Kit Harington Is Arthur In WB’s ‘Arthur & Lancelot’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 21, 2011 9:30 am EST I’ve written about the film a couple times and yet I keep forgetting that Warner Bros. is making Arthur & Lancelot, a new take on the oft-filmed Arthurian legend. David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers, The Change-Up) wrote the script, which Warner Bros. bought and chose to film over several other competing takes on the Arthurian story....
LOL: Michael Bay’s Symphony Of Mayhem - ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2011 12:30 pm EST Say what you want about Michael Bay but there’s one thing that’s pretty undeniable. No one else in Hollywood can make a movie quite like him. Bay’s latest film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon opens this week, and after all the reviews and box office analysis is over, the conversation will predictably turn towards director himself....
Movie Trailer: Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Black Swan’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2010 1:31 pm EST We’ve heard a bit of positive early buzz on the film and seen a couple of photos, but this is the best look we’ve had so far. Portman’s opening narration sets up a foreboding atmosphere right off, which is given an assist by the score (sounds like new Clint Mansell work?) and Aronofsky’s aesthetic. (Slightly raw, but pushed towards thriller territory with just the right nudge....
Movie Trailer: Festival Favorite And Presumed Oscar Frontrunner ‘The King’s Speech’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2010 11:16 am EST Tom Hooper’s film The King’s Speech won the People’s Choice Award (aka top prize) at the Toronto Film Festival, and wowed audiences just a week prior at Telluride. Now there’s a trailer for the picture, which suggests that the film is every bit the crowd-pleaser it is said to be. I can’t wait to see the performance of Colin Firth as King George VI, because he’s getting all the high praise for performance in the film....
Movie Trailer: Stuart Beattie’s Tomorrow When The War Began By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2010 5:00 am EST Paramount Pictures International has released the full length movie trailer for Stuart Beattie’s directorial debut Tomorrow When The War Began. You might recognize Beattie’s name as he is a big Hollywood screenwriter behind such films as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Collateral, Derailed, 30 Days of Night, Australia, and G....
Movie Trailer And Poster: ‘Drive Angry 3D’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 14, 2010 4:00 pm EST Did someone declare today Drive Angry 3D day and we didn’t get the memo? I only ask because not only has the brand new theatrical trailer just come online, but the poster as well. From My Bloody Valentine 3D director Patrick Lussier (no relation) and starring Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, David Morse, Billy Burke and Tom Atkins, Drive Angry 3D is about a man who breaks out of hell to get violent, R-rated revenge on the cult who killed his daughter and stole her baby....
Noomi Rapace In The Running For Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ Prequel? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2010 5:21 pm EST The most useful bit about this news is that it might be the first step towards confirmation of something a lot of people had probably assumed: that, as with Alien, Ridley Scott might be orienting the story around a heroine. It can’t be Ripley, obviously, and lets pray that he (and the rumored rewriter Damon Lindelof) aren’t working with anyone who could possibly be related to Ripley....
Phil Lord Offers Details About Lego Movie: “Like If Michael Bay Kidnapped Henry Selick” By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2010 1:15 pm EST We might eventually see a movie based on the Lego brand of toy building blocks, and while the idea sounds absurd on the face of it, the project got a bit more interesting when Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were hired. Now Lord offers a few details about their plans for the film, and also talks about how he and Miller plan to film the big-screen version of 21 Jump Street....
Release Dates: Warner Bros. Moves ‘The Seventh Son’ And ‘Beautiful Creatures’, ‘Robot & Frank’ Dated, ‘Hunter Killer’ Bumped By Angie Han/May 4, 2012 10:30 am EST It’s time for another round of Release Date Shuffle! Perhaps the biggest news here is that Warner Bros. has pushed back its YA fantasy The Seventh Son, directed by Sergey Bodrov and starring Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, and Julianne Moore, much farther into next year....
Roger Ebert Adds 24-Year-Old Movie Blogger Ignatiy Vishnevetsky To ‘At The Movies’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 4, 2011 10:46 am EST Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, the brand new incarnation of the original Siskel & Ebert, premieres on January 21. Originally, the two critics who were going to butt heads on the balcony were Christy Lemire of the Associated Press and Elvis Mitchell, formerly of the New York Times. Mitchell bowed out, though, and Ebert and his wife Chaz, producers of the show, have been searching for a replacement....
