Casting Bits James Franco Finds His Sal Mineo Kiefer Sutherland In Sleight Of Hand Rachel Weisz Being Considered For Thin Man

Casting Bits: James Franco Finds His Sal Mineo, Kiefer Sutherland In ‘Sleight Of Hand’, Rachel Weisz Being Considered For ‘Thin Man’ By Angie Han/May 11, 2011 11:00 am EST We reported a few months ago that James Franco had optioned Michael Gregg Michaud’s biography of Rebel Without a Cause star Sal Mineo, with the intention of writing and directing (but not acting in) a biopic about the actor. Now it looks like he’s found his star....

October 22, 2022 · 6 min · 1204 words · Jose Ratliff

Chris Evans Is Now A Contract Killer In The Iceman

Chris Evans Is Now A Contract Killer In ‘The Iceman’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 21, 2011 2:30 pm EST He’s played the Human Torch, and now Chris Evans will be in The Iceman. This is a movie about a different Iceman, though — one wholly unrelated to Marvel’s mutant supporting character. There are two biopics brewing of Richard ‘The Iceman’ Kuklinski — one called The Ice Man: Confessions Of A Mafia Contract Killer, starring Mickey Rourke as the Iceman....

October 22, 2022 · 5 min · 889 words · Nicolas Davidson

Cool Stuff Remastered Reprint Of Noriyoshi Ohrai S The Empire Strikes Back Poster

Cool Stuff: Remastered Reprint Of Noriyoshi Ohrai’s The Empire Strikes Back Poster By Peter Sciretta/May 24, 2010 12:00 pm EST As you know, it is the 30th anniversary of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. To celebrate, LucasFilm has been releasing some col new books, art prints, posters, and collectibles focusing on the original trilogy sequel. One of my favorite posters from Empire was composed by Japanese artist Noriyoshi Ohrai....

October 22, 2022 · 4 min · 848 words · Dennis Auguste

Cool Stuff Scott C S Great Showdowns Coaster Set

Cool Stuff: Scott C’s “Great Showdowns” Coaster Set By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2011 5:30 pm EST We’ve featured many pieces of Scott C’s artwork in past editions of Cool Stuff. This week, Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles opened an exhibition featuring 200 pieces from Scott C’s “The Great Showdowns” series. To celebrate the echibit, they have released a limited set of Showdown coasters. I picked up a set for myself at the opening night reception on Friday, and they’re pretty awesome....

October 22, 2022 · 2 min · 324 words · Linda Casarez

Festival Horror Hit You Re Next Gets August 2013 Release Date Director Talks Sequel

Festival Horror Hit ‘You’re Next’ Gets August 2013 Release Date; Director Talks Sequel By Germain Lussier/Sept. 13, 2012 10:46 am EST Adam Wingard’s You’re Next is one of those horror movies with potential to change the genre. At least, that was the sentiment coming out of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival where the film premiered. After a heated bidding war, Lionsgate acquired the festival hit and subsequently shut it down, limiting it to just one additional festival screening at Fantastic Fest 2011....

October 22, 2022 · 7 min · 1466 words · Juan Broughton

First Looks Daniel Craig And Rachel Weisz In Dream House And Ryan Reynolds And Jason Bateman In The Change Up

First Looks: Daniel Craig And Rachel Weisz In ‘Dream House’ And Ryan Reynolds And Jason Bateman In ‘The Change-Up’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2011 6:30 pm EST Here are two first looks, one of Jim Sheridan’s domestic thriller Dream House, with Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts, and then one of the ‘body-switching’ comedy The Change-Up, in which Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds find their personalities swapped into one another’s bodies....

October 22, 2022 · 5 min · 964 words · Margaret Maxfield

Geek Deal The Godfather Collection On Blu Ray For Only 19 99

Geek Deal: The Godfather Collection On Blu-Ray For Only $19.99 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 15, 2012 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

October 22, 2022 · 1 min · 28 words · Jose Pries

High Resolution Captain America The First Avenger Photos

High Resolution ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ Photos By Germain Lussier/Nov. 1, 2010 5:22 pm EST For anyone wanting to print out or make desktop wallpaper out of the Captain America: The First Avenger images that premiered in Entertainment Weekly, you are in luck. Marvel and Paramount released all of the images in gorgeous high resolution so you can do with them as you wish. Several of the images are uncropped too so they give a better idea of what Joe Johnston’s final film is going to look like....

October 22, 2022 · 2 min · 314 words · Mary Collins

Just Say No Joel Edgerton Passes On 300 Prequel Fox Won T Make The Fly Sequel Rupert Wyatt Won T Direct Londongrad

By Russ Fischer/Nov. 18, 2011 3:30 pm EST The 300 news comes from Variety’s Jeff Snieder, who said via Twitter, “UPDATE: JOEL EDGERTON has passed on the 300 sequel.” The role was offered to Edgerton at the same time that he was said to be up for one of the two lead roles in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. We’ve since heard that the U.N.C.L.E. gig may not have been an offer so much as a bit of agency machination, perhaps to try to massage the 300 deal....

October 22, 2022 · 2 min · 316 words · Gregg Rodriguez

Movie Trailer Burlesque

Movie Trailer: Burlesque By David Chen/Aug. 4, 2010 8:42 pm EST A movie trailer for Steve Antin’s Burlesque has just debuted. Those interested to see Christina Aguilera’s theatrical debut should hit the jump for the trailer and for a plot synopsis of the film. Burlesque hits theaters on November 24, 2010. Don’t get me wrong: I think Christina Aguilera has an amazing voice and am constantly baffled by how she has been eclipsed by Britney Spears (whose talent comes nowhere close)....

