Third Da Vinci Code Film The Lost Symbol Announced By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2009 11:38 am EST Ron Howard’s big screen adaptation of the Da Vinci Code prequel Angel’s & Demons won’t hit theaters until May 15th, but Columbia Pictures is already moving forward with a third film in the series. Now you might be asking yourself: “How can there be a third film when a third book has yet to be released?...
Toy Story 3 Announced For 2009 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2007 5:52 pm EST Good news and bad news. The Good News: Disney has announced that Pixar will release Toy Story 3 in 2009. And the Oscar nominated screenwriter behind Little Miss Sunshine is hard at work on the story. The Bad News: Toy Story and Pixar mastermind and all-around animation god John Lasseter won’t be directing. Lasseter and Disney Animation president Ed Catmull revealed the news at Thursday’s investor conference....
Transformers: The Ride At Universal Studios By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2008 2:49 pm EST Universal Studios Hollywood and Singapore will be launching a theme park attraction based on Michael Bay’s Transformers. Planned for an early 2011 debut, the ride will use High Definition 3D footage, along with practical special effects and “stunning” robotics (ie expect animatronic giant robots) that according to a press release will “transform perceptions of theme park experiences”....
Update: AMC Picks Up Walking Dead Television Series By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 20, 2010 11:53 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The story follows a group of people, led by a small-town Kentucky Police Officer named Rick Grimes, trying to survive in a world overrun by zombies. But unlike most zombie films, the books are more character centric. AMC’s senior vp of programing Joel Stillverman says that the tv show will stay faithful to the graphic novels....
Veronica Mars Movie Could Still Happen, Arrested Development Perhaps Not By Russ Fischer/April 8, 2010 9:54 am EST There are two big movies based on canceled TV series that continue to be in that stage of development limbo that leads to ceaseless “yes, it’s happening / no it’s not” quotes from parties involved. One is Veronica Mars, the other Arrested Development. Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas is now saying that the movie based on his show could still happen....
27 Dresses Movie Review By Zach Lawrence/Jan. 20, 2008 1:19 pm EST So sometimes you owe your girl one. Sometimes she puts up with an absurd slam-bang, balls out guy flick and grins the whole time without saying a word. So for you guys who this weekend got so see 27 Dresses and not Cloverfield, feel my pain. But what an aesthetic anesthetic hour and a half it is. Katherine Heigl plays Jane, a woman who is always the bridesmaid but never the…ya know....
30 Days Of Night Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2007 1:54 pm EST I know we’re a little late on this one. The official teaser poster for the big screen adaptation of the popular horror comic series/graphic novel 30 Days of Night hit the web yesterday. We were too busy freaking out that we got quoted in the Hostel 2 television ads to notice. Or may-be we did notice, and somehow it just got lost in the shuffle....
By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 31, 2008 12:44 pm EST Questionable Internet/playground slang alert: A Bollywood family film entitled Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors is the target of a Warner Bros. lawsuit. The point of contention lies in the title’s similarity to the studio’s multi-billion Harry Potter franchise. Sillier still, Hari Puttar is described online as a blatant Home Alone knockoff. So the robber on the left is Bollywood’s version of Joe Pesci?...
Broken Flowers On Hulu By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2009 9:46 pm EST The 2005 Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers is now available for free to American web surfers on Hulu. The film stars a post-Lost in Translation Bill Murray as a man named Don who is dumped by his latest girlfriend and receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son. Don must examine his past relationships and goes on a cross-country search to try to figure out which of his old flames might be the mother....
Bryce Dallas Howard Is A Bad Girl In The Twilight Saga: Eclipse By Devindra Hardawar/July 28, 2009 10:48 pm EST Update: Access Hollywood talked to Lefevre after the news was announced, and apparently she was stunned by the recast move. It seems that more and more Eclipse is becoming the Twilight film to pay attention to. First we caught word that David Slade would be directing the film—which is interesting not only because he’s a talented up and coming director, but because he’s also had some unkind words to say about the series (Slade has since distanced himself from his earlier remarks)....
