As you know, Academy Award Winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno) is hosting a new internet interview show titled "Red Band Trailer", "the world's first talk show conducted in an an airstream trailer." Her first three guests were actor Adam Brody, Chelsea Handler, and Jason Bateman. In the latest episode, Megan Fox enters the airstream and…
Read MoreWhich movies and television shows does Michael Cera recommend? The following comes from Intervals of Awesome: My cousin, Harvey, randomly ran into Michael Cera at a London coffeeshoppe. Cera and Harvey hit it off and ended up having a 2 hour conversation over lunch. Cera wrote a list of stuff Harvey should see. I didn’t…
Read MoreSometime today, Toy Story 3 crossed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. The latest Pixar sequel becomes the only animated film to reach this milestone and the seventh title in industry history. Disney becomes the first studio to ever have two $1 billion film in one year -- the other being Tim…
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The list of filmmakers who will be awarded honorary Oscars this year has been released, and it's a good one. Francis Ford Coppola will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, given to "a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production." Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach and film…
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. THE SQUARE There's something so captivating about the caper-gone-wrong genre that, even after you've seen the scenario play out a dozen times…
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Doug Liman's Jumper debuted in 2008 to a tepid critical response and didn't exactly do gangbusters at the box office either, taking in only $80 million on an $85 million budget (although its worldwide total did reach $222 million). Nonetheless, the film did well enough that several of the people involved with it, including Liman…
Read MoreThe latest Inception mash-up is a take on the Christmas classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. It's amazing how much musical score and a few cuts can completely change any movie. Watch the trailer now, embedded after the jump. via: filmdrunk
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Assuming that the majority of this information is valid, there are going to be about two dozen worth of news stories crammed in one here, so brace yourselves. According to a leaked email exposing Paramount's upcoming movie slate, they're going to be pretty busy over the next few years, working on a slew of potentially…
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. THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD For those that have been disappointed with the recent summer action blockbuster slate, consider The Good,…
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Last night we got a brief preview of some of the films that will appear in the always-entertaining Midnight Madness lineup at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Now we've got the full nine, which in addition to the three announced last night (Super, Bunraku and The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman) include John…
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So many of my favorite movie experiences are the result of seeing films during the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival. The program perches like a beast ready to devour the more 'respectable' films at TIFF. While seeing films at the fest is great, period, there's nothing quite like catching the world…
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Count me in as one of the many who loved Hans Zimmer's score for Inception. While not as "hummable" as some of his other work, the way it establishes mood and intensity is so sublime that I plan on listening to this one on my iPod for quite some time. Are you a fan too?…
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Clint Eastwood's upcoming Hereafter, starring Matt Damon, is now slated to close this year's installment of the New York Film Festival. David Fincher's The Social Network is opening the fest and Julie Taymor's The Tempest is another of the big films; new additions to the program include Certified Copy, We Are What We Are (the…
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Do you want a sequel to Salt? Opinion on the film is decidedly mixed, but without (it seems) a lot of middle ground. I've talked to people who like the movie a lot, and dislike it a lot, which might be good enough response to earn a sequel. The film has earned $166m worldwide so…
Read MorePixar's Toy Story 3 has grossed over $895 million worldwide, surpassing Finding Nemo's $867.8 million to become the highest grossing film in Pixar history. Of course, the movie got the bump in 3D price increases that wasn't available for many of the earlier Pixar films (aside from last year's Up). It should also be mentioned…
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. DATE NIGHT A likable pairing can only take a movie so far, but that doesn't stop Steve Carell and Tina Fey from…
Read MoreRemember the news about Life in a Day, the YouTube movie that Ridley Scott is producing with director Kevin Macdonald? (Not to be confused with Bruce McDonald, who also crowd-sourced footage for his Broken Social Scene project This Film is Broken.) Well, the movie is already into post-production, but that's just because all the normal…
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A couple weeks ago, the Toronto International Film Festival announced their line-up of Galas and Special Presentations (aka the major films premiering at the festival). The list of films included Robert Redford's The Conspirator; George Hickenlooper's Casino Jack, The Bang Bang Club, starring Ryan Phillippe, Barney's Version, starring Paul Giamatti, Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, Ben…
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. KICK-ASS Kick-Ass has no meaningful substance to be gleaned from it, and no thoughtful social commentary to be analyzed. You can try…
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We've known for a long time that a sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth is in the offing. Josh Hutcherson, who co-starred with Brendan Fraser in the first film, is definitely back for more. But Fraser will be a no-show for take two. Now Dwayne Johnson is in negotiations to take his…
Read MoreMusic isn't enough for the indie rock baned Arcade Fire. Not only are they collaborating with Spike Jonze on b-movie science fiction short film, but they just completed an interactive short film/music experience titled "The Wilderness Downtown". Directed by Chris Milk a popular music video and commercial director (you've probably seen the videos he directed…
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Oh, Mark Millar. It's come to the point where I don't really believe anything the comics writer says. Or I can't take it at face value, at least. The guy loves to talk, especially when it comes to 'news' about the film adaptations of his comics. Today Millar is talking about the prospects for Kick-Ass…
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Briefly: We haven't riled anyone with Twilight news in a few minutes, so here's a brief update. At the Emmy Awards the other night, Rami Malek from The Pacific spilled that he'll appear in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn as Benjamin, one of the Egyptian Coven of vampires. Wait, that's actually pretty good news! As…
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With Inception, The Prestige and each of his Batman films, Christopher Nolan has firmly established himself as one of the rare filmmakers working today who can not only produce complex, character-driven entertainment on the studio's dime, but can command an audience while doing it. Women viewers, though, would be forgiven for dismissing themselves from that…
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We got a taste of the James Cameron of old this week when he told Vanity Fair that Piranha 3D "is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3-D. Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3-D horror films from the 70s and 80s." It hasn't…
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We'd heard a few years ago that George Clooney wanted to direct a screen version of the play Farragut North, and there's a new report that suggests he's going to do it at last. And possibly with a hell of a cast: Chris Pine, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti may all sign up for…
Read MoreHitfix has premiered the trailer for a Canadian independent sci-fi drama titled Repeaters, which will screen at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in September. The movie is being called "a really dark version of Groundhog Day" as it uses the same concept but to different results. Here is the official plot synopsis: REPEATERS is…
Read MoreA couple weeks ago, I was walking around a yard sale in Hollywood when I stumbled across a bookshelf full of folders -- press releases and press kits for movies from the 1970's to the 1990's. As it turns out, the yard sale was being held be the family of a former Hollywood foreign press…
Read MoreWe've seen a trailer and clip from Sofia Coppola's new movie Somewhere, but with festival season approaching and the film making a debut at the Venice Film festival in a week or so, the picture remains a bit of a mystery. But now we know a little bit more, thanks in part to a recent…
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. RED RIDING TRILOGY "This is the North—we do what we want." The Red Riding trilogy is as ambitious a set of films…
Read MoreI've seen a lot of Star Wars-inspired cakes in my day, but none more realistic than this creepy Yoda head cake. 35-year-old tchitwood sculpted the cake out of red velvet cake, Rice Krispies treats and fondant. tchitwood writes on Instructables: I'm an artist who recently has gotten into cake decorating and have fallen in love…
Read MoreThere's a script review floating around of one draft of Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbin's script for At the Mountains of Madness. Because, based on my understanding, it isn't reviewing a more recent draft, I'm not going to make too much of it. But the review was useful for pointing out a few statements…
Read MoreWhich actors in Hollywood are the best investment for the movie studios greenlighting new projects? Forbes has published their annual list, and for the second year in a row, Shia LaBeouf ends up at #1. The star has is earning not-so-high paychecks for big budget films such as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the…
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Over the past week there has been some casting movement on 5nal Destination, aka the fifth Final Destination movie. We haven't reported some of it because, well, the movie was called 5nal Destination. And after the last couple films in the series, mustering up enthusiasm for this one is difficult. (Though there might be some…
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After watching the deliriously bizarre and awesome Kafkaesque trailer for Black Swan, it's baffling to think that the film could've ever been originally envisioned as the same movie as the heart-wrenching, profoundly moving The Wrestler, but a recent interview with director Darren Aronofsky confirms that this was the case. Read what he had to say…
Read MoreReddit does it again, using a screencapture of Google Trends to show the extreme rise in user searches for the term "blue dong" in the begining of 2009, around the time that Watchmen was released in theaters.
Read MoreRipt Apparel's t-shirt design of the day is a Clockwork Orange/Smurfs mash-up titled A Clockwork Smurf, created by artist Captain_RibMan. As with all of RIPT's t-shirts, the design will be for sale today only. So act fast before midnight or it will not be available. The good news is the t-shirt is available for only…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS These aren't the most exciting photos to hit the 'net today, but hell: they're images from the set of a new Steven Spielberg movie. That's got to be a good thing. And these images of the shoot of War Horse, which were sent to Collider, are also notable for looking pretty low-key. Not…
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It has been long rumored that Jonathan Liebesman has been in the running to direct a sequel to 2010's Clash of the Titans. Heat Vision now confirms that Warner Bros has signed Liebesman to helm the sequel, with Legendary Pictures producing the project. According to the report, money was one of the main factors which…
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Piranha 3D not enough for you? Is a forthcoming sequel to that movie still not enough for you? Then how about Shark Night 3-D, which, despite what one might hope at first glance, is not a big-screen effort from the folks behind Shark Week at the Discovery Channel? We've talked about this one before, as…
Read MoreColumbia Pictures has launched the official website for David Finsher's The Social Network at TheSocialNetwork-Movie.com, and in doing so, have released 46 high resolution photos, both stills from the movie and promotional photos taken for the film. Check them out now, embedded after the jump. Click over to The Social Network website and you'll hear…
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Machete won't be the last time you see Danny Trejo and Michelle Rodriguez working together. The two will be on screen in an indie called Skinny Dip that will likely be produced and co-directed by Trejo's son Gilbert Trejo. The other co-director will be Frankie Latina. What's the film about? The LA Times offers that…
Read MoreIt has been a while since we've gotten a real Ghostbusters 3 update. Last we heard, Office / Year One scribes Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg had turned in a script, Ivan Reitman will return to direct, but Bill Murray is the sole holdout (initially telling the producers that he would only be part of…
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John Woo is in the middle of what might be a renaissance. It's too early to really make that call, but he's more active now in the wake of Red Cliff than he's been in the past few years. And more active with interesting projects -- if you haven't seen Red Cliff it is definitely…
Read MoreOne of my highly anticipated films of 2010 is Mark Romanek's big screen adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go. The book was named one of TIME’s 100 Best Novels (from 1923 to the Present), featured on many top ten books of 2005 lists, and a finalist in the National Book Critic Circle…
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What is this madness? In the first of three small updates on possible directorial hires for big studio tentpole films, there's a report that Darren Aronofsky has joined the race to direct Wolverine 2. David Slade is still looking like the frontrunner, while Red director Robert Schwentke has dropped out. More on that after the…
Read MoreHow does the Los Angeles-based Gallery 1988 top their Crazy4Cult show? By announcing a team-up with The Autumn Society for something they are calling "The 3G Show". A Pop-Culture art show in tribute to Ghostbusters, Goonies, and Gremlins. 3 movies that defined our generation. How cool is that? The show will have their grand opening…
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Looks like Teresa Palmer and Joel Edgerton will star in Kieran Darcy-Smith's directorial debut, a psychological thriller called Say Nothing. All three have been part of Blue Tongue Films, the loose organization that turned out The Square (by Nash Edgarton, brother of Joel) and Animal Kingdom. Kieran Darcy-Smith wrote the script with Felicity Price, and…
Read MoreThe hilarious team at the faux newspaper The Onion have another movie-rated story: "Martin Scorsese Attends Free iMovie Demonstration At Apple Store". Filmmaker Martin Scorsese went to a free iMovie demonstration at the Apple Store Wednesday, attentively watching the tutorial for the video-editing software from a front-row seat, sources reported. Scorsese, who won the 2006…
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The hook here, I suppose, is that after a string of photos taken by photographers outside the production, we've now got the first 'official' look at Russell Brand and Helen Mirren in the remake of Arthur. Brand plays the Dudley Moore role -- a rich, spoiled drunk -- and Mirren takes over for John Gielgud…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Daniel Craig was photographed in costume on set of Jon Favreau's big screen adaptation of Cowboys & Aliens. The photo, which appeared in The Sun, shows Craig holding up a red banner which reads "Back The Bid", which is a reference to a campaign to bring the World Cup back to England. Apparently,…
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In June it was officially announced that Stanley Tucci was cast as Dr. Abraham Erskine in Joe Johnston's Captain America: The First Avenger. Erskine is of course, the creator of Captain America, the scientist that creates the Super-Soldier serum, which when given to Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) turns him into a perfect physical specimen. Now…
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Sheldon Turner may be working on his directorial debut, By Virtue Fall, but he's also selling other ideas to interested parties. Five years ago, Turner and Andrew Panay developed a pitch called Blowback, which was intended to be a Dwayne Johnson film. Blowback never happened, but it has been reworked by Turner into a currently…
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James Cameron has been very vocal in the past about how 3D should and shouldn't be used in film, so it should come as no surprise that he has little positive to say about Piranha 3D, a film which follows none of his advice. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Cameron was asked if the…
Read MoreThe final day of operation on the Star Tours ride in DisneyWorld happened during Star Wars Celebration V. LucasFilm and Star Wars fans took over the theme park and some really cool stuff happened. For instance, the Indiana Jones stunt spectacular was rewritten into a fan film which combines both of Lucas' franchises, Indiana Jones…
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Why don't game developers make their own movies based upon the video games they create? The first answer to that question should be: "they're busy making more games." But there are a few cases where very high-profile development studios might be able to pull together the resources to make a game-based film, and do so…
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Briefly: Here's your latest small update on The Hobbit. The actor Sylvester McCoy (aka the seventh Doctor Who) has been rumored to be a candidate for a big role in The Hobbit, with some pegging him as a possible Bilbo Baggins. That always seemed a bit absurd, for while he looks the part, he's rather…
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Fox isn't going to begin production on their Fantastic Four reboot until after X-Men: First Class is completed, but that's not stopping them from looking at various actors and directors to come on board. First there were rumors of the studio pursuing Adrien Brody and Amber Heard to star in the film, and now even…
Read MoreWe usually don't do Cool Stuff columns on the weekend, but this t-shirt is one of those today only type of deals. TeeFury is selling "The Many Faces of Spock" designed by Raz for only $9 plus shipping. Like I said, the design will only be available today (Sunday) only. So act fast. Hit the…
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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Briefly: We've now got three Terrence Malick mysteries to ponder. First is the release date for The Tree of Life, his completed (we think) film that may or may not open by the end of this year. The second is the fate of Voyage of Time, the IMAX doc that was said to be a…
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The next big WWII film might be in 3D. Bruce C. McKenna, producer and writer for The Pacific, this week sold a pitch to Warner Bros. for a big-budget 3D film called The Battle of Midway, which (shock!) intends to recreate the decisive air and sea battle that took place June 4-6, 1942. Deadline says…
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Scream 4 just keeps adding folks to the cast. Recently it was Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell, each of whom is said to have a cameo in the film a la Drew Barrymore's appearance in the original Scream. Now Shenae Grimes (90210) and Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) have been confirmed as being part of…
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Earlier this week while perusing the IMDB listing for Nicolas Winding Refn, I noticed that he's credited as writer on a Pusher film with a release date of 2010. The third and final Pusher film, I Am the Angel of Death, was released in 2005. Confused, I checked out some info on the film... turns…
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We now know that Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner will play the two primary agents in Paramount's upcoming Mission: Impossible 4. (Until we know what the final title of this new Mission: Impossible film will be, we're just going to call it Mission: Impossible 4. Hopefully that'll avoid confusion for the time being.) There are…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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The director Peter Medak has had an interesting career. While he's done mostly TV for the past few years, he made a mark early on with the unusual Peter O'Toole film The Ruling Class. Since then he's made a bit of crap here and there, as well as a few other good, or at least…
