New Poster: Mark Romanek’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ By Russ Fischer/July 27, 2010 9:00 am EST I hadn’t seen a proper projection of the trailer for Mark Romanek’s new film, Never Let Me Go, until I sat through the Trailer Park exhibition in Hall H at the San Diego Comic Con. Talk about weird — Romanek’s very quiet movie was sandwiched in between a lot of big-ticket films, and the contrast was pretty striking....
Remake Bits: ‘The Grudge’ Redo; Rumored ‘Romancing The Stone’ Wishlist By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2011 3:00 pm EST First up, Ghost House Pictures (Sam Raimi’s company) and Mandate are reportedly planning a new re-do of The Grudge. That’s a horror series that has a slightly complicated history, as it began with two DTV Japanese films, which spawned two theatrical Japanese films and then an American remake, all directed by Takashi Shimizu....
Sam Raimi To Produce, Possibly Direct A Remake Of ‘The Day Of The Triffids’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2010 11:47 am EST A little bidding war erupted this week over the rights package to The Day of the Triffids, which is evidently seen as ripe for a remake. On one side was Warner Bros. and Harry Potter director David Yates; on the other was Mandate Pictures and Sam Raimi. Mandate won the auction, and Mr....
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Movie Posters: Meet The Seven Evil Exes By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2010 9:00 am EST Universal Pictures has released six new character posters for Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Based on the comic book series written by Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim tells the story of a charming and jobless 22-year-old who must defeat his new girlfriend’s seven evil ex-boyfriends in order to win her heart....
Seven New High Resolution Photos From ‘The Avengers’ Explained By Germain Lussier/Oct. 3, 2011 2:30 pm EST Hey Disney, we’re waiting. We saw what you had at the end of Captain America, we saw the D23 Expo footage and we’ve read the Entertainment Weekly cover story. Where is our first official trailer for The Avengers? There’s certainly enough footage and images out there for us to figure out what’s going on, especially with this new batch of high resolution photos that have just come online....
Showtime Ending ‘Weeds’ After Season 8 By Angie Han/June 13, 2012 12:30 pm EST Enjoy the Weeds season premiere when it rolls around in a couple of weeks, because it’ll be the show’s last. Showtime has just announced that the Mary-Louise Parker-starring pot comedy will end for good after its upcoming eighth season. The news doesn’t come entirely as a surprise. While it continues to pull decent ratings, its viewership has been declining and fans have long complained about the creative decline of the series....
Steve Wiebe Reclaims Donkey Kong Title From Billy Mitchell By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2010 1:01 pm 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 (we’ve even covered it on the site in the past)....
Tom Cruise Signs For Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Oblivion’ At Universal By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2011 1:56 pm EST Joseph Kosinski’s post-Tron Legacy project, Oblivion, is now a ‘go’ picture. Months after Disney put the movie into turnaround, a PG-13 version of Oblivion now has Tom Cruise signed to take the lead role, “a soldier who’s stuck alone on the planet, repairing the drones that patrol and destroy a savage alien life form....
Tron Legacy Banner #5 By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2010 10:33 am EST Walt Disney Pictures bought the billboard located at Santa Monica/Westwood in Los Angeles for an entire year. Beginning in mid-December, the studio has been updating the location with new Tron Legacy advertisements, at the rate of one every month and a half or so. And it was revealed they will keep doing so up until the release of the film in December 2010....
VOTD: The Films Of Sofia Coppola By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2011 9:00 am EST /Film reader Cornelis van Dijkhuizen jr. has edited together a montage titled “The Films of Sofia Coppola.” It’s apparently the first of a series in 12 video compilations which Cornelis plans to release over the coming this year. I especially love how the video edits together some of Coppola’s signature shots from the various films. Watch the video now embedded after the jump....
Warner Bros. Hits Pause On Johnny Depp’s ‘The Thin Man’ Remake By Angie Han/June 22, 2012 9:30 am EST Warner Bros. has been treading carefully with movie budgets lately, pumping the breaks on expensive projects like Arthur & Lancelot and Akira when their costs ballooned out of control. Now it looks like latest project to come under scrutiny from the numbers department is The Thin Man, Johnny Depp and Rob Marshall’s adaptation of the Dashiell Hammet classic....
