon has Léon: The Professional Theatrical and Extended Edition Blu-ray on sale for only $11.99, 52% off the $25 msrp. I'm not sure how long this price will be valid, so act fast.
Read MoreBreck Eisner looks to be the new Len Wiseman or Stephen Sommers -- he's lining up one high concept tentpole after another in the wake of the reasonable opening of his remake of The Crazies. He's got the Escape From New York remake up next, and is booked for the new Flash Gordon movie and…
Read MoreAdd Cleopatra to the list of subjects that are being developed by multiple producers at once. A new biography of Cleopatra, by Stacy Schiff, is about to be published, and Michael Pietsch of Little, Brown says that Scott Rudin has picked up the rights to the book (he actually bought the rights years ago, before…
Read MoreIt's taken several years, but now we finally know what a mainstream action film from director Joe Carnahan looks like with the release of The A-Team, which hits theaters nationwide today. Carnahan proved himself capable of delivering a hard-boiled indie crime feature in 2002's Narc, directed one of the best BMW Film entries (Ticker), and…
Read MoreHarold Zwart's The Karate Kid hits theaters today and based on the lively reaction of my screening audience, I'm guessing it's going to be a huge crowd-pleaser this weekend. But is the film any good? Hit the jump for some of my brief thoughts and feel free to leave your own in the comments below.…
Read MoreYesterday we posted a new teaser trailer for Walt Disney Animation Studios' new film Tangled. StitchKingdom discovered an international traile (from the Netherlands) which features a few bits of extended footage. For the most part it is the same trailer, but I know a lot of Disney fanatics read /Film who might be interested in…
Read MoreIn late April, we started to hear about a new tentpole brewing over at Disney. Oz, the Great and Powerful is a prequel of sorts to The Wizard of Oz, with Robert Downey, Jr. attached to star in the title role. At the time this first came up, the two directors in the running seemed…
Read MoreTaken was a small film that was picked up by Fox, essentially dumped and then became a massive surprise hit anyway. Sometimes you just can't predict how these things are going to go. (Taken was big enough that its January release window is, for the time being, the 'Taken date,' which will be occupied next…
Read MoreAs you know by now, Disneyworld is planning to relaunch the Star Wars ride Star Tours with a new 3D version in 2011. 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." StarWars.com confirms that…
Read MoreTrailers 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…
Read MoreHBO has released a new trailer for the Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese created Prohibition-era gangster television series Boardwalk Empire. The new trailer focuses on Steve Buscemi, who plays the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City and town Treasurer, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, who is described as "a political fixer and backroom dealer who is equal parts…
Read MoreIt's been a while since our last movie poster round-up, so after the jump you'll be able to find a bunch of new one sheets, including: Disney's horse-racing drama Secretariat, an international poster for the big screen adaptation of the fighting video game Tekken, , two character posters for Love Ranch, a low-res look at the…
Read MoreA couple weeks ago we reported that Sony and Marc Webb were looking at five actors to play Peter Parker in the new version of Spider-Man: Jamie Bell; Andrew Garfield; Alden Ehrenreich; Frank Dillane; and Josh Hutcherson. Last week we heard that Jamie Bell was the front-runner, albeit without any official confirmation. Now there are…
Read MoreIt's almost a great, hopefully not sad cosmic joke that Bob and Harvey Weinstein, so famous for buying and then either recutting or shelving Hong Kong films, will distribute John Woo's latest made-in-China effort, Reign of Assassins. The Weinstein Company announced today that it has pre-bought North and South American rights to the film, which…
Read MoreSteven Soderbergh's action thriller Knockout, starring MMA fighter Gina Carano and a hell of a supporting cast, has evidently been given a new title. The picture is now called Haywire, and looks to be set for release in January 2011 by LionsGate. The Playlist collated a set of tweets (from Soderbergh's wife Jules Asner and…
Read MoreIf this news is true, it can be read, basically, as Warner Bros. and Joel Silver giving Terry Gilliam the finger. But that's Hollywood, right? The studio and producer are reportedly fast-tracking a tentpole film based on Miguel Cervantes' massive novel Don Quixote. Pajiba says that the WB / Joel Silver film is "described as…
Read MoreA video went around the internet yesterday, showing director Alfred Hitchcock using an early variation of the saying "That's What She Said" during a sound check for his 1929 film Blackmail. If you haven't yet seen the video, watch it now after the jump. via: cinematical
Read MoreIf you've been following Disney's attempts to sell of the Miramax name and library (and I'd understand if you haven't; it's inside baseball stuff, to some extent) then you, like me, may have been shocked a week ago when Ron Tutor and embattled, disgraced financier/exec David Bergstein were said to have an exclusive window to…
Read MoreGottaBeCarl has created an awesome image re-imagining all of the characters of Futurama in the X-Men universe. Carl explains: A friend of mine suggested one day that it would be cool to see the characters of Futurama as X-Men and so I drew him Fry as Cyclops. For some reason I couldn't just stop there...and…
Read MoreYeah, that's right: Men in Black 3D. No, the film hasn't started shooting yet, but Sony has already shot a teaser (of sorts) for the movie that will reunite director Barry Sonnenfeld and stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, with newcomers like Josh Brolin and Jemaine Clement. The 'teaser' -- which is really just…
Read MoreKenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, which follows four anthropomorphized characters in a classic pastoral English countryside, has been adapted to the screen many times. Now there's a new version on the way, to be directed by Ray Griggs, with Peter Jackson's WETA providing a suite of animatronic effects to bring the animal characters…
Read MoreUniversal Pictures has released six new character posters for Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Based on the comic book series written by Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott 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. The new…
Read MoreAll this week, Walt Disney Pictures has been revealing new character posters for the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Jon Turteltaub-directed The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The fifth and final poster, which is premiering EXCLUSIVELY on /Film, profiles Nicolas Cage's character Balthazar Blake. We've also included all of the other posters after the jump as well, complete with character descriptions.…
Read MoreThe moment that Guillermo del Toro walked away from The Hobbit, speculation began to run rampant as to what his next film might be. He's got quite a few options, and now there might be one more: a report says that he's working to develop a new film featuring the vampire hunter Van Helsing invented…
Read MoreI have come across what appears to be the first poster for Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. While I can't confirm this is in fact the film's one sheet, it does look very much like Sofia's style. Check out the poster after the jump. Sofia Coppola's (Lost in Translation) new film Somewhere tells…
Read MoreWho will direct the sequel to Clash of the Titans? (Yeah, that sequel we're all desperate for, based on the value of the recent remake.) As ever, there is a list of names at Warner Bros., and the man at the top of the list is reportedly Jonathan Liebesman, who is currently working on Battle:…
Read MoreLast year we posted an awesome fan-made movie trailer for a big screen Green Lantern film, edited together by Jaron Pitts using clips from a bunch of different movies, using composited computer generated imagery. If you haven't seen it before, click the link and watch it now. Scott Glassgold, co-chief of IAM Entertainment, saw the…
Read MoreBecause it's been a story confirmation kinda evening (Pirates 4 casting, Breaking Dawn split, etc) why not throw out the official confirmation of a movie that could be a bit more exciting than those others? We'd heard not long ago that Splice director Vincenzo Natali would direct an adaptation of William Gibson's novel Neuromancer, and…
