This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED The Disappearance of Alice Creed opens with two men prepping for what we can only assume—given the…
Read More"The Ghostbusters are back! And they're sort of a**holes." This latest video by Funny or Die is directed by Ben Weinstein (cinematographer of Wet Hot American Summer) and features the sketch group Chubby Skinny Kids (Dan Gregor, Doug Mand & Adam Pally), a comedy trio originally from The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in NY and…
Read MoreBriefly: Lot of news coming out of Viacom's quarterly earnings report today. For gamers, there's the news that Viacom is looking to sell Rock Band developer Harmonix. On the movie side, Viacom COO Tom Dooley listed several films that Viacom and Paramount are looking to have produced for release after September 2011. They include the…
Read MoreNo, this isn't news about another film based on the life of John Belushi. It is notice that producers Ralph Singleton and Joan Singleton have optioned the Kathy Charles novel John Belushi is Dead, in which a pair of high school friends spend their time visiting the scenes of celebrity deaths. Let's go to the…
Read MoreThis story is almost bait for fans of John Frankenheimer, but in reality I'm reporting on it because there's one good idea in here. And, frankly, I'm utterly mystified by the rest. Peter Douglas, the son of Kirk Douglas, has chosen a new direction for his company Vincent Pictures: he'll develop only remakes and sequels…
Read MoreJust in case you thought there was any chance that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp would fail to re-team for Dark Shadows, this is the point where you forget it. The film has been a project on the actor's wishlist for a long time, and while it has recently seemed like the planned January shoot…
Read MoreThere's a bunch of varied news from the Shire today, including, appropriately, a new image of the Shire. First up is some minor casting clarification. While Ian McKellen has listed The Hobbit on his own website as a 201? project (that question mark is verbatim, not my typo) and therefore seemingly confirms his participation, Ron…
Read MoreHow much is Tron: Legacy going to make at the box office? Walt Disney Pictures clearly believes they not only have a hit, but a franchise. They're already developing a sequel, an animated television series and theme park rides based on the property. But THR is reporting that "preliminary surveys conducted by Hollywood tracking firms"…
Read MoreHeat Vision has gotten a hold of the short list of actors (and actresses) being considered for the lead roles in director Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Killer. he 3D fantasy/adventure project has been billed as an "adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend." The plot summary is as follows: "When a princess…
Read MoreFreestyle Releasing have released the first movie trailer for Frankie and Alice. Directed by Geoffrey Sax (Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, White Noise), the drama stars Halle Berry as "a young woman with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and not give in to her racist alter-personality." The movie co-stars Stellan Skarsgård…
Read MoreWhat's better than having one new David Cronenberg film to look forward to? (The Dangerous Method, now in post-production.) How about another David Cronenberg film that seems to be coming together fast? We've known that the director had lined up Colin Farrell and Marion Cotillard for an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis. Now he…
Read MoreJackass 3 had a huge opening weekend and has pulled in more than $150m so far. That meant that the rumored follow-up Jackass 3.5 became a sure thing. We've known that the film -- a whole new feature-length set of stunts -- would not be a theatrical release. Now Paramount has announced final plans for…
Read MoreBriefly: Ray Wise is one of the more imposing actors around. Though he sometimes gets cast in middling fare, the man retains a powerful sense of presence and is always a welcome sight. Twin Peaks and RoboCop fans will never forget him, but there are a great many entertaining performances in his long career. (I'll…
Read MoreBriefly: Fox recently picked up the J.J. Abrams-produced series Alcatraz, which explores the mysteries and secrets of the famous prison. Jorge Garcia (Lost) was recently cast as one significant character, an Alcatraz historian and expert, and now Sarah Jones (Sons of Anarchy) has nabbed the female lead. As Germain wrote not long ago, "the show…
Read MoreApparently, late November means it's all about Greedo. The Rodian bounty hunter who hung out with Anakin Skywalker on Tatooine as a kid and famously got blown away by Han Solo in Mos Eisely (or maybe shot first, depending on your age) has become something of a meme in recent days. First, there's an on…
Read MoreThere are new posters for three films today: indie and festival darling Rabbit Hole gets a new one-sheet that is very different from the last, while delayed thriller The Adjustment Bureau and I Am Number Four both get their own new images. See 'em all after the break. If you didn't like the slightly cheeky…
Read MoreAwards season is definitely upon us, with the Gotham awards and Independent Spirit nominations kicking things off. Now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the shortlist of ten animated and live-action shorts that will be considered for Oscar nominations. Three to five nominees will be selected from each category, and the…
Read MoreDespite a rather public battle with throat cancer in the last few months, Michael Douglas appears to be gathering his strength. He's been looking more and more healthy in the past few weeks (just look at him here) and now it seems he's prepping to go back to work. In a new interview, the…
Read MoreWho better to put into words the talent and long lasting legacy of Leslie Nielsen than writer/director/producer David Zucker? David, along with his brother Jerry and friend Jim Abrahams, cast Nielsen in several of his most memorable roles, such as Airplane and The Naked Gun. Those films helped reinvent the then serious actor as a…
Read MoreAs 2010 comes to a close, The Social Network is one of the films leading the award season pack. That, along with Toy Story 3, Inception, The King's Speech, The Kids Are All Right and recent Gotham Award winner Winter's Bone are just a few of the films vying for awards leading up to the…
Read MoreAfter Winter's Bone won Best Feature at the first award ceremony of the season Monday, it kept its momentum up Tuesday by getting seven nominations at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. That's more nominations than any other film on the list, beating out fellow Best Feature nominees 127 Hours, Black Swan, Greenberg, and The Kids…
Read MoreFox Searchlight has released a video clip from Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan on Yahoo Movies. The clip gives us a look at one of the film's ballet sequences, featuring Natalie Portman as Nina in a New York production of Swan Lake. Aronofsky decided to shoot the dance sequences using handheld cameras on stage, giving a…
Read MoreWhat if Optiumus Primes' alternative mode wasn't a big mac truck but instead a gold cart? The latest t-shirt design from Glennz Tees imagines this possibility. This Transformers-parody tee is available in sizes Small to XXXL on GlennzTees.com. Check out the full design after the jump.
Read MoreAfter the long holiday weekend, it seems like Hollywood is back in full swing. Monday we had announcements of new projects for Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry and Kevin Smith and Tuesday is more of the same. Though previously rumored, Tom Hanks has now been confirmed to star in Kathryn Bigelow's follow-up to her Oscar-winning work…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series on DVD for only $80.99, 60% off the $200 list price, and on Blu-ray for only $119.99, 60% off the $300 msrp. They are also selling Caprica: Season 1.0 for $32.99, 34% off the $50 suggested retail price. The price…
Read MoreNext year might be looking up for Mark Wahlberg. After a couple of years characterized by films like The Happening, Max Payne and The Lovely Bones, he made some audiences happy with The Other Guys, and will go into 2011 with David O. Russell's The Fighter under his belt. And while there's been fan outcry…
Read MoreTonight, the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) held the 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards ceremony in New York City’s Cipriani Wall Street. The winners were comprised mostly of films which played earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. A total of 30 films received nominations in seven competitive categories, including: Best Feature, Best Documentary,…
Read MoreWhen Peter recently corresponded with Kevin Smith about recent quotes concerning the future of the filmmaker's career, Mr. Smith said that he was about to announce the lead of his hockey comedy Hit Somebody. Indeed, today he posted the fourteenth episode of his Hollywood Babble-On podcast, during which he announced that Nicholas Braun, who was…
Read MoreOver the past year, there has been a low murmur of news about an adaptation of the David Mitchell novel Cloud Atlas. Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run, The International) has been writing, possibly with the intent to direct, and the Wachowski siblings have been linked as producers. Offers reportedly went out to Tom Hanks, Halle…
Read MoreIt's been about ten minutes since we had some Tron Legacy content on the site, so it's high time for a bit of new stuff. But this is a little different, and quite cool. Jason Bentley, host of the 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' show on famed radio station KCRW and music director for the station, also…
Read MoreIn all of the reviews I've read for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, one thing that is often overlooked is the production design of the film. I was on set for a couple scenes filmed in Natalie Portman's character Nina's apartment, and was blown away by not only how real the environment felt, but how much…
Read MoreAmazon is having a Cyber Monday Sale all day today. Click here to see what movies are available on DVD abd Blu-Ray. Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Collector's Edition for PS3 or Xbox 360 for $59.99, 25% off the $80 retail price. The price will be…
Read MoreOn this week's CBS News 60 Minutes broadcast, U2's Bono and The Edge were interviewed about the making of the highly anticipated comic book musical adaptation, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Earlier this morning we featured a look at the initial buzz coming from the first preview screening of the stage production (read that here).…
Read MoreCarlos Cuarón, brother of director Alfonso Cuarón, co-writer of Y Tu Mamá También and writer/director of Rudo Y Cursi, has directed a new short film. The Second Bakery Attack is based on the story of the same name by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, and stands as one of a very few adaptations of the author's…
Read MoreThis morning it was reported that Irvin Kershner, who directed the best of the Star Wars feature films, The Empire Strikes Back, had died in Los Angeles. Star Wars creator/producer/director George Lucas has issued a statement in memory of Kershner. The following statement was written by George Lucas, and released on StarWars.com: "The world has…
Read MoreMovie City News has an indepth 30-minute interview with director Sofia Coppola (Virgin Suicides, Lost In Translation), talking about her new film Somewhere. And anyone who reads /Film on a regular basis knows that we love long form interviews with auteur filmmakers. Hit the jump to watch the interview now. Sofia Coppola's (Lost in Translation)…
Read MoreCharismatic and talented film director Guillermo del Toro is seemingly everywhere these days. Whether he's interviewing Edgar Wright, producing movies, or creating new TV series', it seems the jolly man behind Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's Backbone and the Hellboy films has his nose in everything. Yet del Toro knows none of his more recent work…
Read MoreThe moment where I start to wonder if Cowboys & Aliens might just work isn't when I'm standing just to the edge of set and Harrison Ford strolls by all dirty, bloody and decked out in period garb. The actor cuts an impressive figure as a beat-down cowboy, but anyone could have predicted that. The…
Read MoreDonnie Darko/The Box director Richard Kelly has seen Kevin Smith's upcoming indie horror film Red State, and spoke briefly about the film while appearing at Smith's Smodcastle screening of Southland Tales. What did Richard think? Hit the jump! "I have never seen a filmmaker reinvent himself the way you just have. I won't say anything…
Read MoreThe two teasers we've seen so far for the HBO series adaptation of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones showed very little. What we did see had the color bled out to fit the dour tone of each teaser, and while the brief images were tantalizing, there was no way to get a real sense…
Read MoreIn a fairly interesting move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced that James Franco and Anne Hathaway will co-host the 83rd Academy Awards. The broadcast will air on February 27, 2011. The announcement comes courtesy of an Academy press release (via Deadline). Franco and Hathaway have both appeared on the telecast…
Read MoreMany of you probably have seen the 2007 documentary The King of Kong (and if you haven't, Netflix it now!). The movie follows the battle between Steve Wiebe and noted Donkey Kong/vintage video game champion Billy Mitchell, over the world record for Donkey Kong. Since the release of the film, it has been fun tracking…
Read MoreMichael Bay was once a vocal opponent of 3D; the format certainly seemed at odds with his frenetic shooting and editing style. But Transformers: Dark of the Moon was shot natively in 3D, and over the Thanksgiving holiday a report surfaced that there were 'snags' in the 3D process for the third film in the…
Read MoreRichard Kelly recently appeared at Kevin Smith's Smodcastle in Hollywood California to present a screening of Southland Tales. Before the screening, Smith recorded a one and a half hour conversation with Kelly which begins with his childhood and spans his filmmaking career. It's a very interesting conversation and definitely worth checking out (you can listen…
Read MoreToday's tee on TeeFury is a Star Wars/Super Mario Bros t-shirt mash-up by glenoneill titled "Koopa the Hutt". The design is on sale for only $9 plus shipping, but will only be available today (November 29th 2010) and today only. So act fast!
Read MoreIrvin Kershner, who directed the first (and best) sequel to Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, has died in Los Angeles. The AFP reports that he had been suffering from a long illness, citing his goddaughter, but does not otherwise report a specific cause of death. The director was born in Philadelphia in 1923, and…
Read MoreSpider-Man: Turn Off The Dark had its first preview performance on Broadway Sunday night. So how did Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor's (Titus, Frida, Across the Universe) $65 million big stage comic adaptation hold up? Find out after the jump. Disclaimer: It should be noted that a preview performance is not final, much like a…
Read More/Film's newest writer Germain Lussier (that's me) will be appearing live on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's The Ron and Fez Show at approximately 1:30 p.m. EST, 10:30 a.m. PST, Monday November 29 to discuss all things movies. Ron and Fez appear with Opie and Anthony, Kevin Smith and Sam & Dave on The Virus, which…
Read MoreThere was originally a great deal of speculation about whether or not Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit will be shot in 3D. When Guillermo del Toro was directing the film he seemed resistant to 3D, though he admitted that conversations had taken place about using the tech. Since his departure, remaining producer and new…
Read MoreManitoba radiostation CJOB 68 is reporting that comic actor Leslie Nielsen has passed away in hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida after complications from pneumonia. The website for the station has posted supposed audio of the news from Nielsen's nephew Doug Nielsen. I am unable to find a second confirmation of this report, but the news is…
Read MoreIs Kevin Smith planning to retire from filmmaking following his announced hockey film Hit Somebody and a third and final Clerks movie? A few of the blogs are reporting on a selected comment made by Smith from an interview published in this week's Boston Phoenix (found via NerdBastards). Here is what Smith told interviewer Barry…
Read MoreJulie Taymor's musical Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark is the holiday gift that keeps on giving in 2010. You want to see Spidey flying onstage? How about the musical version of J. Jonah Jameson (Edit: or Hammerhead, probably) and Kraven the Hunter? It's all right here in two new video spots. Plus, just because Spidey…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released a fourth video clip from Tron Legacy. The first clip featured Quorra (Olivia Wilde) saving Sam (Garrett Hedlund) from possible death, escaping through some off road terrain on a four-wheel Light Runner (one of the new vehicles introduced in the sequel). If you missed that clip, you can watch it…
Read MoreBriefly: IFC Films snapped up James Gunn's film Super at the Toronto Film Festival, and now the picture has a release date. The dark, strange comedy will hit theaters on April 1, 2011. April Fool's Day may be a very appropriate release date for a film about a guy (Rainn Wilson) who becomes a low-rent…
Read More"I ain't 'fraid of no ghost," but I am afraid when more Ghostbusters 3 information comes out. Much like a fourth Indiana Jones film, Ghostbusters 3 is one of those projects I dreamed about as a kid but never thought I'd see happen. Yet with every rumor about a script, Bill Murray appearance and production…
Read MoreAfter faltering with The International, acclaimed and very interesting filmmaker Tom Tykwer has made his first German film in several years. The movie is Drei (Three) and we've seen a couple of stills in the past months, but haven't had a lot of info. Turns out there's a German trailer for the film, and while…
Read More[Editor's note: The following article debatably contains a spoiler for the original Zombieland.] It's not crazy to surmise that Zombieland went from good to great when Bill 'Ghostbustin'' Murray hit the screen. His cameo in the Ruben Fleischer directed, Rhett Reese/Paul Wernick horror comedy took an entertaining film to a whole new level because it…
Read MoreWe don't normally post a lot of television show behind the scenes featurettes, but this one is pretty funny. Transformers Prime executive producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (you know, the screenwriters behind the Transformers films and Cowboys & Aliens) give us an uncensored look at the production of their new animated television series. For…
Read MoreMondo Tees released their latest Star Wars print today but that's not all. They also have new posters based on two of the best films ever made: The Bridge on the River Kwai and Dr. Strangelove. See the full images after the jump along with all the details. They're on sale now at Mondo. Dr.…
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 MoreToday's T-shirt over at TeeFury is a Star Wars-inspired Oakland Raiders-parody design by Captain RibMan titled "Tusken Pride". You can buy the shirt for only $9 plus shipping. The design is only available today (Friday, November 26th 2010) and today only, so act fast! Hit the jump to see the full design.
