Geek Deals: Tom Cruise Blu-Ray Collection For Only $25, Serenity Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy For $8.49 By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2012 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
John Woo Wants Liam Neeson To Star In ‘Flying Tigers’ IMAX Movie By Adam Quigley/Aug. 19, 2010 7:00 pm EST There’s finally been some movement on John Woo’s next period war epic, the ’40s aerial fighter movie which we first heard about over a year ago. It was tentatively being referred to as Flying Tiger Heroes, but the title has now been shortened to the snappier sounding Flying Tigers. Who’s Woo looking to cast in the film?...
Keanu Reeves In Indie Drama ‘Generation Um’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2010 7:52 am EST Nicolas Chartier, the producer of The Hurt Locker who made waves last Oscar season when he was barred from the ceremony after sending a few emails urging people to vote for The Hurt Locker, is producing a new indie drama starring Keanu Reeves. The title is the not terribly convincing Generation Um.Mark L. Mann directs Reeves alongside Bojana Novakovic (Devil) and Adelaide Clemens, and Variety says the story follows “a day in the life of Reeves’ character and his two cohorts as they live life on the fringe, immersed in sex, drugs and indecision....
Mad Men Star Abigail Spencer Joins Cowboys And Aliens By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2010 8:00 am EST Abigail Spencer is joining the cast of Jon Favreau’s big screen adaptation of the comic book Cowboys and Aliens. Spencer started her career on the soap All My Children, went on to become the star of Lifetime Television’s Angela’s Eyes, but is probably best known as Don Draper’s mistress Miss Farrell on the AMC series Mad Men....
Max Minghella Joins The Darkest Hour By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2010 3:30 pm EST Previously:Chris Gorak will direct the film. Gorak and Josh Zetumer are currently revising the original script penned by M.T. Ahern and Leslie Bohem with revisions by Jon Spaihts. Gorak started as an art director on Tombstone, later working on Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, The Man Who Wasn’t There, and Minority Report. He made his feature directional debut with a low-budget self-contained dramatic thriller Right at Your Door which premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Cinematography Award....
Michael Fassbender Joins Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2011 4:51 pm EST Michael Fassbender has signed on to star opposite Noomi Rapace in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. The science fiction project set-up at 20th Century Fox, was originally developed as an Alien prequel. Rapace (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) will play Elizabeth Shaw, and Fassbender will be playing an android. Heat Vision reports that Fassbender was originally offered the role last year when the project was still the Alien prequel....
Neil Marshall Will Attempt To Launch Dracula Tale ‘The Last Voyage Of The Demeter’ By Russ Fischer/May 11, 2012 3:30 pm EST For years — almost a decade — the script The Last Voyage of the Demeter has been a revolving door of directors who could never quite get the film made. Robert Schwentke (Red), Marcus Nispel (Conan the Barbarian), Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters),and David Slade (Hard Candy) have all tried to film the script by Bragi Schut (Season of the Witch)....
Ratatouille And Other Pixar Movies Prepping For 3D Re-Release? By Adam Quigley/July 13, 2010 8:14 pm EST Pixar has already returned to the money-regurgitating well twice now with 3D re-releases of Toy Story and Toy Story 2, which returned to theaters simultaneously last year. Now it appears as though other entries from Pixar’s library may be getting a similar treatment, according to a recent interview with the studio’s stereoscopic (3D) imaging supervisor, Bob Whitehill....
Screenwriting: New Writers For ‘Stretch Armstrong’ And ‘The Ringling Brothers’ By Russ Fischer/April 24, 2012 9:00 am EST Briefly: How does one write a “plausible” Stretch Armstong movie? Recall, if you will, that for a few years Universal and Relativity were working to make a film based on the old Mattel toy (rights for which eventually went to Hasbro) that was basically a big guy who, uh, stretched. Think of Marvel’s Mr....
Sony Likely To Distribute Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama Bin Laden Film By Russ Fischer/May 24, 2011 5:15 pm EST Here’s a minor update on the film that The Hurt Locker collaborators Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have been rapidly altering in the wake of Osama Bin Laden’s death. The movie once referred to as Kill Bin Laden and Killing Bin Laden is now untitled (we knew that was never going to be the real distribution title) and it looks like Sony will be the company that ends up with distribution rights....
