Spike Lee Confirmed To Direct ‘Oldboy’ By Russ Fischer/July 11, 2011 12:00 pm EST Big day for Spike Lee. First he started shooting a new film, rumored to be called Red Hook Summer, and now Mandate Pictures has sent out a press release confirming the recent report that he’ll direct the remake of Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy. (Nice work on that scoop, Twitch!) Get the info from Mandate below. There isn’t a lot of new detail, but the confirmation is good....
Three ‘Avatar’ Sequels Will Shoot Back-To-Back-To-Back, According To Sigourney Weaver By Angie Han/June 26, 2012 9:00 am EST James Cameron has never been one to half-ass things. So if he really is only making Avatar movies (uh, plus Battle Angel Alita) from here on out, I suppose it makes sense that he’d dive right in by making three at once. The filmmaker has already indicated that he’s thinking of making three Avatar sequels instead of two as originally planned, and now star Sigourney Weaver has confirmed that not only will there be three more Avatars, they’re planning to shoot them back-to-back-to-back....
Titles: Emma Roberts Film ‘Homework’ Now Called ‘The Art Of Getting By;’ Woody Allen’s Next Called ‘The Wrong Picture’? By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2011 6:00 pm EST Now in an interview with Le Journal du dimanche, the director appears to say the name of the film is The Wrong Picture. That could be a working title, and we’re waiting for confirmation. No plot details accompanied that revelation, but that is also standard operating procedure for the guy....
Universal To Expand Wizarding World Of Harry Potter? Rupert Grint Confirms UK Leavesden Studios Will Be Turned Into Harry Potter Set Tour By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2010 7:00 am EST Two bits of non-movie Harry Potter news here. Recently there had been word that the massive Leavesden Studios in England, wherein much of the Harry Potter film series was filmed, would be turned into a Potter-themed museum and attraction. Now Rupert Grint has confirmed that report, albeit without providing too many details of how the conversion would happen, and what sets and environments would be preserved and/or presented....
‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’ International Trailer: Suddenly This Is A Very Serious Adventure By Russ Fischer/Nov. 25, 2011 11:00 am EST The first trailer for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island was all about fun family adventure. The film is the sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, the film that was ahead of the recent wave of 3D releases, and as such got away with some pretty shoddy effects....
‘Mars Needs Moms’ Trailer #3: “Stay Cool” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2011 3:30 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a third movie trailer for the Robert Zemeckis’ produced adaptation of Berkley Breathed’s children’s book Mars Needs Moms. This trailer is a minute and a half long and titled “Stay Cool.” The performance capture film is being directed by The Prince of Egypt/The Time Machine helmer Simon Wells and stars Seth Green, Joan Cusack and Dan Fogler....
‘Men In Black 3’ Teaser Posters [Updated With High-Res Images] By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2011 12:30 pm EST Here are the first teaser posters for Sony’s Men in Black 3, the sequel that was strangely split into two parts while shooting. The movie brings Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones back into the alien-policing fold while also serving up a time-travel storyline that features Josh Brolin and a host of strange cameos....
‘The Adventures Of Tintin:’ Sample John Williams’ Score And The First Review By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2011 5:00 pm EST Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin premieres in Paris next weekend, and on October 26 will start to hit theaters in the UK and Europe. But you don’t have to wait two more weeks for some elements of the film. Previews of John Williams’ score have hit the internet, so you can hear a few seconds of his classic-sounding adventure themes....
‘The Bourne Legacy’ - What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2012 6:21 pm EST One of the final big films of summer 2012 is Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy, which casts Jeremy Renner as a new super agent brought up in a secret government program similar to the one that created Jason Bourne. The movie also stars Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, and Oscar Isaac. It has some of the frenetic action of the previous Bourne films, but doesn’t always hit the heights of the existing trilogy, especially the latter two films directed by Paul Greengrass....
‘The Woman’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2011 4:30 pm EST This one isn’t pretty. Lucky McKee’s exploitation film The Woman earned instant notoriety this past January at Sundance when a man was caught on video excoriating the film as he stormed out of a screening. That probably meant his reaction was just as the director hoped. The Woman, after all, is about a family man who finds a feral woman in the woods and decides to take her home and chain her up for his own purposes....