Read MoreThe Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Blu-ray has been out for over a week now and, chances are, you've already burnt it out. The visuals look insane, the sound blows out your speakers and the special features highlight how much love and care went into the project. It's an awesome disc. But, now that you…
Read MoreFaster has a hell of an opening. Dwayne Johnson -- imposing, singularly determined and looking like The Rock for the first time in quite a while -- is released from prison. On foot, he trucks over to an auto scrap yard containing a shrouded Chevelle. As the car is revealed, the song 'Goodbye My Friend'…
Read MoreMaking trailers for a studio film -- for any film, really -- means slogging through a lot of politics. What do producers and marketers want featured, and how, and for how long? Even a sharp editor can be confounded by a swarm of notes about a trailer edit. Disney's trailers for Tron Legacy have been…
Read MoreJust as the title says, call this a confirmation of some of the early stories about the fourth Mission: Impossible film. Specifically, reports said that a second actor would be sought who could continue the series in the absence of Tom Cruise, who has anchored the first three films and is presumably the lead character…
Read MoreNow that Sony has the cast of Spider-Man almost all set, the other reboot the studio is slowly prepping is 21 Jump Street. Emma Stone, who plays Gwen Stacy opposite Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker in Marc Webb's Spider-Man, was rumored as a part of the cast of Jump Street. But now she's said that…
Read MoreIt's award season, and The Hollywood Reporter has begun posting their series of roundtable discussions with the contenders. Earlier this month they posted an one-hour discussion between screenwriters Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours), Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3), John Wells (The Company Men), Todd Phillips (Due Date) and David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit…
Read MoreWalt Disney Animation Studios has released a short two-minute video celebrating the release of their latest film, by counting down the 49 animated features produced over the past seven decades -- from 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to 2010's Tangled. The video is set to the song "Dreams" by Brandi Carlile. Watch the…
Read MoreWhether you have kids, or are going to have them in the future, chances are you think about how you are going to raise them. How would you choose to discipline them? Do you encourage them to participate sports? Force them to eat all foods? How important will religion be in their upbringing? And then…
Read MoreTime to crown a new champ in the 'awful Photoshop' category of movie poster design. The previous winner was Takers, which took the title thanks to the unnaturally large heads of T.I. and Hayden Christiansen. But now, thanks to the melting face of Liam Neeson, the poster for Unknown is the latest big loser. We've…
Read MoreAs you know by now, Telltale Games is about to release a series of new episodic video games based off the Back to the Future franchise. Series Co-creator/co-writer/co-producer Bob Gale is grandfathering the five-episode game series with Christopher Lloyd reprising his role as Doc Brown in the games, providing his likeness and recording a bunch…
Read MoreSometimes a healthy skepticism for rumor makes one look foolish when one turns out to be true. Hopefully you can't blame me for chuckling a bit when we heard that David O. Russell wants Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci to join the cast of his video game adaptation Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. But according to…
Read MoreGot about 46 seconds to spare? If so, there are few better uses of your movie-loving time then watching these five mini sizzle reels from Zack Snyder's upcoming Sucker Punch, set for release March 25. The film stars Emily Browning as Baby Doll, an abused young girl who is forced into to a mental hospital…
Read MoreUp in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's probably just another rumor about Zack Snyder's Superman. Bits of most-likely-false information about the Snyder directed, Christopher Nolan produced and David Goyer penned Man of Steel reboot have been jumping tall buildings in a single bound over the last few days and now…
Read MoreBilly Bob Thornton hasn't written and directed a film in almost ten years, and to hear him tell it, that's in part because he's a bit detached from the current film scene. But he and prior collaborator Tom Epperson (with whom he wrote The Gift and One False Move) have written a new script called…
Read MoreI don't always agree with best-selling author Stephen King's opinions, but I still love reading his thoughts about the film world. King has published his annual listing of the top 10 films of the year in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. His 2008 list included Death Race, Lakeview Terrace and The Ruins. In 2009,…
Read MoreThe T-Shirt of the Day on TeeFury is Matt Dearden's "Frakking Awful", a design mash-up featuring Statler & Waldorf, the two curmudgeonly critics from The Muppets, and Adama and Tigh from Battlestar Galactica. It doesn't get much awesomely geekier than this. As with all of Teefury's designs, the shirt is only $9 plus shipping --…
Read MoreDirector Todd Phillips has been trying to keep plot details for The Hangover: Part II under wraps, but it seems every day more little bits leak out. Be it the Bangkok-location, the cameos that did happen and didn't happen. On Tuesday, Warner Bros released their official 2011 preview kit, which is where that Sherlock Holmes…
Read MoreAmazon is running some awesome pre-Black Friday deals all this week. A small reminder that Amazon has the Alien Anthology [Blu-ray] Collection on sale this week for $70.49, 50% off the $140 msrp. A listing of the special features can be found after the jump. This deal is good through November 27th 2010. And they…
Read MoreYou know a movie is high concept when it can be sold with a set of footprints. The Weinstein Company just released a teaser one-sheet for Apollo 18, their found footage sci-fi thriller produced by Timur Bekmambetov and directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego. Featuring the tagline "There's a reason we've never gone back to the Moon,"…
Read MoreThe film once called Shark Night 3D is now called The Untitled David R. Ellis 3D Shark Thriller, but at least it has a distributor. Relativity Media has picked up domestic rights to the film, which is in post-production right now, and will release it wide on a TDB date in 2011. As we've reported…
Read MoreThis is somewhere between a new image and a first look at Sherlock Holmes II. We've seen set photos of Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law in the Guy Ritchie-directed sequel to last year's action revival of Sherlock Holmes. But this is the first official still photo, and also the first image of Noomi Rapace…
Read MoreLeave it to hard nose, take no guff entertainment reporter Judd Apatow to uncover the real dirt on Harry Potter. Apatow, best known as the writer and director of films such as The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Funny People, recently did an interview related to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part…
Read MoreDespite the headline proclaiming that Russell Brand voices the Easter Bunny in Hop -- and, indeed, he does -- there's nothing to that effect in this teaser. All you'll see of the film is some drumming bunny animation. And what of the story with James Marsden playing a guy who takes in the Easter Bunny…
Read MoreWith The Fighter getting some attention and Warner Bros. developing Grudge Match, are we soon going to see a mini-glut of boxing movies? There are worse things, if so. The latest to hit the development decks is Hands of Stone, which would see Gael Garcia Bernal playing Roberto Durán, who famously lost to Sugar Ray…
Read MoreGood news: after some concern over the fate of Universal's prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing, we've now got an October 14, 2011 release date for the film. The Thing (yep, still a confusing title for a prequel to a film called The Thing) was scheduled for April, but had that date scrapped not long…
Read MoreThe Lone Ranger has been slowly picking a path back to movie screens. In September word filtered out that Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski was in talks to direct a new version of the story for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, with Johnny Depp in the cast. Now it is official: Disney is moving forward…
Read MoreWe've seen a poster and one image from Mars Needs Moms, the Robert Zemeckis-produced Disney film that adapts Berkeley Breathed's book of the same name. Both suggested that quite a few liberties had been taken with the material, and now there's a trailer to show just how far Disney has taken it. First thing I…
Read MoreThere are probably a lot of people who watched David Fincher's The Social Network without ever realizing that the Winklevoss twins were played by one man rather than actual twins. The man is Armie Hammer, and his performance as the twin Harvard students who hired Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) to create a social netoworking site…
Read MoreThe most interesting thing about the Microsoft Kinect video game add-on is definitely not the games or anything officially released thus far -- it is the hacks that the hacking community has been able to turn out thus far (and this is just the beginning). One of the hacks allows you to wield a lightsaber…
Read MoreIf you've been following the poster game at all recently, you know that Kevin Tong has been killing it. He did an incredible poster for Moon a few months back and has an amazing set of prints based on Wes Anderson films currently on sale (how these are not sold out yet is beyond me).…
Read More"Stainboy, using his obvious expertise, was called in to investigate mysterious glowing goo on the gallery floor." That's the opening to Tim Burton's Twitter-based exquisite corpse experiment, which is weaving a story for his nervous watercolor superhero Stainboy, 140 characters at a time. What better technique for Tim Burton than the exquisite corpse, which is…
Read MoreToday has seen major developments for the TV version of the graphic novel Locke & Key. Earlier director Mark Romanek was revealed to be in talks to helm the pilot episode of the Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci-produced adaptation of Joe Hill's work. Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) serves as showrunner and pilot…
Read MoreDisney and Pixar know they can win an Oscar for Best Animated Film. That's just too easy. So this year, with that award all but locked up once again, they've decided to take on the big boys. They want the Oscar for Best Picture. To that end, an elaborate Oscar campaign for Toy Story 3…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released yet another new featurette for Tron Legacy titled "Vehicles" which is about, you guessed it, the lightcycles and other transport technology in the world of Tron. Hit the jump to watch the featurette now. Official One Pager: TRON: LEGACY (In Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D) WALT DISNEY PICTURES Website:…
Read MoreThis might be the time to wonder what the odds are of actually seeing the reboot of The Crow on which we've reported over the past year and change. Stephen Norrington was attached to direct for some time, and he'd written a script that, with polish work done by Nick Cave, was generating interest. An…
Read MoreIn David O. Russell's The Fighter, Christian Bale plays a boxer with a great defensive mindset. Well, those evasive maneuvers are going to be put to the test in the next few months. The actor is almost certain to get his first Oscar nomination for The Fighter, set for wide release on December 17, and…
Read MoreLogically, joking about Schindler's List is the definition of bad taste. But humor has no logic. And because it's by far the most well-known film set in the Holocaust, it's the go to punchline whenever you want to evoke that horrific event in a humorous way. Case in point, this trailer for a post-converted 3D…
Read MoreIn September, we posted a teaser trailer for English writer/director Mike Le Han's short period film titled Mrs. Peppercorn's Magical Reading Room. Han has released a second trailer on Quiet Earth, this one featuring completed special effects. Shot earlier this year, the dark fantasy short is about "a little girl who meets Mrs Peppercorn a…
Read MoreThanks to a tip from /Film reader Vradst, we have discovered a weird unexplained video credited to District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp included in the latest iPad digtial version of WiReD Magazine (issue number 18.12). The video appears on the splash page before the big Tron: Legacy cover story, and is credited simply as "Video…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the Harry Potter Years 1-6 Giftset on DVD for $23.99, and on Blu-ray for $39.99, both are 60% off the Warner Bros list price. As with all of the Gold Box Deals, the price will disappear at Midnight so act fast! A small reminder that Amazon…
Read MoreI like the small trend of creating music videos that act as trailers. It's hardly a new idea, but we've recently seen one for Tron Legacy, and now there's one for Black Swan. Since the score for Darren Aronofsky's film is largely based on Tchaikovsky, the music here jumps off from the classical score to…
Read MoreEarlier today we had real confirmation that (once again) a reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is in the works. This time there's even a screenwriter, Whit Anderson, and a studio, Warner Bros. Predictably, there was a fan outcry against any version of Buffy that does not involve Joss Whedon. Now Joss Whedon has released…
Read MoreDirector Jon Favreau recorded an audio commentary for the recently released movie trailer for Cowboys & Aliens over on MTV. The freeze frame the screen to allow Favreau to provide an indepth explaination of everything you see in this first trailer. Hit the jump to watch the trailer with commentary. Favreau also answered a few…
Read MorePixar Animation Studios produced the following video for ItGetsBetter.org, a movement which believes that "everyone deserves to be respected for who they are." Many LGBT youth can't picture what their lives might be like as openly gay adults. They can't imagine a future for themselves. So let's show them what our lives are like, let's…
Read MoreParamount Pictures has released a movie trailer for the official sequel to Mark Waters' 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls. Oh and this isn't a joke trailer at Lindsay Lohan's expense, it's actually a real movie --- but don't worry, it's just another one of those horrible direct to dvd sequels produced by "Paramount Famous Productions",…
Read MoreOne of the most striking and surprising aspects of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I was the third-act animated sequence that explains the backstory of the Deathly Hallows. It's a stylish and appropriately ominous piece of film. Now the director of that sequence, Ben Hibon, is set to direct a "fantasy action thriller"…
Read MoreAs you know by now, Fox has handed in a series commitment to the Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci-produced small screen adaptation of the graphic novel, Locke & Key by Stephen King's son, Joe Hill. Steven Spielberg is involved (via: DreamWorks Television), and Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, War of the Worlds) is…
Read MoreWe've seen Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard), the mutated scientist nemesis of Green Lantern, in a few promo pics and the film's first trailer. (And in spy photos published six months ago.) Now here's a new look at the character, which shows off a wealth of wonderful detail in his makeup. The image was published in…
Read MoreWe've heard in the past that a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot or continuation might be in the offing. Now it is official: Warner Bros and Atlas Entertainment are developing a new film based on the series, and Whit Anderson is writing. Joss Whedon, who wrote the original 1992 film and creatively spearheaded the TV…
Read MoreThere's been a lot of talk about the relative under-performance of The Princess and the Frog and how that led to a film about Rapunzel being renamed Tangled. The idea is that audiences now, especially male audiences, aren't interested in princess stories, and by extension fairytales. (Shh, no one tell the people putting together Snow…
Read MoreBilly Bob Thornton's directorial career has described an odd path. He broke out in a big way with his feature expansion of Sling Blade (from the short Some Call it a Sling Blade, directed by the late George Hickenlooper) and then went through the Weinstein wringer with All the Pretty Horses. His last film was…
Read MoreLast month it was revealed that Jaden Smith had been cast in director M. Night Shyamalan's new project, a science fiction film scripted by ournalist-turned-screenwriter Gary Whitta (The Book of Eli) titled One Thousand A.E. At the time we didn't know much about the project, with story details being kept tightly under wraps. The only…
Read MoreNetflix giveth and Netflix taketh away. As a fulfillment of the plan we reported not too long ago, Netflix has now launched a subscription plan that will offer only streaming video for a mere $7.99 per month. But along with that service comes a price hike for almost all disc-based subscriptions. All the pricing and…
Read MoreIf you saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 at an IMAX theatre over the weekend, then chances are you probably caught the trailer for Warner Bros' upcoming IMAX 3D animal documentary Born to be Wild 3D. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this film "documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who…
Read MoreThe fact that auteur Darren Aronofsky will soon direct The Wolverine for Fox has caused some consternation amongst onlookers. (Not least from us and many of our readers.) Why would the man who has captivated audiences with challenging films like Requiem For a Dream, The Wrestler and Black Swan end up making a big studio…
Read MoreOne of the most intriguing films currently in production is Angelina Jolie's directorial debut, a still untitled love story set during the Bosnian War. The film encountered some unfounded controversy over its subject matter, there by removing focus from the real story: Is Angelina Jolie as talented a director as she is an actress? Well,…
Read MoreThe Guardian visited Martin Scorsese on the set of Hugo Cabret at UK's Shepperton studios. The part of the interview I found most interesting is the filmmaker's thoughts on shooting his first movie using 3D cameras. "Every shot is rethinking cinema," he enthuses, "rethinking narrative – how to tell a story with a picture. Now,…
Read MoreThe online comic strip Chuck & Beans takes on the phenomenon of Netflix Guilt. Hit the jump to see the strip. Newsweek once explained Netflix Guilt as follows: "City of God," the award-winning 2002 Miramax film about the slums of Rio de Janeiro, is the most expensive film I've never watched. By my calculation, it…
Read MoreWho's ready for a round up of TV news? Jorge Garcia, best known as Hurley from Lost, is re-teaming with Lost producers J.J. Abrams and Elizabeth Sarnoff to start on their mysterious Fox pilot Alcatraz and we've finally got some details on the plot. That same station has moved another Abrams property, Fringe, to the…
Read MoreLast we heard that Louis Leterrier, director of The Incredible Hulk and Clash of the Titans, was circling a big screen adaptation of Brian K Vaughan's Y: The Last Man, but Warner Bros/New Line don't know what to do with the property (Leterrier said in a later interview "I'd love to do it, but I…
Read MoreYou may remember that sometime after Marc Webb signed on to direct Sony's Spider-Man reboot, Community star Donald Glover began an online campaign to try to get an audition for the role of Peter Parker. We all know how it turned out -- the equally awesome Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) ended up winning the…
Read MoreIn honor of Walt Disney Animation releasing it's 50th full length film Tangled, our friends the Fine Brothers have filed the latest episode of their popular "Spoiler" series. You might remember that we've featured their videos 100 Movie Spoilers in 4 minutes, Spoiling Every Best Picture Winner in Oscar History, 50 spoilers of 2009 in…
Read MoreUPDATE: Registration has, once again, been postponed. Read more about it after the jump. Let's try this again. San Diego Comic-Con is once again going to attempt to sell badges to their 2011 event, taking place July 21-24, at 6 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on Monday November 22. They tried to do this a few…
Read MoreOptimum Releasing have released the movie trailer for 28 Weeks Later and The American screenwriter Rowan Joffe's directorial debut, an adaptation of Graham Greene‘s 1938 novel Brighton Rock. The book was first adapted to the screen in 1947 in a movie starring Richard Attenborough. This time around Joffe has updated the setting to the 1960's.…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the Rankin-Bass Stop-Motion Christmas Classics collections for 56% Off. The Blu-ray version is on sale for $19.49, 57% off the $45 msrp, and includes the following movies: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Frosty the Snowman, and Frosty Returns. The DVD edition…
Read MoreToday's t-shirt on Ript Apparel is a Dr. Who-inspired design by D4N13L titled "It Also Travels In Time". As with all of Ript's designs, this t-shirt will only be available today (Sunday, November 21st 2010) and today only. So act fast! See the full design after the jump.
