Movie Trailer: The Debt By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2010 6:00 pm EST Miramax Films has released the movie trailer for John Madden’s The Debt, a remake of the 2007 Israeli film. In 1965, three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in the Ukraine and one of the former agents must go back undercover to seek out the truth....
Natalie Portman Returning To Work With Back-To-Back Terrence Malick Films By Angie Han/Feb. 8, 2012 10:00 am EST After taking a hiatus for the birth of her son, Natalie Portman is gearing up to get back to work. Portman, who won Best Actress at last year’s Academy Awards, has found her first post-Oscar roles in two upcoming Terrence Malick films, Knight of Cups and Lawless. Details on the two films are still scarce, but given the combination of Malick, Portman, and her co-stars on the two projects, I’m pretty excited all the same....
New Photo And Official Synopsis Revealed For ‘Stake Land’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2011 11:00 am EST IFC Midnight and Dark Sky Films have released a new image and official plot synopsis for Stake Land, one of my favorite films from Fantastic Fest 2010. The movie is a combination of Children of Men. 28 Days Later, The Road, and Y: The Last Man, set in the not too far future, in a post apocalyptic world overrun by vampires....
Red Band Movie Trailer: ‘I Love You Phillip Morris’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 21, 2010 11:00 am EST I Love You Phillip Morris has yet to hit the big screen in America and it’s already infamous. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, the film attracted controversy for its explicit portrayal of two gay lovers, played by Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. It then went through several lengthy, well publicized behind-the-scenes battles with companies purchasing it, setting release dates, folding, then taking it off the table completely....
Ridley Scott Definitely Wants Harrison Ford For ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel By Angie Han/May 28, 2012 10:42 am EST We learned a few weeks ago that Ridley Scott’s long-awaited Blade Runner sequel would feature a female protagonist, but what of the male protagonist from the first film, Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard? Back in February, rumors began flying that the star was in talks to appear, only for Alcon Entertainment to swiftly kill them a few days later....
Sacha Baron Cohen In The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty? By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2010 9:58 am EST If development hell is like a South Florida rest home, the remake of Danny Kaye’s 1947 comedy is the 110-year old guy sitting in the corner muttering to himself as he tries to build the Taj Mahal out of playing cards. Numerous actors and directors have tried to make the film, but now there’s word that an offer is out to Sacha Baron Cohen to play Danny Kaye’s role....
Sex And The City 2 Tickets Are Already Selling Like Hotcakes, Six Weeks Before Film’s Release By David Chen/April 21, 2010 4:59 am EST Movie tickets for huge summer films tend to go on sale a few weeks early. When you think of movies that have benefit from this, you might think of Star Wars, The Dark Knight, and….Sex and the City 2? According to The Hollywood Reporter, tickets for Sex and the City 2 are already selling at a “brisk” pace....
Short Sequel ‘Tangled Ever After’ To Play With ‘Beauty And The Beast 3D’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 15, 2011 5:00 am EST Here’s the poster for Tangled Ever After. The press release is below that, confirming that Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi will once again reprise their roles. Tangled Ever After is the perfect accompaniment to Beauty and the Beast, which is returning to the big screen in Disney Digital 3D™ and introducing a whole new generation to the Disney classic with stunning new 3D imagery....
Star Wars Blu-Ray Announced For Fall 2011, Deleted Scene Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 14, 2010 11:47 am EST At Star Wars Celebration V, George Lucas finally made the big announcement that the entire Star Wars saga would be released in a Blu-Ray box set in Fall 2011. According to IGN, the set will feature “all six live-action Star Wars feature films, with the highest picture and audio quality,” along with extensive extras like “documentaries, vintage behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, retrospectives and never-before-seen footage from the Lucasfilm archives....
TV Bits: ‘Mad Men,’ ‘American Horror Story,’ Marc Strong, MTV Found Footage Show By Germain Lussier/July 26, 2012 3:30 pm EST Major actors going to TV and major characters returning to TV are just two of the following TV Bits. After the jump read about the following: MTV’s new found footage show, The Experiment, is inspired by Paranormal Activity. Mark Strong will star in an AMC pilot called Low Winter Sun....
Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits And Olga Kurylenko Join Martin McDonagh’s ‘Seven Psychopaths’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 9, 2011 4:29 pm EST Just a day ago I talked about Seven Psychopaths, the new movie from In Bruges director Martin McDonagh, because Mickey Rourke had proclaimed McDonagh to be a ‘jerkoff’ and refused to be in the film. McDonagh “wanted a whole lot for nothing,” the actor said, so he bailed. Everything has worked out fine, as long as I’m concerned, however....
Zack Snyder Says ‘Superman’ Will Focus On Early Days Of Superman; Not Based On Any Particular Comic Run By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2010 5:18 am EST With Zack Snyder confirmed to direct Superman, questions about the film have turned to other topics: who will star, and what will the film be about? The second question has a vague answer now, as Mr. Snyder has said that the film is not a remake or based on any particular comic, and will feature the character’s early days....
‘A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas’ Director To Helm Big Screen Adaptation Of ‘Rascal Raccoon’s Raging Revenge’ By Angie Han/May 1, 2012 3:00 pm EST Last fall’s A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas may not have been a runaway hit, but it was certainly good enough to boost the profile of its relatively unknown director Todd Strauss-Schulson. Before that film, he was best known, by those who knew him at all, for being “some MTV director....
‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Red-Band Trailer - Heads Will Roll By Angie Han/May 24, 2012 12:30 pm EST So far, the footage we’ve seen from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has been, well, pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a movie called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The “secret history” of our 16th president’s double life as a hunter of supernatural monsters is a premise that’s deeply silly but potentially entertaining, and accordingly, the first trailers have been both kind of dumb and kind of cool....
/Film’s Quest For Red State Tickets By David Chen/Jan. 21, 2011 11:30 am EST Did you hear? Director Kevin Smith is sorta not screening his newest film, Red State, for press at Sundance this year. Fortunately, Sundance offers press people the opportunity to request tickets for public screenings (of which Red State has only two) two days in advance. Unfortunately, there are a very limited number of public screening tickets and requesting one is no guarantee that you will actually receive one....
‘The Avengers’ Shot Partially On An iPhone By Germain Lussier/Oct. 21, 2011 2:00 pm EST If you’re a regular reader of Superhero Bits, you already knew this and if you aren’t, what the heck are you thinking? Yesterday we ran a bit that has since gone viral so we figured we’d pull it out for all to see. It turns out Seamus McGarvey, Joss Whedon’s director of photography on The Avengers, revealed in a recent interview that some of Marvel’s epic superhero team-up was shot on an iPhone....
‘The Killer Inside Me’ Movie Trailer: Looking Like A Perfect Adaptation Of Jim Thompson’s Pitch-Black Tale By Russ Fischer/May 5, 2010 10:20 am EST Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel The Killer Inside Me has long seemed like one of the best bets of 2010. There was the lead casting: Casey Affleck as secretly sociopathic sheriff Lou Ford could be perfect . And then that sales trailer that suggested all the actors, including Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson, might be just right....
Adam Sandler Replaces Mark Wahlberg In ‘Three Mississippi,’ And It’s All ‘Battleship’s Fault By Angie Han/May 31, 2012 9:30 am EST Whatever its flaws, The Other Guys boasted a crackling comedic duo in Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell, so we were excited to hear about a re-team for the two stars in the football comedy Three Mississippi. But alas, it’s not meant to be. Adam Sandler has just replaced Wahlberg in the film, which centers around rival families engaging in an annual tackle football match....
Ben Whishaw Says “Everybody’s Swapping Race And Gender” In ‘Cloud Atlas’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2011 6:00 pm EST My interest in the Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski adaptation of David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas just grew even more. We’ve reported on the film a fair few times, and it continues to sound wild. The book is an odd beast, with six stories, each presented in halves and nested within one another, that cover hundreds of years, dozens of characters and quite a few genres from nautical adventure to post-apocalyptic societal reboot....
Casting Bits: Danny Huston In ‘Medallion;’ Luke Evans In ‘The Amateur American;’ ‘Rock Of Ages’ Seeking Unknown For Lead By Russ Fischer/March 12, 2011 10:00 am EST Danny Huston will join Nicolas Cage in the Taken-like action thriller Medallion. The film has Nic Cage as a thief whose daughter is abducted and shoved in the trunk of a NYC cab. With help from another thief who is also his ex-girlfriend (Malin Akerman) the guy faces a ticking clock if he wants to rescue his girl....
