Bruce Willis In High School Musical 3 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 14, 2008 2:05 am EST Like many of you, I didn’t see High School Musical 3 for fairly obvious reasons. Apparently Bruce Willis actually had a pretty big role in the movie Who knew? /Film reader Joseph L sent over this video of Willis promoting his new film HSM3 (as the kiddies call it) on David Letterman. Check it out below....
Casting Notes: Elijah Wood, Andrea Savage, Hobbit Begins Casting This Week By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2009 8:56 am EST George Miller may have a new Mad Max movie brewing, but before that happens he’s got to finish a film that is the polar opposite of the action sequel: Happy Feet 2. (I guess it’s kind of an action sequel, too.) Elijah Wood and Robin Williams are returning to the roles they voiced in the original film (Mumble and Ramon, respectively) and will do the voice work in Australia early next year....
Crank Co-Directors Neveldine And Taylor Move To Television, Develop Zeroes For NBC By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2009 7:55 am EST Can you shoot a TV show on roller skates? Seat of the pants madmen directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the guys that made the two Crank movies on a budget with tiny prosumer cameras and other low-fi tech, are set to provide NBC with a new one-hour show that will be (no real surprise here) a “high-intensity” drama about crisis situations....
Cyber Monday Geek Deals By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2008 12:08 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Force Unleashed for Xbox 360 for $30 with free shipping, 50% OffIron Man on Blu-ray for $15.49, 61% OffKung Fu Panda Blu-Ray for $15.49, 61% OffIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Blu-ray for $15.49, 61% OffRambo Trilogy Blu-ray set for $17.95, 64% off The Wire: The Complete Series for $139....
First Look: Hellboy II: The Golden Army By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 12, 2007 5:34 am EST Universal Pictures has released the first photo from Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The photo features Ron Pearlman as Hellboy, showing off his gigantic gun. Check out the new photo after the jump. Click on the image to enlarge. Hellboy 2 hits theaters on July 11th 2008. source: hellboymovie.com First Look: Hellboy II: The Golden Army...
By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2009 12:00 pm EST /Film reader Stark1288 sent me this official production photo from the Jason Reitman-produced, Diablo Cody-scripted horror film Jennifer’s Body. Update: Turns out the photo came from Entertainment Weekly, and we’ve now replaced the photo with a clear version. Yes, that is Megan Fox, who plays a possessed cheerleader in the film, and in the photo is drenched with blood. I’m not sure exactly where the photo came from, appears to be a scan from a magazine....
First Official Look: Michael Mann’s Public Enemies By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2008 6:41 pm EST Empire Magazine has the first two photos from Michael Mann’s upcoming period crime drama Public Enemies. Based on Brian Burrough’s book “Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43,” the film focuses on the government’s attempt to stop John Dillinger and his gang. Johnny Depp plays Dillinger, and Christian Bale plays famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis....
Get Smart Teaser Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2007 12:55 am EST When I was a kid I use to watch a lot of Get Smart on Nick at Nite. Now-a-days, most people under 25 don’t even know what Get Smart is. And at first a big Hollywood adaptation of the show sounded like a horrible idea. Heck, it didn’t work out so well for Bewitched, another great 90’s era Nick at Nite show....
Godzilla 3D Gets A Greenlight By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2007 12:18 am EST I’ve always said that if the Godzilla movies had been made today, they would have been released in IMAX 3D. AICN has confirmed that plans are finally underway for a 3D English-Language Godzilla film. According to Kerner, Tokyo based Producer/Director Yoshimitsu Banno and Producer Kenji Okuhira, have teamed up with Hollywood 3-D veterans Producer Brian Rogers, Director Keith Melton, and Director of Photography Peter Anderson, ASC to form the core production team....
Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 18, 2009 3:30 pm EST Warner Bros has released the trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. The film stars Robert Downey Jr as the title character, in fresh new take on the popular mystery novels. Jude Law co-stars as Dr. John Watson, Rachel McAdams plays Holmes’ love-interest, “the deceptive” Irene Adler. And Mark Strong plays the film’s villain Lord Blackwood, an industrialist who “holds sway over a cult of dark-arts practitioners and claims to possess supernatural powers, is linked to a series of murders....
