‘Sarah Palin – You Betcha!’ Teaser; The Other Sarah Palin Doc Goes To Toronto By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2011 10:00 am EST British documentarian Nick Broomfield has been on the film scene for years, and has made a few notable contributions such as the Spalding Gray movie Monster in a Box. But since the 1998 film Kurt and Courtney his documentary exposés have been characterized by sensationalism more than anything else....
‘Tetsuo: The Bullet Man’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 10, 2011 6:00 pm EST IFC Midnight Films has released the movie trailer for Shinya Tsukamoto’s first English-language film Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. The movie stars Eric Bossick as a young man raising a family in Tokyo who “flies into a terrible rage” after suffering a major tragedy, and “soon discovers that the power of his emotion transforms him into a strange, metallic monster....
‘The Crazies’ Director Breck Eisner In Early Talks To Helm ‘The Last Witch Hunter’; Vin Diesel Interested In Starring? By Adam Quigley/March 17, 2011 11:30 am EST A year ago, almost to the day, Summit attached Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted) to produce and possibly direct a new genre franchise kick-starter they’ve been setting up titled The Last Witch Hunter. (Guess what it’s about.) The film was one of many projects being stacked atop his very full roster, and as such, was more or less lost in the shuffle....
Bruce Willis To Star In Antoine Fuqua’s The Tomb By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2010 11:30 am EST Bruce Willis is in talks to star in Antoine Fuqua’s prison escape drama The Tomb. According to Deadline, Willis would play Ray Breslin, “the world’s foremost authority on structural security” who is framed and incarcerated in an escape-proof master prison he designed himself. Breslin is on a mission to escape, using MacGyver-like tricks, and find the person who put him behind bars....
Debunked: Captain Kirk Will Get A Love Interest In ‘Star Trek 2’ By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2011 12:30 am EST Update: This story has been debunked. Despite MTV’s report, the Facebook page is not an official facebook account of Chris Pine.Star Trek 2 is gearing up after JJ Abrams finishes on Super 8, and we’re beginning to actually learn some new details. Chris Pine has posted an update on his Facebook (found via MTV) page — in it, he reveals that his character as Captain James T Kirk will have a love interest in the sequel:...
Early Episodes Of Siskel & Ebert Shows Now Archived Online By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2011 7:00 am EST Over the past year and change, Roger Ebert has written a new chapter in his more than forty-year career as a major film critic. Now some of the earliest days of that career are online thanks to the Library of Congress and SiskelandEbert.org, which presents raw tape archives of the early episodes of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert’s film review shows that aired for decades, starting in 1975....
First Look: Johnny Depp And Armie Hammer In ‘The Lone Ranger’ By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2012 7:30 am EST For The Lone Ranger, Disney is working with tactics that are almost exactly opposite to what Warner Bros. did with its own new Johnny Depp vehicle, Dark Shadows. The Lone Ranger just started shooting, and we’ve already got the first image of Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer (The Social Network, J....
By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2011 5:15 pm EST And then Chronicle got a February 3 2012 date. That one is written by up and coming writer Max Landis, and has Big Fan editor Josh Trank set to direct. It follows “three Portland teens after they develop powers from exposure to a mysterious substance.” We don’t know much more, but will present any further info as it comes along.
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George Clooney Interested In Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Remake By Germain Lussier/Nov. 17, 2010 10:43 am EST That didn’t take long. Barely 12 hours since the announcement that Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh was in talks to direct an adaptation of the 1960s television show The Man From U.N.C.L.E, reports are coming out that his long time producing partner and leading man George Clooney is interested in starring in the film....
John Lasseter Says There Will Be No Marvel/Pixar Movie By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2011 2:00 pm EST Only minutes after Disney bought Marvel, the questions began: might we ever see Marvel Universe characters rendered by Pixar? The animation company has demonstrated an affection for Marvel-style heroes with The Incredibles, which with a bit of tweaking could easily have been a Fantastic Four story. And early statements on Disney’s part suggested the team-up might be a possibility....
