‘Larry Crowne’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 16, 2011 11:15 am EST Universal Pictures has released the first movie trailer for Larry Crowne, a romantic comedy which reunites stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. The film, which is also directed by Hanks, tells the story of a middle-aged man who loses his job and decides to reinvent himself by going back to college. The movie co-stars Bryan Cranston, Cedric the Entertainer, Taraji P....
‘Last Night’ Trailer By Angie Han/Feb. 17, 2011 10:00 am EST One smaller film I’ve been looking forward to is Massy Tadjedin’s Last Night, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall. The movie centers around married couple Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington, who each find themselves tempted to stray on one fateful night. Worthington’s character goes on a business trip with sexy coworker Eva Mendes, while Knightley runs into old flame Guillame Canet (star of Love Me if you Dare, director of Tell No One, baby daddy of Marion Cotillard)....
‘The Break-Up’ Screenwriter To Rewrite New Line’s ‘Police Academy’ Reboot By Angie Han/June 6, 2012 7:00 am EST Like so many other properties from our childhoods, Police Academy is roaring back to life in the form of a brand-new reboot. The project got set up at New Line since 2010, and has since acquired a director in the form of Scott Zabielski (Tosh.0). Now it’s also about to pick up a fresh draft of the screenplay, courtesy of The Break-Up writer Jeremy Garelick....
‘The Watch’ International Trailer - Meet The Guys By Angie Han/June 20, 2012 12:30 pm EST Even as the more dramatic side of his career takes off, Jonah Hill hasn’t abandoned his comedy roots. In fact, it’s looking like he could be biggest comedy star of the year, with the fantastic 21 Jump Street behind him and the promising The Watch ahead of him. Directed by Akiva Schaffer, The Watch centers around a group of suburban watchdogs (played by Hill, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Richard Ayoade) who inadvertently stumble across plans for an alien attack....
‘Too Big To Fail’ Trailer - There Goes The Economy By Angie Han/April 27, 2011 11:00 am EST Did you enjoy the economic meltdown so much the first time around that you just can’t wait to relive it? Then has HBO got the film for you. Too Big to Fail tells the story of the 2008 financial crisis, as chronicled by Andrew Ross Sorkin in his bestselling book of the same title....
Ben Affleck May Direct And Star In POV Action Thriller ‘Line Of Sight’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 23, 2011 12:26 pm EST Ben Affleck is about to shoot Argo, his third directorial effort, which tells the tale of a CIA crew attempting to extricate hostages from Tehran by posing as a film crew. But he’s already setting up possible projects to follow Argo, and a new one is Line of Sight. This is a Joel Silver film about “an elite commando squad transporting cargo while dealing with a global threat....
Cool Stuff: Mondo’s ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Poster Series [Gallery] By Russ Fischer/Jan. 25, 2012 4:49 pm EST Mondo might bruise a few wallets tomorrow. The company has partnered with Sideshow Collectibles and a handful of notable poster artists to produce a set of posters for the Planet of the Apes Films. There are five prints in the series, one for each of the primary classic films. (Planet, Beneath, Escape, Conquest and Battle — sorry, Tim Burton remake fans and Rise of the Planet of the Apes lovers....
Details Emerge About New ‘Thundercats’ Cartoon Series By Germain Lussier/Nov. 4, 2010 10:47 am EST When word got out that Cartoon Network would be reimagining the classic 1980s cartoon Thundercats in 2011, fans were simultaneously excited and nervous. The excitement centered on the reality of seeing new adventures with characters like Lion-O, Panthro, Cheetara and Tygra. But the word “reimagining” raises huge red flags. What exactly does it mean? Well one of the show’s producers, Michael Jelenic, released a few small details that should ease fan trepidations....
Disney Is Done With Fairytales… Or Is It? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 22, 2010 12:19 pm EST There’s been a lot of talk about the relative under-performance of The Princess and the Frog and how that led to a film about Rapunzel being renamed Tangled. The idea is that audiences now, especially male audiences, aren’t interested in princess stories, and by extension fairytales. (Shh, no one tell the people putting together Snow White and the Huntsman....
DreamWorks Turning To Tim Burton For Help Adapting Board Game Monsterpocalypse? By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2010 8:13 am EST Tim Burton has got Dark Shadows brewing, supposedly to shoot later this year, but in the meantime he’s going to continue to be attached to various projects as creative consultant, producer and possibly director. One new project that may have Burton involved on some level is a film based on Monsterpocalypse, a board game that is part strategy, part Kaiju Big Battel, and part Rampage!...