Read MoreLet this be a lesson to any aspiring writers out there. Write fun, interesting flicks and you are going to get a ton of work. Take Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick for example. They're the guys who wrote Zombieland, a modestly budgeted film that was a hit with both fans and critics. And though they'd…
Read MoreThe first movie poster for the upcoming Russell Brand Easter Bunny comedy Hop has been released on Facebook (via Bleeding Cool). The film is the first live-action production from Universal Pictures' Illumination Entertainment, the guys behind the computer animated feature Despicable Me. Hit the jump to see the first poster which gives us our first…
Read MoreThis morning, if someone said "You're going to be reading movie news about two films with the word "Lincoln" in the title today," you would have laughed in their face. However, hot off the heels of the big news about Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, we've now got your first look at footage from The Lincoln Lawyer.…
Read MoreWe've run a review of the next-to-last film in the Harry Potter series, which opened to a $24m box-office take last night at midnight. Now it's your turn to talk about it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I is a slower, moody and melancholy entry than any other film in the series, but…
Read MorePaul Haggis has directed two theatrical features since 2004: the divisive, Oscar-winning Crash, and the far less-seen In the Valley of Elah. This weekend he returns with The Next Three Days, which stars Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks in a remake of the French thriller Pour elle, aka Anything For Her. When Lara Brennan (Elizabeth…
Read MoreSummit Entertainment has released the first movie trailer for Source Code, the sophomore feature from Moon director Duncan Jones. The script had high praise in industry circles and has a clever premise, basically a mystery thriller set in a ten minute span of time Groundhog Day-style. Jake Gyllenhall plays a soldier who is part of…
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 MoreIt's the beginning of the end for Harry Potter. The seventh film in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I, breaks half of JK Rowling's final Potter novel into a film of its own. The result is rather unlike anything else in the series, and, despite the not-quite cliffhanger structure that results,…
Read MoreEver wanted to blast Ewoks with Force lightning? Fly the Millennium Falcon over your home city? Play with a tiny Johnny Depp? If you answered "Yes" to any of those questions, and you play video games, your lucky day is coming. It's been announced that Endor and the Ewoks will feature into new downloadable content…
Read MoreWhen Lost ended earlier this year, everyone knew what show co-creator Damon Lindelof was up to next: Some cowboys, an Alien and more Star Trek. In the grand tradition of the show that made them famous, though, a mystery remained. What would Lindelof's co-executive producer, Carlton Cuse, choose as his follow up? Today we have…
Read MoreFilmDrunk has put together a video which compiles every Arnold Schwarzenegger scream/shout/grunt from every movie Arnold Schwarzenegger was ever featured in. The resulting video is seven and a half minutes in length and can be viewed right now after the jump.
Read MoreKato Vision is on full display in the brand new, full theatrical trailer for The Green Hornet, directed by Michel Gondry and starring Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz and Michael Pena. It shows way more action and comedy than the first trailer, which I already thought looked pretty decent, but gets dangerously…
Read MoreOne of the high-rated scripts on the recently-released Brit List was Clive Dawson's The Animators, which deals with "a crew of astronauts picked off one by one by a malevolent force." Now the script is moving into production with acclaimed short filmmaker Ruairi Robinson directing. We just saw a trailer for Mr. Robinson's great-looking short…
Read MoreHere's our first look at the brand new Mr. I Am The Law. Thanks to comic book artist Jock for tweeting this photo of Karl Urban (Red, Lord of the Rings) starring as Judge Dredd in Dredd, the latest incarnation of the famous British-born comic book lawman. The film, which will be distributed by Lionsgate,…
Read MoreThis is big stuff: DreamWorks has just sent out a press release announcing that Daniel Day-Lewis will star as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's long-planned and oft-delayed Lincoln. Read the full press release after the break. Looks like Robopocalypse won't be Steven Spielberg's next film after Tintin and War Horse. Robopocalypse is scheduled to shoot…
Read MoreThinkGeek is selling an awesome t-shirt featuring various weapons from 10 famous science fiction films of the last 74 years. Can you name all the movies? Museum Acquires Rare Arms Collection: To your right you'll see our display of 20th and early 21st century science-fiction armaments. You can compare the variety of size and lethality…
Read MoreWhen it was confirmed that Leonardo DiCaprio would play FBI director J. Edgar Hoover for Clint Eastwood, I joked that now we only needed to see the actor cast as Henry Ford to complete an informal trilogy of films in which Leonardo DiCaprio played famously influential, eccentric American personalities. This casting move isn't quite as…
Read More20th Century Fox has released the movie trailer for Family Guy's Return of the Jedi parody Family Guy: It's a Trap! premiered today online. Once again, the trailer is a nearly exact remake of the original trailer from the 1983 classic Return of the Jedi. Watch it now embedded after the jump. The DVD is…
Read MoreMany people have a friend to whom they slip information when they want that info spread out to the community at large. The talkative one, if you will. For Christopher Nolan, that friend might be Michael Caine. The actor has been the source of a great deal of possibly-true statements about the next Batman film,…
Read MoreT-Shirt Laundry has an awesome Harry Potter/Dirty Harry mash-up parody t-shirt for sale. Here is the official description. Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Potter is a hot-headed rookie fresh out of the Hogwarts Police Academy. His first assignment is a sadistic serial killer known only as "Voldemort". Dirty Harry will stop at nothing to solve this…
Read MoreDreamWorks Pictures has released a new featurette for DJ Caruso's bigscreen adaptation of the sci-fi action thriller I Am Number Four. The two minute video gives us an overview of the film's story, as explained by the cast and crew. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Official One Pager: I AM NUMBER FOUR Genre:…
Read MoreInternet comic strip Chuck & Beans wonders why people in zombie movies don't know about zombies. Hit the jump to see the strip.
Read MoreIt's been a good year for both fans of Spike Jonze and the band Arcade Fire. The director has released a wonderful short film, I'm Here, and a great video for the LCD Soundsystem song 'Drunk Girls.' Even better, he was reportedly working on a secret sci-fi short film with the Arcade Fire. Now there's…
Read MoreHere's news on the release dates for three films that couldn't be more different. Well, we haven't seen any of the three yet, or even trailers for any of them, but do you really expect there will be much common ground between the remake of Footloose, the comedy Bad Teacher and the Steven Soderbergh action/espionage…
Read MoreSublimely talented writer/cartoonist Daniel Clowes first saw his work on screens in 2001 with Ghost World, and then again in the rather disappointing Art School Confidential. We've been waiting for his animated film with Michel Gondry and son to appear, but in the meantime his latest graphic novel, Wilson, may be raw material for an…
Read MoreSomeone is gunning for your job, Gary Ross. Or, at least trying to do your job for you. A group of talented filmmakers from the Utah based production company MainStay Productions shot at 10 minute short dramatizing a moment from The Hunger Games, a book by Suzanne Collins which is currently being adapted into a…
Read MoreWhy are we posting a trailer for a Disney movie titled Prom? Good question. Prom is directed by Joe Nussbaum, who made a name for himself with the 1999 short film George Lucas in Love (also embedded after the jump, just in case you haven't seen it), and has since been involved in teen and…
Read MoreLet's get this out of the way first: Joel and Ethan Coen have not written a film based on the Marvel Comics character Gambit. They have, however, scripted a remake of a 1966 romantic heist movie that originally starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. News that the script was still kicking around in development came…
Read MoreUsually, when The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces their short list of documentaries eligible for the Best Documentary Oscar, a dark cloud comes over my day. Pretty regularly, some of my favorite films haven't been eligible for a nomination. Shut Up and Sing, The September Issue and Dear Zachary all come to…
Read MoreWe'd have thought the casting search for Zack Snyder's Superman had already begun, but now it is evidently on. So, actors aged 28-32 who aren't quite discovered yet, or who maybe have a budding TV career, this is the time to source some blue tights. In other words: sorry, fans of Jon Hamm, but this…
Read MoreA young girl sees her family murdered by a drug lord, then grows up to be an assassin simply so she can get revenge. Yes, it's the O-Ren Ishii story from Kill Bill but it's also the plot of Colombiana, which stars Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek) as the assassin searching for vengeance as well…
Read MoreYet another reason why Darren Aronofsky is making The Wolverine for 20th Century Fox. The film studio has signed a two year overall deal with Aronofsky's production company Protozoa Film to develop and produce films for both Twentieth Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures. Signing a development deal with Fox is perfect for Aronofsky as…
Read MoreThe Weinstein Company is moving ahead with an attempt to appeal the ratings given to Blue Valentine (a commercial prospect-dampening NC-17) and Oscar fave The King's Speech. The irony is that appealing the NC-17 for Blue Valentine means accepting it; otherwise there's no rating to appeal, and the choice would be to release the film…
Read MoreIt seems the coolest thing about Star Wars these days is not liking Star Wars. Bashing George Lucas and what has become of the Star Wars universe is certainly the latest craze and anyone who comes out and says they're still a Star Wars fan probably feels like, well, what actual Star Wars fans felt…
Read MoreIf you've been to a movie theater in the past month or two (and if you are reading this site, you probably have) you've seen the teaser poster that Paramount released for The Coen Brothers' True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld. It evoked an old west wanted poster,…
Read MoreThis story will be a lesson for anyone who has ever scoffed at the idea at spending time and money on a fake movie trailer. In mid-October Jon Watts and Christopher D. Ford dropped the trailer for Clown onto YouTube. The trailer purported to be for an Eli Roth movie about a killer clown, and…
Read MoreESPN The Magazine is getting its geek on. Recently, they showed several NBA stars as famous comic book characters and their latest issue, the Movie Spectacular dated November 29, continues the trend. It's filled with articles about about lesser known movie stars such as Chelcie Ross (who was in Hoosiers, Rudy and Major League), an…
Read MorePart of what made director Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy so beautiful was the epic and lyrical score by composer Howard Shore. Every scene of travel, battle, humor or death was all accompanied by Shore's wonderful music and he won two Oscars for those scores, Fellowship of the Ring and Return of the…
Read MoreThe found-footage sci-fi film Apollo 18 started to make waves when it was picked up at the American Film Market by the Weinstein Company. Produced by Timur Bekmambetov, the film purports to tell the story of a moon mission undertaken in secret. The mission led to an alien encounter, and the 'found-footage' aspect would see…
Read MoreTo help promote the Blu-ray release of Avatar: The Collectors Edition Blu-ray, 20th Century Fox Home Video gave a housewife blogger named Lo-Lo 4,000 Blu-ray discs to recreate the Avatar movie poster in mosaic. Lo-Lo is actually a Guinness Book of World Records holder for the world record for the biggest toast mosaic (9,852 slices,…
Read MoreNew Zealand-born commercial director Ash Bolland recently became attached to direct his first feature film, a remake of the 1978 Irwin Allen killer bees horror classic The Swarm. Vertigo Entertainment and Room 101 are developing a remake, inspired by the success of Piranha 3D. So who is Ash? What has he done before? Lets take…
Read MoreWhew. The last thing fans of Robert Zemeckis want is to see him wasting time remaking The Wizard of Oz. That was a reported project just a day ago -- and the report was that the studio wanted Mr. Zemeckis for the film, not that he had signed for it -- but EW has a…
Read MoreWe're now mere hours way from midnight screenings of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Potter Mania is at fever-pitch. If you're looking for a way to help feed your excitement for the film, but still want to appear to be doing work, we recommend Harry Potter and the Summer School Spectre.…
Read MoreRevisiting The Wachowski's Speed Racer on DVD, I have wondered if the movie was released a couple years later and filmed in 3D, if it would have been a hit. Well it looks like we might find out, and this time without the hokey characters. Walt Disney Pictures is developing Hovercar 3D, based on an online…
Read MoreThe last time we reported on Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, which has had a hell of a time assembling a core cast, the production was reportedly in danger of losing Robert Downey, Jr. He had long been set to play a key supporting role in the film, even through the process where a series of actresses…
Read MoreThe latest small casting move on Marc Webb's Spider-Man reboot is the addition of Denis Leary, who is now negotiating to play the father of Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). It's only a small casting move in the sense that the role might not be a very large one; regardless, Mr. Leary would be a welcome…
Read MoreYou've probably coveted many of artist Martin Ansin's previous prints. His two Scott Pilgrim posters kick ass, his Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is gorgeous and his Star Trek poster is one of the most sought after in recent memory. Now, Ansin is the latest artist to take a crack at the Star Wars poster series…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released a new international movie trailer for Tron: Legacy. The trailer doesn't contain much new footage and is basically a reedit of the footage we've seen in previous trailers and tv spots with different voiceover. But I'm sure many of you are still interested in seeing it for yourself, so hit…
Read MoreOne of the great pleasures of the Cars 2 trailer we saw yesterday -- likely the greatest pleasure for many -- was the surprise appearance of Michael Caine. The actor voices one new character, a British spy named Finn McMissile. His presence in the cast led many to closely examine the rest of the trailer…
Read MoreBriefly: The turnout for Paranormal Activity 2 was good enough that a third film is already in the planning stages. Oren Peli, who directed the original film in the series and produced the second, has told Dread Central that Paramount is setting October 21, 2011 as the release date for Paranormal Activity 3. We don't…
Read MoreLast week I had the chance to participate in roundtable interviews with the cast and crew of the Harry Potter series. We will be posting the interviews throughout the week leading up to the latest and next to last installment of the series - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. The third interview…
Read MoreEarlier today Universal Pictures unleashed the teaser trailer for Jon Favreau's big screen adaptation of Cowboys & Aliens. If you missed it, you can watch it here. The comic book adaptation crosses the classic Western with the alien-invasion genre, and stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano and Noah…
Read MoreIt's been a rough road for The Green Hornet -- change-ups behind the scenes elevated and then deflated some early interest as Stephen Chow came and went. But hiring Michel Gondry to apply his particular brand of quirky, unpredictable storytelling to a pulp superhero movie seemed like a good move. And while there are some…
Read MoreAngelina Jolie, the writer/director, is already seeing what life is like on the other side of the camera. The world's most famous actress is currently directing her feature film debut, an untitled love story about a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman who get separated during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War during which 100,000 people were…
Read MoreWe've already reported on every single other rumored villain that might appear in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises (The Riddler, Catwoman, Killer Croc) so why stop now? Once we make it through the entire Batman universe, we can link back to the single correct story, pull a Nikki Finke and say "Toldja!" So here…
Read MoreKorean director Park Chan-Wook has wowed us with films like the Vengeance trilogy (Sympathy For Mister Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy For Lady Vengeance) and Thirst, and he's been courted for an English-language film here and there. No deals have been made in the past, but now the director is reportedly in talks to direct a thriller…
Read MoreThat didn't take long. Barely 12 hours since the announcement that Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh was in talks to direct an adaptation of the 1960s television show The Man From U.N.C.L.E, reports are coming out that his long time producing partner and leading man George Clooney is interested in starring in the film. Plus,…
Read MoreJon Favreau's follow-up to the two Iron Man movies is Cowboys & Aliens, which loosely jumps off from the comic of the same name to show a western town besieged by alien invaders. (Title kind of gives that whole thing away.) The attraction here isn't even the concept, but the cast: Daniel Craig and Harrison…
Read MoreThere is nothing quite like the simultaneous combination of dinner and a movie. You sit down, order food, watch a movie, and someone then quietly brings out your order while you're watching. It's one of the things that makes the Alamo Drafthouse so fantastic and AMC Theaters is now rolling out their own unique version.…
Read MoreDid you see Michael Vick's game on Monday Night Football this week? What? This is a movie website and we don't cover sports? But what if those sports are based on a super popular film franchise who has its penultimate movie coming out this week? We recently reported that the 4th annual Quidditch World Cup,…
