Is Pixar’s Up A Retelling Of Don Quixote? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2007 4:45 pm EST Rumor has it that the upcoming 2009 Pixar animated film Up is somewhat a re-telling of the classic Don Quixote fable. For almost 60 years now the Walt Disney Company has been trying to turn Don Quixote into an animated feature film, but without success. The episodic nature of the fable is often cited as the major sticking point....
JJ Abrams’ Cloverfield Director And Writer Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2007 5:26 pm EST Okay, we have a little more information about the JJ Abrams produced top-secret monster movie which is being referred to as Cloverfield. We’re being told that this is just a deceptive production title, and the movie’s real title will be something different. But don’t expect to see any title on the film’s teaser trailer which is attached to Transformers....
Kevin Smith Talks Reaper By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2007 6:14 am EST Two days ago we reported that Clerks writer/director Kevin Smith would be directing a television pilot for the CW. Well now we have new details, direct from Smith himself. “Would’ve said something here first, but there wasn’t supposed to be something said at all yet, as my deal’s not closed,” Smith said of the /Film story that revealed the news....
MPAA To Create Hard-R Rating? By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2007 5:20 am EST This week at ShoWest in Las Vegas, MPAA chairman Dan Glickman will try to convince movie theater owners that a new Hard-R movie rating is needed. A quick history according to Wikipedia: In the early years of the ratings system, X-rated movies such as Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange, and Last Tango in Paris, could win Oscar nominations and awards....
Rob Zombie Wants To Break Away From Horror, Hopes Tyrannosaurus Rex Will Be Next Film By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 25, 2009 5:00 am EST With four horror pictures under his belt, Rob Zombie is starting to feel that audiences may be pigeonholing him somewhat. Though he’s currently on tour and has a new album out at the beginning of February, he’s obviously already at work on his potential next projects and is hoping to mount something to break our preconceptions of him a little....
Robert Rodat, Writer Of Saving Private Ryan And The Patriot, To Adapt Foundation For Emmerich By David Chen/July 25, 2009 1:41 pm EST I sat down for a fun interview with director Roland Emmerich today, here at San Diego Comic-Con to promote 2012 in theaters (November 13. 2009). The full video interview will be up soon, but during the interview, I asked Emmerich about his work on Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. Foundation fans will recall that not too long ago, Columbia won the rights for the trilogy of books with Emmerich attached to direct, which (as I wrote back in January), “centers around a mathematician named Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian who is able to predict large-scale events using scientific principles....
Russell Brand To Remake Drop Dead Fred By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2009 10:32 pm EST Universal Pictures has announced that they are developing a remake of Drop Dead Fred for Russell Brand to star in. Saturday Night Live writer Dennis McNicholas has been hired to develop the project for Brand. McNicholas most recently wrote Land of the Lost for Will Ferrell and director Brad Silberling. THR says the plan is to remake the movie in the tone of Beetlejuice, “building a universe around the concept of imaginary friends....
Sexman Reviews 10,000 B.C. By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2008 11:29 pm EST /Film reviewer Zach Lawrence might not have loved 10,000 B.C., but the 12-year-old video blogger/movie reviewer/internet phenom Sexman has returned with a new haircut, giving the movie 4 out of 5 stars (calling it “a pretty good film”). Sexman criticizes it for their not being “enough gore” or action, but praises the unexpected humor and the plot. “But if you have a girlfriend and stuff, you should take her to this....
Sundance: Fido Movie Review By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2007 7:00 am EST Following the great Zombie war (which I’m sure will be chronicled in World War Z), people now live in gated communities outside the “wild zone,” an area where Zombies roam free. Thanks to a ZomCor (motto: “Better Life Through Containment”) most everyone now owns at least one collar controlled servant Zombie. Until now, everyone except the Robinson family.Young Timmy Robinson (K’Sun Ray) makes friends with Fido (Billy Connolly), who attacks the next-door neighbor, and things spiral out of control....
Sundance Video Blog Review: Joel Schumacher’s Twelve By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2010 7:00 am EST Earlier today I saw a screening of Joel Schumacher’s Twelve, which stars Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, 50 Cent, Ellen Barkin and Rory Culkin. Twelve takes place in a similar world as Gossip Girl, focusing mostly on super rich upper east side New Yorkers. “A new drama chronicling of the highs and lows of privileged kids on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, in a tale that involves sex, drugs and murder....