First Look: Michelle Williams As Marilyn Monroe; Julia Ormond And Dougray Scott Join ‘My Week With Marilyn’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 8, 2010 11:59 am EST Cameras began to roll this week on My Week With Marilyn, the film that adapts the diaries of Colin Clark, who showed Marilyn Monroe around London while she worked on the film The Princess and the Showgirl. Now we’ve got the first image of Michelle Williams playing Marilyn Monroe in the film, and word that Julia Ormond and Dougray Scott have been added to the cast....
First Photos: Martin Freeman As Bilbo Baggins In ‘The Hobbit’ By Germain Lussier/June 23, 2011 7:30 am EST Go back in time and see the Shire before The Lord of the Rings with these first official photos from Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. Jackson has been shooting his two-part film adaptation of the classic J.R.R. Tolkien novel for several weeks but all we’ve seen from set was one video. Now, Entertainment Weekly has premiered three exclusive images from The Hobbit including Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, Ian McKellen as Gandalf and more....
Geek Deal: The Brady Bunch: The Complete Series For $58.99 By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2010 11:24 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Jennifer Lawrence Leads Race For ‘Hunger Games’ Role By Angie Han/March 12, 2011 2:37 pm EST With just a year left until its projected release date of March 23, 2012, the casting race for Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games adaptation is heating up. Last we heard, True Grit actress Hailee Steinfeld, Winter’s Bone star Jennifer Lawrence, and Little Miss Sunshine’s Abigail Breslin were the top contenders for the lead role of Katniss Everdeen....
Kristen Wiig Confirms That She’s Really Not Doing Another ‘Bridesmaids’ By Angie Han/Jan. 18, 2012 11:30 am EST Over the past couple of weeks, it seems like everyone but Kristen Wiig has weighed in on the idea of Universal moving forward with a Wiig-free Bridesmaids sequel. Breakout star Melissa McCarthy called the move “a terrible idea,” director Paul Feig cautiously stated that “anything can happen,” and star Wendi McLendon-Covey insisted that Wiig “never said that she didn’t want to do it....
Martin Scorsese’s 11 Scariest Horror Movies Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2010 8:00 am EST We always love hearing which films entertain, influence and scare the filmmakers we admire. And you may have noticed that we’ve been posting these types of lists when we find them in our Movie Playlist. Over the weekend Martin Scorsese listed off his 11 scariest horror movies of all time. Which films scare Scorsese?...
MCN’s 30-Minute Interview With ‘Somewhere’ Director Sofia Coppola By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2010 2:15 pm EST Movie City News has an indepth 30-minute interview with director Sofia Coppola (Virgin Suicides, Lost In Translation), talking about her new film Somewhere. And anyone who reads /Film on a regular basis knows that we love long form interviews with auteur filmmakers. Hit the jump to watch the interview now.Sofia Coppola’s (Lost in Translation) new film Somewhere tells the story of Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), “a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel....
Multiple ‘Man Of Steel’ Costumes Revealed By Germain Lussier/June 12, 2012 11:30 am EST With post-production well underway, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has been off the grid for several months. The director has been in the editing room working towards a release date that’s almost exactly a year away. He says it’s “gigantic and crazy” and most people seem to think the first footage from the film will be at San Diego Comic-Con....
New Robert Redford Biography Claims William Goldman Didn’t Write ‘All The President’s Men’ By Germain Lussier/May 30, 2011 12:00 pm EST The latest case of this is a claim by Robert Redford that legendary, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman didn’t actually write All The President’s Men, Alan J. Pakula’s multiple Oscar-winner starring Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, two Washington Post reporters who eventually blew the lid off the Watergate scandal....
Paramount Launches Open Casting Search… But Is It For JJ Abrams’ Super 8? By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2010 9:48 pm EST I have a suspicious feeling this open casting call might be for the Steven Spielberg-produced JJ Abrams-directed Super 8. (you can read more about Super 8 here, or watch the teaser trailer here). Super 8 supposedly has something to do with “the possibility that a group of kids in 1979 are playing around making movies with their Super 8 cameras (as Abrams and Spielberg did as kids) and accidentally capture something … sinister, on film....
