April 26, 2009 - May 2, 2009 Archives
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Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Death Note, the manga series about a magical, convenient method of murder-by-Post-It. Live-action adaptation time! From Variety: Story centers on a college student who accidentally finds a misplaced "death note," infusing him with the po... / Continue →
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On the official Scott Pilgrim vs. The World blog, a third video blog has been posted, this one focusing on director Edgar Wright and his cast and crew doing their first week on location in Toronto. Honestly, it isn't particularly interesting save for one fact the costume design... / Continue →
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Very little is known about Neill Blomkamp's upcoming sci-fi film, District 9, but a teaser has just been released that makes it seem like it's a mixture of the extra-terrestrial-coexistence film/TV drama Alien Nation, a little Independence Day, and apartheid, but also likely be... / Continue →
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The biggest mystery for me is how and why a poster would be trying so hard to be the VHS box art of a hypothetical 1985 Keifer Sutherland/Britney Spears/Conan O'Brien love-triangle drama. I guess sometimes life leads you in the most mysterious places, you know? The Mysteries o... / Continue →
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Shia LaBeouf just got to college, leaving behind his robot friend that turns into a Camaro and his ridiculously hot girlfriend-cum-motorcycle showroom model, and already things are going crazy. A shard of something that fell out of Shia's bag has given him A BEAUTIFUL MIND! And... / Continue →
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Hmm, not much new at first glance. But wait... This wooden case on his desk... Looks like a certain superhero may have finally learned to play the recorder. Full article at USA Today.... / Continue →
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G.I. Joe cartoons were, primarily, extended advertisements for toys. As a kid, you see this guy with a metal face riding in an awesome missile launcher, you want to play with those things, and you beg your parents until they buy them, and then you watch more of the cartoon so t... / Continue →
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Ut oh, would-be Moon viewers. Io9 is saying Douglas Jones's sleek, promising sci-fi film will only be playing in New York and L.A., leaving the rest of America only a Star Trek to sate their summertime space travel cravings. So if you're not in New York or Los Angeles, and you ... / Continue →
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There's some kind of Monster Squad-esque partial wolfman in Harry Potter now? Where have I been? Clearly I need to catch up on this franchise. These guys are pulling out all the stops to keep up with the Twilights. Several more intense backwards glance posters at Cinematical.... / Continue →
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Comic fans surely remember Spawn, the flamboyantly costumed, chain-covered comic book hero who, like the majority of '90s-invented superheroes drowning in x-treme accessories, you eventually realized was completely idiotic. His luxuriously-caped image has been slowly fading as ... / Continue →
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There's something just slightly disconcerting about seeing a fairly realistic guinea pig forced into a thin-waisted, womanly figure. Maybe it's just me, but I need a lady-rodent to also be wearing lipstick, exaggerated eyelashes, and preferably a large bow before I'll feel comf... / Continue →
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Now that we have digital tools and performance capture, the power to re-create the effects of a 20-year-old movie is at our fingertips. Time to make another sequel to a decades-old film. From MTV: [W]hen MTV News caught up with director Robert Zemeckis recently, he dropped a n... / Continue →
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Mike knows it's a bit expected for a murderer like him to have such rabid interest in the dark music of Alice Cooper, but that doesn't matter to him. He is a true fan, since the early days, and he's not going to stop being a fan because it's too predictable--just like he's not ... / Continue →
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Want to see some guys diving away from a giant explosion? Sure you do. The entire action genre is based around studio executives knowing you always want to see that. So enjoy this brief behind-the-scenes featurette from the set of The Expendables. You'll not only see just such ... / Continue →
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Nora Ephron, the writer/director responsible for repeatedly informing you Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are the perfect couple, has made a movie in which Meryl Streep plays a Julia Child impersonator and Amy Adams plays surrogate Meg Ryan. If that's the kind of thing you might be up f... / Continue →
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Flanimals, the book series Stephen Merchant described as "The Ricky Gervais book for kids with pictures of made-up creatures in all different colors... drawings by his mate," is officially headed to movie time. Variety: Universal-based Illumination Entertainment will create a ... / Continue →
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Wall Street 2, the once-rumored sequel that only deserves to exist inside maybe a Ben Stiller Show sketch, is now official. Oliver Stone has signed on to once again direct and Shia LaBeouf is negotiating to play the new Wall Streeter. From EW: The much-discussed Wall Street se... / Continue →
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Obviously there would be more explosions, cameras rotating around characters, and at least one shot where the hero walks in slow motion towards the camera, but otherwise this is pretty accurate:... / Continue →
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So long as we have more quirky jobs, fetishes, and disorders for indie movie guys to have, there will always be another doe-eyed girl ready to fall for them as catchy, non-diegetic music plays. The latest proof of this: Adam, a film about a space-obsessed 20-something with Aspe... / Continue →
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What came first, the Alien or the face-hugger egg? What was the Alien Queen like as a teenager? How do those guys build such complex, Swedish surrealist interiors to their cave homes? Answers may be on the way. From IESB: [Fox co-chairman] Rothman said of the possible [Alien p... / Continue →
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The things people will do just to say they did it. Sex in an elevator; sex in an plane; sex against the gnarled roots of a tree amidst a nightmarish sea of writhing arms. Do you feel better now that you checked that off your list, guys? Antichrist Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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Guess what. There's this now: Universal is resurrecting "Drop Dead Fred," this time as a starring vehicle for Russell Brand. Dennis McNicholas, one of the writers of Universal's upcoming "Land of the Lost," will pen the remake. The 1991 original starred Phoebe Cates as a wal... / Continue →
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Coming Soon has some shots of Megan Fox having her guts crushed in the name of idealized womanhood on the set of Jonah Hex. In the comic book adaptation, Fox continues taking roles that used to go by Jessica Biel by playing a prostitute love interest to Josh Brolin's Hex. Audi... / Continue →
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Judging by this gallery of stills from Partly Cloudy (thanks Flex), looks like Pixar has decided to walk straight out of the WALL-E/Johnny 5 controversy into a Cloud Guy/Mr. Bubble-Ziggy-Blobfish scandal. If only Buddy Hackett were still with us to provide the voice.... / Continue →
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The immediately-dated cinematic possibilities of someone pushing their face into a YouTube clip are so wretched it's almost impossible to resist, and so Ehren Kruger, writer of the new Transformer, The Ring, The Ring Two, and the straight-to-video Rings, has made plans to write... / Continue →
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Here's a clip from Pixar's Partly Cloudy, the new animated short to be shown before screenings of Up. The preview reveals almost nothing but the premise, but you can already tell it will be charming. Storks delivering babies is always such a cute concept until you see the Datel... / Continue →
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Besides fighting for your ticket money, this weekend's top films were also apparently competing for the most generic title. Here's how both contests shaped up: 1. Obsessed - $28.5 million. Third most generic. 2. 17 Again - $11.7 million. Not that generic. 3. Fighting - $11.4... / Continue →
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I have to say, pretty subdued compared to what I was expecting (I was expecting a recreation of the American Beauty naked-Mena Suvari-on-a-bed-of-rose-petals scene, except with Sacha Baron Cohen and thousands of dildos). The Brüno Poster Revealed! [Coming Soon]... / Continue →
