Peter Berg’s Battleship Moved Up A Week By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2010 2:00 pm EST Peter Berg’s water based epic action adaptation of the board game Battleship has been moved up a week. Universal Pictures will now open the film on May 18th 2012 instead of the last announced date, May 25th 2012. This decision was likely made to get distance from another alien sci-fi action film, Men In Black 3, which is set to open on the 25th....
Relativity Media To Develop ‘The Bible Code’ Movie By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 4, 2010 3:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The studio will develop the series of books into a tentpole movie to be released in 2012. Read the full press release after the jump. The series is based on a 3000 year-old code in the Bible found by a top Israeli scientist and confirmed by a senior code breaker at the US National Security Agency....
The Muppets Parody ‘The Hunger Games,’ Because Why Not? By Russ Fischer/March 6, 2012 12:30 pm EST Briefly: Rebelling against the argument that, with the film out in theaters and already relaxing at home with an Oscar, there’s no more work for The Muppets to do, here’s the latest and perhaps last (for real!) parody trailer for the film. This time the target is The Hunger Games. The reasoning being, I suppose, that The Muppets hits DVD on March 20 and The Hunger Games hits theaters on March 23....
The Ones Who Knock S5E07 - Say My Name By David Chen/Aug. 28, 2012 7:40 am EST The Ones Who Knock is a podcast featuring recaps and reviews of each week’s episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad. This week, Joanna Robinson from Pajiba and Dave Chen discuss the seventh episode of season 5, “Say My Name.” Be sure to check out the Breaking Bad recaps of Donna Bowman, Matt Zoller Seitz, and Alan Sepinwall!...
TV Bits: ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ To Become Animated Series On Cartoon Network; ‘Weeds’ Creator Jenji Kohan Developing Poker Comedy ‘Whales’ For Showtime By Adam Quigley/Oct. 12, 2010 4:30 pm EST Just in time for the film’s October 15 DVD release, Dreamworks is taking major steps to ensure How to Train Your Dragon’s franchise longevity. Earlier this week they announced plans for the as-of-yet-untitled sequel, and now comes word of a weekly animated series that will air on Cartoon Network....
VOTD: The Sounds Of Aronofsky By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2012 1:00 pm EST Darren Aronofsky’s films, especially his earlier efforts Pi and Requiem fora Dream, contain tremendous sound design. Editor Kogonada has put together a one minute supercut showcasing the sounds that compliment the visuals of his films. Watch it now embedded after the jump. VOTD: The Sounds Of Aronofsky By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2012 1:00 pm EST Darren Aronofsky’s films, especially his earlier efforts Pi and Requiem fora Dream, contain tremendous sound design....
WB Sets Up ‘Ready Player One’ Rewrite From Eric Eason By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2012 11:04 am EST Briefly: The video game-inspired All You Need is Kill isn’t the only game-related project Warner Bros. has going. In 2010 the studio picked up rights to Ernie Cline’s much-loved book Ready Player One, a story about a sort of treasure hunt that takes place in a fully-realized online virtual community. Ernie Cline originally scripted the feature version of the book (he also wrote the movie Fanboys) but now Variety says that WB is moving forward with the project by hiring Eric Eason to rewrite....
Woody Allen Finalizes ‘The Bop Decameron’ Cast: Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page And More By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2011 12:30 pm EST Coming off Midnight in Paris, his biggest financial success in decades, Woody Allen is ready to shoot his 2012 film. It’s called The Bop Decameron and he’s just finalized the very impressive cast, many of which we were already aware of. The most exciting news is the confirmation that Allen himself will return to the screen after a few films off (his last one was 2006’s Scoop)....
‘Bad Teacher’ Writers And Director Assembling New Comedy At Sony By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2011 10:00 am EST Briefly: Bad Teacher is out on DVD this week, and to celebrate, director Jake Kasdan and writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg have been announced as the creative team on a new untitled comedy for Sony. While we don’t have a title, Deadline does offer a plot synopsis: “After a Supercuts manager advises his best friend to break off his engagement, he unexpectedly falls in love with the jilted fiancee, testing both his new romance and his friendship....
/Film Video Interview: Damon Lindelof Talks ‘Prometheus’ Secrets, Viral, ‘Star Trek 2’ And More By Germain Lussier/March 20, 2012 9:00 am EST Lindelof is one of the screenwriters and architects of Prometheus, easily one of the most anticipated films of 2012. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba and others, the 3D sci-fi epic tells the story of a group of people who travel to another world hoping to find friendly beings....
‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows’ Could Have ‘Dark Knight Rises’ And ‘Hobbit’ Trailers Attached By Germain Lussier/Nov. 21, 2011 1:30 pm EST 2011 has already been a pretty good year for Warner Bros. They had the biggest opening of all time, as well as the highest grossing film of the year, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. The Hangover Part II was the biggest R-rated comedy of all time and one of the year’s highest grossing films as well....
‘The Green Hornet’ – What Did You Think? By David Chen/Jan. 14, 2011 7:00 pm EST Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet, which is out today in theaters, has had a long, arduous path to the big screen. Gondry was initially supposed to direct Hornet way back in 1997, but significant creative differences led to the film being shelved. Then, Kevin Smith climbed aboard the project to write and direct, before Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg finally seized control in 2007....
‘Top Gun’ Returns To Theaters 2 Nights Only: April 30 & May 2 By Germain Lussier/April 19, 2011 12:30 pm EST Twenty-five years ago, I have the distinct memory of opening my local newspaper, turning to the movie page, and pointing to the words “Top Gun.” Even at six years old, the power of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer was hard to deny and my grandfather took me to see Maverick, Goose, Iceman, Slider and the rest in the soon-to-be-classic fighter pilot action film....
Casting Bits: Yvonne Strahovski In ‘I, Frankenstein’, David Oyelowo In ‘Lincoln’, Elle Fanning And Alessandro Nivola In ‘Bomb’ By Angie Han/Nov. 18, 2011 8:30 am EST Chuck actress Yvonne Strahovski is in final talks for I, Frankenstein, Stuart Beattie’s adaptation of the comic book by Kevin Grevioux. Aaron Eckhart leads the cast as Frankenstein’s classic monster, who in the present day goes by Adam and stands between humanity and the supernatural demons who would overtake them....
Charlie Day Could Travel To The ‘Pacific Rim’ By Germain Lussier/June 16, 2011 6:15 pm EST Anyone who has watched even 0ne episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia could tell that Charlie Day was going to be the break-out star. The hilarious, self-deprecating actor turned the success of that show into a roles in last year’s Going The Distance as well as next month’s highly anticipated comedy Horrible Bosses and now Variety reports he’s in talks to join Guillermo Del Toro’s robot vs....
Could John Hodgman End Up In ‘Ghostbusters 3’? Is Bill Murray Finally Out? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2011 11:25 am EST It’s been a week or two since the last Ghostbusters 3 comment/rumor installment, so here’s a new one to keep you going. John Hodgman, the columnist/actor/comedian who has been very vaguely linked to Ghostbusters 3 in the past, seemingly just gave up what seems to be at the very least a big description of one character in the script....
Directors Guild Nominates Allen, Fincher, Hazanavicius, Payne & Scorsese; Stiffs Spielberg By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2012 10:30 am EST It’s official: 2012 is the year we all learn to pronounce ‘Hazanavicius.’ That’s because Michel Hazanavicius, director of The Artist, is one of the five people nominated for the Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film by the Directors Guild of America (DGA). The DGA award nominees almost always mirror the Oscar ballot for Best Director, so between this and the PGA nominations announced last week we’ve basically got the final Oscar contention list locked down....
First Liam Neeson Fights Wolves; Now James Marsden, Thomas Jane & Billy Bob Thornton Battle A Bear By Angie Han/Jan. 19, 2012 2:00 pm EST Liam Neeson may need nothing more than broken minibar bottles to face off against a wild wolf in The Grey, but I doubt even he could go hand-to-hand with a 700-pound grizzly bear all by himself. No, to battle a creature that big, you’d need at least three people — like, say, James Marsden, Thomas Jane, and Billy Bob Thornton....
First Look: Kirsten Dunst In Carlos Cuarón’s ‘The Second Bakery Attack’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2010 3:37 pm EST Carlos Cuarón, brother of director Alfonso Cuarón, co-writer of Y Tu Mamá También and writer/director of Rudo Y Cursi, has directed a new short film. The Second Bakery Attack is based on the story of the same name by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, and stands as one of a very few adaptations of the author’s works....
Geek Deal: Rome Complete Series Blu-Ray For $69.99 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2010 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Product Description Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. But now, the city’s foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess…And two soldiers unwittingly become entwined in historical events, their fates inexorably tied to the fate of Rome itself....
