Harrison Ford In Early Talks For ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel By Germain Lussier/Feb. 5, 2012 1:32 pm EST When news first broke that the rights to make future Blade Runner films had been purchased, everyone was worried. When it was later revealed Ridley Scott would likely direct the eventual film, worry turned to curiosity. And if this news ends up coming to fruition, I think fans can finally settle in for full blown excitement....
Movie Trailer: ‘Down Terrace’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 15, 2010 3:00 pm EST The mob movie takes a comedic, family turn with Down Terrace, a film from director Ben Wheatley starring real life father and son pair Bob and Robin Hill. Currently sporting a gleaming 87% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, this British crime dramedy has been playing the festival circuit for the past year and will finally be released in New York and Los Angeles on October 8....
Nathan Lane And Robert Emms Join Tarsem Singh’s ‘Snow White’ By Germain Lussier/May 5, 2011 3:30 pm EST Relativity’s Snow White film, directed by Tarsem Singh, continues to add fantastic actors to its fantasy world. They’ve just cast Tony Award-winner Nathan Lane as Brighton, the Queen’s (played by Julia Roberts) servant and Robert Emms as Renbock, Prince Alcott’s (played by Armie Hammer) valet. We all know Lane from The Producers, The Birdcage and more while Emms will soon be seen in Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse....
Pixar’s ‘Brave’ - What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/June 22, 2012 5:00 pm EST Brave is Pixar’s first overt fairy tale, and the studio’s first film with a female protagonist. Those points, combined with the fairly public development process that saw the title change from The Bear and the Bow, and original director Brenda Chapman replaced with Mark Andrews, has positioned Pixar’s thirteenth film as a film of interest for many....
Sony Classics Will Distribute Woody Allen’s ‘Nero Fiddled’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 22, 2011 10:00 am EST Briefly: 2011 was a great year for Woody Allen. His playful, entertaining film Midnight in Paris turned into the year’s runaway arthouse hit, taking in $60m to become Allen’s greatest domestic success. Sony Classics has distributed the director’s last few films and after their stellar success with Midnight in Paris, I think it has been pretty much a foregone conclusion that his next movie, Nero Fiddled, would go out via the company as well....
Tommy Lee Jones To Duel With Meryl Streep And Steve Carell In ‘Great Hope Springs’? By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2011 9:30 am EST Since last year, Meryl Streep has been part of a film called Great Hope Springs, in which she’ll play half of a couple that goes to a therapist to work out of the loveless malaise that plagues their relationship after 30+ years. Not long ago Steve Carell was signed to play the therapist, and David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada director) was set to direct....
Vin Diesel Says Seventh ‘Fast And The Furious’ Being Written Alongside Sixth By Russ Fischer/Dec. 20, 2011 6:00 pm EST With Fast Five, Universal started the process of extending the Fast and the Furious franchise beyond movies that are oriented around car-based setpieces and into the realm of action-adventure crime films. The fifth film also featured a gigantic cast, and the idea of locking down all the participants for a few months every two years might not seem like the most feasible idea, no matter what contracts have been signed....
‘Atlas Shrugged: Part 2’ Still Happening, Says Producer Harmon Kaslow By Angie Han/July 5, 2011 4:30 pm EST After Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 tanked both critically and commercially, producer John Aglialoro said publicly that he was having second thoughts about making the sequels. Film critics and moviegoers breathed a sigh of relief, and all but the most die-hard Ayn Rand fans moved on with their lives. Now, however, Aglialoro seems to be feeling a renewed sense of optimism....
‘Sinister’ Red-Band Trailer: An Excellent, Unsettling Attack Of Sight And Sound By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2012 6:14 pm EST It’s strange to have a very recognizable actor in a found-footage movie, because the whole “realism” concept of found footage relies upon our ability to relate to the normalcy that is eventually shattered by whatever weird entities beset the characters. But I’ve been hearing great things about Sinister, which stars Ethan Hawke as a guy whose discovery of old reels of film in his house leads to some horrible encounters....
‘Smashed’ Clips: Check Out Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s “Must-See” Performance In Sundance Hit By Angie Han/Sept. 6, 2012 10:00 am EST Although its limited rollout starts in just six weeks, James Ponsoldt’s Sundance fave Smashed has yet to offer a traditional trailer. Instead, Sony Pictures Classics is rousing some buzz with four new clips that showcase star Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s acclaimed performance. Winstead and Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul star as a young married couple united by their love of booze....
