Video Tour: $35 Ticket Movie Theater By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 2, 2008 1:03 pm EST Earlier this year, we asked you if you would spend $35 on a movie ticket. We told you that Village Roadshow Gold Class Cinema would be opening a bunch of 40-seat-maximum premium movie theaters with a high-end atmosphere, with food or alcohol purchases not included in the $35 ticket price (They say to expect to spend an additional $120 for food and drinks)....
Warner Bros Goes 100% Blu-Ray By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 2008 3:07 pm EST Warner Bros has announced that they will release High Definition titles exclusively on Blu-Ray. “A two-format landscape has led to consumer confusion and indifference toward high definition, which has kept the technology from reaching mass adoption and becoming the important revenue stream that it can be for the industry,” said Kevin Tsujihara. “Consumers have clearly chosen Blu-ray, and we believe that recognizing this preference is the right step in making this great home entertainment experience accessible to the widest possible audience....
Why Or Why Didn’t The HD Video Look Of Public Enemies Work For You? By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2009 5:30 am EST It seems like no critique of Michael Mann’s Public Enemies would be complete without discussing the high definition digital cinematography. It seems to really annoy some people (there was a long discussion on this week’s /Filmcast about this) while others believe that the technology adds to the realism of the moment....
Zombieland Screenwriters Hired For GI Joe Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2010 1:40 pm EST Update: IESB is now reporting the Paramount Pictures has hired Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to pen a sequel to GI Joe: Rise of Cobra. Reese and Wernick recently signed on to pen Deadpool for Fox/Marvel, and might be the perfect scribes to invent some over the top stupid action for a GI Joe sequel....
15 Word Movie Review Of The Informers By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 20, 2009 12:52 pm EST Spoiled Rich kids. Drugs. Sex. Amber Heard naked. Aids. Infidelity. Kidnapping. Unconnected. Boring. Uninteresting. Horrible. 15 Word Movie Review Of The Informers By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 20, 2009 12:52 pm EST Spoiled Rich kids. Drugs. Sex. Amber Heard naked. Aids. Infidelity. Kidnapping. Unconnected. Boring. Uninteresting. Horrible.
6 Minutes To Midnight: Watchmen 10-Minute Interactive Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2009 2:16 pm EST Warner Bros has released a new 10-minute interactive trailer for Watchmen on 6MinutesToMidnight.com. You visit the site, enter your name and try to decipher the ink blots on Rorschach’s mask to unlock exclusive content and enter the world of Watchmen. 6 Minutes To Midnight: Watchmen 10-Minute Interactive Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2009 2:16 pm EST...
Andrew Lloyd Webber Announces Phantom Of The Opera Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 30, 2008 11:15 pm EST Andrew Lloyd Webber has announced that a Phantom of the Opera sequel is coming at the end of 2009. Phantom: Love Never Dies will be set a decade or so after the original installment, and The Phantom (yes, he’s still alive) has relocated to, then very popular, Coney Island of Brooklyn, New York. The production will have a historic simultaneous opening in three cities — on Broadway in New York, London’s West End, and Shanghai....
Blaxploitation Parody Black Dynamite Spawns Animated Series By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2009 6:55 pm EST A couple of hours ago I finally caught Black Dynamite, which became an internet sensation based on a very well cut trailer. (Not this one, sadly, but this is what Apparition is using to sell the film now.) Despite having been told that the film plays better as a trailer than a feature I had a really good time with it....
Danish Oscar Submission Terribly Happy To Be Remade In English…by The Original Director By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2010 6:31 am EST Remakes, remakes remakes…but is it a different scenario when the director of an acclaimed foreign film signs on to remake his own movie for English-speaking audiences? That’s what’s happening with Terribly Happy, the dark, Coen Brothers-flavored Danish film that cleaned up at the major Bodil Awards in 2009 and is Denmark’s submission for the Foreign Language Oscar this year....
Disney Plans For National Treasure 3 & 4 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2008 12:18 am EST Yesterday, Disney registered the domain named for NationalTreasure3DVD.com and NationalTreasure4DVD.com, spawning rumors that Walt Disney Pictures is planning back to back sequels. National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets was released 6 weeks ago, and has already earned over $365 million worldwide, already beating the overall take of the original 2004 film. So a sequel seems almost certain....
