This Week In DVD: The Counterfeiters, Nim’s Island, Starship Troopers 3, And More By Adam Quigley/Aug. 6, 2008 5:00 am EST Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this movie tells the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, which employed the use of Jewish men imprisoned in concentration camps to help fund the Nazi War effort. With a 94% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7....
Thursday Box Office: Indiana Jones Returns With $26 Million By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2008 12:12 am EST The early first day box office estimates for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull have arrived. Steve Mason is reporting the film took in $26 Million. Nikki Finke says that “analysts believed that any total over $18 million for Thursday would be considered major moolah.“Â The Wednesday midnight shows were also a bit softer-than-expected (around $4 million)....
Tron Legacy Billboard Art By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2009 12:39 pm EST Disney has released a digital file of the Tron Legacy billboard art, located at Santa Monica/Westwood in Los Angeles, to a handfull of fans on facebook. Stitchkingdom got their hands on the image, which is embedded above. Click on the photo above to enlarge. Tron Legacy Billboard Art By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2009 12:39 pm EST Disney has released a digital file of the Tron Legacy billboard art, located at Santa Monica/Westwood in Los Angeles, to a handfull of fans on facebook....
USA Network’s Thank You For Smoking TV Series By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 7, 2007 9:26 pm EST When I first saw Jason Reitman’s Thank You For Smoking at its Eccles Theater Sundance Film Festival premiere, I wondered out loud to a friend what a television series based on the film would be like. The film starred Aaron Eckhart as a chief spokesman of a big tobacco company with the seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore....
VOTD: 100 Best Movie Lines In 200 Seconds By Peter Sciretta/June 9, 2009 10:00 pm EST LiquidGeneration has created a video montage compiling the 100 greatest movie lines in 200 seconds. I’m sure not everyone will agree with all of the selections, but its a great trip through some of the more memorable movies of the last few decades. Watch the video after the jump. VOTD: 100 Best Movie Lines In 200 Seconds...
VOTD: The Mirror Scare By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2010 7:00 pm EST If you happen to use the bathroom while being stalked by a serial killer or a ghost/monster, watch out, because they’re right behind you. Last year we posted a video compilation showing the many moments from horror movies where the protagonist is trapped with bad cell phone reception. Today we’ve found another horror video compilation, this time focused on the dreaded and overused horror cliche – the mirror scare....
Will Saw VII Be The Final Installment Of The Saw Franchise? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2010 3:00 am EST Could Saw VII be the final installment of the popular horror movie franchise? Screenwriter Patrick Melton, who co-wrote the last three Saw films and the upcoming seventh movie, claims the the series will probably end with the seventh installment, and they have even planned to wrap up the lingering questions. The following quote comes from Melton on UK radio station 107....
X-Men Origins: Magneto Plot Synopsis By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2008 12:48 am EST The latest issue of Production Weekly features a new plot synopsis for David Goyer’s X-Men Origins: Magneto: “The original X-Men film began with a prologue that showed the character as a child being led to a concentration camp by Nazis and that is the period in which the Magneto film will take place. This setup will allow a future villain to at least flirt with the designation of protagonist since the character will be seen almost exclusively in his formative years....
2009 World Soundtrack Awards Nominations Announced By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2009 7:00 am EST The World Soundtrack Academy have announced the list of nominees for the three principal categories in the World Soundtrack Awards: Film Composer of the Year, Best Original Score of the Year and Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film. Slumdog Millionaire leads the nominations. Check out the full list of nominations after the jump. FILM COMPOSER OF THE YEAR CARTER BURWELL (Burn After Reading, Twilight) ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Coco Avant Chanel, Largo Winch, Cheri) DANNY ELFMAN (Milk, Taking Woodstock, Notorious) MICHAEL GIACCHINO (Star Trek, Up, Land of the Lost) HANS ZIMMER (Frost/Nixon, Angels & Demons, The Dark Knight) BEST ORIGINAL SCORE OF THE YEAR BURN AFTER READING by Carter Burwell THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON by Alexandre Desplat FROST/NIXON by Hans Zimmer THE INTERNATIONAL by Reinhold Heil, Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE by A....
Avatar Earns China’s Biggest-Ever Opening Box Office By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2010 7:05 am EST After delays forestalled the original opening date, Avatar opened in China on Monday and quickly took in about 33.03m yuan (USD$4.8m) to become the biggest-ever film open in the country’s history. The previous record holder opened just this past December. Zhang Yimou’s A Simple Noodle Story (the director’s loose remake of Blood Simple) took in 21m yuan on December 10....