Stephen Daldry Wants To Make ‘Kavalier & Clay’ Miniseries For HBO By Angie Han/Dec. 15, 2011 9:00 am EST In the decade since producer Scott Rudin snapped up the rights to Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, the project’s seen Sydney Pollack and Jude Law come and go, and Tobey Maguire, Jamie Bell, Natalie Portman, Andrew Garfield, and Ryan Gosling all floated as potential stars — but in truth, we’re no closer to seeing a big-screen adaptation now than we were back in 2000....
Two New Photos From Conan By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2010 3:03 pm EST At a certain point (that is, just about now) there won’t be much point to posting new photos from Conan. Until we get shots of the supporting cast like Stephen Lang, seems like we’ll just see a parade of images featuring Jason Momoa and a variety of grimaces. Not that I’d expect too much else, but it’s a question of diminishing returns....
Video: Guillermo Del Toro On Making A ‘Mimic’ Director’s Cut By Angie Han/Sept. 27, 2011 2:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Now, some fourteen years later, del Toro is finally making peace with Mimic in the form of a new director’s cut that hits Blu-ray today. After the jump, watch a clip from one of the Blu-ray special features in which del Toro discusses his original vision for the movie....
By Angie Han/March 15, 2011 5:00 am EST There’s another eleven months to go til Valentine’s Day, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate cinematic love now, does it? A new video created by Good magazine, titled “Kissing,” uses clips of famous movie smooches as a backdrop against which to rattle off facts about (duh) kissing. The information ranges from the sweet (“A kiss can be ten times more effective than morphine in reducing pain”) to the disgusting (“When people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria”) to the questionable (“Armageddon is a fantastic movie”), and the movie selection is just as varied....
Watch The First Six Minutes Of ‘Sucker Punch’ By Angie Han/March 31, 2011 7:26 am EST Despite the flurry of attention that Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch received from sites like ours upon its opening last weekend, the film so far has been a commercial disappointment. Sucker Punch fell short of its projections when it opened last weekend, losing first place at the box office to Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Its $19M opening weekend gross was Snyder’s second-worst to date — his worst being last fall’s Legends of the Guardian: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, which grossed $16M....
‘10 Years’ Trailer: Channing Tatum, Chris Pratt, Oscar Isaac, And More Go Way Back By Angie Han/Aug. 16, 2012 12:30 pm EST In the age of Facebook, finding out which of your high school friends got fat, rich, and/or married is a simple matter of entering their name into a search bar. But an entire movie centered around people “liking” baby photos or approving friend requests isn’t likely to be very exciting, so in 10 Years a group of old friends decides to actually converge in the flesh for their high school reunion....
‘American Reunion’ Promo Images And Photobooth Montage Show ‘Pie’ Cast Twelve Years Later By Angie Han/Sept. 1, 2011 12:00 pm EST Tough as it is to believe, it’s been over a decade since we first met the American Pie cast in 1999. If that made you pause and think “Wow, that makes me feel old,” you’re just where Universal Pictures wants you to be. The marketing team behind American Reunion has been pushing the nostalgia angle (not surprisingly), and I, for one, have found it totally effective....
‘Chronicle’ Director Josh Trank Developing ‘Shadow Of The Colossus’ Video Game Adaptation By Russ Fischer/May 23, 2012 2:00 pm EST I have no faith that this movie will actually get made, but this is an interesting story regardless. Even as Sony continues to try to adapt the relatively movie-friendly Uncharted game series, the company is trying again with something much more ambitious: an adaptation of the 2005 fantasy adventure game Shadow of the Colossus....
‘Crash’ Director Paul Haggis To Direct Canadian Film ‘Paris’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2012 11:00 am EST Paul Haggis will probably be forever tagged with his divisive Oscar-winning film Crash, despite the fact that he has had a hand in films that were quite well-receieved by most (he was part of the writing team for Casino Royale) and directed two films that are far less likely to create big reactionary emotions, In the Valley of Elah and The Next Three Days....
‘Enter The Void’ To Get One More, Uncut, Theatrical Run By Germain Lussier/Jan. 12, 2011 6:00 pm EST Ever since its 2009 premieres at the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals, Gasper Noe’s Enter the Void has been a rapid topic of film geek conversation. The opening credits, the how-did-he-do-that shots, the amazing concept and, of course, the disturbing content about a murdered drug dealer whose spirit watches over his sister, have each been meticulously dissected as more and more people get exposed to the film....
