Movie Trailer: Red By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2010 5:36 pm EST I would never have guessed that the director of Flightplan and The Time Traveler’s Wife might turn out the most entertaining-looking under the radar comic book adaptation of this summer. But I grinned all the way through the trailer for Robert Schwentke’s Red, which adapts Warren Ellis’ graphic novel about a group of retired CIA agents. Check it out after the break....
Movie Trailer: The Loved Ones By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2010 11:56 am EST The Australian horror film The Loved Ones has been wowing genre-loving audiences since it debuted at festivals last year. It won the Midnight Madness program award (an audience-voted award) at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and has done quite well at other fests, too. There’s no US distributor for the film just yet, but The Loved Ones is about to see release in Australia, so I’d like to present this imported trailer....
Page 2: Tron, Justin Bieber, Pixar, Elijah Wood, Predator, James Franco, Chucky, William Shatner, Back To The Future By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2011 8:00 pm EST What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 24 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....
Release Dates: ‘Apollo 18’ And ‘Warrior’ With Tom Hardy By Germain Lussier/Jan. 6, 2011 3:00 pm EST Considering Apollo 18 had a release date before it had a director, and that release date was four months away, it’s not that big of a shock that the Timur Bekmambetov-produced film has been moved from its original March 4 release date. What’s more surprising is that it only moved back a month, to April 22....
RKO Acquires Hitchcockian Thriller The Architect By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2010 7:56 pm EST Craig Stiles’ screenplay The Architect has been going around Hollywood since February, and has finally found a buyer in RKO. The contemporary Hitchcockian Thriller is said to be more akin to North by Northwest than Vertigo or Strangers on a Train. I’ve heard that it will probably draw more comparisons to Taken or Breakdown. The story follows Mitch Avery, a New York City hot-shot up and coming architect who gets the opportunity of a lifetime — to build his dream building in Dubai....
Ron Howard’s Comedy ‘Cheaters’ Gets A New Title: ‘What You Don’t Know’ By Russ Fischer/July 15, 2010 8:02 pm EST Briefly: That title change is presumably as in, ‘what you don’t know won’t hurt you.’ The film once called Cheaters is a relationship comedy about what one man does when he learns that his best friend’s wife is cheating. I liked Cheaters better than the new title, What You Don’t Know....
Sam Raimi Will Direct Oz, The Great And Powerful In 3D By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2010 8:05 am EST On Friday we heard that the offer had gone out from Disney to Sam Raimi for the director’s chair on Oz, the Great and Powerful. Now Raimi has accepted the job, which will make the origin story of the Wizard of Oz, starring Robert Downey, Jr., his follow-up to Drag Me To Hell, and his first movie since being released from the Spider-Man series in January....
Screen Actors Guild Calls Jean Dujardin Of ‘The Artist’ And Viola Davis Of ‘The Help’ Best Actors Of 2011 By Russ Fischer/Jan. 30, 2012 6:00 am EST One more win for The Artist. Last week the film took the PGA award, director Michel Hazanavicius was honored by the DGA for directing the film over the weekend, and last night Jean Dujardin was awarded Best Actor in a motion picture by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG)....
See Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, And Josh Peck In New Stills From The Long-Delayed ‘Red Dawn’ Remake By Angie Han/Aug. 1, 2012 2:00 pm EST Four years ago, MGM started getting the pieces together for a remake of the 1984 war pic Red Dawn. The expectation was that the movie would come out sometime around 2010, but it then suffered massive setbacks including the studio’s financial woes and the realization that demonizing the Chinese isn’t cool anymore, now that Asia accounts for a huge chunk of the international box office....
Snow White Bits: Another New ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Image, ‘Mirror Mirror’ Featurette And Updated Release Date By Angie Han/Jan. 26, 2012 2:00 pm EST The Great Snow White Showdown of 2012 has been brewing for about a year and a half now, but it looks like we’ll have to wait just a tiny bit longer to see how things shake out. Mirror Mirror has pushed its release date back by two weeks from March 16 to March 30, the better to take advantage of spring break and the Easter holiday....