MacGruber - What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/May 21, 2010 3:13 pm EST Please Note: This post will be sticky’d to the top of the site for the remainder of the weekend. Traditionally, Saturday Night Live spinoff movies are a dicey proposition. The good ones are few and far between. Most try to stay too close to the sketches that spawned them, and never make a case for spending ninety minutes with the characters....
Michael Stuhlbarg Cast In ‘Men In Black 3’ By Germain Lussier/April 13, 2011 4:30 pm EST Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder in the up and down world that is production on Barry Sonnenfeld’s 3D sequel Men in Black 3, a brand new cast member has been added during the production. Michael Stuhlbarg, best known for for his roles as New York gangster Arnold Rothstein on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and as the lead in the Coen Brothers’ 2009 film A Serious Man, has been cast as “Griffin,” a role that Sharlto Copley had previously been circling....
Mike Birbiglia & Ira Glass Respond To Joss Whedon’s ‘Sleepwalk With Me’ Boycott By Germain Lussier/Aug. 17, 2012 6:00 am EST Okay, I know it’s fake. I know Joss Whedon, Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass are all friends, but I don’t care. This fabricated Internet war between The Avengers and Sleepwalk With Me is really clever and fun. It started earlier this week when Whedon, director of the third largest film of all time The Avengers, called for a boycott to the delightful, Sundance audience award winner directed by Birbiglia and co-written by Birbiglia and Glass (This American Life)....
Miyazaki Planning Sequel To Porco Rosso By Russ Fischer/Aug. 22, 2010 11:40 am EST Hayao Miyazaki has never made a direct sequel to one of his films. But it looks like he might be about to embark on the first. A new interview with the director suggests that he has conceived a sequel to his sixth film, Porco Rosso, which featured an ace fighter pilot who has been cursed to live with the face of a pig....
New Images From ‘The Avengers’ Feature Stoic And Heroic Poses But Reveal No New Details By Russ Fischer/Jan. 23, 2012 12:30 pm EST We’re only a few months away from the release of Marvel’s The Avengers, which breaks new tentpole ground by bringing together characters from other big Marvel summer films, with a few new characters to round out the roster of an unlikely super-team. But despite the approaching release date, we still haven’t seen too much in the way of official materials....
New Super 8 Viral Details By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2010 1:37 pm EST The viral ad / backstory campaign for the J.J. Abrams film Super 8 kicked into gear in a big way earlier this week with a series of frames at the end of the teaser trailer that point obliquely to a website, ScariestThingIEverSaw. Quite a few small clues were available at the site right off, but the most significant ones led explorers to a countdown clock....
Over 800 Starz Titles To Leave Netflix Streaming This Week By Angie Han/Feb. 27, 2012 2:30 pm EST Well, February 29 marks the end of the companies’ existing contract, meaning that this week will be your last chance to stream Toy Story 3, Scarface, or Party Down on Netflix. More details — including a link to a list of the expiring Starz titles — after the jump. While the loss of the Starz Play titles represents a blow for Netflix, the streaming giant is now working to make its own deals with studios....
Peter Medak Directing Maria Bello And Stephen Dorff In Carjacked By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2010 2:45 pm EST The director Peter Medak has had an interesting career. While he’s done mostly TV for the past few years, he made a mark early on with the unusual Peter O’Toole film The Ruling Class. Since then he’s made a bit of crap here and there, as well as a few other good, or at least interesting movies, like The Changeling, The Krays and Romeo is Bleeding....
Robin McLeavy Cast As Mary Todd In ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 14, 2011 9:53 am EST When it comes the film adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, director Timur Bekmambetov is trying to make stars instead of cast them. The director of Wanted and Night Watch nabbed Benjamin Walker for the lead role, best known for small parts in Kinsey and Flags of our Fathers....
