Everything We Know About JJ Abrams’ Super 8 (So Far) By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2010 12:27 pm EST Last night we published one of the first descriptions of the super secret teaser trailer for JJ Abrams’ Super 8 (you can read that description here, although I urge you to see it on the big screen in front of Iron Man 2 if you have the patience/will power to do so). We now have even more information about the project....
Guillermo Del Toro Developing Projects For DreamWorks Animation And Television By Germain Lussier/Sept. 13, 2010 7:00 am EST To call Guillermo del Toro “prolific” becomes more of an understatement each and every day. He’s got Julia’s Eyes at the Toronto Film Festival and Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark coming out early next year. Then he’s attached to co-write/produce The Haunted Mansion and direct At the Mountains of Madness with James Cameron producing....
Jack Black And Michael Winterbottom Teaming Up For ‘Bailout’ By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2011 5:28 pm EST Is Jack Black trying to make a serious career course correction? First he’s working with Richard Linklater and Shirley MacLaine on the strange true-life comedy Bernie, and now he is set to star in Bailout, a dramedy to be directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film is based on a novel by Jess Walter called The Financial Lives of the Poets....
John Travolta Confirmed For ‘Gotti: Three Generations’ By Russ Fischer/March 31, 2011 9:00 am EST Briefly: A film about ‘Dapper Don’ John Gotti has been in the works for some time, and after January rumors put John Travolta in the shoes of the crime figure, we’ve now got confirmation that he is cast. The film is Gotti: Three Generations, and John Travolta will play John Gotti Sr. under the direction of Nick Cassavetes....
Johnny Depp Passes On Sam Raimi’s ‘Oz, The Great And Powerful;’ James Franco Next By Germain Lussier/Feb. 4, 2011 4:13 pm EST Finding a new wizard of Oz is proving to be much more difficult than following a yellow brick road. First Robert Downey Jr. stepped out from behind the curtain, next Johnny Depp passed on the role and now director Sam Raimi is hoping that he can reunite with his Oscar-nominated Spider-Man co-star to headline Oz, the Great and Powerful....
Joss Whedon-Alum Morena Baccarin Leads Short List For Nick Fury’s Assistant In ‘The Avengers’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 3, 2011 11:20 am EST Update: I’ve heard from reliable sources that Mary Elizabeth Winstead is not testing for The Avengers. Nick Fury himself, Samuel L. Jackson, recently told Jimmy Fallon that he would be doing tests with “like five” different actresses who are up for a yet-to-be-cast role in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers....
Matthijs Van Heijningen Says Zack Snyder’s ‘Army Of The Dead’ Is Not Happening By Angie Han/Feb. 7, 2012 4:30 pm EST Back in 2008, commercial filmmaker Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. signed on to make his feature directing debut on the Zack Snyder-developed Army of the Dead, a follow-up to Snyder’s 2004 zombie pic Dawn of the Dead. When the project stalled, van Heijningen went on to helm Universal’s The Thing instead, but continued to harbor hopes that Army of the Dead would take off eventually; as recently as this past fall, van Heijningen was telling outlets that Army of the Dead had could still be revived at Warner Bros....
More Comic-Con Poster Exclusives: Mondo Does ‘Game Of Thrones,’ Kevin Tong Does H.G. Wells By Germain Lussier/July 10, 2012 4:00 pm EST Movies aren’t the only properties getting the limited edition poster treatment at San Diego Comic-Con this year. Literature is getting its due as well. Mondo is releasing a special three print “mini-series” of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, though the focus is really on the HBO show. Then, talented artist Kevin Tong will be releasing stunning new prints based on the H....
New ‘X-Men First Class’ Clip: ‘Magic Trick,’ Plus Four New TV Spots By Germain Lussier/May 11, 2011 11:30 am EST If you’re like me, with each photo and trailer (posters not included) that’s revealed from X-Men First Class, excitement and anticipation slowly rises. It seems like director Matthew Vaughn, with an extremely talented cast including James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and others, might have actually pulled off something special. We won’t know for sure for a few weeks but, if the pacing and energy of this seemingly simple clip from the film is any indication, June 3 can’t come soon enough....
Peter Weller Sends A Message To Detroit By Russ Fischer/Feb. 28, 2011 10:00 am EST Bless you, Funny or Die. We’ve heard from a great many people about the proposed statue of RoboCop in Detroit, especially since the plan to fund the statue raised fifty grand in mere days. But one important voice hasn’t been heard, until now. Thanks to the miracle of the internet, you can watch a message to Detroit from Peter Weller, the original RoboCop, after the break....
