15 Seconds Of Disney’s Tangled By Peter Sciretta/June 9, 2010 2:30 pm EST This Sunday night, the Disney Channel is going to have a first look at Tangled, the new film from Walt Disney Animation Studios film. They have begun airing a 15 second commercial with the first real footage from the movie to promote the first look. Watch the commercial, embedded after the jump. I’m sure the whole “first look” will be online sometime next week....
Christopher McQuarrie To Rewrite, Possibly Direct Adaptation Of Lee Child Novel ‘One Shot’ By Russ Fischer/July 15, 2010 8:45 pm EST It’s inevitable that one of the books will become a movie eventually. I’d just like to see it be a good one. This could be the way. THR says that McQuarrie, who recently wrote Valkyrie, The Tourist and a draft of Wolverine 2 (and obviously The Usual Suspects), is rewriting the project for Paramount....
Directors Guild Of America Nominations For Outstanding Directorial Achievement In 2010 By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2011 9:24 am EST The last big indicator of how the Oscar nominations are likely to shake out is the nomination set for the Director’s Guild of America’s award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. The DGA and Best Director Oscar awards often line up directly (there have been only six deviations since the DGA awards began in 1948) and before the Best Picture Oscar set was widened to ten films, the DGA nominations were a very good indicator of how that race would go, as well....
Eddie Murphy Says ‘Beverly Hills Cop IV’ Won’t Happen, Wants To Make A Spin-Off TV Series Instead By Russ Fischer/Oct. 26, 2011 10:45 am EST With very few exceptions (like Dreamgirls), the career of Eddie Murphy has been dominated in the last fifteen years by broad family comedies and sequels to same. Murphy is still making broad comedies, such as Tower Heist, but one thing he evidently won’t be doing is a fourth Beverly Hills Cop film....
Hobbit Delays Could Cost The Production More Talent: Sir Ian McKellen By Russ Fischer/July 5, 2010 11:06 pm EST You knew news like this had to be coming. It is not difficult to believe that there is something like an ocean of good will between Peter Jackson and Sir Ian McKellen, especially when it comes to all things Middle Earth. Sir McKellen has been at the forefront of the casting and scheduling rumors for The Hobbit, and after his standard-setting work as the wizard Gandalf, there’s little question that he is a core element of the cast for the Lord of the Rings lead-in story in the film....
James Gunn’s ‘Super’ Gets A Great New Poster By Russ Fischer/Feb. 25, 2011 3:30 pm EST James Gunn made his film Super, starring Rainn Wilson as an average guy who creates a costumed alter-ego after his wife (Liv Tyler) leaves him for a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon), on a tiny budget and with a great deal of freedom. There’s something appropriate about the story of a weird, homegrown ‘superhero’ becoming a weird, homegrown movie....
Laika Will Not Save Henry Selick Cancelled Disney Movie [UPDATED] By Angie Han/Sept. 26, 2012 1:42 pm EST UPDATE: Looks like Selick won’t head back to Laika after all. According to Oregon Live, who spoke with an unnamed “person direct knowledge of Laika’s thinking,” the filmmaker did indeed meet with the studio. However, the talks went nowhere and Laika will not fund its former director’s project. Thanks to /Film reader ThumBlister for the tip....
New ‘Batman Live’ Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2010 7:00 am EST In April it was announced that Warner Bros and DC Comics were developing a Batman live stage tour, produced by Nick Grace Management and Water Lane Prods., the companies behind the popular/amazing Walking With Dinosaurs stage shows. At the time we were told that it wouldn’t be a cheesy musical, but instead “an elaborate arena production aimed at kids and families” with a script by Alan Burnett and Stan Berkowitz, whose credits include both the Batman and Superman animated television shows as well as Justice League: The New Frontier animated movie....
Oscar-Winning ‘Star Wars’ Veteran Grant McCune Dies At 67 By Germain Lussier/Dec. 31, 2010 4:00 pm EST Grant McCune, one of the five Oscar winners for Best Visual Effects for the original Star Wars, passed away this week at the age of 67. The father of two, who specialized in models and miniatures, got his start working for Steven Spielberg on Jaws before working on Star Wars all the way up through Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo in 2008....
Release Date Schedule: Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Black Swan’ By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2010 9:00 am EST TORONTO: BOSTON: WASHINGTON, D.C.: NEW YORK: CHICAGO: DALLAS/FT. WORTH: LOS ANGELES: SAN FRANCISCO: 12/10/2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. AMC Empire 25 NYC, NY PHILADELPHIA/NEW JERSEY: DETROIT: INDIANAPOLIS: ST. LOUIS: ATLANTA: AUSTIN: HOUSTON: DENVER: PHOENIZ, AX: SAN DIEGO: PORTLAND: SEATTLE/TACOMA: MONTREAL, QC TORONTO, ON VANCOUVER, BC 12/17/2010
Screen Gems Wants To Remake TIFF Midnight Madness Hit ‘The Raid’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2011 10:36 am EST It’s a great irony: genre films tend to be the first movies that get picked up for remakes after festival success, but they’re also the films that tend to earn a fanbase that is particularly vocal in opposition to remakes. One of the big successes of the Midnight Madness genre program at TIFF this year was Indonesian film, The Raid, directed by Gareth Evans....
