More Additions To Soderbergh’s Knockout: Channing Tatum And Antonio Banderas By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2010 8:05 am EST Last week when the fantastic slate of name actors was announced for Steven Soderbergh’s spy/action film Knockout, we were teased with the info that one more name was yet to be revealed. Now we’ve got that name, and I’m guessing it’s not one that most of you are going to be quite as interested in....
OMG! Britney Spears (Or Someone Like Her) May Appear In Sex And The City 2! By David Chen/Jan. 16, 2009 2:48 pm EST With a budget of $65 million (apparently Manolo Blahniks are even more outrageously expensive than even I had originally thought), 2008’s Sex and the City movie went on to gross more than $415 million worldwide. Its pre-show ticket sales ranked up on the charts next to The Dark Knight and Twilight....
Paul Greengrass Quits Bourne 4 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 1, 2009 8:15 pm EST [UPDATE: Paul Greengrass has issued a statement, reprinted in Variety. He’s as diplomatic as you’d expect: “My decision to not return a third time as director is simply about feeling the call for a different challenge. There’s been no disagreement with Universal Pictures. The opportunity to work with the Bourne family again is a difficult thing to pass up, but we have discussed this together and they have been incredibly understanding and supportive....
Release Date Changes: Be Kind Rewind, 27 Dresses, Inkheart By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2008 3:26 pm EST New Line has announced that they have canceled the March 19th release of the Brendan Fraser family adventure film Inkheart. The studio is looking for a better date for the film, which will hit theaters in 2008. The trailer for this film looks horrendous, even with the recent string of bad family fantasy films....
Sundance Movie Review: The Wackness By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 19, 2008 4:39 am EST Every year at Sundance I see a film during the first weekend that I absolutely fall in love with. Because it’s only the opening weekend, I try not to claim that a film is the best of this year’s festival. But usually my emotions win out and I make such a claim in a non-direct kind of way, which may explain this opening paragraph....
The Bourne Ultimatum Movie Poster And Set Photos By Peter Sciretta/March 11, 2007 6:11 pm EST “This summer Jason Bourne comes home”. That’s right, the theatrical poster for The Bourne Ultimatum shows Jason Bourne looking at the New York City coast. Click on the picture for a higher resolution version. Until now we’ve known very little about the plot for the third Bourne film. While the film is “based on Robert Ludlum’s bestselling novel of the same name,” the movie is expected to have an almost completely different plot....
The Incredible Hulk Will Be Gray? Not Green? By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2007 5:02 pm EST Earlier this week we discovered that Edward Norton had been cast as Bruce Banner in the 2008 remake/re-do-over The Incredible Hulk. When our friends at FirstShowing asked producer Avi Arad is Hulk would look the same as Ang Lee’s 2003 film, he responded: “None, no. It’s a new Hulk, new direction, new size, new color, new attitude....
The Kingdom Movie Trailer #3 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2007 11:04 am EST I remember when non blockbuster movies would get only one movie trailer. One chance to sell an audience. But today is a much different time. Universal has released a third movie trailer for Peter Berg’s The Kingdom. We’ve been following this one for a while now. The new trailer is a lot more flashy. It looks like a studio executive asked, “how can we make this film more accessible?...
The Prisoner Television Teaser By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2009 4:04 pm EST Earlier this week, AMC dropped a teaser for the channel’s upcoming remake of the classic Patrick McGoohan ITV series The Prisoner. I’ve been curious about how this would look, not to mention why exactly it’s being made, and the teaser at least gives an indication of the aesthetic. The six episode mini-series, which premieres in November, stars Jim Caviezel in Patrick McGoohan’s role as Number Six, and Ian McKellen as Number Two....
Ti West To Direct The Innkeepers By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 29, 2010 5:30 pm EST Following on from House of the Devil, his film about a young hipster girl very, very slowly walking up and down corridors and eventually crossing paths with possible ‘Special Guest Star’ devil worshippers, it seems that Ti West is to make another “truly terrifying” picture. One man’s tedium is another man’s terror, I suppose. Variety report that West’s film The Innkeepers will be about “the last two staffers of a haunted hotel that’s going out of business”....
