George Miller Casts Justice League Of America By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2007 12:29 am EST After months of rumors, George Miller is currently hard at work casting Justice League of America. Miller has been in Los Angeles since Saturday, auditioning a lot of young actors in a marathon casting session that started Sunday and continues through Monday. And by young actors, I mean YOUNG ACTORS. This is starting to look more like a Teen Titans movie....
Inglorious Bastards Up NEXT For Quentin Tarantino By Peter Sciretta/March 27, 2007 10:30 am EST Inglorious Bastards will be Quentin Tarantino’s next film, according to the Grindhouse director. “That will probably be the very next thing I do,” Quentin told /Film at the Grindhouse junket. “Robert will probably be doing Sin City 2 coming up fairly shortly. I am going to kind of go on the road with this, around the earth here....
Interview: Wes Anderson Talks Fantastic Mr. Fox By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2009 3:00 am EST Last month, while I was in London, I had the wonderful opportunity to talk to filmmaker Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic) about his new film, the stop-motion animated adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Yesterday we posted our interview with Jason Schwartzman. Today I bring you my interview with Wes, in which he discusses how he discovered Roald Dhal’s book, the decision to shoot the film using stop-motion animation, the set of ruls he created for this film, and Anderson’s take on the 3D movie craze....
James McTeigue Reveals Next Project, The Raven, Updates Altered Carbon By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2009 5:16 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As many of you know, McTeigue started in Hollywood as a second assistant director on films like Dark City, and made a name for himself as the first assistant director on The Matrix films. He famously took the reigns from The Wachowski Brothers, directing big screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s comic book V For Vendetta (currently ranked #178 on IMDb’s top 250 of all time)....
Jonathan Nolan Responds To Dark Knight Oscar Snubs By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 23, 2009 12:01 pm EST Screenwriter Jonathan Nolan has responded to the fan outrage over The Dark Knight Oscar snubs on darkcampaign.com: “hey — not sure who to address this to as it looks like a collective effort, but I just wanted to pass along my thanks. It’s truly humbling that you guys would take the time and effort to try to get the film recognized....
Must See: D-War Movie Trailer And Posters By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2007 3:29 pm EST I must admit, I haven’t heard of D-War until now, but seeing the trailer was enough to sell us. Hey, what can I say – we’re easy. D-War, which stands for Dragon Wars, is a monster movie directed by Korean actor (and comedian?) Shim Hyung-rae. FilmJunk claims that the “movie took almost 6 years to complete, and it was created with a worldwide audience in mind....
New Juno Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2007 4:00 pm EST Check out the new poster after the jump. “A Fresh, Unusually Intelligent Comedy With Dialogue So Quick And Funny You Feel The Actors Are Preforming It On A High Wire.” Here is a round up of our previous Juno coverage: Jason Reitman’s JUNO stars Ellen Page as the title character, a whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera)....
Out Of Control Rumor: Sharon Stone To Star In Quentin Tarantino’s Weekend? By Peter Sciretta/May 18, 2009 5:00 pm EST Update #2: Our friends at The Quentin Tarantino Archives believe that the movie is being produced by A Band Apart, which has somehow been confused as a “Quentin Tarantino production”.Update: Our friends at Production Weekly have provided us with more information about this project: Michael Madsen & Bret Davidson were attached to direct together last year, Davidson wrote the script....
Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2009 12:48 am EST In the latest issue of WiReD Magazine, which is guest edited by writer/director JJ Abrams, creature designer Neville Page talks about how creates cinematic monsters. Page calls the red snow-planet creature from Star Trek, pictured above ,“Big Red”. Click on over to see some of Page’s other artwork. More stories after the jump. Daniel Radcliffe tells Empire Magazine that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 ends “at a very tense cliffhanger”, and ending which producer David Heyman calls “very exciting” and “quite bold,” noting that “it’s not necessarily where one might expect....
Pixar’s Short Films On DVD/Blue-Ray, Disney To Produce Toy Story: The Musical? By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2007 4:01 pm EST It looks like the rumors are true. Disney will be releasing a collection of Pixar short films on DVD. No details have been released as an official announcement has not been made. But up until now the only way to watch most of the Pixar shorts have been in the movie theater or on iTunes....
