October 31, 2010 - November 6, 2010 Archives
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Print this out and use a thick red marker to circle which film you'll be seeing, so it will "read" for the audience. Due Date Director: Todd Phillips Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galfianakis, Jamie Foxx Good if you want to see: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles updated for ... / Continue →
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In Just Go With It, Adam Sandler Character is a bachelor who--having not learned from George Costanza in "The Apartment"--wears a wedding band to attract women. That's all going great until he one day meets Brooklyn Decker and, seeing that she has literally the body of a Sports... / Continue →
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From the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, here's the first-released photo of the main, largely-puppet-based cast of the latest Muppet movie. Assuming you've seen at least episode of both The Muppet Show and How I Met Your Mother, you should recognize everyone here except f... / Continue →
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Yikes, marriage! You know? Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis sure know. They're married to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate, respectively, and while those two may seem like perfectly decent partners to you and me, these guys can't help but constantly think about effing every ... / Continue →
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While Marc Webb has thus far been building up his Spider-Man cast with mostly up-and-comers and indie stars, the director is suddenly really going for your parents' ticket money with the casting of Peter Parker's elderly, adoptive parents. According to Heat Vision, Martin Sheen... / Continue →
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Boy, it didn't take long for Kevin James to get to the Dolittle genre. Here he is talking to animals--who only talk to him, of course, because isn't that funnier?--in the teaser trailer for The Zookeeper. You won't BELIEVE how flabbergasted this guy is when a lion speaks to him... / Continue →
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Get it? His jungle is the Zookeeper Zoo! Or something like that. Unless this is just setting up the Zookeeper Zoo gate so that we'll know what it is when he clumsily crashes his rotund form through it early in the film. (via)... / Continue →
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Another Yogi Bear trailer? Come on, we don't really need to watch NBC's Ed embarrass himself feigning agitation at a couple CGI bears again, do we? You wouldn't think so. Yet, here we are, presented with just such an opportunity to once more hear Dan Aykroyd shout through the u... / Continue →
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If you really, really loved the Nicolas-Cage-predicts-things-with-numbers film Knowing, yet were still left with the sense that it could use more pseudoscience and heavy Christian overtones, boy do I ever have some life-changing news for you. Relativity Media has just purchased... / Continue →
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Just in case you haven't seen this on your Facebook Status Clearinghouse, here's Don Draper asking "what?" for a minute-and-a-half. Prepare to be impressed by both Jon Hamm's "what?" variation and believability. Time after time, you'll truly be convinced he's asking you to reit... / Continue →
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Mel Gibson being a huge asshole and all may have kept him out of playing Hilarious Tattoo Artist in The Hangover sequel, but it looks like it might not be enough to keep him out of theaters altogether. ComingSoon got this promotional shot from the Gibson-starring, Jodie Foster-... / Continue →
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With stock criminal archetypes pursuing himself and his son, FBI agent Martin Lawrence has, once again, decided the best course of action is to put on the same fat, old lady suit he put on the last two times he had to wage war against a criminal element, because apparently no o... / Continue →
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When you've got the director of What Happens in Vegas and Extraordinary Measures working with the guy who wrote The Switch and The Dilemma's lazy gay jokes to construct a vehicle for Miley Cyrus, you can't help but get the feeling you're going to get something pretty special. T... / Continue →
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Like a thousand Playstation commercials converging to form a loose dramatic arc, a new trailer for "visionary" coolguy director Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch has arrived online. If you're looking for a film that makes everything--and I mean everything, including scenes of implied ... / Continue →
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Ever wanted to see Superman and Superman II clips edited into an instructional film? Because there's that now, and it's totally better than Superman III and IV.... / Continue →
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'Iceman' Films Competing, Disappointingly Unrelated to Bobby Drake, Val Kilmer, and Frozen Mummy GuyWe've got a few Marilyn Monroe biopics coming, several 3-D Snow White adaptations on the way, those Truman Capote films from a few years ago, both Volcano and Dante's Peak taking up precious DVD shelf space, Antz Shark Tale and A Bug's Nemo etc. Might as well have a couple movi... / Continue →
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Lionsgate has been eager to move on their adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies--quickly, before people start to realize it's literally just Pride and Prejudice with a cheap pop culture reference tacked on--and word is they'll soon be choosing a director for the project... / Continue →
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- Al Pacino has signed on to make Nicholas Jarecki's Arbitrage his next film, reports Variety. He'll star with Eva Green and Susan Sarandon, playing "a hedge fund magnate who is in over his head and desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire to a major bank before his... / Continue →