Read MoreVariety is reporting that Jennifer Garner and Nick Nolte are in talks to join Russell Brand in the remake of the 1981 comedy Arthur. The original '80s film focused on class, alcoholism and romance, and starred Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli. Garner will play a character played by Jill Eikenberry in the original -- the…
Read MoreI know you've all been on pins and needles waiting for this news, so rest easy: Summit has confirmed via press release that its adaptation of Breaking Dawn, the final Twilight novel, will be broken into two films so as to maximize profit from the soon to be completed series. Contract negotiations were the reason…
Read MoreAs the development and casting of the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film has gone forward, we'd basically known that Geoffrey Rush (the series' secret weapon) would return as the formerly villainous pirate Captain Hector Barbossa. Now his return is confirmed. Variety says that Rush plays "one of the few returning characters" from the previous…
Read MoreAfter the jump you can find a few videos I was hoping to run today on the site, including: A featurette taking us into composer James Horner's recording of the score for The Karate Kid. Four minutes of The A-Team The Minions from Despicable Me invade LA's The Grove, an interested marketing experiment with a…
Read MoreVincenzo Natali's 1997 film Cube didn't have a huge theatrical release when it first came out, but it subsequently became a hit on DVD, enough to warrant two direct-to-DVD sequels. During my interview with Natali, he spoke about how he never wanted to make a sequel to Cube. But a video game? That's another story.…
Read MoreAnthony Breznican has a new article on Transformers 3 titled "Next 'Transformers' is due for a switch" which mostly consists of director Michael Bay and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura explaining what went wrong with the previous installment, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (blamed mostly on the rushed schedule and writers strike). There are a few…
Read MorePeter Berg's water based epic action adaptation of the board game Battleship has been moved up a week. Universal Pictures will now open the film on May 18th 2012 instead of the last announced date, May 25th 2012. This decision was likely made to get distance from another alien sci-fi action film, Men In Black…
Read MoreEarlier this week, seven minutes of Mortal Kombat footage featuring Michael Jai White as Jax seemingly "leaked" online. Is this test footage for a new Mortal Kombat movie reboot? Who is behind this short film? We have the full details, after the jump. The Mortal Kombat footage was shot by Fame director Kevin Tancharoen. Our…
Read MoreLast week we had a preview of some of "the walkers" (aka zombies) in make-up for Frank Darabont's small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead. Today AMC Television sent over the first actual production photo of onw of the walkers in action. The television series is currently being shot in Atlanta, GA. Of the formation…
Read MoreParamount Pictures has not announced an official sequel to Mark Waters' 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls, but we've been hearing rumblings that production was set to begin on a sequel in Atlanta. And today we came across a press release announcing an open casting call, so that confirms it. But will it be a theatrical…
Read MoreBriefly: Just as we're talking about rumors of the casting for Christopher Nolan's third Batman movie, there's word on the start date for the film's production. In a rather offhand comment in the LA Times Hero Complex blog (via The Film Stage), Geoff Boucher mentions that he'll be interviewing Nolan this weekend, and plans to…
Read MoreStudio Ghibi has released a trailer for The Borrower Arrietty, their Japanese anime adaptation of Mary Norton's fantasy novel The Borrowers. The movie tells the story of 14-year-old Arrietty, who lives in peaceful anonymity with the rest of the Clock family, as "they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants.…
Read MoreMGM's dire financial situation -- the studio is now controlled by creditors rather than execs -- is having a growing effect on a wide variety of films. The twenty-third Bond movie was shelved indefinitely, basically until MGM's situation is sorted out and EON Productions can get the movie made elsewhere. Guillermo Del Toro walked away…
Read MoreEarlier this week, it was announced that the live-action Voltron movie was officially dead, and that the giant robot franchise would instead re-appear on television, via a Nicktoons show called Voltron Force. We've known about this Television show for a while; so we thought this was strange news. Turns out it wasn't exactly true. Voltron…
Read More/Film reader GoldenBoyMacrae alerted me to a four minute set visit video report for Marvel's Thor on Entertainment Tonight. The piece mostly consists of an interview between stars Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman, but also features a bit of behind the scenes footage from the set (as seen above). Watch it now, embedded after the…
Read MoreWalt Disney Animation Studios has released a new teaser trailer for their 50th full-length animated feature Tangled. Directed by Byron Howard & Nathan Greno (the co-director and head of story on Bolt respectively), this new telling of the classic fairy tale Rapunzel (the original title of the film), will transport audiences "to a stunning CG…
Read MoreA few weeks ago, after Splice screened in Boston for the first time, I had the opportunity to sit down with director Vincenzo Natali for a lengthy, 35-minute long interview. Vincenzo spoke about how he first got his start directing films, his attitude towards the Cube sequels, the themes of Splice, and his approach towards…
Read MoreDisney California Adventure's new World of Color water show was previewed this week for selected park gusts, and footage is now online. I plan on visiting the park to see this live sometime over the summer, but for those of you curious to see what it looks like, the whole show has been uploaded to…
Read MoreIt's a slow news week, and when legit news isn't filling the frame there is room for rumor to grow. There are two big ones today: that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is being primed to appear in Batman 3, perhaps as the Riddler, and that the big villain of Spider-Man will be the Lizard. First up, Mr.…
Read MoreLast month, it was reported that Tim Burton had become attached as a creative consultant, producer and possibly director of the Disney/Dreamworks film based on Monsterpocalypse, a board game Russ described as "part strategy, part Kaiju Big Battel, and part Rampage!, all played out with miniatures on a tabletop." Now HeatVision reports that John August…
Read MoreWhat ever happened to the original Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio? Todd Holland's latest video for Funny or Die titled "Wax On, F*ck Off" attempts to answer this question and more. In his new movie, Ralph Macchio faces his toughest challenge yet; to become a Hollywood bad boy. With Karate Kid returning to the big screen,…
Read MoreHey, Rob Reiner has a new movie coming out. Flipped is a very sweet-looking ode to the '50s and early '60s and the hormone flood of emerging adulthood. That is, it's about a boy who thinks he hates a girl until he realizes that she might be the best thing ever. Check out a trailer…
Read MoreThe next film Steven Spielberg will direct is War Horse, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel about Albert and his horse Joey, which is sold to the army and sent to the Western Front, leading Albert to embark upon a journey to save the animal. Now Spielberg has reportedly found his leading man: the relatively…
Read MoreF. Gary Gray is in talks to direct the big screen adaptation of the Eidos video game Kane and Lynch. The film was originally set to be directed by stunt coordinator Simon Crane, and more recently rumored to be helmed by Running Scared director Wayne Kramer. Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx are attached to star.…
Read MoreToday's Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day is The Ultimate Matrix Collection Blu-Ray for $49.99, 62% off the $130 msrp. The Gold Box Deal of the Day is only good for 24 hours and will disappear at midnight. So act fast. This seven-disc collection contains the complete Matrix Trilogy in high definition video and…
Read MorePixar teamed with Google to create a search-focused commercial tie-in for Toy Story 3. Andy's going to college. The toys are nervous. In the meantime, they discover Google. Watch the spot, embedded after the jump.
