First 5 Minutes Of AVP-R; First 10 Minutes Of Walk Hard By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 11, 2007 3:35 pm EST Yahoo! Movies UK has the first five Minutes of Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem online for your viewing pleasure. It doesn’t take the full five minutes to realize that this film is a lot better than the crappy Paul W.S. Anderson film. It might actually be worth a trip to the movie theater....
For Your Consideration: Fan Created By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2008 1:41 pm EST These two fan-created “For Your Consideration” advertisements have been making their way around the Internet in support for Heath Ledger for Best Supporting Actor for The Dark Knight. For Your Consideration: Fan Created By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2008 1:41 pm EST These two fan-created “For Your Consideration” advertisements have been making their way around the Internet in support for Heath Ledger for Best Supporting Actor for The Dark Knight....
Gary Oldman Talks Heath Ledger’s Joker, The Riddler For Dark Knight Sequel By Hunter Stephenson/June 29, 2008 10:34 am EST Last night in L.A., select film sites including Slashfilm were shown The Dark Knight. The collective positive buzz seems to have only increased in the hours since, reaching frenzied levels that are arguably unprecedented (especially for Twitter). Over the weekend, Movie Hole spoke to Gary Oldman about Heath Ledger’s role as The Joker, and what he thinks will happen per villains for a third film....
Grindhouse Is Best Reviewed Wide Release Of 2007, So Far By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2007 9:15 am EST Movie critics love Grindhouse, the new double feature from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. At the time of this posting, the sum total of 84 reviews have given the film an 84% rating on the popular film site Rotten Tomatoes (85% from the cream of the crop). This makes Grindhouse the best reviewed American wide release this year so far....
Jake Kasdan To Direct Bad Teacher By Brendon Connelly/May 27, 2009 1:55 pm EST The Hollywood Reporter are reporting (from Hollywood, no less) that Jake Kasdan has signed on to direct Bad Teacher. The screenplay charted on the 2008 Blacklist and was penned by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, who also wrote the imminent Year One and are at work on the pending draft of Ghostbusters 3. The Bad Teacher screenplay revolves around Elizabeth Halsey, a teacher with a cussin’ problem (er… no comment) who ends up in a bitter rivalry with her squeaky-clean colleague Amy Squirrel....
James Cameron Announces Avatar Day: 15 Minutes Of 3D Avatar Free On August 21 By Devindra Hardawar/July 23, 2009 5:06 pm EST Towards the end of the Avatar panel at Comic-Con today, James Cameron dropped a bombshell: 15 minutes of the film will be screened in digital theaters for free across the globe on August 21. After viewing the Avatar footage, I think an event such as this will serve the film well—at least, much more so than a typical trailer and marketing campaign....
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs UK Movie Trailer By David Chen/Dec. 2, 2009 5:20 pm EST I’m an enormous fan of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (I even kind of liked parts of Alien: Resurrection. Kind of). So when I saw the teaser for his newest film, Micmacs A Tire-Larigot (or Micmacs to us Yanks), I was pretty psyched. The man hasn’t made a movie since 2004’s A Very Long Engagement, and even that film felt like watered-down Jeunet, showing only hints of the outlandish visuals, ultra-quirky characters, and greenish-orangish palette that are his trademark....
Listen To This: James Cameron’s Hour-Long WGA Interview On Screenwriting/Avatar By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2010 2:14 am EST Last month, after a screening of Avatar at the Writers Guild Theater for WGA members, James Cameron spoke with F. X. Feeney about his writing process throughout his career and in the creation of Avatar. I know a lot of people like to make the easy jokes, and write off Avatar for having an over-simplistic plot, but for anyone who really wants to delve deeper — you should really find time to listen to this one hour and ten minute interview/question & answer session....
LOL: Robosapien Rebooted Movie Poster And Plot Synopsis By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2009 6:06 pm EST Well, yes, the movie is still happening. Actually its in post production. Quiet Earth points us to the production company website for Crystal Sky, which just released a movie poster and plot synopsis for the film, Robosapien Rebooted: An inventor working for Kinetech Labs has designed a robot for search and rescue missions that has the ability to mimic human actions and emotions....
