February 14, 2010 - February 20, 2010 Archives
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For Disney, the years from 1984 to 1994 are an era often referred to as "the time Disney made all those classic Disney movies I remember when I was a kid." Young talent like future Pixar star John Lasseter and a creepy-as-fuck Tim Burton (above) helped revive Disney into the an... / Continue →
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A few months ago, CBS announced they planned to make yet another miserable sitcom, this one based on the Twitter account ShitMyDadSays. I naturally assumed Jerry Stiller would reprise his long-running crazy, screaming dad shtick in a third series, but no, the network has gone i... / Continue →
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Following up those artist-created posters for Inglourious Basterds, here's another from Ibraheem Youssef that gives a wink to the film's crucial Chun-Li-style "3" moment. Want more? There are more. There's a whole Tarantino movie set:... / Continue →
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The shark/octopus fusion of Sharktopus not do it for you? Then how about a shark with a T-Rex head, Johnny Picky? It's Dinoshark! SyFy (yup) is producing the TV movie with Roger Corman (yup), who explained how beautiful the introduction to this beast will be: "Global warming ... / Continue →
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Using missiles to defend crudely-drawn cities from other missiles. Sounds like a movie plot to me! And to collective Hollywood, too: the LA Times has news that Atari is in talks with Fox and other studios to develop the classic '80s video game Missile Command into a big budget ... / Continue →
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Frequent Wes Anderson collaborator Owen Wilson has moved on to another brilliant auteur documenting the white elite. Risky Business Blog reports the owner of Marley and voice of Marmaduke will star in a new Woody Allen film shooting this summer. Nothing about the plot or charac... / Continue →
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Time to reach total Kick-Ass super-saturation with yet another red-band trailer for the superhero film. If you don't get what this movie is about at this point, you are Grandma.... / Continue →
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Now that the American Pie name has been thoroughly diluted across three feature films, four straight-to-video spin-offs, and the Don McLean song I always thought could be a couple minutes shorter, Universal has reportedly decided to start over and bring some new horny high scho... / Continue →
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Hey, are you someone who goes to Comic Con with the intention of making sure everyone is really aware of how much you're really into a comic/anime/scent? Joss Whedon and Morgan Spurlock might want to subtly mock you through filmed documentation! E! Online has a source that clai... / Continue →
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I'm not endorsing it, but it does show what kind of movie Star Wars could have been if the lightsabers were made of fleas. (Thanks to: Liz)... / Continue →
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Remember that '80s HBO intro where the camera went from a city apartment, through Alec Baldwin's Beetlejuice model, and into space, where the HBO logo was full of lasers? It was pretty great, even when viewed through my home's fuzzy, accidental HBO reception with the knowledge ... / Continue →
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Libel! Just kidding; he liked it. So much so that he decided to write his own piece about why he did the story. Another good read on the subject of R. Ebert. It turns out he's a pretty decent writer himself. (If you missed the Esquire article, here it is.)... / Continue →
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Sorry, CBS sitcoms, you've just been outdone for Most "Yikes, Marriage!" Moment 2010. If you want to have a shot in 2011, I'd suggest getting Mike O'Malley off those cable commercials and back on Yes, Dear. 'Why Did I Get Married' Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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The ridiculously direct literalness of Disney's High School Musical worked for them so well, the studio has decided to go for it again. Variety reports Disney is currently developing a new film about some kids going to prom.That they're going to call Prom. Because it's about p... / Continue →
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My pledge to automatically disregard any movie about two women fighting over a wedding has been broken. The usually-funny-outside-of-SNL Kristen Wiig has co-written a script with just such a concept (friends fighting over planning another friend's wedding) and will star in the ... / Continue →
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With My Sister's Keeper and Extraordinary Measures coming out within seven months of each other, it's been a good year for wringing sentimentality out of dying kids. The kind of entertainment usually reserved for Hallmark movie specials is finally finding its way to theaters. I... / Continue →
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Want to express your movie nerdiness and also have the right to go to work and brag, "I gave some money to Haiti. What have you uncaring fucks ever done?" Here are some chances. 1. The Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds. Tomorrow from 6 to 9, go to The Upper Playground Art Galle... / Continue →
