Man Files Lawsuit Claiming ‘Hangover II’ Stole His Life Story By Angie Han/Oct. 17, 2011 2:00 pm EST The Hangover Part II is causing all sorts of legal trouble for Warner Bros. Back in April, tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill sued the studio over its use of a tattoo he’d designed for Mike Tyson, and late this summer a stunt double sued over significant head injuries he’d sustained during the production....
Mark Duplass, Dianne Wiest And Sam Shepard Cast In Lawrence Kasdan’s ‘Darling Companion’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 24, 2010 5:00 pm EST Though he’s been announced as attached to a few projects over the past couple years, Lawrence Kasdan hasn’t written or directed a produced film since Dreamcatcher in 2003. (He has done script work, like the polish on the script for the action version of Paradise Lost that Alex Proyas just signed to direct....
New Poster: ‘Win Win’ From Director Tom McCarthy By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2011 12:01 pm EST I’m a big fan of Tom McCarthy as an actor and director (The Station Agent, The Visitor) so I’m curious to see both his sorta-directorial effort for the pilot of Game of Thrones (reshoots were done without him) and his new indie Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti. The story follows a struggling middle-aged attorney and volunteer wrestling coach (Paul Giamatti) who becomes caretaker to an elderly man (Burt Young), which leads to a complicated mentor/guardian situation with the man’s grandson (Alex Schaffer)....
POTD: Donald Glover And New ‘Spider-Man’ Andrew Garfield “Talk It Out” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 22, 2010 6:00 am EST You may remember that sometime after Marc Webb signed on to direct Sony’s Spider-Man reboot, Community star Donald Glover began an online campaign to try to get an audition for the role of Peter Parker. We all know how it turned out — the equally awesome Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) ended up winning the role....
POTD: Los Angeles License Plate By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2010 12:00 pm EST polaroidgirl spotted a prius in Los Angeles with a vanity license plate on a Prius that reads “IMDB ME”. Only in LA… via: LAist POTD: Los Angeles License Plate By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2010 12:00 pm EST polaroidgirl spotted a prius in Los Angeles with a vanity license plate on a Prius that reads “IMDB ME”. Only in LA… via: LAist...
Real-Life Superhero Stops Car Robbery — Kick-Ass In Real Life? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2011 8:00 am EST When Kick-Ass was released, some people worried that kids would get the wrong idea and try to become their own real-life vigilantes. While we have yet to see any reports of twelve year old costumed kids being gunned down trying to stop gang activities (and lets hope we don’t) the news this week has picked up on the story of a costumed vigilate who has been fighting crime in Seattle....
Sam Mendes To Direct Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Stage Musical And ‘On Chesil Beach’ Before Bond By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2010 10:34 pm EST With Bond 23 indefinitely delayed, Sam Mendes has been looking for new projects. For a moment it looked like he might jump on to The Great and Powerful Oz, Disney’s new Oz movie that could star Robert Downey, Jr. (Think this year’s Alice in Wonderland plus Sherlock Holmes....
See Behind The Scenes Video From David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’; Cosmopolis Likely The Director’s Next By Russ Fischer/Aug. 23, 2010 6:00 pm EST In July we saw the first photos of Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender in makeup and costume as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung for David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method. Turns out that during the same period some TV press was also allowed onto the set, and we’ve got a pair of short video reports after the break....
Tron Guy Reviews Tron Legacy By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2010 12:00 pm EST WiReD Magazine had the brilliant idea to hire Jay Maynard, a computer programmer/system administrator probably best known on the internet as “Tron Guy”, to review Disney’s Tron Legacy. What did Tron Guy think of the sequel 28 years in the making? “I walked in, expecting to be blown away both from what I’d seen before and from what I knew about the production....
VOTD: Pixar Studios 3D Printing And Physical Animation By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2011 6:00 am EST If you collect toys and love Pixar, then these videos will start as exciting and turn into depressing. It shows a wing at Pixar Animation Studios that specializes in 3D printing. Basically, employees can take a frame from any of the Pixar movies and, through specialized printers, output a picture perfect, plaster, 3D model of a character or object from a movie....
