In our No Sudden Move Writer interview, Ed Solomon recounts how he looked to the past for inspiration but also kept an eye on the future.
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David Harbour, Noah Jupe, Brendan Fraser, and Kieran Culkin have joined Steven Soderbergh's heist movie No Sudden Move.
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In this edition, watch the first Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer sweded, listen as a surgeon reviews medical scenes in film and TV, and more.
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The Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark has added GoodFellas star Ray Liotta to the cast.
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Sam Rockwell is currently at Sundance promoting his new comedy Laggies, but in the meantime another of his projects is nearing a theatrical release. Geoff Moore and David Posamentier's Better Living Through Chemistry was picked up by Samuel Goldwyn Films earlier this month, and is now slated to hit theaters in March. The comedy, which…
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Watch out, Texas: Michael Bay's Autobots and Decepticons are coming to destroy your towns. Also after the jump: Woman in Black: Angels of Death adds two young Brit stars Sorry romcom fans, Bridget Jones 3 isn't coming anytime soon Transformers 4 continues casting; Bay talks character redesigns Ray Liotta chats about the Sin City and The Muppets sequels Paul…
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Under most circumstances, a Martin Scorsese / Ray Liotta reunion would be cause for celebration. In the case of Campus Life, however, their team-up is more puzzling than enticing. Jesse McCartney leads the cast of the indie thriller, about a group of college kids trying to uncover a supernatural secret. But based on the trailer, the bigger…
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Briefly: As if the cast for Robert Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For wasn't impressive enough, three more stars have been added: a Goodfella, Catwoman's accomplice and Ari Gold. Ray Liotta, Juno Temple and Jeremy Piven have been cast in the film joining the likes of Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Jaime…
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After the dual disappointments of Killing Me Softly and Gangster Squad, I'm feeling a little burned out on mob movies at the moment. So maybe it's just my mood that has me unimpressed with the new trailer for The Iceman. On the one hand, director Ariel Vromen seems to have a flair for visuals, the…
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Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance and star Ryan Gosling reunited for The Place Beyond the Pines, and the first trailer for the film is below. Here Gosling plays a hasher motorcycle daredevil who turns to crime to support the son he finds he has after the boy's birth. But a couple of cops (Bradley Cooper…
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Michael Shannon is second to none when it comes to channeling intensity, but as the lead of Ariel Vromen's The Iceman he could be more frightening than ever. Shannon stars as real-life mob hitman Richard Kuklinski, whose touching devotion to his family masks a knack for cold-blooded killing. (Though he maintains a soft spot for…
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With Cannes just around the corner we're going to start seeing even more clips and trailer from some of our most anticipated movies of the year. One of the big ones is Killing Them Softly, the third feature film from Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) that was…
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One of the last two films Steven Soderbergh plans to shoot before retiring from directing is The Bitter Pill, a thriller scripted by Scott Z. Burns (The Informant!, Contagion) that follows a troubled and highly medicated woman (Rooney Mara) who is dealing with her anxiety pending the release of her husband (Channing Tatum) from prison.…
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When I made my list of most anticipated movies of 2012, one of the films I immediately realized I'd left out of consideration was Andrew Dominik's Cogan's Trade, which stars Brad Pitt as a mob heavy on the trail of a couple junkies who ripped off the wrong poker game. So far we've seen only…
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We're moving into a brave new world of CGI and motion capture. No longer will actors be limited to playing characters that move, and no longer will filmmakers be forced to rely on outdated 'props' and 'set dressing.' There is a new wave of motion capture artists who are pushing the boundaries of motion capture…
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What do Bridesmaids and The Devil Inside have in common? Not a lot, except that both performed even better than expected at the box office, and execs are now eager to get going on terrible-sounding sequels. After the jump: Melissa McCarthy refuses to do Bridesmaids 2 without Kristen Wiig Mark Wahlberg reports that The Fighter…
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Over a year and a half ago, the world got its first glimpse at a shockingly emaciated Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, who'd dropped nearly 60 pounds to play the lead role in a project called All Things Fall Apart. (Originally called just Things Fall Apart.) When the finished feature finally comes to DVD and Blu-ray next…
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For a while there it looked like Ariel Vromen's The Iceman was on the verge of falling apart, as James Franco dropped out of the project. But the hitman biopic is moving along with David Schwimmer and Chris Evans added to the cast in recent weeks, and now Winona Ryder has boarded the picture as…
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Things are indeed shaping up quickly for David Dobkin's Arthur & Lancelot, which Warner Bros. fast-tracked over the summer at the cost of Bryan Singer's Excalibur remake and Guy Ritchie's King Arthur film. Last month saw the casting of Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington and The Killing star Joel Kinnaman in the two title…
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Briefly: Attention, fans of The Shield, there is a little mini-reunion of sorts brewing. Actors Michael Chiklis and Forest Whitaker have both been cast in an indie called Pawn. The movie is, as you might hope, a crime picture, and one that features "a hostage situation that has gone terribly wrong" in which "an ex-con…
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He's played the Human Torch, and now Chris Evans will be in The Iceman. This is a movie about a different Iceman, though -- one wholly unrelated to Marvel's mutant supporting character. There are two biopics brewing of Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinski -- one called The Ice Man: Confessions Of A Mafia Contract Killer, starring…
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Hot off two of the year's most buzzed-about performances in Albert Nobbs and Martha Marcy May Marlene, Glenn Close and Elizabeth Olsen have signed on to star in Thérèse Raquin. Charlie Stratton is writing and directing the erotic thriller, which is based on a 19th century novel and play by Émile Zola. Olsen will lead the…
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Who is scoring The Avengers? What's the latest speed bump for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark? Want to hear an extensive update on the Hulk TV show? Which Goodfellas actor could have played Batman for Tim Burton? And why do the writers of the new Wonder Woman comic book think there hasn't been a movie…
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Soon after making his dark relationship indie Blue Valentine, Derek Cianfrance co-wrote a movie called The Place Beyond the Pines, which he says was inspired by Jack London and features two generations of conflicting fathers and sons, as well as motorcycles and guns. His Blue Valentine star Ryan Gosling signed on to be a motorcycle…
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It feels like James Franco is attached to pretty much everything these days, but now there's one less Franco project we have to look forward to. According to JustJared.com, the star has pulled out of The Iceman, a biopic of Mafia hitman Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski. Franco was lined up to play Robert "Mr. Softee"…
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Blue Valentine director and star Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling are back together for the multi-generational crime/grudge saga The Place Beyond the Pines. The film follows Gosling as a stunt cyclist who robs banks in order to provide for his son, and ands up entangled with cop-turned-politician Bradley Cooper. Their antagonism spills down the family…
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Field of Dreams is one of those movies that makes even the best of us cry. The beautiful respect for the game of baseball is only trumped by the great relationships Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) develops with Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) and his undying faith in himself. It's a poignant…
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