VOTD: Gotham Tonight Episodes 3 And 4 By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2008 2:39 am EST Gotham Tonight #3 & #4 by GCNThe Pitch: Gotham City News has two new episodes of Gotham Tonight. In the third episode, above, Mike Engel explores the sad increase in fear toxin related deaths, and the possible return of Johnathan “The Scarecrow” Craine. There is also an explanation behind the whysoserious security camera video that can be found on whysoserious....
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas And Happy Feet 2 Announced By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2009 11:50 pm EST Back in July of last year, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg announced that they were developing a third Harold and Kumar film. It makes sense that New Line (aka Warner Bros) wanted a sequel after the release of Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, which grossed over $43 million worldwide. Not bad for a film that was made for around $12 million....
Box Office Tracking: Forbidden Kingdom Likely To Beat Sarah Marshall By Steve Mason/April 18, 2008 1:00 am EST Forbidden Kingdom (Lionsgate), featuring martial arts superstars Jet Li and Jackie Chan, will likely win the box office weekend of April 18-20. With generally positive reviews and a family-friendly PG-13 rating, Kingdom has 7% Un-Aided Awareness (buzz) and a Total Aware of 76%, according to my studio sources. It has the strongest Definite Interest among Under 25’s among the 4 new releases (53% with Males Under 25 and 32% with Females Under 25)....
Box Office Tracking: Max Payne Targets $20M By Steve Mason/Oct. 17, 2008 12:32 am EST Movies based on video games do not always work, and I spoke to a pair of reputable film critics today who have seen and dislike Fox’s Mark Wahlberg vehicle Max Payne (although reviews have been embargoed until opening day), but it will likely be the big winner this weekend at America’s multiplexes. One of the critics went full-on snarky calling it Max Payne-ful, but industry tracking seems to point to an opening in the $18M-$21M range, and I am leaning toward something north of $20M....
Bruno Features A Veritable Band Aid Line Up Of Music Stars By Brendon Connelly/April 1, 2009 10:44 am EST This is odd: a new story in The Mirror seems to be suggesting that Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno is still a work in progress whereas just the other day we were talking about it’s submission to, and subsequent controversial certification by, the MPAA. Rather than presuming the entire story is bunkum, I’m thinking that The Mirror are just tangling a few things up or missing out the few facts that would help it all make sense....
Contest: Nomad: The Warrior On DVD By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2007 12:03 am EST Nomad: The Warrior hit DVD store shelves on July 24th, 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 August 1st we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....
Cool Stuff: Leia The Riveter T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 26, 2009 9:15 pm EST TeeFury’s t-shirt of the day is a Star Wars design by Thomas G. Sullivan. The t-shirt is a parody of J. Howard Miller’s WWII-era call to action piece “We Can Do It!”, an iconic feminist image appeared on magazines, newspapers and posters, and helped increase women’s earning power and acceptance into male-dominated trades. The bad news is that Teefury will be selling the t-shirt for one day, and one day only — Sunday December 27th....
David Fincher Directing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Next By Russ Fischer/March 31, 2010 10:15 am EST Remember what we said just a week or two ago about David Fincher and his ever-expanding list of possible projects? About how they’re always subject to change? At the time it looked as if he might direct Pawn Sacrifice, the Tobey Maguire-produced film about Bobby Fischer and his 1970s showdown against Soviet chess master Boris Spassky....
Fan Created Dark Knight Sequel Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 14, 2008 12:23 pm EST /Film readers Max B and David B have sent over this fan made poster for a possible sequel to The Dark Knight. Seems like the artist, like most everyone I have talked to, wants The Riddler to attack Gotham City in the next film. But yes, it is just a fan creation (If the question mark didn’t give it away)....
