Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola And Michael Mann List The Best Movies Ever By Germain Lussier/Aug. 3, 2012 4:00 pm EST Avatar is one of the best movies of all time. The King of Comedy is one of the best movies of all time. Paths of Glory is one of the best movies of all time. The Red Shoes is one of the best movies of all time....
Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite Movies Of 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 2, 2011 5:00 pm EST Quentin Tarantino has released a list of his favorite films of 2010. Hit the jump to see the list.Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite Movies of 2010 Toy Story 3 The Social Network Animal Kingdom I Am Love Tangled True Grit The Town Greenberg Cyrus Enter The Void (“Hands down best credit scene of the year … Maybe best credit scene of the decade....
Say Hello To Another Little Friend: Universal Preps New ‘Scarface’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2011 5:45 pm EST Don’t call it a remake. Scarface is a tale that has loomed large in cinema since first incarnated in a 1932 film starring Paul Muni, George Raft, and Boris Karloff, a tale elevated to infamy thanks to the 1983 telling by Brian De Palma. Now there will be a third major version as Universal preps a picture that will once again show how an immigrant gangster violently rises to the top of his chosen ‘profession’ thanks to ruthless ambition....
Sony Buys New ‘Dracula’ Script, Has Franchise In Mind; Guillermo Del Toro Considering His Own Vampire Tale? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 27, 2012 3:00 pm EST I hope you didn’t think that spectacles like the Great Snow White Race of 2011 were going to disappear in 2012. There are multiple incarnations of Beauty and the Beast, Frankenstein and many other tales brewing at studios, all of which want to squeeze some money out of recognizable public domain characters....
Superhero Bits: Be A Man Of Steel Extra, Chris Evans, Ryan Reynolds, R.I.P.D By Germain Lussier/June 15, 2011 12:00 pm EST How can you be a part of Zack Snyder’s new Superman movie Man of Steel? What’s the best motion comic book of all time? Why did Ryan Reynolds have to encounter something big and green that wasn’t wearing a ring on the set of Green Lantern? Want to see an alternative costume from Captain America: The First Avenger?...
Terrence Malick’s Next Auditioning This Weekend, Now Shooting In Sept? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2010 2:12 pm EST Briefly: We’ve now got three Terrence Malick mysteries to ponder. First is the release date for The Tree of Life, his completed (we think) film that may or may not open by the end of this year. The second is the fate of Voyage of Time, the IMAX doc that was said to be a companion to The Tree of Life, and about which we’ve heard nothing in months....
The Expendables Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2010 9:59 pm EST Lionsgate has just released a second movie trailer for Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables, which tplays more like a teaser trailer compared to the first trailer (which featured actual footage from the movie). The second trailer instead attempts to sells the film on the extensive list of action stars in the film. Watch . Watch the new trailer after the jump, and please leave your thoughts in the comments below....
The Final 15 Contenders For The 2010 Best Visual Effects Oscar By Germain Lussier/Dec. 11, 2010 4:27 pm EST The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the final 15 contenders for the 2010 Oscar for Best Visual Effects. This is only the first cut, though. Next, members of the Academy’s visual effects branch executive committee will select seven of the final 15. At that point, all the members of the visual effects branch watch 15 minute clip reels from those seven films and then select the five nominees....
Ty Burrell Joins ‘Switch,’ The ‘Jackie Brown’ Prequel By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2012 2:00 pm EST Ty Burrell has had a pretty great career trajectory: he went from being a bit player in Black Hawk Down to (very effectively) acting like a total dickhead in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake to being a core part of one of the most praised shows on TV, Modern Family. Now the recent Emmy winner will be in Dan Schechter’s Switch, which is effectively a prequel to Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown....
Watch The First Five Minutes Of ‘The Three Musketeers’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2011 2:30 pm EST You might have seen the trailers for Paul W.S. Anderson’s version of The Three Musketeers, naturally shot in 3D, and been left wondering if the movie is really for you. The film is on screens today, and to aid you in making the crucial ticket-buying decision the first few minutes of the film have landed online....
WETA’s Wind In The Willows: First Concept Images And Promo Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2010 4:34 pm EST Back in June, it was announced that Peter Jackson’s WETA (Lord of the Rings, District 9) was developing a live-action and animatronics adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s classic book The Wind in the Willows. The story follows four anthropomorphized characters in a classic pastoral English countryside, an yes, it has been adapted to the screen many times before....
