Dave, Devindra, and Joanna Robinson from Pajiba delve deeper into the mysteries of Room 237, praise the remake of Evil Dead, and get excited about Man of Steel. Special guest Inkoo Kang joins us from the Village Voice. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in…
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Walking out of Oblivion, you'll probably have a few questions. Not plot questions, mind you. Director Joseph Kosinski makes what happens in the movie very clear. The questions are more about the director's process. His mindset. Was Kosinski deliberatly echoing sci-fi films of the past? How much input did uncredited screenwriter Michael Arndt (Star Wars Episode…
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The Matrix. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Independence Day. Star Wars. Wall-E. If you know and like those movies (and at least one more we won't mention to avoid spoiling anything) you're going to find Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion incredibly familiar. The filmmaker's second film directly references and was indirectly influenced by a plethora of classic films, giving his…
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Mondo, best known for being the limited edition poster boutique of the Alamo Drafthouse, is well on its way to becoming a big limited edition vinyl boutique as well. It has only released a handful of scores so far, but more are coming and each has been more beautiful than the last. The biggest release…
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Universal is releasing a steady flow of featurettes about the making of the Tom Cruise film Oblivion, many of which focus on the unique aspects of crafting a future version of Earth. For the new one, as with some of the other behind the scenes looks at the film, there's a focus here on the degree to…
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The first track released from the Oblivion score, crafted by Anthony Gonzalez of M83 and Joseph Trapanese, was a big layered cake of swelling synth sounds powered by a slow but rising drum beat. The new track is the title tune, which will likely play over the end credits. Like that first track, it features Norwegian singer Susanne Sundfør, and…
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If action heroes are your thing, you're covered this spring. G.I. Joe: Retaliation's nine-month delay finally comes to an end this weekend, while Joseph Kosinski's gorgeous sci-fi adventure Oblivion opens a few weeks later. New spots for both have just hit the web, and you can check them out after the jump. G.I. Joe: Retaliation star Dwayne…
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Many who watched the trailer for Joseph Kosinski's upcoming sci-fi film Oblivion might have had the same lingering question. "Haven't we seen this movie before?" The aesthetic is certainly similar, but many sci-fi films are. It's the story that rings a bell. A lone wolf, cleaning up a desolate Earth after the planet was destroyed. Hmm. Wait a minute, it's…
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Universal recently revealed that plans to open Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion early in IMAX theaters has been scuttled, but other plans for the movie are going forward at full speed. Anthony Gonzalez of the electronic/dance band M83 has been recording the score for the film with Joseph Trapanese, and the first track from that effort is…
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them in the form of a beautiful mysterious woman in a downed spacecraft. In Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, Tom Cruise and Andrea Riseborough play two members of a lonely crew mopping up what's left of Earth decades after a devastating alien attack. They're…
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If the first trailer for Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion made Tom Cruise look like a human Wall-E, the second turns him into a more typical sci-fi action hero. Not that that's a bad thing. The new video offers a better idea of just why Jack is so intrigued by the mysterious woman (Olga Kurylenko) in the spacecraft, and…
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Universal Pictures has released this new photo of Tom Cruise in Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion. Hit the jump to see the full image. Photo found via SHH: OBLIVION exclusively in IMAX® April 12, in theaters everywhere April 19 Genre: Action-adventure Cast: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo Directed by: Joseph Kosinski…
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Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook makes his English-language debut with the thriller Stoker, featuring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, and Mia Wasikowska. The Hitchcockian film seems to illustrated a creepy triangle of infatuation and manipulation that develops in the Stoker family when a mother (Kidman) and daughter (Wasikowska) are caught in the thrall of Uncle Charlie (Goode),…
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The year has just begun, but that means we're a mere five months from the opening of blockbuster season in May, and so it's time for studios to make sure that we know all about the films they've spent millions upon millions of dollars making, and possibly even more to promote. So here are new…
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2013's looking like a very promising year for sci-fi, and one of the projects we've been following closely Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion. Tom Cruise plays a lonely technician repairing droids on a post-apocalyptic, depopulated Earth. Then a beautiful woman (Olga Kurylenko) crash-lands on the planet, and everything changes. The first trailer, released earlier this month, intrigued…
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Get past the idea that Tom Cruise plays a lonely technician -- or we're meant to believe he does, at least -- and this first trailer for Oblivion, the new film from Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski, looks pretty appealing. While I have trouble buying Cruise as the last everyman on Earth, there's a lot…
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Here's the first official poster for Oblivion, the new film from Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski. The movie casts Tom Cruise as a drone repairman who is stationed on an Earth that has seen better days, to put things mildly. The first image sells a grand vision of an almost fossilized Manhattan, with Cruise in the…
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2013 won't even start for another four months, and Universal's already shaking it up. The studio just announced a slew of scheduling changes for next year, some minor and some not so minor. The most significant shift is the one for Carl Erik Rinsch's 47 Ronin, which you may recall was originally scheduled to open…
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It's a slow news day in Hollywood; a perfect time to mess with the release schedule, and that's just what Universal has decided to do. The biggest news is that Joseph Kosinski's sci-fi epic Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise, has been moved from April 26, 2013 to April 19, 2013 in traditional theaters and April 12,…
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When Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski chose French dance/electronica duo Daft Punk to score the Tron sequel, it seemed like a stroke of genius. The duo's tunes and media image owe more than a small debt to Tron, and their music turned out to be one of the highlights of the final film. Kosinksi is…
Read MoreThursday afternoon at CinemaCon, Universal Pictures presented footage, clips and trailers from their upcoming 2012 line-up and beyond. Included in the presentation were clips from Snow White and the Huntsman, Oliver Stone's Savages, Seth MacFarlane's TED, The Bourne Legacy, Les Miserables, Judd Apatow's This Is 40, Carl Erik Rinsch's 47 Ronin, Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, and…
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Briefly: The latest addition to Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, the sci-fi film starring Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough and Olga Kurylenko, is Melissa Leo (The Fighter). We don't have any word on her role, but simply knowing she's in the cast will do just fine. Oblivion is shooting now and was just moved to April 2013 in…
Read MoreIn addition to dating Jurassic Park 3D Thursday afternoon, Universal has moved their Joseph Kosinski sci-fi epic Oblivion starring Tom Cruise from July 10, 2013 to April 26, 2013, officially kicking off next Summer. The new release date positions Oblivion (formerly called Horizons) before Iron Man 3 as the first official, big movie of the…
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The latest actor to sign on to Ben Stiller's remake of the imaginative Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is Adam Scott. He joins stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine and Patton Oswalt in the story of a LIFE magazine photo editor (Stiller) who daydreams his way out of a dull reality. No…
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Joseph Kosinski is set to follow Tron Legacy with an original sci-fi idea that he hatched as a proof of concept graphic novel a couple years ago. The film is Oblivion (which has also been called Horizons, and said to be untitled as well) and was originally housed at Disney before the studio cut it…
Read MoreTron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski has seen a few things change with his film Oblivion over the last year. The title, for one: the film started out as Oblivion, then was Horizons for a while, then Oblivion once more, and is now untitled. The film left Disney and went to Universal, where Tom Cruise signed…
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Apparently Joseph Kosinski's Horizons (a.k.a. Oblivion) is the plum gig for actresses in Hollywood right now. Last month, Jessica Chastain beat out a list of up-and-coming actresses -- including Olga Kurylenko, Brit Marling, Noomi Rapace, and Olivia Wilde -- for one of two lead female roles; this weekend, Hayley Atwell, Diane Kruger, and Kate Beckinsale will vie…
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