Geek Deals: The Shield Complete Series For $59, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: Seasons 1-4 For $44 By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2010 11:57 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As with all of the Gold Box deals, the price will disappear at midnight (on Wednesday night).
Hugh Hefner Biopic Moves To Warner Bros. With ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ Producer By Russ Fischer/March 6, 2012 2:00 pm EST For years, Imagine Entertainment and Universal worked to make a biopic about Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, with Brett Ratner attached to direct and actors like Robert Downey, Jr. and Hugh Jackman mentioned as possible picks to play the magazine mogul. But the closest Hef has come to creating a starring role on the big screen is a James Franco cameo in Lovelace, which has Amanda Seyfried as porn star turned anti-porn icon Linda Lovelace....
Is Sony Planning A Movie About The Video Game Console Wars? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2012 2:33 pm EST There’s a war being fought, which has been going on for years. This isn’t some political thing that involves the lives of young men and the conflicting politics and ideologies that devour them. This one is important. It is the console war, that advertising-driven competition between companies such as Sony, maker of the PlayStation line of video game consoles, and Microsoft, maker of the Xbox line....
Johnny Depp Reportedly Wants Rob Marshall To Direct Him In A New Version Of Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Thin Man’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2010 12:21 pm EST Who wants to see Johnny Depp solve a murder related to a family full of infighting crazies while getting sloshed at ten in the morning? According to a new report, the actor is angling to have his Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides director Rob Marshall head up a new movie based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1934 novel The Thin Man....
Listen To A Preview Of Jónsi’s Score For Cameron Crowe’s ‘We Bought A Zoo’ By Angie Han/Dec. 9, 2011 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The album won’t actually go on sale until December 13, but if you start listening now you’ll have plenty of time to decide whether or not you want to shell out that $10.99. Spoiler alert: If you like Jónsi and Sigur Rós, you probably will....
Michael Fassbender Chooses X-Men: First Class Over Spider-Man Reboot By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2010 9:00 am EST I’ve also been told that casting director Mindy Marin is no longer on the project, and that she has been replaced by Joseph Middleton (New Moon, Old School, Go, Donnie Darko). Previously: Earlier this week it was rumored that Amber Heard (The Informers, Zombieland) is in talks to play a young Mystique, and Pride & Prejudice/Surrogates star Rosamund Pike is in talks to play Moira McTaggert....
New Poster: A Clever Image For Jason Reitman’s Dark Comedy ‘Young Adult’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 6, 2011 10:00 am EST It’s too bad that Sony, David Fincher and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo have already locked down the ‘feel-bad movie of Christmas’ tagline, because it looks like Jason Reitman’s fourth film Young Adult might be a contender for that title. The movie, scripted by Juno writer Diablo Cody, is a dark comedy about an alcoholic youth-lit author (Charlize Theron) who returns to her hometown to chase her now-married high school flame, played by Patrick Wilson....
Rumor: Ewan McGregor Cast As Famed Eco-Pirate Paul Watson In ‘Ocean Warrior’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 3, 2011 3:30 pm EST Late last year, Keith Ross Leckie and Julie Allan were hired to write Ocean Warrior, a biopic about ’eco-pirate’ and Greenpeace activist Captain Paul Watson. Now there is a report that Ewan McGregor will play the lead role. The comments about the actor being hired reportedly come from Paul Watson himself....
Sacha Baron Cohen May Spoof Bond By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2012 1:00 pm EST Briefly: Sacha Baron Cohen’s next project with Paramount may be a slightly more traditional type of comedy than his Da Ali G Show spin-off satires have been. The writer/actor just sold a pitch to the studio that “follows a James Bond-like spy forced to go on the run with his long-lost brother, a moronic soccer hooligan.” Sounds like a reasonable plan, and the hooligan brother could be a way to get some of Cohen’s signature comedy style into a film that relies more heavily on scripted setpieces than we’re used to seeing from him....
Trivia: Sam Mendes Originally Planned For Kevin Spacey To Play Villain In ‘Bond 23’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 22, 2011 6:15 pm EST We’re at the point now where trivia gets reported about films that don’t even exist yet. So it goes with the twenty-third James Bond film, which Sam Mendes is set to direct with the returning Daniel Craig and Judi Dench, and the possible involvement of Javier Bardem, and the rumored participation of Ralph Fiennes....