Read MoreWe just got an official confirmation that two-time Academy Award-nominated actor/screenwriter Sylvester Stallone has joined Twitter. You can follow him now @TheSlyStallone.. In one of his first tweets, suggests that Bruce Willis should be a super villain in The Expendables 2. Sly wants to know what you think about that idea... so what are your…
Read MoreWalt Disney Animation Studios has released a new international (French) movie poster for their upcoming computer animated film Tangled. It's a lot better and more vibrant looking than the American teaser poster released last month. Check out the full one-sheet, after the jump. The French Movie Poster (via: IMPA): The American Teaser Poster: Previously: Directed…
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Wachowski siblings protege and V For Vendetta director James McTeigue has been planning to direct The Raven for the past year, and at one point had Jeremy Renner and Ewan McGregor both in talks for roles (perhaps the same role?) in the film. We don't know what happened with Mcgregor, while Renner is obviously going…
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Earlier this year, it looked like Ben Stiller's long-in-development sequel to Zoolander might actually be happening. It was reported that Ben Stiller was close to finishing the script with Tropic Thunder and Iron Man 2 screenwriter Justin Theroux. Paramount Pictures wanted to keep the budget low (under $50 million) as the first film was not…
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Briefly: What could be further from Centurion, the bloody action film from director Neil Marshall? How about Marshall making a film set in the world of underground supper clubs? Yeah, you read that right. Underground, scripted by David Cohen, is a horror / thriller set in the "world of gourmet underground supper clubs." Now, I…
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It's finally happening. After a long, protracted death spiral, Blockbuster Inc. is planning on filing for bankruptcy in mid-September. This isn't the end of Blockbuster quite yet, as the company hopes the bankruptcy process will only last for five months, but things aren't looking good. After filing for Chapter 11, the video store company plans…
Read MoreLetters Of Note have uncovered an old memo from the archives at Paramount, written on April 13th 1987 to the studio's Head of Network Television - detailing the actors being considered for the various roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is interesting to see some of the names that were inconsideration for the…
Read MoreAttending Gallery1988's Crazy4Cult shows is sometimes disappointing. Some of the art you see previewed online isn't made available in art prints, and the original art, while awesome, is too expensive for many to afford. I was hoping to pick up prints of Rich Pellegrino's pieces at this year's Crazy 4 Cult show, but alas, none…
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So Avatar is back in theaters today with nine extra minutes. But as we told you not long ago, this version of the film will hit DVD in November, and when it does there will be a further seven minutes added, making the film sixteen minutes longer than the original theatrical cut. Now James Cameron…
Read MoreWe have two photos in today's Photo of the Day: A couple awesome LEGO dioramas featuring the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man fighting The Ghostbusters have been discovered online. Check them out after the jump. The following photo was taken by Don Solo at a Lego convention: The following photo was taken by mhuffman at LEGOLand:…
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Yesterday when we told you about Jeremy Renner being hired to play opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 4, I said that we didn't actually know much at all about the script, and wondered how some new elements of the story would be structured. Now there's new info that suggests some interesting things, including the…
Read MoreWhen Lost was coming to a conclusion, one of my friends felt left out (as he had never seen an episode of the series) and joked (half seriously) that he wanted to try to watch every episode over the period of a week in order to see the final episode when it aired live. I…
Read MoreWant to get another glimpse at what a big screen Halo movie could look like? Microsoft has released a new live-action trailer for the video game Halo: Reach, the second spot directed by 49-year old Israeli commercial director Noam Murro, who in 2008 made his feature film debut with the indie dramedy Smart People. The…
Read MoreSteven Spielberg has been working with screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci for a few years now. Introduced through Michael Bay with the DreamWorks produced 2005 film The Island, the screenwriting duo went on to pen the Spielberg-produced Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and were put in charge (ie produced) of DJ Caruso's…
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Shortly after The Karate Kid was released in theaters, earning $56 million opening weekend (well surpassing expectations), it was announced that they were going to begin development on a sequel. Columbia Pictures executives have been meeting with screenwriters to pitch their ideas on a sequel. Tonight HeatVision is reporting that screenwriters Cyrus Voris and Ethan…
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Allison Miller (17 Again) has joined the Steven Spielberg-produced Fox sci-fi television series Terra Nova has been delayed. Variety reports that Miller will play Skye, a veteran Terra Nova resident who takes previously cast star Jason O'Mara's character's son under her wing. The series has been given a 13-episode order. The network is skipping the…
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Vapor warning: a gossip blog is reporting that Brad Pitt is the lead choice to play John Marston in a film version of the Rockstar Western video game Red Dead Redemption. Well, guess what? Sure he is! He's Brad effin' Pitt, which means he's the first choice to play at least twenty-five percent of the…
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At least half of getting a movie right is casting. And Nicolas Winding Refn seems to really be getting Drive right so far. He's got Ryan Gosling starring, and Bryan Cranston and Carey Mulligan in supporting roles. That's three hits right there, no strikes. And now he's lined up something of a left-field choice to…
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Hilary Shor, one of the producers behind Children of Men, has just picked up a rather odd-sounding script from Blake Leibel. Psychopomp is both the name of the script and the main character, and the story is being tagged with slightly grandiose influences like A Clockwork Orange and The Dark Knight. What's the thing all…
Read MoreA new study claims that over 88% of the full-length TV program episodes on Hulu Plus are already available on the free Hulu.com. For clips, it's almost 98%. Research firm One Touch Intelligence found that out of 28K+ episodes on Hulu Plus, only 3,345 were not also found on Hulu.com. According to VideoNuze, "two-thirds of…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS Now that the Doug Liman-directed version of The Three Musketeers from Warner Bros. has been well and truly back-burnered, there's nothing to stand in the way of world domination for Paul WS Anderson's 3D action-adventure adaptation of the same material. As an opening attack, the first images from Anderson's film have appeared online.…
Read MoreWhen the trailer for the M Night Shyamalan-scripted/produced movie Devil was screened at Comic-Con, people began laughing and booing when M Night's name appeared on screen. I've seen the same thing happen to a much lesser extent at a normal Friday night screening in at the Hollywood Arclight. The M Night backlash seems to be…
Read MoreWe don't usually post video of footage recorded off monitors or big screens, but it seems like a couple new clips for Tron Legacy has appeared at the Nokia Connection 2010 convention in Singapore. The footage features a bit of new footage of Garrett Hedlund as Sam Flynn in the real world on his bike,…
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I'm still saddened when I think about the loss of the fantastic comedy series Party Down, which Starz understandably canceled when its ratings failed to reach the same heights as its critical acclaim. But now it looks as though the show may find new life, in the form of a similarly-themed show on NBC. Learn…
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James Gunn's strange homemade superhero film Super, starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler and Kevin Bacon, will soon premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. (On September 10, to be exact.) In anticipation of that event, Gunn has offered up the first still image showing Page and Wilson together. We saw them in footage debuted…
Read MoreFocus Features has released the first video clip for Sofia Coppola’s new film Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. In the clip Dorff and film-within-the-film co-star Michelle Monaghan have a cold interaction while doing a photo shoot for a movie they're promoting. Hit the jump to watch it now. The clip below thanks to the…
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Warner Bros. is setting up a remake of the 2008 Argentine romantic comedy Un novio para mi mujer as a star vehicle for Steve Carrell. The comedian is producing, and WB hired Mark Gibson and Phil Halprin to write a script based on the Argentine film. A Boyfriend for My Wife would see Carell as…
Read MoreWhich is better -- Netflix or Redbox? Renters has created a cool looking infographic comparing the differences. See the whole image after the jump. Found on smashingdownloads via digg.
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Tyler Stout has done a new poster for Let the Right One In for a show organized by design group AllCity Media. The show was organized "to help AllCity celebrate 10 years of design for film," and features a variety of artists doing new posters for films like Moon, Spirited Away, Old Joy and Let…
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Good news for those who are interested in seeing I Love You, Phillip Morris, the reportedly quite good caper/prison/gay love story movie with Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. After a long, weird bunch of business deals that left the film without any US distribution, the film will finally come to theaters in the States. (It…
Read MoreLast night we published some quotes from writer/director Joss Whedon talking about The Avengers. But lets not forget, when Whedon signed on to direct the Marvel superhero team-up film, he was also hired to rewire Captain America: The First Avenger. Last week Whedon commented about his contributions to Joe Johnston's film, but many film sites,…
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There's been a lot of talk about how Paramount would manage Mission: Impossible 4 after the not outrageously good box-office of Knight and Day. (Which was also not outrageously disappointing, as the film has made twice in foreign markets what it pulled domestically.) The big idea was that the studio would expand the script a…
Read MoreThe television series Lost has come to a conclusion, sparking much debate among the fan communities. The debate isn't really focused on the answers (or for some, lack of answers) but more so over what they thought (or disliked) about the final season and series as a whole. Actually, the storyline conclusion of Lost was…
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Briefly: This one is pretty easy -- the Netflix blog announced today that an official Netflix app is finally available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The app is free, but you'll have to have at least the basic Netflix $8.99 per month membership to use it. The focus of the app is streaming…
Read MoreWildStorm/DC Comics has given us an exclusive look at the cover art to the four prequel comics for the upcoming big screen adaptation of RED. The art for all of the covers is done by RED co-creator Cully Hamner. All four hit comic shops on September 15th. Images and synopses for each one-shot comic can…
Read MoreBarnes & Noble has the best deal on Lost: The Complete Collection on Blu-Ray for $143 after using coupon code "N7Y9U9J" with free shipping. I'm not sure how long this price will be valid for, so act fast. The retail list price is $279,99, and the nearest price on Google Products is $194.99 shipped (from…
Read MoreSaw co-director/co-creator James Wan has signed on to direct, and will oversee the screenplay development of a big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Nightfall for William Stuart’s Aurora Productions and Platinum Studios, Inc. Nightfall tells the story of a man who finds out just how bad life can get when he discovers that the…
Read MoreDisclaimer: Because we're a movie blog, news from other mediums (like video games) sometimes take longer to get to us. So please excuse us if you already read about this on a video game website or blog. And I figure if I somehow missed this news, some of you might have as well. Many of…
Read MoreA Hungarian movie poster for Disney's Tron: Legacy has appeared online on kinopoisk.ru, focusing on Beau Garrett's character Jem, one of four programs known as Sirens. The Sirens operate the Grid Game armory, equipping combatants with the armor needed to compete in the games. Jem is the lead Siren. Beau told JustJared at Comic-Con that…
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Fantastic Fest has announced a new Gala Screening for the film Buried, with both star Ryan Reynolds and director Rodrigo Cortes in attendance. And because the Alamo Drafthouse must top themselves with the most unique movie-going experiences known to man, that have announced the first ever "Buried with Buried: Rolling Roadshow of One" where 4…
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Discussions of X-Men Origins: Magneto stopped about the same time that X-Men: First Class was announced. Last we heard about it, Bryan Singer was still signed on to direct First Class, and he said that the film might supersede the Magneto prequel. Now we've got an update from producer Lauren Shuler Donner, providing a slightly…
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Two weeks ago there was word that the small company Roadside Attractions would be the outfit to distribute Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful in the US. Now there is confirmation that the company has bought rights to the film and will bring it to US theaters in December. How many theaters? Good question. Can we get…
Read MorePhase 4 Films has released a movie trailer for the acclaimed 2010 Sundance Film Festival entry The Freebie. Written, directed and starring Katie Aselton, The Freebie is a romantic drama about a young couple in Los Angeles who try to spice up their marriage by allowing each other a one-night "freebie." You might recognize Aselton…
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This is more like it. The visual marketing for Never Let Me Go, Mark Romanek's adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel, has been represented by a primary one-sheet which is pretty, but maybe not quite right. This trio of new character posters is a lot better. Still a beautiful look at the film, but a…
Read MoreThe next print in Mondo's LucasFilm-licensed Star Wars art print series is Todd Slater's "Great Warrior". The image uses leaves, sticks, ferns and other flora found in the swamps of Dagobah to create Yoda's face. Here is what Slater said about the print on OMG: “From the first time that I saw Star Wars, I…
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Here we are, with Scott Pilgrim vs the World still in theaters (perhaps barely! help this one out, folks!) and already there are details on some DVD extras. Director Edgar Wright today posed a snippet of animation to his blog; the clip details work that was done to plan the film's first fight sequence between…
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GK Films is seriously in the Angelina Jolie business. (And so are we, lately.) The company financed The Tourist, which Jolie finished shooting not long ago (with co-star Johnny Depp under director Florian Henckel von Donnsersmarck) and will bankroll the Bosnian War film Jolie is writing and directing. And now GK has lined up Christopher…
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Expectations for the Star Trek sequel are high; info on the project is low. At this point, I'm eager to learn anything I can about what to expect from the next adventure with the USS Enterprise, even if it's only vague hints and references to other billion-dollar-earning properties. Last time we heard about the film,…
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Briefly: Here we go again! With talk suggesting that MGM's financial situation is finally getting sorted out, naturally there's bound to be more conversation with respect to The Hobbit. This time it is producer and presumed director Peter Jackson talking to The Dominion Post, saying that MGM and Warner Bros. are "making progress untangling the…
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Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back producer Gary Kurtz is going back to big effects films with Panzer 88. We first heard about the film very briefly last year, when Hellboy co-writer Peter Briggs was said to be directing "a supernatural horror film set in a German tank during WW2." At the time, Briggs…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures have announced that they are completely abandoning the Annie Awards, an yearly award show focusing on animation. The International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood has held the ceremony since 1972, and Disney has sponsored the awards for every year since it's creation. Why has the mouse house turned their back on the Annies?…
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More first looks up today, kicking off with a low-key photo showing Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari in action for 30 Minutes or Less. If the photos don't thrill you, remember that the film is directed by Zombieland's Ruben Fleischer, and that Danny McBride is also in the mix as a criminal who forces Eisenberg…
Read MoreThe Sydney Morning Herald got a chance to talk with Joss Whedon, about a bunch of things, including his upcoming big screen adaptation of Marvel Comics' The Avengers. “Right now I'm working on a movie that's got enormous stipulations and is going to be changing and fluid every second. I've come up with dozens of…
Read MoreToday we bring you another edition of Television Commercials by Big Directors, with a new television commercial shot by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese earlier this year. The television spot is for Bleu, Chanel's fragrance for men, stars Gaspard Ulliel (Hannibal Rising), and features another Rolling Stones song (what else do you expect from Scorsese?),…
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Last time we saw Belén Rueda in a Guillermo del Toro-produced film, it was The Orphanage, which premiered at the Toronto Film Fest in 2007. Now Rueda is back in another GdT film: Julia's Eyes, directed by Guillem Morales (The Uncertain Guest). A Spanish-language trailer has been floating around for a while, but now there…
Read MoreI know these Scott Pilgrim vs. The World movie trailer mash-ups are probably getting old, especially after that awesome Matrix video. I mean, how can you top that one? Someone created a trailer mashing up Scott Pilgrim with the Nickelodeon cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender (not to be confused with that "thing" that M…
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Briefly: I'm not sure that we've talked about Transit: it's the After Dark Films thriller to be directed by Antonio Negret from a script by Michael Gilvary, with Joel Silver as exec producer. The story is " about a band of thieves on the run from a bank robbery and the suburban family they come…
Read MoreHot Toys have announced the upcoming release of the 1/6th scale Col. Hans Landa Inglourious Basterds Collectible Figure, part of their Movie Masterpiece Series. The highly detailed Col. Hans Landa collectible is specially crafted based on the image of Christoph Waltz in the movie, highlighting the newly sculpted head, movie-accurate facial expression, Germany army uniform…
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You may not know Rade Šerbedžija's name, but his face should be instantly familiar, either thanks to his performance as an opportunistic costume shop owner in Eyes Wide Shut, the dangerous Boris the Blade in Snatch, a few memorable moments in Batman Begins or even his work on 24. Now he'll be in that Bosnian…
Read MoreJohn Stockwell is a director who has consistently disappointed me throughout his career. Stockwell showed promise with his 2001 film Crazy/Beautiful, starring Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez, but has since made a series of clunkers: Blue Crush, Into the Blue and Turistas. His last film, Middle of Nowhere, impressed me a bit when I saw…
