Nine Films Make Oscar Foreign Film Shortlist By Germain Lussier/Jan. 19, 2011 11:00 am EST Next week, five films will be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Today though, from the list of 65 films that were originally announced as eligible, the Academy has released a shortlist of nine films that remain contenders, four of which will soon get the short end of the stick....
POTD: Awesome Inception Building Advertisements By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2010 11:00 am EST /Film reader BrianJSell sent me a photo of Warner Bros’ incredible building-sized advertisement for Christopher Nolan’s Inception found on Park Ave in New York City. Water appears to be pouring out of the building’s many windows. Another variation later showed up on Twitter (found via FirstShowing), featuring an image of a brick wall bending magically to reveal the offices inside....
Rosamund Pike Joins Simon Pegg And Nick Frost At ‘The World’s End’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2012 9:00 am EST This summer has been great for fans of Edgar Wright. A few people got to see his compelling test footage for Marvel’s Ant-Man, for one. For those who aren’t willing to wait for that, however, the third film of his loose, so-called ‘Blood and Ice Cream’ trilogy with Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz co-conspirators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost is finally moving forward....
Sherlock Holmes 2 Gets December 2011 Release Date, Rachel McAdams Will Return By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2010 11:43 am EST Warner Bros has announced a December 16th 2011 release date for the Guy Ritchie-directed sequel Sherlock Holmes 2, starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law. The film will be going head to head with the Brad Bird-directed Mission: Impossible IV, one week after Martin Scorsese’s 3D movie The Invention of Hugo Cabret , and one week before Steven Spielberg’s 3D performance capture adaptation of The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and Cameron Crowe’s adaptation of We Bought A Zoo....
By Angie Han/Aug. 28, 2012 10:00 am EST Meanwhile, Fortissimo will be making its first foray into digital streaming when it adds over 60 titles to Netflix’s offerings next month. Their catalog is more obscure, but arthouse and foreign film lovers will find plenty to enjoy, including Jiang Wen’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Devils on the Doorstep and Clara Law’s Rose Byrne-starring Goddess Of 1967. [Engadget, Deadline] Got an affection for British horror films?...
The JustifiedCast S3E12 - Coalition (GUEST: Joanna Robinson From Pajiba) By David Chen/April 4, 2012 7:49 pm EST Dave Chen chats with Joanna Robinson from Pajiba about this season’s 12th episode, “Coalition.” Many season-long questions are answered this episode. But are the answers satisfying? E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at justifiedcast@gmail.com. You can find every episode of the show at justifiedcast....
Watch The Teaser Trailer For The Universal-Acquired Horror Spec Script ‘Grim Night’ By Angie Han/Oct. 26, 2011 1:00 pm EST Universal has beat out several other studios in a bidding war for Grim Night, a spec by first-time feature writers Brandon Bestenheider and Allen Bey. The horror thriller centers around an annual day in which people all over the globe lock themselves in their homes in an effort to avoid violent, seemingly random attacks by terrifying creatures known as Grims....
William Fichtner Is The New Villain Of ‘The Lone Ranger’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 22, 2012 5:30 pm EST Dwight Yoakum is out and William Fichtner is in. The talented character actor who is perhaps best known for his short but sweet scene at the beginning of The Dark Knight has been cast as the villain in Gore Verbinski’s 2013 Disney action film Lone Ranger opposite Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp as the Ranger and Tonto....
X-Men: Development Of Fourth ‘X-Men’ Movie Leads To Fifth Film, Almost-New ‘First Class’ Images By Russ Fischer/March 28, 2011 5:00 pm EST We knew that a fourth film was in the early stages of development, and that it would continue what was left hanging in X-Men: The Last Stand. Though by the time the fourth film gets rolling, will we see a mostly new cast in the roles established in the three current X-Men films?...
‘Animaniacs’ South Park-Style Opening By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2011 5:00 am EST The Animaniacs Revival Project, a group on Facebook devoted to trying to convince Warner Bros. to produce more episodes of the animated television show Animaniacs, have recreated the opening sequence of Animaniacs. Created using Flash 8, the sequence is re-animated in South Park’s cut-out style by UK animator “Dr. Toonhattan”. I use to love this show, but who didn’t?...
‘Beyond The Game’ Trailer: An In-Production Documentary About The World Surrounding Video Games By Germain Lussier/Aug. 19, 2011 6:00 am EST With the amount of people making documentaries about awesome subjects right now, the film community needs to collectively cross their fingers so maybe we’ll get to see them completed and released. We recently wrote about Just Like Being There, which focuses on gig posters, My Other Me, which focuses on cosplay and Toy Masters, which is about He-Man....