‘Captain America’ Writers Hired To Pen Sequel Script? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2011 6:00 am EST Once upon a time, studios would wait for the opening of a film before throwing money at a sequel. But things happen a lot faster now. Rapturous reception for a trailer to one film might be enough to kick-start real development on a sequel, for example. That may be the case for Captain America: The First Avenger....
‘Human Centipede’ Director To The UK Rating Board: “Thanks For Spoiling My Movie!” By Russ Fischer/June 7, 2011 7:56 pm EST Some of the biggest news yesterday was that the UK rating board, the British Board of Film Classification, categorically rejected The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) for an UK release, based on the fact that (in the eyes of the board) the film links violence and sexual arousal in an unacceptable way....
‘Kick-Ass 2’ Not Likely To Be Matthew Vaughn’s Next, Says Co-Writer Jane Goldman By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2011 8:30 am EST Those who are really hoping to see a sequel to Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass have latched onto reports about the progress of the comic by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., and have eagerly ingested rumors about possible progress on a film screenplay by Matthew Vaughn and his Kick-Ass co-writer Jane Goldman....
By Germain Lussier/May 22, 2012 10:00 am EST When Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black 3 was in production, much was made of behind the scenes problems. Reports circulated that it began filming without a full script, production stopped for months on end and scenes were written on the day. No matter to what degree those reports were true or false, the final product definitely feels like a film searching for its identity in those same ways....
‘ParaNorman’ Teaser Trailer: Laika Crafts A Weird And Super-Cute Kids’ Horror Story By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2011 1:30 pm EST I’m eager to see anything that comes out of the animation house Laika. The company’s last major production, Coraline, was a beautiful little film. Laika is following that with ParaNorman, a film written by Coraline storyboard supervisor Chris Butler. The film has a great voice cast — Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In, The Road) in the lead, with Casey Affleck, Tempestt Bledsoe, Jeff Garlin, John Goodman, Bernard Hill (Titanic), Anna Kendrick, Leslie Mann, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Elaine Stritch (30 Rock) — and tells the story of a young boy who has to protect his town against a zombie uprising....
‘Premium Rush’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2011 5:30 pm EST Columbia Pictures has released the first trailer for David Koepp’s chase thriller Premium Rush which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a bike messenger who somehow gets involved in a chase across New York City. Hit the jump to watch the trailer. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Trailer thanks to Yahoo: Previously: The film also features Michael Shannon (The Runaways, Jonah Hex) as the villain, “a deceptively affable cop with a violent temper”, and Jamie Chung as Levitt’s ex-girlfriend, “a fellow daredevil bike messenger who helps him outwit the cop....
‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Screenwriters Talk About Speech In The Sequel By Russ Fischer/Dec. 20, 2011 11:30 am EST We don’t know any specifics about the sequel at this point, despite the fact that Wyatt has said a lot of things about where it could possibly go. But the screenwriters recently made one comment that fans of the film might find interesting. That’s below, and I suppose it’s worth noting that really talking about their comment requires some spoilers for Rise of the Planet of the Apes....
‘Ted’ Red-Band Trailer: Peter Griffin, Trapped In The Body Of A Bear By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2012 7:00 pm EST The first trailer for Ted, the debut feature from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, probably had to be a red-band clip. The film stars Mark Wahlberg as a guy who once got his wish to have his teddy bear come to life, but now has to life his adult life with a foulmothed stuffed companion....
‘True Lies 2’ May Actually Be A TV Series With James Cameron Producing By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2010 10:39 am EST For years, various participants in the James Cameron film True Lies — primarily Tom Arnold — have talked up the possibility of a sequel. So far it’s been nothing more than talk, though James Cameron himself has dropped hints about the possibility of a second film that continues the story of a family man (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who is also a government agent....
Casting Bits: Tom Kenny Confirmed For ‘Transformers 3;’ Frances McDormand In ‘Madagascar 3;’ Jeffrey Dean Morgan In ‘Dibbuk Box’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2011 4:00 pm EST There’s a lot of small casting news today. Let’s kick off with word that Spongebob Sqaurepants himself, Tom Kenny, will once again lend his voice to a robot in the third Transformers film, Dark of the Moon. He voiced Skids (one of the generally reviled ‘racist’ bots) and Wheelie in the last film, but we don’t know what character(s) he’ll be voicing this time....
