Zak Penn Talks Continuity For Avengers Movie By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2009 7:26 pm EST So now he’s meeting with the writers of all the films to come up with a story arch that will take into account everything that has already happened in the individual character movies. That’s not rocket science by any means, but the suggestion is that they’re taking the project quite seriously, and planning things out so that they actually, you know, make sense....
Ben Kingsley And Mark Ruffalo Join Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2007 2:10 am EST Ben Kingsley and Mark Ruffalo have joined the cast of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. Based on the Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone) novel, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, who travels to Shutter Island, a small island in Massachusetts’ Outer Harbor, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderous patient in the Summer of 1954....
Black Friday Geek Deals By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2009 1:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Blu-Rays Under $11: Other Deals: Each of the listed 3-movie Blu-ray packs below is only $21.99 each. That’s basically $7.33 for each Blu-ray disc.
Chart: Movie Trailer Views Vs. Box Office Receipts By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 22, 2009 2:29 pm EST Do popular movie trailers always result in huge box office? Not necessarily. Silicon Alley Insider has an interesting chart comparing online movie trailer views up against opening weekend box office receipts, and the results are pretty interesting. A film like Jennifer’s Body had over 7 million trailer views online, but made less than $10 million on opening weekend, while a film like Law Abiding Citizen had only a few hundred thousand trailer views, and made over $20 million during the first weekend....
Cool Stuff: Dark Knight Slot Car Toy Set By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2008 4:00 am EST I never had an electronic remote control racing set as a kid, but if I did, I probably would have loved this one. The Dark Knight Remote Control Electronic Slot Car Racing Set includes 2 three-speed controllers, The Tumbler, and a Police car. Wait, where is The Joker’s 18-Wheeler? And it would be cooler if there were a setting to have the Tumbler break apart to reveal a Batpod underneath....
Could The Twilight Teaser Trailer Save Speed Racer? By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2008 1:56 pm EST Even our box office analysts are predicting a disappointing opening for Speed Racer. But what industry analysts don’t know is that the first teaser trailer for Catherine Hardwicke’s big screen adaptation of Twilight will be attached to the Wachowski Brothers film, this according to Collider. Twilight is, of course, the first of a series of best-selling novels about teenage vampires....
DreamWorks Sells Disturbia On Justin.tv By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2007 3:41 pm EST Justin.TV has been online for almost 25 days now. For those of you who don’t know, a guy named Justin has been wearing a camera 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He even wears it in the bathroom, and you can even watch him while he sleeps. The Internet Edtv concept is interesting. I’ve been watching (when I find some time) since day 2, and I can’t wait to see how far they take it....
First Images From Zhang Yimou’s Blood Simple Remake, Three Guns By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 16, 2009 2:11 pm EST Imagine, if you will, a film by the director of House of Flying Daggers or Red Sorghum that has been remade from a picture by the directors of Raising Arizona or The Big Lebowski. What would such a thing look like? Courtesy of the first three stills from Zhang Yimou’s Three Guns, a remake of the Coen Bros....
First Official Kick-Ass Photos By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 13, 2008 5:52 pm EST /Film reader Roque R sends over the first official photos from Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Mark Millar’s Kick Ass. Newsarama scored the first photos that feature Aaron Johnson as high school student Dave Lizewski aka Kick-Ass. Plot Synopsis (beware of possible comic book spoilers): Dave Lizewski is a kid growing up in a rundown suburb of America, he isn’t a gamer, he isn’t a jock, he isn’t a mathlete, he’s just a regular kid....
Full Details On Michael Bay’s “Small Movie” Project By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2009 9:00 pm EST Last week Michael Bay said that he has a small Pulp Fiction-type of movie before returning for Transformers 3. Guess what? We received a tip over to the weekend revealing everything. Want to know what Bay’s small movie project will be about? Full details after the jump. For the past decade, Michael Bay has been itching to make a feature film adaptation of a Miami News article....
