Today's video of the day is a very short stop motion animated short film titled I Am Beautiful. Directed by Joshua & Nathan Flynn, the animation which stars Star Trek’s Commander Worf and Cadet 'red shirt' Wilhelm, was created as an introduction for the 'Best Stop Motion' award category of the 2009 University of Glamorgan…
Read MoreThis is an update that we should have included in today's previous Guillermo del Toro update, but it was buried in the middle of a long interview with Deadline, and I just caught it. (Plus, after Comic Con, GdT updates are everywhere. We could start a GdT mini-site to run for the next week.) In…
Read MoreThe Toronto International Film Festival announced its lineup of major films today. Attention-getting world premieres are a little thin so far (no The Tree of Life) though there are quite a few films making their world debut at the fest. Keep in mind that TIFF does have to compete with the likes of the Venice…
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. REPO MEN Paul Verhoeven has enough trouble finding love from critics as it is, so it's no wonder that a filmmaker emulating…
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. MOTHER At a certain point, after watching so many movies for so long, you sometimes forget that films can still surprise you.…
Read MoreFelix Meyer and Pascal Monaco picked 35 of their favorite movies and tried to simplify them as much as possible, resulting in "a 2 minute journey through the history of film." Watch the short film titled 35mm after the jump. Take a close look and see how many movies you can recognize.
Read MoreLast year we wrote about a wacky but fun movie theory called the Ferris Bueller Fight Club Theory, which theorized that "Ferris Bueller, the person, is just a figment of Cameron’s imagination, like Tyler Durden in Fight Club, and Sloane is the girl Cameron secretly loves." You can read the original post about the topic…
Read MoreI was pleasantly surprised this morning when I was doing my daily deal-hunting and discovered a buy-one-get-one free deal for Sorcerer's Apprentice tickets. At first I thought it was a Fandango promotion, seeing as how Apprentice is one of Disney's tentpole releases this summer. Why on earth would they be giving away free tickets on…
Read MoreImprov Everywhere is a group of New Yorkers who love to "cause scenes of chaos and joy in public places." You've surely seen many videos of their previous stunts, as many of them have gone viral around the interwebs. Their latest mission was to reenact he first Princess Leia / Darth Vader scene from Star…
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. GREENBERG With Noah Baumbach's directorial breakthrough, The Squid and the Whale, he managed to capture a sense of harsh honesty that permeated…
Read MoreOn /Film, we like to profile commercial filmmakers who might have a future on the big screen. You might remember Adam Berg, as he was the filmmaker behing Philips' 2 minute short film Carousel (the Dark Knight inspired clown robbery shown over one single frozen moment of time). The 139-second advertisement won the prestigious Film Grand…
Read MoreIf Michael Bay made a movie with Legos, it might look something like Keshen8's stop-motion animated short Lego Street Shootout. Watch it now, embedded after the jump. via: geekologie
Read MoreFor the past few years the Bell Lightbox has been under construction just on the north edge of downtown Toronto. The center is meant to be the new headquarters of the Toronto International Film Festival, and it finally opens this year, on September 12. In addition to the annual festival, which opens September 9, the…
Read MoreEarlier this week, we posted Kiel Figgins' short computer animated Tron Homage: Disc Battle, which quickly spread around the interwebs. Apparently the video was a submission in CG Society's TRON Tribute contest. The challenge was to "recreate the LOOK of the world of TRON."After the jump we have a look at another enry from the…
Read MoreLast week we posted Patrick Boivin's short film AT-AT Day Afternoon. The short film replaced a normal dog with a vintage Star Wars AT-AT toy, which with the magic of stop-motion animation and computer compositing effects, comes alive. The video quickly went viral, and spread around the internet clocking in over a million views so…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. A SINGLE MAN A Single Man drowns its audience in beauty. It unapologetically flaunts its gorgeous, dreamy cinematography; it captivates the senses…
Read MoreJeep Cherokee performed a song titled "I'm Bruce Willis" and this is the epic music video. A good tribute to one of our best action heros. Watch the video now, embedded after the jump. via: TDW
Read MoreIf the recently released teaser trailer for David Fincher's The Social Network didn't turn your crank, maybe this news will: According to an announcement on the Nine Inch Nails' website news feed (via Pitchfork), Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are writing the score for the film. Unsurprisingly, Reznor wasn't immediately drawn to the idea of…
Read MorePajiba has edited another wonderful montage of movie clips, this time compiling the 100 greatest movie insults of all time in under 10 minutes. Watch the video now embedded after the jump. Films included in the montage: Roxanne, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Gleaming the Cube, The Princess Bride, A Fish Called Wanda,…
Read MoreFollowing a successful meetup with /Film readers, we approached the rest of our potentially chaotic Comic-Con undertaking unsure of what to expect. Cut to nearly a week later, and those expectations have been fully elucidated (see: The Best and Worst of Comic-Con '10). But for those that haven't been checking back to the site day…
Read MoreFor years Steven Spielberg has been developing a biopic of Abraham Lincoln, and Liam Neeson has long been attached to the title role. But the film has failed to come together for various reasons, and Spielberg is now about to film War Horse, his adaptation of the award-winning play based on Michael Morpurgo's novel. Now…
Read MoreBriefly: This is a pretty small tidbit, but I know that after positive word came out from the Captain America presentation at Comic Con there are a lot of people hungry for every little detail about the movie. So have a logo for the villainous organization HYDRA. In Marvel comics continuity, the cabal is the…
Read MoreAnother keenly-anticipated fall film has been given a release date: Fox Searchlight will open Danny Boyle's 127 Hours on November 5. That's well in time for the film to make an impression on awards voters. I don't even want to get into speculation about whether Boyle can repeat the success he had with Slumdog Millionaire.…
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 MoreOne of the big hits out of Sundance this year was Catfish, a film about a boy who falls for a girl via the internet, then takes a trip to meet her in person. It's one of those films that relies upon mystery from moment one -- basically, everyone I know who has seen the…
Read MorePrecious director Lee Daniels has assembled quite a cast for civil rights film Selma, but the film is still looking for financing, and now the director has made a deal with Sony to rewrite and direct The Butler, based on the story of Eugene Allen, who was a servant in the White House through eight…
Read MoreDarren Aronofsky's latest film, Black Swan, is already slated to open the Venice Film Festival on September 1 and will appear at the Toronto Film Festival only days later. Now Fox Searchlight has set a general opening date for the film that befits its status as a presumed Oscar contender: Black Swan will hit US…
Read MoreTitan Books has announced the upcoming release of The Art of Hammer, which collects together rare and iconic posters from the Hammer archive. The Art of Hammer is the first ever collection of rare and iconic Hammer film posters, with nearly 300 examples drawn from Hammer’s own archive and private collections from around the world…
Read MoreJosh Hutcherson didn't get the role of Peter Parker in Sony's new version of Spider-Man, but he's already had one consolation prize lined up: the second Journey to the Center of the Earth film. Now he's got a second project that sounds like third prize in the race for a meaty starring role like Peter…
Read MoreA lot of people might not recognize the name Mabrouk El Mechri, but I bet a lot of you recognize the name of his last film: JCVD. He's finally about to follow up that film with a kidnapping thriller called The Cold Light of Day, which was announced earlier this year. And he's got Henry…
Read MoreBriefly: There was a minute earlier this week where it looked like Disney's sale of Miramax to Ron Tutor and the investor group Filmyard Holding could have been in jeopardy. Basically, Tutor and his group had to put down some actual money this week. And yesterday they did: $40 million, to be exact. With that…
Read MoreWhile at Comic-Con, I had a chance to interview director Joseph Kosinski about the highly anticipated 3D sci-fi sequel Tron: Legacy. I talked with Joe about his recent transition from commercials to feature films, creating the biggest surprise in Comic-Con history, screening Tron Legacy for David Fincher, light jets and other tron vehicles we've yet…
Read More"Is it real? Or is it Bodacious?" Because you asked for it, here is an epic mash-up of Christopher Nolan's Inception and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Oh wait... you didn't ask for it? Well you got it anyways. Watch it now, embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader constantinos s for the tip. Made…
Read MoreA couple weeks ago, Sony released the full length movie trailer for David Fincher's The Social Network, which I must have watched over a dozen times by now. Is it awesome? Yes. Am I excited to see this movie? Definitely. FirstShowing has discovered a new one minute movie trailer for the film on YouTube, likely…
Read MoreLive in New York and love /Film? Actor Stephen Tobolowsky, /Filmcast co-host Devindra Hardawar, and myself (David Chen) will be hanging out at Revival tonight at 10:00-11:30 PM EST. I have a sneaking suspicion one or two other online personalities may make an appearance as well. Revival is located at 129 E 15th St (between…
Read More[Image removed at the request of FOX] Just Jared (via: BleedingCool) has the first set photo of James Franco, Freida Pinto, and Andy Serkis in The Escapist helmer Rupert Wyatt's Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. The photo is interesting because you can see Serkis in his performance capture suit, complete with…
Read MoreKaryn Kusama is looking to follow up Jennifer's Body, which she directed from Diablo Cody's script, with The Rut, a film about a father and daughter who have a relationship based around hunting and survival. To make things more interesting, Chloe Moretz is in talks to star as the daughter. The LA Times says The…
Read MorePaul Giamatti is moving from one historical television project (John Adams) to another: he'll play former Soviet Union premier Nikita Khrushchev in K Blows Top. The odd name of the HBO film might be your first clue that this won't be an ordinary revisitation of the cold war. The film will be based on Peter…
Read MoreMark Pellington is soon to shoot his low-budget drama/thriller I Melt With You, and he's already got Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven and Rob Lowe set to appear as three of the four male leads. Now the supporting cast is coming together, and the most striking name is Sasha Grey, the young porn star who previously…
Read MoreDirector Wes Craven has tweeted the first set photo of ghostface's return in Scream 4. As you already know, Scream series stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette have all returned to reprise their roles, as did Roger L. Jackson, the voice actor who provides the creepy voice of the killer. Check out the…
Read MoreLouie Psihoyos became a documentary sensation thanks to his film The Cove, which documented the mass hunting and slaughter of dolphins in one town in Japan. Now he is planning to follow that effort with a much bigger film tentatively called The Singing Planet. The subject: the mass extinction of wildlife. Speaking to Momentum, Psihoyos…
Read MoreIs J.J. Abrams about to bring steampunk to the masses? Not quite, but Paramount has bought the rights to Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel, a graphic novel that tells of the world's first robot, supposedly invented in the late 19th century. J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot will handle development of the film. THR says that the…
Read MoreHave you ever noticed that Fast and the Furious is really just a remake of Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 film Point Break, trading the surf boards for fast cars? Hit the jump to see a video comparison.
Read MoreI'd been looking forward to seeing footage from James Gunn's strange low-fi superhero movie Super, and Comic Con provided the goods. I really liked what I saw; Gunn has come up with a no-frills, low-budget approach that lets him play with some characters that are possibly quite sick and twisted. It's the world of underround…
Read MoreWalt Disney Animation Studios has released the first teaser poster for their upcoming computer animated film Tangled on Yahoo Movies. Check out the full one-sheet, after the jump. Previously: 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…
Read MoreLen Wiseman is in final negotiations to direct a "contemporized adaptation" of Total Recall, which was based on the story, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick - the book that spawned the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film. Last year, Columbia Pictures hired Kurt Wimmer to pen the remake. Neal H. Moritz…
Read MoreEveryone want to be in the Zach Galifianakis business these days. He's in the DreamWorks film Dinner for Schmucks, which opens this week, and now the studio has bought a new pitch that is being set up as a starring vehicle for the comedian. Reply All will be written by Phil Johnston; he also wrote…
Read MoreI've been one of the few vocal 3D supporters in the fanboy space, but all these "fake" post converted 3D films have driven me to anger. Threadless has released a new anti-3D t-shirt titled "Hollywood Swindle," a design created by Matt Wasser. Printed on Black Fine Jersey tee, and available for $18 plus shipping. See…
Read MoreWhile at Comic-Con, I had a chance to interview producer turned Disney President of Production Sean Bailey about the highly anticipated 3D sci-fi sequel Tron: Legacy. I talked with Sean about his recent rise to power at Disney, returning to Comic-Con for three years with one film, del Toro's Haunted Mansion, the possibility of a…
Read MoreSeeing David O. Russell move slightly away of the uncomfortable family dramas that defined his breakout period has been interesting, and I wonder if things might have been a lot different had Nailed been finished and released on time. Instead, he channeled his family concerns into The Fighter (which features Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg…
Read MoreAndrew Niccol is prepping I'm.mortal, a sort of sci-fi film with shades of Logan's Run that already has offered the female lead to Amanda Seyfried. Now Deadline says the male lead has been offered to Justin Timberlake. The film is an explicitly 20-something skewed idea, in which people have to buy time if they want…
Read MoreI had predicted that Jonathan Liebesman's Battle: Los Angeles might be the surprise hit of this year's Comic-Con. I was wrong. I've talked with a bunch of people who have screened early cuts of the film, and the buzz I've been hearing from these people is overwhelmingly possitive. For those of you who haven't been…
Read MoreLast week during Comic-Con, Walt Disney Pictures released a new movie trailer for Tron Legacy. If you've been reading /Film for a while, then you know that we usually post high resolution screen captures following the release of the faster edited trailers for high profile movies. It gives you a chance to look at some…
Read MoreWe've known very little about Melancholia, the next film from Lars Von Trier and the follow-up to his festival firebrand Antichrist. He's promised "no more happy endings" and the film has been called a "psychological disaster movie," but beyond that we've had almost nothing to go on. Melancholia recently began production, and Trier held a…
Read MoreWell, there's one genie that can't go back in the bottle. A digital copy of the trailer for Thor -- the same footage shown during Marvel's Saturday panel at Comic Con -- has hit the internet. See it after the break. This can't possibly be official, so it may not last long. And I'm of…
Read MoreA viral YouTube clip shows the relationship between some of Hans Zimmer's score for Inception and the Édith Piaf song "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien."
