John Hillcoat Approached To Direct Remake Of Jean-Pierre Melville’s The Red Circle By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2010 6:25 am EST Jean-Pierre Melville’s film Le Cercle Rouge (aka The Red Circle) has been possible remake fodder for years. John Woo had his eye on it at one time (he’s long been a Melville devotee) and over the last couple of years it looked like Johnnie To was going to direct his own version....
Jon Favreau ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Movie Trailer Audio Commentary By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 22, 2010 4:15 pm EST Director Jon Favreau recorded an audio commentary for the recently released movie trailer for Cowboys & Aliens over on MTV. The freeze frame the screen to allow Favreau to provide an indepth explaination of everything you see in this first trailer. Hit the jump to watch the trailer with commentary. Favreau also answered a few questions from MTV’s Josh Horowitz: The Rules Of The Mixed GenreThe Trailer Is Only A “Teaser"Casting Harrison FordOne Pager: Synopsis: Blockbuster filmmaker Jon Favreau directs Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in an event film for summer 2011 that crosses the classic Western with the alien-invasion movie in a blazingly original way: Cowboys & Aliens....
Martin Scorsese’s 3D Will Be In Your Face By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2010 7:00 am EST As you know by now, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese is directing a 3D adaptation of Brian Selznick’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret (one of the projects that has been on the director’s slate since 2007). Scorsese has said in the past that he’s “very excited by 3D…But if the camera move is going to be a 3D effect, it has to be for dramatic purposes – not just throwing spears at the audience....
Official Synopsis For ‘American Reunion’ Revealed By Angie Han/Aug. 1, 2011 3:30 pm EST We’re already aware of many of the plot points that’ll be covered in American Reunion, the forthcoming eighth(!) installment of the American Pie franchise. Basically, the new film will see the whole gang from the first film come together once more for their high school reunion. Some things will have changed; other things not so much. (I’m going to guess that the gross, raunchy humor will be part of the “not so much” category....
Page 2: Alien, Pixar, Terminator, Fight Club, Akira, The Simpsons, West Wing, Sharktopus, Michael Dorn, The Royal Tenenbaums, Ryan Gosling, Breaking Bad, Lawless By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Alien vs. Predator at Pool by Andre McGrail One Theater’s Journey to Digital Cinema21 Stunning Examples Of Pixar Concept ArtScenes from the malls: 15 films with pivotal moments set in shopping malls Trailers From Hell: Adam Rifkin on THE TERMINATOR...
Page 2: Spider-Man, Charlie Sheen, Poltergeist, Topher Grace, True Grit, Scream 4, Rango, Transformers, By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2011 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Header image: If We Don’t Remember Me has posted a new Napoleon Dynamite animated gif image. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night will hit theaters on April 29th 2011. A Chinese welder has crafted himself his very own Megatron tank out of pieces of scrap metal....
Rachel Weisz And Emily Blunt Starring As Sisters In Mumblecore Film By Adam Quigley/Oct. 7, 2010 10:00 am EST The mumblecore movement got a big boost this year when Jonah Hill and John C. Reilly starred alongside each other in the arrested development comedy Cyrus, written and directed by the Duplass brothers, two of the pioneers of the genre. Prior to that, half that duo—Mark Duplass, who’s also in FX’s The League—had starred in Humpday, which was written, directed and produced by Lynn Shelton....
Rob Marshall Has A ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 5’ Update By Germain Lussier/Jan. 11, 2012 4:00 pm EST A script for Pirates of the Caribbean 5 was completed before Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides even hit theaters. That film then was hammered critically and producer Jerry Bruckheimer called for rewrites on the fifth film, saying the script wasn’t good enough. It seemed like people were calling for director Rob Marshall’s head, too....
Ruairi Robinson Set To Direct ‘The Last Days On Mars’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 1, 2011 3:31 pm EST Short film and commercial director Ruairi Robinson has been attached to a few studio projects over the past year or two, notably one incarnation of Warner Bros. live-action Akira remake. His last big project was the ‘killer robot’ short Blinky, which you can see here. Now he’s got a new project brewing that will feature effects from WETA....
Rumor: Rooney Mara Wanted For ‘Oldboy’ Female Lead? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2011 5:30 pm EST Spike Lee is set to direct an American version of the South Korean favorite Oldboy, with Josh Brolin looking like the guy to play the lead role. Brolin would be a man who is kidnapped one night and imprisoned for fifteen years for reasons unknown to him. Released back into society just as abruptly as he was snatched, he begins to look for the person or persons responsible for his incarceration....
