Warning: this is a half-speculative story that could easily be worked out within by the end of the week, so it could amount to nothing. But it's one more piece of the difficult mosaic that has been the development process for Gravity, the space-bound thriller from Alfonso Cuarón. After a long search, the film finally…
Read MoreGood news for fans of electronic music AND teen assassins: the Chemical Brothers will be scoring Joe Wright's upcoming film Hanna, starring the young Soairse Ronan as a trained assassin. The news comes out of New York Comic-Con, courtesy of Firstshowing. Firstshowing reports that a few scenes were shown from the film that looked "okay,"…
Read MoreThe first collaboration between director William Friedkin and author/screenwriter William Peter Blatty produced one of the most famous / notorious horror films in movie history. (Um, The Exorcist.) Now, as Mr. Friedkin promotes a limited theatrical re-release and Blu-ray disc of The Exorcist and prepares to shoot the film Killer Joe in Louisiana, he may…
Read MoreThis fan made movie trailer cut of Christopher Nolan's Inception is modeled after the trailers of Alfred Hitchcock's films from the 1940's and 50's. Here is a word from the editor, krishnashenoi93: The audio is picked from the trailers of 'Rear Window', 'Spellbound' and 'Vertigo'. The words are my own, but those are just like…
Read MoreAnd the first photo from Man on a Ledge, which just began shooting with Sam Worthington starring as the titular character, shows...Sam Worthington on a ledge. How appropriate. Ed Harris has joined the cast, too, which makes this talent lineup a bit more interesting. More info on Asger Leth's in-progress film after the break. Here's…
Read MoreLooks like Universal got the jump on everyone at the end of this past week by announcing a boatload of release dates. Others are falling in line to grab their own weekends, and so we've got new dates for Lionsgate's 3D version of Conan, which now seems to be officially called Conan 3D, and Sony's…
Read MoreThis week's issue of Entertainment Weekly doesn't only have a bunch of awesome pictures from Marvel's upcoming Captain America: The First Avenger, there's an article too. And the article just happens to reveal several brand new details about the Joe Johnston directed film starring Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci and Hayley Atwell. Hit the…
Read MoreI haven't seen Kevin Smith's Red State yet -- not a single frame or still photo even -- and already I hope he makes more like it. Why? Because reading what he's got to say about the movie, the first thing that comes across is that he's got a tremendous passion for it. He's got…
Read MoreBeing as it's Halloween, what a perfect time to announce that John Carpenter's next film will be a scary comic book adaptation. He'll helm the film version of Darkchylde, based on the popular comics created by Randy Queen about a young girl named Ariel Chylde who regularly sheds her skin and turns into her deepest,…
Read MoreLast week we got our first peek at the logo for Michael Bay's Transformers 3 , officially titled Transformers: Dark of the Moon, in a blurry screencapture from Entertainment Tonight's set visit. Paramount Pictures have launched a placeholder website which gives us a better, higher resolution, at the film's logo. Yes, that is the dark…
Read MoreThe Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn doesn't see release until over a year from now -- on December 23, 2011 to be exact. But the live-action footage upon which the mocap animated film will be based was directed by Steven Spielberg a year ago, with Jamie Bell playing the title character. (Tintin,…
Read MoreDirector George Hickenlooper, whose film Casino Jack has been playing festivals and is on the verge of release, has died in Denver, Colorado at the age of 47. His cousin, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, confirmed the director's passing to the Denver Post. George Hickenlooper may still be best known for co-directing the wonderful 1991 Apocalypse…
Read MoreBriefly: At the end of May it looked as if John Cusack would be playing the lead role in Jack under director Brad Anderson. At that point the film was set for a late summer shoot, but has been delayed. (We don't know whether that is due to financing, the director's festival and other responsibilities…
Read MoreIf you haven't heard, this Summer Disneyland premiered a new water show in their Disney California Adventure theme park. We've even posted video of it on the site in the past. I've seen it in person, it's incredible -- makes the Bellagio in Vegas look like a water fountain at a mall. Last night Disney…
Read MoreKevin Smith has completed a first cut of his upcoming independently produced horror film Red State, and screened the film for the cast and crew at the Wrap Party. This is an extremely unusual occurrence, but Smith has been editing while he shoots and the movie doesn't require a lot of post work. Smith tweeted…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is Tales from the Crypt: The Complete Seasons 1-7 on DVD for only $89.99, 66.6% off the $267 msrp. Based on the legendary and gruesome EC Comics from publisher William Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, the super natural, gore and humor and always had…
Read MoreHere's a not-so tasty little tidbit that I'll drop on your desk before scurrying off for the beginning of the Halloween weekend. Twisted Pictures, aka the folks behind Saw, haven't forgotten that they were trying to make a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre film. I'd hoped they might forget but alas, someone wrote it on a…
Read MoreWell, it's not a biopic about all of Swedish boxing -- just of one man, Bo Hogberg. While we wait to hear if Ridley Scott will convince Fox that this is the woman for his Alien prequel, Noomi Rapace, the original Lisbeth Salander has taken a job acting opposite her ex-husband in a story that…
Read MoreHere are two things that don't naturally go together: Roland Emmerich and low-budget. Add in 'secret' and that's three. Given the sort of films he generally directs, the idea of Roland Emmerich making a low-key film is about as plausible as Tim Burton developing a movie without Johnny Depp. But these things are coming together…
Read MoreTrailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
Read MoreTrying to figure out a pumpkin carving idea to prove your film geekiness? College Humor has come up with Pumpkinception, an Inception-inspired pumpkin design which is sure to confuse your trick or treaters. Hit the jump to see the illustration. Gotta love the pro tip. See more pumpkin designs in CollegeHumor's Seven Easy Jack-O-Lantern Ideas.
Read MoreLionsgate Pictures has released an international movie trailer for the new Jason Statham film, a London-set serial killer thriller titled Blitz. Blitz is adapted by Nathan Parker (who also scripted Moon) from Ken Bruen's novel of the same name and directed by Elliott Lester (Love is the Drug) . Statham plays Detective Sergeant Brant, a…
Read MoreEvery couple of days it seems like there's a new 'hot project' in Hollywood, and lately most of these films have been genre pictures of some kind: superhero, or ones at least tinged with fantasy or science fiction. The latest is Snow White and the Huntsman, thanks to a buzzed-about script from Evan Daugherty and…
Read MoreToy Story 3 will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 2nd 2010 and Disney has given us an exclusive bonus clip from the release. The clip is entitled “Creating Spanish Buzz” from the bonus featurette Toys! It features animator Carlos Baena (an awesome guy who I've met previously, who in addition to working…
Read MoreI'm still waiting for Peter Bogdanovich to fulfill the mandate handed him by the late Orson Welles to finish the legendary director's final film, The Other Side of the Wind. But that film is the victim of a long list of legal and technical troubles, so I can forgive him for the decades the project…
Read MoreHey Zack Snyder! Here's how not to make your new Superman movie. It seems like every few years, we get another glimpse of the incredible amount of money Warner Brothers threw into pre-production on a Tim Burton directed Superman film called Superman Lives. As far back as 2006, concept art from the film began surfacing…
Read MoreWesley Snipes may have high aspirations to do his own film about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the way that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI attempted to control and/or discredit the civil rights movement. But don't think that Mr. Snipes isn't going to keep making regular old movies. He's got a tax bill…
Read MoreBriefly: Release date news items are rarely all that intriguing, so I almost feel as if I should apologize for the minor deluge of these articles over the past 24 hours. After Universal announced a whole slate of films for the coming two years, Fox has spoken up, too. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, to be…
Read MoreWith all the 25th anniversary Back to the Future hoopla recently, one film that has been grossly overshadowed is The Goonies. The classic Richard Donner directed, Steven Spielberg produced adventure story is also celebrating its silver anniversary in 2010 with a brand new Blu-ray release on November 2. To commemorate the occasion, Warner Brothers held…
Read MoreJames Cameron is such a nerd. Seriously. But thankfully for us, he's a nerd with an incredible talent for storytelling, and we not only get to experience him changing the filmmaking process itself but the way we view films in general. Case in point: for his upcoming sequels to the biggest movie of all time,…
Read MoreWe've all seen women (and even some men) with tramp stamps, tattoos on the lower back. But what about a real Tramp Stamp? Find out after the jump. Someone decided to go literal with the tattoo and got the image of Disney's Lady and the Tramp 44 cent US stamp on their lower back. via:…
Read MoreScreenwriter William Monahan made his directorial debut not long ago with London Boulevard. But despite being the first film from a big-name writer and featuring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley, the film didn't show up at festivals and has generally had a rather low profile. And if this just-released trailer is any indication, that might…
Read MoreThis week Universal Pictures got the urge to fill out the company's calendar for the next couple of years. Yesterday we heard that the studio has dated Judd Apatow's as-yet-untitled new film for summer 2012. Now there is a flood of new release dates for the studio, for a diverse array of films. Hit the…
Read MoreEarlier this week, we were one of many sites to post a very intriguing video that hit the web. It was from the extras on the DVD of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film The Circus and showed what many believed to be a woman on a cell phone in 1928. George Clarke, the filmmaker and Simon…
Read MoreEven as a kid, two films I never thought I'd see sequels to were Top Gun and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Both Eighties hits certainly could have continued with their storylines but there wasn't a need because each wrapped up in a cohesive and satisfying way. In fact, if it wasn't for each film working…
Read MoreEarlier this week Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance co-director Brian Taylor caused a bit of confusion when he said via Twitter that "The dual role of blaze/zarathos will be a nic cage classic." Cue minor consternation and/or excitement. Suddenly Nicolas Cage is playing two roles? Where did this come from? That isn't quite what is…
Read MoreDisney is constructing Toy Story-themed lands in the Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong resorts. Pixar gives us a behind the scenes preview of these new theme park additions on the Toy Story 3 DVD/Blu-ray. Why is it that France and China get a Toy Story Land while California is stuck with A Bug's Life Land…
Read MoreEntertainment Tonight's behind the scenes visit to the set of the third Transformers movie, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, is online. In a way it's just like being there, because you'll see the same set of explosions over and over again. Plus, because many of us complained about the characters in the last movie, this…
Read MoreCharles Manson has been portrayed on film many times, and the Manson Family has had more than a few cinematic representations, too. But The Machinist writer Scott Kosar has been working on a script called The Family, which he intends as a biopic -- in fact, the definitive biopic -- of the Manson Family. He's…
Read MoreIn honor of the upcoming release of Saw 3D, the final film in the Saw series (or is it?), Screenrant's Mike Eisenberg editted together a video overview to explain everything you need to know about the first six films in just 6 minutes and 66 seconds (okay, that's technically 7 minutes and 6 seconds, but…
Read MoreAMC has released a five minute sneak peak at the first episode of the upcoming small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead, which premieres Halloween night, October 31 at 10pm. The sequence takes place very early on in the episode, and basically involves the main character waking up to the zombie outbreak (something we've seen…
Read MoreTwo good-looking posters recently hit for a couple of the fall's more promising arthouse pictures. Both The Way Back and Rabbit Hole have some great early reviews out of festivals and screenings. Now each has a poster to call its own, and you can see both after the break. Here's the poster for The Way…
Read MoreBriefly: As horror remakes go, The Last House on the Left, directed by Dennis Iliadis, was better than most. So let's see what happens with his next picture, which may well be The Demonologists, written by Ghost Whisperer writer Teddy Tenenbaum. Joel Silver's production company is producing. The script is about "a family of veteran…
Read MoreI didn't know anything about the film Ice before today -- it is an adaptation of James Follett's environmental apocalypse thriller. Think The Day After Tomorrow, without all the Roland Emmerich bombast. There's a trailer for Ice after the break, during which you might ask, "well, actually, could we have a little more bombast?" The…
Read MoreWhile it's easy to look at the past through rose-colored glasses (or bloody ones, in this case) and think that there have been many great horror film anthologies, that's just not the case. There are certainly a lot of horror anthology films, but few amount to much. I'm hoping that Paris, I'll Kill You, a…
Read MoreWhen Greg and Colin Strause rolled into Hall H at Comic-Con this year with a movie no one had heard of, they knew if they didn't have the goods, their movie could suffer insurmountable backlash. Thankfully, the footage they showed from Skyline was not only impressive, but the story the Strause's told - about making…
Read MoreOn Arnold Schwarzenegger's Facebook page Tuesday, he teased a brand new collaboration with the director who helped make him a star: James Cameron. With the current California governor's term about ready to end, fanboy imaginations ran wild. True Lies 2? Terminator 4? Or possibly a role for Schwarzenegger in Cameron's next two projects: Avatar 2…
Read MoreWe've already given you two previews of the awesome Bad Dads show opening this weekend at the LoPo Gallery in San Fransisco featuring art based on the films of Wes Anderson. You can look at those posts here and here and while there's some gorgeous stuff in there, the art from this show that's getting…
Read MoreWe ran two pretty silly rumors the other day, and now both have (thankfully) been debunked. One was that LucasFilm was ready to announce that the Indiana Jones films would be converted to 3D. LucasFilm was quick to deny that one, to the surprise of exactly no one. Conspiracy theorists can feel free to maintain…
Read MoreNoomi Rapace is the 'it' girl of late 2010, inheriting the mantle from Jennifer Lawrence, the 'it' girl of early 2010 thanks to Winter's Bone. The three Lisbeth Salander movies have finally penetrated the American mainstream in a big way, and now you seemingly can't mention a big, tough female role in a tentpole film…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures have released a new one-minute clip from Tron Legacy. The clip shows us the introduction of the two main characters, Garrett Hedlund who plays Sam Flynn and Olivia Wilde who plays Quorra. As you can see, Quorra saves Sam from possible death and takes him through some off road terrain on a…
Read MoreDr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physicist at the City University of New York, makes an appearance in the special features of the new Back to the Future Blu-ray set explaining the science behind time travel and how Back to the Future is one of the only movies to get it right -- more specifically,…
Read MoreUpdate: High resolution uncropped versions of these photos are now online - click here to see them. This morning we saw the new cover for Entertainment Weekly, which had the first photo of Chris Evans in the hero suit for Captain America: The First Avenger. Now the rest of the photos from within the issue…
Read MoreHave you ever wondered just how much the bounty hunters of the Star Wars Universe made for their handy work? Brock Davis decided to try to recreate Boba Fett's invoice to Jabba The Hutt for his work for the live capture and delivery of Han Solo. Hit the jump to see the full image. via:…
Read MoreDespite harboring ambitions to make a biopic about Salvador Dali, director Simon West is sticking with action for now. He's got Jason Statham film The Mechanic, a remake of a Charles Bronson film, ready to release. He'll next direct Dwayne Johnson in Protection. And now he's being linked to The Medallion, a thriller produced by…
Read MoreAubrey Plaza doesn't have the longest resume on the block yet, but with each progressive role she continues to make a whole generation of young men swoon. She first hit the scene as Daisy, the cute stand-up comedian next door in Judd Apatow's Funny People and also played the female lead in the underrated (except…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS Andrew Niccol's next film, formerly called I'm.mortal and possibly now titled Now (hopefully not -- Now isn't much better) is shooting, erm, now. The first pics have been snapped by roving photographers, as we can see Amanda Seyfried playing against image in a red bob and Justin Timberlake with his head shaved, looking…
Read MoreLast week we posted a preview of Entertainment Tonight's visit to the set of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Today clips from the set visit are now online for you to watch. The clips show us director Michael Bay shooting a couple action sequences, and stars Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, and…
Read MoreBriefly: We don't know what Judd Apatow's next film as a writer/director/producer will be. We don't even have a title. He's writing a script now for the next movie he'll direct, and that movie now has a release date: June 1, 2012. Remember when this whole idea of deciding the release date before the movie…
Read MoreWho knew that Brad Bird and Tom Cruise were going to go all Tom Clancy on us? At a press conference in Dubai about the fourth Mission: Impossible film, director Brad Bird along with stars Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and producer Bryan Burk answered question in front of a banner that oh so subtly…
Read MoreBless you, Edgar Wright. While most of us common folk are sitting around counting the days till November 9, when Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is finally released on DVD and Blu-ray, you went ahead and alerted us to several clips that have been posted from the Making Of documentary on the disc. According to…
Read More/Film LA is my attempt to highlight the coolest film screenings and events happening in Los Angeles. In today's edition, we tell you about... The second annual Long Beach Comic-Con takes place over the weekend Roger Corman's Splatter and Danny DeVito's Blood Factory will hit the big screen with a post screening discussion with Corman,…
Read MoreUPDATE: High-res version of the cover added after the break. Here's a first: a shot of Chris Evans in costume -- the real costume -- as Captain America. We've seen concept art, we've seen images of the actor in character wearing street clothes, and we've seen shots of a stuntman in the suit. Some Comic…
Read MoreSunglass company Oakley has announced that they will be producing a tie-in for Disney's Tron: Legacy, a pair of Limited Edition 3D Gascan eyewear featuring Tron-styled graphics on the side frames. How much do they want you to pay for these glasses? $150! Why are the glasses worth so much money? Find out after the…
Read MoreIf Jane Austen and zombies can mix to the delight of a broad readership and (potentially) a film audience, why not Friday Night Lights and zombies? That's essentially the pitch for Play Dead, a novel by Ryan Brown, which has just been optioned for development as a feature. Variety reports that Mark Canton, who produced…
Read MoreAs I understand it, Julia Leigh's novel The Hunter is doing quite well in Australia. Ostensibly about a search for the last Tasmanian tiger, the thriller has a bit more going on than that. A film has gone into production this week under the direction of Daniel Nettheim, and it has a great cast, including…
Read MoreThe Fine Brothers love to spoil everything, In past years, we've featured their popular videos 100 Movie Spoilers in 4 minutes, Spoiling Every Best Picture Winner in Oscar History, and 50 spoilers of 2009 in 4 minutes. Just in time for Halloween, the Fine brothers have published a new video titled 100 Horror Movie Spoilers…
