VOTD: A Goofy Movie - Shot For Shot Live-Action Adaptation By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2010 5:00 pm EST A Goofy Movie begins with Max Goof on his way to the last day of school, and if all goes right his life will change. Turning cartoon into real life, this animated to live-action short adaptation was created for under $100 over the course of six months with a borrowed camera, over 90 supportive friends and family, and Final Cut Studio....
VOTD: LEGO Ninja Assassin Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2009 11:55 pm EST I’ve heard people say that almost everything is better with LEGOs. The Star Wars prequels? yes. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? possibly. LEGO Rock Band? ….? How about LEGO Ninja Assassin? During Comic-Con, Warner Bros released the first trailer for James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin. If you haven’t seen it yet, click here. Over the weekend I received a link to the same trailer recreated in stop motion animation by Keshen using legos....
WTF: Website Claims Ghostbusters 3 Is Already Filming In NYC By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 8, 2009 5:25 pm EST Earlier today I got a tweet from Erik Davis of Cinematical fame laughing about a secret website called GhostSpy which claims to have footage from the set of Ghostbusters 3. Yes, they are shooting it already. And yes, I am part of the crew. And no, I won’t tell any details. Because if I do and they find out, they will kill me....
Adrien Brody Nabs The Lead In Predators; Topher Grace May Be In, Too By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2009 5:07 pm EST Well, I definitely didn’t see this coming. Robert Rodriguez and Nimrod Antal have cast Adrien Brody in one of the lead roles for Predators. We also now know a few more minor members of the cast for the upcoming visit to the Predator planet, and there’s a last-minute report that Topher Grace is negotiating to join the cast, too....
Behind The Scenes Of Ratatouille By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2007 9:22 am EST Yahoo has posted a behind the scenes featurette from Pixar’s upcoming Ratatouille. The new clip seems to be more about The Incredibles director Brad Bird, than the film itself. But it’s worth a watch none the less. Bird explains the premise behind the film and we see some clips from the movie and the animation process that makes it all possible....
Big Directors Small Films: Jason Reitman’s Gulp By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2008 3:54 pm EST In this week’s edition of Big Directors Small Films we take a look at Jason Reitman’s 2001 short film Gulp. Reitman made a huge splash with last year’s Oscar-nominated dramedy Juno, and made his feature filmmaking debut with a big screen adaptation of Thank You For Smoking a few years earlier. Son of director Ivan Reitman, Jason got his start with a series of six short films which won acclaim at various film festivals around the world....
Bill Hader Has A Part In Paul - Is It As Paul Himself? By Brendon Connelly/March 26, 2009 12:41 pm EST The last time we had any significant news on Paul, the Greg Mottola sci-fi comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, we found out that the film was to feature lotsa CG effects and most likely end up R-rated. This time around, something a bit less vague....
Blonde Ambition Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2007 1:55 pm EST Last year we warned you that Jessica Simpson was making a remake of the 1988 Mike Nichols romantic comedy Working Girl. We knew from the start that Blonde Ambition would be horrible. For one, Jessica Simpson has almost no acting talent. And secondly, her father Joe Simpson is too near sighted to produce a good film. But now the trailer is out, and you can see for yourself after the jump....
Captivity Billboard Banned By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2007 10:35 pm EST Tuesday our Google traffic was through the roof. What caused the big stir? The Captivity Poster. It turns out that Lionsgate and the MPAA received a lot of phone calls objecting to the gratuitous depiction of torture and murder. The billboard, pictured above, shows four pictures with captions. “Abduction” features Elisha Cuthbert with a gloved hand over her face; “Confinement” features Cuthbert behind a chain link fence with a bloody finger; “Torture” shows Cuthbert, covered in white gauze, with tubes shoved up her nose; and “Termination” shows the actress with her head thrown back....
Chapter 27 Movie Poster By Hunter Stephenson/March 21, 2008 1:09 pm EST Besides those who imagine La Lohan giving a great performance as a groupie, there is not much general interest in Chapter 27, the indie film opening March 28th about John Lennon’s murderer, Mark David Chapman, starring an obese Jared Leto. Peter hated it (4/10), and the movie has a 5.7 rating on IMDB from its run on the festival circuit; but there remains a vocal minority of sane people online that really digs this film, and the performance from Leto (Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream) most of all....