Read MoreHBO has released a thirteen and a half minute behind the scenes featurette for the Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese created Prohibition-era gangster television series Boardwalk Empire. The new series 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…
Read MoreUpdate: Dimension Films has confirmed that Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell will appear in Scream 4. Gossip columnist Cindy Clark is reporting that Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell will film celebrity cameos in Scream 4. We have no idea if this is true, but it is possible. Remember, the opening scene victims are almost always…
Read More/Film's own David Chen has figured out a way to fix the New York Subway... Photo after the jump. Okay, so the above Spoiler Warning sign was not actually installed by Dave. It was created by Newmindspace and Jason Eppink (found via Laughing Squid). And no, the photo really isn't film related per say, but…
Read MoreKatie Holmes (Batman Begins, The Romantics) and Al Pacino are in talks to join Adam Sandler's latest shitty romantic comedy feature, Jack and Jill. The storyline follows Jack, a family man, who must deal with his twin sister Jill, who visits for Thanksgiving and won't leave. Steven Koren (Evan Almighty, Click) wrote the screenplay, and…
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Paramount Pictures and director Brad Bird are going to begin testing actors to star alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 4. The Wrap is reporting that Keven Zegers (Frozen), Christopher Egan (Resident Evil: Extinction) and Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker) are in contention for roles in the new film. It is unclear if they are…
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This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley reflect on the ethics of basing a film on a true story, share their thoughts on Johnnie To, and praise Bong Joon Ho's directorial debut, Barking Dogs Never Bite (now out on DVD). Special guest Tasha Robinson from AV Club joins us for this episode. You…
Read MoreJames Cameron appeared on G4tv's Attack of the Show to demonstrate the tech behind the 3D in Avatar, the Cameron-Pace 3D Camera Rig, which he helped pioneer. Watch the video now embedded after the jump. via: filmdrunk
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This is interesting. Over the weekend there was a report that Angelina Jolie would be making a film planned as a love story set during the Bosnian war of the early '90s. The report was rather lacking in specifics, which led everyone (me included) to assume she'd be acting in the film. But no, says…
Read MoreAngry Birds is probably the most addictive game on the iPhone or iPad. The game basically involves slingshotting various different types of birds, each with different atributes (one can slingshot for instance, where another drops a egg bomb) at structures housing green pig creatures. The goal is not to knock down the structures, but to…
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Satoshi Kon, the Japanese director of animated films such as Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress and the Inception-influencing Paprika, has died at the young age of 47. The director reportedly lost a battle with cancer. News of the director's passing originally came via a tweet from Takeda Yasuhiro, then seems to have been confirmed by other…
Read MoreFox Searchlight has released the first teaser trailer for Danny Boyle's 127 Hours. The film tells the story of Aron Ralston, the mountain climber who amputated his own arm to free himself after being trapped by a boulder for nearly five days.Here is the official plot synopsis: 127 HOURS is the new film from Danny…
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Not long ago we heard that reshoots for Universal's threequel Little Fockers were potentially going to involve Dustin Hoffman, who appeared in Meet the Fockers, the first sequel to Meet the Parents. Hoffman had originally declined to be a part of Little Fockers for a variety of reported reasons. (Scheduling, the part written for him,…
Read MoreAt the end of Back to the Future, Marty McFly tells Doc Brown that they don't have enough street to get up to 88 miles per hour. Doc looks over at Marty and explains that "Where we're going... We don't need roads..." Some of you might be confused as 2015 is almost upon us and…
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This is the sort of thing that Fox should have kept a lid on until after the Avatar Special Edition was back in theaters with nine new minutes of footage. Because what's better than nine new minutes? Sixteen, which is the running time of the extra footage that will reportedly be in the DVD release…
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Red Hill takes a classic small thriller concept -- a few lawmen trying to hold off an aggressive criminal -- and looks as if it infuses it with some Western influence and maybe a little touch of noir. Bring in some great cinematography and True Blood's Ryan Kwanten as a wounded officer just looking for…
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Want to be angry today? Then watch this trailer for Inside Job, the Charles Ferguson doc about the 2008 financial meltdown. The film wowed 'em at Cannes, and watching this trailer it's easy to guess why: there's nothing like getting yourself worked up into a lather of righteous indignation over the scumbag behavior of America's…
Read MoreAMC has officially released the same trailer for The Walking Dead that was shown this past July at Comic Con, and we've got it after the break. Yep, we posted the Comic-Con trailer for the Frank Darabont-direct pilot of The Walking Dead once before, but that was a taped bootleg. (Peter got a little excited…
Read MoreMedienboard Berlin-Brandenburg has released the first four photos from Tom Tykwer's new film Drei (English translation: Three), a contemporary love story set in current day Berlin which is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The film is Tykwer’s first German project in a decade, and the first movie he has written himself since…
Read MoreThe t-shirt of the day at Ript Apparel is a tribute to The Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski created by Tom Ledin. Check out the full design after the jump. I love the doodle pen sketch of the Dude. The bad news is that with all of RIPT's tees, the design will only be available…
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Despite the fact that the two kids, Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara, who starred in the first three films aren't even close to being kids at this point, Robert Rodriguez is preparing to shoot a fourth Spy Kids movie. He's doing so with new kids, but for the time being we don't know who those…
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If I told you that Christopher Nolan loves Michael Bay movies, would you believe me? Looks like you may not have a choice. According to an interview with Inception cinematographer Wally Pfister, it's fact. Read what he had to say about Nolan's love affair with Bay's films after the break. Cinematical scored the interview. Here's…
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Joe Hill is following in the steps of his father Stephen King, and making the transition to Hollywood. His book, Heart-Shaped Box is already being developed into a big screen thriller by director Neil Jordan over at Warner Bros, Mandalay Pictures has optioned his upcoming novel Horns. In February, it was rumored that Alex Kurtzman…
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Look quick at this poster for the Tony Scott thriller Unstoppable and you might think you're staring at half an ad for the Lost movie we thought would never happen. Chris Pine has really been photographed and Photoshopped to put his best Josh Holloway forward. And Denzel Washington is probably thinking, "so...is this the Taking…
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It's a big week for Werner Herzog fans. His new documentary, the 3D-shot Cave of Forgotten Dreams, will soon screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the first images have been revealed. (Above, for example.) And My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, the film he made with David Lynch producing, is hitting…
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In June, Doug Liman's name was attached to the Warner Bros. sci-fi project All You Need Is Kill. At the time I thought the pairing of Liman and a 'Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day' story was odd, given that Liman is known to be rather on the indecisive side when it comes to directing style.…
Read MoreIn July we saw the first photos of Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender in makeup and costume as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung for David Cronenberg's new film A Dangerous Method. Turns out that during the same period some TV press was also allowed onto the set, and we've got a pair of short video…
Read MoreTo celebrate the five year anniversary of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Phantom City Creative has crafted a series of 5 limited edition posts based on some of the popular films which screened at the festival. Each of the posters is a 11? x 17? digital print, with editions of only 66. $20 each…
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DVD and Blu-ray details have been revealed for both Toy Story 3 and the Cars spin-off set Mater's Tall Tales. While a few things you might expect to see are missing (there's no DVD short on Toy Story 3, for example) there are a few possible good features, like the first look at Cars 2.…
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Brief details on this first one: Topher Grace, Paul Rudd, and Kristen Wiig are reportedly set for the indie comedy Bobby Blue Sky, written by Parks and Recreation's Emily Kapnek. The film is about "three dysfunctional siblings coming to terms with the way their baby brother’s accidental fame as a character in their father’s children’s…
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As I've discussed previously, Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse) is incredibly gifted when it comes to creating strong, intelligent, self-reliant and complex female characters. That may not mean much to some, but in an industry where strong female characters are a rarity, Whedon might as well be the face of the cinematic feminist…
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This is basically an incremental update on Tower Heist, which we've known for a while would likely be the new film from director Brett Ratner. The script and cast were reconfigured a while ago from the original conception (at one point described as a "black Ocean's Eleven") and Ben Stiller has been attached to star.…
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With Scott Pilgrim vs. the World being the financial disaster that it is, the blame is likely to be placed largely on the marketing. Where did the trailers go so wrong? But more importantly, a question you've clearly been wondering ever since Pilgrim bombed: If The Matrix had been anything like Scott Pilgrim vs. the…
Read MorePiranha 3D didn't make a huge splash at the box office this weekend -- $10 million and the #6 place. But the money that was made is enough to ensure the film will recoup the film's estimated $24 million budget. The film is likely to make at least $30 million theatrically, and a bunch more…
Read MoreThere are so many bad Star Wars fan films that I often don't make it through the first minute of these reader submitted or posted short films. The films are often made by first time filmmakers who have never tried to shoot and put together a short film, nevermind one full of costumes, computer generated…
Read MoreNeville Page is working on JJ Abrams' Super 8. This shouldn't be much of a surprise considering that concept designer/creature creator Page created the Cloverfield monster in the Abrams-produced sci-fi movie, and worked closely with the filmmaker creating the creatures and characters in Star Trek. Neville's credits also include Garfield, Fantastic Four, Superman Returns, The…
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Briefly: Disney has picked up a new spec script by Ahmet Zappa and Michael Wilson, called Monster Witness Relocation Program. Zappa came up with the basic story, and Deadline's report suggests that Disney will develop the film as a project for Jaden Smith. The title alone probably made this a buy -- Deadline offers no…
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Last time we checked in on Stephen Daldry's adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Daldry had just officially signed on, though he'd been working on the project with producer Scott Rudin for some time. Now Warner Bros. and Paramount are close to a deal to co-produce the film, and…
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If the trailer for Case 39 looks like a time capsule, that's because it is. The film was shot in 2006, at a point when it looked more weird to see Bradley Cooper in a leading role, and less weird to see Renee Zellweger onscreen at all. Now the film is finally close to being…
Read MoreLast week we posted a trailer for Gucci's new television commercial/short film directed by comic artist/creator turned director Frank Miller (Sin City, The Spirit), starring Evan Rachel Wood and Chris Evans, and featuring the music of Friendly Fires. The television spot has now premiered online and can be watched after the jump. The tv ads…
Read MoreAmazon has an awesome deal today on the Unforgiven Blu-ray, on sale for only $7.99, 74% off the $29 msrp. Get it while you still can. via: Brad Brevet
Read MoreFive years ago, /Film was launched. Today we celebrate our fifth birthday with more readers and friends than we ever could have imagined. As always, we want to thank you guys/gals for your continued readership and support! ...and if you haven't done so already, please join the /Film Facebook fanpage! photo via: nikkiscakery
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Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Total Recall) has been off the grid for about four years now, with his last film, the widely acclaimed Dutch war drama/thriller Black Book, marking his only return to the director's chair since he departed the Hollywood scene a decade ago (after the release of Hollow Man). Good news for Verhoeven fans:…
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Update: Apparently this story isn't completely accurate. MTV informs us that they have removed the story because Randall Wallace did script work on the McG version of 20,000 Leagues, but that project is dead. The Fincher is something totally different... Few upcoming projects have quite the promise that Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea does,…
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With every step closer to production, the film Drive becomes more interesting. First it became a Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Pusher) movie with Ryan Gosling starring. Then Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston began negotiating to join the cast. And now it looks like Carey Mulligan will be the female lead when the film goes before cameras,…
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As Sylvester Stallone reigns supreme at the box office yet again, the sting of Scott Pilgrim's failure to resonate with the public only deepens. Strange how both films attempt to appeal to similar filmic influences, yet the divide amongst audiences has been so wide. It's possible that this is a result, however subconscious, of a…
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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Hayao Miyazaki has never made a direct sequel to one of his films. But it looks like he might be about to embark on the first. A new interview with the director suggests that he has conceived a sequel to his sixth film, Porco Rosso, which featured an ace fighter pilot who has been cursed…
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When word first came out that a Fantastic Four reboot would be made, /Film asked if you guys cared. The consensus? A resounding: "Meh." But could anything change your minds? How about the casting of Adrien Brody and Amber Heard? Those are two of the rumored casting possibilities currently being floated by Screenrant and Comic…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is The X-Files on DVD for only $13.99 for any season box set. This is a 65% savings from the $40 list price. Today only, save 65% on any season of "The X-Files." All nine seasons of Chris Carter's classic sci-fi TV show are available for only…
Read MoreWarner Bros held the first test screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I today in Chicago, and /film reader "Kyle" has sent us his early reader reaction. Hit the jump if you're curious. Disclaimer: As with any test screening, you should be aware that this version of the film is not final.…
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Briefly: Robert Schwentke's movie Red is evidently testing well, and I've heard great things about it from a few people who've seen big chunks of the movie. (And it's doing well enough that Schwentke is now up for gigs like Wolverine 2.) But the film isn't quite done, and the director is down in Louisiana…
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Briefly: The image above is the first look at Ron Howard's new comedy The Dilemma, which stars Vince Vaughn as a guy who discovers that the wife (Winona Ryder) of his best friend (Kevin James) is cheating on him with a guy played by Channing Tatum. (And, to clear up confusion, The Dilemma was once…
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Jim Jarmusch is curating one day of the upcoming All Tomorrow's Parties festival in New York state, which takes place over Labor Day weekend. He's been sort of a fixture at ATPNY in the past; I saw him just hanging around the '08 event, and last year he performed the Neil Young song 'Cortez the…
Read MoreIn celebration of Edgar Wright's newest film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Amazon has dropped the prices on the Blu-ray versions of Wright's previous films. Right now you can buy Shaun of the Dead on Blu-ray and Hot Fuzz: Ultimate Edition on Blu-Ray for $9.99 each. I'm not sure how long this deal will be…
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Software security company McAfee has released its fourth annual report of the most dangerous celebrities to search for on the internet. Topping the list this year? Cameron Diaz, who replaced last year's #1 choice, Jessica Biel. Hit the jump for the details, and for the rest of their top 10 list. McAfee compiled search phrases…
Read MoreWe usually don't run our Cool Stuff column on the weekend, but two movie-parody t-shirt designs popped up this morning and neither will be available after midnight. Teefury has "Snake Purrsken". The design, created by Rob Gould, is a LOLCats version of Snake Plissken from Escape from New York. "Vicious, yet cuddly: a deadly combination."…
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David Fincher's The Social Network is one of /Film's most anticipated films of the year, and it will soon be upon us. The New York Film Festival is premiering the film next month, but the buzz from those who have seen it already is overwhelmingly positive. One place that's not a source of praise for…
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A couple months back Paramount held an open casting call for teens 13-14 with a Midwestern feel. There was supposition at the time that the call might be looking for actors to fill out the J.J. Abrams film Super 8, which reportedly shoots in September. A conflicting report said the call was actually for a…
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There have been a lot of questions about X-Men: First Class over the last week as a great number of casting decisions were announced. Now producer Bryan Singer has offered up the biggest update on the movie yet. In a conversation with AICN, Singer spilled a lot of beans, such as the fact that the…
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Director Alexander Aja gets tension. I thought his Hills Have Eyes remake was great and even High Tension, despite its ridiculous twist ending, had some decent scares (just watching the latter's trailer still gives me chills). Aja's newest film, Piranha 3D, is out in theaters today, and promises to take 3D back to its gimmicky…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Garret Hedlund has spent the past six years wisely building up his Hollywood cred, co-starring in such films as Friday Night Lights, Four Brothers and Death Sentence. But it isn't until December that his name will start to be ingrained in the minds of the American public, after Tron Legacy has been released to the…
Read MoreUniversal Studios Hollywood just announced the newest maze for the 2010 Halloween Horror Nights: “A Nightmare On Elm Street: Never Sleep Again,” will bring guests back on a nightmare journey to the town of Springwood, the scene of Freddy Krueger’s unspeakable crimes. They’ll wind through the ominously twisting corridors of the Barham Day Care Center,…
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Well this is unfortunate timing. On the same day news broke of a rather lame-sounding potential Jim Carrey vehicle, confirmation has arrived that he's going to be starring in Mr. Popper's Penguins, a needless modernization of the children's-favorite 1938 book that was originally poised to reteam Noah Baumbach and Ben Stiller. Director Mark Waters, who's…
Read MoreCollege Humor hired an 8-year-old to explain what happens in the movie trailer for The Expendables. Watch the video now embedded after the jump.
