Transformers 2: Michael Bay Confirms He’s A Liar, Then… Lies Again? By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2009 8:01 pm EST Remember when Michael Bay said that Megatron is “not in [Transformers 2]”? Last week Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen screenwriter Roberto Orci confirmed Megatron’s appearance and we called Mr. Bay a Liar. Bay has finally responded and admits that the “cat is out of the bag” and that “Megatron is back”....
VOTD: Cheech & Chong Do TRON By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2009 10:00 am EST As part of Mean Magazine’s eye-catching video project CineMash, Cheech & Chong enter the computer world of Tron to settle a heated debate about the price of cannabis. Watch this 4-minute short directed by Kashy Khaledi, after the jump. VOTD: Cheech & Chong Do TRON By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2009 10:00 am EST As part of Mean Magazine’s eye-catching video project CineMash, Cheech & Chong enter the computer world of Tron to settle a heated debate about the price of cannabis....
VOTD: Meet Meline Short Film By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2010 8:24 pm EST The computer animated short film Meet Meline was created and animated by just two french filmmakers, Virginie Goyons and Sebastien Laban, over the course of two years during their spart time (nights and weekends) with no budget. The story follows a little girl “whose curiosity is sparked by a mysterious creature as she plays in her grandparents barn....
VOTD: Snoop Dogg Faced With Watchmen Question On Who Wants To Be A Millionaire By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2009 1:00 pm EST Snoop Dogg appeared on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 10th Anniversary Special and is asked a $50,000 question about Zack Snyder’s movie adaptation of Watchmen. But it turns out Snoop fell asleep while watching the movie and might not know the answer. Thanks to movieboy for the tip....
VOTD: The Muppets: Beaker Performs “Dust In The Wind” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2010 4:00 pm EST The Henson Company continues to create some of the best viral video content on the internet…. now if only someone would fast track another one of their movies into production, maybe we could see some of this magic on the big screen. The latest video features Beaker’s very sad performance of the famous Kansas-performed ballad Dust in the Wind....
VOTD Short Film Nominated For Academy Award By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2009 1:17 pm EST Sam Bradley just pointed out on Twitter that a student short film titled Oktapodi, that we featured as a Video of the Day in September, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Shot Film. I was at Sundance when the award nominations were announced and must have missed this when i skimmed through the nominations between screenings....
Whaaaa?!: Michael Caine Confirms Johnny Depp Up For The Riddler, Philip Seymour Hoffman For The Penguin In Batman 3! By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 8, 2008 11:31 am EST We’re pretty sure some type of “clarification” will be sent out shortly regarding the following statement from Michael Caine, but for now, it’s the first confirmation from someone involved in the Batman franchise about new villains and casting choices. And it’s HUGE. The ubiquitous rumors about Johnny Depp as The Riddler and Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Penguin will undoubtedly escalate after this....
Wolverine Still Tracking High Despite Early Internet Leak? By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2009 4:43 pm EST Based on TF’s numbers, a conservative estimate would be that 2 million people have watched the illegally downloaded film, which is the box office equivalent of $15-$20 million. Download numbers aside, the big concern was that the unfinished workprint might cause a wave of bad word of mouth that would detour the usual suspects from showing up opening weekend....
B.J. Novak Cast In Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2008 11:36 pm EST It looks like we might be in the full swing of the line-up reveal of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards. Yesterday it was revealed that friend and horror director Eli Roth was in talks to play Sgt. Donnie Donowitz. And tonight is was released in the trades that The Office star B.J. Novak is in talks to play PFC Utivich, a New York-born soldier of “slight build”....
Bill Murray To Play Agent 13 In Get Smart Movie By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2007 11:11 am EST AICN has the exclusive on a very cool bit of Get Smart casting. In the original 1960’s television series, Dave Ketchum played Agent 13, a secret KONTROL agent who was forever being stationed inside weird places such as mailboxes, washing machines, lockers, and other objects. It was just one of the many funny running gags on the series....
