July 11, 2010 - July 17, 2010 Archives
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Why sit at home drinking alone when you can drink in the dark surrounded by others, getting drunk on some whiskey you surreptitiously drained into a fountain Pepsi? Here are some new films you could see that would allow just such a fantasy excursion: Inception Director: Christ... / Continue →
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A new Ben Affleck movie from "the acclaimed director of Gone Baby Gone" (also Ben Affleck, but director Ben Affleck likes to refer to himself as that now to avoid confusing the two sides of the Affleck talent coin, a la Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana) is soon headed your way; how w... / Continue →
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You might think that something called "Sharktopus," produced by Roger Corman for SyFy, and featuring a shark-octopus hybrid as an antagonist, doesn't take itself seriously--especially when the trailer's rockin', surf-inspired "Sharktopus Theme" kicks in. But before your start p... / Continue →
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Someone with an Entertainment Weekly subscription and a scanner has graciously provided us another first look today: Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. ComingSoon describes the storyline provided to give an excuse to dress girls like this: Set in the 1950s, Sucker Punch follows Babyd... / Continue →
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In Superbad/Adventureland director Greg Mottola's Paul, the Hot Fuzz pairing of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (co-writers of the screenplay) star as a fanboy duo on a road trip from Comic Con to New Mexico, where they encounter the titular alien. Logically, this means the two have ... / Continue →
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Ready for more Green Lantern photos to fill your brain with the milky taste of apathy? Because iFanboy has some scans from the interior of the new, G.L.-dense Entertainment Weekly to wet your beak. Don't worry; the photos don't all look as much like an impotence doctor ad as th... / Continue →
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With established X-Men movie canon dictating that the woman beneath the Mystique makeup must be a superhot blond, director Matthew Vaughn has cast Jennifer Lawrence as the blue shapeshifter in his upcoming X-Men: First Class. The actress has recently been winning some acclaim f... / Continue →
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Well, we may have dodged a bullet when Brett Ratner ended up not directing Conan, but it's not over yet. Ratner, refusing to surrender his dreams of making a movie about a shirtless hulk once played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, has moved on to another mythological hero. According ... / Continue →
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Following in the shallow footsteps of a couple pretty unimpressive teasers that still left us sighing, "Jesus, there's really a Facebook movie...", a full trailer for The Social Network has at last come online for our judgment. With this preview, director David Fincher seems in... / Continue →
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In between all those General Hospital episodes, Columbia classes, and days spent reflecting on Spider-Man 3, James Franco still somehow managed to star in a movie about Allen Ginsberg. His multi-tasking abilities equal his looks, ladies. Named after Ginsberg's epic poem, Howl c... / Continue →
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Taking the role that made Julia Roberts a star (it was definitely this that did it), Elizabeth Banks has signed on to star as Tinkerbell in Tink, some kind of live-action take on the Peter Pan sidekick. Elizabeth Wright Shapiro will write the script with the assistance of McG--... / Continue →
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Those free issues of Entertainment Weekly you signed up for and forgot to cancel will finally pay off this week when the above cover arrives, giving you the above first look at Ryan Reynolds in his Green Lantern get-up. As you can see, it seems director Martin Campbell decided ... / Continue →
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For my money, Todd Phillips films have never really been able to live up to the illusion of mania and outlandishness they present that basically only stems from the leads' established personas. The Hangover, though a career high for him and a pretty entertaining film, really is... / Continue →
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Never mind about Joaquin Phoenix possibly being cast as Edward Norton's replacement Hulk: we've got someone else. According to Deadline, Mark Ruffalo's the guy, and Marvel is in "late-stage talks" for him to take on the role of Bruce Banner. If signed, the Brothers Bloom star w... / Continue →
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If you're not yet indoctrinated to the comic book world of Scott Pilgrim (why must you resist the nerdy appeal?), perhaps this new featurette detailing the story and surreal feel of Edgar Wright's upcoming film will get you on board. Or perhaps the blatant inclusion of a Dance ... / Continue →
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When your once-fertile mind is now in a rapid, unprecedented creative freefall, like M. Night Shyamalan's, for example, you can't afford to sit idly by and let your few remaining ideas, no matter how terrible, drift away while you concentrate on making a shitty adaptation of a ... / Continue →
