Keanu Reeves Talks From The Set Of ‘47 Ronin’ By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2011 2:15 pm EST Unless someone is invited to go to set by a studio, actors rarely talk in public during the filming of a major Hollywood motion picture. Keanu Reeves, however, who is currently shooting Universal’s 3D action film 47 Ronin, directed by Carl Erik Rinsch, took some time off from shooting the film to speak to the Los Angeles Times....
Lauren German, Paula Patton And Kristin Kreuk Testing For ‘Mission: Impossible 4’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2010 12:16 pm EST We now know that Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner will play the two primary agents in Paramount’s upcoming Mission: Impossible 4. (Until we know what the final title of this new Mission: Impossible film will be, we’re just going to call it Mission: Impossible 4. Hopefully that’ll avoid confusion for the time being....
Michel Gondry To Direct ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 11, 2011 5:30 pm EST Academy Award winning director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind, The Science of Sleep) will direct the January 13th episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! in an attempt to promote his upcoming film The Green Hornet. Star of the film, Seth Rogen, will appear as Kimmel’s big guest during the episode, alongside young actress Elle Fanning (Somewhere) and a musical performance by The Damned Things....
More ‘Skyfall’ Images And A New Video Blog Featuring The Aston Martin DB5 By Germain Lussier/July 19, 2012 2:30 pm EST With tomorrow’s release of The Dark Knight Rises, the sun has begun to set on the summer movie season. Meanwhile, it’s rising on some of the biggest movies of the fall, including the latest James Bond film, Skyfall, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe, Ben Whishaw, Helen McCrory, Rory Kinear, Albert Finney and Judi Dench....
New ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Animated Voice Cast Includes Sean Astin And Jason Biggs By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2011 8:36 am EST The time has come to really re-launch the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A new movie is in development at Paramount and Platinum Dunes (Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec were just hired to rewrite it) and Nickelodeon will air a new animated show starting in the fall of 2012. Now we’ve got the voice cast for the quartet....
Page 2: Kill Bill, Liam Neeson, Back To The Future, Alex Pardee, Lost, Scott Pilgrim, James Bond, Dr. Who By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2011 11:30 am EST header image via: Shobrick@Flickr Bobby O’Herlihy created this kick ass Kill Bill Volume 1 movie poster. This “Scott Pilgrim in 60 Seconds” video hit while we were at Sundance, but we’ve only remembered to post about it now. So if you haven’t yet seen it, it’s worth a watch....
Rob Edwards Writing Robert Zemeckis Project ‘Animated American’ By Russ Fischer/May 18, 2011 6:30 pm EST When you hear that Robert Zemeckis is producing a film featuring a mix of animated and live-action characters — that is, the animated characters are explicitly animated within the world of the film — what do you think of? If you said Cool World, you’re close. Since Robert Zemeckis has steadily talked about a Roger Rabbit sequel over the years, this announcement of another film in a very similar vein seems awfully strange....
Sam Raimi To Produce ‘Poltergeist’ Remake [Updated] By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2012 7:00 am EST Looking back at the last info we had on MGM’s proposed remake of Poltergeist, this rumor isn’t very surprising. MGM CEO Roger Birnbaum gave a talk this week at his alma mater, the University of Denver, and dropped a few bits of info about two remakes the studio is working on. One was Carrie, which Birnbaum suggested may have a found-footage angle....
Saoirse Ronan Will Lead Disney’s ‘The Order Of The Seven,’ Formerly ‘Snow And The Seven’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2012 3:26 pm EST For quite some time, Disney has been developing a new live-action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in which the old story would get a fairly modern makeover. Michael Chabon wrote the initial version, but the film has been tweaked a few times over the past decade with directors as disparate as Yuen Wo-ping and Francis Lawrence attached at different times....
Steven Soderbergh Directing 2nd Unit For Gary Ross On ‘The Hunger Games’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2011 3:38 pm EST The question of retirement lingers around Steven Soderbergh, who says he will retire after making a few more films, even if he might not do so in quite the short order once detailed by Matt Damon. This fall he’ll shoot Magic Mike, the film informed by Channing Tatum’s early days as a male stripper, and will eventually make a Liberace biopic as well as a couple other possible films....
