LOST: Season Six Premiere - What Did You Think? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2010 11:55 pm EST The two-part two-hour premiere of Lost: Season Six aired tonight on ABC. Feel free to discuss the show, your theories and speculation in the comments below. LOST: Season Six Premiere - What Did You Think? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2010 11:55 pm EST The two-part two-hour premiere of Lost: Season Six aired tonight on ABC....
MacGruber Red-Band Trailer #2 By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2010 11:14 am EST We’ve already seen one red-band trailer for MacGruber, in which director Jorma Taccone and Will Forte expands their MacGyver-spoof shorts from Saturday Night Live into an unlikely feature comedy. Now there’s a second red-band clip which emphasizes the action a bit more…or, wait, the comedy? No, definitely the action. See the confusion below. Among other things, this trailer sets up Val Kilmer’s villain Dieter von Cunth better than previous clips have done, and more Kilmer is always OK with me....
Mall Cop Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2008 6:56 pm EST /Film reader Landon V sent over this teaser trailer for Kevin James’ new comedy Mall Cop. Judging by this viral teaser trailer, it looks like this movie is going to be pretty bad (not that we ever have high hopes for a Kevin James comedy). [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/mallcopviral.flv 400 230] The video begins as a person with a video camera is following a skateboarder as he destroys public property (really, how lame and generic can you get?...
Moon Man Jones Planning The Berlin Blade Runner By Brendon Connelly/April 15, 2009 7:58 am EST In a rather spoiler-heavy interview with Popular Mechanics, Duncan Jones not only digs deep into his upcoming debut movie, Moon, but reveals his ambitions for the follow up. “It looks like,” he says, “I’m going to be doing another science fiction film next.” Furthermore – he tantalizingly suggests that he intends to pick up where Blade Runner left off....
Movie Musicals Are Alive And Well: Gyllenhaal And Carrey’s Damn Yankees Moves Forward; Crowe And Beyonce For A Star Is Born? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 5, 2010 2:07 pm EST Nine may have crapped out at the box office last year, but the movie musical isn’t dead by a long shot. There has been news this week that Russell Crowe may be the comically unlikely leading man to appear opposite Beyonce in a new version of A Star is Born, for one....
New Pixar Cars Short: Unidentified Flying Mater By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 23, 2009 1:50 pm EST Directed John Lasseter, Pixar’s co-founder and director of Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug’s Life and Cars (along with co-director Rob Gibbs), Unidentified Flying Mater is the fifth in a series of Cars short films (originally titled “Cars-toons”). The computer animated short premiered on The Disney Channel on Friday, November 20th 2009. Mater tells a tall tale about the time he met a UFO and saved him from a group of government scientists in this Cars Toon....
New Stardust Movie Trailer Online In HD By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2007 11:42 am EST Last week we posted an unofficial trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s big screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust (30 photos, Unofficial Movie Trailer). I complained about the effects and on the nose dialogue. Gaiman fans told me to wait for the real trailer to make judgement. Well now the real trailer is on Yahoo! Movies in full High Def....
New Terminator Salvation Photos: John Connor Comes Face To Face With A HydroBot By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2008 10:50 pm EST Two new photos from Terminator Salvation have been released online. The first one is our first real look at one of the new Terminators in the film – the Hydrobot (pictured below in concept art which hit the web last month). John Connor (Christian Bale) appears to be inspecting the head of an incapacitated version of the Terminator model....
Next Day Air Director Benny Boom To Helm S.W.A.T. Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2010 6:00 am EST Do you remember the 2003 action crime thriller S.W.A.T. directed by Clark Johnson, starring Colin Farrell, Samuel L Jackson, Jeremy Renner and Michelle Rodriguez? Yeah, me neither. Well the film made Sony over $200 million in worldwide box office receipts, which is apparently enough to warrant a sequel. Columbia Pictures, Original Film, and producer Neal Moritz have apparently hired Next Day Air director Benny Boom to helm the sequel....
Now That Grace Is Gone, Lonesome Jim Has Become An Alcoholic Basketball Coach By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 29, 2008 4:18 pm EST James C Strouse has yet to hit the mainstream, but I’m sure that audiences will someday find his relate-able indie dramas. After writing the 2005 Casey Affleck indie Lonesome Jim (netflix it), he went on to direct John Cusack in Grace is Gone. The big sale and hit of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, was dumped into theaters during a time when movie-goers were tired of Iraq-war related films....
