Eli Roth Not Involved With Hostel III By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2009 9:10 am EST Roth also confirms that his adaptation of Stephen King’s Cell is dead, though the Weinsteins could well make it with someone else. “I walked off Cell kind of quietly,” Roth says. “There was just sort of a difference in opinion on how to make to film and what the story should be, and there’s a different direction the studio wants to go with it....
Exclusive: Disney’s Upcoming Hand-Drawn Movies Revealed, Including The Snow Queen By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 7, 2009 5:11 pm EST On Friday December 4th, I was lucky enough to spend the whole day at Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank. My mission was to film footage for a /Film Exclusive documentary about the return of hand-drawn animation, focusing on Disney’s superlative new picture, The Princess and the Frog. During the day I carried out filmed interviews with the film’s directors John Musker and Ron Clements, leading lady Anika Noni Rose, producer Peter del Vecho and a whole host of animation, storyboarding and design talent....
Flash Producer Talks About WB’s Recall Process For Languishing Films By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2009 10:00 am EST UPDATE: Dan Mazeau, current screenwriter on The Flash, has written to IGN following the piece we re-reported yesterday. “Everything is moving forward as planned,” Mazeau said. “I’m still writing the script. Geoff Johns is still consulting. Flash fans have no cause for concern, and — IMO — lots to be excited about.” Original article follows:...
Harold Ramis Dishes On Groundhog Day Musical By Devindra Hardawar/April 1, 2009 6:22 pm EST Groundhog Day is one of those films that just gets better every time I watch it, but I can honestly say that I’ve never imagined the time-skipping antics of Phil Connors as a musical. Apparently, acclaimed Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd) fancied the idea a few years ago, but nothing came of that. Now the MTV Movies blog is reporting that the musical is actually closer to reality than we think....
Hellraiser Remake Pushed Back To 2009 By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 25, 2008 2:07 pm EST Dimension’s remake of Clive Barker’s original Hellraiser has been pushed back from its scheduled September 5, 2008 release to an undetermined date in 2009. According to Bloody Disgusting, the Weinstein Co. and Dimension were not popping bottles of Cristal over the script by French director team Alexander Bustillo and Julien Maury (Inside), though the duo are still attached to bring Pinhead the $60 million box office grosses he craves....
In Bruges Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 23, 2007 3:19 pm EST A few days ago Sundance announced that In Bruges will be the opening night film of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, which begins on January 17th. IONCinema (the best place for film festival coverage on the web) has posted the trailer and poster (seen right) for this new hitman action comedy. Written and directed by first time feature filmmaker and playwright Martin McDonagh (who won an Oscar for his 2005 short film Six Shooter), In Bruges is the darkly comedic tale of the fates of hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson)....
Kurtzman And Orci Negotiating Xombie For Dreamworks By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2009 8:22 am EST We’ve seen a feature where zombies are pets, and one where they’re used as cheap labor. Now Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci may be casting one of the undead as a cop, as they’re negotiating a buy of the comic book / animated web series Xombie for Dreamworks. THR reports the deal, which came about through a pitch by cop turned writer Will Beall....
Matt Johnson To Write Afterburn Comic Book Adaptation By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2009 11:30 pm EST Into the Blue and Torque screenwriter Matt Johnson has been hired to adapt a big screen version of the Red 5 comic book Afterburn for producers Tobey Maguire and Neil Moritz (I Am Legend, xXx). No director has been attached. The sci-fi comic book follows a group of treasure-hunters for hire in the future who “recover” exotic valuables from an Earth half-destroyed by a devastating solar flare, which has left a wily world roamed by mutants, rival pirates and assorted derelicts....
Movie Poster: Sam Rockwell’s Moon By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2008 12:15 am EST Earlier this week we posted some photos from Sam Rockwell’s upcoming sci-fi space thriller Moon. The film tells the story of an Astronaut who has been mining Helium 3 on the moon for the last three years by himself. With only two weeks before he returns home, Sam begins seeing and hearing things. The promise of an old school in-space science fiction film scored by Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream) certainly has us excited....
Neil Blomkamp’s Halo Short Film By Peter Sciretta/July 11, 2007 10:10 am EST Okay, so we wouldn’t normally post a commercial for a video game but this one is different. It’s a live action commercial for Halo 3 directed by Neil Blomkamp, who was announced by Peter Jackson as the director of the Halo feature film. The studios were unhappy to hand the big screen adaptation to a virtual newcomer (he’s done commercials) and the project has since fallen into development hell....