Read MoreTo the many, many people who bring up H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness (the book that combines exploratory adventure, science fiction and Lovecraft's tales of great, horrible old gods) every time Guillermo del Toro has a window of availability: this one's for you. The director has talked about wanting to adapt Lovecraft's story…
Read MoreWalt Disney Animation Studios has released a featurette for their upcoming computer animated film Tangled. The three minute behind the scenes documentary takes a look at the unique look of the new film. Watch it now, embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader asdf for the tip. Previously: Directed by Byron Howard & Nathan…
Read MoreTitanic 2 is one of those jokes that everyone has made at sometime over the past decade. It's the one sequel no one expects will ever be made. There was even a great mock trailer produced four or five years ago. The Asylum, the direct-to-dvd production company responsible for producing cheap knock-offs of the latest…
Read MoreEarlier today there was a poster for the new film version of Yogi Bear (in 3D!); now there's a teaser trailer that continues the trend of rather terrible character design, but bolsters it with a really weird-looking mix of live action and CGI animation. Smart move on Warner Bros.' part, releasing the poster and trailer…
Read MoreSony Home Entertainment has released a red band movie trailer for the upcoming direct-to-dvd sequel 30 Days of Night: Dark Days. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Thanks to Bloody Disgusting for providing the embed. Official Plot Synopsis: "It’s been a year since the Alaskan town of Barrow’s population was decimated by vampires during…
Read MoreBriefly: That's not a typo in the title. Raised by Wolfs is a comedy pitch that DreamWorks picked up, and Steve Carell is now attached to star in and produce the film that Les Firestein concocted. That's about all the detail we've got right now, though THR says that the spelling of the title is…
Read MoreDepending on how you felt about the final season of Lost, this news will either excite or infuriate you. Word is that Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof met with Ridley Scott and studio reps from 20th Century Fox, and is now set to do a rewrite on the script for Ridley Scott's Alien prequel. Learn more…
Read MoreThe Alamo Drafthouse's Mondo Tees has given us an EXCLUSIVE look at their next officially licensed Star Wars poster: Tomer Hanuka's "Father: Encounter on Dagobah". The 19"x25" poster print is a limited edition of only 250, each hand numbered. The poster will go on sale on Thursday July 29th on the MondoTees website. Please note:…
Read MoreKevin Smith announced the opening round of casting for his film Red State while at Comic Con, and the biggest name is one that probably isn't known to a widespread audience, but will mean a lot to hardcore film fans. Michael Parks (From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill) has been cast in one of the…
Read MoreBefore Comic-Con, Warner Bros released a bunch of photos from Green Lantern in Entertainment Weekly. Those photos quickly found their way online, here and here. One of the photos in the spread, for some reason or another, was never published online. It featured Blake Lively as Carol Ferris talking with Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan.…
Read MoreOne of the enduring examples of the graphic novel as a form is Will Eisner's A Contract With God, a collection of short stories that is often called the first graphic novel. It isn't that, but it is a wonderful book, and a great example of why Eisner is considered a master of comic book…
Read MoreWhile at Comic-Con, I had a chance to ask producer turned Disney President of Production Sean Bailey about the recently announced David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) helmed 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Find out what Bailey said after the jump. I’m really excited. One of the great benefits of this job is I get to…
Read MoreDid you miss the Kevin Smith panel in Hall H this year at Comic-Con? I know I did. The /Film crew and I had to rush out of the convention center to post about the awesome Marvel panels that preceded Smith's question and answer session. Of course, thanks to the wonderful Internets, we can now…
Read MoreDuncan Jones became a name to watch thanks to his excellent directorial debut Moon. He's been shooting his follow-up film, Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, and the film is now in the editing room. Now we've got an update on that film's progress, as well as some thoughts about the success of Moon and the…
Read MoreOne of the bigger hits at Comic Con this year was AMC's six-episode TV series The Walking Dead, which premiered footage from the Frank Darabont-directed pilot to very enthusiastic viewers. (Read Devindra's coverage here.) Given how high interest seems to be prior to the show's debut, there have already been questions about a second season…
Read MoreThere has been a lot of comic book movie related bits that we missed over the last 24 hours, so I thought I'd do a round-up. After the jump you will find out who Edgar Wright says Ant-Man won't fit in The Avengers, watch a leaked copy of Josh Hutcherson's Spider-Man audition/stunt tape, hear what…
Read MoreFrom time to time we feature video game trailers for movie or comic book related properties, particularly when the trailer is of a certain cinematic quality. At Comic-Con, Sony Online Entertainment released a six minute cinematic trailer for the upcoming DC Universe Online. This might be the closest look at what a Justice League of…
Read MoreLast week at Comic-Con, Apple surprised Hall H by having Guillermo del Toro announce that he will be producing a new version of The Haunted Mansion. At the time, del Toto told us that the movie would be live-action 3D horror film, and not a comedy like the previous version. Guillermo said, "We’re making the…
Read MoreMichael Bay and crew are still shooting Transformers 3 in Chicago, and a lot of photos and video of the cool on-location destruction, explosions, vehicles and imagery have been released online since the last time we checked in. Hit the jump to see for yourself. Video: From MichaelBay.com: ChicagoBusiness.com (lots of explosions): Chicago Business Today…
Read MoreBefore he started The Tobolowsky Files with yours truly, actor Stephen Tobolowsky guest co-hosted the /Filmcast several times, to great effect. That's why I was curious to hear his thoughts on Inception, seeing as how he was one of the most important components in the film that made Christopher Nolan great. Last night, I fired…
Read MoreBriefly: We don't currently know much about the Confidential Alien Project (that's a placeholder title) outside of the fact that it will be a Paramount film and that new writer Bobby Glickert has sold an alien-themed pitch to Platinum Dunes producers Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form. THR says the plot involves 'alien abductions,'…
Read MoreComic-Con 2010 is over, and I'm still reeling from the experience. Just like last year, the entire event was a whirlwind with insane crowds, a healthy dose of line waiting, and some unexpected bits of awesome. By the time it was over, I was more than ready to go home. But I know for a…
Read MoreTwilight vampire Edi Gathegi has signed on to join the cast of Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class, according to Deadline. Edi will be playing the mutant named Darwin, who was originally created by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Pete Woods. He first appeared in X-Men: Deadly Genesis #2, and according to Marvel's reference website, has…
Read MoreWarner Bros has released the first movie poster for the hybrid live-action/computer animated feature adaptation Yogi Bear on Yahoo. The first movie trailer will be online tomorrow at 7pm eastern 4pm pacific, please check back to see it. Hit the jump to see the full poster. What do you think of the CG versions of…
Read MoreNow that Joss Whedon has made his official public debut as the director of The Avengers, he's going to spend months fielding questions about the approach to making Marvel's very ambitious superhero team movie. Some of the first questions have been about casting one new role and recasting one returning character. MTV talked to Whedon…
Read MoreDisney's Tron: Legacy had a HUGE presence at Comic-Con, including a gigantic booth on the show floor. I was only really able to visit it briefly during preview night, and while I didn't see anything Daft Punk related on display, others claim to have spotted Daft Punk action figures on display. The figures give us…
Read MoreWe've posted the entire transcript for the JJ Abrams/Joss Whedon discussion (in two parts - part 1 and part 2), but we were unable to provide coverage of Joss Whedon's other comic-con panel, the annual Joss Whedon Experience. Thankfully, someone has video taped the entire panel and thrown it up on YouTube for all to…
Read MoreI've said it before, I don't really believe Christopher Nolan's Inception is really that complicated. Not to discount Inception, it is one of the best films released this year. I just don't that it is all that confusing. I think the story is pretty straight-forward and easy to understand. But some people seem to think…
Read MoreBrett Ratner's Rat Entertainment has acquired the feature film adaptation rights to the Femme Fatales Comics series The Unknowns. According to Variety, Ratner will produce, but no director or screenwriter has yet been hired for the project. The comic was created by Mark A. Altman (DOA: Dead Or Alive), Steve Kriozere and model/actress Monica Olsen…
Read MoreBefore the cast and crew of Tron Legacy appeared in front of Hall H for Comic-Con, Disney held a press conference back stage allowing press to ask their own questions. While we were unable to attend the press conference, Action Figure Insider was on the scene and recorded the whole thing on video. So if…
Read MoreRadarOnline has snapped the first set photos of Penelope Cruz in costume for Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Oh yeah, and Johnny Depp is in the photo as well. Where was Jerry Bruckheimer's twitpic? Missing in action. In the movie, Cruz plays Blackbeard's daughter, who has been described as "Sparrow's foil and…
Read MoreYou've probably already seen the new movie trailer for Tron Legacy which was unlocked last week during Comic-Con. But did you see the easter eggs hidden in the new footage? But first, for those of you who don't know, director Joseph Kosinski is signed to direct a remake of The Black Hole for Disney, with…
Read MoreIt has been almost two years since Walt Disney Animation Studios announced that they would be converting Beauty and the Beast into 3D for a Valentine's Day 2010 theatrical rerelease. Disney has been showing a short test of the 3D footage at various industry events, including last year's ShoWest. Unlike the live-action 3D post conversions,…
Read MoreBriefly: Crap, now I have to be early in line to see McG's next film. The director has been prepping This Means War, a significantly rewritten version of a script that has been floating around Hollywood for years. The lead role was recently offered to Sam Worthington, but the actor has officially bowed out and…
Read MoreI hadn't seen a proper projection of the trailer for Mark Romanek's new film, Never Let Me Go, until I sat through the Trailer Park exhibition in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con. Talk about weird -- Romanek's very quiet movie was sandwiched in between a lot of big-ticket films, and the contrast…
Read MoreI don't know if there's any real way to parse the information that Nick Cave is rewriting the remake of The Crow. Yeah, that Nick Cave: the singer who wrote The Proposition and the famously rejected draft of a sequel to Gladiator. Reaction I had was simply, "what?!" which might be all you can really…
Read MoreIf you know anything about Green Lantern, then you know about the oath that Hal Jordan must recite when he charges his ring: In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil's might, Beware my power... Green Lantern's light! During the Warner Bros panel at Comic-Con 2010,…
Read MoreThe San Diego Comic Con is a giant tangle of new publications, and it can be difficult to sort out the good from the bad. One title I came across on the last day of the con (the only time I got to wander the show floor at my own pace) was Freakshow, from writers…
Read MoreI love Japanese versions of movie posters. The Japanese type automatically makes any poster or artwork at least twice as cool. I feel the same way about Zombies. The zombie version of anything is almost instantly cool. Care Bear? Lame. Zombiefied Care Bear? Cool. Today's t-shirt design on TeeFury is "Zombie Care Bear" from Yayzus.…
Read MoreZack Snyder, the "visionary filmmaker" behind 300, Watchmen, the Dawn of the Dead remake, and the upcoming adaptation of Legends of the Guardians and his first original feature film Sucker Punch, has finally joined Twitter. You can follow his tweets now at twitter.com/ZackSnyder.
Read MoreYesterday, Warner Bros released the first movie trailer for Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. If you have yet to see it, click here now. The trailer is basically throws graphically intense stylized images at a rapid pace, and you're likely to miss something. Some of the cuts last only a few frames, a split second. You…
Read MoreLast year, we told you that commercial director turned Tron Legacy helmer Joseph Kosinski was developing a new feature film project for Radical Pictures titled Oblivion. You might recognize the title because it is the same title of a "illustrated novel" announced back in February, written by Kosinski with art by newcomer Tae Young Choi.…
Read MoreVariety reports that pop/R&B recording artist Rihanna has joined the cast of Peter Berg's water based epic action adaptation of the board game Battleship. While Rihanna's music has appeared in movies such as Bring It On: All or Nothing, Are We There Yet?, Sydney White, 21, Wild Child, The House Bunny, Beethoven's Big Break, I…
Read MoreHBO has released a fourth trailer for the Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese created Prohibition-era gangster television series Boardwalk Empire titled "Countdown to Prohibition". 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…
Read MoreWarner Bros today announced details for The Goonies 25th Anniversary Collection DVD/Blu-ray box set, due in stores on November 2nd 2010. The new box set includes a new board game, original movie storyboard reproductions, a 1985 souvenir magazine reprint, and reprint of 2009 Empire Magazine article with cast photos and updates. Hit the jump for…
Read MoreIf you weren't at Comic-Con this weekend, then you probably still heard the insane buzz coming out of Warner Bros' panel for Zack Snyder's next film Sucker Punch. The promo reel which screened at the presentation was almost indescribable, a combination of anime and video game-like imagery, but on crack, and shot in the visually…
Read MoreWhile I was sitting around waiting to get into the panel for The Goon on Friday, I noticed a little card with a printed QR barcode on one side and a shape that looked vaguely like the UbiSoft logo on the other. Then I remembered that I'd installed a barcode scanner on my phone, and…
Read MoreWell, maybe. Some of those who visited the Legendary Pictures booth at the San Diego Comic Con got a t-shirt sporting a new image of Godzilla. Things being what they are, it was only natural to assume that this is a design concept image for the new Godzilla film that is in development at Legendary.…
Read MoreChris Evans revealed at Comic-Con that his costume in Captain America: The First Avenger evolves over the course of the film, and that we don't really see his final suit until the end of the movie. Evans said the following to MTV: "It's a World War II movie, so I think a little bit of…
Read MoreRuss and I already expressed our enthusiasm for Nicolas Cage's latest ridiculous endeavor, Drive Angry 3D, during a video blog of the film's Comic-Con panel, and now there's a teaser trailer to give a little taste of what we saw. Check it out after the break. Bloody Disgusting has the teaser, which is embedded below.…
Read MoreAttempting to describe the trailer for Priest proved near impossible following its premiere at Comic-Con, but the good news for you guys is that now I don't have to. Sony Pictures has released the film's official trailer online, which shows off the film in all its apocalyptic, futuristic, monster-infused glory. Check it out after the…
Read MoreWarner Bros just sent over a set of Comic-Con exclusive character teaser posters for the big screen adaptation of Green Lantern, giving us out first official look at Blake Lively as Carol Ferris, Mark Strong as Sinestro, Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, and Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond. Hit the jump to see them now.…
Read MoreIt's hard to walk five feet in San Diego during Comic-Con without stumbling into some sort of viral marketing campaign. Half the time, it's impossible to tell what some viral campaigns are even advertising at first glance. That was the case with the Rocket Poppeteers truck, which was handing out Super Speedflier Fleet popsicles. Despite…
Read MoreA couple weeks back we posted the first photo from Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. Last week, I posted some props and maquettes (giving us a better look at our group of girl heros, a World War I masked zombie solider, and a mech suit featuring a pink bunny) and the first set of character banners.…
Read MoreI was one of the people praising the Robert Rodriguez-produced Nimrod Antal-directed Predator sequel Predators a few weeks back. I even screened the film twice. Don't get me wrong, the movie is far from perfect, but for a lower budget studio sci-fi effort, it's better than most -- and certainly better than Predator 2 or…
Read MoreOn Thursday, July 23rd 2010, Entertainment Weekly held a panel at Comic-Con entitled "The Visionaries", which was basically a "discussion with geek gods J. J. Abrams (Star Trek) and Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) on the future of pop culture" conducted by EW's Jeff "Doc" Jensen. "EW presents an in-depth conversation with these two…
Read MoreThose who caught Marvel's panel in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con over this past weekend were given a ticket for some free swag. The ticket could be traded for one of two t-shirts promoting Thor and Captain America. But in what is becoming typical Marvel form, the shirts aren't blatantly obvious swag…
Read MoreOverture Films has released a new movie trailer for Matt Reeves' big screen adaptation Let Me In, a remake of the critically acclaimed 2008 Swedish film Let The Right On In. You can read about the Comic-Con panel, where this new trailer premiered, in our previous coverage. I was extremely impressed with the footage they…
Read MoreOn Saturday afternoon, Marvel Entertainment announced the line-up of their upcoming superhero team-up film The Avengers, on the stage in Hall H at Comic Con. You can read Russ' full recap here. But a recap can't accurately convey the atmosphere and electricity that was in the air as The Avengers assembled live on stage infront…
Read MoreUnfortunately, I missed the Dexter Comic-Con panel this weekend, but thankfully Showtime has just put the season five trailer it revealed at the convention online for everyone to see. Now after seeing it, I wish I had carved out the time to make the panel, because it's a helluva trailer. After the break, find the…
Read MoreWe usually refrain from posting video taped trailers/footage, but this time I can't help myself. At Comic-Con, AMC premiered an exclusive trailer for the Frank Darabont-directed (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead at Comic-Con. I can't tell you how excited I am about this upcoming series. Someone at…
Read MoreAt this year's Comic-Con, Saturday was cram packed with the more interesting panels for the most anticipated upcoming movies. We were able to post all of out panel coverage by midnight that night, but we didn't get to record a video blog for some of the films until Sunday afternoon. Because you asked for it,…
Read MoreWarning, rumor ahead: The Playlist is reporting that Fox has narrowed down the director of Wolverine 2 to Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In) and Tony Scott (Man on Fire, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3), according to a reliable source. In March, we reported that Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie) turned in…