Read MoreAny comic book fan knows that The Avengers are based in New York. So one would assume that Joss Whedon's The Avengers would take place the Big Apple too. But even if the film takes place there, that's not reportedly where most of it will be shooting. When production starts on The Avengers in February,…
Read MoreI've been linked to the film and trailer mash-up Wonka Legacy a couple times. Initially, because of a lingering case of mash-up fatigue, I passed on watching it. But when I finally gave in I found a well-constructed, clever and occasionally funny video. Check out what happens when Tron and Willy Wonka collide, after the…
Read MoreHulu Plus, Hulu's premium service of questionable value, recently made its value proposition slightly better. Starting today, Hulu Plus is launching out of preview and lowering its price to $7.99 per month. They'll also be launching on a bunch of new devices in the days to come. Hit the jump to hear more details. In…
Read MoreAmazon is having a sale on Rome: The Complete Series on Blu-ray for $69.99, 50% off the $140 msrp. The sale price is valid through November 20th 2010. Product Description Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT I suspect that there won't be much reason to revisit The Kids Are All Right ten years…
Read MoreNew info on Men in Black 3: the film will start shooting this week in New York, but there's a wrinkle. The production has hired frequent Steven Spielberg and Brett Ratner collaborator Jeff Nathanson to rewrite/polish one section of the script. (He recently did work on Tower Heist, wrote Rush Hour 2 & 3 and…
Read MoreThey sell books, toys, music, games, clothes, appliances and soon Amazon.com will help you sell your script to Warner Brothers. Amazon just launched a new website called Amazon Studios in which users can sign up, upload their scripts, movies, storyboards and more, then edit and evaluate each others work and ultimately have that work shown…
Read MoreEveryone who wants to see a Steven Soderbergh spy film raise their hands. Well, you just may get your wish. The eclectic, Academy Award winning director is currently in talks to direct an adaptation of the mid-Sixties spy television show The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Scott Z. Burns, who wrote two of Soderbergh's most recent films…
Read MoreI have good news and bad news. The good news first: Robert Zemeckis is making another move back towards live-action. The bad news: it might be with a remake of The Wizard of Oz, which Warner Bros. is attempting to assemble. And while this might not be a shot for shot remake a la Gus…
Read MoreWarner Bros has released the full movie trailer for Martin Campbell's big screen adaptation of DC Comics' Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, and Tim Robbins. I like how they save the sci-f/DC Comics logo reveal to half way through the trailer, trying to sell audiences on the story of…
Read MoreUniversal Pictures has released a new restricted NSFW Red Band Movie Trailer for Pineapple Express helmer David Gordon Green's fantasy comedy Your Highness, which stars Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Theroux, and Toby Jones. Ben Best wrote the script with McBride, which tells the story of "an arrogant, lazy prince (McBride)…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released a third video clip "Sirens Dress Sam" and new featurette "The World of Tron" from Tron Legacy. The first clip which featured Quorra (Olivia Wilde) saving Sam (Garrett Hedlund) from possible death and takes him through some off road terrain on a four-wheel Light Runner (one of the new vehicles…
Read MoreSam Raimi and District 9 producer Bill Block are putting together a Warner Bros. film called EDF, or Earth Defense Force, which explosively details "Earth’s response to an imminent alien invasion." (And which seemingly isn't an adaptation of the video game series in which soldiers fight off endless waves of giant insects, despite the fact…
Read MoreA few months back, we posted a Russian movie trailer for 13, the American remake of the cult French film 13 Tzameti, starring Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, 50 Cent and Ray Winstone, both written and directed by Géla Babluani. It's about a young man (Sam Riley) who mistakenly ends up at a high stakes, life…
Read MoreCatherine Hardwicke may not have really been given the chance to play with werewolves in the Twilight series, but she's done the next best thing: she's directed Red Riding Hood, in which Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman are inhabitants of a medieval village that is beset by a werewolf. Sadly, if predictably, the film looks…
Read More/Film reader and graphic designer Alex Griendling has created an awesome 2011 Time Traveler's Calendar. Here is some information from the artist: I made a 2011 Time Traveler's Calendar that places 95 individual instances of time travel from Movies/TV Shows/Video games onto a single timeline. 7 Videogames. 16 TV Shows. 34 movies. 95 individual instances…
Read MoreBriefly: We'll present this mostly without comment, because we just saw the domestic Cars 2 trailer this morning, and this UK version really doesn't change up much at all. You might expect to to do a bit more to trumpet Michael Caine's presence as Finn McMissile, but I'm happy that it just allows us to…
Read MoreBriefly: Small update here -- we talked not long ago about the fact that Carey Mulligan had become the favorite to take the Daisy Buchanan role in Baz Luhrmann's version of The Great Gatsby. Now the director has announced that she is definitely his Daisy. The catch: he's still not sure Gatsby will be his…
Read MoreOver the weekend, news broke that Universal moved their prequel of John Carpenter's The Thing, also called The Thing, into release date limbo. Official word from the studio was the film was "not yet ready" and fanboy worry and speculation began. Does the film suck? Do the effects looks stupid? Performances stink? All of the…
Read MoreWe just talked about the possibly-revived Neighborhood Watch; now here's news on another sci-fi comedy that has been kicking around for a while. Used Guys was once meant to be directed by Jay Roach (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents) with Jim Carrey and Ben Stiller starring as men "in a future run by women, where…
Read MoreWe all know how David Fincher's The Social Network turned out, but what would "the Facebook movie" look like in the hands of other filmmakers? College Humor shows us what the film might have looked like if it was directed by Wes Anderson, Michael Bay, Christopher Guest, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, and Frank Capra.…
Read MoreThe slightly sci-fi comedy Neighborhood Watch has been kicking around Fox for a couple of years. Once a Will Ferrell project, it was rumored as a possible Zombieland follow-up for Ruben Fleischer. But Peter Segal is now attached to direct, and Superbad co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have been hired to rewrite. THR suggests…
Read MoreAs we get closer to the release of Darren Aronofksy's Black Swan (December 3 is the date) we're seeing more and more press materials. There is a new poster, which you can see in full below, along with a lovely website and a more secretive 'viral' website that offers up a tantalizing look at star…
Read MoreWe've heard some back and forth about whether Sacha Baron Cohen might do another film with his Borat and Bruno director Larry Charles. (Who, it should be remembered, stepped in to direct Borat when Todd Phillips dropped out after shooting some of the movie.) We'd heard that Mr. Charles might not direct The Dictator, which…
Read MoreBy the time you read this, chance are all the slots will be filled, but writer/director Kevin Smith is offering his fans a very unique opportunity centered on his upcoming film Red State. He's already announced he'll be doing a behind the scenes podcast during post-production of the film. Now, for $100, you can be…
Read MoreHarry J. Potter claims to be the biggest fan of the Harry Potter book and film series. Not only is his name Harry Potter, but he has he filled three rooms of his house with merchandise, prop replicas, art and more. He owns three months worth of varied Harry Potter clothing and even has a…
Read MoreA bunch of new movie posters have hit the web over the last 12 hours, including new one-sheets for Greg Mottola's sci-fi comedy Paul starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, and Bill Hader, The Mechanic remake starring Jason Statham, Ben Foster, and Donald Sutherland, the computer animated feature Gnomeo and Juliet, the…
Read MoreWe just got full info about the story in Cars 2, which puts John Lasseter back in the driver's seat along with co-director Brad Lewis. Now there's a full trailer, which you can see after the break. And it is chock full of Michael Caine! Mr. Caine plays a British intelligence agent who intersects with…
Read MoreLast week I had the chance to participate in roundtable interviews with the cast and crew of the Harry Potter series. We will be posting the interviews throughout the week leading up to the latest and next to last installment of the series - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. The second interview…
Read MoreProduction is underway on the new Muppet movie, The Muppets, and information regarding the many cameos in the film have been flooding onto the internet. We have a couple new names to add to the ever-growing list. In the fairness of the spoiler-conscious, we've put the names after the jump (although I'm sure many of…
Read MoreOur friends the Fine Bros. have started a newest web comedy series titled Harry Potter and the Rejected Scenes. The first episode, "The Sorting Hat", is a Harry Potter Parody which re-imagines the scene from the first film where Harry gets sorted. Watch it now embedded after the jump.
Read MoreFor those who've seen the original French horror film Martyrs, directed by Pascal Laugier, the notion of an American remake probably seemed a bit absurd. The divisive, very hardcore film doesn't seem like the sort of film that a studio would slap a logo on, even if you were talking about the studio that turned…
Read MoreIn October it was announced that Marvel Studios was working on a live action television series for The Incredible Hulk for ABC, one of three live-action series the comic book television division is developing for the Mouse House. At the time we didn't have many details. The project was assumed to be an hour-long program,…
Read MoreThe man behind Chuck and Buck is set to dress well and suck...brains, that it is. Mike White, the writer of School of Rock, Nacho Libre and the aforementioned Chuck and Buck is now officially set to direct his sophomore feature film - an adaptation of the novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane…
Read MoreMTV has released the first trailer for their new television series based on the 1985 film Teen Wolf. The original movie starred Michael J. Fox as a high schooler who finds his groove after becoming a werewolf. The new series looks to have a Twilight/True Blood-like spin, starring teen heartthrob Tyler Posey (Lincoln Heights, Brothers…
Read MoreTen days ago there was a rumor, based on a tracking board report, that an offer had gone out to Zac Efron to star in the live-action version of Akira to be directed by the Hughes Brothers. But a rep for the directors told Digital Spy the story isn't true. (At the time we were…
Read MoreLuke Skywalker fought one. So did a bunch of Jedi Younglings. And though Master Replicas did create a really nice prop replica, now, for only a fraction of the cost, you can build your very own Star Wars Jedi Training Remote. The best part is, unlike the Master Replicas one, yours can actually float. Check…
Read MoreLet the battle for second and third Best Animated Feature of the year begin. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced their short list of 15 features that are eligible to be nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards and right out of the gate, competition is…
Read MoreThis is how I want my action movie trailers to play. Blocky fonts, a fake Cannon Films logo, music by The Sword and Rocket From the Crypt, and a whole bunch of arse-kickery. Garrison Dean (who contributes to io9) cut this trailer for Faster starring Dwayne Johnson...er, The Rock, and it is a burly, effective…
Read MoreLeonardo DiCaprio isn't married, but he's about to be unfaithful to his frequent collaborator Martin Scorsese. The pair met up via satellite in Hollywood this weekend to discuss several of their collaborations and each got to talking about their upcoming projects. Scorsese offered up some thoughts on Hugo Cabret ("It's going," he said) and DiCaprio…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS Info and images about The Muppets, starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams, have really started to hit the internet. Most of it is even correct. But one report from last week -- that Jane Lynch has a part in the movie as a prison guard -- has to be retracted. Reports from Production…
Read MoreStarting Tuesday, a whole bunch of new information about the behind the scenes making of James Cameron's Avatar is sure to hit the net as that's when fans will begin pouring over the incredibly comprehensive Avatar Extended Collector's Edition Blu-ray. We've seen the commercials all over TV and heard about some of the additions to…
Read MoreYou've heard of 'throwing good money after bad,' and no project seems to better embody that old saying than Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The $60m musical has been pushed, re-cast, re-designed and is finally nearing an opening preview date in advance of a 2011 Broadway run. But if these images are anything to go…
Read MoreFilm news is turning into a micro-reporting culture, so here's word on two cameos (or, more properly, possible cameos) that have been shot for notable films. The first report puts Brad Pitt in a brief scene in the film Angelina Jolie wrote and is now directing. Plus, there's another big cameo report for The Hangover…
Read MoreEvery year, Pixar seems to outdo themselves. We all thought the beauty of Wall-E couldn't be matched, until Up showed us its balloons. Then we all thought the first 20 minutes of Up was as emotional as animation could get, until we saw the last 20 minutes of Toy Story 3. And when it comes…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Nevermore will you say you haven't seen what John Cusack looks like as legendary master of horror, Edgar Allen Poe. The High Fidelity actor is currently in Budapest shooting The Raven with director James McTeigue, who directed V for Vendetta. In the film, Poe goes on a search for a murderer who is…
Read MoreIn October, we posted The United States of Movies Map, a map pinpointing the movies which the creator felt best represented each of the 50 states. Andrew Shears saw that map and decided to create a map showing the television shows that best represent each state. For example, Hawaii Five-O represents Hawaii while Seinfeld represents…
Read MoreOver the next couple weeks you're going to be seeing quite a bit of reports focusing on Jon Favreau's next film, Cowboys & Aliens. The first salvo comes today as the film's first teaser poster has arrived. There will be a trailer on Wednesday afternoon, but in the meantime let this image prime you for…
Read MoreThis weekend at Austin Comic-Con, teenage filmmaker Emily Hagins' premiered the trailer for her new movie, My Sucky Teen Romance. Some of you might remember Emily from the popular filmmaking documentary Zombie Girl: The Movie, which chronicled Hagins attempt to film a feature length zombie movie at the age of only twelve. Now eighteen years…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the day is Star Trek-focused and offers four different options: Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection on Blu-ray for $54.99 (61% off the $140 msrp) or on DVD for $34.99 (61% off the $90msrp).The collection includes the movies: The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The…
Read MoreIn the 25 years since the release of Back to the Future, and with the recent release of the comprehensive Blu-ray set, one might think there wasn't any video from the film series that isn't, or hasn't been, readily available. At this point, we've even seen Eric Stoltz play Marty Mcfly! However, until now, no…
Read MoreYou can hear six minutes of the yet-to-be-released Daft Punk soundtrack for Tron Legacy now online thanks to the Walt Disney Studios Awards campaign website. Some of the music has yet to be heard in the trailers or leaked tracks. The soundtrack will be released on December 7th 2010 (pre-order now on Amazon for under…
Read MoreLast week I had the chance to participate in roundtable interviews with the cast and crew of the Harry Potter series. We will be posting the interviews throughout the week leading up to the latest and next to last installment of the series - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1. The first interview…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has finally released a teaser movie poster for the next installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The film is expected to be a stand alone adventure following Jack Sparrow's quest for the Fountain of Youth. Here is the teaser poster thanks to IMPAwards:…
Read MoreBest known for small budget psychological thrillers, the addition of Darren Aronofsky to the Wolverine franchise was initially a curious one. Brows were certainly furrowed thinking about why Aronofsky would want to follow up a film which was populated by a ton of random characters and featured several departures from the canon Wolverine story. A…
Read MoreHis name is Bond, Fredrik Bond. And this wildly successful commercial director is now attached to direct Year 12, a sci-fi action film produced by Joe Roth, based on a spec-script by Edward Ricourt. The film is set 12 years after an alien invasion of Earth in which the human resistance recruits an underwater uranium…
Read MoreAfter returning from London, I was tipped off by /Film reader Mr Furley that the new muppet movie, The Muppets, was being filmed close to /Film HQ. Jim Henson Studios on La Brea Avenue in Hollywood has been transformed into Muppet Studios, a real life movie studio where the Muppets use to film shows and…
Read MoreThe 'offer' story is one of the more useless developments in the movie news business. Because offers go out all the time, and the reason we don't hear about most of them is that they're meaningless as news. The offer is part of the process of getting a film made, but until it actually turns…
Read MoreThose waiting to see the prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing this April will instead find flashy cars on screen at the theater. Universal had planned to release their new version of The Thing, directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., starring Joel Edgerson and Mary Elizabeth Winstead on April 29, 2011. However, a studio spokeswoman…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box Deal of the day today is Firefly The Complete Series on Blu-Ray for only $18.99, 79% off the $90 msrp. Or you can also grab the DVD box set for only $14.99, 70% off the $50 list price. The deal will vanish at midnight tonight (Sunday Night), so act fast.
