Cool Stuff: Watching The Watchmen Book By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2008 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Don’t get me wrong, this is not an art of the making of the movie – this is a unprecedented behind the scenes look at the making of the comic book. If you’re a fan of the graphic novel, I can’t stress enough how cool this is....
By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2009 9:52 am EST “American Empirical Pictures”* “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” – The Wellingtons “Heroes and Villains” – The Beach Boys “Fooba Wooba John” – Burl Ives “Boggis, Bunce, and Bean”* “Jimmy Squirrel and Co.”* “Love” – Nancy Adams “Buckeye Jim” – Burl Ives “High-Speed French Train”* “Whack-Bat Majorette”* “The Grey Goose” – Burl Ives “Bean’s Secret Cider Cellar”* “Une Petite Île” – Georges Delerue...
First Look: The Horde By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2008 5:00 pm EST I’ll admit, I don’t follow the foreign genre scene as much as I should, but hey, that’s why we have Devindra Hardawar. When I came across this photo for the french zombie film The Horde, I began to dig deeper. Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher’s The Horde could probably be described as Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead meets Die Hard meets The Shield....
Fool’s Gold Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2007 9:16 pm EST I takes a lot for me not to be interested in a treasure hunting movie, but Warner Bros’ new movie trailer has gotten me completely uninterested in the upcoming film Fool’s Gold. What happened to Kate Hudson? She had one incredible performance in Almost Famous, and has been uninteresting ever since. She’s is starting to become the new Jennifer Aniston....
Hellraiser Remake Finds Directors By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 16, 2007 11:38 am EST French filmmakers Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo have been brought on to write and direct a Hellraiser remake for Dimension Films. The French duo just made a film called Inside, which AintItCool calls “one of the goriest and unflinchingly intense horror films that screened at FANTASTIC FEST.” The filmmakers say they have the blessing of Clive Barker (who directed the original based on his acclaimed novella The Hellbound Heart) to reappropriate his story and also had a playful message to any horror fans that were ready to trash the idea of a remake, “No tears, please; it’s a waste of good remaking!...
High Resolution: A Nightmare On Elm Street And Jonah Hex By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2009 9:36 pm EST Warner Bros has sent us high resolution digital files of some of the new posters and photos which premiered last week during Comic-Con. After the jump you will find the poster for the big screen supernatural comic adaptation Jonah Hex, the teaser poster for Platinum Dunes’ A Nightmare on Elm Street and the first teaser photo of Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger....
Indiana Jones 4 Poster For Christmas; Trailer Delayed By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2007 5:51 pm EST George Lucas is wrong again (I must admit, that is fun to type). The Indiana Jones producer told press a few months back to expect the first teaser trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull before the end of the year. Well apparently Paramount is not ready to release a trailer, and will instead appease fans with the official teaser poster around Christmas (not the comic con exclusive teaser pictured right, but a new theatrical teaser poster)....
Larry Fessenden Directing US Remake Of The Orphanage By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 5, 2009 7:24 am EST The long threatened promised US remake of The Orphanage has found its director and, frankly, I couldn’t be happier. Larry Fessenden is the man, and as well as signing on to helm this picture through production, he’s already co-written the remake script with the original’s producer, Guillermo del Toro. This is very possibly not going to be a fashionable opinion but I see no reason why they won’t make a better film than J....
Marmaduke Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2010 9:00 pm EST Shanghai Noon/Failure to Launch director Tom Dey approached the film like “a John Hughes movie with dogs,” and the dog park is “like high school for dogs” filled with all the kinds of characterizations you might expect. The script “sees Marmaduke navigate a volatile Mutts vs. Pedigrees turf war, woo the purebred of his dreams and overcome a fall from grace....
Ratatouille Producer Brad Lewis To Direct Pixar Movie By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 30, 2007 7:50 pm EST Emmy winning visual effects producer turned Ratatouille producer Brad Lewis will soon become a Pixar director. “I’m going to direct my next film, but that hasn’t been announced yet so that isn’t something I can break for you today, but maybe Lasseter will talk about it.” Our friend Frosty at Collider was unsuccessful in his attempt to grill Lewis for more information, and when he questioned Toy Story director John Lasseter, he could only confirm the project:...