Read MoreThe Martin Campbell-directed Green Lantern adaptation, which features Ryan Reynolds as the titular character, won't hit theaters until June 17, 2011, but Warner Brothers is apparently so pleased with what they've seen so far, they've already hired Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, and Marc Guggenheim to get to work on Green Lantern 2. In addition, the…
Read MorePedro Almodovar has been casting his next film La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In) and got things off to a big start by including Antonio Banderas, with whom the director has not worked since 1990. Now Almodovar has hired actresses Elena Anaya (Sex and Lucia) and Marisa Paredes. Both actresses have worked…
Read MoreAfter his appearance(s) in conjunction with the recent MTV Movie Awards, there was speculation that Tom Cruise is developing a film based on his Tropic Thunder character Les Grossman. Cruise confirmed that something was in the works, and now we've got official word from Paramount that a film, the Untitled Les Grossman Project, is in…
Read More/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. For previous recaps, click here. Note: I skipped over episodes "Fly" and "Abiquiu" due to traveling (one leg of which sent me to Puerto Rico for the return…
Read MoreAfter The Bourne Ultimatum was released in 2007, Fox quickly announced development on a fourth Bourne movie. First we heard, producer Frank Marshall was hoping to begin shooting next Summer for a 2010 release. Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon had signed on, and George Nolfi (co-writer on Bourne Ultimatum, but he also wrote Ocean's Twelve)…
Read MoreThis Sunday night, the Disney Channel is going to have a first look at Tangled, the new film from Walt Disney Animation Studios film. They have begun airing a 15 second commercial with the first real footage from the movie to promote the first look. Watch the commercial, embedded after the jump. I'm sure the…
Read MoreAn impressive quartet of actresses has just signed on for My Idiot Brother, the Paul Rudd comedy that we first reported on last week. Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Rashida Jones and Emily Mortimer are all part of the cast as of now. (And just the other night I was wondering how the hell Emily Mortimer…
Read MoreMovieMaker magazine recently chose the /Filmcast, the official podcast of /Film, for inclusion on its list of "10 Podcasts Worth a Listen." While the spring issue - featuring a cover story on Naomi Watts - hit newsstands awhile back, the entire podcast list is now available online. "There are any number of things you can…
Read MoreAs July approaches, it seems that all of the studios in Hollywood are becoming more scared of Christopher Nolan's Inception. To be honest, I don't think anyone knows how much money Nolan's sci-fi action film will make. It's heady like Memento, packs some crazy imagery/special effects, but packs a PG-13 rating (not that the PG-13…
Read MoreLast week we did a post about the recurring prop newspaper which can be seen in many television shows and movies from the last few decades. If you didn't check out the post the first time around, click here now. The post took off virally, and spread around the web and the world. But why…
Read MoreAnd the tables turn. We pay a lot of attention (too much, probably) to the endless parade of movie remakes undertaken in the US. But other countries regularly remake our movies, too. (And each others'; this is a universal practice.) We just don't see as much of the news. But how can we not talk…
Read MoreAMC Television has released the first trailer for their new conspiracy theory series Rubicon. Let me first remind you that Rubicon is the third series AMC has ordered, and their track record so far is amazing: Mad Men and Breaking Bad. It looks to me like AMC might have another hit on their hands, and…
Read MoreWarner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures have released the first behind the scenes featurette for Zack Snyder's computer animated adaptation Legend of the Guardians, based on the popular children's book series Guardians of Ga'Hoole. If you haven't already seen the trailer, click here. The featurette basically features director Zack Sndyer and his wife/executive producer Deborah Snyder providing…
Read MoreTelltale Games will be developing a series of episodic video games based off the Jurassic Park and Back to the Future movie franchises, in a deal with NBC Universal. For those of you who don't recognize the name of the company -- Telltale Games is a video game developer founded in 2004, consisting of a…
Read MoreYesterday there was news that Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds would re-team with their The Proposal director Anne Fletcher and screenwriter Peter Chiarelli to make Most Wanted, an action comedy pitch recently picked up by Universal . In a different year this wouldn't have seemed like much more than a casting news blip but, you…
Read MoreParamount Pictures has released the first movie trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski's computer animated feature film Rango. Based on an original idea by Verbinski, Rango is scripted by The Aviator scribe John Logan. Johnny Depp stars as an "chameleon with an identity crisis." PRevious information has stated that Rango is "a…
Read MoreBefore this trailer, the most memorable thing about Takers was the photoshop abortion that passed for the film's first one-sheet. After this new trailer, that poster remains the most memorable thing about Takers, which still looks like an abandoned MTV Movie Awards tribute to Heat. What is there to say here? T.I. and Chris Brown…
Read MoreThe Alamo Drafthouse and Mondo Tees have announced a series of Star Trek-inspired posters. The first one will be released on the Mondotees website today (Wednesday) sometime around mid-day (so keep checking back). Martin Ansin's "Space Seed" poster profiles one of the most infamous characters in Star Trek history -- KHAN!!! Instead of doing WRATH…
Read MoreOK, let's get this straight: so, doing 100mph in a Chevy on the National Mall and setting off a lot of explosions near the White House, even fake ones, is bad? Right, OK, got it. Michael Bay and his crew have been planning to do quite a lot of shooting in Washington D.C. for Transformers…
Read MoreAin't It Cool has heard from their sources (which I assume must be embedded in 20th Century Fox) that the upcoming Die Hard 5 will be titled Die Hard 24/7 and the in development Fantastic Four reboot might be titled Fantastic Four Reborn. And if the title wasn't completely clear, Harry also confirms that the…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released a new two and a hald minute movie trailer for the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Jon Turteltaub-directed The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The new trailer shows a bit more interaction between Jay Baruchel and Teresa Palmer, and showcases a bunch of new special effects shots. I've been hearing a bunch of good things about…
Read MoreThe first promo poster for Seth Rogen in Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet was discovered on display at the Sony Booth at the 2010 Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas. Also, Mezco Toys also announced new action figures for the upcoming big screen movie which give us a closer look at the costumes of The…
Read MoreIf you're a fan of the original Fright Night, the headline alone is probably enough to clue you in on which actor is playing what role in the remake to be directed by Craig Gillespie. David Tennant and Christopher Mintz-Plasse are now part of the film, and will play the sort-of mentor to and best…
Read MoreLet me first warn you: this is one of those blog posts which is based purely on very circumstantial/unconfirmed information, so please consider not much more than speculation. Remember, speculation is fun.... Could Pride & Prejudice/Surrogates star Rosamund Pike possibly be in line to play young Emma Frost in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class? Forces…
Read MoreMarvel Studios have premiered the logos for the upcoming movie adaptations of Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger at the 2010 Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas. CBM was able to get some snaps from the show floor, which I have fixed up in photoshop (as seen above).
