Cool Stuff: Super High Resolution WALL-E Photos By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2008 2:40 pm EST One of the cool things that press gets access to is super high resolution images, presumably for use in print publications. I know what you’re thinking, ‘That doesn’t exactly sound that cool’. And most of the time you would be right. Zooming in on a zit on the end of a famous actresses nostril is only fun for like five seconds....
Cool Stuff: The Trilogy Meter By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2009 6:00 am EST Dan Meth has created something he calls “The Trilogy Meter”, a graphical representation of the enjoyment level of some of the most notable movies in film history. I can’t say I agree with all the measurements (Die Hard 2 is much too high and Temple of Doom should be one or two steps lower than Last Crusade), but I think the idea is pretty cool....
David Russo To Direct Blue Man Group 3D IMAX Movie By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2009 10:52 pm EST Seattle-based short film and commercial filmmaker David Russo (director of the Sundance film The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle) has been hired to direct a Blue Man Group movie, which will be distributed in IMAX 3D. The film is not just a recording of the group’s stage performance, and will actually be a fictional story scripted by Lisa Robinson....
Doug Liman’s Go For Free On Hulu By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 12, 2008 4:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You can now watch Go for free on Hulu. Before Doug Liman launched the Bourne Franchise, he directed two wonderful indie films — Swingers and Go. Swingers launched the career of Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, but Go went virtually under the radar, despite being a really cool film....
Flixster’s Movies 3.0 iPhone App To Converge Your Moviegoing With Ticket Purchasing And Netflix Support By Devindra Hardawar/Aug. 26, 2009 12:07 pm EST Today Flixster launched version 3.0 of their popular iPhone application, Movies, bringing with it some very intriguing updates. Most interesting to me is the addition of Netflix support. You can now manage all of your Netflix queues through the application with an interface that surpasses many dedicated Netflix apps I’ve seen....
Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2009 9:37 pm EST The movie trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro is now online. Coppola’s second film in the last 12 years, his first original screenplay since The Conversation, and is the movie is being billed as his most personal film yet. Based from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional, Tetro is the “bittersweet story of two brothers, of family lost and found and the conflicts and secrets within a highly creative Argentine-Italian family....
By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 13, 2007 2:48 am EST Hollywood and Theater owners are betting on Digital 3D to save the declining in-theater business. And with the biggest release in digital 3D on the horizon (more on Beowulf later), all the buzz seems to be on this new technology. Dreamworks Animation has vowed to release all of its computer animated films in 3D starting in 2009. Studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg predicts 12-18 3D movies per year in 2010....
Iron Man NOT Coming Early By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2008 1:35 am EST When Andrew Cripps, President of Paramount Pictures International, announced at Showest that Iron Man would be released Day-and-Date internationally on April 30, rumors started to circulate that the domestic release would be moved up two days. Well apparently that is just wishful thinking. Paramount has issued the following statement: The domestic release date of Iron Man has NOT changed and remains May 2, 2008....
Is Avatar 2 Gearing Up For Pre-Production? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2010 8:29 pm EST
Knocked Up Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2007 6:24 pm EST We got the chance to see Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up about a week ago. And while we’re not able to post a review until the date of release, let me say that said review will not be negative. I actually haven’t heard a negative thing about this film. Everyone loves it, guys, girls, even aliens (editors note: fact unsubstantiated)....
Netflix Trying To Make Peace With Wary Studios For More Streaming Content By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 30, 2009 12:02 am EST Things are looking tough for Netflix. The online rental service is trying to convince Hollywood studios to sell them the rights to more video content for their “Watch Instantly” streaming offering, but many studios still seem to be mad about Netflix’s deal with Starz last year. The Starz deal, which in one fell swoop added around 2,500 titles for streaming, allowed Netflix to gain access to newer Disney and Sony movies without asking for permission from the studios....
New Ratatouille Movie Trailer And Photo Still Revealed By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2007 12:05 am EST We didn’t post this last week when it leaked on to YouTube, but now that the official Japanese Ratatouille Movie Trailer is now live on Disney.co.jp in Quicktime, what’s to stop us? And we also have a new unreleased Ratatouille photo still and updated plot synopsis. Click on the still above for a VERY VERY high resolution version....
Rumor: Spider-Man 4 And Spider-Man 5 To Film Back-To-Back By Hunter Stephenson/May 16, 2008 11:55 am EST Today, a scoop is circulating via Cinematical that possibly spells the fate of the lucrative Spider-Man franchise. It was already known that screenwriter James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, The Rundown) was working on the script for Spider-Man 4, but apparently he’s turned in a draft to Sony/Columbia that allows a Spider-Man 5 to be shot simultaneously....
See A Clip From Lo-Fi Woody Harrelson Superhero Movie Defendor By Russ Fischer/Aug. 21, 2009 9:34 am EST Twitch has a short clip from the odd-looking superhero movie Defendor, starring Woody Harrelson and Kat Dennings. We’ve already run some photos, which got me interested in the film immediately, and this clip looks great. Check it out after the break. The film, which will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is written and directed by Peter Stebbings and also features Sandra Oh and one of my favorite actors, Elias Koteas....
Studio Ghibli’s Next Film A New Adaptation Of The Borrowers By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 16, 2009 6:48 am EST Mary Norton’s series of books about The Borrowers, a family of miniature people that live beneath the floorboards of a human family’s house, have already inspired a number of adaptations. The only American versions I know of are a 1970s TV movie and a late 90’s England-US co-production directed by the once undervalued, lately derailed English director Peter Hewitt....
Sundance Movie Review: Incendiary By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2008 7:36 pm EST I caught the press screening of Incendiary yesterday, but I’m now reassessing the film through a whole new depressing angle. The film stars Michelle Williams as a mother who loses her husband and 4-year-old son in a suicide bombing at a North London Soccer game. Williams’ was not at the game because she was off having an affair with a man played by Ewan McGregor....
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day Comic-Con Details By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2009 6:11 pm EST Sony Pictures has announced the details of The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day panel at 2009 San Diego Comic Con International. The trailer for the much anticipated sequel to the 1999 cult classic film The Boondock Saints will premiere during the panel on Saturday, July 25th at 3:30pm. Talent in attendance for the panel includes:...
By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 17, 2009 4:00 pm EST If you’re like me, or Adrian Mole, and have fallen profoundly in love with Pandora, here’s a whole heap of good news for you. As well as the possible Avatar sequels, James Cameron has now revealed that there’s a full slate of ’expanded universe’ fictions coming our way. Comic books seem like a natural progression for such a visually resonant mythos and Cameron says, sure enough, we can expect some to come along....
The Lovely Bones Delayed? By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2008 1:49 pm EST Yesterday word leaked onto the interwebs that Peter Jackson and one of his art directors have been supposedly duking it out over the depiction of heaven in The Lovely Bones. The film tells the story of a 14-year-old girl, raped, murdered, and dismembered by a neighbor, who watches from a personalized heaven as her family and friends deal with their grief....
Tokyo Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2008 12:51 pm EST TwitchFilm has the first movie trailer for Tôkyô!, the upcoming three part anthology project,a triptych film in the same tradition of New York Stories or Paris, je t’aime, from directors Bong Joon Ho (The Host), Leos Carax (Bad Blood) and Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine). Each director tells an odd little story set in Japan’s capitol. Michel Gondry’s 30-minute segment is titled “Interior Design”....
