Watch The 2010 Comic-Con Joss Whedon Experience By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2010 3:00 pm EST We’ve posted the entire transcript for the JJ Abrams/Joss Whedon discussion (in two parts – part 1 and part 2), but we were unable to provide coverage of Joss Whedon’s other comic-con panel, the annual Joss Whedon Experience. Thankfully, someone has video taped the entire panel and thrown it up on YouTube for all to enjoy....
‘Back To The Future’ Recreated In ‘Little Big Planet’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2011 12:00 pm EST /Film reader Jose Cordova has pointed me towards a few user created levels of the video game Little Big Planet inspired by the movie Back to the Future. The first comes from LittleBigPlanet2 (found by Kotaku): And here are a couple more, not quite as impressive, recreations: Someone created a working DeLorean time machine which can travel to three time periods in Hill Valley history: Here is a different Twin Pines Mall level created with the first game: Part 2 of that series:...
‘The Three Stooges’ Moe Offered To Johnny Knoxville By Russ Fischer/March 11, 2011 10:45 am EST Johnny Knoxville was on the shortlist for the new cast of The Three Stooges almost from the moment the film was revived at Fox. (Writer/directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly once had Benicio Del Toro, Jim Carrey and Sean Penn set to stooge, but that version fell apart.) Now there is a report that an offer is out to Johnny Knoxville to play Moe....
Bryan Singer Focusing On ‘Battlestar Galactica’ After His ‘Excalibur’ Is Shelved By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2011 9:30 am EST In 2009 we got wind of two possible reboot projects from producer/director Bryan Singer. One was a new take on Excalibur, the bloody, sexy and weird telling of the Arthurian legend from director John Boorman. The other was Battlestar Galactica, a prospect that seems loaded with the potential to fail, given the outrageous popularity of the recent TV reboot....
Cameos: Judi Dench In ‘On Stranger Tides,’ Nicole Scherzinger In ‘Men In Black 3,’ Betty White Out By Germain Lussier/Nov. 5, 2010 1:30 pm EST Two major 3D sequels are gaining, and losing, some high profile female talent. First up, Judi Dench (not pictured above) will have a small run in with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) at the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. And while former Pussycat Doll and Dancing With the Stars winner Nicole Scherzinger (pictured ab0ve) is playing “a small villain role” in Men in Black 3, the previously rumored to appear Betty White is apparently not in the movie....
Chloe Moretz To Star In Hick By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2010 12:58 pm EST How many juicy roles are there for unbearably precocious young actresses like Chloe Moretz? Not as many as you’d think, which makes a star turn in an adaptation of a novel about " a 13-year-old Nebraska girl who gets more than she bargained for when she runs away to Las Vegas" seem like a pretty good idea....
Cool Stuff: Kevin Tong’s R2-D2 ‘Star Wars’ Poster For Mondo Tees By Germain Lussier/Nov. 23, 2010 10:00 am EST If you’ve been following the poster game at all recently, you know that Kevin Tong has been killing it. He did an incredible poster for Moon a few months back and has an amazing set of prints based on Wes Anderson films currently on sale (how these are not sold out yet is beyond me)....
Cool Stuff: Toronto After Dark Film Festival Posters By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2010 5:00 pm EST To celebrate the five year anniversary of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Phantom City Creative has crafted a series of 5 limited edition posts based on some of the popular films which screened at the festival. Each of the posters is a 11? x 17? digital print, with editions of only 66. $20 each but unfortunately the coolest one of the bunch, Let The Right One In, is already sold out....
David O. Russell May Direct Vince Vaughn In ‘Old St. Louis’ By Russ Fischer/July 29, 2010 8:52 am EST Seeing David O. Russell move slightly away of the uncomfortable family dramas that defined his breakout period has been interesting, and I wonder if things might have been a lot different had Nailed been finished and released on time. Instead, he channeled his family concerns into The Fighter (which features Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg as sibling boxers) and has flirted with possible high-concept follow-ups like Uncharted and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies....
Despite An Appeal To The MPAA, Holocaust Doc ‘A Film Unfinished’ Is Stuck With An R Rating By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2010 5:04 pm EST To quote Beastie Boy and Oscilloscope Laboratories founder Adam Yauch, “[the MPAA has] really gone too far this time. It’s bullshit.” That was Yauch’s response earlier this week when the MPAA slapped an R rating on the documentary A Film Unfinished, which examines a Nazi propaganda film made to supposedly depict the life of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto....