Read MorePaul Haggis' latest film The Next Three Days is going to be released soon, but the writer/director still doesn't have a follow-up booked. At least as a director. He's set to write the big screen version of The Equalizer, and has been talked about as a possible director for that film. Now Paul Haggis is…
Read MoreThere's a whole bunch of news for George Clooney's fourth film as director. The Ides of March is a much more imposing title for the film formerly called Farragut North, which is based on a play with the same title. Along with the title change is news of new funding for the movie, as well…
Read MoreABC's Charlie's Angels is finally going into production. It was first mentioned almost a year ago that the channel was looking to greenlight a pilot that would bring the series back to television, but it experienced a change in the development process that set it back until now. Originally, Josh Friedman (the creator of Terminator:…
Read MoreWith Netflix announcing astounding growth for the company's streaming movie service, other companies are getting into the streaming game, too. HBO recently started a service called HBO Go, and this week Comcast's own broadband portal, Xfinity TV, launched the free online streaming portion of the service package it plans to offer. The latest is Showtime,…
Read MoreThere's been talk of late about a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult film which adapted a stage musical of the same name. Given the current popularity of Glee I can see why studios might be thinking it's time to dip back into the musical well. But there have to be better…
Read MoreLast week there was word that Pierre Morel, the director of District 13, Taken, and From Paris with Love, had been named as "a lead candidate" to helm Universal's Ouija, based on the Hasbro board game. Now two more filmmakers have entered the mix: Sylvain White, director of Stomp the Yard, The Losers and the…
Read MoreTRON: Legacy is now just under two months away. With October 28 being "TRON Night" across the country, as multiple IMAX screens screen 20 minutes of the new film, it seems like a good time to ask, "Where's the inevitable Blu-ray release of the original TRON?" There was once talk of not only a Blu-ray…
Read MoreLast month, Greg Berlanti shed some light on what his and his writing partners' plans were for The Flash screenplay, which he's currently at work on with Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim. At the time it sounded like they weren't quite sure which direction they were heading with the film, as Berlanti proceeded to throw…
Read MoreThough Hans Zimmer has yet to officially sign on to score Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, he does have a meeting scheduled with the director to discuss it. That's just one of the tidbits revealed in a new interview with the composer who is also scheduled to write music for the upcoming Sherlock Holmes…
Read MoreHow awesome is the AMC television series Mad Men? The fictional drama is beginning to jump off the small screen into reality. If you've been watching the television series, then you know that John Slattery's character Roger Sterling has been writing his memoir titled Sterling's Gold.Well it appears that Grove Press is actually going to…
Read MoreIn the race to make a hockey comedy the clear winner will be Goon, which stars Jay Baruchel and Seann William Scott. (Runner-up might be Kevin Smith's Hit Somebody.) Goon is based on a script by Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg, which in turn was inspired by the book Goon: The True Story of an…
Read MoreThese are tough economic times we're living, and movie studios are changing their ways in hopes of adapting. Or at least, Sony is. As you likely already know, there's a Ghost Rider sequel in the works—carrying the tentative title Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance—and Crank directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are helming it.…
Read MoreToday's biggest film news was, without a doubt, the announcement that Christopher Nolan has titled the third Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, and that the film will not shoot in 3D or be released in post-converted fashion. Now there are a few more quotes from the director about his choice of presentation for the…
Read MoreThe last bits of casting are coming together for Terra Nova, the Fox show about a time-traveling family that is being exec produced by Steven Spielberg. For months we've known that Jason O'Mara would be the lead actor, as the father of a family that goes back in time to prehistoric Earth, and that Stephen…
Read MoreThe officially licensed Star Wars poster series by Mondo Tees is half over. That's what Justin Ishmael, the man behind Mondo, revealed while unveiling the 11st poster in the series: Luke's Destiny by Frank Stockton. And being as we're reach the halfway point, and have missed a few along the way, we decided to not…
Read MoreIt's way too early to get overly interested in the idea of further Hulk movies. Until The Avengers is done, we don't know if Marvel and Universal have any further plans for standalone films. But while we know for certain that we'll never see Spider-Man's Dylan Baker live out the second half of his character…
Read More/Film reader Ed C pointed me towards a couple videos which contains the original screen tests for Back to the Future. In this rare low resolution video test you can see Lea Thompson (Loraine Baines McFly), Crispin Glover (George McFly) and Thomas F. Wilson (Biff Tannen) try out lines and improv with an unknown Marty…
Read MoreOne of the films I really enjoyed at the 2010 Fantastic Fest was a Finnish movie titled Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, which tells the untold origin story of Santa Claus. Directed by Jalmari Helander, based on the 2003 short film, Rare Exports feels like a fusion of Joe Dante and Guillermo del Toro. A…
Read MoreAs perfect as J.K. Simmons (above) was playing Daily Bugle editor J. Jonah Jameson in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films, it's no surprise to report that director Marc Webb is recasting the role for his 3D reboot of the franchise. In order to separate his film from the previous ones, everyone has to be recast…
Read MoreIf you've caught yourself thinking that Werner Herzog's 3D doc Caves of Forgotten Dreams might be a lot better paired with another 3D film about caves, you're in luck. James Cameron has acted as exec producer on a film called Sanctum, in which a group of explorers and daredevils ventures into the deepest cave on…
Read MoreYou might feel a fond little glow when hearing the name Richard Griffiths, in which case you're probably a fan of Withnail & I, Bruce Robinson's 1987 comedy about two unemployed actors and the retreat they take to the country cottage owned by Withnail's lecherous Uncle Monty. Richard Griffiths played Monty, and it's a role…
Read MoreSubtonix decided to create a map of the United States by pinpointing the movies which best represent each of the 50 states. For example, New Jersey is Clerks and Kansas is The Wizard of Oz. There will likely be some debate over some of these choices (is Fast Times at Ridgemont High the ultimate representation…
Read MoreAnyone clamoring for another wild 3D romp from the mind of Robert Rodriguez is in luck. Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World is now shooting in Austin, Texas in anticipation of a August 19, 2011 release date. Rodriguez is not only directing from his own screenplay but will also serve as producer,…
Read MoreIn Goodfellas, when Henry Hill says "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster" no one imagined that over two decades later, the statement could have a whole new meaning. That's exactly what's going to happen though if author Nicholas Pileggi and director Martin Scorsese have their way. A…
Read MoreWhile The Hobbit likely isn't the first movie to keep a location because of legislation, I expect it will long hold the crown as the most famous. Weeks of labor dispute in New Zealand, followed by uncertainty about using the country as a filming location, have led to a deal between Warner Bros. and the…
Read MoreGet your Na'vi face paint and 3D glasses ready. After some discussion that James Cameron would do something different before taking us back to Pandora, 20th Century Fox announced today that Cameron's next two films will be Avatar 2 and Avatar 3. He'll begin writing them in the new year with an eye on starting…
Read MoreIn an interview published minutes ago, director Christopher Nolan revealed that the title of the third Batman film will be The Dark Knight Rises. He also gave scant details about the plot and direction of the third film. Hit the jump to find out what (little) we know. The news comes from Geoff Boucher over…
Read MoreVermont-based cartoonist Chuck Forsman created a EC Segar Popeye comic strip-stylized retelling of Raiders of the Lost Ark. He is selling prints of the strip for $20 on The Oily Boutique. Hit the jump to get a better look at the art. via: boingboing
Read MoreWith 'Squeakquel' no longer a part of the title, my feelings of disdain toward the prospect of an Alvin and the Chimpunks sequel lessened considerably. Credit for that was surely due to the current allure of 3D, as putting '3D' in the title seemed to satisfy the studio's need for gimmicky wordplay just fine. Now…
Read MoreLast year, we posted a 2-minute short film/advertisement called Carousel from a little-known Swedish music video director named Adam Berg. The response to it was wildly enthusiastic, and for good reason: it's a stunning piece of filmmaking, beautifully capturing a single frozen moment in time as one continuous tracking shot allows a bank heist narrative…
Read MoreBriefly: This is just a quick update on the developing Top Gun sequel, but it is an interesting one in that you've got to wonder how it might affect the story as it goes through the studio mill. Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie, Wolverine 2) is being targeted to write Top Gun 2, and…
Read MoreDid you know that there is a plan afoot to make a new feature film based on 'Thriller,' by Michael Jackson? Neither did we, but a rights package is being fought over that would allow a studio to further exploit the posthumous popularity of Michael Jackson and his music. The result might be a new…
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. WINTER'S BONE Winter's Bone is a tense, dreary affair, consisting almost exclusively of characters devoid of vitality or a sense of humor.…
Read MoreThe Muppets have taken Manhattan, followed that bird, been to Treasure Island, space and more. Now it seems their Christmas 2011 film might end up Between Two Ferns. A very famous source confirmed that Zach Galifianakis will be "doing a couple days" in the currently Untitled Muppets Movie co-written and staring Muppet super fan Jason…
Read MoreThe last time we reported on Detention, Torque director Joseph Kahn's high school horror comedy with a sci-fi twist, there really wasn't much to report. We knew the director, the title, the basic idea, and that Josh Hutcherson and Dane Cook were among the cast. By following Joseph Kahn on Twitter (an entertaining read) we've…
Read MoreBriefly: A week ago there was a rumor that the Robert Zemeckis 3D remake of Yellow Submarine was dead. The source was actor David Tennant, who said on a UK talk show that he had been up for a part as a Blue Meanie. His comments about not getting the part led to speculation that…
Read MoreJust when you thought Wolverine 2 was all set to go, suddenly in demand Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky is also attached to direct Machine Man, based on Max Barry's online book about a genius who replaces his body parts with machines. Barry released the story online one page per day so when Mandalay Pictures…
Read MoreDisney is planning to relaunch the Star Wars ride Star Tours with a new 3D version officially titled Star Tours: The Adventures Continue on May 10th 2011 in Disneyland in Anaheim and May 17th 2011 in Walt Disney World in Orlando. Not much is known about the new ride other than it will include locations…
Read MoreWe still don't know who might star in Grudge Match, the film in development at Warner Bros. that will put two aging former boxing rivals back in the ring for one last match. Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro have been rumored, but it's very likely it's a completely unsubstantiated rumor, no matter how entertaining…
Read MoreLadies and gentleman, may we introduce Dax Shepard, feature film writer/director. The star of Idiocracy and Zathura has written and co-directed Brother's Justice, a mockumentary in which he also stars as himself, shopping around a movie pitch in which he'll play a martial arts action star. Featuring Tom Arnold, Jon Favreau, Ashton Kutcher and Bradley…
Read MoreThe cast of Brett Ratner's Tower Heist continues to attract talent. Matthew Broderick has just signed on, and Casey Affleck and Judd Hirsch are joining as well. Mr. Broderick will play Chase Fitzhugh, "a Wall Street guy who, like the building staff, had his finances cleaned out by the Bernie Madoff-like character played by Alan…
Read MoreJust in case you thought that Transformers: Dark of the Moon couldn't possibly be the real title for the third film in the series, there's a logo to prove it, with moving highlight lens flare and everything. The image above is sourced from an ad promoting Entertainment Tonight's behind the scenes look at the film.…
Read MoreI know: you're dying to see images of the Footloose remake, which is shooting now with a cast that includes Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough in the roles originated by Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer. That's the first look at the two actors in costume, above, which is pretty obviously sourced from the days on…
Read MoreWe've been looking forward to hearing story details for Star Trek 2, which JJ Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci have been drafting over the past few months. Rumors have persisted that Khan, the villain from the second film in the original Star Trek movie franchise, would make a spectacularly unimaginative return. But…
Read MoreFox Searchlight released their first film, The Brothers McMullen, in 1995. This year the minimajor is celebrating their 15th anniversary. Anyone who reads /Film knows that I tend to love the type of films that Searchlight picks up at Sundance, and more recently, the films Searchlight has been producing in house (Aronofsky's Black Swan, Boyle's…
Read MoreUPDATE: One LucasFilm source says this rumor is completely false, and that the company is only focused on producing 3D versions of Star Wars films right now. Original article follows. With Lucasfilm revealing that the Star Wars movies will be converted to 3D for a six-year release pattern starting in 2012, it's only natural that…
Read MoreWho wants to be INSPIRED on this beautiful October day? Well, you can't do much better than the trailer for Justin Bieber Never Say Never. This 3D Paramount documentary tells the "inspiring true story" of 16-year-old teen singing sensation Justin Bieber who went from YouTube nobody to one of the most famous people on the…
Read MoreIt's Tron Tuesday again, and one of the new promo items now available is pretty great: a new trailer for Tron Legacy that shows off the Daft Punk cameo in the film along with a beat-heavy new track called 'Derezzed.' Watch it after the break. If you hit the Tron preview night this coming Thursday…
Read MoreWe're into the final turn and Universal now leads Relativity by a nose. It seems like only yesterday that Relativity Media's The Brothers Grimm: Snow White was leading the race to get everyone's favorite dwarf loving brunette onto the big screen. Now, Universal's competing project, Snow White and the Huntsman, is gaining momentum as reports…
Read MoreLong after the Harry Potter films finish in 2011, we'll look back at them as one of the most momentous achievements in the history of cinema. Over the course of eight films, an entire world will have evolved with a singular cast maturing at the same rate as their characters. The continuity is unprecedented. No…
Read MoreThere's been a number of overseas shows being adapted for US audiences recently—we posted the trailers for two of them just the other day—and now here's another one to add to the pile. FX has picked up Wilfred, a remake of the acclaimed Australian series about "an introvert who struggles to find social and professional…
Read MoreNothing like getting a peek at characters from an upcoming film by seeing the toys made from the license. But that's the way it often goes with superhero films, and the latest peek at a toy and character combo is the Frost Giant from Kenneth Branagh's Thor. Looking a little... Na'vi there, isn't he? There's…
Read MoreAn adaptation of The Life of Pi has taken a winding road to the screen. For the last year Ang Lee has been on the cusp of making the film, but it's not the easiest thing to translate to film. (Or so I'm told; the book hasn't floated to the top of my reading stack…
Read MoreI'm so happy that Francis Ford Coppola is making movies once more. I'm less concerned with the fact that neither Youth Without Youth or Tetro were home runs than with the fact that the director is making movies consistently, and making them on his own terms. If he keeps going, chances are we'll get another…
Read MoreWarner Bros. is finally getting back to exploiting the studio's huge stable of animated stars. But is that a good thing? There's a live-action/CGI hybrid Bugs Bunny film in the works, and a Pepe le Pew film with Mike Myers planned as the voice of the romantically aggressive little skunk. And now the studio has…
Read MoreFamily Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is making his directorial feature debut with Ted (also referred to before by the title Teddy Bear), a hard-R, $65 million(!) comedy from Universal Pictures about a man whose teddy bear comes to life and turns out to be a partying, womanizing, video game-playing pot smoker. A couple of weeks…
Read MoreBefore Dave McKean made his mark on the comics world, one of the more unusual and striking artists on the mainstream comics scene was Bill Sienkiewicz. His choppy lines, painted interludes and collage-derived layout sense came to an early head in Elektra: Assassin, which remains one of the must-reads of the mid-'80s Marvel catalog. Now…
Read MoreOn the 25th anniversary of the Back to the Future story, it's fitting that we finally have visual evidence time travel will eventually be possible. Not really of course, but there's a video going around, mostly thanks to Roger Ebert, of footage from the DVD extras of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film The Circus, which appears…
Read More/Film LA is my attempt to highlight the coolest film screenings and events happening in Los Angeles. In today's edition, we tell you about... Director Darren Bousman appears with co-writers Rob Levin and Troy Peteri to promote the release of their new comic book Abattoir A Nightmare on Elm Street with composer Charles Berstein in…
Read MoreIs James Franco mad about poets? If so, why not? Someone has to keep the art alive in the imagination of mainstream America. The actor played noted 'Beat' poet Allen Ginsberg in Howl, and he's now reportedly set to direct The Broken Tower, which is a biography of the poet Hart Crane (son of the…
Read MoreBriefly: Here's your WTF cast of the week: the indie drama Lives of the Saints is about to shoot next month with the following cast lined up: Meg Ryan, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, John Lithgow, Joe Anderson and Kat Dennings. The picture follows "intertwining story lines about a group of Angelinos seeking redemption for past…
Read MoreWhile fictional bands like Spinal Tap get all the love, others like The Beets, Jesse and the Rippers, Drive Shaft and Dr. Funke’s 100% Natural Good Time Family Band Solution are regularly shunned. That's probably because Spinal Tap actually performs while the others are composed of actors or animations in well known television series, but…
Read MoreNo matter which film director Michael Mann decides to do next, we, the audience, are the winners because each sounds magnificent. Since releasing Public Enemies, Mann has been working on the upcoming HBO series Luck with Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte but, once he's done with that, he'll most likely pick between directing a gangster…
Read MoreBriefly: In the US Antonio Banderas is thought of as an actor rather than a director. But he's already made two features (Crazy in Alabama and Summer Rain) and is about to embark upon his third. Solo will be produced by and likely star Mr. Banderas as well, and it is a thriller with some…
Read MoreEveryone is talking about the recently announced Christopher Nolan-produced David Goyer-written Zack Snyder-directed Superman film project, which will set place during Superman's "early days" with a story which is rumored to follow journalist Clark Kent who is traveling the world "trying to decide if he should, in fact, even become Superman." This week DC Comics…
Read MoreWe're mere days removed from the season four finale of Mad Men and show creator Matthew Weiner is already getting busy - but not with Don Draper. Word is that his directorial debut film, You Are Here (not to be confused with I'm Still Here or I'm Not There), is once again ramping up production…
Read MoreToday, October 25, is the day it all began. This morning 25 years ago, Marty McFly snuck into Dr. Emmett Brown's lab and blew out the speakers at the start of Back to the Future. To celebrate the occasion, the film is screening at several AMC Theaters this evening, the trilogy comes out on Blu-ray…
Read MoreThe CollegeHumor guys are back again, this time with a video showing what could have happened if classic movies featured the invention of smartphones, and how the iPhones and Blackberries might have ruined everything. Watch the clip embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Lascelles L for the ip.
