Box Office Tracking: The Day The Earth Stood Still Could Reach $36 Million By Steve Mason/Dec. 12, 2008 3:33 am EST Generally, the trailer has been playing very well for months. It has the look of 1996’s Independence Day ($306M domestic), but Reeves is not the engaging superstar that Will Smith is. In fact aside from The Matrix Trilogy, Keanu’s box office resume is a bit thin. ALL-TIME TOP 10 KEANU REEVES OPENINGS...
Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 24, 2008 7:24 pm EST Warner Bros has released the first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino. Earlier this week Warners released the first photo and poster for the film. The trailer shows us a racist grumpy old Eastwood, who tells to a bunch of local gang bangers “Get off my lawn” I kid you not. In the movie, Eastwood plays a disgruntled racist Korean War vet named Walt Kowalski, who sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong immigrant teenage neighbor (played by newcomer Bee Vang), who, as part of a gang initiation, tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino....
Cloverfield Casting, Development And Shooting Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2007 11:44 pm EST The Hollywood trade papers have just published some interesting articles on the Cloverfield madness. And with that we have learned a few new details about the film’s secret development. Apparently, Paramount greenlit the project in February around the same time that JJ Abrams agreed to direct Star Trek 11. The Hollywood Reporter writes: The casting process was just as mysterious....
Confirmed: Michael Jackson’s Captain EO Returns To Disneyland By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2009 1:30 pm EST Disney Parks has confirmed that Honey I Shrunk The Audience will be closing sometime in the next few weeks to make way for the the return of the Francis Ford Coppola-directed/George Lucas-produced Michael Jackson sci-fi action 3D musical short film Captain EO. The original film will return to Disneyland’s Tomorrowland beginning in February 2010....
Cool Stuff: Mounted Velociraptor Head From Jurassic Park By Hunter Stephenson/March 25, 2009 6:00 am EST Beat your friend’s latest Jeff Goldblum sighting to smithereens with this nifty mounted, life-size Velociraptor head from Jurassic Park. At least that’s what a seller proclaims on eBay, and it can be yours at a starting price of $350 on the up. The small legend at the bottom reads ever so subtly, “Velociraptor.” Would you rather have this or Thora Birch’s color-guarded ‘raptor shirt from Ghost World?...
Deadgirl Trailer By Brendon Connelly/July 1, 2009 1:00 pm EST Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel’s Deadgirl is already available on DVD in the UK but still awaiting cinema release in the US. Ahead of its bow in ’limited engagement’ from July 24, Bloody Disgusting have received a top quality bootleg leak of the trailer which you can see below the break. If you want to catch the picture in cinemas, there’s a list of it’s currently scheduled engagements also at the site....
Elijah Wood Talks The Hobbit By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 12, 2008 3:56 am EST While on a trip in New Orleans, a scraggly psychic informed me that my moderately large eyes leave me perceptible to pranks and evils. If they were a little larger, I wonder, might I have been cast in The Lord of the Rings and now basking in millions? Elijah Wood, taking a break from his steady animated voice work, tells MTV that he would “love to” be involved in the recently greenlit “mystery meat” film thought to bridge The Hobbit to the LOTR trilogy....
Geek Deal: Six Feet Under: The Complete Series For $68 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2010 12:10 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince On July 15th By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2009 2:37 pm EST Warner Bros has announced that Muggles will now be able to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince a few days early. The film which was set for Friday July 17th, will now hit theaters two days earlier on Wednesday, July 15th 2009. This means that there will now probably be Tuesday night midnight screenings in some theaters....
Howard Stern Turns Down Transformers Movie Role By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2007 7:46 pm EST Correction: The Transformer in question is actually Frenzy and not Soundwave. Howard Stern was asked to briefly voice Soundwave Frenzy in the upcoming Transformers movie. For those of you who don’t know, Soundwave Frenzy takes the form of small consumer electronic devices. At one point in the new movie, the Transformer will be disguised as a radio, and according to Stern, Dreamworks asked the king of all media to lend his voice....
