See Art Commissioned To Pitch Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ To Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/Aug. 15, 2012 11:30 am EST Once upon a time, Warner Bros. was thinking of making a movie based on Neil Gaiman’s comic book series Sandman. This confused many people, as Sandman is a wide-ranging collection of stories and characters that does not at all lend itself to a Big Studio Movie. You think Watchmen came out a little wonky?...
Stallone Confirms Norris And Van Damme For ‘The Expendables 2,’ Still Wants Travolta And Cage By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2011 8:05 pm EST The last time we had good word on The Expendables 2, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger had been confirmed for meaty roles alongside returning star Sylvester Stallone and presumably returning actors Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews and Jet Li. Donnie Yen, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris and John Travolta have all been rumored as well, with one report seeming to confirm the participation of classic ass-kickers Norris and Van Damme....
Trent Reznor Is Scoring The Social Network By David Chen/July 1, 2010 8:41 pm EST If the recently released teaser trailer for David Fincher’s The Social Network didn’t turn your crank, maybe this news will: According to an announcement on the Nine Inch Nails’ website news feed (via Pitchfork), Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are writing the score for the film. Unsurprisingly, Reznor wasn’t immediately drawn to the idea of a film based on the founding of Facebook, but when he read Sorkin’s script, he changed his mind:...
Watch A Clip From Pixar’s Toy Story Toon ‘Partysaurus Rex’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 16, 2012 3:00 pm EST When Finding Nemo 3D hits theaters next month, it’ll have a brand new Pixar short in front of it: The Toy Story Toon Partysaurus Rex. Directed by Mark Walsh, the clip features Rex (Wallace Shawn) starting a rave in a bath tube with music by BT. Seriously. A couple images were released last week and now Disney has released a clip that features a bunch of new toys....
Watch A Demo Reel Of Effects From Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Black Swan’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2011 2:30 pm EST One of the winning characteristics of Darren Aronofsky’s latest film Black Swan is that it does not often look like an effects-heavy movie. Great pains were obviously taken top make the film appear very real-world and grounded, the better to emphasize the feelings of paranoia and psychological disorientation that plague Natalie Portman’s character as the film goes along....
‘Fright Night’, ‘War Horse’, ‘Real Steel’ And ‘The Help’ Footage Screened At Cinema Con By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2011 2:54 pm EST It is the second day at CinemaCon, the Las Vegas based movie theater convention formerly known as ShoWest. This morning DreamWorks Studios held their presentation, showcasing footage and talent from Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, Shawn Levy’s Real Steel, Craig Gillespie’s remake of Fright Night and the big screen adaptation of The Help....
‘Game Of Thrones’ Renewed For Second Season By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2011 9:08 am EST Briefly: Good news for George R.R. Martin fans: the ratings have just come in for the debut episode of Game of Thrones on HBO, and the network has already taken the expected step of renewing the show for a second season. The ratings for the first episode weren’t amazing — Boardwalk Empire out-did Thrones in premiere numbers — but they were good enough, at 2....
4 Minute Trailer: David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2011 12:51 am EST Last week some audiences in attendance to promo screenings of Straw Dogs and Moneyball were treated with a special surprise 8-minute trailer for David Fincher’s big screen adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. You can read my enthusiastic report here, where I pleaded that Sony release the extended trailer online....
Adam Sandler Could Play Andy Samberg’s Father In ‘I Hate You Dad’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 14, 2011 7:00 am EST Briefly: The man once high in the running to be crowned king of all manchildren has truly grown up: he’ll be playing the father of a character played by a comic who inherited his mantle. Let’s clarify. Adam Sandler will play the father and Andy Samberg his son in a film called I Hate You Dad....
Blake Lively, Channing Tatum, And Jude Law To Star In Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Side Effects’; Megan Ellison To Finance By Angie Han/Jan. 10, 2012 6:57 am EST This month’s Haywire marks the first of two collaborations between Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum we’ll be seeing this year, the other one being this summer’s Magic Mike, and it seems we’ll have another to look forward to next year as well. After toying with the idea of teaming up for Warner Bros....