Read MoreLooking only at live-action films such as The Cat in the Hat, you'd think the books of Dr. Seuss are better left to the page. But Chuck Jones has proved that animation, guided by a careful hand, is a fine way to bring the author's stories to the screen. Horton Hears a Who, directed by…
Read MoreMagnolia Pictures/Magnet have presented us with an exclusive first look at four behind the scenes photos from Gareth Edwards’ low budget monster movie Monsters. Since screening the film at Cannes, we've been hyping the movie (read my mini review here). We called it Lost in Translation in a world infested by monsters. Check the photos…
Read MoreWe've seen some images of James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence on the set of X-Men: First Class. But they revealed little but the basic period dress sported by their characters, Charles Xavier and Raven Darkholme, the latter being the 'real' name for the character Mystique, originally played by Rebecca Romijn in the first three X-Men…
Read MoreFrom time to time, we like to point out articles in other publications and websites which might be of interest to the /Film readers. This weekend the Los Angeles Times published an article titled "Hollywood's little secret: movie purgatory" which uses the recently released Case 39 (the supernatural horror film starring Renée Zellweger and Bradley…
Read MoreRecently when we heard that Paramount was looking to woo Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott back to the studio to make a sequel to the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun I cast aspersions upon the idea that Tony Scott might actually direct a sequel. But I was wrong -- Tony Scott said this weekend that he…
Read MoreLast week, South Park aired their Inception parody episode, entitled "Insheeption". You can watch the full episode for free, in HD, at South Park Studios. If you were planning to check it out but haven't yet, I'd recommend doing so now, as waiting until after the article could seriously diminish your chances of enjoying it.…
Read MoreWe know. Saying that George Lucas is making new Star Wars movies is the movie geek equivalent of 2+2=4. It's obvious, it's hack, it's something your mom might say to try and impress you. Plus, it'll never happen. Lucas has said time and again that he's done with this world. But then he releases The…
Read MoreWe already have one Battlestar Galactica prequel series and we soon could be getting a new one. The Syfy network just greenlit a two hour pilot called Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome which will follow a young William Adama as a Viper pilot on the battlestar Galactica during the first Cylon war. So, unlike the…
Read MoreBrett Ratner's new movie, the thriller/action/comedy Tower Heist, is prepping to shoot in November in New York City. The cast is enough to earn at least an interested glance: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Gabourey Sidibe and Michael Pena. Now there are two new additions: Téa Leoni and Nina Arianda. Jeff Nathanson is currently…
Read MoreBriefly: This is an update to a story that first cropped up a couple months back when Daniel Craig was in talks to join David Fincher's version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Mr. Craig shot a lead role in Jim Sheridan's thriller Dream House earlier this year, alongside Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz,…
Read MoreIt was only hours ago that we heard James Cameron had hired Laeta Kalogridis to rewrite Shane Salerno's script for Fantastic Voyage, the big-budget sci-fi remake he's planning with Fox. At the time there was no director attached, but now a report says that James Cameron has his eye on Louis Leterrier, who last made…
Read MoreThe background story on The Hobbit has become even more strange than we would have ever expected. The MGM bankruptcy and long process required to get the film greenlit have given way to a bizarre situation in which a labor power struggle in New Zealand and Australia has given Warner Bros. new anxiety about shooting…
Read MoreOren Peli's Paranormal Activity (2007) was one of the most financially profitable films of all time, costing only $15,000, yet taking in over $190 million worldwide. Its runaway success conjured up memories of The Blair Witch Project, which was somewhat similar in subject matter, style, and return-on-investment. Thus, when the inevitable sequel was announced, I…
Read MoreEarlier today, it was announced that Steven Spielberg would be officially directing Robopocalypse, based on Daniel H. Wilson's forthcoming novel about the fate of the human race following a robot uprising. But while humanity is being wiped out in that more serious-minded sci-fi project, Jack Black is going to be bringing a tongue-in-cheek edge to…
Read MoreI wonder if Kristin Davis is realizing that it's a good time to do something that is very explicitly not like Sex and the City. She's got a couple of projects brewing. One is a single-camera TV series based on the Gretchen Rubin memoir The Happiness Project, which she'll star in and co-exec produce with…
Read MoreTrailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
Read MoreThe scathing reviews of Sex and the City 2 haven't fazed writer/director Michael Patrick King, who's already scored a big name, crowd-drawing cast for his next vehicle. More surprisingly, the movie didn't faze these actresses, all of whom hopped on board without a moment's hesitation (or even a script). Starring in King's not-yet-titled comedy project…
Read MoreHalloween is still a week away but, apparently, it's time to start getting ready for Christmas. One year after making their debut on the small screen, everyone's favorite covert elves Wayne and Lanny return in Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa at 8 p.m. December 7 featuring the voice of, you guessed it, Betty White!…
Read MoreEarlier this year, floods raged across Nashville, Tennessee. Families were displaced, homes were destroyed and according to Newsweek, more than 30 people were killed with about $1 billion in damages. It was a national tragedy. Out of tragedy, though, comes the best of us. One example is an online raffle that's being run by The…
Read MoreYou can probably disregard any casting rumors (like these) that have cropped up about the Marvel Studios big-screen adaptation of Runaways. Deadline reports that, while director Peter Sollett is still on board, Marvel has "invited [him] to take another film first," as the studio "has too much going on" and will take a little more…
Read MoreBased on the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, Rabbit Hole is a drama directed by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as parents dealing with the death of their child. It premiered earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival where…
Read MoreMondo Tees and the Alamo Drafthouse, who have been making limited edition movie posters together for several years, now have some rising and welcome competition in the custom movie poster game. Tommy Good and the Astor Theater, an Melbourne, Australia based theater, have already produced beautiful posters for their screenings of Predator, Die Hard and…
Read More23-year-old Brittney Schneck converted her 1994 Dodge Caravan into a replica of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Turtle Va. The conversion took just over a year, and was done in her father's auto-detailing business. paid for from a part-time cahier job while she was going to college. Jalopnik reports that Schneck "hand-painted and stenciled the…
Read MoreThis is a pretty brief update, but in the interest of playing along with spoiler-phobes who were irritated that we gave away the planned Mel Gibson cameo in The Hangover 2, I'll keep the new info after the break. (Mostly, that is. It's in the URL, so don't...look...up!) Click on to find out who the…
Read MoreAfter Jackass 3D's record breaking opening weekend, there was talk that Jackass 3.5, a whole separate movie of stunts shot for - but cut out of - Jackass 3D, might make its way to theaters. That idea has reportedly been nixed and Jackass 3.5, featuring about an hour of new footage that couldn't fit into…
Read MoreA report has surfaced stating Warner Brothers wants to make a sequel to Inception. In other news, Fox would allow James Cameron to make another Titanic and Universal would really like it if Steven Spielberg made another E.T. Hey Quentin! Miramax would totally love you to make Pulp Fiction 2! George, let's make a prequel…
Read MoreSteven Spielberg has committed to his directorial follow-up to War Horse. He'll next make Robopocalypse, based upon the forthcoming Daniel H. Wilson novel of the same name. Deadline says the picture will shoot starting in January 2012 and Touchstone will release it in 2013. This will be good news for anyone who has wanted to…
Read MoreIt has been a while since we've gotten anything from the Tron Legacy viral. A new package addressed from the Flynn Lives organization arrived at /Film HQ this morning containing some kind of plastic beard art-created creature, the word OUT running with human arms and legs (as seen above). I'm not sure what this could…
Read MoreUPDATE: Fox Searchlight has confirmed this date. There has been no end of speculation about when we'll see the latest film from Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life. After hoping for a release date from Apparition all this year, that distributor essentially dissolved and Fox Searchlight picked up the film. Now a scheduling update at…
Read MoreSam Raimi has had his name linked to dozens of projects within the past couple of years, but finding out if he's actually going to move forward with any of them has mostly been a waiting game. Here's at least one we can confirm: Dibbuk Box, a horror/thriller that's said to be in the vein…
Read MoreWalt Disney Animation is set to release a new short film titled Tick Tock Tale, and is directed by Dean Wellins, a three-time annie award nominated animator who has worked on projects such as The Iron Giant, Osmosis Jones, Treasure Planet, Fat Albert, Chicken Little, Bolt and The Princess and the Frog. The short was…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the DVD box sets of Supernatural: The Complete Seasons 1-4 for only $69.99, 70% off the $230 msrp. The price will disappear at midnight on Friday night, so buy it while you still can.
Read MoreThese costumed characters have always been one of my favorite parts of the touristy part of Hollywood Boulevard. I always loved watching the ridiculous and strange costumed superheroes pose for photos with tourists near the Grauman's Chinese Theater. Jimmy Kimmel regularly featured these performers on his show, and a documentary was even made about the…
Read MoreMad Men fans have long been championing star Jon Hamm to star as Clark Kent in a new Superman film. We were originally told by director Zack Snyder that the movie will probably feature the character's early days, and reports claimed that David Goyer's script follows Clark Kent, a journalist traveling the world "trying to…
Read MoreDon Coscarelli, the writer/director of the Phantasm films, The Beastmaster and the Bruce Campbell cult classic Bubba Ho-Tep, has been trying to get the latter film's prequel, Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires, off the ground for some time now, but Bruce Campbell's departure from the project left the production in a sore spot. It…
Read MoreWhile we don't regularly cover professional sports here on /Film, we do regularly cover Iron Man, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. So when three of the biggest stars in the NBA are portrayed as these three Marvel mainstays, we have to give you a heads up. The November 1st, NBA Preview issue of…
Read MoreJames Cameron has been attached to produce a 3D remake of Fantastic Voyage for a while now but, recently, there haven't been many updates on the project. Until now. Word is that Laeta Kalogridis, who got an Executive Producer credit for doing some rewrites on Avatar and wrote the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island,…
Read MoreAaron Johnson was one of a few actors revealed to be taking meetings to play the titular role in Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Killer back in May, as was Andrew Garfield. Of course, Garfield's going to be a bit busy now, what with him starring in Marc Webb's Spider-Man reboot, so that leaves only…
Read MoreTo hell with being convicted of tax evasion: despite being sentenced to three years in jail after a protracted battle with the IRS, Wesley Snipes continues trying to make movies. And to hell with Clint Eastwood, too: the movie Mr. Snipes is trying to make now deals with J. Edgar Hoover, specifically with the period…
Read MoreOnce called Unknown White Male, Jaume Collet-Serra's film Unknown stars Liam Neeson who emerges from a four-day coma after an accident only to find that his identity has been stolen. There's now a trailer for the film; watch it after the break. I like the simple genre setup: is Liam Neeson the man he claims…
Read More/Film LA is my attempt to highlight the coolest film screenings and events happening in Los Angeles. In today's edition, we tell you about... An advance screening of the documentary Grant Morrison: Talking to Gods with the director in attendance Special presentation of "Monsters in the Movies" featuring a panel of industry guests including director…
Read MorePeter Jackson has, at long last, made an official announcement about who will appear in The Hobbit. He has confirmed Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, taking over the role originated by Ian Holm in The Lord of the Rings. A great many other names were released as well, almost all of whom make up the…
Read MoreTwo new TV trailers were released today, and coincidentally, both are for US adaptations of British TV series. The first is Shameless, Showtime's remake of the ongoing UK show (now in its eighth season) about an alcoholic single-father and his many children that he barely takes care of. Whereas the original series dealt with British…
Read MoreFox Searchlight has begun airing a new television spot for Danny Boyle's 127 Hours which features a quote from my Telluride review. Here is what I said: 127 Hours is a brilliant, gut-wrenching and moving cinematic experience. The film will have you in tears one moment, laughing the next, and will leave you on the…
Read MoreYou've probably seen Zach Galifianakis' awkward interview series Between Two Ferns on FunnyorDie. WFAA TV's Gordon Keith decided to give Galifianakis a piece of his own medicine when interviewing the actor for his new indie dramedy It's Kind of a Funny Story. Watch the interview embedded after the jump. via: TDW
Read MoreThere's more news on the remake of The Crow. Earlier this week we heard that the lead role had been offered to Mark Wahlberg. Now there's word, straight from the filmmaker, that director Stephen Norrington has moved on. Details on the reason for his departure are after the jump. Comics2Film talked to Mr. Norrington after…
Read MoreEarlier this week it was reported that Mel Gibson would be filming a cameo for The Hangover 2, in an attempt to one-up Mike Tyson's appearance in the first film. Gibson was set to have "a comedy role as a tattoo artist" in the film, when production moved from Thailand to a Bangkok set currently…
Read MoreJudging by the box office numbers, we might not ever see a big screen sequel to Kick-Ass... but you never know. The first issue of the six-issue comic book sequel “Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall” written by Mark Millar with art by John Romita Jr. was released yesterday. You can pick up the book…
Read MoreTo promote the October 26th release of the Back to the Future trilogy on Blu-Ray (only $47.99 on Amazon), Universal has released a two minute excerpt of a featurette which shows us how they designed the future, 2015 Hill Valley, in Back to the Future: Part II. In exactly five years from today, we may…
Read MoreSo, you thought that after SAG and AFTRA called off the labor union boycott of The Hobbit that things would be all smooth sailing for the production? Nope. Despite an end to the union dispute that started with a pairing of a small New Zealand actors' organization and an Australian outfit and grew to encompass…
Read MoreWhen they said that Quatto Lives, they weren't kidding around. Colin Farrell is reportedly at the top of a list that also includes Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender to star in a remake of the 1990 Paul Verhoven/Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall. We last heard about the project in July when Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live…
Read MoreI'll admit it, I didn't expect Paranormal Activity 2 to be any good. The sequel was rushed into production to be released in theaters a year after the original (ala Saw). Paramount Pictures had not released much footage for the release, and was not screening the film early for press (night before screenings in some…
Read MoreA little bidding war erupted this week over the rights package to The Day of the Triffids, which is evidently seen as ripe for a remake. On one side was Warner Bros. and Harry Potter director David Yates; on the other was Mandate Pictures and Sam Raimi. Mandate won the auction, and Mr. Raimi and…
Read MoreIn early August 2010, I had the opportunity to travel to New Orleans to visit the set of the big screen adaptation of Green Lantern. We're not allowed to tell you everything we saw, but I have been given the go ahead to post the set visit preview video blog I recorded with Frosty from…
Read MoreI Love You Phillip Morris has yet to hit the big screen in America and it's already infamous. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, the film attracted controversy for its explicit portrayal of two gay lovers, played by Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. It then went through several lengthy, well publicized behind-the-scenes…
Read MoreUPDATE: The official embed has been released, so we've updated and bumped this post. Yesterday the trailer for Scream 4, aka Scre4m (aka groan) leaked, but you might not have wanted to watch the cameraphone version filmed off a big screen at the Spike Awards. Now there's a real digital version, and it's a bit…
Read More"Are you just another AFC ('average frustrated chump') trying to meet an HB ('hot babe')? How would you like to 'full-close' with a Penthouse Pet of the Year? The answers, my friend, are in Neil Strauss' entertaining book The Game." So begins, the Amazon.com description of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists…
Read MoreIf you read /Film regularly, you know my love for long form interviews where filmmakers are allowed to go deeper into the art of storytelling and moviemaking. This week Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich and screenwriter Michael Arndt appeared on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. The 37-minute interview delves into a bunch of…
Read MoreA couple new t-shirt designs of note where released earlier this week on Threadless: Andy Farrell's Sin City is a literal parody of the Frank Miller graphic novel Sin City and Tony Moore's zombie-focused Every Night I Have the Same Dream, Issue 2, Vol. 1. Both designs are available for only $10 for a limited…
Read MoreTom Clancy has found great success expanding his various novels into the video game medium, as developers continue to churn out seemingly endless entries into the Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon series (among others), but when it comes to film, Jack Ryan has cornered the market. Out of the four films that have…
Read MoreThis isn't necessarily news, but I thought it was worth sharing... Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is currently shooting at Pinewood Studios, the same lot where Matthew Vaughn is shooting X-Men: First Class. Super mega producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates) tweeted a "set report" earlier today: "X-Men Origins also shooting here at Pinewood Studios.…
Read MoreOver three years ago it was announced that Brian Grazer would be producing a remake of the '70s film Colossus: The Forbin Project, which was in itself based on Dennis Feltham Jones' novel Colossus from the '60s. Grazer was setting up the project as a directing vehicle for Ron Howard, with Jason Rothenberg—who just yesterday…
Read MoreCelebrate the wonders of Sesame Street, Troll 2, America, child molestation, and trick or treating in your thirties with director Adam Green's short film made specially for Halloween called Just Take One. The director behind Hatchet, Frozen and the now infamous Hatchet 2 has been making Halloween short films for his fans for 12 years…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released a new poster for Tron Legacy featuring French electronic duo Daft Punk. You might remember that the poster was teased a couple weeks back, and last week we finally got our first look at the guys in their Legacy-styled outfits from the film (see above). Tonight the Daft Punk poster…
Read MoreSay what you will about director M. Night Shyamalan, but the man knows how to stay busy and keep putting himself out there. Even though his last film, The Last Airbender, was destroyed by film critics everywhere, it went onto gross over $300 million worldwide, fueling speculation about a possible sequel. Moreover, Drew and John…
Read MoreLooks like the Australian trade union MEAA (Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance) lost this game of chicken. After garnering support from SAG (Screen Actors Guild) and AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) in ordering their members to not take jobs on The Hobbit unless director Peter Jackson and co. drew up a new…
Read MoreAt the 2009 Fantastic Fest in Austin Texas, I sat on the jury for the animated shorts category. It was at this time that I screened awesome animated short titled Alma from Spanish animator Rodrigo Blaas. I fought hard for Alma, but when you're part of a group vote it's all about compromise. While I…
Read MoreTuesday we, along with many other websites, reported the news that Jean-Claude Van Damme suffered a minor heart attack on the set of his new movie Weapon. Well, the official website for the Muscles from Brussels, that's www.musclesfrombrussels.be of course, put up a statement that says "JCVD is in better shape than ever and preparing…
Read MoreYou knew this was coming. After a trial offer of streaming-only services in Canada, a third-quarter earnings conference call with Netflix CEo Reed Hastings revealed the company's plan to offer a lower-cost subscription plan that would offer customers access to films and TV shows via only the company's streaming service. There's no price now, but…
Read MoreConsider yourself warned. An Australian outlet evidently got a copy of the latest script for the Alien prequel due to be directed by Ridley Scott, and subsequently put together quite the rundown of what goes on after the title page. We've got quite a few of the details to relay to you, but it's all…
