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Geek Deal: Spaceballs Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo For Only $11.99 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2011 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Halo: Reach Sells $200 Million On Opening Day, Video Games To Overtake Movies? Not Even Close… By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2010 12:00 pm EST Microsoft reported today that the new Halo game Halo: Reach generated more than $200 million worth of sales in the U.S. and Europe on its launch day. $200 million is a lot of cash, bigger than the opening of any Hollywood film in the history of cinema… right?...

Joe Carnahan Says His ‘Death Wish’ Remake Will Star Frank Grillo, Set In A ‘Drive’/‘Collateral’-Style Los Angeles By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2012 4:30 pm EST Yesterday it was announced that Joe Carnahan would write and direct a remake of the 1974 revenge classic Death Wish. Today, Carnahan has confirmed the report, and clarified his vision on the new film. Carnahan tweeted the following: Guys. I’m doing ‘Death Wish.’ But this version is a re-imagining of the book and set in present day Los Angeles....

Kevin Costner Offered Kenneth Branagh’s Jack Ryan Reboot, Luc Besson-Produced ‘Three Days To Kill’ By Angie Han/Aug. 7, 2012 6:00 am EST For a while we had hopes that Kevin Costner would make his career comeback with an attention-grabbing turn in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, until scheduling issues sadly forced him to turn down the gig. But no matter: It looks like Costner’s been keeping plenty busy getting back on top even without that part....

LOL: Graph Predicts M Night Shyamalan Will Be Responsible For The First Ever Negative Tomatometer Rating By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2010 8:00 am EST Someone has uploaded the above graph to Reddit, showing the progressively worse and worse tomato-meter ratings of filmmaker M Night Shyamalan’s movies on Rotten Tomatoes. The graph hypotheses that if things continue on path, Night will direct a movie that gets the first ever negative movie score in Rotten Tomatoes history....

New ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ Teaser Riffs On ‘The Artist,’ Despite Young Audiences Being Unfamiliar With ‘The Artist’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2012 5:00 am EST The conceit at work here is a big riff on The Artist. Yet despite garnering awards and a lot of headline attention as the movie races towards a likely Oscar win this Sunday, there are still a great many people, I think, who have only the barest idea of what The Artist is....

New Image From ‘The Hobbit’ Shows Bilbo In The Depths Of Mirkwood By Russ Fischer/Jan. 16, 2012 8:30 am EST So far, most of what we’ve seen from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been more bright and colorful than footage from Peter Jackson’s previous films in The Lord of the Rings series. The stills and first trailer emphasize that this is a film based on a decidedly more easygoing story than LotR....

Paramount To Release James Cameron And Andrew Adamson’s Cirque Du Soleil Movie By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2012 10:30 am EST James Cameron likes to work with the biggest possible canvas in whatever narrative mode he’s in, as evidenced by the expanding scope of his Terminator films, then movies like Titanic and Avatar. As far as physical performance goes, you don’t get much bigger than Cirque Du Soleil (as far as name recognition goes, at least) and so Cameron working with the company seems pretty natural....

Plot Synopsis For John Stockwell’s Next Film ‘Roadkill’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2010 9:00 am EST John Stockwell is a director who has consistently disappointed me throughout his career. Stockwell showed promise with his 2001 film Crazy/Beautiful, starring Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez, but has since made a series of clunkers: Blue Crush, Into the Blue and Turistas. His last film, Middle of Nowhere, impressed me a bit when I saw it at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival....

POTD: The Cast Of ‘The Hobbit’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2011 3:54 pm EST photo credit: Dominion PostThe Hobbit is set to begin shooting on March 21 at Stone Street Studios in New Zealand, but the entire cast assembled in the country about a month ago. Above is your first image of the collected actors. That’s Martin Freeman (foreground right) and thirteen men of varying size who will, through practical and digital trickery, become the company of dwarves that hires Bilbo Baggins (Freeman) to be their burglar, the better to reclaim their ancestral treasure from the dragon Smaug....

