The long-rumored Fletch reboot is finally, actually, really happening. Greg Mottola (Superbad) says he begins production on it in just over two weeks.
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Jon Hamm is stepping into Chevy Chase's shoes for a Fletch reboot.
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Jason Sudeikis was eyed to star in a Fletch remake years ago, but that project has yet to come to fruition. In a new interview, he gives us a Fletch update.
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One Stranger Things 3 influence is a 1980s comedy that falls outside of the usual inspirations from that decade of movies.
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July 4th has been a big movie weekend for years now, and the 1985 summer movies theater listings show just how different and special that summer really was.
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The quest to create a new Fletch movie, based on Gregory McDonald's character, carries on. Now Relativity has picked up where Warner Bros. left off.
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The 4th Annual Wayne Federman Film Festival boasts a crazy impressive line up of films and stars including Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Forte and many others.
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The backstory of a new Fletch movie goes back at least ten years, to when Universal and Kevin Smith started talking about adapting the novel Fletch Won as a sequel/prequel to Fletch ('85) and Fletch Lives ('89). The project moved to Miramax, but Kevin Smith eventually moved on. Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence was going to…
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Warner Bros have pre-emptively picked up the movie rights to Gregory McDonald's 11-book Fletch mystery novel series. Chevy Chase originally played Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher in Michael Ritchie's 1985 film Fletch, and the 1989 sequel Fletch Lives. Heatvision is reporting that no writer or director has been attached but the studio is "aiming for a reimagining,…
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If the '80s gave a sniffling speech at the Decade Achievement Awards, Harold Faltermeyer and his scores would be thanked somewhere after Shigeru Miyamoto and Super Mario Bros. and Magic Johnson's Lakers. A classically trained German composer with an affinity for rock and disco, Faltermeyer got his start in Hollywood assisting mustachioed electro-don Georgio Moroder on soundtracks…
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Chevy Chase has joined the cast of United Artist's R-Rated sci-fi comedy Hot Tub Time Machine. The Steve Pink-directed, Josh Heald-scripted film tells the story of a group of guys (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, and Craig Robinson) who return to the hot tub they once partied in, only to discover it is a time machine…
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Gregory Mcdonald died on Sunday at age 71 in Pulaski, Tennessee. Mcdonald is best known as the best-selling author of the Fletch book series, which was later adapted into a feature film series starring Chevy Chase. Mcdonald's Running Scared and The Brave were also adapted for the big screen. Mcdonald had 26 published books and…
Read MoreLike a good number of dudes and a fair number of gals, I haven't followed the NBA with much interest since Michael Jordan exited in 2003. Tried, but too much bark and vanity in my opinion, not to mention the Lakers. Jordan's remained super low-key since his final retirement--a few Hanes cameos and the ever…
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There's a lot of minor news breaking today and falling in between the cushions of Slashfilm's buttery soft couch. I've decided to reach in and present the tasty morsels for your enjoyment. Don't like some of 'em? Well, your dog doesn't discriminate and if it does, surprise, it's a kitty. October's Max Payne video adaptation…
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