By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2011 11:21 am EST You all know who Olly Moss is. We’ve written about him extensively, from his humble beginnings with Threadless up through his Mondo prints and the epic Paper Cuts gallery show. Moss’s latest print was revealed at Fantastic Fest this weekend, as part of a screening of the 1981 cult classic An American Werewolf in London and – as usual – Moss doesn’t disappoint....
Cool Stuff: A Clockwork Smurf And Robots In Disguise T-Shirts By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 31, 2010 6:00 am EST Ript Apparel’s t-shirt design of the day is a Clockwork Orange/Smurfs mash-up titled A Clockwork Smurf, created by artist Captain_RibMan. As with all of RIPT’s t-shirts, the design will be for sale today only. So act fast before midnight or it will not be available. The good news is the t-shirt is available for only $10 plus shipping....
Edward Norton In Talks For Villain Role In ‘The Bourne Legacy’ By Russ Fischer/July 12, 2011 6:08 pm EST Briefly: Jeremy Renner is going to lose his memory as the lead of Universal’s Jason Bourne spin-off franchise, which will be launched by a film called The Bourne Legacy. Now he may have an adversary in Edward Norton. The latter is in talks to play a character whose identity we do not yet know (appropriate for the Bourne series, I suppose) in the film that Tony Gilroy wrote and will direct....
Greta Gerwig Joins Whit Stillman’s Next Film By Russ Fischer/Sept. 30, 2010 11:45 am EST Call this a perfect match: Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco) is finally making another film, called Damsels in Distress, and indie darling Greta Gerwig (Greenberg, House of the Devil) says she’s got a role. We’ve known about the film for a while, as earlier this year Variety said the film would shoot in late summer in New York (natch) with no stars, as an ultra low-budget project....
John C. Reilly In Talks To Play Haymitch Abernathy In ‘The Hunger Games’ By Germain Lussier/April 22, 2011 3:30 pm EST No sooner do we publish an article ranking the most important roles yet to be cast in Gary Ross’s adaption of the Suzanne Collins novel The Hunger Games then a nice, juicy rumor is revealed around the most important one. According to Vulture, Oscar-nominee John C. Reilly is in talks to play Haymitch Abernathy, a character who is kind of The Hunger Games equivalent to Dumbledore in Harry Potter....
Leonardo DiCaprio To Investigate JFK Assassination In ‘Legacy Of Secrecy’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2010 10:06 am EST When it was confirmed that Leonardo DiCaprio would play FBI director J. Edgar Hoover for Clint Eastwood, I joked that now we only needed to see the actor cast as Henry Ford to complete an informal trilogy of films in which Leonardo DiCaprio played famously influential, eccentric American personalities. This casting move isn’t quite as good as seeing Mr....
Meg Ryan, 50 Cent And Kat Dennings Cast In ‘Lives Of The Saints’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2010 2:00 pm EST Briefly: Here’s your WTF cast of the week: the indie drama Lives of the Saints is about to shoot next month with the following cast lined up: Meg Ryan, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, John Lithgow, Joe Anderson and Kat Dennings. The picture follows “intertwining story lines about a group of Angelinos seeking redemption for past mistakes,” according to THR....
Michael Bay Says He’s Not In Talks For Additional ‘Transformers’ Movies By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2011 1:00 pm EST Yesterday the CEO of Hasbro said in an earnings conference call that the company is already in talks with Paramount, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Bay about making Transformers 4. Spielberg produced the three existing films and Bay, as I’m sure you’re aware, directed the trilogy. I assumed, given Bay’s statements over the last year, that he would be involved in only a producer capacity....
Movie Trailer: Lance Daly’s Kisses By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2010 5:35 pm EST One of the films I really dugg at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival was this Irish film titled Kisses by Lance Daly. In my review, I described the film as “Lost in Translation but with two irish 10-year-olds.” The story follows two kids who run away from home and spend a “night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin....
New Image Of Leonardo DiCaprio In ‘Django Unchained’ By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2012 7:30 am EST We’re six months away from the release of Quentin Tarantino’s new film Django Unchained, which is far enough out that each small new look at the film is notable. Perhaps you’ve seen the trailers (domestic and international) that start to show how a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) frees a slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) and recruits him to hunt down some slavers with whom Django is unfortunately acquainted....
