‘The Debt’ Trailer, Focus Features Remix Version By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2011 8:22 am EST In 2009 director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) led a remake of the 2007 Israeli film Ha Hov, aka The Debt. The story is a sort of inverted revenge drama in which a trio of young Mossad agents hunt a Nazi war criminal in 1965, then find their youthful actions coming back to haunt them thirty years later....
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ‘The Last Stand’ Begins Shooting; Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Harry Dean Stanton Cast By Russ Fischer/Oct. 17, 2011 1:00 pm EST Today Kim Jee-woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird and I Saw the Devil) begins shooting his English language debut, The Last Stand. The film is notable for being the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger to a starring role. Arnie plays a former LAPD officer now working as a small-town sheriff, who has to deal with a drug kingpin who is fleeing to Mexico and will pass right through his town....
Bryan Singer’s ‘Jack The Giant Killer’ Lands Its Princess: Eleanor Tomlinson By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2011 8:00 pm EST If you’re going to make a movie about a young man fighting giants, he’s got to have a pretty good reason to do so. Enter Eleanor Tomlinson. She’s just been cast as Isabella, the princess that Nicholas Hoult’s Jack will fight for in Bryan Singer’s upcoming big budget, 3D re-imagining of Jack and the Beanstalk called Jack the Giant Killer....
Casting Notes: Jane Lynch In ‘The Three Stooges;’ Kristen Wiig A Front-Runner For Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘The Dictator’ By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2011 11:00 am EST The latest casting for The Three Stooges puts the great Jane Lynch in the role of Mother Superior, the nun who runs the orphanage where the Stooges grow up. (Cher was once mentioned for the role.) That means she’ll be a big part of the first of the film’s three segments, which takes place with slightly younger Stooges; it’s conceivable that she’ll be in the other segments, too, likely with less screen time....
By Germain Lussier/May 16, 2012 2:00 pm EST Who hasn’t sat in a classroom with their notebook open, doodling away with a pen, dreaming they could one day sell those drawings as art? Comic book artist Jim Rugg has gone ahead and made that dream a reality. The artist behind indie titles Street Angel and Afrodisiac has an upcoming art show in Los Angeles featuring nothing but ballpoint drawings on spiral notebook paper....
First Look: Seann William Scott And Jay Baruchel In Hockey Comedy ‘Goon’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 5, 2010 1:11 pm EST Every time I get something in the inbox about Goon I get excited, thinking there’s finally movement on the David Fincher-produced adaptation of the comic The Goon. But for now, this is about the hockey comedy Goon, starring Jay Baruchel and Seann William Scott. The first pics of the film are out, and you can see another one, along with a bit of new info, after the break....
Five New ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Photos By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2012 9:15 am EST You didn’t think Entertainment Weekly would run a cover story on The Dark Knight Returns and not feature some other new photos inside, did you? Last night we showed you the cover image from the new EW, which features the best look yet at Christian Bale in the new Batman suit. Here are three more images, of Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon, Tom Hardy as Bane and Bale as Batman....
High Resolution Concept Art From ‘Monsters University’ Shows Campus Life By Germain Lussier/June 21, 2012 5:00 pm EST Were four (slightly) different trailers for Pixar’s Monsters University not enough to quench your thirst for all things Mike and Sully? Two gorgeous pieces of concept art giving an idea of what the film looks like outside the dorm room should do the trick. Monsters University hits theaters one year from today, on June 21, 2013, and follows Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) as college rivals long before they were great friends scaring kids at Monsters Inc....
Inception Viral: Dream-Share: Tactical Employment Procedures Manual By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2010 3:41 pm EST WiReD Magazine has received a mysterious package which appears to be the next installment of the viral marketing for Christopher Nolan’s Inception — “a weathered, beaten and stamped classified’ Dream-Share: Tactical Employment Procedures Manual” which features “dirty and heavily redacted pages.” Here are a couple sample pages from the book: What does it all mean? Head on over to wired....
Kevin Smith Buys His Own Film At Sundance Auction, Swears Off Distributors, And Announces Full Details For Self-Distribution By David Chen/Jan. 23, 2011 9:13 pm EST This evening, Red State premiered in front of more than 1,200 people at the Eccles Theatre at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. As you might have heard, Smith had announced that he would be auctioning the film off following the screening. Not only did that not happen (Smith’s producer jokingly auctioned the film off to Smith himself for a scant $20), Smith also went on a 25-minute diatribe explaining, in mathematical detail, the problems with modern movie distribution and announced his own plans to distribute Red State to the masses....
