VOTD: Soapbox Films’ Steampunk Video For Ben Lovett’s “Eye Of The Storm” By Angie Han/Feb. 24, 2011 7:00 am EST /Film reader Courtney M pointed us to this striking music video for Ben Lovett’s “Eye of the Storm.” Against a melancholy acoustic tune, a solitary pilot wanders through his steampunk airship, tossing out remnants of his old life in order to begin anew. It looks like something out of Sin City, or an anime series....
What If Dr. Seuss Wrote And Drew ‘Star Wars’? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2010 7:00 am EST The pitch here is pretty simple: what if Dr. Seuss had created Star Wars? Thanks to characters like Yoda and Jabba the Hut, and the basic morality of the story, it actually works pretty well. Check out the work of cartoonist Adam Watson after the break. That’s obviously the Seuss-style Jabba above, and a couple more can be found below, with more embedded in a post on Adam Watson’s site....
Will Beall Writing ‘Logan’s Run’ By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2011 5:00 am EST When Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling became the new guys attached to direct and star in the remake/new adaptation of Logan’s Run we cheered. Given that Mr. Refn had been very clear about his intentions to do a big studio movie, he might have chosen well with this one. The original Logan’s Run is silly and dated, yes, but given that it is about people who flee from a decadent, youth-obsessed culture, there’s a lot of material in the story that makes it relevant today....
‘Klown’ Red-Band Trailer: Really, Seriously, Definitely Not Safe For Work By Russ Fischer/May 2, 2012 10:00 am EST Revealed to US audiences at Fantastic Fest 2011, the Danish comedy Klown (aka Klovn, or Clown) quickly made a name for itself as a confrontational, explicit comedy. Based on a Danish TV comedy series, Mikkel Nørgaard’s film stars Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen as two friends on a “Tour De Pussy” getaway trip....
‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ International Trailer And Deceptively Sunny Poster By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2011 1:30 pm EST The clip and poster come from Empire, so tip your hat that way. Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy and the very intimidating John Hawkes co-star here. And just as John Hawkes was part of the attention-getting indie Winter’s Bone last year, expect some award season love for him and Elizabeth Olsen once this one goes into general release....
‘Osombie: The Axis Of Evil Dead’ Trailer - Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama Bin Laden Movie Meets ‘World War Z’, B-Movie-Style By Angie Han/Feb. 7, 2012 6:00 am EST Kathryn Bigelow’s untitled international thriller may be more likely to get all the awards, but Osombie: The Axis of Evil Dead definitely wins out in terms of sheer cheekiness. The low-budget thriller sees the terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden coming back in horrifying zombie form, as a team of NATO Special Forces race to stop him and the zombie apocalypse....
‘Paranormal Activity 3’ Trailer #2, Tweet To Decide Who Sees The Movie First By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2011 2:00 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released a new movie trailer for Paranormal Activity 3 from Catfish directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. We’ve heard unconfirmed rumors that the film might premiere as a secret screening at Fantastic Fest in Austin tonight, and if that is true that shows the studio has confidence in the film (the last movie wasn’t screened for most press)....
‘Skyfall’ Behind The Scenes Video Explores Opening Action Sequence By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2012 2:15 pm EST If you don’t want to know anything about where some of the footage from Skyfall, the latest James Bond film, fits into the narrative, it’s best to skip this behind the scenes video. Because this is the one where director Sam Mendes talks about shooting the film’s opening pre-credits action sequence. In doing so, he places quite a bit of the footage we’ve seen so far, and explains what’s really going on....
‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Teaser Trailer And Poster Next Week? By Germain Lussier/July 8, 2011 2:05 pm EST Warner Bros. will release their biggest film of the year next week with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and, reportedly, they’ll tease us immediately beforehand with a trailer for their biggest film of next year. A source tells Superhero Hype that a 93 second teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, along with a teaser poster, should hit theaters next weekend in front of 2D and 3D screening of Potter....
Apple Attempts To Address Final Cut Pro X Concerns By David Chen/June 29, 2011 7:00 am EST As with most PR-speak, Apple’s statement does not really acknowledge any of the withering criticism that the product has received. It begins by establishing that Final Cut Pro X “has impressed many pro editors, and it has also generated a lot of discussion in the pro video community.” Indeed! But just as interesting as what Apple has explained is what Apple has left out....
Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Snow Piercer’ Adds John Hurt By Angie Han/Jan. 23, 2012 9:30 am EST Though we first heard of Bong Joon-ho’s Snow Piercer back in 2009, it wasn’t until just a couple of weeks ago that the project really began to pick up steam and build a top-notch cast. Chris Evans was the first star announced for the film, with Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell boarding soon afterward. Now John Hurt has been announced as the latest addition to the post-apocalyptic film, based on a French graphic novel titled Le Transperceneige....