October 22, 2022 · 5 min · 960 words · Victor Harvey

Rumor Zac Efron In Albert Hughes Akira

Rumor: Zac Efron In Albert Hughes’ ‘Akira’? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 5, 2010 9:00 am EST Another rumor which is making the tracking board rounds today is that Zac Efron has apparently been offered the lead role in Albert Hughes’ upcoming live-action adaptation of the popular anime/Katsuhiro Otomo’s six-volume manga Akira. I’m not able to confirm the offer, but one source tells me Efron is in talks, while another says that it is “far from a done deal....

October 22, 2022 · 5 min · 1006 words · Florence Scavuzzo

Screenwriter Hired For Real Steel Sequel

Screenwriter Hired For ‘Real Steel’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2011 11:45 am EST DreamWorks is evidently pretty happy with Shawn Levy’s robot boxing movie Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman. The film doesn’t open until October 7, but the studio has just hired a screenwriter to get a sequel moving. There’s a lot of work left to go before the second film will really happen, but this is certainly an indication of confidence in the first....

October 22, 2022 · 4 min · 698 words · Corie Towle

Spider Man S Web Shooters Confirmed

Spider-Man’s Web-Shooters Confirmed By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 16, 2011 11:23 pm EST After the first image of Andrew Garfield in his Spider-Man suit hit the web, fans noticed that the inside of Spidey’s wrists appear to feature some kind of metal device, possibly web-shooters. In the original comic books, Peter Parker’s ability to shoot webs wasn’t an organic product of the spider bite that gave him powers. It was a technological creation of his own invention, web-shooters, little pads in his palms with web fluid canisters strapped to his wrists....

October 22, 2022 · 3 min · 530 words · David Broadus

Trivia This Is Spinal Tap Imdb Rating Goes To Eleven

Trivia: ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ IMDB Rating Goes To Eleven By Germain Lussier/Dec. 2, 2010 10:41 am EST Many people sincerely hate the new layout for the Internet Movie Database. We understand. It certainly takes some getting used to. One perfect addition, however, is on their page for This is Spinal Tap. Referencing the famous quote from the film, the possible rating doesn’t only go up to 10 like every other film....

October 22, 2022 · 1 min · 168 words · Jimmie Pollack

Updates Upcoming Geek Tv Pilots From J J Abrams Jonah Nolan Ron Moore Tim Kring

Updates: Upcoming Geek TV Pilots From J.J. Abrams, Jonah Nolan, Ron Moore & Tim Kring? By Germain Lussier/May 2, 2011 4:30 pm EST Over on NBC, the Mad Men-esque Playboy pilot apparently has a good shot of getting the call as does Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan’s Sila. They also have two magical themed pilots including Ronald Moore’s 17th Precinct, which is basically a magic themed police show. Apparently, though, another show called Grimm is currently outshining Moore’s....

October 22, 2022 · 1 min · 210 words · Phillip Judd

Votd Pac Man Movie Trailers

VOTD: Pac Man Movie Trailers By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2010 10:00 pm EST With Avi Arad possibly developing a big screen adaptation of Pac Man, I thought it was time to round-up all the Pac Man Movie parodies from around the web. The funniest thing about these videos is that I don’t think any of the filmmakers involved ever believed Hollywood would actually try to make a movie out of Pac Man....

October 22, 2022 · 2 min · 241 words · Raymond Debusk

Will Christopher Nolan Follow The Dark Knight Rises With A Howard Hughes Biopic

Will Christopher Nolan Follow ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ With A Howard Hughes Biopic? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2011 4:00 pm EST Since he began his association with Batman, Christopher Nolan has been good about spacing out chapters of Batfilm with movies that aren’t cut from quite the same cloth. There was The Prestige after Batman Begins, and Inception after The Dark Knight. And now, after after The Dark Knight Rises, the director may make his most grounded film yet: a Howard Hughes biopic....

October 22, 2022 · 6 min · 1132 words · Wilma Henderson

Zhang Yimou S Wwii Film With Christian Bale Retitled The Flowers Of War

Zhang Yimou’s WWII Film With Christian Bale Retitled ‘The Flowers Of War’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2011 3:30 pm EST Before making The Dark Knight Rises, Christian Bale went to China to make a film called Heroes of Nanking (or The 13 Women of Nanjing or Nanjing Heroes) with director Zhang Yimou. Or, that was what the film was called until recently. 20 minutes of the movie were shown to buyers today in Toronto, and along with that first revelation of footage comes a new name: The Flowers of War....

October 22, 2022 · 6 min · 1071 words · Thomas Krebs

Arrested Development Is Coming To Netflix In 2013

‘Arrested Development’ Is Coming To Netflix In 2013 By Germain Lussier/Nov. 18, 2011 4:51 pm EST Two of the show’s producers, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (also the show’s narrator) released the following statement: Read the full press release here. Of all the projects we’ve been involved with over the years, we probably get more questions about Mitch Hurtwitz’s brilliant ‘Arrested Development’ than any other– everyone, ourselves included, seems to feel like the Bluths left the party a bit too soon....

October 21, 2022 · 2 min · 293 words · Carol Bush

Lost Star Josh Holloway To Guest On Community Finale

‘Lost’ Star Josh Holloway To Guest On ‘Community’ Finale By Russ Fischer/March 1, 2011 10:00 am EST Briefly: Community has had a hell of a run of guest stars: Patton Oswalt; Kevin Corrigan, LeVar Burton, Betty White, the Derrick Comedy team and more. Now EW says that Josh Holloway will make his first post-Lost TV appearance in the two-part season finale of Community. And it will be a sequel of sorts to the much-loved ‘Modern Warfare’ episode, in which a paintball tournament where the winner could have priority class registration turned Greendale Community College into a dayglo paint-spattered wasteland....

October 21, 2022 · 3 min · 561 words · Norman Hill