LOL: Fake Arnie Sings Again In ‘Commando, The Musical’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2010 11:01 am EST The same team that brought you the wonderful Conan the Barbarian: The Musical, Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan, are at it again. Here you can see the touching tune ‘Jenny and Me’ which represents the glory that might be found within Commando: The Musical, assuming such a thing were to actually exist. (It really should exist....
Medical Problems Delay (Slightly) The Start Of ‘The Hobbit’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2011 11:00 am EST Briefly: Peter Jackson has been hospitalized with a perforated ulcer, and while he has been treated and is “resting comfortably and his doctors expect him to make a full recovery,” this means that the start date for The Hobbit will likely have to be pushed a bit. This likely won’t affect the release date of the first film; it just means a tiny bit more pressure when the movie does start....
Meryl Streep To Play Margaret Thatcher By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2010 7:04 pm EST Somehow this hasn’t already happened, and it probably goes without saying that the idea is fairly perfect: Meryl Streep is in talks to play Margaret Thatcher, in a film from her Mamma Mia! director Phyllida Lloyd. THR says that Thatcher would cast Streep as the British Prime Minister in a story set in 1982 as the political crisis between England and Argentina over the Falkland Islands escalated into war....
Movie Trailer: ‘Troll Hunter’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 30, 2010 1:13 pm EST One of the more promising films scheduled for Fantastic Fest this year was Troll Hunter, which is a Cloverfield-style mock doc that takes for granted that trolls aren’t just fairy tales; they’re actually alive and well in the northern lands of Norway. Now there’s an English-subbed trailer for the film, and you might find the scale of the rocky beasts pretty damned impressive....
Movie Trailer #3: Megamind By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2010 10:48 am EST We’ve already seen a couple trailers for the DreamWorks animated film Megamind, in which Will Ferrell voices a super-villain pitted against his super-heroic arch rival, voiced by Brad Pitt. Now there’s a third trailer, which actually shows off some of the film’s story, which is based on a sort of twist that the previous clips didn’t even suggest....
Movie Trailer: Joel Schumacher’s Twelve By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2010 2:00 pm EST Hannover House has released the first official trailer for Joel Schumacher’s Twelve, which no one seemed to like when it premiered as the Closing Night Film in the 2010 Sundance Film Festival (Watch my video review here). From a filmmaker who has given us such diverse films as The Lost Boys, The Phantom of the Opera, Flatliners, A Time To Kill, Batman Forever, Phone Booth and 8mm comes a new drama chronicling of the highs and lows of privileged kids on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, in a tale that involves sex, drugs and murder....
Movie Trailer: Studio Ghibi’s The Borrower Arrietty By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2010 12:00 pm EST Studio Ghibi has released a trailer for The Borrower Arrietty, their Japanese anime adaptation of Mary Norton’s fantasy novel The Borrowers. The movie tells the story of 14-year-old Arrietty, who lives in peaceful anonymity with the rest of the Clock family, as “they make their own home from items “borrowed” from the house’s human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty....
New ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Poster Explores Lisbeth Salander’s Headspace By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2011 10:04 am EST It’s been a couple days since we mined Mouth Taped Shut, the unofficial promo site for David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but last night the site debuted a new poster for the film that is too nice not to pass up. I know — ’nice’ — not really a word we use to describe anything related to this story....
New Poster: ‘I Love You Phillip Morris’ Has Heart By Russ Fischer/Oct. 13, 2010 11:41 am EST In August, Roadside Attractions picked up rights to distribute I Love You, Phillip Morris in North America. The film, directed by Bad Santa writers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, has been at the center of a distribution mess all year. But the film will now see release in the States on December 3. There’s even a poster, which you can see in full below....
Rian Johnson’s Essay On 3D Opens Up A Whole New Conversation By Germain Lussier/June 14, 2012 3:30 pm EST With his latest film, Looper, done and waiting for its September release, Rian Johnson has plenty of time to think about movies. So, the writer/director of The Brothers Bloom and Brick recently took to his Tumblr to present a whole new spin on the debate over the use of 3D in film....
Sequel Bits: ‘Star Trek 2,’ ‘Machete Kills,’ ‘John Carter 2 And 3,’ ‘Indiana Jones 5’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2012 5:00 am EST The sequel news never stops and we’re here to report it all. After the jump, read more about the following: Bruce Greenwood is happy with how Christopher Pike is being handled in Star Trek 2. A teaser image for Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills appeared at the European Film Market....
