‘Beauty And The Beast’ 3D Reissue Trailer By Russ Fischer/Nov. 21, 2011 11:00 am EST I don’t know that there is really any point to posting trailers for a film’s 3D re-release online where no one can see the added 3D aspect. But what you can see is some evidence of the HD remaster that also goes along with such releases. So what the heck, here’s the trailer for Beauty and the Beast 3D, which Disney is putting in theaters on January 13....
‘Friends With Benefits’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/March 16, 2011 11:45 am EST 2011’s second film featuring a Black Swan starlet having casual sex now has an official trailer. Friends With Benefits was written and directed by Easy A director Will Gluck and stars Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis as a couple who have a very convenient friendship, with benefits, that gets predictably complicated, as these things tend to do. It co-stars Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Jenna Elfman, Patricia Clarkson, Richard Jenkins, and Andy Samberg....
‘Hyde Park On Hudson’ Trailer: Bill Murray Gets Delightfully Presidential By Russ Fischer/May 18, 2012 11:30 am EST I have no idea whether or not Hyde Park on Hudson actually conforms to any factual truth, but seeing Bill Murray romp, in stately fashion, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt could prove to be quite a joy. The first trailer for the film, which was directed by Roger Michell (Morning Glory, Notting Hill), introduces Murray’s take on FDR, as the President hosts the King and Queen of England (Samuel West and Olivia Colman) at a retreat in upstate New York prior to the outbreak of World War II....
‘Knuckleball’ Clip: Watch An Exclusive Scene From The Baseball Documentary Out Today By Germain Lussier/Sept. 18, 2012 9:00 am EST The film tell the history of baseball’s most scrutinized and joked about pitch, the knuckleball, through the personal struggles of pitchers Tim Wakefield, formerly of the Boston Red Sox, and R.A. Dickey, currently of the New York Mets. It’s a fascinating, inspirational documentary that will please both baseball and non-baseball fans alike....
‘Meek’s Cutoff’ Trailer: A Tense Conflict Of Wills In The West By Russ Fischer/Feb. 25, 2011 5:15 pm EST “We’re not lost, we’re just finding our way.” I’ve heard nothing but good things about Kelly Reichardt’s Oregon Trail western Meek’s Cutoff, which premiered at Venice last year and has gone on to do well at other festivals. Michelle Williams stars as one member of a multi-family wagon train that is led into the wilderness by co-called frontier expert Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood)....
‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ Co-Star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Goes To ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2012 1:30 pm EST It looks like this new Mad Max film is really happening, at long last. George Miller wrote and has planned to direct Mad Max: Fury Road, but the production has been delayed to the point where we wondered if it might evaporate in the African sun. The film has been discussed as the possible kick-off of a new trilogy, but first it has to shoot....
Adam Green Not Directing ‘Hatchet 3,’ His Cameraman Is By Germain Lussier/Oct. 3, 2011 6:00 am EST Now that I’ve left the geeky confines of Fantastic Fest, I can get this off my chest. I’ve never seen a Hatchet movie. The topic of best new horror franchises came up quite a bit during the festival in relation to You’re Next and Paranormal Activity 3 so, inevitably, people would mention the Adam Green-directed films about a murder named Victor Crowley....
Biblical Epic Trend Continues As Warner Bros. Acquires ‘Pontius Pilate’ Script By Angie Han/Aug. 21, 2012 4:45 pm EST Even as Hollywood continues to churn out paranormal romances and fairy tale retellings, it’s time to brace ourselves for the next white-hot trend: Biblical epics. The newest project to fall into this category is Pontius Pilate, an account of one of the most infamous villains of all time. In the Bible, Pilate presides over Jesus Christ’s trial....
Bruce Willis And Paul Walker Joining 50 Cent In ‘Set Up’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2010 12:56 pm EST Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson continues to evolve as a potential, if highly unlikely leading man. He’s doing this in part by continuing a partnership with Bruce Willis, with whom he’s producing the film Catch .44. And now Mr. Willis and Paul Walker are in talks to join 50 Cent in the heist action film Set Up, which is being shopped to foreign distributors....
