By Russ Fischer/Sept. 14, 2011 11:00 am EST So who (or what) is The Spectre? He’s a second-stringer (or, more graciously, supporting character and occasional leading man) that has been part of the DC universe since the ’40s, when he was created by Jerry Siegel. In life he was a cop, Jim Corrigan, but after being murdered he’s stuck in a post-death limbo, from which he seeks vengeance against his own killers (see where R....
Geek Deals: Pre-Black Friday DVD And Blu-Ray Deals By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2010 12:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Collection on sale this week for $70.49, 50% off the $140 msrp. A listing of the special features can be found after the jump. This deal is good through November 27th 2010. And they are also running Gold Box lightening Deals throughout the day (items need to be purchased during the specified times to get the sale price):...
Helen Mirren Joining Russell Brand In Arthur Remake By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2010 1:36 pm EST The Hollywood Reporter has word that Helen Mirren will be joining Russell Brand in the remake of the 1981 comedy Arthur. The original ’80s film focused on class, alcoholism and romance, and starred Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli. Brand is on board to play a wealthy drunk playboy who is set to “inherit a fortune if he marries an heiress his family thinks will make something out of him....
Jodie Foster Planning To Direct A Sci-Fi Thriller, Still Cast In ‘Elysium’ By Russ Fischer/March 18, 2011 6:30 pm EST Jodie Foster has been in the news all week thanks to the SXSW premiere of her film The Beaver, which stars Mel Gibson as a guy who, shall we say, loses his way before finding it again with the help of a hand puppet. (Peter was not a fan.) How do you follow a movie with as much rubbernecking public interest as The Beaver, which marks Mel Gibson’s return to the screen after a very public meltdown in 2010?...
LOL: Monsters Vs. ALIENS By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2010 10:32 am EST If DreamWorks Animation greenlit a sequel to Monsters vs. Aliens featuring the crossover with the Alien film franchise, it might look something like the above image imagined by Jacob Sparks. via: superpunch LOL: Monsters Vs. ALIENS By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2010 10:32 am EST If DreamWorks Animation greenlit a sequel to Monsters vs. Aliens featuring the crossover with the Alien film franchise, it might look something like the above image imagined by Jacob Sparks....
LOL: Trailer For ‘When Harry Met Sally 2’ Shows How Studio Notes Make A Bad Idea Worse By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2011 10:00 am EST Funny or Die has been killing it recently. This time, the site has roped in quite a collection of talent: Billy Crystal, Rob Reiner, Helen Mirren and more (Mike Tyson!) to create a fake trailer for a very ill-considered sequel to When Harry Met Sally. It is a lot like Robert Altman’s film The Player, condensed to under five minutes and with a few 2011-appropriate thrown in....
Magent Buys Distribution Rights To ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2010 3:30 pm EST Hobo With a Shotgun started life as a trailer for a grindhouse film that didn’t exist, and writer/director Jason Eisener spent much of this year shooting an expanded feature version starring Rutger Hauer as the title character. The film is scheduled for the Sundance Film Festival in January, but while there it won’t have to go through the rigors of a sale for US distribution rights....
Marc Webb Says ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Includes Hints At Future Villains By Germain Lussier/March 19, 2012 4:00 pm EST Director Marc Webb was one of the many filmmakers talking to the press at WonderCon in Anaheim this weekend where he showed up an impressive Amazing Spider-Man sizzle reel previously only seen by select audiences. And though the film, which stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, isn’t out until July 3, our friends at CinemaBlend got Webb to confirm, in a very vague way, that this film sets up future installments....
Morgan Freeman To Party With Michael Douglas And Robert De Niro In ‘Last Vegas’ By Angie Han/May 17, 2012 6:00 am EST While youth tends to rule in Hollywood, the next pack of legendary onscreen partiers looks to be neither the rowdy teens of the Project X films nor the thirtysomethings of The Hangover franchise, but the senior citizens of Last Vegas. Morgan Freeman has just joined Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas in the “Grumpy Old Men meets The Hangover” comedy, directed by Jon Turteltaub (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) from a script by Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love....
Movie Trailer: James L. Brooks’ How Do You Know By Adam Quigley/Aug. 12, 2010 7:27 pm EST As I’m sure many readers here will agree, romantic comedies are generally responsible for a lot of the worst films that Hollywood has to offer. Reason being, they rarely do little more than parade about a bunch of shallow pretty people leading too-perfect lives while amusingly simplistic conflicts repeatedly tear them apart and bring them back together....