H2 Movie Trailer (Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2) By Hunter Stephenson/April 24, 2009 12:13 pm EST The first trailer for Rob Zombie’s H2 has premiered on Yahoo Movies. The nitpicking over canon is inevitable, but I find this trailer to be quite strong and, in parts, genuinely unsettling. Zombie clearly isn’t preoccupied with horny teens, and for the horror genre, that’s a damn good thing. The many looks of Michael Myers in the film are glimpsed....
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Full Love: Photos And Plot Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 14, 2008 12:57 am EST Yesterday we brought you the American trailer for Jean-Claude Van Damme’s JCVD. Damme wrote, directed and is starring in his latest project Full Love, along with his two children Kristopher and Bianca Van Varenberg. The movie is filming in Thailand with a $5 million budget. From what I understand, Van Damme is supposedly working for next to nothing or scale, compared to his normal multi-million dollar asking price....
Juno’s “Due Date” Sooner Than Expected By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 25, 2007 3:51 pm EST I have some great news. The best movie of 2007 is coming to theaters 9 days earlier than expected. The film, Juno, directed by Jason Reitman was originally scheduled to hit theaters on December 15th, but has been moved up to take advantage of all the incredible advance buzz. Juno will now hit theaters on Wednesday, December 5th in New York and Los Angeles, and will expand on a platform release in the subsequent weeks....
Kate Mara And Clark Gregg Join Iron Man 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2009 2:30 am EST Kate Mara (Shooter) and Clark Gregg (Choke) have joined the cast of Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2. Gregg will be reprising his role as Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D., which isn’t completely unexpected. Especially considering that the sequel partly bridges into the big Marvel superhero team-up, The Avengers. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Agent Coulson doing the heavy legwork for SHIELD....
Lars Von Trier Has No Plans To Remake Taxi Driver By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2010 11:02 pm EST Yesterday, a rumor was quickly making the rounds that Lars von Trier had approached Martin Scorsese at the Berline Film Festival about doing a remake of Taxi Driver, possibly even featuring Robert De Niro, reprising his role as Travis Bickle. The reported plan was to enforce a set of extreme restrictions ala The Five Obstructions....
Marvel Wants Brad Pitt For Thor? By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2008 12:45 pm EST Our friends at LatinoReview are reporting that Marvel wants Brad Pitt for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Thor. Let’s face it, isn’t Brad Pitt on every project’s preliminary casting lists for dream stars? Of course, no offer has been made to the star, and when one is, I doubt he would actually be interested (but you never know with these Iron Man $$$ numbers)....
Movie Popcorn Is As Bad For You As Ever… Well, Mostly By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 19, 2009 12:30 pm EST Here’s two things that Big Cinema want: they want you to buy lots of, and stuff your face with, their popcorn and they want the manufacture of that popcorn to be cheap. This is because the concession stand is where they make pretty much every penny, the majority of ticket sales being siphoned off by the distributors and studios – though, arguably, that’s just the way it should be, the better to stream this revenue to the filmmakers who actually produce the pictures in the first place....
Optimus Prime Spotted In Long Beach By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 27, 2008 1:22 am EST Lordsinuhe spotted Optimus Prime was spotted in Long Beach California, where Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is currently shooting at the Queensway Bridge. The streets have been transformed into a fictional Asian location, and the sequence is surely a continuation of the opening sequence which was shot at the Steel Factory in Bethlehem, PA. Photos of a heavily burned Shia LaBeouf have been making their way around the interwebs this past week....
Page 2 Weekend Edition By Peter Sciretta/May 17, 2008 8:23 pm EST Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2! Someecards has an awesome new ecard which takes aim at Indiana Jones, pictured above. Up to three “Battlestar Galactica” TV movies might get made later this year. But no deals have officially been signed. [chicagotribune]...
Pioneer To Finally Stop Making LaserDisc Players For Good By David Chen/Jan. 15, 2009 7:57 am EST Decades after VHS, years after the rise of DVD in the late 1990s, and not too long after Blu-Ray was declared the victor in the most recent format war, Pioneer has announced that they will no longer make LaserDisc players (although they will still produce another 3,000 before shutting production down for good). If you’re like me, your first reaction to this was probably, “They still make LaserDisc players?...