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It may have taken a few years, but DreamWorks Animation has finally started to step up its game, even nearing (or arguably equaling) Pixar quality with films like Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon. But it will probably be some time yet before they maintain any consistency in that output, assuming (perhaps…
Read MoreSince the release of the movie trailer for David Fincher's The Social Network, we've seen numerous trailers parodying the formation of various other huge internet properties: The Other Social Network, about MySpace, "The Video Website,"about YouTube, The Twit Network, about Twitter, and The Auction Site about eBay. There has yet to be a parody movie…
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In June of 2009, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull co-star Shia LaBeouf told reporters that Steven Spielberg had "cracked" the story for Indiana Jones 5 and that he believed "they're gearing that up." But as far as I can tell, no screenwriter has been hired to turn that idea into a…
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Fox's sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine is moving forward, and the studio is reportedly on the cusp of hiring a director. The shortlist is very short, indeed: David Slade (Hard Candy, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) is said to be the frontrunner, with Robert Schwentke (Red) as a backup option. Vulture says the decision will now…
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You may recall that we've previously written about an interactive art project called Star Wars Unut. The idea was to recreate Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope using 472 15 second fan recreated scenes. Fans that participated recreated a 15 second segment of the film any way they wanted to. Some filmmakers submitted their…
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Production Weekly is reporting that the Steven Spielberg-produced JJ Abrams-directed super secret project Super 8 will finally begin filming in late September 2010 in Weirton, Virginia. You probably recall that Paramount Pictures released a teaser trailer for the film attached to Iron Man 2. Meanwhile, The AP has confirmed that the mysterious Paramount open casting…
Read MoreVariety/LA Weekly/Village Voice film critic turned film programer Scott Foundas is the first person to see David Fincher's The Social Network and go on record about the film. What did he think? He compares it to the likes of All the President's Men and The Great Gatsby, "Quentin Tarantino crossed with Bill Gates." Sounds awesome.…
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Summit Entertainment doesn't have much experience with comedies—their latest, Furry Vengeance, looked like an abomination—but that's not stopping them from going forth with Under Cover, a high-concept comedy about "a recently divorced father of two who joins a youthful cover band so he can earn enough money to win his custody battle against his ex-wife".…
Read MoreAlamo Drafthouse's Mondo Tees' has announced a new release in the highly anticipated line of officially LucasFilm-licensed Star Wars-inspired art prints: "Hoth" by Dan McCarthy. The design is screenprinted on 12"x36" , hand numbered limited edition of 475. Limit 1 per household. If you want one of these bad boys, you're going to have to…
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Paramount Pictures have finally announced screenwriters for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie which has been in development Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes. HeatVision has learned that Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway have been hired to write the new movie adaptation. The screenwriting duo also has credits on Punisher: War Zone, and…
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There's finally been some movement on John Woo's next period war epic, the '40s aerial fighter movie which we first heard about over a year ago. It was tentatively being referred to as Flying Tiger Heroes, but the title has now been shortened to the snappier sounding Flying Tigers. Who's Woo looking to cast in…
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Update: /Film reader David points out that the actor in question is currently filming a movie called "Home Run Derby outside of Detroit, which you know isn't that far away. I would take it, that two friends just met up since they were in the same area." I'm betting this is the case. Previously, it…
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We've got a bunch of new images for you guys to check out. Above you'll find a pic from John Carpenter's long-awaited return to film, The Ward, which marks his first movie since 2001's Ghosts of Mars. The film is set to premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival as one of the nine…
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Tim Burton will reunite with Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski on a 3D stop-motion animated adaptation of Charles Addams' The Addams Family. We've heard in the past that the new project will stick closer to the source material of the Addams cartoon strips from The New Yorker. Deadline has the following quote:…
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Chuck Walton has just completed his journey of seeing 100 movies in 100 days at 100 different movie theaters across the country, in search of the perfect summer moviegoing experience. The results of his findings can be found on Fandango. Walton gave the top award, "Best Overall Theatrical Experience" to our favorite movie theater in…
Read MoreZimbio has the first photo of Chloe Moretz and Asa Butterfield in costume as Isabelle and Hugo on the Paris set of Martin Scorsese's Martin Scorsese is directing a 3D adaptation of Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Click over to Zimbio to see all 11 photos from the set of Hugo Cabret.…
Read MoreThe short list of actresses in the running to play the love interest in Marc Webb's 3D reboot of Spider-Man has leaked online. Meanwhile, David Fincher, who directed Andrew Garfield in The Social Network, admits that he "can't imagine" the actor playing the webbed superhero. Which actresses might co-star in the next Spider-Man movie? And…
Read MoreAmazon is selling a double pack of The Fifth Element and Gattaca on Blu-ray for $16.99, which is a pretty cool sci-fi Blu-ray deal if you like the movies. Not sure how long the deal will be valid, so act fast. via: slick
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In early 2010, it was discovered that Sam Worthington was in talks to star in Alex Proyas’ long gestating Dracula origin story, fittingly titled Dracula: Year Zero. Now we have confirmation of this casting, and have also learned that the film plans to be shot in June 2011. To learn more about what's planned for…
Read MoreHow does the Los Angeles-based Gallery 1988 top their Crazy4Cult show? By announcing a team-up with The Autumn Society for something they are calling "The 3G Show". A Pop-Culture art show in tribute to Ghostbusters, Goonies, and Gremlins. 3 movies that defined our generation. How cool is that? The show will have their grand opening…
Read MoreI've never used Chatroulette, but I once attended a show at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in Los Angeles called Chatroulette Live where some improv comedians do their thing using the live face-to-face internet chatting website live on stage. It's a hilarious show, and if you ever have the chance, see it. That said, I…
Read MoreOverture Films has recently launched a viral website for Matt Reeves' Let the Right One In re-adaptation/remake Let Me In, which today revealed a five new photos from the movie -- including a look at Richard Jenkins as Abby's "guardian." The viral website HelpMe.net has been updated with four riddles, that each unlock a new…
Read MoreOkay, so we call this column "Geek Deal" but I'm not sure a television series like The L Word qualifies for the Geek quota. I know that many of you are premium television show nuts, and this is a Showtime series -- so I thought you deserved the heads up. Amazon's Gold Box Deal of…
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David Michôd's Animal Kingdom is my favorite film of 2010 so far (see my Sundance review here), so when I was given the opportunity to chat with Michôd a few months ago, I jumped at it. In our half-hour interview, we discussed how he first broke into the industry, the decline of bank robbers in…
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DreamWorks Animation has signed Seth Rogen to voice the lead character in Boo U, a computer animated film which asks what ghosts think about humans. The film tells the story of a ghost who is bad at his job and must return to ghost school to learn how to become a better spook. Jon Vitti,…
Read MoreSummit Entertainment have released the movie trailer for Doug Liman's political drama Fair Game. The film stars Naomi Watts as real-life undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame and Sean Penn as her husband Joe Wilson. We all know the story which captured the news headlines, but the movie tells the tale from a more personal perspective.…
Read MoreAMC has released five new photos from the upcoming Frank Darabont-directed television series adaptation of The Walking Dead. Hit the jump to see them now.
Read MoreThis is certainly not the first Star Wars wedding, but it's definitely one worth mentioning. StarWars.com Editor/Writer Bonnie Burton (who is also a friend of /Film) married our favorite Star Wars droid R2-D2 at a the Commitment Chapel during Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando. The ceremony was handled by Darth Maul, but it is…
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Looks like Maggie Gyllenhaal will play alongside her husband Peter Sarsgaard in a biopic of bluegrass pioneer Bill Munroe. She told ScreenCrave she'd been in the film about "Bill Monroe, who invented Blue Grass music had a kind of Sid and Nancy style affair with this woman Bessie Lee Mauldin throughout his life... T-Bone Burnett’s…
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Universal Pictures has released a new international movie trailer for Little Fockers, the third film in the Meet the Parents series. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Plot Synopsis The test of wills between Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) and Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) escalates to new heights of comedy in the third installment…
Read MoreGlenn Morshower, best known as secret service agent Aaron Pierce on the fox television series 24, is set to return for Transformers 3. Morshower is one of director Michael Bay's favorite actors, and has appeared in both of the films thus far. Glenn appeared in the original movie as a military Sargent at the US…
Read MoreIf you don't recognize Tim Doyle's name, then you haven't been paying attention. We've featured the Texas-based artist numerous times on the site over the past few years. His latest is a poster for the classic action film Die Hard starring Bruce Willis. Doyle was commissioned to create the artwork for a cinema in Australia…
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There's a report that Ivan Reitman is producing an adaptation of a yet to be published young adult novel by Andrea Seigel. OK, it's not Ghostbusters news, but there aren't enough good family films out there, so I'll give Reitman's project some ink, on the off chance that it turns out to be a solid…
Read MoreA bunch of news on the Dexter front: Prison Break star Chris Vance is joining the cast for a multi-episode arc, a new image has appeared, along with a new Season five promo. Hit the jump to learn more information and see the image and promo. If you haven't seen the fourth season of the…
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In the absence of any news on the James Bond front, take this story as a substitute: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who wrote Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, have been hired to write an original action thriller that might have vague Bond-like overtones. It also has a more serious, political bent, which could…
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Brad Anderson's new film Vanishing on 7th Street was just added to the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival, and now we've got a trailer for the horror / suspense film that stars Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, John Leguizamo and Jacob Latimore. STYD has the trailer, and there are definitely elements of…
Read MoreEarlier today, Fox Searchlight released the movie trailer for Darren Aronofsky's next film Black Swan. If you haven't yet watched the trailer, please do so now or we can no longer be friends. Searchlight has since released an official movie poster for the film. Nothing surprising, the one sheet uses the same image of Natalie…
Read MoreGucci has released a trailer for their new television commercial/short film directed by comic artist/creator turned director Frank Miller (Sin City, The Spirit), starring Evan Rachel Wood and Chris Evans, and featuring the music of Friendly Fires. The ad to promote Gucci Guilty -- the new fragrance for her, will premiere during the MTV Video…
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/Film reader Kate M discovered an awesome Blu-ray deal on Amazon this morning: The Bourne Trilogy (The Bourne Identity | The Bourne Supremacy | The Bourne Ultimatum) on Blu-ray for $34.99, 50% off the $70 suggested retail price. Get it now, as I'm not sure when the deal will disappear. Please note: this is the…
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The X-Men: First Class casting train just keeps rolling. We said this week would see a flurry of news, and now here's another batch of casting announcements. Some of the roles are pretty big, some are minor, and they're all buried after the break, because that's just the way things have to be. Deadline offers…
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Since the days of Alias, J.J. Abrams has mastered the art of hooking the audience, and though the headline may sound worrisome, his latest offering is already set to do the same. The idea comes from Lost director Jack Bender, with Abrams and his production company Bad Robot looking for a writer to turn it…
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We haven't covered it very much, but in addition to the now-shooting Scream 4, Wes Craven has another movie coming up. This isn't a sequel or anything, but it is very much in keeping with the basic Wes Craven methodology: high school kids are in danger thanks to an evil legacy that haunts their town,…
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Briefly: Review, if you will, the cast of Peter Berg's Battleship as we know it so far. There's Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights, Wolverine) in the lead as Alex Hopper, the Commanding Officer of a destroyer who is in charge of a team of five trusted shipmates. (Which resportedly include the XO, a female Japanese…
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Fox Searchlight has released the first teaser trailer for Darren Aronofsky's upcoming Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel. Check it out after the break. If you were afraid that Aronofsky making a ballet movie was a step in the wrong direction, this should quickly change your mind. We've heard a bit…
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Here's another pack of new images for you. Bridesmaids may sound like a boilerplate matrimonial comedy to bookend the truly awful Bride Wars, but the film is from Kristen Wiig, Paul Feig and Judd Apatow. So barring any continued sense of Apatow fatigue (that is: hopefully the movie is under two and half hours long)…
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Briefly: With festival and awards seasons coming up fast, we've got a lot of new images arriving from the fall's bumper crop of movies. (Thankfully, the lineup looks a lot more promising than the summer's was.) Not long ago we showed you the first official still from the Joel and Ethan Coen version of True…
Read MoreLast week, Threadless released a couple cool movie/tv-parody t-shirt designs. Ben Shen's "Dark Raven" re-imagines Darth Vader from Star Wars as a Raven looking up at the moon. Wait... That's no moon! Also, Jimmy Breen's "The Real Mmmmmph Mmmph Monster!" which re-imagines the Cookie Monster as a real scary creature. Both t-shirts are available in…
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Piranha 3D isn't being shown to critics, which might mean that the Weinstein Company knows the movie is terrible, or just that they don't need critics. Why bother, when there's a built-in audience ready to see boobs, blood and killer fish in 3D? But even the lowliest movie has aspirations towards Oscar, and so we…
Read MoreA man decides to scare his girlfriend by replacing the mannequin underneath the Stormtrooper armor costume in his living room, with a person. As Break.com puts it: "We're going to have to question the validity of this video on the grounds that he has Star Wars Stormtrooper armor and a girl in his apartment, simultaneously.…
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Briefly: Let Me In, the Matt Reeves-directed remake/alternate take on Let the Right One In, will be the opening night film at this year's Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. The film will premiere at a red carpet event on Thursday, Sept 23 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin. The film stars Chloe Moretz (Kick Ass),…
Read MoreSplashSpot created an infographic explaining how the Flux Capacitor makes time travel possible in the Back to the Future movies. Hit the jump to see the graphic.
