November 30, 2008 - December 6, 2008 Archives
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THR reports Anna Faris has plans to continue under-utilizing her comedic potential on two more seemingly bland, broad comedies. Just reading these one-sentence descriptions, you can already imagine exactly where in the trailers you'll hear the distinctive "hey! hey! hey!" of "T... / Continue →
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Don't forget, this weekend is your last chance to win this massive Monty Python Collector's Set courtesy of A&E Home Video. Why haven't you entered yet? Don't you want this? This is your chance to finally understand all those Python quotes your nerdy friends kept throwing aroun... / Continue →
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Zombies and Nazis. They're the two groups we, as a society, have agreed can be killed without further justification than their title, so it's only natural someone would eventually think, "Let's just make zombie Nazis so that we really don't have to feel any remorse in their mur... / Continue →
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I hadn't heard of Big Man Japan until today, seeing this poster on Cinematical. Now I want to see it more than any other movie in 2009. It's about time someone made this: A middle-aged slacker living in a rundown, graffiti-ridden slum, Daisoto's job involves being shocked by b... / Continue →
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In response to fan outcry that the film looks only marginally like the anime series, and everyone else's outcry that it generally looks terrible, 20th Century Fox has fixed Dragonball. Rumor is, the title has been changed to Dragonball Evolution--an idea supported by Fox's regi... / Continue →
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Doing the press rounds for Seven Pounds, Will Smith told JoBlo that Hancock will "definitely" have a sequel. When we asked Will if he'd ever be up for playing another superhero he replied that there were a lot of unexplored characters in the HANCOCK universe that would be ripe... / Continue →
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Just in time for Punisher: War Zone's release today, Lionsgate has managed to squeeze one more poster out of their expansive photo collection of Ray Stevenson holding guns. Even as the second Death Star explodes behind him, he does not stop discharging guns. Just as he will nev... / Continue →
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A few 28-year-olds playing high school kids, seemingly without any sort of script besides the instruction to "just sort of hang out, then run and scream if someone is chasing you with a weapon," is basically what I expected from a Friday the 13th remake (and most every horror m... / Continue →
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In this remake, the most frightening aspect of Jason is not his machete nor his hockey mask; it's that his neck is thicker than his thigh. That's the most terrifying part of the new Jason. It makes his mask look like a thumbnail. 'Friday the 13th' Poster [Yahoo!]... / Continue →
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Speaking of remaking '80s movies with unbearable theme songs, British comedian Russell Brand is reportedly looking for writers to develop a new take on 1981's Arthur: The British comedian is developing a remake of "Arthur," the 1981 comedy that starred Dudley Moore, for Warner... / Continue →
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For its innovation is attempting to portray the idea of three dimensions, I give this poster two-and-a-half Photoshop lens flares. ... / Continue →
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Fox wants to remake Romancing the Stone? Alright. In these trying economic times, we must all make sacrifices to keep Matthew McConaughey employed. From THR: Fox is bringing "Romancing the Stone" to the big screen again, swinging into development a remake of the 1984 adventure... / Continue →
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On Tuesday, Entertainment Tonight (still a top program for people who like their entertainment news at a noticeably louder volume than the rest of the world) will debut the new Terminator Salvation trailer. To prepare our minds for such an event, they have released a trailer fo... / Continue →
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For a limited time, IFC will be releasing the two parts of Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara biopic, The Argentine and Guerilla, as a single film appropriately entitled Che. To promote the event, they've released a poster that makes it seem like Che is a militant, 200-foot giant ... / Continue →
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If you've ever watched the studio logos opening a feature film and wondered, Columbia Pictures Lady: friend or foe?, I've got something for you. Neatorama has put together an informative piece on several of the big Hollywood studio logos, the histories behind them, and their va... / Continue →
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In response to the earlier rumor that Fox is looking to prolong the life of the Speed series and bring back Keanu Reeves in the lead, Neo has already spoken to IGN and completely disavowed any knowledge or participation in the project: [IGN] asked if he had heard about the onl... / Continue →
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In September, I mentioned the straight-to-DVD release of Pulse 2, noting that its summary contained the laughable line, "The world has been reshaped by the invasion of ghosts via the wireless internet." That's an extremely stupid concept, but, shockingly, not stupid enough to w... / Continue →
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Vaguely in the tradition of J. Lo's Enough, but more in the tradition of the general practice of shouting "enough" when you've finally had enough, While She Was Out sees Kim Basinger as an abused mother of two who snaps when violently attacked in a mall parking lot. The offendi... / Continue →