‘William Shatner’s Get A Life’ Trailer: The Original Captain Kirk Profiles ‘Star Trek’ Fans By Russ Fischer/July 10, 2012 5:00 am EST Finally, a documentary has been made that takes the ball from Saturday Night Live’s old ‘Get a Life!’ sketch and runs with it. William Shatner hosts a documentary called, appropriately, William Shatner’s Get a Life, in which the actor looks at the intense fandom surrounding Star Trek. It looks, as you might expect, to be somewhere between loving and smirking....
But What Paz De La Huerta Really Wants To Do Is Direct By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2011 7:00 am EST And she will! Or, more to the point, she already is directing. We just had quite the, uh, view of the actress thanks to the teaser image for Nurse 3D, in which she plays a nurse. In 3D. Who is naked. It wasn’t the nudity in the image that was surprising — this is an actress from whom clothes flee like runners from the starting gun....
Casting Bits: Dominic Cooper In ‘Motor City;’ Dennis Christopher In ‘Django Unchained;’ Callan McAuliffe In ‘Paradise Lost’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2011 6:00 pm EST Fresh from his turns in Captain America and The Devil’s Double, Dominic Cooper is getting bigger roles. One is looking like the lead part in Motor City, the revenge thriller that Joel Silver is producing and Albert Hughes will direct. The film is about “a felon who, after being released from prison, begins tracking down the men who framed him....
Casting Bits: Glenn Close And Elizabeth Olsen In ‘Thérèse Raquin’, David Schwimmer In ‘The Iceman’, Max Irons In ‘The Host’ By Angie Han/Nov. 14, 2011 5:00 am EST Hot off two of the year’s most buzzed-about performances in Albert Nobbs and Martha Marcy May Marlene, Glenn Close and Elizabeth Olsen have signed on to star in Thérèse Raquin. Charlie Stratton is writing and directing the erotic thriller, which is based on a 19th century novel and play by Émile Zola....
Casting Notes: Anthony Mackie In ‘Man On A Ledge’; Bob Hoskins And Willem Dafoe In ‘Transmission’; ‘Three More For ‘Shark Night 3D’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 2, 2010 11:08 am EST Anthony Mackie is in talks to join Man on a Ledge, the cop thriller that already has Sam Worthington on board. The story kicks off with “a female psychologist and a former NYPD officer who threatens to jump to his death,” which sounds pretty eh....
Cool Stuff: Excite Lightbikes T-Shirt By Germain Lussier/Dec. 17, 2010 8:00 am EST Two of the coolest and most iconic bikes from the 1980s have to be from the movie TRON and the Nintendo game Excitebike. Who doesn’t love light trails and short, steep ramps? Well someone had the brilliant idea to combine the two into this shirt. It’s a little pricey at $24.99 but still incredibly cool and available in either blue or black....
First Look: Robert De Niro In ‘Buried’ Director’s ‘Red Lights’ By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2011 10:15 am EST Multiple choice question: is this photo of Robert De Niro as he does black and white Twin Peaks cosplay, or a still from his new film Red Lights? Sadly (for those who want to see him dress up as the Little Man From Another Place) it is the latter. The film is from Rodrigo Cortes (Buried) and also stars Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy and Elizabeth Olsen, who made huge waves in Sundance for her roles in Martha Marcy May Marlene and Silent House....
Fourth ‘Mission: Impossible’ Will Shoot In Dubai By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2010 11:33 am EST Briefly: A few weeks of the shooting schedule for the fourth Mission: Impossible film will take place in Dubai, the emirate’s media office said today. “The latest installment of the globally renowned action thriller ‘Mission: Impossible,’ starring Tom Cruise, will be filmed in Dubai within the coming few weeks,” the office announced. Note that the film is still being referred to as the latest installment of the franchise — there’s no final title at this point....
Geek Deal: The Wizard Of Oz Two-Disc DVD 70th Anniversary Edition For Only $5.49 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2011 6:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Infographic: How ‘Star Wars’ Changed The World By Germain Lussier/May 10, 2011 6:00 am EST The sky is blue, grass is green and Star Wars is influential. Three totally undeniable statements of fact. And while you need science to figure out exactly why the sky is blue or grass is green, to figure out why Star Wars is influential you can now simply look at this chart. Made back in 2005, Wired writer Michelle Devereaux created a highly detailed graphic showing how almost every single of Star Wars, from its technical advances, story points and even alumni, affected the world after it....
