Bruno Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2009 1:38 pm EST Universal Pictures has finally unleashed the official poster for Bruno, is Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow-up to Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. I’m actually kinda surprise they didn’t go for something more outrageous. I’d definitely loving the tagline, “Borat was so 2006.” Check out the full poster after the jump. Click on the image below to enlarge....
Bryan Singer And Brandon Routh Off Superman Sequel? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2008 1:38 pm EST A sequel to Superman Returns has been in limbo since the beginning. Warner Bros was unhappy with how the film performed, and fans were unhappy with the lack of action and unnecessary out-of-canon third act plot twist. But director Bryan Singer showed up at Comic Con expressing his desire to make a sequel that would give the fans what they wanted....
Clark Duke To Kick Ass In Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass! By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 15, 2008 6:51 pm EST With buzz climbing for his performance in the October comedy, Sex Drive, actor Clark Duke has landed a role in Matthew Vaughn’s violent comic book flick Kick-Ass. Ever since we laughed our asses off at Duke being repeatedly mistaken for a girl on the web series, Clark and Michael, we’ve hoped to see him stake a claim in cool features, so this is great news....
Confirmed: Michael Caine Joins Nolan’s Inception By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2009 1:28 pm EST Earlier this month, Michael Caine told MTV that Christopher Nolan might have a part for him in his new science fiction action film Inception. I didn’t really take much credence to the quote, because Caine had told me a couple days earlier at ShoWest that he had not yet gotten a call about the project. And with last night’s addition of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, no mention was made of Caine’s possible involvement....
Confirmed: Zoe Saldana Cast As Uhura In JJ Abrams Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 17, 2007 4:37 pm EST Zoe Saldana (The Terminal, Guess Who, and James Cameron’s Avatar) has been cast as Uhura in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. Played by Nichelle Nichols in the original series, Uhura is from the United States of Africa and speaks Swahili (her name means “Freedom”). She remained part of the USS Enterprise bridge crew throughout the series and movie spin-off, and later rose to the rank of commander....
Cool Stuff: GandALF T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 1, 2010 10:24 pm EST Teefuy t-shirt of the day is designed by Sergio37. GandALF is a mash-up of Alf and the wizard Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings series. The bad news is that the t-shirt is only being sold for 24 hours, today (Saturday, January 2nd 2010) only. The good news is that the t-shirt is only $9, plus $2 shipping....
Cool Stuff: Jim Horwat’s Movie Comic Illustrations By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2009 10:00 pm EST You might remember seeing Jim Horwat’s Back to the Future Tribute a couple weeks back, well I just realized that Jim has done a bunch of black and white movie comic illustrations that are worth checking out. Above is The Big Lebowski. He is selling 11"x17" prints on his website for only $20 plus shipping....
David Fincher Attached To Pawn Sacrifice, Circling The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2010 7:19 am EST Ah, spring, the season when we hear about a whole bunch of possible new David Fincher projects that he’ll very possibly never end up actually making. We love it when Fincher does make a movie, but between each one there’s always that long span of time where he’ll be attached to one feature after another....
Derrick Comedy Appearing At Mystery Team Screenings In Los Angeles This Week By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2010 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. On Saturday Night I had a chance to see Mystery Team again for the first time since the 2009 Sundance Film Festival midnight premiere. Mystery Team is one of those movies that I get e-mails week after week, from readers thanking me for recommending the film, as they probably wouldn’t have otherwise sought it out....
Diablo Cody Goes To Sweet Valley High By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2009 6:44 pm EST The book series was created by Francine Pascal in 1983, and was written by many ghostwriters over the twenty year history. The books revolved around the lives of teenage twin sisters Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, who lived in the fictional town of Sweet Valley, California.
Duncan Jones’ Moon Deserves A Bigger Opening By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2009 1:25 pm EST Moon is such a wonderful indie sci-fi film. I encourage anyone near New York and LA to see this film on June 12th. Hopefully people in other cities will get the chance to see this film on the big screen. via: Io9
Early Buzz: Brian K Vaughan’s Post-Apocalyptic Heist Screenplay The Vault Is “Ocean’s 11 Meets Children Of Men/2012” By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2010 11:23 pm EST I usually don’t write about projects that don’t yet have a buyer, but I’m a big fan of comic book writer turned screenwriter Brian K. Vaughan, and have been watching his every move. Vaughan is best known for the critically acclaimed Y: The Last Man Series and various other comic books including Runaways....
Hostel 3 Moving Ahead Without Eli Roth By Hunter Stephenson/June 22, 2008 9:50 pm EST The franchise that floated “torture porn” into news offices this decade like a message in a bottle now looks to join the endless straight-to-DVD knockoffs it spawned. We’re speculating that Hostel 3 will bypass a theatrical release, but Bloody Disgusting has confirmed that early talks have started inside Lionsgate/Screen Gems to make a second sequel a reality....
Jackass 2.5 To Be Released Online For FREE By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 12, 2007 4:16 pm EST Instead Jackass 2.5 will be released exclusively for two weeks through the web. This is probably the biggest single move towards online movie distribution by a major studio to date. The 64-minute film will be offered online for free starting on December 19th through Blockbuster (blockbuster.jackassworld.com). The film uses unused footage from the second Jackass film, combined with $2 million worth of new footage....
John Singleton To Direct Abduction By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2010 1:28 pm EST John Singleton has signed on to direct The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner’s next project — a Bourne-styled action film called Abduction. Lionsgate acquired the spec script after a week long bidding war in February. Rumor has it that the project sold for close to $1 million. Singleton is of course the two-time Oscar-nominated writer/director of Boyz in the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Shaft, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and Four Brothers....
LOL: Harvey Weinstein Suggests Appropriate PR Tactics To Errol Morris By Russ Fischer/Jan. 25, 2010 2:39 pm EST Some of the most entertaining moments in the movie business come about when one overbearing personality gets a chance not just to be a total dick to another, but to be relatively justified in doing so. Harvey Weinstein is a master of these moments. When thinking about talking crap about the responsibilities of Mr....
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McG To Direct Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2007 6:11 pm EST Last month a rumor circulated the internet claiming that The Halcyon Company was in talks with McG to direct Terminator 4. Now JoBlo has confirmed that the action director is officially signed on to helm Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (a horrible title, we know… could a horrible movie be far off?). I’ve said it before, and most people disagree with me, but I believe McG’s Charlies Angels is one of the best fun just purely to be fun action movies in recent years....
Mission Impossible: Rush Hour 3 Opening Disappoints By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2007 1:35 am EST Last year CNN published an article titled “Mission: Impossible III opening disappoints.” The $150 million movie starring Tom Cruise made a whopping $48 million at the box office on it’s opening weekend, but was somehow considered a “disappointment.” That Monday, the same type of article ran in almost every newspaper on the planet. In one giant swoop, M:I:III was declared a financial failure by almost every major media outlet....
Paul WS Anderson Directing Buck Rogers 3D By Russ Fischer/March 25, 2010 8:06 am EST Remember when Frank Miller was set to direct a new Buck Rogers film? Then remember when The Spirit arrived, was a shambling mess, and tanked, after which news on the Frank Miller / Buck Rogers front went quiet really fast? Well, a Buck Rogers revival is still in the cards, and I’ll let you make the call about whether the new director is more or less likely to do it justice than Miller....
