'Genius' Super Bowl Spot: Albert Einstein Rocks Out To A Little Bad Romance
National Geographic's first scripted series, Genius, debuts in April. Season one stars Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein. Watch the Genius Super Bowl spot.
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'Genius' Trailer: Geoffrey Rush Is Albert Einstein In The Ron Howard-Produced Series
Geoffrey Rush plays Albert Einstein in National Geographic's new scripted series, Genius. Producer Ron Howard directed the pilot. Watch the Genius trailer.
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'Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales' Teaser Trailer
Walt Disney Pictures has released the first Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales trailer. Jack Sparrow is off on a new adventure.
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'Gods Of Egypt' Super Bowl Spot: Bow Before Gerard Butler Or Die
Lionsgate has debuted a 60-second Gods of Egypt Super Bowl spot to get football fans interested in this insane action epic that looks like a shiny 300.
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Exclusive: Check Geoffrey Rush On Poster For 'The Best Offer,' From Director Of 'Cinema Paradiso'
From the director of Cinema Paradiso, featuring the music of Ennio Morricone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess and Donald Sutherland, The Best Offer hits theaters and video on demand January 1. The film follows an art dealer (Rush) who is asked to sell the possessions of a woman who refuses to be seen. While…
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'The Book Thief' U.K. Trailer: "When Life Robs You, Sometimes You Have To Rob It Back"
Despite an intriguing premise and a promising cast (including Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson), the first U.S. trailer for The Book Thief wasn't really very appealing. The focus was murky, the sentimentality was laid on thick, and a cheesy voiceover instantly cheapened the whole thing. Worse, there wasn't even any book-thieving. Glimpses of book-holding and…
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Geoffrey Rush Will Be One Of Alex Proyas's 'Gods Of Egypt'
After spending much of the past decade with Jack Sparrow on the high seas, Geoffrey Rush is headed to warmer, drier climates in Gods of Egypt. The Oscar-winning actor will join Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in the Alex Proyas-directed fantasy, which follows a mortal who gets caught up in a dispute between deities. Hit…
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'The Book Thief' Trailer: Stealing Books And Warming Hearts In Nazi Germany
Around this point in the year, it becomes possible to see, in broad strokes, how the upcoming awards season might shape up. The studios have set their release calendars, the most promising titles have hit the festival circuit or are just about to, and several buzzed-about flicks have already put out full-length trailers for general…
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'Green Lantern' 3D Trailer
Why studios are releasing 3D trailers online and calling them "3D trailers" when we can't watch them in 3D is beyond me. Paramount did it earlier today with Transformers: Dark of the Moon and now Warner Bros. has done it with Green Lantern. But, unlike the Transformers trailer, this Green Lantern trailer is totally different…
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Full Clip From 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'
With all the talk about Fast Five's huge opening weekend and Thor's big international box office haul, not to mention that film's impending domestic opening, it's almost as if the next blockbuster on the summer movies horizon is being overlooked. That film is Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the Rob Marshall-directed fourth film…
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Extended 'Green Lantern' TV Spot Has Brief New Footage
Last night during 30 Rock and American Idol Warner Bros. premiered a new TV spot for Green Lantern, but the spot was really more of a recut trailer. At 1:30, it is essentially a shortened version of the WonderCon footage that was shown off not long ago. But there are a few new bits sprinkled…
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Geoffrey Rush Voices Tomar-Re In 'Green Lantern'
Briefly: Yesterday we started to talk about how effects work is still being done on Green Lantern, and the rumors that many of the film's CGI characters aren't even cast yet. One rumor is that Michael Clarke Duncan could voice the giant alien Kilowog. And now, supporting that as-yet unconfirmed talk, is word that Geoffrey…
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'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' Trailer
Walt Disney Pictures have released a new movie trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. This full length trailer certainly adresses some of the criticisms of the first trailer, expanding the scope of the story a bit. We also get mermaids and a peek at Keith Richards, who is reprising his role as…
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Movie Review: 'The King's Speech'
[Update - Seeing as The King's Speech just won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, we though we'd re-run Germain's rave review from November. Review starts after the jump.] Everyone knows the American Film Institute as the people who do the 100 Years series. But they're much more than that.…
