Rami Malek Cast In The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2010 5:41 pm EST Briefly: We haven’t riled anyone with Twilight news in a few minutes, so here’s a brief update. At the Emmy Awards the other night, Rami Malek from The Pacific spilled that he’ll appear in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn as Benjamin, one of the Egyptian Coven of vampires. Wait, that’s actually pretty good news!...
Recent Bad Robot Casting Call Is For Little Darlings, Not Super 8…Or Is It? By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2010 11:10 am EST Last week we heard that Paramount was holding an open casting call seeking 13-14 year old boys and girls with “a Midwestern feel” for a production that many (including us) guessed might be J.J. Abrams’ soon-to-shoot Super 8. But now a listing suggests that, despite being for a Bad Robot production, the call is for a different film altogether…unless this is a Cloverfield-style bluff from Abrams & Co....
The Ones Who Knock S5E01 - Live Free Or Die By David Chen/July 16, 2012 8:41 pm EST The Ones Who Knock is a podcast featuring recaps and reviews of each week’s episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad. This week, Joanna Robinson from Pajiba and Dave Chen discuss the season five premiere, “Live Free or Die.” E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at acastofkings@gmail....
Tim Burton To Direct ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 15, 2011 9:30 am EST Tim Burton is now in talks to spearhead that development, and is looking at the story of an old orphanage and its strange and possibly dangerous residents who may still be lurking in the ruins as a possible film to direct. The book blends a story of the orphanage and the unusual children who dwell there with vintage photographs illustrating the inhabitants....
Tom Cruise’s ‘Tropic Thunder’ Spin-Off Is Scripted, But Does He Need This Movie Any Longer? By Russ Fischer/April 11, 2011 3:00 pm EST What will Tom Cruise do next? He’s finishing the fourth Mission: Impossible film now, and will soon shoot a part in Rock of Ages, so it’ll soon be time to settle on another project. There was a good chance that he would have been in Guillermo del Toro’s film At the Mountains of Madness, but that one is now off the boards....
VOTD: ‘The Films Of [Christopher Nolan]’ By Angie Han/Nov. 29, 2011 10:00 am EST From the earliest installments of his “[the films of]” project, I’ve noticed /Film commenters wondering if and when Kees van Dijkhuizen would get around to spotlighting Christopher Nolan. The British director inspires fervent devotion from movie geeks as few other filmmakers do, thanks to his wildly ambitious imagination, his masterful storytelling, and his eye for cool beauty, and van Dijkhuizen notes that he’s received “hundreds, literally hundreds of requests” for a video showcasing Nolan’s unique style....
VOTD: Dancing At The Movies By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2010 6:00 am EST Media Solutions has created a compilation video combining a collection of dance clips from almost 40 movies “from dance movies to comedies, from Fred Astaire to Micheal Jackson.” Hit the jump to watch it now. VOTD: Dancing At The Movies By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2010 6:00 am EST Media Solutions has created a compilation video combining a collection of dance clips from almost 40 movies “from dance movies to comedies, from Fred Astaire to Micheal Jackson....
Watch River Phoenix’s Final Performance In Footage From ‘Dark Blood’ - And The Director’s Plea For Help In Finishing The Movie By Angie Han/May 23, 2012 6:00 am EST Earlier this week, the first footage from Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master caught the excited attention of the cinephile universe, especially those who’d been eager to see Joaquin Phoenix return to form after his bizarre foray into whatever I’m Still Here was supposed to be....
WikiLeaks Reveals Details On The Films Of Michael Moore And Steven Spielberg By Germain Lussier/Dec. 20, 2010 12:28 pm EST While almost every other person in America talks about WikiLeaks on a daily basis, /Film has mostly remained out of the conversation. However, it seems even the film industry isn’t immune from Julian Assange’s controversial website. David pointed out one such article about how American TV and movies shown in Saudi Arabia are apparently helping to prevent jihad and we saw that Batman isn’t a fan....
‘21 Jump Street’ Producer Neal Moritz Developing Comedic, Stalkerish Take On ‘Sleeping Beauty’ By Angie Han/July 17, 2012 11:30 am EST The fairy tale trend that’s taken over Hollywood clearly isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Even as cameras roll on Disney’s Maleficent, which retells Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of its villain, there’s another reinterpretation of the story brewing, this time with the prince who breaks the spell at its center....
