Posts

/Film Video Interview: Mark Duplass On ‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’ ‘The League,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ Netflix, Sundance And Much More By Germain Lussier/June 5, 2012 4:00 pm EST You’d be hard pressed to find a guy with more going on than Mark Duplass. First and foremost, he’s the star of the wonderful and charming film Safety Not Guaranteed, which premiered at Sundance and opens June 8. In the film he plays Kenneth, a mysterious man who places an ad looking for a partner to help him travel back in time....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Director Brian Kirk To Helm Guillermo Del Toro-Produced Thriller ‘Midnight Delivery’ By Angie Han/Nov. 3, 2011 5:00 am EST Game of Thrones helmer Brian Kirk has worked mostly in television, but he’s been making moves toward the big screen in recent months. He was up for the job of directing Thor 2 before Patty Jenkins won the job, and over the summer he signed on for Paper Wings with Tom Cruise....

‘Groundhog Day:’ Just How Long Was Phil Connors Stuck In A Time Loop? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2011 1:30 pm EST Today is Groundhog Day, which naturally leads film fans to thoughts of the classic 1993 comedy from Harold Ramis, starring Bill Murray in one of his most effective comic performances. (One which, like a lot of the essential comic performances, is really a dramatic one at heart.) One of the core questions for many fans of the film is: just how long was Phil Connors (Murray) stuck reliving the same day in Punxsutawney, PA during the events seen in Groundhog Day?...

‘Jesus Henry Christ’ Trailer - Toni Collette And Michael Sheen Have A Really Weird Kid By Angie Han/March 21, 2012 1:00 pm EST Toni Collette has already starred in one of the more successful offbeat dysfunctional family comedies in recent years, Little Miss Sunshine, but she’s returning to the territory in Dennis Lee’s Jesus Henry Christ. Jason Spevack stars as her son, an oddball child prodigy who discovers that he comes from a sperm bank....

‘Pitch Perfect’ Trailer: Anna Kendrick In The A Capella ‘Bring It On’ By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2012 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Anna Kendrick stars in Pitch Perfect as an outsider girl who, after arriving at her new school, is pulled into a competitive group of girls who are determined to sing their way to all-vocal a capella success. But don’t be too quick to call this one merely a revamp of other similar competitive high school/college movies....

‘The Raid’ - Intense, Bad Ass Action [Sundance 2012 Video Blog] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 21, 2012 11:03 am EST The Raid had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September and Peter touted it as the best action film he’s seen in years. Gareth Evans’ Indonesian smash ’em up has now moved south for its United States Premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festvial and it more than lives up to the hype....

‘The Thing’ Will Release On October 14, 2011 By Russ Fischer/Nov. 23, 2010 1:30 pm EST Good news: after some concern over the fate of Universal’s prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing, we’ve now got an October 14, 2011 release date for the film. The Thing (yep, still a confusing title for a prequel to a film called The Thing) was scheduled for April, but had that date scrapped not long ago....

‘The Three Stooges’ International Trailer - More Plot, Still No Laughs By Angie Han/March 12, 2012 5:00 pm EST Although that first domestic trailer for Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s The Three Stooges left me pretty cold, with just a month to go until the film’s release it seemed worth giving the new international trailer a fair shot. Unfortunately, though the new video does more efficient job of laying out the plot, it fares no better at bringing the funny....

‘The Wolverine’ Antagonist Confirmed By Russ Fischer/July 22, 2011 2:00 pm EST Not all the news at Comic Con comes out of the big Hall H panels. More and more events are taking place off-site as the Con just becomes too damn big to fit in the convention center. Hugh Jackman, appearing not far off the main Comic Con site yesterday to promote Real Steel, revealed a little thing about The Wolverine: a confirmation about the identity of the antagonist in the film....

Anti-Casting Update: ‘Snuff,’ ‘Beat The Reaper’ And ‘Cosmopolis’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2011 4:00 pm EST First up is Cosmopolis. Colin Farrell and Marion Cotillard were originally attached, but he left to do Total Recall (replaced with Robert Pattinson) and she left to have a baby. There was word that Keira Knightley might be the new lead actress, bolstered by the fact that the French financing company put her name in a cast list on their website....