Read MoreSo you're looking to hire someone for your 3D movie and you can't afford James Cameron because it's just another horror sequel? What is a studio to do? How about hire a Cameron protege? New Line Cinema/Warner Bros has hired Steven Quale to direct the upcoming horror 3D sequel Final Destination 5. Quale is a…
Read MoreThe last time we saw footage from Dogtooth, the Greek film by Yorgos Lanthimos that was a sensation at festivals last year, it was a NSFW foreign trailer. Now there's a domestic trailer to advertise this story of extreme family disfunction. Amazingly, it actually makes the film look more insane than the explicit clip did.…
Read MoreMax Minghella (Bee Season, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Agora, The Social Network) has joined the cast of the Timur Bekmambetov-produced alien invasion movie titled The Darkest Hour. Described as a 28 Days Later-type thriller, the story follows a group of American tourists visiting Moscow Russia when an alien invasion occurs. Thirlby will…
Read MoreWe've seen two trailers so far for the remake of The Karate Kid, both of which focused pretty heavily on the film's story. In the runup to the release of the film this week there's a third trailer, and this one is almost exclusively action, including a street chase scene that is vaguely reminiscent of…
Read MoreIf you worked at Industrial Light & Magic in 1979 as part of the night crew, then you probably had this Empire Strikes Back crew t-shirt. As part of the 30th anniversary celebration, LucasFilm has reprduced the tee and is selling it online on StarWars.com in sizes Small to XXL for $23.99. Cool Stuff is…
Read MoreWalt Disney Studios will release the new Muppet Movie (which at one time was to be titled The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made or The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made) on Christmas 2011 (December 25th 2011). The movie is written by Forgetting Sarah Marshall scribe/star Jason Segel and Get Him to the Greek/Sarah Marshall director…
Read MoreComicsContinuum is reporting that Warner Home Video has greenlit a DC Universe animated adaptation of Frank Miller and David Mazzucchilli's Batman: Year One. According to the report, the film will be directed by Sam Liu, who co-directed Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, Planet Hulk, and Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. No confirmation from WHV at this…
Read MoreBet you'd forgotten, or maybe didn't even realize, that Edward Norton and Robert De Niro were in a gritty, sorta realistic prison thriller called Stone. We ran a promo trailer for the film in September of last year, but I never thought much about it afterward. Now there's a trailer for the film, which has…
Read MoreAmazon has a great sale on the Coraline (Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy w/ 3D) for only $9.99, 63% off the $27 suggested retail price. I'm not sure how long this price will be available, so act quick.
Read MoreThe most attention-getting thing to hit the 'net on a very slow news day is this seven minutes of Mortal Kombat footage featuring Michael Jai White as Jax. There's a lot going on here -- introductions and backstory for antagonists like Reptile and Baraka, a fight scene featuring Johnny Cage, and even Jeri Ryan as…
Read MoreWarner Bros has released four new theatrical banners for Christopher Nolan's Inception on Virgin. This is honestly some of the coolest marketing images I've seen in quite some time. Take a look at all four banners after the jump. Click on the images below to enlarge: [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] INCEPTION In theatres and IMAX…
Read MoreUpdate: DEBUNKED - USA Today writer Anthony Breznican tweeted "Lucasfilm tells me flat-out: #IndianaJones 5 rumors, Bermuda Triangle, etc, are completely bogus. Not happening." In June of 2009, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull co-star Shia LaBeouf told reporters that Steven Spielberg had "cracked" the story for Indiana Jones 5 and he…
Read MoreLast month we told you that director John Hillcoat would be directing a 30-minute trailer/machinima/short film for Rockstar Games newest video game, Red Dead Redemption. The short gives us "a glimpse inside the life of partially reformed outlaw John Marston as he journeys through the vanishing American west seeking out his former brothers in arms,…
Read MoreX-Men: First Class is slowly casting up. James McAvoy is on board as the young Charles Xavier, and there's the word that director Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson is going to play a role. Spider-Man shortlist actor Frank Dillane may also be up for a role. Now there's a report that Vaughn and Fox…
Read MoreA couple weeks back, we reprinted a joke Brett Ratner told which involved Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick (if you haven't read it, click here). /Film reader Mario A later informed me that San Juan Puerto Rico-based artist Miguel Bayón decided to illustrate the joke, as seen above.
Read MoreWarning: this is one of those stories that could lead to a little too much speculation; note that there's no deal implied here. But it's an interesting notion, so that said... A-Team director Joe Carnahan is doing the press rounds, as his film opens this week, and naturally the subject of past project developments and…
Read MoreBriefly: The 2012 Summer Olympic Games will take place in London in July and August of that year, and the Olympic organizers are already wooing talent to contribute to the event. After Zhang Yimou put together the opening ceremony for the 2008 Games, a certain standard has been set. So London organizers reportedly have their…
Read MoreWe've reported over the past couple years that Transformers had seemingly created enough giant robot movie momentum that Voltron, the Americanized edit of a 1981 Japanese animated series in which robot lions form a giant super-robot, would get a movie of its own. That's no longer the case which, given the quality of the Transformers…
Read MoreLast year we posted an awesome fan-made movie trailer for a big screen Green Lantern film, edited together by Jaron Pitts using clips from a bunch of different movies, using composited computer generated imagery. If you haven't seen it before, click the link and watch it now. Scott Glassgold, co-chief of IAM Entertainment, saw the…
Read MoreIn December, producer Mark Wahlberg revealed plans for Entourage’s future: two more seasons of the HBO television series followed up with “a movie.” Wahlberg offered an update while doing press at the MTV Movie Awards. Wahlberg told MTV News that he is actually "more focused on making that movie than my own films." Here is…
Read MoreWWE Studios announced today that Kevin Corrigan (American Gangster), Ariel Winter (“Modern Family”) and Annabeth Gish (“The West Wing”) have joined WWE® Superstar Paul “Triple H” Levesque (who had a small role in Blade: Trinity) in the cast of the studios’ upcoming comedy, The Chaperone. Triple H plays ex-con Ray Bradstone, a former getaway driver…
Read MoreYou want a Les Grossman film. You may not have realized that, but it's true. Tom Cruise knows you want a Les Grossman film. He knows that his pudgy, balding, egocentric turn in Tropic Thunder is the most popular thing he's done in years, and so -- in true modern Hollywood fashion -- he's working…
Read MoreDuring Steve Jobs keynote at the WWDC earlier today, it was announced that Netflix is developing an app for the iPhone which would allow customers to stream movies on their iPhone. Following the announcement of the Netflix iPhone app, Pulitzer prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert tweeted that he "will never, ever, watch a movie on…
Read MoreThe 30-minute special, The Making of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which aired on NBC on Sunday night is now available online on Hulu. Watch it now embedded after the jump.
Read MoreThe Guardian has a regular feature called "The Film That Changed My Life", which featured film directors talking about the movie that inspired their art. The latest edition features Brick/The Brothers Bloom director Rian Johnson talking about Federico Fellini's 8½: Even though I was enamoured with film at college, I took literature classes and was…
Read MoreThere's another good addition to the Captain America: The First Avenger cast today: Stanley Tucci is now on board as Dr. Abraham Erskine, the creator of Captain America. Well, Erskine creates the Super-Soldier serum, which when given to Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) turns him into a perfect physical specimen, from which it's just a red,…
Read MoreWe've known a little bit about the upcoming remake of Fright Night, to be directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl), but not a lot of key details. Most of what we know is background and casting: Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Marti Noxon wrote the script, and Anton Yelchin is in the…
Read MoreExcuse me if I state the obvious: While this daily column is titled "Cool Stuff", the stuff we feature doesn't really fit the traditional or mainstream definition of "cool". We feature items that might be of specific interest to tv and movie geeks, some of which could be enough to get you ridiculed by the…
Read More2010 MTV Movie Awards host/comedian Aziz Ansari opened with a rant against Hollywood's new obsession with 3D movies and Twilight. If you missed the monologue when it aired live, you can watch it right now embedded after the jump.