The 300th Edition Of Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2011 12:30 pm EST What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If you have any interesting items that we might’ve missed that you think should go in /Film’s Page 2 – email us!...
This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Red, Saw: The Final Chapter, Enter The Void, Nowhere Boy, Dogtooth, And More By Adam Quigley/Jan. 25, 2011 3:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Enter the Void is unlike anything I have ever seen or experienced. It’s a one-of-a-kind work of stunning ambition and passion—a psychedelic trip through one man’s drug-fueled perception of his life, his death, his afterlife, and his rebirth....
TIFF Video Reaction: Matt Reeves’ Let Me In By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2010 8:00 am EST Overture Films/Hammer Films have finally premiered Matt Reeves’ big screen adaptation Let Me In, a remake of the critically acclaimed book/2008 Swedish film Let The Right On In. Many of you might be curious how this film ended turning out. I know a lot of people were angry this was even being made in the first place....
US Postal Service To Release Pixar Stamps In 2011 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 28, 2010 1:30 pm EST The United States Postal Service announced today that they will release a series of Pixar image stamps in 2011. Based on that success, the Postal Service was eager to work with the Walt Disney Company again, choosing to explore the DisneyPixar films, which offer exciting, contemporary characters and strong themes involving family and friends....
VOTD: 25 Actors Before They Were Famous, In 3 Minutes By Angie Han/Aug. 16, 2011 2:00 pm EST I’ve always had this fascination with seeing current rich and famous figures in their humble beginnings, and the success of tabloid columns and webpages devoted to that very topic suggest I’m not the only one. When some A-list faces are as familiar to us as those of our actual loved ones, seeing long-ago photos or videos of them is amusing in the same way that seeing pictures of your friends as little kids is amusing....
Vote On One Of Six Fan Created ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance’ Posters And See The Final Theatrical One-Sheet By Germain Lussier/Dec. 13, 2011 4:00 pm EST It’s always disconcerting to douse people’s enthusiasm for an upcoming film, so I’ll just point you to this post with some brief thoughts having seen Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and move along. Instead let’s go back to better times, when Neveldine/Taylor’s comic book sequel was still buzzing on the back of its bat-shit crazy trailer and excellent Comic Con panel....
Watch Stan Winston’s ‘Jurassic Park’ And ‘AI’ Special Effects Tests By Russ Fischer/March 6, 2012 11:30 am EST Those who have devoured special features on DVDs over the years may be familiar with most of what follows, but that doesn’t change the fact that there is never a bad time to take a moment to appreciate the details of a specific art form. Creating animatronic models for special effects sequences in film is a very specific art form, and arguably no one was better at it than the late Stan Winston....
Watch Three ‘Paranormal Activity 3’ Clips By Russ Fischer/Sept. 26, 2011 6:00 pm EST Paramount is having fun with the marketing of Paranormal Activity 3. The studio’s PR department is mailing VHS tapes and VCRs to some horror site editors; each tape contains a clip from the film and the suggestion that the screen should be filmed while the tape plays. Three clips for the October release have been sent out so far, and you can see them below....
Writers Hired For ‘Dumb & Dumber 2,’ Farrelly Brothers Still Hope To Reunite Jim Carrey And Jeff Daniels By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2011 8:30 am EST Now that Peter and Bobby Farrelly are almost done with their long dreamed-of film reincarnation of The Three Stooges, they’re turning their thoughts to the future. The brothers have another TV show in the works, but for their next feature film it sounds like they might revive their 1994 hit Dumb and Dumber....
Zach Galifianakis Joins The New Muppets Movie By Germain Lussier/Oct. 26, 2010 5:00 pm EST The Muppets have taken Manhattan, followed that bird, been to Treasure Island, space and more. Now it seems their Christmas 2011 film might end up Between Two Ferns. A very famous source confirmed that Zach Galifianakis will be “doing a couple days” in the currently Untitled Muppets Movie co-written and staring Muppet super fan Jason Segel....