Bryan Cranston Cast In ‘Gangster Squad’ By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2011 9:42 pm EST What did I just say hours ago about Bryan Cranston being on a tear? He’s just in the process of taking a role in Argo, the new film that Ben Affleck will direct. And now he’s in talks for Gangster Squad, a film that Ben Affleck was offered to direct before Argo came into being. Variety reports the Gangster Squad news, saying that he would play Max Kennard, “a laconic LAPD officer from Texas who enforces the law ambitiously....
Casting Bits: Ray Liotta In ‘The Place Beyond The Pines’, Liam Hemsworth In ‘AWOL’, Rumer Willis And Dominic Purcell In ‘The Ganzfeld Experiment’ By Angie Han/June 27, 2011 4:00 am EST It seems like Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines gets more intriguing with each new casting announcement, and the latest addition is no exception. Ray Liotta has just signed on for Cianfrance’s “Deer Hunter meets The Godfather” crime drama, joining Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Greta Gerwig and Ben Mendelsohn....
Cool Stuff: Lord Of The Rings’ Middle Earth Recreated In LEGO By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2011 1:05 pm EST A bunch of LEGO builders decided to recreate a sequence from The Lord of the Rings in LEGO. The idea quickly expanded into trying to recreate all of Middle Earth, spanning the three books/films. The resulting collaborative build was on display at BrickWorld 2011 in Wheeling Illinois, where it won “Best Group Layout”....
Dominic Cooper Explains How Howard Stark Fits Into ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ By Adam Quigley/Feb. 1, 2011 4:30 pm EST We’ve known for some time now that a younger Howard Stark would be appearing in Captain America: The First Avenger, and that he’d be played by Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!, The Duchess), but to what extent is the character featured in the film? Will his role be a fan service cameo, or does he actually pertain to the story?...
Dustin Lance Black Writing Film Version Of Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ By Russ Fischer/April 13, 2011 11:00 am EST Just as the original Broadway run of American Idiot is about to close, a movie based on Green Day’s 2004 album — something that has been a topic of discussion since the record first hit stands — may have a screenwriter and a home at Universal. Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar) is in talks to write a film based on the Broadway musical based on Green Day’s album....
First Look: Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer And Lily Collins In Tarsem’s ‘Snow White’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2011 7:30 am EST Two Snow White films have been in production since summer, and we’ve already seen images from one, the action-oriented Snow White and the Huntsman, starring Kristen Stewart as Snow White. Now here are the first images from the other, Relativity and Tarsem’s currently untitled Snow White movie starring Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer and Lily Collins....
George Clooney Attached To Star In ‘The Monster Of Florence’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 4, 2011 7:15 pm EST You might see a lot of George Clooney this year. (In 2010 he was in only The American.) He’s set to appear in a small role in Gravity, is directing and will appear in The Ides of March, and has already shot Alexander Payne’s film The Descendants. He’s also producing an Enron film and might end the year gearing up for Steven Soderbergh’s The Man From U....
Guillermo Del Toro To Direct ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ With James Cameron Producing By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2010 8:28 pm EST To the many, many people who bring up H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness (the book that combines exploratory adventure, science fiction and Lovecraft’s tales of great, horrible old gods) every time Guillermo del Toro has a window of availability: this one’s for you. The director has talked about wanting to adapt Lovecraft’s story for many years, but it always seemed like a really tough sell....
IMDb Releases Trivia Game For iPhone And iPod Touch By Angie Han/Sept. 27, 2011 12:00 pm EST If you’re the kind of person who constantly exhausts your friends and family by spouting fun facts any time a movie comes up in conversation — and if you’re reading this site, there’s a decent chance you are — IMDb’s got a new product just for you. The movie reference website has just launched a free game for iPhone and iPod Touch that asks players to answer trivia questions about films, television, and celebrities from the past several decades....
Infographic: 15 Things About Star Trek You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2010 10:00 am EST Graphic artist Ricky Linn created an awesome new Star Trek infographic, 15 Things About Star Trek You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Trek. Check it out, after the jump. Infographic: 15 Things About Star Trek You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2010 10:00 am EST...
