‘Pusher’ Remake Trailer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2012 3:00 pm EST It’s a strange world. Nicolas Winding Refn’s film Pusher was released in 1996 and didn’t make a big splash. Years later, when Refn was in dire financial straights he made two sequels, and the attention given to those films helped establish Refn in a much bigger way. Now he’s an internationally famous director and there are two remakes of Pusher out in the world....
‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ Trailer: Leatherface Gets In Your Face By Germain Lussier/Sept. 13, 2012 11:14 am EST The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series has spawned numerous sequels, remakes and even a prequel to the remake. Yet none of them told us what happened immediately after the terrifying conclusion of the 1974 original. Texas Chainsaw 3D begins right there, explaining the results of the first film and how that changed things in the future....
‘The Cabin In The Woods’ Teaser Poster Promises Twists And Turns By Germain Lussier/Dec. 1, 2011 5:00 pm EST Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard are both responsible for some pretty fantastic pieces of recent popular culture. Whedon, of course, made Firefly, Buffy and Angel, Goddard had a hand in Alias, Lost and Cloverfield and currently the former is making The Avengers and the other is writing Spielberg’s Robopocalypse. But, several years ago, the two paired up to write a movie called The Cabin in the Woods....
Alfred Molina And Frances O’Connor Join Jessica Biel In ‘Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2012 4:00 pm EST I’m gradually becoming more interested in Francesca Gregorini’s new film Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes. The film was once set to star Gregorini’s Tanner Hall star Rooney Mara — that film was made a bit before Mara was a big name — and now features Kaya Scodelario as a girl who gets involved in a very strange family situation....
Casting Bits: Amanda Seyfried In ‘Gone’; Michael Caine In ‘Mr. Morgan’s Last Love;’ Goran Visnjic In ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2011 4:00 am EST A lot of films are gathering momentum at the European Film Market, which has only just (formally) begun today, after a couple hectic days of pre-sales. One notable new film is Gone, which now has Summit on board to distribute and Amanda Seyfried set to star....
Disney Announces 30 Vault Movies On Blu-Ray Including ‘Ed Wood,’ ‘Pocahontas,’ ‘Arachnophobia,’ And ‘Newsies’ By Germain Lussier/April 17, 2012 5:00 pm EST Disney just announced that 30 of their classic movies, from animation to live action films produced by their subsidiaries, are all coming to Blu-ray by the end of 2012. Among the highlights are Adventures in Babysitting, Pete’s Dragon, Ed Wood, Pocahontas, Arachnophobia, Newsies, The Absent-Minded Professor, High Fidelity, The Aristocats, Dick Tracy, Sister Act, Evita, Father of the Bride, Ransom, The Color of Money and Cocktail....
Exclusive Clip: Matthew McConaughey Tells A Sickening Story In ‘Killer Joe’ By Germain Lussier/July 3, 2012 9:30 am EST That’s what you’re about to see in /Film’s exclusive clip from the shocking, NC-17 rated film version of the play by Tracy Letts. Killer Joe is about a young man played by Emile Hirsch who convinces his father (Thomas Hayden Church) to have a local policeman (the title character played by McConaughey) kill the mother of the family....
First Look: Helena Bonham Carter As Miss Havisham In Mike Newell’s ‘Great Expectations’ By Angie Han/Nov. 4, 2011 4:30 pm EST If you ask me, Helena Bonham Carter playing bitter Miss Havisham in Mike Newell’s Great Expectations has sounded like ideal casting from the very start. But if you had any doubt in your mind whatsoever as to Bonham Carter’s suitability, let these new photos put those worries to rest. Two new stills from the film have been released, showing Bonham Carter looking right at home as the shut-in of Charles Dickens’ classic tale....
Heroes Actress Elisabeth Röhm Joins Abduction By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2010 9:00 am EST Elisabeth Röhm has joined the cast of John Singleton’s Bourne-styled teen action film Abduction. The film stars The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner as a teenager named Nathan “who has long felt disconnected from his parents, and figures out why. That unleashes a chain of violent events.” After discovering his own baby picture on a missing persons website, he realizes a deep dark secret — his parents kidnapped him as a child and raised him as their own....
Jason Segel Considering A Children’s Adventure - With Puppets, Of Course - For Next Film By Angie Han/Nov. 9, 2011 5:00 am EST Jason Segel is probably most recognizable to moviegoers as the star of such R-rated comedies as Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (in which he did full-frontal male nudity before Michael Fassbender made it cool). But his next big screen appearance will be in Thanksgiving’s all-ages movie The Muppets, which he wrote with Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller, and it seems he plans to stick with the family-friendly fare for the time being....
