LOL: The Star-Studded, Real Life Ambiguously Gay Duo By Germain Lussier/May 18, 2011 5:00 am EST Robert Smigel’s TV Funhouse cartoons have been a hit on Saturday Night Live for years. Paramount among them is The Ambiguously Gay Duo, a hilarious animated superhero team that may, or may not, be gay and this weekend on SNL audiences finally got to see Ace and Gary, along with all of their super-villain enemies, in the flesh....
Mark Millar Says ‘Kick-Ass 2’ Will Start With 30 Minutes Of Hit-Girl By Angie Han/May 22, 2012 2:30 pm EST Kick-Ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow had really better hope those talks with star Chloë Grace Moretz go well. In volume 2 of the comic book series by Mark Millar that inspired the movie, Moretz’s Hit-Girl character is somewhat sidelined because (this is a possible spoiler) she ultimately gives up her superhero persona....
Page 2: Labyrinth, Red State, Blade Runner, He-Man, WALL-E, Donal Logue, Neverending Story, The Dark Knight By Peter Sciretta/March 10, 2011 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The t-shirt of the day on TeeFury is a Masters of the Universe/Smurfs mash-up design titled “Voltronn”. Available for $10 plus shipping, but today only. Terriers star Donal Logue is returning to television in Marc Cherry’s drama pilot Hallelujah....
Photos: The Wreckers From ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ At The Daytona 500 By Germain Lussier/Feb. 21, 2011 1:30 pm EST When you decide to create several Transformers that look like real life NASCAR’s, where better to debut them than the biggest race of the year? In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, they’re called The Wreckers and while we’ve already seen some images of the vehicles in action, they were featured prominently in the brand new commercial that premiered during the Daytona 500....
Ruairi Robinson To Direct ‘The Fallen’ By Russ Fischer/May 11, 2011 2:00 pm EST If you don’t already know Ruairi Robinson’s name, go back through our archive of previous reports on the young director to check out his short films like The Silent City and Blinky, then come back to this announcement of a new feature for which he’s been tapped to direct. In November of last year the director was attached to a sci-fi thriller script called The Animators....
Russian ‘Prometheus’ Trailer Rules In Any Language By Germain Lussier/April 16, 2012 4:30 pm EST Many of us have likely got to a point with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus where enough is enough. We’ve seen the clips, we’ve seen the trailers, things are starting to reveal themselves that are better discovered in the theater and if tickets were on sale right now, we’d buy one. In fact, most of us were probably at that point when the names Ridley Scott, Damon Lindelof and Alien were joined up with a cast featuring Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron....
Sam Jackson, Luke Wilson And Leslie Bibb Join ‘Meeting Evil’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 31, 2010 10:10 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Wilson, who will be playing John, has proved that he’s a great straight man, even a great depressed straight man, in films like Old School and The Royal Tenenbaums while Jackson, as Richie, can obviously do anything. Answering his door one morning, solidly middle-class John Felton finds a scruffy-looking man whose car is in need of a push....
Sam Raimi Developing Alien Invasion Movie ‘EDF’, Aka “Earth Defense Force” By Adam Quigley/Sept. 30, 2010 10:27 am EST Sam Raimi has dealt with ghouls, ghosts, demons and other such undead variants, but now he’s angling to bring extraterrestrials to the big screen, and he’s deep into negotiations with Warner Bros. to help him. The film is tentatively titled EDF, which stands for “Earth Defense Force”, and deals, appropriately, with “Earth’s response to an imminent alien invasion”....
Sequel Bits: ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Hobbit Reunion, Star Trek Sequel Not Called ‘Star Trek 2,’ ‘Independence Day’ Sequel Talk, ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Won’t Occupy Wall Street By Germain Lussier/Oct. 26, 2011 7:00 am EST You’d be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t like one of the following four movies: The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Independence Day or Batman. Odds are everyone likes at least one of those films (or film series), probably very passionately in fact....
VOTD: Kevin Feige Gives A Tour Of ‘The Avengers’ Props By Germain Lussier/May 4, 2012 3:30 pm EST There are several take aways from Marvel’s The Avengers: the excitement, the humor and how you’d like to own every single prop that’s in the movie. Pieces like Thor’s hammer, Cap’s shield, Hawkeye’s bow and Loki’s staff are so iconic, owning one would be the crown jewel of any collection. And while companies do make authentic prop replicas of these items, and will continue to do so, there’s something to be said about the actual screen-used props....
