Tim Hill Hired To Direct ‘Short Circuit’ Reboot By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2011 3:13 pm EST In 2008 Dimension Films picked up the rights to remake the mid-’80s robot film Short Circuit, but as is often the case with projects like these, actually getting the picture to a position that is ready to shoot is taking some time. Now there’s a new director: Tim Hill, who will also oversee the creation of a new script....
TV Bits: ‘Hannibal’, ‘Mockingbird Lane’, ‘Dexter’, ‘Homeland’, ‘Modern Family’, Stephen Merchant, And More By Angie Han/July 24, 2012 5:00 pm EST Fishburne would play Jack Crawford, Graham’s boss at the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI. It’s a role previously played on the big screen by Dennis Farina in Manhunter, Scott Glenn in Silence of the Lambs, and Harvey Keitel in Red Dragon. The series is expected to debut on NBC midseason....
VOTD: Lost Alternative Endings And Unanswered Questions By Peter Sciretta/May 25, 2010 10:00 am EST A couple days have passed since the Lost Series finale, but it isn’t done with us yet. For those of you like me who missed the Lost-focused Jimmy Kimmel show on Sunday night, we have three alternative endings to Lost.Also, if you still have some unanswered questions, College Humor has put together a video has put together a video for you....
VOTD: Spencer Susser’s A Love Story By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2010 11:32 pm EST Last year, we featured a beautiful zombie short film titled I Love Sarah Jane. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out right now. It was screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and many regional film festivals around the world. And aside from being awesome, it is notable for featuring Mia Wasikowska, who later became Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland....
Warner Bros. Hires Green Lantern 2 Screenwriter By Russ Fischer/Aug. 9, 2010 7:30 am EST With the first Green Lantern just barely wrapped and the finished film not even close to being in the can, Warner Bros. has already hired a screenwriter for the sequel. Micheal Goldenberg, who worked on Contact, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the first Green Lantern, got the job. During Comic Con, Green Lantern comics writer Geoff Johns said that he thought of the first film as the opening chapter in a trilogy, and rumors have already started to fly that second and third films are firmly planned, possibly even to be shot back-to-back, with production beginning before the first film is released....
‘Battle: Los Angeles’ Director Jonathan Liebesman In Talks For ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 14, 2012 10:36 pm EST There is finally movement on the new version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that Platinum Dunes and Paramount have been assembling. Jonathan Liebesman, director of Battle: Los Angeles and the Clash of the Titans sequel Wrath of the Titans, is now in talks to direct the new TMNT film written by Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec....
‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ - Sundance’s Most Buzzed About Movie Creates A Whole New World [Sundance 2012 Video Blog] By Germain Lussier/June 29, 2012 7:30 am EST So does Beasts of the Southern Wild live up to those wild expectations? Absolutely. It creates an entire new world where a six-year-old girl named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis) lives in squalor with her father Wink (Dwight Henry). When Wink gets sick, Hushpuppy’s world is almost literally turned upside down and she must come to grips with her inner strength, her mortality, and a whole lot more....
‘Jack & Diane’ Is A Long-Simmering Disappointment [Tribeca Review] By Angie Han/April 23, 2012 1:30 pm EST This year, Gray’s completed Jack & Diane finally made its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival. And while much about the film is tough to understand, what’s clear is that Page and Thirlby have dodged a bullet by leaving the project early on. Jack & Diane starts out promising enough. A creepy vision of hair-rope winding through flesh lends a dark fairy-tale aura, and an opening scene of Diane getting attacked sets up terrors to come....
‘John Carter’ Super Bowl Commercials By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2012 6:31 pm EST Disney aired a new commercial for Andrew Stanton’s live action debut John Carter during the big game. After the jump you can watch the super bowl spot, and a 60 second extended spot. 60 Second Extended Spot In Game Spot: Official plot: From Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes John Carter—a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars)....
‘The Big Bang’ Trailer: Antonio Banderas Is Ensnared In Colorful Noir By Russ Fischer/March 24, 2011 6:00 am EST I don’t know what to make of the trailer for The Big Bang. The way this thing is cut, it looks like a weird blend of neo noir, Frank Miller and early Guy Ritchie. Is that good, or bad? I really don’t know. What I do know is that Sam Elliott and William Fichtner have supporting roles, and I’ll watch them in almost anything....
