Sure, moviegoers may love standing in the midnight showing line for The Avengers or arguing over The Dark Knight Rises plot holes at the bar, but what do they turn on when they finally go back to the privacy of their own homes? Rental retailer Redbox knows, and in honor of their ten-year anniversary, they're sharing…
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If you're like me and a little underwhelmed by this year's Oscar nominees, maybe seeing them through Mondo's eyes will make it more exciting. The poster boutique of the Alamo Drafthouse is making posters for four of their favorite films, in four of their favorite categories, timed to the 84th Annual Academy Awards on February…
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Meryl Streep prevented the cast and crew of The Artist from a total sweep of the major categories at this year's British Academy Film Awards, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and commonly called the BAFTAs. Streep won Best Actress for playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The…
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With awards season in full force, it seems like each week brings a fresh set of winners from the various guilds, societies, associations, and what have you. This past weekend saw both the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood's Annie Awards and the Art Directors Guild Awards, with Rango, Hugo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:…
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Here's your best indicator yet as to what the crop of nominations for the Best Picture Oscar is likely to be. The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced its nominations for 2011 awards, which will be doled out on January 21. The ten films nominated for the PGA's top honor include expected pictures such…
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By now you've probably seen dozens of critics' best-of-2011 lists (including ours!), and noticed some amount of overlap on films like Hugo, Drive, and Tree of Life. But there's more than one way to gauge a movie's success, and when it comes to what general audiences are actually watching, a whole different set of titles…
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I find it difficult to say whether 2011 was an unusually strong or unusually weak year for films. As in any year, there were pleasant surprises and disappointments alike. If I had to pinpoint the one thing my favorites tend to have in common, though, it's a sense that each of them were made with…
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Maybe it's just because I got a cat this year -- the first living, breathing creature I've owned since I failed to keep a hamster alive circa 1995 -- but I couldn't help noticing that the films of 2011 featured some damn great animals. Some were the stars of their films, like Rango (Johnny Depp)…
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In 2010, only 15 films were eligible for the Best Animated Film Oscar. Under the current rules, at least 16 films have to be eligible to have more than three nominees and this year that's looking likely. Eighteen films have been deemed eligible to be nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 84rd Annual Academy…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam praise the uniqueness of The Adjustment Bureau, conclude that I Saw the Devil is the revenge film to end all revenge films, and get disgusted by the complete amorality of Weekend at Bernie's. Special guest Tim League joins us from The Alamo Drafthouse. Check out the Alamo's SXFantastic series at SXSW this…
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The following post and interview was conducted by guest contributor Ed Douglas: Director Gore Verbinski has dabbled in all sorts of genres in the fifteen years he’s been making movies from the family comedy Mousehunt to the horrors of The Ring, character drama with The Weather Man and the swashbuckling high seas adventures of the…
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Are you smart, a bit weird and in love with movies? Then Rango is the animated film for you. Hell, it wants to be you. This often delightful western re-teams director Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp; for a treasure trove of anthropomorphized animal characters and animated eye candy that (gasp!) eschews the 3D fad for…
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We thought global warming was heating up the planet, but really it's Hollywood. They're making it summer all year long. The first weekend of May is generally considered the beginning of the summer movie season but, as those three months got more and more crowded, that date slowly crept into late April. Now, 2011 changes…
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We're pretty excited for Rango, the new Gore Verbinski-directed animated feature starring Johnny Depp as a charismatic chameleon. And we're not the only ones. Paramount's clearly pushing this film hard, even buying it a commercial during the Super Bowl. Now that's commitment. A couple of months ago, we showed you a making-of featurette for Rango titled…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 30 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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Mini-LOL: Is Disney trying to sell their latest animated film Tangled with subliminal sex messages? [brew] What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 40 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 32 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 31 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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We've previously written about the "DreamWorks Smirk", but /Film reader Jake Mckay has noticed a new trend in the Hollywood marketing of animated movies... the Worried Face.
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Last night we asked /Film readers to tell us which Super Bowl movie commercial was their favorite. Today we bring you the results. Hit the jump to find out who won. It appears /Film readers liked the movies which presented new footage. The top three spots were comprised of almost entirely never-before-seen footage. Films like…
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A lot of movie commercials premiered during the Super Bowl: JJ Abrams' Super 8, Captain America: The First Avenger, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Thor, Fast Five, Priest, Just Go With It, Limitless, The Eagle, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Rio, Battle: Los Angeles, Cowboys & Aliens, Drive Angry 3D, and Rango. If…
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Paramount must really think they have something special on their hands with Rango, Gore Verbinski's first animated film featuring the voices of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Ray Winstone, Beth Grant, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton and Alfred Molina. The film, about a chameleon who fancies himself a hero in…
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Re-teaming director Gore Verbinski with Johnny Depp in the wild world of animation has most of us incredibly curious about Rango, which opens March 4. The film is about a chameleon who fancies himself a hero in a wild-west town that is not hero friendly. To give the film an authentic southwestern feel, Verbinski, along…
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We won’t know until this Sunday which two teams will be playing in Super Bowl XLV on February 6 (Let’s go Jets!) but we do know several of the movies that will be competing during the commercial breaks. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Paramount has five commercial spots for some of its upcoming films:…
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Paramount Pictures has released a new behind the scenes featurette for Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski's computer animated feature film Rango. The new featurette, titled "Behind the Scenes: Natural Acting Experience", takes a look at the techniques employed to (as Verbinski has explained) "capture and translate every aspect of Johnny Depp’s performance, using…
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We've seen an announcement clip and a teaser trailer for Gore Verbinski's animated film Rango, which features Johnny Depp voicing a strange little chameleon lost in the desert of the American southwest. Now there's a full trailer, and you can see it after the break. I'm still on board with this one. I liked the…
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Doing poster roundups is always fun, because we end up mashing together films that couldn't be more different. In this case we've got new images for Gore Verbinski's quirky animated comedy Rango, the Matthew McConaughey legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer, and James Wan and Leigh Whannell's horror thriller Insidious. First up is Rango, via Yahoo,…
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