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BAFTA Winners: 'The King's Speech' Scores Big; David Fincher Wins Best Director
Tonight the award ceremony took place in London to honor recipients of the British Academy Film Awards, in a show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). The BAFTA winners won't have any particular effect on the Oscar race, but the lineup for winners looks very much like that which has…
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The Making Of 'The King's Speech'
The Weinstein Company have released a 23 minute behind the scenes making od documentary for The King's Speech. Acclaimed as one of the best films of the year, Tom Hooper's film is the story of "King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch…
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New Photos: Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Walt Disney Pictures have released a couple new photos from Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. One of the new photos gives us out first look at Captain Hector Barbossa, portrayed by Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, who in this film joins King George II's Royal Navy as a privateer to lead an expedition to…
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Johnny Depp Would Do Fifth 'Pirates Of The Caribbean;' Screenwriter Already Hired
Despite The Tourist performing well-below domestic expectations, no one would argue the drawing power of Johnny Depp. The famously reclusive actor generally stays out of the spotlight long enough to pick and choose whatever projects he wants to do and then he usually does them incredibly well. A few years back, Depp had a reputation…
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New 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' Story Details Emerge
We've just seen the first trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and it sets up the basic concept: Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) ends up working with a woman from his past (Penelope Cruz) to find the fountain of youth, with famed pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane) an an unusual accomplice/rival. Meanwhile Barbossa (Geoffrey…
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'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' Trailer
Disney has released the first trailer for the fourth movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, On Stranger Tides. It announces new director Rob Marshall and new characters played by Ian McShane and Penelope Cruz, and uses the series' ringing score to great effect. Watch it after the break. Yahoo has the US version…
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First Official Photos: 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'
Walt Disney Pictures has premiered the first official production photos from the next installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, in the latest issue of USA Today. Check them out now after the jump. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"] The adventure this time around follows Jack Sparrow's quest…
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Awards Roundup: 'The Ghost Writer' Scores At European Film Awards; 'The King's Speech' Takes British Independent Film Awards
It's that time of the year when there will be one film awards ceremony and/or critical poll after another, and we've got the results of three to kick off this week. The European Film Awards took place in Estonia over the weekend, and Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer scored six awards, including Best Film, Best…
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New Poster: 'The King's Speech'
Which of the posters above would drive you to see Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter in the well-liked historical drama The King's Speech? The one on the left is the miserable hack job that was tossed out by the Weinstein Company like an entry for a Hallmark Movie Channel parody contest on…
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This Week In Trailers: The Warrior's Way, Carlos, The College Town, Cash Crop, 4192: The Crowning Of The Hit King
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Movie Trailer: Festival Favorite And Presumed Oscar Frontrunner 'The King's Speech'
Tom Hooper's film The King's Speech won the People's Choice Award (aka top prize) at the Toronto Film Festival, and wowed audiences just a week prior at Telluride. Now there's a trailer for the picture, which suggests that the film is every bit the crowd-pleaser it is said to be. I can't wait to see…
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'The King's Speech' Takes Top Prize In Toronto
The top prize awarded at the Toronto International Film festival is an interesting one, because unlike many other festivals which use a jury to award the biggest prizes, TIFF's top honor is an audience award. This year, audiences in Toronto gave the People's Choice Award to The King's Speech, starring Colin Firth as King George…
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Disney Releases Story Details For Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film, On Stranger Tides, began production last week in Hawaii. Disney has sent out a press release to commemorate the occasion, and while normally this sort of thing is just a lot of hot air, in this case there is some useful information contained therein, at least if you're…
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