John August Releases The Nines Audio Commentary Online By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2007 9:56 am EST When Clerks 2 was getting ready for release, Kevin Smith had a great idea to release an audio commentary track for the film a couple weeks after the film had hit theaters. The idea was to encourage people to go back and pay for the movie again, and to listen to the film commentary on their iPod....
Paramount Buys Black List Screenwriter Chad St. John’s The Further Adventures Of Doc Holliday By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2009 11:21 pm EST Paramount Pictures has acquired Chad St. John’s action adventure spec screenplay The Further Adventures of Doc Holliday. St. Johnis one of the hottest screenwriters in Hollywood at the moment. He had not one, but two screenplays on the 2009 Black List, a listing of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood – Motor City about “A small time hood is framed and sent to prison, only to exact revenge years later” and The Days Before about “A man who possesses a time travel device uses it to go back in time to prevent an alien invasion....
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides To Shoot In Hawaii This Summer By Russ Fischer/Jan. 19, 2010 7:12 am EST Hawaii loves Disney. ABC (owned by Disney) has spent the past few years adding to the state’s cachet as a travel destination by filming Lost there, there’s a Disney resort opening next year and now Jerry Bruckheimer & Co. will bring Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides to Kaua’i and O’ahu this summer....
RockNRolla Opening Credits By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2008 10:16 pm EST The opening credit sequence for Guy Ritchie’s RockNRolla is now online. Check out the sequence for RockNRolla by clicking on the image above. You probably have never heard of Danny Yount, but you’ve definitely seen some of the animated title sequences he has created: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man, The Invasion, The Reaping, Six Feet Under, The Grid, The 6th Day, and House of Wax....
Sci Fi Channel Wants To Ressurrect Alien Nation By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2009 12:00 pm EST
Screenwriter Hired For Feature Reworking Of Documentary Young@Heart By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2009 7:48 am EST Last year saw the release of Young@Heart, a great little documentary about a group of senior citizens that performs their own versions of rock songs. Working Title Pictures picked up the rights to remake the film as a dramatic feature before the doc was even released. Now the company has a writer in mind for the project: Will Reiser, a former producer on Da Ali G Show....
Set Photo: Steven Spielberg Directs Tintin By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2009 11:30 am EST Empire Magazine has the first photos from the set of The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. Steven Spielberg directs Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis, who are wearing performance capture suits, with Peter Jackson looking on. If you can’t read the names on their suits (isn’t it odd that the character names are printed in large letters across their suits?...
Seth Rogen Wants Stephen Chow As Kato In The Green Hornet By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2007 3:01 pm EST Yesterday we reported that Knocked Up star Seth Rogen was in talks to write and star in a big screen adaptation of The Green Hornet. We marveled at how spectacular this bad idea was. And that is coming from a guy who has followed Rogen’s career since Freaks & Geeks. We didn’t think this idea could possibly get worse, but it unfortunately has....
By Russ Fischer/Feb. 5, 2010 12:34 pm EST UPDATE: IndieWire reports that The Weinstein Company picked up The Tillman Story today. The company has been the frontrunner to buy the film for the past week. Original article follows. Purchases at Sundance didn’t come fast and furious this year — do they ever anymore? — but in the wake of the festival a few high-profile films have been fairly swift to land distribution deals....
The OFFICIAL Once Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2007 5:43 am EST
Toronto Film Festival Announces Line-Up By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 22, 2007 12:30 pm EST The Toronto International Film Festival have announced their full line-up of 349 films today. There are alot of films that I’m excited to see. Here are some of the movies that caught my eye while browsing the new list: Michael Moore’s Mike Across America Man From Plains by Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs): A documentary about Jimmy Carter In Bloom by Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog), starring Evan Rachel Wood and Uma Thurman: A woman’s survivor’s guilt from a Columbine-like event twenty years ago causes her present-day idyllic life to fall apart....
Transformers 2 Toy Robots Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2009 12:33 pm EST Toy Fair happened over the weekend, and Hasbro revealed a lot of the new Transformers from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, including a first look at all the Constructicons. Check them out in toy form after the jump. The contructicons that combine to make up Devastator: Soundwave, who looks suspiciously like a sword. Hmmmmm The Autobot twins – Skids and Mudflap...
Two ‘Hitchcockian’ Scripts Move Forward: Playing Joe And House At The End Of The World By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2010 8:56 am EST Old masters never die; they’re just endlessly recycled. There haven’t been many notable script sales yet this year, but two that went down recently are both being positioned as reflective of the Master of Suspense. Since it’s highly unlikely that a film coming out of any Hollywood studio at this point would have the pace and patience of a film by Alfred Hitchcock, what can we expect from a couple of new thrillers that seek to trade on his influence?...
Video Blog: 2009 Comic-Con Preview By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2009 11:10 am EST Steve from Collider is a good friend of mine. At least a few times a week we talk about upcoming movies, TV shows, what gossip each of us have heard, and anything else we might find exciting. Since a number of our conversations cover things you also might find interesting, we’ve decided to start recording certain conversations as video blogs....
VOTD: Star Wars In 3 Minutes Animated In A Notebook By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2009 8:13 pm EST Columbian animator Oscar Triana crafted this short animated tribute to George Lucas’ Star Wars. Playing with the idea of “how you remember the movie, back then” and using things in common when you were in school like notebooks, cut-out figures, cotton and the alike. The short recreates in three minutes the original movie, using some random and sometimes witty ideas/comments from me and other kids that have seen it in the last few years....
Watchmen: New Photos, EW Cover, Walkie-Talkie CG And Comic Book Comparisons By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2008 7:55 pm EST Since the Watchmen trailer broke earlier today, the web has been going Watchmen crazy. First up, Watchmen graces the cover of the Comic Con edition of Entertainment Weekly (seen above), and is accompanied by a feature article with a bunch of new photos (like the photo below) from the film. Read that article now on EW....
What’s In The New Epic Monty Python Documentary? And What Has Been Cut Out? By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 11, 2009 6:00 am EST Courtesy of the ever useful BBFC classifications website, we can see that just last week the upcoming, multi-part Monty Python doc Almost the Truth: The Lawyer’s Cut was granted a 15 cert. for DVD distribution. What’s more, they gave us a full break down of the series by episode, and also a complete listing of the bonus sketches, extra interviews and deleted scenes included....
Beware: Dwight Little To Direct Tekken By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2007 6:28 am EST Dwight Little is directing the big screen adaptation of Namco’s Tekken. Little is the guy responsible for crappy bargain bin titles such as Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid and Marked for Death, which starred Steven Seagal. And the screenplay was written by Alan McElroy, the guy behind The Marine, Wrong Turn, and Halloween 4. Why is it that video game adaptations always attrac class-c directing and writing talent?...
Comic-Con: John Romita Jr Joins The Kick-Ass Panel; New Exclusive Photos By Peter Sciretta/July 7, 2009 12:23 pm EST Last week we were the first to break the news that Matthew Vaughn would be premiering footage from his big screen adaptation of Kick-Ass at a panel at San Diego Comic-Con. I have some more big of new news regarding the panel and some new exclusive photos for you to look at....
Confirmed: Stephen Sommers To Direct GI Joe Movie, Stuart Beattie To Pen Script By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2007 4:26 pm EST Variety has now confirmed a rumor that hit the movie websites a couple weeks ago: The Mummy series director Stephen Sommers has signed on to direct a big screen live-action G.I. Joe movie. The studio is hiring a writer immediately, IESB is reporting that Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, Collateral, Derailed, 30 Days of Night, Spy Hunter) is the man for the job....