‘Casino Royale’ And ‘Thor 2’ Villain Mads Mikkelsen Is The New Hannibal Lecter By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2012 5:00 pm EST Hannibal, the upcoming TV show from Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller that traces the early days of FBI Agent Will Graham and the serial cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter, has seemed like a dodgy proposition. The show explodes in detail the events that we’ve seen recounted in other forms (the novel and film Red Dragon, and possibly a bit of the film Hannibal Rising), and for the most part has sounded so far like an easy exploitation of Lecter’s iconic status....
‘Killers’ Director Robert Luketic To Make Heist Film ‘Brilliant’ By Russ Fischer/March 11, 2011 1:00 pm EST Briefly: Robert Luketic is one of those directors whose name a lot of people might not be able to place, though they very likely have an opinion about his films. He had a hit with Legally Blonde in 2001, but since then has made a quartet of painful stinkers: Monster in Law, 21, The Ugly Truth and Killers....
‘Prometheus’ Full Theatrical Trailer By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2012 4:56 pm EST The full-length trailer for Prometheus has just gone online, and caps off a day of great promo materials for Ridley Scott’s new film. Check it out below. Yes. That’s the way to do it. This trailer expands on the previous teasers, showing just enough to suggest, finally, the ways that Prometheus isn’t just fan-service for lovers of Alien. We get a sketchy outline of the film’s storyline, but are left with the sense that there is a lot left to discover....
‘Scary Movie’ Guys To Take Aim At ‘The Hunger Games’ With ‘The Starving Games’ By Angie Han/May 10, 2012 2:00 pm EST Getting spoofed by the Scary Movie guys is sort of a Hollywood rite of passage at this point, so maybe in some twisted way this counts as an honor. Except no, not really. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the geniuses who brought you Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, etc....
‘Warrior’ Trailer; MMA Action Movie Starring Tom Hardy And Joel Edgerton By Germain Lussier/April 7, 2011 2:00 pm EST Other than comedies, sports movies are probably ruined in trailers more than another other genre. Mostly that’s because sports movies are generally predictable and cheesy but, even with that caveat, the trailer for Warrior might cross the line. Directed by Gavin O’Connor and starring Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton, the film follows two brothers who simultaneously, for different reasons, enter into the world of professional mixed martial arts....
‘West Of Memphis’ – Peter Jackson Produced West Memphis Three Documentary Is The Best Yet [Sundance 2012] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 30, 2012 12:00 pm EST The Lord of the Rings saved the West Memphis Three. It sounds like a crazy statement but one of the many things a viewer takes from Amy Berg’s breathtakingly detailed and effective documentary West of Memphis is that co-producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh spent a lot of time, and even more money, to assist in the legal defense, new investigations and expert testimony which eventually lead to the 2011 release of the West Memphis Three, three men accused of murdering three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993....
A Nightmare On Elm Street - What Did You Think? By David Chen/April 30, 2010 7:00 pm EST Samuel Bayer’s A Nightmare on Elm Street is finally in theaters everywhere today. Personally, my enthusiasm for the project has waxed and waned over the years. I was wary when I first heard at Comic-Con that the project was under way, but when I had the chance to chat with the director a few weeks ago, I found myself getting more upbeat about the movie’s prospects....
Akiva Goldsman’s Directorial Debut ‘Winter’s Tale’ Moving Forward With Reduced Budget, Will Smith And Russell Crowe In Talks By Angie Han/Feb. 1, 2012 12:30 pm EST Though Akiva Goldsman has been behind some of Hollywood’s biggest hits of the ’90s and ’00s as a screenwriter and a producer, it’s only now that he’s gearing up to make his directorial debut. For the past few years, he’s been trying to get together an adaptation of Mark Helprin’s magical realism novel Winter’s Tale, and he finally got the green light from Warner Bros....
Benjamin Walker Cast As Beast In X-Men: First Class By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2010 5:25 pm EST Also, Entertainment Weekly confirms the earlier rumors that Michael Fassbender is in talks to join the film in the role of Erik Lensherr, who later becomes Magneto. Here is more information on Beast from Wikipedia: Despite his savage appearance, he is a brilliant man of the arts and sciences; he is a world authority on biochemistry and genetics, the X-Men’s medical doctor, and the science and mathematics instructor at the Xavier Institute (the X-Men’s headquarters and school for young mutants)....
