Roger Ebert: Little Miss Sunshine’s Academy Awards Upset By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2007 5:29 am EST Super Movie Critic and my personal hero Roger Ebert claims that Little Miss Sunshine may cause an upset at this year’s Oscars. Ebert has been pretty spot on with his Academy Award predictions in the past. Last year he was only wrong once out of all the major categories (he chose Amy Adams over Rachel Weisz)....
Shrek Forever After Trailer And Poster By Russ Fischer/Dec. 17, 2009 1:07 pm EST So, there’s a fourth Shrek movie. After Shrek 3, that might not be a good thing. Appropriately, there is also now a trailer and a poster for the fourth Shrek movie. Shrek Forever After, announced as the final episode of the series, will massacre your eyeballs with 3D CGI goodness. Oh, wait. No. That’s Avatar. This is a weird fantasyland remake of It’s a Wonderful Life, with fart and fat jokes....
Six New Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix Character Posters By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2007 12:20 pm EST Yesterday we posted a couple of these, but now Warner Bros has sent us the full line of the six new Character posters for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Check them all out after the jump. Be warned: We don’t have high resolution versions. Six New Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix Character Posters...
The Buzz: The Host Is A Thrilling Thinking-Person’s Monster Movie By Peter Sciretta/March 8, 2007 11:12 pm EST The Host Director: Bong Joon-HoStarring: Song Kang-ho, Scott Wilson, Byun Hee-Bong, Park Hae-il, and Bae DoonaRunning Time: 119 minutesMPAA Rating: R for creature violence and languageBuzz Rating: 9 out of 10 The Good: “A thrilling ride and a sometimes dry, sometimes sweet comedy, but beneath all that is a humane and tragic view of life worthy of the greatest films....
The Dark Knight: Third Highest Advance Ticket Sales Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2008 7:00 am EST The advance ticket sales of The Dark Knight continues to point to a huge opening weekend at the box office. The Christopher Nolan comic book sequel is currently outselling three of the Top-10 Performing Films of All-Time at the same point in the sales cycle. According to MovieTickets.com, The Dark Knight has sold out over 150 performances in Los Angeles and New York alone....
The Dark Knight Pumpkin Begins To Rot By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 25, 2007 5:18 pm EST Earlier this month The Dark Knight viral website WhySoSerious.com was updated with a jack-o-lantern. The pumpkin had a huge bat symbol grin, an image reminiscent of the popular Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale graphic novel The Long Halloween. We wondered if there be a Dark Knight treat in store for us on Halloween. A couple days later our friends at Screenrant noticed that the candle in the pumpkin was burning down (photo right)....
The Wackness Movie Trailer #3 By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2008 8:45 pm EST When I first saw The Wackness in January at Sundance, I proclaimed that it was one of my favorite films of the year so far. It’s very easy to make such claims in the first couple weeks of a new year, especially when you’re in Park City. I’ve seen the film now four times, in three different states....
Third Photo Of Angelina Jolie In Salt By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2009 6:17 pm EST Yesterday, Columbia Pictures released the first two photos of Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt in Phillip Noyce’s thriller Salt. But the photos weren’t much to look at, just Jolie wearing different color wigs. Today the good folks at Columbia Picture have sent me a third (better) photo of Jolie as Salt. Click on the image above to enlarge....
Video Clip From Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 21, 2008 12:58 pm EST I just scored a video clip from Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me follow-up, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden. The video clip features Spurlock visiting a reality based personal protection training center where they teach him how to survive everything from hand grenade attacks to sniper attacks in preparation of his journey to find Osama....
Wolfgang Peterson To Direct Live-Action Film Of Paprika? By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 11, 2009 5:12 am EST Previously adapted into a truly splendid feature by anime master Satoshi Kon, Yasutaka Tsutsui’s serialized novel Paprika seems set for the big screen again. This time round, we can expect a live action adaptation by Wolfgang Peterson, the perpetrator of Air Force One and Outbreak. The novel’s story is a chase mystery revolving around a new technology that allows people to enter one another’s dreams, so there’s little wonder that Moviehole (via Firstshowing) invoke the director’s NeverEnding Story in their rumor-starting piece....
