Spike Jonze To Produce Adaptation Of Novel Light Boxes By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2009 6:22 pm EST Variety reports that Spike Jonze has picked up the rights to Shane Jones’ first novel Light Boxes and that music video and short film director Ray Tintori will direct. (In the headline I make the assumption that Jonze is producing, but that may not turn out to be the case; the trade doesn’t specify....
The Frogumentary: /Film At Walt Disney Animation Studios - The Princess And The Frog And The Return To Hand Drawn Animation By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 5, 2010 7:42 am EST Below the break are the first installments of The Frogumentary, my videoblog from Walt Disney Animation Studios. It takes us behind the scenes of Disney’s The Princess and the Frog and the studio’s return to hand drawn animation. If you, like me, live in the UK, today’s the day the movie opens nationwide for you and, not to put too fine a point on it, I can’t really recommend it enough....
Troy Duffy Talks Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2008 2:08 am EST Boondock Saints director Troy Duffy held a live videocast answering fan and website questions yesterday about Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, which just wrapped production. We were asked to participate, but were too late to the game. Maybe we can get Troy on the /Filmcast Afterdark and get to the bottom of “Overnight”....
Vin Diesel And Paul Walker In Talks For Fast And The Furious 4 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2007 2:29 am EST Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are in negotiations to reunite for Fast and the Furious 4. Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift director Justin Lin and writer Chris Morgan are set to return for the fourth film. I think i was one of the few people that somewhat enjoyed the first flick (the cg-car action sequences were amazing, right?...
VOTD: The Extreme Sticky Note Experiments By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2008 12:00 am EST The Extreme Sticky Note Experiments The Pitch: You probably know EepyBird’s Stephen Voltz and Fritz Grobe as the guys behind the now infamous Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment viral video. They have made a new video called “The Extreme Sticky Note Experiments” using 280,951 Post-it notes. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....
What Is District 9? By David Chen/March 6, 2009 11:00 am EST Since then, we’ve learned that the signs were part of an elaborate viral campaign for director Neill Blomkamp’s newest film, District 9. For the uninitiated, Blomkamp was a protégé of director Peter Jackson, and was positioned to be the director of a film based on Bungie’s Halo franchise (that deal subsequently fell apart). Blomkamp has shown much talent in his short films and commercials, but many wondered if he was ready for a big-budget sci-fi thriller....
William Monahan To Adapt John Grisham’s The Associate By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2009 11:32 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. “It’s a deadly game of blackmail. And they’re making him play. Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he’s good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career and, possibly, his entire life....
28th Amendment Finds A Director By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2009 2:03 am EST What is the 28th Amendment? It’s a project conceived by the screenwriting team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the guys who wrote Transformers, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible II and The Island. Described as The Firm set in the White House, the story follows the new President of the United States who discovers the for a good part of the 20th century, a secret cabal has been running the government....
A Mighty Boosh Movie - With Robert Smith From The Cure? By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 27, 2009 4:58 pm EST One of the best BBC sitcoms of recent years is The Mighty Boosh, created by and starring Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding and directed by Paul King. Originating as a stage show – essentially stand up comedy with theatrical elaborations – then undergoing a typical Britcom rite of passage on radio, Boosh became an instant TV cult with it’s first airing in 2004....
Adam Sandler Also Putting On Costume For Green Hornet, Stephen Chow Instead Directing Journey To The West By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 28, 2009 10:01 am EST The Green Hornet. Well, well, well. What a bumpy ride this one’s been getting in the press and on blogs. First of all there was a loud shout of skepticism about the casting of Seth Rogen, then euphoria at the signing of Stephen Chow, then Chow puled out of directing and rumours abound that he’s bailing entirely, then the film is reported to be on the chopping block… and now, well, some pretty compelling evidence that it isn’t....