Comic-Con: Kick Ass Footage And Q&A With Matthew Vaughn And Cast By Devindra Hardawar/July 24, 2009 1:29 am EST With one day down, Kick Ass was undoubtedly the biggest surprise at Comic-Con thus far. While I was expecting the best given Matthew Vaughn’s previous films, the pitch-perfect execution of the film in the clips and teaser were far beyond my expectations, and at one point even brought the majority of the audience to standing ovation....
Cool Stuff: Another Ghostbusters/Pac Man T-Shirt Mash-Up By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2009 12:30 am EST Three different Ghostbusters/Pac Man t-shirt mash-ups in one month? A couple weeks back, we featured a t-shirt in Cool Stuff that pictured an 8-bit Ecto-1 chasing after the Ghosts from Pac Man. Yesterday we featured a t-shirt that showed Pac Man wearng a proton pack chasing a ghost . And today we complete the trilogy with Split Reason ’s Busted t-shirt which features our favorite scientists stuck in the pac man maze....
Cool Stuff: The 2008 Nerdcore Calendar By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2008 9:18 am EST The guys at Nerdcore sent me the 2008 Nerdcore calendar, which is a 12-month topless and fully-nude Not Safe For Work pin-up girl calendar featuring woman dressed as superheroes and villains. What makes this calendar cool is that it includes a little area at the bottom of each month showing you “Nerd Dates”. Nerd Dates compiles regular and nerdy holidays, over one hundred important holy days for geeks, including: Major movie releases like Iron Man, Speed Racer, The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones 4, Harold and Kumar 2, and The Incredible Hulk; conventions like San Diego Comic-Con, Alternative Press Expo, etc....
Disney’s Rapunzel Retitled Tangled By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2010 12:57 pm EST Walt Disney Animation Studios’s 2010 computer animated release Rapunzel has been retitled Tangled. Producer Roy Conli explains: “Hey everyone, I’m Roy Conli, producer of Disney’s next animated film. I have some exciting news to share, and it was important to me that YOU guys – the Disney fans – hear it first. I want to tell you about Walt Disney Animation Studio’s 2010 release, Tangled....
Fred Willard Is The First Live Action Pixar Character By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2007 3:44 pm EST At Comic Con this year, WALL-E director Andrew Stanton confirmed that there would in fact be a live action element in the upcoming Pixar film. “We’re not doing anything like Happy Feet,” said Stanton. “There is a live action element involved but that’s the most I can say.” And that is a good thing because I thought the live-action integration in Happy Feet was very off putting....
Grindhouse Gets An R-Rating By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2007 11:45 am EST Last week Page Six caused a scare, claiming that the Tarantino/Rodriguez’ double feature Grindhouse was headed for an NC-17 unless they made massive cuts. Well the MPAA has granted the film an R-Rating after all. The MPAA gave Grindhouse an R-Rating for strong graphic bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, some sexuality, nudity and drug use. It will be interesting to see how much footage had to be removed to earn the more respectable R....
Iron Man Talkback - What Did You Think? By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2008 1:13 am EST Note: This story will be tacked at the top of the front page until Sunday Night… So you’ve seen Robert Downey Jr. in action as the man beneath the robotic metal suit. Movie critics are calling Iron Man not only the best comic book movie of all time, but the best movie of the year so far....
Lionsgate’s Early Christmas Present: Frank Miller’s The Spirit By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2008 1:15 am EST Lionsgate has decided to move the release date of Frank Miller’s adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit up from January 16th next year to Christmas Day (December 25th 2008). Apparently Lionsgate’s president Tom Ortenberg decided to change the release date after he saw the reaction to the film’s teaser trailer at the New York Comic Con....
Mystery Team, Richard Kelly, Ninjas And More Invade Comic-Con 2009 By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2009 10:57 pm EST First up, I’ve learned that Derrick Comedy’s Mystery Team will not only have a booth on the convention floor, but will be holding a panel and a special sneak preview screening at the con. No word on the exact dates. Writers/stars Dominic Dierkes, Donald Glover, and DC Pierson, producer Meggie McFadden, and director/editor Dan Eckman will be on hand at the panel debuting an all-new Mystery Team short film....
New Photos From Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 8, 2008 6:06 pm EST The two movies I’m most excited to see at Sundance this year are Morgan Spurlock’s Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden and the big screen adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s (author of Fight Club) novel Choke. Collider has gotten their hands on eight new production photos from the film. Check out the photos after the jump....
