International Iron Man Poster And New Dark Knight Close-Up By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2007 9:58 pm EST Update: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Movie Poster Just Added!!! Here are some new scans from the French magazine CinéLive, which features a new close-up photo of Batman’s updated batsuit from The Dark Knight, and a new international Iron Man poster. Check them out after the jump. via: Uruloki...
Leona Lewis To Sing Avatar’s Theme Song By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2009 12:00 pm EST The soundtrack will be released December 15th (December 14th internationally) and is currently available for pre-order at AvatarScore.com . Avatar hits theaters everywhere on December 18th.
Michael Bay Makes The Big Bucks By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2009 10:31 pm EST It’s a slow news day so I thought I’d point out a story over at Forbes Magazine that profiles director Michael Bay from a financial perspective. The bottom line is that Bay makes some serious cash. Here are some interesting tidbits I learned from the article. When there wasn’t enough money to bring back the crew to shoot a sequence where Will Smith punches out a bad guy in Bad Boys, the first time feature director put up $25,000 of his $125,000 fee to shoot the scene....
Michael Chabon Writing John Carter Of Mars By Brendon Connelly/April 14, 2009 10:44 am EST Almost a week ago, and without any fanfare, Nikki Finke listed John Carter of Mars as one of Michael Chabon’s screenwriting credits; this was then followed up by a Chabon fansite, The Amazing Website of Kavalier and Clay, and they got the author himself confirm: I’ve been hired to do some revisions to an already strong script by Andrew Stanton and Mark Andrews....
Minor Spoilers Revealed: Iron Man 2 Casting Call By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 21, 2009 1:36 pm EST Normally when I read Spoiler TV I’m just trying to figure out who’s going to kiss who on next week’s House but this morning, there’s something a bit more /Filmy going on. It looks like the site has managed to get their mitts upon a casting call for Iron Man 2 and some incredibly mild and minor spoilers can be readily ascertained from the character descriptions given....
Movie Trailer: Stuart Hazeldine’s One-Room Thriller Exam By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2009 12:15 pm EST Stuart Hazeldine’s high-concept, low-budget thriller single-room real-time feature debut Exam premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival back in August. QuietEarth calls the plot “Cube meets The Apprentice”. Here is the official plot synopsis: Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, an Invigilator gives them eighty minutes to answer one simple question....
Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 Might Be A Spin-Off By Peter Sciretta/May 9, 2007 10:25 pm EST Update [5/30/07]: Will Disney Greenlight Pirates of the Caribbean 4: The Fountain of Youth?Update [6/20/07]: Pirates of the Caribbean 4 to Follow Captain Jack’s Search For Atlantis?Pirates of the Caribbean 4 is inevitable. The question is how soon, and who will be involved. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer told The Herald Sun that a fourth Pirates film might be a spin-off....
Platinum Dunes Says Friday The 13th Sequel Is Snowbound? 3D? Admit To Disappointing First Entry By Hunter Stephenson/June 15, 2009 11:42 am EST Update: /Film commenter, Infrafan, points out that a “snowbound” setting opens up the following scenario: Jason finds himself on a frozen lake. Jason then “plays hockey” with the decapitated head of an AXE body spray model or a fake breast. Knowing Platinum Dunes, we could actually see this happening....
Pushing Daisies’ Bryan Fuller Talks New NBC Projects; Collaborating With Bryan Singer On Sellevision By Devindra Hardawar/Sept. 10, 2009 8:37 am EST Last I wrote about venerable TV scribe Bryan Fuller, he was rejoining Heroes after the death of Pushing Daisies. In June, he left Heroes to pursue two other projects for NBC, and today we’ve finally caught wind of what he’s been working on. Variety reports that he’s adapting the Augusten Burroughs book Sellevision together with Bryan Singer as an hourlong dramedy....
Richard Curtis Writing Low-Budget Time Travel Film As Well As Dr. Who By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 8, 2009 7:57 am EST Rom-com superemo Richard Curtis has been discussing the various projects on his plate, and none of them have been pitched as romantic comedies. That’s not to say one or two of them won’t be – they just haven’t been touted as such… so far. As well as an episode of Dr....