Ron Howard Talks About ‘The Dark Tower’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 17, 2010 4:00 pm EST In the past week, as Ron Howard starts to promote The Dilemma, I’ve seen a couple threadbare sets of quotes in which the filmmaker talks about his upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s sprawling fantasy/horror/‘unified field theory of genre’ series The Dark Tower. I say ’threadbare’ because he hasn’t opened up at all about how he, Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman actually plan to put the books on screen....

Sony To Stop Paying For 3D Glasses In 2012; Will Audiences Pay Extra To See ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ In 3D? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2011 7:30 am EST As 3D movie attendance declines and questions are flying about 2011’s summer being more like the beginnings of the death throes for the format than the explosion of 3D, Sony is angering exhibitors by forcing them to shoulder one more budget item....

Stan Lee Describes His Cameo In ‘The Amazing Spider-Man,’ Details Action Setpiece In The Process By Russ Fischer/May 23, 2011 1:43 pm EST Stan Lee has an entire side career making cameos in most of the movies featuring Marvel Comics characters. So the idea that he has a cameo in Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man is no surprise. But over the weekend he gave up details of the cameo, and in doing so he briefly described one of the big action setpieces in the film....

The Next Narnia Film Will Be ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2011 4:00 am EST Michael Flaherty of Walden Media told The Christian Post (via ComingSoon), He also said of The Magician’s Nephew, While the novel was published sixth in the series, events depicted within actually take place before the story in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. (The Silver Chair, meanwhile, was published fourth but in story chronology takes place sixth....

Universal Picks Up Oliver Stone’s ‘Savages,’ Cans Kenny Ortega’s ‘In The Heights’ By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2011 1:00 pm EST Oliver Stone’s adaptation of the novel Savages, in which two pot-dealing friends are roped into working for the drug cartel that kidnaps their young female companion, is becoming a hot property. The combination of a young cast, a long-established major director and lively material tends to do that. Multiple studios were in contention for distribution rights, and Universal has taken the brass ring....

VIDEO BLOG: Reactions To ‘The Muppets,’ ‘The Avengers,’ ‘John Carter,’ ‘Oz The Great And Powerful,’ ‘Wreck-It Ralph,’ ‘Brave’ [D23 Expo] By Germain Lussier/Aug. 22, 2011 1:00 pm EST The worst thing about Disney not allowing any cameras or phones into their big movie panel at last weekend’s D23 Expo is, instead of seeing gorgeous images from The Muppets, The Avengers, John Carter, Oz The Great And Powerful, Wreck-It Ralph and Brave, you get three film-bloggers on a rooftop....

VOTD: Everything You Need To Know About The Saw Movies In 6:66 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2010 6:00 am EST In honor of the upcoming release of Saw 3D, the final film in the Saw series (or is it?), Screenrant’s Mike Eisenberg editted together a video overview to explain everything you need to know about the first six films in just 6 minutes and 66 seconds (okay, that’s technically 7 minutes and 6 seconds, but that’s a less marketable title)....

Wayne Kramer To Direct ‘Ecstasia’ By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2011 11:30 am EST Wayne Kramer is another director who has jumped from one project to another over the past year or so. In the wake of Crossing Over in 2009, he was once a possibility to make Kane & Lynch, but he passed on that project. He was possibly going to make a film about Pretty Boy Floyd, but that hasn’t gone anywhere yet....

‘Deadpool’ Has A Director – Visual Effects Specialist Tim Miller By Germain Lussier/April 8, 2011 3:52 pm EST Deadpool himself is one of the most popular secondary characters in the Marvel universe, both for his attitude and awesome costume, which was mostly jettisoned when he made his feature film debut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It’ll be interesting to see how this films deal with the events in that movie as it touched upon the character’s origin as a sort of follow up to Wolverine referred to as Weapon XI....

‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Going In For 3D Reshoots? By Russ Fischer/May 24, 2012 11:30 am EST The most surprising news yesterday was that Paramount has pushed G.I. Joe: Retaliation back from a June 29 release this year to March 29 2013, to allow time to post-convert the film to 3D. There was plenty of spin applied to the news, but the general supposition is that the film isn’t particularly good, and Paramount wants a less competitive release date as well as time to tweak the film....