Sequel Bits: More ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Posters, ‘Say Anything 2,’ ‘Skyfall’, ‘Muppets 2’ By Germain Lussier/April 19, 2012 12:30 pm EST G.I. Joe Retaliation took over the movie universe earlier today with the release of eight awesome character posters. Here on /Film we premiered Cobra Commander and after the jump you can see the other seven too. You can also read about: John Cusack is totally open to doing Say Anything 2....
Tom Hardy Looking To Scale ‘Everest’ With Doug Liman By Angie Han/Sept. 25, 2012 11:48 am EST If you’re going to make a movie about a guy who attempted one of the most difficult feats known to man not once, not twice, but three separate times, you’re going to need an actor who actually looks up to the challenge. On that front, it’s tough to think of many better picks than Tom Hardy....
Universal Developing Disaster Movie ‘Earthquake’, With J.J. Abrams Producing And Dustin Lance Black Writing By Angie Han/July 27, 2012 2:00 pm EST As Carlton Cuse gets to work rewriting San Andreas 3D, he’s about to get some stiff competition from his former Lost colleague J.J. Abrams. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Universal are getting things moving again on their long-gestating disaster movie Earthquake, and have just set Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black to write the script....
VOTD: Leonard Maltin Talks Oscars With Mike Tyson By Germain Lussier/Feb. 23, 2011 3:00 pm EST Mike Tyson knows his movies. He loved Halle Berry in Avatar, thinks that Friendster movie was awesome, Don King’s Speech was annoying and that Meryl Streep deserves an Oscar for The Kids Are Here. And if none of that makes any sense, you are totally on board with the latest Funny or Die video which shows legendary film critic Leonard Maltin talking about the Oscars with the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, “Iron” Mike Tyson....
VOTD: Real Life Minority Report User Interface Demonstration By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2010 12:00 am EST At TED 2010, John Underkoffler, the science advisor for Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, gave a demo of futuristic g-speak 3D user interface. Remember the data interface from Minority Report? Well, it’s real, John Underkoffler invented it — as a point-and-touch interface called g-speak — and it’s about to change the way we interact with data....
WTF: ‘Dogfather’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 7, 2011 1:00 pm EST This is something to watch only if you really, really hate Chris Parnell. That means I have to stay far away. For my money, the actor is one of the secret weapons of 30 Rock — his wildly out of touch Dr. Spaceman is only deployed a few times per season, but those moments are always highlights. So I couldn’t even get through the entire trailer for The Dogfather, in which Mr....
‘American Reunion’ Theatrical Trailer By Germain Lussier/Feb. 22, 2012 11:00 am EST Even before the summer movie season begins, the spring holds a ton of highly anticipated movies: John Carter, 21 Jump Street, The Hunger Games, A Cabin in the Woods and, of course, the fourth American Pie film, American Reunion. Scheduled for release April 6, a new trailer for that comedy has just come online. The film features the entire cast of the 1999 original (Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Seann William Scott, Mena Suvari, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jennifer Coolidge, Eugene Levy, Natasha Lyonne and Shannon Elizabeth among others) to tell the story of what happens when they’re all back in town for a long overdue high school reunion....
‘Angry Boys’ Teaser Trailer By Germain Lussier/March 25, 2011 9:30 am EST Though he wrote and starred in Summer Heights High, of the funniest shows to air on U.S. television in the last several years, most Americans don’t know who Chris Lilley is. That’s sure to change when his latest show, Angry Boys, premieres on HBO in the coming months. The Australian comedian, who previously wrote and starred in two series, We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High, the latter of which aired on HBO in 2008, once again writes and stars as all the lead parts in a comedy series, this time focusing on the different roles men play in society....
/Film Boston: Boston Underground Film Festival Begins Tonight By David Chen/March 24, 2011 7:45 am EST Spring is a great time for movie lovers who live in New England. Not only does old man winter seem finally on the cusp of relinquishing his cold, hard death grip on the region, but there are a couple of interesting film festivals taking place. For example, The Boston Underground Film Festival begins tonight, and brings with it some awesome screenings, Q&As, and events....
/Film Exclusive: Watch The First Twelve Minutes Of ‘Sound Of My Voice’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2012 2:30 pm EST Now, just more than two months out from release, those of us who weren’t at Sundance in ‘11 are getting a taste of the film. A two-minute clip hit yesterday, and now we’ve got the first ‘chapter’ of the movie; that is, the opening twelve-minute segment. Have a look below. The footage will make sense out of the handshake iconography in the poster (seen above)....
