Zack Snyder Declares His ‘Superman’ Is ‘Different;’ General Zod Not The Villain By Germain Lussier/Nov. 5, 2010 6:00 am EST Even though Zack Snyder still has five months to go before he releases his next movie, Sucker Punch, it seems all anyone wants to talk about is his follow up. That’s bound to happen, though, when you’ll be helming a reboot of Superman written by David Goyer and produced by Christopher Nolan....
‘100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience’ Trailer By Angie Han/Feb. 25, 2011 2:00 pm EST American politicians love to decry the popularity of video games among young people in the U.S., but anyone with even a mild interest in video games can tell you that they’re a much bigger deal in certain other countries than they are here. A new indie documentary by Strata Studios, 100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience, takes us to Japan, where gaming is so popular that multi-level arcades are common....
‘Battleship’ Japanese Trailer By Russ Fischer/Dec. 27, 2011 3:26 pm EST If you’re on the fence about Universal’s Battleship, that being Peter Berg’s Michael Bay-style ‘humans versus aliens’ movie which will hit next year, this Japanese trailer probably won’t help make up your mind. It has a few small new bits of footage, yes, and also a bit more footage of Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano. But otherwise it’s still the same big, goofy battle movie....
‘Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey’ [Sundance Review] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 25, 2011 5:00 am EST One of my most anticipated films of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival was a documentary titled Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, the inspirational tale of Kevin Clash, the man who plays the Sesame Street character Elmo. Growing up in Baltimore watching Captain Kangaroo and Sesame Street, Kevin dreamed of becoming a puppeteer and started creating his own puppets and performing shows for local kids....
/Film Visits The Set Of ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2011 12:00 am EST In October 2010, Walt Disney Pictures invited us to the London set of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. We spent two days at Pinewood Studios learning about the movie, interviewing the cast and crew, exploring the sets, and more. After the jump you will find a set of video blogs I recorded with Frosty from Collider....
‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2’ Featurette Has New Footage By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2011 11:57 pm EST We haven’t yet seen a trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, but tonight ABC Family aired a making-of featurette about the film featuring some pretty tasty first-look footage. That featurette is now online, via Facebook. There will be more Potter footage unveiled over the weekend, but this is a good start....
‘How To Build A Time Machine’ Trailer: A Documentary Exploring A Famous Potential Time Traveller By Germain Lussier/Feb. 13, 2012 5:00 pm EST The story goes something like this. In the year 2036, a man calling himself John Titor was sent back in time to 1975 to retrieve pieces of a rare, early IBM computer for use in rebuilding an America that was decimated by nuclear war in 2015. Twenty-five years later, Titor began posting on the Internet about his experiences....
By Germain Lussier/July 30, 2012 11:00 am EST This week’s addition to the Breaking Bad Art Project could almost serve as a crown to all of the previous art. It’s a simple image, but one full of references to the show, depicting the home of Walter, Skyler and Walter Jr. in sunny New Mexico. Mark Englert did the art. Check it out in full after the jump. Here’s The White Residence by Mark Englert, which will be on sale this afternoon....
Art Gilmore, Movie Trailer Voice Over Legend Of The 1950’s And 1960’s, Has Died By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2010 10:17 pm EST You might recall that Don LaFontaine, the man who provided the voiceover for many of the movie trailers from the 1980’s, 1990’s and the 2000’s had died two years ago at age 68. While LaDontaine was the defining voice of modern movie trailers, a man named Art Gilmore was known as the voice of the classic movie trailers of the 1950’s and 1960 era of movie trailers....
By Germain Lussier/Feb. 20, 2011 12:00 pm EST It’s finally official. Baz Luhrmann will be making his adaptation of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby in 3D and Warner Brothers will distribute. The news was announced Saturday in Sydney, Australia where Luhrmann will shoot the film beginning in August. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan will most likely star, each making their first 3D film. Read more after the jump....
Cannes 2010 Lineup Announced; Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree Of Life’ Not On The List By Russ Fischer/April 15, 2010 6:05 am EST Briefly: The lineup for the official selection and out of competition films for this year’s Cannes Film Festival was announced this morning. The big news: Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life is not among the films that will play on the Croisette. That isn’t a huge surprise, as we’ve known the film is still in the editing room and that, while Apparition chief Bob Berney has said it could play Cannes, there has seemed like a good chance it wouldn’t actually make it....
Casting Bits: Selena Gomez In ‘The Sky Is Everywhere’, Rob Riggle, Brian Posehn And Kumail Nanjiani In ‘Hell & Back’ By Angie Han/Jan. 24, 2012 4:30 pm EST Now that her hit Disney series Wizards of Waverly Place has come to an end, Selena Gomez has been trying to make the transition into non-Disney movies with projects ranging from last year’s Monte Carlo to the upcoming Harmony Korine-directed Spring Breakers. The latest addition to her slate is The Sky is Everywhere, an adaptation of Jandy Nelson’s YA romance of the same title....
Clint Eastwood Trying ‘A Star Is Born’ Again, Perhaps With Tom Cruise By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2012 1:30 pm EST And now WB is taking a cue from Fox, and is evidently pursuing Cruise to play the male lead in Clint Eastwood’s new version of A Star is Born. Eastwood had been keen on making the film a year ago, and then Beyonce, his intended star, got pregnant, and the film was delayed....
By Germain Lussier/Oct. 6, 2010 7:00 am EST If you read /Film on a regular basis, you know that we love cool movie posters. And out of everyone on the site, I think I’m probably the most obsessed. I’m always scouring galleries and websites for awesome posters based on pop culture to add to my ever growing addiction collection. So, I’m really digging this set of posters called Dress the Part....
Cool Stuff: Lost “Island Reunion” T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2010 7:00 am EST TeeFury’s t-shirt design of the day today is a Lost parody design titled Island Reunion. I can’t gaurentee this will be the last Lost t-shirt we ever post, but we havent seen any good ones since the series finale. Created by Spiritgreen, the tee is available for $9 plus shipping. Here is a word from the artist:...
Demian Bichir Joining Oliver Stone’s ‘Savages,’ Which Is Also Getting A Print Prequel By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2011 6:00 am EST From Weeds to weed — Demian Bichir is making the move into Oliver Stone’s world. The director is making Savages, based on the book by Don Winslow. He already has quite the cast lined up: Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson play up and coming pot dealers coerced into working for a drug cartel when their girlfriend O (Blake Lively) is kidnapped....
Disney Drops Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Horizons,’ Formerly Called ‘Oblivion’ By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2011 3:17 pm EST The last time we heard about Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski’s film project Oblivion, it was retitled Horizons and was getting a rewrite from Karl Gajdusek, who wrote the Nicolas Cage/Nicole Kidman film Trespass. He stepped in to work on the draft after William Monahan was hired to pen a script based on the graphic novel created by Joseph Kosinski and written by Rex Mundi and illustrated by Andree Wallin....
Gavin Hood To Attempt Developing ‘Ender’s Game’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 20, 2010 8:30 pm EST If you are reading this site and haven’t read Ender’s Game, you should go out and do that right now. Seriously. I mean, it’s a precursor to so many books, video games and movies that we cover it would be futile to try and list them all. Unfortunately, though, this seminal work has always had a tough time finding its legs in Hollywood....
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