Warner Bros. May Remake ‘The Wild Bunch’ (Shoot Me) And ‘Westworld’ (Which Is OK) By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2011 5:30 pm EST When talking about the screenwriter hire for Warner Bros.’ proposed reboot of Lethal Weapon, I mentioned that there was a lot of potential remake news coming out of the studio today. Well, here’s the rest. [via THR] What happened is that exec Jessica Goodman, a 13-year vet at the studio, has left, and projects that were on her desk, or hidden at the bottom of one of her ’to-do’ piles, have been distributed among other execs....
Zoolander 2 Dead Due To Budget Woes? By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2010 6:39 am EST UPDATE: More details have come to light, and they follow after the break. Last week we heard via tweet that Anchorman 2 wouldn’t be happening, at least for the time being, as Paramount had passed on the film. The issue seemed to be budget. Then came a tweet from Ben Stiller, which seems to cast similar doubt on the potential for Zoolander 2: “Ron Burgundy and Derek Zoolander looking to appear in sequels....
‘Now You See Me’ Sales Art And Info: Louis Leterrier’s Magic Heist Movie Poised To Begin By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2011 5:00 am EST As the American Film Market goes on, we see a lot of synopsis and sales art releases for upcoming films. A lot of times these aren’t all that illuminating, because the synopsis info just rehashes what we already know, and the sales art is created before anything is ever shot, so at best it can only get across the most basic idea of the film....
‘Take Me Home Tonight’ Red Band Trailer By Germain Lussier/Feb. 4, 2011 6:00 pm EST Though it feels like there have been an over abundance of nostalgic Eighties comedies, there really aren’t as many as you’d think. Plenty of films in the last few decades have been set in the Eighties but only movies like Hot Tub Time Machine, The Wedding Singer, Adventureland and to a lesser degree American Psycho, Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, Grosse Pointe Blank and 13 Going on 30 have used the decade as the butt of a joke for the full duration of a film....
47 High Resolution Screen Captures From Tron: Legacy By Peter Sciretta/July 29, 2010 7:00 am EST Last week during Comic-Con, Walt Disney Pictures released a new movie trailer for Tron Legacy. If you’ve been reading /Film for a while, then you know that we usually post high resolution screen captures following the release of the faster edited trailers for high profile movies. It gives you a chance to look at some of the frames you might have missed, or others right click and save the images for their computer desktop wallpaper....
Andrew Garfield Joins Jennifer Garner And Marcia Gay Harden In ‘Back Roads’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2011 7:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Garfield, Garner and Marcia Gay Harden are all attached to star in Back Roads, an adaptation of a best-selling book by Tawni O’Dell that will be directed by Adrian Lyne. The pair co-wrote the screenplay about a young man forced to raise his three sisters after their mother is sent to jail for killing their abusive father....
Casting Notes: Paul Giamatti To Play Nikita Khrushchev; Russell Brand In ‘Hawkwood’; Jordana Spiro In ‘Trespass’ By Russ Fischer/July 29, 2010 7:31 pm EST Paul Giamatti is moving from one historical television project (John Adams) to another: he’ll play former Soviet Union premier Nikita Khrushchev in K Blows Top. The odd name of the HBO film might be your first clue that this won’t be an ordinary revisitation of the cold war....
Chris Columbus Enables Neil Jordan’s Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’ By Russ Fischer/May 28, 2010 11:53 am EST In October of 2008 we heard from Neil Gaiman that a film was in development based on his novel The Graveyard Book. A few months later, Gaiman revealed that Neil Jordan would write and direct. And that, for the most part, is all we’ve known about the project. Now a report on the slate of films for Chris Columbus’ company 1492 Pictures and financing partner CJ Entertainment out of South Korea suggests that the film is coming closer to being a reality....
Cool Stuff: Martin Ansin’s ‘A Wretched Hive’ ‘Star Wars’ Poster By Germain Lussier/Nov. 17, 2010 6:00 pm EST You’ve probably coveted many of artist Martin Ansin’s previous prints. His two Scott Pilgrim posters kick ass, his Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is gorgeous and his Star Trek poster is one of the most sought after in recent memory. Now, Ansin is the latest artist to take a crack at the Star Wars poster series presented by Mondo Tees....
