Disney/Pixar Is Sending Out Body Parts In Boxes?! By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2008 11:56 am EST Newspaper reporter Chris Arnold received a package from Disney, inside he found a couple body parts… two ears. Not long after, Arnold received another package with another body part, this time an entire arm, in another package addressed from Disney. Hast Disney gone insane? Nope, it’s just part of promotion for Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story Mania!...
Fanboys Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 30, 2008 7:30 pm EST Earlier this week The Weinstein Co announced that they would be moving their Star Wars geek road trip comedy Fanboys back once again to February 6th 2009. Set in 1998 the film, starring Jay Baruchel, Dan Fogler, Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, and Kristen Bell is a heart-warming comedy that follows a group of young, passionate Star Wars fans on a cross-country quest to break into George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch and watch “Star Wars: Episode 1- The Phantom Menace,” before it’s released....
First Look: Corey Feldman In Lost Boys 2 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 24, 2007 11:02 pm EST Mad Movies has the first photo of Corey Feldman in action as Edgar Frog in Warner Home Video’s Lost Boys 2: The Tribe. In the photo above, Frog fires a Holy Water Bazooka, likely at some villainous vampire foe. Official Plot Description: “This sequel takes us to the shady surf city of Luna Bay, California, where vampires quickly dispatch anyone who crosses their path....
Funny People Viral Marketing: Yo Teach! By Brendon Connelly/May 28, 2009 9:44 am EST There’s scope for a frightening amount of ‘alternate reality marketing’ with Funny People. Many of the lead characters are involved in the entertainment industry, from TV to cinema to the stand up circuit. Indeed, the Night of Funny People comedy show which saw many of the cast performing sets in character, while being filmed for the movie, was the first opening into this world available to the public....
Geek Deal: The Twilight Zone 28-DVD Set For $112 By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2010 2:14 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The price is today’s Gold Box Deal of the Day and will disappear at midnight, so act now. For the first time ever, find all 156 complete episodes of Rod Serling’s groundbreaking series in one box set, packed with exciting extras! Travel to another dimension of sight and sound again and again through these stellar remastered high-definition film transfers....
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2007 5:26 am EST Universal has released the first one-sheet for the Dennis Dugan directed comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. The movie stars Adam Sandler and Kevin James as two straight firefighters who pose as a gay married couple in order to qualify for their department’s domestic partner benefits. “They’re as straight as can be, but don’t tell anyone....
Iguana Rage: Nicolas Cage’s Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans Headed Straight To DVD? By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 26, 2009 1:30 pm EST UPDATE: According to a publicist who represents the producers and emailed me regarding the rumor.: “No - we have a slow 35 city roll out.” So, it appears many people beyond NY/LA will have a chance to dance in the moonlight with a cracked out Nicolas Cage....
Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D Movie Poster By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 9, 2008 2:55 am EST The first poster for this summer’s Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D is now online, and yes, it’s a poster for a movie, not some theme park extravaganza. Those stalactites almost look like the teeth of a giant monster. Weird. And is that Nessie in the background playing the old “I’m crushing your head” game with School Ties star Brendan Fraser?...
Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up Follow-Up Announces Cast By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2008 9:04 pm EST Judd Apatow’s directorial follow-up to Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin has announced its principal cast: Adam Sandler Seth Rogen Leslie Mann Apatow is the sole writer of this project, and details are being kept under wraps. Apatow might make an appearance at SXSW tomorrow for the premiere of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and if that happens, I would expect some details to be revealed....
Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation Of Christ On Hulu By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2009 2:57 pm EST Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ is now available for free viewing on Hulu . While I don’t recommend that you watch the two hours and 43 minute movie on your computer, the option is now available to you. Scorsese’s account of the life of Jesus Christ is based on the controversial 1960 novel of the same name....