First Look: Pixar’s Your Friend The Rat By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2007 9:13 am EST Earlier this week we told you about Pixar’s first foray into 2D hand-drawn animation with a 11-minute short titled “Your Friend The Rat”. We now have three production stills from the short film. Click on the images to enlarge. The short film, which is directed by Jim Capobianco, follows Remy the rat (voiced again by Patton Oswalt), and his brother, Emile (Peter Sohn), who talk about the “history and behavior of rats in an effort to persuade human viewers not to kill the ubiquitous rodents....
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2007 1:23 am EST Access Hollywood has the movie trailer for Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the new Judd Apatow-produced comedy. From Undeclared screenwriter Nicholas Stoller, comes the story of Peter Bretter (Jason Segel), who takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). Little does he know Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex… and she’s bringing along her new boyfriend....
Geek Deals: Buy Two Blu-Ray Discs Get One Free, 56% Off Lost On DVD By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2008 12:23 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Each of which are already 30% off the MSRP (anywhere from $20 to $28). You could walk away with The Terminator, The Uusual Suspects, Scorsese’s The Last Waltz for around $41! Or you could buy Die Hard, Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance for $55....
Guillermo Del Toro Working On Frankenstein By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 3, 2008 4:28 am EST In between threatening to show off his incredible “chocolate bar physique,” Hell Boy 2 director Guillermo del Toro revealed to MTV that he is working on preliminary sketches for an upcoming “definitive take” on the Frankenstein monster. Del Toro says that his vision, which is in the earliest stages of pre-production, will not be a literal adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, rather a permutation on the myth....
James Bond 22 Loses Casino Royal Director By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2007 6:40 am EST This morning we have some bad news for James Bond fans. Martin Campbell, the director behind GoldenEye and the wildly successful Casino Royale will not be helming Bond 22. Campbell broke the news to press at the Chinese premiere of Casino Royal earlier this week. Campbell said it isn’t likely that he will be giving Bond another go, despite the global success....
JK Rowling Suggested That Character Be Included In Potter Movie By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2007 12:04 am EST At the London press conference for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, one of the big topics of conversation was which character was cut, than added back into the film’s screenplau under JK Rowling’s advisement. “Jo reads each draft,” David Heyman said, “she reads each screenplay, and she said, ‘You know, I wouldn’t do that if I were you....
Johnny Depp As Moe, Sean Penn As Larry In The Farrelly Bros’ Three Stooges Movie? By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 4, 2009 2:25 pm EST Here’s one heck of an odd story for me to make my comeback with. It comes to us from In Touch Magazine (well, at least according to Just Jared – I can’t find the story anywhere on the In Touch site, so I’m not sure if a) it was pulled b) it was only in a print version of the magazine or c) it was never there in the first place at all)....
Justin Marks To Write Hack/Slash By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2008 2:35 am EST Rogue Pictures has now hired Marks to tackle a big screen adaptation of Hack/Slash, the popular comic book created by Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli. The series follows a horror victim named Cassie Hack, who strikes back at the homicidal maniacs and serial killers, known as “slashers”. Marks take is said to be heavy on the comedy and horror....
LOL: Cam Gigandet Vs. Twilight Fans By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2009 5:30 am EST Twilight fans are (generally) nuts. I’m sorry, but its (generally) true. I kid, I kid. (or do I?) Being cast in a Twilight film may as well be one of those trick choices in an old-school Twilight Zone episode. Sure, you get to be famous, but your life becomes a living hell. In this Funny Or Die video, /Filmcast “favorite” and Never Back Down star Cam Gigandet has to fend off a group of crazy tween Twilight fans....
Movie Review: The Nanny Diaries By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 22, 2007 2:43 am EST A young girl out of college played by Hollywood’s It girl gets an opportunity at a high class job and enters a world she previously knew nothing about. Her boss is a self obsessed rich elitist miserable bitch with marital problems. The young woman takes on the seemingly impossible job, devoting all the hours of her day. Her loved ones are ignored as she needs to divert attention at the drop of a phone call to her controlling boss....
New Juno Website By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2007 12:39 pm EST
