Channing Tatum In Talks For Roland Emmerich’s ‘White House Down’ By Angie Han/May 15, 2012 7:30 am EST Even as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama race to win the White House, Roland Emmerich and Antoine Fuqua are competing to take it down. Both filmmakers are signed on to direct projects described as “Die Hard on Pennsylvania Avenue” — Columbia’s White House Down for Emmerich, and Millennium’s Olympus Has Fallen for Fuqua....
Geek Deal: Memento: 10th Anniversary Special Edition Blu-Ray For Only $6.99 By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2012 6:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
Hugh Dancy Will Be Will Graham In NBC’s ‘Hannibal’ By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2012 5:00 am EST I can’t really justify my curiosity about Hannibal, the NBC series that will act as a prequel to films like Manhunter and The Silence of the Lambs. (It will act as a new prequel, that is, since we’ve already had a feature film prequel called Hannibal Rising.) We’ve seen this story before. We’ve seen it done pretty well....
J.J. Abrams, James Mangold, Ryan Murphy And Rob Marshall In Talks For Wicked By Adam Quigley/July 11, 2010 2:20 pm EST Prepare yourselves now, because the profusion of Wizard of Oz projects hitting in the next few years may start to get a little overwhelming. In no particular order, we already have lined up: Oz, the Great and Powerful, starring Robert Downey Jr. and (potentially) directed by Sam Raimi; Drew Barrymore’s proposed Wizard of Oz sequel, Surrender Dorothy; the Polish brothers’ Oz prequel; Dorthy of Oz, an animated outing; and one of two Warner Bros....
Jackass 3D - What Did You Think By David Chen/Oct. 15, 2010 8:44 pm EST It’s been eight years since Johnny Knoxville and crew took Jackass from the small screen to our local cineplexes via Jackass: The Movie. That film grossed a staggering $79 million off a budget of only $5 million, and spawned Jackass Number Two, an equally successful 2006 film. You might think that Knoxville & Co. had exhausted all possible ways to hit Knoxville in the balls, or force Steve-O eat some form of human or animal excretion....
Miranda July’s ‘The Future’ And ‘Bobby Fischer Against The World’ [Sundance Mini-Reviews] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 22, 2011 9:48 pm EST With three sets of eyes darting all around Park City for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and several days of films still ahead, it’s almost physically impossible to write full reviews for everything we see. So, here’s the first Sundance Mini-Review post which will feature shorter capsule reviews of films and maybe even some video blogs....
Nicholas Hoult To Star In Jonathan Levine’s Zombie Romance ‘Warm Bodies’ By Angie Han/March 2, 2011 11:00 am EST Vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and witches, sure — but how do you make a zombie sexy? Well, it probably helps if he looks like Nicholas Hoult, to begin with. Summit Entertainment announced yesterday that the Skins star (that’d be the original U.K. version, not the U.S. one) had been cast as the lead role in Jonathan Levine’s zombie romcom Warm Bodies, based on the novel by Isaac Marion....
Pixar’s New Short Film ‘Rainy City Tales’ Might Premiere At Toronto Or Telluride By Germain Lussier/Aug. 2, 2012 2:30 pm EST One of the most interesting things you find when reporting on Pixar is how far in advance the company works on something before the public gets wind of it. They rarely announce a feature until it’s years into development and we generally don’t hear about their award winning shorts until they’re almost complete....
POTD: The LOST Showrunners Office By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2010 2:00 pm EST The photo features the office of LOST executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse from WiReD Magazine’s latest epic article on the television series’ final season. The article features the following quote from Lindelof, which I will admit, worries me a bit about the ending of the series: Absolutely. I assume that as a physicist, you say, “Force equals mass times acceleration,” and you can explain why....
POTD: The Vietnam War Movie Memorial By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 10, 2011 6:30 pm EST Artist Tim Doyle talks his The Vietnam War Movie Memorial art: “I was asked to participate in an artshow that is also a fundraiser for a documentary about VHS art, and this is the piece I created for it. VHS will always hold a special place in my memory. … Recently I had to re-watch Full Metal Jacket and another Vietnam War movie for poster assignments (the second one is not yet released, fyi) and I got to thinking about how much of our understanding of war in this country is filtered through the for-profit lens of Hollywood....