Read MoreAs one of the added surprises at the tail end of Comic-Con's Tron: Legacy panel, Walt Disney Pictures premiered a Comic-Con exclusive 3D teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The footage basically features Johnny Depp in costume, reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow, talking about his next adventure. Nothing new,…
Read MoreI had assumed Marvel was done with their Comic-Con unveilings after bringing the full cast of The Avengers on stage following their panel for Captain America: The First Avenger and Thor, but they had one last reveal in store for unsuspecting fans on the show floor, wheeling out a golden glove embedded with jewels in…
Read MoreLast year's panel for The Goon, Eric Powell's odd comic book series about two friends who (to grossly over-simplify) live in a city infested by a plague of zombies, was unbridled insanity. This year's panel was a lot more restrained, despite the presence of returning moderator Ben Garant. This year it was all about the…
Read MoreMatt Reeves, the director of Cloverfield, knows that he faces an uphill battle with Let Me In, his remake of the Swedish film Let the Right One In. Or, as it were, his alternate take on the John Ajvide Lindqvist novel of the same name. This new version of the story has been met with…
Read MoreJon Favreau has always had great respect for his audience, and that fact has never been more clear than at Comic-Con. They've only been shooting Cowboys and Aliens for four weeks, but Favreau worked hard to finish cutting together some footage in hopes of giving fans a taste of its tone and style. Learn about…
Read MoreMarvel finally unveiled moving images from Thor today at the studio's panel in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con. Director Kenneth Branagh took the stage with Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings, Clark Gregg and Tom Hiddleston. They didn't reveal much about the film we didn't already know, but did twice show a…
Read MoreThe Marvel panel began with an exclusive Comic-Con teaser trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger. After the jump you can read my notes from the panel, including a description of the teaser and a full scene which was screened for Hall H. The teaser begins showing clips from World War II superimposed over close-ups…
Read MoreIt was a pretty poorly kept secret that Marvel planned to formally announce The Avengers today during the Marvel Studios panel in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con, but that didn't stop thousands of people going into geek rapture when the full cast walked out on stage. After the Thor panel concluded, Marvel…
Read MoreWe've been waiting for some time to see footage from Paul, director Greg Mottola's follow-up to Adventureland, and given what we've seen today at San Diego's Comic-Con, the wait was certainly worth it. Mottola, along with much of the cast --including Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Sigourney Weaver, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jason Bateman --…
Read MoreOn Saturday morning, we woke up at 8:00am and headed down to Hall H to wait in line for the 11:45am Warner Bros panel. We thought that three and a half hours would be enough to ensure ourselves a place in the 6,000 seat hall for the first look at Green Lantern, Harry Potter and…
Read MoreEveryone wants to know more and more about Tron Legacy. For those of you not at Comic-Con, we have transcribed the entire Tron Legacy panel which took place on Thursday. Here is the panel's official description: Returning for an unprecedented third year to the fans and convention that started it all, Walt Disney Pictures is…
Read MoreAfter a decidedly mixed response to The Green Hornet's trailer—casual viewers seemed to be excited for it, while many Michel Gondry fans were disappointed with how by-the-numbers it looked—Comic-Con was Gondry and Seth Rogen's big opportunity to win back support from concerned moviegoers. Was the trailer a fair representation of the movie, or was it…
Read MoreAfter discovering that Priest—which stars Paul Bettany as a priest who disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece—was being directed by Scott Charles Stewart, the man behind this year's disastrously lame Legion, my interest in the project immediately dissipated (cool publicity photos be damned). Having now seen the film's trailer,…
Read MoreI've never understood the fascination at Comic-Con with wanting to see panels for movies that audiences already know everything about. To me, Super is the epitome of what makes this place special: getting to be the first to discover and experience the geekiest projects worth getting excited about in the years ahead, right alongside the…
Read MoreA couple months back, we got a sneak preview of Robert Rodriguez's Machete thanks to an a special "illegal" movie trailer released online for Cinco De Mayo. The real movie trailer was attached to the Rober Rodriguez-produced Predators (watch it now). At Comic-Con, Rodriguez released a new Red Band movie trailer. Watch the trailer now…
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 MoreFriday afternoon, Paramount Pictures premiered the first footage from Jackass 3D an an exclusive party held in San Diego during Comic-Con. I recorded a video blog with Adam Quigley talking about our reaction to the footage, and Steve from Collider even makes a cameo appearance. Watch the video blog now, embedded after the jump. Also…
Read MoreMagnolia Pictures/Magnet have released the first movie trailer for Gareth Edwards' new low budget monster movie Monsters which takes a very District 9 approach to film marketing. Since screening the film at Cannes, we've been hyping the movie (read my mini review here). We called it Lost in Translation in a world infested by monsters.The…
Read MoreThis weekend, Phillip Noyce's Salt is out in theaters, and will attempt to de-throne Christopher Nolan's Inception as the box office king. But does it deserve the #1 title? Hit the jump for some of my brief thoughts and leave your own in the comments. Watching Salt, starring Angelina Jolie (and out in theaters right…
Read MoreI could say a lot of things about the footage shown today at the Miramax panel for Troy Nixey's debut film Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. But I'll let co-writer and producer Guillermo del Toro have his say: "the movie is serious as a fucking attack of gonorrhea!" Don't Be Afraid of the Dark…
Read MoreEarlier today, I was floored by the footage of Frank Darabont's television adaptation of the Walking Dead. Unfortunately, I wish the same could be said of what I've seen of the Steven Spielberg-produced Falling Skies for TNT. The show -- created by Robert Rodat (screenwriter for Saving Private Ryan, and The Patriot) -- stars TNT-regular…
Read MoreAfter seeing concept art and a couple of still shots from Patrick Lussier's Drive Angry, I started to wonder if the film might be the sort of action film that few filmmakers seem to get right these days -- a dirty, slightly weird, possibly quite violent revenge story. (We see a lot of revenge stories,…
Read MoreOn Thursday, July 23rd 2010, Entertainment Weekly held a panel at Comic-Con entitled "The Visionaries", which was basically a "discussion with geek gods J. J. Abrams (Star Trek) and Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) on the future of pop culture" conducted by EW's Jeff "Doc" Jensen. "EW presents an in-depth conversation with these two…
Read MoreWhat the hell is Skyline? That was the question that's been wracking my brain ever since seeing the film's title plastered across, appropriately, a massive skyline. The premise makes it sound suspiciously like Battle: Los Angeles, with an extraterrestrial force descending on LA to wipe out civilization. It also has one big knock against it…
Read MoreToday during the Miramax panel for Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Guillermo del Toro, who co-wrote and produced the film, commented specifically on a couple of projects has has going in the near future. When asked about his upcoming work, del Toro said he would talk only about things that were really happening, not…
Read MoreAfter Edward Norton was dumped as Hulk for the upcoming Avengers movie (in an ignominious fashion, no less), speculation swirled that Mark Ruffalo might be taking his place. We've now learned that negotiations for the role are expected to wrap up today, and that Ruffalo may fly out from the east coast tonight in time…
Read MoreToday we finally got our first glimpse at Frank Darabont's small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead at San Diego's Comic-Con, and it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect when you think Darabont-meets-zombies. Creator of the graphic novel Robert Kirkman hit the stage with Darabont, some key cast members -- including leads Andrew Lincoln and…
Read MoreEdgar Wright delighted fans during the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World panel at Comic-Con with a surprise screening of the film, and we were lucky enough to attend. Check out our spoiler-free video response/review after the break, which also includes a special appearance by Ain't It Cool News' Mr. Beaks. And for those actually at…
Read MoreIn the middle of the first day of the San Diego Comic Con, Hall H broke from showing thunderously loud movie clips to present a conversation between Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams. The 'Visionaries' panel, as it was called, was a low-key talk that was more about the personalities of the two participants than the…
Read MoreLast year at Comic-Con, Disney held a viral event which was the talk of the convention -- leading Tron fans on a scavenger hunt around the city to find Flynn's Arcade, and a secret real-life Lightcycle hidden in a secret room. This year the Tron Legacy viral continued, and Flynn's Arcade returned to San Diego…
Read MoreOn Thursday, it was reported that Guillermo del Toro would be producing a new version of The Haunted Mansion, but now we have the full discussion of the project from the man himself. Check out everything he had to say at Comic-Con after the break. Guillermo del Toro: I went to Disneyland the first time…
Read MoreHaving spent formative years watching films starring Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis and more, there's something a bit awe-inspiring about looking up at a table packed with all those guys. I'm not talking about anything like hero worship. But when you can stare straight at a bunch of performers who have managed to carve…
Read MoreWalt Disney Animation has released a new photo from Tron Legacy to celebrate their Comic-Con appearance. See the full photo after the jump. TRON LEGACY hits theaters on December 17th, 2010.
Read MoreI was sold on Battle: Los Angeles from the moment I found out the plot synopsis—a real-time alien invasion movie set in LA—but today was the first time anything from the film has been shown to an audience (unless you count the viral campaign spread around the Comic-Con convention center). Check after the break for…
Read MoreThe next film in the Saw series, Saw 3D, is said by producers to be the last. And they seem to be trying to go out with a bang. There's a short teaser trailer for the film, released today at the San Diego Comic Con, that teases some of the film's traps, and makes the…
Read MoreLast week we posted the first photo from Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. Last night I posted some props and maquettes on display from the film spotted on the Comic-Con show floor (giving us a better look at our group of girl heros, a World War I masked zombie solider, and a mech suit featuring a…
Read MoreI know there's resistance to Red based on the fact that the film looks quite a bit different from the Warren Ellis comics upon which it is based. I haven't read the comic, so can only approach the film based on what I see -- and I really enjoy the stuff we've been shown so…
Read MoreJoss Whedon announced today that he's officially directing The Avengers, while on stage with J.J. Abrams at San Diego's Comic-Con. He joked that Marvel didn't have enough money for a real press release, so he took it up himself to confirm previous reports that he was in talks to direct the film. When pressed for…
Read MoreI don't think I've ever seen a movie promoted at Comic Con in the way that Universal is promoting Scott Pilgrim vs the World. It's appropriate, since Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novel series began as a relatively small affair, and Comic Con is exactly the right place for a blowout promotional camp, which is exactly…
Read MoreTron Legacy has been exciting geeks at Comic-Con for the past couple years, first with its surprise conceptual footage two years ago, and again with its visually revamped trailer the year after. With only one Comic-Con left to show off the film, fans were greeted by a full 8 minutes of footage from the movie,…
Read MoreChloe Moretz has posted a new poster for Let Me In, the Let The Right One In remake/adaptation on Twitter. Check it out right now after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Ross R for the tip. Release: October 1st, 2010 (Wide) Directed by: Matt Reeves Screenplay by: Matt Reeves Produced by: Donna Gigliotti, Simon…
Read MoreUpdate: We got part of this wrong earlier -- del Toro is not directing. He's only producing and co-writing. Prior to Comic Con he'd said his next directorial project will be announced after the Con, and he repeated that in a statement to Latino Review. Original article follows. At the tail end of the Tron…
Read MoreThe Tron Legacy panel is going on in Hall H at Comic Con even as I write this. But even though most of you weren't able to see the eight minutes of new footage shown to the crowd on site at Comic Con, there's a new trailer for the film which you can see right…
Read MoreWhen in doubt, turn to Pixar. That appears to be the new adopted motto by Disney, who only weeks after being revealed to have had a helping hand by the world's most celebrated studio on Tron, have now turned to Pixar once again to receive input on the new Muppet movie (previously titled The Greatest…
Read MoreLast week we posted concept art and a promo teaser trailer for Peter Jackson's WETA's (Lord of the Rings, District 9) live-action and animatronics adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic book The Wind in the Willows.On the Comic-Con show floor, I was able to find more designs and maquettes for the upcoming adaptation at the WETA…
Read MoreDarren Aronofsky's Black Swan, his much anticipated follow-up to The Wrestler, will be opening the Venice International Film Festival on September 1st, and USA Today has a first look at the film. Hit the jump for a couple more photos and a fairly detailed plot synopsis. It feels like the last time Portman wore this…
Read MoreAintitCoolNews has gotten their hands on master poster artist Drew Struzan's awesome old school Comic-Con exclusive poster for Frank Darabont's (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead. I hope I can pick this baby up at Comic-Con. Hit the jump to see the image in full. Click on the…
Read More/Film has landed at Comic-Con, and we're gearing up to take it on with some great coverage -- even though it doesn't seem like there's as much cool movie-related events as last year. (At least there's no Twilight event this time around.) In this video blog, Peter, Adam, Russ, and Devindra chat about what they're…
Read MoreOver the past few years, Warner Bros. has started to bring larger, more interesting props to Comic Con. Recently it was the Owl Ship from Watchmen, which, no matter how you felt about the film, was a great piece of construction to walk around in. (OK, crawl around in.) This year, the big prop is…
Read MoreWe've only just arrived at Comic Con, and because of a back to back set of panels in Hall H for the next few days, we probably won't have time to wander every inch of the show floor until the end of the weekend. But we wanted to give you a quick glimpse of the…
Read MoreEver since we first heard that Frank Miller was working on a 300 sequel, an immediate question arose: Would Zack Snyder be adapting it as a movie? After Snyder confirmed that he was definitely interested in the project, the question then became: When the hell is Frank Miller gonna get this thing done? It's taken…
Read MoreLast week we posted the first photo from Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. At Comic-Con, some props and maquettes are on display from the film, giving us a better look at our group of girl heros, a World War I masked zombie solider, and a mech suit featuring a pink bunny. Hit the jump to see…
Read MoreSo the word -- the very advance word, mind you -- is that this new movie version of Judge Dredd might not suck. Pete Travis (Vantage Point) is directing from a script by Alex Garland (Sunshine) and that's enough of a pedigree, combined with the basic Judge Dredd backstory, to get me interested. Now there's…
Read MoreTwo new horror movie posters landed today, just in time for the Comic-Con's preview night in San Diego. First up, we have the Comic-Con giveaway poster for newcomer Troy Nixey's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, which is being produced by Guillermo Del Toro. The poster is an original work of art by Nixey, who…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS We've known for a couple months now that Victoria's Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley would be taking over as the love interest for the third entry of Michael Bay's Transformers series, and have even got a few glimpses at her showing off her assets on set. But there still hasn't been any explanation as…
Read MoreThe film adaptation of World War Z has had a drawn out development history, but even still, it always looked like it would eventually happen. Now, breaking news from San Diego Comic-Con further supports the idea that we'll soon see this movie in theaters. MTV has just reported from the show floor of Comic-Con that…
Read MoreWhile walking around the Gaslamp district preparing for Comic-Con in San Diego, I spotted a bunch of posters for Battle: Los Angeles, leading to a viral website ReportThreats.org. On February 25th 1942, just after 2am, hundreds of thousands of people witnessed something in the skies above Los Angeles. US army planes scrambled to intercept, while…
Read MoreJust the other day we showed you a few concept art images from Patrick Lussier's Drive Angry 3D, which stars Nicolas Cage as a father brought back from Hell to avenge crimes against his daughter and granddaughter. Now there's the first photo of Cage, looking even more insane than usual. There's also an image of…
Read MoreWhen Lionsgate released the first teaser trailer for the Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried in April, some people complained that it didn't show much. But others argued that it was the perfect tease, a great example of a good teaser trailer. Lionsgate has just released the full length trailer for the film, and it doesn't…
Read MoreParamount and MTV Films will be screening the first footage from Jackass 3D at a special event during Comic-Con. To lead up to this event, MTV has released the first photo from the upcoming 3D reality movie sequel on Yahoo. Hit the jump to see the full image. Previously: The funniest part of the press…
Read MoreEver since The Hangover became a runaway hit, we knew there would be a sequel. Very shortly after the film was a hit, talk began that the film might take place in Thailand. Perhaps that began with the film's breakout star Zach Galifianakis, who said, "I think it’s going to be in a foreign country,…
Read MoreYesterday we posted cool new concept art styled banners/poster for Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. Today Marvel Studios/Paramount Pictures sent us the high resolution digital files for the posters. So if you're looking for a new computer desktop background to replace that Scott Pilgrim or Tron image... or you just want to zoom…
Read MoreWhen Michel Gondry was hired to direct Seth Rogen and Jay Chou in The Green Hornet (based on Rogen and Evan Goldberg's script) it seemed like a weird move. No matter that Gondry had once been part of a previous Green Hornet development team that fell apart. He just doesn't seem like the superhero/action movie…
Read MorePlayStation has released a new Comic-Con exclusive movie trailer for the upcoming video game adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Check it out now, after the jump.
