New Iron Man Photos By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2008 11:11 am EST Images Removed at request from Paramount SuperHeroHype has gotten their hands on a batch of cool new Iron Man photos. Who knows where they came from, but the Paramount logo is all over them. New Iron Man Photos By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2008 11:11 am EST Images Removed at request from Paramount SuperHeroHype has gotten their hands on a batch of cool new Iron Man photos....
Nicolas Cage Cast As Al Capone In The Untouchables Prequel By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2007 12:51 pm EST Nicolas Cage will play a young Al Capone in the a prequel to Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables. Robert DeNiro played the character in the original film. The Untouchables: Capone Rising follows Al Capone’s arrival in Chicago, Illinois and his dealings with cop Jimmy Malone, and his subsequent rise to power. Sean Connery won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Malone in the original film....
Red Riding Movie Trailer And Poster: Domestic Promos For Acclaimed UK Crime Trilogy By Russ Fischer/Jan. 8, 2010 4:56 pm EST I knew nothing about Red Riding until the trio of films played Telluride last year. They generated quite a response, to the point where Columbia snapped up remake rights for Steve Zaillian and Ridley Scott to work on. Meanwhile, IFC is distributing the original films in the US, and the idea of being able to see a great crime trilogy is hopefully pretty damn enticing....
Rimbaud Vs. Rambo By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 2, 2008 11:28 pm EST I don’t know about Rambo, but I’m certainly excited to see Rimbaud. The following piece of street art appeared in the Church MUNI stop in San Francisco. For those of you who don’t know (and I didn’t), Arthur Rimbaud was a 19th century French poet who has been identified as one of the creators of free verse. And while I’m not quite sure what exactly the point is (maybe someone in the comments can clear this up), I’m sure it has something to do with either war politics or art (but doesn’t everything?...
Star Trek Tickets Are Now On Sale By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2009 11:59 am EST Paramount Pictures has announced that presale tickets for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek have gone on sale today in most of the major theater chains (AMC, National Amusements, Pacific/Arclight, Regal…etc) Read the full press release after the jump. TOP THEATER CHAINS TO START SELLING “STAR TREK” EARLY SHOW TICKETS STARTING THIS FRIDAY, APRIL 17 May 7 Tickets Will Be Pre-Sold by AMC Theatres, National Amusements, Pacific/ArcLight, Regal & other theatre circuits HOLLYWOOD, CA (April 16, 2009) –Starting Friday, April 17, many of the nation’s top theater chains will start offering early show tickets for Bad Robot’s production of J....
Telluride Review: Lance Daly’s Kisses By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2008 2:27 am EST Writer/director Lance Daly described his film Kisses as a story about “how to escape if you can’t escape”. More specifically, it’s about two kids who run away from home and spend a “night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.” Sprinkled with realistic improvisational moments, Kisses is Lost in Translation but with two irish 10-year-olds....
The Host Director Bong Joon-Ho Chats About His Upcoming Sci-Fi Project, Snow Piercer By Devindra Hardawar/Oct. 13, 2009 10:18 am EST Along with Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho is one of the many great cinematic talents that heralded a new wave of film-making from South Korea. He’s perhaps most famous for his brilliant family-centered monster film, The Host, and his previous effort Memories of Murder breathed new life into the police procedural....
The Real Movie Poster: Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2008 2:04 pm EST Okay, so the movie poster we ran yesterday for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler turned out to be an early composite by the marketing company working on the film. In Contention has the new digital file for the final one-sheet, seen below, which is essentially the AFI Fest poster with an added credit block at the bottom....
The The Eclipse Movie Trailer: A Mature Ghost Story With Dueling Actors By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2010 12:15 pm EST This isn’t a Twilight trailer. If that’s what you’re hoping for, move along. Instead, this is the trailer for The Eclipse, a ghost story with a literary bent and a solid cast. Ciarán Hinds and Aidan Quinn duel throughout this trailer, focused as they are on the interest and affections of Iben Hjejle....
Thomas Dekker Cast In Elm Street Rehash By Brendon Connelly/April 16, 2009 7:06 am EST The word on the street is that Sarah Connor Chronicles has been axed by Fox. I can’t say I’d blame them. Should that leave you wondering – by any chance – what will become of that nice young Thomas Dekker chap, I have your answer. According to Ryan Rotten at Shock Till You Drop, Dekker has been cast as Jesse in the new Nightmare on Elm Street....
