July 4, 2010 - July 10, 2010 Archives
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The last couple days of X-Men: First Class casting reports has at last reached its apex with news that Kevin Bacon will be joining the film. Deadline says only that 50% of the Bacon Brothers Band will be playing "the villain role," so we're just going to have to wildly speculat... / Continue →
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A Christopher Nolan-directed Bond film: wouldn't that be a thing? He could do what he did for Batman and the Joker to James Bond and the James Bond Joker! Obviously it won't really be a thing--the only film bankrupt 007 owner MGM can afford to make is about warming up Cup-a-Sou... / Continue →
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Proving it's a strong contender against 5nal Destination for worst title for a completely unnecessary sequel, the film previously known as Saw 7 will henceforth be referred to as Saw 3D The Traps Come Alive. This time the traps gain sentience, apparently! OK? Confirmed: A Titl... / Continue →
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You know how, when you heard Party Down was officially cancelled, you took solace in knowing you could at least watch the series on Netflix, occasionally falling asleep to it as it becomes your Arrested Development successor? Well, you can't do that anymore, either. As noticed ... / Continue →
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Good news, fans of large cleaver-like cutting tools [source]: there's a new trailer for Robert Rodriguez's Machete. Remember that trailer he made as part of Grindhouse as sort of a joke? Now it's an actual movie, and he wants you to pay for it, because he paid Don Johnson to be... / Continue →
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It's a regular X-Men: First Class casting feast for you, today. Following news Aaron Johnson has been cast as Cyclops, Variety reports Caleb Landry Jones has been cast as Banshee and Nicholas Hoult will play Beast in the Matthew Vaughn-directed film. X-Men fans will recall the ... / Continue →
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You have so many new movie choices, guys. Including a Grease sing-a-long, if you hate yourself: Predators Director: Nimród Antal Starring: Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo Good if you want to see:Adrien Brody's Brodyquest continue into t... / Continue →
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With David Fincher's The Social Network being announced as the opening night film of the 48th Annual New York Film Festival, Columbia has released a new teaser trailer for the film that takes the form of one of those status update conversations. Watch it fast, because I swear, ... / Continue →
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Though he's spent much of his career, and his personal life, assuring us he really, really likes younger ladies, our friend Woody Allen still isn't quite confident that we understand exactly how much he fucking loves the shit out of younger ladies so hard. Whatever Works was a ... / Continue →
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With a kiss of the middle finger to Splash (and Splash, Too), Working Title has announced plans to team with director Joe Wright on a live-action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid. The fairytale was, of course, most famously adapted into an animated Dis... / Continue →
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No surprise given their prior amicable relationship on Kick-Ass, actor Aaron Johnson and director Matthew Vaughn will reportedly soon be again working together to put Johnson in a set of tights. AICN received a tip, since confirmed by another source, that puts Johnson in the vi... / Continue →
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August 27. That's when 20th Century Fox and James Cameron will be tossing the highest-grossing film of all time back into theaters to see if they can get some saps to pay again for a few minutes of cut footage--including a drunk Na'vi scene, for dad! Avatar will also again be r... / Continue →
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With Phil Lord and Chris Miller having been charged with the task of making a reasonable film based on Lego, I've been trying to hold on to some optimism despite the natural negativity that forms when you hear someone is doing a movie based on the interlocking blocks of your ch... / Continue →
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Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the America's beloved cinema jesters that have brought about such greats as all those "[Genre] Movie" films, have a new hilarious tale to delight us: Vampires Suck! The film, as you may have derived from the witty title, builds its belly laugh... / Continue →
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Here's a bizarre fucking thing that I can't help but want to see: Operation: Endgame. It's sort of like Christopher Guest got hit on the head and woke up thinking he's Joe Carnahan.... / Continue →
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Nice try, Death at a Funeral, but a probably-crazy person has caught on to your little game and is suing for $20 million. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Pamella Lawrence (almost certainly a crazy) has filed a lawsuit against Sony, Columbia Pictures, Tristar, Target Media... / Continue →
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Ridley Scott, apparently under the impression that everyday folk recording each other with webcams would make a good movie, is calling upon the YouTube community to provide him with "day in the life" clips for a film about what people do on July 24, 2010. Scott, who's executive... / Continue →
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When you watched Titanic, wasn't it so stupid how Leonardo DiCaprio's drawing wasn't distinctly in the foreground of a distant background of naked Kate Winslet? Of course it was--emphasis on "was," because it soon won't be: James Cameron is going take some computers to that fuc... / Continue →
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Need a new never-happening sitcom-film to wait obediently at the door for now that it's become apparent Arrested Development is never coming back home from the liquor store? How about a Party Down movie that will never materialize? In an interview with HitFix, Party Down star ... / Continue →
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From Empire, here's a UK poster for Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. And, though I don't think it was their intention, I now feel like I really know what it must be like to be publicly judged by one of those "cool" Christian youth ministries.... / Continue →
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Good news if you like films not being terrible: early word is Inceptions is a really good movie, everyone. Screenings for Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller--which has, with Scott Pilgrim, been sharing the title of Only Big Summer Film Left That Looks Worth Anything for a whil... / Continue →
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Just when things were starting to look up for The Hobbit, everything is falling to shit again. Hope for the troubled production showed up last month when--after Guillermo del Toro abandoned the film in light of MGM not knowing when they'd save up enough money for all those fake... / Continue →
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Or, rather, it will if I can get enough money saved up at Papa John's to get my bud Zeke to airbrush this shit for me. (via)... / Continue →
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Grown Ups streaming into your computer or video game console before it reaches pay TV? It sounds like a dream, I know, but it's coming true. Netflix and Relativity Media have announced an agreement whereby the studio's releases would stream on the Netflick machines only a matte... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office top five: 1. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - $69 million, though the real profits lie in the rich Edward versus Jacob culture future anthropologists will one day discover when they unearth all that Burger King memorabilia. 2. The Last Airbender - $40.5 mi... / Continue →