Read MoreThe Wrap has published a long article on 3D's future in Hollywood which includes a nice chart designed by Daniel Frankel which chronicles the drop of opening weekend box office revenue that came from 3D movie tickets. On the surface this graph seems pretty damming, but I'm not sure I completely buy the story it…
Read MoreThe cast of Martin Scorsese's Hugo Cabret keeps getting better and better. I had a little moment of excitement a week or so ago when it looked like Mathieu Amalric was in the cast, only to find that was an early casting deal that fell apart. But now there's news that might be just as…
Read MoreI think almost everyone loves Danny Elfman's original Batman theme music. /Film reader Matt G passes along this video which edits Elfman's awesome Batman score into the police chase from Batman Begins. For those of you interested to see the fusion of visuals from the Nolanverse and the music of the Burtonverse, you can watch…
Read MoreMarvel Studios has released yet-another photo from the big screen adaptation of Thor, this time in Wednesday's edition of USA Today. The new image shows Thor's alter ego, a wet and grungy Donald Blake (Chris Hemsworth), pulling his mighty hammer Mjolner out from a pile of rock. For those of you who don't know, my…
Read MorePlease Note: This post will be Sticky'd to the top of /Film until Thursday night. /Film will be invading San Diego for the 2010 Comic-Con International. /Film team members Peter Sciretta, Devindra Hardawar, Adam Quigley and Russ Fischer will be covering the entire con, Wednesday through Sunday (unfortunately, David Chen couldn't make it this year).…
Read MoreThere are two Marilyn Monroe biopics brewing. One is Blonde, which stars Naomi Watts as Monroe in a pretty broad telling of the actress's story. The other is My Week With Marilyn, which stars Michelle Williams and is based on a diary by Colin Clark, who worked for Laurence Olivier when the actor shepherded Monroe…
Read MoreFans have been hungry for reliable info on Batman 3, but while presumed director Christopher Nolan finished his latest movie, Inception, he was reluctant to talk about the third film in his Batman series. Now that Inception is out and making money, it's time for Batman 3 to kick into gear. Accordingly, we've got some…
Read MoreOver the past week Universal has released a set of remixes of footage and music from Edgar Wright's upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs the World. DJ Osymyso’s quick video remixes re-purpose sound effects and dialogue from the film, edited into a music video format. You can watch the first five mixes here. Yesterday and today the…
Read MoreMiramax Films has released the movie trailer for John Madden's The Debt, a remake of the 2007 Israeli film. In 1965, three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in the Ukraine and…
Read MoreIn June we posted a huge compilation of easter eggs which could be found in Pixar's latest feature film Toy Story 3. But what about Teddy Newton's awesome short film Day & Night. Did you catch the reference to one of Walt Disney's classic animated films? No? Hit the jump to find out. Disney's Facebook…
Read MoreYou can only rely on actors to a certain degree for info about when a film will shoot. (See: Michael Caine with respect to Batman 3, or the returning cast talking about The Hobbit.) Not because they're deliberately sowing misinformation, but because they're only privy to one part of the decision making process. And that's…
Read MoreCouple new Scream 4 updates for you. I'm going to throw both of them after the break, because one, a statement from Hayden Panettiere about the rumor that she was unhappy with script changes, comes in the form of a hefty quote. And the other is a set of images of the town of Woodsboro.…
Read MoreOne of the films I was really excited to see this past year at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was a documentary titled Lucky. Directed by Jeffrey Blitz, the filmmaker behind one of my favorite documentaries Spellbound, as well as the great but under-seen indie film Rocket Science (which won him the Sundance Film Festival…
Read MoreIf only Captain America: The First Avenger and Thor could be animated in a painted style like these two posters featuring concept art from Ryan Meinerding (Cap) and Charlie Wren (Thor). As if to combat the tepid response to stills from Thor and arguments that erupted over the polished Captain America concept art, Marvel has…
Read MoreLast year we featured Ibraheem Youssef's minimalistic movie posters for the films of Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson. The Toronto based designer/art director has returned with a new set of simple and clean poster art for the following movies: Inception, Scarface, and The Big Lebowski. Check out the designs after the jump. You can also…
Read MoreWe've already seen a couple of on-set images showing Johnny Depp in costume as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. But now there's an official still featuring Depp as Sparrow, and it is...very much like the other pictures! But producer Jerry Bruckheimer personally sent this image out via Twitter, so…
Read MoreThere's a new trailer for Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, to complement the international one released not too long ago. This version is shorter and focused a bit more on throwing out bon mots and a few bits of character. There's more plot in the international version, but this one still…
Read MoreWe recently heard that Pixar is developing a film called Planes, intended to be a spin-off from Cars. The film is meant for direct-to-DVD distribution, and some took the move as a sign of a slide for Pixar. When a studio is able to rule the theatrical animation landscape, why churn out direct disc fodder?…
Read MoreNew York Press film critic Armond White is well-known for his contrarian reviews (for example, panning Toy Story 3 for celebrating consumerism while praising Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for its visual style). In the past, many have despised White for souring the Rotten Tomatoes scores of films that they love. After reading his reviews,…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS Just Jared snapped some photos of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in action as a bike messenger on the New York City set of 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…
Read MoreAMC Theaters have released an online coupon via their facebook page offering moviegoers any size popcorn and any size fountain drink for only $1 each on July 25th 2010 using a printable coupon. Click here to find a local AMC Theater. Click on the below image to enlarge: via: slickdeals
Read MoreJudging by the online discussions I've read over the weekend, I'm starting to feel like I'm the only person who not only understood Christopher Nolan's Inception, but thought it was pretty straight-forward. Yes, even the ending. For those of you confused about the film, and more specifically, the film's ending, I bring you this: Who…
Read MoreDeadline is reporting that Borat/Bruno helmer Larry Charles has signed on to direct the Jim Carrey comedy Pierre Pierre. This isn't a huge surprise considering the project has always been described as being simular to Bruno/Borat. The story follows a "self-indulgent, lazy, French nihilist who is transporting a stolen Mona Lisa from Paris to London."…
Read MoreM. Night Shyamalan has a reputation, which is only partially founded, for not taking negative lines of questioning very well. So how do you think he responded when a reporter in Mexico starts a press conference question by saying "You had a very strong start to your career with The Sixth Sense" before winding around…
Read MoreSam Raimi may be going back to the wild west, or some wild version of the west, at least. This will be quite a different wild west from what we saw in The Quick and the Dead, however. Raimi is attached to direct Earp: Saints for Sinners, a re-imagining of the story of Wyatt Earp,…
Read MoreWell, this image shows two of the Warriors Three from Kenneth Branagh's Thor: on the right side of the steps are Fandral the Dashing (Josh Dallas) and Hogun the Grim (Tadanobu Asano). At the very far right, you can just see what I guess is the right leg of Volstagg the Valiant (Ray Stevenson). This…
Read MoreMark Pellington is putting together a not-so-obvious cast for his upcoming small-budget thriller, I Melt With You. The director already has Jeremy Piven and Thomas Jane, which left two big roles to cast. Now one of them has been filled by Rob Lowe. Deadline says "Lowe will play a doctor struggling with deep personal loss…
Read More...aaand we're back with more (sorta) David Fincher news. But if you're one of the many people irritated at the whole idea of Fincher remaking The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, you might be able to get behind this one. Here's some of the first footage for The Goon, the CGI animated adaptation of Eric…
Read MoreIf you're not feeling old enough already,/Film friend Angie Han reminds us that Amy Heckerling's iconic teen comedy Clueless was released in movie theaters 15 years ago today. Leave your memories of the teen classic in the comments below!
Read MoreThe SandSations Sand Castle competition recently announced their winners for 2010 and on the list was a particularly impressive sculpture based on How to Train Your Dragon. The sculpture was created by "Sand in my Crackers" and won 2nd place in the Intermediate category, along with the People's Choice award. Thanks to /Film reader Jason…
Read MoreIt's a good time to be David Fincher. Though the film hasn't yet been released, he's reportedly made Sony very happy with The Social Network. (If the trailer is any indication, he may make audiences very happy, too.) And he's putting together a new film version of Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl With the Dragon…
Read MoreLast week, Sony released the full length movie trailer for David Fincher's The Social Network. I've just been informed that an international version of the trailer is now online on the international official website. Before you get too excited, I should probably let you know that it's the same exact trailer as the domestic release…
Read MoreWhen I first started to hear about Drive Angry 3D, which Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine 3D) is directing with Nicolas Cage, I expected something that might look rather like Faster, the Dwayne Johnson film that just got a teaser today. But I should have known better -- a bunch of set visit reports have…
Read MoreMany assume that Darren Aronofsky and Fox Searchlight are racing to have Black Swan ready for either the Venice or Toronto Film Festival in September, and more definitely award season. It appears that they have a cut of the film they are willing to show select public audiences, as the first test screening occurred sometime…
Read MoreIn my e-mail box this morning I found a movie trailer for the rerelease of Christopher Nolan's first feature film Following. The trailer does a good job of fusing an independently made black and white movie with faster paced editing and a soundtrack reminiscent of The Dark Knight and Nolan's current box office success, Inception.…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS A little over a week ago, set photos were leaked online revealing that the Batmobile would be making an appearance in Arthur, the remake of the fan-favorite '80s comedy. At the time it seemed likely that the car's presence in the film wouldn't amount to anything more than a quick gag, but now…
Read MoreBe thankful for Bill Murray. I've said it before and I'll say it again, but every time he does an interview, Murray seems to give answers that are actually honest and thoughtful, as opposed to spitting out a party line. Not that I'd expect much different from a guy who goes against the Hollywood grain.…
Read MoreOne of the films suspiciously missing from the announced programing list for this year's Comic-Con International is Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski's computer animated feature film Rango. Just a few minutes ago, I got an e-mail directing me to the following url: mrtimms.com. The website appears to be a "super special fan site…
Read MoreWe've seen no shortage of images from Machete, but the one member of the sprawling cast that has been noticably absent is Lindsay Lohan. The actress was one of the surprises in the cast list when initially revealed, and the her absence from the trailer was a talking point thanks to Lohan's legal adventures, which…
Read MoreCBS Films hasn't exactly been setting theaters on fire; the company has released Extraordinary Measures and The Back-Up Plan. The company is going for a much more action-oriented appeal with Faster, which stars Dwayne Johnson as a guy out for revenge after being released from prison. The first teaser for Faster is out now, but…
Read MoreCan you point to the trailer that combines Leo's new sci-fi movie Inception and Dora The Explorer? Very Good! After the jump.
Read MoreOn August 27th, Fox will re-release Avatar to theaters with more than eight minutes of “Never Before Seen Footage” exclusively in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D. (That is: no 2D re-release.) Now there's a TV spot for the special edition, and while it is only 30 seconds long, hardcore fans of the film will notice…
Read MoreLast month, it was reported that John August was in talks with Dreamworks to pen a big screen adaptation of the Monsterpocalypse board game which has been described as "part strategy, part Kaiju Big Battel, and part Rampage!, all played out with miniatures on a tabletop." At the time, it was speculated that the involvement…
Read MoreOver the weekend, producer Bryan Singer was questioned at a church event about recent X-Men: First Class casting rumors and Wolverine 2. Also, a new unconfirmed report regarding what role Kevin Bacon might play in the upcoming X-Men prequel hit the web. We cover all this and more, after the jump. There actually seems to…
Read MoreOne of the best things about the Harry Potter series of films has been watching Daniel Radcliffe grow into a real actor. With the Potter films all but done, there's no small amount of interest in what Radcliffe will next do on film. He's tapped for the version of All Quiet on the Western Front…
Read MoreWe've talked about the possibility of an Anchorman sequel for quite some time, and early this year it seemed like the film had a chance to see the light of day. But Paramount passed, and now director Adam McKay offers both the final word (more than likely) on the sequel, and teases a detail that…
Read MoreEntertainment Weekly has out first (or last?) glimpse of the 12-minute Lost epilogue "The New Man in Charge" that will be included on the Series Finale DVD/Blu-ray set. Actor Michael Emerson reveals that "Ben is going around to Dharma installations and closing some down. There are some good surprises.'' And yes, ''it does answer questions.'"…
Read MoreLast week, The Weinstein Company pulled a planned panel for Piranha 3D out of Hall H, because the Comic Con powers that be decided the footage TWC planned to show didn't fit the event's family-friendly guidelines. But man-eating fish aren't to be held back, so there's a new event scheduled to show off the film,…
Read MoreI'm thankful for the Criterion Collection nearly every day, but especially on a slow weekend before Comic Con. This week Criterion finally announced a slate of October releases, which includes a couple of highly anticipated pressings. Finally we'll get Criterion editions of Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory and the absolutely insane 1977 Japanese haunted house…
Read MoreLast week, Universal Pictures unleashed five video remixes for Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. DJ Osymyso's quick video remixes repurpose sound effects and dialogue from the film, edited into a music video. Two more will be released this week leading up to Comic-Con. Watch the first five remixes now after the jump. 1.…
Read MoreA new photo from Marvel Studio's big screen adaptation of Thor was released in today's print edition of the Los Angeles Times. The new photo reveals a wide angle view of the epic set of the Hall of Asgard, featuring a kneeling Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Asgardians Fandral the Dashing (Josh Dallas), Hogun the Grim (Tadanobu…
Read MoreSimon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek) has signed on to reprise his role as the comic relief lab geek Benji Dunn for Mission: Impossible 4. THR reports that while the project has yet to be officially greenlit, director Brad Bird has been reading actors this week and production is tracking to begin in…
Read MoreTom Felton, the young actor best known as Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, has been cast in The Escapist helmer Rupert Wyatt's Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes.Felton will play the son of Brian Cox's character, who is "the villainous owner of a primate sanctuary who runs the facility without…
Read MoreYou all know what this post is about so I'll just get right into it: Inception. It's here. It's one of the biggest movie events of the year. Many of you have probably caught midnight screenings of it already and read Adam's review. So, what did you think of it? Did Nolan outdo himself this…
Read MoreThe way that short films have been able to lead to feature deals with studios in the past year is rather stunning. The success of Neill Blomkamp, who went from the short Alive in Joburg to the smash success of District 9, helped pave the way for development deals for the filmmakers behind The Gift,…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures bought the billboard located at Santa Monica/Westwood in Los Angeles for an entire year. Beginning in mid-December 2009, 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…
Read MoreAt a certain point (that is, just about now) there won't be much point to posting new photos from Conan. Until we get shots of the supporting cast like Stephen Lang, seems like we'll just see a parade of images featuring Jason Momoa and a variety of grimaces. Not that I'd expect too much else,…
Read MoreI think I might have watched the full length movie trailer for David Fincher's The Social Network at least five times now. I've also watched the teaser trailers a couple times each. Who would have thought a movie about the creation of Facebook could be so compelling. But what about the movie no one is…
Read MoreI imagine we'll never again be able to post a Roman Polanski-related story without setting off a comment discussion about whether or not the end of his 2009-2010 arrest represents a strange miscarriage of justice. That's appropriate, but this story isn't about Polanski being set free by the Swiss, but of him going back 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 MoreReports of the death of Imagi Studios may have been exaggerated. Last time we looked at the studio's CGI animated updating of Gatchaman, it seemed like it might be our last look, as the studio was facing financial difficulties and shutdown. But Imagi's doors are open again and work proceeds on Gatchaman. Now there's a…
Read MoreSpoiling Inception is near impossible without writing out a manual to explain what those spoilers mean, but regardless, this review includes vague references to plot points that could be deemed spoilers by those who probably shouldn't be reading reviews anyway if they really wanted to avoid finding out anything about the movie. You've been warned.…
Read MoreMagnolia Pictures/Magnet have released a UK Poster for Gareth Edwards' new low budget monster movie Monsters which takes a very District 9 approach to film marketing. Hit the jump to see the poster. Since screening the film at Cannes, we've been hyping the movie (read my mini review here). We called it Lost in Translation…
Read MoreAdd another possible film to Will Smith's towering stack of possible films. The latest is The Legend of Cain, which Smith is now attached to as producer and star. This isn't a video game thing -- Smith isn't developing a film based on The Legend of Kage, or The Legacy of Kain, as much fun…
Read MoreBriefly: Pitch acquisition time. Warner Bros. has picked up Colin Trevorrow's script World War X, which will be produced through Joel Silver's production company. The title is catchy (though similar to the in-development zombie film World War Z) and implies a much greater scale than the logline. According to Variety, the story is about "a…
Read MoreIt's been a while since our last movie poster round-up, so let's get to it! In today's edition we have new theatrical one-sheets for James Franco's Howl, an unrated NSFW poster for I Spit On Your Grave, the final poster for the 3D computer animated film Alpha and Omega, Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut Jack…
Read MoreEarlier this month a suspicious tweet filed by filmmaker Edgar Wright led us to speculate that a Blu-ray release of Grindhouse was in the works. As you probably know, when Grindhouse was released in theaters, it was a double feature featuring Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, and a few faux trailers at…
Read MoreMiral, the new film from Julian Schnabel, was picked up recently by The Weinstein Company, who will release the picture in December. That's far enough out that there isn't a domestic trailer yet available. But a French trailer has arrived, and you can get a very good idea of the film by checking it out.…
Read MoreScreen Gems has provided us with five exclusive photos from Scott Stewart's action/horror/thriller Priest, which stars Paul Bettany as a priest who disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece. Stewart comes from a special effects background, working on films such as Sin City, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire,…
Read MoreThe Entertainment Weekly Comic Con preview issue is starting to make its way out into the world and onto the beds of scanners everywhere. There were a half dozen Green Lantern photos from the mag yesterday, and today there's the first real image from Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. Here you can see (l-r) Abbie Cornish,…
Read MoreLast month it was reported that Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the mad men behind the two Crank films, were negotiating to make a Ghost Rider sequel, tentatively titled Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance. At the time we weren't sure that Nicolas Cage would return, and it wasn't a definite that Neveldine/Taylor were chips…
Read MoreFocus Features has released an international movie trailer for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's (21 Grams, Babel) latest film Biutiful, which stars Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men) as a man involved in a bunch of illegal dealings who learns that he might be dying of Cancer. He is a single father of two children, dealing…
Read MoreAaron Sorkin is no stranger to real-life material, political stories, and the topical combination of both. Among his many credits he's known for political television show The West Wing, and recent feature writing credits include The Social Network, Moneyball and Charlie Wilson's War -- all features based on real life stories. Now he's looking to…
Read MoreBack in May 2008, rumors ran wild that Brett Ratner might direct a big screen adaptation of the popular video game series God of War. I hope to never see Ratner's vision come to fruition, and thankfully we haven't heard much about the film adaptation since. Gamervision has decided to create a trailer for a…
Read MoreI got a little excited when I clicked open the source article that tells me Christopher McQuarrie has been hired to rework and possibly direct One Shot, based on the Lee Child novel of the same name. I love Child's novels, which follow ex-military policeman Jack Reacher as he drifts across America. They're perfect escapist…
Read MoreBriefly: That title change is presumably as in, 'what you don't know won't hurt you.' The film once called Cheaters is a relationship comedy about what one man does when he learns that his best friend's wife is cheating. I liked Cheaters better than the new title, What You Don't Know. Cheaters is direct and…
Read MoreBlastr has compiled a fun infographic compiling 120 sci-fi events from fiction, television and movies, and placed them chronologically on a real-world timeline. Click this link to see the full infographic now.
