‘Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview’ Teaser By Angie Han/Nov. 10, 2011 3:00 pm EST That Sony Pictures biopic of late tech giant Steve Jobs is still in the early stages of development, but Jobs’ familiar facade will be gracing a small handful of screens across the country in just one week. As we reported earlier this week, a 70-minute film titled Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview will be hitting certain Landmark theaters next week on November 16 and 17....
Andrew Sarris, One Of The Defining American Film Critics, Has Died At 83 By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2012 1:00 pm EST To the public at large, the director wasn’t always the person most responsible for a film. That was the producer; the director was just someone who turned up and made sure actors hit their marks. But in the ’50s, writers at French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma (including future French New Wave directors François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Claude Chabrol) expanded on notions developed in the ’40s that said a director could be considered the author of a film, with a director’s body of work representing the expression and examination of a core set of personal concerns....
Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 9 “Kafkaesque” Takes A Hard Look At Death, Taxes, And Chicken By Hunter Stephenson/May 21, 2010 2:39 am EST The calamitous, nail biter episodes that were “Sunset” and “One Minute” were followed by two quieter if unsettling installments. The first, “I See You,” focused on the mortality and health of several characters, and the latest, “Kafkaesque,” naturally dove into the resulting problem of money and insurance—the serpentine topics at the series’ core....
Budget Setback For Ang Lee’s Adaptation Of The Life Of Pi By Russ Fischer/May 28, 2010 7:58 am EST What’s the issue? The $70m needed to make the film, which appears to be more than the studio is willing to pay, according to the LA Times. That budget seems relatively modest for a film that will feature an array of CGI animals and take place partially on water. But that’s exactly the problem — water shoots are notorious for costing far more than initially allocated....
Casting Bits: Mia Wasikowska In ‘Madame Bovary;’ Amanda Peet In ‘Identity Theft;’ Simon Quarterman In ‘WER’ By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2012 3:30 pm EST Mia Wasikowska has been set to star in Madame Bovary, directed by Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls) from a script Rose Barreneche adapted from the Gustave Flaubert story. This version is called a “fresh retelling” of the novel that emphasizes modern and youthful themes, even as the story remains basically the same: Emma Bovary (Wasikowska) marries a small-town doctor to get away from her father’s even smaller farm, then has affairs to escape the dreariness of her marriage....
Community Will Return On March 15th By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2012 12:55 pm EST Showrunner Dan Harmon announced on Twitter that Community will return to television on March 15th 2012. The show will continue every Thursday night in the 8pm timeslot. Harmon tweeted: What you call 8:00, we call home. Community returns to Thursday nights on March 15th. 30 Rock will now air in the 8:30PM slot. There is still no word on if the series will be renewed for another season....
David Slade In Talks To Direct ‘The Last Voyage Of The Demeter’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2011 12:00 pm EST The script The Last Voyage of the Demeter has been kicking around for quite a while, but the trip may finally be about to get started. The Bragi Schut Jr. script expands upon a small part of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, wherein Dracula is transported to England via the ship Demeter, which arrives with all crew dead, the victims of some mysterious evil....
David Yates For The Hobbit? By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 11:34 am EST I’ve been seeing on a few industry insider tracking boards that David Yates is supposedly the studios top choice to direct The Hobbit. Note: we have no real confirmation of any talks taking place, so for now take it all as purely rumor. Yates is best known as the director of the last few Harry Potter films: Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, and Part I and II of the Deathly Hallows....
Directing Bits: Barry Levinson To Helm Hank Aaron Biopic, Jorma Taccone Heads Into ‘The Great Unknown’ By Angie Han/April 3, 2012 3:00 pm EST Barry Levinson, director of the baseball classic The Natural, is about to return to the diamond once more. The filmmaker is set to direct a biopic of legendary sports star Hank Aaron, based on the Howard Bryant tome The Last Hero: The Life Story of Henry Aaron....
Doug Liman To Direct ‘The Tourist’, Which Is Unrelated To That Johnny Depp Movie By Angie Han/Sept. 7, 2012 4:45 pm EST The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman is heading back into the thrilling world of espionage with another literary adaptation. Sony Pictures has just picked up the movie rights to The Tourist, first in a series of books by Olen Steinhauer, and has attached Liman to direct. And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with the Angelina Jolie / Johnny Depp “comedy” that proved once and for all that we shouldn’t take Golden Globe nominations seriously....