Read MoreTuesday night on Spike. Scream 2010 aired and featured a ton of very cool stuff. We've already posted about the Scre4m trailer, the clip from Super, and showed you a preview of the Back to the Future reunion. Now that the event has ended, though, we've got the actual Back to the Future reunion, some…
Read MoreWe've now got a very good idea what to expect out of Magnet's Six-Shooter Film Series come early 2011. (Assuming the company repeats the pattern established over the past two years.) Earlier this week the company, which is the genre arm of Magnolia, picked up The Troll Hunter, and now it has bought distribution rights…
Read MoreThe story of the Hellraiser remake that has long been in development at Dimension just keeps taking new turns. Quite a few possible directors have been attached to the project in the past few years, and just this week there was a rumor that Christian E. Christiansen, recently in talks to direct, then supposedly off…
Read MoreThe Chicago Tribune has a somber nostalgic article about what we'll miss about the video rental stores, just as the rental retail business is about to completely die off. It's the kind of thing that made video stores vital to movie culture, said Issa Clubb, a producer at the Criterion Collection in New York, which…
Read MoreEarlier this year, Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) was one of two filmmakers lined up to make films based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. He was prepping Blonde, based on the Joyce Carol Oates speculative biography of the actress, with Naomi Watts set to star. The…
Read MoreAstro Boy didn't get the most glamorous film debut when Imagi put out its kiddy CGI adaptation last year, but now the boy robot is getting another chance to fly. No, not in another Astro Boy movie, but in a live-action/CGI hybrid adaptation of Pluto, a reinterpretation of the Astro Boy series that finds the…
Read MoreAt /Film, we're proud movie geeks. In the past we've even debated the differences between Geeks, Nerds, Dorks and Dweebs. Flowtown has created a handy infographic showing the evolution of the Geek. Apparently... we've come a long way. Check it out after the jump. Click on the image below to see the infographic in full…
Read MoreBriefly: This is an incremental update to basically check in on the new Twilight Zone film that Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio's company Appian Way have been developing. Screenwriter Jason Rothenberg has been hired to write a new draft of the film. Last time we heard anything about this one, WB had tapped The Astronaut's…
Read MoreWe don't know much about the new Superman movie. We've heard from a few sources that Zod is the villain, although even that Zack Snyder has written off as just a rumor. While another report claimed that David Goyer's script follows Clark Kent, a journalist traveling the world "trying to decide if he should, in…
Read MoreHansel might be so hot right now, but it's Derek Zoolander who is making a comeback. Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films has signed a two year deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment to create web content including a Zoolander animated series and a live action series called Billy Glimmer: Entertainer of the Century, both starring Stiller.…
Read MoreWho wants to see Johnny Depp solve a murder related to a family full of infighting crazies while getting sloshed at ten in the morning? According to a new report, the actor is angling to have his Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides director Rob Marshall head up a new movie based on Dashiell…
Read MoreColumbia Pictures have announced that they have optioned the rights to Neil Strauss's non-fiction book Emergency!: This Book Will Save Your Life. Strauss is probably best known for his bestselling pickup book The Game: Penetrating The Secret Society of Pickup Artists, which has also been in development for the past couple years (with Ari Sandel…
Read MoreAs beautiful as Blu-ray is as a format, those HDTV's shine brightest when they're boasting computer animation. Pixar, everyone's favorite computer animation studio, has slowly but surely been releasing their back catalog on the format with two glaring omissions: Oscar winners The Incredibles and Finding Nemo. Well, sorry, no news for you fish fans just…
Read MoreThis is a surprising turn of events for The Hobbit. When a small coalition of actors' unions in New Zealand and Australia pushed actors' guilds across the world to boycott work on the films, citing an unfair residuals arrangement, Peter Jackson responded by threatening to move the production to Eastern Europe. But that would never…
Read MoreTime for an incremental update on The Bourne Legacy, aka the fourth film in the Bourne series. Co-written by Tony and Dan Gilroy and directed by Tony Gilroy, the film will take place in the same murkily bureaucratic world of espionage as the other films in the series (which Tony Gilroy also wrote) but feature…
Read MoreThe teaser trailer for Cars 2, the latest film from Pixar, just came online. Brad Lewis and John Lasseter will co-direct the film, which hits theaters on June 24, 2011. What are you waiting for? Check it out after the jump along with some new concept art. For almost all of Pixar’s previous releases, they’ve…
Read MoreSince Anthony Hopkins was first cast in Mikael Hafstroem's film The Rite earlier this year, I've wondered what kind of film it might end up being. The script is based on Matt Baglio's book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, which seeks to delve into the real-world practice of exorcism. I was afraid…
Read MoreBriefly: In May, we heard that Warner Bros. had picked up a pitch from Tim Kelleher to write a film called Grudge Match, about "retired boxers Billy “The Kid” McGuigan and Henry “Razor” Sharp, lifelong bitter rivals who are coaxed out of retirement and into the ring for one final grudge match — 50 years…
Read MoreWe don't yet have a trailer for James Gunn's Super, but the Spike Awards proved to be good for something when the show broadcast one of the clips that was shown at Comic Con this past summer. This was the clip that got me immediately on board with the film. It shows Rainn Wilson's character…
Read MoreIt's been 21 years since the release of Back to the Future Part II and we're only a half a decade away from 2015. But there are no flying cars, hoverboards, or rehydrating pizzas. All we have is the iPhone. Our friends at Landline TV shot a sketch around this concept called "Back to the…
Read MoreWhen Disney purchased Marvel everyone thought of the ways the Mouse would incorporate and promote Marvel characters but few thought of the flip side. One of the first examples is yet another piece of TRON: Legacy marketing (and there has been a lot). Several of Marvel's most popular comic book characters - Spider-Man, Iron Man,…
Read MoreIs Anton Corbijn already done with filmmaking just as he's getting warmed up? His debut feature, Control, was a great start, and then The American turned out to be both a satisfying art-house thriller slash character study and a weird out of left field financial success. OK, it didn't rake in fifty million, but it…
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg has spoken out on The Social Network a couple of times before, once on Oprah—"I'm going to promise you, this is my life, so I know it's not so dramatic"—and then again in an interview with Mashable—"We build products that 500 million people see… If 5 million people see a movie, it doesn’t…
Read MoreFor anyone who has dreamed of watching a shot for shot remake of Disney's 1991 Best Picture nominee Beauty and the Beast with inferior animation and terrible voice acting from a foreign country, your day has finally come. We were lucky enough to come upon this video and, with Beauty and the Beast currently hot…
Read MoreAs you know by now, the November 16th release of Avatar Extended Collector’s Edition 3-disc set will include an extended length cut that’s sixteen minutes longer, plus documentaries, behind the scenes featurettes, artwork and over 45 minutes of deleted scenes. Part of the "extended length cut" is the deleted opening sequence which involved our introduction…
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. PREDATORS There's a shot in the trailer for Predators that epitomizes my primary frustration with the film. Some of you will know…
Read MoreWhile we haven't had a press release from Fox or another final confirmation that Darren Aronofsky would direct the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it has seemed like a done deal over the past week. (We've treated it as such thanks to a variety of reports.) Now Hugh Jackman, the returning star of the franchise,…
Read MoreIn the months following the huge box office take of Transformers, it seemed like Hollywood was going action figure and board game crazy. It has been over two years since Michael Bay's production company Platinum Dunes announced they would be teaming up with Hasbro to bring the board game, Ouija Board, to the big screen…
Read MoreEvery time Bruce Wills is out promoting a new movie, he knows he's going to get asked about Die Hard. And every time he gets asked about Die Hard, he doesn't disappoint. While promoting Cop Out earlier this year, Willis claimed that "I think we’re going to do a Die Hard 5 next year." Now,…
Read MoreThe Muscles from Brussels himself, Jean Claude Van Damme, suffered a minor heart attack on the New Orleans set of his latest film Weapon according to fan site who was on the scene. Twitchfilm then reported that the action star was admitted to the hospital before being released and returning to Belgium with his wife.…
Read MoreWe recently heard that Baz Luhrmann is thinking about directing one of two possible projects. One is a musical, and the other is an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. The latter has been rumored to star Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Amanda Seyfried, with Natalie Portman also discussed as an…
Read MoreGreat Scott! With all the excitement of Back to the Future's 25th anniversary, Universal Partnerships & Licensing have revealed that Mattel is on board to produce a series of Back to the Future action figures, accessories and toy vehicles. (Note: the photo above, if you couldn't tell, is of a set of fan made figures,…
Read MoreAlamo Drafthouse Films have given us an exclusive look at the movie poster for their first release, Four Lions. The minimalistic poster was created by Jon Contino and /Film favorite Olly Moss. The movie, which premiered at Sundance, is an British indie comedy about a splinter cell of bumbling jihadists. I got to see the…
Read MoreIs Tower Heist going to be the movie that helps turn around some of the prevailingly bad opinion on Brett Ratner? The guy was doing OK before taking over the X-Men franchise from Bryan Singer, at which point his approval rating went right in the toilet. But the cast for Tower Heist is pretty solid…
Read MorePiranha 3D made a big enough splash at the box office to ensure the film will recoup the film's estimated $24 million budget. The film ended it's run with over $65 million worldwide, and will likely make a bunch more on DVD/Blu-ray/tv deals. After the opening weekend, Dimension Films issued a press release announcing that…
Read MoreDisney is throwing together a meet-up at Disney California Adventure courtesy of their DisneyParks blog. On October 28, 2010, 3000 guests will be allowed free access to Disney California Adventure theme park at 4:00pm. At 8:00pm the park will close, but the meet-up guests will be allowed exclusive access to an after-hours ElecTRONica experience, which…
Read MoreWhat's the best use for post-converted 3D? If you're James Cameron, the answer is obvious: it should be applied to bring established classic films into the 21st century. The director is planning a 3D conversion of his mega-hit Titanic to be released in 2012, on the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Asked…
Read MoreYesterday it was reported that Neil Marshall, Mike Newell and David Slade are on the short list of filmmakers being considered to direct Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Scarlett Johansson and Bradley Cooper circling the lead roles. The Wrap now adds a couple more interesting names to the list: Jonathan Demme has read the…
Read MoreBloody Disgusting is reporting that Mark Wahlberg has been offered the lead role in Relativity Media's remake of The Crow. Nothing is official just yet, but what do you think of this casting choice? A big screen adaptation of the James O'Barr comic book series, the original film was directed by Alex Proyas and is…
Read MoreBen Affleck impressed quite a few with his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, and his follow-up, The Town, has done quite well at the box office. So the identity of the third Ben Affleck film has become the subject of no small speculation. He was offered Tales From the Gangster Squad by Warner Bros. and…
Read MoreWhether they're just fans of the franchise or want to work with director Ridley Scott, it seems like much of young Hollywood is circling the currently the Untitled Alien Prequel that's in pre-production. Last week, word broke that 20th Century Fox loved Damon Lindelof's rewrite of the script and that Natalie Portman was on top…
Read MoreThis week marks the 20th anniversary of the Internet Movie Database. The single greatest free movie resource in the history of the world has, incredibly, been alive and kicking since October 17, 1990 and to celebrate, the site has been interviewing some of the biggest stars around about film culture, their favorite movies and more.…
Read MoreBig batch of new posters today. We've got the latest in a long series of one-sheets for Tron Legacy, though this one is supposedly the last. For real. There's the first poster for David O. Russell's The Fighter, and a sales sheet for Coriolanus, which is the directorial debut of actor Ralph Fiennes. And just…
Read MoreJackass 3-D rocked box office expectations this past weekend by nearly equaling the total grosses of each of the past two Jackass films within three days of its release, and in typical Hollywood fashion, Paramount is looking at other means to capitalize on their investment. Jackass figurehead Johnny Knoxville already announced plans of a Jackass…
Read MoreWe're sorry to report that side boob you found so titillating was nothing more than a bunch of zeros and ones. Jessica Alba was not, in fact, naked in the shower in Robert Rodriguez's Machete. According to a recent report, Alba was actually wearing tight white underwear on the set, which was then digitally altered…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection, on sale for only $50.99, 58% off the $120 msrp. The box set includes 14 films, all digitally re-mastered: Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble With Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew…
Read MoreIf there's a film that simply can't be remade, it could be The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The 1975 musical starring Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon is the poster child for 'unlikely iconic cult film.' A piece of cinema adapting the British musical play of the same name, Rocky Horror bombed upon initial release, but…
Read MoreWe've seen two trailers so far for Alejandro González Iñárritu's festival hit Biutiful, which boasts a performance from Javier Bardem that has been hailed as one of the year's best. Those clips were a sales reel and an international trailer. Now that Roadside Attractions has taken a moment to plan a release pattern for the…
Read MoreAfter some behind the scenes photos and video, here's your first look at Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender in David Cronenberg's The Dangerous Method. (Once called A Dangerous Method, but video of the director talking about the film suggests the definite article is now used.) The film is based on Christopher Hampton’s play…
Read MoreWhen Clive Barker had the extradimensional Pinhead strike terror into the hearts of his victims with the now iconic line "We have such sights to show you," I doubt a PG-13 rating is what he had in mind. But that appears to the direction that the Weinsteins are headed with their remake of Barker's classic…
Read MoreMuch of the success of the first Paranormal Activity, in addition to being freakin' scary, was word of mouth from free screenings and a campaign to Demand It! Well, with Paranormal Activity 2 coming out this Friday, Paramount Pictures and Eventful are thanking loyal fans by offering free screenings of the film across the country.…
Read MoreBriefly: Juan Jose Campanella's most recent film, The Secret in Their Eyes, won this year's foreign-language Oscar, and now he's chosen his follow-up picture. It might seem like the least likely choice: he's planning to direct the animated Metegol, a film about soccer. Variety describes the plot, which features "an underdog who, with the help…
Read MoreThe last time we checked in on God of Carnage, the adaptation of Yasmina Reza's award-winning play to be directed by Roman Polanski, there were new cast additions and one minor casting mystery. The additions were Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz, who were all set to play three of the play's four major…
Read MoreThe trailer for André Ovredal's film The Troll Hunter got a great reception when we ran it not long ago. The film was a hit at Fantastic Fest and has done well at other festivals as well. Not difficult to imagine why, if the feature follows through on the promise of the trailer. Now Magnolia's…
Read MoreOur friends at Cartoon Brew are hearing from their "reliable sources" that Brenda Chapman is no longer directing Pixar's Brave (previously titled The Bear and the Bow). We hear that she was pushed aside from full directing duties a while back, and that story artist Mark Andrews (who also co-directed the Pixar short One Man…
Read MoreThis art exhibit is our Rushmore. Recently, we ran our first preview of images from Bad Dads, a brand new art exhibit featuring art inspired by the films of Wes Anderson. Well, there's so much beautiful art in this show - inspired by the films Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Cameras have started rolling on Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes 2. Want proof? How about photos from the set of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, together again, as Sherlock and Watson. The sequel, which also stars Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris and Stephen Fry, is scheduled for release December 16, 2011. Check out the…
Read MoreThe official plot synopsis for Michael Bay's upcoming third Transformers film, Transformers: The Dark Of The Moon, has been leaked online via the Amazon product description of the official “Transformers 3 Push-Pops Board Book”. Hit the jump to read the plot synopsis now. Here is the plot description for Transformers: The Dark Of The Moon:…
Read MoreJust minutes ago, it was revealed that Disney would be paying a lump sum to acquire the marketing and distribution rights to the last Marvel Studio films under the Paramount Pictures deal, The Avengers and Iron Man 3. Part of this announcement came as a surprise as we didn't know that Marvel was this close…
Read MoreIn her first big hire since Michael Bay decided not to ask her to return for Transformers 3, Megan Fox has scored a new gig. She'll be in Jennifer Westfeldt's film Friends With Kids, which stars Westfeldt's partner Jon Hamm. The film also features Adam Scott and Kristen Wiig, and we now know that it…
Read MoreHalloween is right around the corner, which means horror films like Paranormal Activity 2 and Saw 3D are set to rule the box office. It's also a perfect opportunity for studios to pimp their impending horror fare and no horror movie coming in the next few months is more highly anticipated than Scre4m. Once again…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures is spending $115 million to become the worldwide marketer and distributor for the upcoming Marvel Studios productions Iron Man 3 and The Avengers. Paramount Pictures will remain the distributor for the 2011 releases Thor (May 6th) and Captain America: The First Avenger (July 22nd). This is expected news as I had heard…
Read MoreWith Halloween coming up at the end of the month, many people are trying to find a costume Alex The Movie Geek put together an Optimus Prime costume in 5 days for $5 out of used cardboard boxes. Alex put together a 9-minute video showing how he constructed the costume. Watch it now embedded after…
Read MoreAs unbelievable as the notion of Darren Aronofsky directing Wolverine 2 might be, there's something more difficult to swallow going on in Hollwood: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is becoming a hot property. Initially set to be directed by David O. Russell with Natalie Portman starring (she is still producing) the film now needs a…
Read MoreOur friends at Soundworks have posted a behind-the-scenes tour of Universal Studios located in Universal City, CA hosted by Chris Jenkins, Senior Vice President of Sound Services. Universal’s Sound Editorial and Design Department provides state-of-the-art sound design and editorial services for live action and animated feature films, episodic television, interactive games, theme park rides and…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released the first movie poster for the Robert Zemeckis’ produced adaptation of Berkley Breathed’s children's book Mars Needs Moms on Yahoo. The performance capture film is being directed by The Prince of Egypt/The Time Machine helmer Simon Wells and stars Seth Green, Joan Cusack and Dan Fogler. Hit the jump to…
Read MoreThe editor of the Analecta, the official literary and arts journal of the University of Texas at Austin, was flipping through some old volumes when she came across the writings of former UT student and current filmmaker Wes Anderson. Published in the Analecta in 1989, Anderson's short story, The Ballad of Reading Milton, isn't as…
Read MoreI'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Darren Aronofsky is going to direct Wolverine 2. But success and doing a big film with an actor you like (Hugh Jackman) has to be appealing at this point, and after a run of very well-liked movies in the indie realm, why not jump…
Read MoreBlake Lively, who plays love interest Carol Ferris in the upcoming big screen adaptation of Green Lantern, was on hand to present the 2010 Spike Scream award for "Most Anticipated Movie" to co-star Ryan Reynolds.But the fake award on the television award show isn't what's important here. Ryan accepted the award in front of a…
Read MoreI'm not sure exactly how some rumors get from point A to point B. We've heard before that there might be a film about disco superstars The Bee Gees, the band who sold millions of records in the '70s and provided the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever in 1977. That was the biggest-selling soundtrack for…
