Week In Review

Sequels/Remakes/Adaptations

  • The Plot for Captain America Has been revealed
  • Guillermo del Toro explains who his Frankenstein adaptation will be different: It's not the traditional creation/origin story
  • Rumor has it that Paul Andrew Williams might direct 28 Months Later
  • The new Watchmen video journal shows The Making of Dr. Manhattan
  • TR2N will be released in Digital Disney 3D. Also, Jeff Bridges talks about the tech of the sequel
  • Steve Carell will return for Get Smart 2
  • Screenwriter Travis Wright clears up the Blade Runner 2 rumors
  • Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonam Carter have been cast in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
  • Columbus Short confirms that Lethal Weapon 5 is on the fast track
  • The Daily Mail claims that Johnny Depp will be paid $56 million upfront for Pirates of the Caribbean 4
  • David Goyer says that all The Dark Knight rumors are B.S.
  • Enchanted director Kevin Lima to adapt Tom Thumb
  • Guillermo del Toro tries to explain The Hobbit sequel. I'm still confused.
  • Casting Rumor: Could Ryan Gosling play The Green Lantern?
  • Josh Brolin is in talks to play Jonah Hex
  • The Orphanage director Juan Antonio Bayona will helm a big screen adaptation of David Moody's book "Hater".
  • Casting

  • Kat Dennings has been cast in Woody Harrelson's superhero dramedy
  • Jesse Eisenberg has been cast in Zombieland. Check out some of director Ruben Fleischer's short films
  • Dominic Monaghan and Freddy Rodriguez have been cast in Fortuna, which sounds like The Island Meets Children of Men
  • Jamie Foxx has been cast in Frank Darabont's Law Abiding Citizen
  • Other

  • Empire Magazine names the top 500 movies of all time.
  • Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire has been moved up to November 12th
  • The Weinstein Co is promoting Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Ponro with Stick Figures but not Seth Rogen's face?
  • Adam Quigley takes a look at You Don't Mess With the Zohan, The Happening, 30 Rock, The Simpsons and more in This Week in DVD
  • David Cronenberg is in talks to direct Denzel Washington in The Matarese Circle
  • Fantastic Fest is having a Halloween Party at The Shining's Timberline Lodge
  • Early Buzz for Oliver Stone's W praises Josh Brolin's performance, nays the Texas melodrama
  • Netflix is charging an additional $1 for Blu-ray rentals
  • The Academy Awards lifts the ban on movie advertisements.
  • Hunter Stephenson reviews Sex Drive.
  • Watch Richard Linklater's Slacker for Free on Hulu
  • The Chevy Beat concept car in Transformers 2 is Autobot Skids.
  • Suresh Joachim and Claudia Wavra broke the Guiness World Record for most consecutive hours spent watching movies, after sitting through 57 movies in 123 hours and 10 minutes.
  • Seth Rogen will produce I'm With Cancer, a comedy about Will Reiser's battle with cancer
  • Five videos from The Wrestler press conference at the New York Film Festival.
  • "Leaked" video footage of Kevin Smith directing Seth Rogen to "Do it more like Affleck on the set of Zack and Miri
  • Clint Eastwood plays a weirdo racist in Gran Torino
  • In one of the biggest behind the scenes Hollywood clusterfucks of recent years, producer Scott Rudin abandons The Reader
  • Television

  • Entourage has been renewed for a sixth season
  • ABC Family greenlights a 30-minute pilot for a television adaptation of 10 Things I Hate About You
  • Movie Trailers

  • David Goyer's The Unborn
  • Twilight
  • Edward Zwick's Defiance
  • Bunker 77
  • First Look

  • Concept Art from Dreamwork Aniamtion's How to Train Your Dragon
  • A Better Look at the Kick-Ass Costumes
  • Robert Downey Jr in Sherlock Holmes
  • Ben Kingsley in Prince of Persia
  • Cool Stuff

  • Goodbye Elliot T-Shirt
  • Weta's $6,000 Steampunk Raygun
  • The Ghostbuster's Ecto-1 is for Sale on Ebay
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show Poster Set
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Retail DVD Exclusives
  • The Shining – Poster and Tribute Artwork
  • A Visual Dialogue Map of Kevin Smith's Clerks
  • Analog Retirement T-Shirt
  • LOL

  • Scenes from the LEGO Zombie Apocalypse
  • Nathan Fillion in James Gunn's PG Porn
  • George Lucas and Steven Speilberg Rape Indiana Jones on South Park
  • Get Your Own Porn ID From Zack and Miri
  • You Fell Asleep While Watching a DVD
  • Superman PWNS Batman
  • If Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Were Real
  • /Filmcast

  • Episode 20 – Religulous with guest Amelie Gillette
  • VOTD

  • Mark Wahlberg talks to Animals
  • Toy Story / The Dark Knight Trailer Mash-up
  • Edgar Wright on Disney's The Black Hole
  • Paris Hilton Gets Presidential With Martin Sheen
  • Star Wars fan film Padme