Read MoreBefore poker became a part of my daily life, I'd always been infatuated with gambling movies. The first hour of Casino remains my favorite, I never believed it when Mel Gibson pulled a one outter at the end of Maverick, and The Sting fools me every time. Even newer, lesser movies like 21 or Lucky…
Read MoreIt's difficult for me to remember the last Tony Scott film I unabashedly enjoyed. I'd probably have to go with his 1998 film, Enemy of the State, which had a great, frazzled performance by Will Smith and a kinetic style that actually dovetailed nicely with the film's message about our surveillance society. Pretty much everything…
Read MoreUpdate: We've now got an embed with much better video quality. Tuesday, Entertainment Tonight is going to world premiere the upcoming Green Lantern trailer that will be attached to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. In anticipation, they aired a quick preview clip of which shows Hal Jordan materializing into the suit, fighting…
Read MoreWe've seen one poster image (with a strong Close Encounters vibe) for the Disney film Mars Needs Moms. Now there's a new image from the film that shows off both the aliens and a couple of human characters.The film's title always makes me assume it's a kitschy kids film -- which would be fine --…
Read MoreMuch like the characters in Logan's Run, it seems directors of the proposed remake have a limited shelf-life too. Commercial director Carl Erik Rinsch had been attached to directed a remake of the 1976 feature film but has now left the project, which he was developing to shoot in 3D, to concentrate on Universal's 47…
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 MoreWho? You may not know the names Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein if you're not (a) Swedish or (b) in the UK. The pair have made, among other things, the Swedish thriller Storm (2005), and the thriller Shelter (2009) with Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, which has hit territories including the UK and Japan, but…
Read MoreTake this post as a confirmation of something many of us have hoped, but we know now that cinematographer Matthew Libatique will shoot Wolverine 2 for director Darren Aronofsky. The two have worked together on all of the director's features except for The Wrestler. That change-up was deliberate -- Darren Aronofsky hired Maryse Alberti in…
Read MoreWilliam Monahan (The Departed) graduated from screenwriter to writer/director with London Boulevard, for which we just saw a UK trailer. Now he's lined up a second directorial project: an adaptation of the Jean Anouilh play Becket. Deadline has the story, noting (as should be common knowledge) that this would follow the 1964 adaptation of the…
Read MoreEasy A is shaping up to be one of my favorite pieces of entertainment from this past summer, and possibly for the year. It's not the best film I've seen by a stretch, but it is one of the most entertaining in a pure sense. Of a lot of my faves from 2010 it is…
Read MoreBriefly: We just saw the new trailer for Barney's Version, starring Paul Giamatti, and now there's word that he's going to fly to Thailand to join the cast of The Hangover Part II under the direction of Todd Phillips. Great news as far as I'm concerned, as Mr. Giamatti can be a low-key comic wonder.…
Read MoreBaz Luhrmann's upcoming adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby has been the source of one of the biggest 'actress wishlist' tales of the last couple months. (The others being Gravity and The Dark Knight Rises -- says a lot about the industry today that the shortlist for each film is basically…
Read MoreThere are very few movies that get a full post about a cryptic script status and a director not being confirmed, but Star Trek 2 qualifies. The 2009 Trek reboot was almost universally praised and the franchise is one of the most classic and successful in film history. A sequel was announced almost immediately after…
Read MoreSony Pictures Classics have released the movie trailer for Barney's Version,an independent drama which premiered at the Venice/Toronto film festivals in September to mostly positive reviews. Based on Mordecai Richler's prize-winning comic novel, the film stars Paul Giamatti as Barney Panofsky, a "hard-drinking, cigar-smoking, foulmouthed 65-year old hockey fanatic and television producer" who "reflects on…
Read MoreUPDATE: There is a tiny bit of footage available now, too. It's embedded below, and the footage is right towards the end of the embed clip. Original article follows. Here's your first look at Amanda Seyfried as the title character in Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood. The scan comes from the latest issue of Entertainment…
Read MoreNakatomi has released an interesting Back to the Future-inspired art print. "D.V.E.T.F.T.P.V." is a creation of Jacob Borshard, and is available in both 2D and red/blue 3D. Outer Space Destiny! He comes at night to melt your brain! He won’t get his damn hands off her! Jacob Borshard’s newest blast from the past is this…
Read MoreLast time we heard about a potential reunion of Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, it was a pretty credible story. Word was that the actors might both show up (along with Al Pacino) in Martin Scorsese's long in development The Irishman, based on Charles Brandt's book I Heard You Paint Houses. But that film…
Read MoreJames Cameron's Avatar 2 doesn't come out until December 2014 but the news is already starting to trickle out. It's going to be a long four years. We've already heard about how Cameron is trying to develop some new technologies for the film, that the story might go off Pandora and there will be water…
Read MoreStephen looks at a series of good and bad bedtime stories and how they occasionally can change the world. The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky. You can…
Read MoreBriefly: The creative teams behind Enchanted and Salt are coming together in an unlikely sci-fi pairing. Enchanted scripter Bill Kelly has penned a spec script called Timeless, which Salt director Phillip Noyce is working on a deal to direct. The connective tissue between them is Sunil Perkash, who produced both Enchanted and Salt, and would…
Read MoreFixiousMaximus decided to replace the original score in Toy Story 3's climactic junk yard scene with Michael Giacchino's music from the television series Lost. You might be surprised at just how well Giacchino's compositions work within the scene. Watch it now embedded after the jump. (Of course, if you have yet to see the movie,…
Read MoreA year ago we posted a concept video for a project called Bad Robot. The footage had an odd robot, sort of R2D2 by way of Pixar, dancing around for a few seconds. The director was Ruairi Robinson, who made the good short film The Silent City, embedded in the concept video link above, and…
Read MoreA huge hit and award winner at Fantastic Fest 2010, Bedevilled, as well as the inspiring tale of a deaf MMA fighter, Hamill are among the audience award winners at the 2010 AFI Fest in Hollywood, CA. Bedevilled, directed by Cheol-soo Jang, won the award in the New Auteurs section while Hamill, directed by Oren…
Read MoreImmediately following the 2008 release of The Dark Knight, rumblings began that director Christopher Nolan and director of photography Wally Pfister were considering shooting what is now known as The Dark Knight Rises entirely in IMAX. The pair shot several sequences of The Dark Knight in IMAX, giving the film a whole different feel, and…
Read MoreToday is the 55-year anniversary of the famous Hill Valley lightning storm. Dan Meth has created the above image so that we shall "never forget." Hopefully someday the Hill Valley preservation society will raise enough money to restore/fix the clock.
Read MoreBriefly: You might have missed the fact that Natalie Portman has a sense of humor that sometimes angles towards the goofy and lowbrow. She didn't end up in Your Highness or those SNL videos by accident. She's been producing for some time and is now reportedly shopping a sex comedy she scripted with Laura Moses.…
Read MoreHollywood industry insider Jeff Wells has early buzz on Disney's Tron Legacy and it doesn't sound good, but is it even legit? Wells' "second-hand source" has seen the film and claims it's "a technical marvel, but uninvolving and remote despite Pixar's attempts to infuse emotion into the father-and-son scene." "The primary source, obviously Pixar-friendly, feels…
Read MoreLast night, Sony released the first teaser trailer for Jonathan Liebesman's Battle: Los Angeles. Collider has now found an international version of the trailer on Omelete. The international release is much different, more like a traditional Hollywood trailer -- featuring heavy voice over, different footage, and lacks the haunting music of the domestic teaser. For…
Read MoreBack in May we heard that Toei was converting Battle Royale to 3D. That seemed like a bad idea, but it was more a curiosity than anything else. After all, the film was never given distribution in the States when originally released so there was no reason to think this 3D version would make it…
Read MoreWhen Todd Phillips and crew were filming the first Hangover film, they did so under the radar. No one thought a little Vegas based comedy starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zack Galifianakis could make any money. In fact, I'm sure some insiders probably asked "Galifi-who-kis?" What they underestimated was the power of an actual…
Read MoreSony Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for Jonathan Liebesman's Battle: Los Angeles. The movie has been described as a Black Hawk Down-style military story set in an alien invasion. The footage in the trailer is pretty impressive, and is sure to get some notice. However, I think they show way too much for…
Read MoreWe've seen a teaser trailer and a couple photos from Paul, directed by Greg Mottola from a script by Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. Turns out there's been a poster floating around as well. A shot of the one-sheet (in banner form) was taken at an expo in London, and you can see the full…
Read MoreThere's quite a lot of small casting news for The Muppets tonight. Jason Segel and Amy Adams have the key roles, and obviously the other biggest parts will mostly be played by the Muppets. Now Jane Lynch, Donald Glover, Danny Trejo and possibly more are on board. Between The Wrap and Production Weekly we've got…
Read MoreThe question to ask about the Warner Bros. film Tales From the Gangster Squad might not be 'who will direct,' but 'why didn't all these other guys want to direct?' There has been a lot of talk about possible directors, including Ben Affleck and Darren Aronofsky, but the WB film keeps looking for someone to…
Read Moreposter removed We just saw the first images from Goon, the hopeful inheritor of the legacy of classic hockey comedy Slap Shot. Seann William Scott probably isn't going to be the new Paul Newman, but the film has potential, thanks in part to the cast which includes Allison Pill, Eugene Levy and Liev Schreiber. Now…
Read MoreThe only possible downside to the fact that Hunger director and star Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender have reunited for Shame is that Mr. McQueen's planned biopic of Fela Kuti has been pushed back. (Hopefully not abandoned.) Otherwise the collaboration between those two on a film about a guy unable to control his sex life…
Read MoreMrs. Mia Wallace might have a new role to audition for. The Pulp Fiction character famously starred in a fictional pilot called Fox Force Five and it seems that idea of an elite, all-female task force is making its way to the big screen. Warner Brothers is "making a preemptive deal" to purchase a yet-to-be…
Read MoreAs was bound to happen, a shortlist has been revealed consisting of actresses who might be up for roles in The Dark Knight Rises. Deadline says that Christopher Nolan is looking at six women for two lead female roles. Reportedly, one is a love interest and the other a villain. (That note is the only…
Read MoreThe original casting for the Farrelly Brothers' The Three Stooges film seemed like it was too crazy to be true, and sure enough, it was. The line-up that once included Sean Penn as Larry, Benicio Del Toro as Moe, and Jim Carrey as Curly quickly fell apart, leaving only Benicio Del Toro remaining from the…
Read MoreJustin Ishmael of Mondo Tees promised more and more famous characters in the second half of their sold out Star Wars poster series and he's already delivered. The last print featured Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker (in a moment that might have been ruined years prior) and the latest print features everyone's favorite Wookie co-pilot…
Read MoreThese days, people do so much important business at ATM's that it's completely normal to be nervous and guarded around them. We're standing on the street, with money in plain sight, inputting numbers that unlock our lives. At any moment, someone could steal the PIN from over your shoulder or run by and grab the…
Read MoreAlmost exactly a year ago we got the first full trailer for Season of the Witch, then a LionsGate film starring Nicolas Cage. The film still stars Nic Cage, but is now being distributed by Relativity Media, which also financed the film's production. The company has cut a new trailer to begin promoting the January…
Read MoreKevin Smith has premiered the teaser for his film Red State, but not in any traditional manner. The filmmaker showed a rough version of the teaser to an audience of twenty people at his Smodcastle in LA. But the semi-private showing was recorded and released as a podcast, through which you can hear the audio…
Read MoreYesterday we saw a couple first images from Disney's new mostly hand-drawn Winnie the Pooh, but what we didn't know at the time was that a trailer is floating around, too. Check it out after the break. Too bad we hadn't realized this trailer was out there when posting the first images from the film…
Read MoreElizabeth Banks has reportedly beat out several other high profile actresses for the female lead role in Welcome To People, the directorial debut of Star Trek and Transformers co-writer Alex Kurtzman. She'll co-star with Chris Pine in the family drama co-written by Kurzman, Roberto Orci and Jody Lambert. Steven Spielberg is set to produce. Read…
Read MoreThe Hollywood Reporter has posted their one hour long discussion between 2010 Oscar contenders Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours), Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3), John Wells (The Company Men), Todd Phillips (Due Date) and David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole). Wait a second, is Due Date really an Awards contender? I guess maybe…
Read MoreHollywood has lost one of its true titans. Dino De Laurentiis, the producer behind such films as Dune, Serpico, Three Days of the Condor and Army of Darkness, died in Los Angeles Thursday morning at the age of 91. Read more after the break. De Laurentiis, the winner of the Irving Thalberg Award at the…
Read MoreThere's no accounting for logic when it comes to film development, but that is both the beauty and the insanity of the business. This past summer audiences had a chance to see The Sorcerers Apprentice, in which Nicolas Cage played one of three disciples of Merlin. (Alfred Molina and Monica Bellucci played the other two…
Read MoreIt Books has published Simpsons World - The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20 written by Simpsons creator and executive producer Matt Groening. The 1200 page hardcover book features comprehensive episode synopses and information of every episode of the first 20 seasons of The Simpsons. Look what you get in this cromulent compendium! Comprehensive episode synopses…
Read MoreOnce you think about it, the idea of Mike Judge's comedy Office Space reimagined as a musical really isn't that off base. The film is filled with awesome musical interludes that could easily transformed into big production numbers. There's Michael Bolton rapping in his car, the "Damn, It Feels Good To Be a Gangster" montage,…
Read MoreTim Herlihy was a writer for Saturday Night Live during Adam Sandler's tenure as a cast member, and he has also written most of the comedian's feature films. Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Big Daddy, Bedtime Stories and more Adam Sandler films all credit him as a writer or co-writer. Back…
Read MoreThe last time we heard about Magic Kingdom, Disney's Night at the Museum-style film in which the Disneyworld theme park comes to life, it was called a 'low-level development project.' That was barely more than a month ago. Something changed, and fast, because now Jon Favreau is in talks to direct Magic Kingdom. Deadline reports…
Read MoreOne of the comic book adaptations that just keeps kicking is Y: The Last Man. For some time DJ Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye) wanted to make the movie with Shia LaBeouf starring. He wanted to make a trilogy of films, but getting a first script New Line liked and the studio to agree to make…
Read MoreBriefly: We're not going to spend a lot of time on this, because it comes from a source that's about as credible as a UK tabloid. But one gossip site claims that Marc Webb is looking at Zooey Deschanel to play Daily Bugle employee Betty Brant in Spider-Man. It's not the least credible idea in…
Read MoreWith his Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica recently canceled in favor of a more action packed spin-off, Ron Moore - the brain child behind the successful 2004 re-imagining of Galactica - now finds himself showless. Or does he? It seems Moore might be leaving space in favor of both the seven seas and the Old West.…
Read MoreIt's been a slow couple of days for really significant news, but here's something you can chew on: Wes Anderson's next film, Moon Rise Kingdom (previously written without a space in 'moonrise') is starting to line up a rather unusual and potentially very impressive cast. Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Tilda…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Captain America: The First Avenger is still filming up a storm in across the pond and another brand new batch of set photos have surfaced online. Unfortunately, most of them are kind of blah: generic explosions, trailers and stuntmen in the outfit we saw a few months ago. Obviously, nothing that can touch…
Read MoreWe've seen a teaser and an international trailer for Little Fockers, the second sequel to Meet the Parents, and now there is a full theatrical trailer. What's the difference? In addition to showing more plot and (depending on your point of view) jokes, this trailer has a few shots of Dustin Hoffman, whose mart was…
Read MoreAmidst other new projects, Disney is prepping the a new theatrical Winnie the Pooh film, and the first two stills have been released. They're quite nice, and more than other recent films featuring characters created by A.A. Milne, they echo the lovely hand-drawn qualities of the classic Pooh films from Disney. Stephen J. Anderson (Meet…
Read MoreIt seems things on Sherlock Holmes 2 aren't as cut and dry as once believed. The sequel, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law as well as Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry and Jared Harris, has been shooting for several weeks and though producer Joel Silver said that Rachel McAdams, who played…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS We may not want to admit it, but the 2008 3D film Journey to the Center of the Earth was a $100 million hit. So, of course, production just started on the sequel. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island brings back star Josh Hutcherson as he sets out on another adventure. This time, however,…
Read MoreWho knows when we might finally see a big screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel Ender's Game. Hollywood has been trying to bring the sci-fi property to the big screen for the last decade, first with German filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, The Perfect Storm) set to direct based on a screenplay by…
Read MoreThere is now a trailer for The Eagle, formerly The Eagle of the Ninth, from director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, The Last King of Scotland, One Day in September). The film trods similar ground to Neil Marshall's Centurion in that both films are about the fabled Ninth Roman Legion, which disappeared in the mists…
Read MoreLet's untangle a possibly confusing scenario. Over the weekend, the Weinsteins picked up distribution rights to Apollo 18, a Timur Bekmambetov-produced film about a supposedly canceled moon mission that really happened in secret, leading to an alien discovery. But Warner Bros. was already set to make Dark Moon, which follows basically the same plot. (Investigation…
Read MoreIn July, we featured a bunch of art from Carlos Ramos' Stanley Kubrick-inspired solo art exhibition. Ramos is a storyboard artist and former writer on Dexter's Labratory, ChalkZone, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The X's, and Ni Hao Kai-lan. The show closed in August, and as much as I wished and wished that Ramos…
Read MoreMichael Haneke is finally settling on his follow-up to the Palme d'Or winning The White Ribbon. Oddly, the film he'll make is one he'd planned to make, then discarded in favor of another. The Austrian director had been planning to make Ces Deux, aka These Two, but scuttled the idea in February, deciding instead to…
