Zack Snyder Will Direct ‘Superman’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2010 2:30 pm EST We’ll expand this as more details come in, but at the moment Deadline has a very short report saying Warner Bros. has chosen a director for Superman. It is Zack Snyder, who has helmed 300, Watchmen, Legend of the Guardians and Sucker Punch for the studio. One one hand, not a surprising choice, given that he’s one of the studio’s most high-profile genre directors....
‘Battleship’ Trailer: Berg Does Bay, And Stuff Blows Up Real Good By Russ Fischer/Dec. 9, 2011 11:11 am EST Here’s the new trailer for Battleship, Peter Berg’s aliens versus Navy movie that has been a great big ‘WTF?’ since it was first announced. The first trailer demonstrated that the film is sort of a big closed battle between humans and some sort of alien invasion, and now the new trailer shows a lot more action....
‘Bond 23’ Will Arrive In The UK Two Weeks Before The US By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2011 8:34 am EST Briefly: Daniel Craig is all over the place this week thanks to the new posters and trailers for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but he is still the star of another massive franchise with a global fanbase. Today there is a tiny bit of James Bond news, as Sony, EON Productions and MGM have announced a pair of release dates for the twenty-third Bond film....
‘Dark Shadows’ Trailer: Has Tim Burton Made The Biggest-Ever Fan Film? By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2012 5:07 pm EST Here at last is the trailer for Dark Shadows, the most recent of many pairings between director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. The actor has wanted to revive the ’60s supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows for years, and he and Burton, after much planning, finally shot the movie last year. One of many questions about the project has been concerned with whether something that has come across like a bit of an obsession for Depp can translate into a movie that people want to see now....
/Film UK - A Human Centipede Sequel, The Stephen Langathon, Nighy And Blunt In Wild Target And Much More By Brendon Connelly/April 23, 2010 4:41 am EST Sky News are reporting that Vue may sell off half of their business. Who to? My local is a Vue, and I do rather like it.Mark Millar, Scotland’s one-man hype machine, is looking to give you a little bit of publicity – not to mention a salary....
‘Finding Nemo’ 3D Rerelease Trailer - Still Adorable After All These Years By Angie Han/May 22, 2012 11:00 am EST Selling a 3D movie through 2D technology (like our computer screens) always presents a bit of a challenge, but even more so when it’s a 3D converted movie of a 2D film that first came out nine years ago. After all, there’s no new dialogue or footage to pick over, and little insight to be gained by watching a new cut of the trailer....
‘Inception’, ‘Star Trek’, And ‘Fast Five’ Return To IMAX For One Week By Angie Han/Sept. 30, 2011 9:00 am EST I’m not sure exactly why this is happening, but hey, I’m not about to complain. As part of something called IMAX Big Movie Week, AMC Theatres is bringing back three past blockbusters to IMAX screens for one week starting today: Christopher Nolan’s Inception, J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, and Fast and the Furious five-quel Fast Five....
‘John Carter’ Fans Demand A Sequel, Launch Facebook Campaign By Germain Lussier/March 15, 2012 9:30 am EST For some onlookers, John Carter’s opening weekend box office take of $30 million in the US earmarked the film as a failure. No one can be 100% sure about the movie’s financial future until the upcoming second weekend returns but it would take a Moses-size miracle for the $250-$300 million film to become profitable in the United States....
‘Journey 2’ Director Brad Peyton In Talks For ‘San Andreas 3D’ By Angie Han/June 6, 2012 5:00 am EST No one knows for sure when the next big earthquake will hit the West Coast, but in the meantime the folks in Hollywood are staying busy making their own. Brad Peyton has just entered talks to helm New Line’s San Andreas 3D, about a massive disaster that hits the titular California fault line....
‘The Muppets’ And AMC Ask Audiences Not To Talk Or Text During Movies [Video] By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2011 3:30 pm EST I’m not sure that spots asking movie audiences to put their phones away have any real effect outside of an environment like the Alamo Drafthouse, which actually enforces such things, but the recent spate of self-aware ‘don’t talk or text’ shorts have been fun to watch. The most attention-getting one in recent memory came from the Alamo, which re-purposed a customer’s angry voicemail into a no-texting PSA....