Working Title Developing New Screen Version Of Merlin By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2010 7:23 am EST There’s no accounting for logic when it comes to film development, but that is both the beauty and the insanity of the business. This past summer audiences had a chance to see The Sorcerers Apprentice, in which Nicolas Cage played one of three disciples of Merlin. (Alfred Molina and Monica Bellucci played the other two disciples....
‘Battleship’ Poster And Website Launch By Russ Fischer/July 26, 2011 9:38 am EST Break out a bottle of champagne and crack it over the bow of the new website for Universal’s big collaboration between Hasbro and Peter Berg. Battleship now has a teaser site and a teaser poster. You will be greatly surprised, I’m sure, to find that the poster features a giant ship and an almost imposing logo. There isn’t a lot at BattleshipMovie right now, but if you get weak in the knees over countdown clocks, it’s the web page for you....
‘Delicatessen’ And ‘Amelie’ Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet To Make 3D Film ‘T.S. Spivet’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 25, 2011 6:27 pm EST French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a very specific, immediately recognizable visual style as seen in films like Delicatessen, Amelie and his most recent feature, Micmacs. He takes quite a bit of time between features, and since his 1991 feature debut with Delicatessen he has made only six films, and one English-language film: the not terribly good Alien Resurrection....
‘JAWS’ Will Hit Blu-Ray In August 2012 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2011 4:00 pm EST Steven Spielberg’s classic Jaws will finally be released in high definition Blu-ray on August 14th 2012. The Digital Bits have confirmed the release date, but we don’t know much more. Spielberg earlier told AintItCool that he would not introduce any changes to the film like he did E.T. You can also expect to see some of the Jaws sequels on Blu-ray on the same day, including Jaws 3D on Blu-ray 3D....
‘The Avengers’ And ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Promotional Teaser Posters [Updated] By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2011 11:25 am EST Update: We now have a higher resolution unscanned/photographed version of The Avengers poster. A couple promotional teaser posters for Marvel’s superhero team-up film The Avengers and Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man have been spotted at the Licensing International Expo. While we don’t usually feature these type of marketing promos, The Avengers one-sheet is notable because it gives us a better look at Jeremy Renner in his Avengers Hawkeye costume....
‘The Thing’ International Trailer By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2011 3:00 pm EST In Soviet Russia, Thing absorbs you! Wait, that doesn’t work. The Thing always absorbs you. Well, anyway, here’s a Russian trailer for the upcoming prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing. It has a lot of stuff we’ve seen before and a few things we haven’t, with the only trade-off being that the dialogue is all dubbed into Russian....
Comic-Con: Spielberg-Produced Falling Skies Footage Fails To Impress By Devindra Hardawar/July 23, 2010 6:37 pm EST Earlier today, I was floored by the footage of Frank Darabont’s television adaptation of the Walking Dead. Unfortunately, I wish the same could be said of what I’ve seen of the Steven Spielberg-produced Falling Skies for TNT. The show — created by Robert Rodat (screenwriter for Saving Private Ryan, and The Patriot) — stars TNT-regular Noah Wyle (ER, The Librarian) and sci-fi regular Moon Bloodgood (Journeyman, Terminator Salvation) as everyday people whose lives are overturned when aliens invade and wipe out 80 percent of humanity....
Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ On Its Way To Broadway By Germain Lussier/Aug. 13, 2012 4:00 pm EST The Disney film to Broadway transition worked for Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, is currently working for Newsies, and might soon take a carpet ride through Agrabah. At a recent Disneyland performance, songwriter Alan Menkin mentioned that the hit 1992 musical Aladdin might soon be making its way to Broadway. This isn’t exactly a huge surprise, however, as a musical version of the show has already been performed in Seattle, St....
Fan Fest 2010: Ray Harryhausen, Avatar’s Stephen Lang, A Barrage Of Bond Stars And /Film’s Brendon Connelly, All Live On Stage By Brendon Connelly/April 22, 2010 3:00 pm EST Fan Fest takes place at the London Film Museum (on Google Maps) this Saturday and Sunday, the 24th and 25th April. The official website describes it as “The Ultimate Spy and Sci-Fi Event” and an “Action & Entertainment Weekender For All the Family”....