Dinner For Schmucks Runs From Inception By Peter Sciretta/June 9, 2010 12:30 pm EST As July approaches, it seems that all of the studios in Hollywood are becoming more scared of Christopher Nolan’s Inception. To be honest, I don’t think anyone knows how much money Nolan’s sci-fi action film will make. It’s heady like Memento, packs some crazy imagery/special effects, but packs a PG-13 rating (not that the PG-13 rating stopped The Dark Knight, but Inception isn’t a sequel and doesn’t feature Batman)....
Does The New ‘Thor’ Clip Feature A Tiny Avenger Cameo? By Russ Fischer/April 7, 2011 6:48 pm EST Now, before you go reading the headline the wrong way, this new clip from Thor doesn’t feature a cameo from Ant-Man or Wasp. The cameo is tiny, not the Avenger. But there is a shot that seems to feature a character that we knew would have at least a small part in the film....
First Look: New Toy Story Short ‘Small Fry’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2011 10:00 am EST The new Toy Story short, Small Fry, is set to premiere in a couple weeks in front of The Muppets, and that’s the first still from the new Pixar short, above. In Small Fry, Pixar director Teddy Newton voices a miniature version of Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), who replaces the full-size one. Some story info is after the break....
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2010 3:20 pm EST Warner Bros has released a new movie trailer for the first part of the final installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I’m at an airport with crappy wifi, and am unable to watch it myself. But you can watch it now, embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below!...
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Talks ‘BioShock’ Problems And ‘Highlander’ Possibilites By Germain Lussier/March 15, 2012 3:00 pm EST In the five years since the release of his zombie sequel 28 Weeks Later, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has been attached to a several major Hollywood projects. First was BioShock, based on a best-selling underwater, steampunk inspired video game. Then there was a reboot of The Crow, which could have possibly starred Mark Wahlberg, Bradley Cooper or Channing Tatum....
By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2011 12:30 pm EST Deadline has the scoop, saying that Matthew Fox’s character is (possible spoilers here) “known as the Butcher of Sligo and shows why after Cross thwarts one of his killing attempts. Sullivan makes his retribution personal, by killing the detective’s wife in gruesome fashion. Then it becomes a mano a mano battle between them.” We don’t know who’ll distribute this one. Paramount put out the previous to Alex Cross films featuring Morgan Freeman, and has shown interest in this new film....
Matthew Libatique Will Shoot ‘Wolverine 2’ For Darren Aronofsky By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2010 4:30 pm EST Take this post as a confirmation of something many of us have hoped, but we know now that cinematographer Matthew Libatique will shoot Wolverine 2 for director Darren Aronofsky. The two have worked together on all of the director’s features except for The Wrestler. That change-up was deliberate — Darren Aronofsky hired Maryse Alberti in order to get a very specific feel for the film, and the director has said that going back to Mr....
Movie Trailer: Rupert Grint And Emily Blunt In ‘Wild Target’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2010 1:35 pm EST Wild Target is Jonathan Lynn’s remake of a 1993 French hitman comedy called Cible émouvante. Yep, another assassin movie. But this one is meant to be funny, and it certainly has a strong cast: Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Martin Freeman, Rupert Everett, Eileen Atkins and more. It’s been a while since Lynn really made a picture that hit (My Cousin Vinny was almost 20 years ago!...
Movie Trailer: Takashi Miike’s ‘13 Assassins’ By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2010 7:19 am EST Takashi Miike, one of the most prolific directors in the world, has two new films for 2010. One has already been released in Japan: Zebraman 2, which provides a sequel to Miike’s charmingly oddball ‘superhero’ movie from 2004. The other is 13 Assassins, a dead-serious samurai movie which seems to be a bit like The Dirty Dozen by way of Seven Samurai....
New Poster: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2010 2:10 pm EST We’ve seen quite a few movie posters for Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, from the early teaser image, to the official poster found at ShoWest and the set of character banners for each of the ’evil exes.’ In short, there is no shortage of marketing material for the film. Why not add one more to the pile?...
