Watchman Gets Renamed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2008 2:43 pm EST Street Kings stars Keanu Reeves as Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him....
Casting Notes: Brandon T. Jackson In Big Momma 3; Sean Bean In Cleanskin And Death Race Prequel; Elizabeth Banks Rumored For Dark Fields By Russ Fischer/March 1, 2010 11:01 pm EST This one will see “FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Lawrence) and his 17-year-old nephew, Trent (Jackson), go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and Charmaine, they must find the murderer before he finds them....
Contest: Transformers Armada Best Battles On DVD By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2007 12:27 am EST We have a copy of Transformers Armada Best Battles on DVD for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On July 18th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....
Cool Stuff: Hot Toys’ 1/6th Scale War Machine Figure From Iron Man 2 By Peter Sciretta/March 16, 2010 12:00 pm EST Hot Toys has announced a new addition to their Movie Masterpiece Series: Iron Man 2 1/6th scale War Machine Collectible Figure. The movie-accurate War Machine collectible is highly detailed and fully deployed, specially crafted based on the image of Don Cheadle as the well-received character War Machine in the movie, highlighting the well equipped armor, light-up functions and weapons....
Cool Stuff: Hoverboards Don’t Work On Water T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2009 6:00 am EST Even though it isn’t the year 2015 just yet, everyone knows, Hoverboards don’t work on water. SnorgTees has a t-shirt based on Griff Tannen’s quote from Back tot he Future Part II. Printed on 100% super soft cotton American Apparel Navy Jersey Tees, in sizes from Small to XXXL starting at $18.95. (thanks to /Film reader Frank D for the tip)...
Cool Stuff: The Incredibles Porcelain Statues By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 21, 2008 6:00 am EST If you’re a comic book geek, than chances are The Incredibles is one of your favorite Pixar films, if not one of your favorite films of all time. Unfortunately, when the film was released, Disney decided not to produce many collectables for the movie, which is a shame. Enesco produced a series of statues as part of the Walt Disney Classics Collection....
Disney Releases Underdog Blooper Reel By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2007 1:45 pm EST Disney is doing anything they can to help promote the live-action/cg Underdog movie which hits theaters this August. The studio has released footage of mock bloopers, an idea they stole from Pixar (but if you steal idea from a company you own, is it really still stealing?). Anyway, Disney so got us – I mean, you’re reading a post about said blooper reel on /Film....
Don’t You Forget About Me Movie Trailer - A Documentary About John Hughes By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2009 6:21 pm EST I apologize for posting so many stories about John Hughes today, but like many of you, growing up a child of the 1980’s, his films meant a lot to me. And his passing has unearthed a bunch of content that I want to share with you guys. /Film friend and Totally Rad Show co-host Dan Trachtenberg forwarded this link (from Kat Arnett) to a movie trailer for an independent documentary titled Don’t You Forget About Me....
First Look: The Get Smart Movie By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2007 12:07 am EST USA Today has released the first production photo, seen above, from the upcoming Get Smart movie starring Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway. Am I the only one excited about this one? Anyone? Hello?UPDATE: Warner Bros has sent us a HUGE version of the above photo, click here to view it. Director Peter Segal says that the film version has been updated to satire the disconnect between government agencies post-9/11....
Frank Miller Updates: The Spirit, Richard Donner, Holy Terror And Sin City 2 & 3 By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2007 5:28 am EST A new LA Times article on Frank Miller has revealed a few interesting news tidbits: Miller has already interviewed actors for his big screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit. One of the actors is a “notable Sin City star.” Any guesses on which star this could be?...
Gemma Arterton To Star In New Wuthering Heights By Brendon Connelly/May 15, 2009 3:52 pm EST At least in terms of teen appeal, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights was the Twilight of its day… but seeing as that was way back in 1847, when teens were a little different and less OMG!OMG!, you shouldn’t be put off the latest film adaptation just yet. The Hollywood Reporter tell us that this new adaptation is to star Bond’s oil-slicked Strawberry Fields, Gemma Arterton (also in the upcoming Prince of Persia and Clash of the Titans) and Gossip boy Ed Westwick....