Read MoreWe love learning which films our favorite filmmakers, screenwriters and actors hold in high reguard, and from time to time we've posted some of their lists in our movie playlist category. This week, Lost co-creator/writer/executive producer, Star Trek producer and Cowboys & Aliens writer/producer Damon Lindelof shared his favorite movies with I Am Rogue. Hit…
Read MoreAfter years in development, David O. Russell's The Fighter had its world premiere Tuesday night at the AFI Fest in Hollywood, CA. On hand to introduce the film was producer and star Mark Wahlberg who plays Micky Ward, a down on his luck Irish boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts whose family - including older brother and…
Read MoreJohn Stevenson co-directed Kung Fu Panda for DreamWorks Animation, but he's not returning for the sequel. In fact, he won't be working with DreamWorks at all in the coming years, as he's signed a producing/directing pact with Vanguard Films, and already has his next film lined up with them. He'll be directing Alien Rock Band,…
Read MoreMuggles beware. It seems like Manhattan is becoming a frightening hot bed of wizard activity. We know they're hosting the fourth annual Quidditch World Cup later this week and a few years back the Chosen One, Harry Potter himself, was seen naked on stage with a horse. Now, Voldemort and his Death Eaters have been…
Read MoreThe movie version of 21 Jump Street seems like an absurd thing at face value. But take Jonah Hill as one lead with a script by Scott Pilgrim co-writer Michael Bacall and direction from Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who did such a good job with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and I can't…
Read MoreDisney has their next inspiring true story in line for the big screen. They're calling it Electric Boy Genius, and it's based on a 2002 GQ article about young inventor and electrical engineering wunderkind Ryan Patterson who, at just 17 years of age, invented an electronic sign-language device that used sensors in a glove to…
Read MoreGiven the way the film has been shafted by the MPAA, I think most of us here at /Film want to take every reasonable opportunity to make sure people know about Blue Valentine, which has been unfairly slapped with a restrictive NC-17 rating. Don't worry: we probably won't have the opportunity for a Tron Legacy…
Read MoreOver the past few years, two lists of unproduced screenplays have become, if not important, at least popular as discussion points. One is the Black List, aka the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, where 'best' equals the most popular among a select group of people who vote on their favorites. The UK equivalent is the…
Read MoreThings have gone a little bit Harry Potter crazy in the last few days, but that's to be expected with the huge movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 coming out so soon. Well, the people at Hammer Films aren't going to let the Potter wave go by without taking ride as they've…
Read MoreBarely two weeks ago we told you that Roland Emmerich, having just finished his Shakespeare conspiracy film Anonymous, would be making a Cloverfield-style alien invasion film called The Zone. Now he is not. The production was scheduled to begin shooting next week, but has reportedly been shut down. THR has the news and, more important,…
Read MoreWarner Brothers has always been one of the most successful and cool studios in Hollywood. In the past decade, at the movies alone, they released the Harry Potter films, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Hangover, The Matrix, Watchmen and Where the Wild Things Are just to name a few of their geeky successes. They also…
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. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD Even as cinematic self-awareness has reached an all-time high in recent years, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World…
Read MoreYesterday we showed you a new poster and synopsis for the new version of Jane Eyre directed by Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre). And I understand that a lot of people might think, oh, great, Jane Eyre. Groan. Another dull, hidebound literary adaptation. If that's the way you were looking at this movie, please give this…
Read MoreWhat the hell is an augmented sound project? Good question. The company Reality Jockey created an iPhone app called RjDJ which, according to WiredUK, "detects ambient sounds, rips out samples or mutates them into harmonies, then intelligently mashes them up with what’s playing." And now, also according to WiredUK, the company is working with Christopher…
Read MoreCameron Crowe is set to reteam with Almost Famous star (and big screen alter ego) Patrick Fugit and talented up and comer Elle Fanning (Somewhere, Super 8, The Nines) in the a big screen adaptation of Benjamin Mee's bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Deadline is reporting that Fanning will play the role of Lily,…
Read MoreConan O’Brien returned to late night with his new talk show Conan on cable network TBS, and drew a whopping 4.15 million viewers! Other notable numbers include the coveted demos 2,451,000 adults 18-34 and 3,285,000 adults 18-49. Conan was easily able to overtake the other late night competition including Jay Leno's The Tonight Show, Late…
Read MoreFilm festivals are about three things. First is seeing huge, buzzed about films that no one has seen yet. Second is about discovering movies no one has heard of yet. And the third is seeing films no one will ever see again. After three days at the AFI Fest in Hollywood, CA, I'd hit one…
Read MoreThough people today constantly complains about spoilers, they regularly take for granted that they're available at all. Today, someone can do a simple Google search and find out almost any secret they want to in regards to a movies or television. That's pretty incredible, especially when you think it wasn't so long ago the only…
Read MoreJust as the Internet changed how we distributed the written word a few decades ago, the linotype machine did the same thing in the late 1880s. However, this massive and complicated machine that could set type in a much more organized manner than ever before, was quickly overshadowed by newer technologies and now, over 100…
Read MoreBriefly: Super-thin details on this right now, but Deadline is reporting that one of the big sales at the American Film Market over the weekend was Walking With Dinosaurs. That's a $65m "CG/live-action family film" that will be based on the BBC Worldwide six-part series that used CGI and animatronic dinosaurs to recreate the Mesozoic…
Read MoreRights holders for big genre, comic book and toy properties are getting smart. In the past few decades we've seen many potentially huge adaptations languish as studios and producers waffled about finding the right approach to a project. But in the wake of big-dollar successes from Lord of the Rings to Spider-Man and The Dark…
Read MoreLast month it was revealed that Encore would be airing a documentary about Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects company which has been around for thirty-five years now, after being started by George Lucas to create effects for Star Wars. The documentary is directed by Leslie Iwerks, the filmmaker who made The Pixar Story…
Read MoreAfter all the posters and clips we've been on the verge of Tron Legacy overload in the past few months. OK, more than on the verge: we've got a lot of Tron materials. So why stop now? There's a third, and presumably final trailer for the film. Disney is calling it the Tron Legacy 'payoff'…
Read MoreWe have yet to see what a Christopher Nolan-less script from Jonathan Nolan looks like, but the odds that we'll see one soon are looking good. He's still got his screenplay for Intersellar, set to be directed by Steven Spielberg, in the pipeline, but who knows when Spielberg will get around to making that. The…
Read MoreHan Solo in Carbonite is my favorite piece of movie memorabilia ever. There, I said it. In the Nineties, a company made a small number of authorized prop replicas of it and I believe they cost $3,000 each. Though I was probably 13 at the time, to this day I regret not buying it. Just…
Read MoreHarry Potter fans who happen to be in New York City this weekend can attend the fourth annual Quidditch World Cup. No, not the Quidditch World Cup as seen in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where Ireland played Bulgaria and Viktor Krum caught the snitch but lost the game. We mean the real…
Read MoreConan O'Brien returned to late night on Monday with his new talk show Conan on cable station TBS. What did you think of Conan's return? What did you think of the set? I'm glad to see Andy Richter sitting back on the coach. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below! For those who might…
Read MoreIt was a big weekend for rumors; sadly a lot of the most fun genre and superhero film stories are little more than unconfirmed rumor at this point. Pajiba, for example, tweeted that Marvel has a pitch out to writers for a War Machine spin-off film. This is more like a vague confirmation of what…
Read More24 Frames has learned that Walt Disney Pictures is in talks to acquire Tiki, a screenplay written by musician Ahmet Zappa (yes, son of Frank Zappa) and writing partner Michael Wilson (Shark Tale, Ice Age, Burn Notice, Monster Witness Relocation Program). While the story is not directly related the the Enchanted Tiki Room attraction at…
Read MoreWithin the next six weeks, someone you like a lot is virtually guaranteed to be cast in New Year's Eve, the ensemble romantic comedy that is a sorta-spin-off from Valentine's Day. I apologize in advance. For me, it has already happened, as Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer are negotiating for roles in the film.…
Read More20th Century Fox has released the fourth movie trailer (technicality the first full theatrical trailer in the US) for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Watch the trailer now embedded after the jump. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Plot Synopsis: This time around – Edmund and Lucy Pevensie,…
Read MoreI've been anxiously awaiting confirmation that Zac Efron will in fact not star in Albert Hughes’ upcoming live-action adaptation of the popular anime/Katsuhiro Otomo‘s six-volume manga Akira, but instead all we've gotten are more rumors. At least this bit of potential casting is much more appealing: it seems Morgan Freeman is circling the role of…
Read MoreIf you thought those special $150 TRON: Legacy 3D glasses by Oakley were ridiculous, you ain't seen nothing yet. Later this week, Oakley is set to release two additional pairs of designer 3D glasses for $120 a pop. Then, in December, Marchon will release a pair of Calvin Klein 3-D glasses for $180 a pair.…
Read MoreRebecca Hall first hit the film scene less than five years ago, but she's already built quite the career for herself, starring in films such as Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Prestige, Frost/Nixon, Please Give, and most recently The Town. Now she's got another project lined up: Shadow Dancer, the latest film from Man on Wire…
Read MoreWhether or not you've read American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction or Less Than Zero, the name Bret Easton Ellis conjures up a pretty specific set of themes: some combination of twisted social commentary, biting humor and gratuitous violence. And though Ellis has adapted one of own his books to a screenplay, he's just written…
Read MoreSteve Carell is playing the son of a rock star in Imagine, a film that will see him reunited with writer-turned-director Dan Fogelman. The film centers around "a musician in his 60s who tries to live his life differently after reading an old letter written to him by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The rocker…
Read MoreSimon Pegg and Nick Frost, best known for their on-screen team-ups in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, co-wrote and co-star in the upcoming comedy Paul, which is scheduled for release on March 18. The pair play two British geeks who travel to America to take a road trip of famous UFO landmarks, which…
Read MoreI've always been one who appreciates Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre at arm's length; it's a great book, an indisputable classic, but not one for which I've got some real passion. So a new film version isn't something I would expect to be excited to see. Enter Cary Fukunaga, the director of the wonderful Sin Nombre,…
Read MoreThe debut episode of The Walking Dead was the highest-rated broadcast in AMC's history, with 5.3 million viewers taking in the opening salvo of Frank Darabont's vision of life in America after a zombie apocalypse. The second episode was broadcast last night to excellent numbers: 4.7 million people saw one of Michael Rooker's less pleasant…
Read MoreOne of the biggest potential remake projects of the past couple years was the much-derided Steven Spielberg / Will Smith version of Oldboy. Never mind that their film was said to be a new adaptation of the original manga, rather than a straight remake of Park Chan-Wook's widely praised (and quite excellent) film. The remake…
Read MoreA few weeks ago, we learned that Derek Cianfrance's great film, Blue Valentine, would be receiving an NC-17 rating, a fact which upset me deeply. What put the film over the edge? A lengthy, painfully uncomfortable sequence in which Dean (Ryan Gosling) tries to have sex with Cindy (Michelle Williams) in a hotel room. With…
Read MoreCurtis "50 Cent" Jackson continues to evolve as a potential, if highly unlikely leading man. He's doing this in part by continuing a partnership with Bruce Willis, with whom he's producing the film Catch .44. And now Mr. Willis and Paul Walker are in talks to join 50 Cent in the heist action film Set…
Read MoreHomeStarRunnerTron has created a video remix of Harold Ramis’s classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day. "Bing" took 8-and-a-half months to complete, and features Stephen Tobolowsky (of /Film's own Tobolowsky Files podcast) as Ned Reyerson front and center. If it seems like something that might have been created by Pogo, that's because it's a tribute to Pogo.…
Read MoreWhen Oren Peli shot the first Paranormal Activity in his own house over the course of a week, he never could have imagined how it would totally and utterly change his life. The film came out and was a runaway hit, he immediately signed on to produce a sequel and then directed his second movie…
Read MoreOur friends at 'How It Should Have Ended' have constructed an animated movie trailer showing on David Fincher's The Social Network should have ended. As you might expect, the video does parody the film's dramatic climax -- so if you haven't yet seen the movie you might want to avoid watching. Also, if you haven't…
Read MoreThanks to the ongoing American Film Market, we've got a bit more info about Source Code, the sophomore feature from Moon director Duncan Jones. We should be seeing a trailer within the next couple months, but until then this long, and possibly spoilerish synopsis will have to do. What we've known about Source Code is…
Read MoreWhen James Cameron's Avatar was released in theaters, I was surprised at just how little behind the scenes footage was released. One of the few clips released, you've probably seen, showed Zoë Saldana performing an emotional scene in her performance capture suit/rig, side by side with the fully rendered footage of Neytiri that appears in…
Read More/Film reader Dustin E caught a screening of the Guillermo del Toro-written/produced Troy Nixey-directed horror thriller Don't Be Afraid of the Dark at a special screening presented during the Virginia Film Festival. Dustin says the film is "a great little throwback horror flick that will definitely please fans of the genre." Hit the jump to…
Read MoreLast week, we let you know that coveted badges for San Diego Comic-Con 2011 were going on sale. However, the website promptly crashed and Comic-Con had to formulate a plan B. Well, plan B is that badges now go on sale at 6 a.m. PST November 22. Four day badges with preview night sold out…
Read MoreDC/Vertigo Comics has given /Film an exclusive 7 page excerpt from the beginning of Stephen King's segment of the new graphic novel series American Vampire. Written by celebrated short story writer Scott Snyder and drawn by artist Rafael Albuquerque AMERICAN VAMPIRE is a new monthly comic book series with a unique contribution from New York…
Read MoreIn April it was announced that Warner Bros and DC Comics were developing a Batman live stage tour, produced by Nick Grace Management and Water Lane Prods., the companies behind the popular/amazing Walking With Dinosaurs stage shows. At the time we were told that it wouldn't be a cheesy musical, but instead "an elaborate arena…
Read MoreToday's t-shirt on Teefury is a Doom/Evil Dead parody design titled "Boom" Designed by Jimiyo, the t-shirt is available for only $9 plus shipping. The bad news is that it's available for purchase today, and today only (Monday, November 8th 2010). Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi fans should act fast or it will be gone…
Read MoreSunday's Los Angeles Times has a fantastic article about the legacy of the Harry Potter franchise, something we mused about a few weeks ago too. With Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 less than two weeks away, looking back at how Warner Brothers handled what has become one of the biggest franchises ever…
Read MoreAfter Disney's acquisition of Marvel, a television division was set-up at Marvel Studios with Jeph Loeb (Heroes, Smallville, Lost and Buffy the Vampire Slayer) hired to run the operation. And more recently we learned that Marvel was developing an hour-long live-action Incredible Hulk television series for ABC. What else might be in the works in…
Read MoreDreamWorks Animation has premiered the first teaser trailer for Kung Fu Panda 2, or Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom as it is officially titled, in front of prints of Megamind. The trailer is now online, as is the official plot synopsis. Hit the jump to watch it now, but keep in mind it's…
Read MoreWe must soon hit some critical mass when it comes to genre mash-ups and goofy nods to classic ideas. Cowboys & Aliens will be an interesting experiment when it arrives in theaters next summer. The title makes the film sound absurd, but from what I've seen (a good amount) it looks as if Jon Favreau…
Read MoreTimur Bekmambetov has been busy at the American Film Market. While he's planning to direct Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in the next few months, he continues to be a prolific producer. (For better or worse.) Today there is word that he may have not one but two new space-related projects set up with two different…
Read MoreYou might not know the name Panna Rittikrai, but if you've seen Ong Bak you know his work. He was the fight choreographer for that film, so while Tony Jaa did the hard work diving under trucks and throwing elbows, Panna Rittikrai devised the scenes that made the fighting actor look so good. Now he…
Read MoreGood news for fans of Studio Ghibli, the Japanese company that has been the traditional home of master animator Hayao Miyazaki along with many other wonderful filmmakers. On Thursday at the Rome International Film Festival, the president of the studio announced that he will "announce Ghibli's new work on December 15." Why is this good…
Read MoreAt the beginning of this week we showed you the first look at Tintin (Jamie Bell) and Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), from The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, directed by Steven Spielberg and with post-production mocap work by Peter Jackson and WETA. More specifically: we showed you their rendered forms as they'll…
Read MoreBriefly: Paul Haggis had been just another go-to TV writer/director until he wrote and directed 2004's Crash, which became the most polarizing Best Picture Oscar winner in years. His work hasn't been as able to rile people up since then. Now he's planning a picture that, based on a brief description, calls up a few…
Read MoreOn December 23, 1935, Walt Disney wrote an eight page letter to a gentleman named Don Graham at the Chouinard Art Institute (now Cal Arts) asking him to help train new, and improve old, Disney animators. Walt felt that many of the men he employed weren't working up to their potential and that by focusing…
Read MoreI count myself a fan of director Todd Phillips. Sure he's had his hits and misses, but when he hits, he hits big. Phillips' last film The Hangover seemingly came out of nowhere, yet with no big-name stars, it went onto gross over $450 million worldwide and launched Galifianakis' career into the stratosphere. Phillips' eagerly…
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 MoreWhen two of the biggest film geek directors in the world sit down to chat, it's always something to behold and that's exactly what happened this past Monday at one of the numerous sold out screenings of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World in anticipation of its Blu-ray release on November 9. This particular screening took…
Read MoreIt's about time Jenna Fischer got to headline a film. The Office star has had a few choice roles in comedies like Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Blades of Glory, but even then she's been somewhat sidelined as the ancillary love interest. This time around, she'll be at the center of an indie…
