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Crazy 4 Cult New York Preview #4: 30 Plus Additional Pieces From Thursday’s Epic Show By Germain Lussier/Aug. 10, 2012 6:00 am EST In a city that’s ripe with art, film but sorely lacking an intersection between the two, Gallery 1988 has migrated from Los Angeles to New York bringing along their trademark pop culture art show featuring the work of over 200 artists. Crazy 4 Cult New York opens Thursday and, over the course of this week, we’ve posted three previews (which you can view here, here and here) from the sixth iteration of the show....

David Slade Comments On ‘Daredevil’ And ‘The Wolverine’ Controversy By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2011 9:30 am EST First up, Slade commented on Daredevil. Here are his tweets, strung together: And here’s Slade’s brief comment on The Wolverine: Forgot to look at the internet for a few weeks and its a litany of false (and not so far off) rumours. So without breaking confidentiality, yes Daredevil, we have a great outline for a very strong character driven take on Mr Matt Murdock....

Details On Fright Night Remake: Vegas, And A Vampire In ‘The Amblin Tradition’ By Russ Fischer/June 7, 2010 11:06 am EST We’ve known a little bit about the upcoming remake of Fright Night, to be directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl), but not a lot of key details. Most of what we know is background and casting: Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Marti Noxon wrote the script, and Anton Yelchin is in the lead role as a horror fan who suspects his new next door neighbor (Colin Farrell) is a vampire....

Disney’s Seven Dwarves Getting ‘7D’ Animated TV Spinoff By Angie Han/June 19, 2012 3:00 pm EST With both Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman in 2012’s rearview mirror, you’d think we could leave this particular fairy tale behind us for a little while. Instead, it turns out that even as Disney was hitting pause on its live-action feature The Order of the Seven, Disney TV was planning its own revisionist Snow White update, titled 7D, to air on Disney Junior in 2014....

Disney’s World Of Avatar Attraction Delayed? By Angie Han/Sept. 5, 2012 9:44 am EST About a year ago, Walt Disney Co. announced plans for James Cameron’s World of Avatar, a devoted “land” located within Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida. At the time, the company had plans to get construction underway by 2013, with doors likely to open around 2015 or so. But now we’re hearing rumblings that that project may be running behind as well....

LOL: William Shatner Stole Leonard Nimoy’s Bicycle By Peter Sciretta/July 7, 2010 12:30 pm EST This vintage video clip from a Star Trek convention has been circulating the interwebs today. Leonard Nimoy recounts a story about how William Shatner stole his bicycle on the Paramount Pictures lot. Watch the clip embedded after the jump. LOL: William Shatner Stole Leonard Nimoy’s Bicycle By Peter Sciretta/July 7, 2010 12:30 pm EST This vintage video clip from a Star Trek convention has been circulating the interwebs today....

New Posters: The Walking Dead Comic Con Teaser And A Bruce Willis Character Sheet For Red By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2010 2:30 am EST Eventually, AMC will release something for The Walking Dead that I think doesn’t look great, but it hasn’t happened yet. There’s a good piece of art to promote the show’s debut at Comic Con, which you can see in part above, from IGN. See the whole image after the break, along with the first character poster from Red....

Rob Cohen To Direct ‘Bullet Run’ By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2011 10:55 am EST Briefly: Rob Cohen directed The Fast and the Furious, kicking off a billion-dollar franchise for Universal. Now he’s set up to direct Bullet Run, based on a script by Andrew Hilton. The movie is an action thriller that is already being called The Fast and the Furious in a desert. (So… something like Fast & Furious?)...

See ‘The Muppets’ Parody Trailer ‘The Pig With The Froggy Tattoo’ By Angie Han/Sept. 15, 2011 9:00 am EST A few lucky movie fans were surprised yesterday with an 8-minute extended trailer for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but sadly, the video has yet to be released for the general public. On the bright side, the rest of us can now make do with “The Girl with the Froggy Tattoo” — yup, another amusing parody teaser for The Muppets....

The Mondo Mystery Movie Comes To Los Angeles: 3 Nights, 6 Movies, 6 Posters By Germain Lussier/Sept. 9, 2011 4:00 pm EST The Mondo Mystery Movie is a simple concept. Blindly buy a ticket for a movie with the promise that not only will you see a cool movie, but you’ll get a limited edition poster that will never be sold anywhere else. The catch is, you don’t know what the movie or poster is until you sit in the theater....

