'Wild Card' Trailer: Jason Statham Remakes The Other 'Heat'
Watch the Wild Card trailer starring Jason Statham as a Las Vegas bodyguard. It's a remake of 1986's Heat starring Burt Reynolds.
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TV Bits: 'Game Of Thrones', 'Hannibal', 'Mad Men', 'Breaking Bad', 'Downton Abbey', 'Boardwalk Empire', 'The X-Files', 'Beverly Hills Cop', And More
It's been a few days since our last TV Bits (sorry!), so we have a ton of stuff to catch up on. After the jump: Alexis Bledel, Kyle McLachlan, Hope Davis, and more get pilots Downton Abbey loses one character but gains six more Jeffrey Wright will be a series regular on Boardwalk Empire A bunch…
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'Disconnect' Trailer And Poster: The Internet Can Be A Dangerous Place
Did you know that the Internet can be a dangerous place? That's more or less the premise of Henry-Alex Rubin's Disconnect, a Crash-style ensemble drama about the perils of the digital age. That message comes about two decades late, and the execution looks about as subtle as a pornographic pop-up ad. But on the bright…
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Casting Bits: Tim Roth And Cillian Murphy In 'Broken', Hope Davis In 'Disconnect', Rutger Hauer In 'Flight Of The Storks'
Tim Roth and Cillian Murphy have boarded Rufus Norris' Broken, along with Rory Kinnear, Robert Emms, Zana Marjanovic, Bill Milner, and newcomer Eloise Laurence. The story, which was adapted by Mark O'Rowe (Boy A) from Daniel Clay's novel of the same title, follows a young girl whose life changes after she witnesses a brutal attack.…
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'Real Steel' Plot Details Revealed In Script Review
We've known the basics about Real Steel for a while: Shawn Levy directs the Disney/DreamWorks picture that stars Hugh Jackman as an ex-fighter who reinvents himself as a robot boxing mechanic/coach/promoter when human boxing is outlawed. Now thanks to a script review, there are more details available about the film. Two warnings: first, some of…
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Casting Bits: Hope Davis, James Rebhorn And Olga Fonda Join Real Steel, Adam Beach Joins Cowboys And Aliens
Hope Davis (About Schmidt), James Rebhorn (Independence Day, The Game) and Olga Fonda (Love Hurts) has been cast in Shawn Levy's futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel. No word on what roles they will play. Golden Globe nominated actor Adam Beach (Flags of Our Fathers, Windtalkers) has joined the cast of Jon Favreau's big screen…
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Must Watch: John August's The Nines Movie Trailer
My favorite film from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival is the feature film debut of screenwriter John August (Go, Big Fish). There isn't really any way to describe The Nines without ruining much of the plot. The plot summery I've seen floating around the web describes the film: A troubled actor, a television show runner,…
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What You Missed: Charlie Bartlett Movie Trailer
I was leaving a screening of Arctic Tale with one of my buddies (also a film reviewer) on Saturday morning when we noticed a poster for a movie titled Charlie Bartlett. It's funny because I've never heard next to nothing about the film, yet something drew us over to the one-sheet. May-be it was the…
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John August's The Nines Gets US Distribution, Hopes For Cannes
There were 5 movies we really loved at this year's Sundance. One of them was screenwriter John August's directorial debut The Nines. GreeneStreet quickly scooped up the international rights, but we worried that the film might not get distribution in the U.S. because of its unique unconventional narrative. Well good news, Newmarket and Sony have…
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Sundance: The Nines Movie Review
Eight years after his first feature screenplay Go played Sundance, John August returns with his directing debut The Nines. Go is one of the most underrated films of the last 10 years. It had such an original voice, yet August decided to turn his attention to writing screenplay adaptations. In the past I've called him…
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