Ice Cube And David O. Russell To Re-Team For ’70s-Syle Detective Movie By Russ Fischer/Nov. 5, 2010 10:33 am EST After a few years paying the bills and making money in straight comedies, Ice Cube is going back to some interesting work. He’s working right now with The Messenger director Oren Moverman in Rampart, the film about the ’90s LAPD scandal, in which he plays a cop. And now the founding member of N....
Infographic: Hollywood’s Waning Creativity By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 18, 2012 2:30 pm EST Short of the Week compiled an infographic showing the changing landscape of the highest grossing films over the last thirty years, with the focus on how Hollywood (and the American public spending all this money at the ticket counters) have given up on original ideas. This should come as no surprise to anyone. But lets not kid ourselves into thinking this is a problem isolated only to the big Hollywood blockbusters....
Jon Favreau Says Marvel Sees ‘Iron Man 3’ As A Sequel To ‘Thor,’ ‘Captain America’ And ‘The Avengers’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2010 2:38 pm EST Universal has been giving writers access to Jon Favreau as he works on post-production for Cowboys & Aliens, the better to get the word out about that movie. (We have a set report and will have some interviews this week.) In addition to talking about Universal’s movie, Mr....
Kyle Gallner To Play Wayne Gretzky-Like Character In Kevin Smith’s ‘Hit Somebody’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 18, 2011 6:31 pm EST UPDATE: Kevin Smith tweeted that the character Gallner is playing is a “Gretzky-Like character, not actually Gretzky.” The original story follows below, with that addendum made. Anybody who knows anything about Kevin Smith knows that Kevin Smith is a massive hockey fan. He’s also a massive Wayne Gretzky fan. So the news that Smith has cast Kyle Gallner to play someone akin to The Great One in his upcoming hockey film Hit Somebody is just about the biggest compliment Smith could pay the young actor....
Lionsgate Picks Up Dark Muppet Film ‘Happytime Murders’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 13, 2010 6:00 am EST Jim Henson’s Muppets have always have a little subversion to them be it Miss Piggy’s sexual innuendo or their more recent viral videos. Well, Lionsgate seems to be on board with that idea as they’ve just acquired Happytime Murders, a dark, comedic murder mystery set in a world where Muppets and humans co-exist. It’s written by Todd Berger with Brian Henson, son of Jim, set to direct....
Movie Trailer: New ‘Tron Legacy’ Ad Shows Off Daft Punk And Reveals A New Soundtrack Tune By Russ Fischer/Oct. 26, 2010 9:29 am EST It’s Tron Tuesday again, and one of the new promo items now available is pretty great: a new trailer for Tron Legacy that shows off the Daft Punk cameo in the film along with a beat-heavy new track called ‘Derezzed.’ Watch it after the break. If you hit the Tron preview night this coming Thursday you can probably expect to see the scene that opens this trailer in full — it has Michael Sheen in his nightclub owner / MC persona requesting that a pair of robo-DJs, played by Daft Punk, play something to “electrify the boys and girls, if you’d be so kind....
Official Plot Synopsis Revealed For Greg Mottola’s Paul By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2010 6:00 am EST It’s not that we didn’t know what Greg Mottola’s sci-fi adventure comedy Paul was about, because we did. But now Universal Pictures has finally released an official plot synopsis for the film, which stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (and an alien voiced by Seth Rogen). Hit the jump to read it. The official plot synopsis:...
Robert Rodriguez Options Bakshi/Frazetta Collaboration ‘Fire And Ice’ For Live-Action Remake By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2010 9:06 am EST When the artist Frank Frazetta passed away ten days ago, we saw a lot of hastily-assembled tributes to his work. Somehow, not many people pointed out Fire and Ice, the film on which Frazetta collaborated with animation director Ralph Bakshi. But the film will get attention now because, after years of trying to get a deal together, Robert Rodriguez has bought the rights to remake Fire and Ice as a live-action film through his own Troublemaker Studios....
Rumor: Darren Aronofsky Linked To ‘Preacher’? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 30, 2010 6:40 am EST In the wake of overwhelming critical success with Black Swan, I’m surprised that we haven’t heard more rumors about Darren Aronofsky being linked to long-standing geek projects. There’s the talk, possibly founded, that he’s had discussions about Superman, but little else. Until now. A new report says that “Aronofsky is also being targeted to direct Columbia Pictures’ big screen production of Preacher....
Warner Bros. Grabs Alan Turing Biopic For Leonardo DiCaprio; Ron Howard Could Direct By Angie Han/Oct. 12, 2011 9:30 am EST Leonardo DiCaprio’s J. Edgar has yet to hit theaters, but the star may already be looking at his next biopic. Warner Bros. has picked up first-time screenwriter Graham Moore’s spec script The Imitation Game, about the life and times of math genius Alan Turing, for a seven-figure sum today, outbidding several other indie companies....
