Cool Stuff: Super Fettio Bros T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2010 10:52 pm EST Today’s t-shirt of the day on TeeFury is a Super Mario Brothers/Star Wars mash-up created by MankindRam titled “Super Fettio Bros”. Here is the explanation from the artist: What if two of every kid’s heroes were actually the same guy? Well this design came from a love of old school Nintendo Games and I mean original 8-bit Nintendo and Star Wars....
David Yates To Direct ‘Your Voice In My Head’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 21, 2011 4:30 pm EST Harry Potter director David Yates may be taking a break from big movies. After helming the last four Potter films, he has been courted for other huge projects such as The Stand, the Alan Turing movie The Imitation Game and a Doctor Who film he’ll reportedly make with the BBC, possibly starting next year....
Disney Already Has Three Live-Action Marvel TV Series In Development By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 7, 2010 9:00 pm EST After Disney’s acquisition of Marvel, a television division was set-up at Marvel Studios with Jeph Loeb (Heroes, Smallville, Lost and Buffy the Vampire Slayer) hired to run the operation. And more recently we learned that Marvel was developing an hour-long live-action Incredible Hulk television series for ABC. What else might be in the works in Marvel’s Small Screen Division?...
Does Optimus Prime Have Wings In ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon?’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 7, 2011 7:00 pm EST Once the Super Bowl commercial dust finally settled, it seemed like Transformers: Dark of the Moon got lost in shuffle. Everyone was talking about their love for Super 8 and excitement at finally seeing Captain America: The First Avenger but what about good old Sam Witwicky and Bumblebee? The fact of the matter is we’ve already seen two Transformers movies and we fully expect director Michael Bay to amp up the action to an even higher degree the third time around....
Gallery: The LG Home Theater 3D Sound Advertising Campaign By Germain Lussier/April 23, 2012 4:30 pm EST The debate over the need for 3D in the home has been decided and 3D has triumphed. Or at least that’s how I feel after being manipulated by this genius ad campaign being run by LG for their new Home Theater 3D Sound System. They took iconic movie posters and flipped them around, showing the posters from alternative angles....
Guillermo Del Toro To Produce 3D Stop-Motion ‘Pinocchio’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 17, 2011 10:15 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Guillermo del Toro is a filmmaking force of nature. Seemingly every few weeks, the writer/producer/director announces a new project and the latest will team him up with the Henson Company and Pathe to produce a 3D stop-motion animation version of Pinocchio. Based on a 2002 book of the classic fairy tale, the film will be aimed at slightly older audiences and be more edgy....
Jennifer Lawrence Angling For Lead Role In New Film From Crazy Heart Director Scott Cooper By Russ Fischer/Aug. 13, 2010 9:34 am EST Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper is considering directing an adaptation of William Styron’s family drama Lie Down in Darkness. (He’s also looking at The Hatfields and the McCoys.) To the best of our knowledge, he doesn’t have a lead picked at this point, but there is an actress who sounds rather determined to get it: Jennifer Lawrence, who was so good in Winter’s Bone and will soon be in X-Men: First Class....
Juliette Binoche Added To David Cronenberg’s ‘Cosmopolis,’ Mathieu Almaric May Also Be Cast By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2011 7:00 pm EST Here’s a very good turn of events for David Cronenberg’s adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel Cosmopolis, which is now scheduled to shoot in late May. The film stars Robert Pattinson as a young billionaire, who during the course of one day traveling across Manhattan in his limo, manages to cheat on his wife, deal with protesters and another antagonist or two, and encounter some financial trouble....
Karl Urban May Have Revealed The Identity Of Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Star Trek 2’ Villain By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2012 9:00 am EST J.J. Abrams and his Star Trek 2 co-conspirators have been fairly good so far about protecting the identity of the film’s villain. We know that Benedict Cumberbatch plays the bad guy, but beyond that we get into the territory of rumor and speculation. Is the actor playing Khan, so memorably portrayed by Ricardo Montalban in the original TV series and 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan?...
Legendary Producer Dino De Laurentiis Dies At 91 By Germain Lussier/Nov. 11, 2010 8:43 am EST Hollywood has lost one of its true titans. Dino De Laurentiis, the producer behind such films as Dune, Serpico, Three Days of the Condor and Army of Darkness, died in Los Angeles Thursday morning at the age of 91. Read more after the break. De Laurentiis, the winner of the Irving Thalberg Award at the 2001 Academy Awards, for “a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production,” produced hundreds of films both in his home country of Italy as well as America....