Rob Zombie’s Tyrannosaurus Rex Teaser Poster By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2008 12:03 pm EST Rob Zombie has released the first teaser poster for his next movie Tyrannosaurus Rex. We still have no idea what the film is about. A biker gang possibly? It is becoming less likely that a real live dinosaur is involved, although one is pictured in the smokey background of Alex Horley’s poster art. What do you guys think?...
Smokin Aces Prequel Announced By Peter Sciretta/May 18, 2007 12:15 am EST When we talked to Joe Carnahan back in January, he expressed interest in making a Smoking Aces prequel: “I’ve had an idea to do a Tremor brothers prequel, do this, do that. You could explore these characters endlessly.” But the movie came and went, becoming modestly successful ($53 million worldwide) before doing huge numbers on DVD. Now the idea has gotten a greenlight....
Spider-Man 3 Opens Two Days Early By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2007 1:04 am EST If you want to see Spider-Man 3 before anyone else, you better book a plane ticket to Japan. The third film in the series will open in Japan on May 1st, three days before it opens in the United States. This is a very strange move for Sony Pictures, who have also announced that the film’s grand premiere will be held in Tokyo on April 16th....
Steven Brill’s Angry E-Mail To /Film By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2008 9:24 pm EST In light of the recent coverage of director Steven Brill’s e-mail replies to Star Wars fanboys, I thought it might be time to finally share a story I’ve been sitting on this since August. When the first Drillbit Taylor movie trailer was released, I was highly critical of the preview for being unfunny, and sarcastically referred to director Steven Brill as “the ‘genius’ behind Little Nicky”....
The /Filmcast Interview: Producer Don Hahn By David Chen/Dec. 9, 2008 2:49 pm EST The /Filmcast Interview is a series of conversations with actors, directors, and other key figures from the entertainment industry. In this episode, David Chen speaks with legendary producer Don Hahn (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, The Emperor’s New Groove, The Hunchback of Notre Dame) about the animation industry, the making of Beauty and the Beast 3D, and Hahn’s new book, The Alchemy of Animation....
The Dark Knight: Bat-Pod And Tumbler Go On Tour By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2008 4:24 pm EST This week I got the chance to see The Tumbler and Bat-Pod up close and personal at The Dark Knight press day in Hollywood. But before you get too jealous, you to can check out Batman’s ride. Rejects passes along that both the Bat-Pod and the Tumbler will be traveling to the following cities across the United States before ending up back in Los Angeles the big premiere:...
There Will Be Milkshakes: The Mash-Up By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 14, 2008 9:13 pm EST Daniel Plainview’s “I drink your milkshake…I drink it up! [slurp]” is chugging along to become pop culture’s new “…with fava beans and a nice chianti [slurp],” and nothing says “crossover art house hit” like a precocious YouTube mash-up. Kevin Kunze, presumably of the University of San Francisco, has set up DDL on a blind date with underrated pop-rap chanteuse Kelis, lacing imagery from There Will Be Blood with her space-age booty anthem “Milkshake....
By Brendon Connelly/March 22, 2010 6:14 am EST UPDATE: Now with English subtitles. Well worth another look. Picture quality is better too, actually. I won’t make any bones about it – I think this first full trailer for Luc Besson’s The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc Sec looks simply superb. I’ve embedded the trailer below the break and fully recommend you check it out. Meanwhile, the film’s offical English language web site has launched....
By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2007 9:33 pm EST The official Legendary Pictures website now lists a big screen adaptation of the Diablo video game series as one of the projects they are actively developing. Legendary Pictures has been responsible for Superman Returns, Batman Begins, and 300 among other films (We Are Marshall, Beerfest, Lady in the Water and The Ant Bully). The company is also developing the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight, Superman: The Man of Steel, an adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, a big screen adaptation of World of Warcraft, and a Clash of the Titans remake....
VOTD: Cinema’s Most Dramatic Typing Scenes By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2009 12:00 am EST Current’s Rotten Tomatoes Show put together 46-second video clip of Cinema’s Most Dramatic Typing Scenes. Video after the jump. VOTD: Cinema’s Most Dramatic Typing Scenes By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2009 12:00 am EST Current’s Rotten Tomatoes Show put together 46-second video clip of Cinema’s Most Dramatic Typing Scenes. Video after the jump.