Hung Television Trailer By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2009 9:00 am EST Thomas Jane could finally have his real break-out role. HBO has premiered the (SFW) trailer for Hung, a series in which Jane plays a high-school basketball coach / gym teacher who realizes that he can become a star by exploiting his giant…sexual apparatus. Anne Heche co-stars as his ex-wife, and Jane Adams (Little Children) is aboard, too, as the woman who becomes, essentially, the pimp for Jane’s character....
Indiana Jones 4 Plot Details And Photos Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2007 11:10 am EST As we’ve previously reported, Yale University in New Haven Connecticut has been the site of some of the first film production on Indiana Jones 4. The New York Observer reports that the chase sequence will occur near the start of the film, which makes sense considering Jones is usually far away from his teaching gig come the second act....
Joss Whedon Booted Off Wonder Woman By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2007 10:14 pm EST (*To be fair, we will give Joss some credit: The X-Men comics he wrote were pretty cool) Yesterday we reported that Warner Bros has purchased a spec Wonder Woman script. While many people were reporting that it was a legal move to keep the material off the streets, we reasoned that the studio probably wasn’t happy with Whedon’s effort....
Juno: The Video Game? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2008 7:25 pm EST A Juno video game? Honest to blog? Nope… Boesky later clarified comment, saying that he referenced Juno as a model. As in the “low-budget, small break out” model. Boesky even claimed that he hadn’t even seen the movie. I’m one of the biggest fans of the film, but I’m still left wondering: What would you even do in a Juno video game?...
Justice League Delayed? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 8, 2008 4:30 pm EST Casting announcements were supposed to be made more than a month ago, is Justice League delayed? Rumor has it that the start date has been pushed back from March to April/May or even possibly as late as July, this according to IESB. The site the studio’s concerns with the cast of unknowns as the main reason for the delay. But this sounds awfully strange to me....
Kim Peek, The Man Who Inspired Rain Man, Dies At 58 By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 23, 2009 1:54 am EST Though you may not know his name, Kim Peek directly inspired Dustin Hoffman’s role in the Oscar-winning film Rain Man. He died from a heart attack on Saturday morning. Peek was 58, and perhaps one of the world’s most famous savants. He couldn’t perform basic tasks like using a light switch, but he had a seemingly bottomless memory....
Kubrick’s Aryan Papers To Finally Go Before Cameras? By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 10, 2009 2:00 pm EST One of the film related highlights at this year’s Edinburgh festival is an exhibition called Unfolding the Aryan Papers, revealing the research carried out by Stanley Kubrick in preparation for filming an adaptation of the novel War Time Lies. Ahead of the exhibition opening, word has come that a new attempt to realize the film version, The Aryan Papers, could be on the cards....
Lily Cole And Scott Speedman To Star In Mary Harron’s The Moth Diaries By Brendon Connelly/May 17, 2009 10:49 am EST When I last reported on Mary Harron’s big screen adaptation of Rachel Klein’s vampire novel The Moth Diaries, the writer-director was in London for a retrospective of her work at the Birds Eye Festival and the Diaries info only came up incidentally. Back then in March it wasn’t obvious to me who had scripted the film, or indeed who was going to star but that’s all come clear in a new Screen Daily report from Cannes....
Lucasfilm Tests Out HD Capable DSLR Cameras For Red Tails, Possibly Star Wars TV Series By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 21, 2009 12:54 am EST Somehow, I’m not surprised that Lucasfilms is the first major Hollywood production company (that we’ve heard of) to look into consumer-level DSLR digital cameras that can shoot HD video. For better or worse, George Lucas has always been a pioneer in digital filmmaking. Learning how to use these small DSLRs (at least, compared to large professional-grade HD cameras) could help them immensely with future projects....