Mike Myers Is Writing Austin Powers 4 By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2008 4:21 pm EST Following the epic disaster that was The Love Guru, Mike Myers is going back to well and is writing a fourth Austin Powers movie with Baby Mama’s Mike McCullers. According to Nikki Finke, the story will be “very personal with a father and son theme loosely based on his own life.” That’s right, the story will focus on the father son relationship of Dr....
Paul Thomas Anderson Casts Philip Seymour Hoffman In His Next Movie By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 2, 2009 8:59 pm EST It took five years between Punch Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood, but we won’t have to wait until 2012 to see Paul Thomas Anderson next film. That’s right, the filmmaker has decided on his next project, set it up at Universal, and cast Philip Seymour Hoffman, who has played supporting characters in most of Anderson’s previous films, in the lead role....
Rain Of Madness On iTunes By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 27, 2008 11:59 am EST Paramount has released Rain of Madness, the entire 30-minute documentary about the movie within the movie (" I’m the dude playin’ the dude, disguised as another dude! “), for free on iTunes. “German born documentarian, Jan Jürgen blows the lid off Hollywood, exposing the frenzy, the insanity and the madness surrounding the filming of " Tropic Thunder”. One of the most ambitious war films ever made....
Release Dates: Nightmare On Elm St Push Explained, Wolfman Bumped To 2010 By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2009 6:23 pm EST Shock Till You Drop has reported that two prominent horror films are experiencing their own dread: release date changes. First, just before Comic Con we learned that Warner Bros. has pushed back the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake by two weeks. Instead of opening on April 16, 2010 it will now show up on April 30....
Roger Ebert Responds To His Profile In Esquire By Russ Fischer/Feb. 18, 2010 9:26 am EST Hopefully you’ve read Esquire’s very moving and deeply detailed piece on Roger Ebert, which appeared online Tuesday morning. The article opened with a large photo of Ebert as he is today: his face slack after losing his lower jaw, but eyes vibrant and perceptive. Written by Chris Jones, the article peers into Ebert’s life as it is after his battle with cancer left him without the ability to eat or speak....
Simon Pegg NOT An Inglorious Bastard; Gets Superbad Director Instead By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2008 12:46 pm EST Simon Pegg won’t be appearing in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards after all. This is really a shame, because aside from Brad Pitt, he was my second favorite actor involved with the project. One thing is for sure, he would have made those scenes with Mike Myers a lot more watchable. When the story was first reported by the trades, it was reported that Pegg was “in talks” to join the cast....
The Darjeeling Limited To Include Wes Anderson Short Film By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2007 2:39 pm EST “Every movie I make is about someone who can’t fit in, can’t make things work or is dealing with failure,” Anderson tells The Guardian. Wes Anderson’s (Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums) latest film The Darjeeling Limited will be accompanied by a 12-minute short called Hotel Chevalier, which apparently acts as a prequel to the main feature....
The House That Inspired Pixar’s Up Finally Discovered? By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2009 12:10 pm EST One of the items I mentioned in last week’s feature, Easter Eggs in Pixar’s Up, was that Carl Fredricksen’s house was inspired by a Victorian house near Sixth Street in Berkeley, CA. After spending a good half hour virtually driving down the street on Google Maps, I came across a home that might have been the inspiration, but didn’t really look like the house from the film....
The Wackness Beats Hancock At The Box Office; See It In July At A Theater Near You By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2008 11:41 pm EST The headline might be just a little deceiving… Okay, a lot. Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness was released on just six screens in New York and Los Angeles this past weekend. And while the film’s $145,000 gross might not seem like much, this little indie gem was able to make $24,166 per screen, which is about $8,000 more per screen than the Will Smith superhero film Hancock....
There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute; Life Of PT Barnum To Hit Screens By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2009 11:21 am EST PT Barnum is America’s premiere showman. As in, he was the first man to define the quintessentially American sense of show business success to a degree that he became synonymous with his shows. Phineas Taylor ‘PT’ Barnum’s name and image are far more well known than the man himself, and fiction has long since held sway over truth....
