David O. Russell And Bradley Cooper Might Reunite For ‘American Sniper’ By Angie Han/Sept. 11, 2012 6:00 am EST When Bradley Cooper stepped up to replace Mark Wahlberg in David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, it seems he took over for the former Fighter star in more ways than one. Where Russell once spoke excitedly of his plans with Wahlberg, these days it’s Cooper who apparently serves as his muse....
Dianna Agron, Georgina Haig And Dominique McElligott Candidates For ‘Spider-Man’ Love Interests; Early Talk Of Venom’s Return By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2010 9:06 am EST Emma Stone and Mia Wasikowska aren’t the only actresses Sony is considering for the love interest(s) in the rebooted Spider-Man. While they are two of the names who have tested or talked with the studio, Sony is also looking at Dianna Agron (Glee), Georgina Haig (Wasted on the Young) and Dominique McElligott (Moon)....
Drafthouse Films To Distribute Festival Favorites ‘Bullhead’ And ‘Clown’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 4, 2011 11:00 am EST One is an Oscar-hopeful about a steroid-pumping, hormone-selling gangster. The other an over-the-top cringe comedy about an 11-year-old joining two men on a trip to a whorehouse. And, in some weird way, it makes total sense that you’ll get to see both on the big screen thanks to Drafthouse Films. The Alamo Drafthouse’s distribution arm just announced it will handle the U....
Fantastic Fest 2010 Award Winners By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2010 9:17 pm EST Fantastic Fest has announced the list of award winners for the 2010 festival. Jang Cheol-so’s Bedevilled won the audience award, Miguel Ángel Vivas’ Kidnapped won Best Horror Film, and Sound of Noise won Best Picture in the Fantastic Features category. Read the full list of winners after the jump. FANTASTIC FEST 2010 ANNOUNCES THE FANTASTIC FEST AWARDS Austin, TX— Monday, September 27, 2010— Fantastic Fest is excited to announce this year’s crop of Fantastic Fest titles includes some of the brightest and hardest-hitting films of all time....
Is Constantin Film Taking Down Hitler Parodies? By David Chen/April 20, 2010 11:20 am EST Many of us have at one point enjoyed the seeing Hitler scream at some random object or wrath in a re-subtitled scene from Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Der Untergang (Downfall). Even the director has confirmed that he enjoys the meme, saying that “The point of the film was to kick these terrible people off the throne that made them demons, making them real and their actions into reality…I think it’s only fair if now it’s taken as part of our history, and used for whatever purposes people like....
LOL: Jane Austin And Senior Citizens In ‘Fight Club’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 7, 2010 11:00 am EST What’s funnier than stuffy women or old people punching each other? Well, if they do as Tyler Durden, of course. Almost 15 years since Chuck Palahniuk released the novel Fight Club, and over a decade since the release of the David Fincher film, the property is still an intricate part of our popular culture....
Marvel Planning Smaller Budget Movies For Third Tier Superhero Characters By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2010 3:00 am EST Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America are all leading up to Marvel’s big superhero team-up cross-over film The Avengers. The question is: where do you go from there? The obvious answer is The Avengers 2. The less obvious answer is Ant-Man. But then what? How do you top that?...
Movie Trailer: Operation: Endgame, Action Comedy Featuring Zach Galifianakis By Adam Quigley/July 7, 2010 7:00 am EST Zach Galifianakis. Rob Corddry. Adam Scott. Bob Odenkirk. Jeffrey Tambor. Maggie Q. Ving Rhames. If at least one of those names hasn’t yet piqued your interest, you might want to check if you have a pulse. This is the cast of Operation: Endgame, an action-comedy that sees two teams of government spies pitted against one another....
Netflix Closes Deal For Eli Roth’s Horror Series ‘Hemlock Grove’; Famke Janssen And Bill Skarsgard To Star By Angie Han/March 21, 2012 2:45 pm EST It’s been a few months since we first reported that Netflix and Hostel helmer Eli Roth would be teaming for an original series titled Hemlock Grove, but it’s just now that the pieces are really falling into place. This week, Netflix and Roth finalized a deal for a 13-episode run to premiere exclusively on the streaming service in early 2013, with Famke Janssen (X-Men) and Bill Skarsgård (Anna Karenina) in the leads....
Page 2: Dexter, Harry Potter, Robocop, Star Trek, Dr. Horrible, Steven Spielberg, Zombies, Doctor Who, Steve Buscemi, Firefly, Aliens Vs. Predator By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2011 9:50 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Star Trek motorcycle. The t-shirt of the day on TeeFury is a Dr. Horrible-inspired design “Dr. Horrible’s Status Quo”. HBO Films’ Phil Spector biopic suspended production when star Bette Midler did not show up on set....