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From the hand-drawn, sickeningly pastel-colored landscapes of the Away We Go/Juno-verse has emerged another, equally-twee entity hoping to lure us in with its respected funnyman supporting cast. This time the beast has taken the form of It's Kind of a Funny Story, starring this... / Continue →
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From the LA Times, here's the first official look at Anthony Hopkins and Tom Hiddleston in-costume for their respective roles as Odin and Loki. As you can see, director Kenneth Branagh has spared no expense in getting old Krull sets and covering them in Sears Portrait Studio ba... / Continue →
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In a landmark decision that will assure no man will again be persecuted for telling another man to fuck a chicken on live television (unless the Supreme Court overturns this), a New York appeals court has ruled against the FCC's strict indecency rules for broadcast. The LA Time... / Continue →
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If deciding between Edward and Jacob in the 8-bit Twilight: Eclipse game was too much to handle, here's a movie-based, NES-style game with an easier option: MURDER. It's an Expendables game, which really just means Contra with Jet Li, Jason Statham, and Stallone as playable cha... / Continue →
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If you didn't notice, last weekend Despicable Me pulled in over $56 million--enough to win the top spot at the box office, and, it turns out, nearly twice what Universal reportedly expected it to make. You know what that means: time to make some sequels. According to Deadline, ... / Continue →
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Writer/director Andrew Niccol, who previously showed off his deftness with title wordplay with S1m0ne (binary + ladyname!) and Gattaca (DNA nitrogenous base initials!), has announced his latest not-so-subtle film title: I'm.mortal. GET IT? Variety is reporting Amanda Seyfried w... / Continue →
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Hey, you like dinosaur things, right? Yeah, you do. Everyone likes dinosaur things. And thus, for the benefit of everyone, Discovery will be airing some kind of new dinosaur series backed by some Pixar talent starting in 2011. Apparently a panel will be providing more details a... / Continue →
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With that Arthur remake we, society, decided needed to be made shooting in Manhattan, Splash News has managed to get some photos of star Russell Brand appearing for the first time in costume, sans beard. Kind of looks like a Dick Tracy villain disguised as a member of Madness, ... / Continue →
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Combining Betty White's sudden popularity, Hollywood's inexplicable penchant for remakes, and Dishwalla's proposal that God is a female, Warner Bros. and producer Jerry Weintraub reportedly want to film a new version of Oh, God! with Betty White in the role of the Lord. The 197... / Continue →
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It's been some rough times for Haley Joel Osment. He hit it big with Sixth Sense and rode that into a lead in A.I., but demand for his talents has severely dwindled since around the time he acquired the head of a surfer dwarf. Is it time for our Secondhand Lion to descend into ... / Continue →
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Good news, David Lynch: you're no longer the lone directorial voice of dissent against portable Apple products. Hayao Miyazaki, the filmmaker who earned worldwide acclaim for such animated films as Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, has come forward to for some reason tell Ne... / Continue →
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In the aftermath of the loud, public Marvel/Edward Norton break-up, it seems Marvel may be the first to openly move on. According to CHUD, Marvel has already put out an offer to Joaquin Phoenix, hoping to coax him out of pretending to be retired, a rapper, and insane with the p... / Continue →
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Get used to hearing "[established literary character], but as an action hero" a lot, because that's apparently the new default movie pitch that we're all supposed to pretend makes sense. As Warner Bros. works on a ridiculous, Sherlock Holmes-esque take on Don Quixote, Risky Bus... / Continue →
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Mothers, lock up your daughters: Roman Polanski is back on the prowl. Swiss officials have warmed up to the lil' statutory rapist so much that they've decided to refuse the U.S.'s request to extradite the little charmer, that he might finally face some sort of penalty for that ... / Continue →
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Sorry, Official Edward Norton Fan Club, but Edward Norton isn't the Incredible Hulk anymore. An official statement released by Marvel President of Production Kevin Feige has revealed Norton, who played Bruce Banner in the most recent Hulk film and a priest in that romantic come... / Continue →
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1. Despicable Me - $60 million. Everyone realized the movie looked mediocre, but, when faced with ordering a ticket, few could resist the catharsis of saying such a self-deprecating title. 2. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - While "Twihards" already saw the film last week, this we... / Continue →
