In The Valley Of Elah Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2007 3:22 pm EST Warner Independent has released this new poster for Paul Haggis’ (Crash) In The Valley of Elah (movie trailer). His new drama is inspired by the true-life case of a retired Army veteran (Tommy Lee Jones) who discovers his son was killed by his own platoon members after they returned stateside but failed to shake battlefield mentality....
Iran Condemns The Wrestler? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2008 9:26 pm EST Iranian media has condemned Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, claiming that it shows the West’s ignorance and prejudice towards Iran. The scene in question is where Mickey Rourke, who plays Randy “The Ram” Robinson, has to fight Earnest “The Cat” Miller, who plays a character named The Ayatollah, who dresses in Middle Eastern garb and waves the Iranian flag before attacking Robinson with the pole....
Mark Hamill Is The Joker In Batman: Arkham Asylum By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2008 10:59 pm EST Mark Hamill has signed on to voice The Joker in Eidos and Warner Bros’ video game Batman: Arkham Asylum. Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars films, provided the voice to the sadistic clown in the 1990’s Batman and Superman animated television shows, and more recently in Justice League. Fanboy favorite Kevin Conroy has also returned to voice the caped crusader....
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2009 4:52 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel Shutter Island. The story follows a U.S. Marshal named Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) 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....
Movie Review: Reign Over Me Is Endearing And Emotional By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2007 11:38 pm EST I find it quite amusing that not even a year ago, people were heated over the concept of a movie that involves September 11th. And now an Adam Sandler movie is flying under all the radar. Is it a sign of the times, or do people just have short-term memories and small attention spans?...
New Photos: Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2008 11:57 pm EST Next up we bring you new photos from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind) directorial debut. Synecdoche, New York stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a theater director named Caden Cotard, whose life in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her....
New Twilight Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 9, 2008 4:19 pm EST Official Plot Synopsis: 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....
Nicholas Stoller Says Jason Segel Will Star In The New Muppet Movie By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2008 12:52 pm EST Okay, so far we don’t know much about the new Muppet Movie that Jason Segel and Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller are developing, but Segel’s promises that it will be a call back to the old school Muppet films has us excited. Soller recently revealed a couple new details to the Defamer....
Nolan Begins - Christopher Nolan To Screen Following In LA By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2008 9:16 pm EST Before he was the director of the second biggest film in box office history, and even before he garnered acclaim by telling a story of memory loss in reverse, Christopher Nolan broke onto the scene with Following. The multi-layered black and white crime noir thriller tells the story of Bill (Jeremy Theobald), an unemployed aspiring writer turned burglar, who becomes interested in one of the woman house owners he robs....
Police Academy And Three Men And A Baby Sequels In The Works?! By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 28, 2008 12:46 am EST Steve Guttenberg told The Sun over the weekend that a screenplay is being written for an eighth Police Academy movie with all the available original stars set to return. “So far it is really great, everyone from the original movies who is still around will return,” says" Guttenberg. “I know Kim and Sharon have been asked but they haven’t said yes yet....
Razzie Award Nominations - The Worst Movies And Performances Of 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2009 1:53 pm EST Update: Apparently these are not the official Razzie Award nominations. Here is the e-mail I just received: One of our Voting Members posted the preliminary choices from their RAZZIE Nominating Ballot on the MTV Movie Blog, apparently unclear that it was NOT a final list, and from there things have “gone viral” — With even the IMDb today posting what purports to be a list of our nominees for this year’s 29th Annual RAZZIE Awards....
Rumor Killer: Ghostbuster 3 Casting By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2008 12:25 am EST Don’t believe those Ghostbuster rumors… A new live-action Ghostbusters film is not in the works. A rumor has been circulating the interwebs that Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson had signed on to return for a third film where they would hand off the Ghostbusting duties to the Judd Apatow crew of Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and Romany Malco....
Rumor Killer: Jaws 5 Goes Direct To DVD By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2007 6:02 am EST This month has been a terrible month filled with rumors of direct to DVD sequels and remakes. First came rumors of The Goonies 2 and Gremlins 3 for home video release. Then news came of a Spies Like Us remake being scripted by the Eurotrip crew. But the real shocker came late last week. The internet was abuzz with rumors of a direct to DVD Jaws sequel....
Shoot ‘Em Up Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2007 2:44 pm EST I was able to catch a sneak peak of Shoot ‘Em Up last week in San Diego, and can’t say enough good things about the film. Shoot’em up is like Crank but with guns. It’s non-stop action, no questions asked, no plot needed, and no apologies offered. It knows what it wants to be and goes for it....
Sony To Release Spider-Man 4 In 2010? By Hunter Stephenson/May 23, 2008 1:49 pm EST Will the original squad be back, or will Sony recruit new talent? A week ago we reported on the rumor that Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5 will be filmed back-to-back, Back to the Future styles. Today, a quote from Marvel’s Vice Chairman, Peter Cuneo, hit the Net via IESB regarding Sony’s stirring plans for a third sequel…...
Stan Lee Confirms Thor Cameo By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2009 6:39 pm EST Legendary comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee, has confirmed on Twitter that his cameo part in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor is confirmed. More tweets from Stan talking about his part in Thor, after the jump. Stan Lee Confirms Thor Cameo By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2009 6:39 pm EST Legendary comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee, has confirmed on Twitter that his cameo part in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor is confirmed....
Sundance Video Blog: Jeffrey Blitz’s Lucky By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2010 2:00 pm EST On Monday, I attended a press screening of Lucky, a documentary film about a bunch of lottery winners “as they navigate their newly found riches and a couple of extremely determined hopefuls.” Here is the official plot synopsis: “The winners’ lives are undoubtedly changed forever but not necessarily in the ways we may expect. Life becomes complicated as attorneys, hired security guards, jealous friends, scheming family members, and desperate pleas for help from strangers pepper their new existence....
Terry Gilliam’s Zero Theorem To Shoot In May, Billy Bob Thornton To Star By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 24, 2009 5:51 pm EST It became apparent a month or two ago that Terry Gilliam was working with producer Richard Zanuck and screenwriter Pat Rushin on Zero Theorem. Just what that film was going to be wasn’t so apparent. So I e-mailed Rushin… and he sent me a very nice, polite “Can’t Tell You” type response....
The Game Plan Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2007 1:04 am EST I must admit, I’m a fan of The Rock. I think he could be the next big action star, if he got the right roles. And the fact that his new film, Disney’s The Game Plan was shot in my hometown (and at the New England Patriots’ Gillette Stadium), with a few of my close friends on screen, it should be hard for me to not like this film....
The Twilight Saga: New Moon Movie Review: Let The Wrong One In By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2009 2:45 pm EST There’s another thread that dominates my notes on New Moon, and which is really the crux of why the movie is so lousy: ‘heroine’ Bella (Kristen Stewart), who in this chapter is reduced to sub-character statues. She’s less substantial than tissue paper, but is featured in nearly every scene. Bella is listless and empty, devoid of any notable characteristic....
