January 2, 2011 - January 8, 2011 Archives
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- Congratulations, married couple Pete and Debbie from Knocked Up: you're getting a spin-off. And it will be a feature-length film, not just a CBS sitcom. - The Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges film--originally set to star the bizarre, surprising combination of Sean Penn, Jim ... / Continue →
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It's been a while since we last pretended an Arrested Development movie would someday come together, but today new false hope has emerged, with executive producer/narrator Ron Howard telling ComingSoon: "I won't be directing the 'Arrested Development' movie, but Mitch Hurwitz ... / Continue →
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What little borings our nation's cinemas are being this weekend. This is pretty much all we've got opening wide: Season of the Witch Director: Dominic Sena Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy Good if you want to see: Nicolas Cage with the special hair he uses to es... / Continue →
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Tim and Eric have a short film premiering at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and if you're wondering if getting Sundance recognition means Tim and Eric have made something less Tim and Eric-y than usual, you should stop wondering that. It looks Tim and Eric-y as all get out... / Continue →
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Frodo Baggins!? In The Hobbit!? Is this January All-Pranks Friday!? NO, it is not! In a story about Warner Bros. footing the bill for bankrupt MGM's prequel to the NerdQuest Trilogy, Deadline mentions that Elijah Wood is "possibly" in talks to return to the franchise. Could thi... / Continue →
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Another 'Paul' Trailer: Incongruity Between Seth Rogen's Voice and Gangling Alien Body Still JarringDad brought you home a new addition for your Paul trailer collection: the full-length domestic trailer for the alien buddy road movie! Let's keep the hope alive that director Greg Mottola and his impressive cast--Pegg! Frost! Bateman! Wiig! Rogen!--have elevated the comedy abov... / Continue →
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- According to NASA scientists, the sci-fi film with the most absurd science is the Roland Emmerich disaster film 2012, followed by The Core, Volcano, Chain Reaction, The Sixth Day, and What the #$*! Do We Know?. Dude, I fucking told you The Matrix might be real. - David Crone... / Continue →
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Actor/director/producer/contentious-father-in-law and Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro will serve as President of the Jury of the 64th Festival de Cannes, due to take place this May. In the official announcement, De Niro described his appreciation for the honor, ... / Continue →
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In case you didn't see Gulliver's Travels--because, really, not that many people saw Gulliver's Travels--here's the Ice Age short that preceded screenings. It turns out the cock-and-balls-headed rodent went to the Earth's core and caused massive geological changes, all because ... / Continue →
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Variety is reporting the first bit of casting news from effects company Weta's The Wind in the Willows, news that Ricky Gervais will provide the voice for Mole in the feature-length adaptation. There's only one appropriate response to this:... / Continue →
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Time to place your less-cared-about category Oscar bets! The Academy has announced the shortlist of seven films still in contention for the Best Visual Effects award, and they are: Alice in Wonderland (for all its 3-Ds) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (for its ... / Continue →
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I'm afraid G.I. Joe and G.I. Joe 2 won't be forming the clean, unified vision of cartoonish military might that you'd been promised. According to the LA Times, Stephen Sommers will not be returning to direct the sequel to his toy-based 2009 film. He has sequel standards, guys, ... / Continue →
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It's not too late to watch some rich, smart, little assholes sue each other in a theater setting! As The Social Network nears $200 million worldwide, Columbia Pictures is re-releasing the film in some 600 theaters this weekend, just in case you can't wait for its home video rel... / Continue →
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- Bill S. Preston Esquire has gone on record saying the 1996 Pauly Shore/Stephen Baldwin comedy Bio-Dome is not just a re-write of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 3. Let that sink in. - Sam Rockwell has signed on to join Brad Pitt in Andrew Dominik's adaptation of Cogan's Tra... / Continue →
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Taking Gareth Edwards' low-budget breakout Monsters as a sign the director should probably be doing all future films involving giant monsters, Legendary Pictures is signing Edwards to direct the Godzilla movie the studio hopes will wash the taste of Hank Azaria from our mouths.... / Continue →
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The stalemate between Breck Eisner and McG has ended, with the latter emerging with the dubious spoils of his victory: the director's chair on a movie called Ouija. After meeting with both candidates prior to the holiday break, Universal and the suits down at Hasbro have weighe... / Continue →
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What a little Sam Worthington this Gemma Arterton is becoming! The actress, who's been popping up as the go-to blockbuster action film female lead with increasing regularity, will reprise that role once again in Paramount's action-oriented Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. Jere... / Continue →
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He looks like Andrew Garfield, with fingerless gloves. (via)... / Continue →
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- Good news if you're a Warner Brother: despite Jonah Hex and largely because of Inception and Harry Potter, your studio was the most financially successful this year, with $1.89 billion in revenue. And that's before sales of leather Tweety Bird jackets! - John Goodman is join... / Continue →
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Not well at all, I'm afraid. While Little Fockers trailer wowed all onlookers with its bio-hazard trinity of projectile vomit, spurting blood, and implied bloody semen, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules has answered back with only the meek promise of simulated poop licking, p... / Continue →
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The first trailer for The Mechanic remake did not have enough Statham-bloodshed/Statham-sex/Statham-quips for your Statham-tastes? Well, free from the restriction of maintaining "general audience" norms, this trailer has more of all that for you, you lucky dog.... / Continue →
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I'm sorry, but there's belated death to report. Bill Erwin, the veteran character actor with over 200 roles to his name, died Wednesday of age-related causes. He was 96. While Erwin's on-screen résumé spans over six decades, most of us will likely remember him for his later wo... / Continue →
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Is there any film that deserves multiple trailers less than No Strings Attached, a film that every human understood entirely upon first reading the title and main cast? There isn't! We got it already: Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman are friends, and they're hoping to have ca... / Continue →
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Some things to talk about: - Olivia Wilde has signed on to DreamWorks' Welcome to People. She'll play the girlfriend of Chris Pine, who's playing "a businessman who returns home after his estranged father’s death and discovers that he has an alcoholic sister (Elizabeth Banks) ... / Continue →
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I hope you like shouting-based entertainment, because a lot more is probably on the way, courtesy of JB Smoove. The comedian already has a supporting part in the upcoming infidelity laugh-em-up Hall Pass and just finished shooting a role in David Gordon Green's The Sitter; now,... / Continue →
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Not one to waste any time, 2011 has sadly claimed another victim: film and television star Anne Francis. According to the LA Times, she died Sunday at a Santa Barbara retirement home due to complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 80 years old. The actress appeared in over ... / Continue →
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1. Little Fockers - $26.3 million, the perfect start to another year of poor decisions. 2. True Grit - $24.5 million, dropping only a little over 1% from last week despite the overall poor box office. I can't wait to see how this encouraging success will somehow result in the ... / Continue →
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Pete Postlethwaite, the ubiquitous, Oscar-nominated actor who stole scenes in The Usual Suspects, The Lost World, James and the Giant Peach, Alien 3, Amistad, and so many other films--including Inception, The Town, and Clash of the Titans last year alone--has died after a long ... / Continue →