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the Showtime series Dexter: Seasons 1-3 on either DVD for $48.99, 60% off the $123 msrp, or on Blu-ray for $69.99, 60% off the $176 msrp. The price is only valid today, and today only, so act fast!
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We've wondered when we'd see a trailer for the Dylan Dog comic book adaptation Dead of Night, and now that a sales trailer has arrived, it's easy to see why so little material has been forthcoming. This one looks pretty terrible. Already earning frequent comparisons to Buffy the Vampire Slayer thanks to over-lit scenes, TV-worthy…
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Briefly: Just a short news piece on this one, because this story should come as a surprise to exactly no one. If David Fincher and Sony weren't trying to hire Max Von Sydow for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, specifically for the role of Henrik Vanger, that would be an indication that all the…
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Here's a shock: Hugh Jackman has dropped out of the film Avon Man. The comedy, which is perpetually likened to The Full Monty, was supposed to shoot this past spring, but is now set to shoot in October. Now it loses Jackman, who remains a producer on the film. Not like he's washing his hands…
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Magnolia Pictures/Magnet have released the second trailer for Gareth Edwards’ new low budget monster movie Monsters, and thankfully it doesn't seem to give too much away. If you're taking my approach to the film and trying to see as little as possible, it looks like you'll be safe watching this trailer. Edwards reportedly made the…
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The only time I can recall seeing this much attention paid to the ancillary, in-world minutiae of a movie's universe was with Judd Apatow's Funny People, which had a similarly-themed assortment of movie poster parodies. Also similarly, it bombed at the box office, much like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World did this past weekend. That's…
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I'm Still Here, Casey Affleck's 'documentary' about his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix, has been odd and controversial since it was first announced. Is the whole thing some sort of sham or performance art, or did Phoenix really and truly drop out of acting to become a rapper? This teaser trailer for the movie is actually quite…
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Did you know Edward Burns has a new movie coming out? Nice Guy Johnny premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, but has managed to fly under the radar since then. The film is hitting VOD, DVD and iTunes in October, but until then there's an official trailer, which is after the break. It's difficult to…
Read MoreOver the weekend, Lucasfilm held Star Wars Celebration V. The centerpiece of the festivities was an hour plus long interview with George Lucas, conducted on stage by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart. I was not in attendance at this panel, but luckily someone recorded video of the entire interview and has uploaded it to…
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At the end of last week we saw some scans from the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, which offered a few new images from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now Warner Bros. has sent over high-res versions of the new pics, which you can see after the break. While a couple of these images…
Read MoreFrank Ireland decided to take the mother ship scene from Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and remix it using music by Daft Punk. Watch the video embedded after the jump. via: LaughingSquid
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Danny Boyle showed up at Movie Con in London this past weekend, where he premiered the trailer for his new film 127 Hours. The trailer isn't yet online, but there is a video clip of Boyle on stage talking about the film, and quite a bit of additional transcription from the event. Read Boyle's comments…
Read MoreAt Comic-Con, Paramount Pictures screened 8-minutes of Jackass 3D (watch our video blog here, trailer here) and I called it "a theme park experience but with poop and pee." I know I hurt from laughing after only 8 minutes, and I believe it takes the gimmicky nature of 3D to the extreme. The cast and…
Read MoreTeefury's t-shirt design of the day is a parody of the Marvel Comics superhero Wolverine, but as shown in the purely animal form. Created by Sassa Tattoo, the t-shirt is available today and today only. The good news is that the tee design is only $9 plus shipping. Check out the full design in larger…
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UPDATE: Shocker -- this has been denied as total fabrication by reps for both Angelina Jolie and George Clooney. When the author of a novel 'announces' casting for a film on which he's not a producer, tread lightly. Original article follows. So Angelina Jolie could be the third major actress to play Marilyn Monroe this…
Read MoreFocus Features has released a bunch of new photos for Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. Hit the jump to see them now. Click on any of the below images to enlarge: Sofia Coppola's (Lost in Translation) new film Somewhere tells the story of Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), "a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through…
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Briefly: This week, expect a casting update for X-Men: First Class every day. It'll be like a mutant advent calendar, where we open little doors that reveal who's cast in small to medium sized roles, hopefully leading up to the reveal of an actor for Scott Summers, aka Cyclops, the last of the film's leads.…
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Well, so much for casting a total unknown as the central female character in the David Fincher adaptation of Stieg Larsson's series of 'Milennium' novels. Ending a long casting search rife with rumor and speculation, Rooney Mara, of The Social Network and A Nightmare on Elm Street, has been given the part of Lisbeth Salander.…
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Got a pack of small comic book to film stories to throw out today. First, X-Men: First Class co-writer Jane Goldman says that First Class is shortly to go before cameras. At Movie Con this weekend, Goldman said "I watched a bunch of pre-viz yesterday and went home feeling so excited. We start shooting in…
Read MoreYes, it seems everyone and their mother are making fake movie trailer parodies based on David Fincher's The Social Network. It's become akin to the Hitler/Downfall subtitle meme of 2006. Over the past few weeks we've received a couple movie trailer parodies: The Other Social Network, which told the story about Tom and his "friends",…
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In the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, James Cameron makes several remarks about The Hurt Locker, directed by ex-wife and Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow. Of particular interest was his claim that The Hurt Locker, amongst others, would have been better in 3D. This quote comes courtesy of The Playlist, who were able to snag…
Read MoreOver the weekend we learned that Jason Flemyng would play the teleporting mutant Azazel (aka Nightcrawler's father) in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. Now we have another bit of X-Men casting news. THR has learned that Rose Byrne is in negotiations to play Moira MacTaggert, a scientist and love interest of Charles Xavier (James McAvoy).…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is the television series Brotherhood: Seasons 1-3 on DVD for only $43.99, 56% off the $100 msrp. A working-class Irish family is torn between right and wrong when two brothers live out their destinies on opposite sides of the law. While Tommy pursues ambitions as a rising star…
Read MoreJason Flemyng has signed on to join the cast of Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. The news was revealed at Movie Con in the UK (found on ComingSoon), where it was revealed that Flemyng will play Azazel, a teleporting mutant who later becomes Nightcrawler's father. According to Wikipedia: His first appearance was in Uncanny X-Men…
Read MoreAt Star Wars Celebration V, George Lucas finally made the big announcement that the entire Star Wars saga would be released in a Blu-Ray box set in Fall 2011. According to IGN, the set will feature "all six live-action Star Wars feature films, with the highest picture and audio quality," along with extensive extras like…
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By now, many of you have probably read Adam's glowing review of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (out in theaters today). In my opinion, Wright is one of the most exciting filmmakers working today and I was eagerly anticipating his adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic book. If nothing else, Wright has created…
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Paul Haggis has worked quite a lot since his Best Picture winning film Crash divided critics and audiences into rather strict love/hate camps. He directed the rather good In the Valley of Elah, and worked on scripts for two Bond films, two Clint Eastwood films and other projects. But the spectre of Crash is still…
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Late last night, when I posted the info about Hannover House attempting to create a new animated Terminator film called Terminator 3000, one question kept coming up: how do these guys have the rights to the franchise? But the press release from Hannover addressed that question, saying that, as the rights had gone to Pacificor,…
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Love and Other Drugs is a romantic comedy, which of late is a genre that tends to be unremarkable. And it is co-written and directed by Ed Zwick who, sadly, tends to make movies that are also unremarkable. That's not two strikes, but it's close. (For me.) But the film is also a kind of…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
Read MoreEarlier this week, Toy Story 3 surpassed Finding Nemo to become the highest grossing film in Pixar history. Today Lee Unkrich's sequel has passed another major milestone, becoming the highest grossing animated film of all time. The film has grossed more than $920 million worldwide, surpassing DreamWorks Animation's Shrek 2 ($919.8 million worldwide) for the…
Read More20th Century Fox has released a few new photos, showing some new scenes which will be featured in the upcoming rerelease of James Cameron's Avatar. For those of you who don't know, the movie is being rereleased in theaters in 3D with nine extra minutes of footage which was completed just for this special edition.…
Read MoreIf you grew up in the 1980's or 1990's, then you probably grew up with the artwork of Drew Struzan. I know that many of the movies from my childhood featured Drew's poster art, and the walls of my current office are filled with some of these reproduced masterpieces. A new feature-length documentary film is…
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There's nothing quite like a bit of conflict between former creative partners to make a film's backstory more interesting. George Lucas and Gary Kurtz famously split many years ago after The Empire Strikes Back, when the direction of the Star Wars movies took a turn that Kurtz didn't like. Some stories have been told of…
Read MoreBack to the Future Part II makes it look so simple. Grab a Gray's Sports Almanac, give it to your past self, bet on sports events you have the results of, win tons of money, and become very very rich. However, it isn't as easy as it sounds. NFLInjury has created a handy dandy infographic…
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"The year this story takes place is the year nearly everything happened to me. It was the year I spent nearly all of my time having great sex with Mr. Anderson, my by-far favorite teacher." We haven't known too much about Daydream Nation, the indie named after a Sonic Youth record, which stars Kat Dennings…
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The Entertainment Weekly fall preview issue is a bonanza of first looks and new images. Scans from the magazine are showing up online, and they have the first official still from the Coen Bros. remake of True Grit, new images from Let Me In and Buried, and the first look at Clint Eastwood's drama Hereafter.…
Read MoreThe Hollywood Reporter claims that the budget of Peter Berg's water based epic action adaptation of the board game Battleship has now topped $200 million. Apparently industry insiders are questioning if they can possibly make their money back with a movie based on a board game featuring no big stars. I would argue that Michael…
Read More20th Century Fox has issued a short new movie trailer to advertise the upcoming rerelease of James Cameron's Avatar. For those of you who don't know, the movie is being rereleased in theaters in 3D with nine extra minutes of footage which was completed just for this special edition. And yes, they are calling it…
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A week ago we brought you the first look at Scott Pilgrim vs the Animation, a short flashback to the early days of Scott Pilgrim's life, as produced by [adult swim]. Now the entire short is online, and you can see it embedded below. To recap what the short is about: Early in the second…
Read MoreYes, we've watched the full length movie trailer for David Fincher's The Social Network more times than we should publicly admit. 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. Over the past few weeks we've recieved a couple…
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Briefly: We should be seeing a trailer for Danny Boyle's 127 Hours any day now. In just a few weeks, the film will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and then it will close the 54th BFI London Film Festival. (Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire closed the London Fest in 2008.) We don't…
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Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper is considering directing an adaptation of William Styron's family drama Lie Down in Darkness. (He's also looking at The Hatfields and the McCoys.) To the best of our knowledge, he doesn't have a lead picked at this point, but there is an actress who sounds rather determined to get it:…
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Recently it was announced that Seann William Scott was in line to star alongside Jay Baruchel in the hockey comedy Goon (not to be confused with the David Fincher-produced comic book adaptation The Goon), which is being developed by Baruchel alongside writing collaborator Evan Goldberg. What wasn't clear from the announcement is what sort of…
Read MoreAlamo Drafthouse's Mondo Tees have commissioned two striking posters in celebration of their advance screening of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World last night (August 12th 2010). Artist Martin Ansin has created both of the posters, which will be sold at the event tonight and a small quantity for will be available for purchase online on…
Read MoreAs you know by now, Disney is planning to relaunch the Star Wars ride Star Tours with a new 3D version in 2011, May 10th 2011 in Walt Disneyland in Anaheim and May 17th 2011 in Walt Disneyworld in Orlando (current ride closes on July 27th 2010). Disney Parks has released a preview of the…
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In 15 to 20 years from now, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World will be seen as the defining movie of its respective generation, and if it isn't, it should be. No movie has better encapsulated and satirized the interests and temperaments of contemporary youth, and no future movie is likely to surpass it. With the…
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Arkansas-based Hannover House is a company that seemed to come out of nowhere early this year, when it picked up the distribution rights to Joel Schumacher's Twelve. (Er, good call on that one. Ahem.) Now the company claims to be moving forward with a new production venture in conjunction with Red Bear entertainment: Terminator 3000,…
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OK, don't get too worried yet: this is just talk of interest in a film, not even 'attachment' or anything else. But John Hillcoat and Shia LaBeouf were talking about working together earlier this year when The Promised Land, based on the novel The Wettest County in the World seemed like a going concern, before…
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UPDATE: Thanks to a couple comments and emails, we now know that the first reports about alterations to the film were exaggerated: I Saw the Devil has been trimmed via seven cuts, not minutes. So things aren't as severe as first reported, which is excellent. Original article follows. A few weeks ago I showed you…
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As I'm sure many readers here will agree, romantic comedies are generally responsible for a lot of the worst films that Hollywood has to offer. Reason being, they rarely do little more than parade about a bunch of shallow pretty people leading too-perfect lives while amusingly simplistic conflicts repeatedly tear them apart and bring them…
Read MoreHamish Linklater (The New Adventures of Old Christine, Fantastic Four) has joined the cast of Peter Berg's water based epic action adaptation of the board game Battleship. According to The Wrap, Linklater will play "a brainy scientist named Cal." Previously: Written by the brother writing team Jon and Erich Hoeber (Whiteout), the story unfolds as…
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WB has seemed like it has a pretty good handle on how to revive the classic stable of Looney Tunes characters. There are three short 3D Road Runner shorts running in front of films this summer and fall, which actually look funny, and a new TV series. The stuff doesn't look amazing, but it also…
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Since the 2008 announcement that the final film in the Harry Potter series would in fact be the final two films in the series, one big fan question has been: where will the split fall? Last year an interview with director David Yates in the LA Times suggested one spot, but now it seems that…
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Briefly: Hany Abu-Assad, whose very good film Paradise Now was released in 2005, finally has a new feature gearing up to shoot. The Courier is an action film scripted by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt, about "a courier who has taken on improbable missions and never missed a drop." Deadline says that Jeffrey Dean Morgan…
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Hopefully you've seen the lovely Spike Jonze 'robot romance' short I'm Here. It's a very strange but effective and touching story of love and dedication featuring a pair of robots in some alternate Los Angeles. The film is still 'playing' online, but now it will finally be coming to DVD in a serious package from…
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In February a serious bomb dropped from the Terrence Malick camp: not only is the reclusive director prepping one new film (The Tree of Life) for release sometime in coming months, he's got the cast already lined up for another picture that he'll shoot soon. At the time, Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Olga Kurylenko and…
Read MoreMagnolia Pictures has released the movie trailer for the documentary adaptation of the bestselling nonfiction book series Freakonomics. Even though the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April to mixed reviews (60% rotten on Rotten Tomatoes), I'm still interested to see this film based purely on the filmmakers involved. The documentary anthology features…
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Fox Searchlight has released a batch of new production photos for Mark Romanek's big screen adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go. The book was named one of TIME’s 100 Best Novels (from 1923 to the Present), featured on many top ten books of 2005 lists, and a finalist in the National Book…
Read MoreFox Searchlight has acquired a comedy pitch titled Motherf***er from actor/writer/director Daryl Wein , who you might remember from the indie Breaking Upwards (which we have profiled on the site in the past). According to Deadline, the film will be scripted by Wein and screenwriting partner/actor Zoe Lister-Jones (Breaking Upwards) and is about: "a guy…
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Pictured above: The welcoming, family-friendly sights of Mordor. Middle-earth wouldn't be the first place I'd think of to fashion a theme park around, but that's not stopping Universal Studios from considering the idea. They must be having a lot of success with their recently opened Wizarding World of Harry Potter, because they're now trying to…
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The other night, Adam Quigley and I had the opportunity to chat with filmmaker Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) about his newest film, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. In our one-hour interview, Edgar discusses his feelings towards 3D, how little his movie has in common with The Expendables, the nature of his…
Read MoreIt looks like Brick director Rian Johnson's sci-fi thriller Looper is officially a go. Production Weekly is reporting that the project will begin filming in January 2011. Optimistically, this means the film could be ready in time for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival (Rian premiered Brick at the fest and Levitt is a fest favorite)…
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Briefly: It's Ryan Reynolds day! There was just talk of Green Lantern sequels, Deadpool and R.I.P.D., and now there's word that Reynolds is the 'top choice' to work opposite Denzel Washington in the thriller Safe House. Deadline says that Reynolds is the frontrunner in a giant pack of young actors that want the role. Shia…
Read More"Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning. Every epic starts with a hook-up between a brother and a sister who happen to have Force powers..." This is the first part in a new web series titled "Gree-Morr: The Inbred Jedi". Watch the first episode after the jump. Want to be a…
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News that Zhang Yimou would be remaking the Coen Brothers' wonderful debut feature Blood Simple caused us to scratch our heads in puzzlement. But every new image and bit of footage from A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (formerly Amazing Tales: Three Guns and The First Gun) has suggested that, hey, maybe the…
Read MoreWarner Bros has informed us that Going The Distance has changed release dates to September 3rd 2010 from August 27th 2010. In making the announcement, Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Pictures President of Domestic Distribution stated, “Moving to the Labor Day weekend not only allows us to take advantage of the long holiday weekend, but gives…
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Red director Robert Schwentke is already fielding options for his next film. One that came up earlier this week is the underwater adventure Shadow Divers, but now he's been linked to the Ryan Reynolds film R.I.P.D., based on the Dark Horse comic series of the same name. But how will this one fit into the…
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Early in 2010, George Lucas came onto The Daily Show and was asked if he felt the need to respond to his detractors. His response: a definitive 'No'. It's interesting then, that so soon after the documentary The People vs. George Lucas started making its presence known, Lucasfilm announced that it would be beginning its…
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The cast for The Retreat, a thriller about a a husband and wife who have a strange encounter with a soldier while taking an island retreat, has been shifting around in the last year. Thandie Newton has been the constant, and Cillian Murphy is currently playing the other half of the married couple. Now Jamie…
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The Juno team of writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman are reuniting for Young Adult, which already has Charlize Theron set to star as a divorced writer who returns to her hometown and forces herself into the life of her married-with-children high school sweetheart. I already like the sound of that, but if Josh…
Read MoreHow does the Los Angeles-based Gallery 1988 top their Crazy4Cult show? By announcing a team-up with The Autumn Society for something they are calling "The 3G Show". A Pop-Culture art show in tribute to Ghostbusters, Goonies, and Gremlins. 3 movies that defined our generation. How cool is that? The show will have their grand opening…
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It's an interesting year for Mark Ruffalo. His directorial debut Sympathy For Delicious didn't light up the festival circuit, but he's getting great notes for his work in The Kids Are Alright. And he's got to deal with Kevin Feige, who named him as the new Hulk for The Avengers. But he's also got some…
Read MoreHis name must be The Darth Knight, but his secret identity is Bruce Skywalker. I must admit, the similarities between Batman and Darth Vader's costume's have somehow escaped me in the past. Erin Fife's mash-up of the two iconic dark pop culture icons is dated 2007, but has only begun to spread around the web…
Read MoreOn July 31st, over 500 Star Wars fans showed up at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to participate in a huge LED Lightsaber Battle. Watch a video from the flashmob event after the jump.
