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March 12, 2006 - March 18, 2006 Archives

  • March 17, 2006
    The Mission: Impossible III trailer hit the Internet today, and boy is it a disappointment. The footage looked to be mostly shots already seen in the teaser and the Japanese trailer. But there's one thing that definitively sets this trailer apart from the Japanese one: this ... / Continue →
  • March 17, 2006
    The folks at ComingSoon.net have done the courtesy of posting the trailer for Wolfgang Petersen's disaster-adventure Poseideon, in which the trapped passengers of ship try desperately to escape the sinking vessel. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but I think I j... / Continue →
  • March 17, 2006
    For all those interested in either the fast or the furious, the trailer for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is now online. The film tells the story of a hot-headed American street racer forced to move to Tokyo with his father to avoid jail time. There, the racing underg... / Continue →
  • March 16, 2006
    Ain't It Cool News snagged the newest poster for Pixar's Cars, and quite frankly it scares me. Previous images of this movie looked pretty goofy and friendly, while this one appears to be some kind of violent car mob. If there were ever a "car revolt," this is the image that ... / Continue →
  • March 16, 2006
    To further the continuing chain of unnecessary Hollywood remakes, Universal has decided to update the Lon Chaney horror classic The Wolf Man, with Benicio Del Toro playing the title role. Seven scribe Andrew Kevin Walker has begun writing the script. Scott Stuber, Rick Yorn, Ma... / Continue →
  • March 15, 2006
    JustJared posted some pictures of Christina Ricci on the set of Penelope. In the new movie, Christina Ricci suffers a curse that gives her the face of a pig. Also, in real life. Source... / Continue →
  • March 15, 2006
    Superhero Hype has posted some new painted artwork from Mark Steven Johnson's sure-to-be-awful Ghost Rider. The paintings aren't labeled as specific scenes, but they may give us a peek into what awaits in the film. Such as standard Ghost Rider having a land race with Zorro Gh... / Continue →
  • March 15, 2006
    I'm getting sick of shots of new Bond Daniel Craig holding guns and looking stupid. Luckily there's finally one of him looking stupid with Bond girls Eva Green and Caterina Murino playing Vesper Lynd and Solonge, respectively. Regardless of how bad Casino Royale might be, at ... / Continue →
  • March 14, 2006
    Speaking last night at the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards (which mean absolutely nothing), producer Rick McCallum provided an update of the current Lucasfilm projects. Speaking about a Star Wars television series, McCallum claims the show will provide the dark, character-based dram... / Continue →
  • March 14, 2006
    While it's been rumored for a while that Angelina Jolie was being sought after for a role in the next Sin City film, Rosario Dawson has now confirmed that director Robert Rodriguez is looking to cast the actress as the lead, saying: The film's been kind of postponed because Robe... / Continue →
  • March 14, 2006
    Warner Bros. announced they will be making a contemporary version of the 1967 action flick The Dirty Dozen. Con-Air writer Scott Rosenberg will team with Alias writer/producers Andre Nemec and Josh Applebaum to pen the script. Producer Susan Downey told Variety: Scott had been... / Continue →
  • March 13, 2006
    How sad is it when your parents have to defend your casting in a motion picture? Ask Daniel Craig. His father, speaking to the Sunday Mirror, denied rumors that the actor is afraid of guns, cars, boats, and anything else that has trade shows: "It is all cobblers," he says, of ... / Continue →
  • March 13, 2006
    In news you would have thought would happen six years ago, the Weinsteins have decided to cash-in on the success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by buying the rights to the author's three prequels and one sequel. And they have equally goofy names! The brothers have acquired t... / Continue →
  • March 13, 2006
    In a Disney shareholders meeting on Friday, it was announced that Brad Bird, award-winning writer/director of The Incredibles and The Iron Giant, would direct Pixar's next animation project, Ratatouille, the story of a skinny rat in a Parisian restaurant: Pixar Animation Studios... / Continue →
  • March 13, 2006
    I'm not sure how long this has been around, but somehow I'd missed that there's a trailer for the new Wayans Brothers film, Little Man. It's literally the worst thing I've ever seen. I hoped White Chicks would be the end of these guys. It seemed logical that a film where the... / Continue →
  • March 13, 2006
    Speaking to Sci-Fi Wire about the sequel to Hellboy, star Ron Perlman revealed some bits concerning the plot, as well as the working title, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army: It's a compendium of a lot of elements that they were not able to address in the first one, because the first o... / Continue →