June 14, 2009 - June 20, 2009 Archives
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A less heartstring-tugging Up item: Pixar's Lou Romano has posted Up's color script--colored storyboards used as a reference for tone and visual ambiance (via Drawn). Just scrolling through them, you can plainly see how the color and saturation visually parallel the film's dra... / Continue →
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It's Natural Born Killers, with zombies, only not at all! More accurately, it's the Zombieland trailer, starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone as zombie survivalists, and Mike White as a guy on a toilet. Sir Ian McKellen delivers Stephen-Fry... / Continue →
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The emoticon with the tear time! Here's probably the saddest thing you'll read today: Pixar grants girl's dying wish to see 'Up'. I don't want to spoil every heart-wrenching detail, but basically, as the title implies, a 10-year-old girl is dying of cancer, her mom contacts Pix... / Continue →
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Yup. "Too" just wasn't enough. Full story at Moviehole.... / Continue →
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Hey, everyone, the Jonathan Ames-written, high-concept HBO series that stars Jason Schwartzman as an alcoholic writer operating illegally as a would-be detective is coming out this September, and the network has released a trailer to remind us how Zach Galifianakis, Parker Pose... / Continue →
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Roland Emmerich, director of such regular-people-and-a-few-government-people-coping-with-apocalyptic-events films as Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day after Tomorrow, has a new regular-people-and-a-few-government-people-coping-with-apocalyptic-events film coming out this ... / Continue →
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Treat yourself to a movie this weekend. You've earned it. Here are some new releases to choose from: The Proposal Director: Anne Fletcher Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds Good if you want to see: Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds play characters pretending to be engaged,... / Continue →
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In case you missed the previous clips, the idea is: in Funny People, Adam Sandler plays the Adam Sandler-like George Simmons who, like Adam Sandler, has starred in a variety of horribly broad yet successful comedies. So, to promote the film, they've put up a George Simmons site... / Continue →
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You mean to tell me two celebrities will be falling in love at some point in this film!? My heart is beating so hard that my pulse is intermittently forcing my throat closed! Whup, nosebleed! But before I clean this up, I have to ask, do you guys think there was REAL CHEMISTRY ... / Continue →
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New Harry Potter posters, Harry Potteriacs! There are finally enough that, if you start looking at Half-Blood Prince posters from the start right now, the last one in this set will be your final image you see before you die. Links below for the others: - Ron in a Lifetime Movi... / Continue →
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There's either a new teaser for the Kate Beckinsale thriller Whiteout, based on the comic of the same name, or Antarctica's tourism bureau has put together the absolute worst promotional video ever created:... / Continue →
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In case you missed it, Red Dawn, the 1984 film that helped us to realize that Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, and Jennifer Grey are our only true defense against the Communist hordes, is being remade. I'm sorry, but you just need to hurry up and accept that, because now there's ... / Continue →
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Just in case you were wondering if the G.I. Joe movie would work in the "Real American Hero" slogan in a really sarcastic way... Yes! It does! (via ComingSoon).... / Continue →
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In Judd Apatow's Funny People, Adam Sandler plays George Simmons, a comedian-turned-comic actor starring in primarily broad comedies--obviously a role that hits fairly close to home for the Waterboy. So, to promote the film, Apatow and Sandler, along with Justin Long, put toget... / Continue →
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The chances of finding Sean Penn jammed in a doorway with two other men has just radically decreased. Citing personal reasons, Milk has dropped out of both Asger Leth's Cartel and the Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges, in which he was to play Larry alongside Jim Carrey's Curly a... / Continue →
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I know the glossy, perfectly-reflective surfaces of Web 2.0 is the hot right now (at least until Web 3.0, which I anticipate will see a return to lens flares and "under construction" gifs), but there are some things that should not look like they're being purchased from the sha... / Continue →
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Have you ever dreamed your head could be replaced by Optimus Prime's, allowing you to pose as the Autobot leader in coquettish senior picture poses? Well, time to have that dream, and then have that dream immediately fulfilled by We Are Autobots, a new Transformers: It's Us Aga... / Continue →
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Ut oh, Shia, you've just caused hubbub! Speaking to an obviously-possessed BBC interviewer, LaBeouf gave the following brief-but-terrifying response when asked if we'd see him in another Indiana Jones movie: "Steven just said that he cracked a story on it before I left, and, u... / Continue →
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Girl-on-girl kissing. Aside from drinking, it's the most heavily encouraged activity in your dorm. Everyone wants to see it, but what if you can't find two drunk, attention-starved coeds to deliver it? Where do you go then? Answer: to The Runaways, the upcoming biopic on Joan ... / Continue →
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Not as haunting a juxtaposition as If David Lynch Directed A Goofy Movie or If David Lynch Put Still-Warm Panties in His Mouth, but still definitely worth watching for some new perspective on putting Baby in a corner: David Lynch's Dirty Dancing. (Thanks, Matt.)... / Continue →
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Think of all the awesome clicking scenes! Leonardo DiCaprio has plans to produce and star in a film about online casinos, seemingly taking several steps backwards from every movie that's ever been about actual, physical casinos. From Variety: Paramount has put its chips down o... / Continue →
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Have we learned nothing from the Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock romance The Lake House? Time travel and love never works out! But that's not going to stop Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana from trying in: The Time Traveler's Wife! Bana plays the oft-dissolving time traveler, who appare... / Continue →
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For your simple-to-assemble, esoteric-reference-based Halloween costume consideration: the young stars of creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's upcoming period film, Cemetary Junction. Seen here in a costume/makeup test, the three are what Gervais and Merchant saw as "t... / Continue →
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For your copybooks, the weekend top five: 1. The Hangover - $33.4 million, another victory for insobriety repercussion comedy! 2. Up - $30.5 million. Thankfully, few tickets were sold to the elderly, saving the group from getting a false, fleeting sense of hope, whimsy, and a... / Continue →
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Taylor Kitsch, the man with the playing cards, staff, and magenta dress shirt in Wolverine, has been given the lead in Pixar's live-action adaptation of John Carter of Mars, while Lynn Collins, also unfortunate enough to have explained the X-man's origins, is set to co-star. Sa... / Continue →
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As a staunch supporter of CEOs, this teaser for Michael Moore's still-untitled film has me so confused. If I can't trust men who own yachts and more than one pair of pants, who can I trust?... / Continue →
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Left: old poster with windswept, monstrous face. Right: new poster with sneering, human face. Winner: Adobe Photoshop digital manipulation software. Full new poster below the cut.... / Continue →
