What Are Your Most Hated Uses Of CGI In Movie History? By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2009 6:00 am EST In this week’s episode of Totally Rad Show, Alex Albrecht went off on a mini-rant about the use of computer generated backgrounds in Angels & Demons (I’ve embedded a clip after the jump). Due to the controversial nature of the book, the Vatican wouldn’t allow Ron Howard to shoot the film in many of the locations featured in the novel....
15 New Photos From Paul Haggis’ In The Valley Of Elah By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 14, 2007 1:55 pm EST Warner Independent has released 15 new photos from Paul Haggis new film In the Valley of Elah (movie trailer). For me Paul Haggis has been off and on. I thought Million Dollar Baby was okay if not overrated, I loved Crash, Casino Royale, and Letters From Iwo Jima. I liked The Last Kiss, and somewhat disliked Flags of our Fathers....
American Summer Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2008 10:17 pm EST From the producer of American Pie and the director of American Pie 2 comes American Summer, which is actually completely unrelated the the aforementioned franchise. AICN called the movie the “American Pie version of Risky Business.” The story follows uptight Harvard bound Alex Sperling (Brett Davern), who after a summer internship unexpectedly falls through, has no other option but to work for his supposedly successful cousin Roger (Matthew Lillard)....
Borat DVD Looks Pirated By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 27, 2007 5:41 am EST Fear not, that Borat DVD you bought at Best Buy is not pirated, although appearances are somewhat deceiving. As it turns out the DVD release of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was made to look low-budget. Apparently there is not a word of english on the packaging. The DVD cover also appears to look color-copied (complete with off color tones, slightly blurred company logos, blurry text and moire pattern/lithographic scans....
Box Office: Star Trek Thursday Night Previews Deliver A Possible $6.5M-$7.5M! By Steve Mason/May 8, 2009 10:40 am EST Several sources at competing studios have told me that J.J. Abrams’ all-new reboot of Star Trek (Paramount), which debuted last night at 7pm at many of its 3,849 locations, may have grossed as much as $6.5M-$7.5M. Studio honchos are “locked down tight” about actual numbers, but that is in the same ballpark as Transformers (Dreamworks/Paramount), which grabbed $8....
Bryan Fuller Tells All About His Return To Heroes By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 11, 2008 6:46 pm EST It looks like television mastermind Bryan Fuller is following through with his previously-rumored return to Heroes now that Pushing Daisies has been canceled. And judging from this awesome interview with Michael Ausiello, something tells me we can expect Heroes to get a lot better come the second half of season three. While he has to build off a plotline begun by certain former producers, it’s clear that Fuller has a good sense of Heroes’ current narrative failures and what it takes to remedy them....
Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2007 9:40 am EST Ioncinema has a look at the movie poster for Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche, New York. Click on the poster to the right 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....
Contest: Comedy Central Roast Of William Shatner On DVD By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2007 10:51 pm EST Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner hit DVD store shelves on March 20th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On March 30th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....
Cool Stuff: The Alamo’s Big Trouble In Little China Poster By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2008 1:00 am EST We’ve written about the Alamo Drafthouse’s limited edition movie posters in the past, and I even have a couple hanging proudly on my walls. The Alamo Ritz is just about to conclude their Big Screen Sci-fi Classics series. In the last couple weeks we’ve featured the commissioned posters for the screenings: King Kong, 2001, The Thing, Planet of the Apes, and Blade Runner....
David Gordon Green To Direct Steve Niles’ Freaks Of The Heartland By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2008 12:52 am EST David Gordon Green (George Washington, Pineapple Express) has signed to direct an adaptation of 30 Days of Night author Steve Niles’ Freaks of the Heartland. Newbie screenwriters Peter Sattler and Geoff Davey penned the script for the horror thriller. Released in 2004, the six-part comic book miniseries was illustrated by Greg Ruth....
