Should IMDB Display Age Listings? By David Chen/June 17, 2010 7:57 pm EST The Wrap is reporting that the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) is embroiled in a controversy over whether or not to list ages in its database. Several influential Hollywood guilds, led by the Writers Guild of America, West, are trying to get members the right to remove their birth dates from IMDB. IMDB, though, isn’t too keen on the idea....
Summit Buys ‘Ender’s Game’ With Gavin Hood Directing By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2011 6:44 pm EST Ender’s Game is a property that has been in development for what seems like forever. The last big attempt to make the film started in 2002 when Warner Bros. optioned it and eventually set Wolfgang Petersen to direct. That version died in 2009, at which point Odd Lot picked up the option and eventually hired Gavin Hood (Tsotsi, Wolverine) to script....
VOTD: A Brief History Of Conspicuous Product Placement By Germain Lussier/Jan. 12, 2011 4:00 am EST With today’s DVR culture, product placement is becoming more and more prevalent. The only way for advertisers to get eyeballs on their products, since we fast-forward through the commercials, is for those products to actually be in the shows. It’s a fact of life and it can be infuriating. And when it happens in a movie, it can be even more infuriating....
Will ‘Django Unchained’ Feature Surprise Guest Stars? By Russ Fischer/May 22, 2012 7:30 am EST Briefly: Don’t worry — there are no spoilers here. As you may know, yesterday saw the first public display of footage from Quentin Tarantino’s new film Django Unchained. Harvey Weinstein brought a few minutes of the movie to Cannes yesterday, and you can read a rundown of reactions over here. (Hint: they are almost uniformly positive....
‘Caesar: Rise Of The Apes’ Moves From June To November By Germain Lussier/Jan. 14, 2011 5:30 pm EST So you’ll have to wait to Thanksgiving to watch the beginning of the end of the world with Andy Serkis as a CGI ape and humans James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox and Tom Felton. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jim Carrey’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins moves from August 12 to June 17, The Big Year with Jack Black and Steve Martin is now set for October 14, The Sitter shifts from July 15 to June 24, the Selena Gomez film Monte Carlo is bumped up to July 1 from August 12, What’s Your Number?...
‘Dolphin Tale’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/April 8, 2011 11:00 am EST We’ve seen movies about handicapped people overcoming odds. We’ve seen movies about humans developing special relationships with animals and we’ve seen inspirational family movies. Dolphin Tale incorporates all three in 3D. Directed by Charles Martin Smith (Air Bud, but he’s best known as Agent Wallace in The Untouchables) the film stars a tailless dolphin named Winter, playing herself in a pseudo spoiler, who is kept alive and mobile by a group of people around a Florida aquarium including Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Harry Connick, Jr....
‘Lost’ Director Jack Bender To Direct Legendary’s ‘Devolution’, From ‘World War Z’ Author Max Brooks By Angie Han/June 27, 2012 11:00 am EST Max Brooks’ World War Z may be experiencing some turbulence on its way to the big screen, but that’s not getting in the way of his blossoming Hollywood career. Among his upcoming projects are a thriller titled Devolution, which Lost director Jack Bender is developing and will direct for Legendary....
‘Need For Speed’ To Hit Screens Thanks To ‘Act Of Valor’ Co-Director By Russ Fischer/May 23, 2012 11:00 am EST Briefly: We don’t have a lot of info on this one yet, but DreamWorks is ready to compete with Universal’s mega-earning Fast and Furious franchise. The studio is moving forward with an adaptation of the EA game series Need For Speed, and has Scott Waugh in talks to direct. Waugh’s most recent work on screens was the Navy SEAL movie Act of Valor....
‘The Last House On The Left’ Remake Director To Make ‘The Demonologists’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2010 7:30 pm EST Briefly: As horror remakes go, The Last House on the Left, directed by Dennis Iliadis, was better than most. So let’s see what happens with his next picture, which may well be The Demonologists, written by Ghost Whisperer writer Teddy Tenenbaum. Joel Silver’s production company is producing. The script is about “a family of veteran ghost hunters who get more than they bargained for when they are called in to face what they soon realize is not a routine ghost job but a demon infestation....
Aaron Sorkin To Write And Direct Adaptation Of John Edwards Biography ‘The Politician’ By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2010 4:00 am EST Now he’s looking to debut as a director with an adaptation of The Politician, which charts the aspirations and downfall of Senator John Edwards, who campaigned for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination. Deadline says Sorkin optioned Andrew Young’s book The Policitian: An Insider’s Account of John Edwards’s Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down and will write the script and produce the film....
Alamo Drafthouse Partners With Fandango; Still Planning NY And LA Expansion By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2011 12:30 pm EST Here’s what League had to say in the press release: The Drafthouse, which currently has several locations in the Austin area and across Texas, not only shows first run movies, but also a fantastic repertory slate. The Fandango ticket sales will include all of these including “Sing-Alongs, Quote-Alongs, Big Screen Classics, Terror Tuesdays, Weird Wednesdays, Films & Feasts, Live Score events and more....
