VOTD: (500) Days Of Summer Trailer Recut As Stalkerish Thriller By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2010 8:31 am EST Maybe you watched (500) Days of Summer and were charmed by the film’s take on being smitten to the point of delirium and distraction. Or, maybe you watched the film and, more than anything else, wanted Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character to man up, realize that Zooey Deschanel just wasn’t into him and that it was time to move on....
VOTD: Times Talk Live LOST By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2010 3:25 am EST On Friday, The New York Times held a live talk with the creators and stars of the series Lost. You can watch the entire 100-plus minute talk in High Definition after the jump. At the time I’m posting this, I’m still in Cannes, about to board a six hour train to Paris. I’m contemplating two options: Stream the series finale on the US east coast feed of my friend’s SlingPlayer (3am Paris time) to see it live before my early morning flight....
‘47 Ronin’ Poster: Outsider Keanu Reeves Faces A Demon And A Witch By Russ Fischer/May 9, 2012 2:00 pm EST We haven’t seen much so far from 47 Ronin, the film that Carl Erik Rinch directed with Keanu Reeves, as a semi-remake of a story that has been filmed in Japan several times. We know the movie also features Hiroyuki Sanada, Kou Shibasaki, Tadanobu Asano and Rinko Kikuchi, and we know that it is an effects-heavy 3D affair....
‘Fright Night’ Remake Screenwriter Marti Noxon Rewriting ‘Ouija’ And ‘Tink’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2011 1:00 pm EST Marti Noxon’s most recent theatrical release, Fright Night, may not have done massive business, but it certainly hasn’t hurt her. In the wake of writing Fright Night the former Buffy writer and showrunner was brought on to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by her Fright Night director Craig Gillespie, before both ended up leading the project....
‘Hugo’ And ‘Rango’ Kick Off Mondo’s Academy Award Series By Germain Lussier/Feb. 17, 2012 3:00 pm EST If you’re like me and a little underwhelmed by this year’s Oscar nominees, maybe seeing them through Mondo’s eyes will make it more exciting. The poster boutique of the Alamo Drafthouse is making posters for four of their favorite films, in four of their favorite categories, timed to the 84th Annual Academy Awards on February 26....
‘Jack Ryan’ Reboot Set For Late 2013 Release [Updated] By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2012 1:30 pm EST After a couple years of trying to get the film together, Paramount finally has a loose release window for Jack Ryan, the latest film to adapt the character from Tom Clancy novels such as The Hunt For Red October and Patriot Games, and the first to feature Chris Pine as a younger version of the character....
‘The Wackness’ Director Jonathan Levine’s Top 10 Movies Of 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2011 10:00 am EST Jonathan Levine, the director of The Wackness, All The Boys Love Mandy Lane and the upcoming dramedy Live With It, has submitted his list of the top 10 movies of 2010. Levine’s list is the most unique I’ve seen from a filmmaker this year, including a few selections I haven’t seen on any filmmaker or critic top ten list this year....
Alison Brie And Mary McDonnell Cast In Scream 4 By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2010 9:24 pm EST Briefly: The Scream 4 casting machine keeps rolling. Yesterday saw a lot of movement in the cast with Lauren Graham dropping out (due to scheduling commitments, according to her reps) and Adam Brody, Marley Shelton and Erik Knudsen stepping in. Now Community’s Alison Brie and Mary McDonnell of Battlestar Galactica (and much more) are taking roles as well, according to The Wrap....
Bill Fagerbakke Voices Armed Stock Car In ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 6, 2011 1:30 pm EST The way the voices of Transformers get digitally manipulated, we could tell you Johnny Depp was voicing a character and it would be hard to prove us wrong. So, be that as it may, in an interview with a small Idaho newspaper, actor Bill Fagerbakke (Coach, Spongebob Squarepants, How I Met Your Mother) revealed that he’ll be “voicing an animated Chevy Impala stock car equipped with machine guns” in the upcoming Michael Bay film Transformers: Dark of the Moon....
Claudia Wells To Play Jennifer From ‘Back To The Future’ Again By Germain Lussier/March 28, 2011 9:30 am EST In making the Back to the Future video game, Telltale Games has proved time and time again that they’re huge fans and very respectful of the source material. For example with the third episode in their series of games, called Citizen Brown, they were able to get Claudia Wells, the original Jennifer, to reprise her role as Marty’s girlfriend....