Rejected Film Projects: Joss Whedon Talks About His ‘Batman’ Movie By Angie Han/May 4, 2012 11:30 am EST At this point, there’s no doubt that Joss Whedon has done really, really, really well for himself with The Avengers. As of today, opening day, the film has a domestic opening weekend estimate of $172.5 million and an impressive 93% Rotten Tomatoes score, making it a smash hit both critically and commercially. But before he was Team Marvel, Whedon was very nearly a DC man....
Ridley Scott And Leonardo DiCaprio Could Re-Team For ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2010 6:20 pm EST So are films about financial disaster and malfeasance going to be the new thing for a few months? We’ve got Oliver Stone’s sequel to Wall Street hitting soon, and the cast for Margin Call either means that it’s a good piece of work or that it’s just the best gig going in New York right now....
Robert Redford Playing Famed Dodgers Exec Branch Rickey In Brian Helgeland’s Jackie Robinson Film By Russ Fischer/April 7, 2011 5:00 pm EST Robert Redford is already in the baseball hall of fame for playing the lead in The Natural, which is a benchmark in baseball on film. That was a piece of fiction, but now Mr. Redford is poised to play one of the most important real figures in the history of the game: Branch Rickey, who broke the color barrier in baseball by hiring Jackie Robinson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers....
By Angie Han/Aug. 1, 2012 4:00 pm EST One reason for that, Bewkes says, is that cord-cutting is actually not all that prevalent. “[T]he whole idea that there’s a lot of people out there that want to drop multichannel TV, and just have a Netflix or an HBO — that’s not right,” he told investors. “Look for the data, you won’t find them.” HBO’s entire business model is built around the idea that people will pay for cable, and so far that assumption is paying off....
Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Anna Kendrick, Milo Ventimiglia And Others Read For ‘Paper Wings’ By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2010 7:00 am EST Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Anna Kendrick, Milo Ventimiglia and a few other actors were photographed leaving the Saddle Ranch in West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip on Tuesday morning. The restaurant is famous for its karaoke, crazy parties and a mechanical bull. Some gossip sites were quick to report that it was a four-hour Scientology event, since a good selection of the actors involved are Scientologists....
VOTD: Student Created Wall-Sized Multi-Touch Star Wars Video Game By Germain Lussier/July 15, 2011 12:00 pm EST Arthur Nishimoto, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, might have created the greatest unofficial Star Wars game in history. It’s called Fleet Commander and it uses Star Wars iconography in a multi-player, touch screen, strategy action game. And he just did it for school. After the jump, you can look at video of the game being played on a giant 20 foot screen, read some of the specs and link to Nishimoto’s website where he explains his process....
Will Smith The Frontrunner For Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ By Germain Lussier/May 6, 2011 4:06 pm EST When Quentin Tarantino makes a casting wishlist, he sets his sights high. “High” as in one of the biggest box office stars in the world. The writer/director is currently meeting about his upcoming spaghetti Western Django Unchained and people involved in the meetings have revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that the director’s top choice for the lead role of Django, a freed slave who is trained by a German bounty hunter to save his wife, is none other than Will Smith....
‘Battleground’ Trailer – Hulu’s First Original Scripted Series Tackles Swing State Politics By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2012 6:00 am EST [via Mashable] Though the Ides of March-y premise has potential, especially in a big election year, I’m feeling lukewarm about the actual trailer. It doesn’t look bad, but it also doesn’t look like anything special — I see a lot of well-worn cliches about the difficulties of balancing work and family....
‘Buried’ Screenwriter To Pen ‘Twelve Strangers’ For Producer M. Night Shyamalan By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2010 4:21 pm EST Over a year ago M. Night Shyamalan put together a deal with Media Rights Captial to create a label called The Night Chronicles. The first of three films for the label, Devil, is in post-production now. So it’s time to move forward on the second, to be called Twelve Strangers. We don’t know much about the film right now, but we do know that Buried screenwriter Chris Sparling will write....
‘Girls’ Trailer - Judd Apatow Returns To Television With ‘Tiny Furniture’ Writer / Director / Star Lena Dunham By Angie Han/Dec. 12, 2011 5:00 pm EST If CBS’ 2 Broke Girls didn’t quite prove to be edgy enough for you, perhaps HBO’s thematically similar new series Girls will fit the bill. Created by Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) and executive produced by Dunham, Judd Apatow, and Jenni Konner, the comedy follows a group of 20something women — aspiring writer Hannah (Dunham) and her BFFs (Jemima Kirke from Tiny Furniture and Brian Williams’ daughter Allison Williams) — as they struggle to make it in the big city....
