Posts

‘I Am Legend’ Sequel Deal Comes Together; Akiva Goldsman Producing, Will Smith Not Yet Signed By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2012 9:00 am EST The long-threatened sequel to the 2007 Will Smith movie I Am Legend is moving again. Warner Bros. has signed Akiva Goldsman and Overbrook Entertainment to create another film in which Will Smith will reprise the role of ’last man on Earth’ Robert Neville. Arash Amel will script....

‘Red State’ Comes To VOD Labor Day, Will Have Digital Q&A & Podcast In Theaters By Germain Lussier/June 28, 2011 9:59 am EST Smith’s full explanation of the plan is on The Red Statements. He explains why he’s doing this, goes through some of the history and more. Basically, Video on Demand will cost about $10 in September for a few weeks. Then in October, it won’t have a traditional wide release....

‘Toy Story’ Trilogy 10 Disc DVD Set Packaging Revealed By Germain Lussier/Sept. 12, 2010 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Ultimate Toy Box Collection is a square box with characters from the three films on the outside and, on the inside, a more elaborate wagon toy box that houses all the discs. There’s no word yet if this set will have any extras not available on the previous Blu-ray releases, but based on other recent ultimate box sets, it wouldn’t be surprising....

Anna Kendrick In Talks For ‘Pitch Perfect’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 2, 2011 12:00 pm EST A cappella groups are a college campus staple to a certain extent, and also one of the more divisive forces in music. There’s not much middle ground on a cappella performance — people tend to either love groups that perform song catalogs using only the human voice, or they have zero tolerance for the concept altogether....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Set To Star In ‘Black Sands’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2011 3:00 pm EST The two guys who directed the real Navy SEALs movie Act of Valor, Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy, have been validated by Relativity’s decision to buy and release that picture. The duo will next get to make Black Sands, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie sounds like a dark action thriller, and features a lone man (Schwarzenegger) facing down a weapons manufacturer and his private army....

Arnold Schwarzenegger To Star In ‘Cry Macho’? By Russ Fischer/April 29, 2011 7:39 am EST Fresh from the Governor’s office in California, Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped into the ‘y’know, for kids!’ silliness of The Governator animated series, and is already slated to return to The Terminator franchise. But his talk about wanting to find roles more appropriate to an aging action hero was evidently not just talk. Before he makes The Terminator, it looks like Arnie will star in a very Clint Eastwood-like film called Cry Macho....

Casting Bits: Ellie Kemper In ‘21 Jump Street;’ Chace Crawford In ‘The House Gun;’ Joel Kinnaman In ‘Lola Versus’ By Russ Fischer/June 14, 2011 1:00 pm EST The key point of interest here (for me, at least) continues to be that the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs team of Phil Lord and Chris Miller wrote and are directing. [Variety] Chace Crawford is emerging from under the shadow of Gossip Girl....

Casting Bits: James Badge Dale In ‘Lone Ranger’, Isabelle Fuhrman In ‘After Earth’ By Angie Han/Jan. 12, 2012 6:00 am EST Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger was forced to make some changes when Disney balked at its $250 million price tag, but happily, it doesn’t seem the cuts have stopped the project from continuing to land some solid talent. Deadline reports that rising star James Badge Dale is now the frontrunner to join the cast in the role of Dan Reid....

Chris O’Dowd, Aidan Gillen Join Brendan Gleeson In ‘The Calvalry,’ From Director Of ‘The Guard’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2012 10:30 am EST The Guard, starring Brendon Gleeson and Don Cheadle, became a tidy little art-house hit last year, and director John Michael McDonagh is planning his next film, called The Calvary. The movie is set to shoot this September, and has distribution sales going on in Berlin right now. The film brings Gleeson and McDonagh back together, and is now adding Chris O’Dowd and Aidan Gillen, with Kelly Reilly and David Wilmot joining as well....

Chris Pratt And Rhys Ifans Join Nicholas Stoller’s ‘Five-Year Engagement’ By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2011 1:00 pm EST Nicholas Stoller is preparing to direct his third film, Five-Year Engagement, which will be an unrelated follow-up to Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek and mark his return to directing after a screenwriting detour for The Muppets (yay) and Gulliver’s Travels (yay, paycheck!). This film, a romantic dramedy of sorts, stars Jason Segel and Emily Blunt as a couple in, as the title suggest, a long run-up to marriage....