Box Office: The Simpsons Aims For $55 Million Weekend By Steve Mason/July 27, 2007 5:39 pm EST Un-Aided Awareness, the industry tracking measure of buzz and anticipation, is running at only 12%, a rather unspectacular number. For comparison, Fantastic Four 2 went off with 15% in that column, Spidey 3 opened at 41% and Pirates 3 at 49%, Probably, the best film to use as a gauge to how big The Simpsons Movie will open is Shrek the Third (Dreamworks/Paramount)....
Comic-Con: Alice In Wonderland Teaser Trailer And Q&A With Tim Burton By Devindra Hardawar/July 23, 2009 4:29 pm EST Perhaps the most interesting footage shown this morning at the Disney Comic-Con panel was the short teaser trailer for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Patton Oswalt, who was moderating the panel, flipped for the footage and demanded it be shown three times. This was probably for the best, because aside from the very short teaser Burton had nothing else to show from the film....
Cool Stuff: Dapper Dan’s Back To The Future And Ghostbusters Art By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2009 4:00 am EST Canadian animator Dapper Dan has created this awesome Back to the Future fan art, titled “Do Not Open Until 1985”, for the Autumn Society of Philadelphia’s 80’s Pop! Gallery show in June. Anyone who reads the site knows I’m a Back to the Future fanatic, and this piece perfectly captures the Twin Pines Mall scene from the first film....
Cool Stuff: Ibraheem Youssef’s Poster Art For The Films Of Wes Anderson By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2010 10:00 am EST Last year we featured Ibraheem Youssef’s minimalistic movie posters for the films of Quentin Tarantino. The Toronto based designer/art director has returned with a new set of simple and clean poster art focusing on the films of Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic. Youssef plans to complete the series with posters for Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited and Fantastic Mr....
Dark Knight “Why So Serious” Billboard By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2008 2:52 pm EST /Film Reader Gianni V spotted this new Dark Knight advertisement at the Edwards Ontario Palace in Ontario California. A bunch of the Gotham Times newspapers were plastered over a large board. Click on the photo above to enlarge. Excuse the quality, it came from a camera phone. Dark Knight “Why So Serious” Billboard By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2008 2:52 pm EST...
Disney Puts Mamet’s Anne Frank Movie Into Turnaround By Russ Fischer/Sept. 25, 2009 11:30 am EST It was just this August when we heard that David Mamet would be writing and directing a new film about Anne Frank for Disney. Whoa — Mamet, Frank and Disney? Quite a combo; such a weird combo, in fact, that it seemed really unlikely to work. If current reports are correct, it didn’t. The Wrap reports that Disney has put Mamet’s script in turnaround because it is ’too dark,’ which seems both entirely expected and totally absurd....
First Look: Edward Norton In The Incredible Hulk By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 27, 2007 3:15 pm EST Universal has sent us the first official photos of Edward Norton as Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk. Click on the production photos to enlarge. Edward Norton stars in this new beginning as Bruce Banner, a scientist desperately hunting for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him – The Incredible Hulk....
Five New International Dark Knight Movie Posters By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2008 11:00 am EST Omelete got their hands on five new International posters for The Dark Knight. There are single character one-sheets of the three images on the quad poster above. I’ve included the other two below. The final one, which is a variation on the Batman “World Without Rules” featuring The Joker might be a fan creation. Â The Dark Knight hits theaters on July 18th....
From Paris With Love Movie Trailer #2 By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 5, 2010 1:22 am EST Following up on the earlier news about Pierre Morel (District B13, Taken) directing Dune, we now have the second trailer for his next feature, From Paris with Love. The film stars John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and concerns a young embassy worker who teams up with an unruly FBI agent to stop a terrorist attack in Paris....
Geek Deals: LG BD270 Blu-Ray Disc Player For $99 And Other Black Friday Week Bargins By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2009 12:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Lightning Deals:4am – 8am PST • Hellboy II: The Golden Army – $2.00 • The Mummy – $3.99 • The Tale of Despereaux – $5.00 8am – 12pm PST • Forgetting Sarah Marshall – $3.99 • Fast & Furious [Blu-ray] – $9....
