Crazy 4 Cult 2 Poster - How Many Movie Characters Can You Recognize? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2008 1:47 pm EST Gallery 1988: LA will be holding Crazy 4 Cult 2 on Friday, August 22nd from 7-11pm. Basically, it’s a pop culture-infused art show hosted by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier. The first show featured anything from Jay and Silent Bob to oil paintings of the guys from Shuan of the Dead playing with toys....
Crazy On The Outside Movie Trailer; Tim Allen’s Directorial Debut By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 2, 2009 1:03 am EST Tim Allen must have a lot of friends in Hollywood. Otherwise, I have no idea how he could convince so many great actors to show up in his atrocious looking directorial debut, Crazy on the Outside. Allen stars as a man who spent three years in jail, and is now out trying to reconnect with his family and piece his life back together....
David Lynch Gucci Commercial By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 2, 2007 1:00 am EST I’ll admit up front – If it wasn’t for a lack of news today, I probably wouldn’t be posting this. Little known fact: David Lynch actually does commercial work (you can see some of his past efforts here). Well check out this new Gucci advertisement by Lynch set to the tune Heart of Glass. While most Lynch films require multiple viewings, I think I’ll keep this one singular....
Disney Denies The Return Of Captain EO By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2009 9:28 pm EST Disney head Bob Iger denies previously reported rumors that Disney will be bringing the Francis Ford Coppola-directed Michael Jackson sci-fi 3D musical Captain EO back to Disney theme parks. A couple weeks ago the rumor showed up online claiming that the film would return to the Southern California theme park in January 2010, as a tribute to Michael Jackson....
Early Reader Review: Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 10, 2010 2:00 pm EST /Film reader Rolo Tomassi has seen Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables, and provides us with a short, spoiler free review of the early cut, after the jump. Context: As always, remember that the film isn’t finished until the junket press screenings. This early cut of the film might be very different than the movie which hits screens on August 13th 2010....
Enron Movie Conspiracy Of Fools To Star Leonardo DiCaprio By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2007 5:55 am EST Warner Bros wants to tell the story of Enron’s collapse with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. The rights are being finalized as we speak, to greenlight a film based on Conspiracy of Fools, the book from New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning scribe Sheldon Turner has been hired to adapt the script....
Final Star Trek Poster Unveiled By David Chen/March 27, 2009 8:36 pm EST The final Star Trek poster has been unveiled via MySpace Movies/Trailer Park. Hit the jump to catch the whole image, and click through to get the high-res image over at MySpace. As always, let us know what you think in the comments: As a Trek fan, I’m really looking forward to J.J. Abrams’ reboot of the franchise, but only two words come to mind when I look at this poster: “blurry” and “disappointing....
First Look: Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2008 11:03 am EST Ioncinema has the first photo from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche, New York. Click on the image to enlarge. Many of you will recognize Kaufman’s name from his unique screenwriting credits: Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. The movie stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton and Tilda Swinton....
First Look: Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf By Peter Sciretta/July 25, 2007 12:52 am EST The Los Angeles Times has a first look at Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf. The article includes two brand spanking new images (seen above and to the right). Here is an interesting clipping from the newspaper’s feature: His knack for a good scrap is on show in one of the film’s pivotal fight scenes when Beowulf battles Grendel in the nude, mano a beast-o....
French Documentary Shows Normal People Are Willing To Kill On Television By David Chen/March 18, 2010 5:20 am EST It’s been almost 40 years since psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted his infamous Yale experiments, in which he showed that people are willing to electrocute a random stranger to the point of death in the context of a science experiment. Milgram was trying to show something about the human condition, and gleaned insights that were particularly useful in light of the Holocaust: normal, everyday people can easily be swayed by structures of authority....
Full Length Transformers 2 Trailer Attached To Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2008 10:16 pm EST It was announced that the full trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be attached to JJ Abrams’ Star Trek, which hits theaters on May 8th 2009. The teaser trailer is due out by the end of the year, possibly attached to Eagle Eye, which is written and produced Transformers 2 screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman....
Gary Oldman Claims Next Batman Movie Starts Shooting In 2010 By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2009 10:24 am EST During the Book of Eli presentation at Comic-Con 2009, Gary Oldman was asked when we would be seeing a third Batman movie. I, like many others, were expecting the standard answer “we’re waiting on Chris…” But we got something else entirely. According to Oldman, a sequel to The Dark Knight is not only happening, but it begins shooting in 2010....
Grindhouse DVD Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2007 6:09 am EST Grindhouse hits theaters on Friday, but we’re already talking about the eventual DVD release. Why? Because we know it’s going to be packed with special features. And how do we know? Robert and Quentin told us it would be. The DVD release will feature the international extended cuts of each film. Tarantino told us that Death Proof might actually clock in at at 115 minutes:...
I Am Legend Sequel? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2007 8:59 pm EST I Am Legend screenwriter Mark Protosevich is already talking about a potential sequel. The LA Times writes: “There is no word yet on how Protosevich plans to extend the story of lone military scientist Robert Neville’s struggle to survive against a mutant populace. But it’s a good bet that he’s setting it at least 10 years in the future....
Jennifer’s Body Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2009 10:37 pm EST The film tells the story of a small-town high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) who is possessed by a hungry demon and begins eating boys. But will this film actually make us scared of Megan Fox’s sexiness? I enjoyed the script when I originally read it around the time Juno was really hot. The trailer looks good but if I had any complaint, it would be that the dialogue seems a bit too PG-13, compared to the R-rated sex and violence imagery....
By Russ Fischer/April 5, 2010 2:15 pm EST Pajiba is hearing that all previous versions of Red Sonja are scrapped and that McGowan is gone. All of which had been more or less evident. Milennium Films is looking for another writer to rewrite the last draft by David N. White, and further talent to follow. This all follows on a Robert Rodriguez interview from SXSW, where he said that Sonja wasn’t a Troublemaker production, but rather “it belonged to another company that had financing problems....
Michael Jackson Dies At Age 50 By Devindra Hardawar/June 25, 2009 9:32 pm EST It’s probably hard for someone who hasn’t lived through the 80s to grasp the fact that Jackson was once considered a badass. Another iconic representation of this is the Martin Scorsese directed music video for Bad (here’s a Youtube link to the 7-min version of the video): Michael Jackson – Bad (Long Version) sélectionné dans Rock / Pop et Clips...
Michael Mann’s Public Enemies - What Did You Think? By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2009 9:48 am EST Michael Mann’s Public Enemies hits theaters today, and we want to hear what you thought of it. Is it more Miami Vice than Heat? Is the High Definition cinematography as annoying as some people claim it is? Or is this Mann’s best film in the last decade? What did you like, what did you hate?...
Movie Trailer: Mike Judge’s Extract By David Chen/April 8, 2009 4:50 pm EST
Ricky Gervais Talks Cemetery Junction And His Animated TV Show By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2009 10:00 am EST Hopefully you watched the great little teaser for Cemetery Junction, the new film written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. As great as that clip is, however, it doesn’t really give you any idea what the film is about. For that we’ll have to go directly to Gervais himself, who spoke about the film and his animated The Ricky Gervais Show while promoting The Invention of Lying in Toronto....