Clint Eastwood Looking To Joaquin Phoenix To Play Key Role In ‘Hoover’? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2010 8:55 pm EST Clint Eastwood still hasn’t got a final signed deal that will have Leonardo DiCaprio playing legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, but the film Hoover is still moving forward. There’s a report now saying that Joaquin Phoenix is Eastwood’s top choice for another role in the film: associate FBI director and reported Hoover paramour Clyde Tolson....

Cool Stuff: The 3G Art Show: Ghostbusters, Goonies And Gremlins - Part 2 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2010 12:00 pm EST You may recall that we posted a preview featuring over 25 images from the upcoming show. After the jump I have compiled an additional collection of over 20 awesome pieces created for this exhibition. We should have a third compilation later this week or early next week, so keep checking back....

Gael Garcia Bernal Is A Futuristic Swordsman In ‘Zorro Reborn’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2012 6:00 am EST No director is on board as of yet. [Variety]

George Clooney’s ‘The Ides Of March’ Will Open The Venice Film Festival By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2011 4:00 am EST One of the great many films that seems like a strong 2011 festival prospect is George Clooney’s The Ides of March, which adapts Beau Williams’ play Farragut North. Now the film has been tabbed as the opening selection for the Venice Film Festival, and will therefore premiere on August 31....

Here There Be Dragons? Eagle Eye Screenwriter To Adapt The Chronicles Of The Imaginarium Geographica By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2010 7:48 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Eagle Eye scribe Travis Wright has been hired to pen an adaptation of Here, There Be Dragons and The Search for the Red Dragon, the first two books in James A. Owen’s popular young-adult fantasy book series The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica....

IMDb’s Top 10 Films Of 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2010 9:00 am EST Since we’ve been doing top 10 movies of the year lists, I thought it was a good time to look at Internet Movie Database’s top 10 highest rated movies of 2010. While it is very easy to discount any of these lists (or any best of list in general), and while it might be easy for many of you to just write off the user ratings on IMDb as fanboy voting, it’s definitely the largest sampling of movie-going opinion that exists today....

Jennifer Lawrence Is Katniss Everdeen In ‘The Hunger Games’ By Germain Lussier/March 17, 2011 6:00 am EST It’s official. Katniss Everdeen, a 21st century literary figure almost on par with Harry Potter or Edward Cullen, will be played by a 20-year-old Oscar nominee. Jennifer Lawrence, who rose to fame very quickly after a stunning, Oscar-nominated performance in the Sundance 2010 award-winner Winter’s Bone, has been cast as the lead character in The Hunger Games, director Gary Ross’s adaptation of the popular young adult novel written by Suzanne Collins....

LOL: Guess What Movie Came Out In 2009 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 31, 2010 7:00 am EST Reddit does it again, using a screencapture of Google Trends to show the extreme rise in user searches for the term “blue dong” in the begining of 2009, around the time that Watchmen was released in theaters. LOL: Guess What Movie Came Out In 2009 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 31, 2010 7:00 am EST Reddit does it again, using a screencapture of Google Trends to show the extreme rise in user searches for the term “blue dong” in the begining of 2009, around the time that Watchmen was released in theaters....

More Photos From The ‘We Bought A Zoo’ Set By Germain Lussier/May 9, 2011 3:30 pm EST Cameron Crowe seems to be really enjoying Twitter. Not only has he been replying back to fans, he’s continued to tweet photos from the set of We Bought a Zoo. Crowe’s latest is scheduled for release on December 23 and stars Matt Damon as a man whose family buys and moves to a zoo after an untimely death....

Movie Trailer: ‘Beyond The Infinite: The Making Of A Masterpiece,’ Douglas Trumbull’s Documentary About The Making Of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2010 3:26 pm EST Douglas Trumbull, the special effects supervisor for Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey, is making a film about the making of 2001. Called Beyond the Infinite: The Making of a Masterpiece, Trumbull’s film draws on his own experience, a decade of interviews conducted by David Larson, and a wealth of original production materials and stills....