Video: LEGO Indiana Jones - The Video Game By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 29, 2008 11:59 am EST LucasArts’ Lego Indiana Jones: The Video Game is scheduled to hit store shelves in June. The game recreates moments from the first three Indiana Jones films with a bit of humor, in the same style of the LEGO Star Wars game series. To get excited we have found three minutes of game footage for you to watch....
Whiplash Concept Art From Iron Man 2? By Brendon Connelly/May 18, 2009 2:37 pm EST I’m posting this because I sincerely believe what we have here is bona fide. Latino Review have today received via e-mail an image that they were told is concept art from Iron Man 2. I’ve posted a bit of it up above, alongside the picture of Mickey Rourke who will be playing the character in the movie, and you can also get a look at the full thing below the break....
Will Smith Is NOT Captain America By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2008 10:09 pm EST Yesterday, Derek Luke was quoted as saying that he heard that Will Smith was offered the role of Captain America by Marvel Entertainment. Thankfully, AICN quickly debunked this report. Marvel claims that they never entertained Smith as a choice, never mind had a conversation or approached Smith for the role. So now that the rumor is officially killed, who do you want Marvel to cast as the Cap?...
24 Movie DELAYED Until End Of Series? By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2007 12:26 pm EST No reason was given. My best guess is that this would give the team more than a couple months to work on the feature film. “The script has been written but it’s on hold until the show comes off air,” confirms screenwriter Evan Katz.
300 Scribe Hired To Write EverQuest Movie By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 7, 2007 9:04 pm EST Sony has hired 300 screenwriter Michael Gordon to pen an adaptation of the popular online role-playing game EverQuest. Former Marvel Studios head Avi Arad is producing the flick for Columbia Pictures. Released on March 16, 1999, EverQuest became the most popular massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) before World of Warcraft took over the universe. At its peak, EverQuest had more than 450,000 paying subscribers....
A Christmas Carol Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2009 9:15 am EST Disney has released a second movie trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ performance capture adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Watch it now after the jump, and please leave your thoughts in the comments below. The film is being billed as “a multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis,” capturing “the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3D motion picture event....
Ben Affleck Joins Mike Judge’s Extract By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2008 11:11 pm EST And no, Affleck is not playing the gigolo. Collins plays a factory worker who loses a body part in a freak accident, and is now looking fo a financial settlement. Affleck will be playing an ambulance-chasing lawyer, who one must assume will be helping Collins’ character with the lawsuit. The project is scheduled to begin production on Monday in Los Angeles....
Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day Red Band Trailer By Russ Fischer/Sept. 2, 2009 11:55 am EST UPDATE: You might not have looked closely at the logos at the end of the trailer, but Anne Thompson reports that the new company Apparition has picked up the film for distribution. That’s how you’ll see it (or not) on October 30. Please, spend a few moments considering that the same company is releasing this, Black Dynamite and new movies from Jane Campion and Terrence Malick....
Casting Notes: Donald Trump Cameos In Wall Street 2; Jeremy Piven And Kate Walsh Go To Canada By Russ Fischer/Nov. 30, 2009 12:50 pm EST Quick, who’s the most obvious cameo to have in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps? I guess I’ve already given it away right there in the headline, but you should have had the answer anyway: Donald Trump. The cameo is so on the nose that I would have disbelieved it if I only read the account from the UK’s Daily Mail tabloid....
Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 18, 2008 1:14 am EST Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has described his directorial debut Synecdoche, New York as his version of a horror movie. It’s a film about death, and man’s fear of mortality. I had the chance to se the film in Toronto, and I’m still unsure of what I saw. It is either brilliant or completely insane. It’s the type of movie that requires repeat viewings to understand the many layers of complexity....
Comcast Buys NBC Universal By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2009 10:30 am EST For weeks, there have been big rumblings about a potential buyout of NBC Universal by the cable company you love to hate: Comcast. A deal was consummated today, though it remains pending regulatory approval. The deal is ridiculously convoluted. Appropriately, perhaps, it’s the sort of thing you’d expect to hear Jack Donaghy and Devon Banks arguing out on 30 Rock....