McDonald’s Recalls 12 Million Shrek Glasses Containing Cadmium By David Chen/June 4, 2010 8:16 am EST Reports are pouring in (via AP) that McDonald’s is voluntarily recalling 12 million Shrek Forever After novelty drinking glasses, after it was discovered that the paint on the sides of the glasses contains the toxic chemical cadmium. Looks like McDonalds and Shrek have found yet another way to poison our children. The 16-ounce glasses were part of a cross-promotional effort between McDonald’s and Dreamworks, costing $2 each....
Mondo’s ‘Jurassic Park’ Poster Series Continues With JC Richard By Germain Lussier/Oct. 24, 2011 1:00 pm EST In honor of Jurassic Park (and The Lost World and Jurassic Park 3 too I supposed) hitting Blu-ray Tuesday, Mondo has revealed the second poster in their ongoing series based on Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster. While the first poster by Aaron Horkey was criticized by some for not being “movie poster” enough, that won’t be an issue with JC Richard’s work....
Movie Trailer: Buried By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2010 6:00 pm EST When Lionsgate released the first teaser trailer for the Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried in April, some people complained that it didn’t show much. But others argued that it was the perfect tease, a great example of a good teaser trailer. Lionsgate has just released the full length trailer for the film, and it doesn’t show a second of footage from the film....
Movie Trailer Redux: Priest By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2010 10:17 am EST We’ve presented the trailer for Scott Stewart and Paul Bettany’s Priest, their follow-up to Legion, once before. But that was a not-quite-official trailer release that was soon pulled. Now Sony has really released the clip, and you can check it out to see just how WTF this particular genre exercise really looks. Think of a midpoint between Underworld and Judge Dredd and you’ll probably have the right tone in mind....
Natalie Portman In Early Talks For Ridley Scott’s ‘The Counselor,’ Javier Bardem Is Likely Villain By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2012 9:00 am EST How wild will it be if Javier Bardem plays the villain in another tense drug-related thriller cooked up by author Cormac McCarthy? The writer recently sold a screenplay called The Counselor, which Ridley Scott will bring to the screen with Michael Fassbender playing an attorney who tries to get into the drug trade just a little bit, only to find himself in deep trouble....
Nintendo Pays Tribute To ‘The King Of Kong’ Star Billy Mitchell In New Donkey Kong Game By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2010 10:00 am EST Many of you probably have seen the 2007 documentary The King of Kong (and if you haven’t, Netflix it now!). The movie follows the battle between Steve Wiebe and noted Donkey Kong/vintage video game champion Billy Mitchell, over the world record for Donkey Kong. Since the release of the film, it has been fun tracking the back and fourth battle between Wiebe and Mitchell for the world record (Steve Wiebe recently reclaimed the Donkey Kong World Record from Billy Mitchell)....
Richard Jenkins Added To Tom Cruise Thriller ‘One Shot’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2011 2:30 pm EST I have to keep writing the phrase “Tom Cruise thriller One Shot” just to get used to the idea of the actor playing Lee Child’s giant ex-military cop hero Jack Reacher. I vowed months ago to not bitch about that cast choice any longer, and I’ll stick to that. Getting used to it, however, takes a little work....
See More Footage From Coen Bros. Scripted Remake Of ‘Gambit’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 19, 2012 9:30 am EST Just because Joel and Ethan Coen wrote a movie doesn’t mean it will turn out well (see Sam Raimi’s early effort Crimewave) but I’ve still had hope for Gambit. That’s in part because the original film is a great bit of fun; it stars Michael Caine as an art thief who recruits a nightclub girl (Shirley MacLaine) to assist in a very specific heist....
Sharlto Copley, Alec Baldwin And Gemma Arterton In Negotiations For ‘Men In Black 3’ By Adam Quigley/Oct. 13, 2010 7:30 pm EST Filming is almost underway for Men in Black 3, the 3D sequel that will reunite Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and director Barry Sonnenfeld, but for those that still aren’t on board, here’s some last-minute casting to help get you in the mood. The deals aren’t finalized yet, but Sharlto Copley, Alec Baldwin and Gemma Arterton are all negotiating roles for the film, which finds Will Smith traveling back in time and teaming up with Josh Brolin as a younger version of Tommy Lee Jones’ character K....
Studio Shuffle: Robert Zemeckis Moves ImageMovers; DreamWorks Animation Parts With Paramount By Germain Lussier/Aug. 3, 2011 6:00 am EST Look at the box office receipts for even a moderately successful animated film and you know animation studios are becoming Hollywood mega powers. Even five years ago when Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 billion, it was pretty evident that if your company made quality animation, you had a a pretty steady job....