Warner Bros To Distribute ‘The Hobbit’ Worldwide By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2011 1:10 pm EST As if this wasn’t expected, MGM has finalized a deal to give Warner Bros the worldwide theatrical and video distribution rights to Peter Jackson’s upcoming film The Hobbit. MGM will retain international television licensing for the films. MGM will collaborate with WB on the theatrical marketing of the films. Read the official press release after the jump....
X-Men Updates: First Class Courting Michael Fassbender For Magneto, And Filming Locations In Michigan By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2010 10:00 am EST Showbiz 411 says that Vaughn wants Fassbender for Magneto, and it’s a great idea. He’d be top-class casting for the part, and could be made up to look enough like Ian McKellen that he’d not be too jarring a transition as we look at the younger version of the character....
Aaron Sorkin “Strongly Considering” Sony’s Biopic Of Late Pal Steve Jobs By Angie Han/Nov. 23, 2011 6:00 am EST About a month after we first reported that Social Network and Moneyball screenwriter Aaron Sorkin was being courted to write Sony’s Steve Jobs biopic, the scribe has said that he is “strongly considering” taking the studio up on its offer. While that’s not exactly a confirmation that Sorkin will actually do the project, the fact that he’s talking publicly about it seems like a step in the right direction, right?...
Casting Bits: Nick Offerman In ‘Lamb Of God’, Josh Duhamel And Dan Fogler In ‘Scenic Route’, Kevin Durand And Lukas Haas In ‘Dark Was The Night’ By Angie Han/Feb. 21, 2012 3:30 pm EST TV watchers probably know Nick Offerman as mustachioed parks department director Ron Swanson on NBC’s Parks & Recreation, but we’re starting to see more of him on the big screen as well. Swanson’s upcoming movie roles include the Sundance hit Smashed and the high profile comedies 21 Jump Street and Casa de mi Padre, as well as two more indies due out later this year....
Christian Bale Cast In Yet Another New Terrence Malick Film By Germain Lussier/Aug. 19, 2011 1:00 pm EST After directing only four movies in almost forty years, you could never call Terrence Malick a busy filmmaker. That’s completely changed in the last few months. He released The Tree of Life earlier this year, is currently in post-production on an untitled romance starring Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams and he’s still attached to a long-rumored project called Voyage of Time....
Danny Elfman And T-Bone Burnett To Collaborate On ‘Hunger Games’ Score By Angie Han/June 29, 2011 11:00 am EST Danny Elfman and T-Bone Burnett are set to team up to score The Hunger Games, Gary Ross’ adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian YA novel. Burnett will also produce songs for the soundtrack, as the film’s Executive Music Producer. I probably don’t need to tell you that this is an impressively high-profile collaboration (but I will anyway) — Burnett is an artist and producer with 40 years of experience and 12 Grammys to his name, while Elfman is a four-time Oscar nominee for his work on Men in Black, Good Will Hunting, Big Fish and Milk....
Early Promo Poster: Darren Lynn Bousman’s Mother’s Day By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2010 12:00 pm EST Another early promo poster I’ve discovered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival is for Darren Lynn Bousman’s remake of Mother’s Day starring Rebecca De Mornay. Check out the full poster aftger the jump. Plot Synopsis: The sadistic members of a villainous family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new home owners and their guests....
By Germain Lussier/Jan. 17, 2012 8:00 am EST At first glance, Martin Ansin is an unlikely choice to make Mondo posters for TRON. His work, such as the recent poster for Dracula, a sought after Star Trek Space Seed piece or his wholey unique take on Star Wars, are all extremely realistic and defined, two traits that certainly don’t describe Disney’s sci-fi franchise. Then you look about the wide-ranging scope of Ansin’s subjects and it’s obvious that his clean style can breath life into just about anything....
Financing And Distribution Set For Keanu Reeves’ Directorial Debut ‘Man Of Tai Chi’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 14, 2011 5:30 pm EST For some time, Keanu Reeves has been talking about directing and acting in a film called Man of Tai Chi. Now he has funding set up for the movie, thanks to money committed by Village Roadshow Pictures Asia, China Film Group, Wanda Media and Universal, which will distribute in the US....
By Russ Fischer/April 7, 2011 3:45 pm EST I haven’t gone through the whole site by any means, but each of the two ‘paths’ has many nodes which lead to film clips and brief descriptions of what could be events from the plot. You’ll see some of the very big-picture stuff that we know is in the film — an asteroid hitting Earth, and the final stages of our Sun’s life....
