‘The Avengers’ Official Site & Teaser Poster Launch By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2011 3:41 pm EST Marvel Studios may not be planning to show off footage from The Avengers at Comic Con this year, but the company has launched the official website for the film as the San Diego confab prepares to open. There’s not much there right now, but you can download a teaser poster to get your collection of Avengers-related marketing materials started....
50 Minute Interview With David Fincher By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2010 8:00 am EST Anyone who reads /Film knows that I love long form interviews with great filmmakers. David Fincher doesn’t do a lot of long form interviews, which is a shame. The filmmaker recently sat down with Todd McCarthy at the New York Film Festival for a 50 minute Question and Answer session which he talks about everything from his filmmaking influences to growing up living next door to George Lucas, to working at ILM, to shooting 99 takes of one scene, to his upcoming film The Social Network....
Amy Adams To Reunite With David O. Russell In ‘American Bullsh*t’ By Angie Han/July 18, 2012 2:30 pm EST Turns out David O. Russell’s going to have himself a The Fighter reunion on the set of his upcoming crime drama after all — it just won’t be with Christian Bale. Though we learned yesterday that Bale had dropped out of the project formerly titled American Bullshit, to be replaced by Jeremy Renner, today comes news that Bale and Russell’s Fighter colleague Amy Adams has signed on for the film....
Another Rumor: David Yates To Direct Fables? By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2010 3:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Problem is, in 2008 it was announced that Fables would be coming to the small screen as a television series, with Six Degrees creators Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner writing the hour-long drama pilot teleplay and David Semel (Beverly Hills 90210, Buffy, Dawson’s Creek, Roswell, Angel, House, Heroes, The Cleaner) hired to direct....
Burlesque Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2010 2:00 pm EST Screen Gems has released a second movie trailer for Steven Antin’s contemporary musical Burlesque (if you missed the first movie trailer, you can watch that at the link). I’m not a big fan of musicals, and when I have liked a film musical, it has usually been of the more cinematic variety. Burlesque is obviously a musical of the stage show-variety....
Casting Bits: Shia LaBeouf In Indie Romcom, Melissa McCarthy In ‘Tammy’, Nicolas Cage In ‘The Black Butterfly’ By Angie Han/Oct. 18, 2011 10:30 am EST Shia LaBeouf may be out of the Transformers franchise, but the young actor is hardly wanting for work. He’s wrapped John Hillcoat’s The Wettest County in the World, is currently shooting Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep, and is now attached to star in an offbeat romcom going by the working title A Giant....
Christopher McQuarrie Will Turn Navy SEALs Into Seven Samurai In ‘Rubicon’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2011 1:30 pm EST Christopher McQuarrie started out as a screenwriter (winning an Oscar for his early screenplay The Usual Suspects) and briefly segued into directing with The Way of the Gun in 2000. Now he is about to get back in the director’s chair for the Tom Cruise thriller One Shot, which he scripted and will direct as his second feature....
Cool Stuff: Dorothy’s Film Map (Featuring Over 900 Movies) By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2012 11:00 am EST I was originally going to feature this in Page 2 but I became struck by the beauty of this print. So much so that I actually bought one myself. UK-based design studio Dorothy has created a Film Map print which features the names of over 900 movies as locations and roads on a vintage-style LA street map....
David Fincher Options ‘Panic Attack’ By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2011 11:12 am EST Last year, David Fincher signed a development deal with Media Rights Capitol that would cover the financing of a couple films, and the new step in moving forward with pictures under that deal is the formation of a company called Panic Pictures. Perhaps appropriately, the first property optioned for the company is a thriller called Panic Attack, which Ted Griffin (Ocean’s Eleven, Tower Heist) will script....
Eddie Murphy To Star Alongside Ben Stiller In Brett Ratner’s ‘Tower Heist’ By Adam Quigley/Oct. 13, 2010 6:31 pm EST Before becoming Tower Heist, Brett Ratner’s latest film was conceived as an urban version of Ocean’s Eleven, with Eddie Murphy in the starring role. The title then was Trump Heist, and the original cast poised to join him included Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and Chris Tucker. One title and casting change later, Murphy was out, Ben Stiller was in, and the studio’s aspirations of making the film a “black Ocean’s Eleven” were scrapped....
