Scarlett Johansson Cast In ‘We Bought A Zoo’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 5, 2010 3:08 pm EST The results are in for one more casting race — well, this one wasn’t a race, exactly. Earlier this week we reported that director Cameron Crowe was interested in Scarlett Johansson for the lead female role in We Bought a Zoo. Now she’s reportedly nearing a deal to make the picture, in which she’ll appear opposite Matt Damon....
The JustifiedCast S3E05 - Thick As Mud (GUESTS: Myles McNutt And Joanna Robinson) By David Chen/Feb. 15, 2012 8:39 pm EST Dave Chen chats with Myles McNutt from Cultural Learnings and Joanna Robinson from Pajiba about this season’s fifth episode, “Thick as Mud.” What happens when Justified goes all Saw-like? How much will Dewey do to stay alive? Tune in to find out. E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at justifiedcast@gmail....
The Real Name Of The Wachowskis Next Film: Cobalt Neural 9 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2010 10:56 am EST When last we heard about the next film from the Wachowskis, it was being referred to as CN9. Some guessed the title was a reference to the ninth cranial nerve, but now we know that CN9 is actually short for Cobalt Neural 9, the full title of the Wachowskis’ script about a “gay Iraq war romance....
VFX Breakdowns: The User Interfaces And Holograms Of ‘TRON: Legacy’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 27, 2012 4:05 pm EST Whether you love or hate TRON: Legacy, few would argue it’s a beautiful movie. Every penny of the Disney sequel’s reported $170 million budget is undeniably on screen in the form of all kinds of different special effects. Bradley Munkowitz, aka GMUNK, was the lead animated graphics artist on the film and led a team that created about 10 minutes of those special effects....
What Actor Has Taken The Mel Gibson Role In ‘The Hangover 2’? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 22, 2010 12:45 pm EST This is a pretty brief update, but in the interest of playing along with spoiler-phobes who were irritated that we gave away the planned Mel Gibson cameo in The Hangover 2, I’ll keep the new info after the break. (Mostly, that is. It’s in the URL, so don’t…look…up!) Click on to find out who the ’new’ Mel Gibson is…...
You Can Buy ‘The Hunger Games’ District 12 Town For $1.4 Million By Germain Lussier/April 5, 2012 12:00 pm EST Everyone is cashing in on Hunger Games mania, even the owner of the small North Carolina town used as District 12 in the film. Henry River Mill Village, all 72 desolate acres of it, is now for sale for the low, low price of $1.4 million. Pretty archer and stoic, handsome baker not included....
Zombie Football Novel ‘Play Dead’ In Development As Feature Film By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2010 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Variety reports that Mark Canton, who produced George Romero’s Land of the Dead and is producing Tunnels for Relativity with Vincenzo Natali attached to direct, has bought the novel rights and hired Joe Schreiber to script. The New York company Lucky VIII is financing development and production; a shoot is planned in third quarter 2011....
‘Anchorman 2’ Teaser Trailer(s): Brick Tamland Is Still Struggling To Speak By Russ Fischer/May 21, 2012 9:30 am EST The first teaser trailer for a sequel to Adam McKay’s Anchorman hit last week, and bootlegs have been floating around for a few days. Now there’s an official release of an all-new teaser trailer for Anchorman: The Legend Continues, aka Anchorman 2, as well as a good online version of the theatrical cut....
‘Bad Ass’ Trailer: Danny Trejo Is A Fightin’ Meme By Russ Fischer/Dec. 24, 2011 11:00 am EST You might remember Epic Beard Man, who achieved instant internet fame in early 2010 when a video was posted of him kicking the ass of a guy on an Oakland city bus. Now — and this isn’t a joke — the incident has been turned into a movie that looks like it has elements of Machete and Hobo With a Shotgun, in that Danny Trejo plays a bearded old dude who becomes a local icon after beating down a couple skinheads on a bus....
/Film Announcement: Commenting Changes By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2011 7:00 am EST /Film has grown dramatically over the past few years, and so have the amount of people who comment on the site. To give you an idea of just how many, we’ve had around 20,000 new comments in the last month alone. A nice group of regulars can be found in most of the comment threads on the site. But as the community has grown, so has the amount of trolls and irrelevant entries....
