VOTD: Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis And Jon Hamm By Hunter Stephenson/Dec. 22, 2008 12:00 am EST Two ferns and two of the greatest men of their generation, Mad Men’s Jon Hamm and Between Two Ferns’ Zach Galifianakis, sit in the dark and cut a slab of funny magic. Excerpt: ZG: You are in The Day the Earth Stood Still. Hamm: Yes. [nods] ZG: Why? Hamm: That’s a good question....
Captain America Is DEAD, Movie Still In Development By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2007 4:07 pm EST Marvel has been selling a whole lot of comic books with their Civil War series. Last year Spider-Man was forced to reveal his secret identity to everyone. And now Captain America has been killed off. America is fatally shot by a sniper in the 25th issue, which arrived in stores yesterday. The sentinel of liberty’s fight for right began in 1941....
Comic Con: Impressions On Game-Changing Unaired Dollhouse Episode “Epitaph One” By Adam Quigley/July 24, 2009 11:56 pm EST Leave it to Joss Whedon to completely alter everything we’ve come to expect from a show within the course of a single episode. Dollhouse may have got off to a slow start, but if the ridiculously packed house at today’s Comic Con panel is any indication, I’m not the only one who thinks it eventually found its groove and developed into something great....
Editors Blog: Getting Over The Bug, The Wonders Of Wireless Internet, And Paramount Lawyers By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2008 12:37 pm EST I love my cell phone wireless internet card. I don’t know how I would have survived Sundance without one. It’s an amazing thing to have the ability to be online anywhere. Right now I’m on the way to SFO to pick up a friend from the East Coast from the airport....
First Look: Steven Seagal In Kill Switch By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 23, 2008 12:32 pm EST Cinematical has a lovely gallery of images for the new Steven Seagal starrer Kill Switch, including the spoilerish one above. Alas, fans hoping for a theatrical comeback from the widow’s peaked wonder (and latest addition to the Geek Squad) will have to make due with an October DVD release and this angina-inducing logline… Detective Jacob Stillwell (Steven Seagal) is one of the most celebrated homicide detectives in the country....
How To Train Your Dragon Concept Art: Much Cooler Looking Than The Movie? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2010 1:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Dreamworks Animation released some of the concept images for How To Train Your Dragon in Empire Magazine. When I wrote the title “How To Train Your Dragon Concept Art: Much Cooler Looking Than the Movie?”, I wasn’t just stating the obvious: that concept art almost always looks much cooler than the finished film....
Iron Man 2 Video Game Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 22, 2009 6:48 am EST IGN has posted a first look at the video game adaptation of Iron Man 2. But don’t expect to get much of a glimpse at scenes from the movie sequel as comic book writer Matt Fraction created an all-new story for the game. The press release explains: This brand-new tale takes gamers deeper into the world of Iron Man, adding to the excitement of the upcoming Marvel Studios film....
JLA Update: Tom Welling As Superman? Live Action NOT Motion Capture? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2007 11:34 pm EST Am I the only one starting to get tired of all the recent JLA news and rumors? It seems like anytime new word breaks, it’s quickly followed the next day by a retraction with new exciting information. It’s not that I don’t believe the film is going to happen, it’s definitely going down....
John Romita, Jr Describes His Animated Kick-Ass Sequence By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2009 12:30 pm EST I think I’m one of the few that is still on the fence about Kick-Ass, the upcoming adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr’s comic book by director Matthew Vaughn. I wasn’t as wowed by the Comic Con footage as many were. But one of the things I am intrigued about with respect to the project is Romita’s animated sequence that will appear somewhere in the flick....
Kristen Bell Doesn’t Think A Veronica Mars Movie Will Ever Happen By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2009 12:00 pm EST In March, show creator Rob Thomas gave an update on the developing Veronica Mars movie, stating that “while the pitch went well and I don’t think the movie’s dead, right now it’s looking depressing.” We haven’t heard anything since, and assumed that it’s fallen into the deep dark depths of development heck....