Read MoreThough a good number of fans have already purchased their tickets to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 at midnight on November 19, most of us have not. Two weeks away still feels a little too early to make plans. Well, AMC has upped the ante with an event that's sure to…
Read MoreThe most expensive Broadway musical in history just swung back a few weeks. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, featuring music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge and directed by Julie Taymor (Across the Universe), was scheduled to open December 21 but has now been pushed back until January 2011 because of several technical issues…
Read MoreGot to hand it to Collider: they're scouring the American Film Market scarfing up info on a ton of new films being represented there this week. The latest two are Abducted, which is the first post-Twilight film for Taylor Lautner, and ATM, which is based on a script hatched by Chris Sparling, aka the screenwriter…
Read MoreThe results are in for one more casting race -- well, this one wasn't a race, exactly. Earlier this week we reported that director Cameron Crowe was interested in Scarlett Johansson for the lead female role in We Bought a Zoo. Now she's reportedly nearing a deal to make the picture, in which she'll appear…
Read MoreYesterday we posted the movie trailer for Ghostbusters/Meatballs director Ivan Reitman's new comedy No Strings Attached starring Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman. The film actually started out with another title, Fuckbuddies. Of course, Paramount didn't want to face the problems associated with releasing a movie under that title, so they changed it to Friends With…
Read MoreEarlier this year it was revealed that Akiva Goldsman (producer of remakes and adaptations such as Lost in Space, Starsky & Hutch, Poseidon, The Losers, and Jonah Hex) and a couple of others had acquired the rights to The Toxic Avenger, based on the cult Troma character in all his incarnations: five films, an animated…
Read MoreBriefly: There's a double-page photo spread in the new Entertainment Weekly that features Jason Segel, co-writer and star of The Muppets, along with his hand-made co-stars from the film. Most of the characters in the photo spread are established faves, but there's also a reveal of the new addition: Walter, who proudly brandishes an iPhone.…
Read MoreTwo major 3D sequels are gaining, and losing, some high profile female talent. First up, Judi Dench (not pictured above) will have a small run in with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) at the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. And while former Pussycat Doll and Dancing With the Stars winner Nicole…
Read MoreEvery time I get something in the inbox about Goon I get excited, thinking there's finally movement on the David Fincher-produced adaptation of the comic The Goon. But for now, this is about the hockey comedy Goon, starring Jay Baruchel and Seann William Scott. The first pics of the film are out, and you can…
Read MoreWe've been hearing rumblings of a possible Tron: Legacy theme park ride for a while now. In fact, the day before I visited the Vancouver Canada set of the film, Disney Imagineers were on set taking a look at the concept art, sound-stages, weapons, props and who knows what else. At the time we only…
Read MoreIn the midst of giant effing robots, magical wizards, superheros, pirates and more, Kevin James is returning to a theater near you during the summer of 2011. His latest film, Zookeeper, directed by Frank Coraci and co-starring Rosario Dawson and Leslie Bibb, is scheduled for release July 8. The teaser trailer was just released and…
Read MoreI was elated recently to hear that Francis Ford Coppola has quietly gone into production on a new film called Twixt Now and Sunrise. I was elated less at the title and more at the fact that (a) the legendary director keeps on keepin' on and (b) he's got Val Kilmer as a lead and…
Read MoreYou probably know Rhett Reese as the co-screenwriter of Zombieland. Along with his writing partner Paul Werneck, Rhett have since worked on a few drafts of G.I. Joe 2, Marvel's Deadpool, a Venom Spider-Man spin-ff movie, and a sequel to Zombieland. If that wasn't enough, Reese has also been hard at work writing his first…
Read MoreThis, if true, is a probably a good thing. In the wake of the overstuffed Spider-Man 3, Sony and director Marc Webb seem to be taking the character back to a simpler movie storyline. So reports that the film would feature two classic love interests, Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy, seemed slightly at odds…
Read MoreAfter a few years paying the bills and making money in straight comedies, Ice Cube is going back to some interesting work. He's working right now with The Messenger director Oren Moverman in Rampart, the film about the '90s LAPD scandal, in which he plays a cop. And now the founding member of N.W.A and…
Read MoreIn June, we posted the international movie trailer for Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist, which looked amazing. I got a chance to screen the film at the Telluride film festival, and it is a visually stunning testament to the art of 2D animation. The film is set to be released in the states (in limited theaters)…
Read MoreAnother rumor which is making the tracking board rounds today is that Zac Efron has apparently been offered the lead role in Albert Hughes’ upcoming live-action adaptation of the popular anime/Katsuhiro Otomo's six-volume manga Akira. I'm not able to confirm the offer, but one source tells me Efron is in talks, while another says that…
Read MoreIndustry tracking boards are reporting a couple interesting items today: Ben Affleck has apparently been offered the lead role in Antoine Fuqua’s (Bait, King Arthur, Shooter, Training Day) upcoming adaptation of the Vince Flynn novel Consent to Kill which Lorenzo di Bonaventura (GI Joe, Transformers) is producing for CBS Films. Ryan Gosling has apparently been…
Read MoreSony has released the first movie trailer for the new Adam Sandler comedy Just Go With It. Directed by Dennis Dugan (Grown Ups, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Happy Gilmore), the valentine's week romantic comedy release tells the story of "a plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend…
Read MoreEven though Zack Snyder still has five months to go before he releases his next movie, Sucker Punch, it seems all anyone wants to talk about is his follow up. That's bound to happen, though, when you'll be helming a reboot of Superman written by David Goyer and produced by Christopher Nolan. Since the announcement,…
Read MoreHave you ever noticed while watching the AMC television series Mad Men that Don Draper (Jon Hamm) says "What" a lot? Hit the jump to see video proof of this claim. via: Digg
Read MoreWe have a bunch of items in today's edition of Geek Deals: Amazon has a sale on the Kick-Ass Three-Disc Blu-Ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy for only $12.99, 68% off the $40 msrp. Today's t-shirt on Ript Apparel is a Batman-inspired design titled "Happy Bat" from DPeterson. The shirt is on sale for only $10…
Read MoreIn the past few weeks we've started to see footage from The Way Back, which marks the return of great Australian director Peter Weir. Our last look at the film (besides the poster) was a UK trailer that was a good introduction to the story of escapees from a Siberian gulag trying to make their…
Read MoreIt's speculation time, but this is informed speculation. In a piece about the inroads that Scandanavian films and filmmakers have been making with US audiences, there's a mention that Handling the Undead, another novel from Let the Right One In novelist John Ajvide Lindqvist, will soon be shopped to US studios. The logical conclusion to…
Read MoreJust a couple hours ago, it was revealed that Martin Sheen was in final negotiations to join the cast of Columbia Pictures' 3D Spider-Man reboot. Now HeatVision is reporting that Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart, Forrest Gump, Mrs. Doubtfire) is also in talks to join the film, which is…
Read MorePeter and Bobby Farrelly have returned with a new comedy, Hall Pass. The title refers to the pass that is given to characters played by Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis by their wives. They get one week of free play (with other women) with no consequences. Watch the trailer after the break. I don't know…
Read MoreAustralian video remix artist Pogo has been making a lot of noise with his popular video remixes of Disney/Pixar films. In the past, we've featured his video remixes for Up - s Upular, and the Toy Story series - Toyz Noize and Buzzwings. Composed using chords, bass notes and vocal samples from the films, each…
Read MoreBreaking news: Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now, The Departed, Catch Me If You Can) has joined the cast of Columbia Pictures' 3D Spider-Man reboot, which is being directed by (500) Days of Summer helmer Marc Webb. Sheen will play Peter Parker's Uncle Ben. In the traditional Spider-Man story, Peter Parker is brought up by Uncle Ben…
Read MoreDespite the fact that there are more films available for home viewing than ever before, there is a significant crop of films that never hit DVD. One of the most serious omissions on the format has been Rolling Thunder. The 1977 film casts William Devane as a Vietnam vet who is out for revenge against…
Read MoreParamount Pictures has released the first movie trailer for Ghostbusters/Meatballs director Ivan Reitman's new comedy No Strings Attached. The movie follows a lonely doctor (played by Cary Elwes) who gets lucky with a pretty co-worker (played by Natalie Portman) in a "comedy about the complications of friends with benefits." A guy and girl try to…
Read MoreRelativity Media has acquired the film rights to author Michael Drosnin’s Bible Code book series, which includes New York Times best-sellers “The Bible Code,” “Bible Code II: The Countdown,” and “Bible Code III: Saving the World." The series is based on a 3000 year-old code in the Bible found by a top Israeli scientist and…
Read MoreThe series many feel could take over the movie and publishing business in the way Twilight did just a few years back finally has a captain at the helm. Gary Ross, who directed Seabiscuit and Pleasantville, will in fact be directing the film version of The Hunger Games based on the best selling book by…
Read MoreLooks like MTV likes music videos once more -- the company is finally producing them. MEAN Magazine founders have teamed with MTV to create a series of clips called Supervideo that will " tap buzzworthy music, filmmakers and talent in a high voltage expression of art and music." The first effort stars Anna Kendrick (Up…
Read MoreThe moral of recent CIA movies like Fair Game and Red is that leaving the agency is never a good thing. That's what Aaron Eckhart will soon learn in The Expatriate, a thriller he just signed to star in directed by Philipp Stolzl (a music video director whose last feature was the 2008 film North…
Read MoreWarner Bros has released a new movie trailer for the hybrid live-action/computer animated feature adaptation Yogi Bear. The first teaser trailer went online in July -- if you missed it, click here (or maybe don't). The first full length trailer hit in September. The latest trailer shows us even more (although I'm pretty sure if…
Read MoreMGM filed for bankruptcy yesterday, and while there's no need to go into all the financial specifics yet again, this is just the next step in the company's reorganization. This pre-packaged bankruptcy should leave MGM creditors with equity in a new version of the company, with Spyglass Entertainment holding the studio reigns. And, as part…
Read MoreImagine you are a TRON fan, desperately killing time until the December 17 release of TRON: Legacy. You've downloaded all the posters, listened to all the soundtrack samples, watched the clips, pre-ordered the comic books, bought your IMAX 3D tickets but still, you need more. Well, Disney is more than happy to oblige. They are…
Read MoreWe've written a few times over the past year about the planned biopic of hit man Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski. Hunter famously questioned the ethics of making such a film, and we've tracked it as it had Channing Tatum set to star before he was dumped thanks in part to objections from Richard Kuklinski's…
Read MoreWhen word got out that Cartoon Network would be reimagining the classic 1980s cartoon Thundercats in 2011, fans were simultaneously excited and nervous. The excitement centered on the reality of seeing new adventures with characters like Lion-O, Panthro, Cheetara and Tygra. But the word "reimagining" raises huge red flags. What exactly does it mean? Well…
Read MoreMartin Lawrence is back in the female fat suit for Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, and he's got Tropic Thunder's Brandon T. Jackson suited up alongside him. There's a trailer for the film after the break, and I dare you to watch it. The first Big Momma's House came out in 2000, but this…
Read MoreFox's much anticipated sci-fi series Terra Nova, produced by Steven Spielberg, just suffered another set back. Reports are coming in that most of the writing staff on the show - which was delayed until Fall 2011 - was laid off this week. Show-runner Brandon Braga wasn't let go though and apparently the layoffs could be…
Read MoreGenerally I'm bulletproof when it comes to little plastic versions of things I love. But even my cold heart is tempted by these Scott Pilgrim figures, which are a fine little recreation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's art style. They're a bit pricey at $30 for the pair, and don't release until April of 2011. But…
Read MoreAmazon's Gold Box deal of the day today is the acclaimed FX television series Rescue Me for only $14.99 per season DVD Box Set, 70% off the $50 list price. You could pick up all five seasons for only $74.95. The price will vanish at midnight tonight (Thursday, November 4th 2010) so act fast!
Read MoreThe first big sale out of the American Film Market is for Drive, the first big American film directed by the creator of Pusher, Bronson and Valhalla Rising, Nicolas Winding Refn. Deadline reports that FilmDistrict picked up distribution rights for a late summer or early fall 2011 release. What is FilmDistrict? That's the new company…
Read MoreEvery time a new Brad Pitt project comes up, a number of comments inevitably pose this question: "what about The Lost City of Z?" That's the adaptation of David Grann's book about an expedition into the Amazon to find a lost city. It has been simmering since late 2008; James Grey has been slated to…
Read MoreThey did it once, they did it twice, and now "due to the overwhelming response and popularity" of AMC's Back to the Future screenings on October 23 and 25, they're screening the film again 12:30 p.m. Saturday November 6 at 75 select theaters. It's not November 5, the day Marty actually arrived in 1955, but…
Read MoreWith the American Film Market in full gear, there's seemingly no end the amount of new material that will be making its way online in the coming hours and days. We're gonna package up the next two because - while radically different - each is about the best parts of being human. We have our…
Read MoreZack Snyder's genre bending trip through a mental institution, Sucker Punch, isn't coming out until March 25, but Warner Brothers just released a full trailer for the film, which will presumably be attached to Due Date this weekend. The film stars Emily Browning as a young girl forced into a mental institution who uses her…
Read MoreUsually when the first poster for a movie is revealed, it means the film is coming soon. That unfortunately might not be the case for director Jodie Foster's The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson from a script by Kyle Killen. The script was number one on the 2008 Black List and is about a man who…
Read MoreSilent Hill wasn't a huge success at the box office—domestically it failed to even gross beyond its $50 million budget—but apparently between its worldwide gross ($98 million) and DVD sales, it made enough that a sequel is now in order. The sequel, which has been given the title Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, is confirmed as…
Read MoreThe line between some movies and comic books is getting more blurry. Disney is using Marvel comics to promote Tron, and Marvel plans comics set the the Marvel Movie Universe. DC Entertainment seems poised to bring the DC comics and movie universes closer together, too. Other comics companies seem to exist solely to create comics…
Read MoreAs we all know, James Cameron loves to talk about 3D. And considering the guy spent several years and millions of dollars developing 3D technology in the depths of the ocean in order to make Avatar, the least we can do is listen. Cameron believes the next big step in 3D is getting rid of…
Read MoreOne of the many riches coming out of the American Film Market today is the promo art for Red Lights, the next film from Buried director Rodrigo Cortes. The art isn't particularly great, but it has useful info: Cillian Murphy is in the film alongside Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro. More important, he might…
Read MoreThere is good news and bad news about the very early promo push for Terrence Malick's much-anticipated film The Tree of Life. The bad news is that this first poster is really bad. It could be advertising Big Fish 2 just as easily as the generational drama from Mr. Malick. The good news is that,…
Read MoreThe American Film Market is great for announcements of crazy-sounding films that we might once see. We'll have a great many of them over the next few days (and there's a big post full of sales art and first-look stills coming up) but one of the biggest new projects right now is probably Under the…
Read MoreAt Blu-Con yesterday, a diverse crowd of industry professionals gathered to discuss the future of the movie business. Despite a few prominent successes at the box office this year, the industry is in a state of financial turmoil, with DVD sales cratering, Blu-Ray sales not compensating, and the rise of rental companies like Netflix and…
Read MoreWhile Sam Raimi is working on explaining how the Wizard got to Oz, there's another film in production that'll tell the story of what happens after Dorothy left. That film is called Dorothy of Oz and it's a 3D animated sequel to the 1939 original about Dorothy being transported back to help a new group…
Read MoreI evidently need to read the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies script (anyone got it?) because while the idea of inserting zombies in Jane Austen's classic story sounds amusing enough to power a bit of sketch comedy, I'm having difficulty coming to terms with it as something that people are jockeying to direct. The latest…
Read MoreArtist Derek Eads has created an wonderful minimalistic infographic showing the many faces of actor Gary Oldman. No word on if prints will be made available, but if they are they will likely be on Eads' screened shop. via: TDW
Read MoreThe same team that brought you the wonderful Conan the Barbarian: The Musical, Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan, are at it again. Here you can see the touching tune 'Jenny and Me' which represents the glory that might be found within Commando: The Musical, assuming such a thing were to actually exist. (It really should…
Read MoreBriefly: Nicholas Jarecki is a young upstart that came out of NYU a few years ago and has produced Tyson, co-written and produced The Informers (not a career highlight) and produced and directed The Outsider, a documentary about filmmaker James Toback. If the name sounds familiar that's because he is the younger brother of Andrew…
Read MoreIn advance of the American Film Market, LionsGate has picked up US distribution rights to three films: Dredd (based on the Judge Dredd comics), Safe and Protection. All three films are from financing/sales company IM Global. Info on all three films is after the break. The first release will be Safe, directed by Boaz Yakin…
Read MoreGavin Polone has an extensive resume as a producer. He's been involved in a wide array of film and television, from Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Gilmore Girls to Panic Room, 8MM, Zombieland and the upcoming Premium Rush. Now he's poised to take the director's chair for the first time. The film will be a…
Read MoreOne thing is for sure, LucasFilm knows how to produce some awesome books. Their latest is a collection of Star Wars-inspired art called "Star Wars: Visions". Just as George Lucas drew upon the work of N. C. Wyeth and Norman Rockwell for his own visual inspiration, he has now invited more than 100 well-known and…
Read MoreAt a Dubai press conference not too long ago for Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise mentioned that some filming would take place at Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. "I’ll be spending many days, many hours on the side of this building, I can’t give you details, but I will be…
Read MoreOne of my favorite things to do is watch good behind the scenes documentaries for good films by great filmmakers. Unfortunately, many of the behind the scenes documentaries released on DVD/Blu-ray today are those fluff piece slickly edited featurettes, many of which are more a glossy informercial for the film than an interesting peek behind…