The Crazies Helmer Breck Eisner Directing Escape From New York Remake By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2010 4:12 pm EST A couple years back, New Line Cinema was trying to remake John Carpenter’s 1981 sci-fi actioner Escape from New York. They first hired Live Free or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman, who got replaced with Brett Ratner. I wasn’t excited about either of the two filmmakers rebooting Snake Plissken, although Wiseman’s production design background made him the better choice of the two....
Though James Cameron Says He’ll Only Do ‘Avatar’ Movies, ‘Battle Angel Alita’ Still Possible By Germain Lussier/May 8, 2012 2:30 pm EST James Cameron recently said that he’s only interested in making Avatar movies from here on out: I’m not interested in developing anything. I’m in the Avatar business. Period. That’s it. I’m making Avatar 2, Avatar 3, maybe Avatar 4, and I’m not going to produce other people’s movies for them....
Tim Burton Will Direct Johnny Depp In ‘Dark Shadows’ In April 2011 By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2010 2:00 pm EST Just in case you thought there was any chance that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp would fail to re-team for Dark Shadows, this is the point where you forget it. The film has been a project on the actor’s wishlist for a long time, and while it has recently seemed like the planned January shoot might not happen, the movie isn’t going anywhere....
Tom Felton Joins Rise Of The Apes By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2010 12:42 pm EST Felton will join James Franco (Spider-Man/Milk) who is set to play the lead, “a young, driven scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes.” Other co-stars include John Lithgow, who plays Franco’s father, also a scientist, Don Cheadle (Iron Man 2), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), who plays a primatologist who helps Franco, Brian Cox will play “the villainous owner of a primate sanctuary who runs the facility without compassion for the animals that live there,” and Andy Serkis, who will play Caesar, the chimp who leads the simian revolt....
Tron Legacy Show Planned For Disneyland By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2010 8:00 am EST Ever since the first test footage from Tron Legacy premiered at Comic-Con three years ago, Disney fans have been talking up the idea of the Mouse House introducing a new Tron ride at the Disneyland/Disney World theme parks. I’ve told you previously that Disney Imagineers were visiting the set just days before I stepped foot on the End of Line Club soundstage....
Video: How Our Eyes Move While Watching A Movie By Germain Lussier/Feb. 17, 2011 6:00 pm EST When we sit back to watch a movie, we rarely think of the mechanics behind it. You plop down, sip a soda, munch some popcorn and keep your eyes forward. That might seem like all that’s going on but your brain, and particularly your eyes, are getting a workout of epic proportions. Those peepers are constantly darting around, exploring the frame and trying to process what they’re seeing, how it moves and so much more....
VOTD: The Sound And Music Of ‘John Carter’ By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2012 1:30 pm EST Our friends at SoundWorks have put together a wonderful 10 minute behind the scenes look at the sound and music of Andrew Stanton’s John Carter. In the video, Supervising Sound Editor Jonathan Null and Composer Michael Giacchino share their experience bringing to life the planet of Barsoom. Watch it now embedded after the jump....
Watch The Trailer For Martin Scorsese’s HBO Documentary ‘George Harrison: Living In The Material World’ By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2011 9:30 am EST A brand-new trailer has hit for Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World, an HBO documentary which will air on the channel later this year. Though Harrison was known as “the quiet Beatle,” as the saying goes, still waters run deep. Pulled together from interviews, performances, and never-before-seen footage, as well as interviews with friends, colleagues and peers including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Terry Gilliam, Phil Spector, Yoko Ono, and Tom Petty, the film will center around the life and career of the iconic musician, producer, philanthropist, and spiritualist....
Will ‘Godzilla’ Show Up At Comic Con? By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2012 5:00 am EST Briefly: Latino Review got a boost yesterday from the news that Guardians of the Galaxy would be the next ‘mystery Marvel movie’ to be announced for 2014, basically confirming a not terribly well-guarded secret. Then, late last night, the site spoke up again to say that Legendary Pictures will ride into Hall H on the back of a giant atomic-powered lizard....
Will The ‘X-Men: First Class’ Sequel Feature Classic Mutant Story ‘Days Of Future Past’? By Russ Fischer/June 5, 2012 12:30 pm EST The interesting bit is that the time-travel aspect of the Days story means that it could be used to unite the casts, or some of the casts, of the X-Men and First Class storylines. Here’s a partial plot recap of Days of Future Past: The storyline alternates between present day, in which the X-Men fight Mystique’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and a future timeline caused by the X-Men’s failure to prevent the Brotherhood from assassinating Senator Robert Kelly....