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Kirsten Stewart, also known as girl from Twilight, has been cast in the role of Joan Jett in Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways. From THR: Fresh from the success of "Twilight," Kristen Stewart is set to portray Joan Jett in "The Runaways," the rock 'n' roll biopic of the 1970s a... / Continue →
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AICN is reporting that, despite Sandra Bullock's able handling of an out-of-control boat scenario, vehicular travelers may still not be safe drive at their own pace. Fox is supposedly interesting in making a third chapter of the Speed series, and is considering bringing Keanu R... / Continue →
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Speaking to IGN, Kevin McKidd, the über-Aryan star of Rome and Grey's Anatomy, confirmed he's still in talks to star in Kenneth Branagh's Thor film: McKidd confirmed for IGN that he's still a contender for the lead role and that there's been "a lot of back and forth" about the... / Continue →
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I've been trying to cut back on audibly sighing at these things, but this Monsters vs. Aliens poster just violently threw me off that wagon. Back to being the internet's exhaust port. Monsters vs. Aliens Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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I hope you got your watching Batman on a giant screen out of the way this summer: Warner Bros. has dropped plans for its January rerelease of The Dark Knight in IMAX theaters. Worse yet for people who care a bizarre amount about box office profits, the film has earned $996.1 mi... / Continue →
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Because this Thursday on Sarah Silverman, Matt Berry guest stars! Berry has starred in the British series Snuff Box, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, and The Mighty Boosh, and if you aren't familiar with his comedy work, you are not effectively using your YouTube. He's great. So my ... / Continue →
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Thanks to Matt for noting that Kotaku has posted the first photograph of Chun-Li's thighs from the new Street Fighter movie. Who are these people kidding? Those are not Chun-Li thighs. As a pre-pubescent at the time of Street Fighter's release, I became intimately, almost disgu... / Continue →
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20th Century Fox (best Fox century) has released four new production photos from Wolverine. There aren't any new looks at Gambit, Blob, or Deadpool, who are all in the movie for some reason, but there are some new shots of Wolverine and Sabretooth that reveal that the film is g... / Continue →
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Author John Grisham, who will write a legal thriller plot between the embossed covers of anything titled "The ________", has a new novel due out in January, and, surprise, it's already being developed into a feature film. Called The Associate, the film will tell the story of "a... / Continue →
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It just can't be. This movie and the poster have to already exist. And according to IMDb, Harry Connick Jr. is in this? Harry Connick Jr. would be in this--when it was made in 1997. There's just no way it would have taken this long to cast Renee Zellweger as a high-powered Miam... / Continue →
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** That's that. Thanks to everyone who took the time to submit something. I'll go through these and get back with a winner and some honorable mentions as soon as I can. ** Alright, everyone who likes classic British comedy readily available in their home video collections: it'... / Continue →
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Michael Heilemann has a ridiculously large collection of Star Wars production stills, behind-the-scenes photos, and concept artwork, and rather than just brag about it at comic conventions, he's shared it online. Neatorama pointed me to Heilemann's Flickr photostream, a collect... / Continue →
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Empire has the first look at Johnny Depp and Christian Bale as John Dillinger and lawman Melvin Purvis in Michael Mann's Public Enemies. Based on the images, here's my idea for the trailer narration: One is a criminal gang leader; the other, an FBI agent. In their apartment th... / Continue →
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/Film has reported that trade magazine Production Weekly claims the upcoming Tron sequel, which Disney has thus far marketed as TR2N, has gone through a change of title in response to all the criticism. Now it's being called TRZ. So that takes care of the whole idiotic, unprono... / Continue →
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As a bit of an Air Bud scholar, let me catch everyone up: since the original Air Bud, everyone's favorite basketball-playing dog has learned he also has the ability to play at least four other sports at the level of a pro athlete (often actually playing in professional leagues,... / Continue →
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This weekend, many of us headed to theaters with our families as a break from sitting around awkwardly watching television with our families, and trying to remember where our bed used to be before our bedrooms became mom's sewing room. Innumerable grandmas who hadn't been to th... / Continue →
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No matter what I think about Hollywood's near-vacuum of originality and tendency to pander to the lowest common denominator, I have to occasionally give credit to them for committing to the kind of daring experimentation that advances the medium. I may never desire watching the... / Continue →
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From Empire Magazine, here's the first look at Taylor Kitsch as the cajun, energized playing card-throwing hero Gambit in Wolverine. You can really see the intense thought that went into the casting and wardrobe: "Just get some shady but good-looking dude with long hair, let hi... / Continue →
