April 3, 2011 - April 9, 2011 Archives
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- Robert Redford will be playing Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers executive that signed Jackie Robinson, in a still-untitled historical drama. And hearing that The Natural star is returning to the world of baseball doesn't make it any easier to look at this photo of him seem... / Continue →
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If Roland Emmerich is giving up disaster movies for historical thrillers, someone's going to have to take the end-of-the-world mantle from him, and with the arrival of this trailer for Melancholia, we now have the most unlikely candidate throwing his hat into the ring: Lars von... / Continue →
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In Baz Lurhmann's mind, making his Great Gatsby adaptation unnecessarily in 3-D is apparently second only to making the whole thing seem like it would have come together in 1998, because now he's reportedly trying to get Ben Affleck to join Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio i... / Continue →
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It's been 18 years since Free Willy and its Michael Jackson theme exploded at the box office and inspired millions to "adopt" a whale they immediately forgot about. Yet, as last year's straight-to-video release of Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (starring Beau Bridges) sh... / Continue →
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Being a normal guy around which fantastical, CGI-aided shit goes bonkers (in a museum) has done pretty well for Ben Stiller in recent years, so, of course, you have to imagine he wants to go back and make some more bank off that world. But he's also seemingly smart enough to kn... / Continue →
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Can a brief shot of what may well be a cardboard archery standee from a Bass Pro Shop count as a first look at a superhero? Because if so, here's your first look at Hawkeye!... / Continue →
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Ever wanted to see the Beastie Boys' "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)" video expanded to twenty minutes and stuffed with cameos, including scenes of celebrity-played Beastie Boys of two different time periods meeting? Well, that will be an option soon enough (May 3... / Continue →
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- Alright, anti-folkers: The Moldy Peaches' Adam Green directed a 72-minute-film--shot entirely on an iPhone, largely by IWS acquaintance Toby Goodshank--called The Wrong Ferarri, and you can watch the whole thing online. I haven't had a chance to get into it, so I can't speak ... / Continue →
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In Anonymous, the English-lit-major-mind-shattering conspiracy theory that William Shakespeare didn't actually write the stuff in your Complete Works of William Shakespeare is treated as plausible enough a claim to merit being explored as fact for a couple hours. So who better ... / Continue →
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"Don't forget to sell the watch, Werewolf!" "OHHHHH KAYYYYYY!" (from MTV)... / Continue →
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From Moviefone, here's a first look at Colin Farrell as the vampire-next-door and Anton Yelchin as young, vampire-identifying hero Charley Brewster in Craig Gillespie's remake of '80s classic Fright Night. So, looks like Farrell is playing the character in the style of obnoxiou... / Continue →
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Sorry, Steve Martin, you're going to have to cancel Pink Panther 3: Kung Fyoo. I'm pretty sure Johnny English Reborn has already taken all your good jokes (your good jokes were mostly G-rated testicle humor, right?):... / Continue →
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Rob Zombie is still making horror movies, and his next will be The Lords of Salem, the story of a 300-year-old coven returning Massachusetts to reclaim Salem and put Sheri Moon Zombie in another film. For those interested in such a thing, the director just posted the first imag... / Continue →
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Now that the Farrellys have definitively lowered their expectations from the A-List to network sitcom supporting cast, casting seems to be going a lot smoother on The Three Stooges lately. They still don't have their Moe, but the two have already moved on to hotter, bustier cas... / Continue →
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- Screen Gems has picked up U.S. distribution for the hoodlum v. alien comedy Attack the Block, so can catch up on your London street slang. - Hugh Jackman could be joining Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron on Snow White and the Huntsman, which should thankfully let him keep... / Continue →
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Oh boy, what A Cute One this is. Casting against type, An Invisible Sign sees Jessica Alba as a quirky/autistic, reclusive mathematics whiz (as represented by her having pigtails, because thick glasses just felt TOO real) forced out of her shell when she's given a job teaching ... / Continue →
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Looks like someone must have been mad that Hitch was still able to be modestly enjoyed by non-caucasians, so they decided to whiten this thing up both literally and thematically with Crazy, Stupid, Love. Now we've got a Bowflex ad-style Ryan Gosling as the suave eternal bachelo... / Continue →
