Watch Nick Frost And Simon Pegg Remake A Classic Scene From ‘Star Wars’ By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2011 12:30 pm EST Nick Frost and Simon Pegg wrote a metric ton (sorry, tonne) of sci-fi film nerd references into their movie Paul — you could make a drinking game out of all the lines in the new film that reference fan-favorite movies from the past few decades. Naturally there are a couple Star Wars references in Paul....
‘Immortals’ Trailer, Official HD Version By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2011 6:55 am EST The official release of the trailer for Tarsem’s Immortals is now out. Now you can see just what Tarsem meant when he said he was going for a sort of “Caravaggio meets Fight Club” approach — really, it looks more or less like established Tarsem style as seen in The Cell and The Fall, filtered through 300. There is some real beauty in this trailer, but as has been the case with the director’s movies in the past, it’s probably too early to make a call about whether the movie will be more than a great slideshow or not....
‘Rubber,’ Quentin Dupieux’s Killer Tire Movie, Gets Release Dates By Germain Lussier/Dec. 30, 2010 3:00 pm EST One of the films that featured prominently on the 2010 festival circuit, but didn’t get a 2010 U.S. release, was Quentin Dupieux’s art house thriller Rubber. Starring a rolling, silent, killer tire, the concept alone is enough to get you into the theater. Thankfully, Dupieux then delivers the goods: a surprising blend of horror and meta-dissection of movie watching itself....
‘The Giant Mechanical Man’ Trailer: Jenna Fischer Falls For A Robot By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2012 6:00 am EST I am sure that all of you will have noticed the return of a blight to our streets. I refer, of course, to the extremely irritating… living statue. I’ve got a feeling that The Giant Mechanical Man wouldn’t play well in Edgar Wright’s heavily fictionalized home town of Sanford. Because while a giant silver-painted robot man isn’t quite as irritating as a living statue, it’s pretty close....
‘Water For Elephants’ Trailer #2 – Now With More Pattinson By Angie Han/March 4, 2011 9:00 am EST [via TheMovieBox.Net] If nothing else, this is going to be one gorgeous movie. There’s no denying that the Depression-era setting and circus imagery look stunning onscreen, and Waltz, Witherspoon and Pattinson make quite an attractive trio as well. Moreover, Lawrence, who also directed Constantine and I Am Legend, seems to have a knack for creating striking visuals....
AMC Won’t Take Part In MoviePass [Updated] By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2011 3:06 pm EST If the idea behind MoviePass — essentially a Netflix-like all you can view subscription service for actual movie theaters — sounded too good to be true, you might have been right. We reported yesterday on the company’s plan to offer a $50 monthly subscription pass that, with some restrictions, would allow subscribers to watch as many theatrical releases as they want....
Anton Corbijn To Direct ‘A Most Wanted Man’ By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2011 7:00 am EST Anton Corbijn made his feature debut with the Joy Division biopic Control, and last year released a very solid sophomore turn, The American. While promoting that film he didn’t sound very optimistic about making more films, saying that his third would probably be his last. Hopefully that won’t actually be the case. One way or another, it looks like that third film will be an adaptation of A Most Wanted Man, from novelist John le Carré, rather than the film built around actor and composer Herbert Grönemeyer,as previously teased....
Cannes: Peter’s Paris Photo Blog By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2010 4:35 pm EST Having not yet begun my Cannes adventure, I thought I’d share some of the photos I took while in Paris. I posted a couple of these on twitter and received a bunch of feedback from readers asking to post more on the site. Even though most of the photos are not really movie related (some are), I thought it would be interesting to include them with my Cannes blogs for the site....
David O. Russell Might Direct Jim Carrey In ‘Under Cover’ By Adam Quigley/Sept. 22, 2010 5:30 am EST Well this would be an unexpected turn of events. Nothing is set in stone—meetings are currently taking place, and Summit is looking over their options—but David O. Russell is a leading contender to direct Under Cover, the high-concept Jim Carrey comedy we reported on last month. The film is about “a recently divorced father of two who joins a youthful cover band so he can earn enough money to win his custody battle against his ex-wife”....
