Shenae Grimes And Lucy Hale Join Scream 4; Script Is 140 Pages? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2010 1:11 pm EST Now Shenae Grimes (90210) and Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) have been confirmed as being part of the film. And, if reports are true, the size of the case is not a huge surprise because the Scream 4 script is said to be a monster, clocking in at 140 pages. That’s a lot of cheeky horror to shoot....
This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Date Night, Death At A Funeral, And More By Adam Quigley/Aug. 10, 2010 12:03 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A likable pairing can only take a movie so far, but that doesn’t stop Steve Carell and Tina Fey from working their comedic asses off to take Date Night as far as it can possibly go. They are the sole highlights amid the darkness that is Shawn Levy’s inert direction, which consumes nearly every element of the film with its studio hackery....
Tom Cruise In Talks For ‘Rock Of Ages,’ Gwyneth Paltrow Offered Role By Russ Fischer/Dec. 15, 2010 3:47 pm EST Briefly: Sometimes offer stories turn into something real; not long ago we reported that Tom Cruise had been offered a role in the film version of the stage musical Rock of Ages. Now we know, thanks to EW, that Mr. Cruise is now in talks for an unspecified role, and that another offer is out to Gwyneth Paltrow....
VOTD: Nicolas Cage Vs. Adam West In Batman Trivia By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2010 9:00 pm EST On Tuesday Night’s edition of the Tonight Show, Jay Leno had Nicolas Cage compete against Adam West (the original Batman from the 1960’s television show) in a Batman trivia contest. For those of you who don’t know, Cage channeled West for his Big Daddy performance in Kick-Ass and is a huge comic book geek....
Warner Bros. Wants Robert Zemeckis To Direct ‘Wizard Of Oz’ Remake Based On The Original Script By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2010 5:03 pm EST I have good news and bad news. The good news first: Robert Zemeckis is making another move back towards live-action. The bad news: it might be with a remake of The Wizard of Oz, which Warner Bros. is attempting to assemble. And while this might not be a shot for shot remake a la Gus Van Sant and Psycho, the idea is awfully close, as the studio wants to use the script from the 1939 version....
Warner Brothers Close To Grabbing Baz Luhrman’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2011 4:15 pm EST Last week, Baz Luhrman speculated that he might not make his long gestating adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan. He said that a decision would be made by the end of the week. Well, Luhrman has never been one to rush things so it’s no surprise that things got bumped back a week....
Yep, A Third ‘Bill And Ted’ Movie Is Brewing, Says Alex Winter By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2010 1:49 pm EST How did a third Bill and Ted movie become the ’80s sequel that keeps coming up? Is there that much nostalgia for the middlebrow comedies of twenty years ago? Evidently so, as Keanu Reeves said during the Toronto Film Festival, “I’d love to play the role, I’d love to work with Alex [Winter] and [writers] Chris and Ed again, and we’ll see what they do....
‘Blacktino’ Trailer – Biracial Nerd Movie To Debut At SXSW By Angie Han/Feb. 21, 2011 4:00 pm EST “In the history of TV, there were, like, two: Urkel and Carlton Banks. Well, I mean, four, if you count the Reading Rainbow guy and his Star Trek character.” So begins the trailer for director Aaron Burns’ feature film debut blacktino (yes, the B is uncapitalized on purpose), which deals with a type rarely seen in pop culture: the black nerd....
‘Dear Zachary’ Director’s ‘Groundhog Day’-Inspired Sci-Fi Movie ‘Shuffle’ Gets A Trailer And Distributor By Germain Lussier/April 9, 2012 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The director of that film has just sold the distribution rights to his follow-up, a low budget sci-fi film called Shuffle, that could be described as a mashup of Memento and Groundhog Day. Coming off a successful festival run, Screen Media Films will release it in theaters and VOD later this summer....
‘Hell On Wheels’ Trailer: AMC Goes West By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2011 6:00 pm EST In March of this year, the show Hell on Wheels, a Western set during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, started shooting in Alberta. The series is AMC’s latest foray into Big Television — ten episodes have been ordered to begin telling the story of a man seeking to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Union soldiers....
