Kevin Smith Reviews Grindhouse By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2007 10:42 pm EST Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith has seen Grindhouse, and he loved it. “Fking fantastic. So insanely good. Three hours long, but I’d have sat through it again, had they offered to re-run it. See it as soon as you can,” wrote Smith. “I think, after Sin City, it might be Robert’s best flick to date. Totally fun and really enjoyable....
Movie Trailer: Monster - The Asylum’s Cloverfield Knock-Off By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 11, 2008 2:04 am EST Breaking News: On January 17, 2003 a devastating earthquake hit Japan. This event was caught on tape by two American filmmakers. But it wasn’t an earthquake. And it wasn’t Cloverfield. It happened five years before. Like, duh. No, it was…MONSTER. And, oh yeah, it hits stores on 01-15-08. The source of everyone’s favorite video store spam, the Asylum, has “found” a trailer for its latest, uber-timely magnum o(cto)pus, MONSTER....
New Screenwriter To Board Super Max By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 11, 2009 3:51 pm EST New news on Super Max has been a long time coming. The state of play was this: Justin Marks was scripting, David Goyer was producing, DC comics’ Green Arrow was the lead character and the plot would see him incarcerated in the tip-topper most high security prison in the DC universe, framed for a crime he didn’t commit....
Rosario Dawson Jumps On Tony Scott’s Runaway Train Movie Unstoppable By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2009 3:00 am EST Screenwriter Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard, Deception, Race to Witch Mountain)’s script is loosely inspired by true events, and tells the story of an experienced engineer (Washington) who finds himself teaming up with a young conductor (Pine) in a race against time, with a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals....
Sundance Movie Review: Choke By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2008 12:33 pm EST I liked the last two Harry Potter films more than people who hadn’t read the books. I’ve also noticed that the only people that seemed to like The Da Vinci Code were those who had read the Dan Brown books. Is it because they were hardcore fans with too much time invested, or is it that they could fill in all the wonderful blanks which were cut to take the story to screen?...
The Buzz: 300 Is A Stale Bloody Spectacle By Peter Sciretta/March 8, 2007 11:04 pm EST 300 Director: Zack SnyderStarring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan, Michael Fassbender, Tom Wisdom, and Andrew PleavinRunning Time: 116 minutesMPAA Rating: R for graphic battle sequences throughout, some sexuality and nudityBuzz Rating: 5 out of 10 The Good: “Look, but don’t be touched: There is much to see but little to remember in this telling of a battle we are meant never to forget....
The Dark Knight International Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 13, 2007 7:06 pm EST Collider has a look at the new international movie poster for the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight. I agree with Frosty, this one is much better than that “Why So Serious” viral movie poster (what was the point anyway?). The first six minutes of the film are attached to IMAX versions of I Am Legend, which hits theaters tomorrow....
The First Five Minutes Of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2010 5:00 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released the first five minutes of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones online. I had a chance to see this film at the Butt-num-a-thon, and was actually quite shocked at how terrible it is. It’s a complete mess with a few moments of brilliance. However, you won’t notice this in the first five minutes, before Peter Jackson takes us to “heaven”, the in-between, or whatever you want to call it....
Transformers 2 Shooting At University Of Pennsylvania By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2008 5:18 pm EST /Film reader S. McGruff informs us that Michael Bay will be filming sequences for Transformers 2 at the University of Pennsylvania: I’ve been reading for a couple months and love the site. Not sure if this is newsworthy but you can decide. I’m a student at the University of Pennsylvania and a few of my friends involved in student government told me that Transformers 2 will be shooting on campus in one of the nicer fraternities this summer....
TV: Jason Schwartzman In HBO’s Bored To Death / Tim Roth In Fox’s Lie To Me By Hunter Stephenson/July 1, 2008 10:00 am EST HBO also has the series, Hung, in development from creator/director Alexander Payne and weeks ago I took a look at the pilot script for Cocaine Cowboys, the rumored series for HBO from Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay. via Hollywood Reporter / Buzz Sugar As long as Lie to Me isn’t peppered with computer-generated eyeball schematics of various suspects in the vein of Robocop, we’ll check it out....
