Contest: Hot Fuzz On DVD By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2007 12:29 am EST Hot Fuzz hit DVD store shelves on July 31st, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On August 9th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....
Cyrus Movie Trailer: The Duplass Brothers Give Jonah Hill A Chance To Grow By Russ Fischer/Jan. 22, 2010 9:13 am EST We’ve been writing about Cyrus, the new film from the Duplass Brothers, for a while — it was announced last year, shot quickly and is now at Sundance. And until about halfway through this trailer I’d completely forgotten that Jonah Hill was in the film. Then, when he shows up, after just a couple of lines I was floored....
DreamWorks To Make Live-Action Ghost In The Shell Movie In 3D By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2008 1:14 pm EST DreamWorks has acquired rights to the Japanese postcyberpunk manga Ghost in the Shell after Steven Spielberg took personal interest in the popular anime property. Variety reports that the studio plans to develop Shell into a 3D live-action feature-length film. Created by Masamune Shirow (Appleseed), Ghost in the Shell was first published in 1989 in Young Magazine....
Exclusive: The Princess And The Frog Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 24, 2009 9:00 am EST Walt Disney Animation Studios has provided us with an EXCLUSIVE look at the movie poster for The Princess and the Frog. As you know, this is Disney’s return to hand-drawn animation, a new take on E.D. Baker’s novel The Frog Princess (which was actually the original title of the film). Check out the full poster after the jump, and click on the image to see the poster in high resolution....
Geek Deal: ER Seasons 1-10 On DVD For $163 By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2009 12:13 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Harrison Ford Earned Almost 2.5 Times More Than The Top Earning Actress In 2008 By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2009 8:00 am EST Forbes Magazine has released their list of the highest earning actresses, once again proving that Hollywood is sexist. Angelina Jolie tops the list with $27 million, almost two and a half times less than the highest earning male actor (Harrison Ford with $65 million – remember, Crystal Skull was a huge payday)....
Hugh Jackman Starring In Antoine Fuqua’s Prisoners? By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 18, 2009 2:15 pm EST Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming kidnap and revenge drama Prisoners, from the hotly tipped screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, appears to have found its location… but has it also found its star? Last night, the local Board of Aldermen carried a motion to allow Warner Bros. to cast the town of Derby in Connecticut as itself in the film and any potential sequels – not that this screenplay suggested franchise material in any way, but I suppose it’s good to cover all bases....
I Am Legend Prequel Will Show The Fall Of Manhattan And DC By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2008 11:30 am EST At Comic Con, filmmaker Francis Lawrence revealed that he was working to develop an I Am Legend prequel. Then came rumors that the prequel was actually a sequel, and somehow Will Smith would still be involved. It really didn’t make much sense. Thankfully our friends at Collider got the chance to clear up the rumors while talking to Will Smith at the Seven Pounds junket — It’s a PREQUEL....
Jennifer Lopez To Star In Overboard Remake By Peter Sciretta/March 19, 2010 12:32 am EST The bad news is that Columbia Pictures is remaking the 1987 Gary Marshall film Overboard, produced by Will Smith. The even worse news is that Jennifer Lopez is in talks to star in said remake. I wouldn’t be surprised if Smith has a new take on the story which transplants the film in China. Oh wait, no, that was The Karate Kid (and that worked out great… oh, it didn’t?...
Lost Season 5 Finale Will Leave You Wondering How The Show Can Continue By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2009 8:46 pm EST Michael Emerson, who plays Ben Linus on ABC’s LOST, says that the season finale for Season Five will make you want to eat your soul. “Ours is a show that specializes in big shock endings, but I think season five…” Emerson tells E Online. “None of the other shock endings left me wondering how the show goes on....
