The 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…
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Jon 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…
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Over 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…
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Update: I have been contacted by Zooey Deschanel's publicist who claims "Zooey is not connected to the project". You can read the original story below. Ada Lovelace, a nineteenth-century writer and daughter of Lord Byron, was a wildly interesting woman. She worked on Charles Babbage's early Analytical Engine, and she is considered a forerunner in…
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Paramount Pictures has premiered a new television spot for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender during the Olympics on Saturday. I was somewhat impressed by the original teaser trailer which accomplished everything in one continuous (yet stitched together) shot. But the television spot which aired during the Super Bowl had me completely sold. To me…
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Throw what you want, it won't stick anyway - I'm really looking forward to M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. It seems to me that he's got just the skills, story instincts and appropriate technical discipline to pull off a film of this type. Yahoo have unveiled two banners for the film, one showcasing the…
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/Film reader Craig G sent over a couple scanned photos from M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. I'm not exactly sure which magazine these originated from, but I'm sure someone in the comments will know (I'm guessing Empire Magazine). After the jump, check out a couple more photos, including a larger version of the photo above.…
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The official teaser trailer for M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender is now online. On display are M Night's signature extended seamless single takes (which I've always loved), ILM's amazing air-bending effects and a logo that looks very similar to the Harry Potter series. Overall, it does a great job at teasing the big picture.…
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Paramount Pictures has sent over high resolution versions of the two photos released last week for M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. They have also been nice enough to send us the official release of the Dev Patel snow photo, which somehow leaked online last week. Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series,…
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Paramount Pictures has released the first photos from M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender in Friday's issue of USA Today. Above is the first photo of Aang (Noah Ringer), the "Last Airbender," a 12-year-old regional karate star was who discovered in a Texas open casting call. After the jump we've also included a tv to…
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Entertainment Weekly reports that M. Night Shyamalan has found the cast for The Last Airbender, the live-action adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon anime-inspired series Avatar. Karate star Noah Ringer (discovered in a Texas open casting call) will play Aang, the Avatar (the spirit of the planet manifested in human form), the last surviving Airbender and…
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