Tracy Morgan Lines Up Two New Comedies By Russ Fischer/March 5, 2010 1:13 pm EST If you were paying any attention to the marketing for Kevin Smith’s Cop Out you quickly noticed that it was being sold as a Tracy Morgan movie more than anything else. Kevin Smith was an unknown quantity for a mass audience (difficult to fathom after being around for a while, but it’s true) and with Bruce Willis as straight man, the movie was Morgan’s to carry or drop....
Tron Legacy’s Viral Campaign Begins With 27-City Scavenger Hunt By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2010 8:12 am EST What are you doing today? Hopefully not much, because if you’re in one of the 27 cities listed on the Flynn Lives page associated with Disney’s upcoming film Tron Legacy, you might want to be ready to run out and meet a ’local operative’ wearing a Flynn Lives t-shirt. What will you get if you do?...
Video Blog: District 10, Toy Story Double Feature And Spider-Man 4-6 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2009 9:00 am EST Steve (from Collider) and I had a plan. Over the weekend we came up with a bunch of subjects we wanted to talk about and we had every intention of recording a video blog Monday afternoon. But…Disney and Marvel made us alter our plans. Due to their $4 Billion dollar merger, we spent Monday talking about what the merger meant and what cool stuff might happen as a result of it....
VOTD: Gremlins Vs. Batman, The Goonies, The Exorcist And Indiana Jones By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2008 12:00 am EST Gremlins vs. Batman, The Goonies, The Exorcist, Indiana Jones The Pitch: Sacha Feiner created this incredible alternative fan sequence using the Gremlins 2 Film break scene. Created over two months using computer enhanced puppets. Sacha writes: “I made a new mold out of a hard cast of one of the original sculptures from the production....
VOTD: TCM Remembers 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2009 12:00 am EST Turner Classic Movies put together a beautiful video montage remembering the actors, actresses, directors, writers, producers, and musicians that we lost in 2008. Eartha Kitt was probably not included because this was edited before her death. The song is “God Only Knows” by Joe Henry. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....
Warner Bros Cops Out On Kevin Smith’s Dick Movie By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2009 8:19 pm EST Wow… Yesterday word broke that Kevin Smith would be helming the first feature film based on a screenplay he did not write. Robb and Marc Cullen’s A Couple of Dicks was one of the scripts on the 2008 Black List (a Hollywood insider list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year). The story follows “two veteran LAPD detectives attempt to track down a stolen, mint-condition, 1952 baseball card....
Zombieland Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2009 5:05 pm EST Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland. Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other....
Amelia Movie Trailer By Russ Fischer/June 26, 2009 12:28 pm EST The Ronald Bass script for Amelia was sourced from several books about Earhart, who became a national hero as the female face of early aviation. Earhart was the first female solo transatlantic pilot, and made the first solo flight from Hawaii to California. She disappeared while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in 1937. Her last contact was around Howland Island, which a shot in the trailer takes care to point out with an exquisite lack of grace....
Battle: Los Angeles Adds Cast, Will Be ‘Black Hawk Down Meets Alien’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2009 1:07 pm EST Battle: Los Angeles, the alien invasion action flick that is about to begin shooting in Louisiana (not quite Los Angeles…) has added quite a few cast members, and on the eve of the shoot star Aaron Eckhart makes some promises about what sort of film we’re likely to see when it’s all said and done....
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2008 3:31 am EST Even though his stories are not usually something typical of interest to me, I have always loved Baz Luhrmann for his visuals. His new film Australia is a period love story, but the beautiful cinematography immediately grabbed hold of my inner cinephile heart. That said, I’m not sure I’ll like this film as much as his previous efforts....
Big Directors Small Films: George Lucas’ 1:42:08 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 2, 2008 9:53 pm EST I forgot to post a Big Directors Small Films column over the weekend due to the Thanksgiving distraction, so here is the make-up edition. Brandon and the Frog found George Lucas’ University of Southern California thesis film. 1:42:08: A Man and His Car is short film about a race car driver testing his car. Filmed at California’s Willow Springs Raceway in 1966 with a 14-person student film crew, the short film stars Pete Brock and his yellow Lotus 23 race car, which Jalopnik points out, looks kinda like a XP-34 Landspeeder....
