February 13, 2011 - February 19, 2011 Archives
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- Jaume Collet-Serra--the utterly unremarkable director of House of Wax, Orphan, and the just-released Unkown--is in talks to direct a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 crime classic, Le Cercle rouge. He apparently got the job largely because "with Unknown, he delivered a t... / Continue →
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With young Hailee Steinfeld's first feature performance already earning her an Oscar nomination, Paramount figures they might as well squeeze at least another movie or two out of the 14-year-old before she gets into drugs, sexy photos, shaming Billy Ray Cyrus, etc. To that end,... / Continue →
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Researchers with DIEM are working on a project "focused on understanding human vision during complex real-world scene perception"--which from what I can tell means they, like that wasted guy at the bar, want to know what the fuck you're looking at, asshole. As part of that rese... / Continue →
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Remember back when Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were going to play the leads in an adaptation of the Akira manga/anime? Boy, that was sure dumb. They aren't teenagers at all! They were sure going to mess up that Japanese cartoon you like so much! Well, that was o... / Continue →
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With the unexpected arrival of warm, spring weather, Kate Hudson has prematurely shed another diaphanous husk of romantic-comedy--dangerously close to her last molting, the Gael Garcia Bernal/Whoopi Goldberg affair, Little Bit of Heaven--in the flimsy form of Something Borrowed... / Continue →
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Some new releases, everyone: Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son Director: John Whitesell Starring: Martin Lawrence, Brandon T. Jackson Good if you want to see: Big Momma force its son into a life of transgendered federal investigation, for laughs. I Am Number Four Director: DJ... / Continue →
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This new trailer for Kenneth Branagh's comic book adaptation tries to show off that the film contains a little bit more than just a burly blonde dude swinging a hammer around. It also has all the fish-out-of-water gags and falling-for-a-seemingly-crazy-man melodrama of the 2001... / Continue →
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- Never mind whoever I said would play Mary Todd in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Turns out it's going to be Mary Elizabeth Winstead. - Adrianna Palicki is playing Wonder Woman in NBC's television show about Wonder Woman. It sounds just awful. - Here's a hip hop remix of t... / Continue →
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Now that DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda is an international hit with a forthcoming sequel, everyone suddenly wants some credit for coming up with the wildly-imaginative idea of merging an Asian mammal with Asian martial arts. Late last year, a self-proclaimed "writer-producer-teach... / Continue →
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As if Guillermo del Toro's plate isn't already stacked high enough (not a fat joke; he genuinely is doing a lot of things), it seems the stop-motion Pinocchio he was planning with illustrator Gris Grimly--first mentioned over two years ago--is at last coming together. The filmm... / Continue →
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HBO has put up new trailers to a couple of their upcoming original movies, Cinema Verite and Thurgood. Verite stars Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, and James Gandolfini in the story of "The First Reality TV Family"--a family that's important to know about in case you go back in time, ... / Continue →
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Now that Henry Cavill has officially been selected as our Superman for the time being, there are undoubtedly a few also-rans--like Watchmen's Matthew Goode, who reportedly was also in contention for the part, for one--now beating themselves up about losing the chance to play th... / Continue →
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Just yesterday, the quality/necessity of Men in Black III became even more questionable with news shooting would be delayed until the end of March while the film's third act gets sorted out. Well, turns out they didn't even need a month. The solution was, as it so often is, as ... / Continue →
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It's shaping up to be a bad year for Seinfeld's older supporting cast. First Bill Erwin in January, now Len Lesser, better known as the salutation-shouting Uncle Leo. The actor--who had over 500 credits split among film, television, and stage--died Wednesday of cancer-related p... / Continue →
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From the producers of Paranormal Activity and the writing-directing team of Saw comes the horrific tale of a young boy haunted by... a guy going to Burning Man? An intense Miami Heat fan? Something like that. Here's the latest trailer.... / Continue →
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- The new Scream 4 poster: it's a mask AND a knife! Like love. - Warner Bros. is releasing so-called "App Editions" of The Dark Knight and Inception for Apple's portable devices. Don't expect to get David Lynch's $11.99, iTunes. - To take care of his debts to the IRS, his ex-... / Continue →
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OK, so Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet wasn't the Best thing. Let's move on! He's sure ready to, as evidenced by his planning several projects into the future, one of which is apparently a Philip K. Dick adaptation. According to The Playlist, Gondry just revealed plans to adap... / Continue →
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With yesterday coming and going without Tyler Perry's usual Tuesday update of a new, senseless Best Picture poster spoof, fellow cross-dresser Martin Lawrence seems to have taken the conspicuous absence as a sign of weakness, choosing today to launch his own arbitrary parody of... / Continue →