The /Filmcast Interview: Director Kathryn Bigelow And Writer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) By David Chen/June 26, 2009 10:03 am EST The /Filmcast Interview is a series of conversations with actors, directors, and other key figures from the entertainment industry. In this episode, David Chen speaks with writer Mark Boal and legendary director Kathryn Bigelow about the process of creating their exciting new film, The Hurt Locker. From the film’s production notes: “The Hurt Locker is a riveting suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military’s unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives in one of the world’s most dangerous places....
The Day The Earth Stood Still Movie Trailer On Hancock By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2008 11:33 pm EST I have just confirmed that the movie trailer for Scott Derrickson’s The Day the Earth Stood Still remake will be attached to prints of Hancock, which hits theaters next week. The contemporary re-imagining of the 1951 science fiction classic stars Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval....
The Hangover For Best Picture? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 22, 2009 11:00 pm EST Our friends at FirstShowing noticed something funny while browsing the Hollywood trade newspaper Variety tonight: an advertisement, seemingly aimed at Academy voters, for the Todd Phillips comedy The Hangover, with the text “For Your Consideration: All Categories” followed by larger and more glitzy Vegas-like text that reads “Best Picture”. This is the first year that the Academy will nominate ten movies for best picture, double that of previous years....
Toy Story 3 Teaser Trailer Description By Peter Sciretta/May 25, 2009 1:35 am EST /Film reader Wagner has officially confirmed that a Toy Story 3 teaser trailer is attached to Pixar’s Up, and sent along a short description: “It is confirmed.” … “Toy Story 3 teaser trailer is attached. Unfortunately like i said it is a teaser. It only shows the original characters building a Toy Story 3 sign led by Woody pretty funny....
VOTD: Cut/Slide Montage By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2009 10:25 pm EST James McTeigue’s upcoming film Ninja Assassin has a lot of awesome bloody Cut/Slide action. And by “Cut/Slide,” I’m referring to a moment in an action scene when a blade (or wire) slices through a person (or many people) at a ninja-like speed, leaving pieces of body parts to slowly slide apart from each other, usually while the person is still visibly conscious....
Warner Bros Wins Jonathan Liebesman’s Odysseus: “300 Meets Taken” By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2009 1:19 am EST Late last week, Warner Bros won a bidding war against Paramount Pictures to gain the rights to Jonathan Liebesman’s Odysseus, a retelling of the story of the legendary Greek King and hero of Homer’s epic poem, the Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan Wars for 20 years, Odysseus returned home to find his kingdom under the brutal occupation....
Which Former 24 Cast Member Will Return For Season Eight? By David Chen/Nov. 1, 2009 10:15 pm EST With a new location, a new hot FBI agent, and a relatively interesting twist on the anti-terror conflict, I actually thought 24: Season 7 was pretty kickass. Certainly, it helped to revive a show whose sixth season was absurdly terrible, and the fact that they actually made the initially laughable Zombie Tony storyline work is a great credit to 24’s creators....
66 High Resolution Photos From Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2010 1:11 pm EST How awesome was the teaser trailer for Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World? I know I’ve watched it at least six times now. I’m surprised at how many cool visuals Edgar and Universal were able to cram into under 90 seconds. There is certainly a lot of cool visuals which are worth pressing the pause button to examine at length....
Animation Clips: Trailer For Gorgeous Short Film Urs; Wallace & Gromit Hit DVD By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2009 12:00 pm EST I’m a sucker for the animation of Nick Park. Though it was good to see him working in features, I think that Wallace and Gromit are much better off anchoring short films. Park’s most recent short with the man and dog pair, his first film project with the characters since 2005’s Curse of the Were-Rabbit and their first new short since 1995(!...
Clerks And Chasing Amy On Blu-Ray In November By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2009 3:51 pm EST Kevin Smith has confirmed that two of his most popular and critically acclaimed films Clerks and Chasing Amy will be released on Blu-Ray in November 2009 with a few new surprises. Smith revealed the news on Twitter, where the filmmaker is nearing almost 1,000,000 followers. The Clerks release will be the same exact contents of the the tenth anniversary DVD release Clerks X, plus a never before released documentary that fans have waited over five years for....
