October 3, 2010 - October 9, 2010 Archives
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At this point, Universal must have figured they were in the clear with last month's trailer for The Dilemma and its Vince Vaughn monologue about electric cars being gay. But in light of recent attention being given to gay bullying and suicide, Anderson Cooper and GLAAD have bro... / Continue →
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With a little over a month until the the latest Harry Potter film opens, Warner Bros. has announced they just aren't going to have time to covert the effer into 3-D that's reasonable by anyone's standards before the film's November 19th release. Sorry, 3-D lovers. Warner--who, ... / Continue →
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I don't mean to get you in a panic, but there are no more Shia LaBeouf films in the pipeline after either before or after 2011's summer Transformers film. I knew we should have treasured our LaBeoufs and not taken them for granted, lest they leave us so suddenly, but now it's t... / Continue →
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Pretty good, 127 Hours poster. I'm now even more convinced this is going to be the best, most terrifyingly-real Wile E. Coyote cartoon ever. (via)... / Continue →
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One of several Marilyn Monroe biopics in the works--including one told from the perspective of her fucking dog--My Week with Marilyn depicts a week in the life of the starlet as she escapes Hollywood to be British for a few days. Michelle Williams plays her in this one, and the... / Continue →
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Lionsgate must love being in the Tyler Perry business almost as much as America Loves Madea! According to Deadline the studio is currently in negotiations to buy Take My Wife, a new comedy starring Perry alongside Dwayne Johnson and an unnamed actress (probably Perry again). Ma... / Continue →
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On the tail of rumors he'd direct Superman (that didn't happen) or the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, there's now another project that Darren Aronofsky may or may not do. In an interview with Quién, Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga revealed his adaptation of John Vaill... / Continue →
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Look, I know you saw the first trailer for Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, but I'm still not convinced you understand exactly how trapped in rocks James Franco is. This guy is SO trapped in rocks--so much so that he's almost surely going to win an Oscar for showing off all the stages ... / Continue →
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When you've somehow managed to convince everyone on Earth to seriously refer to you as "Slash," you might as well use that name for something. And while peddling Guitar Hero is great and all, that's really taking advantage of the guitar playing more than just the fact that Slas... / Continue →
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In Faster, Dwayne "Scorpion King" Johnson plays a man out for revenge after some a-holes murder his brother. Can you guess how he's going to get that revenge? If you said he's "gonna to kill them all" in his best Batman snarl, you win. Well done, QuizTeam. But if you also guess... / Continue →
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With Yogi's time in the spotlight quickly approaching, you knew there had to be another cartoon character, needlessly given three-dimensions and a celebrity voice, waiting in the wings. But whom??? Pepe Le Pew, everyone! Vulture has news Mike Myers has been signed to voice the ... / Continue →
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Who do you turn to when Angelina Jolie and Natalie Portman turn you down? Why, Sandra Bullock, apparently. According to Variety, Warner Bros. has started talks with the The Net actress to star opposite Robert Downey Jr. in Alfonso Cuaron's sci-fi film in a part that's said to b... / Continue →
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Fickle director Sam Raimi has reportedly finally committed to Disney's Oz: The Great and Powerful, which is being seen by the studio as sort of a successor to Alice in Wonderland, in that it too will feature a once-more-interesting director making a ton of money off an old stor... / Continue →
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As payback for stealing all their pale childghosts, Japan has stolen our "jiggle some chandeliers on a camcorder and call it scary" format and made their own sequel to Paranormal Activity, following a Japanese exchange student who brings Paranormal Activity back to Japan with h... / Continue →
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Following Fox and Universal's stalled and eventually abandoned attempts at bringing that popular "The Halo" video, DreamWorks is reportedly now going to give it a shot, too. Vulture says the studio is moving forward on getting the rights to the project for development--and to a... / Continue →
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As was expected, the title most of us will use for Transformers 3, "Still Another Transformer?", wasn't good enough for Michael Bay. Like with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, he's decided there should be a subtitle tacked on there, and now we know what that might be. Ready... / Continue →
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Now that Darren Aronofsky is maybe feeling a bit crestfallen, being that he won't be directing any Supermen anytime soon, Fox is taking the opportunity to toss another superhero opportunity at him in the wake of his let down. How about a sequel to the piece of shit Wolverine mo... / Continue →
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Boy, were our assumptions that Emma Stone was up for the role of Mary Jane Watson just because she completely looks the part wrong. A statement released last night has confirmed that while Stone is in the film, it's actually Peter Parker's first love, Gwen Stacy, she'll be play... / Continue →
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Having been granted the dubious title of VISIONARY DIRECTOR (so says the trailer), Spider-Man: The Musical's Julie Taymor has decided to celebrate by using all the CGI, facepaint, and gaudy pretentiousness she had left over from Across the Universe and Titus to piece together a... / Continue →
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I don't know about anyone else, but when I saw [commercials for] the Brendan Fraser/Harrison Ford film Extraordinary Measures, I was left with the impression that working "around the clock" was the most anyone could do to save a dying child. Not the case, says Baltasar Kormakur... / Continue →
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Who's that down there, slowly meandering up the trail between beloved '80s comedies and broad modern bullshit (as forged by Ivan Reitman)? Why, if it isn't John Landis. Having not directed a feature-length work of fiction since 1998's oh-so-1998-looking Susan's Plan, Landis has... / Continue →
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At last you can experience Inception as if it were it made in the '40s. Inception as an '80s party movie hopefully isn't far behind.... / Continue →
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Christopher Nolan's list of guys who could direct Superman--of which Ben Affleck was certainly not a part of--is finally down to one name, and it's the name of the one who uses all the slow-mo. It's been confirmed that Zack Snyder will be bringing all his years of green-screen,... / Continue →
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Tony Gilroy, who conceived of all the previous Bourne films only to give his Bournebabies away to be raised by the likes of Doug Liman and Paul Greengrass, is finally getting to play father to one of them himself. The screenwriter, who has since directed, to some acclaim, Micha... / Continue →
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Jail time for John McTiernan! The director--who made action hits like Predator, Die Hard, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, The Hunt for Red October, and more--was finally sentenced this morning after lying to the federal government about his association with racketeering, wiretappin... / Continue →
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Your life will never be as awesome as a Michael Bay film. Sorry, it's true; at this point, only Shia LaBeouf's life will be so rad. But here's some good news: now you can pretend with The Bayifier, which lets you add sweet cars, sweet jets, sweet explosions, sweet time bombs, s... / Continue →
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This new trailer for the Coen Brothers' True Grit looks so good, I'm willing to completely forgive the "Tron Grit" mash-up trailer its existence will eventually lead to. Yeah: that good. We're probably going to have to scatter some Oscars on this one. Watch!:... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. The Social Network - $23 million, which doesn't even include the money made from The Rural Maintenance Game. 2. Legend of the Guardians - $10.9 million. I maintain this film could have been more successful as a poorly-animated Saturday morning cart... / Continue →
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Star Wars merges with a '50s instructional film on dating, finally giving us a version of the films where, instead of siblings trying to save the universe from the Empire, Luke and Leia are just a couple lames going on a lame date. As George Lucas originally intended. (Thanks,... / Continue →
