January 23, 2011 - January 29, 2011 Archives
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- Mark Waters, director of Mean Girls and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, is in talks to helm Get Back, a comedy in which a couple Beatles fans somehow find a time machine. Being the most shortsighted humans in history, instead of using the invention to warn of a disaster, or get r... / Continue →
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Re-treading the rich, white, dysfunctional family grounds of The Royal Tenenbaums, Arrested Development, etc., Peep World stars Michael C. Hall, Ben Schwartz, Rainn Wilson, and Sarah Silverman as bickering siblings--each fucked up in their own distinct way, naturally--who becom... / Continue →
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The Mechanic Director: Simon West Starring: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland Good if you want to see: a remake of The Mechanic, now with Jason Statham doing Jason Statham in it. The Rite Director: Mikael Håfström Starring: Colin O'Donoghue, Anthony Hopkins, Ciarán ... / Continue →
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Like last year's Greenberg, Beginners is another consequence of yesterday's twenty-something hotshot indie directors finally getting up there in years but still apparently feeling--or at least feeling the need to project--the directionless listlessness and new, innocent love of... / Continue →
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For those picky masochism connoisseurs who don't want to go through all the trouble of watching a Jackass movie before knowing exactly how these dudes are going to get hit in the nuts, here's a trailer for the crew's latest release--made from the extra footage of turtles biting... / Continue →
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Yet another Lincoln film has overlooked Liam Neeson. Benjamin Walker, the actor known mostly for Broadway's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and for nearly being a blue fur-covered X-Man, has signed to star in the title role of Timur Bekmambetov's adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Va... / Continue →
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For being a movie about invading aliens, Battle: Los Angeles has thus far provided us with scarce looks at the aliens themselves, making it hard to envision what it will look like when Michelle Rodriguez punches them in the face and welcomes them to Earth. Well, BloodyDisgustin... / Continue →
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Of all the "look how often people in movies say this trite line" videos, this might be my favorite yet. Why does Eddie Murphy keep letting us know that it's showtime? We know that it's showtime, Eddie Murphy.... / Continue →
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Deadline is reporting that Javier Bardem has been offered the lead in Universal's planned adaptation of Steven King's The Dark Tower. The seven-novel series, thought to be unfilmable (I just made that up, but considering it's seven books long--not counting the prequel comics an... / Continue →
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Fox must have sorted out the issue of Michael Fassbender wanting too much scratch to be in Ridley Scott's Alien prequel, because the actor is now reportedly signed on to star opposite Noomi Rapace in the movie, titled Prometheus now that Ridley Scott decided it's not officially... / Continue →
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As if people would rather see a hunter than a bunch of dwarfs with focused personalities, Snow White and the Huntsman is a new film adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale that, as its title implies, focuses on the character's relationship with the huntsman character. According to t... / Continue →
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A reader going by Chuck Nunchuck sent this in, saying, "Please watch this. I don't know what to do with myself." That's pretty much where I am, too.... / Continue →
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Despite Earth unanimously agreeing that any time would be just fine for John Travolta to stop acting again, he's decided to keep at it, and is reportedly in "serious talks" to play mob boss John Gotti in Gotti. Though, it should probably be noted that the "serious talks" statem... / Continue →
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- The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed Will Smith was dead fucking serious about he and Jay-Z building a new Annie adaptation around his daughter, Willow. Was there ever doubt? - According to TV Line, McG will likely be bringing his Charlie Angel ladyaction expertise to NBC's ... / Continue →
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The King's Speech topped the Academy Awards with 12 nominations and has already made over $100 million worldwide, but Harvey Weinstein still is not satisfied. He would really prefer if Americans were packing up their minivans and taking the whole family to see this thing, Weins... / Continue →
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Sorry, Charlize Theron, but despite previous reports, you are not going to be in J. Edgar. Instead, says Deadline, Naomi Watts has taken the role of loyal secretary Helen Gandy in Clint Eastwood's biopic, in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays famed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Does... / Continue →