Read MoreWhat's going on with David Gordon Green's proposed remake of the Dario Argento horror classic Suspiria? We first heard about the film almost two years ago, and there were rumors not long ago that the film would shoot this year. But we haven't heard much about the remake since people hit Green with questions while…
Read MoreGreg Mottola's follow-up to Adventureland is Paul, which sees a pair of British nerds (played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) on a road trip from Comic Con to Roswell, NM. Along the way they find a real alien named Paul, and adventures ensue. Comic Con only plays into the first bit of the film,…
Read MoreBack in June, it was announced that Peter Jackson's WETA (Lord of the Rings, District 9) was developing a live-action and animatronics adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic book The Wind in the Willows. The story follows four anthropomorphized characters in a classic pastoral English countryside, an yes, it has been adapted to the screen many…
Read MoreJust like with the report we had yesterday, keep this one filed under rumor. But Moviehole says they've been talking to a source at WB who says that the notion of a Jonathan Nolan-directed Superman is well-founded. The site's source says Jonathan Nolan wants the gig, Christopher Nolan wants him to get it, and Warner…
Read MoreWarner Bros has released the first trailer for the Ben Affleck-directed big screen adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel The Prince of Thieves which is titled The Town. Affleck stars as a career thief who falls in love with the manager of a bank he robbed. I know that might not sound like an interesting…
Read More20th Century Fox's highly anticipated Alien Anthology Blu-ray set was officially announced this morning and you can officially pre-order the set on Amazon for $97.99, 30% off the $140 list price. The Blu-ray box set will be released on October 26th 2010, the same day Universal Pictures is releasing the Back to the Future Trilogy…
Read MoreDavid Oyelowo (The Last King of Scotland, A Sound of Thunder, Derailed) has been offered a role in The Escapist helmer Rupert Wyatt's Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. Bloody Disgusting reports that 20th Century Fox has offered Oyelowo the role of Steve Jacobs, the board of directors who announces phase 2,…
Read MoreAs Comic-Con approaches, we're starting to see more and more of Marvel's big screen adaptation of Thor. Earlier this week Marvel released the first official photo of Anthony Hopkins as Odin and Tom Hiddleston as Loki, along with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) with hammer in hand. And now another new photo has hit the webs from…
Read MoreUpdate: Two more images have been added to this post bringing the total up to six photos. New images include Hector Hammond before his alien encounter and Hector in a bunker with the corpse of alien Abin Sur. Earlier today we had the first look at Ryan Reynolds in costume as Green Lantern, thanks to…
Read Moreio9 has gotten their hands on the first full cast photo from Frank Darabont's (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead. The AMC Television series stars Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually), Jon Bernthal (The Pacific), Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break), Laurie Holden (The Mist), and Emma Bell (Law & Order).…
Read MoreWe've seen quite a few spy pics from the set of Transformers 3, but so far the actual story details have remained guarded. But now a big chunk of info has broken out into the wild. Want to know how the movie opens, which will obviously have some serious impact on the story as a…
Read MoreAcademy Award Winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno) has launched a new internet interview show titled "Red Band Trailer", "the world's first talk show conducted in an an airstream trailer." Her first two guests are actor Adam Brody (The O.C., Thank You For Smoking, Jennifer's Body and the upcoming Scream 4) and Chelsea Handler (Chelsea Lately,…
Read MoreX-Men: First Class has an actress to play Mystique, and a very good one at that: Jennifer Lawrence, who is currently impressing the hell out of everyone who sees Winter's Bone. Amber Heard was previously said to be in talks for the role. THR says Fox has been 'furiously casting' the movie, and in addition…
Read MoreIn November, we posted a trailer for Stuart Hazeldine's high-concept, low-budget thriller single-room real-time feature debut Exam, which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival last Summer. IFC has since launched a genre label called IFC Midnight which will release the movie exclusively on Video On Demand beginning in July. QuietEarth calls the plot "Cube meets…
Read MoreIn December of last year Paul Thomas Anderson started to reveal plans for his next feature, a script tentatively titled The Master which follows a man who creates a 'faith-based organization' that blossoms into an empire in the 1950s -- a not so thinly disguised Scientology tale. Anderson quickly cast Philip Seymour Hoffman in the…
Read MoreWow. I never thought I'd be excited to hear Radiohead's song 'Creep' again, but the way the Belgian Scala & Kolacny Brothers choral version is used to score this full trailer for David Fincher's The Social Network is stunning. What a perfect way to score images culled from Facebook as an intro to a story…
Read MoreWell, this photo of Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis in Burke & Hare is quite a bit like the few other photos we've seen of the duo in the movie: grim faces, deep shadows, great hats. Sure, this time there is what appears to be the legs of a corpse in the frame with them,…
Read MoreUpdate: This story has been updated with a high resolution photo. There he is: that's Ryan Reynolds in his computer-generated Green Lantern suit, complete with what appear to be striated muscles made of pure force, or willpower. Though the mask is rather odd-looking, the whole suit certainly conforms to the basic concept of what Green…
Read MoreI think quite a few people will be able to get behind this news because, frankly, any time Brett Ratner is attached to a film that you might not care much about in the first place, it's like dodging a bullet. Ratner could have directed The Hobbit (yeah, right) but instead he's in talks to…
Read MoreTinkerbell has already appeared in film four times now—first in the silent 1924 version of Peter Pan; most memorably in the '50s animated classic; later in Spielberg's Hook, where she was played by Julia Roberts; and most recently in 2003's Peter Pan, as portrayed by the gorgeous (and frequently clothesless) Ludivine Sagnier. But never before…
Read MoreGiven that Let Me In, the new version of Let the Right One In, already faces a hardcore fanbase prepared to doubt and dismiss anything that isn't Tomas Alfredsson's original movie, is it a good or bad idea to release a prequel comic book leading up to the film? In December, Dark Horse Comics will…
Read MoreWhile I went in hopeful, I ended up hating Mark Pellington's last film, Henry Poole is Here. Hated it enough that hearing that the screenwriter, Albert Torres, had been hired to rewrite the live-action Akira adaptation all but killed my scant interest in that project. But I've heard very good things about Pellington's work on…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures bought the billboard located at Santa Monica/Westwood in Los Angeles for an entire year. Beginning in mid-December 2009, 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…
Read MoreBriefly: With Toy Story 3 still in theaters and raking in more than $350m, naturally talk has begun about the possibility for a fourth film. We know some of the characters have a future in at least one short film that would run in front of Cars 2. But now there's a report from The…
Read MoreLast week, the schedule for the Alamo Drafthouse's 2010 Rolling Road Show leaked online. The Drafthouse has now sent out an official press release with more information about the screenings and locations. Hit the jump to read more about this year's screening tour. ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AND THE LEVI’S® BRAND ANNOUNCE “WE ARE ALL WORKERS”- THE…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Many of you might recall that we were the ones to break the story about how Warner Bros was using a performance capture suit to create Green Lantern's costume using CG. While many set photos have been snapped, most of them look like the one above with Reynolds wearing a grey suit with…
Read MoreOn the day that a McSweeney's parody/recontextualizing of some of Allen Gisnberg's most famous lines made a little ripple on the internet, it is appropriate that a trailer arrives for Howl, the film that chronicles the creation of the poem Howl and the obscenity trial that eventually followed its publication. James Franco stars as Ginsberg,…
Read MoreThe photo above shows a 33 feet tall Optimus Prime statue which was constructed completely out of junk car parts spotted at the Bird’s Nest at Beijing Olympic Park in China. The movie's Optimus Prime is 32 feet tall and made of 10,108 parts. So this is in fact "life size." Hit the jump to…
Read MoreEarlier this year we heard that the film about Joaquin Phoenix, directed by Casey Affleck, was finished and being shown to buyers. Shortly it came down that Magnolia seemed to be the most likely home for the film, and the company has now announced the acquisition of I'm Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin…
Read MoreEmma Stone's first collaboration with director Will Gluck, Easy A, hasn't been released yet, but she's already set to work with him once more. Stone and her Zombieland co-star Woody Harrelson will be directed by Gluck in Friends With Benefits, which has already lined up Justin Timberlake to star. The Wrap says that Stone and…
Read MoreA new Pixar short in the Cars Toon series will premiere on the Disney Channel on July 30th at 9:30pm. The latest of Mater's tall tales is titled Monster Truck Mater. More information after the jump. Directed by John Lasseter and co-director Rob Gibbs (a Pixar storyartist on Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc, Up and…
Read MoreWarner Bros has released the first movie trailer for Hangover director Todd Phillips' next comedy Due Date. The film stars Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr in a buddy-comedy story which has been described as kinda Hangover meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The screenplay by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland (with rewrites by Adam…
Read MoreIt had to happen eventually. Pixar has flirted with the idea of direct to DVD sequels in the past -- notably with Toy Story 2 -- and as the studio veers more overtly towards sequels that leverage proven characters (the Toy Story films, Cars 2, Monsters Inc. 2) it is probably inevitable that we'd see…
Read MoreLiev Schreiber has confirmed something that seems pretty obvious to me, something that most people suspected - His character Cotton Weary will not return in Scream 4. "Cotton is dead!" Schreiber told IGN. "I know, I keep reading on the Internet that I'm doing Scream 4, but I don't know where that comes from. No…
Read MoreBriefly: OK, this is news I can really get behind. If you've got to replace Edward Norton in a role, you can just get anyone off the street. But it looks like Marvel has sights set high, and not on Joaquin Phoenix. Deadline reports is that Mark Ruffalo is in 'late stage talks' to be…
Read MoreChockstone Pictures has acquired the rights to Washington Post South American correspondent Monte Reel's non-fiction book The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon, and have hired Doug Liman to direct. Mark Bailey is adapting the screenplay. Liman is best known as the director of Swingers, The…
Read MoreSomeone has uploaded the above graph to Reddit, showing the progressively worse and worse tomato-meter ratings of filmmaker M Night Shyamalan's movies on Rotten Tomatoes. The graph hypotheses that if things continue on path, Night will direct a movie that gets the first ever negative movie score in Rotten Tomatoes history. Of course, the graph…
Read MoreTom Cruise, Will Smith, Anna Kendrick, Milo Ventimiglia and a few other actors were photographed leaving the Saddle Ranch in West Hollywood's Sunset Strip on Tuesday morning. The restaurant is famous for its karaoke, crazy parties and a mechanical bull. Some gossip sites were quick to report that it was a four-hour Scientology event, since…
Read MoreFirst things first: that's the debut official look at Anthony Hopkins as Odin and Tom Hiddleston as Loki, from Kenneth Branagh's Thor. Additionally, that's the first image of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) with hammer in hand. Perhaps more important, there is confirmation that Thor and Captain America will both be released in 3D. But you might…
Read MoreUniversal Pictures has released a new featurette 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 two…
Read MoreBriefly: Terra Nova, the upcoming Fox show that has Steven Spielberg as an exec producer, was originally going to be unveiled at an upcoming panel during the San Diego Comic Con. That will no longer happen. Why? The reason is pretty prosaic: the show doesn't begin production until September, so there is no footage to…
Read MoreIt's difficult to know exactly what this means for the film, but David O. Russell's film Nailed, which was famously stalled several times during production before being shut down altogether, may actually be able to be finished this year. Would be great to see the satire about a waitress (Jessica Biel) who has a nail…
Read MoreWhat if Scooby Doo's Mystery Machine van was actually a robot in disguise? TeeFury's T-Shirt of the day was designed by Captain Ribman, the same guy who made the popular"El Boba" Boba Fett as a Lucha Libre wrestler shirt. Titled Mystery Mech, the design imagines what a Scooby snack powered Autobot might look like. See…
Read MoreFocus Features has released the first movie trailer for Half Nelson writer/directors Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck's new film It's Kind of a Funny Story. The comedy-drama has been adapted from Ned Vizzini’s 2006 novel of the same name; "16-year-old Craig (Keir Gilchrist of United States of Tara), stressed out from the demands of being…
Read MorePixar has already returned to the money-regurgitating well twice now with 3D re-releases of Toy Story and Toy Story 2, which returned to theaters simultaneously last year. Now it appears as though other entries from Pixar's library may be getting a similar treatment, according to a recent interview with the studio's stereoscopic (3D) imaging supervisor,…
Read MoreTron Legacy hasn't even been completed yet, but that's not stopping up-and-coming director Joseph Kosinski from setting in place several new projects to keep him busy when he's done. In addition to his already announced remake of The Black Hole and Oblivion, an adaptation of his graphic novel, he now has Archangels in the works,…
Read MoreForget that Taylor Lautner kid; the real teen heartthrob acting breakout may well be Zac Efron, who has lined up a raft of possible projects along several different subject lines. The latest is an untitled workplace comedy set up at Warner Bros. But first, Efron will play...Anakin Skywalker? Deadline says that Robot Chicken is prepping…
Read MoreProduction Weekly is reporting that Marvel Studios will begin production on the big screen adaptation to Brian K Vaughan's Runaways in January 2011, with production scheduled until July 2011. A few months back it was reported that British screenwriter Drew Pearce was hired to write the adaptation, with Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist helmer Peter…
Read MoreOver the past couple years, the radio and sometime TV show This American Life has become a launching pad for a few potential film stories. A number of different segments from the show, which follows through on the title to document odd and interesting tales from America, are currently in development to possibly become feature…
Read MoreAs you know, Guillermo del Toro recently stepped down from directing the big screen adaptation of The Hobbit, leaving the project in complete limbo. Warner Bros has been searching for a replacement, talking to directors David Yates (Harry Potter), David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers, Fred Claus), and Brett Ratner about the job, but rumor had it…
Read MoreUniversal Pictures have released the first teaser trailer for Devil, which is being dubbed as coming "From The Mind of M Night Shyamalan." The first released under "The Night Chronicles" banner, Devil is directed by Quarantine helmers the Dowdle Bros from a story by M. Night Shyamalan and script by Brian Nelson. The story reported…
Read MoreWe've got some brief news about Danny Boyle's film 127 Hours, which is in post-production now, and some very good early buzz to deliver. The news is casting-related -- thanks to the official film synopsis from Fox Searchlight (reproduced after the break) we know that Clémence Poésy from In Bruges is playing the girlfriend of…
Read MoreAs the movie industry slowly goes through major changes, unusual funding methods might start to be more prominent. Crowd-sourcing isn't a fringe tactic any longer, when Ridley Scott is using it to gather footage for a film (following in the footsteps of Bruce MacDonald and others) and Kevin Smith has talked about using the method…
Read MoreFor seven months now, we've been hearing about the secret next-film for The Wachowski Brothers, a Hard-R rated 'cinema verite-style gay romance iraq war film set in the near future. We've been getting tidbits every couple months, but all we know is the film tells the story of a homosexual relationship between a US soldier…
Read MoreWarner Bros has released a 19-page Inception prologue comic book on Yahoo! Movies. Written by Jordan Goldberg, and featuring art by Long Vo, Joe Ng, and Crystal Reid, Inception: The Cobol Job tells the story of the job that Cobb (the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film) and his team take on, which…
Read MoreSeems like there have been far more superhero movie rumors than normal in the run-up to this year's Comic Con. Hopefully many of these will be addressed in some manner within the next couple weeks, but in the meantime take anything boldly marked 'rumor' as merely a way to kickstart conversation. So, after the break,…
Read MoreIllumination Entertainment's first feature Despicable Me earned 56.3 million domestically in its first weekend of release, nearly double what analysts had predicted. It seems like everyone got lured to the theater to catch a glimpse of those cute little yellow minions. Of course, a sequel is already in development. Mike Fleming reports that a sequel…
Read MoreIf you liked the idea that David Fincher has seen and given notes on the current cut of Tron Legacy, then you'll love this. There are reports that reshoots for the film took place in June (not a big shock, reshoots being a relatively common way massive films deal with changes and narrative issues) and…
Read MoreOn June 23rd 2010, I had an appointment to chat with Jon Turteltaub, director of the National Treasure films and Disney's upcoming Sorcerer's Apprentice. I woke up early that morning, and headed down to the Apple Store at The Grove to pick up the new iPhone 4, which I had reserved. The plan was to…
Read MoreWhen you put a bunch of musclebound dudes, including most of the biggest action stars in the world, into one movie, how do you go about selling it? Not with the first full trailer for The Expendables -- you do it like this. The Monocular Group has cut the first Expendables trailer that is truly…
Read MoreEvery Friday or so, you may see a post on /Film announcing the release of a new podcast episode of "The Tobolowsky Files." Most of you may have skipped over these posts, and you probably have some good reasons. Maybe you never listen to podcasts, or you think that a storytelling featuring the guy who…
Read MoreAfter his movie The Cross seemed to fall apart, writer/director Andrew Niccol diverted to a slightly more mainstream sci-fi approach: he'll direct the 'action love story' I'm.mortal, which now has Amanda Seyfried set up to star. The film is about a society in which aging stops at the age of 25, which is as good…
Read MoreUpdate: Discovery wanted us to post the following correction Reign of the Dinosaurs is being produced by Creative Differences for Discovery Channel. While we are privileged to have incredible artists who have worked with Pixar and Disney on the upcoming 2011 Discovery Channel series, Reign of the Dinosaurs, the production is not a Pixar project.…
Read MoreAs you know, last year Warner Bros started release the the Harry Potter films in awesome Ultimate Editions, Blu-ray and DVD collections which included extended cuts of each film along with extensive special features. We posted about Year One and Year Two previously. Warner Bros Home Video has finally announced that the next two installments…
Read MoreLast month it was reported that Alias' scribes Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec had turned in their script for the Brad Bird-directed Mission: Impossible 4, but would the box office for Cruise's action/comedy Knight and Day effect the upcoming spy action sequel? Knight and Day pulled in a mildly disappointing $61.8 million domestically after a…
Read MoreWhen the Comic Con schedules started to be released prior to this past weekend, the Friday lineup included a panel for The Weinstein Company and Piranha 3D. But the listing has since been pulled from the schedule, leading suspicious onlookers to throw around a silly word: 'banned.' Turns out the situation isn't as dire as…
Read MoreEventually, AMC will release something for The Walking Dead that I think doesn't look great, but it hasn't happened yet. There's a good piece of art to promote the show's debut at Comic Con, which you can see in part above, from IGN. See the whole image after the break, along with the first character…
Read MoreThose of you who saw Predators over the weekend probably noticed a difference in one significant shot that was a centerpiece of the trailer. The shot appears in the film, albeit in noticeably altered form. Evidently there were a few who've been irritated by the difference (really?) and fortunately, someone got producer Robert Rodriguez to…
Read MoreGiven the heavy love movie studios have for remakes in the past few years, I'm surprised the George Burns comedy Oh, God! hasn't been grist for the mill. As it turns out, not for lack of trying. Deadline reports that producer Jerry Weintraub has been trying to remake the film in which God (George Burns)…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is The Brady Bunch: The Complete Series on DVD (Shag Carpet Cover Edition) for only $58.99, 55% off the $130 msrp. The set includes all 117 episodes from the 1969-1974 series on 21 discs, A Very Brady Christmas, The Brady 500 and The Brady Kids episodes. As…
Read MoreBrian Cox will reunite with The Escapist helmer Rupert Wyatt in 20th Century Fox's Planet of the Apes prequel Rise of the Apes. The Wrap reports that Cox will play "the villainous owner of a primate sanctuary who runs the facility without compassion for the animals that live there." Cox will join James Franco (Spider-Man/Milk)…
Read MorePeter Weller has joined the cast of the fifth season of Showtime's Dexter. Weller is best known as the title character from the RoboCop movies and Buckaroo Banzai from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. According to Deadline, Weller will be playing "a troubled Miami Metro police officer who gets caught up…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Splash News has gotten the first shot of a beardless Russell Brand in costume/make-up for the upcoming remake of the 1981 comedy Arthur. Production is currently under way in New York City. The original '80s film focused on class, alcoholism and romance, and starred Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli. Brand is on board…
Read More/Film was featured on Revision 3's internet tech show Tekzilla as one of their "Website We Just Can't Get Enough Of". I want to thank hosts Patrick Norton and Robert Heron for featuring us on the show. It's such an honor to hear people I've watched and respected for so long say nice things about…
Read MoreThe long saga of Moneyball is about to close -- after the film was set to shoot with Steven Soderbergh directing his rewrite of Steve Zaillian's script, Sony shut things down at the last minute. Aaron Sorkin was brought in to rewrite (though some of Zaillian's script is reportedly being used) and Bennett Miller is…
Read MoreD23, Disney's official fan club, has teamed with ArcLight Cinemas to present classic Disney movies every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday throughout the month of August, giving film fanatics a chance to revisit these movies on the big screen. Films include Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Rocketeer, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Black Hole,…
Read MoreSome first look images are interesting because they finally reveal how an actor might look in a long-awaited role. Others are great simply because they remind us that a worthy film is in motion. These new images showing Emma Roberts, Aasif Mandvi and Jeremy Davies in It's Kind of a Funny Story are in the…
Read MoreBriefly: This is the sort of short news that might usually be dropped into an aggregate Casting Notes piece, but after seeing Winter's Bone this weekend I'm too high on John Hawkes to sideline him like that. Hawkes is a magnificent presence in Winter's Bone, contributing a great deal to one of the year's best…
Read MoreOn Friday, we heard that Marvel had decided to recast the roles of Bruce Banner and the Hulk for The Avengers. Edward Norton, who played the parts in The Incredible Hulk, is out, and a new actor, to be announced, will be hired. Kevin Feige of Marvel released a rather undiplomatic statement about the decision…
Read MoreThis is about as unfounded as it gets, but we'll indulge the rumor for the sake of conversation. Why is the rumor that states that Anton Yelchin is the lead candidate for the role of Harry Osborn so tenuous? Because it comes from IMDB, which is lax enough that a chimp who happened to type…
Read MoreLast month, Walt Disney Animation Studios released a new teaser trailer for their new film Tangled. Over the past few weeks, the studio has been releasing new concept art from the upcoming animated fairytale adaptation. Check it out, after the jump. New Concept Art: Previously Released Concept Art: Previously Released Promotional Photos: Previously: Directed by…
Read MoreWith the recent fixation on making big budget action-oriented versions of classic stories and characters like Sherlock Holmes, the Three Musketeers and Don Quixote, it should come as no surprise that one more classic has fallen into the studio mill. Paramount has bought a pitch by Willie Block and Jake Emanuel that jumps off from…
Read MoreHarvey Pekar, creator of the independent underground/cult autobiographical comic book series American Splendor, has died at 70-years old. He was discovered dead in his Ohio home by his wife. Pekar had been suffering from prostate cancer, although no immediate cause of death has been determined at this time. Pekar's comic book/life was made into a…
Read MoreWYRD Studios is releasing a documentary titled The Splat Pack, directed by Mark Henry and Frank H. Woodward. The movie takes "a look back at the first decade of 21st Century horror films and the filmmakers that re-energized the genre." The documentary features new interviews with Alexandre Aja (High Tension), Darren Lynn Bousman (the Saw…
Read MoreMost of the voice actors on The Simpsons voice multiple characters in the Simpsons universe. Ever wonder which ac tor voices each character? There's a fun infographic for that. Hit the jump to see the full image. Found on Reddit.
