TV Finales: Three Alternative LOST Endings And 24’s Not-So-Happy Conclusion By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2010 8:35 pm EST I have a couple stories about the television series finales for 24 and Lost to end the week. First up, ABC has announced that three alternative final scenes were filmed for Lost, and will air on the Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost special later that night. Full press release after the jump....
VOTD: ‘Raiding The Lost Ark,’ A Magnificent Feature-Length ‘Raiders’ Documentary By Russ Fischer/Feb. 6, 2012 10:00 am EST Jamie Benning has made three excellent ‘making of’ documentaries — or ‘filmumentaries,’ as he calls them, about the original Star Wars trilogy. His efforts collate interviews and rare behind the scenes footage and photos in what are essentially the most detailed commentary tracks a fan could hope for. Benning followed his Star Wars docs with Raiding the Lost Ark, which tracks the creation of the first Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark....
Watch A Partial Trailer For John Carpenter’s New Film ‘The Ward’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 3, 2011 3:00 pm EST What is a trailer intro? Well, it is better than ‘announcement teaser,’ but not quite a full trailer. In this case, it looks like the first half of a trailer for the new film The Ward, starring Amber Heard, Jared Harris and Lyndsy Fonseca. Most times, I’d just wait for the full trailer to appear online, but this is a slightly special case, because The Ward is the first new theatrical feature from John Carpenter since 2001’s Ghosts of Mars....
Watch A Second Clip From ‘Super 8’ By Peter Sciretta/May 17, 2011 8:00 am EST Clip from Moviefone: Official Plot Synopsis: Directed by J.J. Abrams from his original script, the Amblin Entertainment and Bad Robot Production film is produced by Steven Spielberg, Abrams and Bryan Burk. The film stars Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, Gabriel Basson, Joel Courtney, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills and Amanda Michalka. In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident....
Watch How Johnny Depp Performed ‘Rango’ – Could This Be The Future Of How Animated Movies Are Made? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2010 1:00 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released a new behind the scenes featurette for Pirates of the Caribbean helmer Gore Verbinski’s computer animated feature film Rango. The new featurette, titled “Behind the Scenes: Natural Acting Experience”, takes a look at the techniques employed to (as Verbinski has explained) “capture and translate every aspect of Johnny Depp’s performance, using it to drive the computer-generated character in a way that has yet to be seen in an animated feature....
‘Bedevilled’ And ‘Hamill’ Lead AFI Fest Audience Award Winners By Germain Lussier/Nov. 12, 2010 10:00 am EST A huge hit and award winner at Fantastic Fest 2010, Bedevilled, as well as the inspiring tale of a deaf MMA fighter, Hamill are among the audience award winners at the 2010 AFI Fest in Hollywood, CA. Bedevilled, directed by Cheol-soo Jang, won the award in the New Auteurs section while Hamill, directed by Oren Kaplan, won in the Breakthrough category....
‘Take Shelter’ Director Jeff Nichols Adds Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard And Four More To ‘Mud’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 27, 2011 6:00 am EST Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols is prepping his third film, Mud, and he’s just added quite a few actors to the cast. Take Shelter star Michael Shannon is on board for a small role, and Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon, Joe Don Baker and Paul Sparks are all set to appear alongside leads Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Tye Sheridan in the film that started shooting yesterday in Arkansas....
‘The Great Gatsby’ Trailer - Baz Lurhmann And Leonardo DiCaprio Tackle The Ultimate American Tale By Angie Han/May 22, 2012 5:00 pm EST Ask anyone with even a passing familiarity of contemporary literature what the Great American Novel is, and you’re bound to hear the name The Great Gatsby more a few times. First published in 1924, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best loved work captured the zeitgeist of the country in the glittering ’20s, as well as the timeless elation and tragedy of the American Dream....
‘Transformers 3’ Filming On NASA’s Discovery This Week By Germain Lussier/Oct. 4, 2010 11:00 am EST We already knew that the space race between the United States and Russia was going to be a major plot point in Transformers 3. But leave it to director Michael Bay to take that fact to a whole new level. Next year’s blockbuster 3D sequel will be shooting on and around NASA’s Discovery space shuttle at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida beginning Wednesday....
‘World War Z’ Finds A DP In Robert Richardson, Could Begin Shooting As Early As This Month By Angie Han/April 13, 2011 8:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Which is great, because World War Z is just one of many, many, many zombie movies currently in production. World War Z looks like a project actually worth getting excited about, and I’m hoping we’ll get a chance to see it before zombie fatigue reaches peak levels....
