First Look: Don Cheadle And Sam Rockwell In Iron Man 2 By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2009 4:32 pm EST /Film reader Erin L sent over some new photos from Iron Man 2, which appear in Entertainment Weekly’s Comic-Con preview issue. The photos include our first official photos of some of the main characters. Don Cheadle, who replaced Terrance Howard as Col. James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes, who appears to be at some kind of court hearing....
Ghost Rider Sequel In Development By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2009 11:09 pm EST Bloody Disgusting has confirmed that Columbia Pictures is officially out to screenwriters for Ghost Rider 2, and star Nicolas Cage is already signed on to reprise the role as Johnny Blaze.This is shocking because nobody I know enjoyed the 2007 film when it was released. In fact, the Internet Movie Database user rating is a 5.3 (which is somewhere between bad and very bad) and a 28% on the Rotten Tomatoes critics-rated Tomatometer....
Gus Van Sant’s Milk Movie Trailer By David Chen/Sept. 3, 2008 2:40 pm EST After crafting the critically acclaimed Paranoid Park, director Gus Van Sant now seems poised to follow it up with yet another audacious and powerful film. The trailer for Van Sant’s Milk debuted on Apple today and it masterfully sets up some of the main conflicts of the film (namely, the social climate in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk’s conflict with city supervisor Dan White, and the threats to Milk’s life)....
Happy Birthday To M. Night Shyamalan By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2007 1:15 pm EST If you haven’t realized this already, but it’s a slow news day. So I thought we’d take the time to wish M. Night Shyamalan a happy 37th Birthday. Hey, not only can we can still remember back to the time when he made good movies, and I think I’m possibly the only critic to give The Lady in the Water a good review....
Interview With Avatar Producer Jon Landau By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 17, 2009 2:00 pm EST During the press junket events for Avatar in London last week, I was lucky enough to get 15 minutes chatting with Jon Landau. That full interview is available as a video below the break. Landau was the film’s producer and is James Cameron’s partner in Lightstorm Entertainment. Should Cameron go ahead with Avatar 2 next, or maybe even Battle Angel Alita, the one collaborator we can guarantee will be by his side is Landau....
Mark Strong In Talks To Play Sinestro, Plus Other Green Lantern Details By David Chen/Jan. 15, 2010 4:34 pm EST Casting news on Martin Campbell’s The Green Lantern continues to crystallize. While we had heard a rumor awhile back that Jackie Earle Haley might be in talks to play Green Lantern’s arch-nemesis, Sinestro, it now looks as though that isn’t, nor was it ever, the case. MTV recently caught up with Campbell while during a junket for his upcoming thriller, Edge of Darkness, and popped the question to Campbell about Sinestro....
Marvin The Martian: The Movie By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2008 12:11 am EST Warner Bros has announced that they are developing a big screen hybrid live-action/computer animated feature film based on the classic Chuck Jones’ Tooney Tunes cartoon Marvin the Martian. No writer or director has yet been signed, but the pitch is aimed at the family demographic and will be packaged as a Christmas movie. Marvin comes to Earth to destroy Christmas but becomes trapped in a gift box....
New Photos: Hellboy II: The Golden Army By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2008 1:52 am EST Universal has released a huge batch of new photos from Hellboy II: The Golden Army, in anticipation of the new trailer which will be released (presumably) tomorrow. Check out the photos after the jump. Hellboy II: The Golden Army hits theaters this summer on July 11th, 2008. source: Yahoo Movies New Photos: Hellboy II: The Golden Army...
New Promo For Jean Claude Van Damme’s The Eagle Path By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2009 11:15 am EST Just one movie can turn a whole career around. For Jean Claude Van Damme, that was JCVD. The movie proved (at long last) that the notoriously self-aggrandizing actor had a sense of humor. Folks that hadn’t paid attention to the guy in a decade were suddenly big fans. Who needs The Expendables when you can rope your own persona into a failed bank robbery and subsequent media circus?...
New Star Trek Photos In Empire Magazine By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2008 1:02 pm EST The cover of Empire Magazine’s Star Trek issue is a callback to the classic Kirk and Spock photo from years past. The magazine also offers a few new photos (click to see the full size versions over on Empire). The first photo below shows Kirk (Chris Pine) and Sulu (John Cho), both in armored EVA suits in some kind of space shuttle....
