Cool Stuff: Iron Man 2 Comic Chest T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2010 11:00 am EST Excuse me if I state the obvious: While this daily column is titled “Cool Stuff”, the stuff we feature doesn’t really fit the traditional or mainstream definition of “cool”. We feature items that might be of specific interest to tv and movie geeks, some of which could be enough to get you ridiculed by the actual “cool” people....
Cyrus Release Date Moves To June 18th By David Chen/May 5, 2010 6:02 am EST You can check out our review of Cyrus, see my interview with director Mark Duplass, and watch the quasi-spoiler-y trailer after the jump.
Darren Aronofsky To Direct ‘Machine Man,’ What Does It Mean For ‘Wolverine 2?’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 26, 2010 3:35 pm EST So with Aronofsky’s Wolverine 2 set to start filming in March 2011 and him having to promote the release of Black Swan throughout the Winter, what does Machine Man mean for the Marvel mutant? We decipher the clues after the jump. No matter when Machine Man comes out, though, it certainly sounds like something right up the alley of the man behind Pi, Requiem For A Dream and The Wrestler....
Directors: ‘Warrior’ Director Goes To Japan With ‘Yakuza,’ Antoine Fuqua Heads To ‘Chicagoland’ By Russ Fischer/May 11, 2012 6:30 am EST With Cannes around the corner, new film projects are cropping up, and deals are being signed. As Germain mentioned earlier we’ll see a lot of indie projects cropping up in the next couple weeks, but there are also studio projects moving forward. For instance, Antoine Fuqua has added another project to his slate....
Duncan Jones’ Production Doodle Explains ‘Source Code’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 7, 2011 2:30 pm EST Duncan Jones’ Source Code hit Blu-ray and DVD a few short weeks back and while most film nerds have exhausted any talk of the film’s ending, more and more people are now discovering the movie. Seems like the perfect time for the director to take to Twitter and post a drawing he did during production that attempts to visually explain the film’s structure, ending and subtle changes....
Early Buzz: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Has The Right Actors, But What About Everything Else? By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2012 5:30 pm EST Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man screened last week for junket press, but attendees were largely forbidden to review the film at the time, or even discuss it in detail on social media. But the film premiered this week in London, and with that open screening taking place reviews are starting to proliferate....
Geek Deal: Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Trilogy On Blu-Ray For Only $13.99 By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2012 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Glee’s Dianna Agron Joining Cast Of ‘I Am Number Four’ By Russ Fischer/April 29, 2010 9:20 pm EST The film adaptation of I Am Number Four, the first book in a sci-fi novel series co-authored by James Frey, became a big deal pretty fast. First it was because the film was rumored to be set up as a project for Michael Bay to produce and, possibly, direct. Then DJ Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) was tapped to direct, with Bay and Steven Spielberg producing....
Infographic: The Death Star By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2011 5:00 am EST GIG has released a new Star Wars related infographic which takes a look at the one of the most iconic fictional vehicles of all time — the Death Star. Hit the jump to check it out. Compiled by Car Insurance Guide and Geeks are Sexy | Picture hosted on imgur Infographic: The Death Star By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2011 5:00 am EST...
By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2011 8:00 am EST Lars Von Trier created no small amount of controversy with his last film, Antichrist, which chronicled the breakdown of a relationship in explicit, mind-bending fashion. So he raised eyebrows when he pronounced ’no more happy endings!’ for his next picture, Melancholia, which also expands his canvas from the destruction of a couple’s relations to the utter destruction of the Earth.Melancholia stars Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgård, Stellan Skarsgård and Udo Kier, and explores the responses of two different women (played by Dunst and Gainsbourg) to the impending end of the world....
Legendary Pictures Lands Live-Action Technotise Adaptation By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2010 10:16 pm EST Last year we posted an awesome fan-made movie trailer for a big screen Green Lantern film, edited together by Jaron Pitts using clips from a bunch of different movies, using composited computer generated imagery. If you haven’t seen it before, click the link and watch it now. Scott Glassgold, co-chief of IAM Entertainment, saw the Green Lantern trailer shortly after acquiring remake rights to Technotise – Edit i ja, a Serbian anime movie based on a graphic novel of the same name....
