Disney+ Reboots 'Turner & Hooch' As A TV Series With Josh Peck In The Lead
Disney+ is developing a Turner and Hooch TV series reboot with Josh Peck in the lead role originated by Tom Hanks in the human-dog buddy cop comedy.
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'Red Dawn' Trailer: Chris Hemsworth Creating Chaos
Whether or not you like the original Red Dawn, a product of Walter Sobchak inspiration and notable Hollywood conservative John Milius, it at least has a specific ideology beyond the basic concept of "blow s*** up real good." (Part of that ideology is a strong anti-gun control sentiment, as invading forces use firearm purchase records…
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See Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, And Josh Peck In New Stills From The Long-Delayed 'Red Dawn' Remake
Four years ago, MGM started getting the pieces together for a remake of the 1984 war pic Red Dawn. The expectation was that the movie would come out sometime around 2010, but it then suffered massive setbacks including the studio's financial woes and the realization that demonizing the Chinese isn't cool anymore, now that Asia accounts…
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'Ice Age: Continental Drift' Trailer - It's The Start Of The World As We Know It
In the decade or so since the start of Fox's Ice Age series, the franchise has pulled in a range of high-profile stars including Jack Black, Will Arnett, Jay Leno, and Simon Pegg to compliment its central quartet of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge. This time around, for Steve Martino and Michael…
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'ATM' Trailer: Two Guys, A Girl And A Killer
Chris Sparling wrote the 'man in a coffin' thriller Buried, and he followed that script up with another tightly confined thriller, ATM. Sparling's script was directed by first-timer David Brooks, and the resulting thriller finds three people (Brian Geraghty, Alice Eve and Josh Peck) trapped inside an ATM in the middle of a parking lot…
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New Release Dates For 'Red Dawn' Remake, Roland Emmerich's 'Singularity', Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden Movie
As we head into Thanksgiving weekend and gear up to watch what feels like a dozen new releases this weekend, FilmDistrict and Sony have quietly announced new release dates for a few of their projects. That long-delayed Red Dawn remake that FilmDistrict picked up earlier this fall is now scheduled to drop next fall, while…
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Scrat Stumps For 'Ice Age' Once More In 'Scrat's Continental Crack-Up Part 2'
Since the run-up to the release of Blue Sky Studios' Ice Age in 2002, the best spokesman -- spokesanimal? -- for the film series has been a creature that can barely speak. The acorn-obsessed Scrat, a sabre-toothed squirrel, has starred in trailers and shorts and is one of the most consistently entertaining parts of the…
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Casting Bits: Hailee Steinfeld, Dave Franco, And Deborah Ann Woll For 'Rosaline', Anne Hathaway In 'Puzzler', Josh Holloway And Chris Brown In 'Planet B-Boy'
Hailee Steinfeld, Dave Franco, and Deborah Ann Woll have been offered the leads in Rosaline, a retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet that's told from the perspective of the girl Romeo ditches to be with Juliet. Michael Sucsy is directing from a script by by (500) Days of Summer writers Scott Neustader and Michael H. Weber, which in…
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FilmDistrict Picks Up MGM's Long-Delayed 'Red Dawn' Remake
FilmDistrict is turning into the distributor of odd orphans. It grabbed the former Miramax project Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, and is now reportedly about to pick up the Red Dawn remake directed by Bourne second-unit shooter Dan Bradley. MGM financed and shot the film in 2009 before undergoing bankruptcy and reorganization. The movie…
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Casting Bits: Scoot McNairy In 'Argo;' Nick Frost 'Ice Age 4;' Kevin James And Emily Watson In 'Little Boy'
Sometimes there's no way to make a casting roundup conform to any sort of sense. Such is the case here, as we've got info on a wild reality-based political thriller set in 1979, an animated sequel, and an indie family drama with a very unlikely cast. In other words, after the break you'll find info…
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Jeremy Renner And Jennifer Lopez Join 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' Cast
As if Jeremy Renner doesn't have enough to do. But hell, the big pile of sequels to the Ice Age films should help someone, so why not a handful of actors?