‘The Raid’ Director To Make Former Darren Aronofsky Heist Project ‘Breaking The Bank’ By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2012 2:00 pm EST We knew that Gareth Evans, who directed The Raid, had to be tapped soon for a studio project. Now Universal has picked up the rights to Breaking the Bank, a film that will chronicle “the daring robbery of the Securitas Depot in Tonbridge, a £53 Million Sterling score (around $86 million US),” a crime that was put into motion by UFC fighter ‘Lightning’ Lee Murray....
‘Tower Heist’ Trailer #2: Wacky Hijinks With Ben Stiller And Eddie Murphy By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2011 1:22 pm EST The first trailer released for Brett Ratner’s new film Tower Heist was very obviously a trailer for a Ratner film, complete with pumping music, flying shots of the tower in which the action takes place, and a jokey introduction to the story and cast. (Which features Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Téa Leoni, Gabourey Sidibe, Casey Affleck, Stephen Henderson, Judd Hirsch, Michael Peña, and Alan Alda....
Anna Kendrick And John Francis Daley To Appear Opposite Craig Robinson In ‘Rapture-Palooza’ By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2011 1:30 pm EST It’s a good week to be John Francis Daley. His show Bones (which I still refuse to watch because it is not a continuation of the Snoop Dogg ‘horror’ film) was just renewed for a seventh season, and now he’s been cast with Anna Kendrick in the Lionsgate post-apocalyptic romantic comedy called Rapture-Palooza....
Cool Stuff: 2011 Time Travel Calendar By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2010 2:30 pm EST /Film reader and graphic designer Alex Griendling has created an awesome 2011 Time Traveler’s Calendar. Here is some information from the artist: I made a 2011 Time Traveler’s Calendar that places 95 individual instances of time travel from Movies/TV Shows/Video games onto a single timeline. 7 Videogames. 16 TV Shows. 34 movies. 95 individual instances of time travel....
Early Buzz: David Fincher’s ‘The Social Network’ Is “Splendid Entertainment From A Master Storyteller” By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2010 8:00 am EST Variety/LA Weekly/Village Voice film critic turned film programer Scott Foundas is the first person to see David Fincher’s The Social Network and go on record about the film. What did he think? He compares it to the likes of All the President’s Men and The Great Gatsby, “Quentin Tarantino crossed with Bill Gates....
Frank Marshall To Direct ‘Covert One’? By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2010 1:19 pm EST Robert Ludlum didn’t entirely write the Covert One series of books; before his death, he co-wrote some and merely ‘oversaw’ or produced others. But his name’s on there anyway, which makes them just that bit easier to sell to audiences who wouldn’t mind seeing another Bourne film. So get ready for a Covert One movie, which will potentially feature “a top-secret team of political and technical experts who fight corruption and conspiracy at the highest and most dangerous levels of society....
Hannibal Lecter TV Show Lands At NBC By Russ Fischer/Nov. 7, 2011 1:30 pm EST Briefly: In September French film studio Gaumont announced the LA opening of Gaumont International Television, a company set up to produce TV shows for the North American market. One of two projects mentioned at the launch of the company was Hannibal, a TV series based on the Hannibal Lecter character created by novelist Thomas Harris in the book Red Dragon, and immortalized on film by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs....
Jon Favreau Interviews Olivia Wilde By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2011 11:30 am EST On his latest film Cowboys and Aliens, director Jon Favreau has decided to take the EPK interviews into his own hands and record conversations with the cast and crew. I love that Favreau is doing this, but I have two complaints: 1. I wish he would release the interview in long form, not broken up into highlight clips and 2....
Mark Wahlberg Developing A Basketball Drama With Justin Bieber By Germain Lussier/April 28, 2011 10:30 am EST Throw another project on the top of the pile. Wahlberg just revealed that he’s developing a basketball film with music mega star Justin Bieber. Read his quotes and more about the film after the jump. Wahlberg was talking to Vulture at the Time 100 Gala when the following exchange happened: Yeah, Justin Bieber and I are going to do a movie together …...
More Images Of Jennifer Lawrence In ‘The Hunger Games’ By Russ Fischer/May 19, 2011 1:52 pm EST Yesterday we saw the first look at Jennifer Lawrence in costume and hair dye as Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of the Gary Ross adaptation of the young adult novel The Hunger Games. Our first look was a medium shot of Katniss via the cover of Entertainment Weekly, and scans of additional photos from the magazine have now emerged....
