VOTD: ‘Field Of Dreams 2’ Features Taylor Launter And Surprise Cameos By Germain Lussier/July 7, 2011 8:00 am EST Field of Dreams is one of those movies that makes even the best of us cry. The beautiful respect for the game of baseball is only trumped by the great relationships Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) develops with Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) and his undying faith in himself....
VOTD: Watch The 1984 Russian Televised Version Of ‘The Hobbit’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 21, 2011 12:00 pm EST The internet is full of gold, if only one knows where to look. A college acquaintance who grew up in Moscow once told me of a televised Russian version of The Hobbit that he saw in the ’80s. It sounded crazy, but he barely even remembered the details, and I had next to nothing to search, not to mention that this was in the early days of the internet, when full videos weren’t so easy to find....
Watch ‘The Sound Of Brave’ By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2012 1:30 pm EST Sound is an essential element for almost any film, but animated films in particular benefit from stellar audio design. Most of the featurettes we’ve seen from the Soundworks Collection have been focused on live-action films (or mostly live-action films, such as the Transformers movies) but now we’ve got one that looks at the production of Pixar’s Brave....
‘Crazy Heart’ Helmer Scott Cooper To Direct Con Man Tale ‘The Man In The Rockefeller Suit’ By Angie Han/Oct. 21, 2011 3:00 pm EST
‘Notorious’ Helmer George Tillman Jr. To Direct Miles Davis Biopic By Angie Han/Nov. 10, 2011 12:30 pm EST George Tillman Jr., who previously brought rapper Notorious B.I.G.’s life to the big screen in Notorious, is lined up to direct another musical biopic, this time about legendary jazz musician Miles Davis. Tentatively titled Miles, the project is based on the book Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis by Davis’ son Gregory Davis....
‘Transformers 4’ To Be Cheaper, Likely To Go Into Space And Don’t Call It A Reboot By Germain Lussier/June 21, 2012 4:00 pm EST While many of us soon begin our summer vacations, Michael Bay is going back to work. Next week, the director will transition from his small film Pain and Gain to full on pre-production mode for Transformers 4. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times about the project, he dropped several new pieces of information....
Aaron Eckhart To Play CIA Agent In ‘The Expatriate’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 4, 2010 1:45 pm EST The moral of recent CIA movies like Fair Game and Red is that leaving the agency is never a good thing. That’s what Aaron Eckhart will soon learn in The Expatriate, a thriller he just signed to star in directed by Philipp Stolzl (a music video director whose last feature was the 2008 film North Face) from a script by by A....
Aaron Sorkin To Adapt ‘Steve Jobs’ For Sony By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2012 5:47 pm EST AARON SORKIN TO ADAPT “STEVE JOBS” FOR SONY PICTURES –Film to be Based on Walter Isaacson’s Best Selling Biography of Late Apple Co-Founder- CULVER CITY, Calif., May 15, 2012 – Academy Award® winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin will adapt Steve Jobs, a motion picture based on the best-selling biography of the legendary Apple co-founder by award-winning journalist Walter Isaacson, it was announced today by Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Doug Belgrad, President of Columbia Pictures....
Cannes Banners: Kane & Lynch, Burke & Hare, Gulliver’s Travels And More By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2010 5:00 pm EST In addition to the films playing each year at the Cannes Film Festival every year, Hollywood pays millions to install banners, billboards, and hotel front skins on the Croisette to promote upcoming releases. Most of the advertising has never been seen before anywhere. This year’s marketing offerings include Kane & Lynch, the Jack Black 3D comedy Gulliver’s Travels, The Last Airbender, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, John Landis’ Burke & Hare, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, Eli Roth presents The Other Woman, Spider 3D, Elephant White, Son of No One and more....
Casting Bits: Chris Pine In ‘Mud;’ Matt Dillon In ‘Inferno;’ Joel Edgerton And Luke Evans Shortlisted For ‘The Great Gatsby’ By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2011 5:30 pm EST After the break, Matt Dillon may beat up a pretend Linda Lovelace, and a shortlist emerges for the Great Gatsby role that Ben Affleck had to give up. For reasons no one really understands, along with all the competing fairy tale movies, there are two biopics brewing of porn star and feminist rallying-point personality Linda Lovelace....