Superhero Bits: Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers Assemble, Iron Man 3 By Germain Lussier/June 12, 2012 12:30 pm EST Want to see an early Iron Man 3 poster? How different will the new Avengers Assemble TV show be from the old one? Does the latest Dark Knight Rises TV spot show new footage? Curious to see an Amazing Spider-Man featurette featuring Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker? What exclusive figure can you get with Superman vs....
This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: LOST (Season 6), The Square, Survival Of The Dead, And More By Adam Quigley/Aug. 24, 2010 4:12 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There’s something so captivating about the caper-gone-wrong genre that, even after you’ve seen the scenario play out a dozen times before, it still maintains its appeal. There’s an inherent thrill in it—the watching of a group of people scrambling to keep their lives from falling apart, while every decision they make leads them further and further to that predetermined destination....
Tim Burton Wants Robert Downey Jr. To Play Geppetto In ‘Pinocchio’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 7, 2012 1:30 pm EST Tim Burton has two movies coming out in 2012, Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie, but what he does after that is very much up in the air. The Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Alice in Wonderland director is attached to several different projects but, as of this moment, his interest is mostly on something new: a live-action version of the classic Carlo Collodi book and Disney film Pinocchio....
TV Previews: ‘Beavis And Butthead’ Trailer, First Minute Of The ‘Breaking Bad’ Season Finale By Germain Lussier/Oct. 6, 2011 4:00 pm EST The fact that The Walking Dead is coming back next week is, without a doubt, exciting. It’s not as exciting, though, when you realize that means this Sunday is the fourth season finale of Breaking Bad. Just when you thought AMC’s award-winning show couldn’t get any better, show runner Vince Gilligan delivers a season that has pretty much seen our two main characters, Walt and Jesse, almost on totally different shows, each going through their own personal hell as things slowly spiral out of control....
Two Different Ghostface Masks In Scream 4? By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2010 4:30 pm EST RJ Torbert of Funworld, the manufacturer of the Ghostface halloween mask which has become infamous due to the Scream movie trilogy has been leaking information about the latest sequel on… twitter (where else, really?) Here is what RJ wrote on twitter: I expect there to be 2 diff masks, however I will say this, things changing very often – difficult to say without giving it away....
Universal Moves ‘Les Miserables’ To Christmas Day Opening By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2012 12:00 pm EST Briefly: Universal has seemingly decided that the new film adaptation of Les Miserables, starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway and directed by Tom Hooper (The Kings Speech), makes a good Christmas present. (A present for Universal, at least.) The film has been pushed back to a December 25 opening. It doesn’t hurt that the December 25 berth has less competition now than it did not long ago, as Ang Lee’s Life of Pi was pulled forward to November 21 and Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby was pushed to 2013....
‘Back To The Future:’ Behind The Scenes Game Videos And 3D Art Print By Germain Lussier/Oct. 25, 2010 9:24 am EST Today, October 25, is the day it all began. This morning 25 years ago, Marty McFly snuck into Dr. Emmett Brown’s lab and blew out the speakers at the start of Back to the Future. To celebrate the occasion, the film is screening at several AMC Theaters this evening, the trilogy comes out on Blu-ray Tuesday and several featurettes focusing on the upcoming Back to the Future game have appeared online....
‘Cloud Atlas,’ The Ambitious Wachowski/Tykwer Collaboration, Eyeing October 2012 Release By Russ Fischer/June 22, 2011 3:28 pm EST Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski are getting ready to turn David Mitchell’s strange multi-narrative novel Cloud Atlas into a big-budget film. It will be shot entirely in and around Berlin, and is planned as the most expensive film ever to be financed in Germany, at about $100m. The stellar cast includes Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon and Jim Broadbent, each of whom will play multiple roles — as many as six each....
‘Father Of Invention’ Trailer And Poster: Kevin Spacey Versus The Hairpiece By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2011 10:00 am EST What do you get if you combine Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, Larry Crowne, and the hair left on the floor when Robert Duvall shaved after finishing Get Low? Something like Father of Invention, in which Kevin Spacey looks to be flailing as a lousy inventor who spends a decade in jail for “depraved indifference for human life....
