New Year S Eve Trailer 2 And Poster

‘New Year’s Eve’ Trailer #2 And Poster By Angie Han/Sept. 28, 2011 1:00 pm EST A new poster and trailer have dropped for New Year’s Eve, Garry Marshall’s follow-up to his commercial hit Valentine’s Day. The film appears to be essentially just Valentine’s Day with warmer clothing and some casting changes. Once again, Marshall brings together lots of big-name celebs for a collection of interlinked love stories that revolve around the holiday name-checked in the title....

October 12, 2022 · 5 min · 878 words · Scott Cobbs

Point Break Reboot Goes Into Motion At Alcon Entertainment

‘Point Break’ Reboot Goes Into Motion At Alcon Entertainment By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2011 3:47 pm EST MGM isn’t the only company getting remake happy. While that financially revitalized studio is focusing primarily on remakes, smaller company Alcon Entertainment is starting to do the same. The company made news when it announced a rights purchase for a prequel or sequel to Blade Runner, which Ridley Scott eventually signed to direct....

October 12, 2022 · 2 min · 398 words · Billy Emanuel

The Dark Knight Rises Tv Spot Is All About Catwoman Another Long Rumored Character Confirmed

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ TV Spot Is All About Catwoman; Another Long-Rumored Character Confirmed? By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2012 1:00 pm EST We’ve seen plenty of footage from The Dark Knight Rises so far this year, but Warner Bros. has a record to break, and The Avengers isn’t going down without a fight. So here is a new TV spot for Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman movie. The focus here is on the interplay between Bats (Christian Bale) and Catwoman (Anne Hathaway), and there’s some new footage to show off their occasionally lightweight banter....

October 12, 2022 · 4 min · 815 words · Don Stevenson

The Fighter Black Swan True Grit And The Kids Are All Right Scores Disqualified From Oscars

‘The Fighter,’ ‘Black Swan,’ ‘True Grit’ And ‘The Kids Are All Right’ Scores Disqualified From Oscars By Germain Lussier/Dec. 21, 2010 9:39 am EST The score of a film is its beating heart. Music subtly, or sometimes not so subtly, juxtaposed with visuals can do almost anything from create tension, elicit themes, set tone, link scenes or raise goosebumps. Without music, most films are a cold, dead fish. That’s why the Oscar for Best Original Score is such a big award....

October 12, 2022 · 8 min · 1530 words · Jeremy Decambra

Casting Bits Lea Seydoux In Grand Central Nolan Funk In Riddick Mark Webber In Arranged Marriage

Casting Bits: Lea Seydoux In ‘Grand Central’, Nolan Funk In ‘Riddick’, Mark Webber In ‘Arranged Marriage’ By Angie Han/Jan. 20, 2012 11:00 am EST Rising French stars Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) and Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) are set to lead Grand Central, a France-set contemporary romantic drama by Rebecca Zlotowski. Rahim will play a danger-addicted man whose nuclear facility job exposes him to deadly radiation levels....

October 12, 2022 · 5 min · 924 words · Randy Doyle

Charlize Theron In Talks To Star In John Madden S Murder Mystery

Charlize Theron In Talks To Star In John Madden’s ‘Murder Mystery’ By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2012 1:30 pm EST Briefly: Shakespeare in Love and The Debt director John Madden had a pretty good spring thanks to the $100m global take of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, but now he’s going into a new mode with a new mystery. A Murder Mystery, to be exact, as Madden will make shoot a film with that title from a script by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac)....

October 12, 2022 · 3 min · 507 words · Pedro Branch

Chris Evans Wants A Captain America Cameo In Thor The Dark World

Chris Evans Wants A Captain America Cameo In ‘Thor: The Dark World’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2012 10:30 am EST Marvel Studios is nearing completion on Iron Man 3, and the Thor sequel Thor: The Dark World is shooting now under the direction of Alan Taylor. The next film from the studio is Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which Chris Evans will reprise his role as Captain America, and face down a revitalized and brainwashed version of his not-quite dead sidekick Bucky (presumably Sebastian Stan)....

October 12, 2022 · 6 min · 1237 words · Hazel Adams

Concept Art From Black Dynamite Director S Aztec Warrior

Concept Art From ‘Black Dynamite’ Director’s ‘Aztec Warrior’ By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2012 12:00 pm EST Scott Sanders, the man who with Michael Jai White crafted the often hilarious blaxploitation spoof/homage Black Dynamite, is turning to the world of Mexican wrestling with his next film, Aztec Warrior. The movie begins shooting today, with Luis Guzman as a luchador who faces off against his rival El Diablo, played by Eugenio Derbez. Terry Crews, Nadine Velazquez, and Lupe Ontiveros are in the film, too....

October 12, 2022 · 3 min · 572 words · Salvador Howell

David Wain Talks Once Again About A Wet Hot American Summer Prequel Don T Hold Your Breath

David Wain Talks Once Again About A ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ Prequel (Don’t Hold Your Breath) By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2011 2:38 pm EST It’s the first official day of summer, and therefore the longest day of the year, and a withering 95 degrees outside my window. (But it ain’t the heat; it’s the humidity.) So what better time to talk about one of the best summer comedies? David Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer was made on a relatively small budget and greeted by a seemingly disinterested audience in 2001....

October 12, 2022 · 6 min · 1156 words · Steve Christie

George Clooney Will Direct And Star In The Monuments Men About Art Historians Rescuing Works From Nazis

George Clooney Will Direct And Star In ‘The Monuments Men,’ About Art Historians Rescuing Works From Nazis By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2012 6:00 am EST George Clooney and his writing and producing partner Grant Heslov have an eye for slightly unconventional takes on classic film genres, and for Clooney’s next directorial effort they’re turning to an old standard: the World War II action film. But, in keeping with their general apporach to finding and telling stories, this one is just a bit different....

