September 26, 2010 - October 2, 2010 Archives
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Being that Rip Torn can't be entirely trusted not to confuse his home with a nearby bank these days, in that new Men in Black film we so need, the head of the agency will instead likely be played by Emma Thompson, says Deadline. In keeping with the letter-based character thing,... / Continue →
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At this point, it's starting to seem like Marc Webb is just coming up with excuses to meet with more young, pretty, blonde girls. Deadline reports the director has now added two more names--Glee's Dianna Agron and Road Kill's Georgina Haig, who recently got some exposure at TIF... / Continue →
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If you liked watching Paranormal Activity pushing around chandeliers and shuffling through baking components on camcorders in the first Paranormal Activity, wait until you see Paranormal Activity this time! He's still pushing around chandeliers on camcorders (classic P.A.)--but... / Continue →
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You'd think The Hot Chick would be more than enough body-switching gender comedy for anyone. I know, after needlessly punishing myself with it earlier this week, I sure as H felt done with the genre. Not, Anna Faris, though! No, after The Hot Chick, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The... / Continue →
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According to Production Weekly, Wes Anderson is finally moving on from the disappointment that not that many people saw The Fantastic Mr. Fox--you really should see it--and will begin a new film titled Moonrise Kingdom early next year. Nothing is yet known about the plot, but T... / Continue →
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If you get stuck in a conversation about seeing a "new release" tonight, here are some topics to bring up: The Social Network Director: David Fincher Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield Good if you want to see: David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin's ... / Continue →
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Sam Raimi--a man already attached to a Wizard of Oz movie, a World of Warcraft movie, another Evil Dead film, and Earp: Saints for Sinners--is putting the Raimi stamp on yet another project. Why not, at this point? Vulture says the ridiculously busy producer/director is now in ... / Continue →
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- Greta Gerwig has revealed she'll be in Metropolitan director Whit Stillman’s new film Damsels in Distress, saying, "I play a girl named Violet who runs a suicide-prevention center at a liberal arts college. She prevents suicides through the powers of Thirties song-and-dance n... / Continue →
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Good news and bad news. Good: this has nothing to do with that horrific Wayans Brothers version of The Munsters they've been talking about for years. Bad: NBC has made a deal to bring The Munsters back to TV as a series. Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller (who's also writing ... / Continue →
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With another Pirates of the Caribbean film on the way and Guillermo del Toro soon attempting to make us forget Eddie Murphy's Haunted Mansion with his own, Hatbox Ghost-centered take on the property, it's pretty obvious Disney regards "amusement park ride" as synonymous with "f... / Continue →
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Looks like the marketers of Little Fockers have suddenly developed some faith in their audience's intelligence--so much so that they've dropped the Meet the Parents franchise banner from this poster under the assumption their audience will be able to put it together from only t... / Continue →
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Myst, that washed-out slideshow of a puzzlle game that you used to play on your Packard Bell, is being adapted into a feature-length film by Roserock Films and Gran Via Productions. Once the best-selling PC game of all time (until The Sims took care of that), Myst spawned seve... / Continue →
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Why so much death this week, Deathlords? Now Hollywood icon Tony Curtis has died, passing from cardiac arrest Wednesday night in his Las Vegas home. Beyond the many famous performances he gave us, like his part in Some Like It Hot and his Oscar-nominated role in The Defiant One... / Continue →
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These Skyline Aliens sure have it in for Turk from Scrubs and that dirty actor who always looks like a date rapist! If I'm understanding this new trailer, they've got some kind of special Skyline Alien light that makes your face gross, and then you get sucked into their Skyline... / Continue →
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Look out, glittery-skinned vampire hunks, you've got a new flavor of paranormal teenage romance to compete with: glowing-hand alien hunks! What an awful thing! Here it is:... / Continue →
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Director Arthur Penn reportedly died yesterday of congestive heart failure, just one day after his 88th birthday. While best known for 1967's groundbreaking Bonnie and Clyde, Penn also earned Academy Award nominations for The Miracle Worker and Alice's Restaurant, and had Emmy ... / Continue →
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About time for George Lucas to fuck up Star Wars again with some more renovations! After seeing how well 3-D worked for making Avatar a shit-ton of a money, the thick-necked toymaker has decided to do some more unnecessary post-production on his sci-fi epic, with plans to conve... / Continue →
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It's unclear if this is a joke, a teaser for an soon-to-be-longer joke, or something else equally misguided, but no matter its purpose, there is now a brief trailer for something called Citizen Jane, featuring Michelle Rodriguez's classic badass-in-a-tanktop character shooting ... / Continue →
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One more name to add to the list of candidates who may end up directing the latest attempt at bringing Superman to screens: Darren Aronofsky. According to Heat Vision, the Wrestler director, who's currently getting all kinds of clapping for Black Swan, is in active but early ta... / Continue →
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Acclaimed editor Sally Menke, who notably edited all of Quentin Tarantino's films, has sadly been found dead of likely heat-related causes. The LA Times' sources say the Oscar-nominated filmmaker had gone hiking with a friend and her dog this morning; after her companion turned... / Continue →
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Apparently still upset he didn't get to do the one-legged water-skiing scene in The Great Outdoors, Dan Aykroyd has decided to punish us all for this injustice by performing the same stunt through his alter-ego, a picnic basket-stealing CGI bear that's been poorly-blended into ... / Continue →
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By which I mean it looks really fucking good! Also that it has O Brother, Where Art Thou music, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin as a cowboy, and deliberate, overhead shots of props. But mostly it looks really good.... / Continue →
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Take off that CGI mo-cap suit, Andy Serkis. Mark Ruffalo, who's taking over the role of Hulk/Bruce Banner from Ed Norton in The Avengers, has assured Vulture he'll be putting on the little ball-covered bodysuit himself to capture his own non-verbals for use in animating the hug... / Continue →
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Hey, AMC, if you still don't have an opening credits sequence for the Halloween premiere of The Walking Dead, don't sweat it: this internetguy made one, and it's probably our best fake television intro since these.... / Continue →
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Gloria Stuart, the Hollywood veteran who we know mostly as "Old Kate Winslet" from Titanic, died Sunday night in her LA home. The actress's daughter told the LA Times that Stuart had already survived breast cancer, and had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago. Despite... / Continue →
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Finding the cockeyed grins of DreamWorks' animated characters impossible to resist, Guillermo del Toro has reportedly set up a new film at the Shrek studio and will consult on their current and future projects to make them more del Toro-y. The Pan's Labyrinth director just sign... / Continue →
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First, I was looking at video of a dog on the couch--then, suddenly, there were some girls there instead of the dog! Ut oh, this activity just got paranormal! Or, I've turned in a dweeb from an '80s movie who's having a fantasy about babes, and I'll soon awaken from my kissing ... / Continue →
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Greg Berlanti, producer and co-writer of the upcoming Green Lantern film, took some time out from working on a Green Lantern 2 treatment (they're already working on Green Lantern 2, by the bye) to talk to SuperheroHype about that project and, more revealingly, about the Flash m... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office results are here! 1. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - Money may never sleep, but it sure got spent this weekend, giving Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel a $19 million opening. Also, I sometimes get the sense that money can scream. 2. Legend of the Gu... / Continue →