Big Directors Small Films: Seth Gordon’s The Problem With Percival By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 22, 2008 11:47 am EST In this week’s edition of Big Directors Small Films, we will take a look at one of the short films of Seth Gordon. You probably know Gordon as the director of one of 2007’s best films, a documentary called The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. The filmmaker has since been offered a plate full of feature film projects starting with the Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon romantic comedy Four Christmases (due in theaters on November 26th 2008)....
Blame Harry Potter - Quantum Of Solace Comes One Week Later By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 22, 2008 12:30 am EST Columbia Pictures and MGM have announced that they will be moving Quantum of Solace from November 7th, back one week to November 14th. According to a press release from the studio, “The strategic move places the highly-anticipated James Bond adventure one week closer to the prime movie-going holiday window and takes advantage of last week’s decision to move the release date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince....
Casting Notes: Moon Bloodgood In Faster; Kevin Spacey Works In China; Paul Giamatti In Tom McCarthy’s Next? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2010 12:42 pm EST With a bunch of films scheduled to start shooting later this month and into the dregs of winter, we’re starting to get some new blasts of casting info. First up, Moon Bloodgood has a new role in Faster, the George Tillman Jr.-directed revenge drama starring Dwayne Johnson....
First Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Teaser Trailer By Brendon Connelly/March 25, 2010 8:36 am EST After a series of sometimes unbelievably cheeky teases, the first teaser trailer for Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World has been released onto the internet. This is clearly just a teaser, and there’s obviously going to be more work needed in getting mainstream audiences as hooked for this as the geek faithful, but it’s really looking exactly like this film has the stuff....
James Cameron’s Avatar Teaser Trailer By Russ Fischer/Aug. 20, 2009 6:47 am EST The teaser trailer for James Cameron’s new film Avatar has arrived. The clip isn’t yet properly live at Apple, the site meant to be hosting it in the US, but you can see it in 1080p with this link, or at the French MSN site. Here’s the quick recap: Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) arrives (in his wheelchair) on Pandora....
Jessica Biel Mourns David O. Russell’s Nailed By Brendon Connelly/May 5, 2009 12:14 pm EST A new interview with Jessica Biel in The Orlando Sentinel fills us in on the current state of play with David O. Russell’s screwballish sex and politics satire Nailed. Unfortunately, she doesn’t paint a pretty picture. You probably recall that the film was shut down four times and that James Caan quit after a bust up with the director, and you may even remember reports that the film was ‘safely’ into post production....
Joel Edgerton Comments On The Thing Prequel By Russ Fischer/April 5, 2010 10:40 pm EST You might be irritated at the idea of a prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing, but I don’t see how any fan of Carpenter’s movie couldn’t be at least a little bit curious about what’s been cooked up for the film that is currently shooting in Toronto. I don’t figure this film will even vaguely stack up to Carpenter’s when it comes to effects — The Thing is just too far up the ladder of classic ’latex and bladder’ based films — but what will the designs look like?...
LucasFilm Teams With Robot Chicken Duo To Develop Star Wars Animated Sitcom By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2010 1:00 pm EST Variety is reporting that LucasFilm is developing a new animated Star Wars animated television sitcom series. The Daily Show/Frank TV writer Brendan Hay will be the head writer, and Robot Chicken creators/producers Seth Green and Matthew Seinreich will be “creatively involved” while daytime Emmy and Gemini Award-winner Jennifer Hill (The Backyardians) will produce with Todd Grimes (Back at the Barnyard) directing....
Michael Clayton Returning To Theaters Nationwide By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 20, 2008 11:20 pm EST Warner Bros. is re-releasing the well reviewed George Clooney legal thriller Michael Clayton on January 25th, one month before the Academy Awards. What’s somewhat surprising about the announcement is that the film will return to 1,000 theaters around North America rather than a limited run in the usual cities. Is there really such demand? When it was released wide last October, the film opened to $11 million, which was considered a mild disappointment and sparked a fair share of knee-jerk “George Clooney isn’t a big draw outside of the Ocean films” editorials....
New Clip From Pixar’s Up Introduces Dug The Dog By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2009 1:16 pm EST Disney has released a new video clip from Pixar’s Up on Hulu, which introduces us to Dug the talking dog. Carl and Russell come across Dug while wandering through the wilds of South America. Also featured in the clip is a gigantic rainbow colored bird, nicknamed Kevin, that has been following the duo since Russell made the mistake of feeding him chocolate....