Rumored ‘Expendables 2’ Cast Includes John Travolta, Chuck Norris And Jean-Claude Van Damme By Germain Lussier/July 29, 2011 3:00 pm EST With director Simon West preparing to shoot The Expendables 2 soon aiming at an August 17, 2012 release, it’s high-time we heard something about his cast. We expect that surviving members of the original – Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews, Jet Li and possibly Bruce Wills – could all return but, according to an interview with the CEO of the “biggest film studio” in the country the film will shoot, Bulgaria, joining the cast are John Travolta, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme....
Source Code UK Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2010 12:30 pm EST Summit Entertainment has released a UK movie trailer for Source Code, the sophomore feature from Moon director Duncan Jones on Heyuguys. The trailer begins much like the previously released domestic release, but varies a bit along the way and features a bunch of different footage along the way. The script had high praise in industry circles and has a clever premise, basically a mystery thriller set in a ten minute span of time Groundhog Day-style....
Splice Director Vincenzo Natali To Direct Adaptation Of William Gibson’s Neuromancer By Russ Fischer/May 7, 2010 9:40 am EST One of the seemingly eternal residents of Development Hell has been William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer. While the novel has influenced more films than any of us could count, the various adaptations that producers have tried to mount over the years have all stalled out, most in the early stages. That might be for the best, given the fact that movies based on certain speculative authors (Gibson, Philip K....
The Further Adventures Of ‘Lone Ranger:’ The Budget Is Cut, Disney Remains Undecided By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2011 9:42 am EST Today in The Continuing Adventures of Disney’s Lone Ranger, that film production cliffhanger that I’m not certain actually has people on pins and needles to discover what happens next, we’ve got budget cuts and stalwart friendship. One of those things is, at least, a core value of the Lone Ranger....
The Hobbit: Peter Jackson’s Deal Is Reportly Locked, Film To Shoot In February Pending Labor Resolution By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2010 11:46 am EST The series of speculative stories about Peter Jackson and The Hobbit may have finally come to an end. Various sources say today that MGM and Warner Bros. have negotiated a deal to finance the two Hobbit films, and that pending the resolution of labor issues, the shoot is tentatively scheduled to get underway in February, with Peter Jackson officially confirmed as director....
TV Bits: ‘Dexter’, ‘Sons Of Anarchy’, ‘Bob’s Burgers’, ‘Boardwalk Empire’, ‘Treme’, Benedict Cumberbatch, And More By Angie Han/July 9, 2012 5:00 pm EST A little bit sexy, and a lot creepy. The new promo may not include actual scenes from Dexter, but it does a bang up (pun kinda intended) job setting the tone for the aftermath of Deb’s big discovery. Dexter returns Sunday, September 30 at 9/8c. [via Cinema Blend]...
TV In Development Bits: ‘Freakonomics’, ‘The Beach’, ‘Luther’, ‘Idiocracy’, ‘Sleepy Hollow’, Keri Russell, Warren Ellis By Angie Han/Aug. 10, 2012 2:30 pm EST Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s nonfiction tome Freakonomics has been developed into a blog, a radio show, even a documentary — and now it’s even inspired a police procedural. NBC has just picked up Pariah, a new drama by Lionsgate TV and Kelsey Grammer’s Grammnet Productions....
Twilight’s Edi Gathegi Cast As Darwin In X-Men: First Class By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2010 6:30 pm EST From Wikipedia, here is a look at the character’s comic backstory: Gathegi got his start on Crank playing “Haitian Cabbie”, and had a 7-episode run on House M.D. He later appeared in Death Sentence, Gone Baby Gone, before playing the evil vampire Laurent in Twilight and New Moon. After birth, Darwin’s powers of self-protection and continuous circumstantial evolution made his mother hate him....
Universal Wants More ‘Bourne’ And ‘Ted,’ With The Latter As Soon As Possible By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2012 1:30 pm EST Seth MacFarlane’s directorial debut Ted did really well this summer — well enough that sequel talk began almost immediately. And now NBCUniversal’s CEO is saying that the studio wants to make more out of Ted “as soon as we can,” along with more franchise entries from the Bourne series, Despicable Me, and Fast and Furious....
Video Storyboard Of Neil Patrick Harris’ Musical Number In ‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 9, 2011 11:00 am EST Todd Strauss-Schulson, the director of A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, is pumping out the behind the scenes videos. Recently we posted the half embarrassing, all funny lip dub he and his crew did of a Miley Cyrus song and now he’s released something slightly more serious....
