Teaser Trailer: Kung Fu Panda 2 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 7, 2010 7:19 pm EST DreamWorks Animation has premiered the first teaser trailer for Kung Fu Panda 2, or Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom as it is officially titled, in front of prints of Megamind. The trailer is now online, as is the official plot synopsis. Hit the jump to watch it now, but keep in mind it’s purely a teaser trailer....
Transformers 3: Alan Tudyk Cast; Spy Pics Foster Suspicion About Controversial Twins’ Return By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2010 6:22 am EST Briefly: More Transformers 3 news is coming in, but this is not quite as much fun as Shia LaBeouf’s comments from yesterday. But Firefly and Dollhouse fans will be happy about the fact that Alan Tudyk has now been cast in the film. His role hasn’t been revealed, but we don’t know much of anything about the plot at this point, so that’s no surprise....
VOTD: Star Wars Holiday Special – The 5 Minute Abridged Version By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 30, 2010 7:00 am EST The Star Wars Holiday Special was broadcast in its entirety only once, and has never been released on VHS, DVD or Blu-ray (although it isn’t hard to find bootleg copies online and at local comic book conventions). For those who haven’t seen the special, here is a short description from wikipedia:...
Watch Kevin Smith’s 2010 Comic Con Panel By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2010 10:30 am EST Did you miss the Kevin Smith panel in Hall H this year at Comic-Con? I know I did. The /Film crew and I had to rush out of the convention center to post about the awesome Marvel panels that preceded Smith’s question and answer session. Of course, thanks to the wonderful Internets, we can now all watch Kevin’s panel on the magical YouTube....
‘Dylan Dog: Dead Of Night’ Trailer By Adam Quigley/March 4, 2011 9:30 am EST Someone must’ve watched Superman Returns and thought Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen made a fun pairing, because the duo behind the roles are teamed up once again in Dylan Dog: Dead of Night. The film is an adaptation of the Italian horror comics series about a paranormal investigator whose latest case finds him dealing with all manner of vampires, werewolves, zombies and guardians of Hell....
‘Monsters’ Director Gareth Edwards Sets Next Project, With Timur Bekmambetov Producing By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2010 11:32 am EST Word on Monsters, the very low-budget film from director Gareth Edwards, has been generally very positive as the film plays festivals and starts to make its way out into the world of regular audiences. Now, in advance of the film’s opening, Edwards already has a follow-up project in the works: a sci-fi epic set in a futuristic world....
‘Prometheus’ Gets A Slightly More Revealing Plot Synopsis By Angie Han/Sept. 27, 2011 11:00 am EST So we’re very intrigued to see that a new synopsis has been unveiled, which gives away just a little bit more about the storyline and may confirm an earlier rumor. Read more after the jump. Still no details about the characters, creatures, locations, or how those vehicles we saw last month might figure into the tale, but it’s a start, right?...
Al Pacino Joins His First Animated Feature: ‘Despicable Me 2’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 3, 2012 4:15 pm EST While one could argue that Al Pacino’s acting has gotten overly animated in the last few years, he’s never actually been animated. Until now. The Oscar-winning actor just signed to voice his first animated character: the villain in Despicable Me 2, which is scheduled for release on July 3, 2013. It’s the role Javier Bardem was originally rumored for — a rumor which was later found to be untrue....
Disney’s ‘Maleficent’ Needs A New Director; Tim Burton No Longer Attached By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2011 4:51 pm EST For the past year or so, Tim Burton fans (and, I suppose, some Disney Princess fans) have held out hope that he would eventually turn his spirograph eye on Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, in order to re-tell the story from the perspective of evil witch Maleficent. But now the film Maleficent, which Alice in Wonderland writer Linda Woolverton was hired to script last year no longer has Tim Burton even loosely attached....
Emma Watson And Logan Lerman To Star In ‘The Perks Of Being A Wallflower’ By Adam Quigley/Feb. 10, 2011 9:30 am EST The final Harry Potter film hasn’t even been released yet, but Emma Watson’s post-Potter career is already proving to be — if you’ll indulge my British compulsions a moment — a smashing success. Prior to now, the only acting she’s done outside of the Harry Potter series is some voice work in The Tale of Despereaux and a TV movie in the UK titled Ballet Shoes....