Direct To DVD ‘Cars’ Spinoff ‘Planes’ Pushed From Spring To Fall 2013; ‘Planes 2: Fire And Rescue’ Already In The Works By Angie Han/June 12, 2012 11:00 am EST But the Cars films do make a ton of money with the younger set, and like it or not Planes will probably do brisk business as well. The Mouse House, in fact, is so confident in Planes’ future success that it’s apparently already begun developing Planes 2: Fire and Rescue....
Ed Harris May Join The Rock In Michael Bay’s In ‘Pain And Gain’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2012 9:30 am EST Before Michael Bay makes another Transformers movie — and despite the director’s claims to the contrary, it really looks like he will make another one — Bay is going to make a ‘smaller’ film called Pain and Gain. The film is being financed by Paramount, likely as part of an incentive deal to get Bay to make Transformers 4, and it is a crime story he’s been wanting to do for a while....
First Look: Abin Sur, From Green Lantern By Russ Fischer/July 22, 2010 7:40 am EST Over the past few years, Warner Bros. has started to bring larger, more interesting props to Comic Con. Recently it was the Owl Ship from Watchmen, which, no matter how you felt about the film, was a great piece of construction to walk around in. (OK, crawl around in.) This year, the big prop is a model of Abin Sur, the alien that gives Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) his ring and power in Green Lantern....
First Photos: Johnny Depp In The Rum Diary By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2010 2:51 am EST We have a look at the first two official production photos of Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary. In the film, Depp plays a doppelganger for the late Hunter S. Thompson for the second time (Terry Gilliam’s classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas being the first). In Bruce Robinson’s new film, Depp plays Paul Kemp, “a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean....
Geek Deal: ‘Doctor Who: The David Tennant Years’ Box Set For Only $69.99 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2012 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Hans Zimmer Talks ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Score, Secrecy And More By Germain Lussier/Feb. 23, 2012 1:30 pm EST Now that we’ve (mostly) moved on from Banegate, Christopher Nolan and his team have gone back to what’s really important – finishing one of the most anticipated films in history. The director is hard at work completing The Dark Knight Rises and, at this point of post-production, one of the most important people becomes the composer....
International Movie Trailer: Scott Pilgrim Vs The World By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2010 5:45 am EST We’ve seen a teaser and a full trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Edgar Wright’s adaptation of the graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley. Now there’s an international trailer that sells the tale of Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) a bass player and sorta-slacker who falls for Ramona Flowers (Mary-Elizabeth Winstead) but must defeat her seven evil exes before they can truly be together....
Jack Nicholson To Star In LASt VEGAS, Aka ‘The Hangover Meets Gumpy Old Men?’ By Russ Fischer/April 22, 2010 9:05 am EST Hollywood is even more youth-obsessed than usual of late, so the very fact that a studio might make a film that could be vaguely compared to Grumpy Old Men is enough to make me happy. Dan Fogelman, the screenwriter behind the Steve Carell / Ryan Gosling comedy that still doesn’t have a name, has a script called LASt VEGAS (spelling and caps intentional) that follows four friends from the ’50s who reunite in Vegas....
James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Sequels Will Film In Manhattan Beach, CA By Germain Lussier/April 11, 2011 7:00 pm EST So why are we reporting on a real estate deal? Well, apparently the studio where Cameron shot the first film is currently under renovations and, without a new home, the sequels were in danger of possibly being delayed. Now, that won’t be the case. Read more after the break. Lightstorm also won’t be the only tenant at the MBS Media Campus in Manhattan Beach to make big blockbuster movies....
Jason Segel And Reese Witherspoon May Make ‘Sex Tape’ With Nicholas Stoller By Angie Han/Oct. 27, 2011 2:30 pm EST Frequent collaborators Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller may have toned down their raunchy humor for The Muppets script, but they could be diving back into adult-themed material with Sex Tape. Stoller is in talks to direct the raunchy comedy, written by Kate Angelo, while Segel has been offered the male lead....
Lionsgate Snaps Up TIFF’s Other Midnight Madness Sensation, ‘You’re Next’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2011 5:24 pm EST The Raid was sold before Toronto started, so the biggest Midnight Madness sale is undoubtedly the horror flick You’re Next, directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett. The two were TIFF vets thanks to their previous film A Horrible Way to Die, and Barrett’s script for the 2004 film Dead Birds....