First Look: Michael Moore’s Bailout Documentary, Teaser Trailer Out Friday By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2009 9:15 pm EST USA Today was given the first photo from Michael Moore’s still-yet-to-be-titled documentary about the financial meltdown. The photo shows Moore outside Goldman Sachs headquarters in Manhattan. But now that Wall Street has become the target, don’t expect a two hour “economics lesson.” Moore jokes that “it’s going to be more like a vampire movie....
HowardNotCheadle.com? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2008 1:40 am EST Nearly two weeks have passed since it was reported that Don Cheadle would replace Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2, fans are still angry. Petitions have been launched, and even the website HowardNOTCheadle.com. Of course, Paramount and Marvel aren’t going to to care even if the petition gets hundreds of thousands of signatures (Stop Uwe Boll petition stalled just over 300k). Sadly, the contracts have already been signed, and its a done deal....
Journey To The Center Of The City Of Ember Poster By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2008 10:25 am EST Is it just me or does the latest City of Ember poster look very Journey to the Center of the Earth-ish? Journey To The Center Of The City Of Ember Poster By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2008 10:25 am EST Is it just me or does the latest City of Ember poster look very Journey to the Center of the Earth-ish?...
Justice League Of America Movie In 2008? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2007 12:06 am EST Our friends at IESB are reporting that a screenplay for the proposed Justice League of America movie is finished, and has been warmly received at Warner Bros. I always believed that the film wouldn’t happen until the Superman and Batman franchises started to die down. My theory being: why waste two superheros in one movie when you could make double the money with two films....
LOL: Diablo Cody On Keeping References In Movies Current By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2009 10:11 am EST Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody on Twitter: Am finding myself bothered by stale MySpace reference in “Jennifer’s Body.” I love MySpace and all but, you know. I wonder if we can dub in “Twitter” instead. Do it on a reverse shot so it doesn’t look totally Bruce Lee. I don’t know how the references in a feature script can ever stay current when the average film takes four years to develop....
LOL: Man Arrested For Running Around Naked In A Casino Claims He’s A Terminator By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2009 10:01 pm EST On Tuesday, a 19-year-old man was arrested for running through Stateline Casino naked, claiming he is a Terminator who had traveled back in time from the future. The arresting officer was flagged down by a motorist, who saw a man running near the Nevada/California state line fully nude. The officer finally caught up to the man in front of Harrah’s, but the suspect ignored the deputy’s commands to stop and instead ran inside the casino....
Michael Jackson’s This Is It Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 13, 2009 10:40 pm EST Sony has released a trailer for This is It, the Michael Jackson concert rehearsal documentary film which is being rushed out for a late October release. The film is being released for a special, limited, two-week engagement worldwide on Wednesday, October 28th. Watch the trailer now after the jump. From the press release: Kenny Ortega directed the film, which is produced with the full support of The Estate of Michael Jackson....
New Bond Song Online, “Another Way To Die” With Alicia Keys And Jack White By Devindra Hardawar/Sept. 18, 2008 11:57 pm EST One of the many things I loved about Casino Royale was the kick ass opening sequence featuring Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name”. Coupled with the film’s brutal black and white first scene, Cornell’s song helped introduce Daniel Craig’s grittier Bond to audiences with style to spare. Now we finally have a glimpse at the follow up song for Quantum of Solace, “Another Way to Die”, featuring Alicia Keys and Jack White—and honestly, I’m a bit disappointed....
New Human Target Promo Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2009 11:55 pm EST The new event drama, HUMAN TARGET, premieres with a special preview Sunday, Jan. 17 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) following the NFC Divisional Playoff game. HUMAN TARGET is a full-throttle, action-packed thrill ride from executive producers McG (“Terminator Salvation”) and Simon West (“Con Air,” “Tomb Raider”). Based on the popular DC Comics graphic novel and starring Mark Valley (FRINGE), Chi McBride (“Pushing Daisies”) and Academy Award nominee Jackie Earle Haley (“Watchmen”), the series follows CHRISTOPHER CHANCE (Valley), a unique private contractor who will stop at nothing even if it means becoming a human target to keep his clients alive....
New I Am Legend Photos By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2007 3:56 am EST Warner Bros has released a few new photos (most uneventful) from the upcoming adaptation of I Am Legend starring Will Smith (movie trailer). Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world....