Leonardo DiCaprio To Reboot WarGames? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2009 8:51 pm EST Production Weekly is reporting that Leonardo DiCaprio is looking to produce a reboot of the classic 1983 sci-fi hacker film WarGames. The original WarGames is a great geek flick, a flashback to the days when a 1200 baud modem was fast, and capable of destroying the world. Plus, this is a movie which features the first cinematic reference to a “firewall”....
LOL: One Critic Calls The Spirit One Of The Best Movies Of The Year By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 21, 2008 7:12 pm EST /Film reader Koorck sends over the below new television advertisement for Frank Miller’s The Spirit, which includes a quote calling it “one of the best films of the year!” But wait? The early reviews pegged Frank Miller’s comic book movie adaptation as somewhere between the worst movie of all time, or one of the worst films of the year....
Michael Bay Brags About HD-DVD’s Inevitable Death By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2008 11:29 pm EST You didn’t expect Michael Bay to keep quiet about the recent developments in the DVD war. If you haven’t been keeping up, Warner announced their exclusivity and New Line followed. Bu-Ray owns 70% of the studios, which puts the format as the likely winner of the war. When Paramount/Dreamworks announced their exclusivity with the competing HD-DVD format, Bay was very vocal against the decision (at one point even publicly quitting Transformers 2 over the whole deal)....
Michael Cera Stops Holding Out On Arrested Development Movie By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 24, 2009 4:44 pm EST Nameless inside sources have apparently told E! Online’s Watch With Kristin that Michael Cera has buckled and agreed to board the Arrested Development movie. I suspect the film would have happened in some fashion even without him, but this should make the fans happier and more optimistic at least. I like Michael. He’s genuinely charming, I think....
Michael Pena In The Green Hornet By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 23, 2008 10:59 pm EST Michael Pena revealed to IESB that Seth Rogen has offered him a role in The Green Hornet. No word on which character Pena will play in the film. Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg are still working on the script. Rogen stars as the Hornet, and director Stephen Chow co-stars as Kato. Rogen worked with Pena on Observe and Report, which is due to hit theaters next year....
Mike Nichols, David Mamet And Martin Scorsese To Remake Akira Kurosawa’s High And Low By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2008 2:16 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Mike Nichols (Closer, Charlie Wilson’s War) will direct a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low. Based loosely on Evan Hunter’s King’s Ransom, the original 1963 detective thriller that tells the story of an executive named Kingo Gondo, who learns that his son has been kidnapped....
Narnia Screenwriters In Talks To Write Captain America By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2008 6:20 pm EST The Chronicles of Narnia scribes Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are in negotiations to write the screenplay for Marvel Studios’ The First Avenger: Captain America. Last week the company announced that Joe Johnston had been brought aboard the project to direct. Markus and McFeely’s pitch must have been good, because none of their previous writing credits indicate that they are fitting for a World War II superhero film....
New Alice In Wonderland Image: The White Queen Meets The Dormouse By Brendon Connelly/July 14, 2009 12:25 pm EST The fourth picture in a set we’ve already been getting excited over (and more than once, too) Empire have just revealed a fresh look at Anne Hathaway as The White Queen in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. What makes this new image particularly interesting is the inclusion of a little furry friend, but more on that later....
New Photos: Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2008 1:34 pm EST The Wrestler hits theaters on December 19th 2008.
Pixar And Luxo Settle Cute Lamp Dispute By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 5, 2009 10:33 am EST Two months after Norwegian lamp manufacturers Luxo AS threatened surprise legal action, it seems that they and Pixar have settled their dispute over the hop-happy anglepoise mascot. Details are of course shrouded in the expected fog of corporate secrecy but, thankfully, there’s no longer going to be any need to get the courts involved. If there was some kind of payment agreed, there’s not any indication of how much....