High Resolution Twilight Movie Poster And New Plot Synopsis By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2008 4:55 pm EST TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern-day love story between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect much of anything to change....
Indy 4 Soundtrack Spoilers And Two New Photos By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2008 7:46 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Indiana Jones 4 Soundtrack Listing Raiders March Call of the Crystal The Adventures of Mutt Irina’s Theme The Snake Pit The Spell of the Skull A Whirl Through Academe The Journey to Akator “Return” The Jungle Chase Orellana’s Cradle Grave Robbers Hidden Treasure and the City of Gold...
Jim Carrey Takes The Beaver From Steve Carell? By Brendon Connelly/May 1, 2009 6:00 am EST One of the few very best screenplays I have ever read was Kyle Killen’s 2008 Black List topper, The Beaver. At the time I read it, Steve Carell was attached to star and Jay Roach was in talks to direct. Roach, I might ho-hum about but Carell struck me as an absolute perfect choice. Now it seems that both Carell and Roach have moved on and the producers are courting Jim Carrey for the lead....
Knocked Up Production Photos By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2007 5:51 am EST 40 Year Old Virgin is the best comedy film of the last five years (on second thought, Borat might also have a chance at the thrown, but for the sake of argument let’s say it’s Virgin). Judd Apatow knows how to do comedy, and underrated comedy geniuses Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd have returned for Knocked Up. Some of you have already started to see this flick at some super secret College screenings....
Monica Bellucci Joins The Sorcerer’s Apprentice By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2009 10:33 pm EST Usually an almost complete list of lead actors is announced before a film goes into production. Every so often you’ll see an item in the trades announcing that so-and-so will be joining the cast of a film which just started shooting. But it’s rare to be getting casting notices two months into production of a big Hollywood production....
Nick Park’s Next Feature Film Likely To Be In 3D By Brendon Connelly/March 5, 2010 8:42 am EST Academy Award repeat offender Nick Park is currently in the planning stages of a new, feature length movie to be produced in the same plasticine stylings as The Curse of the Were-rabbit. This time, though, he’s not going back to West Wallaby Street and his cracking creations Wallace and Gromit are to be left on the shelf....
Outfit Behind Michael Jackson’s This Is It To Create 3D Theatrical Concerts Featuring Dave Matthews And Gogol Bordello By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2009 3:00 pm EST Michael Jackson’s This Is It didn’t quite do the business that producers at AEG Live expected. They pre-pegged the film as a Dark Knight-sized hit, earning $250m right out of the gate. But the film is still doing exceptionally well; while it is only at $61m domestic it has earned more than twice that internationally, to put it at a global $200m take....
Possession Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 11, 2007 2:04 am EST Sarah Michelle Gellar continues her streak of starring in really horrible remakes of good Asian horror/thrillers. Joel Bergvall’s Possession is a remake of Young-hoon Park’s South Korean film Addicted. The story follows Jessica, a woman whose husband and gets in a horrific car crash with his brother. When the brother-in-law wakes up, he insists that he’s her husband. Check out the horrific movie trailer after the jump....
Ricardo Montalban Dies At 88 By David Chen/Jan. 14, 2009 2:43 pm EST The Associated Press is reporting that Ricardo Montalban died this morning at the age of 88. He was at his home, although no cause of death was given. Montalban will probably be known to many as Mr. Roarke in Fantasy Island, but if you’re a geek like me, you’ll always remember him as James T. Kirk’s nemesis, Khan, in Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan....
Robert De Niro, Michelle Rodriguez And Jonah Hill Cast In Robert Rodriguez’s Machete? UPDATE: Steven Seagal Too? By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2009 1:09 am EST [Update: As he casts Machete, Robert Rodriguez seems bound and determined to upstage Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables. Now The Playlist has a good source that says Steven Seagal is also on the list. More to the point, it seems like he’s not just on the ‘in talks’ list, but much closer to being set to be in the film....