Bryan Singer Auctions Off X-Men: First Class Set Visit, Reveals Vague Plot Synopsis By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2010 7:18 am EST Got a few thousand bucks to spare? Then you might be able to get in on the bidding for the charity auction in which producer Bryan Singer is auctioning off a chance to visit the UK set of X-Men: First Class. If you don’t have any money to spare, you might still want to check out the auction, as it summarizes the plot of the Matthew Vaughn-directed film, offering a scant few details we haven’t been explicitly told before....
Casting Bits: Rosemarie DeWitt In ‘Promised Land’, Rhys Ifans And Toby Jones In ‘Serena’ By Angie Han/March 9, 2012 2:00 pm EST After starring with Ben Affleck in last year’s The Company Men, Rosemarie DeWitt is now set to work with Affleck’s BFF Matt Damon in Promised Land. DeWitt has landed the female lead in the “Capraesque” tale, which Gus Van Sant will direct. The script comes from Damon and John Krasinski, based on a story Krasinski cooked up with Dave Eggers....
Christopher McQuarrie Rewriting Jack The Giant Killer For Bryan Singer By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2010 2:30 pm EST The original “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale centered around a boy who exchanged a cow for magical beans. After the beans grew into a gigantic beanstalk, Jack climbed it to find a huge house with a giant living inside it, which Jack then began to pilfer. The story ends with Jack killing the giant in self-defense, kind of....
Christopher Meloni In Talks For ‘Man Of Steel’ By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2011 6:16 pm EST Add one more to the new Superman film, as Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has just locked in Christopher Meloni to play an unspecified but reportedly major role. Is there a sex crime to solve? Maybe someone fondled some sweaters? Or is it that there is a newspaper to run? We haven’t heard whether or not Perry White, the man in charge of the Daily Planet, is in the movie....
Cool Stuff: The Shining/E.T. T-Shirt Mash-Up By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2010 10:08 pm EST What if you took Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and mashed it up with Steven Spielberg’s E.T.? It might look something like today’s t-shirt from TeeFury. Designed by Joao Lauro Fonte, “The Shining Finger” is “the cross-over you’ve never known you needed in your life until now!” The good news is the t-shirt design is only $9 (plus $2 shipping)....
David Koepp In Talks To Write ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Sequel, Studio Wants Rupert Sanders To Direct By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2012 2:30 pm EST So does this mean that Charlize Theron’s evil queen doesn’t die at the end of Snow White and the Huntsman? We had some idea that Universal envisions the movie as the beginning of its own Lord of the Rings-style action/fantasy franchise, and the very good response to Huntsman footage so far has pushed the studio to move forward with plans for a sequel....
Drew Struzan’s ‘The Thing’ Theatrical Poster Gets The Mondo Treatment By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2012 10:00 am EST When you say “John Carpenter’s The Thing” the first image that pops in your head might be Drew Struzan’s legendary theatrical one sheet. The silhouetted man in a winter jacket with a bright light exploding out of his face has become the defining image of the awesome movie. Though others have tried to create equally iconic representations fo the film, no one has come close to duplicating Struzan’s striking poster....
First Look: Tom Hardy As Bane From ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Germain Lussier/May 20, 2011 8:38 am EST Fans had to work Friday morning to reveal the first official image of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises. Along with Thursday’s unexciting press release announcing the beginning of production on Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated third part in his Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, Warner Bros. also launched the film’s official website www....
By Angie Han/June 4, 2012 2:30 pm EST For the rest of us who didn’t attend CinemaCon, however, all we’ve seen so far is the single image that was released back in April — which was pretty enough, but not terribly exciting in and of itself. The new clips, then, will mark our first peek at actual footage from the film. According to THR, the scenes that’ll be previewed this summer include one of a cargo ship filled with zoo animals as it sinks into the ocean, which was also shown at CinemaCon....
Francis Lawrence And ‘The Fighter’ Screenwriter Transform ‘Samson’ Into A New Superhero Story By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2011 2:00 pm EST The Fighter is a great movie on many levels, and it is powered by a great screenplay by Scott Silver. He has worked with real life characters who are larger than life (he also wrote 8 Mile) and is now turning to a literal superhero. Or perhaps I should say mythic — even biblical — superhero, since his new project is based on the story of Samson and Delilah....
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