Comic Con: 9 Minutes Of AMC’s The Prisoner Released By Adam Quigley/July 24, 2009 1:57 pm EST AMC has been on a roll recently. They may be new to the original content game, but after only two TV shows (Mad Men and Breaking Bad), they’ve already proven themselves to be worthy competitors of HBO and Showtime. Their next endeavor, a remake of the classic 1960s TV show The Prisoner, looks only to further this trend....
Cool Stuff: Alamo’s Dawn Of The Dead Poster And Screening By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2008 12:21 pm EST The Alamo Drafthouse and Mondo Tees has returned again with another cool horror movie poster for their Rolling Roadshow screening of Dawn of the Dead. That’s right, they’re taking the movie, and screening it in the mall in Monroeville where the movie was filmed. How cool is that? I wish I could attend....
Darren Bousman To Direct A Submarine Heist Thriller By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2009 12:10 am EST Coming off of the growing cult goth musical Repo! The Genetic Opera, music video turned SAW II, III and IV director Darren Bousman has found a future beyond the horror movie genre. Bousman’s next film, Akula, is a heist thriller set in a submarine. Scripted by Mark Distefano, the story follows a career criminal who teams up with a female DEA agent determined to pull off a diamond heist on a submarine in constant motion, 600 meters below the surface of the ocean....
Frank Miller’s The Spirit Getting Two Sequels? By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 11, 2008 7:46 pm EST The word over at Superhero Hype is the Lionsgate has already negotiated with Frank Miller to direct two sequels to his Sin City-style green screen comic book caper The Spirit. If true, this would indicate tremendously sweet buzz on the project, as the main character, a detective who fakes his death to more vigilantly pursue the criminal element, and the property, created in 1940 by Will Eisner, have less name value than a Dick Tracy or Green Hornet....
Grace Is Gone Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 29, 2007 2:33 pm EST Grace is Gone was probably the most talked about film at Sundance this year (aside from the Dakota Fanning rape film and the Bestiality Horse documentary). The Weinstein Co scooped up the film, and Clint Eastwood enjoyed the flcik so much that he asked to score the film. You can hear some of that score in the new trailer released today on Yahoo....
Gremlins 3 In Development, Studio Aiming For 3-D? By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 24, 2010 10:40 pm EST Here we go again. Talk of a third Gremlins film (or potential remake) has come and gone over the past few years, and now MarketSaw is reporting news that will surely set off another round of speculation. According to their source, Gremlins 3 is currently in very early stages of development, and it’s being created with 3-D in mind....
It Happened: R.Kelly’s Lawyer Uses “Little Man” Defense In Court By Hunter Stephenson/May 22, 2008 2:30 pm EST Note to self: Must download Photoshop, arggghh. The Sun Times reports that a lawyer for troubled r&b godsend and aspiring Batman, R. Kelly, has used the Wayans Brothers’ masterpiece, Little Man, in court to explain why it might not be Kells on that infamous, illegal sextape… [R. Kelly’s attorney], in an attempt to suggest that Kelly’s head could have been superimposed onto somebody else’s body in the sex tape, asked [gal on witness stand] whether she had seen the Wayans brothers’ movie “Little Man....
LOL: George Lucas Tells House Subcommittee That Barack Obama Is Obviously A Jedi By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2008 2:20 pm EST George Lucas testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet to back the Universal Service Fund. Lucas called on lawmakers to create a free, “third Internet” that would be used only for educational use. Of course, Lucas’ appearance was mocked by several members of the committee....
Matt Damon Talks Bourne 4, Hasn’t Read Script(s) By Russ Fischer/Sept. 11, 2009 12:04 pm EST There’s been a lot of talk about the projected fourth Jason Bourne movie, and Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass still seem to be heavily considering it as a possible project. But some of the talk is getting into bizarre territory, like the report that Universal is developing parallel scripts. But according to Damon, he hasn’t yet read either script, and we can infer from comments made today that Greengrass hasn’t either....
National Treasure: Book Of Secrets Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2007 11:52 pm EST Check out this very cool new poster for National Treasure: Book of Secrets. One thing Disney knows is how to design a killer poster. Too bad the film’s script isn’t up to the same level (Check out the previously released Movie Trailer). Check it out after the jump. National Treasure: Book of Secrets hits theaters on December 21st 2007....