Another Green Lantern Photo: Hal Jordan Talks With Carol Ferris By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2010 1:00 pm EST Before Comic-Con, Warner Bros released a bunch of photos from Green Lantern in Entertainment Weekly. Those photos quickly found their way online, here and here. One of the photos in the spread, for some reason or another, was never published online. It featured Blake Lively as Carol Ferris talking with Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan....
Beyond Cool Stuff: Olly Moss ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Posters From Mondo By Germain Lussier/Dec. 17, 2010 1:00 pm EST Earlier today, we posted an Olly Moss poster that you can’t buy. Little did we know that mere hours later, he’d reveal three that you can at least attempt to buy. And they are exquisite. The minimalist man behind some gorgeous Lost and Rolling Roadshow posters is the next artist in the Mondo Star Wars series and he’s not only created one, he’s created three 24 x 36 inch beauties for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi....
Bryan Singer Says (Surprise!) Hugh Jackman Is Not In ‘X-Men: First Class’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2010 1:55 pm EST The rumor kicked off when a Facebook status message filtered over to CBM. The status update said “I drove Hugh Jackman from X-Men To the Airport this morning. They are filming on Jekyll…Cool guy!” The idea that the character would show up didn’t make sense, but the X-Men timeline is convoluted enough that the rumor took hold anyway....
Casting Bits: Chloë Sevigny In ‘Lovelace’, Russell Brand In ‘Hauntrepreneur’ By Angie Han/Jan. 26, 2012 6:00 am EST Even as Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Lovelace loses one star with the exit of Demi Moore, it’s gained another as Chloë Sevigny boards the cast. Sevigny will play a feminist journalist working on a piece about Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried) for a men’s magazine. She joins a sprawling ensemble cast that also includes Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple, Debi Mazar, Wes Bentley, Romeo Brown, Robert Patrick, and Eric Roberts....
Casting Notes: James Gandolfini In ‘Great Hope Springs’; Vladimir Mashkov In ‘Mission: Impossible 4’; Role Set For Ron Perlman In ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2010 2:56 pm EST James Gandolfini is about to start work on Violet & Daisy but is lining up work to take on after that film wraps. One possibility is Great Hope Springs, the matrimonial drama that will re-team director Mike Nichols and Meryl Streep....
Chris Morgan Hired To Write ‘Fast And Furious 6’ As Part Of Production Deal By Germain Lussier/April 19, 2011 11:30 am EST Fast Five is still over a week from being released but its writer has not only been hired to write the sixth installment, he’s been given a brand new production deal. Chris Morgan, who wrote Wanted, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast and Furious and Fast Five in addition to the currently in production 47 Ronin starring Keanu Reeves, just signed a first-look-deal with Universal that’ll keep him writing and developing ideas at the studio for at least two years....
Cool Stuff: Kevin Tong’s ‘I Saw The Devil’ Mondo Poster By Germain Lussier/May 10, 2011 2:00 pm EST If you read our exclusive interview with Olly Moss, you know that even the artists are aware how difficult it is to acquire a Mondo print these days. It’s especially difficult when there are only 185 of the things but that’s the print run of Kevin Tong’s poster for Kim Ji-Woon’s bloody revenge film I Saw The Devil, which is now out on Blu-ray and DVD....
Cool Stuff: Minimus Prime T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2010 8:00 am EST What if Optiumus Primes’ alternative mode wasn’t a big mac truck but instead a gold cart? The latest t-shirt design from Glennz Tees imagines this possibility. This Transformers-parody tee is available in sizes Small to XXXL on GlennzTees.com. Check out the full design after the jump. Cool Stuff: Minimus Prime T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2010 8:00 am EST...
Cool Stuff: Scooby Doo/Transformers Mash-Up T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2010 12:11 am EST What if Scooby Doo’s Mystery Machine van was actually a robot in disguise? TeeFury’s T-Shirt of the day was designed by Captain Ribman, the same guy who made the popular"El Boba" Boba Fett as a Lucha Libre wrestler shirt. Titled Mystery Mech, the design imagines what a Scooby snack powered Autobot might look like. See the full design after the jump....
Details Revealed For Bryan Singer’s Failed ‘Star Trek’ TV Pitch By Angie Han/April 22, 2011 5:00 am EST A little while back, Star Trek: The Next Generation actor and director Jonathan Frakes revealed that director Bryan Singer (X-Men) once had a pitch for a Star Trek television show that never came to fruition. Singer is a well-known Trek fan, and thanks to some string-pulling by X-Men and Star Trek star Patrick Stewart, has even appeared in an uncredited role on Star Trek: Nemesis....