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It's been so long since any updates on the Terminator franchise (last I heard, we were making a $70 million cartoon out of it), I was starting to think maybe we were going to be spared a sequel to McG's 2009 film. Not so! Pacificor, the menacing-sounding hedge fund that now con... / Continue →
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Julianne Moore isn't the only one who likes to get it all out on-screen. Natalie Portman, too, has proved herself quite the adept weeper, as evidenced by this Portman waterworks montage from Screenrant. Perfect for making yourself feel vaguely apologetic about an unknown someth... / Continue →
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Ice Cube isn't resigning himself to Are We There Yet?: The Series cameos just yet. The actor/rapper/executive producer of Are We There Yet? is reportedly up for a role in Sony's 21 Jump Street adaptation, which is still an intriguing project if for no other reason that that it'... / Continue →
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Will the frames-per-seconds knob of Warner's next 300 film be stripped from the tight grasp of director Zack Snyder? That's the word on Vulture, where it's being reported Guy Ritchie has been offered the directing job on Xerxes, the planned prequel to Snyder's 2007 abdominal sh... / Continue →
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- Why not buy Lars von Trier's mobile home? Oh, maybe because the director himself says, "Looking forward to get rid of the smell of Diesel. Hope a potential buyer likes this smell, as Diesel has been poured over the floor several times." Still, maybe you could get him to throw... / Continue →
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With G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra director Stephen Sommers officially handing the keys to The Pit over to someone else, Paramount has been looking to recruit someone new to direct their next jingoistic cartoon adaptation, and they've reportedly got it down to two frontrunners: F... / Continue →
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How about this: Sam Worthington in a real, grown-up drama! And the drama isn't even based around krakens or aliens or learning computers or anything else invented primarily to be an action figure. He has lines, emotions and everything, playing opposite Keira Knightley as half o... / Continue →
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Having ventured out of his usual circle of friends casting pool to give Eva Green a part in Dark Shadows earlier this month, Tim Burton has now retreated back to familiar acting grounds for his vampire soap opera adaptation, adding Michelle Pfeiffer and, as expected, longtime p... / Continue →
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Ut oh, might be time to get some Hulu Plus subscriptions. The $7.99-a-month service has just gone from "that thing I'm not going to bother paying for because normal Hulu is fine, plus, you know, Netflix" to a worthwhile automatic deduction from your checking account, thanks to ... / Continue →
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So, instead of alcohol, now Arthur's vice is buying too many antique toys on eBay? Alright, fine, but why are we still pretending Greta Gerwig is not in this film? The Poster for Arthur Debuts [ComingSoon]... / Continue →
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Curious how David Fincher and Friends managed to get single human Armie Hammer to play both Winklevoss twins in The Social Network? Then want to watch this New York Magazine featurette on the process, and all your questions will be answered. The secret, it turns out? Computers!... / Continue →
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- The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic and pixelated. There's a Great Gatsby 8-bit game now, so beat that, Baz Luhrmann. (Thanks, MF.) - The last remaining hold-out in the voice cast, Gerard Butler has agreed to talk into a microphone for DreamWorks' How To Tra... / Continue →
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Some Spider-Man items of interest: 1. It's officially titled The Amazing Spider-Man, as evidenced by the site Sony has set up theamazingspiderman dash movie dot com. 2. It will be in theaters July 3, 2012. 3. Here's the first official photo of star Andrew Garfield squatting ... / Continue →
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Remember back when there was going to be a Thundercats movie, and Tyrese might have been in it? Anyway, that possibility loomed for a while a few years ago, and now some hard evidence has turned up of just how far Warner Bros. got with the project. Test footage! Of an supremely... / Continue →
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Since Joel Schumacher's The Number 23, you've all been living your life fearful of the combined numeric power of two and three, right? Me too! Thing is, Jim Carrey might have lied to us. According to the director of a few Saw films, it's not 23 but rather a repeated series of e... / Continue →
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What a The Inceptors 2 this Batman is becoming. Director Christopher Nolan has already added Tom Hardy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to The Dark Knight Rises, and now Inception's token wife, Marion Cotillard, is reportedly "in discussions" to join the cast of the latest Batman film.... / Continue →
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The creation of another Die Hard film is not a joke! (Even though it is sort of a joke.) Fox is so serious about doing this that they've officially hired Noam Murro--a commercial director whose only film credit is the dramedy Smart People--to direct the fifth film in the series... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Just Go With It - $31 million, a sub par opening for a broad, Adam Sandler-starring comedy, but stronger-than-usual first weekend for something that looks like such a real POS. 2. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never - $30.1 million. With all his loyal f... / Continue →