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While Meg Ryan has been off deciding she's actually a director, Billy Crystal, Rob Reiner, and Funny or Die have been hard at work giving the people what they want: a sequel to When Harry Met Sally with Helen Mirren as New Sally. Mike Tyson also got involved. Give it a watch.... / Continue →
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Well, looks like we'll be getting a new Hangover, Part II trailer sooner rather than later--and not just because the last trailer showed only the bare minimum of alterations required for the sequel to be legally declarable as a different film than the first. According to this t... / Continue →
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In case India's answer to The Terminator wasn't enough for you--though, honestly, if a bunch of Indian Terminators merging into a massive drill/centipede/orb/etc. isn't enough for you, I don't know what the fuck you want--here's the film that's supposedly tackling the impossibl... / Continue →
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These days, it's relatively easy for anyone with patience, some DVDs, a penchant for watching actresses weep, and a copy of iMovie to edit together a video or two sadists can masturbate to, but that wasn't always the case. In 1993, for a fan to do something like that meant VHS ... / Continue →
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I realize that this should really be a Tyler Perry Tuesday item, but hey, you have to take Tyler Perry's news updates as they come, and he doesn't seem to respect my attempt at a Tyler Perry Tuesday tradition. While Perry already has a full plate--what with replacing Morgan Fr... / Continue →
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Seems like Saul Bass-inspired graphics have become sort of a cliché for fan-designed movie artwork, but this Bassian, fan-made X-Men: First Class gets a pass for being relevant (X-Men: First Class is set in the '60s, guys!) and for its inclusion of a haunting, maudlin cover of ... / Continue →
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Good news for Flight of the Conchords fans, as co-star Bret McKenzie has reportedly signed to play an elf named Lindir in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. The problem with this news? Bret McKenzie was already briefly in Lord of the Rings (see: above), and insane internet peoples hav... / Continue →
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As we've already learned, putting Keanu Reeves and MTV's Josh Horowitz in a room together inevitably leads to an awkward discussion about our pooled nostalgia manifesting itself as another Bill & Ted movie (see: these interviews). So it only makes sense that when the actor sat ... / Continue →
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Remember when it seemed like the Farrelly brothers somehow got Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, and Benicio Del Toro to play the leads in a Three Stooges movie? Well, now they've got the fat guy from $#*! My Dad Says and the unrelentingly flamboyant guy from Will & Grace. In their conti... / Continue →
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- Of course the Monsters University logo uses that standard university font. But it's going to look great on your Pixar letterman jacket. (via) - Remember when Will Smith had the worst idea: to put his son in an M. Night Shyamalan futuristic sci-fi movie? Well, he's decided he... / Continue →
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Gary Ross's adaptation of Hunger Games just got a couple more kids to kill each other with news Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth have joined the already-cast Jennifer Lawrence in the Battle Royale-like story of young men and women being picked to fight to the death. Hutcherso... / Continue →
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While most of print media continues its slumped-shouldered shuffle into oblivion, Total Film has come up with a way to sell a few more issues this month with the time-honored tradition of releasing several stylish covers at once, forcing the devoted to buy multiple copies of th... / Continue →
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It's not a substantial eye-meal, but this minute-long trailer for Super 8 does have enough new footage that True Fans may want to scan it for whatever clues J.J. Abrams has hidden within. Keep all findings to yourself. I'll just watch the movie in the theater, nerd.... / Continue →
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Sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stan Lee's The Governator won't be mercifully relegated to a season of Saturday morning TV and a lifetime of comic shop 50-cent bins after all. Last week, when Schwarzenegger released plans to parlay his political career into a superhero pe... / Continue →
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The weekend box office was like so: 1. Hop - $38.1 million--over half of the film's budget--which pretty much guarantees Hop sequels will become an Easter-time recurrence rivaled only by those Cadbury Easter Bunny audition commercials. And Christ's resurrection, I guess. 2. S... / Continue →
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An extended look at Green Lantern screened at WonderCon this weekend, delighting nerds looking to see some of their favorite intergalactic comics characters rendered in relatively convincing CGI. Now, an abbreviated edit of that footage has come online and you too can see all t... / Continue →