First Look: ‘Now,’ ‘We Bought A Zoo,’ ‘The Descendants,’ A ‘Rise Of The Apes’ Ape And Many More By Germain Lussier/March 30, 2011 5:00 am EST /Film editor Peter Sciretta took these images at CinemaCon. Click on each for a bigger version. Here’s all the basic info on all of the movies you see above.
Geek Deal: ‘Entourage’: Seasons 1-7 For Only $12.99 Each By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 26, 2011 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Jennifer Garner Joins ‘Better Living Through Chemistry,’ With Jeremy Renner By Russ Fischer/Sept. 16, 2010 8:49 am EST I’m not sure how Jeremy Renner is going to be able to shoot all the films that are on his plate (Mission:Impossible reportedly shoots from Dec 6 to March 7) but he’s still set to star in Better Living Through Chemistry, and Jennifer Garner will now play the lead female role opposite Renner....
Jennifer Lawrence Up For ‘Hunger Games’ Lead, Hailee Steinfeld In Running By Germain Lussier/March 2, 2011 4:00 pm EST Director Gary Ross knows, the studio knows, the author knows and the fans definitely know. Without an amazing actress in the lead role of Katniss Everdeen, the film adaptation of the popular book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins will be a failure. In the past, Ross has said Lionsgate wasn’t pressuring him to cast a movie star in the role and that the actress had to bring a “deep and fierce” truth to the role....
Jim Sheridan’s ‘Dream House’ Delayed As Daniel Craig Is Unavailable For Reshoots By Russ Fischer/Oct. 23, 2010 6:00 am EST Briefly: This is an update to a story that first cropped up a couple months back when Daniel Craig was in talks to join David Fincher’s version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Mr. Craig shot a lead role in Jim Sheridan’s thriller Dream House earlier this year, alongside Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz, but to make the scheduled February 18 release date, reshoots are required....
LOL: Tom Cruise As Les Grossman Advises The Stars Of Twilight By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2010 11:45 am EST Last week, MTV released a new television promo for the upcoming 2010 Movie Awards featuring Tom Cruise not only reprising his role as Joel Goodsen from Risky Business, but also donning the fat suit to reprise his much talked about role as studio executive Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder. Now Grossman has returned for another couple television spots where he advises Twilight series stars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner....
Mad Men Character Roger Sterling’s Memoir ‘Sterling’s Gold’ Available For Preorder By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2010 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Read more after the jump. Advertising pioneer and visionary Roger Sterling, Jr., served with distinction in the Navy during World War II, and joined Sterling Cooper Advertising as a junior account executive in 1947. He worked his way up to managing partner before leaving to found his own agency, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, in 1963....
Movie Trailer #2: Anton Corbijn’s ‘The American,’ With George Clooney By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2010 4:12 pm EST There is now a second teaser trailer available for The American, directed by photographer Anton Corbijn (as a follow-up to his film Control) and starring George Clooney as a soon to be retired assassin hiding out in an Italian village. The first teaser, released in May, was a slow burn that made the film look a lot like a companion piece to The Limits of Control by Jim Jarmusch....
New ‘Dark Knight Rises’ TV Spot Is Just Showing Off By Germain Lussier/June 15, 2012 12:30 pm EST If we posted every single TV commercial for a superhero movie coming out in the next few weeks, every single story on this page would be exactly the same. But once in a while a spot pops up that isn’t just the same 20 recycled shots, it’s chock full of new footage. That’s the case with this new spot for The Dark Knight Rises....
New ‘X-Men: First Class’ Photo; Nicholas Hoult Answers Fan Questions By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2011 10:00 am EST There isn’t much groundbreaking info here in this Q&A, but hardcore fans of the character might be happy to know that the actor will be sporting some big CGI feet while in ‘human’ form. Here are the best bits from the Q&A: What did you think of the original Beast? I thought Kelsey Grammer did a fantastic job when he portrayed Beast, his charm and eloquence was something I wanted to try and emulate....