Read MoreBriefly: I'll keep this short, since we have no reliable info to go on. The site Bleeding Cool is reporting that multiple sources have told them that actor Jamie Bell has been tapped to star in Sony's reboot of Spider-Man, directed by Marc Webb. If you'll recall, he was on the shortlist reported a couple…
Read MoreThe Goonies was released on June 7th 1985, twenty five years ago today. The film was a huge part of my childhood, as I assume it must have been for many children of the 80's. In fact, as I type this post, I'm staring at a huge French Goonies poster hung on my office wall.…
Read MoreThe first trailer for Showgirls Exposed, the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's camp 1995 film, drew no few snickers and chuckles when it hit the internet a few months ago. Last Friday, Twitch posted a second trailer, with the title "My Eyes Can Stand No More Than Four Minutes Of Marc Vorlander's SHOWGIRLS: EXPOSED." It isn't…
Read MoreAnother clip to premiere during the MTV Movie Awards was for M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. The one minute clip is a showcase of some of the film's more action-packed special effects-filled moments. Watch it right now, embedded after the jump.
Read MoreJohn Carpenter last had a feature in theaters in 2001 with Ghosts of Mars, but he's been working his way back to the multiplex in the long years since. There were a couple of episodes of Showtime's Masters of Horror series, for example. And he's got the feature The Ward, starring Amber Heard, in post-production…
Read MoreGuillermo Del Toro has left one final message on TheOneRing.net about his departure from The Hobbit and the future of the planned film adaptations. You can read the letter after the jump. So, here I am again. As promised, I am posting a longer message before the week's end. I have to thank those of…
Read MoreLets face it, the MTV Movie Awards is not a real award show. It's more a piece of badly choreographed television "entertainment" than anything else. I mean, at what other Award show does Twilight: New Moon take home five awards, and the movie Obsessed win... well, anything -- EVER? For those of you who are…
Read MoreOver the past few years we've seen a lot of montages, re-edits and remixes based on footage from popular movies, and popular action movies in particular. But none is quite like Pure, which is almost brutal in the way it slices every bit of extraneous material away from the skeleton of the action movie. I…
Read MoreA new movie trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows premiered during the MTV Awards tonight. Watch it now after the jump, and please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Voldemort's power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish…
Read MoreEdgar Wright premiered the first clip from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World during the MTV Movie Awards Pre-Show. The sequence features a battle between Scott (Michael Cera) and one of his girlfriend Ramona's evil exes, Lucas Lee (Chris Evans) a Hollywood movie star and professional skateboarder. What most impresses me about this clip is the…
Read MoreDay & Night is the new Pixar short film that will run in front of Toy Story 3. We've posted a couple of items about the film in the past, and briefly described the way it blends 2D and 3D animation to depict the meeting between two characters, Night and Day. Now there's a behind…
Read More[Update: A huge thanks to everyone who came to the meet up! All of us at /Film (including Stephen Tobolowsky), Derrick, and TRS, had a blast! It was an honor and a pleasure to meet so many of you, and we are so grateful to have you as members of our community. Apologies for the…
Read MoreWarner Bros. Consumer Products has revealed the first official logo/promotional art for the Green Lantern live-action movie. Check it out now, after the jump. Press Release: Warner Bros. Consumer Products, DC Comics and Mattel "Ring" in Intergalactic Offerings for Green Lantern Batman: The Brave and the Bold, DC Super Friends and Young Justice Round Out…
Read MoreMust be great to be a new feature director and end up with a cast like this: first-timer Aaron Harvey is directing Catch .44, and he's got Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker and Malin Akerman on board to star. The film is about three women, led by Akerman, who get tied into a weird scenario involving…
Read MoreJoseph Fiennes and Eva Green will travel back to Camelot, the Starz series that re-tells the story of King Arthur. Fiennes is Merlin, while Green will be Morgana. Solid casting with both, though I'm not certain that I'll ever be able to look at an Arthurian film or TV series without having to leap the…
Read MoreVincenzo Natali's Splice is out in theaters everywhere today, and I couldn't be more curious and excited. Why? Excited because I consider the Natali to be a bold talent, who is just at the beginning of an incredibly accomplished directing career; curious, because I want to know to what degree general audiences are willing to…
Read MoreTrailers 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…
Read MoreHannover House has released the first official trailer for Joel Schumacher's Twelve, which no one seemed to like when it premiered as the Closing Night Film in the 2010 Sundance Film Festival (Watch my video review here). From a filmmaker who has given us such diverse films as The Lost Boys, The Phantom of the…
Read MoreYou have got to be s***ting me. OK, quick recap on the attempt by Disney to sell off the Miramax name and catalog. Early in the game there were three major sets of bidders: Ron Burkle and the Weinsteins; the cash-rich Gores Brothers; and investor Ron Tutor and his advisor partner David Bergstein. That's the…
Read MoreSony Pictures Classics have released the trailer for Samuel Maoz's Lebanon, the contained tank Israeli war film which won the Golden Lion, the top prize at last year's Venice Film Festival. The whole movie takes place inside a tank, from the perspective of the soliders inside the cramped quarters, as they attempt to rescue and…
Read MoreTo promote the Adidas Star Wars Originals Collection, LucasFilm created a special two minute commercial which inserts David Beckham, Daft Punk, Snoop Dogg, Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown, Ciara, Jay Baruchel, and DJ Neil Armstrong into the famous Cantina Scene from Star Wars . I guess the revisionist explanation is that it is an…
Read MoreLionsgate has released a new poster for the Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried. You might remember that the independent film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical and audience acclaim, sparking a multi-studio bidding war. The story follows a private contractor who is kidnapped in Iraq and buried alive. He has 90 minutes of…
Read MoreThis. Is. Awesome. The producers of Dead Snow have enabled the creation of Norwegian Ninja, which is actually, amazingly, sort of based on a true story. In real life Arne Trehold was a Norwegian diplomat exiled after being convicted of working for the Soviets during the Cold War. In the film, he's not a spy,…
Read MoreWriting about screenplay buys can be difficult -- there isn't often a lot of detail about a story and without creative talent beyond the writer and producer, we're often left to do little more than speculate about what the finished product might be like. But what the hell, we'll do it anyway. Three big script…
Read MoreOne of my favorite parts of Hollywood Boulevard was the ridiculous costumed superheroes that posed for photos near the Grauman's Chinese Theater. Jimmy Kimmel regularly featured these performers on his show, and a documentary was even made about the characters called Confessions of a Superhero (watch it on Hulu for free). Well it appears there…
Read MoreBriefly: I'm not sure why this would even be a question, but apparently there has been some lingering curiosity about whether Christopher Nolan might bring back -- i.e. recast -- the Joker in Batman 3. You can officially lay any curiosity to rest at this point, as Nolan said the following to Empire in response…
