• WTF: Oscilloscope Releasing 'It's A Disaster' In 6 Second Installments On Vine

    “From the moment it launched just three short weeks ago, it was so clear to us that six-second loops of video, edited in-phone, and posted in real time was and will be the future of film distribution." So says Oscilloscope’s "Minister of Informative Updates" Bruce Farnsworth, who is currently releasing the upcoming film, It's A Disaster, on…

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  • Trailer Premiere: Doomsday Saves An Awkward Party In 'It's A Disaster'

    Ever been the new person at a small party where there are awkward tensions and undercurrents of conflict that you're aware of, but have no part in? That's where the character played by David Cross finds himself in Todd Berger's film It's a Disaster. Cross's character shows up to a "couples brunch" with his new…

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  • 'Twilight Zone' And 'Where's Waldo?' Get New Screenwriters

    Two projects based on world-famous properties you probably loved growing up are inching just a little bit closer to the big screen. MGM has tapped Todd Berger to adapt Martin Handford's children's book series Where's Waldo? into a feature, while over at Warner Bros., Invictus and Sherlock Holmes writer Anthony Peckham has entered talks to do a…

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  • This Week In Trailers: Thunder Soul, One Hundred Mornings, The Scenesters, The Bloodfest Club, Subjectvive Expressions, Año Bisiesto (Leap Year)

    Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…

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  • Lionsgate Picks Up Dark Muppet Film 'Happytime Murders'

    Jim Henson's Muppets have always have a little subversion to them be it Miss Piggy's sexual innuendo or their more recent viral videos. Well, Lionsgate seems to be on board with that idea as they've just acquired Happytime Murders, a dark, comedic murder mystery set in a world where Muppets and humans co-exist. It's written…

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  • Happytime Murders - A Muppet Noir

    The Jim Henson Co has begun to develop a puppet film noir detective comedy titled Happytime Murders. If we knew nothing else about this project, I would still spend $10 on a movie ticket. The story follows a puppet detective who is hired to solve a string of murders around a popular children's television show…

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