Read MoreMichael Bay is in Chicago shooting Transformers 3, and a bunch of photos and videos from the set have found their way online. We normally don't post set photos/video unless they either show an actor in a unusual costume/make-up or if it shows some cool or unusual production values. These photos and video definitely fit…
Read MoreWell, that was anti-climactic. Various news sources (including the NYTimes) are reporting that after being under house arrest in Switzerland for the past seven months, Roman Polanski is now free to go. The Swiss government has decided not to extradite him, a decision that came after the Washington refused to release confidential testimony given in…
Read MoreFor a few weeks now, we've been hearing rumors that Marvel Studios was set to unveil Edward Norton on stage at Comic-Con later this month, revealing that the actor would return to reprise his role from The Incredible Hulk in the superhero team-up movie The Avengers. But last week Marvel confirmed that Norton would not be…
Read MoreSmall updates on a few films have hit the 'net over the past couple days, in part due to junket appearances by various actors. Sam Worthington, while promoting his new comics and film endeavor, talked about Clash of the Titans 2. Kevin Smith addressed Red State and the possible rating for Hit Somebody, and Angelina…
Read MoreThe Saturday and Sunday schedules for this year's San Diego Comic Con have been released, so now the full Con lineup is available. I've excerpted the most pertinent film and TV highlights below. Sunday is fairly slow, with most of the panels oriented around family fare. (There's good stuff, just not much big-ticket film stuff.)…
Read MoreMonths of speculation about Edward Norton's possible role in The Avengers came to an abrupt end on Friday when HitFix reported that Marvel had decided to recast Bruce Banner, aka the Incredible Hulk. Edward Norton is out; a new actor to be announced will step in. That wasn't a huge surprise, but the wording of…
Read MorePrepare yourselves now, because the profusion of Wizard of Oz projects hitting in the next few years may start to get a little overwhelming. In no particular order, we already have lined up: Oz, the Great and Powerful, starring Robert Downey Jr. and (potentially) directed by Sam Raimi; Drew Barrymore's proposed Wizard of Oz sequel,…
Read MoreIf you frequent /Film regularly, you've probably already been exposed to the brilliance/insanity/grammatical terror of The Room, Tommy Wiseau's failed attempt at a provocative, seductive drama-thriller. The film, which is as hilarious as it is downright baffling, has been declared by many to be the worst film ever made, and has gone on to receive…
Read MoreNimrod Antal's Predators is out in theaters everywhere today, and despite a whole host of story/pacing problems, I had a really great time when I saw it at a press screening this past week. Adrien Brody was suitably badass and Alice Braga proves she can hold her own in a testosterone-filled action film. Most impressive…
Read MoreWhat had once seemed like an innovative master plan by Marvel is now proving to be more of the same Hollywood indifference. The realization that Iron Man was to be the first entry in a collective, fully consistent franchise that would eventually culminate with The Avengers—featuring all pre-established characters, presumably to be played by the…
Read MoreFor the last two years or so, we've been reporting on Summit Entertainment's Untitled Cancer Comedy, which was formerly titled I'm With Cancer. The movie finally has an official title: Live With It, clever eh? The film is an autobiographical story based on the real experiences of screenwriter Will Reiser, a producer on HBO's Da…
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 MoreFor the past few months, Tony Scott has been gathering the cast for his next movie, Potsdamer Platz. (Which likely won't be the film's release title.) We've known that Mickey Rourke would appear in the film, and last time we heard anything about it the potential names new were Javier Bardem and Jason Statham. At…
Read MoreWe've seen a trailer and a few teasers for the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and now a short behind the scenes clip that aired on ABC Family has hit the YouTubes. The clip recycles some of the footage from the trailer, but also presents a few new interviews and, via…
Read MoreWe've posted a lot of artist Tim Doyle's artwork on the site in past editions of cool stuff. Heck, I have a bunch of his artwork hanging on the walls of /Film HQ. His latest is a Breaking Bad-inspired print titled "The Cook." The art measures 12×24, is printed with 4 colors with 2 split…
Read MoreBriefly: Remember when it was a huge deal that a movie made $300 million? Then it was a huge deal when a movie cost $300m. Well, now there's a report that James Cameron has personally made $350m from Avatar. Deadline says that the gross percentage deal Cameron arranged for Avatar, for which he acted as…
Read MoreThe Australian horror film The Loved Ones has been wowing genre-loving audiences since it debuted at festivals last year. It won the Midnight Madness program award (an audience-voted award) at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and has done quite well at other fests, too. There's no US distributor for the film just yet, but…
Read MoreThe schedule lineup for Thursday and Friday, day one and two of the San Diego Comic Con, has been announced. Thursday is a huge movie day in Hall H -- Scott Pilgrim vs the World will showcase the entire cast, MegaMind, Salt, Battle: Los Angeles, The Expendables and RED will all be on hand. Friday…
Read MoreKevin Bacon (Mystic River, Apolo 13, Sleepers) has been offered the role of the villain in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. Deadline reports that Bacon has yet to sign on for the part and is in talks to come on board the project. Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, Hunger) is playing Eric Lensherr aka Magneto, but…
Read MoreHBO has finally announced a premiere date for my most anticipated television show of the near future -- Boardwalk Empire, the Prohibition-era gangster television series created by Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese - Sunday September 19th at 9pm. The previously released trailer: Official Synopsis: “Boardwalk Empire” on HBO is from Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer…
Read MorePhilip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut Jack Goes Boating premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of the Premieres category. Written by Bob Glaudini, the story follows a stoner limo driver who looks for different ways to improve his skill-set as a way to attract a girlfriend, and goes on a blind date, which…
Read MoreIf The Good, the Bad, the Weird had received any sort of extensive release in the States, I'd just pitch this trailer for I Saw the Devil as being from the writer/director (Kim Ji-woon) and star (Lee Byung-hyun) of that film. But a lot of you have probably only heard of The Good, the Bad,…
Read MoreIn what was certainly not intended to be the first widespread glimpse behind the scenes of Green Lantern, an ABC affiliate in Louisiana took cameras to the set of the film and managed to capture...well, not a whole lot. Thrill to a searing discussion of Louisiana tax incentives! Gasp at a small crowd of cheering…
Read MoreYou've probably seen Mel Stuart's 1971 adaptation of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory starring Gene Wilder more than once. But I bet you haven't seen the alternate ending that wasn't used in the final cut of the film. This deleted scene was just uncovered yesterday in the Paramount Pictures achieves. Watch this newly restored…
Read MoreWe've known for some time now that director David Fincher's latest film, The Social Network, would not paint Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a flattering light, and all the marketing for the film thus far has only amplified that fact. First there was the poster, which put the film's tagline—"You don't get to…
Read MoreIt's not that we didn't know what Greg Mottola's sci-fi adventure comedy Paul was about, because we did. But now Universal Pictures has finally released an official plot synopsis for the film, which stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (and an alien voiced by Seth Rogen). Hit the jump to read it. The official plot…
Read MoreWe don't usually seriously report on the wish-fulfillment stories where a director or actor says they would like to do some mythical project. As it turns out, it almost never happens and is not much more than a cool headline with little substance. And yes, this is one of those stories, but when a filmmaker…
Read MoreUPDATE: Today STYD spoke to Saw producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules, and Burg clarifies, "The title of the movie is Saw 3D." According to Koules, "The Traps Come Alive...[is] a tagline that was added in and misinterpreted. Most of our movies have taglines. One of the things we talked about during the campaign -…
Read MoreLooks like the long saga of the sale of Miramax is about to come to a close. Disney has found and approved a buyer in the form of Ron Tutor and Colony Capital, a privately held institutional investment firm. THR reports the basics: Tutor and Capital will put $300m into the deal, with the balance…
Read MoreJake Scott, son of Ridley, has directed a new feature, Welcome to the Rileys, starring James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart and Melissa Leo. The film debuted at Sundance, where it did relatively well and was picked up by Apparition. Bit of trouble there, though, as Apparition has been undergoing some restructuring. Just a couple weeks ago…
Read MoreColumbia Pictures has announced that Barry Levinson (The Natural, Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man, Disclosure, Wag the Dog, Bandits, Man of the Year, What Just Happened) will direct Brother Jack, a movie that tells the life story of human rights activist Jack Healey. The coming of age story of an idealist who leaves the priesthood…
Read MoreYou may have thought you saw the last of Batman Forever's rendition of the Batmobile (because, honestly, why wouldn't you have?), but it looks as though it will have one last hurrah in Warner Bros. upcoming Arthur remake, which began shooting today in downtown Manhattan. For those who don't recall, the original Arthur came out…
Read More19-year-old actor Lucas Till (Walk the Line, Dance of the Dead, Hannah Montana: The Movie, The Spy Next Door, and the upcoming Battle: Los Angeles) has been cast in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. According to Entertainment Weekly, Till is in negotiations to play the role of Alexander "Alex" Summers aka Havok, the younger brother…
Read MoreLet the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson has been at work assembling an adaptation of the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy from author John Le Carre. A month ago we heard that Gary Oldman was set to star, with possible co-stars Michael Fassbender, Colin Firth and David Thewlis. Sadly, David Thewlis won't be part…
Read MoreA couple months back, we got a sneak preview of Robert Rodriguez's Machete thanks to an a special "illegal" movie trailer released online for Cinco De Mayo. The real movie trailer is attached to the Rober Rodriguez-produced Predators, which hits theaters this weekend. But you don't have to head to your local multiplex to see…
Read MoreThe Rolling Roadshow is just one of the many reasons the Alamo Drafthouse is the greatest movie theater on the planet. For those who don't know, the Drafthouse travels around the United States to present one-time-only screenings of classic films using a portable movie theater which they set-up in famous locations from the films. This…
Read MoreBriefly: Another slow-ish news day, another rumor. The rumor du jour is that, while David Goyer is interested in directing the new Superman film being assembled over at Warner Bros., the studio has someone else in mind. Reportedly, WB's idea for the best Superman director is Chris Columbus. The report comes from the Superman homepage,…
Read MoreNicholas Hoult has been cast as Dr. Henry Philip "Hank" McCoy (aka Beast) in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. It had been previously reported that Benjamin Walker (star of the Public Theater’s “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”) had been cast in the role. Then last week we heard that the studio was worried about Walker's age.…
Read MoreYou're going to see a lot of new stuff from Tron Legacy in the next few weeks, thanks to Comic Con. The movie will have a massive presence there to begin the real push for the film's December opening. And some fans will like this: part of Empire's report on the film is that David…
Read MoreOn July 1st, I got a chance to participate in a roundtable interview with writer/producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimród Antal about their upcoming Predator sequel Predators. I'm really excited about this film, and hope people get a chance to see it in theaters. I feel like I haven't really seen a lot of marketing…
Read MoreThe buzz on The Social Network, David Fincher's new film that recounts the behind the scenes conflict that resulted from the founding and success of Facebook, is getting to be quite good. So good that Sony gave the go code for co-star Andrew Garfield to take the lead role in the studio's Spider-Man reboot. We've…
Read MoreThis September, Woody Allen's latest film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, will be released by Sony Pictures Classics. The comedy already played the Cannes Film Fest, where it didn't quite electrify critics. (Peter didn't love it.) We don't yet have a domestic trailer from SPC, but for now there's a Spanish trailer that…
Read MoreIf you've been reading /Film for a while, then you know that I love good movie-inspired art. And the superbowl of movie art is Crazy4Cult, an art show put on every year by Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. This year's show will open on July 9th, and we have seen the first batch of artwork…
Read MoreHans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid, first published in 1837, has been adapted into a great variety of media. The most famous is Disney's animated musical of the same name, which helped kickstart the revitilization of Disney animation when it was released to great success in 1989. So any new adaptation of The Little Mermaid…
Read MoreOur friends at HijinksEnsue have a great parody strip this week that mashes-up the Han Shot First controversy from Star Wars and the "single bullet theory" as presented in Oliver Stone's JFK.
