LOST Series Finale - What Did You Think? By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2010 6:00 pm EST The time is here — the series finale of Lost has finally begun to air (first on the East Coast, and then the rest of the world follows). I know that many of the /Film readers are obsessed with this show, and I think it is important to have a place to discuss the final moments and what they mean....
Matt Damon Says Next Bourne To Be Prequel Or Reboot By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 1, 2010 4:49 am EST There’s been a lot of problems getting a fourth Bourne script in good shape. Writers have come and gone, Paul Greengrass left the project and Matt Damon even said he wouldn’t do another one unless Paul came back. So, I reckon the following bit of news was pretty much inevitable, if a little quicker coming than I might have expected....
Mean Girls 2 Greenlit, Plot Details And Director Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2010 12:30 pm EST Paramount Pictures has not announced an official sequel to Mark Waters’ 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls, but we’ve been hearing rumblings that production was set to begin on a sequel in Atlanta. And today we came across a press release announcing an open casting call, so that confirms it. But will it be a theatrical sequel or just another one of those direct to dvd sequel?...
Movie Trailer: Snowman’s Land By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2010 1:00 pm EST I came across this movie trailer for Tomasz Thomson’s Snowman’s Land on FirstShowing. although it was originally found on Twitch. The German-language hitman dark comedy does have a Coen Brothers-vibe to it, but that might just be the subgenre itself. The movie tells the story of a professional killer who takes up an offer to protect the house of a crime boss in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains....
Netflix Reintroduces DVD-Only Plans, Confusing Customers Who Never Realized DVD-Only Went Away To Begin With By Angie Han/Feb. 17, 2012 2:00 pm EST Netflix has made no secret about the fact that it’s more interested in streaming than in DVDs by mail. CEO Reed Hastings has said that he expects “DVD subscribers to decline steadily every quarter, forever.” Last year, as you probably recall, the company even toyed with the idea of splitting off its DVD rentals altogether into a separate service called Qwikster....
New Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Video Game Footage By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 10:00 am EST GameTrailers has premiered a new video showcasing the gameplay in the upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs. The World video game. Here is more from the /Film tipster Lascelles L: “There is a show called Game Traielers on Spike TV. They tend to beat G4 on a lot of game stuff. They have early footage and an interview with the director of Scott about the game at a fake E3 like-event (E3 officially starts Monday)....
New Screenwriter Hired For Live-Action Akira Remake; Albert Hughes Talks PG-13 By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2010 8:36 am EST It’s taken a while for Warner Bros. to get a plan together with respect to the live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s six-volume manga Akira, which Otomo previously directed as anime. That 1988 version became a landmark effort in anime, setting a bar for the remake that many fans consider impossibly high. But the anime, massively condensed from the manga and with an alternate ending, has an awkward, exposition-heavy narrative that isn’t nearly as engrossing as the beautiful animation....
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Poster And Synopsis For Steve McQueen And Michael Fassbender Reunion ‘Shame’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2010 3:00 pm EST The only possible downside to the fact that Hunger director and star Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender have reunited for Shame is that Mr. McQueen’s planned biopic of Fela Kuti has been pushed back. (Hopefully not abandoned.) Otherwise the collaboration between those two on a film about a guy unable to control his sex life has the potential to be memorable....
Seth MacFarlane To Reboot ‘The Flintstones’ For TV And Film By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2011 2:55 pm EST
The Original Opening Scene To ‘John Carter’ By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2012 10:00 am EST As you know, John Carter went through a set of extensive reshoots. One of the big changes to the film involved the movie’s opening. When I saw this alternate opening on the Blu-ray I was actually kind of disappointed that it wasn’t used. The scene opens with Lynn Collins as Princess Dejah Thoris giving a lecture on the current events of the Barsoomian wars....
This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Salt, Easy A, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Devil, And More By Adam Quigley/Dec. 21, 2010 6:18 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Salt barrels forward at a relentless pace, and stops only for the most perfunctory of emotional beats. You know they’re emotional beats because somber music plays in the background while characters gaze longingly at each other....
TV Bits: Will Seasons 3 And 4 Of ‘Game Of Thrones’ Shoot Back To Back? Plus: ‘Dallas’, ‘Alcatraz’, ‘Napoleon Dynamite’, ‘Touch’, And More By Angie Han/Dec. 2, 2011 10:00 am EST Original stars Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, and, of course, Larry Hagman are all on board to reprise their roles, while Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalfe, Jordana Brewster, Julie Gonzalo, and Brenda Strong will star as new characters. Watch the preview below....
VOTD: Watch Part Of The Table Read For ‘Superbad’ By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2012 7:00 am EST When making a movie, before a single frame of film is shot, the entire cast does a table read where they literally sit around a table and read the entire script. It’s a great way for cast members who don’t know each other to meet one another and give everyone an idea of what the final movie might play like....
X-Men First Class Rumors: Multiple Man Appearing? Beast Fired? By Russ Fischer/July 2, 2010 10:06 am EST The first X-Men rumor is that Jamie Madrox, aka the Multiple Man, is going to appear in the film as a student at Professor Xavier’s school. The character has already shown up in Fox’s mutant franchise, as he was a fairly prominent part of the third X-Men film. Who’ll play him, and what is his role in First Class?...
‘A Separation’ Director Heads To France For Next Film By Russ Fischer/March 13, 2012 3:00 pm EST Perhaps the most worthy film to take home an Oscar this year was the Iranian movie A Separation, which won the Best Foreign Language Film statuette. A Separation is truly a wonderful movie: acted with grace and depth, and written and directed with a pitch-perfect attention to broad social ideas (justice, gender equality, economic distress) and personal issues such as grief, guilt, and responsibility....
‘Fraggle Rock’ May Still Happen; Scissor Sisters Members Writing New Music For The Project By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2011 4:30 pm EST Now a new report suggests the movie isn’t dead, and that it will have musical numbers penned by unlikely artists: Jake Shears and Babydaddy of disco/glam-pop band Scissor Sisters. There’s nothing to report except that The Weinstein Company has everything they need to move forward, and the ball is in their court....
‘Real Steel’ Teaser Trailer By Germain Lussier/Dec. 9, 2010 10:07 am EST Briefly: If you ever dreamed of a live action, big budget Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots movie, director Shawn Levy and star Hugh Jackman are happy to oblige. Check out the awesome first trailer for Real Steel, opening October 7, 2011 in regular format and IMAX theaters, after the jump. Real Steel also stars Anthony Mackie, Evangeline Lilly and Kevin Durand in the futuristic story of a man and his son, who team up to help a robot win the championship after the man himself ends his human boxing career....
‘Sleepless Night’ Trailer: Check Out The TIFF And Fantastic Fest Thriller Already Targeted For A Remake By Russ Fischer/Sept. 27, 2011 4:28 pm EST The French thriller Sleepless Night, in which two police officers who moonlight stealing drugs have to deal with insanity on a night when they lose their merchandise, has been earning raves since it premiered as part of the Midnight Madness program at TIFF. Peter loved the film in Toronto, and Germain loved it at Fantastic Fest....
‘Snow White’ Scribe Melisa Wallack To Write ‘Emily The Strange’ By Angie Han/Aug. 3, 2011 9:29 am EST An adaptation of fictional cult figure Emily the Strange has been in the works since 2008, but it’s only recently that the project’s been picking up steam. Last year, Kick-Ass star Chloe Moretz signed on to play the title character, and now the movie is about to get a script as well. Melisa Wallack, the Black List scribe behind one of two Snow White projects currently in development, has been tapped to write the Emily screenplay for Universal Pictures....
