Alex Pettyfer Cast In The Mummy 3? By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2007 11:56 pm EST According to TV.com, Alex Rider: Stormbreaker star Alex Pettyfer is up for a role in The Mummy 3. Pettyfer would play Alex O’Connell, the son of Rick and Evelyn O’Connell (Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz) in the first two films. Alex was played by Freddie Boath in The Mummy Returns. Jet Li is also cast in the movie as the villain....
Breaking: Roy Disney, Nephew Of Walt Disney, Has Died By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2009 11:29 am EST Roy Edward Disney, longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver Disney and his uncle Walt Disney founded, has died at age 79. Disney owned over 16 million shares of Disney stock (or about 1%) and served as a consultant for the company and Director Emeritus for the Board of Directors....
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Director To Make Feature Film Debut By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2009 2:11 pm EST The film will tell the story of a small coastal Eastern town which is suddenly and inexplicably devastated by an invisible contagion. A young man awakens from a car accident to discover he is one of few survivors in the aftermath of a mysterious outbreak. Somehow immune, he tries to save the remaining survivors from themselves, as he desperately struggles to prevent the deadly wave from spreading across the entire planet....
Cannes Line-Up Unveiled By Brendon Connelly/April 23, 2009 11:09 am EST For me the Cannes film festival is one of just two festivals I get really, really excited about – the other, in second place, being Sundance. Perhaps part of this is that I have never attended either, though it is mainly down to the calibre of films and filmmakers these festivals attract. Truly extraordinary Palme D’Or winners (which is a healthy majority) far, far, far outnumber the exceptional and distinguished films to be given gongs at many other fests and certainly at the Academy Awards....
Cannes Posters: Bad Lieutenant, Law Abiding Citizen, Slumdog Millionaire By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2008 3:25 pm EST MTV has a batch of new movie posters from Cannes. The three most interesting can be seen above: Werner Herzog’s (Grizzly Man) remake of Bad Lieutenant starring Nicolas Cage. Frank Darabont’s (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) Law Abiding Citizen which stars Gerard Butler as an assistant D.A. is targeted by a victim of the legal system who looks to exact a certain revenge....
Comic Con: The Owlship From Watchmen By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2008 1:00 am EST The Owlship from Watchmen has landed at the San Diego Comic Con. Unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed to board the ship. Check out my photos below. Comic Con: The Owlship From Watchmen By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2008 1:00 am EST The Owlship from Watchmen has landed at the San Diego Comic Con. Unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed to board the ship....
Contest: Freedom Writers On DVD By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2007 12:25 am EST Freedom Writers hits DVD store shelves on April 17th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On April 18th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....
Disney’s Tangled Teaser Trailer By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 27, 2010 12:11 pm EST The upcoming The Princess and the Frog Blu-ray from Disney is going to feature the first teaser footage for their upcoming toon Tangled, formerly Rapunzel. Interestingly, the teaser itself features no title at all, which gives us some idea of when it was finalised and sent for mastering. Below the break are three screen captures. They reveal a great look, I think, which has a lot in common with the typical hand drawn aesthetic despite being CG rendered....
I Love You, Phillip Morris Finds U.S. Distribution By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2009 11:48 am EST I Love You, Phillip Morris premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival to fairly good reviews, but distributors have been turned off by “the graphic homosexual sex depicted in the film,” and the film has yet to score domestic theatrical distribution, until now. Variety reports that the Jim Carrey/Ewan McGregor comedy has finally been acquired by Consolidated Pictures Group for domestic distribution....
Kevin Smith Has Seen Watchmen: “It’s F**king Astounding” By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2008 12:14 pm EST At the Entertainment Weekly Visionaries panel at Comic Con, writer/director Kevin Smith was raving hard about the Watchmen footage which had premiered at the Con. After that I had a feeling that Zack Snyder, who was also on the panel, was going to show the film to Smith. And I was right. Kevin Smith has seen Watchmen....