Read MoreParamount Pictures has acquired the rights to make a big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Last Man Standing from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman's Heavy Metal Publishing. We have more information about the graphic novel and a ton of artwork after the jump. LMS (Last Man Standing) tells the story of Gabriel,…
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John Belushi has already been brought back to life on the big screen thanks to the film adaptation of Bob Woodward's controversial Belushi biography Wired, but apparently one Belushi biopic isn't enough. Steven Conrad (writer of The Pursuit of Happyness) and Todd Phillips (The Hangover, Old School) are teaming to develop a new biopic about…
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The story of MGM's near-financial ruin is one step closer to over. Or, make that 'resolved,' rather than 'over.' Spyglass Entertainment has spent a few weeks negotiating a deal that would put Spyglass co-founders Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum in charge of MGM as new co-CEOs after MGM and the company's massive $4b debt are…
Read MoreUpdate: I was wrong... The documentary is executive produced by Jeff Blitz, and directed by "Mac Carter, a stellar commercial director at Anonymous Content, who, in the comic book world, is highly regarded for writing The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft." DC Comics is celebrating their 75th Anniversary Documentary with a documentary chronicling the story…
Read MoreWarner Bros has released a new behind the scenes featurette for the first part of the final installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Watch it now after the jump. Thanks to SpoilerTV for the tip. The first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will hit theaters on…
Read MoreAMC Television has officially announced that they have made a full series order for the ilot that was formerly known as The Killing, from writer and executive producer Veena Sud (Cold Case). They have also passed along the first production photo from the yet-to-be-officially titled crime thriller series. Read the full press release after the…
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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I still don't know what HALKa might be. This version of The Incredible Hulk comes straight out of Bangladesh, though it appears to have taken a detour through the same Taiwan studio that produces CGI recreations of popular news stories. Watch a trailer for HALKa after the…
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We've heard about possible sequels to Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables for over a year. Last July, producer Avi Lerner said, “We already have got some ideas about Expendables No. 2, No. 3. Definitely, it’s a franchise movie.” The film is opening this week, and if the rather expensive picture ($80m without factoring in prints and…
Read MoreLast week, Screen Gems released the first movie trailer from Steven Antin's contemporary musical Burlesque. We now have a three and a half minute clip featuring Christina Aguilera in her live-action big screen film debut, singing "Something's Got A Hold On Me." I've never been a huge fan of movie musicals, only the ones that…
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One of the films that was in danger of being orphaned when Disney shuttered Miramax was Julie Taymor's adaptation of the William Shakespeare play The Tempest. But the film, which stars Helen Mirren, David Strathairn, Djimon Hounsou and more, will be released by Disney offshoot Touchstone Pictures this fall, and will appear at both the…
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One of the stranger things about Adam McKay's action comedy The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, is the end credits. In a film like this you might expect jokey outtakes or throwaway character comedy to run alongside the credits. But McKay did something different: he used the film's credits to lambaste corporate…
Read MoreI've always loved the artwork of Wes Anderson's brother Eric Chase Anderson, who many of you might recognize as the production designer on The Royal Tenenbaums. Not only did he make all of the rooms in the Tenenbaum house look different and unique, but he created all the drawings and paintings credited to Richie Tenenbaum…
Read MoreIf you read /Film on any sort of regular basis, then you know at least two things about me: I like posting infographics and I love love LOVE Back to the Future. Graphic designer Sean Mort decided to squeeze the events of the Back to the Future trilogy into a timeline infographic. I watched the…
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At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the Best Actor award went to Javier Bardem for his performance in Biutiful, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Though Bardem also won considerable praise from the press for his work, Iñárritu's movie as a whole wasn't embraced quite so heartily. That might be part of the reason that a…
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Briefly: We don't have a lot to go on right now, but according to a tweet from Production Weekly, Barry Levinson is set to direct an indie sci-fi thriller called Isopod, which will shoot in the Carolinas. I had to read the tweet a couple of times before it really wound into my brain. Levinson…
Read MoreMichael Cera and Jason Schwartzman have been busy traveling the country to promote their latest film, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, which hits theaters later this week. But it doesn't seem to be the typical press tour filled with canned short snippet interviews. In Atlanta, Cera and Schwartzman took over for the local weatherman, and…
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Who will play the female lead opposite Robert Downey, Jr., in Alfonso Cuarón's upcoming film Gravity? Scarlett Johansson has been the name attached for several months, but last week there was a rumor that Blake Lively was gunning for the role. At the time the news seemed insubstantial, but now there is reason to believe…
Read MoreAs you know by now, I regularly record video blogs with Steve from Collider. This past weekend, we found ourselves at the New Orleans airport hours before our flight home, and decided it would be a perfect time to record a bonus video blog. But we didn't have a topic in mind, so we reached…
Read MoreWhile Andrew Stanton's John Carter of Mars was never envisioned as a 3D movie, I've been hearing a lot of rumbling in recent months that Walt Disney Pictures is pushing to release the film in 3D. I've even heard they've ordered some 3D tests to convince director Andrew Stanton that post conversion 3D isn't as…
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At Comic Con, we saw the first footage from a small sci-fi thriller called Skyline, written and directed by the Strause Brothers. The alien invasion film was made on a small budget, but has fairly large-scale ambitions. Now you can see the same trailer we caught at the Con, after the break. It takes a…
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Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk called Craig Clevenger's debut novel The Contortionist's Handbook "A stunningly intense debut novel...I swear to God this is the best book I have read in easily five years. Easily. Maybe ten years." So when you consider a film version of the novel, naturally Channing Tatum is the first name that…
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…
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We've seen the trailer for Due Date, the new Todd Phillips road comedy that stars Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. Now there's a poster via Yahoo, which you can see in full after the break. Here's the full synopsis for the film, which also features Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx, Alan Arkin, Juliet Lewis and…
Read MoreThe Mr blonde 2010 decided it would be fun to recreate the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World movie trailer using frames from Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novel series. This is a recreation of the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Theatrical Trailer. I used images from the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel and matched the trailer as…
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I'm trying not to see too much from Monsters, the film by director Gareth Edwards that has been building buzz at festivals over the last few months. I've heard nothing but good things about the movie, and am eager to just see it for myself without having too many images already in my head. But…
Read More/Film reader Luis R sent me an e-mail containing the extended alternative ending to Steve Barron's live-action 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. The ending was never released theatrically, and has only yet to surface on the German DVD release of the movie. It involves April O'Neil trying to pitch the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle…
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Tell No One has had an interesting history. From a novel by Harlan Coben, Guillaume Canet directed the 2006 film that became a European hit and an art-house success in the US. In 2009 Focus Features and Miramax picked up remake rights, but with the changes that hit Miramax in the last year, those rights…
Read MoreSo The Avengers is really happening, and Marvel's hopefully mighty team--up movie now has a start date: Superhero Hype got info that says The Avengers will shoot in February 2011. We don't know how long the Joss Whedon-directed project will be before cameras, nor exactly where it is shooting. (LA most likely.) We do know…
Read MoreTeeFury's tee of the day is a creation by Barrios titled "K-Astro". Here is an explanation from the artist: "What would happen if you fused Fidel Castro and Astro from the Jetsons. You would end up with K-Astro. The dog face dictator of the near future." As with all of teefury's designs, the t-shirt costs…
Read MoreThere have been a lot of Infographics going around the web trying to explain the complexities of Christopher Nolan's Inception. Talk about ineption (see, I knew I'd find a way to use it today!). As with Nolan's The Dark Knight, or any other film with way too much praise, a backlash has begun. And while…
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This domestic trailer for Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void is the best look yet at the colorful head trip of a movie that premiered over a year ago at Cannes. IFC picked up domestic distribution rights and will release the film on September 24. This is the company's first major promo effort for what must…
Read MoreCollege Humor has a new video parodying the annoying pre-show entertainment advertisements in movie theaters and the equally annoying moviegoers who seem to ruin every single Friday night movie screening. "Sometimes the best pre-movie entertainment doesn't take place on the screen." Watch the video now, embedded after the jump.
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Briefly: We still don't know very much about Kevin Smith's long-gestating middle-America horror film Red State, other than that Michael Parks is tapped for a lead role and that the film is based in part on sham 'preacher' Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church. But now there's a logline for the film, which comes…
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You probably don't need to be told that Edgar Wright's new film Scott Pilgrim vs the World comes out this week; it's pretty hard to miss. But if you're looking for more of a taste of the film, check out both the soundtrack and score, which are both streaming in full at Spinner. The score…
Read MoreWhat if Pixar's Toy Story wasn't just a story about toys, but instead an action film about a Spaceman, a Cowboy and their friends? It might resemble this awesome piece of fan art created by UK artist Sean Izaakse. See the full design after the jump. via: TDW
Read More/Film reader Gary W sent me an e-mail to alert me of a new new movie related term which has been added to the Urban Dictionary -- Ineption, meaning: the lack of understanding or misunderstanding about Christopher Nolan's Inception. I'm note sure there is much use for this word in my day to day vocabulary.…
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When it comes to the timely presentation of movies after they hit video and DVD, the landscape is changing. At one point, it was all about Showtime and HBO, and which channel could negotiate to present movies first in the post-video window? Now Netflix is a major player on the scene, with deals like one…
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Tom Hardy is taking over the mantle of Mad Max from Mel Gibson (good timing) and while we don't know too much about what series creator George Miller has planned for Max's fourth outing, Mad Max: Fury Road, we now know more than we did a few hours ago. Riley Keough (aka the granddaughter of…
Read MoreOlivier Barre and Elise Garcette directed this wonderful animated short film titled Cours Toujours (American translation Stay on Course). The story follows a man chasing after a cute little bird. I really love to mix of retro stylized design with new computer animation techniques. Watch the short film embedded after the jump. Thanks to Cat…
Read MoreParamount Famous Productions has released the first movie trailer for The Romantics. Director and screenwriter Galt Niederhoffer has adapted her own novel, The Romantics, a "zeitgeist love story and generational comedy, takes place over the course of one night at a deluxe seaside wedding." The cast includes Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin, Adam Brody,…
Read MoreAMC has released a new featurette for the upcoming Frank Darabont-directed television series adaptation of The Walking Dead. The new behind the scenes video shows Special Effects Make-Up Designer Greg Nicotero creating "Bicycle Girl", showcasing "the transformation of a vibrant young woman to emaciated, decomposing zombie." Hit the jump to watch it now. Thanks to…
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Briefly: It's release date time. Disney has announced release dates for John Carter of Mars and the stop-motion animated update / expansion of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie. Andrew Stanton's John Carter of Mars, the Pixar director's first foray into live action features, and an adaptation of the pulp adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, will release…
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It's like a miniature Page 2 right here (that'll return as fall hits and smaller stories start to fly) with three short stories and/or rumors on a very slow news day. (Welcome to August, where in a lot of places it is just hot enough that no one wants to do much, even if it…
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Edgar Wright's newest film, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, is almost upon us, but we've already given the film some pretty high praise. Tonight, we'll have the opportunity to chat with Wright for about half an hour. I couldn't be more excited, seeing as how the man has already made some of my favorite films…
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We've wondered for quite some time what film Timur Bekmambetov might direct next. At one point, it seemed like he would follow his last movie, Wanted, with a direct sequel. But that is taking time to come together, and recently his prioritites have shifted to adapting the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which he is…
Read MoreI have just been sent the first production photo from Emily Hagins' new movie, My Sucky Teen Romance, which is currently in production in Austin, Texas (wrap is scheduled for the beginning of September). Some of you might remember Emily from the popular filmmaking documentary Zombie Girl: The Movie, which Hagins attempt to film a…
Read MoreLast night I took a two hour trip to Bakersfield, California to see The Alamo Drafthouse's Rolling Roadshow presentation of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. The movie was filmed in Texas, but the story is very much based on the spur of Oil drilling in California in the late 1800's/early 1900's. Bakersfield is…
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A new adaptation of Tarzan, the classic adventure story by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is swinging into action. (That'll be the only vine pun, I promise.) The German outfit Constantin Films is prepping a 3D animated version of the story. Constantin recently bought rights to all the Burroughs Tarzan novels; one might guess that the first…
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Entourage is over. Even the most die-hard, forgiving followers of the show seem to be ready to deliver a eulogy. So it is appropriate that HBO's programming president recently said that next year's season will be a short order, and the end of the series. But series creator Doug Ellin still has enough ambition for…
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Nicolas Winding Refn is preparing to shoot the movie Drive next month in LA, and he's already got Ryan Gosling starring as a guy who has dual lives as a stuntman and criminal getaway driver. We haven't had details on the rest of the cast, but repeated praise for Breaking Bad from Refn should have…
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With the first Green Lantern just barely wrapped and the finished film not even close to being in the can, Warner Bros. has already hired a screenwriter for the sequel. Micheal Goldenberg, who worked on Contact, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the first Green Lantern, got the job. During Comic Con,…
Read MoreDespite critical and audience acclaim coming out of the surprise screening at Comic-Con, we've heard that some people still don't want to see Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Not because it doesn't look good, but because audiences have grown tired of Michael Cera (but yet, they don't mind that Bill Murray plays the…
Read MoreProduction has wrapped on Martin Campbell's big screen adaptation of DC Comics' Green Lantern. Comic book writer/DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns revealed the news this past Friday night on Twitter. Johns tweeted the following: "GREEN LANTERN IS WRAPPED!!!! Finished the last shot today!!! Celebrating in New Orleans. :) As co-producer of the film, I…
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We've featured some of 25-year-old Massachusetts-based graphic artist Brandon Schaefer's movie posters in a past edition of Cool Stuff. Recently Schaefer has created a series of minimalistic posters paying tribute to the films of Stanley Kubrick. Check them out now, after the jump. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] via: Laughing Squid
Read MoreWhat happens when Disney's classic animated character's Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck get mashed up with Quentin Tarantino's violent R-rated classic Pulp Fiction. Watch the video, embedded after the jump.
