Peter Jackson To Direct Nazi Zombie Time Travel Movie? By Brendon Connelly/May 1, 2009 11:48 am EST Update: Entertainment Weekly have spoken to Ken Kamins, Jackson’s manager and received some kind of weak denial. He said: “It sounds like an April Fool’s joke. Peter and Fran are working diligently on The Hobbit for the foreseeable future.” Which is basically equivalent to answering the question “Will you join me for dinner tonight?...
Rush Hour 3 Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2007 10:26 am EST New Line has released the movie poster for Rush Hour 3. Yawn. Rush Hour 3 Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2007 10:26 am EST New Line has released the movie poster for Rush Hour 3. Yawn.
Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell To Premiere At SXSW By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2009 12:24 am EST SAM RAIMI TO DEBUT WORK-IN-PROGRESS DRAG ME TO HELL, JONATHAN DEMME TO PREMIERE NEIL YOUNG FILM AT SXSWAustin, Texas – March 3, 2008 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival announced major new additions to its 2009 Festival today. Director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man series, Evil Dead trilogy) will debut a work-in-progress version of Universal Pictures’ horror film Drag Me to Hell, the long awaited return to his roots in the genre....
Spielberg/Dreamworks For Dummies By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2008 12:44 am EST In 1994, Steven Spielberg founded DreamWorks with Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen (forming the SKG present on the bottom of the DreamWorks logo) and a $500 million investment from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Over the next fourteen years, Spielberg directed eight films under his new studio (Amistad-Munich), a streak that ended in May 2008 with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....
Sundance Parties And Events: Monday, January 22nd, 2007 By Sundance Spy/Jan. 21, 2007 9:37 am EST Everyone wants to know where the new hot party is happening at Sundance. /Film will give you an indepth look at all the parties going on in and outside of Main Street every night of the festival. Keep in mind that most of these parties are by invitation only. Knowledge of the events does not constitute an invite....
Sylvester Stallone’s Death Wish By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 11, 2008 6:42 pm EST I once lived in a party house with a huge pastel painting on the wall featuring famous men with famous mustaches. For some reason, Charles Bronson and Salvador Dali were the most prominent. Over cereal and beer each morning, I came to hold the former mustachioed legend in the highest regard and thus began to rent his movies. Watching Bronson calmly maneuver and detonate a soccer ball bomb using a remote control in Death Wish V: The Face of Death made me realize that sometimes you have to do supremely odd and disagreeable things as a man, and one must always look as if he’s done them a million times by expressing cool disinterest....
Telluride Video Blog: Fish Tank, A Prophet And Pre-Screening Up In The Air Buzz By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 5, 2009 5:49 pm EST So, I’ve been at the Telluride Film Festival for about 24 hours, and have found little time to post any updates. I’ve decided to record a quick video blog with Alex from FirstShowing while in line to get into the sneak preview premiere of Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air....
The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three Now On Hulu By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 10, 2008 8:14 am EST If you’re looking for a safe bet, or if you simply loathe modern orange actors like Matthew McConaughey, Hulu.com is now streaming The Taking of Pelham One Two Three in its entirety. Judging from the above poster, the film looks like a pulpfest, and to a degree it is, but it’s also an overlooked, hardboiled thriller with two no-bullshit performances from the late greats, Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw....
Tom Cruise Teams With Sam Raimi On New Comic Book Adaptation By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2008 11:36 pm EST Tom Cruise is teaming up with Sam Raimi to develop an adaptation of the Wildstorm comic book Sleeper. Cruise might star, while Raimi will produce with Josh Donen. Written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, the story follows a covert “sleeper” operative named Holden Carver (aka The Conductor), who is fused with an alien artifact that makes him not only impervious to pain , but also able to pass it along to others through skin contact....
VOTD: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas And Dawn Of The Dead On Hulu By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 31, 2009 10:16 pm EST I just found out that two new worth-mentioning films have been added to Hulu: Zack Snyder’s feature directorial debut, the 2004 remake of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, and Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of the Hunter S Thompson novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Both are presented online for free (ad supported) for US readers embedded after the jump....