‘Lockout’ Gets A New Trailer, And Possibly A New Title, ‘MS One: Maximum Security’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 14, 2011 12:30 pm EST Luc Besson produced his own remake of Escape From New York without even telling us! The film Lockout, (also Lock-Out, and now MS One: Maximum Security, at least in France) has been called ‘Taken in space’ because it is from Luc Besson’s company and has Maggie Grace once again playing a daughter in peril....
‘Men In Black 3’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Dec. 12, 2011 7:15 am EST Here’s the trailer for Men in Black 3, the troubled production that puts Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones back in the severe suits of the alien-policing government agency. The film also features Josh Brolin as a young version of Jones’ agent K, and as we see here, it’s possible that Brolin’s impersonation of Jones will at least be dead-on....
‘Prometheus 2’ Moving Forward, Perhaps Without Damon Lindelof; ‘Ted 2’ Possible At Universal By Russ Fischer/Aug. 1, 2012 12:30 pm EST In a quick rundown of sequel possibilities for many of this year’s films, THR has a couple big notes. One is that Universal and Media Rights Capital are likely to want a sequel to Ted, although the real choice to do that or not would be based on the interest of writer/director/voice actor Seth MacFarlane....
‘Proof’ Writer David Auburn To Adapt ‘A Discovery Of Witches’ For Warner Bros. By Angie Han/Jan. 10, 2012 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Variety reports that Denise DiNovi and Alison Greenspan are set to produce the film, the latest of several collaborations between them. The pair have also worked together on A Walk to Remember, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Nights in Rodanthe, Monte Carlo, and the upcoming Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Lucky One....
Another New ‘Dark Shadows’ Image Shows Johnny Depp’s Softer Side By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2012 7:30 am EST Every look we get at Johnny Depp in character as Barnabas Collins in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows seems to be a bit different. There were the freaky early on-set spy pics, followed by an official pre-shoot image (above) in which Depp looked both childish and aged, like a tall version of one of the numbered psychic kids in Akira....
Beautiful Long-Exposure Photos From The Set Of ‘Silent Hill: Revelation 3D’ By David Chen/April 11, 2011 8:30 am EST My friend Sara Collaton is a spectacular photographer. She recently went to one of the sets in the the forthcoming Silent Hill: Revelation 3D late at night, and was able to take some awesome long-exposure shots of a carnival that’s featured prominently in the film [For those who don’t know what long-exposure shots are, it’s when the camera sensor is exposed for extended periods of time to absorb light in extremely dark situations]....
Casting Notes: Teresa Palmer And Joel Edgarton In ‘Say Nothing’; Ben Mendelsohn In ‘Trespass’; Chris Rock In ‘2 Days In New York’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 30, 2010 11:01 am EST Looks like Teresa Palmer and Joel Edgerton will star in Kieran Darcy-Smith’s directorial debut, a psychological thriller called Say Nothing. All three have been part of Blue Tongue Films, the loose organization that turned out The Square (by Nash Edgarton, brother of Joel) and Animal Kingdom....
Cillian Murphy Joins Robert De Niro And Sigourney Weaver In ‘Red Lights’ From ‘Buried’ Director Rodrigo Cortes By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2010 2:29 pm EST One of the many riches coming out of the American Film Market today is the promo art for Red Lights, the next film from Buried director Rodrigo Cortes. The art isn’t particularly great, but it has useful info: Cillian Murphy is in the film alongside Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro....
By Germain Lussier/May 5, 2011 5:00 am EST Suffice to say, the main topic of conversation this weekend among film fans is going to be Thor. The upcoming Marvel superhero film, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is dominating our Twitter feeds, plastered at our bus stops and everything in between. Mondo, the official poster boutique of the Alamo Drafthouse, is getting into the spirit too with an exclusive poster by artist Ken Taylor....
Exclusive: Spike Jonze Collaborating With Arcade Fire On New Film By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2010 8:00 pm EST Today I learned that Spike Jonze (Where The Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich) was casting a secret film project in Austin Texas. Apparently Spike has been casting mostly late teen actors for the project, which is supposedly a story which involves “friends growing apart.” The only bits of information I’ve been able to uncover from official sources is that the project is another short film....