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See A Cast Photo From The 'Red Dawn' Remake
As MGM has come out of bankruptcy and inched closer to being a real working studio once more, we've heard a lot about the potential for The Hobbit and a new James Bond film. We haven't heard much at all, however, about the completed remake of Red Dawn, which has been sitting on the shelf…
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First Images From 'Abducted' Starring Taylor Lautner And 'ATM', From The Writer Of 'Buried'
Got 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…
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Brian Geraghty, Josh Peck And Margarita Levieva Cast In ATM
Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker), Josh Peck (The Wackness) and Margarita Levieva (Adventureland) have signed on to star in David Brooks' ATM. THR is reporting that production is gearing up for a late-September start in Winnipeg, Manitoba. You might remember this project as it is the next screenplay from Black List scribe Chris Sparling who made…
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Josh Peck And Toni Mason Join Red Dawn
Entertainment Weekly has learned that Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki have joined Chris Hemsworth in Dan Bradley's remake of Red Dawn. MGM is producing the redo of the 1984 John Milius action war drama about a bunch of Colorado high school students who must run for cover then Soviet and Cuban troops invade their school.…
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Josh Peck Cast In Hearts Of Men; What Goes Up Photos
Our friends at FilmSchoolRejects learned today that Josh Peck has been cast in a film project called Hearts of Men about three guys "a white boy" (we assume this is Peck), "a black gang member" and "a latino" who witness the latino's brother get murdered. And like The Wackness, this movie also has some musical…
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Interview: Jonathan Levine And Josh Peck
Back in May, I had the opportunity to sit down with director Jonathan Levine and star Josh Peck to talk about their new film The Wackness. I fell in love with this indie coming-of-age drama at Sundance. I have since seen the film three more times. You’ve probably read my gushing posts. It seems like…
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Movie Playlist: Josh Peck
Welcome to another edition of Movie Playlist, where we talk to the writers, directors, and stars about their favorite films. I've always found the celebrity playlists on iTunes to be interesting. Most everyone in the film business moved to Hollywood after discovering their love of films. And I've always love talking to people about their…
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The Wackness Teaser Trailer: "Dealing"
Sony Pictures Classics has released another new teaser trailer for The Wackness on Rotten Tomatoes. Watch the trailer below.
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The Wackness Official Movie Trailer
Sony Pictures Classics has released a new trailer for one of my favorite films of the year - The Wackness. They're calling it the "official trailer", and I actually like it much more than the the previously released teasers. It plays equal attention the relationships between Peck, Thirlby, and Kingsley, the 1990's nostalgia, and the…
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An E-Mail From Luke Shapiro
I just got an e-mail from Luke Shapiro. I only mention this because Luke Shapiro is a fictional character in a movie (one of my favorite movies of the year - The Wackness). And by that, I don't mean that someone who liked the movie adopted the name of their favorite character for their online…
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The Wackness Teaser Trailer #2 OR Sony Pictures Classics Proves Once Again They Don't Know How To Market A Good Movie
It must be really hard to cut a good movie trailer, especially for a bad movie. But it always amazes me when great films sometimes have such horrible movie trailers. I've now seen Jonathan Levine 's The Wackness three times. And since January the film has held strong on the list of my favorite films…
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The Wackness: Nine Photos
Cinematical has premiered two new images from Jonathan Levine's The Wackness, one of our favorite films os 2008 so far. Which reminded me that we've never posted the production photos which were released at the Sundance Film Festival. You can check out those photos after the jump. The Wackness won the audience award at the…
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Special Movie Trailer
Due for release this summer from Magnolia Pictures, Special is a superhero spoof starring New York veteran actor Michael Rapaport (True Romance, The War at Home) about a parking lot cop who is prescribed antidepressants and begins to believe and act like he has super powers. The film, the debut of writer/director team Hal Haberman…
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Sundance Movie Review: The Wackness
Every year at Sundance I see a film during the first weekend that I absolutely fall in love with. Because it's only the opening weekend, I try not to claim that a film is the best of this year's festival. But usually my emotions win out and I make such a claim in a non-direct…
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