January 10, 2010 - January 16, 2010 Archives
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Because the upcoming overstuffed romantic-comedy Valentine's Day just doesn't have quite enough leads with the half-dozen or so couples stuffed into its romance cavity, Lionsgate has acquired the feature rights to What To Expect When You're Expecting, and plans to develop it in... / Continue →
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The film world's most beloved criminal, Roman Polanski, has an adaptation of Robert Harris's political thriller The Ghost coming out. The film containins: Ewan McGregor as a ghost writer, Pierce Brosnan as a thinly-veiled-in-a-pseudonym Tony Blair who needs a ghost writer, Kim ... / Continue →
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Well, the Golden Globes are coming up this Sunday, and once again, when we see a dapper Morgan Freeman saunter down the red carpet, his freckles glistening in the camera flashes, we'll be confronted with the somber fact that we did not personally dress the frequent narrator and... / Continue →
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Toby Kebbell is the 27-year-old little shirtless, gun-wielding muscley dude who was used in all the RocknRolla ads, and is in no way similar to Bill Murray. Bill Murray is Bill Murray. Toby Kebbell was going to play murderous mobster Happy Shannon in the Mickey Rourke/Megan F... / Continue →
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Has it really been two weeks since I provided you with a crudely sketched, largely uninformed map of your local multiplex's offerings? For shame. Let's make everything right with this mediocre offering: The Spy Next Door Director: Brian Levant Starring: Jackie Chan, Billy Ray ... / Continue →
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Another perfect take, Rampage Jackson. Everyone else looks concerned, looks forward, logically, because that's the direction they're running away from a massive explosion; you just kind of let your gaze drift off to the side and make a dull, slack-jawed half-grin when you catch... / Continue →
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You know how movies based on fighting games, like all the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movies, are notorious for being embarrassing, nearly unwatchable feats of cinematic disaster that leave your brain feeling like your mouth would feel after eating a platter of chalk? No r... / Continue →
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These aren't just random, melancholy, Doctor Who-impersonating Asian youths: it's Toru and (I thinik) Naoko from Tran Ahn Hung's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's modern classic, Norwegian Wood. Wild Grounds has a full set of photos from the film, so you can see this guy staring ... / Continue →
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Remember when an amazing movie like E.T. would become a dismal video game like this that would end up largely buried in a New Mexico landfill? Relive the days of horrible film-to-video-game adaptations with this gallery of modern films reduced to Atari-level game covers! CVS/ph... / Continue →
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We finally have a replacement for Johnny Carson: Jay Leno has signed on to host The Tonight Show! Who could have figured he would beat longtime Late Night host David Letterman out for the job? Anyway, in other hot 1992 news, George H. W. Bush just became the first U.S. Presiden... / Continue →
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So claims director Joe Johnston: It's not going to be a Captain America that you expect. It's something different. It is influenced by the comic book, but it goes off in a completely different direction. It's the origin story of Captain America. It's mostly period—there are mo... / Continue →
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Hey, remember Four Brothers, that 2005 movie where Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, 1/2 OutKast, and another guy played non-biological brothers hunting down their foster mom's murderer? No? Well, it happened, and Paramount is now at work planning an inexplicable sequel sure to ple... / Continue →
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After news broke yesterday that Peter Sarsgaard would likely play the villainous Dr. Hector Hammond in Green Lantern, some of you noted, "What the hey? Why isn't Sinestro the bad guy? He's the yellow yin to Green Lantern's yellow-hating yang, he has a big pink head, he looks li... / Continue →
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Marc Webb has been given the classic "OK, I'll go to prom with you, unless someone better comes along." The (500) Days of Summer director is reportedly at the top of Sony's list for directing the Spider-Man reboot. But he doesn't have the job yet: the studio also has a wish lis... / Continue →
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Basil Gogos, the legendary painter best recognized for his work on Famous Monsters of Filmland, painted this new poster for Universal's The Wolfman. The fur, fangs, and feral claws say "wolf," but the handsome shirt and twinkle in his eye say "man." A wolfman in the purest form... / Continue →
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox just won the Special Achievement Award from the National Board of Review. Rather than just grabbing it in one hand, shaking it above his head, and thanking God, director Wes Anderson decided to force those tireless stop-motion guys to animate a speech deli... / Continue →
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Evidence that the Random Foreign Film of the Month Club subscription you bought him for Christmas 2005 is still good, Chris Rock has announced he'll be writing and producing a remake of last year's French comedy La premiere etoile (The First Star). Rock previously wrote and dir... / Continue →
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Ivan Reitman--the director that won you over with Stripes and Ghostbusters and then made multiple Arnold Schwarzenegger/Danny DeVito comedies--is returning to the franchise he's most famous for (besides the Meatballs series, obviously). Last night MTV had the chance to ask the ... / Continue →