‘Blitz’ Red Band Trailer By Adam Quigley/March 14, 2011 12:00 pm EST Who’s ready for their biannual Jason Statham-obliterates-everyone fix? Hopefully you’re shouting, “Me, me, me!” because after The Mechanic, Blitz fills his quota for 2011. (Or at least it would, had he not turned out to be such an overachiever.) The premise is beautiful in its simplicity: A sociopathic cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who’s targeting police officers....
‘Frozen’ Casts Idina Menzel As Snow Queen, Hires ‘Book Of Mormon’ Co-Writer Robert Lopez To Write Original Music By Angie Han/June 11, 2012 4:47 pm EST An animated adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Snow Queen has been in the development at Disney on and off for about a decade now, but a few encouraging signs suggest we’re finally getting pretty close to seeing the story hit the big screen....
‘The Office’ Closes After One More Season By Germain Lussier/Aug. 21, 2012 12:31 pm EST The Office of Dunder Mifflin/Sabre is finally closing. Showrunner Greg Daniels revealed that the upcoming ninth season of the hit NBC sitcom will be its last and that the end date will give the producers a chance to tie everything up nicely: All questions will be answered this year. We’re going to see who is behind the documentary....
‘Tyrannosaur’ Trailer: See Peter Mullan’s Searing Command Performance By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2011 6:00 pm EST Actor Paddy Considine’s first feature as a director is Tyrannosaur, which features the always reliable, often impressive character actor Peter Mullan as a violent, self-destructive alcoholic who strikes up a friendship with Hannah (Olivia Colman, of Hot Fuzz), a Christian charity-shop worker. Considine adapted the feature from his previous short Dog Altogether, and has said that “mainly [Tyrannosaur is] about my interpretation of life, and trying to function as a human....
‘Wrath Of The Titans’ Moves Back A Week To March 30, 2012 By Germain Lussier/March 15, 2011 11:00 am EST Deadline broke the news of the Jonathan Liebsman directed sequel moving its release date. When we first wrote about the news of both huge films opening on the same date, I surmised that The Hunger Games would move first. But, I did say that Wrath of the Titans could potentially open at anytime and Warner Brothers probably realized that one week wasn’t that big of a deal....
3D Movies Are Coming To Nintendo’s New 3DS Handheld Game System By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2010 12:09 pm EST The big puzzle at the nexus point of cutting edge technology and consumer products is currently: how to bring 3D content to homes? Nintendo, which in the past decade has been steadfastly disinterested in putting technology first when releasing game devices, is suddenly leaping forward with a solution. At the company’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) press conference this morning, Nintendo formally introduced the 3DS, an update of the blockbuster DS gaming handheld....
Armie Hammer Confirmed As ‘The Lone Ranger’ By Germain Lussier/May 17, 2011 4:00 pm EST Several weeks ago we reported that Armie Hammer – star of The Social Network, the currently filming J. Edgar and the upcoming Julia Roberts’ Snow White film – was in talks to play The Lone Ranger in the film of the same name, directed by Gore Verbinski, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and co-starring Johnny Depp as Tonto....
Bluntman & Chronic To Return In Serialized Online Series By Germain Lussier/March 18, 2011 4:30 pm EST Just because Kevin Smith is retiring from filmmaking doesn’t mean his creations have to. The superhero team of Bluntman and Chronic, which first appeared in Chasing Amy and played a significant role in Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back, will soon be animated and put online with Jason Mewes himself set to produce. A Bluntman and Chronic movie?...
Cameron Diaz Replaces Angelina Jolie In Ridley Scott’s ‘The Counselor’ By Angie Han/May 9, 2012 9:30 am EST As Ridley Scott’s The Counselor approaches its June start date, the cast list is undergoing some last-minute adjustments. According to a new report, Cameron Diaz has just been brought in to replace Angelina Jolie, who was circling a strong supporting role last month and was said to be “very likely” to board....
Casting Bits: Jessica Biel In ‘Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho’, Anthony Head In ‘Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea Of Monsters’ By Angie Han/March 21, 2012 12:30 pm EST While it remains to be seen whether Anthony Hopkins in Sacha Gervasi’s Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho does any better at capturing the Hitchcock resemblance than Toby Jones does in Julian Jarrold’s The Girl, what’s clear is that the former will be surrounded by quite a high profile cast....