VOTD: The Independent Spirit Is… By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2010 4:00 am EST In honor of the 25th Independent Spirit Awards, Eddie Izzard, William H. Macy, Viola Davis, Tim Roth, Juliette Lewis, Fred Willard, Frances Fisher, and Illeana Douglas have recorded a video talking about what the Independent Spirit means to them. Of course, it was created in fun, and without the pretension you might expect from the title. Watch the video now, after the jump....
Will Jon Favreau Direct The Avengers? By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2009 1:06 pm EST It’s no secret: Jon Favreau would love to helm an Avengers movie. He’s has gone on the record multiple times talking about the possibility. But after Marvel announced their overly ambitious release schedule, Favs was forced to admit that the production schedule would likely prevent him from doing so. I would love to. Clearly I have stated that The Avengers would be fun....
Zach Galifianakis Guardedly Talks Hangover 2 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2009 6:42 am EST IGN has a good interview with Zach Galifianakis, conducted recently at the Television Critics Association confab, and he talked a bit about The Hangover 2. Specifically, the comedian sounds like he’s not just racing to do the film because he can, which is a relief. His comments and reservations are after the jump. Hangover director Todd Phillips and his writing partner Scot Armstrong are currently writing the follow-up, and there has been a lot of speculation about where it will go, and whether it could be justified at all....
American Teen At The San Francisco Apple Store By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2008 12:43 am EST Before WALL-E and The Dark Knight, American Teen was my favorite film of this year so far. Now it sits comfortably in the #3 spot. As I’ve said before, it’s the first documentary with mainstream appeal. It doesn’t even feel like a documentary. Basically the film follows a bunch of high school students through their senior year....
By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2009 1:15 pm EST Ever since Sergio Leone made his pair of ‘Once Upon a Time…" movies (a masterful pair of films at that) other writers and directors have cribbed the title for their own work. Jet Li gained popularity with Once Upon a Time in China. Robert Rodriguez obviously nodded to Leone with Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and Quentin Tarantino did the same with the title card and early tagline for Inglourious Basterds....
Brian Bendis’ Powers Bypassing Big Screen, Headed To Small By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 7, 2009 12:15 pm EST For a while, Brian Bendis’ comic book series Powers was looking to be a big-screen adaptation. Back in 2001, Sony had several drafts drawn up and Frank Oz was, if I remember correctly, attached to direct. Bendis wasn’t too pleased with how the project was going, however. He tells MTV’s Splash Page, “We had to sit through waves of screenplays that were just inappropriate for the product, and for fans of the book....
Christian Bale Arrested. Builds Own Jail Out Of Batman Dollars By Hunter Stephenson/July 22, 2008 9:56 am EST UPDATE: Apparently raising your voice against your mum in the UK is against the law. The charge was “verbal assault.” Yes, he’s already out on b-a-i-l. Earlier today, London police arrested Christian Bale, not to be confused with Adam West, and held him for questioning after his mum and one of his elder sisters made allegations of assault....
Comic Adaptations: Platinum Studios Tackles Nightfall; CW Tries Again With Global Frequency By Russ Fischer/Nov. 18, 2009 10:15 am EST What if you went to prison, only to discover that the institution was run by vampires? That’s the very silly premise behind the graphic novel Nightfall, which is now the target of a film adaptation by Aurora Productions and Nightfall’s publisher Platinum Studios. (Someone, please tell me why vampires might run a prison....
First Look: Robert Downey Jr As Sherlock Holmes By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 10, 2008 2:11 pm EST Just Jared has scored the first photos of Robert Downey Jr. in costume on the London set of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. Anthony Peckham’s script is based on a mixture of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tales and the Lionel Wigram comic book adaptation which presents a more active version of the famous detective. Jude Law stars as Holmes’ trusted colleague Dr....
First Look: The Marc Pease Experience By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2008 1:36 am EST [photo removed] Jason Schwartzman stars as Marc Pease, a former high school musical star who is still living in the past, eight years after graduating. The film takes place over the course of one day, as Pease’s former teacher/mentor Mr. Gribble (played by Ben Stiller) oversees opening night, and Pease finally realizes there’s more to life than high school musicals....
