First Look: The Seedy Characters Of ‘Raging Bull II’ By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2012 7:00 am EST It’s probably unfair to judge Raging Bull II — which, yes, is really happening — based only on these two early production stills. But stacked up against Martin Scorsese’s original movie, which used a stark black and white aesthetic to brutal effect, these pics don’t have a lot of juice, and that doesn’t flatter the production....
First Looks: ‘Drive’ And ‘Lock-Out’ By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2011 3:07 pm EST The show now known as CinemaCon, formerly ShoWest, is in full swing in Las Vegas. The marketplace is full of first looks at a great many films we’ll be seeing over the next year, and we’ve got images from two of them. One is among my most highly-anticipated films of the year: Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling....
First Official Look At Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz And Leonardo DiCaprio In ‘Django Unchained’ By Russ Fischer/April 26, 2012 5:30 am EST Doesn’t Leonardo DiCaprio look great as a villain? That’s Leo as Calvin Candie, the slaver antagonist of Quentin Tarantino’s new film Django Unchained, in which the character is opposed by a German bounty hunter and a freed slave, played by Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx. That image is one of two fantastic official first looks at the characters; the other, featuring the heroes, is below....
Guy Pearce, Seymour Cassel And More To Play ‘Mis-Fits’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2010 12:19 pm EST There aren’t enough Guy Pearce movies. You can see him right now in a small but powerful part in the Australian crime picture Animal Kingdom, and he’ll soon show up in the remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. And now he’s been cast, along with four other actors, in a comedy called Mis-Fits....
January Jones Talks About Emma Frost’s CGI Mutant Form In ‘X-Men: First Class’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2011 7:00 am EST Add a couple more tiny bits of info to the pile, as January Jones, who moves from Mad Men into the white boots of Emma Frost, has talked on the record about a few aspects of the film. The most notable bit of info to come out of the chat between January Jones and the LA Times is the nugget that Emma Frost’s mutant ‘diamond’ form will be created entirely with CGI....
By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2011 2:30 pm EST Briefly: Jon Spaihts immediately became a writer to watch when he was tapped to write an Alien prequel for Ridley Scott, after his scripts Shadow 19 and Passengers drew interest from studios and actors. Now his Alien prequel has become Prometheus in the hands of Damon Lindelof and Mr. Scott, so it seems it’s time for Mr. Spaihts to move on. So Jon Spaihts is continuing his relationship with Jerry Bruckheimer, for whom the writer is already tapped to pen an adaptation of the graphic novel World War Robot....
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, And Nick Offerman To Get Totally ‘Smashed’ By Angie Han/Sept. 21, 2011 12:30 pm EST We write up casting stories several times a day here at /Film, but it’s not every day we come across an ensemble cast as intriguing as this one. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Nick Offerman, and Octavia Spencer are set to team up for the indie marriage dramedy Smashed, from director James Ponsoldt (Off the Black)....
New ‘Dark Shadows’ Image Features Eva Green; Screenwriter Promises A Heightened, Grand, Absurdist Story By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2012 10:00 am EST Here’s a new image from the other Tim Burton movie that will be out in the first half of 2012. While we just saw a trailer for his producing effort Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, this is for the movie he directed after many years of talking about the project: Dark Shadows....
Piranha 3D Producer Responds To James Cameron’s Dismissal Of The Film By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2010 3:31 pm EST We got a taste of the James Cameron of old this week when he told Vanity Fair that Piranha 3D “is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3-D. Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3-D horror films from the 70s and 80s....
Predators Director Nimrod Antal Wants To Make Paraffin Next By Russ Fischer/July 2, 2010 5:26 pm EST Predators, the new film from producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimród Antal, is just about to open. So, now that the film is in the can, with that can ready to be opened by slightly-suspecting audiences like a mark unscrewing the old ‘surprise snake’ gag, what’s next for Antal? There’s the possibility of a sequel, but the film he wants to make next is a dystopian thriller called Paraffin....