Remake Of Stephen King’s It Will Be Rated-R And Set In The Mid-1980’s By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2009 10:18 pm EST Screenwriter Dave Kajganich tells Dread Central that the big screen remake of Stephen King’s It will be “set in the mid-1980s and in the present almost equally — mirroring the twenty-odd-year gap King uses in the book”. But more importantly, the film “will not be PG-13. This will be R....
Stephen King’s Top 10 Movies Of 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 12, 2008 2:42 pm EST Stephen King has listed his top ten favorite films of 2008 in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. You can read the whole article on EW.com, or checkout the barebones list below: The Dark Knight – “The best superhero movie ever.” Slumdog Millionaire WALL-E – “It certainly deserves to be nominated.” Tropic Thunder Funny Games – “A savage parody of the snuff-porn”...
Terminator Salvation: 14 New Photos By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2009 5:37 pm EST International distributor Columbia Pictures has released a batch of new promotional photos for Terminator Salvation. Fourteen more photos after the jump. As always, click to enlarge. Terminator Salvation: 14 New Photos By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2009 5:37 pm EST International distributor Columbia Pictures has released a batch of new promotional photos for Terminator Salvation. Fourteen more photos after the jump....
The Incredible Hulk: New Photos, Iron Man Crossover And Lou Ferrigno Confirmed By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2008 12:25 am EST The new issue of Empire Magazine due in newsstands on April 25th features a couple new photos from The Incredible Hulk. Meanwhile my friend Alex from Firstshowing who is at the New York Comic Con, saw footage that confirms the much rumored Iron Man / Incredible Hulk crossover. Apparently Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr....
The Nanny Diaries Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2007 1:27 pm EST The first movie trailer for The Nanny Diaries is now online. Starring Scarlett Johansson as Annie Braddock, a recent college graduate with no place to go who is hired to care for the young son of a wealthy Upper East Side couple, setting off a series of trials and tribulation as she attempts to adjust to her new environment....
There Will Be Blood Screenplay By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 26, 2007 1:16 pm EST Want some Holiday reading? The screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood is finally online at Paramount Vantage’s For Your Consideration page. There Will Be Blood Screenplay By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 26, 2007 1:16 pm EST Want some Holiday reading? The screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood is finally online at Paramount Vantage’s For Your Consideration page....
TIFF Video Blog: Brothers Bloom And JCVD By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 5, 2008 10:13 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/tor2.flv 300 226] Yesterday morning, I caught Cinematical’s James Rocchi off guard, and after totally butchering the pronunciation of his last name (hey, for the last two years I’ve just been calling him “James”), I got his opinion on Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom and JCVD. Eric D Snider also makes a quick cameo appearance. Sorry for the lackluster video quality, the theater was very dark, and apparently the Flip ultra camera doesn’t work well in extreme low light conditions....
Vincent D’Onofrio To Play Harvey Weinstein In Adaptation Of Peter Biskind Book? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2009 3:00 pm EST Sometimes a trade headline catches my eye and I can do nothing but stare at it for a few moments in disbelief. This is one of those times. Peter Biskind, the rabble-rousing chronicler of Hollywood, spilled a lot of secrets about the 1990s American indie film scene in Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film....
Woody Allen Is Going Down To Rio By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 19, 2009 7:47 pm EST After being cold-shouldered by the US studios, Woody Allen turned to globe trotting for both the finance and the settings for his projects. Match Point, Scoop, Cassandra’s Dream and his untitled 2009 project have all been set in London, Vicky Cristina Barcelona took place in, well, Barcelona, and now it looks as though he’s heading to Brazil for his 2011 production....
8 Minutes Of Charlie Wilson’s War By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 21, 2007 1:54 am EST Universal has released an extended 8-minute long video clip from Charlie Wilson’s War. And this is possibly the best scene in the film, with Philip Seymour Hoffman meeting with Tom Hanks’ character for the first time. I wish they had released Hoffman’s hilarious angry award worthy speech from the beginning of the movie, but this one is also good....
