March 13, 2011 - March 19, 2011 Archives
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- While everyone else was in the quad strumming to Jack Johnson, these guys recorded a catchy song detailing the plot of Tommy Wisseau's The Room. It's a look into the past, to the days when medieval bards would sing of Lisa's mom having cancer before dropping that subplot enti... / Continue →
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So, you know how David Lynch is directing a live Duran Duran concert on YouTube? There's now a brief teaser for that project, and if this teaser too is indeed made by the influential, surreal director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, etc., well, I'm sorry, but I'm still going to hav... / Continue →
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Says Entertainment Weekly, "NBC promises the project, if picked up to series, will offer a serious, non-campy take on the DC Comics character." Hm. (Thanks, Josh.)... / Continue →
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In retrospect, I suppose the shared landscapes and boulder-centric focus of 127 Hours and Wile E. Coyote shorts should have made for as obvious a parallel as jokes about The King's Speech being a melodramatic Porky Pig cartoon. Still, that makes it no less impressive that inter... / Continue →
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I don't know about where you, internet reader, are, but here's it's shaping up to be our First Great Day of the year, so it seems only fitting to celebrate with this nonsensical collage of the Fast Five cast enjoying the blue skies and Escherian spacial physics of what delibera... / Continue →
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Empire has a couple new Thor posters that promise a variety of dramatic faces from Kenneth Branagh's cast. Why no promise of awesome lens flare, though, you ask? Awesome lens flare under the cut!!!... / Continue →
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Setting in motion a plan that will most likely produce our most respectable film yet about breast-love, Fox Searchlight is negotiating for a pitch from David O. Russell to make a biopic on our greatest sexploitation auteur, Russ Meyer. The script comes from Merritt Johnson, who... / Continue →
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Finalizing what was already suspected for the last month, Warner Bros. has at last closed a deal with Kevin Costner and acknowledged that he'll be playing Superman's adoptive father, Jonathan Kent, in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. The gilled hero of Waterworld joins Henry Cavill,... / Continue →
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- This short explains how Todd Barry's deli manager from The Wrestler was originally the focus of Black Swan. It does not explain why Darren Aronofsky is always wearing a scarf. Hickeys? - Firefly's Alan Tudyk has been cast as Stephen A. Douglas in Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham ... / Continue →
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It's Saint Patrick's Day, guys, and what better way to celebrate our most Irish of holidays than with a movie celebrating Boston, our most Irish of American cities? Maybe with a movie celebrating Ireland? Or something historical about the Apostle of Ireland himself? Or even one... / Continue →
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Seabiscuit director Gary Ross has reportedly found a lead for his adaptation of Hunger Games in Jennifer Lawrence, the Academy Award-nominated star of Winter's Bone. The actress, who we'll soon see mostly naked save for some blue shit glued to her for her role as young Rebecca ... / Continue →
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From Yahoo, here's the poster for Woody Allen's latest European-set film, Midnight in Paris, which stars Owen Wilson as the most casual dude on Earth. Still, despite the image's uninspired cut-and-paste, it's head and stooped shoulders above Allen's last poster--the miserable, ... / Continue →
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If something seems too good, or at least too bizarrely out-of-character, to be true, that's sometimes because it's totally not true anymore. As such: Darren Aronofsky isn't going to do that Wolverine movie after all. The Black Swan director, who was to hoist the Wolverine fran... / Continue →
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Michael Gough, the man who braved more Batman films than any actual Batman dared--and, as anyone who constantly watched Tim Burton's Batman on VHS will remember, always made sure Master Wayne had a constant supply of Diet Coke--passed away today at 94. Outside of his memorable... / Continue →
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Sorry, but it sounds like the nuclear guy with the nails from Superman IV: The Quest for Peace will not be the villain in the new Superman film. Speaking to the LA Times, director Zack Snyder explained that while he'll respect the comics canon, he's just going to pretend Superm... / Continue →
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Such as these: Paul Director: Greg Mottola Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig Good if you want to see: the buddy team-up of Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz, now more ComicCon references and aliens, as decreed by the Nerd Council. The Lincoln ... / Continue →
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- Some new Thor photos here. See the beards before the theater. - In this might be awesome if Charlie Kaufman wrote it news, Columbia has acquired screen rights to Joshua Foer's Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, a book that functions as ... / Continue →
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When we last heard about the writing/directing team behind Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay working on a fourth (or eighth, if you can remember the spin-off films) American Pie script, it was said "at least some of the original cast is interested in coming back for the... / Continue →
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Fearful of angering the world's rising economic powerhouse--and potential distributors, who want to make a few bucks overseas--MGM has decided to digitally alter their already-shot remake of Red Dawn to remove references to China being the film's enemy invaders. Though the Chin... / Continue →
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That's probably not true, but she will at least likely have a part in Apatow's Knocked Up spin-off. The not-quite-a-sequel--which will focus on Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann's Pete and Debbie characters--is reportedly working out a deal with the not-quite-an-actress, though Univers... / Continue →