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Who are the Future X-Cops? Specialized cops from the future? Literally ex-cops? Ex-cops who have come from the future? A guy with an extendable arm made of dragon heads, a guy with a gun hand that fires bullets from Wanted, a guy covered in spikes, a guy with bulletproof bat wi... / Continue →
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I can't tell if Leno would be insulted by this or not. With there being absolutely no exaggeration, it's not so much a parody as a demeaning tribute:... / Continue →
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Peter Sarsgaard has joined Martin Campbell's film about our greatest jewelry-and-lamp-based superhero, Green Lantern. Heat Vision reports Sarsgaard will play Dr. Hector Hammond, a villain that Wikipedia tells me was exposed to a meteorite that gives him super-intellect, telepat... / Continue →
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Do you like those Kids in the Hall comedy fellows? Yeah you do, am I right? And do you like wacky, high-concept sitcoms? "No, those are television's equivalent of stage IV bedsores," am I right? I agree, but now it's time for us to deal with those conflicting, seemingly irrecon... / Continue →
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Conan O'Brien continues to earn the lifelong devotion I pledged to him all those late nights in junior high with this funny, respectful, honest, and sort of tragic press release regarding give-your-parents-back-a-Leno-they-can-fall-asleep-to shake-up of 2010: People of Earth: ... / Continue →
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Éric Rohmer, director, critic, writer, teacher, and one of the founders of the French New Wave film movement, died Monday in Paris. He was 89. Says Roger Ebert of the director's work: A Rohmer film is a flavor that, once tasted, cannot be mistaken. Like the Japanese master Oz... / Continue →
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Sure, you've seen Mean Girls, but have you seen the Mean Girl who wasn't Rachel McAdams or Party of Five naked, giving Liam Neeson greenhouse head, being a lesbian with Julianne Moore, and imitating scenes from The 400 Blows? Of course you haven't, because that particular sexy ... / Continue →
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Vin Diesel has used his Facebook wall to impart such wisdom as, "P.s. Be safe... follow your gut," "Drive safe. /smile," and "Own the Decade! WELCOME TO OUR MILLENNIUM!!!" Those are obviously all important pieces of information for any Vin-Head, but this weekend, he gave us per... / Continue →
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Four actors, none of whom are The Beatles, have been cast as The Beatles in Robert Zemeckis's pointless CGI motion-capture-freakshow remake of the famous cartoon! Peter Serafinowicz, best known as Shaun of the Dead's asshole roommate and the voice coming out of Darth Maul's mo... / Continue →
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Your familiar Spider-Man movie setup of Sam Raimi instructing Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, "KISS HARDER AND MORE UPSIDE-DOWN!" is no more. Following reported script disputes between Raimi and the studio, Deadline Hollywood claims everyone's just decided to give up on this w... / Continue →
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Stuart Townsend--the actor once famously replaced at the last minute by Viggo Mortensen, denying him the chance to become a Lord of a Ring--has once again been ripped from a potentially blockbuster franchise. Under the typically-vague umbrella of "creative differences," Townsen... / Continue →
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Stop! Let's take a Malkovich break, yeah? MALKOVICH BREAK ON Firstly: John Malkovich has replaced John C. Reilly in Summit Entertainment's espionage thriller "Red," based on the WildStorm/DC comicbook. He joins Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis on the project, p... / Continue →
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Here's HBO's short teaser for The Wire creator's new series, Treme. It's basically nothing but some shots of New Orleans and some jazz instruments, so looks like we'll have to wait until its April premier to find out why there isn't a big, italicized red "X" before the title.... / Continue →
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Just in case the bootleg trailer from last week was deleted before you got to see modern actors/cage fighters doing impressions of '80s characters, here's the officially-released trailer for The A-Team. It's like watching someone's A-Team dream where everything is just slightly... / Continue →
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From the murky pool of CW actors, Blake Lively has been plucked out of that Gossip Girl show to play the probable-non-character ladyfriend of a superhero man: Blake Lively has nabbed the female lead opposite Ryan Reynolds in Warner Bros.' "Green Lantern." Lively will play Car... / Continue →
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The combined forces of Daybreakers, Leap Year, and Youth in Revolt were barely able to crack into the top five at the box office this weekend. Meanwhile, Avatar continues to become Earth's official film: 1. Avatar - $48.5 million. Still raking it in despite the director's hesi... / Continue →
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Don't cry, lil' Lost fans. I know you're all worried that President Obama's first State of the Union address might preempt your polar bear show--or that I'll walk through the path of the TV to get a drink and you'll miss a crucial clue about--but cool it. Press Secretary Robert... / Continue →
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With any luck, this derivative design indicates a special edition Jaden Smith iPod is en route. It will be the only digital music player to show off your love of senseless remakes, nepotism, and the gradual descent of Jackie Chan's career.... / Continue →