Read MoreLove him or hate him as a filmmaker, Kevin Smith is a funny personality who knows how to tell a story. He has a successful podcast called Smodcast, which is broadcast on Satellite radio and has spawned a daily podcast network. He is notorious for his hilariously honest question and answer sessions, which have been…
Read MoreThe Hangover initially hooked audiences with a big cameo, as the trailer revealed that the film would depict, at long last, Mike Tyson's secret love for Phil Collins. Now that the comedy is a name brand, The Hangover 2 doesn't need a huge cameo to pull in audiences. But it can't hurt, right? Last week…
Read MoreWith Zack Snyder confirmed to direct Superman, questions about the film have turned to other topics: who will star, and what will the film be about? The second question has a vague answer now, as Mr. Snyder has said that the film is not a remake or based on any particular comic, and will feature…
Read MoreUniversal Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for Superbad/Adventureland director Greg Mottola's sci-fi adventure comedy Paul which stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (and an alien voiced by Seth Rogen). We got a chance to see some early footage from the film at Comic-Con, and most everyone agreed that it wasn't what they were…
Read MoreParamount Pictures have released a new movie trailer for David O Russell's The Fighter which was broadcast on television during the season finale of AMC's Mad Men (found via FirstShowing). But don't let the fact that it aired on tv fool you, this tv spot is two-minutes in length and focused towards high brow awards…
Read MoreLately, the man dead set on selling space to millionaire tourists, Virgin Atlantic billionaire Richard Branson, has been getting into the movie business and he currently has his sites set on Columbus, a script by T.S. Nowlin. The 300-esque retelling of the Christopher Columbus story has McG attached to produce and direct and Branson is…
Read MoreTo accept the award for "Best Horror Movie" at the 2010 Scream Awards, Bill Murray appeared wearing a full Ghostbusters outfit, which even included a proton pack. The award show was held Saturday in Los Angeles, and will air on Spike TV on October 19th at 9pm. Check out the full photo, after the jump.…
Read MoreWhile there are definitely some benefits to Twitter's cultural ubiquity, the site's recent foray into television has undoubtedly been one of the more unfortunate side effects. CBS already adapted one Twitter account into a TV show—the popular S*** My Dad Says (@s***mydadsays), which now has close to 2 million followers and a book deal to…
Read MoreMany of you will recall that star Johnny Depp credited Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards for inspiring his character in the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie, and Disney had the guitarist written into the last installment, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, as Sparrow's father: Captain Teague. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger…
Read MoreLast month, we reported that Martin Freeman, best known for starring roles in The Office, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Sherlock was the first choice to play the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. Well yesterday, after news broke that the film had finally been given a greenlight and would start…
Read MoreEvery country needs its own dark, gritty superhero. Thailand may already have a few (I'll confess ignorance there) but now there's one more: The Red Eagle, who stars in a movie that looks a bit like The Dark Knight, The Green Hornet and a few other things thrown together. Watch the trailer after the break.…
Read MoreIt's been eight years since Johnny Knoxville and crew took Jackass from the small screen to our local cineplexes via Jackass: The Movie. That film grossed a staggering $79 million off a budget of only $5 million, and spawned Jackass Number Two, an equally successful 2006 film. You might think that Knoxville & Co. had…
Read MoreIn the past six months, we've seen several films attempt to successfully execute the person-falls-in-love-with-someone-who-turns-out-to-be-a-spy formula, with mixed results. Robert Schwentke's Red (based on the Warren Ellis graphic novel of the same name) is the latest entry, boasting an all-star cast headed by Bruce Willis. So does Red have anything new to add? Hit the…
Read MoreAt the beginning of the week, when word came out that a script for The Flash is meant to be delivered by the end of the year, the news came with a rumor. It suggested that Bradley Cooper was in the running (ahem) to play the title character. That seemed to be conjecture, perhaps based…
Read MoreTrailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
Read MoreLars Von Trier has been rather tight-lipped about his new film Melancholia. He famously pronounced "no more happy endings!" and has slowly detailed a plot about two sisters (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg), one of whom is preparing to marry Alexander Skarsgard. The elder Stellan Skarsgard is in the cast, along with John Hurt and…
Read MorePeople just can't wait to find out what the storyline of Sony and Marc Webb's upcoming Spider-Man reboot will be. There are too many possible options knowing what we do now -- Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson are in the mix, as is the Lizard. That combination could lead to many things. Does anything…
Read MoreSay what you want about the Star Wars prequels, but they totally changed the face of Star Wars. And nowhere was this more evident over the past decade than Disneyland and Walt Disney World where the Star Tours ride was still going strong. The ride, which opened in 1987, not only felt dated in context…
Read MoreWhenever a great movie comes out portraying real-life events, I'm always left wondering what the real people who inspired the movie might have thought or taken away from the film. And David Fincher's The Social Network is a good example of this type of film. We've already heard Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dismissive response: “We…
Read MoreThe series of speculative stories about Peter Jackson and The Hobbit may have finally come to an end. Various sources say today that MGM and Warner Bros. have negotiated a deal to finance the two Hobbit films, and that pending the resolution of labor issues, the shoot is tentatively scheduled to get underway in February,…
Read MoreColumbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have released the first movie trailer for the new Gus Van Sant (Milk, Finding Forrester, Good Will Hunting, To Die For) film Restless. The movie stars Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) in a "complex tale of a teenage boy and girl who share a preoccupation with mortality." The film co-stars…
Read MoreIf there ever was a pitch perfect piece of has-to-happen casting, it would be Nathan Fillion as Nathan Drake. Fillion is the dashing, charismatic star of the current television show Castle who is best known for his role as the cocky, confident Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds in Joss Whedon's Firefly universe. Drake is the star…
Read MoreIf you are a superhero, it's probably best not to let your Mom on Facebook. Batman knows what's up. If a picture is worth a thousand words there really isn't much I can say that this photo doesn't. It's simultaneously simple yet full of social networking and comic book references. Big props to Joy of…
Read MorePutting movie poster design in the US to shame, there are four new international teaser posters for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and they are, in a word, spectacular. Check 'em all out after the break. Empire got these images (see them larger there) which count as teasers because the film doesn't open in the UK…
Read MoreThe films of Wes Anderson have many of the qualities of a great painting. Strong composition, beautiful colors and compelling characters all come to mind. Well, the brand new LoPo Gallery in San Francisco, CA is hosting an exhibition of art all based on the films of Anderson: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Just Jared has the first set photo of Adam Sandler in costume (red cardigan, plaid skirt and brunette wig) for his latest shitty romantic comedy feature film 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. And,…
Read MoreTwenty five years after the release of Back to the Future, co-stars Michael J. Fox and Lea Thompson hang out for their Entertainment Weekly photo-shoot with the DeLorean time machine, and discuss their memories of shooting the film. Thompson even tears up when Fox praises her performance in the bedroom sequence. Watch the video embedded…
Read MoreBy far one of the best things about Twitter is that filmmakers use it to update fans from the set. Jon Favreau and Kevin Smith are two of the leading proponents of this phenomenon and Smith has been tweeting up a storm recently from the set of his latest film Red State. That's how we…
Read MoreWe've heard about a few possible projects for Paul Verhoeven over the past couple years. Last seen directing the very good Black Book, he's got a film called The Surrogate on his plate, along with The Hidden Force and possibly an adaptation of a Jordan Mechner video game. Add one more to the pile, as…
Read MoreTodd Solondz, the provocative, some might say confrontational filmmaker behind such bold, brilliant films as Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness, has found his cast for Dark Horse. The indie drama began principal photography earlier this week, with frequent bit player, first-time lead Jordan Gelber taking the center role, Justin Bartha (The Hangover) playing his…
Read MoreAmazon has Shrek: The Whole Story Blu-ray Box Set, which includes the entire series: Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third and Shrek Forever After for preorder for only $44.99 with free shipping, 44% off the $80 list price. I'm not sure how long this price will be valid, so act fast. The set is scheduled…
Read MoreRisky Business has learned that Magnolia Pictures has acquired the US distribution rights to Max Winkler's feature directorial debut Ceremony, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. This means that the film will be shown theatrically and will likely have a day-and-date video on demand availability on nationwide cable. The 27-year old USC film…
Read MoreUpon hearing the news of the recasting of Mark Ruffalo in the role of Bruce Banner/The Hulk for Marvel's Avengers movie, I recall thinking about how strange it is that there are going to be three different incarnations of the character within ten years of each other. Little did I know at the time that…
Read MoreAdrien Brody is a man without a name in Wrecked, a survival thriller that finds the Oscar winning actor in a debilitating car wreck, surrounded by dead bodies, with no memory of who he is or what happened. We first discovered the film earlier this year, during the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, which premiered some…
Read MoreIFC Films has released a movie trailer for Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture, a mumblecore comedy about "a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life." The film, written/directed and starring Dunham premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival to mixed reviews, but she…
Read MoreBuried proved to be a fascinating filmmaking exercise for Rodrigo Cortés, with the first-time English feature director (pictured above right) impressively overcoming the limitations inherent in the premise through sheer stylistic virtuosity. If that's what he can achieve with just a box, I can't wait to see what he can do with a film like…
Read MoreWere you as excited as I was when Warner Bros. nixed plans to rush a post-converted 3D version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I into theaters? Judging by the comment thread on that article, I'd say yes. But 3D is still in Potter's future. The Potter films have had partial 3D renders…
Read MoreDid someone declare today Drive Angry 3D day and we didn't get the memo? I only ask because not only has the brand new theatrical trailer just come online, but the poster as well. From My Bloody Valentine 3D director Patrick Lussier (no relation) and starring Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, David Morse, Billy…
Read MoreJames Cameron is such a big director that if there's a chance in the slightest he might do a new movie, we're obligated to report on it. So, as unlikely as it may seem, rumors are circulating that the brass at Sony are "exploring the possibility" that the King of the World could direct a…
Read MoreUPDATE: THR has Rashida Jones and Chris Cooper (hooray!) joining the cast as well. Mr. Cooper will play the villain. Not long ago we heard that the rather popular Amy Adams was looking at a few different possible roles, one of which would be in the upcoming Muppet movie that Disney is assembling with Forgetting…
Read MoreMonths of Microsoft envy goes away on Monday October 18 for PlayStation 3 users. That's when Netflix will update their application for Sony's next generation system. That means no more disc needed, the biggest plus, and it one ups X-Box 360 with 1080p (!) high definition picture capability and 5.1 Dolby Digital Plus Surround Sound.…
Read MoreLast night there was a story that the Travis Beacham script Pacific Rim, bought by Legendary Pictures earlier this year, is being folded into Legendary's new take on Godzilla, and that the whole shebang had been offered to Guillermo del Toro to direct. The latter point seemed like a stretch, given that the director is…
Read MoreVBS TV has a great 15-minute long behind the scenes documentary on the making of Jackass 3D. The franchise that most of the tv-watching world knows as “Jackass”—a crew of loveable, Teflon-coated miscreants consisting of Chris Pontius, Bam Margera, Wee Man, Steve-O, and Johnny Knoxville—began years ago when the group decided to document their gleefully…
Read MoreQuick, what's the film that seems least suited for an IMAX release? If you thought Paranormal Activity 2, then you and I are on the same page. And yet Paramount's sequel to the low-fi horror hit will now hit the nation's largest screens. Here's a statement from IMAX about the release: "Paramount has delivered another…
Read MoreIn today's edition of /Film LA, I take a look at the most interesting upcoming film events in the Los Angeles area: the unexplained phenomena of celebrity arrows hanging from telephone wires, Universal Studio's Halloween Horror Nights, a two-day tribute to Jamie Lee Curtis (featuring screening discussions with the actress), The House of The Devil…
Read MoreDreamWorks Animation has released the first five minutes of the upcoming film Megamind on Paramount's Nickelodeon site. While I know that many of you have not been impressed by the trailer, I have heard this film is actually good. The first five minutes shows evidence of this, and has definitely boosted my confidence in the…
Read MoreAndrew Jarecki made a great documentary, Capturing the Friedmans, but his first dramatic feature, All Good Things, has taken some time to hit screens. The Weinsten Company sat on it for a year, Mr. Jarecki bought the distribution rights from the company, and now Magnolia will release the picture this December. Here's the first trailer.…
Read MoreTheir chemistry in the 2005 film Wedding Crashers helped make it a smash hit and now, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson might reteam for 2 Guns, an action comedy about two lawmen assigned to rob a bank together, neither realizing they're both actually good guys undercover. The script was written by Blake Masters, the man…
Read MoreBlue Valentine was one of the hits of this year's Sundance Film Festival, and it has been considered a likely awards contender thanks to great performances by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. So there was no small amount of shock expressed last week when the MPAA slapped the film with the NC-17 rating, effectively killing…
Read MoreDavid O. Russell, the I Heart Huckabees and Three Kings director who recently signed on to adapt the video game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, has had his name attached to Aaron and Sarah for over a year now. It's one of the many films he's been linked to over the years, most of which have failed…
Read MoreNext week, Spike TV will broadcast Scream 2010, an award show that honors "the best in sci-fi, fantasy, comics and horror." In addition to the world premiere of footage from Scream 4, Paranormal Activity 2 and The Rite, the show will feature a 25th anniversary reunion of actors from Back to The Future. To promote…
Read MoreI can't help but feel a certain sympathy for Joe Carnahan. After coming out of the gate early with the very good Narc, he struggled to make appropriate follow-ups like Killing Pablo in between stumbling with Smokin' Aces and The A-Team. Mr. Carnahan is working now on The Grey, with Liam Neeson, but he's also…
Read MoreIt's difficult to say whether Black Gold, which seeks to tell a tale of rival Arabic rulers during the Arab oil boom of the 1930s, will be any good. But the film, which will be directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (Seven Years in Tibet) has an interesting cast: Antonio Banderas toplines, with Mark Strong, Freida Pinto…
Read MoreIt’s always feast or famine with that Steven Spielberg. He goes on stretches where he releases two films a year - like in 1993, 1997, 2002 and 2005 - then there are long periods where he gives the director’s chair a rest, like the last five years (I’m still trying to erase 2008's Indiana Jones…
Read MoreDimension Films has released the second official production photo from Wes Craven's Scream 4 has been released on E!. The new photo features our first look at David Arquette, reprising his role as Sheriff Dewey Riley. He appears to be handling a situation in a book store, as Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott and Courteney…
Read MoreTony Scott has a mile-high stack of projects on his plate and seems about as interested in talking Top Gun as Fred Phelps is in reasonable discourse, but that might not stop Paramount from trying to light a fire under him to make Top Gun 2. Word now is that, after years of rumors that…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is 58% off either Torchwood Season One or Two on DVD or Blu-Ray. Season One DVD for $33.99 Season Two DVD for $33.99 Season One Blu-Ray for $41.99 Season Two Blu-Ray for $33.99 As with all of the Gold Box Deals, the price will be gone at the…
Read MoreI always love the designs at Last Exit to Nowhere, which features t-shirts featuring the logos of companies and locations featured in some of our favorite feature films. Unfortunately the company is UK based and the price conversion and shipping makes their tees very unaffordable for US based film geeks. Today's tee design on Teefury…
Read MoreUPDATE: Guillermo del Toro says he has not read or been offered this project. You might remember back in May that Legendary Pictures bought Pacific Rim, a spec treatment by Clash of the Titans writer Travis Beacham. Or you might not; we won't be offended if the small story slipped by you. But what if…
Read MoreFilming is almost underway for Men in Black 3, the 3D sequel that will reunite Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and director Barry Sonnenfeld, but for those that still aren't on board, here's some last-minute casting to help get you in the mood. The deals aren't finalized yet, but Sharlto Copley, Alec Baldwin and Gemma…
Read MoreBefore becoming Tower Heist, Brett Ratner's latest film was conceived as an urban version of Ocean's Eleven, with Eddie Murphy in the starring role. The title then was Trump Heist, and the original cast poised to join him included Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and Chris Tucker. One title and casting change later, Murphy was out,…
Read MoreWell, Dylan Baker got screwed. After patiently doing very little in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies as Dr. Curt Connors, a part which was slowly setting up Mr. Baker for a villainous (or dangerous) turn as The Lizard, the actor now has to watch someone else play the role he built. Much speculation has gone…
Read MoreWe've seen a lot of photos from Conan, the Marcus Nispel-directed reboot of the film incarnation of Robert E. Howard's storied character. Many of the photos have been, well, not so well received. Which is why I was surprised to cast eyes on the new batch of images, which make the film look far more…
Read MoreCatherine Hardwicke’s proposed contemporized Hamlet retelling with Emile Hirsch didn't work out as planned, but she may yet have her shot at tackling one of Shakespeare's classic works. The director is currently in talks to direct the pilot for Romeo & Juliet, a TV series adaptation of the play that "follows the famous love story…
Read MoreIn August, Roadside Attractions picked up rights to distribute I Love You, Phillip Morris in North America. The film, directed by Bad Santa writers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, has been at the center of a distribution mess all year. But the film will now see release in the States on December 3. There's even…
Read MoreFile this under "painfully obvious," but Disney will attach the teaser trailer for their Summer 2011 blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to their Holiday 2010 blockbuster Tron: Legacy, according to Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Tron: Legacy will be released in IMAX 3D, Disney Digital 3D and 2D screens on December 17 and…
Read MoreMichael Giacchino has personally solved the problem of unemployment in America: just win an Oscar for Best Original Score. After Giacchino's 2010 Oscar win for his amazing score to Up, the composer behind Star Trek and Lost has more jobs than a normal person would know what to do with. He just finished Let Me…
Read MoreThe biggest rumor of the week (so far) is that Danny Boyle wants to direct the third chapter in the zombie/thriller series that he began with 28 Days Later. The best part was that the rumor, such as it was, reportedly came from the director himself. He seemed to turn a couple years of flirtation…
Read MoreThe last time we heard about a directorial project from Luc Besson, who has primarily worked as a producer over the last decade-plus, he was shopping a love story to studios. But did that love story have a big sci-fi component? Because Mr. Besson just said that his next film would be something like "The…
Read MoreBriefly: We've got very few details right now, but Deadline is reporting that Tom Hardy (Inception, Bronson, the hopefully forthcoming Mad Max films) has been cast by Christopher Nolan in the third Batman film. There are no details on the role, or whether it is a villain or other part. This is magnificent news, and…
Read MoreYou've probably seen the trailer for True Grit, and you've seen the Toy Story films, but have you seen Toy Grit? Forensicator8 has created a movie trailer mash-up which combines the Coen Brothers' True Grit and Pixar's Toy Story series. Watch it now, embedded after the jump.