Pixar’s BURN-E By Peter Sciretta/June 20, 2008 3:49 pm EST When I sat down with WALL-E director Andrew Stanton earlier this week, one of the questions I asked was if they were planning to release a short film for the DVD release. For those of you who don’t know, Pixar released a computer animated short film called Mike’s Car with Monster’s Inc, Jack Jack Attack was released with The Incredibles, Mater and The Ghostlight with Cars, and Your Friend The Rat on Ratatouille....
Producer Brad Fuller Says Ouija Board Movie Will Be A Big, Pirates-Of-The-Caribbean-Like Adventure By David Chen/Feb. 2, 2009 10:52 am EST For everyone out there who has ever participated in a late-night slumber party, examined the Ouija board game during an intense sharing session, and thought to themselves “This board game could be the basis for a kickass movie,” I have two things to say: 1) What on earth is wrong with you?...
R2-D2’s Star Trek Cameo Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2009 5:00 am EST As you probably know by now, the George Lucas-owned effects company ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) likes to insert R2-D2 into the background of some of the films they create visual effects for. Earlier this year we posted a photo of our favorite little droid’s cameo appearance in the climatic scene of Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen. With JJ Abrams’ Star Trek hitting DVD/Blu-ray this week, Gizmodo has found the hidden cameo appearance of our favorite little droid from a galaxy far, far away....
Redbox Pulls Deadline Art Featuring Brittany Murphy By David Chen/Dec. 30, 2009 7:27 am EST Whenever a celebrity dies, particularly in the entertainment industry, the way to handle their final works (as well as works that reference or relate to them) is often a tricky one. With Brittany Murphy’s recent death, we’ve already seen this principle in action: Several weeks ago, Saturday Night Live aired a Weekend Update sketch lampooning Murphy’s public persona, portraying her as loopy and completely out of it....
Richard Jenkins And Bruce Thomas Join Farrellys’ Hall Pass, More Script Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/March 10, 2010 11:02 pm EST The cast includes Owen Wilson, Jenna Fischer, Jason Sudeikis, Stephen Merchant, Christina Applegate, Alyssa Milano, Larry Campbell and Vanessa Angel and J.B. Smoove. Last week we learned that Amanda Bynes left the project. Wilson stars as Rick, a husband in a dull marriage whose wife gives him a ‘hall pass’ — ie a license to engage in a week’s worth of extra-marital affairs....
Rumor Killer: Lindsay Lohan Not Set For Elm Street Rehash By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 13, 2009 2:32 pm EST Where on earth the rumor came from, I do not know – but I do know who published it first. Ooops. Earlier today, Just Jared ran a piece claiming that Lindsay Lohan had been cast in the final girl role for the Nightmare on Elm Street rehash. They’ve now adjusted their story, of course – anybody who has ever even seen a blindfolded lady holding scales or heard the theme tune to Ally McBeal would know that was necessary....
Sherlock Holmes Reshoots And Madonna New Moon Music By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 18, 2009 10:47 am EST Editors Update: Warner Bros has contacted us and assures us that the reshoots claim is completely “untrue”. The original story can still be read below. Two new rumors allow contrasting voyeuristic peeks into the divergent careers of Guy Ritchie and Madonna or, for those of us who don’t subscribe to Heat or People Magazine, constitute a double hit of talking points that take in both New Moon and Sherlock Holmes....
Terminator Salvation: Arnold Schwarzenegger Appearance Confirmed? Harvester Concept Art By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2009 4:44 pm EST After much speculation, Terry Crews told MTV that Arnold Schwarzenegger will indeed be doing a cameo in Terminator Salvation. “That’s it,” he said. “And so am I.” Who knows if Crews actually knows what he’s talking about, as the actor admits that he doesn’t know what capacity Arnold is featured as the production only distributed pages of the film’s screenplay to the relevant players....
The Green Hornet Release Pushed Back Five Months By Russ Fischer/Aug. 30, 2009 11:10 pm EST The Green Hornet, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and directed by Michel Gondry, was set to open in July of next year, but now won’t wear the mask until December 17, 2010. It’s an interesting move, since in a summer slot the film might get lost admist hefty competition like the third Twilight film, Predators, Inception and Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, all of which are slotted for early to mid-July....
The Hughes Brothers Negotiating Deal To Direct The Live-Action Akira Remake By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2010 9:51 am EST This is unexpected. Evidently Warner Bros. really liked what Albert and Allen Hughes did with The Book of Eli, because the brothers are reportedly finalizing a deal to direct the long-discussed live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga Akira. Originally floated in early 2008 as a two-part film to be directed by Ruairi Robinson, the films were put off by the WGA strike, then the scripts took forever to crack and the project was reported dead....
