By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2010 3:00 pm EST “The Michael Bayifier” is a website which lets you transform your photos to make them appear as if they were directed by Michael Bay (Transformers, The Rock, Armageddon). Unfortunately the site doesn’t include a filter to transform the background into one of Bay’s infamous platinum sunsets. via neatorama via neatorama
Michael Bay And James Cameron Talk 3D: The Full Discussion By Germain Lussier/May 26, 2011 10:09 am EST If you’ve been waiting for the full video of Michael Bay and James Cameron getting all geeky and talking about 3D, we’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is, that video has been released. The bad news is that it’s only about 15 minutes long. Even so, it’s a jam-packed 15 minutes filled with positive and negative spins on 3D and discussion of how Cameron helped Bay decide to bring 3D to the $195 million third Transformers film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which opens June 29....
Robert Downey, Jr. Voicing Mr. Peabody In DreamWorks’ ‘Peabody And Sherman’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2011 10:45 am EST Briefly: Here’s a new project from DreamWorks Animation that might offset the studio’s planned glut of sequels. Just announced is Peabody and Sherman, which will feature Robert Downey, Jr. providing the voice of the brilliant scientist and talking dog Mr. Peabody, originally introduced on The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.Jeffrey Ventimilia and Joshua Sternin (The Simpsons, Yogi Bear) wrote the script, which will see Peabody and Sherman using the WABAC machine to travel through time, the better to introduce Mr....
Sony Animation To Develop ‘Instant Karma’ As Live-Action/CGI Hybrid By Adam Quigley/April 28, 2011 6:00 am EST After being in development for almost a decade, Instant Karma is finally on its way to seeing the light of day. The project has just about run the gamut of movie studios, starting off at DreamWorks Pictures before moving on to Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, and then eventually landing at New Line Cinema in 2003....
Steven Spielberg Says ‘Jaws’ Blu-Ray On The Way, No Digital Corrections By Germain Lussier/June 4, 2011 9:30 am EST When DVD began permeating the culture a little over a decade ago, Steven Spielberg was famously one of the last filmmakers to embrace the format. He’s shown a similar aversion to Blu-ray with only a handful of his films (Saving Private Ryan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, War of the Worlds) available on the high definition discs....
Street Fighter Legacy Teaser Trailers By David Chen/May 4, 2010 4:32 am EST Over the past two decades, Street Fighter fans have been subjected to at least two, terrible live-action adaptations of the acclaimed video game series: Street Fighter, with Jean Claude Van Damme, and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li with Kristin Kreuk. In fact, the latter was considered one of the worst films of 2009. Will we ever get a decent Street Fighter movie?...
SXSW Midnight Features And Short Programs Announced By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2011 12:47 pm EST The fill list of features is after the break. The shorts program is massive, and you can find it at the SXSW website. MIDNIGHTERS Scary, funny, sexy, controversial – provocative after-dark features for night owls and the terminally curious. Films screening in Midnighters are: Attack The Block (UK-England) Director & Writer: Joe Cornish A funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of alien monsters....
The RZA Is Now Shooting ‘The Man With The Iron Fist’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2011 9:00 am EST I’d love to recap the meetings that got Universal to write a check to the RZA to the tune of twenty million bucks so the music producer turned actor turned sapling green director could go to China and make a kung-fu movie. Did he fill the boardroom with mind-altering gas, a la the ’60s Batman TV series, or what?...
TV Bits: Donald Glover On ‘Girls’, Jesse Plemons On ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Arrow’ Trailer By Angie Han/May 18, 2012 3:00 pm EST Today’s TV Bits contains two noteworthy pieces of guest casting, as Troy Barnes goes to Brooklyn and Landry Clarke dips into the meth trade. Plus, there’s a new trailer for The CW’s Green Arrow series, and it piles on both drama and action. Hit the jump to read on....
WB Sets Release Dates For ‘Dark Shadows,’ ‘Journey 2’ And ‘Rivals’ By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2011 10:35 pm EST After years of talk, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are finally making a film version of the ’60s supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows, and Warner Bros. has just given the film a plum date: it will open on May 11 2012. So one year from now, you’ll be able to join the argument over whether the film is the latest step for one of the most significant director/actor teams of the past two decades, or only another predictable product of Tim Burton’s well-documented idiosyncrasies....