Michael Cera In Final Talks To Star In Scott Pilgrim’s Little Life For Director Edgar Wright By Hunter Stephenson/March 19, 2008 12:48 pm EST The photo above goes out to all the girls of the world who go nom nom nom for Michael Cera. This is a demographic that is growing exponentially. I even know a gal who left a guy to venture out in search of Juno’s lithe and witty impregnator....
Mike Newell Gets Offer To Direct Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 7, 2007 10:36 pm EST Disney is interested in hiring Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire helmer Mike Newell to direct a big screen live-action adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. According to Variety, Super Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has made an offer to Newell, who met with studio executives about the project this week....
More Sicko Photos By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2007 5:23 pm EST Last week we showed you a couple photos and the poster art for Michael Moore’s Sicko. Now we bring you a few more images from the film. Check them out after the jump (along with the previous images). I would like to reiterate my previous statement: Moore is actively seen in a bunch of these photos. Let’s hope that the film includes more of the controversial filmmaker in front of the camera (something that was lacking in F 9/11)....
Must Watch Interview: Up In The Air’s Jason Reitman On The Telluride Gondola By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2009 8:20 am EST While at the Telluride Film Festival, I had the chance to talk to Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman about his new, and much buzzed about film, Up in the Air. I conducted the interview in conjunction with my friend Alex from FirstShowing, filmed “up in the air,” (get it?) in a gondola traveling up and down the mountains of Telluride Colorado....
Sex And The City Earns 3.5 IMDb User Rating By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2008 8:54 pm EST I’ve always found the Internet Movie Database user ratings to be a pretty accurate indication of film quality. At least more so than film critic rating websites (Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic). I know it’s a bit early, but the IMDb user rating for Sex and the City is currently: 3.5 out of 10 with over 1,875 votes!...
Soderbergh To Direct “Liberace” Biopic, Michael Douglas To Play Lead By David Chen/Sept. 11, 2008 6:17 am EST Steven Soderbergh’s career has always been incredibly diverse, ranging from the audacious Sex, Lies, and Videotape to the fluffy Ocean’s trilogy. Now comes word from Variety that Soderbergh is helming a biopic based on pianist Liberace’s life, a film still in early stages of development. Soderbergh wants Michael Douglas for the lead role, while Matt Damon is in discussions to play Scott Thorson, who claimed to be Liberace’s live-in boyfriend and sued him for $113 million in palimony....
Spanish Movie Trailer: A(nother) Herald Of The End Times By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2009 1:59 pm EST Never, ever make the mistake of thinking that the US has a lock on shitty, terrible ‘parody’ comedy films. There’s an argument to be made that we’re not even close to the worst offender when it comes to making quick-buck films like Date Movie and Epic Movie. As proof, here’s the trailer for Spanish Movie, a film produced in Spain that pokes fun at a broad swath of globally-recognizable Spanish-language films....
Steven Spielberg And Peter Jackson To Co-Direct Third TinTin Movie? By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2008 5:44 pm EST Steven Spielberg has confirmed that the current plan is to co-direct the third TinTin movie with Peter Jackson. “We are going to make three Tintin movies back-to-back. I’ll direct the first one, Peter will direct the second one. We’ll probably co-direct the third one.” The first movie in the performance capture series is scheduled to begin production in September with Speilberg in the directors chair....
Sundance Movie Review: The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2009 10:03 am EST The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle is by far the strangest film I’ve seen this year at the Sundance Film Festival. After he quits his high paying computer job, Dory (Marshall Allman) is forced to take a night janitor job to pay the rent. He joins the group of misfits who clean office buildings during the night time hours....
Valentine’s Day Movie Trailer By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 20, 2009 5:52 am EST Perhaps the least surprising thing about the new trailer for Valentine’s Day is the final card that tells us the film will be released in February. That’s going some, though, because there’s absolutely nothing in the whole thing that will catch you off guard in any way. Judge for yourself, because we have it embedded below the break....
VOTD: Watch William Shatner Watch JJ Abrams’ Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/May 1, 2009 12:00 am EST Believe it or not, William Shatner still hasn’t seen the movie trailer for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek, until now. Billy Bush of Access Hollywood screened the trailer for Shatner, and a video has been posted online of Shatner’s reaction. Shatner uses the opportunity to take some shots at former co-star and rival George Takei and to plug one of his previous Trek novels....
