Bryan Singer Attached To Direct Bob Fosse Biopic For HBO By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2011 3:00 pm EST If you’re looking to make a biopic about Bob Fosse, how do you top his own cinematic autobiography, All That Jazz, structured around the muscular and intense Roy Scheider’s performance as a lightly fictionalized version of the late choreographer/director? I honestly don’t know, but it seems as if Bryan Singer is game to try....
Casting Bits: Marvin Gaye Biopic, Splatter Sisters, Nightwork, The Numbers Station By Peter Sciretta/May 16, 2010 10:00 am EST A bunch of new casting bits hit over the weekend, and can be found after the jump including an update on who Cameron Crowe is in talks with a new star to play Marvin Gaye, Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood sign on for “a sexploitation-serial-killer-slasher-road-movie circa 1989”, Dustin Hoffman to star in a new adaptation of an Irwin Shaw novel and much more....
Directing Bits: Julie Delpy For Joe Strummer Biopic, ‘Harold & Kumar Christmas’ Helmer For ‘Final Girls’, Tate Taylor Drops Out Of ‘Tammy’ By Angie Han/Nov. 22, 2011 1:00 pm EST Even as Julie Delpy gears up for a possible third Before Sunrise pic with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater, the busy writer-director-actress has attached herself to helm a biopic of iconic rock musician Joe Strummer called The Right Profile. Strummer is best remembered as the frontman of British punk group The Clash, though his musical resume also includes solo work, stints with The Mescaleros and The Pogues, and the soundtracks for Walker and Sid and Nancy....
Family Guy’s ‘Incredible Hulk’ Opening By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 17, 2011 3:30 pm EST This weeks episode of Family Guy featured an awesome recreation of the opening title sequence of the 1978 television series The Incredible Hulk starring Lou Ferrigno. Watch it now embedded after the jump. via: dailybeast Family Guy’s ‘Incredible Hulk’ Opening By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 17, 2011 3:30 pm EST This weeks episode of Family Guy featured an awesome recreation of the opening title sequence of the 1978 television series The Incredible Hulk starring Lou Ferrigno....
First Look: Bill Murray As FDR In ‘Hyde Park On Hudson’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2011 9:00 am EST Forget Ghostbusters III — Bill Murray has some potentially great stuff coming out. He shot a part in the new Wes Anderson film, Moonrise Kingdom, and will have a role in Roman Coppola’s second feature, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III. And in between those, he played President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a film called Hyde Park on Hudson....
First Look: Robert Pattinson And Kristen Stewart In ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 16, 2011 12:22 pm EST Edward Cullen and Bella Swan nudity! Though some blurry scans of this week’s Entertainment Weekly had been floating around other movie sites, Summit Entertainment has now provided the high resolution, first look image at Edward and Bella (Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart) naked, in bed, from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, scheduled for release November 18....
International Movie Trailer: Little Fockers By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2010 12:00 pm EST Universal Pictures has released a new international movie trailer for Little Fockers, the third film in the Meet the Parents series. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Plot Synopsis The test of wills between Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) and Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) escalates to new heights of comedy in the third installment of the blockbuster series—Little Fockers....
Little Miss Sunshine: The Musical? By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2010 11:03 pm EST Hairspray, 9 to 5, The Wedding Singer, Billy Elliot, Grey Gardens, The Adams Family, The Lion King, The Full Monty, Legally Blonde the Musical, High Fidelity, Shrek the Musical, Catch Me If You Can, The Producers, A Little Night Music, Sunset Boulevard, Urban Cowboy, Saturday Night Fever, Footloose, Cry-Baby, Fame, A Catered Affair, Dirty Dancing, Mary Poppins,...
By Angie Han/Sept. 26, 2011 1:00 pm EST The DreamWorks catalog — which will include new movies like the upcoming The Croods and Turbo, plus as older ones like Kung Fu Panda and Megamind — will be available for streaming on Netflix starting in 2013. Neither the value nor the length of the Netflix-DreamWorks pact has been revealed, though the New York Times estimates a worth of about $30 million per picture to DreamWorks....
Rob Zombie Talks ‘The Lords Of Salem,’ Calling It “The Bleakest Of All My Films” By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2011 9:37 am EST Rob Zombie’s new film The Lords of Salem, was recently given an official announcement, and shooting should get underway on the picture in mid-April, after the director has a chance to finish up his latest concert tour and really dig into pre-production duties. After one recent concert appearance he was thrown a few questions about The Lords of Salem, and his answers offer up a lot of new info about the film....