Director Promises That Captain America Is In The Incredible Hulk By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2008 1:16 am EST On Friday, we ran a transcript of an interview where director Louis Leterrier told G4 that in The Incredible Hulk “you might see Captain America Himself!” We saw the film earlier in the week, and were unable to see the Captain on screen. Leterrier later insisted to Collider that Captain America is still featured in the movie, but wouldn’t reveal the location:...
First Look: Amy Adams As Amelia Earhart By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2008 12:20 pm EST BadandUgly has the first photos of Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart. Confused? I can see how that could happen as back in April we brought you the first photos of Hilary Swank as the famous female pilot. Well turns out that Adams plays the historic character in Night at the Museum 2: Escape from the Smithsonian....
Frank Miller Says Sin City 2 DELAYED, But Not DEAD By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2007 11:57 am EST Yesterday we told you that Michael Madsen believes that Sin City 2 might not going to happen due to the box office failure of Grindhouse. We wondered how one of the film’s main stars was so unsure about the production, when the movie was scheduled to start shooting in June. Now we have word (via RT) that Sin City 2 is officially DELAYED....
James Wan To Direct Castlevania By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2009 9:05 pm EST Saw helmer James Wan is in final talks to direct a live-action adaptation of the Konami video game Castlevania. The project has been in development for a couple years, first with Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil) and later with Sylvain White. Wan hasn’t had a hit since the Sundance indie horror film Saw. I never got a chance to see Dead Silence but I was one of the few people who enjoyed his vigilante film Death Sentence....
Jim Broadbent Is Slughorn In Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2007 1:33 am EST We missed this one yesterday, but Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge!, Gangs of New York, Iris) revealed to Dark Horizons that he will play Horace Slughorn in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. “Who am I? He’s called Horace Slughorn. He’s a retired teacher of magic who’s drawn back out of retirement because he’s got some secrets they need in the battle against the Death Eaters and he’s quite star struck as a teacher and he’s drawn back into the fold because he likes to notch up celebrity students, and he’s drawn back by Harry....
Jon Heder To Star In Buddy Holly Is Alive And Well On Ganymede By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2009 9:52 pm EST Jon Heder, best known for playing the title role in Napoleon Dynamite, has signed on to star in an adaptation of Bradley Denton’s comic sci-fi novel Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede. Robert Rugan wrote the screenplay adaptation and will direct. Heder will shoot the film when he has time off from his untitled Comedy Central sitcom....
Mark Millar Talks Kick-Ass 2 By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2010 7:32 am EST As the release date for Kick-Ass gets closer, original comic creator Mark Millar is already looking towards the comic sequel to his original creation, and the film sequel that will hopefully ensue. As such, he’s talking about the direction the story will go, and dropping some big notes and spoilers along the way. Did I say spoilers? Yep!...
Michael Moore Hijacks Movie Theaters With New Movie Trailer By Brendon Connelly/June 12, 2009 5:11 pm EST Update: Overture has released the official trailer, embedded after the jump. Every Friday night I represent /Film as a guest on the BDK Movie Show on WJFK, and tonight’s show kicked off with a great little scoop about Michael Moore. Being a DC based radio station, they were definitely (once again) in the right place, at the right time....
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium Movie Trailer Attached To Ratatouille By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2007 12:37 am EST Our sources have just informed us that the first official movie trailer for Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium will be attached to Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille. You might be asking yourself, what is Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, and why should I care? Emporium is a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-like fantasy film written by Zach Helm, who we like to refer to as the Hollywood-ized Charlie Kaufman (Helm wrote Stranger Than Fiction)....
New Wall-E Featurette: “The Man And The Machine” By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2008 7:25 pm EST Disney/Pixar has released a new WALL-E featurette called “The Man and the Machine” which focuses on director Andrew Stanton and the creation of our favorite little robot. We get to see how Andrew directs, intercut with interview clips and some never-before-seen footage from the film. Watch the video below. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/wallef2.flv 470 264] WALL-E hits theaters on June 27th 2008....