37 New High Resolution Photos From Christopher Nolan’s Inception By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 30, 2009 3:00 am EST When the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s new film Inception began to screen attached to early press screenings of Sherlock Holmes, movie bloggers around the internet (including our own David Chen) attempted, from memory, to recall the imagery from the new teaser. It wasn’t an easy task considering all the craziness that happens in the new trailer, which yes, was released online earlier this week (see it here)....
Babel Star Adriana Barraza Joins Thor By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2010 8:23 pm EST Adriana Barraza, who was nominated for an Oscar for her supporting performance in 2006’s Babel, is in talks to join the cast of Marvel Studios’ Thor. Heat Vision doesn’t have much information, only that she will be playing one of the human characters on Earth. After the jump, we have a look at the announced cast thus far....
Bad Movies: Next Weekend At Bernies By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2007 5:44 am EST I never thought I’d see this day, even in the age of horribly direct-to-DVD sequels and remakes, that they would make another Weekend at Bernies movie. The original was a late 1980’s cheese comedy classic which stared Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as a couple of young executives who must create the illusion that their murdered boss, Bernie Lomax, is alive in order to avoid being questioned about it....
Contest: After The Wedding On DVD By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2007 12:01 am EST After The Wedding hit DVD store shelves on July 10th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film readers. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On July 17th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....
Cool Stuff: Hot Toys Lt. Aldo Raine Collectible Figure By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2010 9:00 am EST Hot Toys has announced they will be released a 1/6th scale Lt. Aldo Raine Collectible Figure from Quentin Tarainto’s Inglourious Basterds. More information, and tons of photos, after the jump. Hot Toys – MMS118: Inglourious Basterds: 1/6th scale Lt. Aldo Raine Collectible Figure ~ Movie Masterpiece Series ~ Hot Toys is delighted to present the 1/6th scale Lt....
Cool Stuff: Steampunk Stormtrooper Helmet, Boba Fett, And Princess Leia By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2010 6:00 am EST Brian Rood decided to create a Steampunk-variation of the classic Star Wars Stormtrooper helmet. What is Steampunk you say? According to wikipedia, Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used-usually the 19th century. The stories are often set in Victorian era England-but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H....
Directors Guild Of America Nominations By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 9, 2008 2:40 am EST Today the Directors Guild of America announced their annual list of nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. If you’re leaving Earth before the Academy reveals their noms for Best Picture, it’s a safe bet that four of the five films below will make the cut. But really, why not wait it out and enjoy some American Gladiators? Especially since this year’s list might be off by two, or three....
Four Photos From The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus By Brendon Connelly/May 6, 2009 2:54 pm EST Three new stills and one behind the scenes image to promote Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus have appeared on DVD Forum. You’ll be able to marvel over them all below the break. Parnassus is being described in the same few terms over and over again. It was Heath Ledger’s final film, and after his death, Terry Gilliam turned to Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell to complete the picture by stepping in and filling in for Ledger, playing his character in a series of fantasy sequences....
By Russ Fischer/Oct. 9, 2009 3:46 pm EST If you’d told me during the series’ heyday that it might have an animated series on a major network, I would have laughed. Just like I’m laughing (gleefully) now. According to long-time Bagge publisher Fantagraphics (by way of MTV) the prime-time series would take place before the events of Hate. We’d see teenage Buddy Bradley living at home. I haven’t read the series The Bradleys but knowing Hate and Neat Stuff I’d expect arguments, drinking, sullen depression, angst-ridden rage and a savvy, grousing awareness of music and books....
By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2008 12:52 pm EST I’m in line to see the new Morgan Spurlock movie, than after I will be off to interview Chuck Palahnuik. So please check back for that interview later tonight or tomorrow. Official Plot Synopsis: Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg shows he is as adept behind the camera as in front of it with CHOKE, a wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks....