Cool Stuff: Michele Rosenthal’s The Breakfast Club Art Print By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2010 12:00 pm EST “They only met once, but it changed their lives forever.” Michele Rosenthal’s “The Breakfast Club” art print is a tribute to one of the greatest teen movies of all time. Available as a digital print on heavy paper, 11.5" x 7.5", signed by the artist on the reverse, for only $10. Check out the full digital painting in higher resolution, after the jump....
Crazies Director Breck Eisner’s Next Horror Remake? David Cronenberg’s Incredible The Brood By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 15, 2009 5:00 pm EST What the world needs now is another insta-forgettable remake of a bona fide horror classic like I need a stake through the heart. When the Crazies remake rolls out in the new year, I’m going to be crossing the fingers on both hands and hoping for it to be a corker....
Ed Helms Joins Central Intelligence By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2009 10:39 am EST Variety says that Ed Helms, fresh from his Hangover high (and from his deal to star in the Alexander Payne-produced office comedy Cedar Rapids) , is having a star vehicle developed for him at Universal. The studio has purchased a spec script called Central Intelligence by Ike Barinholtz and Dave Stassen. No director or other case members are yet attached, but the script hinges upon the interconnection of the intelligence community and…Facebook?...
Friday Box Office: American Gangster w/$16.5M, Headed For $47M! Bee Movie Targets $40M By Steve Mason/Nov. 3, 2007 9:59 am EST Two studios are currently calling for a finish in the high $40M’s, and I’m calling for a $47.7M weekend, but, $50M is possible. The 160-minute running time is a real handicap for Gangster. If an exhibitor has the movie on a single screen, they get 4 prime showtimes and one late show â€" for example 11:45a, 3:00p, 6:15p, 9:30p, 12:30a â€" and only the heartiest moviegoers tackle an epic like this at a midnight screening....
Get Smart Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 23, 2008 10:12 pm EST Worst trailer, ever. Get smart, trailer. What has happened to us as a people? Steve Carell is a genuinely funny dude. Anne Hathaway is such a babe she can make guys who chop down trees for a living enjoy a movie about the dying publishing industry, and almost cry. How do you eff this up? Why can’t Warner Bros....
Hostel: Part II Video Clip Revealed By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2007 3:23 pm EST The Hostel: Part II clip which was shown at the New York Comic Con is now online. Watch it below. [quicktime width=“320” height=“250”]http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/Hostel2.mov[/quicktime] Looks interesting, but I need to see more. The film follows three young American women who while studying art in Rome for the summer, are lured away to a Slovakian Hostel by a model from their class....
Is The Veronica Mars Movie Dead? By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2009 1:12 am EST Last we heard, Rob Thomas was preparing to pitch his treatment for a Veronica Mars big screen movie to executive producer Joel Silver and Warner Bros. So what’s the update? Do you really want to know? It doesn’t sound good… Thomas tells the New York Post that “while the pitch went well and I don’t think the movie’s dead, right now it’s looking depressing....
James Brown To Provide Own Singing Voice For Biopic, Wesley Snipes To Provide Talking Voice, Body And Face By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 26, 2009 1:20 pm EST Spike Lee has told MTV that he wants to use recordings of James Brown for the musical moments in his upcoming biopic of the late, great Godfather of Soul. Wesley Snipes, of whom Lee says “He’s my man”, will be left to just lip-sync and mimic the dance moves....
Kick-Ass Sequel Already Has A Title; Daniel Craig And Mark Wahlberg Were Considered For Big Daddy By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 17, 2009 5:16 pm EST Just some examples of the juicy stuff contained within this Kick-Ass tome: concept art for both the comic and the movie, interviews with the talent, candid e-mail exchanges between Millar and director Matthew Vaughn, and some little bits and pieces about versions of the story that we’ll never get to see....