Kevin Smith Outraged Over Grindhouse Failure By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2007 11:44 pm EST Clerks director Kevin Smith had a lot to say about America’s decision to see Wild Hogs over Zodiac on his new podcast (SModcast) a couple weeks back. Now the director is outraged over this weekend’s box office results. “What’s Costner’s line in J.F.K. again? ‘God, I’m ashamed to be an American today…’” wrote Smith. “Perhaps that’s overstating it a bit, but for me?...
LOL: How To Make A Michael Cera Movie By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2010 6:00 am EST It seems like a lot of people I know have gotten tired of Michael Cera’s same-old-act, and the $7 million opening of his new film, Youth in Revolt, seems to suggest it might be more widespread than just a couple of my friends. High Definite has created an infographic showing the paint by numbers steps involved in creating a Michael Cera comedy....
More Dark Knight Spoilers: Funeral And Building Implosion Update By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2007 10:31 am EST A few more Dark Knight spoilers today. FilmSchoolRejects has gotten word on a shoot on Lasalle street with 400 cop extras. The rehearsed the scene on Thursday, and it turns out it’s a funeral procession. They marched with a 7 gun salute. Three shots by each of the men. But here is the twist, the last round gets aimed on stage....
New Alice In Wonderland Images Give A Good Look At The Creatures By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 23, 2009 2:00 pm EST After the break are a series of big, big pictures that showcase the White Rabbit, the March Hare, the Dormouse and the Cheshire Cat, and a smaller one of the Caterpillar. Looking at these new hi-res images of itchy critters, I’m properly on side with the picture. There’s a richness to the images, and a consistency....
New Photo: Pixar’s Up By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 28, 2008 11:35 pm EST The new issue of Empire Magazine also has a new photo from Pixar’s Up. The photo shows 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen and the chubby eight-year-old Wilderness Explorer neighbor Russell. Aside from the mysterious far away locale visible in the background, not much is new. Head on over the Empire for the full resolution photo. Up hits theaters in Digital Disney 3-D on May 29th 2009....
Page 2: Second Sight, Pirates, Wall-E World, The Dark Knight, Tribeca Deals, Shrek Banners, And More By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2007 5:54 am EST There’s a lot of second page news today so we’re bringing back Page 2, our quick fix news rundown: Universal is planning a big screen adaptation of Second Sight, a 1999 BBC miniseries that starred Clive Owen as a detective struggling to solve a murder before he goes blind....
Photos: Iron Man In High Resolution By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2007 11:16 pm EST Last week, Entertainment Weekly published the first photo of Ion Man in full red and gold armor. Paramount has finally released a high resolution version of the photo in addition to a new image of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. Check out the photos above. As always, left click to enlarge. Jon Favreau’s Iron Man will hit theaters on May 2nd 2008....
Rumor: Zombieland Writers To Take On Deadpool? Plus, Ryan Reynolds Dreams Of Tarantino Directing By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 7, 2009 10:46 pm EST Zombieland was definitely one of the most fun experiences I’ve had at theaters this year, and I think Deadpool film with a similarly light tone could work very well. Although Hugh Jackman’s enthusiasm for Logan didn’t help Wolverine much, we can still take some solace in knowing that Ryan Reynolds seems to have a real love for the character....
Soderbergh Finally Talks About Moneyball By Russ Fischer/Sept. 2, 2009 9:43 am EST Steven Soderbergh is nothing if not professional, and when a project doesn’t work out for a pro, they just move on. Moneyball, Soderbergh’s planned adaptation of the Michael Lewis book about the stat-based success of Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane, was famously canceled at the last minute a couple months ago. But we didn’t hear a peep out of Soderbergh about the project’s failure, until now....
Sofia Vergara Joins Smurfs By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2010 8:14 pm EST Modern Family star Sofia Vergara has been cast in the big screen adaptation of the Smurfs. Vergara will play a live-action character named Odile, a powerful executive at a high-end French cosmetics company who is married to the main live-action character played by Neil Patrick Harris. Jayma Mays (Glee) had previously been cast in the role, but the trades story claims that she is still part of the supporting live-action cast....
