Casting Notes: Jamie Foxx Reunites With Robert Downey Jr; Josh Brolin Steps In For Sean Penn By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2009 8:18 am EST Two pretty tasty bits of casting today. First up, it’s that big reunion of the cast from The Soloist we’ve all been waiting for! Jamie Foxx has joined the cast of Due Date, the next movie from Todd Phillips. That’ll put him back in the frame with Robert Downey Jr....
First Six Minutes Of The Dark Knight Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2007 4:18 am EST The first six minutes of The Dark Knight will debut in front of IMAX screenings of I Am Legend. Shot with IMAX cameras, Nolan intended this six minute introduction of The Joker to function as a stand alone “short film.” Christopher Nolan was in New York City to premiere the footage for select press. Alas, I’m on the other coast and was unable to attend the big apple screening....
Free Films: Criterion’s Hulu Channel Debuts With Six Zatoichi Movies By Russ Fischer/Feb. 18, 2010 6:15 pm EST I love the Zatoichi movies. Love ’em. One of my shelves has a pile of Zatoichi DVDs thirty cases high. The tale of a blind swordsman with amazing moves and a penchant for gambling certainly has no shortage of material for the dedicated fan: it spawned twenty-seven films and a one hundred and twelve-episode TV series....
Jeff Bridges Is Back For Tron 2 - Teaser Trailer Revealed At Comic Con By Adam Quigley/July 26, 2008 1:23 pm EST Update: The trailer has leaked onto YouTube. There have been a number of rumblings in the film news world about another Tron film being released by Disney, including word that it would be in 3D, and even that Jeff Bridges was going to be hearing a pitch about a sequel....
Mary Harron Recruiting Cast For The Moth Diaries By Brendon Connelly/March 7, 2009 12:43 pm EST Mary Harron is in London to present a retrospective of her work at the Birds Eye View Festival, which celebrates the work of women filmmakers. All three of her prior feature films are screening: I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho, and The Notorious Betty Page; and Harron will this afternoon be giving a masterclass and tomorrow be holding court for a Q&A....
Netflix Instant Streaming Will NOT Get 1080p Later This Year [Updated] By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2010 2:30 pm EST Update: Cnet has issued the following retraction: “Netflix now claims that it incorrectly acknowledged 1080p streaming in the company’s 2010 development road map. A Netflix representative has clarified that the company plans to bring 5.1 surround and closed captioning to its streaming HD videos later this year, though 1080p Watch Instantly is not on the books for this year....
New Up Clip From Sony Keynote By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 21, 2009 9:03 am EST You read that right – it was Sony showcasing Pixar’s latest, not Disney/Pixar themselves, or even Apple (the event also had a Dreamworks moment, but that’s nothing to do with this). The exclusive Up trailer – embedded below – showed some brilliant new material from the one film I hope we’re all looking forward to this Summer (okay – I also hope we’re all looking forward to Inglourious Basterds and The Imaginarium of Dr....
Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2009 10:05 pm EST Miramax Films has released a new photo featuring Jason Bateman and Mila Kunis from the Mike Judge comedy Extract. Listen to a 50-minute radio interview with Up director Pete Docter on Utah’s KUER. A new domestic trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be attached to 17 Again, which comes out this Friday. But you can watch it online sometime around 6pm pst on Thursday....
Ratatouille Concept Art By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2007 8:52 pm EST It’s been a Pixar week here at /Film, and we have even more! Disney has sent us 13 new concept photos from Pixar’s Ratatouille. If you’ve ever seen one of Pixar’s coffee table books (I’ve always wanted to buy them, but have never been able to convince myself to spend the money), than you know all the love and work that goes into the art behind the film....
Rumor Killed: Two New Star Wars Television Movies By Peter Sciretta/May 22, 2007 6:00 am EST “But they won’t have members of the Skywalker family as characters,” he said. “They will be other people of that milieu.” So it appears that Roger Friedman of Fox411 mistook news of the two upcoming television series as two television movies. So there you have it, Rumor Killed. “There is no truth to that whatsoever....