Read MoreIf you watch enough television shows and movies, then you might even start to notice that a bunch of the same props are used over and over again. I first noticed this with a magazine prop in various television shows including Married With Children, which featured a gum advertisement on the back cover. Someone on…
Read MoreReports are pouring in (via AP) that McDonald's is voluntarily recalling 12 million Shrek Forever After novelty drinking glasses, after it was discovered that the paint on the sides of the glasses contains the toxic chemical cadmium. Looks like McDonalds and Shrek have found yet another way to poison our children. The 16-ounce glasses were…
Read MoreLet the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson was initially slow to lock down a follow-up film. He was a part of The Danish Girl for a while, before walking away. (Lasse Hallström directed instead.) Now Alfredson is making a film called Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which is now casting. The one actor definitely set…
Read MoreSadly, these two movies don't seem to have simultaneously killed each other in a fight to the death, but regardless: both Hairspray 2 and the Metal Gear Solid movie are dead. At least for the moment. There's always the possibility of a zombie attack. Details on both after the break -- I know you'll wade…
Read MoreOver the last week, concept art has leaked for Marvel's Thor and Captain America giving fans a better understanding of what the future superheroes will look like. Yesterday we published an image which was quickly put together by a /Film reader, combining the heroes that will make up the upcoming superhero team-up film The Avengers.…
Read MoreSince screening the film at Cannes, we've been hyping Gareth Edwards' new low budget monster movie Monsters. Hollywood is already going nuts over the filmmaker, who supposedly made the film for a fraction of a million dollars (maybe even as little as $15,000), and some are touting him as the next Neill Blomkamp. Yesterday we…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the James Bond 11-Movie Ultimate Blu-ray Collection for only $99.99, 67% off the $300 msrp. This ultimate collection includes: Die Another Day, Dr. No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, License to Kill, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun,…
Read MoreA couple months back, it was revealed that Walt Disney Pictures is developing a revisionist retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story titled Maleficent that focuses on the Mistress of all Evil -- written by Alice in Wonderland screenwriter Linda Woolverton for Tim Burton with the possibility of Angelina Jolie to star. Last month the Mouse…
Read MoreLionsgate has just released a second movie trailer for Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables, which tplays more like a teaser trailer compared to the first trailer (which featured actual footage from the movie). The second trailer instead attempts to sells the film on the extensive list of action stars in the film. Watch . Watch the new trailer…
Read MoreMan, the past twenty-four hours have been all Marvel, all the time. From Captain America and Thor concept art to more Cap casting and now this confirmation of a rumor that started around Thanksgiving of last year: Jeremy Renner is close to signing a deal to appear in The Avengers as the hero Hawkeye. This…
Read MoreHere's some good Captain America: The First Avenger casting news: Neal McDonough (Minority Report, Flags of Our Fathers) is reportedly in talks to play the 'Howling Commando' Dum Dum Dugan in Joe Johnston's film. Deadline has the 'in talks' news, and if McDonough ends up in the film he'd likely fight alongside Samuel L. Jackson's…
Read MoreIn the past couple weeks, the most widely-reported word on David Fincher's remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was that Brad Pitt was waiting on Steve Zaillian's first script draft, which was turned in on June 1. The belief was that Pitt was going to make a decision about starring in the film…
Read MoreWhat if Team America: World Police were British, took place during World War II, and was totally serious? Well...more serious. OK, fine, what if Team America was British and set in WWII? You might have something like Jackboots on Whitehall, which tells the story of an alternate WWII in which Goering, Goebbels and Himmler plan…
Read More20th Century Fox has released a movie trailer for the Jack Black fantasy comedy Gulliver's Travels. Directed by Rob Letterman (co-director of Monsters vs Aliens) and co-starring Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Romany Malco, Billy Connolly, T.J. Miller, and Amanda Peet. Based on the book by Jonathan Swift, this adventure comedy tells the story of "travel…
Read MoreEver since the finales of 24 and Lost, I've been searching for a television show to fill the void. NBC's new series The Event seems to be conceived as a mash-up of both shows, combining the action and political intrigue of 24 and the mystery of Lost. Will it be half as good as either…
Read MoreThis probably won't be fair and balanced. Writer/producer James Sciafani has scripted a film about conservative pundit and talk show host Rush Limbaugh -- aka one of the most popular radio personalities in America -- and is shopping the film around for financing. But the movie isn't likely to be terribly sympathetic to Limbaugh, as…
Read MoreFox Searchlight wants to go back to India. But this won't quite be a return to a story like Slumdog Millionaire -- i.e. the film that made Fox Searchlight a ton of money and generated a few Oscars to decorate the mantle. This time the company is looking at a film that skews a bit…
Read MoreOne of the films I really loved at this year's Sundance Film Festival was The Duplass Brothers' Cyrus, a comedy about "a recently divorced depressed guy who meets the woman of his dreams, who he learns lives with her 21 year old son." The film stars John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, and Catherine…
Read MoreIn November 2008, Steve Guttenberg claimed that a third Three Men and a Baby film was being developed: "Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and I are looking to make another Three Men And A Baby movie," says Steve. "It’s called Three Men and A Bride. The script is pretty much written and we are really keen…
Read MorePirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is gearing up to shoot in the next few weeks, so it's time to hear about all the additional cast that will join Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane under the direction of Rob Marhsall. A few weeks back we mentioned that Stephen Graham was among the…
Read MoreThe Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor gay love story slash prison break film I Love You, Phillip Morris just can't catch a break in the US. Or, it hasn't been able to catch a break in the past year since being picked up well after Sundance by Consolidated Pictures Group. Now a judge in California…
Read MoreThe best film I screened at the Cannes Film Festival this year was a sci-fi monster movie titled Monsters, which had originally premiered at SXSW. The film and director have been the talk of Hollywood ever since. Is he the next Neill Blomkamp? The movie is set six years after a NASA probe crashed over…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures bought the billboard located at Santa Monica/Westwood in Los Angeles for an entire year. Beginning in mid-December, the studio has been updating the location with new Tron Legacy advertisements, at the rate of one every month and a half or so. And it was revealed they will keep doing so up until…
Read MoreIn the latest issue of Empire Magazine, Christopher Nolan comments on the upcoming Superman reboot that David Goyer is writing and he is producing: "..What it is, while David Goyer and myself were putting together the story for another Batman film a few years ago, you know thrashing out where we might move on from…
Read MoreWith concept art of Thor and Captain America's costume having been leaked online this week, /Film reader Randolph decided to put together an updated early preview of what The Avengers might look like. Check it out, after the jump.
