Batman: Arkham Asylum Video Game By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2008 11:29 pm EST As it turns out, a The Dark Knight video game probably isn’t going to happen (a missed opportunity for sure or maybe not?). Either way, /Gamer has the details on another new Batman video game called Batman: Arkham Asylum which features a story was written by Paul Dini. Batman: Arkham Asylum Video Game By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2008 11:29 pm EST...
Box Office: Game Plan $22.2M; Kingdom $17.2M; Darjeeling And Lust, Caution Open Huge! By Steve Mason/Sept. 30, 2007 1:46 am EST SATURDAY NIGHT: After scoring a narrow box office win over The Kingdom (Universal) on Friday, The Game Plan (Buena Vista) has turned it into a good old-fashioned “blow-out”. While the Peter Berg-directed thriller saw a 13% or so uptick from opening day, Disney’s gridiron family comedy received a huge “kiddie bounce....
Bruno’s Meinspace Is “So 2007” By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2009 8:31 pm EST Universal Pictures has released a new viral video for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film Bruno. I’m not quite sure what to think of it. It’s more strange and awkward than funny. And as The Playlist points out, its strange that a film which is promoting itself using the tagline “Borat was so 2006” is using MySpace as their viral promotion hub....
Danny Trejo Joins Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables Aka Inglourious Old Basterds By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 18, 2009 2:58 pm EST Admit it, the cast for The Expendables is fast becoming the impossible wet dream actioner juggernaut that Quentin Tarantino used to chatter up and chatter up and chatter up for Inglourious Basterds. I’m not hating on IB (of course not! geek treason!), just saying: this is Inglourious Old Basterds. Not only is Arnold Schwarzenegger making a cameo as his state faces economic disaster, but now Machete himself, Danny Trejo, is set to star according to our chums at Latino Review....
David Slade In Talks To Direct Eclipse By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2009 6:00 pm EST Update: Summit Entertainment has confirmed that David Slade is now officially signed on the direct Eclipse. The list of names in line to direct the third Twilight film Eclipse is getting stranger every week. The list of filmmakers rumored to be in consideration has included Drew Barrymore, Juan Antonio Bayona (The Spanish filmmaker who directed The Orphanage), Paul Weitz (Director of American Pie and About a Boy, brother of New Moon director Chris Weitz)....
Don’t Skip The Iron Man End Credits: Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury Appears After By Hunter Stephenson/April 30, 2008 9:53 pm EST Last we reported, Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury had been waxed off the final cut of Iron Man, but fortunately that’s not the case. As MovieHole points out, Fury/Jackson does appear but not until after the surefire blockbuster’s end credits. He also delivers some spoiler-worthy dialogue [Slashfilm pistol fires in air], which we have after the jump....
Factory Girl Movie Review By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2007 5:00 am EST Factory Girl could have been Lindsay Lohan’s E! True Hollywood Story. It could have made a watch-able television documentary. But instead it’s a pointless independent film with nothing to say. Starring: Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Meredith OstromDirected by: George HickenlooperRunning Time: 87 minutesGenres: Drama and BiopicMPAA Rating: R for pervasive drug use, strong sexual content, nudity and language....
First Look: Sam Rockwell’s Sci-Fi Thriller Moon By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2008 4:18 pm EST Bloody Disgusting has a first look at Sam Rockwell in the upcoming sci-fi film Moon. Rockwell stars as Sam Bell, an Astronaut who has been mining Helium 3 on the moon three years alone. With only two weeks before he returns home, Sam begins seeing and hearing things. Did I mention that Kevin Spacey provides the voice of the robot?...
Five Reasons Why Justin Marks’ Live Action He-Man Movie Could Be Cool By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2008 3:06 am EST El Mayimbe has a gotten his hands on a copy of Justin Marks’ He-Man screenplay, currently titled Grayskull: The Masters of the Universe. Okay, may-be the title needs a little work, but Mayimbe insists that the screenplay a “fanboy masterpiece!” Here are five things from the script that has gotten us excited to see this movie on the big screen....
