March 27, 2011 - April 2, 2011 Archives
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- This Mark Ronson/Daniel Merriweather collaboration from the new Arthur soundtrack will not set the mood for lovemaking anywhere near as well as Christopher Cross's original theme did. What could, though? - Look, Handmade Films International, I get the timeless appeal of time... / Continue →
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To compete with the Harry Potter-Ralph Fiennes stare-down we got earlier in the week, Marvel today released their own evidence that their tentpole stars, too, can tilt their heads down and glower. And yet still Green Lantern faces no rival ass challenger.... / Continue →
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Some new releases: Source Code Director: Duncan Jones Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmija Good if you want to see: Gyllenhaal sent back in time over and over until he can sort out who keeps making his neatly-trimmed beard explode. Hop Director: Tim Hil... / Continue →
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It was really starting to seem like Marvel might have known what they were doing after the disappointing Iron Man 2. They hired exceptional action-comedy writer and Robert Downey Jr. collaborator Shane Black to direct the next one, and reportedly had him writing, as well! Makes... / Continue →
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Hey, want to see Dramatic Will Ferrell drink himself out of a job and wife, then drink and yard sale himself back into redemption somehow? Because if you can swallow a few standard dramedy trope pills--main character traveling across the frame at a perfect horizontal, adult bef... / Continue →
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Steve Carell and Keira Knightley in a romantic-comedy together? Sure, why not. Now that Steve Carell is free from the obligation of being TV Boss, he's reportedly getting back to the movie world with the Lorene Scafaria-scripted (Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist) A Friend For ... / Continue →
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Shaped from the same, now-dusty, early '90s quick-cash-in molds used to create Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Die Hard 2: Die Harder, The Hangover, Part II is begging for a "Hungoverer" sub-title in the worst way. Confirming what's been suspected from the film's promotional... / Continue →
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Hansel and Gretel are all grown up, and now they're pretty into the goth industrial scene, apparently. On Wednesday, Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton were spotted draped in leather straps in Germany, where they're shooting Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, so now we have our fi... / Continue →
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Remember that robot guy, with the goatee, on the moon, in the Transformers 3 teaser? THAT'S Leonard Nimoy. The popular Vulcan--who voices Galvatron in the original Transformers animated movie--has agreed to join Michael Bay's latest cocktail of clanging and exploding, Transform... / Continue →
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Ensuring us fruitful collaborations among Lionsgate, Tyler Perry, and grey wigs far into the foreseeable future, T.P. and his longtime studio have signed a new, multi-year agreement that extends the arrangement they've had since 2005's Diary of a Mad Black Woman first introduce... / Continue →
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It's no Anchorman 2, but Will Ferrell will at least reprise his role as a reckless drinker in something, and here's the poster for that. Yay! In the dramedy Everything Must Go, he plays a relapsed alcoholic who, fired and kicked out of his house, holds a yard sale to sell all h... / Continue →
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Avatar 2 and 3 are going to have so many fucking frames, everyone! Speaking as if the main issue with Avatar was Sam Worthington's herky-jerky movement, James Cameron announced that he "fully intends" to shoot that film's sequels at a higher frame rate--likely at twice the usu... / Continue →
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For months, Arnold Schwarzenegger has teased what he might take on as his first part since being free of all those obligations he had when we let the guy from Pumping Iron run an entire state, and now, at last, he's made his announcement: he'll be playing a cartoon superhero ve... / Continue →
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It was fairly inevitable Justin Bieber would be given his awkward shot at movie stardom, but I don't think any of us could have predicted just how convoluted that attempt would end up being. That is, unless you already imagined the eventual Bieber movie as a buddy comedy about ... / Continue →
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As Warner Bros. continues its attempt to convince us Green Lantern has slightly more dignity than the first trailer and associated ass-heavy materials have suggested, the studio is expected to on Thursday announce the addition of 75%-of-an-EGOT-winning actor Geoffrey Rush to th... / Continue →
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- Agatha Christie rights holders claim the deal for Jennifer Garner to play a 38-year-old version of elderly detective Miss Marple isn't yet closed, though Deadline's investigation was unable to determine exactly what's going on with the project. Sounds like a case for Ben Affl... / Continue →
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I wouldn't go throwing away your collector's edition Total Recall DVDs w/ Mars-shaped tins just yet, but Len Wiseman's remake of the sci-fi film is starting to sound just a little more promising thanks to the addition of the always-enjoyable Bryan Cranston. The Emmy-winning sta... / Continue →
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Nor will it have any belated lycanthropy explanations from DadWolf, elaborate lip-sync sequences, or lighthearted pleasantness whatsoever. It's sure going to have melodrama, though! And lacrosse, because basketball is for GrandpaWolves. This extended preview lays it out for yo... / Continue →