Read MoreTaylor Lautner's action film Abduction, to be directed by John Singleton, just got an extra dose of class. Sigourney Weaver is joining the cast as "a psychiatrist to Lautner's character, who discovers his own baby picture on a missing persons website." Also in the supporting cast are Lily Collins and Alfred Molina. [Variety] After the…
Read MoreA bunch of students turned Carleton College’s Goodsell Observatory into R2-D2, complete with sound effects. A funny and harmless prank, all of the the “decorations” were draped or taped onto the dome and there was no permanent defacement of the property. After the jump you can see some more photos and even a short video…
Read MoreAs you probably know by now, Universal has teamed with Peter Jackson ro rebuild a 3D 360-degree King Kong attraction at Universal Studios. Universal has been hyping the upcoming ride, King Kong 360 3-D, by staging Kong's footprints/destruction in real life locations around Los Angeles, including Dodger Stadium and the beach at the Santa Monica…
Read MoreAardman Animation is a UK-based animation studio responsible stop-motion, clay animation productions, particularly those featuring Wallace & Gromit. In April 2007, Aardman signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to produce feature films, but the company still regularly produces shorts. The latest is titled "Fly" and comes from supervising animator Alan Short. Watch the…
Read MoreAmazon.com is offering an incredible deal in today's gold box, The Wire: The Complete Series is available for only $89.99. That's 64% of the MSRP of $250. Pick it up quick, because at the end of the day, the deal is done. This is a ridiculously cheap price for what some believe is the greatest…
Read MoreSome of you may have noticed a “Behind the Scenes” Inception featurette playing in select theater during the pre-show entertainment (ie the junk before the trailers begin). The two and a half minute featurette is now online, watch it embedded after the jump. new embed thanks to playlist
Read MoreLost fans will know the name Jack Bender, a man who served as Executive Producer on 101 of the 114 episodes of the television series Lost. He also directed 36 episodes of the series, including some of the most talked about episodes: Walkabout, White Rabbit, Exodus, Man of Science, Man of Faith, Through the Looking…
Read MoreJust hours ago a set of images leaked that seemed to be artist renderings of Chris Evans in character as Captain America. Now there's a second set, in very much the same style, rendering Chris Hemsworth as he might look in Thor. These are either exceptional fakes, or a significant leak out of Marvel. And…
Read MoreWant to watch the first five minutes of the new Russell Brand/Jonah Hill comedy Get Him To The Greek before deciding if its worth the price of an opening weekend ticket purchase? Universal has put the film's opening sequence online. Greek made me laugh so hard it started to hurt, and is highly recommended despite…
Read MoreParamount Pictures has released the second movie trailer for the Steve Carell/Paul Rudd comedy Dinner for Schmucks. The film, helmed by Jay Roach (the director of the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents films), tells the story of a rising executive who "succeeds" in finding the perfect guest, an IRS employee, for his boss's monthly…
Read MoreLast week we posted and ridiculed the unsolicited video audition that reality television star Heidi Montag recorded for Michael Bay in an attempt to become Megan Fox's replacement in Transformers 3. We joked that Montag would have probably had better luck modeling some skimpy clothes or, gasp, reading from a sample page of script sides,…
Read MoreUpdate: As expected, reps are saying this story is false. Star Magazine claims that Jennifer Aniston will reunite with her Friends co-star Courteney Cox in Scream 4. According to the report, Aniston would play the character who (spoiler alert/invisotext) gets killed off in the opening sequence. Any fan of the series knows this is a…
Read MoreLast week it was revealed that 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. MTV got a chance to talk to Silver who was promoting Splice this week, and the mega-producer confirms that the upcoming remake is being developed as…
Read MoreHow many juicy roles are there for unbearably precocious young actresses like Chloe Moretz? Not as many as you'd think, which makes a star turn in an adaptation of a novel about " a 13-year-old Nebraska girl who gets more than she bargained for when she runs away to Las Vegas" seem like a pretty…
Read MoreWhen we first started to hear about a sequel to the late-'80s buddy comedy/thriller Midnight Run, the word was that only Robert De Niro was expected to return. Original co-star Charles Grodin has more or less retired from acting, and director Martin Brest hasn't made anything since 2003's Gigli -- seemed like he wouldn't be…
Read MoreHow could the gulf oil spill possibly get any worse? Scientists went to filmmaker Michael Bay for the worst case scenario briefing, in the latest web comic from XKCD. Check it out after the jump. Read more web comics on XKCD.
Read MoreAMC Television has released a batch of eight first look photos showing us "The Walkers", from Frank Darabont's small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead. Check out the full photo after the jump, along with a short video interview featurette with Frank Darabont and Gale Anne Hurd. Here is the full photo. The photo was…
Read MoreLast week we heard that Paramount was holding an open casting call seeking 13-14 year old boys and girls with "a Midwestern feel" for a production that many (including us) guessed might be J.J. Abrams' soon-to-shoot Super 8. But now a listing suggests that, despite being for a Bad Robot production, the call is for…
Read MoreWarner Bros. Animation has announced they have begun production on a new ThunderCats animated series for Cartoon Network. Strangely, this comes only a few days after we learned that 56-year-old Stephen Perry, who wrote for the 1980s cartoon series, was found murdered. I remember loving the Thundercats as a kid, and there was constant talks…
Read MoreEarlier this month, the Alamo Drafthouse held two sold out screenings of UHF at the huge Paramount Theater with Director Jay Levey and Weird Al Yankovic in attendance. To commemorate the event, MondoTees worked with Jay and Al and come up with a special limited edition poster. The poster, designed by Rich Kelley, is available…
Read MoreIf Kevin Costner won't save our oceans, who will? How about James Cameron? As if it isn't enough that Kevin Costner's water-therapy machine could be deployed to help clean up the BP oil spill along the Gulf coast, James Cameron has been 'brainstorming' with scientists about ways to contain the spill. Reuters reports that Cameron's…
Read MoreYesterday Apple co-founder / chief executive officer and Walt Disney Company board member Steve Jobs was interviewed on stage at the D8 Conference where he talked about a variety of topics, including the future of movies. According to Jobs, the movie industry needs to change to preserve the value of the content. During the question…
Read MoreHow many runs through a script can a studio take? Moneyball is supposed to shoot in a little over a month, after a year of wrangling and being on life support. Now Steve Zaillian, who wrote the draft that got the scrapped Steven Soderbergh version moving in the first place, is back on the picture.…
Read MoreIn late 2008 Stephen Norrington signed on to write and direct a new version of The Crow, based (to some extent) on James O'Barr's graphic novel and comics about a dead rocker whose spirit returns to seek vengeance on the men who killed him and raped his girlfriend. The 1994 film version directed by Alex…
Read MorePaul Rudd will star in My Idiot Brother, an indie comedy that will have the actor as "an idealist, dealing with his overbearing mother, who crashes into the homes of his three ambitious sisters and, in succession, brings truth, happiness and a sunny disposition into their lives while also wreaking havoc." Is it any wonder…
Read MoreWarner Bros has acquired the movie rights to Matt Kindt's graphic novel 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man, which is published by Dark Horse Comics. HeatVision is reporting that the studio has already signed Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning writer of Milk, to pen and direct the adaptation. Publisher's Weekly describes the…
Read MoreAt TED 2010, John Underkoffler, the science advisor for Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, gave a demo of futuristic g-speak 3D user interface. Remember the data interface from Minority Report? Well, it's real, John Underkoffler invented it -- as a point-and-touch interface called g-speak -- and it's about to change the way we interact with data.…
Read MoreBy now you've probably seen the teaser trailer for the Steven Spielberg-produced JJ Abrams-directed sci-fi film Super 8. If you haven't, please click the link before reading on. What we know so far about the project can fit into a few sentences. The actual movie has something to do with "the possibility that a group…
Read MoreAfter Zack Snyder's big screen adaptation of Frank Miller's 300 became a huge hit, Miller quickly started working on a follow-up prequel graphic novel titled Xerxes. Three years later, and we finally have our first look at art from the upcoming graphic novel/possible future movie adaptation. Check out the full image after the jump. Miller…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is Babylon 5: The Complete Seasons 1-5 for only $99.99, 67% off the $301 msrp. Between the five seasons, you get 30 discs. The price will disappear at midnight tonight (Wednesday, June 2nd 2010), so act fast. Amazon is offering the George Carlin: All My Stuff 14…