October 12, 2022 · 4 min · 839 words · James Faber

Kathryn Bigelow S International Black Ops Thriller Financed Shoots This Summer

Kathryn Bigelow’s International Black-Ops Thriller Financed, Shoots This Summer By Russ Fischer/Jan. 14, 2011 11:00 am EST OK, let’s try this again. About 24 hours ago we told you that the low-budget ($10m or so) ‘international black ops thriller’ by Katherine Bigelow and Mark Boal, her writer on The Hurt Locker, was being repped for international sales by IM Global, and that it might have something to do with the hunt for Osama Bin Laden....

October 12, 2022 · 4 min · 829 words · Gary White

Lol Entourage One Man Show

LOL: Entourage One Man Show By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2010 12:00 pm EST In celebration of the season premiere of Entourage season 7 this week, comedian/actor Paul Scheer released a FunnyOfDie short about his nonexistent “Terrible One Man Stage Show of Entourage.” If Scheer actually wrote and performed a one-man Entourage show at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, I would actually buy a ticket. Watch it now, embedded after the jump....

October 12, 2022 · 1 min · 140 words · Frankie Grace

Lol How To Talk To Your Kids About Star Wars

LOL: How To Talk To Your Kids About ‘Star Wars’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 24, 2010 12:00 pm EST Whether you have kids, or are going to have them in the future, chances are you think about how you are going to raise them. How would you choose to discipline them? Do you encourage them to participate sports? Force them to eat all foods? How important will religion be in their upbringing?...

October 12, 2022 · 5 min · 889 words · Pamela Demarest

New Photos The Other Guys

New Photos: The Other Guys By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2010 5:48 pm EST Sony has released a new batch of production photos for the upcoming Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg-starrer Adam McKay-directed action/comedy The Other Guys. Last month we posted the teaser trailer (if you haven’t yet seen it, watch it here now). Check out the photos after the jump and click on through to see the images in higher resolution. Plot Synopsis: Set in New York City, The Other Guys follows Detective Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell), a forensic accountant who’s more interested in paperwork than hitting the streets, and Detective Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg), a tough guy who has been stuck with Allen as his partner ever since an unfortunate run-in with Derek Jeter....

October 12, 2022 · 3 min · 432 words · William Pearson

Paul Thomas Anderson S Latest Once Again The Master Adds Josh Close And Fiona Dourif

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Latest Once Again ‘The Master,’ Adds Josh Close And Fiona Dourif By Germain Lussier/June 18, 2011 9:00 am EST After all that nonsense calling Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film the “Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Religious Film” it seems he’s gone back to his original title, The Master. Good choice. The film focuses on a man (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who returns from World War II and begins his own belief system....

October 12, 2022 · 4 min · 838 words · Raul Kleven

Release Dates Set For A Very Harold Kumar Christmas And Seth Macfarlane S Ted

Release Dates Set For ‘A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas’ And Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Ted’ By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2011 4:00 pm EST Two films got release dates today: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas and Seth MacFarlane’s directorial debut Ted both have spots on the calendar. But there’s a price (of sorts) as the Ashley Greene thriller The Apparition has been bumped from a fall date back to 2012. Details on all three after the break....

October 12, 2022 · 5 min · 1009 words · Charles Myers

Sony Moves Neill Blomkamp S Elysium Up One Week To March 1 2013

Sony Moves Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’ Up One Week To March 1, 2013 By Russ Fischer/May 27, 2011 12:39 pm EST Briefly: The latest move in the great Battle For March 2013 Release Dates is this: after Disney dated Oz: The Great and Powerful for March 8, 2013, Sony has responded by shifting Elysium up one week to March 1. Neill Blomkamp’s second film had already been sitting on that March 8 date, but Sony is evidently keen on a March date for the sci-fi film that will star Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley, Jodie Foster and Wagner Moura....

October 12, 2022 · 2 min · 419 words · Anna Purcell

Superhero Bits Thor 2 The Avengers Dredd Community The Simpsons

Superhero Bits: Thor 2, The Avengers, Dredd, Community, The Simpsons By Germain Lussier/Jan. 17, 2012 12:00 pm EST Is newly minted Golden Globe winner Idris Elba coming back for Thor 2? How did Joss Whedon go about balancing different director visions brought to Marvel characters in The Avengers? What does Olivia Thirlby have to say about the difference between this Dredd and Sylvester Stallone’s? Which Avengers character is getting a super cheap, super bad, direct to DVD rip-off made?...

October 12, 2022 · 8 min · 1587 words · Kenneth Binger

Tom Wilkinson Is The Lone Ranger Villain Other Previously Announced Cast Still On Board

Tom Wilkinson Is The ‘Lone Ranger’ Villain; Other Previously Announced Cast Still On Board By Russ Fischer/Dec. 7, 2011 1:34 pm EST Before Disney put Gore Verbinski’s Lone Ranger on ice for a few weeks the film had two stars lined up, Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, and a supporting cast that was set to include Ruth Wilson (Luther), as well as Barry Pepper, Helena Bonham Carter, James Badge Dale and Dwight Yoakam....

October 12, 2022 · 4 min · 841 words · Lucille Ginsberg

Tron Legacy Banner 4

Tron Legacy Banner #4 By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2010 3:25 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures bought the billboard located at Santa Monica/Westwood in Los Angeles for an entire year. Beginning in mid-December, the studio has been updating the location with new Tron Legacy advertisements, at the rate of one every month and a half or so. And it was revealed they will keep doing so up until the release of the film in December 2010....

October 12, 2022 · 2 min · 369 words · Michael Bernstein