‘The Hunger Games’ Clip - When Katniss Met Cinna… By Angie Han/March 7, 2012 8:00 am EST Where last week’s The Hunger Games clip focused on Katniss’ (Jennifer Lawrence) fury with the indifferent panel of Gamemakers, today’s sees her meeting one of her allies for the first time. As the stylist assigned to help Katniss prepare for the opening ceremony of the Games, Cinna (Lenny Kravitz) quickly wins her over with his common sense and compassion....
‘The Impostor’ Is This Year’s ‘Catfish’ [Sundance 2012] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 25, 2012 7:00 am EST Bart Layton’s The Imposter might technically be a documentary, but it feels like a narrative feature. The film tells the story of a Texas family whose 13-year-old son goes missing, only to show up three and a half years later in Spain with a story about kidnap and torture. He is returned home to his family where he lived for a few months before it was revealed that he was an imposter — a frenchman named Frédéric Bourdin....
Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’ Trailer #3 By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2012 11:30 am EST HBO has released a third full length trailer for season one of Aaron Sorkin’s return to television — The Newsroom. In the series, Jeff Daniels plays “a big-time, buttoned-up news anchor who finally lets his real personality fly, and then has to deal with the career fallout that results.” Watch the trailer embedded after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below....
Cameron Diaz Will Star Opposite Colin Firth In Coen Brothers-Scripted ‘Gambit’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 1, 2011 1:15 pm EST We’ve been slowly tracking the progress of the film Gambit, which is a Joel and Ethan Coen-scripted remake of a British romantic heist film that originally starred Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine. The Last Station director Michael Hoffman was hired to direct last year after Doug Liman flirted with the project for a while, and Colin Firth has a deal to play the lead....
Casting Bits: John Malkovich In ‘Warm Bodies’, Gwyneth Paltrow In ‘Thanks For Sharing’, Abigail Breslin In ‘A Virgin Mary’ By Angie Han/Sept. 8, 2011 2:00 pm EST John Malkovich is in final talks to join the zombie romance Warm Bodies, directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50). Based on the novel by Isaac Marion, the film stars Nicholas Hoult as an angsty zombie named R who strikes up a friendship with the human girlfriend of one of his victims and sets off a chain of events that eventually affects all of zombie society....
Casting Bits: Mary Louise Parker Replacing Demi Moore In ‘Lovelace’?, Greg Kinnear And Jennifer Connelly In ‘Writers’ By Angie Han/Jan. 27, 2012 4:00 pm EST It was just a few days ago that Demi Moore dropped out of the porn biopic Lovelace after being hospitalized for “exhaustion,” but it looks like filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman may be close to finding their replacement already. Us Weekly reports that Weeds star Mary Louise Parker is being considered as a possibility to step in for Moore, who was previously set for a small part as feminist icon Gloria Steinem....
Cool Stuff: Disney’s Hollywood Studios Star Wars Weekends 2012 Posters, Plus George Lucas’ Good Deed By Germain Lussier/May 15, 2012 6:00 am EST May is a big month in the world of Star Wars. There’s the “May the 4th Be With You,” the anniversary of the release of every single film in the saga, as well as the birthday creator George Lucas’ birthday which is actually today, May 14. Happy birthday George!...
Cool Stuff: Tom Whalen’s ‘Monsters Inc.’ Kicks Off Mondo Pixar Series By Germain Lussier/Sept. 1, 2011 3:00 pm EST Mondo has done a series for Star Wars, they’re still releasing posters for Star Trek, they have several different Director’s Series running and just yesterday they announced they’ll be doing a series for Jurassic Park. Not to outdo themselves, but Thursday they announced yet another ongoing series of posters: Pixar movies. The first poster, Monsters Inc....
Doug Liman Confirmed To Direct ‘All You Need Is Kill’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 23, 2010 6:47 pm EST In June, Doug Liman’s name was attached to the Warner Bros. sci-fi project All You Need Is Kill. At the time I thought the pairing of Liman and a ‘Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day’ story was odd, given that Liman is known to be rather on the indecisive side when it comes to directing style....
French ‘Thor’ Trailer Has Snippets Of New Footage By Russ Fischer/March 7, 2011 11:30 am EST Marvel Studios and Paramount will be unleashing Thor upon the world in just under two months — the film opens on May 6 — and we could well see another chunk or two of the film released to the public before opening day. In the meantime, check out the French trailer for the film, which offers a couple of very slight new visions that didn’t make it into the last couple domestic trailers....