LOL: “The Damon Legacy” By Angie Han/Aug. 3, 2012 3:00 pm EST Story-wise, it would’ve made perfect sense to end the Bourne series after Jason Bourne’s arc came to a graceful end in 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum. Money-wise, however, it’s another story. While all three films have done well at the box office, the Ultimatum blew the other two out of the water with a $442 million worldwide gross. There was simply no way Universal was going to let a franchise that lucrative lay fallow....
More Costume Test Photos From Tim Burton’s ‘Superman Lives’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 9, 2010 3:00 pm EST Each and every one of us probably has a bunch of websites we go to in the morning and, if you’re reading this, /Film is probably one of them. Thank you very much. It’s getting to a point now, though, where we might all have to add one more site to our daily surf schedule: Steve Johnson’s Facebook page....
Movie Trailer: Tiny Furniture By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 14, 2010 6:00 pm EST IFC Films has released a movie trailer for Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture, a mumblecore comedy about “a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life.” The film, written/directed and starring Dunham premiered at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival to mixed reviews, but she caught the eye of the right people — HBO have greenlit a coming-of-age pilot written by 24-year-old Dunham and produced by Judd Apatow....
Plot Description And Poster For Darren Lynn Bousman’s ‘11-11-11’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 10, 2010 12:30 pm EST Director Darren Lynn Bousman’s latest film, Mother’s Day, won’t be released until April 1 (though we saw it at Fantastic Fest) but the man behind Saw II, III and IV is just about ready to shoot his follow up. It’s called 11-11-11 and outside of the genre, title and release date, we haven’t really heard much about the movie....
Rumor: First Trailer For Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo Cabret’ Attached To New ‘Harry Potter’ By Germain Lussier/June 14, 2011 9:00 am EST The tweet pretty much says it all. As if you needed another reason to head to the theater on July 15, the first look at director Martin Scorsese’s 3D family film Hugo Cabret could possibly be attached to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. However, while the tweet looks legit, it should be considered a rumor....
Saoirse Ronan Reportedly Cast In Title Role In Emma Thompson’s ‘Effie’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2010 6:30 pm EST Two years ago, Emma Thompson and husband Greg Wise announced that they had penned a script about Victorian art critic, social thinker and poet John Ruskin, who had a strange and ultimately disastrous marriage to a woman named Effie Gray. The marriage was never consummated (she claimed impotency; he, ahem, demonstrated his virility in court) and after it was annulled she married his protege and bore many children....
Steve Martin And Alec Baldwin Could Reteam In Adam Shankman Comedy By Germain Lussier/Oct. 4, 2011 8:00 pm EST Everyone has heard of Martin and Lewis, but soon Martin and Baldwin might too become a duo synonymous with comedy. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin demonstrated great comedic chemistry as hosts of the Academy Awards, as well as in the hit film It’s Complicated, and even on Saturday Night Live. Now, New Line Cinema is looking to purchase a pitch that would team them up for a film, produced and directed by Adam Shankman, blending elements of Trading Places and Grumpy Old Men....
Trivia: How The Opening Shot Of ‘True Grit’ Came Together By David Chen/Feb. 9, 2011 2:20 pm EST The Coen Brothers’ True Grit begins with a long, enigmatic shot of a lit porch at night that slowly fades into view to reveal a dead body. It’s gorgeously done, and it sets the tone for the rest of the film. But True Grit almost had a significantly different opening sequence. I recently had the chance to chat with long-time Coen Brothers collaborator Roger Deakins, who was the cinematographer for True Grit....
Watch A Great Breakdown Of The Visual Effects Work In ‘Hereafter’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 18, 2011 8:00 am EST When the full suite of Oscar nominations were announced a few weeks ago, squatting smack in the middle of the final five for the Best Visual Effects category was Clint Eastwood’s film Hereafter. And a great many people went… ‘huh?’ There are obviously effects in the film, which recreates the Indonesian tsunami from 2004....
Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch Banners Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 22, 2010 4:53 pm EST Last week we posted the first photo from Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. Last night I posted some props and maquettes on display from the film spotted on the Comic-Con show floor (giving us a better look at our group of girl heros, a World War I masked zombie solider, and a mech suit featuring a pink bunny)....