First Footage From Joss Whedon’s Micro-Budget ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ By Russ Fischer/April 30, 2012 10:30 am EST Joss Whedon isn’t a guy who needs to define his career at this point; thanks to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and other shows he is very well-established as a creator with a specific voice. That said, Whedon really seems to be coming into his own in 2012. The biggest project on his resume so far, The Avengers (a film that would be the biggest on the resume of anyone shy of James Cameron or Peter Jackson) is garnering rave reviews left and right....
By Angie Han/July 20, 2012 3:00 pm EST iCloud is part of the industrywide trend toward making media available on different platforms, the better to encourage viewers to keep buying movies in some form or other. Aside from iCloud, there’s Ultraviolet’s “digital locker” system, which gives customers access to a digital copy of a DVD or Blu-ray they’ve already purchased, and Walmart’s “disc-to-digital” service, which converts physical media to digital formats for a fee....
Geek Deal: ‘Pee-Wee’s Playhouse The Complete DVD Collection’ For $21 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2011 3:45 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Other DVD and Blu-Ray deals: Disclaimer: While none of the posts on /Film (or items listed within) are sponsored content, we do use affiliate links (when available).
Interview: Graham Yost Reflects On Justified Season 3 By David Chen/April 12, 2012 6:00 pm EST Dave Chen and Joanna Robinson from Pajiba interview Graham Yost about the third season of Justified. Graham reveals the origins of Quarles’ “strange addiction,” and explains how one episode was written in a two-day vicodin-infused haze. Can you guess which one? E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the JustifiedCast, as well as of the podcast, at justifiedcast@gmail....
Julianne Moore May Be The Domineering, Fundamentalist Mom In ‘Carrie’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2012 2:15 pm EST One of the great pleasures of Brian De Palma’s original film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie is the ravenous scenery chewing by Piper Laurie as the sex-fearing, fundamentalist mother of young telekinetic Carrie White. Sissy Spacek played Carrie in the original, and Chloe Grace Moretz will incarnate the character in a new film version to be directed by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry, Stop Loss)....
Matthew Vaughn Adapting ‘The Golden Age,’ Wants Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson And Warren Beatty To Star By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2011 12:47 pm EST We’ve heard that Matthew Vaughn might do another superhero film after he finishes the race to get X-Men: First Class in theaters this June. We also know that that new film isn’t likely to be a sequel to Kick-Ass. Instead of making another film about emerging young heroes, it looks like he’ll dive into a story about retired crusaders....
Movie Trailer: I Spit On Your Grave By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2010 7:25 pm EST It’s a weird world when you can go to the main page for Yahoo Movies and find an image proclaiming the trailer premiere for I Spit on Your Grave. The original film, released in 1978, was controversial for explicitly depicting rape and a series of violently vengeful repercussions. It’s one of the ultimate exploitation movies, a film that is known by reputation by far more people than have actually seen the thing....
Movie Trailer: Steven Soderbergh’s Film About Spalding Gray, ‘And Everything Is Going Fine’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2010 9:52 pm EST The idea of documenting one’s life via confessional and storytelling monologues is hardly unusual in 2010, but Spalding Gray did it before almost anyone else. And he did it better; in films like Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box and Gray’s Anatomy his personal histories were a gateway to perceptive observations about life and the world around us....
Release Dates: Another Move For ‘The Adjustment Bureau’; Greg Mottola’s ‘Paul’ Gets A March 2011 Slot By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2010 11:28 am EST Universal has shifted a few films around on the calendar. New berths for The Adjustment Bureau, Paul, Kids in America, The Dark Fields, Sanctum and Devil after the break. The Adjustment Bureau, which had already shifted back from an opening this summer to a September 17 opening, has been puished all the way back to March 4, 2011....
Richard Jenkins Joins Andrew Dominik’s ‘Cogan’s Trade’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2011 7:30 am EST Briefly: Every piece of news on Andrew Dominik’s new project Cogan’s Trade makes the film sound better and better. We’ve got the Assassination of Jesse James reunion of the director, Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell and reportedly Casey Affleck. Then there are James Gandolfini and Bella Heathcote playing additional roles. Now Richard Jenkins has been added to the cast, playing a lawyer who has inside info on a high-stakes card game that gets robbed, leading mob enforcer Brad Pitt to track down those responsible....