Warner Bros. Has Faith In Alexander Skarsgard For Bomb Shelter Thriller ‘Hidden’ By Russ Fischer/April 4, 2012 5:00 pm EST Alexander Skarsgard’s commitment to True Blood has kept him from being the movie star he might eventually become, but he has been seen on the big screen in a couple roles recently, thanks to Lars von Trier (Melancholia) and Rod Lurie (Straw Dogs, shot a couple years back). He’ll be in Peter Berg’s Battleship later this year, and even gets one of the best face-flapping moments in the trailer for that movie....

By Germain Lussier/Aug. 15, 2012 6:00 am EST A judge will rule if the original lawsuit will be amended to class action on August 24 and, at that point, it may become a much bigger thing. Now some personal thoughts. Coming up in journalism, I had three internships. One was at Premiere Magazine and it was unpaid. I did, however, get college credit and I loved it so much, I stayed on for a few months after that ended....

‘Blue Valentine’ Release Moved Up Two Days By Germain Lussier/Dec. 21, 2010 7:20 pm EST The undeservedly controversial Sundance smash romance Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams and directed by Derek Cianfrance, was originally set to open on December 31. Deadline is reporting that the film will now open December 29 in New York and Los Angeles. After that it’ll add one more screen in New York on the 31st then move to 10 markets on January 7....

‘Killer Joe’ Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Murders For Money By Russ Fischer/May 8, 2012 1:00 pm EST “Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap!” Wait. Hiring Matthew McConaughey to kill someone costs how much? Twenty-five grand? Ok, maybe not ‘dirt cheap,’ then. Anyway, The Exorcist director William Friedkin is back this year with Killer Joe, a Southern-fried thriller in which McConaughey is hired by Emile Hirsch to kill his mom (Gina Gershon). But complications arise when the killer wants money up front and the kid can’t pay....

‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’ Trailer By Angie Han/June 5, 2011 9:42 pm EST Now that Bella and Edward have spent three whole films falling desperately in love, they’re finally taking things to the next level. In the brand-new trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, everyone’s favorite sparklevamp and his beloved invite their loved ones to watch them make it official. In real life, when my roommate and I get invitations to our human friends’ weddings, we post them on our fridge and then forget about them until all the cheap registry gifts are already taken....

Casting Notes: Jamie Foxx In Welcome To The Jungle; Rockwell, Johansson Signed To ‘Lost’ Kubrick Script; Jamie Kennedy In Scream 4? By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2010 5:22 am EST The latter is writing the script, and while the studio isn’t revealing much about the story (that won’t last long) there is this quote dangled to suggest…well, something: “Life is a jungle and welcome to it.” [Variety] After the break, a fan favorite may return for Scream 4, and a ’lost’ Kubrick treatment continues to slowly come back to life....

Commerical Director Nicolai Fuglsig To Direct ‘Brass Monkey’ For Paramount By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2011 1:00 pm EST Nicolai Fuglsig is an award-winning photojournalist and commercial director who created an internet sensation when he directed a commercial for Sony’s Bravia line of televisions, in which a quarter-million bouncy rubber balls were poured down San Francisco streets. In 2009 Fuglsig was linked to a futuristic Robin Hood film at Warner Bros., and he’s been attached to other features as well....

Cool Stuff: Steve Thomas’s Postalgia Exhibit, Featuring Star Wars, Back To The Future, Ferris Bueller, Flash Gordon And More By Germain Lussier/July 26, 2012 1:30 pm EST Los Angeles, Austin and San Francisco aren’t the only cities with a pop culture art scene. New York is getting their own Gallery 1988 Crazy 4 Cult show next month and the Ltd. Art Gallery in Seattle, WA has quietly been putting on very cool exhibitions featuring your favorite movies, television shows, video games and more....

David O. Russell May Rewrite And Direct ‘2 Guns,’ With Vince Vaughn By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2011 6:30 pm EST Briefly: Is the success of The Fighter going to lead to a packed film slate for David O. Russell? I hope so, and there are probably some that hope the success of the film will mean he won’t direct Uncharted, with Mark Wahlberg playing the lead character Drake. But I don’t really want to reopen that conversation right now, because there’s a report about a possible new project for Mr....

Directors: Roman Polanski Will Next Make ‘D;’ David Slade Directing ‘Villain,’ Nick Cassavetes Making ‘Cali’ By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2012 5:30 am EST We’ve got a few announcements of projects that got new directors today, or of films that are getting off the ground because of the names now attached to make them happen. After the break there’s info on: Roman Polanski’s new film, based on the Dreyfus Affair David Slade being set to make a thriller called Villain and Nick Cassavetes will direct Kristen Stewart’s action movie Cali....