Geek Deals: Buy 2 Get 1 Blu-Ray; SAW Sale By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 9, 2009 1:51 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. CircuitCity.com is selling Flight of the Conchords: The Complete First Season on DVD for $12.50.
George Romero’s Island Zombie Movie By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 26, 2008 1:45 am EST George Romero is about to begin filming a new Zombie film in Toronto, but thankfully, it isn’t the Diary of the Dead sequel that has been mentioned in interviews. Romero revealed the following to SchlockAroundTheClock: “It’ll be about three weeks in [past the outbreak] and it doesn’t start with the people in the mansion [at the end of Diary]....
How To Win At Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2007 4:30 pm EST I see more films in a month years than most people see in a year, yet I’m still horrible at playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Thankfully Geekza has created a helpful guide for how to win when you’re forced into playing at your next drunken get-together. There seems to be one key hint:...
Jack Black To Star In Edgar Wright’s THEM? By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2007 2:11 am EST While interviewing screenwriter turned director Mike White (Chuck & Buck, School of Rock, Nacho Libre) about his new movie Year of the Dog, we were able to briefly talk about his upcoming collaboration with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright: “I’m writing a script with him [Edgar] now. It’s like a conspiracy theory comedy horror movie....
LOL: Excited Japanese Fangirl Gives Best Harry Potter Interviews Ever By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2009 1:28 am EST A Japanese comedy television show, Sanma Akashiya’s “Karakuri Terebi”, held a contest last month in which 10,000 of Japan’s biggest Harry Potter fans competed for a chance to travel to the UK and visit the set of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The show intentionally picked the strangest and most obsessed fan as the winner, a girl named Kana, and surprised her with a chance to meet and interview Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter)....
McG’s Spring Awakening By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2009 8:22 pm EST Terminator Salvation is gearing up to hit theaters in this summer, and director McG is beginning to add a bunch of potential projects to his plate: the already announced Terminator Salvation sequel, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea: Captain Nemo and an action/thriller titled Dead Spy Rising. One more movie to add to the list is a big screen adaptation of the Broadway rock musical Spring Awakening....
Movie Review: 28 Weeks Later By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2007 1:53 am EST 28 Weeks Later is a perfect example of what I like to call the “Blair Witch Project Effect.” That is when a low budget indie film is given a big budget glossy Hollywood sequel, and the resulting film lacks all the magic of the original. One of the things that made 28 Days Later so great was the shots of deserted London....
New 28 Weeks Later Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2007 12:48 pm EST I actually enjoyed the first film a lot despite the horrible mid point turn. But the sequel seems to lack the low budget charm of the original. Anyone else agree? Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 28 Weeks Later hits theaters on May 11th 2007.
New Shoot Em Up Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2007 10:15 am EST The new movie trailer for Shoot ‘Em Up has hit IGN, check it out after the jump. The movie follows a man named Mr. Smith (played by Clive Owen) delivers a woman’s baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen. Paul Giamatti, and Monica Bellucci also star....
Richard Linklater To Tackle Road Trip Movie Liars (A-E) By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2009 11:11 am EST Well, looks like we’re really not getting that ‘spiritual sequel’ to Dazed & Confused any time soon. Variety reports that Richard Linklater is close to finishing a deal to direct the film Liars (A-E) for Miramax, with Scott Rudin producing. Emma Forrest wrote the script, “about a woman who, on the way to President Obama’s inauguration, retrieves lost items from her ex-boyfriends....
Screen Gems Converting Priest To 3D By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2010 12:05 pm EST The Sony-owned genre label Screen Gems has announced that they will be converting the upcoming graphic-novel adaptation Priest to digital 3D. The move follows Warner Bros, who decided last week to convert Clash of the Titans and the last two Harry Potter films to 3D following the success of Avatar. The film, directed by Legion helmer Scott Stewart,tells the story of a priest who “disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece....