‘The Social Network’ Easter Eggs: ‘Fight Club’ And Natalie Portman By Germain Lussier/Oct. 4, 2010 8:00 am EST The Social Network is certainly the main topic of discussion among film fans this weekend. The latest film from director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin, which dramatizes the creation of Facebook, was the number one movie at the box office with $23 million and is currently holding an impressive 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes....
Aaron Johnson Cast As Cyclops In X-Men: First Class? By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2010 12:36 am EST It all started when Johnson was spotted “taking a meeting” with Vaughn and James McAvoy, who it was later be announced was cast as young Charles Xavier (aka Professor X). An earlier report claimed that producer Bryan Singer (who was originally supposed to direct First Class but was unable to due to his Jack the Giant Killer commitments) was using Giant Killer’s casting process “as an opportunity to look for potential X-Men, vetting actors who may be qualified to play a young Cyclops or young Jean Grey....
Bruce Willis Cast In Rian Johnson’s Looper By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2010 8:24 pm EST I’ll get this out of the way right now: awesome. Bruce Willis can do great work when he’s paired with a strong, determined director. I figure Rian Johnson will be pretty determined when he gets on the set of Looper, his third feature. So I’m happy to see a report that not only seems to confirm the casting of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but announces Willis has a role as well....
Clint Eastwood May Act Once More, In Baseball Film ‘Trouble With The Curve’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2011 4:00 am EST When Clint Eastwood played the lead role in his 2008 film Gran Torino, we thought it might be his last screen role. The icon never retired from acting, and has remained open to the idea of taking another role. (I’ve always hoped to see Quentin Tarantino roping him into a film....
Cool Stuff: “Tusken Pride” T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2010 5:00 am EST Today’s T-shirt over at TeeFury is a Star Wars-inspired Oakland Raiders-parody design by Captain RibMan titled “Tusken Pride”. You can buy the shirt for only $9 plus shipping. The design is only available today (Friday, November 26th 2010) and today only, so act fast! Hit the jump to see the full design. Cool Stuff: “Tusken Pride” T-Shirt...
Exclusive: Character Posters For ‘The FP’ By Russ Fischer/March 12, 2012 3:00 pm EST This is the point where I admit that I really don’t ‘get’ The FP. The film from the Trost Bros appears to be some sort of view into a world where The Warriors and Rocky were funneled through a Dance Dance Revolution machine. Somehow, what emerged is a story of “the deadly arena of competitive dance-fighting.” It’s a comedy, but one where everyone involved seems to be really, really determined to play for a strange, hardcore set of laughs....
Final ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Poster Revealed By Germain Lussier/April 16, 2012 9:15 am EST The print campaign for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man has been nothing short of outstanding. It began with the gorgeous teaser poster, showing Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) struggling with his role as the web-slinger. From there a bunch of international posters leaked. Now, the final theatrical poster has been revealed and it sells the one thing people need to see to drag them into the theater: Spider-Man, front and center....
Final Destination 5 Gets Renamed 5NAL DESTINATION By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2010 5:30 pm EST In one of the worst title changes of the last few years, Warner Bros has apparently decided to change the title of the fifth Final Destination movie from Final Destination 5 to 5nal Destination. What do you think? I guess it isn’t quite as bas as the Fast and the Furious sequel title 2 Fast 2 Furious, right?...
First ‘Skyfall’ Video Blog From Director Sam Mendes By Russ Fischer/Feb. 22, 2012 7:01 am EST Well, EON Productions and Sam Mendes have a thing or two to learn from Peter Jackson, but here’s the first video blog for Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond movie. Since Mendes and his crew aren’t building a whole world in the way that Peter Jackson did with Middle-Earth, it is probably unreasonable to expect ten-minute journeys through the film’s landscape....
First Look: Bruce Willis In Rian Johnson’s New ‘Looper’ By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2011 8:28 am EST We’ve been pretty vocal about our interest in Rian Johnson, whose debut film Brick is (I think) a tremendously entertaining modern noir, and who crafted an engaging and clever caper film in The Brothers Bloom. So Looper, his third film and one which involves time travel (and the talents of Primer director Shane Carruth!...
