Contest: Lovewrecked On DVD By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2007 12:42 am EST Lovewrecked hits DVD store shelves Today (March 13th), and we have a copy for two lucky /Film readers. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On March 20th we will e-mail the winners with the best answers. More information on the release can be found after the jump. Jenny (Bynes) is stranded with her pop star idol (Carmack) on a romantic Caribbean beach....
Darren Aronofsky Says Hello To /Film Readers By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2008 1:12 pm EST
Disney Closes Miramax By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2010 8:50 am EST It is sadly ironic that, just as this year’s Sundance Film Festival comes to a close, Disney plans to close the doors on former Sundance mainstay Miramax for good. New York and LA offices will close today. Eighty staff members will lose their jobs, and the last six Miramax films could well go into some sort of limbo. After thirty-one years, during much of which the label started by Bob and Harvey Weinstein dominated the American indie scene, Miramax is no more....
Duncan Jones To Direct Submarine Thriller Escape From The Deep By Brendon Connelly/June 1, 2009 10:01 am EST According to The Hollywood Reporter, Moon’s writer-director Duncan Jones has lined himself up an adaptation of Alex Kershaw’s non-fiction WWII book Escape From the Deep. Alex Kershaw will himself be writing the screenplay. Even though this is ‘True Story’ material, you may wish to consider much of what I’ll be discussing after the break as spoiler material, so be warned....
Exclusive: Three Photos From Breck Eisner’s The Crazies By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2010 12:44 am EST Overture Films has sent us three exclsuive photos from Breck Eisner’s remake of The Crazies, starring Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker and Joe Anderson. I also heard a rumor that Eisner might be a guest on an upcoming edition of the /Filmcast. Check out the photos after the jump. Photos: Official Plot Synopsis: Imagine living in a small town where everything is safe and happy…until suddenly it isn’t....
Frozen Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 21, 2009 8:14 pm EST Hatchet writer/director Adam Green’s Frozen is a single-room thriller set on a ski-resort chairlift. The story follows three college students (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers) who are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, and are “forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.” Last week we posted a few photos and poster from the film....
G.I. Joe Movie Poster, New Subtitle “Rise Of Cobra” By Hunter Stephenson/June 23, 2008 10:37 am EST The poster above showcasing actor Channing Tatum as Duke popped up at the Cinema EXPO in Amersterdam, according to Film1. This is the first time we’ve seen the full title, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, for the big budget nostalgia actioner opening Summer 2009. Did anyone see this clip of Joseph Gordon Levitt, who plays Cobra Commander, emptying his “awesome” quota for the year when asked about the flick?...
Hannibal Rising Movie Review By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2007 5:11 am EST When I first saw the advertisements for Hannibal Rising, I feared the worst. The marketing people have decided to sell the movie as a teen slasher film. While the movie certainly doesn’t measure up to The Silence of the Lambs (or even it’s subsequent sequels), I’m happy to report that Hannibal Rising is watch-able (although I’m not sure I’d recommend it)....
Ian McShane Cast In Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2010 2:32 pm EST Ian McShane is in talks to play the villain in Rob Marshall’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment of the Disney theme park ride turned movie franchise. McShane will play Edward Teach, better known as the legendary pirate Blackbeard, a notorious black-bearded pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies during the early 1700s, and famously piloted the ship Queen Anne’s Revenge....
John Cusack And Chiwetel Ejiofor Cast In Roland Emmerich’s 2012 By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2008 6:12 pm EST John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor (Redbelt) have been cast in Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi summer blockbuster movie 2012. An academic researcher opens a portal into a parallel universe and makes contact with his double in order to prevent an apocalypse predicted by the ancient Mayans. December 21st 2012 is the last day of the Mayan calendar, believed to be the end of the world....
LOL: Nic Cage As Everyone By Russ Fischer/Dec. 31, 2009 7:26 am EST There’s a serious backlash building against the Nicolas Cage backlash, as if a whole chunk of film fans simultaneously came to the conclusion that his body of questionable and bad work is actually entertaining as hell. (That it all stands apart from his unquestionably good work isn’t in question.) I’m right there with it; my last viewings of Knowing and The Wicker Man pushed me to the point where I’m actively looking forward to films like The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Drive Angry and Hungry Rabbit Jumps....
Marcus Nispel Negotiating Directorship Of Dracula Movie By Brendon Connelly/May 1, 2009 10:37 am EST One of the crucial moments in Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the journey of the Vampire to Whitby Bay by ship. This is recounted in the book by entries from the Captain’s log, which have been adapted into a screenplay called The Last Voyage of Demeter. According to the latest Variety report on the project, the film is moving forward again with Marcus Nispel in talks to direct....
Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes To Reboot Nightmare On Elm Street Franchise By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 30, 2008 1:45 am EST This is what happens when you get the sniffles and ignore the beat for a couple of hours: the world of Hollywood deals starts exploding with awfulness. Something in the Elm Street-verse started feeling askew a few weeks ago when Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, said he thought it was a good idea to remake Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and perhaps pass his claw on to someone else....
Naveen Andrews Hates Grindhouse Movies By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2007 5:52 am EST Naveen Andrews had never seen a exploitation film when he auditioned for Robert Rodriguez at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel in 2005. After he won a role in Planet Terror, he was given a Grindhouse 101 crash course at Quentin Tarantino’s home theater. But the truth is, he hated what he saw. “They were interminable and they were terrible....
New GI Joe Posters And TV Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2009 9:47 am EST Paramount Pictures has decided to combat the bad buzz and possibly false rumors surrounding G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra with a new series of character posters. From what I hear, the posters are at least ten times cooler than the actual movie (and the posters really aren’t that cool…). If you want to see these one sheets in full resolution, head on over to one of these fine sites: Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Ripcord, Baroness, and Duke....
New Sweeney Todd Photos And “Forgive” TV Ad By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 15, 2007 9:33 pm EST Paramount has sent us three new stills and a television advertisement (titled “Forgive”) from Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The film is of course based on the hit Broadway musical which tells the infamous story of Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp), a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with Mrs....
Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/July 7, 2009 6:22 am EST Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 15 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. MTV has published what they’re calling the “greatest photo ever”, and I’d be hard pressed to disagree: Ben Stiller, Clint Eastwood, Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno and director Judd Apatow....
Page 2 For April 24th 2008 By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2008 2:10 am EST Actress Lindsay Lohan’s 14-year-old kid sister, Ali, has been cast in a film based on R.L. Stine’s pre-teen book series “Mostly Ghostly.” [THR] Last week at a Back to the Future screening in Florida, writer/producer Bob Gale announced that Universal was working on a Blu-ray release of the classic 80’s film: “I dont’ know when it’s coming out yet, but I was involved in the mastering of this tape, so I can tell you that it looks absolutely beautiful!...
Paul W.S. Anderson To Ruin The Three Musketeers… In 3D By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2009 11:00 pm EST Paul W.S. Anderson will direct a new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s Les Trois Mousquetaires, aka The Three Musketeers. Anderson co-wrote the screenplay (read: run, run far away…) with Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Tailor of Panama), and plans to shoot the film in, wait for it… 3-D. UGH! If you’re not yet disgusted, please read on....
R-Rated SuperBad Clip Online By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2007 1:39 pm EST I can’t stress this enough: SuperBad is the best teen comedy since American Pie. It’s a must see, no questions asked. A new R-Rated clip recently “leaked” onto YouTube. It features a segment of the film where Jonah Hill tells the story of his childhood phallic drawing problem. I wonder what the MPAA must think about a clip like this being on YouTube....
