George Miller Shows Off The Cars Of Mad Max 4 On Video By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 24, 2009 9:01 pm EST George Miller has appeared on ABC News in Australia, showing off the cars he’s having built for Mad Max 4 and discussing his plans for the movie. This includes some hard facts on the casting. After a short sharp burst of rumours, it’s good to get some straight and low-down....
Hancock 2 Actually Happening; Writers Hired By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2009 10:00 pm EST Well, it’s Hollywood, so hiring writers doesn’t mean by a long shot that the movie is actually going to happen. But just a week after Peter Berg was widely quoted talking about possible angles for a Hancock sequel, Columbia has hired Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara to write Hancock 2. They’ll work with Peter Berg and Will Smith to develop ideas for the film; no plot details are specified right now....
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood PG-Rating; Black Freighter Gets Restricted By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 8, 2009 1:40 am EST The last two Harry Potter films were rated PG-13, which makes sense because the books got darker as Harry and friends got older. In a move that has shocked some fans, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince has been given a PG-Rating, for ‘For scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality’. It’s been a few years but I don’t remember the book being all that violent or edgy in the first place....
Imogen Poots Cast In Shakespeare Spin-Off Cordelia And Hideo Nakata’s Chatroom By Brendon Connelly/May 17, 2009 11:51 am EST There’s been a pair of stories in Screen Daily that tell us of two different films to have just cast Imogen Poots in lead roles. There’s Chatroom, an internet inspired thriller from Hideo Nakata, director of the Ring films, and there’s also Cordelia, a spin-off from Shakespeare’s King Lear that revolves around the life of Lear’s daughter after her exile to France....
Jason Reitman Adapting Joyce Maynard’s Labor Day By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 2, 2009 8:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The book tells the story of a long Labor Day weekend through the eyes of a then 13-year-old boy who along with his reclusive depressed divorced mother are willingly taken “hostage” by an escaped convict in their own home. Here is the official plot synopsis:...
John Lennon Biopic “Nowhere Boy” In The Works By David Chen/Aug. 29, 2008 6:14 am EST Numerous sources are reporting that Sam Taylor-Wood, a visual artist whose 2008 short film Love You More was nominated for the Short Film Palme d’Or, is slated to direct Nowhere Boy, a biopic based on the life of John Lennon. The project is now moving forward, and according to Screen Daily, the film will cover the story of John’s early life, with prominent roles for his mother and aunt, as well as for Paul McCartney, whose musical partnership with Lennon ending up being a fateful one (to say the least)....
Koen Mortier To Adapt Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2008 3:32 pm EST Koen Mortier (Ex-Drummer) will write and direct a big screen adaptation of Fight Club/Choke author Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Haunted. This is the first property optioned by Brian Levy’s new management and production company, New School Media. I’ll let the official description from the book explain the plot: “Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise....
Must Watch: Bonecrusher Transforms In New Transformers TV Spot By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2007 10:50 am EST Oh My God. You must watch this new television spot for Transformers where Michael Bay takes a camera rolling under a car during a chase sequence to capture it’s transformation into Bonecrusher. Incredible. This gives me hope that there might be 20 more moments like this that haven’t been revealed yet in the clips, trailers, and advertisements....
Netflix’s First Set-Top Box By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2008 2:16 pm EST Netflix has released the first set top box which will allow you to live-stream movies to your television on demand. The first unit is produced by Roku for only $99, and all you need is a netflix subscription to use it. I think I’m more excited about this device than anyone else I know. It’s clearly the future of how we’re going to watch movies....
New Dark Knight Photo: Batman Rides His BatPod By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2007 12:00 pm EST Warner Bros has released a new photo of Batman riding his BatPod in the new Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. Click on the image to enlarge. The film is set to hit theaters on July 18th 2008. New Dark Knight Photo: Batman Rides His BatPod By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2007 12:00 pm EST...
Pineapple Express Alternative Ending By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2009 10:19 pm EST The DVD release of Pineapple Express claims to have an “alternative ending”, but it pretty much seems like something that was created specifically for the home video release or maybe for an unused after credits sequence button. So what really happened to Dale and Saul after the big climactic action sequence that concludes the film? Check it out after the jump....
Robert Zemeckis Can’t Confirm Or Deny Roger Rabbit Sequel Rumors By Peter Sciretta/July 23, 2009 11:07 am EST Director Robert Zemeckis was asked during the Disney panel if the rumors were true that he was going to make a Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel. Zemeckis smiled and went on to dodge the question, saying that he could “neither confirm or deny” the rumor. One would think that if there was nothing to it what-so-ever, he would have flat out denied the story....
Rumor Killed: Michel Gondry Will NOT Direct Ripley’s Believe It Or Not By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2007 12:00 am EST Earlier today we published a rumor that music video turned feature director Michel Gondry was in talks to direct Jim Carrey in Ripley’s Believe it or Not, which Tim Burton recently walked away from. We had and expressed our doubts about the rumor, but wanted it so badly to be true....
Sony Pictures Classics To Buy/Bury The Wackness?! By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2008 7:28 pm EST Let’s take a look at some of the recent Sony Pictures Classics releases, and how well they faired at the box office: Youth Without Youth – $196,000: I don’t care how experimental or how badly reviewed this film was, Sony could have slapped ads up touting “Francis Ford Coppola’s First Film in Ten Years” or “From the Director of The Godfather”....
Sundance: Rocket Science Movie Review By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 20, 2007 7:26 am EST Rocket Science is not about Science, nor is it about Rockets. It’s about that first High School love. In the running tradition of such films as Election, Rushmore, and Squid and the Whale, Rocket Science is about a unpopular high school student named Hal Heffner, who can’t spit out a complete sentence without stuttering. He’s one of those losers you knew in high school who sits in the corner of the cafeteria hoping not to be noticed....
The /Filmcast Goes Filmspotting, Tonight At 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST By David Chen/Nov. 17, 2008 2:20 pm EST Join us tonight at Slashfilm’s live page at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST, as we run down the week’s worth of film news (including Ridley Scott’s Monopoly and the new Watchmen and Star Trek trailers!) and review James Bond’s latest adventure, Quantum of Solace. Adam Kempenaar will be joining us from the illustrious Filmspotting podcast....
The Duplass Brothers’ Baghead Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 1, 2008 12:40 pm EST If you still haven’t seen The Duplass Brothers’ The Puffy Chair, you should netflix it now because it’s everything that is right with real independent filmmaking. And no, I’m not talking about multi-million dollay mini major movie studio funded independent filmmaking. I’m talking about a bunch of talented people who just go out and are able to make something out of nothing....
Three High Resolution Photos From The Sorcerer’s Apprentice By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2009 9:00 am EST Earlier today, Walt Disney Pictures released the first movie trailer for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (watch it here). We just received another e-mail from the mouse house with three new high resolution photos, a logo treatment and a an official plot synopsis for the film. Check out the photos and the plot info, after the jump....
Transformers 2: Devastator And Fallen Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2009 10:00 am EST ACToys has gotten their hands on images of some of the most anticipated character’s from Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Ever since it was rumored that Devastator would be in the film, fans have been clamoring to see what he might look at. When the Super Bowl teaser trailer hit and showed Optimus Prime being swung like a rag doll from just one of the huge contructicons that makes up this monster of a transformer, it got every-one’s attention....
Transformers 2 Video Game Concept Art By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2009 4:02 pm EST The official website for the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen video game reveals some interesting new concept art. Of course, the art was created for the video game, and the movie. But since the game is supposedly closely tied into the film’s plot, I thought the concept paintings still might be relavant. Plus, I am a sucker for concept art....