Casting Bits: Emma Roberts Joins Liam Hemsworth In ‘Empire State’, Naomie Harris In Talks For Nelson Mandela Biopic ‘Long Walk To Freedom’ By Angie Han/March 13, 2012 5:00 am EST After trying her hand at comedy, horror, romance, family film, and drama, Emma Roberts is now moving into the thriller genre with Dito Montiel’s Empire State. Based on a real-life heist, Adam Mazer’s screenplay centers around a pair of longtime pals in Astoria, NY who devise a plan to rob an armored car....
Check Out Concept Art Featuring Bradley Cooper As ‘The Crow’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 14, 2011 9:04 am EST The new version of The Crow may be stalled out, but you can now get a look at what could have been. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo was the most recent in a line of possible directors to reboot James O’Barr’s story The Crow, and he was going to make the film with Bradley Cooper starring as slain rocker and boyfriend Eric Draven, who is supernaturally brought back to some sort of life to exact revenge on the criminals who killed him and his girlfriend....
Danny Elfman Out, James Newton Howard In For ‘The Hunger Games’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 6, 2011 11:31 am EST Hunger Games fans expecting a sweeping, quirky score to their film from a living legend are going to have to settle for a melodic, theme-driven musical accompaniment from one of the best in the business. Tomato to-mot-o. Amazing composer Danny Elfman was originally scheduled to score Gary Ross’ adaptation The Hunger Games but, due to scheduling conflicts, he’s been forced to take his four Oscar-nominations and move on....
David O. Russell Script Still The Basis For ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’ By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2011 2:30 pm EST After weeks of back and forth, Craig Gillespie was finally announced yesterday as the new — and hopefully final — director of the Lionsgate film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The movie has had a long and public development path, with Natalie Portman producing and originally starring in the film based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel and David O....
Demian Bichir Joins ‘Machete Kills,’ ‘Trapped;’ Was Up For ‘Star Trek 2’ By Germain Lussier/May 2, 2012 3:30 pm EST One Oscar nomination and Demian Bichir is everywhere. After getting a surprise, but well deserved, Best Actor nomination earlier this year for his work in A Better Life, the actor is beginning to line up quite an impressive list of projects. He just completed Oliver Stone’s Savages, appeared on Showtime’s Weeds and he’s just been cast in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills and William Friedkin’s Trapped....
Disney In Talks For ‘Enchanted Tiki Room’-Inspired ‘Tiki’ Movie By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2010 10:01 pm EST 24 Frames has learned that Walt Disney Pictures is in talks to acquire Tiki, a screenplay written by musician Ahmet Zappa (yes, son of Frank Zappa) and writing partner Michael Wilson (Shark Tale, Ice Age, Burn Notice, Monster Witness Relocation Program). While the story is not directly related the the Enchanted Tiki Room attraction at Disneyland, Zappa and Wilson were inspired by the animatronic show and decided to write “an action-adventure that mixes in Polynesian mythology....
First Look: ‘Keyhole,’ The Latest Strange Vision From Guy Maddin By Russ Fischer/March 13, 2011 4:00 pm EST Whenever I’m asked to name a great director who always manages to stay off the popular radar, Guy Maddin is the first who comes to mind. He makes films to appeal to the hardcore film nerd: things that look like broken artifacts once buried under the foundation of an old hotel in the middle of nowhere....
First Look: Daniel Day Lewis Sporting His ‘Lincoln’ Beard By Germain Lussier/Nov. 30, 2011 2:30 pm EST While most of us are still gearing up to see Steven Spielberg’s next two movies, War Horse and The Adventures of Tintin, the filmmaker himself is working on the next thing. That next thing is Lincoln, which has been filming in Richmond, Virginia and stars Daniel Day Lewis as America’s legendary 16th President. Though the film has been shooting since October, casting is still ongoing and we have yet to see any paparazzi shots of the incredibly famous cast (among them Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, John Hawkes, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, Tim Blake Nelson, David Strathairn, Jackie Earle Haley and David Oyelowo) because shooting was all indoors....
First Look: Emma Stone In ‘The Help’; John Krasinski In ‘Something Borrowed’; Woody Harrelson In ‘Rampart’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 1, 2010 10:21 pm EST In addition to offering up quite a few new images of Captain America, the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has first looks at many other films. There’s the first image from The Help, starring Viola Davis and Emma Stone in what is sure to be one of the prestige pictures of fall 2011....
