Wonderful Japanese ‘Brave’ Trailer Is Packed With Mystic, Mythic New Footage By Russ Fischer/March 5, 2012 10:30 am EST This is a must-see. I know some opinions have been divided on Pixar’s upcoming film Brave. Personally, I was captured by the first teaser trailer and then felt as if the clip and full trailer that followed were a bit scattershot. I was left not really knowing what to expect from the film....
‘Henry 5’ Is Apocalyptic Shakespeare With Michael Caine, Ray Winstone And Gerard Depardieu By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2010 5:30 pm EST Proving once more that the work of William Shakespeare is versatile enough to power a story with just about any genre trappings, here’s Henry 5, which glues together a stellar cast — Michael Caine, Ray Winstone, Gerard Depardieu and Derek Jacobi — in what appears to be a sci-fi or apocalyptic version of Henry V....
‘Hotel Transylvania’ Teaser Trailer By Russ Fischer/March 27, 2012 4:00 pm EST This is kind of an encore trailer presentation; not long ago we showed you an international version of the first trailer for Genndy Tartakovsky’s Hotel Transylvania, but it was quickly pulled. Now we’ve got the same trailer, but with the original English-language soundtrack. So you can hear how Adam Sandler sounds as the film’s family-friendly Dracula, for starters, and the quality is a lot better this time out, so the better monster designs and cute little visual gags come across much better....
‘Jeff Who Lives At Home’ Opens March 2, 2012 By Germain Lussier/July 28, 2011 1:45 pm EST If you don’t catch Jeff Who Lives At Home, the next comedy by the Jay and Mark Duplass (Cyrus, Baghead), at the Toronto Film Festival in September, you’re going to have to wait until next year to see it. The film, which stars Jason Segel as a man who unravels the mysteries of the universe while running an errand for his mother, has been given a March 2, 2012 release date by distributor Paramount Vantage....
‘The Lorax’ Australian Trailer Offers A Bleak Look At The Post-Once-Ler Landscape By Angie Han/Nov. 9, 2011 6:00 am EST If last month’s trailer for The Lorax seemed surprisingly cutesy and sweet for an urgent environmental fable, perhaps the new Australian trailer will balance it out. Where the last one really played up the colorful setting and playful tone, the new video offers a much better look at the destruction the greedy Once-ler (voiced by Ed Helms) hath wrought....
‘This Must Be The Place’ International Trailer: What Is The Cure For Sean Penn’s Mumbling? By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2011 8:00 am EST The first photos we saw from Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place, with Sean Penn as a Robert Smith-like rock star, were a little bit worrisome. Then we saw some footage, and I thought it looked pretty great. Reviews out of Cannes were not kind, however, and we seemed to be back to square one, or perhaps worse....
Ahna O’Reilly To Star Opposite Ashton Kutcher In ‘jOBS’ By Germain Lussier/May 25, 2012 2:30 pm EST Ahna O’Reilly, one of the stars in last year’s surprise hit The Help, has won the choice role of Steve Jobs’ girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan in jOBS. The film, directed by Joshua Michael Stern, will star Ashton Kutcher in the lead role and “shed new light on Steve Jobs’ most defining and personal moments, motivations, and the people that drove him....
Are You Ready For Six ‘Kung-Fu Panda’ Movies? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2010 2:31 pm EST Kung-Fu Panda was silly fluff, but likeable enough as a child’s introduction to kung-fu movies. (Assuming someone wouldn’t just show their kids the safer Jackie Chan movies at some point — maybe those come after Panda.) Taken against the Shrek and Madagascar sequels (and before How to Train Your Dragon) it made DreamWorks Animation look better than usual....
Ben Stiller And ‘Extremely Loud’ Writer Jonathan Safran Foer To Team For HBO Comedy ‘All Talk’, Alan Alda In Talks By Angie Han/Jan. 24, 2012 9:00 am EST HBO has developed quite a reputation for attracting high-profile, high-quality talent, with the likes of Steve Buscemi and Dustin Hoffman leading shows on the network, and now they’ve brought on one of their biggest names yet. Ben Stiller has signed on to star, direct, and executive produce All Talk, a comedy from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, with Alan Alda in talks to co-star....
Blake Lively, Jennifer Lawrence, And Emma Watson Reportedly Shortlisted To Join Taylor Lautner In ‘Incarceron’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2011 11:30 am EST I hope someone in Vegas is laying odds on the future of Taylor Lautner’s career. He escaped being fired after the first Twilight film, became one of the main draws of the second and third movies, and has seen a lot of ink devoted to deals made in his name for mainstream movies outside of the Twilight franchise....