Kevin Smith Talks ‘Hit Somebody’ And Reveals ‘Jay And Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 3, 2012 4:00 pm EST Thursday night, Kevin Smith invaded multiplexes with a simulcast of Kevin Smith: Live from Behind. The event featured the Clerks filmmaker and his hetero life mate Jason Mewes doing their podcast, Jay and Silent Bob Get Old, followed by an extended question and answer session. As usual, the Q&A featured Smith revealing all sorts of information on his upcoming projects....
LOL: ‘Black Swan’ Parody On ‘Saturday Night Live’ Starring Jim Carrey By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 10, 2011 6:00 am EST On this weekend”s Saturday Night Live, they ran a sketch parodying Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. Bill Hader takes Vincent Cassel’s role as director Thomas, Nasim Pedrad plays Nina, Natalie Portman’s ballet dancer role, and the Mila Kunis character Lily is played by… SNL guest host Jim Carrey. Watch the whole sketch embedded after the jump thanks to Hulu....
LOL: Unused Sundance Film Festival Bumpers Skewer Hollywood By Russ Fischer/Jan. 29, 2011 10:00 am EST Film festivals almost always have a series of bumpers produced to run before films — 30-second to one-minute shorts that represent the theme of the festival and ease audiences into a film. Jordan Vogt-Roberts was commissioned to make four bumpers for this year’s Sundance Film Festival. He did, and each one shows off the slogan (‘Be Here’) but a couple also poked fun at some of the personalities that show up at the festival....
Minka Kelly Will Play Jackie O To Matthew McConaughey’s JFK In Lee Daniels’ ‘The Butler’ By Angie Han/May 23, 2012 4:00 pm EST Even as Lee Daniels’ follow-up to Precious, The Paperboy, makes its debut at Cannes this week, the filmmaker’s wasting no time assembling a stellar cast for his next project, The Butler. The talented Forest Whitaker leads the picture as Eugene Allen, the late White House butler who served under eight different presidents from 1952 through 1986, with Oprah Winfrey and rising star David Oyelowo signed to play his wife and son....
More Wacky Rumors: Vanessa Hudgens In Talks To Play Spider-Woman? By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2010 12:00 am EST The have been a couple crazy rumors in the last 24 hours. Yesterday E! reported that Universal has met with Kristen Stewart to possibly star in Wanted 2. This morning MTV UK is reporting a wacky rumor that High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens is in talks to play Spider-Woman in her own stand-alone movie based on the Marvel comic book....
Movie Trailer: ‘The Tourist,’ With Johnny Depp And Angelina Jolie By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2010 8:44 am EST I’m half amazed that cameras even managed to roll on The Tourist, much less that there is now a trailer. The film, which was finally directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp plus co-stars Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell and Timothy Dalton, took so long to come together, with so many cast and director changes, that this trailer is proof of just how single-minded the Hollywood machine can be, when it wants to....
Netflix Exploring Its Options In Response To Consumer Backlash, Hasn’t Ruled Out Price Cuts By Angie Han/Sept. 22, 2011 10:00 am EST Over the past few months, the seemingly untouchable Netflix has been dragged down by a couple of big fat blunders. First, the pricing model change lost the company a projected one million customers and sent stock prices dropping; then, in an effort to (somehow?) smooth over the situation, Netflix hastily introduced Qwikster and instead managed to only further irritate consumers and shareholders alike....
Promo Reel For John Woo’s Reign Of Assassins By David Chen/April 20, 2010 9:26 am EST Leaving Hollywood was the best thing John Woo ever did for his career. After a string of action films of steadily declining quality, Woo made the Chinese epic Red Cliff, which landed on several critics top 10 lists of 2009. Now comes Reign of Assassins, a new film that Woo produced with longtime partner Terence Chang....
Rachel Weisz A Likely Pick For ‘The Bourne Legacy’ By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2011 5:28 pm EST Is Rachel Weisz’s career taking a turn back to the mainstream? While she made her first big impression on many audiences in The Mummy, she’s not really known for big-budget action flicks or mainstream genre stuff. But working with good directors and casts can be a lure, as can a big paycheck. She was recently said to be in serious talks to play a key role in Sam Raimi’s Oz, the Great and Powerful....
Ray Stevenson Cast As Bad Guy Firefly In ‘G.I. Joe 2: Cobra Strikes’ By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2011 6:24 pm EST The latest on Jon M. Chu’s G.I. Joe 2: Cobra Strikes is that the picture has a villain: Ray Stevenson (Punisher: War Zone, Rome, Thor) will play Cobra contract killer and saboteur Firefly in the movie, which begins shooting in Louisiana a few weeks from now. He joins Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, Elodie Yung, RZA and D....