Netflix Survey Hints At Instant Watch iPhone App By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2010 12:19 am EST HackingNetflix is reporting that Netflix has begun surveying customers asking if they would be interested in an application for the iPhone which would allow customers to instantly watch movies anf tv shows without an additional fee. Here’s the full text of the survey: “Imagine that Netflix offers its subscribers the ability to instantly watch movies & TV episodes on their iPhone....
New International Speed Racer Movie Trailers By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2008 2:31 am EST Warner Bros has released two new international movie trailers for The Wachowski Brothers’ big screen adaptation of Speed Racer. I still remain unsold on this film. I loved the idea of a live action cartoon, but the result looks ridiculous, with a couple of the sequences looking more like a video game than a animated movie. Watch the two videos, and tell me what you think in the comments below....
Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 16, 2008 12:57 am EST Amy Adams is in talks to star in Leap Year, a comedy about “an uptight woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on leap day, Feb. 29, following an Irish tradition in which women propose to men on that day and the man has to say yes.” [THR] Tolkien Enterprises reclaimed a bunch of domain names that used the word “Hobbit”....
Pixar’s The Incredibles Coming To Playstation 3’s LBP By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2010 1:00 pm EST With director Brad Bird on the top of the list to direct Mission: Impossible 4, and the filmmaker’s strong stance against sequels, I doubt we’ll see a follow-up to Pixar’s The Incredibles any time soon. But Disney has teamed with video game developers Media Molecule to release Incredibles-inspired downloadable content for the popular video game LittleBigPlanet....
Pushing Daisies To Do A Firefly And Become A Movie? By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 14, 2009 12:28 pm EST ABC have a number of unaired Pushing Daisies episodes in the can, with no indication when or if they’ll even air them. Like several beloved shows before it, Daisies was snipped off in it’s prime. Between the first season (abbreviated by the writer’s strike) and the second (axed early) the show’s makers managed to bag only 22 epsisodes, I believe – a typical run for one, uninterrupted season but, on the other hand, the makings of a nice little bargain-price box set....
Robot Chicken Scribe To Write Short Circuit Remake By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2009 8:01 pm EST Remakes, remakes, and more remakes! Dimension Films has hired a new writer for the Short Circuit remake they announced last April. The original screenwriters/creators S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock had been hired to pen the remake, but apparently the Weinstein’s want to go in another direction with screenwriter Dan Milano. Before you write this one off completely, let me tell you a bit about the new screenwriter....
Shutter Island And A Christmas Carol Posters Premiere At Cannes By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2009 12:02 pm EST Our friends at FirstShowing are in France for the Cannes Film Festival, and have gotten a bunch of snapshots of some of the cool promotional posters for upcoming films. Above are the billboards for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island starring Leonard Dicaprio, and Robert Zemeckis’ performance capture 3D adaptation of A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey....
Superhero Cast Announced By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2007 1:41 am EST Dimension Films have finally announced the completed cast line-up for their upcoming superhero comedy spoof. The cast of Superhero includes: Drake Bell (Yours, Mine and Ours), Sara Paxton (Sydney White), Christopher McDonald (Happy Gilmore), Leslie Nielsen (The Naked Gun), Kevin Hart (Soul Plane), Marion Ross (Happy Days), Ryan Hansen (Palo Alto), Jeffrey Tambor (Hellboy) and Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation)....
Taylor Kitsch To Star In Battleship By Peter Sciretta/April 7, 2010 9:10 pm EST Taylor Kitsch will star in Peter Berg’s water based epic action adaptation of the board game Battleship. The story unfolds as “a massive Naval adventure across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force.” The superior force are aliens from another planet known as The Regents. They come from a world similar to ours, and aren’t actually looking to take over humanity or the planet Earth....
This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Sherlock Holmes, An Education, The Baader Meinhof Complex, And More By Adam Quigley/March 30, 2010 3:45 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Robert Downey Jr. charms and amuses yet again, and composer Hans Zimmer offers up a wonderfully oddball score, introducing the world to a new subgenre of music: neo-classical gypsy folk synth. This knockout pairing breathes considerable life into Sherlock Holmes, a film which otherwise feels strictly perfunctory—so mechanical in structure and storyline that I can only imagine a studio exec was at the ready to quickly nix even the slightest deviations from formula....