Read MoreAmazon has a good deal on the Robocop trilogy on Blu-ray, on sale for $25, 58% off the $60 msrp. I'm not sure how long this price will be valid for, so act fast. TeeFury's T-shirt of the day is a Harry Potter-inspired design, "Ambercrombie and Quidditch" by SpaceMonkeyDr. Available only today (Wednesday, November 3rd…
Read MoreDespite earning a nice little fanbase for All the Boys Love Mandy Lane and forgetting to wear any clothes in The Informers, Amber Heard's closest thing to a break-out moment probably remains her bit part as the first zombie encountered by Jesse Eisenberg in Zombieland. Now she'll appear as "a stalker student" in The Applicant,…
Read MoreAnd the pieces start to come together. Not long ago, word came down that director Andrew Dominik and his The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford star Casey Affleck were going to shoot a new 'Boston-based crime story.' At the time we didn't know what the story might be. New info now…
Read MoreNot too long ago, we learned that the superlative Alamo Drafthouse theaters would be launching a film distribution arm. This evening, Drafthouse founder Tim League was in Boston, along with director Chris Morris, to promote Drafthouse Films' first movie, Four Lions. My extensive interview with Morris will go live on the site on Friday, but…
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. TOY STORY 3 (Blu-ray available as 2-Disc and Four-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) How strongly Toy Story 3 resonates with you…
Read MoreTwo years ago, Emma Thompson and husband Greg Wise announced that they had penned a script about Victorian art critic, social thinker and poet John Ruskin, who had a strange and ultimately disastrous marriage to a woman named Effie Gray. The marriage was never consummated (she claimed impotency; he, ahem, demonstrated his virility in court)…
Read More/Film favorite Tyler Stout has released handbill sets for The Big Lebowski and The Thing, featuring art from his previously released (and sold out) limited edition posters. The Lebowski set includes three handbills for $30 (2 4"x5" prints and 1 4"x8" print, all three on cream colored paper). The Thing set includes fifteen smaller-sized handbills…
Read MoreProving once more that the work of William Shakespeare is versatile enough to power a story with just about any genre trappings, here's Henry 5, which glues together a stellar cast -- Michael Caine, Ray Winstone, Gerard Depardieu and Derek Jacobi -- in what appears to be a sci-fi or apocalyptic version of Henry V.…
Read MoreTrading satire for slapstick, Jack Black is the new Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels, a film made to tap into the same audience that made Night at the Museum a hit. We've seen one trailer for Gulliver's Travels which, frankly, looked horrible. Now there's a second, in which we at least get to see more of…
Read MoreWith Christmas falling on a Saturday this year, Paramount just announced they'll move their tentpole holiday release True Grit, directed by the Coen Brothers and starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, up three days to December 22. It'll now be in direct competition with Gulliver's Travels starring Jack Black and…
Read MoreBriefly: Alan Ball has quite a career as a writer and producer (Six Feet Under, True Blood, and there's his Oscar for American Beauty) but a thinner resume when it comes to directing theatrical features. In 2007, his adaptation of Alicia Erian's novel Towelhead was better than some narrow-minded controversy-stirring appraisals made it out to…
Read MoreWalt Disney Pictures has released a second video clip from Tron Legacy. The first clip which featured Olivia Wilde who plays Quorra saving Sam from possible death and takes him through some off road terrain on a four-wheel Light Runner (one of the new vehicles introduced in the sequel). If you missed that clip, you…
Read MoreJudging from the trailers, True Grit, the Joel and Ethan Coen take on the novel by Charles Portis, has a great many pleasures in store. The appeal of the film should be evident: the Coen Brothers working with a crack team of actors (Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and more) is one highlight, and…
Read MoreHey, remember when an off-hand comment on a guy's Facebook page led to the rumor that Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman, would be in X-Men: First Class? That was just yesterday, so hopefully the idea that Wolverine would be in the film hasn't had time to really take hold. Because according to producer Bryan Singer,…
Read MoreThe last time we checked in on Arthur Christmas, the planned 3D CG holiday film from Aardman Animation, we had only a single promo image to offer up. Now there's a lot more detail, including a full plot description, clarification on the behind the scenes talent, and a voice cast that includes James McAvoy, Hugh…
Read MoreWe're just over two weeks away from the first half of the final Harry Potter movie ever and anticipation is reaching fever pitch. I know Peter has been rewatching all the previous films in anticipation of this momentous event and that theaters all over are already selling out. Now, just in time to feed your…
Read MoreOn Monday November 1st 2010, Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) moderated a question and answer session with director Edgar Wright , star Michael Cera and comic creator Bryan Lee O'Malley about the upcoming DVD/Blu-Ray release of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The event, which took place at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, was captured…
Read MoreSlow news day, more rumors. This time the wheel has come back around to The Dark Knight Rises, with word that three actresses have either been offered or auditioned for roles in Christopher Nolan's film. The rumor is good as a conversation starter more for the characters specified than for the names that are very…
Read MoreNO PHOTOS Director Robert Rodriguez is hard at work filming Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The World and photos of three of his stars have leaked online. They show Jessica Alba, decidedly clothed like in her last Rodriguez film, along with the original Spy Kids Carmen and Juni Cortez, played by Alexa Vega…
Read MoreThe film is still six weeks away from release but we can already guess at the legacy of TRON: Legacy. That legacy will probably be Clu 2.0, the avatar of a younger Kevin Flynn, which represents one of the first starring characters with a photo-real CGI human face in live-action. Not only does newly minted…
Read MoreAs we've talked about The Ides of March, which George Clooney will soon direct based on the play Farragut North by Beau Williamson, the lingering question has been: who will distribute? Now the film has a studio backer, as Sony has bought North American distribution rights to the film. The studio will release The Ides…
Read MoreIt's a strange world. If you'd told me that one day I'd be watching Dale Earnhardt, Jr. introduce a short NASCAR film directed by Terry Gilliam, I can't imagine I'd have taken the idea seriously. And yet here's the online presentation of The Legend of Hallowdega, an 18-minute film in which the secret, possibly spooky…
Read MoreTeeFury's t-shirt design of the day today is a Lost parody design titled Island Reunion. I can't gaurentee this will be the last Lost t-shirt we ever post, but we havent seen any good ones since the series finale. Created by Spiritgreen, the tee is available for $9 plus shipping. Here is a word from…
Read MoreOver the weekend I caught a friend howling with laughter while watching something that looked like a video game -- turned out it was the fake 16-bit video game based on There Will Be Blood. 'Super There Will Be Blood' has elements reminiscent of Montezuma's Revenge, Super Mario Brothers, the platform movie tie ins like…
Read MoreA couple months back we did a quick casting break on The Odd Life of Timothy Green, and now we've got another one, as Joel Edgerton has joined the cast. The actor seems poised to break out as something between a legit tough guy and a capable leading man. Hardly a new actor, he had…
Read MoreThere are a couple cool deals going on today. First off, Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day today is 60% off the television series Modern Family: The Complete First Season -- Only $19.99 on DVD ($50 msrp) and $23.99 on Blu-Ray ($60msrp). Act now as the deal ends at midnight on Tuesday November 2nd…
Read MoreBriefly: The headline is really all there is to the rumor, as Production Weekly has said via tweet that the outlet hears Sony "is planning to put Ivan Reitman's “Ghostbusters 3” into production in May 2011." If accurate, this would represent the end of a couple years of speculation about the film. As far as…
Read MoreIn addition to offering up quite a few new images of Captain America, the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has first looks at many other films. There's the first image from The Help, starring Viola Davis and Emma Stone in what is sure to be one of the prestige pictures of fall 2011. There are…
Read MoreAs he's been workshopping his script for The Great Gatsby, director Baz Luhrmann is still trying to find a woman to play Daisy in his new film version of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. The role was played by Rebecca Hall in that recent workshop, during which Leonardo DiCaprio played Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire…
Read MoreDeadline has learned that Scarlett Johansson (Iron Man 2, Lost in Translation) is Cameron Crowe's (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) top choice to play the female lead in his next movie, a big screen adaptation of Benjamin Mee's bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Other actresses on Crowe's shortlist include Amy Adams (Enchanted, Doubt) Mary Elizabeth…
Read MoreConan O'Brien promised to air a live test of his new Conan talk show on the internet prior to the small screen return next Monday night on TBS. That test show streamed online tonight and was kinda a bait and switch -- a short five-minute mini-show (some might even call it a skit or an…
Read MoreJamie Chung just officially pulled past The Miz to become the most successful Real World cast member ever. The actress, who has already starred in the AMC Family show Samurai Girl, Grown Ups and Sorority Row in addition to playing one of the main ladies in Sucker Punch (above), has just been cast in The…
Read MoreThe MPAA has made a lot of boneheaded decisions over the years, and the latest was slapping the film Blue Valentine with an NC-17 rating. That effectively dooms the movie when it comes to advertising and awareness, as a great many print and television outlets won't run ads for an 'adults only' movie, which is…
Read MoreWarner Bros has just officially confirmed that James Nesbitt (Bloody Sunday, Millions, Waking Ned Devine) and newcomer Adam Brown have joined the cast of Peter Jackson's big screen adaptation of The Hobbit. Nesbitt will play Bofur, "a disarmingly forthright, funny and occasionally brave Dwarf." Brown will play Ori, "another of the Dwarf Company which sets…
Read MoreThere are three outfits running in the race to make a new film version of Snow White. One is Disney, which has Snow White and the Seven in development. Number two is Universal, which is a few steps ahead with Snow White and the Huntsman, which has a script (by Evan Daugherty) and a director…
Read MoreLeonardo DiCaprio is an actor who consistently aims to challenge himself with weighty, Oscar-caliber roles, and his next few films promise more of the same. He's shooting Hoover, Clint Eastwood's FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover biopic, in the coming year, and he's rumored to be starring in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Now…
Read MoreFor anyone wanting to print out or make desktop wallpaper out of the Captain America: The First Avenger images that premiered in Entertainment Weekly, you are in luck. Marvel and Paramount released all of the images in gorgeous high resolution so you can do with them as you wish. Several of the images are uncropped…
Read MoreDid a cab driver really bring Hugh Jackman to the Georgia set of Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class this weekend? And is Brenda Chapman, once set to be the first female Pixar director, not only off of their summer 2012 film Brave but leaving the company entirely? Read more about each rumor after the jump.…
Read MoreSee that large blank spot on your wall? This week is a great time to fill it with a limited edition movie themed print. Mondo has a few posters for movies that haven't been interpreted much like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive, Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and Chris Morris' Four Lions (which we exclusively premiered here). Then,…
Read MoreOh, Opie I'm so proud of you. Director Ron Howard is keeping the controversial joke that Universal removed from the trailer for his upcoming comedy The Dilemma, in the actual movie. Three weeks ago, CNN's Anderson Cooper and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) spoke out against the joke in which a character,…
Read MoreDid you know that Alan Alda, Al Pacino, Eddie Muphy, Nicolas Cage, Prince, Bill Cosby, and Robin Williams auditioned for Back to the Future? No? Me neither. Probably because it didn't happen. However, Saturday Night Live "uncovered" a set of never before released screen tests and premiered them on this weekend's edition of the show.…
Read MoreLiveFeed is reporting that AMC's 90-minute series premiere of The Walking Dead was a gigantic win with not only the largest numbers in AMC's history (well above Breaking Bad and Mad Men), but the largest 18-49 audience of any series premiere on any cable network this year. An estimated 5.3 million viewers watched the debut…
Read MoreAudiences love the summer because it's the home of the blockbuster but, in terms of memorable films, the summer of 2010 was a major disappointment. Outside of Toy Story 3 and Inception, the rest of the top 10 films at the box office were a mixed bag of mediocre sequels and remakes. Thankfully, next summer…
Read MoreLooks like Now is really the title of Andrew Niccol's next film. Formerly called I'm.mortal, the film stars Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and a host of other young actors. Now, with film already rolling, it has added Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four) and Matt Bomer to the talent roster. Deadline doesn't have any info…
Read MoreWarner Bros. has officially released the full official synopsis for Zack Snyder's new action fantasy film Sucker Punch. No big surprises, but if you're itching to know more about what to expect from this film, hit the jump. Official Details: SUCKER PUNCH Close your eyes. Open your mind. You will be unprepared. “Sucker Punch” is…
Read MoreBill Amend's latest FoxTrot comic strip imagines what happened when Star Wars creator George Lucas went trick or treating on Halloween.
Read MoreSince it was first announced, I've been wondering what the tone will be for Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens. Even coming out of the footage screened at Comic-Con, I wasn't exactly sure. Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci recently gave an interview with SciFiMedia Zone about the film and actually address the tone of the…
Read MoreLast week Yahoo Movies published a few cool infographics comparing the most famous slasher movie villains: Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger. Jason has "appeared" in thirteen films, Freddy was featured in nine films, and there were ten Halloween movies in total. So which one of these killers has the biggest bodycount? And which…
Read MoreEmpire Magazine teased a first look at The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn all weekend. The film, directed by Steven Spielberg with Peter Jackson overseeing WETA's CGI mocap animation over the live-action footage, hasn't been seen in CGI form, until now. That's a look at Tintin, played by Jamie Bell, above. Hit…
Read MoreBriefly: Last week there was a collective 'huh?' (and probably some genuine interest) when word filtered out that High School Musical director Kenny Ortega might direct a feature film based on Michael Jackson's song 'Thriller.' But the director, who was Michael Jackson's long-time choreographer and frequent creative partner, has been in touch with EW to…
Read MoreUPDATE: Due to traffic, the San Diego Comic-Con website has suspended badge sales. They posted a message on the official site saying to check back on November 8. More info after the jump. Just a heads up, if you want to attend the world's largest pop culture convention, San Diego Comic-Con, happening July 21-24, 2011,…
Read MoreWe always love hearing which films entertain, influence and scare the filmmakers we admire. And you may have noticed that we've been posting these types of lists when we find them in our Movie Playlist. Over the weekend Martin Scorsese listed off his 11 scariest horror movies of all time. Which films scare Scorsese? Find…
Read MoreYou might recall that we featured Scott Derby's Ghostbusters-inspired Trap 'Em All, Let Egon Sort 'Em Out artwork as part of the awesome 3G Art Show. Teefury picked Scott's design for today's tee of the day. Available in a cream colored guys shirt or powder blue colored girls shirt for only $9 plus shipping. As…
Read MoreA couple weeks ago it was announced that Anthony Daniels reprised his role as C-3PO alongside his Star Wars droid partner R2-D2 in a LucasFilm licensed television advertisement filmed for the UK electronics megastore chain Currys. The advert sees C-3PO and R2-D2 land on planet earth in a Megastore carpark late at night, with R2-D2…
Read MoreBriefly: After making three Pirates of the Caribbean films together, Gore Verbinski and Terry Rossio must have developed a working creative shorthand. Let's hope so, as they're now paired for Magical Law, a TV series for Fox that will be a cop/legal story with a supernatural bent. That might be the worst TV series title…
Read MoreThe last proper feature from maverick director David Lynch was the 2006 shot-on-DV effort Inland Empire. Since then he's made commercials and music videos, done quite a lot to promote Transcendental Meditation, and worked on multiple albums. The most high-profile of those was with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse [RIP], called Dark Night of the Soul.…
Read MoreIf David Chen's indepth sountrack interview with Trent Reznor wasn't enough (if you haven't listened to it, click the link), our friends at the Soundworks Collection have published a 45-minute question and answer session with The Social Network music composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, alongside sound re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor Ren Klyce. The discussion…
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 MoreIt's 1957 - Stephen and his older brother Paul learn about science and get more than they bargain for with results that took decades to understand. 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…
Read MoreThis week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley discuss the pleasures of surrendering your intellectual property to Amazon, offer their thoughts on the trailers for Source Code, Green Lantern, and Cowboys and Aliens, and announce the winners of the Scott Pilgrim contest(!). Special guest Dave Gonzales joins us from Latino Review. You can always…
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, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley try to get excited about Darren Aronofsky's Wolverine, discuss the place of Battle Royale in a "post-Saw" world, and wonder whether or not Tony Scott is stoppable. Special guest Tasha Robinson joins us from AV Club. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and…
Read MoreCBS Films has released the official trailer for The Mechanic, British director Simon West’s (Con Air, Tomb Raider, When a Stranger Calls) remake of the Charles Bronson thriller starring Jason Statham. He’s got Ben Foster along for the ride, presumably taking over the role played by Jan-Michael Vincent in the original. Donald Sutherland also co-stars.…
Read MoreThis week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley chat with special guest director Edgar Wright about making Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, delve into the film's alternate ending, and geek out over the best special features on the new Scott Pilgrim Blu-Ray/DVD. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail…
Read MoreThis week, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley dwell on the execrable It's Pat, ponder the ethics of "gay" jokes, and evince ambivalent feelings towards artificial scarcity in the home video market. Special guest Laremy Legel joins us from film.com. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at…
Read MoreOne of the most audacious films to come out of Sundance this year was Chris Morris' Four Lions. A comedic genius who hails from the UK, Morris has previously skewered the nightly newscast and the investigative documentary in the TV series The Day Today and Brass Eye, respectively. In Four Lions, Morris turns his satirical…
Read MoreThis week, Dave Chen speaks with director Danny Boyle about his newest film, 127 Hours. Dave asks Boyle about the unique style he employed for 127 Hours, what tricks he used to make the film (set in one place and primarily starring one character) dynamic, what other guy-stuck-in-one-place films inspired him, and why, of all…
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