Pierre Morel Reveals Dune Plans - He Wants 3D By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 29, 2010 4:17 pm EST Pierre Morel has revealed both his aspirations for Dune and some of the practical challenges he’ll face in realising it. Apparently, he’s keen for the film to be in 3D and he’ll push for the format but the decision is yet to be made. So far he’s seen Avatar in 3D twice, he says, and it seems he’d like a little of that for his own project....
Pitch Purchases: Vehicles For Jonah Hill And Harold & Kumar Creators By Russ Fischer/Aug. 11, 2009 9:31 am EST Couple of short stories for you today about new films that are a ways down the road. First up, according to Variety, Universal has purchased a pitch by Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O’Brien called The Best Thing About Pam Rooney. It’s a “high-concept” romantic comedy, and it will be developed as a starring project for Jonah Hill....
Pixar Developing Monsters, Inc. 2? By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2008 6:48 pm EST It’s funny how the tides change so quickly. At WonderCon 2007, Brad Bird insisted that Pixar was not in the sequel business. Bird said: “At Pixar, the bottom line is the story that you’re telling. And Pixar does not look at sequels as a financial plan. We feel we have a relation ship with the audience and that they believe in each movie we put out....
Should Hollywood Employ More Women Movie Trailer Narrators? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2008 3:17 am EST I’ve never really thought about it before, but I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a movie trailer narrated by a woman. Variety has an article which cites a quote from Don LaFontaine, known as “The Voice of the Movie Trailer”, who as you might recall, recently passed away: “I think women are vastly underrepresented in this area,” LaFontaine said in 2006....
Spielberg Leaves Harvey Remake, No Clear Plans For Next Project By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 3, 2009 10:32 pm EST The big question now is what Spielberg may be up to next. His Tintin shooting is complete, and he’s certainly not lacking in producing gigs, but his directing future is uncertain. Back in September, he confirmed that his Lincoln project will definitely happen, and now he may actually have the free time to devote to it....
Superbowl Film Advertising By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 8, 2009 7:50 pm EST Variety confirms that Paramount will premiere the first footage from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen during SuperBowl XLIII on February 1st 2009, forgoing the traditional theatrical teaser trailer route. Other high profile film advertising spots might include Star Trek, G.I. Joe, Angels and Demons Monsters vs. Aliens (90-second 3D trailer), Land of the Lost, Fast and Furious, Up, Race to Witch Mountain, and Wolverine....
SXSW Blog: The Calm Before Or During The Storm By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2008 10:06 pm EST I’ve landed in Austin Texas, and it is much colder than expected. Isn’t Texas supposed to be warm/hot? I think I brought some of the bad weather from San Francisco with me. It’s been rainy, overcast, and cold. I don’t think anyone in the house we’re staying at planned for such. It appears that the good weather will shine through this weekend, so it’s not really a concern....
Teaser Trailer: Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 20, 2009 10:53 am EST The newly arrived teaser trailer for Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces is a thing of beauty, elegance, wit, rich emotion and mystery – five of the top six items on the shopping list of any Pedro Almodovar fan. This gorgeous thing is about as good as teaser trailers get. There’s nothing more I can hope to communicate that the trailer won’t say far more effectively – and aside from the frame you see above, wordlessly....
The Dark Knight: 18 New Photos By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2007 7:58 pm EST While I was in a press screening downtown (King of Kong = Great documentary with geek appeal), a new set of production photos from The Dark Knight leaked online (presumably as part of Warner Bros viral campaign, or not… If that is the case, you can e-mail us). I don’t exactly know who deserves credit for this one, but IESB was the first site I saw them on (although, they seem to be everywhere now: FirstShowing, FilmSchoolRejects, AICN, and even JustJared)....
The Wolfman Gets Bloody R-Rating By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2009 5:10 pm EST After numerous delays, reshoots, editing changes after multiple test screenings, and of course – Danny Elfman’s infamous departure, I wasn’t sure The Wolfman would actually be completed for the planned February 12th 2010 release. Well, it appears that a final cut is in hand. Universal just informed me that The Wolfman has finally received a rating from the MPAA, and has been rated ‘R’ for “bloody horror, violence and gore....