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James Cameron is doing the press rounds this week to begin promoting the theatrical re-release of Avatar, which on August 27th will come complete with nine minutes of new footage. (Not eight, as previously reported.) In conversations with a couple of news outlets, Cameron talks about what's in that footage, and gives some spare details…
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The moment I found out Matthew Vaughn was helming X-Men: First Class was the same moment the film jumped toward the top of my 'most anticipated of 2011' list. Vaughn's only directed three films so far—Layer Cake, Stardust, and Kick-Ass—but those alone have made him a filmmaker well worth keeping tabs on. Interviews with Vaughn…
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Back in December, Mark Millar was talking up his new comic series, Nemesis, created with artist Steven McNiven. The concept is simple: what if a Bruce Wayne type became The Joker instead of Batman? Almost immediately there was discussion about a possible film. Some of that was discounted, because Millar talks up possible films rather…
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It's been a tough year for Richard Linklater. He came into the year with his film Me and Orson Welles finally open in US theaters, but then he had two films fail to get off the ground. That's What I'm Talking About, the 'spiritual sequel' to Dazed & Confused, and the road-trip movie Liars A-E…
Read MoreSomehow Videogum got their hands on the entire 12 minute long LOST epilogue which will be included with the huge complete series dvd/blu-ray set. I'm stuck in New Orleans with a crappy internet connection, which means I'll have to wait a while to see the whole thing. You don't have to wait however. Hit the…
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Here's a Marvel post that isn't based on rumor or innuendo: we know that Marvel has plans for movies beyond The Avengers, but right now they're pretty opaque. Ant Man has long been a possibility, but we know little about that, and there have been plenty of Doctor Strange stories, with screenwriters even hired. Now…
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It's a slow Friday at the end of a pretty insubstantial news week, which makes it rumor time. We still don't know what character will act as the bad guy in Sony's new version of Spider-Man (persistent scuttlebutt says it's the Lizard) and we don't know who'll be hired to play the character. But one…
Read MoreAt the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Lionsgate acquired an enjoyable little indie sports drama called The Winning Season, directed by James C Strouse. We havent heard much about the film since. Lionsgate is planning to release the film in New York City and Los Angeles on September 3rd 2010, and has finally released poster artwork…
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I'm a fan of the off-kilter humor of director Adam McKay, whose newest film The Other Guys opens today. The movie teams up Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell as two of those "other guys" on the police force, the dudes do the behind-the-scenes work that allows the stereotypical supercops to strut their stuff. But when…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
Read More/Film reader Jonathan Kiwanuka decided to create a fan made trailer for The Matrix trilogy, showcasing all three Wachowski films in under six minutes. Jonathan explains: "I've always wished to see an ultimate trailer for the Matrix trilogy and since there was no one to be found, I always wished to do it, so here…
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Briefly: The BFI London Film Festival is getting a little bigger every year. Last year it was given a push when Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox debuted at the fest. This year, the festival will open on October 13 with the European premiere of Mark Romanek's new film Never Let Me Go, which adapts the…
Read MoreAccess Hollywood has gotten their hands on a clip from the 12-minute Lost epilogue "The New Man in Charge" that will be included on the Series Finale DVD/Blu-ray set. In the clip, actor Michael Emerson reprises his role as Benjamin Linus, and shuts down the Dharma food warehouse which is responsible for the (until now)…
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When last we heard about the next film from the Wachowskis, it was being referred to as CN9. Some guessed the title was a reference to the ninth cranial nerve, but now we know that CN9 is actually short for Cobalt Neural 9, the full title of the Wachowskis' script about a "gay Iraq war…
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Briefly: Here's your first look at James Franco as climber Aron Ralston in Danny Boyle's upcoming film 127 Hours. The image was scanned from the latest issue of EW and sent to The Playlist; it shows Franco in mid-climb, a bit grimy from his efforts. There's also a small scan of Boyle and Franco together.…
Read MoreUniversal Studios Hollywood have announced that musician/director Rob Zombie has joined forces with them for their annual Halloween Horror Nights. According to the press release, "Zombie and other top artists are collaborating with Universal Studios Hollywood in the creation of new mazes, "scare zones" and backlot experiences." Of of the experiences is "Rob Zombie's House…
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Last night Terry Gilliam directed the live webcast of the band Arcade Fire's performance at Madison Square Garden. Prior to the event, Gilliam said he'd mostly just be following along and trying to keep up. But you know he couldn't simply do that. The webcast opened with a fun little skit in which Gilliam is…
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Is the future for big stars? As Paramount hammers out deals for Mission: Impossible 4, one detail has come to light: Tom Cruise will take a lot less money up front than he once would have commanded. The trade-off is that he's in line for a back-end payday that could still put his take in…
Read MoreEver since the first test footage from Tron Legacy premiered at Comic-Con three years ago, Disney fans have been talking up the idea of the Mouse House introducing a new Tron ride at the Disneyland/Disney World theme parks. I've told you previously that Disney Imagineers were visiting the set just days before I stepped foot…
Read MoreSomeone has too much time on their hands and decided to edit every single lightsaber ignition and retraction from all of the Star Wars live-action movies into one short two and half minute video. You can watch said video embedded after the jump. via: nerdapproved
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Robin Wright has an increasingly promising slate of films coming up: she's in Robert Redford's The Conspirator (in the title role) and is shooting a part in Moneyball, where she'll play the ex-wife of Billy Beane, played by Brad Pitt. And now she's in talks to work with David Fincher in his new version of…
Read More/Film reader Eddie R has sent us a link to the previously unreleased movie trailer for Tony Scott's upcoming action drama Unstoppable. I've been wondering with 20th Century Fox would start promoting this film as it is scheduled to hit theaters in just three months, and no publicity materials had yet been released (not a…
Read MoreParamount Pictures has released the first movie trailer for Jackass 3D. We caught a sneak preview of footage from the film at Comic Con (watch our video blog here) and called it "a theme park experience but with poop and pee." I know I hurt from laughing after only 8 minutes, and I believe it…
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It's good to see that Warner Bros. is turning to 4chan for Yogi Bear marketing materials. If you thought the first poster and trailer for the film were bad, then just get a load of this new image, found on the film's official site. What else is there to say? The eyes, the framing and…
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To quote Beastie Boy and Oscilloscope Laboratories founder Adam Yauch, "[the MPAA has] really gone too far this time. It's bullshit." That was Yauch's response earlier this week when the MPAA slapped an R rating on the documentary A Film Unfinished, which examines a Nazi propaganda film made to supposedly depict the life of Jews…
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We've talked a lot about the casting for Butter, the Black List script by Jason Micallef that Jim Field Smith directed starring Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman, Ty Burrell, Rob Corddry, Ashley Greene, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone and Yara Shahidi. The film takes place in Iowa among an interrelated group of people, with championship butter carving…
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Just when we thought it was safe to have hope for Terry Gilliam's resumed efforts to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the project is stalled again. The famous first stall was a decade ago, and has been documented so many times that I won't go into it again. Now Gilliam seems to have…
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This is a team-up I could have only dreamed of, but even then, I don't know that I would've. Are J.J. Abrams (Star Trek) and Bong Joon-ho (The Host), two of the most intriguing filmmakers working today, going to be working together? We heard a rumor that this is indeed the case. Learn more about…
Read MoreCould this be the ultimate film geek dessert treat? Illinois-based BlueRett Cakes posted this photo of an assortment of Star Wars themed cupcakes. BlueRett has also created some awesome cupcakes based on The Muppets, various Pixar characters and more. Hit th jump to see more. A better look at the Star Wars cupcakes: More Cupcakes:…
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Bennett Miller is finally directing Moneyball with Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and here's the first look at Hoffman as Oakland A's manager Art Howe. Not the most remarkable photo, really, but it at least looks right. Hey, it's a baseball movie striving for at least some vague realism; you can't expect…
Read MoreA couple weeks back, we posted the schedule for the Alamo Drafthouse's 2010 Rolling Road Show. The traveling movie screening series 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…
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With announcements of two new Star Wars animated series, a live-action Star Wars TV show, and a potential 3D re-release of the films, it remains obvious that George Lucas is going to continue milking his (partially) beloved franchise for all its worth. But for now, there's a significant complication that may derail momentum on the…
Read More/Film reader Tyler S submits the following video: An earlier casting of Star Wars IV: A New Hope saw Arnold Schwarzenegger put a juvenile, jealous and rather perverted spin on Darth Vader's explosive personality. George Lucas had second thoughts and cast James Earl Jones instead. Enjoy these exclusive clips from the "lost tapes" archives of…
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We only just heard about Old St. Louis, the film that now looks to be David O. Russell's next after The Fighter. Vince Vaughn is set to star in the film and there was talk of interest in Chloe Moretz to play his daughter. (No actual word on that latter casting, however, so don't get…
Read MoreThere's now a second trailer for the third film in the Narnia series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Check it out after the break. The Narnia films have hit a rough patch; after the tepid reception to the second film in the series (Prince Caspian) Disney elected not to carry…
Read MoreTim Blake Nelson has signed on to join Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski , and Kristen Bell in Ken Kwapis' (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, He's Just Not That Into You) big screen adaptation of Whales. Based on Tom Rose's nonfiction book "Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event" about three…
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UPDATE: We have now confirmed that James Newton Howard is in fact taking over for Elfman. Original article follows. Add another item to the ever-growing list of setbacks plaguing The Green Hornet. The film has been having problems since day one, and between the tacked-on 3D post-conversion and the delayed January (aka "dump month") release…
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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Tony Scott, according to their sources, is "just a step away from" directing the big screen adaption of John Grisham's bestselling legal thriller The Associate. You might recall that Shia LaBeouf is attached to star, Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers, GI Joe) is producing, and The Departed screenwriter William…
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Last year it was announced that the Weinstein brothers had acquired the rights to remake An American Werewolf in London, and my heart sank. Since then, there's been no news of any progress on the project, and I promptly forgot about it. That was a happier time. And a relatively short-lived one. Alas, looks like…
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I'm not normally one to be taken in by gimmicky marketing tactics, but this interactive trailer for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (via Yahoo!) is legitimately fascinating, and a fittingly creative way to sell the film's atypical style. It's loaded with behind-the-scenes videos, audio commentary by co-writer/director Edgar Wright, comic book comparisons, trailer soundtrack info,…
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This is a great little story for everyone whose head tried to recreate the beginning of Scanners when they saw the headline "Director of An Inconvenient Truth to Make 3D Justin Bieber Biopic." Only a couple dozen hours after being linked to Justin Bieber's very own version of 8 Mile, director Davis Guggenheim has passed…
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Maggie Grace probably likes Luc Besson a lot -- he produced Taken, in which she played the kidnapped daughter of Liam Neeson. She's already attached to Taken 2 (which may or may not get made) and now she's set to co-star with Guy Pearce in the Besson-produced space thriller Lockout. Deadline has few details to…
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For months now there have been rumors that Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson would be in Fox's upcoming X-Men: First Class. Matthew Vaughn is the director of both films, adding apparent credit to the rumor, and the popular belief has been that Johnson would play Cyclops. But Tarquin Pack, a producer on both films, says that…
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I'm not quite sure how I feel about the upcoming film version of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, which will be directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries). But I just became significantly more convinced about the viability of the film thanks to two new cast members: Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen. Deadline has the…
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There are a few Disney project updates today. First up, the release of Monsters Inc. 2 has been pulled up by two weeks to avoid competition with the final film in the Twilight series. The new date for the Pixar sequel is November 2, 2012. That'll give it two weeks before Twilight opens, but Pixar…
Read MoreSam Mendes' Road to Perdition failed to live up to box office expectations, but is notable for a few reasons: It was Mendes' sophomore follow-up to the critically-acclaimed breakout hit American Beauty, babyface star Tom Hanks was playing a "bad guy," and it was one of the first comic book adaptations which strayed as far…
Read MoreA short teaser trailer for Marvel/Joss Whedon's superhero team-up movie The Avengers was screened at Comic-Con. It is now available online for the whole world to view. It doesn't show much, or really anything other than the Avengers logo, but it's still enough to get you excited. Watch it now embedded after the jump. The…
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UPDATE: The LA Times talked to Universal chairman Adam Fogelson, who said the film is testing well and added, "As we're continuing to refine the film, one of the ideas that's certainly a possibility is having Dustin be a part of the picture. We didn't call him and say that we desperately need his help…
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Briefly: Take this one as more a subject for discussion than anything else at this point, but there's a rumor (via Pajiba) that Quentin Tarantino is in talks to direct the new movie incarnation of classic pulp crime character The Shadow. This is a project that has been around for a while, and was passed…
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Author Joe Haldeman has revealed on his live journal page that Blade Runner scribe David Peoples has already turned in a fourth draft of Ridley Scott's big screen adaptation of Haldeman's 1974 novel The Forever War. Here is what Haldeman wrote on his website: The Forever War screenplay [Somebody wrote into sff.net offering to write…
Read MoreWe've been following the progress of Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosnski's attempt to get his graphic novel Oblivion set up with a studio development deal. Kosinski came up with the story a few years ago, and set it into graphic novel format before trying to get a studio to bite. Disney was said to be…
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F. Gary Gray last directed Law Abiding Citizen, a film that ambitiously tried to push how far an audience could get behind a violent, justifiably angry anti-hero. As with several of Gray's films, the idea was better than the execution, which ended up being silly more often than it was satisfying. Gray has also been…
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Bunch of new movie posters for you today, and shockingly, with the exception of one, they're all pretty good. They're also all over the map, subject-wise. There's the questionable Joaquin Phoenix 'documentary' I'm Still Here, the M. Night Shyamalan-produced Devil, the US one-sheet for Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void,the Philly drama Night Catches Us with…
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In May, it was reported that Firefly and Dollhouse star Alan Tudyk had joined the cast of Transformers 3, but details about his role were being kept under wraps.We now have details about what character Tudyk plays in the threequel, and don't worry -- it isn't a spoiler. Details after the jump. Tudyk tells From…
Read MoreYes, we've watched the full length movie trailer for David Fincher's The Social Network more times than we should publicly admit. 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. A few weeks ago we posted a parody titled…
Read MoreBefore you get too excited, no, this is not a movie trailer for the big screen adaptation of The Avengers which Joss Whedon hasn't even begun shooting. Marvel Studios has released a new teaser trailer for The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the new animated series which is set to assemble in Fall 2010 on Disney…
Read More20th Century Fox has acquired rights to Adena Halpern's novel 29: A Novel, and THR reports that the studio hopes to turn it into 'an event movie for women.' It's basically an older version of Freaky Friday or a reverse version of Big, with a 75-year old woman who wishes to be 29 years old…