Read MoreWalt Disney Animation Studios has given us an exclusive first look at four new photos from their upcoming computer animated film Tangled. Check out the high resolution images after the jump. Previously: Directed by Byron Howard & Nathan Greno (the co-director and head of story on Bolt respectively), this new telling of the classic fairy…
Read MoreJim Henson's Muppets have always have a little subversion to them be it Miss Piggy's sexual innuendo or their more recent viral videos. Well, Lionsgate seems to be on board with that idea as they've just acquired Happytime Murders, a dark, comedic murder mystery set in a world where Muppets and humans co-exist. It's written…
Read MoreIf there was a straight shot from first-timer helmer to director jail, it might look a lot like the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Offering nothing that Wes Craven's original didn't deliver, and mistaking grave, put-on seriousness for import, the film was not the best debut for music video director Samuel Bayer. Now…
Read MoreJohn Cusack will have company in The Raven, V For Vendetta director James McTeigue's fictionalized account of the final five “mysterious” days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, but Jeremy Renner won't be taking part. His schedule wouldn't allow it, sadly, as he's going to be off shooting the fourth Mission: Impossible. Stepping in for Renner…
Read MoreBreaking news: Damon Lindelof frigging rules. Reports are coming in that the co-creator of Lost has just turned in his script for the Untitled Alien Prequel for director Ridley Scott and the executives at 20th Century Fox love it. Why do they love it? Well, because Scott originally budgeted the film around $150 million and…
Read MoreAcademy Award-nominated composer/songwriter Danny Elfman will appear and introduce never before heard music before the premiere of The Nightmare Before Christmas 4D at the El Capitan Theatre, and Guillermo Del Toro will host a screening Q&A of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World with director Edgar Wright and comic writer/artist Bryan Lee O’Malley. Details on both…
Read MoreWhen we first heard about Damsels in Distress, the first film from director Whit Stillman in many years, it was described as a super-low budget indie with no stars. Then, not long ago, Greta Gerwig revealed that she had joined the cast. Not a star, but hardly an unknown. Now Adam Brody has signed on,…
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. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (Releases on Friday, October 15) I don't love How to Train Your Dragon for its story, or…
Read MoreJames Franco is on a memoir-optioning spree. OK, two films might not count as a spree, exactly, but he just delivered the second half of a one-two optioning punch. Not long ago there was news of Mr. Franco buying Stephen Elliott's The Adderall Diaries as a possible writing/producing/directing project. And now he's optioned D.J. Waldie's…
Read MoreJust in time for the film's October 15 DVD release, Dreamworks is taking major steps to ensure How to Train Your Dragon's franchise longevity. Earlier this week they announced plans for the as-of-yet-untitled sequel, and now comes word of a weekly animated series that will air on Cartoon Network. Expect to see the series, along…
Read MoreIt doesn't take a magic mirror to figure out the huge box office success of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is to blame for the three different Snow White projects currently in development. There’s one by Relativity, one by Universal and one by Disney. The Relativity project, called The Brothers Grimm: Snow White was reportedly…
Read MoreWarner Archive is fast becoming one of the more valuable facets of the DVD landscape. the company is Warner Bros.' method for direct-marketing the DVD and digital release of many films that have artistic and cultural value, but no great commercial prospects. Is Warner Archive now poised to bring a group of Looney Tunes and…
Read MoreNo matter where I go recently, I can't avoid discussions about the role of the female in film. Allegations of sexism in The Social Network are just the latest in a long line of controversial conversations taking place on message boards, in film schools and bars across the country. Wasn't it a travesty that Kathryn…
Read MoreBriefly: The cast for The Sitter is shaping up. David Gordon Green is set to direct the R-rated comedy, and he's already got Jonah Hill in the lead as a guy who gets roped into babysitting the children of a family friend. Naturally, things go very wrong. One of the problems is a drug deal…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Director Michael Bay and his Transformers movies just can't catch a break. Who could forget when star Shia LaBeouf got badly injured making Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? Or when a female extra was left with brain damage after an accident during filming of the third film in Chicago? (She recently filed a…
Read MoreJust in case you thought there was any chance that Darren Aronofsky might stay in the semi-indie mid to low budget realm in which he's worked so far, this is your warning to get used to the idea of seeing the director's name on big studio movies. Or, at least, come to terms with the…
Read MoreIf you were already excited for the brand new AMC show The Walking Dead, then this 17 minutes behind the scenes featurette might make your head explode. The show, executive produced by Frank Darabont, is based on a comic book series by Robert Kirkman about how a group of humans survive after a zombie apocalypse.…
Read MoreEdward Norton and director John Curran are slowly cultivating a good working relationship. They previously made The Painted Veil, which wasn't quite a success, and then crafted Stone. The latter, despite having early caution instilled thanks to a terrible sales trailer, has turned out to be a fairly satisfying thriller / character study. And now…
Read MoreOne of the best known bits of trivia about Back to the Future is that Eric Stoltz not only almost played Marty McFly, but he actually filmed four weeks of the film as Marty before director Robert Zemeckis decided that he had been miscast. Footage of Stoltz has been under lock and key, never to…
Read MoreAt the risk of becoming an extension of the PR division at Disney, here's your first official look at French electronic duo Daft Punk as they appear in Tron Legacy. Looks, well, more or less like Daft Punk as they always appear. But that's the point, right? They were into Tron when no one else…
Read MoreThere have been a dozen or so adaptations of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the classic play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, but none that have earned nearly the recognition that a story of this stature could sensibly attain. A studio in the UK is intent on changing that though, as they plan to "do…
Read MoreWriter/director Hany Abu-Assad tackled some pretty weighty subject matter with his 2005 film Paradise Now, a very well received drama about suicide bombers. For his latest picture though, the upcoming action/thriller The Courier, he's turned his focus to more audience-friendly fare. The film was written by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt (the team behind the…
Read MoreWith a 9.1 out of 10 average rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 95 out of 10 score on Metacritic, The Social Network is without debate the best reviewed movie of 2010 so far. The film, and in particular its script, has been lauded and revered by just about everyone—including us—but as with everything that…
Read MoreIt’s the eternal debate for all geeks: beer or sex? That's the question posed in a clever commercial for Stella Artois beer that premiered this weekend. A young French man brings a young lady back to his home, which is set up like something out of a James Bond movie. She starts to play with…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is Band of Brothers with The Pacific Part One for 63% Off the suggested retail price: $49.99 for the DVD version, $62.99 for the Blu-Ray version. The sale price will disappear at midnight tonight (Tuesday, October 12th) so act fast!
Read MoreNO PHOTO Hot on the heels of the massive debut of The Social Network, director David Fincher is already shooting another film. His new version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, and the first set photos of both actors have shown up online. The Daily Mail isn't so…
Read MoreBriefly: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank) will soon be shooting the sequel to Ghost Rider. The film stars Nicolas Cage, reprising the role of Johnny Blaze, while Ciaran Hinds, Idris Elba and Johnny Whitworth are all set to play parts. The cast may now be getting a bit of competition for Cage's brand of…
Read MoreMonsters turned into a serious career move for director Gareth Edwards. It led to him having a deal to write and direct a film that Timur Bekmambetov will produce. We don't know much about the picture, other than it will be an "“epic human story, set in a futuristic world without humanity." Mr. Edwards has…
Read MoreWe've seen two trailers for Faster, the action/revenge film starring Dwayne Johnson. One was a teaser and the other a red-band that many people complained showed way too much. (I didn't watch it, but since I haven't yet seen the film I couldn't vouch for that accusation.) This is the first proper theatrical trailer, however,…
Read MoreThere's been little movement on the 28 Days Later franchise front of late, but with Danny Boyle's most recent film, 127 Hours, completed and nearing release, that could soon change. From what Boyle has said in the past, we know that 28 Months Later isn't the official title for the film, its planned setting is…
Read MoreBriefly: Miramax essentially has new owners, but the process of handing the reins of the studio over from Disney to Ron Tutor and Colony Capital isn't a speedy one. Given that Miramax hasn't got many films, there won't be deep repercussions if the deal takes some time. But Deadline says that the process has pushed…
Read MoreClint Eastwood is hopefully going to shoot Hoover soon, with Leonardo DiCaprio playing J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, who held the post for forty years through a wide spectrum of political changes. (And Hoover was instrumental in swaying some of those political changes, if you believe many of the stories about…
Read MoreGosh! Now it'll be super easy for Napoleon Dynamite to get extra chap stick, tame a wild stallion or go off some sweet jumps because it'll be drawn for him. Fox has picked up a six-episode animated TV version of the 2004 cult film which launched the careers of director Jared Hess and star Jon…
Read MoreMuch to the chagrin of some fans, the films of John Carpenter are proving to be fertile ground for remakes and offshoots. Halloween, The Thing and Escape From New York are just a sampling. Along with the developing plans for Escape From New York, there may at some point be a new version of They…
Read MoreFor the second weekend in a row, David Fincher's The Social Network was the #1 film at the box office making $15.5 million. That means the behind the scenes tale of the birth of Facebook has great word of mouth and discussion about it is not going anywhere anytime soon. One of the sequences many…
Read MoreThese costumed characters have always been one of my favorite parts of the touristy part of Hollywood Boulevard. I always loved watching the ridiculous and strange costumed superheroes pose for photos with tourists near the Grauman's Chinese Theater. Jimmy Kimmel regularly featured these performers on his show, and a documentary was even made about the…
Read MoreIn July it was revealed that Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-head would be returning to MTV after a thirteen year absence. And we've heard rumblings of a big screen return for years now, most recently as a possible live-action adaptation (ick). I am happy to report that Beavis and Butt-head will be returning to the…
Read MoreJ.J. Abrams is shooting Super 8 right now in West Virginia, and this film is proving to be more difficult to keep under lock and key than was his previous top-secret project, Cloverfield. While virtually no one knew that Cloverfield was happening as it was being shot, everyone seems to know about Super 8, and…
Read MoreColumbia Pictures has just announced that BAFTA Film Award-nominated actor Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1) has been cast as the villain in Marc Webb's 3D Spider-Man reboot. No word on which villain Ifans might play. Have any ideas? Leave them in the comments below. Read…
Read MoreThe Flash has looked like the most likely candidate as the next DC superhero film to come out of Warner Bros., but we haven't heard much concrete news about the project in a few months. The Flash has been in the script stage, and until something is delivered that Warner Bros. likes, the character won't…
Read MoreWhen the news broke that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 would not be released in 3D because Warner Brothers was "unable to convert the film in its entirety and meet the highest standards of quality" many, if not most people, rejoiced. Some called it the death of 3D films, others praised Warners…
Read MoreHow many times can you be told something is going to happen before the promise loses all meaning? With Sin City 2, that question is being put to the test. Time and time again it's been said that the film is gearing up for production—at one point it was supposedly written and ready to shoot,…
Read MoreI screened Banksy's feature filmmaking debut, the documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It's now October and the movie still remains as one of my favorite films of the year. For the first time ever, The Simpsons invited an artist to storyboard the opening sequence of the animated series…
Read MoreIf you've been reading /Film for a while now, then you know I love long form interviews. The normal 10-minute junket interview doesn't allow for much exploration, and sadly that is becoming the norm now-a-days. I always try to highlight the better long form interviews available online (be it a film festival discussion, Charlie Rose,…
Read MoreWhen we first learned a few months ago that How To Train Your Dragon would be getting a sequel (out in 2013), there were a lot of details still up in the air. Would the original cast return? What of the talented filmmakers of the original, Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois? Would they be coming…
Read MoreI admire Volkswagen for their support of independent film over the past decade. If you attend a regional or big time film festival, you're likely to see them listed as a sponsor on the big screen before each film (alongside Stella and Visa). In the past, we've featured some of their "See Film Differently" television…
Read MoreOne of the big promises of Tron Legacy has been the soundtrack by French electronic duo Daft Punk. The band's music and image (the two men perform in robot suits/helmets, for starters) has always had a noticable Tron influence, so using them for the soundtrack seemed like a slam dunk. Plus there was always the…
Read More"Ladies and gentlemen, electric cars... are gay. I mean, not 'homosexual' gay, but, you know, 'my parents are chaperoning the dance' gay." Offensive, or just offensively unfunny? The former, according to GLAAD, and the latter, according to me. This is the line that opens the first trailer for Ron Howard's upcoming comedy The Dilemma, and…
Read MoreWhen we heard that Tony Gilroy would be writing and directing the fourth Bourne film, called The Bourne Legacy, a lot of quesitons came to mind. Chief among them was whether Matt Damon might return as titular hero Jason Bourne. Now Mr. Gilroy has cleared up some of the lingering questions, and put right a…
Read MoreOscar® and Emmy® Nominated Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special in 3-D) is set to premiere a new one-hour documentary special titled "Committed: The Toronto International Film Festival" by on AMC this Tuesday October 12th at 11pm eastern. Narrated by AMC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff and commissioned by AMC, the…
Read MoreWell this is disappointing. After extensive prep work had gone into setting up back-to-back filming of Mad Max: Fury Road and Mad Max: Furiosa—both to be shot in 3D—the shoot has now been delayed from its originally planned February 2011 date to, if we're lucky, February 2012. This is the second major setback for the…
Read MoreTrailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
Read MoreYou didn't think Marmaduke would get all the glory, did you? That's right: the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world is about to make its live-action big screen debut. Moreover, it's being envisioned as a franchise. 20th Century Fox and Walden Media got the rights to Bil Keane's comic, which was introduced in…
Read MoreSony has confirmed that David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter) is signed on to write and direct a film based on the PlayStation 3 game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Back in June 2009, Sony hired screenwriter Kyle Ward to pen an adaptation, but Ward's deal fell apart at the last minute because…
Read MoreTonight Disney will launch their Tron: Legacy Disneyland California Adventure theme park area, the nighttime dance party/experience called ElecTRONica. We've shown you concept images of the planned experience in the past, but what does it really look like? Last night Disneyland held a pre-night test of the experience, and thankfully fans brought their cameras. Hit…
Read MoreDavid Mamet's efforts were dashed last year when his follow-up to Redbelt, a reframed look at the life of Anne Frank, was put into turnaround at Disney for being "too dark". Fans of Mamet were surely less than thrilled by this development, but now he has a new project in the works that could be…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has announced an event they are calling "Tron Night." On October 28th, Disney will be holding events in IMAX 3D theatres around the world, which will feature 20+ minutes from Tron: Legacy. Head to TronNight2010.com to register for tickets on Tuesday, October 12th at 1pm eastern time. Head over to the website…
Read MoreFor those of you who always wondered how the death race in Death Race began, it seems that Death Race 2, which comes straight to DVD and Blu-ray on January 18, will hold the answers you desire. From director Roel Reiné, the film stars Sean Bean, Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo and others. Besides the fact…
Read MoreOne of the questions all of our great storytellers now have to answer on a daily basis is, "Where is it all going?" Think of the writers of Lost. All anyone ever wanted to know from them was if they actually had everything planned out. Another person who has had to answer that question is…
Read MoreEarlier this year Jonah Hill agreed to star in The Sitter, a comedy in which Hill will play a college dropout who gets into more than he bargained for (like drug deals and car chases) when he agrees to babaysit the children of a family friend. Now J.B. Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Max Records (Where…
Read MoreThe last time we checked in on Martin Freeman his name was being bandied about as a likely candidate for Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. Given that the fate of that film is still up in the air, I'm not much sirprised to see that Mr. Freeman is booking other work. He's now set to…
Read MoreSome of the greatest performances of all time are when an actor so totally commits to the role that they're willing to destroy their body for it. Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull is the ultimate example. More recently, Christian Bale lost a sickly amount of weight for The Machinist, Matt Damon…
Read MoreBriefly: Earlier this week we saw the first official still shots and behind the scenes images for Universal's prequel to The Thing. For reasons that no one really understands at this point, the studio is currently calling this prequel simply The Thing, which could create some confusion between the original film and the new picture.…
Read MoreYou might have noticed earlier this week that a great many sites ran articles proclaiming that Peter Jackson had been confirmed as director of The Hobbit at long last. But there was one problem: all those articles were based on a Deadline report that was essentially a chest-puffing piece complaining that a few other articles…
Read MoreCameras began to roll this week on My Week With Marilyn, the film that adapts the diaries of Colin Clark, who showed Marilyn Monroe around London while she worked on the film The Princess and the Showgirl. Now we've got the first image of Michelle Williams playing Marilyn Monroe in the film, and word that…
Read MoreGeoff Johns, speaking at New York Comic-Con, confirmed that Warner Bros and DC are not currently planning for a superhero team-up Justice League of America movie. ComicBookMovie reports that when Johns was asked about the possibility of shared-universe films á la Marvel, Johns responded with the following: "I'm going to speak frankly: I think our…
Read MoreBriefly: Chief Creative Officer Geoff John has announced at New York Comic-Con that the movie trailer for Green Lantern will premiere attached to Warner Bros' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, which hits theaters (in 2D only, as we learned moments ago) on November 19th 2010. Many fans were hoping that Warner Bros…
Read MoreBriefly: Warner Bros. just threw a light jab into the face of post-conversion 3D. The studio had planned to release Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I in post-converted 3D. But now WB has released a statement saying that the film will release only in 2D and IMAX versions, and that, We will not…
Read MoreEither Shia LaBeouf has great business sense, or his agent deserves a raise. Since Disturbia, he's kept a near flawless track record at the box office, continually signing up for movies that, at best, have gone on to be some of the highest grossers of the year, and at worst, still land comfortably at #1…