VOTD: Fan Created Title Sequence For ‘The Walking Dead’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2010 6:00 am EST The Walking Dead fan Daniel Kanemoto decided to create an animated title sequence for the upcoming AMC-produced Frank Darabont adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s zombie comic book series. The fan made title sequence uses artwork “ripped from the pages of the comic, originally illustrated by Charlie Adlard and Tony Moore.” Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof even commented on the fan created video: “We are arriving at that unique moment in time where the term ‘fan-made’ becomes moot....
VOTD: The Films Of Edgar Wright By Germain Lussier/Dec. 13, 2010 4:00 pm EST We’re huge fans of Edgar Wright here on /Film. He’s been on the SlashfilmCast, we’ve covered and fawned over his movies and posted innumerable random, cool things about the man and his films. There’s almost too much to say about Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World so thankfully, Joel Walden can do the talking for us....
Watch This: Louis C.K.’s Hilarious By David Chen/Sept. 21, 2010 3:54 pm EST Louis CK’s Hilarious was one of my favorite films at the Sundance film festival this year. I can’t remember the last time I’ve been reduced, so thoroughly, to a useless pile of tear-filled laughter than when I watched this concert film. For months now, I’ve been wondering whatever became of Hilarious, but fortunately I’ve had Louis’ wonderful FX show to tide me over in the meantime....
WTF: Elijah Wood Cast In Indie Thriller Pitched As ‘Speed’ At A Piano By Russ Fischer/May 2, 2012 9:30 am EST Years ago, after the Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock thriller Speed dominated summer box office, jokes quickly spawned about how studio development of films based on the success of a story about a bomb-rigged bus that had to maintain speed in order to avoid detonation. “Speed on a Plane,” " Speed in an Elevator," and other gags were floated....
‘H+’ Trailer: Bryan Singer’s Digital Series Destroys The Technological World As We Know It By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2012 5:30 pm EST The first trailer for H+ has been released, and it looks at first a lot like an infomercial for the new information technology, but then it turns into a more narrative-oriented trailer that suggests a future that is both promising and very frightening. This is no small-budget, minor-scale web series....
‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2’ Character Posters Revealed For Ron, Draco, Snape, Voldemort And Neville By Angie Han/May 31, 2011 3:00 pm EST Last week, we showed you two new posters for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 — one featuring a roughed-up Harry and another showing a concerned-looking Hermione. Since then, Warner Bros. has released five more character posters, for Ron (Rupert Grint), Neville (Matthew Lewis), Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), Draco (Tom Felton) and Snape (Alan Rickman)....
‘John Carter’ Trailer - ‘Wall-E’ Director Andrew Stanton Goes Back To Outer Space, This Time With Tim Riggins By Angie Han/Nov. 30, 2011 9:20 pm EST We got our first glimpse of the new trailer for Disney’s John Carter on Good Morning America several hours ago, but as promised, we now have a much better version to show you. And by “better,” I don’t just mean higher-quality, but also longer, somewhat more interesting, and a little more promising....
‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Director Assembling ‘Agent 13’ With Charlize Theron By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2012 9:30 am EST Briefly: Rupert Wyatt didn’t exactly come out of nowhere to direct Rise of the Planet of the Apes, as he already had his name on The Escapist and Subterrain. But the unlikely success of his Apes prequel definitely put him on the map for a lot of audiences. Wyatt is tapped to make another Apes movie for Fox, but he’s also making other deals....
‘Stranger Than Fiction’ Writer Zach Helm To Adapt Patricia Highsmith’s ‘Deep Water’ By Angie Han/Jan. 12, 2012 5:00 am EST The first is Errol Morris’ Freezing People is Easy, an adaptation of Robert Nelson’s cryogenic preservation memoir We Froze the First Man, which cast Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher Walken last week. Now he’s also been tapped to write Deep Water, a “dark, sexy comedy” based on the thriller by Patricia Highsmith....
‘Voltron: The End’ A Live Action Voltron Short-Film By Germain Lussier/Oct. 13, 2011 4:00 pm EST Voltron: The End is the realization of a childhood dream – a live action Voltron movie. It’s also an evil, downbeat tease in the best possible way. Fans of the property – which centers on a massive robot composed of five individual mechanical lions – have been given the run around for years. Scripts have been leaked, concept art revealed and bidding wars reportedly waged but even with the success of robot fighting movies like Transformers and Real Steel, we’re still not close to a live-action Voltron movie....