Werner Herzog’s ‘Into The Abyss’ Continues As TV Series ‘On Death Row’ By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2012 11:00 am EST As controversial as the death penalty is, I think the one thing we can all agree on is that it’s a huge, complicated topic. Too big, definitely, for just one film, which may be why Werner Herzog is now expanding his upcoming death row documentary Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life to a limited television series titled On Death Row, which will air on the cable chanel Investigation Discovery later this year....
‘Ceremony’ Poster By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2011 7:00 am EST Magnolia Pictures has released a movie poster for Max Winkler’s feature directorial debut Ceremony, which premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Check it out right now after the jump. I heard the movie trailer will hit in the next couple days — so stay tuned for that. Poster thanks to IMPAwards. The 27-year old USC film school graduate and son of television actor Henry Winkler (Fonzie on Happy Days) is probably best known as the director of the popular Clark and Michael web series which starred Michael Cera and Clark Duke....
/Film Video Interview: ‘Total Recall’ Director Len Wiseman Talks Ambiguity, Action, Art, 3D & ‘Independence Day 2’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 3, 2012 6:00 pm EST When you’re sitting with the director of a major Hollywood blockbuster, it’s never awkward if your interpreation of the film is different than theirs. Oh wait. Yes, it is. It makes for an entertaining interview, though, and that’s what you’re about to see as I sat down with Len Wiseman, the director of the Total Recall remake that opens today....
“Illegal” Machete Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2010 12:51 am EST Head on over to AICN to watch the trailer now:
‘Shame’ Trailer - Will McQueen And Fassbender’s Second Collaboration Live Up To The Hype? By Angie Han/Oct. 14, 2011 7:30 am EST The first one has finally dropped today, and while it’s obviously impossible to tell whether a movie is good just by seeing a two-minute video, the trailer, at least, looks utterly compelling. Watch the video (which, unlike the movie, is SFW) after the jump. [via The Playlist] Shame centers around a New Yorker named Brandon (Fassbender) who avoids intimacy but is compulsively addicted to sex....
‘Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark’ Delayed A Sixth Time By Germain Lussier/March 11, 2011 6:30 pm EST For the sixth time, Spider-Man will be missing his cue. On Friday, producers officially announced that their now infamous musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, would be shut down from April 19-May 11 before reopening with all eyes set on a new opening date of June 14, a three-month delay. This is the culmination of several weeks of rumors and whisperings surrounding new creative voices influencing the show as well as the recent departure of director Julie Taymor, who had been working on Spider-Man for the better part of the decade....
‘Thor’ - What Did You Think? By David Chen/May 7, 2011 6:44 am EST Summer’s superhero movie season kicks off this weekend with the release of Kenneth Branagh’s Thor. In my opinion, the film initially represented a risky bet for the studio. Its task was to create a brand new mythology, complete with magical elements, and introduce it to a public already (or about to be) overloaded on superheroes. Moreover, Branagh wasn’t exactly well-known for his direction of blockbuster action films, nor was Chris Hemsworth well-known as a leading man that could carry a huge film, prior to today....
Arnold Schwarzenegger Confirmed For ‘Cry Macho,’ Rumored For ‘Twins’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/May 5, 2011 4:30 pm EST Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to the screen got off to a rocky start with The Governator, but he was a possible candidate for a couple of projects, like Kim Ji-Woon’s The Last Stand, that might push him out of the standard Arnie zone. But it looks like The Last Stand is off the list, because Arnold is now confirmed to star in Cry Macho, reports of which started to appear last week....
Cowboys & Aliens: 12 High Resolution Photos By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2010 2:30 pm EST Earlier today Universal Pictures unleashed the teaser trailer for Jon Favreau’s big screen adaptation of Cowboys & Aliens. If you missed it, you can watch it here. The comic book adaptation crosses the classic Western with the alien-invasion genre, and stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano and Noah Ringer....
Diane Kruger, Eva Mendes And Others Reading For ‘Total Recall’ Remake By Germain Lussier/March 22, 2011 12:00 pm EST Behind every man on a mental mission to Mars is a good woman. Or, in the case of Douglas Quaid in Total Recall, a good and a bad woman. As director Len Wiseman preps his Summer 2012 remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger/Paul Verhoeven film set to star Colin Farrell in the lead, the next big step is bringing those women to life....