Inception: NCM Featurette By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2010 11:07 pm EST Some of you may have noticed a “Behind the Scenes” Inception featurette playing in select theater during the pre-show entertainment (ie the junk before the trailers begin). The two and a half minute featurette is now online, watch it embedded after the jump. new embed thanks to playlist Inception: NCM Featurette By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2010 11:07 pm EST...
By Angie Han/Sept. 16, 2011 5:00 am EST You may recall that some months ago, James Franco was gunning for a job directing Blood Meridian, the acclaimed fifth novel by No Country for Old Men author Cormac McCarthy. Although that project never really materialized, Franco apparently hasn’t given up his dreams of tackling a McCarthy book. The actor/director/writer/producer has now shifted his attention to another novel by the writer, titled Child of God....
Jon Favreau Calls Summer 2011 A Box Office ‘Bloodbath’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 1, 2010 2:00 pm EST Audiences love the summer because it’s the home of the blockbuster but, in terms of memorable films, the summer of 2010 was a major disappointment. Outside of Toy Story 3 and Inception, the rest of the top 10 films at the box office were a mixed bag of mediocre sequels and remakes. Thankfully, next summer will more than make up for it, at least in terms of blockbuster potential....
Kodi Smit-McPhee Joins Ari Folman’s ‘The Congress;’ Danny Huston, Harvey Keitel And Paul Giamatti Attached By Russ Fischer/Feb. 1, 2011 11:00 am EST One of the more promising projects for the next couple years (don’t expect this until 2012 at least) is The Congress, in which Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman liberally adapts a story (‘The Futurological Congress’) by revered speculative fiction author Stanislaw Lem. The film is planned as a mix of live-action and animation, and we’ve already seen a taste of what the animation will look like....
Lifetime’s ‘Liz & Dick’ Trailer: Lindsay Lohan, Cinema Icon By Angie Han/Sept. 21, 2012 9:36 am EST The Lindsay Lohan career comeback tour is kicking off with Lifetime’s Liz & Dick, a small-screen movie about the volatile romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Lohan’s casting drew eyerolls, sighs, and giggles when it was announced back in April, and while the first stills and set photos weren’t so bad, it was tough to gauge how Lohan’s performance would actually turn out....
LOL: How To React To A Chris Nolan Film By Angie Han/July 23, 2012 4:00 pm EST Christopher Nolan films in general and his Batman trilogy in particular have a way of inspiring a veritable roller coaster of fan reaction. Even before The Dark Knight Rises opened, it was preceded by an insane amount of hype, which inevitably gave rise to the backlash to said hype, which in turn sparked some rather uncivil reactions to the backlash....
Mad Max: Fury Road To Be A 2D-To-3D Conversion? By Brendon Connelly/April 28, 2010 7:44 am EST Samsung have just last night unveiled their latest size-zero-slim range of LED TVs at a big shindig in the Saatchi Galleries of London. In attendance, as well as the journalists and tech bloggers that Samsung will have been very keen to impress, were a host of celebs with Kevin Spacey, Noel Clarke and newly-ordained Film 2010 host Claudia Winkleman amongst them....
Marvel Comic Book Bits: New Origin And Blackout Confirmed For ‘Ghost Rider’ Sequel; Possible Locations For ‘The Avengers;’ Bryan Singer Answers ‘X-Men’ Questions; Stan Lee Confirms New Cameos By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2011 6:30 pm EST Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine have been making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance as a sequel to the 2007 movie Ghost Rider, and Brian Taylor just told Movieline that they’ve revamped the character’s origin for this sequel....
Paramount To Make The Ring 3D By Russ Fischer/April 26, 2010 10:12 pm EST It has been five years since the original sequel to the US remake of The Ring. 2005 saw the release of The Ring 2, in which Naomi Watts was directed by Hideo Nakata, the man behind Ringu, the Japanese version of the film which helped kickstart the early ’00s infatuation with J-horror. Now the easy lure of a sequel and an increasing desire for 3D fodder has Paramount literally going back to the well....
Photos: Mark Romanek’s ‘Never Let Me Go’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2010 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Beach author and 28 Days Later/Sunshine screenwriter Alex Garland penned the adaptation for the dramatic thriller, about a group of children who spent their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school, who as they “grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them....
