Cool Stuff: The Spoiler T-Shirt Returns To Threadless By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2008 6:00 am EST For the first time in /Film history, we are featuring a t-shirt that we’ve already featured in as past version of cool stuff. Why would we be doing this, you ask? Because the shirt sold out within hours of our previous posting (not solely due to our coverage as the tee was the talk of the internet at the time)....
District 9 Teaser Poster By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2009 9:38 pm EST Sony has premiered the official teaser poster for Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 on Yahoo. The poster features a posting of an “Non-Human” shooting range target with the subtitle “You Are Not Welcome Here.” I’m really excited about this movie, but I think this poster would have been more effective before they gave us an uncensored look at the alien creature....
Eli Roth Talks Sci-Fi Epic Endangered Species And Thanksgiving By Brendon Connelly/May 29, 2009 10:50 am EST Empire Magazine spoke to Eli Roth at Cannes, and have now (almost a week after everybody got home from the festival) seen fit to reveal what the conversation uncovered. As discussed before, Roth is planning to shoot a feature length expansion of his Grindhouse trailer Thanksgiving, and to do it fast, quick and cheap....
Filming Crank 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2009 9:00 am EST Last year we told you that Crank directors Neveldine/Taylor had decided to film Crank 2: High Voltage entirely using consumer grade video cameras, allowing them to put the cameras in places filmmakers normally aren’t able to. They also had plans to shoot some sequences using a “moving bullet time camera rig” composed of 8 small video cameras attached to a curved light weight piece of speed rail....
Friday Box Office: Max Payne Opens At #1, May Reach $18.5 Million By Steve Mason/Oct. 18, 2008 12:21 am EST ALL-TIME BEST OPENINGS FOR VIDEO GAME ADAPTATIONS Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – $47.73M opening ($131.1M cume) Pokeman: The First Movie – $31M opening ($85.7M cume) Resident Evil: Extinction -$23.7M opening ($50.6M cume) Mortal Kombat – $23.2M opening ($70.4M cume) Resident Evil: Apocalypse – $23M opening ($51.2M cume) Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life – $21....
Gerard Butler Might Still Escape From New York By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2007 10:08 pm EST Rumors of Gerard Butler’s (300) departure from the Escape From New York remake have been greatly exaggerated. Butler, who has been doing press for his new romcom P.S. I Love You, insists that he hasn’t dropped out of the project, but is taking a wait and see position. In October, New Line hired Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines helmer Jonathan Mostow in to rewrite, with an option to direct....
Is Hollywood Going Alien Crazy? Will Aliens Become The New Vampires? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2009 8:45 pm EST With the success of recent films like the Transformers movies and District 9 (and to a lesser extent, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which is the 26th highest grossing film worldwide), it seems like Hollywood is going alien crazy, giving the green light and putting a lot of alien-based stories in development — more than ever before....
James Mangold’s Wichita Gets A New Title By David Chen/Oct. 13, 2009 2:55 am EST Of course, when I tried to tell people that I had met the cinematographer from Wichita, most of them responded by giving me a bizarre look and asking, “What movie?” I don’t think the working title Wichita has ever been a strong suit for the film, which has Cameron Diaz playing an “upbeat Midwestern woman who goes on a blind date with a man (Cruise) who turns out to be a federal agent....
Johnny Hardstaff’s Dark Room And Hi-Sim’s Jun & The Hidden Skies [Parallel Lines] By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2010 11:54 pm EST In February, we wrote a piece about an upcoming collaboration between Philips and five filmmakers from Ridley Scott Associates, called Parallel Lines. Scott’s commercial division RSA was asked to create a series of groundbreaking short films in a genre of their choice, using “the same unifying theme.” RSA directors submitted forty-five treatments and Philips selected five it believed were most ground-breaking: Jake Scott, Greg Fay, Johnny Hardstaff, Carl Erik Rinsch, and Hi-Sim....
