Jaden Smith Shows Off His ‘After Earth’ Costume By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2012 9:30 am EST M. Night Shyamalan recently started shooting his new film After Earth, in which a family crash lands on Earth one thousand years after humanity has vacated the planet. Will Smith plays a father who is captured by an Earth-dwelling force after the landing, leading his son (Jaden Smith) to mount an effort to save him....
James Cameron Consulted On BP Oil Spill Cleanup Ideas By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2010 9:49 am EST If Kevin Costner won’t save our oceans, who will? How about James Cameron? As if it isn’t enough that Kevin Costner’s water-therapy machine could be deployed to help clean up the BP oil spill along the Gulf coast, James Cameron has been ‘brainstorming’ with scientists about ways to contain the spill. Reuters reports that Cameron’s session with “scientists, academics and Washington officials " took place yesterday and was “part of the federal government’s ongoing efforts to hear from stakeholders, scientists and experts from academia, government and the private sector as we continue to respond to the BP oil spill....
Jeffrey Reiner Likely To Direct ‘Wonder Woman’ Pilot By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2011 4:45 pm EST Thanks to a power shift at NBC, the David E. Kelley revamp of Wonder Woman found life with the network, and a pilot has been ordered. The show will be a non-campy take on the character that presents Wonder Woman as “a vigilante crime fighter in LA but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life....
Joe Dante, Xavier Gens And Vincenzo Natali In Director Lineup For Anthology ‘Paris, I’ll Kill You’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2010 6:30 pm EST While it’s easy to look at the past through rose-colored glasses (or bloody ones, in this case) and think that there have been many great horror film anthologies, that’s just not the case. There are certainly a lot of horror anthology films, but few amount to much....
Joss Whedon Endorses James Gunn’s ‘Twisted Take’ On ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 10, 2012 9:00 am EST Marvel fans unsure about director James Gunn directing Guardians of the Galaxy, rest easy. The Godfather of Marvel is a fan. (The new one, not Stan Lee or Kevin Feige.) Joss Whedon is currently in Toronto with a film he made on an Avengers off-week. While there, he has been more than happy to talk about his job for the next several years as a major architect of Marvel Phase Two....
Kathryn Bigelow’s Bin Laden Project Moved To Post-Election Release Date By Angie Han/Oct. 20, 2011 11:15 am EST Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s untitled Osama bin Laden thriller has been sparking political controversy ever since it was announced, with one of the points of contention being its release date. A few months ago, Sony set a date of October 12, 2012 for the picture’s release, irritating some who believed that it would help President Barack Obama during next year’s presidential elections by reminding voters of one of his administration’s most notable achievements....
LOL: Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis: Sean Penn By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2010 2:00 pm EST In the latest episode of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, Sean Penn sits down with Zach’s twin brother, Seth Galifianakis. Watch it now embedded after the jump. LOL: Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis: Sean Penn By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2010 2:00 pm EST In the latest episode of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, Sean Penn sits down with Zach’s twin brother, Seth Galifianakis....
LOL: Michael Cera And Jason Schwartzman Do The Weather, Zach Galifianakis Interrupts Scott Pilgrim Junket Interview By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2010 6:00 am EST Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman have been busy traveling the country to promote their latest film, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, which hits theaters later this week. But it doesn’t seem to be the typical press tour filled with canned short snippet interviews. In Atlanta, Cera and Schwartzman took over for the local weatherman, and during a junket interview for Metacafe, an unexpected guest interrupts the interview – Zach Galifianakis....
Movie Trailer: The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2010 6:42 pm EST The first movie trailer for 20th Century Fox’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has shown up online on the Brazilian fan site MundoNarnia. I’m not sure when or where this trailer is officially suposed to premiere, but you can watch it right now embedded after the jump....
Octavia Spencer Boards Bong Joon-Ho’s Post-Apocalyptic ‘Snow Piercer’ By Angie Han/Feb. 2, 2012 1:30 pm EST Snow Piercer may mark South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho’s first English-language picture, but his casting choices so far suggest he’s already got damn great taste in English-speaking stars. Octavia Spencer has become the latest addition to the cast of his post-apocalyptic thriller, joining Chris Evans, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, and Song Kang-ho (The Host)....
