VOTD: Preparing An IMAX Theater For ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Germain Lussier/July 2, 2012 4:00 pm EST Two hours and 45 minutes of 70 mm film means The Dark Knight Rises is, literally, a big movie. Christopher Nolan’s choice to shoot his new Batman film in full IMAX means that the IMAX film prints will weigh up to 600 pounds when fully assembled (and people wonder why theaters are switching to digital)....
Writer/Director Team Join ‘Three Mississippi,’ Will Ferrell And Mark Wahlberg’s Football Comedy By Germain Lussier/April 12, 2012 10:00 am EST Sean Anders and John Morris, the writing team behind Hot Tub Time Machine, She’s Out Of My League and Mr. Popper’s Penguins, are in negotiations to rewrite and eventually direct Three Mississippi, a football comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. Originally called Turkey Bowl, the film – which will be produced by Adam McKay – is about about rival families, lead by Ferrell and Wahlberg, who’ve played a very heated, neighborhood game of tackle football every year for 50 years....
Zach Braff Cast In ‘Oz: The Great And Powerful’ By Russ Fischer/May 27, 2011 7:45 am EST Briefly: The latest addition to Sam Raimi’s soon-to-shoot Oz: The Great and Powerful is a slightly unexpected one. Zach Braff is finishing up his negotiations to join the film. He’ll play Frank, “the loyal but under-appreciated assistant to Oz (James Franco).” Oz is transported to the land of Oz (some name confusion there) when his hot-air balloon is blown off-course; we can expect that Frank is dutifully manning the fire, and probably gets the blame for the course mismanagement that lands Oz in Oz....
/Film Talks To Simon Pegg And Nick Frost About ‘Paul’ By Germain Lussier/March 17, 2011 12:00 pm EST If you love movies, you could sit and talk with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for hours. They’re such cool guys and just like us: Humongous movie fans who eat, sleep and breath the art of film. The only difference is that Pegg and Frost just so happen to make movies as well and their latest film, Paul, is yet another love letter to the movies....
‘Jaws’ Bits: ‘Inside Jaws’ Documentary Trailer, Film Reclassified In UK For Upcoming Re-Release By Russ Fischer/May 23, 2012 3:30 pm EST Summer is coming, so it’s almost the prime season to revisit Jaws. Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film was the first modern summer blockbuster, and effectively signaled the decline of the New Hollywood movement and the beginning of the studio era we know now. Regardless of the effect Jaws had on the Hollywood business landscape, it stands as one hell of a film....
‘The Beaver’ Scheduled For Release Spring 2011; Trailer Friday By Germain Lussier/Dec. 2, 2010 2:51 pm EST Barely a month after we got our first glimpse at the poster for Jodie Foster’s The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson, word is that the film now has a release window: Spring 2011. That’s fairly soon considering Gibson’s name is still something of a bad word, but once Summit Entertainment – which is releasing the film – decided it wasn’t going to give it an awards push, they moved it into the new year....
‘The Expendables 2’ - What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2012 6:50 pm EST The summer of 2012 — a summer that turned out to be rather a mixed bag, as so many hotly-anticipated movie seasons tend to — ends with a bang, or at least an explosion. The Expendables 2 is the Simon West-directed sequel to the Sylvester Stallone film that crammed together a whole bunch of aging action stars in one film....
‘The Iron Lady’ Teaser - Meryl Streep Clutches Her Pearls By Angie Han/July 7, 2011 10:30 am EST We’ve already seen Meryl Streep dressed up as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for The Iron Lady, and a new teaser for the biopic offers our first glimpse at Streep-as-Thatcher in action. In the clip, two of her colleagues discuss her image before Thatcher cuts in to let them know exactly where she she is and isn’t willing to negotiate....
‘The Time That Remains’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 2011 11:00 am EST Sundance Selects has released the official movie trailer for Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains. The film, which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, is an “examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.” The film has a 83% on Rotten Tomatoes with 15 of 18 positive reviews. Empire Magazine called it “a touching and insightful black comedy that gracefully spans sixty years....
Blockbuster Announces ‘Movie Pass,’ A $10/Month Would-Be Netflix Rival Streaming Service By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2011 11:30 am EST Blockbuster and parent company Dish Network today announced a new streaming service intended as a rival to Netflix. The timing seems perfect, as the public image of Netflix has taken a serious beating in the past six months thanks to price increases, splitting DVD and streaming services, and the choice of ‘Qwikster’ as the name for the new Netflix DVD-by-mail service....