Is Neil Marshall Going To Replace Peter Berg On Dune? By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 28, 2009 10:18 am EST A new and curious rumour suggests that Peter Berg is no longer attached to the next big screen adaptation of Dune and the studio are shopping around for a new director. Normally, when rumours like this have something to them it’s been after a fair bit of radio silence but it hasn’t exactly been all quiet on the Atreides front, with Peter Berg discussing progress on the picture only a couple of months ago....
Is The Future Of Movies… Free?! By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2008 3:45 pm EST You might not know who Chris Anderson is. Some people know him as the editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine. Others know him as some sort of tech futurist, having coined the term The Long Tail in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the 2006 book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More....
Jon Favreau To Re-Team With Vince Vaughn By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2007 2:52 am EST Good News: Jon Favreau has signed on to re-team with Vince Vaughn on the big screen. Bad News: The movie is New Line’s romantic comedy disaster Four Christmases. The film was recently (or maybe even currently) shooting in my home city – San Francisco, and the local newspapers have been reporting that co-star Reese Witherspoon is on the outs with her co-star Vaughn....
Max Payne Movie Posters By Hunter Stephenson/July 24, 2008 10:29 am EST Two new one-sheets for the adaptation of Rockstar Games’ Max Payne have popped up at Dark Horizons. When the film’s trailer hit a few weeks ago, hardcore fans of the game shot poison-tipped arrows at the curious presence of nappy angel-looking entities. The spiffier poster after the jump will probably draw a similar response: Max Payne vs Jeepers Creepers, ftw....
Max Payne Trailer #2 By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 29, 2008 3:48 pm EST Even Bruce Wayne is beginning to think Max Payne will be a sizable hit and worth seeing. A new theatrical trailer for Fox’s video game adaptation contains even more shots of the hypnotic angels-of-death that continue to puzzle the games’ followers. We learn herein that the winged beings are referred to as “valkyries,” and reward people who “die in violence....
New Iron Man Photo Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2007 1:58 pm EST Entertainment Weekly have published a new photo of Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man. The image seems to be from a point in the film where Stark is engineering the Iron Man armor. I’m sure we’ll see much more at Comic Con next week. Iron Man will hit theaters on May 2nd 2008....
New Photos: Where The Wild Things Are, Funny People, 2012, Avatar And More By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 10, 2009 8:36 pm EST Warner Bros, Fox, Universal, Disney and Sony have released a bunch of new photos to the Los Angeles Times for their 2009 movie preview. I’ve included a few of the photos after the jump. Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are Behind the scenes of James Cameron’s Avatar...
Not So Fast Dudes…Clint Eastwood To Kill Off Dirty Harry In Dirty Harry 6? By Hunter Stephenson/May 7, 2008 11:33 am EST When character descriptions, released last week, for Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino confirmed that the film wasn’t Dirty Harry 6, a lot of sites joshed that fans like you and me were out of our gluttonous minds for even desiring a sequel. Sure, the rumored return of Harry Callahan was supported by an infamously cool and extremely random tip AICN received, but to Slashfilm, a number six still made and makes perfect sense....
Over 100 New High Resolution Photos From Iron Man 2 By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2010 11:27 pm EST Earlier Tonight, Marvel released a new movie trailer for Jon Favreau’s Iron Man. The trailer flys by pretty fast, so we’ve gone through and captured over 100 high resolution (almost-2000 pixels wide) screencaptures which allow you to take an extended look at all the action. .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } ....
Peter Jackson And Sam Raimi To Make The Hobbit? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2007 11:15 am EST Last week when we reported on a rumor that Sam Raimi was offered the Clash of the Titans remake, I wondered out loud (or on the web page) if this meant that he would not be making The Hobbit for New Line. Well it looks like there is more to this story. The LA Times recently spoke to New Line head Bob Shaye:...