Comic-Con: Disney Recreated Wonderland In San Diego By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2009 8:00 pm EST Last week, Disney announced a new viral for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland at San Diego Comic-Con 2009. The mouse house invited people in attendance to follow a special importantdate twitter account. Those who followed the instructions were invited to the Mad Hatter’s tea party, a trip to visit Wonderland. Disney constructed an incredibly detailed prop, wardrobe, concept art and art installation in an empty warehouse close to the San Diego convention center....
Comic-Con Video Blog: Thoughts On 24 Minutes Of James Cameron’s Avatar By Peter Sciretta/July 23, 2009 4:54 pm EST James Cameron premiered 24 minutes of Avatar to a packed crowd of 6,000 comic book and film geeks at Comic Con 2009. We’ll have a full description of the footage that was screened as part of the presentation a bit later. But we wanted to get up our quick thoughts on the footage....
Cool Stuff: Operation Hulk By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2008 4:39 am EST When I was a kid, I always hated the game of Operation. Maybe because I just suck at handling delicate tasks without shaking. Plus that opperation guy was just creepy if you think about it, laying on the table with that weird look waiting for little kids to touch him. But I probably would have liked the game a whole lot more if it featured my favorite comic book superheroes....
Director’s Cut Of Bruno An NC-17, Corporate Censorship Now Inevitable By Brendon Connelly/March 30, 2009 6:17 am EST Let’s get one thing clear to begin with: there’s nothing wrong with the MPAA giving Bruno an NC-17 rating, but everything wrong with Universal then deciding to cut the film instead of release it intact and also, crucially, with cinema chains (and even adult audiences) turning a cold shoulder to NC-17 rated films....
Exclusive: The Joker Takes Over Mad Magazine By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2008 2:46 pm EST DC Comics has supplied us with an exclusive look at the new issue of Mad Magazine, issue #497, which will hit stores on December 16th. Mad mascot Alfred E. Neuman is in costume as The Joker with the tag-line “Why So Stupid?” This is Mad’s annual “tribute to the year’s biggest idiots”. Exclusive: The Joker Takes Over Mad Magazine...
First 10 Minutes Of Sex Drive (One Of The Funniest Movies Of 2008) By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 16, 2008 3:40 pm EST We’ve tried to convince you that this weekend’s Sex Drive conquers the odds for that ever commodified of genres, the teen sex comedy. And now Summit Entertainment has released the first R-rated 10 minutes online to convert the masses. This should give you a good idea of how the film balances funny rapid-fire sophomoric humor with cast chemistry reminiscent of so many ’80s mallrat gems....
French NSFW Trailer For Chloe With Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson And Julianne Moore By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 12, 2010 9:15 am EST The latest, definitely NSFW trailer for Atom Egoyan’s Chloe comes from France where they’re reputedly a lot happier about nudity and ‘sensuality’ than in the US. You can see for yourself after the break. It will probably leave you with the impression that the French are quite happy about women kissing each other too....
Harry Potter And The Order Of Phoenix Shortened To Avoid Grindhouse Failure? By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2007 12:09 am EST Movie studio logic has always baffled me. Because Grindhouse failed at the box office, everyone is blaming the film’s three plus hour running time. Now supposedly Warner Bros has ordered director David Yates to cut the running time of Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix, so that audiences won’t be frightened away....
Hotel Hell Vacation 14 Minute Short Film By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2010 10:54 pm EST Back in November, we told you that Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo would be reprising their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold from the National Lampoon’s Vacation movies, but not for another big screen sequel (not yet, at least…). The Griswolds reunited instead for an advertising campaign for HomeAway launched during the 2010 Super Bowl. The television spot advertised a new Vacation “mini-movie” titled Hotel Hell Vacation, featuring Chase, D’Angelo, and an exact replica of the film’s iconic Wagon Queen Family Truckster....