Movie Trailer: Rachel Weisz In The Whistleblower By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2010 11:03 am EST A couple weeks back we posted a promo poster I ran across at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower. /Film reader Dane S has sent over the promo trailer for the film, which I assume was being shown to distributors at Cannes. There is no knowing how long this trailer might be online, so watch it while its still hot....
New Hi-Res Images From ‘30 Minutes Or Less’ By Germain Lussier/April 19, 2011 2:00 pm EST After summer movie audiences are bombarded for three straight months with superheros and sequels, it’ll be nice to sit down for a few original laughs. 30 Minutes Or Less, written by first time screenwriter Michael Diliberti and directed by Ruben Fleischer, stars Danny McBride and Nick Swardson as wanna-be-criminals who kidnap a pizza-delivery guy, (Oscar-nominee Jesse Eisenberg) to help them rob bank....
Page 2: Transformers 3, Back To The Future, Michael Moore, Green Lantern, Ted, Superman, Fred Armisen, Family Guy, Bill Murray, Tree Of Life, Reservoir Dogs, Jaws, X-Men By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2011 8:00 am EST Thomas Penndelton has a cool tattoo of Bill Murray as Steve Zissou. (submitted by Adam F) Shortlist lists the 50 craziest B-movies. Paramount has begun airing two new Transformers: Dark of the Moon tv spots....
Possible Spoiler Pics From ‘Hugo Cabret’ Show A Guest Star And Sci-Fi Touches By Russ Fischer/March 28, 2011 11:30 am EST Martin Scorsese is finishing up Hugo Cabret, his first foray into family films and 3D. The film is based on Brian Selznick’s children’s book The Invention of Huog Cabret, and has nods to the early days of cinema and science fiction. We’ve known the cast for some time; Asa Butterfield and Chloë Moretz as an orphan boy and strange little girl who become friends in a Paris train station, with support from Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lee, Emily Mortimer, Jude Law, Michael Stuhlbarg, Ray Winstone, and more....
Release Dates: ‘Being Flynn’, ‘Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World’, ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ By Angie Han/Dec. 16, 2011 3:00 pm EST Even as I’m rushing to catch up on the 2011 films I’ve missed before the end of the year, I’m already looking forward to the crop of films that are due to open next year. Focus Features has just announced release dates for three of its upcoming releases I’m most curious about: Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, Paul Weitz’s Being Flynn, and Lorene Scafaria’s Seeking a Friend for the End of the World....
Rumors Force Angelina Jolie’s Untitled War Film Out Of Bosnia By Germain Lussier/Nov. 17, 2010 1:30 pm EST Angelina Jolie, the writer/director, is already seeing what life is like on the other side of the camera. The world’s most famous actress is currently directing her feature film debut, an untitled love story about a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman who get separated during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War during which 100,000 people were killed....
Superhero Bits: Justice League Doom, The Amazing Spider-Man, Beyond Watchmen, Man Of Steel By Germain Lussier/Feb. 15, 2012 2:00 pm EST Want to hear Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern in Justice League: Doom? What does the latest image of The Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man look like? Does Alan Moore have kind words to say about Beyond Watchmen? Is there a Man of Steel trailer floating around out there? And what’s the latest with the Amazing Spider-Man viral?...
Teaser Poster: A Beautiful Broadsheet For ‘True Grit’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2010 9:00 am EST We just posted about Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit an hour ago, to announce that there will be a longer trailer in theaters today and online very soon. But from what little we’ve seen of the film so far it already has the potential to be one of the films of the year, so at this point I’m comfortable giving the film another post hot on the heels of the last....
Tom Cruise Attached To ‘Magnificent Seven’ Remake At MGM By Germain Lussier/May 21, 2012 5:00 pm EST What was once already a remake might be again. John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven is arguably one of the greatest remakes of all time because it took an already classic film, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, and put a new spin on it giving the movie an original and unique feel. Feudal Japan became the American West....
Trailer: Josh Radnor’s Sundance Hit ‘Liberal Arts’ Starring Elizabeth Olsen By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2012 2:30 pm EST How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor made his feature writing and directorial debut with Happythankyoumoreplease. The film is charming and “cutesy” and while it won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival that year, I didn’t love it (the film was later critically panned, receiving a 40% on Rotten tomatoes)....