Read MoreAt the beginning of this week, a pair of reports circulated from AICN and the Mirror saying that the twenty-third Bond film had been utterly canned at EON Productions and MGM. But these reports didn't actually have any newly sourced info that made the situation sound any different than it had been when EON suspended…
Read MoreThe programing schedule for the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con international will begin to be revealed later this week. But for now, we're starting to get a glimpse at some of the panels and programing to expect at this year's con. Universal Pictures, Summit Entertainment and Showtime have announced their panels, which will include a presence…
Read MoreOkay, so this might sound familiar because we posted a piece in May that speculated Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson might be in line for Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. It all started when Johnson was spotted "taking a meeting" with Vaughn and James McAvoy, who it was later be announced was cast as young Charles…
Read More20th Century Fox has finally announced a date for the talked about rerelease of James Cameron's Avatar. The movie will return to theaters on August 27th 2010 with more than Eight Minutes of "Never Before Seen Footage" exclusively in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D. More information after the jump. Official information: On August 27, return…
Read MoreWith the Robert Rodriguez-produced Predators about to hit theaters with a new trailer for his upcoming Machete attached, Fox is going all out with a batch of new images from the film. Check out our two exclusive images after the break. Machete, co-directed by Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, expands upon the fake trailer created for…
Read MoreIn the wake of Inglourious Basterds, Daniel Brühl hasn't been nearly as speedy in booking new roles as other breakouts like Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender. That might be in part because those two actors overshadowed him slightly, but Brühl's turn as a German sniper hero was certainly impressive, and a linchpin of the film.…
Read MoreThanks be to the almighty press release to inform us of new casting info. Warner Bros. issued a release for the third Harold & Kumar film, which is shooting right now. (Little late on the draw for a 'begins production' release, but why quibble over details?) The first useful tidbit: nowhere do we see the…
Read MoreSo are films about financial disaster and malfeasance going to be the new thing for a few months? We've got Oliver Stone's sequel to Wall Street hitting soon, and the cast for Margin Call either means that it's a good piece of work or that it's just the best gig going in New York right…
Read MoreThere are quite a few fans out there to support UHF, the oddball movie from 1989 written by and starring "Weird Al" Yankovic. The singer has been working on a film for Cartoon Network, but recently found that the network abruptly reversed plans to create feature-length live-action content for TV. (Cartoon Network...no live-action...go figure. Though…
Read MoreDenzel Washington can make a hell of a bad guy, and he's now negotiating a new role where he'd play the antagonist -- a lethal prisoner, in fact -- in a buzzed-about script called Safe House. David Guggenheim's story was snagged by Universal in a bidding war, and has Snabba Cash director Daniel Espinosa set…
Read MoreWe've slowly been getting details on the story ideas behind Men in Black III, the 3D sequel to Barry Sonenfeld's two action/comedy/alien movies. Some of what we already know is probably in spoiler territory, and now new stuff has come to light that probably extends that territory further. But we've broken things down after the…
Read MoreJoss Whedon will get the chance to prove if he has what it takes to helm a big-budget comic book movie with the highly anticipated The Avengers (which is set to release on May 4, 2012), but it won't be the first time he's tried to tackle a major comic book property for the big…
Read MoreHollywood is in a dark place right now. The world is changing around it, and movie studios are struggling to adapt. We've already seen how studios have been trying to incorporate current technology-based trends and developments into everyday practice—whether it be through harnessing the power of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, or combating…
Read MoreLets not kid ourselves, we've already seen early concept art of what Captain America's costume is going to look like. But for some reason that doesn't make us less excited about hearing the Captain himself, Chris Evans, talk about the character's new look for the upcoming movie. Oh yeah, and the shield too. Evans tells…
Read MoreAh, it's the notorious 'an offer is out to...' story, which has of late become more of a staple. These are both potentially interesting projects, but keep in mind that at this point we're just documenting offers that have been given to actors to appear in these projects -- the films aren't greenlit, and there's…
Read MoreWe might eventually see a movie based on the Lego brand of toy building blocks, and while the idea sounds absurd on the face of it, the project got a bit more interesting when Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were hired. Now Lord offers a few details about…
Read MoreThis vintage video clip from a Star Trek convention has been circulating the interwebs today. Leonard Nimoy recounts a story about how William Shatner stole his bicycle on the Paramount Pictures lot. Watch the clip embedded after the jump.
Read MoreIn February, I reported that Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg, the screenwriting/directing team credited with ruining the spoof movie genre (Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, Scary Movie series, Date Movie) were filming a new movie in Shreveport, LA under the working title "LA Art Movie". We were the first to reveal at the…
Read MoreUniversal has shifted a few films around on the calendar. New berths for The Adjustment Bureau, Paul, Kids in America, The Dark Fields, Sanctum and Devil after the break. The Adjustment Bureau, which had already shifted back from an opening this summer to a September 17 opening, has been puished all the way back to…
Read MoreOscar winner Michael Giacchino (Up, Lost) has been hired to compose the original score for Let Me In, writer/director Matt Reeves’ english-language adaptation of John Lindquists’ best-selling Swedish novel “Lat den Ratte Komme In” and the critically-acclaimed film Let the Right One In. Read the press release after the jump. Heard by millions of people…
Read MoreHey, discarding handsome aesthetics in favor of comedy worked for Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder, right? So here's Colin Farrell sporting a Kingpin-style combover, either to star in a secret film where he and Peter Dinklage play twin brothers, or for his role as one of the title characters in the comedy Horrible Bosses, which…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First and Second Seasons on DVD plus the CD "The Distant Future" for only $26.99, 55% off the $59.72 combined suggested retail price. Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie -- a.k.a. Flight of the Conchords -- moved to New York…
Read MoreRipt Apparel's t-shirt of the day is a Tron parody design titled "Light Cycle Accident". Designed by New York City-based artist Nathan W. Pyle, the graphic tee explains what happens when two light cycles have an accident in the computer world. The 4-color design is printed on Navy tee. The good news is the t-shirt…
Read MoreWe've known for a while that George Miller's upcoming Mad Max sequel Mad Max: Fury Road would be released in 3D. But everything we've heard until now is that the film would be converted to 3D in post production. We now have a confirmation that the film will be shot in 3D using "revolutionary new…
Read MoreZach Galifianakis. Rob Corddry. Adam Scott. Bob Odenkirk. Jeffrey Tambor. Maggie Q. Ving Rhames. If at least one of those names hasn't yet piqued your interest, you might want to check if you have a pulse. This is the cast of Operation: Endgame, an action-comedy that sees two teams of government spies pitted against one…
Read MoreThe financial drama Margin Call, which started shooting a couple of weeks ago in New York City, has assembled quite the all-star cast. The latest addition to writer/director J.C. Chandor's picture is Jeremy Irons. What started off sounding like a so-so film that is being made quickly to jump in on the very topical financial…
Read MoreThe Sundance Film Festival slate isn't usually announced until November. It's not even mid-July, and we already have official confirmation of one film which will premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. You might be wondering how that's possible, and which film I'm talking about... What if I told you that it is a new…
Read MoreHere's some good news: the MPAA has evidently rated The Tree of Life, the long-gestating movie from Terrence Malick, and awarded it a PG-13. The good news isn't so much the rating (I don't really care what the film is rated) but that it is finished to the point where it could be submitted to…
Read MoreM. Night Shyamalan is producing a trio of horror-thrillers called, collectively, The Night Chronicles, with the first film in the series due to hit later this year. Originally the title was set to be the rather wordy The Night Chronicles: Devil, but according to Box Office Mojo, the title has officially been shortened. Yes, now…
Read MoreTo all those who have spent the past 22 years since Die Hard's release harboring a secret desire to wear Bruce Willis' scent, today is your lucky day. Geekosystem has relayed an announcement for his new fragrance, titled simply: BRUCE WILLIS. In big, bold letters. You know, because it's manly. It's said the aroma features…
Read MoreThe specter of Sin City 2 will hang over Robert Rodriguez until...well, until he finally makes the damn movie. I can conceive of a distant future in which Rodriguez has become a filmmaker akin to Ingmar Bergman (just for the sake of argument) but is still hit with questions about Sin City 2. On the…
Read MoreThe Twilight gang has it right: if you're going to be earning a percentage of a film's profits, make sure it's from the theatrical gross, and not the net profits. Certain members of the cast and crew of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix haven't been so lucky though, as a leaked accounting…
Read MoreWhat might Futurama look like if it was directed by legendary Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki? Bouletcorp has the answer! Check out the full illustration after the jump.
Read MoreBurbank-born artist Carlos Ramos (storyboard artist and writer on Dexter's Labratory, ChalkZone, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The X's, and Ni Hao Kai-lan) is presenting a solo exhibition of his Stanley Kubrick-inspired artwork at the Copro Gallery from July 10th until August 3rd. 11 years after the death of Stanley Kubrick, Ramos pays homage…
Read MoreWe've seen quite a few movie posters for Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, from the early teaser image, to the official poster found at ShoWest and the set of character banners for each of the 'evil exes.' In short, there is no shortage of marketing material for the film. Why not add one…
Read MoreLast week the big news on the Mad Max franchise was that the new film, Fury Road, wouldn't be the only new film. A pair of reports said that series director George Miller is prepping two films to be shot back to back: Fury Road and the follow-up, reportedly called Mad Max: Furiosa. Now we've…
Read MoreI came across this movie trailer for Tomasz Thomson's Snowman's Land on FirstShowing. although it was originally found on Twitch. The German-language hitman dark comedy does have a Coen Brothers-vibe to it, but that might just be the subgenre itself. The movie tells the story of a professional killer who takes up an offer to…
Read MoreNot even a day after word came out on the talented-but-unknown Andrew Garfield making minuscule earnings for the Spider-Man reboot, there's a report of less-talented-but-better-known stars scoring a huge payday. This might not be so frustrating to read if the stars in question didn't happen to be, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, the…
Read MoreNope, that's not a still from an unlikely adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel A Wild Sheep Chase, though I might actually love to see Steve Carell play the nameless protagonist of that story and Jemaine Clement the very odd Sheep Man he encounters at a remote homestead. No, that's a new still from Dinner for…
Read MoreWe don't know much about the plot of Scream 4, but we do know what Wes Craven told us in April: "We have fun with the idea of endless sequels, or “sequelitis” as Kevin calls it in the script. Sid goes through these three horrendous things, and Stab was based on those horrible things. And…
Read MoreWhat's the difference between 'suspended indefinitely' and officially dead? When it comes to James Bond and the planned twenty-third movie featuring the character, it can be difficult to tell. We've known for months that EON Productions had suspended development on the film thanks to MGM's financial troubles, but now there's a report circulating that the…
Read MoreStitch informs us that Amazon is now accepting preorders for the Tron: Legacy soundtrack, which is being scored by electronic music pioneers Daft Punk. The album now has a release date: November 23rd 2010, about a month before the film hits theaters on December 17th 2010. No further information is available at this time. As…
Read MoreA sequel to Free Enterprise is finally happening, and over the past couple week's we've been hearing rumblings on the casting front. If you haven't yet watched Robert Meyer Burnett's 1998 indie film, it can be easily described as Swingers for sci-fi geeks. It was about two aspiring LA filmmakers/Trek geeks who meet their screen…
Read MoreVirginia Madsen is the latest recruit for Catherine Hardwicke's medieval thriller Red Riding Hood, which is shooting in Vancouver. The script by David Leslie Johnson sets a wildly altered version of the Little Red Riding Hood story in a medieval village beset by a werewolf. Amanda Seyfried, Lukas Haas, Shiloh Fernandez, Julie Christie and Gary…
Read MoreElisabeth Röhm has joined the cast of John Singleton's Bourne-styled teen action film Abduction. The film stars The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner as a teenager named Nathan “who has long felt disconnected from his parents, and figures out why. That unleashes a chain of violent events.” After discovering his own baby picture…
Read MoreBriefly: I was surprised to see Jude Law's name pop up in the late-breaking cast list for Martin Scorsese's Hugo Cabret, which has just begun filming in 3D. Possible spoiler: Now we know that Law plays the father of Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield), which, given that the story is about Hugo being an orphan stranded…
Read MoreJust a couple weeks to go until Christopher Nolan's Inception opens (the reviews are already up) but let's take a moment to go back in time to 2002, when Nolan remade the Norwegian thriller Insomnia. The original was a great little piece of work, directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg. After Insomnia Skjoldbjærg hasn't done a lot…
Read MoreAs you already know, Scream series stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette have all returned to reprise their roles in Scream 4, which is currently shooting. But who cares about those guys and gals -- We have just learned that Roger L. Jackson, the voice actor who provides the creepy voice of the…
Read MoreRelativity Media has announced a deal with Netflix, to stream upcoming theatrical movie releases to Netflix subscribers instead of being released on premium television channels like HBO, Cinemax Showtime and Starz. The company claims this is the first time this has been done, and marks a "big shift in the film distribution model. Among the…
Read MoreBriefly: Quick, what is one of the most unexpectedly fantastic-looking things we've seen lately? Right: images from the pilot of The Walking Dead, directed by Frank Darabont. (None too surprising there.) While we haven't seen any actual footage from the adaptation of Robert Kirkman's comic, frequent Stephen King collaborator Darabont seems to be going all…
Read MoreEarlier this year, I posted a brief Tron Legacy set visit preview, accompanied by a couple interviews we conducted on set with the cast and crew: Jeff Bridges, who reprises his role as Kevin Flynn in the Tron sequel, Steven Lisberger, the writer/director/creator of the original Tron, who is on board for Tron Legacy as…
Read MoreYou knew news like this had to be coming. It is not difficult to believe that there is something like an ocean of good will between Peter Jackson and Sir Ian McKellen, especially when it comes to all things Middle Earth. Sir McKellen has been at the forefront of the casting and scheduling rumors for…
Read MoreWith the all-new, heavily CGI designs of Tron Legacy, I'm surprised we haven't already seen quite a few fan-made videos set in the updated Tron world. Enter Tron Homage: Disc Battle, a brief but very pretty fan film made as an entry in a VFX competition. Kiel Figgins oversaw a team of animators and artists…
Read MoreAfter that last big interview we posted with Vincent Gallo, a lot of readers probably think he's a total jerk, if not quite a cultural terrorist. That being the cast, perhaps his role in Essential Killing is playing directly to the audience who loves to hate him: Gallo plays Mohammed, a Taliban soldier who is…
Read MoreQuick one here, but Summit, in the not-so-long stretch before Twilight expires in the rosy two-fisted film fan-gasm that (might) be Breaking Dawn, is coming up with new projects. One is said to be Riptide, a sort of closed door mystery that takes place on a ship called the Nautica. Three people are involved or,…
Read MoreToday Threadess released a new Ghostbusters parody t-shirt design. David Staffell's "Something Strange, In Your Beverage..." imagines what it might look like if the marshmallows in his hot chocolate were actually a miniature version of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. The T-shirt is available in Royal Blue American Apparel tee for $18 plus shipping.