Warner Bros Wins Bidding War For Fanboys Screenwriter’s Ready Player One By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2010 3:00 pm EST Update: As expected, the book sparked a bidding war between four Hollywood studios and Warner Bros. Pictures and De Line Pictures ended up winning the rights. Cline will write the screenplay adaptation of his novel, to be produced by Donald De Line (Green Lantern) and Dan Farah. [deadline] In one of the largest deals ever for a first time young adult fiction writer, Random House has won a bidding war for Fanboys/Thundercade screenwriter Ernie Cline’s debut novel Ready Player One....
Werner Herzog: Plans Desert Epic And Prison Film; Answers Fan And Press Questions Via YouTube By Russ Fischer/Aug. 23, 2010 7:15 pm EST Some of the ensuing interviews are traditional press, in which he revealed that he’s got plans for at least two new films: a desert epic and a film set in a Texas maximum-security prison. And the director has spent this afternoon answering fan questions submitted via Twitter, with the video answers posted to YouTube....
‘Disturbia’ Screenwriter To Pen ‘Paranormal Activity 3? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 10, 2011 5:00 am EST The Paranormal Activity franchise is like a money tree for Paramount Pictures. The first film was made and acquired for next to nothing (thousands of dollars) and went on to gross over $187 million worldwide. The sequel was rushed into production with a larger budget (estimated $2.75 million), and released the following year, grossing $168 million worldwide....
‘How Do You Know’ Cost $120 Million, $40 Million For Actors Alone By Germain Lussier/Dec. 10, 2010 3:07 pm EST In the midst of the holiday season, when big blockbusters abound, audiences expect to hear that effect driven films TRON: Legacy, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader have huge budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars. We see that money on the screen....
‘In Time’ Trailer: Justin Timberlake And Amanda Seyfried Run Through The Future By Russ Fischer/July 29, 2011 3:45 pm EST Andrew Niccol’s new film In Time posits a world in which the only currency is time: every individual has a body clock which, after 25 years, constantly counts down to death. Anyone can earn or steal more time, and without that wealth, it is game over. The extended trailer we saw at Comic Con made the film look like a bit like Gattaca infused with a pulp noir sensibility....
‘The End’ Teaser Trailer: Spanish Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Pits Man Against Man, And Nature By Russ Fischer/April 25, 2012 3:00 pm EST What if M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening was a pretty good movie, instead of a laughably bad one? A question like that is posed by the trailer for Spanish thriller The End, directed by Jorge Torregrosa and scripted by Jorge Guerricaechevarría (The Day of the Beast, Cell 211) and Sergio Garcia Sanchez (The Orphanage) based on the novel by David Monteagudo....
‘The Tree Of Life:’ See A New Clip, Sample Tracks From The Score By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2011 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. All we really know is that it is a multi-generational drama in which Sean Penn plays the adult son of Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, and that there are grandly cosmic themes wrapped around that relatively small tale. You can get a taste of those big themes and some of the movie’s time-spanning ideas in the trailer and from the official site....
Arnold Schwarzenegger And Sylvester Stallone’s ‘The Tomb’ Adds Amy Ryan, 50 Cent, Vincent D’Onofrio, And Vinnie Jones By Angie Han/April 5, 2012 10:30 am EST Mikael Håfström’s The Tomb attracted some attention for reuniting ’80s action stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, but the project’s collected quite an eclectic cast since its early days. After adding Jim Caviezel back in February, The Tomb has now also signed Vincent D’Onofrio, Vinnie Jones, 50 Cent, and Amy Ryan....
Back-To-Back ‘Independence Day’ Sequels Will Happen With Or Without Will Smith By Angie Han/Oct. 27, 2011 10:53 am EST Whether star Will Smith will be back is another question, but the studio is reportedly prepared to move on without him if necessary. More details after the jump. Although the plot of the two films have not been revealed, we do know that they’ll function independently of one another, but also tell one combined tale — to steal Vulture’s example, think Back to the Future Parts 2 and 3 instead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2....
By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2012 11:30 am EST Ask any poster fan what two films they’d like Mondo to make posters for and the answers are very likely to be Ghostbusters and Back to the Future. The former might take a while (as you can read here) but the latter is now a reality. Mondo has just revealed their first ever Back to the Future poster. But it isn’t just one image; it’s three....