Neill Blomkamp Considers District 9 Prequel, Not As His Next Film By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2010 7:34 am EST Neill Blomkamp is one of the more interesting new directors working today. His made-for-nothing tentpole-style District 9 has brought him heaps of attention, and no few offers from studios who want his name attached to their big films. But he seems totally disinterested in going the full Hollywood route. He has another film lined up — a sci-fi picture he’s writing now, set 150 years in the future — but he’s still tempted to go back to the slums of District 9....
Ninja Assassin Red Band Movie Trailer By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 24, 2009 11:00 pm EST Advance word on James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin hasn’t been too hot, but perhaps this newly released red band trailer can change your mind. Not surprisingly, it’s blood drenched and features more gore than in previous trailers—and we also see far more extensive use of CG this time around. We’ve previously reported on footage of Rain training for the film, but with this trailer it’s hard to see any of that put to use....
Steve Zaillian And Ridley Scott To Remake British Red Riding Series By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2009 8:05 am EST A month ago at the Telluride Film Festival, the UK crime trilogy Red Riding played to good critical reception. The reception didn’t escape the notice of studio execs, and Columbia has picked up the rights to remake the trilogy. The studio is negotiating a deal to have Steve Zaillian script the remake for Ridley Scott to direct....
Sundance: Grace Is Gone Movie Review By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2007 6:38 am EST My Mom was very sick the years before I entered Middle School. The only times I saw her were in the Hospital. I was young so I was kept out of the loop on how things were really going. But one night at the hospital all the relatives were there. My dad even slept over instead of coming home....
The Dark Knight Score Now Eligible For Academy Award By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2008 5:48 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In November, the Executive Committee of the Academy of Motion Pictures music branch ruled that the score for The Dark Knight was disqualified due to a technicality — five names were listed as composers on the music cue sheet for royalty reasons (Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard and three other individuals — music editor Alex Gibson, ambient music designer Mel Wesson and composer Lorne Balfe)....
The Last Airbender Trailer Delayed Until February By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2009 4:30 pm EST A lot of Airbender fans were hoping to see a new trailer for M Night Shymalan’s live-action adaptation of the American-anime The Last Airbender this Christmas, but it isn’t going to happen after all. Producer Frank Marshall mentioned on Twitter that “Not enough” visual effects shots from ILM are finished, which means that the next trailer for Last Airbender will have to wait....
Thousands Flock To Web To Solve JJ Abrams Transformers Trailer Mystery By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2007 11:09 pm EST The photo to the right shows a graph of our website pageviews. Usually around 6:00pm, like most other websites, the traffic starts to dissipate. So why is /Film seeing a dramatic rise around the 8:00pm (pacific time) hour on Monday night. Was /Film dugg? Nope. Farked? Nope. Slash-dotted? Nope. Drumroll…. And the answer is: The 8:00pm opening night screenings of Transformers just let out....
Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland Logo And High Resolution Photos/Concept Art By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2009 10:42 pm EST Earlier this week Walt Disney Pictures released the first promotional character photos and concept art for Tim Burton’s 3D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Tonight Disney has sent us high resolution versions of the previous images, along with the official logo for the new film (above). After the jump is a collection of high resolution versions of all the photos and concept art released earlier in the week....
Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland To Incorporate Stop Motion; Alan Rickman Talks About Being The Caterpillar By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 19, 2008 12:17 am EST When it was first announced, Disney said that Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland would be filmed using a hybrid of live-action and performance-capture/computer animation. Well it appears that Burton is also employing stop animation as well. Alan Rickman, who plays the Caterpillar in the film, explains to MoviesOnline that his face is transplanted onto a completely animated caterpillar....
Toby Kebbell Joins The Sorcerer’s Apprentice By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2009 11:09 pm EST Toby Kebbell (Rocknrolla) has joined the cast of Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice as Drake Stone, a celebrity illusionist, not unlike Chriss Angel, who joins forces with an evil sorcerer named Horvath (Alfred Molina), to “gain ultimate powers.” Kebbell just got done shooting the video game adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which was also produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and featured Molina....
