June 20, 2010 - June 26, 2010 Archives
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Big day in nerd news, everyone. First word of a Ray Bradbury adaptation for you hard sci-fi guys, now news Peter Jackson may direct The Hobbit films. According to Heat Vision, Warner Bros. and New Line are in talks with the director to continue his work finishing off the Tolkie... / Continue →
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Good news, science fiction fans: science fiction is so hot right now. With James Cameron's Avatar having proved a sci-fi film could make all of the money ever, Hollywood is being quick to rub its chin pondering, "Science fiction, eh...?"--and not just by making Channing Tatum a... / Continue →
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Fuck you, Time Traveler's Wife, Channing Tatum loves his lady even harder and nerdier than your time travel bullshit: he loves her through DIMENSIONS. According to Heat Vision, Step Up is attached to star in Fox's Ion, playing "a man who travels to different Earths and dimensio... / Continue →
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The rivalry between Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro reaches new levels of desperation in Little Fockers: The One Dustin Hoffman Was Apparently Above Doing. This time there are children around--to be sprayed by the blood that squirts out of Ben Stiller's severed finger, which is ... / Continue →
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Excited for this movie with the bald magic kid with the arrow on his head? Apparently some of you are, because you keep sending in this new The Last Airbender clip. It's a part where the Fire Nation shows up and all the guards along the wall are like, "Ut oh, this is going to b... / Continue →
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Back in September, Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy signed on to direct Real Steel, a film about boxing robots that sounded, besides awful, close to being an adaptation of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em boxing robot toys. Not close enough, though, according to people paid to make dec... / Continue →
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From Vultura, here's the poster to Todd Solondz's sort-of sequel to the film that rendered Dylan Baker a permanent creepy pedophile in the eyes of anyone who saw it, Happiness. Life During Wartime stars Allison Janney, Shirley Henderson, Paul Reubens, Michael Kenneth Williams, ... / Continue →
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Some new film choices for the weekend, friends: Grown Ups Director: Dennis Dugan Starring: The Bad Boys of SNL (- Farley + Paul Blart) Good if you want to see: a group of grown men encouraging the myth of pool water turning blue in contact with urine so that we can see how fun... / Continue →
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To play "the kind of grandpa we all wish we had"--the skateboarding kind with a goat sidekick, obviously--in Sir Billi, a film with animation of the quality only accepted by overtly Christian productions and local floor-covering commercials. Watch this "sizzle reel" for the pro... / Continue →
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Get ready to have your heartstrings pulled, because Matt Damon is buying his family an rundown old zoo for his family band together and clean up. Isn't that heartwarming? And did I mention his wife has BRAIN CANCER? Yeah. The Hollywood Reporter says Damon is in early talks to s... / Continue →
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Thanks to the SyFy channel genuinely not giving a shit about what kind of crap they might be airing at any given moment, we've been treated to a number of match-ups you'd never see in nature nor on any channel that puts forth any effort whatsoever. Notably, in recent memory, we... / Continue →
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Hey, stop doing anything that could be considered productive. I've got another idea: make a Scott Pilgrim avatar. You know, because there's that movie. It's all the benefits of knowing Pilgrim artist Bryan Lee O'Malley well enough for him to draw you with none of the social obl... / Continue →
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The only thing more dangerous than a well-trained CIA agent... is a RETIRED CIA agent! [Slide whistle!] Ut oh, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich, stop shooting guns despite your age! It's CRAZY! Also, why didn't anyone tell Jack Nicholson he was cle... / Continue →
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Seeing Adrien Brody on an alien planet just doesn't have the same glamor it did before experiencing the ecstatic wonder of his Brodyquest. But still, we must continue forward...... / Continue →
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Making Rise of the Apes a little more sexy and Lithgowy, John Lithgow and Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto have joined Fox's Planet of the Apes prequel. THR says Lithgow will play human scientist James Franco's Alzheimer's-stricken father, whose condition is what leads Harry ... / Continue →
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Just in time before Beanie Babies completely take over the collectible doll landscape, DreamWorks has announced plans to develop a movie based on those terrible troll dolls, continuing its tradition of making awful creatures 3-D. Siblings Adam Wilson and Melanie Wilson LaBracio... / Continue →