Two New Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie Posters By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2008 11:45 pm EST Warner Bros and Lucasfilm have released two new posters for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The first emulates the design of Struzan’s classic posters while using the new school computer animated stylized characters. On the front lines of an intergalactic struggle between good and evil, fans young and old will join such favorite characters as Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padmé Amidala, along with brand-new heroes like Anakin’s padawan learner, Ahsoka....
Video Blog: The Oscars And The Future Of Batman Movies By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2009 12:45 am EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/batmanstevepart1.flv 400 300] Throughout the week I have super-geeky conversations with Steve from Collider, and we’ve decided to bring the conversations onto the site. In today’s video blog, we talk about Sunday night’s Academy Awards (for about four minutes) and then we have an in depth discussion about the future of the Batman franchise....
Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan Brought To Life In London By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2009 2:19 am EST To celebrate the UK release of Watchmen, Paramount Pictures (the international distributor) brought Dr Manhattan to life on London’s River Thames, rising above the murky depths to a height of over 70 feet. According to the press release, the spectacle was created using the world’s biggest water screen projector. The water screen, moored especially for this occasion in the middle of the Thames between the London Eye and The Shell Building, created an enormous vertical screen of water that extended to 72 feet in height and 100 feet across....
We Won! (Kinda) Comic-Con Moves Avatar Panel After Twilight Madness By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2009 11:26 am EST It appears that Comic-Con has listened to some of the worried conventioneers on Twitter and the blogs and has responded to the situation (kinda). They have moved the James Cameron’s Avatar panel to 3:00pm, and moved the Summit (aka New Moon) panel to 1:45pm. This will definitely allow more people to see the highly anticipated Avatar panel, as it is expected that most Twilighters will leave Hall H at the conclusion of the Summit panel (as occurred last year)....
2012: A New Doomsday For Hollywood By Peter Sciretta/May 16, 2007 12:18 am EST Now that the millennium has come and went, Hollywood is looking for the next big Doomsday date. And they have found it. December 21st 2012 is the last date on the ancient Mayan calendar. Many have theorized that the day is the last day before the end of the world. The Roman Catholic Saint Malachy predicted that the last Pope would arrive in 2012, inciting Judgment Day....
AFI’s Top 10 Movies Of 2007 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2007 5:55 pm EST Here are AFI’s Top 10 lists from the last six years:
Bryan Singer Circling Prisoners With Mark Wahlberg By Brendon Connelly/March 21, 2009 11:25 am EST Entertainment Weekly are reporting that Bryan Singer has become interested in directing Prisoners. The project first made news when Aaron Guzikowski’s hot spec script started doing the rounds with Mark Wahlberg attached to star. There’s been a whole hive-load of buzz about this one, and I can see why Singer would at least give it careful consideration, but is it really a package he should attach to?...
Cher As Catwoman? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2008 11:32 pm EST And The Dark Knight sequel gossip continues. Could Cher be in line to play Catwoman in the next Batman installment? The British newspaper The Telegraph is citing a “studio executive” source, claiming that Cher us “Nolan’s first choice” for the role. “He wants to her to portray her like a vamp in her twilight years,” says the Telegraph’s source. “The new Catwoman will be the absolute opposite of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry’s purring creations....
Cool Stuff: Alamo’s The Thing, Planet Of The Apes, The Car Movie Posters By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2008 2:09 am EST We’ve written about the Alamo Drafthouse’s limited edition movie posters in the past, and I even have a couple hanging proudly on my walls. Last week Mondo Tees released the first two posters commissioned for their Spring Big Screen Sci-Fi Classics series. The King Kong and 2001: A Space Odyssey posters sold out in record time after we posted them in Cool Stuff....
Cool Stuff: One Of A Kind Movie-Themed Vans Slip-Offs By Hunter Stephenson/April 28, 2008 12:00 am EST The choice footwear that unites many a geek, catch and wake-and-baker, the Vans Slip-Off ranks up there as the ideal shoe of summer. Artist Shauna Luedtke customizes the slip-offs (re: one of a kind) using waterproof acrylic paint and ink, and we’re digging the movie-themed ones shown on her site, Slipoffs.com, with her take on Bill Murray/The Life Aquatic (after the jump) and E....