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I missed the first trailer for Friends with Benefits--so consumed was I with the "sex friends" relationship of Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman in their identical film No Strings Attached, apparently--thus depriving all of you of seeing Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis play o... / Continue →
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If Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts had a Tuesday night series on NBC, and you bought the second season of it on DVD, what would the season one recap look like? Here's the answer: the trailer for Larry Crowne, Tom Hanks's sophomore feature-length directorial effort that sees the act... / Continue →
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Remember that Incredible Mr. Limpet remake Warner Bros. planned on doing, replacing the gangling figure and pursed lips of Don Knotts with the husky, bearded form of Zach Galifianakis? Well, in an unlikely update to that story, Richard Linklater is now in talks to direct the go... / Continue →
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Hey, more superhero movies: David Slade, director of 30 Days of Night and the third Twilight film, is attached to head a new Daredevil film for 20th Century Fox, guys. As with Warner Brothers' rush to get another Superman going, the impetus for this project is not any sort of ... / Continue →
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If you just can't wait to hear about the story for Transformers: Dark of the Moon--or for Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Novelization, for those who prefer to thoughtfully read Transformers movie storylines before bed, while commuting, etc.--the uncovering of Random House'... / Continue →
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- Tom Hanks is attached to play Captain Richard Phillips in a film about the real-life captain who offered himself hostage to Somali pirates to save the rest of his crew. Does this rule him out from playing "Sully" Sullenberger whenever we get to making that movie? - Conan O'B... / Continue →
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I swore something in me would rupture next time I was presented with Mario Bros. re-envisioned as another flurry of well-known references presented out of their usual context. I just watched this SXSW film bumper called Mario--which imagines the plumber's familiar story as a ty... / Continue →
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Of all the Star Wars spoofs/reinterpretations/decorative cakes/etc. you will inevitably come across today as a consequence of being on the internet, this video of Nick Frost and Simon Pegg playing R2-D2 and C-3PO will probably be the best. Unless you somehow haven't yet run int... / Continue →
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I hope you're ready to learn about the life of Sam Cooke through melodramatic reenactments that have a decent shot at earning acting awards, because that's what you're getting. Billboard reports the writing team of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais--whose uneven résumé includes T... / Continue →
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Bad news, non-Russian-speakers: while your lack of language proficiency makes you less likely to be suspected as a communist spy, you will not be able to understand this new trailer for X-Men: First Class. The good news, though, is you can still watch it for all the new footage... / Continue →
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Following a dismal opening weekend for the Robert Zemeckis-produced animated maternity plea Mars Needs Moms, Disney has revealed they'll be skipping over the uncanny valley Zemeckis had planned on plowing with a motion-capture remake of Yellow Submarine, with the studio no long... / Continue →
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If you thought Little Fockers was the lowest Harvey Keitel would sink into the muck of broad slapstick, prepare to be astounded: this one's got slide whistles! In The Last Godfather--probably the most belated genre parody from foreign interests since 2001: A Space Travesty--Ke... / Continue →
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"The Suburbs" music video was just the beginning for Arcade Fire-Spike Jonze suburban police state-themed collaborative filmmaking. In May, a half-hour, extended version of the video will be released on DVD, giving you a full sitcom-worth of Pitchfork-approved entertainment, st... / Continue →
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Continuing to bank on likability that expired so long ago future archaeologists will likely never find it beneath the dusty layers of Inkheart Blu-rays, Brendan Fraser has signed on to star in Whole Lotta Sole, a new comedy that plans to take full advantage of "sole" (the fish... / Continue →
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- Get rid of Johnny Depp, and this new poster for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides would be ideal for your seafood restaurant. - Japan has decided now is not a great time for a tsunami-inclusive film, and distributors have pulled Clint Eastwood's Hereafter from thea... / Continue →
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Take all the poignant moments from a John Hughes classic, slap some gentle Canadian indie rock over it, and you've got the indiest Ferris Bueller's Day Off trailer possible outside of reshooting scenes with Jesse Eisenberg as Cameron. Hey, look, there's that now!... / Continue →
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Continuing in the tradition of Twilight: Eclipse, The Expendables, The Room, Tremors, There Will Be Blood, and The Great Gatsby, Jason Eisener's grindhouse-style Hobo with a Shotgun now has its own old-school video game, retroactively giving you one more game your mom wouldn't ... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office top five: 1. Battle: Los Angeles - $36 million. Hopefully the aliens saw this too, and it will scare them off from attacking our celebrity-populated areas. 2. Rango - $23 million, still doing fairly well despite anger from anti-smoking groups and dudes... / Continue →
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It makes my neck hurt to look at it right :(... / Continue →
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The Conan the Barbarian teaser trailer: basically a car commercial, if Conan was a car, and if we had the technology to broadcast commercials in the form of holographic smoke.... / Continue →