Cool Stuff: The Art Of Tim Burton Book By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2009 10:40 am EST To celebrate Tim Burton’s exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, Steeles Publishing will be releasing The Art of Tim Burton in both Standard and Deluxe Edition books. Over 1000 illustrations on 430 pages plus foldouts. The Art of Tim Burton is the definitive compilation of forty years of Tim Burton’s artistry, including film concepts and hundreds of illustrations from his personal archives, edited under the creative guidance of Burton himself....
Crackle Adds Spider-Man 2 And Other New Titles, Launches Cinemactive Movie Game By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2009 3:34 pm EST Sony Pictures Entertainment’s premium video website Crackle.com have announced that they will expand its feature film offering to nearly 100 titles, with dozens more on the way. Some of the new movies added to the free online movie catalog include Spider-Man 2, Groundhog Day, Stripes, A Few Good Men, 1941, American Hardcore, El Mariachi, several Godzilla movies, Big Fish, The Fan, LaBamba, People vs....
Disney Blames Prince Caspian Release Date For Bad Box Office; Concludes 2 + 2 = 5 By Peter Sciretta/May 29, 2008 12:20 pm EST Disney CEO Robert Iger is now claiming that The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian isn’t performing as well as expected at the box office because the May 16 release date was “too competitive”. It probably had nothing to do with the fact that a large portion of moviegoers were...
Geek Deals: LOST: Seasons 1-5 - $73 On DVD/ $109 On Blu-Ray By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2009 12:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. That’s the whole series (thus far) for less than $15 per season on DVD and less than $22 per season on Blu-ray. If you follow the site, then you know I’m a Lost fanatic. If you don’t own Lost or havent started watching Lost, this is a deal worth jumping on....
Go Back To The Arcade In This New Adventureland Clip By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2009 3:08 pm EST I was able to score a new clip from Adventureland at the Sundance Press Center. The video clip takes place in the 80’s-era Adventureland arcade. Connell (Ryan Reynolds), an aspiring rock star and “the icon of cool to all the kids working at the park”, hits on Em (Kristen Stewart). I’ll be seeing Adventureland in a couple days at the Sundance Film Festival premiere, so check back for the early buzz on the film....
Howard The Duck On Hulu By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2008 6:34 pm EST The George Lucas-produced 1986 cult classic Howard The Duck is now available for free streaming on Hulu. According to IMDb, Lucas spent $2 million on Howard’s duck suit, and eight different actors worked inside the costume. Lucas had just spent $50 million building Skywalker Ranch and was counting on this film to get him back in the black....
Jack Black To Star In Bourne Identity Inspired Comedy By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2008 12:23 am EST Jack Black has signed on to star in what is being described as a comic take on The Bourne Identity scripted by Kung Fu Panda scribes Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. Black will play an American who washes up on the shores of Cuba with no memory of who he is or how he got there....
John Carter Of Mars To Begin Casting Phase By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2009 7:32 am EST Production on the big screen adaptation of John Carter of Mars is progressing. Pixar director Andrew Stanton tells Scifi that they have begun to look at potential actors for the live-action project. “I’m on my next draft of it. We’re in preproduction art-wise, and we’re starting to talk to actors. So it’s full bore,” Stanton said at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award ceremony on Monday....
Jonathan Liebesman’s The Killing Room Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2009 9:39 am EST The Killing Room is part SAW (without the torture porn), part Cube (minus the sci-fi), but with a more psychological edge. The film tells the story of four volunteers who sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they’ve unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago....
Kevin Williamson Talks Influences And Creative Direction For Scream 4: Torture Porn And Twilight? By Hunter Stephenson/Nov. 11, 2009 12:30 pm EST Over the last few months, it’s been revealed that the first entry in the new Scream trilogy, aka Scream 4, is set in Sidney Prescott’s hometown roughly a decade after Scream 3. And contrary to old rumors, the first film will not be in 3D. Courtney Cox and David Arquette were signed to reprise their roles from the get-go, and following a prolonged declination, Neve Campbell signed much to the relief of writer/creator, Kevin Williamson....