Casting Notes: Jason Sudeikis In Horrible Bosses; Cary Elwes In Ivan Reitman Comedy; John Cusack In Jack By Russ Fischer/May 27, 2010 11:00 am EST Based on the cast alone, Horrible Bosses is starting to look like one of the more promising studio comedies on the horizon. The film about three friends who conspire to kill each others’ bosses already has Charlie Day and Jason Bateman as two of the three friends, and Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell as two of the bosses....
Colin Farrell Confirmed For ‘Total Recall’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2011 8:16 am EST When Colin Farrell was replaced by Robert Pattinson in David Cronenberg’s film Cosmopolis, it seemed safe to assume that Farrell was taking the lead in the Len Wiseman-directed remake of Total Recall. But in an interview shortly afterward, Farrell hedged on the question. Now producer Neal Moritz has confirmed that the actor is leading the cast, and given out some more info on the film as well....
Commercial Director Spotlight: Ash Bolland By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2010 7:00 am EST New Zealand-born commercial director Ash Bolland recently became attached to direct his first feature film, a remake of the 1978 Irwin Allen killer bees horror classic The Swarm. Vertigo Entertainment and Room 101 are developing a remake, inspired by the success of Piranha 3D. So who is Ash? What has he done before? Lets take a look in /Film’s commercial director spotlight....
Cool Stuff: ‘Tron’ Papercraft By Germain Lussier/Jan. 3, 2011 5:00 pm EST Didn’t find that TRON: Legacy Light Cycle you so desperately wanted under the tree this holiday season? Sorry to hear that. You can, however, build your own with nothing more than a color printer and some paper. The Disney Family website has some templates and instructions so that you can fold your way into ownership of Kevin Flynn, Sam Flynn and Clu’s Light Cycles, a Recognizer and more....
Cool Stuff: Dirty Harry Potter T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2010 8:00 am EST T-Shirt Laundry has an awesome Harry Potter/Dirty Harry mash-up parody t-shirt for sale. Here is the official description. Police Inspector “Dirty” Harry Potter is a hot-headed rookie fresh out of the Hogwarts Police Academy. His first assignment is a sadistic serial killer known only as “Voldemort”. Dirty Harry will stop at nothing to solve this crime even if it means roughing up a few muggles along the way....
Cool Stuff: Mondo Does Disney With ‘Steamboat Willy’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 24, 2011 2:00 pm EST With Star Wars, Star Trek and Disney, Mondo has some awesome licenses under their belt. And while Star Wars is done and Star Trek is ongoing, the Disney license has, so far, only had one entry: an awesome set of Tron posters. That came along with the announcement that Mondo would be doing several Disney posters in tandem with Sideshow Collectibles and, finally, a second poster has been released: Steamboat Willy by Tom Whalen....
David Gordon Green To Shoot ‘Joe’ With Nicolas Cage In November; Has ‘Suspiria’ Been Pushed Again? By Angie Han/Sept. 7, 2012 2:31 pm EST Nicolas Cage tends to emphasize quantity over quality when it comes to his career choices, but he still comes across some truly good projects every once in a while — I’d say just often enough to remind us that he can bring it if he really wants to....
Full Grindhouse Blu-Ray Release Confirmed For October By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2010 10:00 am EST Earlier this month a suspicious tweet filed by filmmaker Edgar Wright led us to speculate that a Blu-ray release of Grindhouse was in the works. As you probably know, when Grindhouse was released in theaters, it was a double feature featuring Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, and a few faux trailers at the beginning and in between....
Geek Deal: Band Of Brothers With The Pacific Part One For 63% Off By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2010 12:15 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Joel Kinnaman From ‘The Killing’ Offered Lead In ‘RoboCop’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2012 11:30 am EST This one is just breaking now, but Variety’s Jeff Sneider has trumpeted on Twitter that Joel Kinnaman, of The Killing and Snabba Cash (from the director of Safe House) has been offered the lead in RoboCop.Please note: this doesn’t mean the actor is cast. Offers go out all the time, with some being reported and a great many not....