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You've heard of an Avon Lady, but an Avon MAN??? That's not the gender typically associated with this particular brand's skincare sales! According to Production Weekly, soon this hilarious premise will be explored with the help Enchanted director Kevin Lima! ComingSoon has the... / Continue →
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Hey, here's a brief behind-the-scenes featurette Empire made on the set of Kick-Ass. If you've always wanted to see McLovin faced with the crushing reality that he will always, forever be McLovin, here's your chance:... / Continue →
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Be the first to tell all the kids at Riddick Club the next Pitch Black sequel WILL have trisons (three-legged bisons, naturally): Though billed as a back-to-basics approach to the character popularized by Diesel, the script features the character -- the most wanted man in the ... / Continue →
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Leno's late night switcharound has created its second casualty. Kevin Eubanks, Leno's longtime bandleader and the source of all that chortling from stage left, has decided to leave The Tonight Show sometime after its March 1 re-Lenoed debut. Extra says Eubanks "wanted a change... / Continue →
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Still trying to keep up with those bastards at Lego, the Meccano Toy Company has made a deal with independent production company Helix Films to make a 3D feature film based on their bygone Erector Sets. For those who didn't have these things, Erector Sets are construction toys... / Continue →
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I normally try to avoid Esquire--I've heard enough about the six suits every man needs to own--but the magazine's moving, depressing, and somewhat hopeful story about Roger Ebert's life since he lost his lower jaw (and with that, speech) is being passed around all over the plac... / Continue →
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Fuck you, Mega Shark and Giant Octupus: it's SHARKTOPUS. SyFy reportedly has B-movie god Roger Corman directing a movie about this goddammer, and the network's original films director has been "discussing what a sharktopus should look like, how many mouths it should have and h... / Continue →
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Treasure Island is going to be so cool and sort of creepy, everyone! According to Variety, Ecosse Films is developing a new adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic Treasure Island, and this time the pirate Long John Silver "will be hipper" and the film will be "playin... / Continue →
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That Lars von Trier and Martin Scorsese doing a Taxi Driver remake rumor from yesterday that sounded like bullshit? Turns out that's bullshit. ScreenDaily spoke to von Trier’s business partner Peter Aalbaek Jensen, who said the story was "not true" and "rubbish." However, Jen... / Continue →
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So we know this Stargate guy is going to be Conan in Conan, but who's going to be small Conan in the sequences where old Conan wistfully remembers his barbarian childhood? This kid! Latino Review has heard Leo Howard, who also played young Snake Eyes in G.I. Joe, will portray t... / Continue →
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Remember when Madonna used to be known for only pop music and being the butt of jokes where the name of a basketball team was the punchline? Things have changed. She's matured so much since then. Now she's also the butt of jokes about having arms she appears to have stolen from... / Continue →
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SOMETHING'S HAPPENING. ComingSoon has some shots from one of the packages the Tron Legacy marketing team has been sending around. Inside: a plastic Tron bit perfect for topping a really nerdy Christmas tree and a link to this page, which code crackers (anyone who can read bina... / Continue →
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Like a Western, but in the South! And with slavery! Tarantino told the NY Daily News: I'd like to do a Western. But rather than set it in Texas, have it in slavery times. With that subject that everybody is afraid to deal with. Let's shine that light on ourselves. You could d... / Continue →
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I'm really not sure which. Which one is more likely to have a Samurai Green Goblin? Maybe this next photo will help. Is this a character from Tekken, Battle Axe Tom Selleck, or, as I'm hoping, is Tom Selleck with axes a character in Tekken?... / Continue →
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Scorsese/De Niro News Part II: holy S, a Taxi Driver remake?: Berlin and the Internet have been abuzz with rumors of a Martin Scorsese-Robert De Niro-Lars Von Trier collaboration -- and, at least for the time being, they appear to be true. The idea behind the project is simil... / Continue →
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What movies did people use to feed voracious Valentine's Day/Presidents' Day film appetites? These ones: 1. Valentine's Day - $52.4 million, narrowly beating Drinking Wine Alone in a Bubble Bath for most stereotypical way a sad lady could spend the weekend. 2. Percy Jackson &... / Continue →
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Speaking to reporters at the Saturday premiere for Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese expressed his shared interest in once again working with once-frequent collaborator Robert De Niro. The fluffy-eyebrowed director reportedly said: Bob De Niro (and I) are talking about something... / Continue →