Bridgit Mendler Leads English Voice Cast Of Studio Ghibli’s ‘Arrietty The Borrower’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 8, 2011 4:00 am EST All animation is essentially dubbed when you get right down to it, but there’s still something valuable about seeing animated pictures with their original voice track intact — the timing and tone of that original dialogue is important. But Studio Ghibli’s films have earned a spot as some of the few animated pictures where I’ve been surprised to enjoy the English-language cast, to the point where I actually anticipate news about the talent used to make the new dubs....
Danny Boyle Will Direct ‘Trance’ This Fall By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2011 11:06 am EST Deadline relates that the film is about “an art heist gone wrong” and that it has the “dark, sexy, hard-edged tone of Boyle films like Shallow Grave and Trainspotting.” No cast is announced yet, but the thought of Danny Boyle going back to some old thriller ground — and perhaps reining in his increasingly manic style just a tad — is something that gives me a thrill....
Diane Lane Cast As Martha Kent In ‘Superman’ By David Chen/March 2, 2011 8:10 pm EST Not too long ago, we heard that Kevin Costner was in talks to play Jonathan “Pa” Kent in Zack Snyder’s Superman film. Today, we learn that Diane Lane has been cast as the other half of the parental dyad; she is officially on board the film as Martha “Ma” Kent. Read the full press release after the jump....
IMAX Banner And Character Photos From ‘The Hunger Games’ Unveiled; Advance Tickets Go On Sale Tomorrow By Angie Han/Feb. 21, 2012 12:30 pm EST Of course that last The Hunger Games poster wasn’t really the final one, no matter what the marketing folks claimed. But I’m not complaining. Two more banners have just dropped, promoting the film’s recently announced IMAX run. One is very much in line with the earlier poster, showing Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) taking aim with her trademark bow and arrow, while the other shows a uniformed Katniss in her training gear....
Is Universal Attempting A 3D Reboot Of ‘Doom’? By Angie Han/March 9, 2011 10:00 am EST When a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise was announced a mere ten years after the first one was released, plenty of fans rolled their eyes. Now it seems the reboot cycle is getting even faster, with a 3D reboot of 2005’s Doom rumored to be in the works. Forget that movie ever existed? Yeah, so did I....
JJ Abrams Says ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ IMAX Footage “Is Looking INSANE” By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2011 10:00 am EST Over the weekend I attended a discussion between director JJ Abrams and composer Michael Giacchino held at the Hammer Museum. For those of you reading this that live in Los Angeles, note that Hammer holds simular events on a regular basis and tickets are free (first come first serve, which means waiting in line for an hour or two)....
Justin Lin Has Met With Arnold Schwarzenegger And James Cameron For New ‘Terminator’ Film, Shooting ‘Fast Five’ Sequel Next By Germain Lussier/Aug. 11, 2011 3:00 pm EST Sometimes when you watch a filmmaker’s first movie you know exactly what he’s going to be. That’s not the case for Justin Lin. His first film, the fantastic Better Luck Tomorrow, gave almost no indication of just how incredibly massive a director he’d eventually become....
LOL: All The Other Superheroes Think Hawkman Is Too Lame For A Movie By Russ Fischer/May 27, 2011 3:45 pm EST Here’s a little bit of weekend fun. Hawkman has always seemed like a bit of an odd man out, depending on how his story is told and what character surround him. But even in the more cosmic tales from the DC universe, this guy is a weirdo. He’s got wings on a harnass and a mask that, while kind of cool to look at, sports a weird design that is somewhere between ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, and seems far more ceremonial than practical....
Lost Alfred Hitchcock Film ‘The White Shadow’ Discovered In New Zealand Archive By Angie Han/Aug. 4, 2011 6:00 am EST The New Zealand Film Archive and the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) announced this week that they had discovered the first 30 minutes of The White Shadow, a 1923 silent film considered to be the first credit by Alfred Hitchcock. Although Hitchcock did not direct the movie — Graham Curtis did — the now-legendary filmmaker, then 24, served as assistant director, editor, and production designer....
By Angie Han/June 20, 2011 1:00 pm EST Unfortunately, Fox, Bay, and LaBeouf all have a tendency toward what might politely be called outspokenness, and what might less charitably called a constitutional inability to shut the hell up – and so here we are, a year later, still reporting on this ridiculous story. Bay is attempting to set the story straight. Again. And this time, he’s bringing Steven Spielberg into it for some reason....