LOL: SNL’s British Crime Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2011 5:30 pm EST This weekend’s Saturday Night Live was hosted by Russell Brand, and featured a pretty funny faux movie trailer for a British gangster/crime film titled Don’ You Go Rounin’ Roun to Re Ro. The sketch takes on the British crime genre, and features Brand, Bill Hader and Fred Armisen. Watch it now embedded after the jump. LOL: SNL’s British Crime Movie Trailer...
By Germain Lussier/Dec. 29, 2011 1:00 pm EST 2011 has been something of a banner year for Mondo. It brought the first work from legendary artists Drew Struzan and Shepard Fairey, the advent and expansion of the Mondo Mystery Movie, inclusion into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, licenses for DC Comics, Studio Ghibli, Pixar, Jurassic Park and much more. Now, they’ve decided to end this incredible year the same way it began – with Dracula....
Movie Trailer: Gus Van Sant’s ‘Restless’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2010 11:21 am EST Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have released the first movie trailer for the new Gus Van Sant (Milk, Finding Forrester, Good Will Hunting, To Die For) film Restless. The movie stars Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) in a “complex tale of a teenage boy and girl who share a preoccupation with mortality.” The film co-stars Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, Jane Adams, and Chin Han....
New Posters: Full ‘Tron Legacy’ Triptych; Vintage-Style ‘Rare Exports’; ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’ Lobby Cards And Poster By Russ Fischer/Nov. 6, 2010 12:58 pm EST Quite a few new posters hit at the end of the week, in part because of the ongoing American Film Market, and in part due to the ramp-up of promotion for films like Tron. And Tron Legacy is our first stop, as the poster triptych centered around an homage to the original film’s one-sheet is now complete....
Paul Walker To Produce And Star In ‘Vehicle 19’ By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2011 5:00 am EST Briefly: Evidently happy being connected to starring vehicles that are oriented around, er, vehicles, Fast Five star Paul Walker has signed to exec produce and star in a film called Vehicle 19. The movie is about " an unsuspecting traveler (Walker) in a foreign country who picks up the wrong rental car and becomes tangled in a web of corruption by the local police....
Producer Reveals Details For Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Movie By Angie Han/April 16, 2012 11:30 am EST It remains to be seen whether or not Ashton Kutcher really can pull off the role of Steve Jobs – I’m still skeptical — but at least now we have a little more detail about the circumstances under which the Two and a Half Men star will be playing the late Apple founder. In a recent interview, first-time producer Mark Hulme spilled the beans on the movie’s focus, what he saw in Kutcher, which other real-life tech gurus will be represented in the film, and more....
Release Dates Set For ‘Wrath Of The Titans,’ ‘Drive,’ And ‘Win Win’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 15, 2010 11:30 am EST Time to mark up your calendar. Three films, each of which is aimed at a very different audience, have set release dates. Let’s get the ugly one out of the way first: Warner Bros. has locked Wrath of the Titans, directed by Jonathan Liebesman, for March 30, 2012 — basically the same place in the calendar that saw the release of Clash of the Titans this year....
Satoshi Kon, Director Of ‘Paprika’ And ‘Tokyo Godfathers,’ Has Reportedly Died At Age 47 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2010 2:20 pm EST Satoshi Kon, the Japanese director of animated films such as Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress and the Inception-influencing Paprika, has died at the young age of 47. The director reportedly lost a battle with cancer. News of the director’s passing originally came via a tweet from Takeda Yasuhiro, then seems to have been confirmed by other sources, such as the UK Anime Network....
Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling And Josh Brolin To Join ‘Gangster Squad’ By Germain Lussier/April 21, 2011 1:00 pm EST When the job of directing Tales From The Gangster Squad was being rejected by some very prominent names, it didn’t inspire much confidence in the material. That’s now totally changed. Last month, Warner Bros. reportedly had offers out to both Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling to star in the film and now they’re both currently in talks....