Ryan Gosling Joining Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Only God Forgives’ [Updated] By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2011 4:19 pm EST Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling teamed up for Drive, a film that won praise at Cannes and a Best Director award for Mr. Refn. They’ll work together again on a remake of Logan’s Run, and possibly after that film on a romantic comedy. (Difficult to tell if that last project is real, or just a bit of junket/premiere joking....
Sequel Bits: Hangover 3, [Rec] 3, The Last Exorcism II, Men In Black 3, Breaking Dawn 2 By Germain Lussier/April 23, 2012 10:30 am EST We’re crossing genres in a big, big way in this edition of Sequel Bits. Comedy, horror, romance and sci-fi, it’s all here. After the check out updates on the following: A poster for the U.S. release of [Rec] 3 Genesis has been revealed. The follow-up to The Last Exorcism now has a title....
Sony Buying Into Channing Tatum’s Peter Pan Origin Story ‘Pan’ By Russ Fischer/March 7, 2011 4:00 pm EST Briefly: Last week we told you about a pitch called Peter Pan Begins — a title which was erroneous, as the project is simply called Pan — which was going around town with Channing Tatum attached to star, Billy Ray writing and Joe Roth producing. Now Sony is negotiating to buy the project, with THR saying the studio beat out two other studios, and that the deal is going down for around $1m....
Sony To Distribute ‘RoboCop’ Remake By Germain Lussier/March 5, 2012 4:00 pm EST Jose Padilha’s remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 cult classic RoboCop has just added another significant piece to the puzzle. Over the weekend, Joel Kinnaman (The Killing, Safe House) signed on to play the lead character and now the film – which is being produced by MGM – has been picked up for distribution by Sony Pictures.Deadline broke this news, which makes a lot of sense as Sony is handling other upcoming MGM projects like 21 Jump Street, Skyfall and recently The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Zookeeper....
Stephen King May Write For ‘The Walking Dead’ By Russ Fischer/March 21, 2011 10:30 am EST Preparations are under way for a darker, bloodier season two of The Walking Dead. And now it seems that series producer/creator Frank Darabont may bring in his old compatriot Stephen King to write an episode. During a Walking Dead panel at C2E2 in Chicago over the weekend, actress Laurie Holden dropped word that Stephen King would be writing an episode....
Steve Carell Out Of ‘The Muppets’ By Angie Han/Sept. 14, 2011 1:00 pm EST Now that we have a pretty good idea of who and what will be in The Muppets, we have some disappointing news about who won’t be: Steve Carell. The actor was originally lined up for a cameo, but has since had to pull out due to scheduling issues. More details, including a description of what Carell would’ve been doing, after the jump....
Terry Gilliam Short ‘The Wholly Family’ To Screen Online For A Small Fee By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2012 3:30 pm EST Briefly: You might remember that we’ve covered the new short from Terry Gilliam, The Wholly Family, a couple times in the past. It’s a weird setup, where Gilliam was one of a number of filmmakers hired by Italian pasta company Garofalo to make short films set in or otherwise concerning Naples....
The Cube Video Game That Never Was By David Chen/June 10, 2010 3:00 pm EST Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 film Cube didn’t have a huge theatrical release when it first came out, but it subsequently became a hit on DVD, enough to warrant two direct-to-DVD sequels. During my interview with Natali, he spoke about how he never wanted to make a sequel to Cube. But a video game? That’s another story....
Tom Hardy Sets Up Outlaw Biker Movie As Producing And Starring Effort At Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2012 5:30 pm EST Warrior, Inception and The Dark Knight Rises actor Tom Hardy just signed a first-look deal with Warner Bros., and now we know what his first producing feature might be with the studio. The untitled film sounds like it could be a throwback of sorts: an outlaw biker movie....
TV Bits: Rick McCallum Says ‘Star Wars’ Show Is “‘Empire Strikes Back’ On Steroids,” Plus: ‘American Horror Story’, ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘The Killing’, And More By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2012 4:00 pm EST McCallum revealed that the original idea had been “Deadwood in space,” and he’s compared it to The Godfather in the past as well, but even with the mature it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they’ll be toning things down a bit for the series....