TIFF Review: The Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2009 8:12 am EST The Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man is very comparable to Alexander Payne’s masterwork Election, which just happens to be one of my favorite films of all time. Both films are brilliant dark comedies about teachers who are trying to do their best, trying to do the right thing, and somewhere along the way, make one small bad decision which spirals out of control into the biggest mess you’ve ever seen....
Trivia: Matt Damon And Jake Gyllenhaal Turned Down Avatar By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2010 12:04 pm EST I always love learning which actors were offered and turned down roles in films. Did you know that Sean Connery was originally offered the role of Morpheus in The Matrix? He supposedly turned down the role saying he couldn’t understand the script. Years later, he said that he chose to do The League of Extraordinary Gentleman despite not understanding the project, because he regretted turning both The Matrix and Lord of the Rings down....
VOTD: New York’s Jedi Academy Teaches SaberSegging By Hunter Stephenson/May 6, 2009 12:00 am EST It’s done: Human beings have fought to the death using the weapon of the future and cops’ transportation of the future. The event went down at the New York Jedi Academy—George Lucas wants his cut—and painfully birthed a new geek term: SaberSegging. Or, for the luddites, sword-fighting that utilizes both Segways and the glorious lightsabers of Star Wars....
VOTD: Ninja Kittens By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 11, 2008 12:00 am EST /Film friend Dan Trachtenberg sent over this really great Corolla commercial called “Ninja Kittens”. Directed by Garth Davis, who was also responsible for the parkour-inspired XBox cops and robbers “Jump In” commercial. And before anyone asks, the song is “The Crash Theme” by Bot’Ox. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....
VOTD: Wes Anderson’s Spider-Man By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2010 2:00 pm EST What if Wes Anderson directed the reboot of Spider-Man? Who would it star? What would it look and sound like? Imagine no longer because Jeff Loveness decided to show us, in a parody trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man movie that will never happen. Embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader stmccoll for the tip. VOTD: Wes Anderson’s Spider-Man...
Willem Dafoe Says John Carter Of Mars Starts Filming In London Next Week By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 7, 2010 11:00 am EST Willem Dafoe is out on the publicity rounds for Daybreakers, and fielding questions from i09 about Andrew Stanton’s John Carter of Mars in which he’ll be playing Tars Tarkas, a ten foot tall martian warrior. There’s some things he would talk about – “I saw [Stanton] recently because we start in London, for studio stuff....
A Nightmare On Elm Street Remake Fan-Created Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2009 1:38 am EST While Platinum Dunes is hard at work casting a remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Christopher Johnson created a concept trailer for his agent to demonstrate his passion and take for a 21st Century Freddy Krueger. And while it is very unlikely that Johnson will be cast as Freddy, no one can deny that this trailer is impressive, especially in terms of a fan production....
Another Kick Ass Watchmen Poster By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 7, 2008 2:26 pm EST Yahoo Movies has premiered a new movie poster for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. Pretty cool, I must admit, but I’m still in love with the previous poster which shows The Comedian falling through the air to the New York City streets. Another Kick Ass Watchmen Poster By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 7, 2008 2:26 pm EST Yahoo Movies has premiered a new movie poster for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen....
Box Office: Gran Torino Grabs $10M Friday, Could Reach $30M Weekend By Steve Mason/Jan. 9, 2009 10:58 pm EST Clint Eastwood may have saved his biggest for last. If Gran Torino (Warner Bros) is, as he has hinted, his final big screen acting role, he is going out on top. The 78-year-old multi-Oscar winning director has the #1 movie in America, and the biggest opening of his career. Gran Torino, the redemptive story of a racist Korean War veteran named Walt Kowalski, has expanded to just over 2,800 playdates with an estimated $10M Friday....
Box Office Tracking: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans Could Reach $24M By Steve Mason/Jan. 22, 2009 6:00 am EST Michael Sheen has two movies in release this weekend. The classically-trained Welsh actor plays Lucien in the wildly commercial Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (Sony), opening on about 3,000 screens, and he plays David Frost in Frost/Nixon (Universal), expanding to about 800 playdates. He is a classically-trained stage actor, who has starred in heavyweight UK productions of Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Amadeus and The Dresser, was somehow overlooked by both Hollywood Foreign Press and Oscar voters when he starred as Tony Blair in 2006’s The Queen....