Read More2010 was the first time I'd ever been to the Sundance Film Festival and the first movie I saw there was Blue Valentine, a devastating parallel portrayal of both the blossoming and wilting of a modern relationship starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams and directed by Derek Cianfrance. With those two stars, two powerful performances…
Read MorePeter Weir has been making stunning films for forty years. Part of the Australian New Wave, he turned out landmarks Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave (get thee to Criterion if you haven' t seen those!) as early features before segueing into ambitious mainstream movies like The Truman Show and Master and Commander.…
Read MoreLucasFilm has officially licensed a Star Wars Jedi bathrobe. Here is the official production description: When a Jedi isn’t busy being a Jedi - gallivanting across the galaxy, negotiating trade disputes, or cutting the arms off of loudmouth bar patrons, they’re often found at home, relaxing on their easy-chairs and sipping on white-russians. It’s true.…
Read MoreJackass 3D is a mere week away and it's like everywhere you go, Johnny Knoxville and the gang are right in your face with a huge high five. We've seen some awesome advertising, the cast of Jersey Shore give their two cents seemingly every MTV commercial break, a huge reaction after the footage showed at…
Read MoreWanderlust, the Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston comedy about a married couple who try to escape modern society and end up in a hippie commune, is really starting to come together. Much of the cast has already been set—first Justin Theroux (Mulholland Dr.) joined, then Six Feet Under’s Lauren Ambrose hopped on board, and most…
Read MoreWell, we don't much like Mission: Impossible 2 either, but this almost seems like quite a serious move by Tom Cruise in opposition to his M:I2 director John Woo. (It probably isn't anything more than standard business, however.) Mr. Woo has been developing a WWII film called Flying Tigers, and hopes (hoped?) to have Liam…
Read MoreYou might recall that we featured Chris Wahl's Calvin and Hobbs/Star Wars mash-up t-shirt titled "Chewie and Han" in Cool Stuff last month. The artist was selling the tee for $21.73 on Red Bubble. But today Teefury has licensed the tee design for the day, and you can grab it for only $9 plus shipping.…
Read MoreOne more step forward towards new life for MGM. Spyglass Entertainment partners Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum have been named the new joint chairmen/CEOS, which pushes the ailing studio along the path to bankruptcy and restructuring. Deadline says that Barber and Birnbaum won't officially be CEOS until after MGM goes through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. MGM…
Read MoreBriefly: Scant info here, but as Ridley Scott preps his possible Alien prequels, word is starting to come down about actresses who have tested for the lead role. Deadline relays word that Noomi Rapace, the original Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, "met [with Fox and Ridley Scott] and left a strong…
Read MoreAs we've reported on the quick pre-production and casting of Young Adult, written by Diablo Cody and to be directed by Jason Reitman, there has been no studio involved. But with those two behind the camera and Charlize Theron in as the lead, it didn't take much to assume that someone would bite quickly. Now…
Read MoreFrom Robocop to Preacher to Superman, Darren Aronofsky's name has been bandied about endlessly as a potential director for major geek titles, but thus far nothing has come of any of them. A recent offer threatened to change that though, with Fox granting him the reigns to the X-Men Origins: Wolverine sequel, should he choose…
Read MoreFor the past day, the big buzz on Christopher Nolan's third Batman film is that the film will shoot next April in Louisiana. The supposition for the Louisiana location, after the previous two films did so much photography in Chicago, is that Warner Bros. loves the tax breaks that helped out Green Lantern when it…
Read MoreLeave it to the guys behind Good Will Hunting to tell one of the most scandalous stories in Yankee history. A few months back, news broke that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon might team up to co-star in The Trade, a film about New York Yankees pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson who, in 1973,…
Read MoreBriefly: This is really just a confirmation post and a suggestion to those hoping to see a film version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies that the time might have come to take a seat for a while. For the past year, development was brewing on a film adaptation of the novel, with David O.…
Read MoreA nine-year-old girl named Beatrice Delap wrote to Captain Jack Sparrow asking for help staging a "mutiny" against her teachers at the Greenwich-based Meridian Primary School. Johnny Depp, who was filming Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides at the nearby 18th century Old Naval College, decided to pay the girl a visit dressed in…
Read MoreThere have been a great many terrible and/or forgettable film adaptations of stories by speculative fiction master Philip K. Dick. One of the few PKD films that became a legend in its own right -- even if it isn't a very faithful adaptation, or perhaps because of that fact -- is Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.…
Read MoreFox Searchlight has released the first full movie trailer for Danny Boyle's 127 Hours (an initial teaser trailer was released in August). The film tells the story of Aron Ralston (played in the film by James Franco), the mountain climber who amputated his own arm to free himself after being trapped by a boulder for…
Read More/Film LA is my attempt to highlight the coolest film screenings and events happening in Los Angeles. In today's edition, we take a sneak peek at Disneyland California's Tron: Legacy night-time weekend dance party ElecTRONica, Cinefamily's Japanese Gore Night, see HALO: REACH The Show hosted by Paul Scheer featuring Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk, and…
Read MoreBrad Bird is pulling together quite a cast for the fourth Mission: Impossible film, which is now shooting in Europe. Specifically, the evil end of the spectrum is now well-represented by a core trio of actors. Michael Nyqvist from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the lead baddie, but now Anil Kapoor from Slumdog…
Read MoreWill there be a Ghostbusters 3, or will there not be? According to everyone but Bill Murray, the project is definitely happening. Mr. Murray has called it a crock, a myth, and just about every other unkind word a gentleman might use. More specifically, he has disparaged the talents of The Office writer/producers Gene Stupnitsky…
Read MoreHot off the success of The Social Network, director David Fincher is currently directing the American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. We already know the adaptation of the popular book by Stieg Larsson will star Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander and Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist plus Fincher just announced that actors…
Read MoreA new international movie trailer for 20th Century Fox's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has shown up online on trailersland. I'm not sure when or where this trailer is officially suposed to premiere, but you can watch it right now embedded after the jump. Leave your thoughts in the comments…
Read MoreThe mumblecore movement got a big boost this year when Jonah Hill and John C. Reilly starred alongside each other in the arrested development comedy Cyrus, written and directed by the Duplass brothers, two of the pioneers of the genre. Prior to that, half that duo—Mark Duplass, who's also in FX's The League—had starred in…
Read MoreAlmost every single image or every single frame from the trailer for Tron: Legacy screams of "cool", so why is it that these officially licensed Tron Legacy Light Bike Replica Motorcycle Suits look so lame? Is it that they don't really light up? Is it that the models are trying too hard to look cool?…
Read MoreThe beginning of the end is just over a month away and Warner Brothers just tweeted seven brand new character banners from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1, which hits theaters on November 19th. Each banner features an expressive, shadowy close up of several of the main characters including our heroes Harry…
Read MoreHe's French, he's in love and he stinks. Of course, we're talking about Pepé Le Pew, the famously accented Looney Tunes skunk who strolls around Paris looking for beautiful women. Well, it seems that everyone's favorite lovelorn skunk is going to be coming to the big screen and that he'll be voiced not by the…
Read MoreThe Alamo Drafthouse and Mondo Tees have announced that 2nd wave of Ken Taylor's officially licensed Star Wars "Bounty Hunters" posters will go on sale on Thursday, October 7th. The three posters feature 4-Lom, Boba Fett and Dengar. The last set sold out in under ten minutes, so these are expected to also sell-out super…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the Angel: Seasons 1-5 DVD Collectors Set for $50.99, 64% off the $140 list price. I'm sure most Buffy/Whedon fans already own this one, but for those of you who don't yet, you aren't likely to find a better deal than this. And as always, the price…
Read MoreSlash — meaning the iconic Guns N' Roses guitarist, not this website — is getting involved in the horror movie scene. With the assistance of Scout Productions, he and his newly formed production company Slasher Films will produce "contemporary horror fare with a nod to the thrillers of the '70s and '80s". Their first project,…
Read MoreBrandon Routh won't be in the new Zack Snyder-directed Superman, or so we're told. Which is too bad; after meeting resistance when he first got the role, I think a lot of people have grown used to the idea of Mr. Routh as Superman. Earning good will in Scott Pilgrim didn't hurt, through the rather…
Read MoreCBS Films has released a new Red Band movie trailer from their upcoming action film Faster. The George Tillman Jr.-directed revenge thriller stars Dwayne Johnson as "an ex-con pursued by cops and killers as he sets out to avenge his brother's death." Looks like your typical revenge action thriller, but I enjoy The Rock when…
Read MoreColumbia Pictures has released a second movie trailer for Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Tourist, starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp and co-stars Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell and Timothy Dalton. The first trailer was released a few years back, and Russ called it "entertaining in a fluff sort of way." Watch the new trailer after…
Read MoreOne of the great never-made films in action movie history is Yucatan, an epic treasure hunt/heist film concocted by actor Steve McQueen. The star of Bullitt and The Great Escape never got to make the film, but 1700 pages of notes on the film were found among Mr. McQueen's possessions years after his death. The…
Read MorePixar and Disney commander John Lasseter has already directed a few shorts based in his Cars universe, and now he's got a new one about to debut. Heavy Metal Mater is directed by Lasseter and Rob Gibbs, and will premiere on Friday on the Disney Channel. More details after the break. Not being too interested…
Read MoreAMC has released a new trailer for its upcoming small screen adaptation of The Walking Dead, which premieres Halloween night, October 31 at 10pm. The new trailer seems to be more action-focused than the previous advertisements - it is almost edited together like a trailer for an intense action thriller. Executive produced and written by…
Read MoreJohnny Depp's schedule is packed, but when the chance comes up to work on a reality-based dramatic action thriller with the team that won last year's Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture Oscars, you bet he's going to try and make time. So Mr. Depp is now in talks to join Sleeping Dogs…
Read MoreYou may remember a competition that commenced a few months back, pitting /Film against The Totally Rad Show in their annual Summer Movie Game. The purpose of the game was to predict the top ten highest grossing domestic films of the summer—and in order, no less. The teams? /Film's Peter Sciretta, David Chen and Russ…
Read MoreCasting woes continue for Alfonso Cuarón's film Gravity. The movie, co-scripted by the director's son Jonas, requires a strong female lead to anchor a story about a space-bound engineer who has to make her way back to an international space station in the wake of a catastrophe. Angelina Jolie was offered the part, twice, and…
Read MoreAfter making his biggest splash this year with the genetic thriller Splice, director Vincenzo Natali suddenly has the option to do some films he's wanted to do for some time. One of those is an adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel High Rise, which is now being scripted by Richard Stanley in conjunction with Natali.…
Read MoreOne of the biggest and most celebrated Broadway musicals of the past decade is finally coming to the big screen. The film rights to the Tony award winning Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons have just been purchased in an auction that was rumored to have included Steven Spielberg at…
Read MoreTo this day, Sugar Ray Robinson is still frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, but does his life warrant the big screen treatment? Producer Rachael Horovitz (State and Main, About Schmidt) seems to think so, as she and Recount screenwriter Danny Strong have optioned his biography Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to check out these photos from the set of Mission: Impossible 4. Directed by Brad Bird and starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton, Vladimir Mashkov, Michael Nyqvist and Josh Holloway, the film is scheduled for release December 16, 2011…
Read MoreSomeone is likely to call this Wes Anderson's Star Wars. Jeremy Messersmith wrote a nice little song called 'Tatooine,' and he persuaded Eric Power to craft a video for the tune. The result is a two-minute recap of the original Star Wars trilogy, animated using construction paper. The result is rather charming, with a couple…
Read MoreI can't tell if Tales From the Gangster Squad, based on a series of LA Times articles and intended as an ensemble 'actor's piece,' is as much of a priority at Warner Bros. as news would make it seem, or if the film is just an easy headline. The script details an LAPD squad's efforts…
Read MoreHalo: Reach, the latest game in the hugely successful Microsoft video game franchise, might have done what some of the biggest studios in Hollywood could not: once again breath life into a Halo movie. The game, which made $200 million in its first day, has rejuvenated interest in a franchise whose insider back story is…
Read MoreLast time we checked in on Sam Raimi's possible directorial gigs, he was primarily waffling between Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful and his still-in-development World of Warcraft movie, with a possible adaptation of the comic book Earp: Saints for Sinners as a long-range backup plan. Now Raimi has reportedly committed to Oz, which will…
Read MoreBriefly: McG is now working on his romantic comedy with action overtones, This Means War. The core cast -- Chris Pine versus Tom Hardy -- is enough to make me ignore past feelings about McG and generate some interest for the film. Reese Witherspoon is playing the woman the two guys are essentially fighting over,…
Read MoreMonths ago, we heard that the opening of the third Transformers film would partially take place on the moon, and now there's a full title for the film that helps the opening make more sense. According to Seibertron and some Amazon listings, and confirmed by Collider, the title of the film is Transformers: The Dark…
Read MoreA trailer for the November 16th release of Avatar Extended Collector’s Edition has found its way online and, in it, we get our first glimpse of the exclusive, alternative Earth opening that can only be found on the 3-disc set. This set is beyond epic and totally makes up for the bare bones, albeit it…
Read MoreIf you read /Film on a regular basis, you know that we love cool movie posters. And out of everyone on the site, I think I'm probably the most obsessed. I'm always scouring galleries and websites for awesome posters based on pop culture to add to my ever growing addiction collection. So, I'm really digging…
Read MoreKevin Smith tweeted the first photo from his new film Red State late Tuesday night. It's a shot from behind the head of lead character Abin Cooper, played by Michael Parks (Kill Bill Volume 2), who is a preacher loosely based on Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church. Hit the jump to see the…
Read MoreIt's been a busy year for Michael Winterbottom. He made it to Sundance with The Killer Inside Me, which hit theaters earlier this year. He put together The Trip, which reunited him with actor Steve Coogan. That film appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival and was just picked up by IFC. And now Winterbottom…
Read MoreOne of the pictures with the most potential right now is William Friedkin's pitch-black comedy Killer Joe, written by Tracy Letts from his own play of the same title, which won Pulitzer and Tony prizes in 2008. The story is about "a brother (Emile Hirsch) and sister combo who plot the death of their mother…
Read MoreWith only a small amount of time left before the rights to Ghost Rider revert back to Marvel, Sony is quickly moving forward with Ghost Rider 2. Nicolas Cage is back as Johnny Blaze, who transforms into a cycle-riding spirit of vengeance, and Ciaran Hinds recently signed on as the picture's villain. Now a couple…
Read MoreI know what you're thinking: we just saw the trailer for Paramount's Paranormal Activity 2, and it had nothing to do with Tokyo. But there's an interesting strategy going on overseas with the Paranormal Activity series: Paramount has authorized the Japanese production of a 'parallel sequel' called Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night. Check out the…
Read MoreYesterday the news broke that Zack Snyder will direct the Christopher Nolan-produced David Goyer-scripted Superman movie for Warner Bros. But what is David Goyer's pitch on the project?The answer might possibly be revealed, after the jump. Okay, so first a bit of the backstory. Four years ago Goyer was quoted as saying that he doesn't…
Read MoreLet the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson is now in production on his first English-language film, an adaptation of John Le Carre's novel Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy. Now he's got a follow-up set: Mr. Alfredson has signed to direct Larklight for Warner Bros., based on the book by Philip Reeve, which is the first…
Read MoreIn late August, it was reported that 20th Century Fox was looking at Darren Aronofsky and David Slade for the X-Men Origins: Wolverine sequel, while Red director Robert Schwentke had been a frontrunner but dropped out. At the time, I didn't put more weight to the report. Aronofsky has a connection to star/producer Hugh Jackman who…
Read MoreBriefly: It's not much, and this is basically just us helping out the publicity department at Warner Bros., but the website for Green Lantern is now live. All you'll find at the moment is a swirling ball of green light that resolves into the film's lantern logo. There's not even much in the source code…
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. SPLICE Splice has its problems—not least of which is a flat third act horror turn-around—but it's also refreshingly weird and original, taking…
Read MoreKathryn Bigelow, who won the Best Director Oscar for her work on The Hurt Locker, which also won Best Picture, is working again with her Hurt Locker co-writer (and, ahem, Oscar winner) Mark Boal on Sleeping Dogs. The film has been taking some time to come together, but now has one very high-profile actor linked…
Read MoreThis could be pretty tasty: Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, whose 1992 onscreen interaction previously produced one of the most recognizable and oft-quoted scenes in movie history, may work together again. In a comedy, no less. A Few Good Men was almost twenty years ago, but the quotable power of the courtroom showdown between Cruise…
Read MoreNews on The Hobbit is moving faster than a Ringwraith over Mordor. In the last week we've heard that a greenlight on Peter Jackson directed films is imminent, that they're going to be in 3D, and New Zealand actors have issues with the production. Add to that a new report which says the films will…
Read MoreDavid Wain directing Alan Alda is something I can pretty easily picture. Brett Ratner directing Alan Alda is something of which I'd never even conceived, though I suppose Alda would have been right at home in Ratner's The Family Man, with Nic Cage. Regardless, Alda will work with both directors as he's been cast in…
Read MoreBriefly: The mid-budget film Ten got off the ground today, getting around $30m of funding from QED and Norton Herrick so that Patrick Allesandrin (District 13: Ultimatum) can direct Bruce Willis, working from a script by Skip Woods. One interesting point here is that Allesandrin was until just recently set to direct Kane & Lynch,…
Read More"The Michael Bayifier" is a website which lets you transform your photos to make them appear as if they were directed by Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock, Armageddon). Unfortunately the site doesn't include a filter to transform the background into one of Bay's infamous platinum sunsets. via neatorama
Read MoreSony/Columbia Pictures has finally confirmed news that has been rumored for a couple weeks now, and reported as an offer over the weekend -- Superbad, The House Bunny, and Zombieland star Emma Stone has been cast as the female lead in Spider-Man. But we do have a bit of a shocker -- she is not…
Read MoreThis might come as more of a confirmation of something we'd suspected than anything else, but David O. Russell, who'll have The Fighter in theaters soon, will no longer adapt the novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for the screen. Instead, he'll make Old St. Louis, starring Vince Vaughn. Vulture says that scheduling conflicts were…