Broadway Musical ‘Jersey Boys’ Coming To The Big Screen By Germain Lussier/Oct. 6, 2010 2:00 pm EST One of the biggest and most celebrated Broadway musicals of the past decade is finally coming to the big screen. The film rights to the Tony award winning Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons have just been purchased in an auction that was rumored to have included Steven Spielberg at DreamWorks, Tom Hanks at Playtone, Warner Brothers and Fox....
Casting Notes: Ray Liotta In ‘Things Fall Apart’; New Actors For Lone Scherfig’s ‘One Day’ And Madonna’s ‘W.E.’ By Russ Fischer/May 24, 2010 12:14 pm EST Mario Van Peebles is currently directing Curtis Jackson in Things Fall Apart and, based on Jackson’s past thespian efforts, that’s not terribly exciting. But now Ray Liotta is joining the cast, so that’s a positive turn. Jackson is playing “a star football running back…who faces a personal tragedy as well as his own mortality while in his senior year in college....
Comic-Con Alcatraz Review: J.J. Abrams Strikes Gold Again By Devindra Hardawar/July 20, 2011 10:20 pm EST The series centers around a mysterious event in 1963 that made 302 Alcatraz prisoners and guards vanish without any explanation. For some reason we don’t yet know, a prisoner named Jack Sylvane (Jeffrey Pierce) appears in present day Alcatraz and makes his way to San Francisco to seek payback from those who’ve done him wrong....
Cool Stuff: ‘Teen Wolf,’ ‘Jaws,’ ‘Akira,’ ‘Eternal Sunshine’ And ‘Invasion Of The Body Snatchers’ Among Movies In New Gallery 1988 Exhibit By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2012 1:00 pm EST The best part of collecting pop culture art is the moment you see a piece that speaks to you. The moment when an artist created a work for a teeny, tiny film that you loved growing up and now there it is, perfectly represented, and you just have to own it....
David Hayter Adapting Anne McCaffrey’s First ‘Dragonriders Of Pern’ Novel By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2011 6:30 pm EST The Pern novels — at least the first ones, such as Dragonflight, which David Hayter has been hired to adapt — tell of a world where humans and telepathic dragons have a symbiotic relationship, the better to fend off the occasional shower of deadly burrowing spores called Threads. It’s an intricately detailed world, with plenty of raw material for a film franchise....
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Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz And Matt Dillon Cast In Roman Polanski’s ‘God Of Carnage’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2010 6:55 am EST UPDATE: Without any explanation, Deadline’s story no longer mentions Matt Dillon, but does say the other male role is not yet cast. More info as we get it. Original article follows. Over the past year we’ve known that Roman Polanski was prepping an adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play God of Carnage....
Joss Whedon Secretly Filmed A Shakespeare Adaptation While Working On ‘The Avengers’ By Angie Han/Oct. 24, 2011 11:00 am EST For most filmmakers, writing and directing a high-profile, big-budget would-be blockbuster with a slew of beloved celebs playing iconic characters would provide more than enough stress and excitement to keep them occupied for quite some time. But apparently, Avengers helmer Joss Whedon somehow still had energy left to burn — so much so that he’s managed to squeeze in a whole other secret indie project even as he’s still working on his other, bigger movie....
Judi Dench Cast In Clint Eastwood’s ‘J. Edgar’; Charlize Theron May Still Join By Russ Fischer/Dec. 29, 2010 2:30 pm EST Briefly: Clint Eastwood continues to pull in impressive actors for his J. Edgar Hoover biography, titled J. Edgar. Leonardo DiCaprio is playing the title role, Armie Hammer (The Social Network) is his right-hand man and reputed lover Clyde Tolson, and the Australian actor Damon Herriman has a minor role as Bruno Hauptmann, the man tried and convicted for ’the crime of the century’: kidnapping and killing the Lindbergh baby....
Mini-Reviews Of Award-Winning ‘Bullhead’ And Soon-To-Be-Remade ‘Two Eyes Staring’ [Fantastic Fest 2011] By Germain Lussier/Sept. 28, 2011 3:00 pm EST Bullhead and Two Eyes Staring have nothing in common except their country of origin. They’re both from Belgium, two of the three films from that country playing Fantastic Fest this year, in fact. Two Eyes Staring was optioned by Charlize Theron last year for an American remake and is about a woman who inherits her childhood house after her estranged mother passes away....