Cool Stuff: Carlos Ramos’ “Overlook” The Shining-Inspired Art Print By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2010 10:00 am EST In July, we featured a bunch of art from Carlos Ramos’ Stanley Kubrick-inspired solo art exhibition. Ramos is a storyboard artist and former writer on Dexter’s Labratory, ChalkZone, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The X’s, and Ni Hao Kai-lan. The show closed in August, and as much as I wished and wished that Ramos would release some of his art as affordable giclee prints, it didn’t happen....
Cool Stuff: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Art Exhibit In Philadelphia By Germain Lussier/June 24, 2011 2:00 pm EST Not only were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles radical, there were radically different versions of the characters over the past few decades. Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael started as a very dark comic book series, were developed into kid-friendly toys, then a popular, bright TV show, live action movie characters and most recently CG animated characters in a film that tried to bring the series back to its roots....
Disney Halts Development On Revisionist Snow White Film ‘The Order Of The Seven’ By Russ Fischer/May 22, 2012 5:30 pm EST For a decade, Disney has been preparing a new live-action Snow White film, and in the couple years it has taken the shape of The Order of the Seven, previously Snow and the Seven, a film that would re-cast the Seven Dwarfs as a band of international warriors (the better to court non-US box office) protecting Saoirse Ronan....
First Look: Christian Bale In ‘The 13 Women Of Nanjing,’ Aka ‘Nanjing Heroes’ By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2011 6:48 pm EST Christian Bale has a little movie to make with Christopher Nolan this summer, but before he suits up in Pittsburgh for The Dark Knight Rises, he’ll finish a stint in China working with Zhang Yimou. The director is making a film called The 13 Women of Nanjing, known previously as Nanjing Heroes, which is the latest Chinese film version of the infamous 1937 incident called the Nanjing Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, in which Japanese soldiers killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and soldiers, and raped thousands of women after the capture of the city of Nanjing....
First Look: Roland Emmerich’s ‘White House Down’ Starring Channing Tatum And Jamie Foxx By Germain Lussier/Sept. 27, 2012 9:30 am EST Anyone who follows me on Twitter probably knows that last week I was in Montreal visiting the set of Roland Emmerich’s White House Down. Unfortunately, that’s literally all I can say about it for now. But I’m not Entertainment Tonight. The TV entertainment show also visited the set (on a different day) and while I may be embargoed until closer to the film’s June 28, 2013 release date, you can watch their set visit right now....
Gale Anne Hurd Producing ‘Area 51’ TV Show By Russ Fischer/Nov. 23, 2011 12:30 pm EST Gale Anne Hurd, the producer who started her career with Roger Corman and whose resume includes The Terminator, Aliens, Armageddon and The Walking Dead, is going to Area 51. Hurd’s company, Valhalla Entertainment, has optioned the Annie Jacobsen book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base to develop as a TV series....
Good Night, Alfred: Michael Gough Passes Away By Germain Lussier/March 17, 2011 9:12 am EST Michael Gough, the actor who portrayed Bruce Wayne’s servant and confidant Alfred Pennyworth in four Batman films, passed away Thursday at 94 years of age. While most of us knew Gough for his key roles in Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman and Robin, the British actor was a Tony and BAFTA award winning performer who also lent his talents to well-known films like The Boys From Brazil, Top Secret, Out of Africa and versions of The Phantom of the Opera, Alice in Wonderland, Julius Caesar and many more....
HBO Go And Max Go Finally Available For Time Warner Cable Subscribers By Angie Han/Jan. 11, 2012 2:30 pm EST Almost two years after the initial launch of HBO Go, Time Warner Cable subscribers will finally have the opportunity to sign up for the network’s online streaming service. As of this week, Time Warner Cable customers who subscribe to HBO and Cinemax will have instant access to over 1,400 titles from the HBO catalog and 400 from Cinemax on the web, via computers, iPads, iPhones, and Android phones....
Joss Whedon’s ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ TV Series Will Feature All New Characters By Angie Han/Sept. 12, 2012 11:43 am EST While S.H.I.E.L.D. hasn’t been the focus of any of the Marvel movies per se, we’ve gotten to know the group pretty well by this point. Indeed, the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division is the thread that ties the entire Marvel cinematic universe together, thanks to the strenuous post-credits recruiting efforts of Nick Fury (Samuel L....
Kevin Tong’s ‘Breaking Bad’ Poster Takes You Into Walter White’s Meth Lab By Germain Lussier/July 27, 2012 12:15 pm EST So far, posters in the Breaking Bad Art Project have dramatized some of the show’s tensest moments, immortalized some of the best characters and highlighted many of the famous locations. Today’s poster does something totally different as it teaches you all about the safety rules of, and structures in a meth lab....