Read MoreThe day after we reported on the first hint to the future of Marvel's master movie plan, someone a bit more authoritative is talking about it too. Mark Ruffalo, who will be taking over Edward Norton's role as The Hulk/Bruce Banner via mo-cap in The Avengers, has teased a few things that he probably heard…
Read MoreWe don't know very much about the next chapter(s) in the Mad Max saga, which series director George Miller is prepping for a shoot early in 2011. We've known that Tom Hardy is the new Max, and that Charlize Theron has a role in the film(s). Hell, we don't even know what the basic plot…
Read MoreIf you follow a lot of film fans on Twitter, you might have seen a photo in your stream urging you to "Support Unrated Horror." It was made to promote Adam Green's horror sequel Hatchet II starring Kane Hodder, which was released unrated on October 1 after the MPAA refused to give it an R…
Read MoreSomewhere along the line, Director Matt Reeves had seen our coverage of Let Me In, and had enjoyed our enthusiasm yet hesitant intelligent debate (thanks Adam) regarding the film. So when I saw Matt in Austin, he decided to give us a cool exclusive. Reeves showed me an intense deleted sequence from the film, and…
Read MoreThe first rule of Catfish is you do not talk about Catfish. But beware, that rule is being broken this week. The thrilling documentary that first screened at the Sundance Film Festival is at its best when the viewer knows as little about it as possible. Since the movie has been out for a few…
Read MoreWhat if Bollywood created a movie with equal parts Iron Man, I, Robot, Bicentennial Man and featured the score of Academy Award-winning composer A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire)? /Film reader Nathan T sent over the trailer for S. Shankar's The Robot, which looks to be that movie. The film features Rajinikanth in dual roles, as a…
Read MoreHoly AfterEffects! Word out of festivals in the past month wasn't terribly positive with respect to Julie Taymor's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. And now that the first trailer is here it is easy to make a guess or to as to why. The cast is phenomenal: Helen Mirren leads as Prospera, with Russell…
Read MoreWarner Bros has announced the release of the Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box, a limited edition set which celebrates 25 years of creative collaboration between the duo. The box set features more than 19 hours of music, including fan-requested expansions of 13 film scores (in CD cases featuring artwork created by…
Read MoreSummit Entertainment has optioned the right to turn Julie Cross' upcoming sci-fi novel Tempest into a big screen movie. I should note that this has nothing to do with the famous William Shakespeare play or the Julie Taymor-directed big screen adaptation which hits theaters in December. Here is the plot synopsis from the author's blog:…
Read MoreImagine Christopher Nolan released Batman films this quickly. 2010 will see not one, not two, but all three Swedish film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy hit the big screen as a trailer has just been released for the third and film of the series, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest starring Michael Nyqvist…
Read MoreIt's so crazy that we're exactly seven months away from Thor hitting the big screen. Doesn't it feel like just yesterday when we heard that Kenneth Branagh was attached to direct, Chris Hemsworth was going to star or when that first trailer hit the web? And as May 6, 2011 inches closer, so does the…
Read MoreEaling Studios has released a promotional trailer for the John Landis' horror comedy Burke & Hare. As you know, the film is based on the real-life exploits of Irish murderers William Burke and William Hare, who killed at least 17 people in Edinburgh in 1827-8, the film may not hew too closely to the tone…
Read More20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has released the final special feature list and specs for the Avatar Extended Collector's Edition, which will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 16th 2010. The three-disc AVATAR Extended Collector’s Edition Blu-ray and Theatrical Special Edition Re-Release DVD will both feature the original theatrical release, a special edition…
Read MoreThis isn't really a news story, just something to pass along that fans of Transformers might get a kick out of. Last time Shia LaBeouf talked about the quality level of the series, he admitted that the second film wasn't quite up to snuff. "When I saw the second movie, I wasn’t impressed with what…
Read MoreLucas Cruikshank might not be a name known to a lot of you, but his face is familiar to a legion of young YouTube watchers. He's the kid who created Fred, the fast-paced, squeaky-voiced character with enough of a following on YouTube to earn his own feature film. (Even if it did mostly go straight…
Read MoreLast January I moved to Los Angeles, and over the past eight months I've been surprised at just how many cool film events are going on in this city (and it seems that film geeks like you and me just don't know about half of them). Some of the local blogs have listings of screenings,…
Read MoreThomas Haden Church (Spider-Man 3, Sideways) has joined the cast of director Cameron Crowe's (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) adaptation of Benjamin Mee's bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Variety reports that Church will join Matt Damon, who stars as Benjamin Mee, a widowed father who buys a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Looking for…
Read MoreEarlier today news hit that Zack Snyder is in final talks to direct the Christopher Nolan-produced David Goyer-scripted Superman movie for Warner Bros. And while everyone has an opinion on Snyder as a director on this project, I'm still wondering what is the pitch. Four years ago Goyer was quoted as saying that he doesn't…
Read MoreWe'll expand this as more details come in, but at the moment Deadline has a very short report saying Warner Bros. has chosen a director for Superman. It is Zack Snyder, who has helmed 300, Watchmen, Legend of the Guardians and Sucker Punch for the studio. One one hand, not a surprising choice, given that…
Read MoreSeveral years ago, Marvel announced their master, multi-year plan to make a sequel to Iron Man, movies based on Thor and Captain America and then bring it all together with The Avengers. Well, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger are now mere months away, and The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon, is set to…
Read MoreA few months back Universal invited a handful of web editors to the set of the prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing. This new film, also called The Thing for the time being, is directed by Matthis van Heijningen Jr. and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Eric Christian Olsen. We weren't…
Read MoreBad blood never lasts, especially when money and creative control are applied to cleanse a wound. At one point there seemed to be some pretty serious unhappiness between Tony Gilroy and various other parties involved in the Bourne films. While doing press for Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy hadn't seen the just-released The Bourne Ultimatum, and…
Read MoreDoug Sweetland, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his 2009 Pixar-produced computer animated short film Presto (which was attached to WALL-E theatrically) is finally set to direct his first feature length film. A student of CalArts, Sweetland decided to leave school in his final year to join Pixar to become an animator on…
Read MoreAmy Adams is justifiably in demand. She's got The Fighter coming up (trailer here) in which she'll appear opposite Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, and is shooting and/or prepping parts in On the Road and the Janis Joplin biopic Get it While You Can. And now three more pictures are vying for her attention. Chief…
Read MoreWe already knew that the space race between the United States and Russia was going to be a major plot point in Transformers 3. But leave it to director Michael Bay to take that fact to a whole new level. Next year's blockbuster 3D sequel will be shooting on and around NASA's Discovery space shuttle…
Read MoreThere have been quite a few set pics from X-Men: First Class floating about in the past few days. Most of them, however, haven't been very good; the first images to come out showed James McAvoy and some of the rest of the cast, but they were blurry and details were difficult to distinguish. These…
Read MoreTwo years ago we reported that Marvel had tapped the famous animation studio Madhouse to create four anime series for release in 2010, the first two of which would be based on Wolverine and Iron Man. The anime projects are being written by renowned writer Warren Ellis (who most recently wrote the highly acclaimed G.I.…
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. Paramount is trying…
Read MoreLast week we saw a very tantalizing low-key teaser trailer for Joel and Ethan Coen's True Grit, which stars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld. And on Friday a full-length trailer hit theaters. That longer ad for the film is now online. Where the teaser was all atmosphere and foreboding, this…
Read MoreThe Social Network is certainly the main topic of discussion among film fans this weekend. The latest film from director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin, which dramatizes the creation of Facebook, was the number one movie at the box office with $23 million and is currently holding an impressive 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.…
Read MoreJoel Schumacher's new film Trespass struggled a bit to get to the starting line. Nicholas Cage waffled between a couple different roles, making the casting process seem more complicated than normal at the outset. But the film, which co-stars Nicole Kidman, is filming now in Shreveport, Louisiana. And there's a first still of Cage and…
Read MoreA movie poster exhibit recently opened in Montreal, Canada and it comes complete with three beautiful new prints. The exhibit is called "J’ai tué le photographe" (which translates to "I killed the photographer") and it runs through October 30 at the Cinema du Parc. The three prints made for the show are Oldboy by Rhys…
Read MoreHow unusual will Andrew Niccol's new sci-fi film be? How about this: the picture, formerly called I'm.mortal and now untitled for the time being, not only boasts Vincent Kartheiser as the father of Amanda Seyfried, but now has Olivia Wilde playing the mother of Justin Timberlake. What's going on here? We've run a bit of…
Read MoreOnce upon a time, before superhero films became big business, television was the primary means by which comic book superheros reached the masses. Batman and The Incredible Hulk became pop-culture icons thanks largely to television. As did Wonder Woman, thanks to a television movie that spawned one short 1940s-set season on ABC and two 1970s-set…
Read MoreRumors about The Hobbit are starting to swirl faster and faster. Last time we checked in, the report was that a green light would be given to the film any day now. Now there's word from a very reputable source that, when the green light is given, the film(s) will go forward with cameras rolling…
Read MoreYou might recall that Don LaFontaine, the man who provided the voiceover for many of the movie trailers from the 1980's, 1990's and the 2000's had died two years ago at age 68. While LaDontaine was the defining voice of modern movie trailers, a man named Art Gilmore was known as the voice of the…
Read MoreLast week, Art Gilmore, the voice of many of the movie trailers from the 1950's and 1960's died at age 98. His voice has been heard on more than 2,700 trailers. We have rounded up a compilation of 37 trailers featuring Gilmore's famous voice over, embedded after the jump. “Radar Men from the Moon” (1952)…
Read MoreA bidding war recently commenced for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and 20th Century Fox came out the victor. The film is an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Grahame-Smith's novel of the same name, from a script also written by Grahame-Smith. Tim Burton is producing, and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Night Watch) is…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the day for Sunday, October 3rd 2010 is Gone With The Wind 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition for 56% Off. That means you can buy the Blu-ray edition for only $36.99 ($85 msrp) or the DVD edition for only $30.99 ($70 msrp). But act fast as the discount price will…
Read MoreOver the last week, a shortlist has emerged of actresses that caught the collective eye of Sony and Spider-Man director Marc Webb. The prizes: two lead female roles in Spider-Man, the romantic interests Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson. Emma Stone is one name on the list, and she seems like the ideal fit for…
Read MoreBy now you may have already had the chance to read some of the mounds and mounds of /Film coverage of David Fincher's The Social Network, which is out in theaters today. You may have seen our reviews for the film (Peter's review, Adam's review, my review), our interviews with director David Fincher, composer Trent…
Read MoreMatt Reeves' Let Me In (an film adaptation of the Swedish book) arrives in theaters today with some pretty high expectations attached to it. The original Swedish film, Let The Right One In, directed by Tomas Alfredson, is generally regarded by the film geek community as a nearly-flawless genre piece. An American remake seemed crass,…
Read MoreFirst we had Across the Universe featuring songs by The Beatles, then a feature adaptation of Mamma Mia! with the songs of ABBA, and now 20th Century Fox has won the rights to a jukebox musical set to the music of... The Beach Boys. Like the titles preceding it, the movie will work a fictional…
Read MoreDuring my visit to Fantastic Fest in Austin Texas, I got an opportunity to sit down with filmmaker Matt Reeves. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Reeves co-wrote a script that eventually became Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and made his feature directorial debut with The Pallbearer. The film screened at the 1996…
Read MoreWill The Hobbit be greenlit within the next few days? One delay after the other -- notably the very shaky financial situation at MGM -- has pushed the film back from the starting line. But a new report says that Warner Bros., New Line Cinema and MGM 'appear to be close to greenlighting' the two…
Read MoreFor years there have been rumors of a pair of Independence Day sequels that would bring aliens back to Earth, only to find that we'd learned a lot from the previous invasion and re-engineered enough alien tech to put up a formidable fight. Roland Emmerich hasn't done much to expand upon the rumors in the…
Read MoreIn June we saw the first teaser for Paranormal Activity 2, which opens on October 22. But that mostly traded on the cache of the first film, which did shockingly well for Paramount. (Thanks in part to a very smart marketing campaign.) Now there's a full trailer for the sequel, which introduces the new family…
Read MoreA new report claims that director Matthew Vaughn is recreating the opening of Bryan Singer's X-Men in his X-Men prequel/reboot X-Men: First Class. UK Comic/Moviesite Bleeding Cool have learned that they are reshooing the 1944 Poland-based introduction to Eric Lensherr (the boy who later becomes Magneto) shot-for-shot, but with different actors of course. This time…
Read MoreGot a couple of casting possibilities for you guys to mull over, starting with Dwayne Johnson playing the character of Sinbad in Arabian Nights, the $70 million 3D 'spin' on the classic collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales and stories referred to outside of the US as One Thousand and One Nights.…
Read MoreEmma Stone and Mia Wasikowska aren't the only actresses Sony is considering for the love interest(s) in the rebooted Spider-Man. While they are two of the names who have tested or talked with the studio, Sony is also looking at Dianna Agron (Glee), Georgina Haig (Wasted on the Young) and Dominique McElligott (Moon). In addition,…
Read MoreWe just posted about Joel and Ethan Coen's True Grit an hour ago, to announce that there will be a longer trailer in theaters today and online very soon. But from what little we've seen of the film so far it already has the potential to be one of the films of the year, so…
Read MoreLast weekend, I was given the opportunity to attend the New York press junket for The Social Network. In addition to interviewing actor Armie Hammer (The Winklevoss twins), I also sat in on a press conference featuring stars Hammer, Andrew Garfield (Eduardo Saverin), Justin Timberlake (Sean Parker), Jesse Eisenberg (Mark Zuckerberg), and writer Aaron Sorkin.…
Read MoreTo answer my own question: yes and, quite possibly, no. We've known for some time that a new version of The Great Gatsby was on Baz Luhrmann's plate, along with a couple of other pictures like a historical epic, another musical, possibly with Slumdog Millionaire score composer A.R. Rahmann. Now Mr. Luhrmann says he's got…
Read MoreChop Shop has a new t-shirt designed by Timo Meyer which takes 22 classic 80's films reduced to symbols and arranged into the form of an eight. Hit the jump to see the full design in larger resolution. T-shirts are available for $20 on ChopShopStore.com.
Read MoreCinematical dug up this old clip of Galina and Valeri Panov dancing to a beautiful tribute to Star Wars accompanied by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by legendary composer John Williams. Watch the clip right now embedded after the jump.
Read MoreBriefly: Lost producers and Tron Legacy writers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis have sold a new show to ABC. Once Upon a Time will almost certainly beg early comparisons to Lost, as it is based on a large ensemble cast (with actors yet to be determined) and has sci-fi / fantasy elements. Variety describes the…
Read MoreLast week, Paramount Pictures released the first trailer for Joel and Ethan Coen's True Grit. Apparently an extended longer version of the trailer is playing in theaters this weekend. ComingSoon is reporting that the extended trailer will be online early next week, but the only place to see it right now is at your local…
Read MoreThe /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
Read MoreThe Tobolowsky Files returns! This week, Stephen encounters both the natural and the supernatural during the making of Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning. The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen…
Read MoreThe Steven Spielberg-produced J.J. Abrams-directed Super 8, which is shooting right now in West Virginia, has finally been given an official release date. Paramount Pictures will release the Amblin Entertainment/Bad Robot produced movie on... June 10th 2011 This is the same date as Universal's Fast and the Furious sequel Fast Five and the Warner Bros…
Read MoreThis week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley discuss the possibility of new Star Wars films, get excited about an Aronofsky-directed Wolverine film, and ponder whether Mel Gibson truly has been subjected to a double standard. Special guest C. Robert Cargill joins us from Ain't It Cool. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com,…
Read MoreThe /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
Read MoreThis week, Peter Sciretta, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley praise Frank Darabont's The Walking Dead, discuss the groundbreaking 3D of Jackass 3D, and lambaste the MPAA's ridiculous Blue Valentine NC-17 rating. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us on Sunday (10/24) at 10…
Read MoreThis past summer, a movie called Splice hit theaters everywhere, and while we on the /Filmcast enjoyed it greatly, the rest of America didn't so much. The movie was considered a box office dud. In this episode of the /Filmcast: After Dark, we chat with Splice's director, Vincenzo Natali, about the aftermath of Splice's release,…
Read MoreThere's a pretty great new poster for Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen and Jay Chou. The slice above shows only part of the design, and the whole thing is much more representative of the overall feel I expected from having Mr. Gondry as a director. Check it out in full after the…
Read MoreIn all the times I've seen The Wizard of Oz, I've never one wondered how the wizard got there. Maybe that's just me. Either way, the back story of the man behind the curtain who solves Dorothy and her friend's problems is the topic of Oz the Great and Powerful, which will be director Sam…
Read MoreBriefly: Lest you ever think to yourself that J.J. Abrams already has more work set up than one man can possibly handle, here's a story about the guy taking on one more project. According to Pajiba, he's producing a film called Infinitely Polar Bear. Despite the immediate conclusions to which Lost fans might leap, this…
Read MoreIt's been a while since we had any substantial news on The Last Voyage of Demeter. The film expands upon one particular section of Bram Stoker's Dracula, in which Dracula is transported to England via the ship Demeter. The ship arrives in London with all aboard apparently dead. Interesting story to base a film upon…
Read MoreThis week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss whether they're going to see Star Wars in 3D, try and figure out if Zack Snyder would make a good Superman director, praise the claustrophobic pleasures of Buried, and ponder a Bourne franchise with no Jason Bourne. Special guest director Vincenzo Natali joins us for…
Read MoreThe /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
Read MoreThe last time the TV show Wild Wild West was revamped, it resulted in an atrocious Barry Sonnenfeld film that stands as one of the more forgettable big-budget pictures of the '90s. But the last time Ronald D. Moore revamped a show the result was the new Battlestar Galactica, which was better than anyone would…
Read MoreThis week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss the passing of several great cinema icons, praise the brilliance of Louis CK, and delve into the state of online journalism and film criticism. Special guest Anthony Ha joins us from VentureBeat. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail…
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