/Film Boston: Interview With Mark And Jay Duplass, Directors Of Cyrus; Free Tickets To Cyrus Screening On Wednesday (6/23) By David Chen/June 19, 2010 6:00 am EST After the break, a hilarious interview with Jay and Mark Duplass, the directors of Cyrus (at least, it was hilarious for us). Plus, your chance to get free tickets to a screening of Cyrus this Wednesday at the Boston Commons AMC at 7 PM....
‘I Am Not A Hipster’ Trailer: Get A Look At One Sundance 2012 Success By Russ Fischer/Jan. 23, 2012 5:00 am EST One of the early films to play at this year’s Sundance film festival was I Am Not a Hipster, the film by Destin Daniel Cretton in which Dominic Bogart plays a San Diego musician who has to deal with himself and his family during not entirely welcome visits from his father and sisters....
‘Man Of Steel’ Getting A Rewrite From ‘300’ Co-Writer Kurt Johnstad? By Russ Fischer/July 18, 2011 10:30 am EST Warner Bros. is racing to get Superman back on screen, and one report says that a new talent has been recruited to assist. Kurt Johnstad, who worked with Zack Snyder on 300 and the script for that film’s in-development sequel, as well as on The Last Photograph, has reportedly been hired to do a rewrite on Man of Steel....
‘The Hunter’ Trailer: Willem Dafoe Pursues The Last Tasmanian Tiger By Russ Fischer/July 27, 2011 11:05 am EST Our first word on The Hunter came late last year when we learned that Daniel Nettheim would direct Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor and more in an adaptation of Julia Leigh’s novel of the same name. Willem Dafoe plays a character who claims to be on the hunt for one thing, but is in reality working for a larger entity and seeks a more specific game: the last Tasmanian tiger....
‘Wuthering Heights’ Trailer: ‘Fish Tank’ Director Andrea Arnold Finds Stark, Modern Beauty In Emily Brontë’s Moors By Angie Han/Sept. 7, 2012 10:04 am EST The director of the gritty modern Fish Tank may not seem like the most obvious fit for a romantic tragedy by a Brontë sister, but from the looks of it Andrea Arnold has certainly found a way to make Wuthering Heights her own. Eschewing stuffy period piece conventions, Arnold’s adaptation keeps the 19th century setting but makes it look very 21st century....
Al Pacino And Joe Pesci Rumored To Be Joining Robert De Niro In Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 13, 2010 4:16 pm EST In smaller groups, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, and director Martin Scorsese have together made some of the best crime films of all time such as Goodfellas, The Godfather Part II, Heat, Raging Bull, Mean Streets and Casino. Well, if the rumors are true, these four Oscar winners might soon be teaming up for one giant mob movie....
Concept Art For Unproduced Blur Studio LEGO Animated Film By Germain Lussier/June 22, 2012 3:30 pm EST In 2014, a movie based on the popular LEGO toys will be in theaters, written and directed by 21 Jump Street helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The road to that started several years ago when Warner Bros. took pitches from companies hoping to earn that same opportunity. Now one of rejected ideas has been revealed....
Disney Considering Whole Raft Of Film-To-Stage Shows? Toy Story, Alice In Wonderland, Nightmare Before Christmas And Many More By Brendon Connelly/May 2, 2010 6:00 pm EST The web-digging sleuths at Stitch Kingdom have uncovered a series of URLs registered recently by Disney. They reveal plans for not one, not two but… oh, loads of new stage shows and musicals to be adapted from big-screen movies. Some of them have already happened, some we’ve known about for some time, while others are complete and total shockers....
Disney Releasing Studio Ghibli’s ‘Tales From Earthsea’ This August By Russ Fischer/May 18, 2010 12:30 pm EST The good news: Disney is finally giving a domestic release to Tales From Earthsea, the 2006 film directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro Miyazaki that adapts stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. The bad news: it will still be Tales From Earthsea, which wasn’t up to the high standards set for Ghibli films by the elder Miyazaki....
Early Comic Con Movie Attendance Announced: ‘Iron Man 3,’ ‘Django Unchained,’ ‘Man Of Steel’ And ‘The Hobbit’ In; ‘Star Trek 2’ Out By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2012 4:00 pm EST Comic Con kicks off in San Diego on July 11, and with the show only a month away we haven’t had too much concrete news about what will appear, and what is likely to miss the show. We know that The Dark Knight Rises won’t be there, as Warner Bros....