Josh Peck Cast In Hearts Of Men; What Goes Up Photos By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 8, 2009 12:52 am EST Our friends at FilmSchoolRejects learned today that Josh Peck has been cast in a film project called Hearts of Men about three guys “a white boy” (we assume this is Peck), “a black gang member” and “a latino” who witness the latino’s brother get murdered. And like The Wackness, this movie also has some musical undertones....
McG Hints At Arnold, Sarah Connor Appearances In Terminator Salvation By David Chen/Jan. 13, 2009 7:53 pm EST Rumors of cameo appearances in Terminator Salvation refuse to die. E! online reports that at a New York preview screening of the film on Monday, McG was asked by producer Dan Lin what surprises the film might have in store, to which he responded, “I can’t talk about it. I can’t talk about the governor of California....
Movie Review: Lonely Hearts By Elaine Mak/April 13, 2007 11:19 am EST Directed by Todd Robinson, grandson of the main character of this true-story film, Lonely Hearts is an interesting story that explores the psychology of two lovers and notorious killers, and the detectives that seek to catch them. Lonely Hearts takes place in the 1940s, where detective Elmer C. Robinson (John Travolta) is investigating a string of murders committed by lovers Martha Beck (Selma Hayek) and Raymond Fernandez (Jared Leto), known as the Lonely Hearts Killers....
New High Resolution WALL-E Photos Released By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2008 7:45 pm EST
Rumor Killer: Why Chris Pine Probably Won’t Be Cast As Captain America By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2010 12:30 pm EST Cinema Spy has started a new rumor claiming that Chris Pine (who played James T Kirk in JJ Abrams Star Trek) is the front runner to play Captain America in Joe Johnson’s The First Avenger: Captain America. Wow, what short attention spans we all must have. It was only a week ago when the director revealed at The Wolfman junket press conference that he is planning to cast an unknown in the role, and surround him with some bigger name stars....
Set Photos: A Better Look At Kick-Ass In Costume By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2008 11:26 pm EST /Film reader Christopher M sent over some new photos from the Toronto set of Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass. Above we get a much better look at the title character’s costume. And no, that isn’t Aaron Johnson, who plays Dave Lizewski in the film adaptation. It’s one of Aaron’s stunt doubles. And the photos below show Aaron in the costume, but from a ways back....
Star Trek 11: Leonard Nimoy In, William Shatner Out By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2007 12:31 pm EST A travesty! Apparently William Shatner will not be in Star Trek 11 but Leonard Nimoy is featured in the script. Shatner revealed the news himself while making a radio appearance, captured on video on Shatner Vision. Check out the video after the jump. “There is a new Star Trek movie. So I called Leonard and I said Leonard, have you heard....
Sundance: The Weinstein Company Buys Grace Is Gone By Sundance Spy/Jan. 23, 2007 6:51 am EST Okay, I know this might be a little bit late but being on location at sundance leaves us little to no time for news. Grace is Gone is probably the best recieved film at the festival so far. The good news is The Weinstein Company has acquired the film. Check out the press release after the jump....
The Karate Kid Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2010 4:37 pm EST Even with our well documented disdain for the project, we found the teaser trailer for The Karate Kid remake starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan to be surprisingly watchable (but it might have just been the very low expectations we had set). Word leaked in January that the film earned the second highest test screening score in Sony history....
The Princess Bride Video Game By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2007 3:13 am EST When Hollywood isn’t ruining the movies from my childhood with cheap direct-to-DVD sequels (Wargames 2?), they are trying to make a quick buck with a “branded” franchise video game (Did anyone play that Jaws video game a few years back?). Worldwide Biggies has just announced that they are creating a video game based on the 1987 film classic The Princess Bride....
Tintin Cast Revealed: Billy Elliot Is Tintin; Daniel Craig Is Red Rackham And More By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 26, 2009 1:24 pm EST So, the Tintin casting is out of the bag, as per the headline… and you simply won’t believe who wrote the screenplay: Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish. Wow. That’s amazing. For the first time since I was born, I’m really excited to see a film by Steven Spielberg....