Read MoreWarner Bros has unleashed the embargo for Christopher Nolan's sci-fi action film Inception, and the first reviews have begun to flood online. After the jump we've compiled some excerpts. We're trying to keep the excerpts as spoiler-free as possible. Hit the jump. AICN: "Though the narrative speeds ahead like a rapidly unfolding lucid dream, INCEPTION…
Read MoreLast month we told you that Fraggle Rock director/screenwriter Corey Edwards had been told that The Weinstein Company has begun a wide search for a new screenwriter to come aboard the project after demanding the the script was "not edgy enough." Edwards' blog post caused a stir in the blogosphere and we now have an update…
Read MoreNO PHOTO I've been eagerly awaiting the first footage from A Dangerous Method, the new film from David Cronenberg in which Viggo Mortensen plays Sigmund Freud and Michael Fassbender appears as Carl Jung. There isn't yet any video to share, but we've got the first set photos, and I'm impressed with the work Cronenberg's team…
Read MoreJames Cameron has been talking about rereleasing Titanic in a post converted 3D for years now, and it looks like it might finally happen in 2012 (that is, if the world doesn't end before then). Cameron has previously stated that Fox is targeting Spring 2012 release for the 3D version, to coincide with the "100…
Read MoreA couple weeks back we highlighted the Spyder III Pro Arctic laser from Wicked Lasers, a very powerful, very dangerous blue laser that happens to look a lot like a lightsaber. Guess what? LucasFilm isn't terribly happy that anyone can order a $200 product that looks like a lightsaber and can easily damage fragile things,…
Read MoreIn the past weeks, a couple photos of Jason Momoa (Stargate: Atlantis) in action in the Marcus Nispel-directed Conan have leaked online.And today we bring you another new image of Conan in action. Hit the jump for the full production photo. The newest image comes from out friends at Uruloki: Looks pretty horrible for an…
Read MoreOn twitter, surfer Erica Hosseini revealed that she recently auditioned for a role in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. We now have more information about the audition, and as it turns out, Erica says she auditioned for the part of "Willow". More information, after the jump. Erica tells Straight2DVD (via: CBM): "I was auditioning for…
Read MoreWe've had more than an unsubstantiated inkling that a 3D re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy might be coming to theaters in the next couple years. George Lucas talked about 3D conversion in 2008, saying that it worked, but wasn't practical. Earlier this year Lucas said that Avatar's tech could be the push LucasFilm…
Read MoreAs you know, Milla Jovovich will be playing M'lady De Winter in her husband Paul W.S. Anderson's 3D adaptation of The Three Musketeers. The actress posted some photos on twitter of some of the dresses she will wear in the film, taken at the costume test. Check them out now, after the jump. "A 17th…
Read MoreLast week we saw the first international trailer for Let Me In, the American remake of Let the Right One In. Now there's a UK poster that sports a minimal, bloody design. But the US distributor of the film is in trouble, and after the heads of the company resigned last week, will we have…
Read MoreThe first photo of Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover) and Keir Gilchrist (United States of Tara) in Half Nelson writer/directors Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck's new film It's Kind of a Funny Story has been sent to us by /Film reader Matt S. The comedy-drama has been adapted from Ned Vizzini’s 2006 novel of the same…
Read MoreMarvel Studios recently announced the formation of a television entertainment division, and named comics writer and TV producer Joseph 'Jeph' Loeb as the EVP in charge of television production. Now Loeb is talking, in very vague terms, about his plans for the division. While he stops very far short of naming any specific ideas, his…
Read MoreAs you probably know, when Grindhouse was released in theaters, it was a double feature featuring Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, and a few faux trailers at the beginning and in between. When the films were released on DVD, they were distributed as separate movies, with the trailers omitted from both releases…
Read MoreLast month, Walt Disney Animation Studios premiered a new teaser trailer for their new film Tangled. Some new concept art has been added to the Walt Disney Animation Studios facebook page last week, but just recently came to our attention. Check it out, after the jump. New Concept Art: Older Concept Art: Previously Released Promotional…
Read MoreLast we heard about the Bioshock movie, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) was set to direct. That was almost a year ago. Since then, there's been no word on whether or not the film would progress beyond its pre-production stage, which seemed like an indication that the project had stalled. But now producer Gore…
Read MoreOver the weekend, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the theatrical release of Back to the Future (oh yeah, there was that whole declaring independence from Great Britain thing too). Talk show host/writer/comedian Conan O'Brien commented on the big anniversary on his Twitter account. If you missed it, you can read a screencap of his…
Read MoreDeadline is reporting that Sony is paying Andrew Garfield only $500,000 to play the new Spider-Man. Shocking? Not really... When it was announced that Columbia Pictures was going to reboot the Spider-Man movie franchise, it was revealed that a big reason for the do-over was due to money. The new 3D reboot has a preliminary…
Read MoreAs you may have noticed from reading /Film recently, M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender is opening this weekend. You may have read Devindra's scathing review, or watched his excellent interview with Shyamalan himself. You may have also seen that The Last Airbender is this year's worst reviewed film. Many of you have taken the…
Read MoreStudio Ghibli, the wonderful animation studio that has produced many wonders directed by Hayao Miyazaki, is close to releasing a new film version of Mary Norton's fantasy novel The Borrowers. We've seen two brief teasers for the film, The Borrower Arrietty, and now there's a third. The quality here is far better than the previous…
Read MorePredators, the new film from producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimród Antal, is just about to open. So, now that the film is in the can, with that can ready to be opened by slightly-suspecting audiences like a mark unscrewing the old 'surprise snake' gag, what's next for Antal? There's the possibility of a sequel,…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released a five minute sequence from Jon Turteltaub's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The sequence happens early in the film when a young version of Jay Baruchel's character happens to run into Balthazar's (Nicolas Cage) office of magical artifacts. Watch the clip now, embedded after the jump. Official Synopsis: THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE WALT…
Read MoreI've been hearing about a possible sequel to Free Enterprise for over ten years now. I really thought it was a pipe dream that would never happen. But apparently the sequel is actually happening, likely thanks to the recent jump in Trek popularity thanks to the JJ Abrams' Star Trek-reboot. If you haven't yet watched…
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 MoreLauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under, Can't Hardly Wait), DC Pierson (Mystery Team, Derrick Comedy), Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), Cedric the Entertainer and Tom Arnold (True Lies) have been cast in writer-director Stephen Gyllenhaal's quirky Seattle-based political comedy Grassroots. They join Jason Biggs and Joel David Moore Full details after the jump. The…
Read MoreBriefly: Well, this is more like it. I'm sure there will still be a flurry of comments that this photo of Jason Momoa in action as Conan the Barbarian looks too skinny. But I see this and just get a sense of power and fury -- looks like a reasonable vision of Conan to me.…
Read MoreThe full trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hit just a few days ago, and sent echoes of wild approval across the 'net. But one trailer isn't enough for the week, so let's walk into the holiday weekend having watched another trailer for the seventh Harry Potter film. In addition, there's a really…
Read MoreLast 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 untitled project, as that's the way Shyamalan likes it. Apparently only a few studio execs have read the script, and…
Read MoreIn April, Warner Bros announced that most of their tentpole films would be released in 3D (even if they weren't shot using native 3D cameras). The first films to be announced for a post conversion 3D process were The Green Hornet and Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. Since this year began, we've seen the release of…
Read MoreUPDATE: There might be more truth and ugliness to this than I first thought was the case. New info at the end of the article. We've been running a lot of Scream 4 info, and in a piece I ran yesterday one commenter asked why we've been covering it so much. The simple answer is…
Read More/Film reader BrianJSell sent me a photo of Warner Bros' incredible building-sized advertisement for Christopher Nolan's Inception found on Park Ave in New York City. Water appears to be pouring out of the building's many windows. Another variation later showed up on Twitter (found via FirstShowing), featuring an image of a brick wall bending magically…
Read MoreWith the release of The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan's gradual metamorphosis into George Lucas is complete. Just like the Star Wars director, Shyamalan burst onto the scene with a couple innovative films (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable), and displayed a talent for visuals early on. And just like Lucas, Shyamalan's screenwriting deficiencies, and his inability…
Read MoreI don't know if it's the impending holiday weekend and consequent lack of real news, but today is rife with rumor. There's the Mad Max one (which I've been assured by a couple people now is actually not rumor) and some Scream 4 stories that leave me dubious, and now a couple of rumors about…
Read MoreKevin Smith has been very busy since the release of Cop Out. He's planning a television special, building a theatre in Los Angeles, and will begin shooting his horror film Red State in August. Full details after the jump. I've always been a huge fan of Kevin Smith's question and answer specials. Love or hate…
Read MoreWhen USA Today confirmed that Transformers 3 would be released in 3D, I assumed that it meant that the film would be converted in post production. Why would I assume that Michael Bay wouldn't be shooting the film with 3D cameras? Well... Bay has said in the past that the 3D cameras are too heavy…
Read MoreAbigail Spencer is joining the cast of Jon Favreau's big screen adaptation of the comic book Cowboys and Aliens. Spencer started her career on the soap All My Children, went on to become the star of Lifetime Television's Angela's Eyes, but is probably best known as Don Draper's mistress Miss Farrell on the AMC series…
Read MoreBriefly: This is the sort of story that I'd usually be quick to dismiss, but it comes from Todd at Twitch, who is both well-connected and not quick to run utterly baseless crap. He's got a brief report up today that says George Miller isn't just returning to his Mad Max franchise with Tom Hardy…
Read MoreUPDATE: The son of Cameron producer Jon Landau told CHUD this story is false. Which is both relieving and, in a way, sort of a shame. Original article follows. Is it April first? Because I can't figure out any other reason that will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas would be claiming that James Cameron is…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Briefly: Not too much to say here -- as we go into the long 4th of July weekend, it's Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow on the Hawaii set of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides! And, shockingly, he looks just like... Jack Sparrow. You can also see Kevin McNally, who once again…
Read MoreThe announcement that Sony and director Marc Webb have chosen Andrew Garfield to be the new Peter Parker in Spider-Man came as a bit of a surprise. A welcome surprise to many of us, as the young actor is among the best of the crop of talent that was being considered for the role. But…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is The Three Stooges Collection, Volumes 1-8 for $83.99, 58% off the $200 msrp. Get ready for the outrageous groundbreaking antics of "The Three Stooges" in this outstanding collection of chronological masterpieces. Featuring 181 shorts remastered for the best-quality picture and sound, every sight, gag, and knuckle-cracking…
Read MoreWhen the iPhone 4 was announced, many wondered how long it would take before we saw a film shot with the device. Not long, as it turns out. 156 Turns is a documentary that covers the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb motorcycle race in Colorado Springs. And while the full film, made by Seth Schaeffer…
Read MoreOne of the best, weirdest pieces of news to come out of last summer was the fact that Bobcat Goldthwait planned to adapt The Kinks' concept album Schoolboys in Disgrace to film. At the time, Goldthwait had gained permission from Ray Davies of The Kinks, who is now an exec producer on the film, and…
Read MoreBriefly: The Scream 4 casting machine keeps rolling. Yesterday saw a lot of movement in the cast with Lauren Graham dropping out (due to scheduling commitments, according to her reps) and Adam Brody, Marley Shelton and Erik Knudsen stepping in. Now Community's Alison Brie and Mary McDonnell of Battlestar Galactica (and much more) are taking…
Read More12 Angry Mascots has created a soccer-focused District 9 parody titled District 11: World Cup Aftermath. Get your vuvuzela's ready, South Africa is under invasion. Keep away from anyone infected with World Cup Fever. Watch it now, embedded after the jump.
Read MoreColumbia Pictures and Marvel Studios have officially announced today that 26-year-old British actor Andrew Garfield (Boy A, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network) has been cast as Peter Parker aka Spider-Man in Marc Webb's 3D Spider-Man reboot. Garfield beat out Jamie Bell; Josh Hutcherson; Alden Ehrenreich; Frank Dillane. Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson and…
Read MoreTNT has released 20 production photos for the upcoming Steven Spielberg-produced alien invasion television series Falling Skies. They have also announced that series stars Noah Wyle (ER, TNT’s The Librarian) and Moon Bloodgood (Terminator Salvation) will join co-executive producer and writer Mark Verheiden (Heroes, Battlestar Galactica) at Comic-Con for a Q&A panel session scheduled to…
Read MoreHow serious can Zac Efron be? That's mostly a rhetorical question because, his High School Musical past notwithstanding, the guy indicated in Me and Orson Welles that he might actually be able to bring it. But Charlie St. Cloud might be the real test. This is the movie where Efron's character has to choose between…
Read MoreIt is now official, M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender has beaten the Brendan Fraser animal family comedy Furry Vengeance to become the worst reviewed film of the year. This according to Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews from movie critics from around the world. Airbender has a 6% rating with 80 reviews counted thus far.…
Read MoreMaya Entertainment and Freestyle Releasing have released the movie trailer for Ryan Piers Williams' The Dry Land. The movie premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as one of 16 films selected from 1,058 submissions for the dramatic competition. The film tells the story of a U.S. soldier "returning home from war struggles to reconcile…
Read MoreWhen news broke last night that Judd Apatow is producing a new Pee-wee Herman film to be written by Paul Reubens and Paul Rust, I speculated that this might be one of the two Pee-wee scripts Reubens has talked up over the past few years. But comments from someone who saw a recent Reubens Q&A…
Read MoreSince screening the film at Cannes, we've been hyping Gareth Edwards' new low budget monster movie Monsters (read my mini review here). 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…
Read MoreNikki Reed from Thirteen has one of the most horrifying scenes in this week's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, when she recounts her character's backstory. (Spoiler: it involves gang rape, and the scene is particularly horrifying because it is part of the film's program to define a skewed vision of sexuality for a young audience.) But…
Read MoreOne of the more interesting-looking movies of the fall is Mark Romanek's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go. The trailer arrived recently, and it makes the picture look elegant and puzzling -- just the sort of gorgeous enigma that could be an antidote to the increasingly terrible movies of summer 2010. With…
Read MoreIf you've been reading /Film for a while, then you know that I love good movie-inspired art. And the superbowl of movie art is Crazy4Cult, an art show put on every year by Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. This year's show will open on July 9th, and we have seen the first batch of artwork…
Read MoreIn early 2009, it was announced that Warner Bros was developing a big screen adaptation of Stephen King's novel IT. They hired screenwriter Dave Kajganich , who wrote the initial drafts of The Invasion, to pen the screenplay adaptation. We haven't heard much about the project since. But now we have an update, after the…
Read MoreM. Night Shyamalan is a nice guy, which makes the fact that he directed one of the worst films of the year all the more painful. I got a chance to sit down and chat with The Last Airbender director after viewing the film, and it's clear that he's passionate about the material, and that…
Read MoreWhile making the press rounds for Inception, director Christopher Nolan hasn't said much about the planned Batman Begins/The Dark Knight sequel (due out in Summer 2012) or the Superman film he's attached to produce. Part of that reason is that Nolan doesn't do interviews with online websites, which are more likely to ask about the…
Read MoreStage 6 Films is gearing up for an August shoot for Hostel: Part III. Stage 6 is the direct to dvd division of Sony Home Entertainment, is responsible for such home video releases as Zombie Strippers!, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, Boogeyman 3, Vacancy 2: The First Cut, The Grudge 3, Messengers 2: The Scarecrow, The…
Read MoreJohn Hillcoat, the filmmaker behind The Road and The Proposition, has directed a new commercial for Levi's titled "Ready to Work". The commercial is "a tribute to the new pioneers of Braddock, PA." When the steel mills closed in Braddock, PA, they left behind a dwindling population living in near apocalyptic circumstances. Now, a new…
Read MoreEver since Matt Reeves' Let Me In (a remake of Let the Right One In) was first announced, I've been simultaneously excited and fearful about the anticipated results. My hope was that an American remake could help bring attention to Tomas Alfredson's Swedish original. But that film was so understated and sublime, I didn't know…
Read MoreA conclusion to the first half of season two, a new beginning, an unforgettable episode with the Pooch, and a question: Are dreams intervening to solve waking problems? Only the Shadow knows. The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and…
Read MoreIn this special episode of the /Filmcast: After Dark, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley are joined by New York Press film critic Armond White to discuss the state of American film criticism. Later, we delve into a couple of theories about what exactly Inception means. For more details on the articles we referred to, be sure…
Read MoreStephen explores the dangers of playing comedy and recalls stories of those who did it well - and some who didn't. 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.…
Read MoreThe Wenstein Co has released the first full length movie trailer for The Company Men , John Wells' feature directorial debut. Wells is best known for writing and producing hundreds of episodes of both ER and The West Wing. The movie tells the story of "three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing…
Read MoreThis week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley delve into the mysteries of Christopher Nolan's Inception. Special guest Armond White joins us from New York Press. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Stay tuned to the /Filmcast and to /Film this week for great coverage…
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 MoreToday is the day that Christopher Nolan's Inception is out in theaters. Over the past year or two, we've waited patiently for Nolan's next work and written dozens and dozens of articles about it. Having seen it, I can't help but feel that films like Inception are the reason why I love watching movies and…
Read MoreYes, it's Christmas in 1987, and we can listen to it in the middle of the summer because it's Virtual Reality! 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.…
Read MoreThe Tim Burton and Johnny Depp revival / theatrical reinvention of the vampire soap opera Dark Shadows took a step closer to reality this week. Author Seth Grahame-Smith has been hired to write the picture, and the companies involved (Warner Bros., GK Films and Depp's Infinitum Nihil) tentatively plan to start production in January. Deadline…
Read MoreAvatar made billions of dollars, and Hollywood has gone 3D crazy. Studio executives are rushing films shot with traditional film cameras into a post production conversion process which looks horrible. And the consumers have begun to notice the extreme difference between "real 3D" movies and "fake 3D" movies. But how does one figure out if…
Read MoreThis week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss the dickishness of Kevin Feige, praise the sublime The Kids Are Alright, and try to figure out why Despicable Me isn't as good as a Pixar film. Special guest C. Robert Cargill (AKA Massawyrm) joins us from Ain't It Cool News. You can always e-mail…
Read MoreIn this episode of the /Filmcast: After Dark, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley deliver their final thoughts on The Last Airbender racebending controversy. Special guest Dan Trachtenberg joins us from The Totally Rad Show. The Facepainting article we reference can be found here (which is also where the image above comes from). Make sure to check…
Read MoreNO PHOTO I don't think there's any argument that Jeff Bridges is great enough to warrant his own little update once in a while. So here you go: a new on-set photo from the Coen Brothers version of True Grit, for one. Sadly, the other update negates a previous bit of casting supposition, as it…
Read MoreStephen discovers that starting over at the age of 36 can be very, very interesting. 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 MoreThis week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley celebrate the selection of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man, reflect on the brilliance of Louis CK, and delve into the mysteries of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Special guest Dan Trachtenberg joins us from the Totally Rad Show. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or…
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 MoreIn this special episode of the /Filmcast: After Dark, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley share their thoughts on Breaking Bad's superlative third season. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us on Monday at 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST at Slashfilm's live page as we review…
Read MoreStephen has an afternoon drink with a new friend and accidentally stumbles into the heart of human evil. 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…
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