Tina Fey’s Angry Internet Commenters Actually Exist By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 12, 2009 12:02 am EST During her acceptance speech during tonight’s Golden Globes, Tina Fey made some time to tell some of her harsh “internet critics” to “suck it.” The bit was pretty funny (you must watch it here). “If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet! You can find a lot of people there who don’t like you!...
Tobey Maguire Dishes On Potential Spider-Man 4 Delay By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 9, 2010 12:08 am EST Earlier this week, we reported on possible production delays for Spider-Man 4 which pushed the film off of its May 5th, 2011 release date, and to a potential July date instead. That Thor was also scheduled for that May 5th weekend probably also made that date less than ideal. Now we have some details from the star of franchise, Tobey Maguire — who doesn’t seem too worried about any production problems....
Twilight Sells Out 2,000 Showings (Including 600 Midnight Showings) By David Chen/Nov. 19, 2008 7:57 pm EST Did you hear? A small film called Twilight is coming out this Friday. Despite my own feelings on the movie and subject matter, I knew when I went to Twilight’s Comic Con this year amidst the massive throng of screaming women that this film would be a huge success. When I saw the film this past Tuesday night, one could easily tell that the excitement for this film from the mom/teen demographic was approaching a fevered pitch....
Universal Greenlights Fast And The Furious 5, Titled “Fast Five” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2010 8:46 pm EST Universal Pictures has given the greenlight to a fifth film in the Fast and the Furious franchise. And in an apparent attempt to one-up the ridiculousness of the previous titles, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Fast & Furious, they have come up with the brilliant (yes, sarcasm) title “Fast Five.” The studio has inked deals with all the key players, including stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, director Justin Lin, screenwriter Chris Morgan (Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Wanted), and producer Neal Moritz to return to the franchise....
Watch Nina Paley’s Ebert-Wowing Animated Masterwork Sita Sings The Blues Online By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 28, 2009 2:34 am EST After some scary months in which it seemed nobody much would ever get a chance to legally see Nina Paley’s wonderful, wonderful Sita Sings the Blues, the film is now available for free streaming on the Reel 13 website – and if you don’t fancy a lower-res streaming version, completely legal HD and film resolution torrents are on the way, WNET 13 in New York (the owners of the above site) will be showing the film on TV on March 7th....
Watchmen Screenwriter Asks Fans To See Watchmen Again By Peter Sciretta/March 11, 2009 3:13 am EST Screenwriter David Hayter has been working on a big screen adaptation of Watchmen for almost a decade, which means he’s invested not only a lot of time on the project, but also a lot of energy. And like a lot of people in Hollywood, the fear of a one weekend payoff is scary. Hayter has written a letter to fans on HardcoreNerdity, where he asks for anyone who liked the film to return to the theater to see it again....
24 Year Old Man Kills Himself During Watchmen Screening By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2009 11:25 am EST A 24-year-old man shot and killed himself at the Regal Cinemas in Eugene, Oregon during a late night screening of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. According to KMTR, there were about 10 other people in the theater at the time. The yet-to-be-named man was seated in the back corner of the theater. Police were called after patrons heard a loud “popping sound” behind them, and reported it to the theater managers....
Box Office Tracking: $60M Opening And $200M Domestic Possible For Madagascar 2 By Steve Mason/Nov. 5, 2008 11:37 pm EST Some have been writing about an even bigger start for Mad 2, and although it is possible, the fact that the original 2005 film opened with a 3-day start of $47M is a bit misleading. Those were the first 3 days of a long 4-day Memorial Day weekend, leading to an exceedingly strong Sunday....
Bruce McDonald And Don McKellar Creating Crowd-Sourced Broken Social Scene Movie By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2009 10:35 pm EST Crowd-sourced music documentaries are hardly new. Many a rock doc over the years has included fan-shot footage, and the Beastie Boys made their own explicitly fan-shot film, Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That!, released back in 2006. Now Canadian filmmakers Bruce McDonald and Don McKellar, who collaborated in the past on the very fun Highway 61 and occasionally sublime television show Twitch City, are looking for the help of regular folks to assemble a movie featuring acclaimed Toronto indie band Broken Social Scene....
Choose The Notorious Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2008 1:36 pm EST