See Test Animation Of Scott Pilgrim’s First Fight By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2010 4:40 pm EST Here we are, with Scott Pilgrim vs the World still in theaters (perhaps barely! help this one out, folks!) and already there are details on some DVD extras. Director Edgar Wright today posed a snippet of animation to his blog; the clip details work that was done to plan the film’s first fight sequence between Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) and Matthew Patel (Satya Babha)....
Some Of ‘Catching Fire’ Will Be Shot With IMAX Cameras By Angie Han/June 13, 2012 11:00 am EST While the first Hunger Games only announced a limited IMAX run at the last minute, sequel director Francis Lawrence is embracing the format right out of the gate. Not only is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire already planning a release on the giant screens for next fall, Lawrence is actually using IMAX cameras to shoot certain portions of the film....
Take That, Theatrical Re-Release! Avatar Special Edition DVD Will Feature Sixteen Minutes Of New Footage By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2010 11:54 am EST Or, as THR reports, the special edition theatrical release this weekend may just be a nearly three-hour commercial for this new DVD release, which will hit in November with “at least 16 minutes of extra Avatar footage.” We’ve heard from James Cameron about the extensive new material in the theatrical special edition, but Jon Landau was more concise in his conversation with THR:...
Terry Gilliam’s Next Movie Is Wild Existential Sci-Fi ‘The Zero Theorem,’ Starring Christoph Waltz By Russ Fischer/Aug. 13, 2012 11:00 am EST It might have been as fat back as 2009 when we last heard about The Zero Theorem, a sort of sci-fi exploration into the existence, or lack thereof, of meaning in life. Written by Pat Rushin, the script was once in development by Terry Gilliam, but it seemed like he had scrapped it quite a while ago....
The Ones Who Knock S5E05 - Dead Freight (GUEST: Josh Kurp From Warming Glow) By David Chen/Aug. 14, 2012 4:00 am 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 fifth episode of season 5, “Dead Freight.” Special guest Josh Kurp joins us from Warming Glow. E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at theoneswhoknock@gmail....
The Sound And Music Of ‘Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol’ And ‘War Horse’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 2, 2012 7:24 am EST Odds are if you visited a movie theater recently, you might have been there to see Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol or War Horse. The former has been deservedly sitting atop the box office charts since its release and the latter is the latest, tear-jerker live-action drama from one of our most beloved filmmakers, Steven Spielberg....
Two Scripts Commissioned For ‘Bad Santa’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/July 15, 2011 1:00 pm EST Paraphrasing Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink, “The writer is king here at Dimension!” You should recognize that as a joke of the highest order, at least in the context of Barton Fink. Turns out to be a cosmic gag in the context of real life, too. Because Dimension and Miramax, which are working together to make sequels to a few films produced under the old Miramax order, have hired not one, but two screenwriters to script a sequel to Bad Santa....
VOTD: Pogo’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ Remix By Peter Sciretta/June 20, 2012 1:30 pm EST Video remix artist Pogo has been remixing films into music for a four years now. He has concentrated mostly on animated films, and has done a number of Pixar adaptations: the Up-inspired Upular, the Toy Story-inspired Toyz Noize and Buzzwings, the Monsters Inc-inspired “Boo Bass” and others. He has done a number of live action film remixes, including: A....
Warner Bros. Presents Outdoor Entertainment Festival Outside Of San Diego Comic-Con By Germain Lussier/July 2, 2012 3:00 pm EST But wait, there’s more. Warner Bros. will present a massive outdoor entertainment festival called Extra at Comic-Con on the lawn behind the convention center and in front of the San Diego Hilton Bayfront. Screenings, interviews, video game demonstrations, Batmobiles and much more will be in the spotlight there throughout the weekend. Read more about it below....
Wes Anderson’s University Of Texas At Austin Undergraduate Writing By Germain Lussier/Oct. 18, 2010 8:00 am EST The editor of the Analecta, the official literary and arts journal of the University of Texas at Austin, was flipping through some old volumes when she came across the writings of former UT student and current filmmaker Wes Anderson. Published in the Analecta in 1989, Anderson’s short story, The Ballad of Reading Milton, isn’t as good as some of the screenplays he has co-written since but it is certainly full of the quirky charm that has inspired so many people to become fans of his work....