Brad Pitt Negotiating A Role In Andrew Dominik’s ‘Cogan’s Trade’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2010 11:55 pm EST New info now indicates that the story is Cogan’s Trade, with a script by Mr. Dominik. And it could be even more of a Jesse James reunion than we’d expected, as Brad Pitt, who played Jesse James for Andrew Dominik, looks ready to sign on. Cogan’s Trade would feature the actor as “Jackie Cogan, a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that takes place during a high stakes poker game under protection of the mob....
Casting Bits: Jason Sudeikis In ‘Dog Fight’, John Cusack In ‘Numbers Station’, Michelle Monaghan In ‘Fort Bliss’, Lily Collins In ‘English Teacher’ By Angie Han/Oct. 25, 2011 8:00 am EST 2012 isn’t shaping up to be quite the Year of Sudeikis that 2011 was, but the Saturday Night Live star seems to be looking forward to another busy year. In addition to his ongoing gigs on SNL and Fox’s The Cleveland Show, Jason Sudeikis is also slated to guest star in the third season of HBO’s Eastbound & Down, and he’s now landed a role in Jay Roach’s political satire Dog Fight....
Colin Firth To Join Reese Witherspoon In West Memphis Three Drama ‘Devil’s Knot’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2012 2:00 pm EST The star power that came out in defense of the West Memphis Three was remarkable and now there’s added juice behind an eventual dramatic film version. Oscar-winner Colin Firth has just joined previously cast Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon in Devil’s Knot, the first narrative feature (after several documentaries) concerning the complicated yet fascinating subject of the West Memphis Three....
Cool Stuff: Threadless’ Disney Villains T-Shirts By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 25, 2012 4:00 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures held a contest on the popular t-shirt website Threadless to come up with tee signs based on the popular Disney animated villains. The submissions were voted on, and the fifteen highest voted were printed and are now available on the site for a limited time only. Big corporations like Disney tend not to produce the “coolest” of merchandise, but some of these designs almost look good enough to be something you would see on a screenprinted poster by Mondo....
Costume Test Photos From Tim Burton’s Failed ‘Superman Lives’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 29, 2010 2:30 pm EST Hey Zack Snyder! Here’s how not to make your new Superman movie. It seems like every few years, we get another glimpse of the incredible amount of money Warner Brothers threw into pre-production on a Tim Burton directed Superman film called Superman Lives. As far back as 2006, concept art from the film began surfacing online and last year not only did more concept images rear their ugly little heads, a now infamous shot of star Nicolas Cage wearing a radical (and not in the fun, ’80s way) take on the Man of Steel was revealed....
First Look: Steve Carell And Sam Rockwell In Nat Faxon And Jim Rash’s ‘The Way, Way Back’ By Angie Han/Aug. 24, 2012 4:36 pm EST It can be pretty hard to take Jim Rash seriously when he’s flirting with dalmatians as Dean Pelton on Community, but off-camera he’s enjoying greater success than ever. Rash and Nat Faxon landed Oscars this past February for scripting Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, and have spent most of the year since working on their directorial debut The Way, Way Back....
Henry Cavill Cast As ‘Superman’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 30, 2011 11:00 pm EST Warner Bros. and Zack Snyder have found their new Superman. (And their new Clark Kent.) And no, it isn’t Jon Hamm. The company sent out a press release this morning to announced that Henry Cavill (Stardust, The Tudors, Tarsem’s forthcoming Immortals and an actor who auditioned for Christopher Nolan’s Batman) is the new son of Krypton. Read the full release after the break....
Henry Joost And Ariel Schulman Returning For ‘Paranormal Activity 4;’ Where Will The Story Go? By Germain Lussier/Jan. 5, 2012 9:00 am EST When Paramount announced they’d hired Catfish directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman to direct Paranormal Activity 3, the world of film collectively rolled their eyes. Then the film came out and the duo gouged those eyes out. Joost and Schulman knocked the film out of the park (read my review here), turned a major profit and left a ton of places for the fourth film to go....
Hugh Jackman Calls ‘The Wolverine’ A Stand-Alone Movie, Not “Overloaded With Mutants” By Russ Fischer/Aug. 13, 2012 11:30 am EST James Mangold’s The Wolverine is shooting now with Hugh Jackman reprising the title role, making his fifth appearance as the adamantium-strengthened mutant warrior. (Or the sixth, if you count one brief cameo.) The film, scripted by Christopher McQuarrie, is based on the short but defining Chris Claremont and Frank Miller series that sees Wolverine in Japan trying to wrangle his affections for a young woman whose father doesn’t exactly accept the gaijin suitor....