Producer Offers Update On Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ By Germain Lussier/March 23, 2012 10:00 am EST After a barrage of casting news followed by some very basic set photos, all’s been quiet on the Django Unchained front for some time now. That’s because writer/director Quentin Tarantino has been working hard with his amazing cast (Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Don Johnson, Christoph Waltz, Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony LaPaglia) to complete the film, which is aimed at a December 25 release date....
R-Rated Piranha 3D Footage Won’t Be Screened At Comic Con By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2010 4:00 am EST When the Comic Con schedules started to be released prior to this past weekend, the Friday lineup included a panel for The Weinstein Company and Piranha 3D. But the listing has since been pulled from the schedule, leading suspicious onlookers to throw around a silly word: ‘banned.’ Turns out the situation isn’t as dire as all that....
Simon West To Direct Protection With Dwayne Johnson By Russ Fischer/April 29, 2010 9:09 am EST The action thriller Protection was once to have starred Paul Walker, then Clive Owen before he bowed out and Dwayne Johnson stepped in. Now, after the actor’s shuffle, it has a new director. But the new director is actually the old director: Simon West, who was on the project when Walker was the star, then exited, has returned to direct the film....
The ‘Romancing The Stone’ Remake Is Now A TV Series By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2011 6:00 am EST Briefly: We recently heard rumors that the remake of Romancing the Stone that was announced some time ago is still kicking, possibly with Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl in the Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner roles. I wouldn’t bet too much on seeing that version, however. Instead, think about putting your money on a version from NBC, as the network has bought into a TV adaptation of the film that Shawn Levy may direct....
Theme Park Bits: Transformers: The Ride 3D Debuts In Hollywood, Universal Studios Planned For South Korea [Video] By Angie Han/May 28, 2012 7:00 am EST /Film boss Peter Sciretta was lucky enough to get an early preview of Universal Studios Hollywood’s new Transformers The Ride 3D last month, but for the rest of us, this weekend marks the long-awaited debut of the attraction. General Glenn Morshower (played by Glenn Morshower) led the grand opening ceremony, which doubled as a set-up for the premise of the ride....
Transformers 3 Visual Effects Artistry Deconstructed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 10, 2012 1:30 pm EST It’s easy for some to completely write of Transformers: Dark of the Moon as a forgettable Summer big budget blockbuster, but I think it would be wrong to overlook the technical achievements of some of the awesome action sequences. ILM and Digital Domain have both released videos breaking down all the work that went into the action you saw on screen....
VOTD: 50 Christmas Movie Spoilers In 3 Minutes By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2010 6:00 am EST In honor of the upcoming Christmas holiday, our friends the Fine Brothers have filed the latest episode of their popular “Spoiler” series — 50 Christmas Movie Spoilers in 3 Minutes, in one take. You might remember that we’ve featured their videos 100 Movie Spoilers in 4 minutes, Spoiling Every Best Picture Winner in Oscar History, 50 spoilers of 2009 in 4 minutes, 100 Horror Movie Spoilers in 5 Minutes, and 50 Disney Spoilers in 3 Minutes....
VOTD: Genrocks’ Harry Potter “Through The Pensieve” By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2011 6:00 am EST Genrocks, the creator of acclaimed 270-movie 6-minute video compilation Filmography 2010, has returned with a look back at the Harry Potter film franchise. Harry Potter “Through the Pensieve” is a 4-minute video retrospective featuring clips from all eight films set to a mashup of John Williams’ “Hedwig’s Theme”, dredg’s “Stamp of Origin: Take a Look Around” and “Down to the Cellar”....
Watch Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Ben Kingsley And More Discuss ‘The Magic Of Hugo’ By Angie Han/Feb. 9, 2012 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The studio has released a six-minute featurette titled “The Magic of Hugo,” which goes behind the scenes to look at the hows and whys of making the picture. Scorsese, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, production designer Dante Ferretti, producer Graham King, visual effects supervisor Robert Legato, composer Howard Shore, and stars Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen all appear to discuss their work on the project, and to talk about what made the film so special....
‘Lord Of The Rings’ Extended Edition Blu-Ray Box Set Revealed By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2011 9:10 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. And here are all the details of the set: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Over 30 minutes of footage incorporated into the theatrical release of the film Commentary by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens Commentary by the design team...