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Ivan Guerrero--the dedicated editor who previously brought us old-fashioney trailers for The Avengers, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Forrest Gump, and Ghostbusters--has a new addition to his amazingly-accurate "premake" series: a 1960s version of Disney/Pixa... / Continue →
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So, you know how Robert Downey Jr. is voicing a computer-animated version of time-traveling genius dog Mr. Peabody? Well, here's a first look at concept art of the mutt, showing how cute and marketable they're going to make him. Does DreamWorks not realize that his dead, beady ... / Continue →
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No need to wait for a Bucket List remake to see Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson shout at each other. HBO has produced a version of Cormac McCarthy's play The Sunset Limited with TLJ and SLJ playing the two nameless leads--an atheist professor and an evangelical Christian ... / Continue →
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- Action Businessman Jake Gyllenhaal's iLife '08 Suite just went all kablooey! [Yahoo!] - Fox Searchlight has bought the remake rights to The Bengali Detective, a feature-length documentary about an Indian private detective who aspires to dance on national television. Fuck, th... / Continue →
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Looks like all the swinging around in Marc Webb's Spider-Man reboot won't be a strictly CGI affair, as Andrew Garfield and a stuntman were spotted dangling from cables and jumping on trucks in the streets of Los Angeles last night. CLASSIC SPIDER-MAN. And there's more under the... / Continue →
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Looking at a cast that includes Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Abigail Breslin, Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Ashton Kutcher, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank, and Sofia Vergara, most romantic comedy directors would probably say, "OK, that should be e... / Continue →
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Actor/writer/director/producer/artist/student/Broadway star/Oscar host/nominee James Franco just won't let up. Last we heard he was optioning rights for new films, adapting some American classics for the screen, and forcing his grandma into viral videos. Now, he's in talks to p... / Continue →
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This trailer for Rubber came out last week, and I totally forgot to post it. Whups! But, seeing that we're talking about that movie about a psychic, killer tire, I figured it's better late than never. This is the kind of thing you're supposed to know about for conversations tha... / Continue →
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SyFy's utter lack of shame has produced yet another [giant animal] vs. [giant animal] made-for-TV film, and my utter lack of dignity has, once again, left me covering their efforts. How could I not? This one is the cross-over event between Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus and Mega ... / Continue →
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This morning, comedienne and Academy Award-winning actress Mo'Nique appeared on stage in Hollywood to deliver the message of who may win an Oscar this year. This is what she, the host of The Mo'Nique Show, prophesied (i.e., your Academy Award nominees).... / Continue →
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- That bonus Olsen, "Elizabeth," we just learned the existence of thanks to her highly-praised Sundance debut in Martha Marcy May Marlene? She's already accepted an offer to acting alongside Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver, and Cillian Murphy in Buried director Rodrigo Cortes'... / Continue →
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Creating a big stir at Sundance--where things like a movie distribution deals can cause stirs--Kevin Smith surprised crowds last night when he announced he'd be distributing his next film, Red State, himself. Following a sold-out showing of the genre picture, when an auction f... / Continue →
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Graphic designer Tom Muller has gathered all the primary casts of the Coen Brothers films into a stylish, color-coded, sort of hard to follow infographic detailing which Coen-loved actors appeared most and where they showed up. The result justifies the questionable coining of "... / Continue →
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It's a telling year in film when the nominations for the Razzies--the awards that celebrate our worst cinematic achievements--are more shocking and genuinely upsetting than anything the Golden Globes or Oscars have to offer. These nominees... I mean, where's the love for Furry... / Continue →
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In the trailer for Insidious, the claim is quickly made that Saw director James Wan has come up with what is to be considered "a phenomenon for a new generation." FINALLY. So you're probably wondering, what is this film's nex-gen Pepsi answer to the Coca-Cola haunted houses of ... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office top five: 1. No Strings Attached - $20.3 million, so now a lot of people should know what a "sex friend" is. (Hint: it's like a "fuck buddy," except, for the sake of No Strings Attached promotions, sanitized to the point of not being an actual term.) 2... / Continue →