Superhero Bits: ‘Green Lantern,’ ‘Wonder Woman,’ ‘Deadpool’ And ‘Thor 2’ Rumors By Germain Lussier/May 18, 2011 12:10 pm EST Cinema Blend has a source inside Marvel that says, due to the huge box office success of Thor, a sequel is currently being kicked around. And while that’s not really news in itself, what their source told them is. First of all, they say Marvel is hoping to release the sequel during the summer of 2013, right around the time Iron Man 3, which is currently being written....
Watch A Clip From Showtime’s ‘Homeland,’ Starring Claire Danes And Mandy Patinkin By Angie Han/April 14, 2011 7:00 am EST We have a three-and-a-half-minute first look at Showtime’s new series Homeland, which the network picked up last week for 12 episodes. The thriller stars Claire Danes as CIA agent Carrie Anderson, who begins to suspect that the recent rescue of longtime POW Scott Brody (Damian Lewis) is actually one piece in a larger terrorist plot by al Qaeda....
/Film LA: The Ambassadors Of Hollywood Movie Trailer/Screening By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2010 12:00 pm EST These costumed characters have always been one of my favorite parts of the touristy part of Hollywood Boulevard. I always loved watching the ridiculous and strange costumed superheroes pose for photos with tourists near the Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Jimmy Kimmel regularly featured these performers on his show, and a documentary was even made about the characters called Confessions of a Superhero (watch it on Hulu for free)....
‘Prometheus’ Featurette Looks At Humanity’s Origin, With New Footage By Russ Fischer/May 9, 2012 10:30 am EST For those who aren’t yet afraid to watch new promo materials for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, here’s the latest featurette, which discusses the origins of the story in Prometheus, which also happens to be tied to the origin of humanity in general. During the discussion of the subject there are interviews with Ridley Scott, writer Damon Lindelof, and actress Noomi Rapace, as well as bits of new footage....
‘Red State’ Gets Oscar Qualifying Run, New Poster And Trailer; Kevin Smith Co-Hosting Talk Show Pilot By Germain Lussier/July 27, 2011 11:35 am EST Next up, in addition to developing that reality show, Smith is currently shooting a talk show pilot that will be sort of his own unique blend of Regis & Kelly and The Daily Show. Read more about both after the jump. Starting with Red State, here’s the new trailer....
Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 5 “Mas” Is The Season’s Riveting Game-Changer (Guest: Natasha Vargas-Cooper) By Hunter Stephenson/April 21, 2010 10:01 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nevertheless, what makes Walter so successful in meth dealing is his brutishness. Grabbing his junk, bellowing at Jesse. His physical demeanor even changes, the slump straightens out, his voice drops a couple octaves. He emasculates Jesse whenever he fucks up, he rules the drug trade through fear—and it comes so naturally!...
Brian De Palma Adds Dominic Cooper And Karoline Herfurth To ‘Passion’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 22, 2012 8:30 am EST Briefly: Brian De Palma is nearly set to roll on Passion, his remake of Alain Corneau’s thriller Love Crime, with Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace in the lead roles. The film watches as a young businesswoman turns murderess when her boss and mentor steals one of her ideas. Now Dominic Cooper (The Escapist, An Education, The Devil’s Double) and Karoline Herfurth (The Reader) are signing on to the film as well....
Brian De Palma And Jason Statham To Remake Burt Reynolds Thriller ‘Heat’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2012 10:30 am EST Brian De Palma has been actively looking for new film projects, and it looks like he will shoot the film Passion in the next few months. But he’s also setting up something to do later this year: if things work out, a deal in the works at the Berlin Film Festival will see the director behind the camera for a remake of the 1986 Burt Reynolds thriller Heat....
Casting Bits: Tyler Perry In ‘Good Deeds;’ Ryan Reynolds In ‘Turbo;’ Leighton Meester And Vanilla Ice In ‘I Hate You Dad’ By Russ Fischer/April 5, 2011 10:00 am EST Lionsgate has just signed a new two-year first-look deal with Tyler Perry, and no wonder: the guy is a machine who turns out films that cost little and make a mint. The director’s latest for Lionsgate will be Good Deeds, which he’ll write, direct, produce and star in, as Glen Deeds, “an affluent and successful entrepreneur who’s about to get married when he becomes enamored with a down-on-her-luck single mom....
