Posts

Bryce Dallas Howard Joins Matt Damon In Clint Eastwood’s Supernatural Thriller, Hereafter By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 11, 2009 12:57 am EST Bryce Dallas Howard is no stranger to supernatural thrillers, having starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village and Lady in the Water. This time around it looks like she’s joining Matt Damon and High Tension star Cecile de France in Clint Eastwood’s next project, Hereafter. Written by Peter Morgan (The Last King of Scotland, The Queen), the film “tells the story of three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — who are touched by death in different ways....

Casting Notes: De Niro In Dark Fields; McAdams Works With Woody Allen; Gosling Joining Carell Comedy? By Russ Fischer/March 3, 2010 10:36 pm EST Often with these aggregated casting pieces the idea is to group together a number of fairly small stories. In this case the names are big — Robert De Niro, Rachel McAdams, Woody Allen, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carrell — but the films are either ones we don’t know much about or have recently covered in detail....

Cloverfield Radio Advertisements: “The Mystery Will Be Revealed!” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2007 3:51 pm EST A /Film spy sent me two radio advertisements for Cloverfield, which are scheduled to air around the country starting on Monday. It seems like Paramount is really pushing the phrase “The Mystery Will Be Revealed!” Listen to the new monsterific radio spots below. Your browser does not support the audio element. Your browser does not support the audio element....

Contest: The Host On DVD By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2007 3:39 am EST The Host hit DVD store shelves on July 24th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On August 3rd we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....

Cool Stuff: The Coolest Movie Theater In Hong Kong By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2008 12:35 am EST Last week I posted a cool stuff feature on the coolest movie theater on the planet – The Alamo Drafthouse, an independently run theater in Austin Texas. That’s not to say that a huge corporate cinema chain couldn’t create a cool movie theater. /Film Reader George J sent me a tip about this cool looking movie theater in Hong Kong....

Disney Reveals New Tangled Logo By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2010 2:54 pm EST Briefly: Last week Walt Disney Animation Studios announced a new title for their 2010 computer animated release Rapunzel — Tangled. Disney has released a new logo for the film. For those who care, you can see the logo above. Directed by Byron Howard & Nathan Greno (the co-director and head of story on Bolt respectively), this new telling of the classic fairy tale, will transport audiences “to a stunning CG fantasy world complete with the iconic tower, an evil witch, a gallant hero and, of course, the mysterious girl with the long golden tresses....

Donnie Darko Sequel Begins Shooting May 18th… Wait, What? By Peter Sciretta/May 9, 2008 11:14 am EST Apparently the sequel is being made completely without the involvement of Richard Kelly. The press release reads: But I’m guessing that this is just PR speak for Velvet Octopus probably called Richard Kelly, who explained he was not interested in being involved in a sequel. I just sent an email to someone I know over at Darko Entertainment, and they assured me that “Richard, Sean, and every ounce of Darko Entertainment are 150% NOT INVOLVED”....

First Look: DreamWorks Animation’s Oobermind By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2009 12:06 am EST AICN have posted a batch of new promotional images and posters from the Licensing Show in Las Vegas, including a promotional poster for Spider-Man 4, a generic Iron Man 2 character banner and a poster featuring Shrek and Donkey for Shrek Forever After. But the thing that caught my attention was the first promotional art for DreamWorks Animation’s Oobermind....

First Look: Jake Gyllenhaal As The Prince Of Persia By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2008 1:28 pm EST JustJared has the first photo of Jake Gyllenhaal’s new look for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which is now scheduled to hit theaters on May 28th 2010. What do you guys think? A couple readers point out that Gyllenhaal’s gear is more Warrior Within than The Sands of Time (as seen in the header image)....

By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2007 12:52 am EST

FTW: Eddie Murphy’s Head Entertains L.A. Commuters. Meet Dave To Out-Suck Love Guru? By Hunter Stephenson/June 19, 2008 2:27 pm EST Doc’s De Lorean. KITT. Tony Stark’s Audi R8. Eddie Murphy’s Head. Dream Vehicles. In a Hail Mary for the ages, 20th Century Fox has that thing above cruising around the West Coast in hopes that it will make people pay to see Murphy in next month’s mini-alien bonanza, Meet Dave....

Geek Deal: Six Seasons Of Curb Your Enthusiasm For $95.49 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2008 2:48 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Happy Thanksgiving By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 22, 2007 12:56 pm EST Happy Thanksgiving from /Film! Happy Thanksgiving By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 22, 2007 12:56 pm EST Happy Thanksgiving from /Film!

Harrison Ford Considers Indiana Jones 5; New Indiana Jones 4 Photo By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2008 12:08 am EST USA Today has published an article on Harrison Ford which features the new photo from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (as seen above). The article is pretty boring for the most part, except for the one sentence where Harrison Ford tells the newspaper that “he also might consider a fifth installment of Indiana Jones, though he hopes it wouldn’t take 20 years to pull together....

In The Land Of Women Movie Trailer, Poster And Photos By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 13, 2007 9:50 pm EST Warner Bros has released new photos and a poster for In The Land of Women, the new movie starring Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart, Meg Ryan, and Olympia Dukakis. Check out the poster and photos after the jump. As always, click for higher resolution. Here is the official synopsis: Aspiring writer Carter Webb has just been dumped by his true love Sophia....

It’s All True: Tom Hardy Negotiating To Be The New Mad Max In Fury Road, Charlize Theron To Co-Star By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2009 6:23 pm EST One week ago, Brendon told you that there were rumors that Bronson’s Thomas Hardy might become the new Mad Max for director George Miller, and that his female co-star could be Charlize Theron. Now thanks to a trade blog we know that it is indeed the case....

Jericho May Return As A Theatrical Movie By David Chen/Jan. 17, 2009 5:53 am EST Like the corpse of some sort of decomposing, shambling zombie, it looks like twice-canceled television series Jericho just refuses to stay dead. According to a recent iF magazine interview with series’ executive producer and director Jon Turtletaub, Turtletaub is in the process of developing a movie based on the TV series: We’re developing a feature for JERICHO…It would not require you to have seen the TV show, but it gets into life after an event like this on a national scale....

Jim Carrey Needs Me Time By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2007 10:17 pm EST Jim Carrey is looking to star in Me Time for 20th Century Fox. Ian Roberts and Jay Martel’s spec script follows a novelist who is writing a book about his great-great-frontier-woman-grandmother. His pregnant wife has to go on bed rest, leaving him to care for the house and child. His confidence is shaken as he reads his ancestor’s diary, in which she describes raising a family, plowing the fields and taming the wild environs, according to Variety....

John Cusack Wants A Role In The Preacher Movie, Idris Elba Fancies A Part In 100 Bullets By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 6, 2009 3:09 pm EST John Cusack says “I don’t know if there are any more superheroes left”, but he knows as well as we do that there’s plenty more, cape-free comic books ripe for big screen adaptation, and that a great number of them seem fit to make for rather good movies....

Jonathan Demme Departs Bob Marley Film Part Way Through Production? By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 14, 2009 5:21 am EST The first director attached to Marley, a documentary about the reggae icon Bob, was none other than Marty Scorsese. Back in May, however, reports surfaced that he was leaving the film due to a schedule clash and, hurrah for me, Jonathan Demme came aboard. Aside from the (brilliant) digression that was Rachel Getting Married, Demme has been focusing very much on documentaries recently, and has an unparalleled track record in concert and music films....