Barry Levinson’s ‘Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father,’ With John Travola, Is On Hold By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2011 11:00 am EST The film Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father has had a difficult path from development to screen. In fact, it looks like the project has fully stalled out before cameras were even able to roll. While Barry Levinson came on board a few months ago (replacing Nick Cassavetes) and a cast had started to shape up with deals for John Travolta, Al Pacino, Ben Foster, Kelly Preston and possibly Joe Pesci, the time has come when some of those people were meant to be paid....

By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2011 2:03 pm EST Pete Segal was the last director attached to the project, but it has been seemingly fallow for a few months. Now Akiva Schaffer, a veteran of SNL and Lonely Island member, has been offered the director’s chair by Fox, and Ben Stiller is reportedly interested in playing the lead as a follow-up to Brett Ratner’s Tower Heist. The fact that Neighborhood Watch is produced by Shawn Levy, who directed Ben Stiller to great financial success in the two Night at the Museum Movies, probably doesn’t hurt the possible deal....

Bradley Cooper Could Join Christian Bale In David O. Russell’s ‘American Bullsh*t’; Megan Ellison In Talks To Fund By Angie Han/April 19, 2012 7:00 am EST The last we heard of Sony’s American Bullshit, David O. Russell’s reps were adamantly denying his involvement in the picture, as well as the rumor that he’d cast his The Fighter star Christian Bale in the lead role. As of today, however, it seems that not only are Russell and Bale indeed attached, they’re about to add a couple more collaborators....

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 13, 2012 3:30 pm EST Perhaps no film director helped publicize the idea of being a film director more than Alfred Hitchcock. The man was a canny promoter, and in his earliest days began the practice of making a quick, typically silent cameo in each of his films. Eventually he started to put the cameo right at the beginning, as he knew audiences kept an eye out for his appearance, and he hoped he could get it out of the way so people would watch the movie for all the other stuff he labored to put in each one....

Comic Con: Photos Of The Scott Pilgrim Experience By Russ Fischer/July 22, 2010 3:17 pm EST I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie promoted at Comic Con in the way that Universal is promoting Scott Pilgrim vs the World. It’s appropriate, since Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series began as a relatively small affair, and Comic Con is exactly the right place for a blowout promotional camp, which is exactly what the Scott Pilgrim Experience is....

Cool Stuff: Saul Bass: A Life In Film & Design [Book] By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 5, 2011 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Gallery of pages from the book: Official Information on the book: This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work....

Cool Stuff: Simpsons World – The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2010 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A complete list of celebrity guest stars, and much, much more… Packaged in the ultimate wraparound slipcase and weighing in at a hefty 8.8 pounds, Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide (Seasons 1-20) is meant for reading, not throwing! Look what you get in this cromulent compendium!...

Damon Lindelof Hints ‘Lost’ Could Return In Some Form By Germain Lussier/May 2, 2012 6:00 am EST Just when you thought the cryptic quotes about Lost were over with, co-creator and executive producer Damon Lindelof came out and said the following at Variety’s Entertainment & Technology Summit: It’s been two years (since the series wrapped) and we told the story we wanted to tell….I do feel like the world has not seen the end of ‘Lost,’ but I’m not going to have any involvement....

Focus Features Buys Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ By Russ Fischer/May 2, 2011 5:43 pm EST Wes Anderson is shooting his next film, Moonrise Kingdom, right now in Rhode Island, and the film now has distribution set: Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights. Some of those rights will be sold off at Cannes, wihle the company will release the film under the Focus banner in the US.Moonrise Kingdom has a few new faces for the Wes Anderson collective, as the cast includes: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and regulars Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman....

Infographic: Star Wars Episode IV Retold In “Iconoscope” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2011 5:00 am EST Wayne Dorrington has recreated Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) in an Infographic using 32-lines of “iconscope”. Check it out after the jump. Click on the image below to see the graphic in high resolution on WD. Infographic: Star Wars Episode IV Retold In “Iconoscope” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2011 5:00 am EST...