Read MoreVincenzo Natali's Splice hits theaters later this week, and Warner Bros has released one last movie trailer to promote the film -- an internet exclusive trailer. Watch the trailer now embedded after the jump, and please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Synopsis: SPLICE In theatres on June 4 (Warner Bros. Pictures/Dark Castle…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette titled "Good vs. Evil" for the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, Jon Turteltaub-directed The Sorcerer's Apprentice. In “Good vs. Evil,” we’re introduced to Dave [Jay Baruchel], Balthazar Blake’s [Nicolas Cage] apprentice, as he begins to master the art of sorcery through his teacher. We also discover the centuries old…
Read MoreHope Davis (About Schmidt), James Rebhorn (Independence Day, The Game) and Olga Fonda (Love Hurts) has been cast in Shawn Levy's futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel. No word on what roles they will play. Golden Globe nominated actor Adam Beach (Flags of Our Fathers, Windtalkers) has joined the cast of Jon Favreau's big screen…
Read MoreWiReD Magazine has received a mysterious package which appears to be the next installment of the viral marketing for Christopher Nolan's Inception -- "a weathered, beaten and stamped classified' Dream-Share: Tactical Employment Procedures Manual" which features "dirty and heavily redacted pages." Here are a couple sample pages from the book: What does it all mean?…
Read MoreIt's been a little while since our last movie poster round-up, so now is the time to check out all the new one-sheets that have hit your local multiplex and the interwebs. Posters include: the Jack Black fantasy comedy Gulliver's Travels, the 3D video game sequel Resident Evil: Afterlife, a banner for The Expendables, the…
Read MoreDeadline has learned that Brad Pitt's production company Plan B have teamed with Reliance to acquire the big screen rights to Tom Rachman's novel The Imperfectionists. The book tells the story of intersecting lives of the men and women who produce an English-language newspaper based in Rome. A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism,…
Read MoreLast week we posted the first photos from the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 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 Yates is filming the scenes for the last movie,…
Read MoreNO PHOTO In April, we posted the first set photos of Hank Azaria as Gargamel in Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures' big screen CGI/live action hybrid 3D adaptation of The Smurfs. Many commentors thought Azaria looked ridiculous. You haven't seen anything yet. The film is currently shooting in New York City, and recently shot a sequence…
Read MoreSome of the cast of the Harry Potter films (Robbie Coltrane, Emma Watson, Matthew Lewis, and James and Oliver Phelps) were given the opportunity to visit the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park at Universal's Orlando Resort a few weeks before the officially grand opening. After the jump you can watch a video…
Read MoreNews is a little slow so far today while LA wakes up from the long Memorial Day weekend, but there are a couple of notable Marvel rumors worth commenting upon that have cropped up in the past couple days. The first is that Marvel is in talks with Josh Holloway from Lost. Avengers News says…
Read MoreKen Watanabe has worked as an actor in Japan for over twenty years, and since his breakout western role in The Last Samurai, he's become a fan-favorite character actor. Now, as Watanabe is about to be seen in Christopher Nolan's Inception, there is word that the actor is in talks to make the leap to…
Read MoreLast week, MTV 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. Now Grossman has returned for another…
Read MoreDespite the fact that Universal passed on financing the picture, Paul Thomas Anderson is still working on his next film The Master, about a man who creates a ‘faith-based organization’ that mushrooms into an empire in the ’50s. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jeremy Renner are on board, and now Anderson is working to cast some…
Read MorePrior to his breakout as an actor in District 9, Sharlto Copley was pursuing a career intended to be located behind the camera rather than in front of it. He worked behind the scenes on Alive in Joburg and District 9 (and directed himself as D9's Wikus in a brief comedy piece) and has been…
Read MoreTakashi Miike, one of the most prolific directors in the world, has two new films for 2010. One has already been released in Japan: Zebraman 2, which provides a sequel to Miike's charmingly oddball 'superhero' movie from 2004. The other is 13 Assassins, a dead-serious samurai movie which seems to be a bit like The…
Read MoreJean-Pierre Melville's film Le Cercle Rouge (aka The Red Circle) has been possible remake fodder for years. John Woo had his eye on it at one time (he's long been a Melville devotee) and over the last couple of years it looked like Johnnie To was going to direct his own version. (Which was an…
Read MoreMcG isn't the name that comes to mind when I think of a producer for the adaptation of a teen-centric novel about a girl who forms an enemies with benefits relationship with the hot dude she thinks she hates most. But there goes McG, optioning The DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) from 20-year old author…
Read MoreWe thought we had seen the very last movie trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, but over the weekend a new international (Japanese) trailer was unleashed. Watch the trailer right now after the jump and please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Plot Synopsis: Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated…
Read MoreWe've been trying to uncover more details about the bonus 12-14 minute Lost epilogue which will be included in the series blu-ray/dvd release. The epilogue is supposed to answer some of the leftover questions from the series finale. Here are the updates: The epilogue is actually only 11-minutes in length. The title of the epilogue…
Read MoreLast month it was revealed that ABC will include a bonus 12-14 minute Lost epilogue which will answer some of the leftover questions from the series finale. We now have a few more details of what/who we will see in this extra segment, which will be released on the Lost: Complete Series DVD/Blu-Ray set. Hit…
Read MoreThe new Apple iPhone commercial directed by Sam Mendes, the Academy Award-winning director of American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road and Away We Go, is now online. The commercial premiered after Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone 4 during Apple's WWDC keynote today (June 7th 2010). But this isn't the first time that Apple…
Read MoreThis week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss the brilliance of Wayne Kramer, forecast a potentially bleak future for both Futurama and Party Down, shower some appreciation on the under-appreciated War of the Worlds, and get excited about Michel Gondry's Green Hornet. Russ Fischer joins us for this episode. You can always e-mail…
Read MoreThe /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…
Read MoreStephen gives tips on auditioning and some recollections of the film Memento as he recalls some of the dangers of knowing too little as well as the dangers of knowing too much. The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and…
Read MoreThis week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley get extremely disappointed by Jonah Hex, speculate on the prospects of a Ghost Rider sequel, and wonder when movie studios will start delivering movies to people when they want, in the ways that they want them. Special guest Greg Mariotti joins us from Pixar Talk. You…
Read MoreThe final reveal of the magic act in Buffalo: A date with Faye, the art of the boilermaker, and a new respect for Plan B. 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…
Read MoreThe /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…
Read MoreA week ago we heard that Danny Boyle was the top choice to direct the opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. It was rumor at the time, but has now been confirmed. And along with Boyle, the committee in charge has tapped film director Stephen Daldry to be the creative producer…
Read MoreIn this week’s /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley praise the directorial talents of the Duplass Brothers, decry the way the Hollywood system objectifies women, appreciate the low-budget directing talents of Vincenzo Natali, and fail to get excited for a Les Grossman film. Special guest Katey Rich joins us from Cinema Blend. You…
Read MoreThe /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…
Read MoreStephen finds the only thing expected is the unexpected in the City of Illusions. 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 can always e-mail Stephen at stephentobolowsky(AT)gmail(DOT)com,…
Read MoreIn this week’s /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss the pleasures of Get Him To the Greek, praise the filmmaking of Exit Through the Gift Shop, and try to figure out whether or not The Usual Suspects holds up on repeat viewings. /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta and /Film writer Russ Fischer join…
Read MoreThe /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…
Read MoreLots 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 content from…
Read MoreDon't look at Plan B as a setback - it's just taking the scenic route. 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 can always e-mail Stephen at…
Read MoreWith Bond 23 indefinitely delayed, Sam Mendes has been looking for new projects. For a moment it looked like he might jump on to The Great and Powerful Oz, Disney's new Oz movie that could star Robert Downey, Jr. (Think this year's Alice in Wonderland plus Sherlock Holmes.) But it looks like Mendes will cede…
Read MoreIn this week’s /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley debate whether or not Michael Bay is the right person to take over Ninja Turtles, discuss the artistic ethics of "fixing" an older film, and remember the passing of Dennis Hopper. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail…
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