Olivia Wilde Joins Ryan Reynolds And Jason Bateman In ‘The Change Up’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2010 11:47 am EST We haven’t heard anything serious about The Change-Up since March. It is a body-switching comedy to be directed by David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers) with Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman as the guys who switch meat suits to comedic effect. Now there’s a leading lady: the increasingly in-demand Olivia Wilde. Deadline says that Wilde will be a law firm co-worker of Jason Bateman’s, and the catalyst for the body switch he makes with his slacker best friend, Ryan Reynolds....
Patrick Kalyn’s Sci-Fi Short Film ‘Somnolence’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2011 9:00 am EST Sound design was done at Skywalker sound, and the score has been created by video game composer Jesper Kyd (Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Hitman, Robotech: Invasion, Assassin’s Creed). I’m always happy to support promising sci-fi short films. Watch the short embedded after the jump.
Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, And Ruth Wilson Board Disney’s ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ By Angie Han/July 25, 2012 2:30 pm EST When a project starts out with A-list leads like Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, it’s not surprising when the supporting cast turns out to be equally impressive. Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, and Ruth Wilson have just joined the cast of Saving Mr. Banks, Disney’s drama about the making of Mary Poppins....
Ridley And Tony Scott To Produce TV Mini-Series Called ‘Pyrates’ By Germain Lussier/May 26, 2011 11:02 am EST Deadline broke the news of the impending deal and described the show as follows: The fact that – despite being so villainous – pirates lived by a very strict code of ethics is certainly one of the most interesting things about them and exploring the origins of that dogma juxtaposed with “the largest heist in pirate history” sounds like a home run, especially if the show is restricted to one, limited run....
San Diego Comic-Con 2012 Is Sold Out; Here Are Some Tips If You Didn’t Get A Badge By Germain Lussier/March 3, 2012 10:41 am EST That didn’t take long. If you signed up for a Member ID for San Diego Comic-Con 2012, you likely knew that badge sales were Saturday morning at 8 a.m. PST. Minutes later, four day badges were sold out and soon after that, so were single day badges....
See Two Posters And A Few Seconds Of Footage From The Coen Brothers-Scripted ‘Gambit’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 6, 2012 10:23 am EST A movie I’m really curious to see, whenever the chance arises, is Gambit. Directed by Michael Hoffman, the movie is a remake of a 1966 romantic caper movie that originally starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. This version was scripted some time ago by Joel and Ethan Coen, and finally shot with Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz in the lead roles, supported by Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Tom Courtenay and Cloris Leachman....
The 450th Edition Of Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2012 8:00 am EST Today’s t-shirt of the day on TeeFury is a South Park/Ghostbusters-inspired design “Parkbusters”. Top 10 Kirk Douglas Films Worth Watching Popcorn Soap 16 Fall TV Cliffhangers: Which Stars Should Be Saved? And Which Characters Are Expendable? The Pizza Planet Truck print C3PO actor Anthony Daniels will be a special guest at Star Wars Celebration VI. Video: Joel McHale Is Jennifer Lawrence’s Archery TeacherSafety Not Guaranteed’ Soundtrack Features Guster’s Ryan Miller, Mark Duplass & Summer FictionToy Story Mania construction at Disney Sea....
Tom Hanks May Join Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Sleeping Dogs’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2010 5:56 pm EST Kathryn Bigelow, who won the Best Director Oscar for her work on The Hurt Locker, which also won Best Picture, is working again with her Hurt Locker co-writer (and, ahem, Oscar winner) Mark Boal on Sleeping Dogs. The film has been taking some time to come together, but now has one very high-profile actor linked to a big role....
Voice Cast Announced For DreamWorks Animation’s Rise Of The Guardians By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2011 6:00 pm EST DreamWorks Animation has announced that Chris Pine, Hugh Jackman, Jude Law, Alec Baldwin and Isla Fisher will voice the 2012 DreamWorks Animation 3D film Rise of the Guardians. We’ve known about the Dreamworks Animation adaptation of William Joyce’s book series The Guardians of Childhood for some time. The book series, called “a contemporary fairytale based on existing fairytale characters” involves the world’s five unlikeliest heroes – Jack Frost, North (aka Santa), Bunnymund (the Easter Bunny), Tooth (the Tooth Fairy), and Sandy (the Sandman) – who must band together to stop an ancient spirit called Pitch (the Boogeyman) from plunging the world into eternal darkness....
VOTD: Watch Harrison Ford Play ‘Uncharted 3’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2011 1:15 pm EST OK, you might not really laugh out loud watching Harrison Ford play the third entry in the game series that is very heavily indebted to his own Indiana Jones character, but I expect you’ll think there is something more than a little bit absurd about the few minutes a Japanese camera crew spent watching Harrison Ford play Uncharted 3....