Scream 4 Casting: Lake Bell, Ashley Greene, Hayden Panettiere And Rory Culkin All May Appear By Russ Fischer/May 21, 2010 12:06 am EST The first questions about Scream 4, which has taken many years to come together, revolved around which members of the cast would return. Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson, who kicked off a new wave of horror interest with the first Scream, have got Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox all signed to return....
Simon Pegg Calls ‘Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol’ A Rebirth; Praises Brad Bird By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2011 10:30 am EST Simon Pegg is about to hit the publicity tour full force in support of the hilarious comedy Paul, which he stars in and co-wrote. That means that every single person will probably ask him about two of his biggest upcoming projects: Star Trek 2 and Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol. Pegg has publicly stated he doesn’t know much about Trek 2 yet but since he’s currently shooting Mission: Impossible, with director Brad Bird and stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and Josh Holloway, he has plenty to say about that....
Sundance 2011 Preview: Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 11, 2011 5:00 pm EST One of the documentaries I’m interested in checking out at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival is Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey. I’ve always been fascinated with The Muppets and the puppeteers that bring them to life. For me it’s like creating magic in real time. Here is the official synopsis from Sundance: Each and every day, millions of kids tune in to Sesame Street to see one of the world’s most adored and recognizable children’s characters, a furry red monster named Elmo....
Tarsem Singh Signs To Direct Relativity’s ‘The Brothers Grimm: Snow White’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 1, 2010 6:44 pm EST There are three outfits running in the race to make a new film version of Snow White. One is Disney, which has Snow White and the Seven in development. Number two is Universal, which is a few steps ahead with Snow White and the Huntsman, which has a script (by Evan Daugherty) and a director (Rupert Sanders) and possible stars in Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp....
This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Toy Story 3, Centurion, The Pacific By Adam Quigley/Nov. 2, 2010 8:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. How strongly Toy Story 3 resonates with you emotionally will depend almost entirely on the attachment you’ve built to the characters over the past two films. Unlike with those, the goal this time around wasn’t to advance the characters in new and profound ways; it aims instead to provide heart-wrenching closure to a series that many—myself included—have grown up with and come to love....
By Christopher Stipp/Aug. 27, 2010 4:00 pm EST I don’t know why I can’t connect with The Trailer Park Boys. I realize it’s some kind of seminal television show that you maple syrup chugging Mounties love to tout as awesomesauce but, for my money, it hasn’t ever gotten better than The Kids in the Hall, Strange Brew, or Fubar. Director Michael Dowse’s original Fubar in 2002 was an explosion of hilarity as he established himself able to go beyond the usual tropes mockumentaries use in that he made a movie that was genuinely amusing and came close to blurring the line between reality, fiction....
Wachowski Siblings’ ‘Jupiter Ascending’ To Enter Production In Spring 2012 By Angie Han/Oct. 20, 2011 11:45 am EST Matrix directors Andy and Lana Wachowski are currently busy shooting the David Mitchell adaptation Cloud Atlas (with co-director and co-writer Tom Twyker), but for their next project they’ll be returning to the kind of tentpole sci-fi that brought them so much success a few years ago. The siblings are set up to direct a mysterious film titled Jupiter Ascending for Warner Bros....
By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2012 6:00 am EST Jody Hill first got a lot of peoples’ attention when he co-wrote and directed The Foot Fist Way, the film that also introduced Danny McBride to many audiences. Then he made Observe and Report, and those two guys made Eastbound and Down, and we all know how that turned out. (Pretty damned great, in case you missed out.) Now Jody Hill is writing a film for Warner Bros....
‘Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters’ Moves To January 2013 By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2012 6:39 pm EST This can’t be good. Besides the still above, we’ve seen almost nothing official from Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. It’s one of the first completed movies in the fairy tale-inspired wave of Hollywood programming, and the film was set to open on March 2. Rumors of the film being pushed several months started to fly a few weeks back and now Paramount has confimed that the movie will now hit on January 11, 2013....
‘Lola Versus’ Trailer - Greta Gerwig Can’t Get It Together By Angie Han/April 5, 2012 3:00 pm EST A prim and proper version of Greta Gerwig takes charge this weekend in Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress, but this summer will see a much messier, more uncertain version of Gerwig trying to get her life together in Lola Versus. Directed by Daryl Wein, the comedy centers around a young woman who’s dumped by her fiancee (Joel Kinnaman, The Killing) just weeks before her wedding and subsequently struggles to deal with her newfound singlehood....