Mortensen And Hoffman In Xavier Gans’ Vanikoro By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 3, 2008 2:24 pm EST Bloody Disgusting has received word that two of the finest actors of a generation, Viggo Mortensen and Philip Seymour Hoffman, are in “talks” to star in a cannibal epic entitled Vanikoro from the director of Hitman, Xavier Gans. Vanikoro is part of the Santa Cruz Islands near Australia, where a French explorer found himself and his crew shipwrecked and legend has it, chewed upon like chicken nuggets by indigenous tribal folk, in the late 18th century....
Must Watch: American Gangster Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2007 10:36 am EST American Gangster is one of those movies that just crept right up on me. I swear, I hadn’t heard a thing about the flick before the Scarface influenced theatrical movie posters dropped. Yeah, I know – it’s a Ridley Scott film (Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven), I should be playing more attention. But now that we have our first look at the film, in the form of a movie trailer – I’m excited....
New Half-Blood Prince Poster And Video Clip By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2009 11:33 am EST MSN has premiered a new poster for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is a composite variation on the character banners we posted last month. Check out the full poster after the jump. Also, Warner Bros has provided us with a new clip from the film entitled “I’m in love with her”, which originally aired on the Ellen Show....
New Photos: Cirque Du Freak, The Wolfman, Green Zone By Peter Sciretta/July 3, 2008 4:46 am EST The new issue of Empire Magazine has a few new photos from upcoming fall/winter films. First up is a photo of John C. Reilly as a vampire in Paul Weitz’s Cirque Du Freak. Based on the first three novels by Darren O’Shaughnessy, Cirque Du Freak tells the story of a 14-year-old boy named Darren Shan (Chris Kelly) who visits a travelling freak show....
New Southland Tales Movie Poster Sucks By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2007 12:42 am EST Cinematical has posted the new theatrical poster for Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales, and it doesn’t look good. Don’t get me wrong. I want Southland Tales to be good. Even if it isn’t good, I want it to make money just because I feel Richard Kelly somehow deserves it. But when a movie distributor clearly has no idea how to sell a film, or starts using deceptive marketing materials, that is usually a sure sign that the film will fail at the box office....
No Superman Sequel For Mark Millar By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 24, 2007 10:28 am EST Earlier this week when it was announced that Warner Bros would be taking pitches for the Superman Returns sequel, comic book writer Mark Millar self nominated himself to be considered for the job. Millar, who had always wanted to do a Superman comic book, had years of research, and was excited at the prospect of revamping Superman....
Paramount Launches Augmented Reality Website To Promote Transformers 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2009 11:16 am EST To promote Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Paramount Pictures International has created an augmented reality website which allows you to wear a virtual Optimus Prime mask, watch footage from the film with a mini-virtual Bumblebee, and more. It’s pretty easy to set up if you already have a web camera attached to your computer setup (it immediately recognized the isight on my macbook pro)....
Pro Wrestler Shad Gaspard Auditioned For Conan Villain By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2010 8:00 pm EST Pro wrestler Shad Gaspard (part of the WWE tag-team Cryme Tyme) revealed over the weekend that he had auditioned for the role of Ukafa, the main villain in Marcus Nispel’s upcoming remake of Conan the Barbarian.Details after the jump. Here is what Gaspard wrote: Now it’s down to me and several others to see which one of us will go head to head with Jason Momoa....
Robert Rodriguez’ Neverackers Removed From Dimension Film’s Release Slate By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2009 10:12 pm EST Why is it that every time The Weinstein Co becomes involved in a promising project, they somehow fuck it up? Robert Rodriguez’ Nerverackers has been bumped off the Dimension Films calendar. Earlier this year, the genre arm surprised everyone with putting the mystery project in an April 16th 2010 release date. We’ve since learned a lot more about the sci-fi project....
Ron Howard Speaks About His Adaptation Of The Strange Adventures Of H.P. Lovecraft Comic By Devindra Hardawar/Sept. 24, 2009 2:07 pm EST We’ve known for some time now that Ron Howard’s first comic book adaptation will be a film version of the Image Comics series, The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft. The comic is a fictionalized story featuring a young Lovecraft who goes from a wimpy writer to an ass-kicker of the supernatural....