Soderbergh Talks About His Action/Spy Film Knockout, Compares It To Point Blank By Russ Fischer/Sept. 30, 2009 8:12 am EST You might have read about Steven Soderbergh making an action thriller with MMA fighter Gina Carano and been interested, but perhaps not actually excited. That’s about where I was, though the involvement of his screenwriter from The Limey, Lem Dobbs, was definitely a point in the movie’s favor. But with Soderbergh describing the movie as a combination of old-school Bond and John Boorman’s standard-setting weirdo action thriller Point Blank, my interest in Knockout just shot up to stratospheric levels....
Spontaneous Sundance Interviews: Star Wars VFX Artist, Director Zeina Durra, Crazy Sign Guy By David Chen/Jan. 23, 2010 2:00 pm EST I love meeting interesting new people. Thus, Sundance is rife with opportunities to make fascinating new acquaintances and friends. Most of these chance meetings take place on the buses that shuttle viewers from one theater to another. After the break, hear my interviews with Brina Pope (a visual effects artist from Star wars: The Phantom Menace), director Zeina Durra (whose film film The Imperialists Are Still Alive is premiering at Sundance), and some dude holding a sign outside the press tent....
Stay Classy: DirecTV’s Poltergeist Commerical With Dead Heather O’Rourke By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 3, 2008 7:23 am EST Last night, I was listening to Tom Scharpling’s “The Best Show,” and the topic was haunted movies. Mid-conversation he brings up his disgust with the new ad for DirecTV featuring a living Craig T. Nelson and a nicely preserved Heather O’Rourke milking Poltgergeist in time for Halloween. Though I had seen this ad days just days ago, I had repressed it in horror (might have been high)!...
Stephen Susco To Write Hack/Slash By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2009 5:48 am EST The potential film version of the comic book Hack/Slash has been making news for over a year now. Two reasons. One, it’s classic fanbait: hot girl plus skimpy clothes plus violence. And two, it was originally handed to screenwriter Justin Marks, the guy who became blog fodder for having a bunch of high-profile writing gigs with no produced credits....
Terminator Salvation To Get IMAX Release By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 18, 2009 9:46 am EST The Terminator Salvation news keeps coming, and if you trace the threads back, almost all of it is rooted in that big press event from Wednesday past. This bulletin tells us that the film is being released in the IMAX format, lately something of a box-office draw as well as some kind of badge of honor for a big budget action film....
The First 3D Showdown Will Take Place In Summer 2009 By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2007 8:45 pm EST
The Love Guru Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2008 5:06 pm EST Paramount has released the movie trailer for the upcoming Mike Myers comedy The Love Guru. This looks about as funny as the upcoming Adam Sandler comedy, Don’t Mess With the Zohan. And both of the aforementioned movies make the upcoming Will Ferell/John C Reilly comedy Step Brothers look like a masterpiece. Jessica Alba fills her quota as the token good looking romanic interest, and Justin Timberlake tries his SNL-style comedy on the big screen....
Troy Nixey To Direct Original Sci-Fi/Fantasy Picture Simple Machines By Russ Fischer/Aug. 3, 2009 11:55 am EST Variety reports that former comic book artist Troy Nixey, currently directing the remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark for Miramax, has been signed by Phoenix Pictures (the outfit producing Scorsese’s Shutter Island) to direct Simple Machines, based on his own script. I’ll be up front about this right now: Troy is an exceptionally talented creator and could be a great new filmmaker, but he’s also a good friend....
VOTD: Blade Vs. Batman By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2009 3:34 am EST What happens when a reckless vampire hunter starts terrorizing Gotham City? SilverLightsaber has edited together a great Dark Knight / Blade mash-up, which is much better than it deserves to be. Thanks to /Film reader movieboy for the tip. Watch the video embedded after the jump. VOTD: Blade Vs. Batman By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2009 3:34 am EST...
Watch This: 90-Minute Video Review Of Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones By David Chen/April 4, 2010 12:08 pm EST Mike from Red Letter Media (AKA the guy who put together the epic, 70-minute review of The Phantom Menace) is back again with his even epic-er review of Attack of the Clones. This time, seven Youtube videos were insufficient to contain the hatred, so Mike spread out a 90-minute review over nine Youtube videos....