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For the longest time, Kevin Smith's Red State seemed like a film that would never get made, but bit by bit, the project keeps coming together. The film already has a September shooting date (as tweeted by Smith), and the lead role has been locked in place. And now, the film has a not-yet-confirmed roster…
Read MoreI always thought this was one of those really stupid questions Lost fanatics obsess over. Does it really matter what the man in black's name was? But Lost fanatics like to look for mystery in places where sometimes a mystery doesn't actually exist. Well, for those of you Lost fanatics, we finally have confirmed the…
Read MoreAnd now for news that nobody else but me will be excited about. Last we heard about the G.I. Joe sequel, Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were hired to pen the screenplay. It was also assumed that the main cast would be returning, seeing as how they're contractually obligated to do so. Director…
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This was pretty much a given. Ever since the Three Kings and I Heart Huckabees director was announced as being in the running to direct the adaptation of the video game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, the choice seemed too odd to ever manifest itself as anything more than a fun discussion piece. And as the fates…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released a new international movie poster for Tron Legacy featuring an older Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) with a light desc. Hit the jump to see the poster in full. Click over to KinoGallery (found via FirstShowing) to see the image in high resolution. Official One Pager: TRON: LEGACY (In Disney Digital…
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The Bang Bang Club, a dramatization of a true story about four photographers who documented the end of apartheid in South Africa, is scheduled for a world premiere next month at the Toronto Film Festival. I thought we'd covered this film in the past, but there's little about it on the site. So while this…
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In April, we broke the news that Spike Jonze (Where The Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich) was casting a secret film project in Austin Texas. At the time, we didn't know much about the project other than it was supposedly a short film that tells a story which involves "friends growing apart" and that…
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It's over two years now that we've been hearing about TMNT director Kevin Munroe's adaptation of the Italian comic series Dylan Dog. News that Brandon Routh would play the character first bubbled up in early 2008, and the film shot last year. It doesn't yet have a US distributor (hence a lack of major presence…
Read MoreOver the past week we've been talking a bunch about commercial director turned Tron Legacy helmer Joseph Kosinski's new feature film project Oblivion , which he has been pitching around town. Last we heard, Disney has the "inside track" on the project, and has an exclusive negotiating window than ends tonight. Three other studio: Paramount,…
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Briefly: Contain your excitement! Or, if you're eagerly awaiting the end of the Twilight films, don't. Rejoice that the end is near. Summit has set a release date for the final film in the series. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 will open in theaters on November 16, 2012. (So the end isn't…
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A few weeks ago I got news of a pretty cool little project: as part of the promotional efforts for Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Universal approached [adult swim] about making something related to the film. The idea concocted by the folks at the network was to animate a piece of one of Bryan Lee…
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Briefly: This is a quick update to a story from yesterday about Nicolas Cage skipping out on the Joel Schumacher film Trespass. Shooting was scheduled to start within a couple of weeks on the picture, but Cage abruptly left, which put the production into the position of scrambling for a replacement. The male lead was…
Read More/Film reader Bram R points me towards an old Uncle Scrooge comic from Disney which bares a close resemblance to the plot of Inception. Here is what Bram wrote: Thanks to a friend I came across something rather interesting. This Donald Duck Comic Strip bares a close resemblance to the plot of Inception. The Beagle…
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Every year around Comic Con time I start thinking of older or lesser-known comics that would be great on screen. (Time to run a list, I know.) One that has long been in mind is Matt Wagner's Mage. The series depicts the adventures of an ordinary, down on his luck guy who meets a mage…
Read MoreAnd you thought Inception was confusing... College Humor takes on the complexities/flaws of Christopher Nolan's Inception in a new comedy short titled "Inception Characters Don't Understand Inception": Inception is the movie of the summer, that has moviegoers trying to comprehend the complexities of Nolan's dreamworld. How do the characters seem to understand all the rules…
Read MoreAt Comic-Con, WETA Workshop unvieled the newest District 9 collectable, a statue of the Exosuit from the film. Modeled with fanatical attention to detail by Weta Senior Modelmaker David Tremont and art directed by Greg Broadmore, this piece has been created by the very same artists and craftsmen who worked on the movie. Produced in…
Read MoreAt Comic-Con, Miramax Films premiered the movie trailer for the Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, a horror film remake co-written and produced by Guillermo del Toro. The trailer (and additional footage) went over big in San Diego, and now MySpace has the trailer online for everyone to check out. Watch it now embedded after…
Read MoreSan Francisco-based audio/video mash-up artist/performer Mike Relm is back with a new remix for Disney's Tron Legacy. You might recall that Relm created a cool remix of the Iron Man 2 trailer, which caught the eye of director Jon Favreau, and got turned into a (shorter) television advertisement. Relm's Tron Legacy remix mixes the special…
Read MoreMGM isn't down and out just yet, or at least that is how they would have you believe it. The studio has announced yet another project, a big screen adaptation of the 1960's black and white sci-fi television series The Outer Limits. The anthology series, like the Twilight Zone, was known to have a plot…
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Diablo Cody's next screenplay to be produced is called Young Adult. The script was optioned by Mandate Pictures this past March, and the company is hoping to have cameras rolling by November. At the time of the option, there was talk about Cody reteaming with “the team behind Juno," but that was based only on…
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Earlier this year, Warner Bros announced plans to bring back Looney Tunes in a new series of theatrical animated short films. Three new 3D short films feature Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote (and three more are in development). The first short, "Coyote Falls," premiered in front of Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty…
Read MoreA couple weeks ago we told you that Academy Award Winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno) had 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 were actor Adam Brody (The O.C., Thank You For Smoking, Jennifer's Body and the…
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Illumination Entertainment is doing well with Universal right now -- the company is behind Despicable Me, which gave the studio a solid hit to counter efforts from DreamWorks and Pixar. In addition to quickly putting a Despicable Me sequel into play, Universal and Illumination are developing a new Curious George film, designed and animated in…
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This was probably bound to happen: in the wake of the release of Inception, we now know of the first film to cut out dreamlike sequences that feel too much like scenes in Christopher Nolan's film. Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman have been hard at work rewriting X-Men: First Class so that the film can…
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Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver have joined the cast of JCVD helmer Mabrouk El Mechri's kidnapping thriller called The Cold Light of Day. Willis and Weaver join the previously announced Henry Cavill from The Tudors along for the ride. The plot follows a cocky young Wall Street trader whose family is kidnapped while vacationing in…
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I half suspect that if the movie news sphere ever goes six months without 'reporting' on the nascent Arrested Development movie, the entire internet will collapse upon itself. So in the interest of digital safety, here's the latest in a series of half-updates that now spans several years. We've heard for some time that Mitch…
Read MoreAn early promo trailer for David Schwimmer’s Trust has turned up online today (found via playlist). The movie is set to play at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from September 9th – 19th 2010. Here is the official plot description from the TIFF press release: Safe and sound in their suburban home,…
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For the past couple months, a shortlist has been going around of possible directors for Moscow, Paramount's new film / reboot of the film series featuring Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character. (Chris Pine stars as Ryan this time out.) The names were generally all big: Sam Raimi, Gore Verbinski, Timur Bekmambetov and Kevin MacDonald, for…
Read MoreLast week it was reported that commercial director turned Tron Legacy helmer Joseph Kosinski was going to be pitching his new feature film project Oblivion around town. In our original report, we wrote that Kosinski would be pitching the project to Disney on Monday night, and if the Mouse House doesn't bite, he'll be taking…
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During the Comic Con panel for The Expendables, it was difficult to tell if Sylvester Stallone was joking when he said that the whole point of doing The Expendables was that he got greedy. Seemed like a joke at the time. But now might might see reports highlighting how Stallone is reportedly pondering a prequel…
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When the show was bumped from an announced panel at Comic-Con, we should have known something was up. The Steven Spielberg-produced Fox sci-fi television series Terra Nova has been delayed. Fox said today that the pilot episode won't be ready until May 2011, back from the originally discussed Winter 2010 debut. Even worse, the actual…
Read MoreRed Hour Films announced today that Wallace Shawn, Justin Kirk, Dan Stevens and Todd Barry are the latest actors cast in Clueless director Amy Heckerling's romantic horror-comedy Vamps. The film stars Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter as two young female vampires living the good life in contemporary New York "until love enters the picture and…
Read MoreArtist Alex Pardee has been working with Zack Snyder on his latest film Sucker Punch. You might have noticed Pardee's stylized bunny on the face of Amber's mech. Some of his other designs also appear in the film. For Comic-Con, Pardee created a bunch of exclusive character posters. We didn't see them during the con,…
Read MoreLast week we posted the first trailer from the Live-action/CG hybrid Yogi Bear movie, today we bring you a first look at another television cartoon to live-action film adaptation. Nickelodeon is apparently making a live-action movie adaptation of the popular television cartoon series The Fairly OddParents. The movie titled A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow up…
Read More"In 1864, a family embarks on an impossible journey into the untamed American West. " What if Hollywood produced a feature film adaptation of the classic educational computer game, The Oregon Trail? You don't have to imagine -- Watch the trailer now, embedded after the jump.
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OK, first: this isn't a story about a remake of or sequel to the giant shark "oops, I ate Sam Jackson" movie Deep Blue Sea. It is about a film version of the 1952 play by Terence Rattigan (first filmed in 1955 with Vivien Leigh starring) about a woman who leaves her husband for a…
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Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker), Josh Peck (The Wackness) and Margarita Levieva (Adventureland) have signed on to star in David Brooks' ATM. THR is reporting that production is gearing up for a late-September start in Winnipeg, Manitoba. You might remember this project as it is the next screenplay from Black List scribe Chris Sparling who made…
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Briefly: So Guillermo del Toro is directing At the Mountains of Madness (finally!) with James Cameron producing. Thanks to those years spent developing The Hobbit, that'll be the first picture he's directed since Hellboy II. But just before the news of GdT making his Lovecraft film came up, there was a report that he was…
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Paul Murray's novel Skippy Dies is "a sprawling boarding school comedy with a dark heart," according to the Guardian, which reviewed the novel when it was published in the UK earlier this year. (The paper also called the book " one of the most enjoy able, funny and moving reads of this young new year.")…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS A couple weeks 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. We originally thought that the cape crusader's car being used in the film was a quick gag, but a week later, more set photos were posted…
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Looks like Fox was happy with Predators. Six weeks ago we heard that Robert Rodriguez was offered the director's chair on Fox's X-Men spin-off Deadpool, and now the parties have moved forward to active negotiations. Additionally, there's continuing word that Timur Bekmambetov's next directorial project will be the adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter that…
Read MoreA couple weeks back, we posted the schedule for the Alamo Drafthouse's 2010 Rolling Road Show. The traveling movie screening series 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…
Read MoreWeezer's next CD, their eigth LP, is a tribute to the ABC television series LOST. The musical group has ramed their upcoming Album "Hurley" and the album cover is simply a close-up photo of actor Jorge Garcia who plays Hugo "Hurley" Reyes in the series. Hit the jump to see the CD cover. Lost show-runner…
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This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley remember the passing of a too-young talent, discuss the nature of biopics, reflect on the state of the Mission: Impossible series, and share memories of a Blockbuster long gone. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us…
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Dimension can't decide what it wants out of a Hellraiser remake. Over the past few years the company has attached at least three filmmakers or teams -- Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (Inside); Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton (Feast and the Saw series); and Pascal Laugier (Martyrs) to write and/or direct new takes on the…
Read MorePiranha 3D is getting rave reviews from the few who have screened it this week. The film currently has 82% on Rotten Tomatoes with 28 reviews filed, and it seems like this is the movie people were hoping Snakes on a Plane and Grindhouse would've been. CHUD even said that 'Piranha 3D could be the…
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This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley wonder about the other ways that Return of the Jedi might have ended and compare The Expendables unfavorably to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Special guest Jeff Cannata joins us from The Totally Rad Show. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave…
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The young actor Satya Bhabha was almost a total unknown a few months ago. Now he's got a highlighted role in Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs the World, in which he plays the first of the characters that must be defeated by Scott Pilgrim to win the heart of Ramona Flowers. Bhabha is memorable in…
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This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley express little hope for Tony Scott's Unstoppable, chat about the special features on the Kick-Ass Blu-Ray, and discuss the end of the superhero movie. Special guest Eric D. Snider joins us from film.com and Cinematical. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave…
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We seem to be cresting this current wave of superhero and comic book derived movies. It's getting to the point where Matthew Vaughn's take on the subgenre seems like the correct one -- how long can this possibly last? The haven for hero tales may be smaller, stranger films that don't rely on expensive licensing…
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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There are a couple of small pieces of trivia that cropped up this week, none really worth a headline of their own, but entertaining enough that I've crammed a couple together here. One comes from the deep history of Sylvester Stallone, who talks about an audition he once had in front of George Lucas. The…
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We've seen images from Brad Anderson's new film Vanishing on 7th Street, and knew that it stars Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo. But we haven't known much about the film. Now there's a little set of behind the scenes interviews that give a few tiny details away, as well as a new poster…
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A movie trailer for Steve Antin's Burlesque has just debuted. Those interested to see Christina Aguilera's theatrical debut should hit the jump for the trailer and for a plot synopsis of the film. Burlesque hits theaters on November 24, 2010. Don't get me wrong: I think Christina Aguilera has an amazing voice and am constantly…
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This week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, Adam Quigley and Russ Fischer share memories and impressions from this year's San Diego Comic-Con, offer some brief thoughts on Salt, Sorcerer's Apprentice, & Dinner for Schmucks, and review Bong Joon Ho's Mother, now out on DVD and Blu-Ray. For our massive Comic-Con round-up, click here. You can always…
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So I guess someone gave Nicolas Cage a copy of Joel Schumacher's recent film Twelve. The actor was set to co-star (with Nicole Kidman) in Schumacher's film Trespass, which had been planning to shoot later this month. But with only weeks to go until principal photography, Cage left the film, went on vacation, and (supposedly)…
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