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If this film is going to have to end up on all the year-end best-of lists, it could at least have the decency to make a better poster for it. It looks like a Terry Gilliam animation, except made by a homeless man with a ponytail who just sort of looked like Terry Gilliam. 'The... / Continue →
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Curious where all your wild owls have been lately, India? Check out the arms of your urban, middle-class Harry Potter fans, apparently. Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is calling for tougher measures to protect India's wild owl population, telling the BBC, "Following... / Continue →
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Brad Pitt is in talks to re-team with The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford director Andrew Dominik on a less verbosely-titled film, Cogan's Trade. In the crime comedy, which is rumored to also feature Assassination co-star Casey Affleck (so that he may red... / Continue →
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Ted Danson stars as Dr. Gulliver in this made-for-TV miniseries that faithfully adapts Jonathan Swift's classic 18th century satirical tale. Gulliver's story is told in flashback after he returns from years of travel to find that another doctor (James Fox) has his eye on his pr... / Continue →
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Now that we know the new Batman film is called The Dark Knight Rises, and that it won't involve the Riddler, time to get back to the world of unsubstantiated rumor. Today, our trip to that land is provided by ComicBookMovie, who report a "source" has told them Charlize Theron, ... / Continue →
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As the latest "Don't forget Tron!" promotion, Disney is releasing a triptych of posters that, when combined, make a larger poster. The first has just premiered at Empire, depicting a youthful Jeff Bridges surveying Tronland. The rest should debut later in the week, assuming Dis... / Continue →
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I don't know if you've been paying attention, but since the success of Alice in Wonderland, we're getting so, so many 3-D fairy tale films. Of those, a minimum of three are adaptations of Snow White, and one of those is being done by Relativity Media. OK? Well, last month, the ... / Continue →
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As Baz Luhrmann begins work on making yet another The Great Gatsby adaptation--this one with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire as Gatsby and Nick Carraway, respectively--he's apparently using Marc Webb's method of finding a female lead: meeting with as many attractive young l... / Continue →
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Or at least Sony Pictures is. Ignoring Bill Murray's skepticism and The Internet's nervous glances, the studio is reportedly moving forward with shooting next year. ProductionWeekly's Twitter says: Hearing that @SonyPictures is planning to put Ivan Reitman's “Ghostbusters 3” i... / Continue →
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- Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way has acquired the right to Erik Larson's (not the Savage Dragon guy) non-fiction book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic And Madness At The Fair That Changed America, and plans are being made to adapt it with DiCaprio playing Chicago seri... / Continue →
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For those of you old enough to remember things prior to Pokemons, you may recall--back before coolguy "visionary" Zack Snyder was going to re-invigorate the Superman franchise, and long before Bryan Singer gave it a go--Tim Burton had been working on his own take on the Man of ... / Continue →
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Of all the parodies of retro video games based on films yet--and there have been a few--this could be the most accurate yet. At least in the sense that, if a Super Nintendo game based on Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood were ever made, its essence really would have be... / Continue →
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Will Rokos, one of the Academy Award-nominated writers of the 2001 film Monster's Ball, lived out one of the MTA's nightmare scenarios Saturday when he was smacked in the head by a 2 train while leaning beyond the yellow line. According to the New York Post, the 57-year-old was... / Continue →
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THEY GLUED MACHINE GUNS TO THE HOOD OF A CAR! Also, they hid Seth Rogen in said car, hoping we wouldn't notice he's in there pretending to be a vigilante superhero (i.e., one who breaks the law to protect it), but I caught them. 'Green Hornet' Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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George Hickenlooper, the award-winning director of the Apocalypse Now making-of Heart of Darkness, has died at 47. He reportedly passed away of a heart attack on Saturday while in Denver visiting his cousin, Colorado gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper. Hickenlooper's ot... / Continue →
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For those wondering what Kevin Smith's entry into the horror genre might look like, your answer has come in the form of a teaser poster for the film, and that answer is: classic. REAL classic. As in, ghost-represented-by-someone-draped-in-a-sheet classic, apparently. Nothing t... / Continue →
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Ready to see what it looks like if you motion capture Billy Elliott and render him as a popular comics adventurer? Well, here that is, in Empire's first look at Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn. If you were thinking realistic textures on ca... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office report: 1. Saw 3D - $22.5 million, already making back its $20 million budget, so get ready for another final chapter in the Saw series next Halloween. 2. Paranormal Activity 2 - $16.5 million, so get ready for more camcorder shots of swinging chandeli... / Continue →