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NBC's Wonder Woman was on the streets of Los Angeles last night shooting some scenes for the ill-conceived series and, as the single positive side-effect of this labor, revealed a slightly different costume than the all-vinyl Halloween costume we were first presented with. Prod... / Continue →
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Anticipating a big desire for movies peripherally related to bygone film stock, DreamWorks has made a preemptively deal with screenwriter Jonathan Tropper for a script about a pilgrimage to Dwayne’s Photo, the world's last processor of Paul Simon's beloved Kodachrome film. Base... / Continue →
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This must be the bump in Green Lantern marketing Jeff Robinov was promising. Scattered amongst the posters for the various carbohydrates salted by Pepsico, SuperheroHype found this new poster for the superhero film on the floor of CinemaCon. Hopefully Warner will soon release a... / Continue →
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Signing up for one of the few lead parts he's been willing to take on in the last decade (respected indie auteur projects and Garfields aside), Bill Murray is reportedly attached to star in Hyde Park On the Hudson, an adaptation of a BBC radio play about a weekend of monarch-me... / Continue →
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With multiple adaptations of Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, Hansel & Gretel and other royalty-free stories I'm surely forgetting all in the works at various studios, screenwriter Lindsay Devlin has taken on the unenviable task of making sure we aren't left wi... / Continue →
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With less than three months before Green Lantern's June 17th release, Warner Bros. is reportedly finally getting serious about trying to convince some people to see Green Lantern--and while they're at it, they're going to finish casting this thing, too, because it turns out the... / Continue →
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- Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, the writers of both Kung Fu Panda films, have been hired to write the adaptation of Candyland. Jack Black as Plumpy, then? - As we continue work on making innumerable films about ever classic Halloween costume we can remember, Lakeshore Enter... / Continue →
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Well, it turns out Tara Reid's insane, baseless statements about a Big Lebowski sequel happening really have spawned something: a Big Lebowski 2 parody in which Reid plays every part. I rank it somewhere between a Max Fischer production and a lesbian porn parody in which every ... / Continue →
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This week, Jeff Robinov takes over as Warner Bros. film president--the man most responsible for deciding what movies get made at the studio--and already he's riling up the ever-excitable nerd demographic. His first order of business? Get that Justice League movie going again. ... / Continue →
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Promising an end to the series and a face-off of Dickensian filthy faces, here's the poster for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II. If you've been following the series up to now, might as well finish it off and see how this noseless sourpuss gets his. Or read the boo... / Continue →
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Ever wanted to see Agatha Christie's famous elderly detective Miss Marple brought to modern times, and maybe knocked down in years to about, say... Jennifer Garner's age? Well, Jennifer Garner really thinks that's a good idea, so she's going to produce just such an contemporary... / Continue →
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Still no indications of forgotten misfortune beyond the already-known head shaving, Tyson tattoo, and acquisition of a monkey familiar, but here's reaffirmation of those elements in the form of the first poster for the Hangover sequel. You know, as much as I and the rest of Bl... / Continue →
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If the wait for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises has got down, don't worry: Woody Allen has got you covered, having crafted his own tale of a man whose daily life is a facade that hides the secret, costumed life he leads after nightfall. But since this is a Woody Allen... / Continue →
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It's two frames below the "OF LIFE", I think. Have a bigger look at the IMDb. Also, if you didn't realize, Terrence Malick's Tree of Life has dinosaurs in it.... / Continue →
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Things sure have changed since the days when Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, and Jim Carrey were going to be getting jammed side-by-side in a doorway. Now MadTV's Will Sasso has signed on to play Curly in the Farrellys' Three Stooges movie, and reportedly Hank Azaria and James Mar... / Continue →
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Last night, watching Zardoz--the 1974 John Boorman sci-fi film, starring Sean Connery as a potential He-Man character--with some friends, the only unanimous assessment of the film was that it should definitely have a video game. There unfortunately still isn't one, but at least... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office top five: 1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules - $24.4 million, already making back the film's $21 million budget. Studio executives are surely already looking for what other schoolyard pariahs can be made into a profitable comic memoir. Would a chron... / Continue →
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Another crucial cast member has been added to Zack Snyder's Superman reboot, with three-time Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Adams taking the role of reporter Lois Lane, a strong female character Snyder will surely present with the same depth and dignity with which he handl... / Continue →