Seriously? Matrix Producer Wants To Make A $150m Biopic Of Islamic Prophet Muhammad By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2009 9:26 am EST It’s not every day I get to tag a /Film story with ‘Muhammad’. So I guess I should thank evident crackpot producer Barrie Osborne, one of the men behind The Matrix and Lord of the Rings, because he wants to make a giant film about Muhammad. Yes, that Muhammad — the founder and prophet of Islam....
Sex Swap Sci-Fi Story Cycler Coming To Cinemas By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 19, 2009 7:47 am EST Angryfilms have an obvious taste for projects with real clear hooks and bold high concepts and their latest acquisition is no different. Seemingly blending PMS metaphor with a little bit of Mr. Jekyll and Dr. Hyde, the Cycler novels introduce us to Jill, a typically fairly normal teenage girl, and Jack, the boy she metamorphoses into for four days of the month....
Sigourney Weaver Joins Greg Mottola’s Paul? By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2009 10:20 am EST Just when I thought the cast of the sci-fi buddy comedy Paul couldn’t get any better, word comes along from SDNN (via The Playlist) that the first lady of sci-fi has joined the cast of Superbad/Adventureland director Greg Mottola’s next film. That’s right…. Sigourney Weaver, who played Ripley in the Alien films, Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters series, Gwen DeMarco in the underrated Galaxy Quest and the ship’s computer in WALL-E....
Sundance Movie Review: The Killing Room By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2009 1:39 am EST So, you respond to a psychological research study advertisement in the classifieds and find yourself in a big white room with three other test subjects. In the middle of the room are metal chairs and tables, everything bolted to the ground. Small vents in the floor, bigger ones in the ceiling, and a two-way mirror glass observation window above....
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus Domestic Trailer By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2009 11:15 am EST Finally, there’s a US trailer for Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Which, to a lot of you will mean: finally, there’s a trailer that gives too much away and tries to hard to sell the movie as something it might not be. But that’s neither here nor there. In fact, it’s not a problem at all....
The Three Stooges: Paul Giamatti Joins, Jim Carrey Leaves? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 9, 2009 11:47 am EST In June, a gossip columnist suggested to the Farrelly Brothers that Paul Giamatti play Larry in The Three Stooges after Sean Penn backed out of the role due to family issues. Bobby Farrelly admitted to the paper that Giamatti would not only be “a sensational Larry,” but they’d “love to have Paul.” Unfortunately “an offer” has already been sent out “to someone else....
Three Films Added To 2010 Sundance Film Festival By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 21, 2009 1:32 pm EST The Sundance Institute announced today the addition of three world premieres which will screen out of competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival: It’s a Wonderful Afterlife: Bend it Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha and co-screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges return to Sundance with a comedy centered on an Indian mother who discovers that finding the perfect son-in-law can be murder....
Transformers Pirates Arrested By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2007 4:56 pm EST Oh My God, The Motion Picture Association of America actually caught some people pirating Transformers. The group announced today that five arrests were made for illegally recording Transformers in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and New York. I’ve always said we need to keep our eye out for those movie pirates in Georgia but no one listened to me. The arrests could lead to six months in jail and fines and civil penalties adding up to $10,000....
Two New Saw 4 Photos, One MAJOR Spoiler By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2007 2:02 pm EST Our friends at MoviesOnline.ca have posted a couple new photos from SAW 4. One of which is a HUGE spoiler, so don’t continue after the jump if you don’t want to know. Tobin Bell’s character Jigsaw died at the conclusion of SAW 3, and the opening clip of SAW 4 features the autopsy of Jigsaw where they find a tape inside his internal organs (watch that clip here), but the photo below shows Jigsaw alive....
Video: Optimus Prime Speaks By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2007 11:32 am EST I heard a few reports from ShoWest that when the Transformers robots talked, it looked rather strange. The new television ad below features a short clip of Optimus Prime speaking. And get this – he has a mouth. I’m not quite sure how I feel about this. It looks really odd and out of place. But I guess, how else would they have done it?...