POTD: A Page Of Francis Ford Coppola’s Handwritten Notes For ‘The Godfather’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2011 6:00 am EST This gets filed not under ’new stuff’ but under ‘whoa, awesome stuff!’ Those who know their Godfather history have heard of the super-notated novel and script copies that Francis Ford Coppola employed to make the film. (The same sort of highly-notated scripts that a great many directors use, of course.) You may have seen images of the detailed pages in a documentary about the film here and there....
Sequel Bits: Justin Bieber And Lady Gaga Are Aliens In ‘Men In Black 3’, Cast Returns For ‘Machete Kills’ & ‘Sin City 2’, New Poster For ‘Piranha 3DD,’ ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3’ Gets Dated, John Hawkes Talks ‘Jackie Brown’ Prequel By Germain Lussier/April 18, 2012 4:00 pm EST Sonnenfeld talked to Collider about the additions to the board in MIB 3, out May 25, and he mentioned a few very famous names:...
Sequel Talk: Black Dynamite 2 And Salt 2 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2010 7:43 am EST Do you want a sequel to Salt? Opinion on the film is decidedly mixed, but without (it seems) a lot of middle ground. I’ve talked to people who like the movie a lot, and dislike it a lot, which might be good enough response to earn a sequel. The film has earned $166m worldwide so far — not a huge return on the $110m production budget, but it’s an Angelina Jolie movie....
The Chemical Brothers Are Scoring Joe Wright’s ‘Hanna’ By David Chen/Oct. 9, 2010 10:32 am EST Good news for fans of electronic music AND teen assassins: the Chemical Brothers will be scoring Joe Wright’s upcoming film Hanna, starring the young Soairse Ronan as a trained assassin. The news comes out of New York Comic-Con, courtesy of Firstshowing. Firstshowing reports that a few scenes were shown from the film that looked “okay,” but that Wright himself confirmed that the Chemical Brothers would be scoring the film to give it a more “modern beat....
The First Avenger: Captain America Will Feature The Howling Commandos By David Chen/April 23, 2010 12:42 pm EST It’s a delicate balancing act, deciding which elements from a comic book to bring into its film adaptation. We’ve gotten drips and drabs recently about who might be showing up The First Avenger: Captain America, but we’ve now learned that The Howling Commandos will be making an appearance too. Devin Faraci from CHUD has spoken with producer Kevin Feige today at the Iron Man 2 junket and confirms the news that the Howling Commandos will encounter Captain America in the upcoming film....
This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Edge Of Darkness, Daybreakers, Legion, And More By Adam Quigley/May 11, 2010 10:35 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Lest you be fooled by the trailer, Edge of Darkness is not an action thriller; it’s a drama thriller, with sporadic moments of action. Those moments also happen to be by far the best thing about it. The rest, meanwhile, doesn’t make much of an impression, leaving us with a collective total of 5-10 great minutes in an otherwise fairly middling 2 hours....
Warner Bros. Shuts Down Direct-To-Video Label Warner Premiere By Angie Han/Aug. 14, 2012 7:00 am EST If last week’s news of a direct-to-DVD A Christmas Story sequel had you wondering for the millionth time just who in the hell watches this crap, the answer, it turns out, is no one. (Well, Germain’s confession that he’d totally veg out to A Christmas Story 2 if it were in reruns on TBS notwithstanding....
WTF: Is There A Green Screen In Latest ‘Men In Black 3’ Trailer, Or Does It Just Seem That Way? By Russ Fischer/March 6, 2012 5:30 am EST Yesterday morning, when I looked at the latest trailer for Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black 3, I noticed something that seemed weird. A lot of other people noticed it too: a shot in which there appeared to be a green screen that featured no CG shot composited into the placeholder space....
Zombieland Sequel Is Drafted, But May Not Be Ruben Fleischer’s Next Film By Russ Fischer/Sept. 7, 2010 5:07 pm EST Since just after the release of Zombieland, we’ve known that a sequel is likely to be made. Director Ruben Fleischer is set to return, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wenick were put to work on a script for the follow-up. The original cast (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abagail Breslin) are expected to appear, though no deals are inked....
‘Benjamin Button’ Scribe Eric Roth To Rewrite ‘Cleopatra,’ Possibly For David Fincher By Germain Lussier/Nov. 15, 2011 7:00 pm EST Eventually, audiences will see a new film about Cleopatra, it’s just a question of when. Angelina Jolie has been attached to play the famous Pharaoh and filmmakers like James Cameron and Paul Greengrass have been attached to make a film based on Stacy Schiff’s biography Cleopatra: A Life. The latest name attached is David Fincher and Variety now reports one of Fincher’s ace collaborators, writer Eric Roth, has been called in to rewrite a first draft by Brian Helgeland....