All Warner Bros Tentpole Movies Will Be Released In 3D By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2010 3:19 pm EST Warner Bros will be releasing five movies in 3D in 2010 and nine movies in 2011. Alan Horn announced at ShoWest that all the studios tentpole movies, superhero films, and big special effects releases, will be distributed in 3D. He called it the new standard for the company. And yes, he was clear that this includes all of the future DC Comic Books films....
American Teen: Meet Hannah And Jake By Peter Sciretta/May 9, 2008 12:36 pm EST I can’t say this enough, American Teen is my favorite film of 2008 so far (you can read my review from Sundance). Nanette Burstein, the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker of On The Ropes spent one year following a group of teenagers during their senior year of high school. The movie won the directing award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and has been playing the festival circuit to rave reviews ever since....
Assassination Of A High School President Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2009 4:43 pm EST At the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Yari Film Group premiered Brett Simon’s Assassination of a High School President, a film noir mystery set inside the world of a John Hughes-style High School comedy. (half way between Rian Johnson’s Brick and Veronica Mars) It quickly emerged as one of the underdogs on the schedule to become one of the most buzzed about films at the festival (read some of the review quotes here)....
Avatar Teaser Trailer Coming Soon? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2008 2:29 pm EST Could the first teaser trailer for James Cameron’s Sci-Fi 3D epic Avatar be on its way? MarketSaw posted these very convincing photos of a batch of packaged 35mm film trailers. Fox’s The Day The Earth Stood Still hits theaters on December 12th, could the teaser be attached to that film? I can’t imagine that Cameron would want to release an Avatar trailer not in 3D, would he?...
Bidding War For Taylor Lautner’s Bourne-Styled Action Project Abduction By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2010 2:55 pm EST Russ mentioned in his Casting Notes post earlier today that a bunch of studios were in a bidding war for The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner’s next project — a Bourne-styled action film called Abduction. Rumor has it that Dreamworks has won the bidding war. Update: Dreamworks has contacted us and the studio claims that they did not place the winning bid....
Bryan Singer To Reboot Battlestar Galactica? By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 13, 2009 1:31 pm EST Update by Editor Peter Sciretta: Entertainment Weekly has confirmed this report with Universal Pictures — Bryan Singer is signed on to direct a feature film version of Battlestar Galactica, which isn’t expected to be a continuation of the most recent Ron Moore Sci-Fi channel television show, but instead a complete re-imagining of the original 1970’s series. Original report follows below....
Bryan Singer Wants To Return To The X-Men Franchise By Russ Fischer/Oct. 12, 2009 6:13 am EST Speaking at the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea, Singer said (as reported by THR): This may be just fan-appeasing talk on Singer’s part. But taking it seriously for a minute, what film could he make? Based on everything we know, X-Men: First Class is the film that’s up next, with a spring shoot currently planned....
Comic Con: 25 Minutes Of Avatar Screened By Adam Quigley/July 23, 2009 9:25 pm EST The first clip begins with a Col. Quaritch, a gruff-voiced military man with scars running down the right side of his head. He walks down a hallway barking orders at recruits and informs them that his job is to keep them alive. “I won’t succeed. Not with all of you.” We hear a voiceover by Sam Worthington, playing Jake Sully, explain how he used to be an officer until he lost his legs....
David Dobkin To Direct The Flash By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2007 10:44 pm EST We all knew from the beginning that Warner Bros planned to use the Justice League of America movie to spin-off a few new DC superhero movie projects. Or at least that is the plan. Earlier this year, before all this JLA craziness, Night at the Museum helmer Shawn Levy signed on to make a movie based on The Flash....
Disney Buys Domain Names For Monsters Inc 2, The Tiger King And World War Robot By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2009 8:47 pm EST If you read the Friday morning edition of the Hollywood trade newspaper Variety, you will notice a story about Jerry Bruckheimer acquiring the big screen rights to IDW Publishing’s graphic novel World War Robot. But if you had looked at the recent domain records that Disney had purchased: WORLDWARROBOT-MOVIE....