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From Etsy user OhBoyCatToy, who also sells catnip-stuffed playthings bearing the images of Michael Jackson's mugshot and an ejaculating dolphin, it's the perfect distraction to keep your cat entertained until the release of The Human Centipede: Final Sequence: The Human Centipe... / Continue →
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In the interest of keeping the Oscars timely and relevant--with the implied recognition that awarding the merits of more interesting films is clearly not an option--the Board of Governors of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is reportedly having discussions about bu... / Continue →
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Continuing to forcefully shrug off the heavy burden of the Harry Potter series (which, as you can see, makes that manifested burden so sad), Harry Potter will follow up his 2011 run of Broadway's How to Succeed Without Really Trying with the lead role in a new adaptation of All... / Continue →
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Just another reminder that, though it isn't 1983 and we don't really have to worry about competing against Jaws 3-D, we still have a movie coming out called Piranha 3-D. Why not? Piranha 3-D Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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One of a handful of remaining mainstream summer releases that look genuinely promising--or at the very least, challenging enough that they at least won't leave me in a catatonic rage--Christopher Nolan's Inception has a new trailer introducing the film's central characters and ... / Continue →
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As every struggling would-be director in L.A. has figured out, you want to get anywhere in this business, you've got to get your hands on the former dog of a first lady. The latest evidence of this truism: Bryan Michael Stoller's First Dog, a film about a foster child returning... / Continue →
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Sometimes the only way to make apparent the harsh realities of modern warfare is by dramatizing the events with anthropomorphic rabbits fighting some upright camels. Sorry, Hurt Locker.... / Continue →
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We've had internet pornography readily available so, so easily for such a long time, it can be hard to remember a time before researching literally any word that could be taken as double entendre will lead to something filthy. Equally hard to recall are the pervert entrepreneur... / Continue →
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With nearly a year having passed since they paid all kinds of dollars for the rights to Marvel's cast of funny-named characters with powers, Disney isn't about to waste any more time sitting on that vast tighted men catalog while other studios keep cranking out Ghost Rider movi... / Continue →
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For comparison, here's a shot from the original film: Looks pretty spot on to me, guys. I'm pretty excited to see how well Momoa can sell swinging into a tree. (via)... / Continue →
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Stripping away all the naturalism and Etsy aesthetic that makes Michel Gondry films Michel Gondry films, Gondry appears to have delivered his most generic-looking, broadly-plotted film to date with the would-be blockbuster The Green Hornet, and we're finally getting a good look... / Continue →
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According to Pitchfork (and confirmed by director Edgar Wright's linking), Beck will writing the songs for Pilgrim's band SEX BOB-OMB, Broken Social Scene will be providing the tunes for fictional band Crash and the Boys, and the whole soundtrack will look something like this e... / Continue →
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IWatchStuff is looking for a Detonator for his Farmland Self-Destruction Tree. Do you have one? (via)... / Continue →
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I'm incredibly intrigued by a film that's so deliberately defying convention by putting Michel Gondry in the director's seat in a superhero film with Seth Rogen as the writer and star. Yet how am I not supposed to just keep staring at these images as if they were part of a biza... / Continue →
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Coming as a dreadful shock to fans of The Amanda Show and the gender-bending comedy She's the Man, Amanda Bynes has announced her retirement from acting at the tender age of 24. The Lucille Ball-hopeful of a generation announced via Twitter (following the progressive declaratio... / Continue →
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With a film based on the relatively-obscure DC character Jonah Hex currently looking like a real jerk at the box office, Marvel has reportedly decided this might be a good time for a new strategy of putting out superhero films about guys no one but nerds have heard of. Accordin... / Continue →
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Let's see... "Pack Man"... yup--wolves run in packs, Pac-Man is a thing--that works. Next. "Grrrl Power"... yeah, growling, being a girl, I get it--again, rock solid. "The Goose is Loose"... yup, those things rhyme and that is an image of a goose. Nailed it again. "He'll Quack ... / Continue →
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Your weekend top five: 1. Toy Story 3 - $109 million. This is surely the big break the boys down at Pixar have been hoping for. 2. The Karate Kid - $29 million, busting the $100 million mark domestically, earning Jaden his first Will Smith Championship Ring. 3. The A-Team - ... / Continue →
