April 24, 2011 - April 30, 2011 Archives
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For a while now, Steven Soderbergh has been saying he'll be done directing after he finishes his Liberace biopic and a remake of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and word is he still does plan to go ahead with that retirement plan--but not before the guy gets some footage of G.I. Joe i... / Continue →
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In a landmark case that will surely set a new precedent for replicating disfiguring facial tattoos, tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill has filed suit against Warner Bros., claiming The Hangover, Part II's use of the tattoo he designed exclusively for Mike Tyson violates his copyr... / Continue →
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In case today's earlier trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon still had a little too much pretense for you, enjoy the film's latest poster, which shrugs off all that talk of something about the moon and instead just reminds you: Giant robot! City go kablooey! A few humans,... / Continue →
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If you thought Schwarzenegger's plan to return to the crouched, nude state we found him in after Conan the Destroyer was something, wait until you hear this: apparently the whole cast is returning to the Terminator franchise. Latino Review has word from a supposedly legitimate ... / Continue →
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Arnold will be returning to the Terminator series soon enough, but before he gets back to reminding us that his acting style is best presented as the emoting of a flesh-covered robot, it seems Schwarzenegger is going to first show us a dramatic side I'm largely unfamiliar with.... / Continue →
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Zach Galifianakis's departure from R.I.P.D. left a gaping hole beside Ryan Reynolds that could only be filled by another laid-back personality capable of growing a healthy beard. Thankfully, we have just such a character, albeit older and less overweight, in Jeff Bridges, and h... / Continue →
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The Decepticons' hatred of the Chicagoland area being what it is, they've returned to finish the job in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and they are so over all the "look, I'm a jet, whoops I'm a robot-guy" more-than-meets-the-eye stuff. Remember the giant robot blimp Transform... / Continue →
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With the pervasiveness of Jeremy Renner rising exponentially, it's no surprise that he's already lining up new ways for us to see his inescapable gnomish face for after The Avengers, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, and The Bourne Legacy ha... / Continue →
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- MTV had this nice photo of Green Lantern and all his clubhouse friends. - Chris Evans has confirmed he has a modernized outfit for his present-day heroism in The Avengers. Is it the Old Navy shirt, Chris? - Dimension films has purchased the sci-fi thriller spec script The G... / Continue →
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As Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles prepare their latest, The Dictator, the time has come to finally put a female presence in a Cohen-doing-a-voice movie, and it's reportedly down to three likely options. The Hollywood Reporter says Kristen Wiig, Anna Faris, and Com... / Continue →
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Just when it seemed like Ashton Kutcher was set to be The One to shepherd Justin Bieber into a new stage of his career that would force us to refer to him as an "actor", a new contender has emerged: Mark Wahlberg. Talking to Vulture, Wahlberg reportedly revealed, "Justin Bieber... / Continue →
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With Ryan Gosling now seemingly out of the running, it's looking like the Winklevoss twins might be who gets the honor of receiving second-billing as a title character, with Variety reporting The Social Network's Armie Hammer is in early talks to play the Lone Ranger opposite J... / Continue →
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The Farrellys likely finally have their main Three Stooges cast sorted out, but with the addition of Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe, they're now left with only a three-to-one ratio of network sitcom supporting stars to non-network sitcom supporting stars. Thusly, they've now signe... / Continue →
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"Let's finish this the way we started it: together," declares the nerdy kid with glasses in this preview. Sure, why not? I'll join him for the final showdown between himself and that featureless guy in the dress. And if you want to as well, here's the full trailer for the film ... / Continue →
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Don't worry, Michael Shannon, you won't be alone out there in your fight against Superman. According to Variety, aiding The Man of Steel's General Zod in his war on truth/justice/Americana will be Antje Traue, a German actress last seen in Pandorum. She'll be playing Faora, the... / Continue →
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Zorro has been portrayed and portrayed again so many times--appearing in books, comics, radio, video games, on television, and in over 40 films, not to mention parodies and battery commercials--that at this point, you'd think it would be pretty hard for even modern Hollywood to... / Continue →
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So often when a film's marketing boasts that it's "from the guys who brought you" or "from the producers of," the point is just to form a flimsy connection to a previously-successful product to which it bears little to no similarity. But in the case of Immortals, that's not the... / Continue →
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Looks like the computer chips working on finishing up the X-Men: First Class graphics got a lot done over the weekend, and all their diligent processing has been assembled into a new trailer for the film. Stuffed with noticeably more effects shots than previous trailers, it doe... / Continue →
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While Pittsburgh will be doing most of the standing in for Gotham in Batman's latest screen outing, it seems Christopher Nolan and Co. will be taking in some of the beautiful and/or depressing sights of India as well. The Daily Bhaskar (via) reports: Get set to welcome DC Comi... / Continue →
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Fulfilling his promise to "be back" in a way far more pandering and monetarily-motivated than anyone ever imagined, Arnold Schwarzenegger is attached to reprise his role in the Terminator franchise, albeit now as a visibly older robot whose flesh loosely hangs as a sorrowful re... / Continue →
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The red-band trailer for Bridesmaids is here, finally giving the Kristen Wiig ensemble comedy the room to show of a little more of the swearing, Jon Hamm screwing, and inebriated Hitler impressions that an audience demands. Watch it now, and mark this milestone in gender equali... / Continue →
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- It's a sad TPT this week, unfortunately, as Tyler Perry has announced that he'll be ending his long-running TBS sitcom House of Payne after 222 episodes. But on the bright side, from those ashes shall rise a new Tyler Perry's phoenix: For Better or Worse, a TBS dramedy dealin... / Continue →
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Well, the sequel to Piranha 3D--titled Piranha 3DD, naturally--may claim more bountiful breasts than its predecessor, but it sure doesn't have the cast. While the last film was able to get Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd, Elisabeth Shue, Ving Rhames, Adam Scott, Eli Roth, a... / Continue →
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Now forces have, temporarily, wrested actor replication technology from Eddie Murphy and his crew of simulated other Eddie Murphies, director Lee Tamahori has taken the opportunity to use it to double Dominic Cooper for The Devil's Double, a film that puts the up-and-coming big... / Continue →
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Feeling threatened by all the excited chatter surrounding Marvel's just-released photograph of canvas folding chairs, Warner Bros. today released a couple more character banners for Green Lantern to highlight that film's wealth of deformed heads. Under the cut, get a look at Ki... / Continue →
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What an exquisitely-painted cheap hotel painting this What's Your Number? is! So thick with potential, yet so content in its mundanity it's doomed to be viewed mostly by tourist families and as seen in the background as people fuck. Anna Faris stars--in her standard charming t... / Continue →
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Confirming director Joss Whedon's blog post that production has just begun on The Avengers, Marvel today released their own statement with an accompanying image revealing some novelty seating adorned with the lead characters' names. Hey, just like CGI Garfield has! Anyway, her... / Continue →
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From the Onion News Network: "Today Now! Interviews The 5-Year-Old Screenwriter Of Fast Five." This is undoubtedly the only worthwhile dialogue that will ever occur as a result of this franchise. Watch:... / Continue →
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Though the comedy's original cast of A-list stars has departed, leaving a stock sitcom supporting cast in their wake, the crippled Three Stooges is still stubbornly limping forward, and the Farrelly brothers have a new name in mind to finish up the main cast. Chris Diamantopoul... / Continue →
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- Johnny Depp has agreed to return to 21 Jump Street with a brief cameo in the upcoming movie remake, a passing of the torch symbolic of Jonah Hill becoming the next Johnny Depp. - Director Joss Whedon says filming on The Avengers began today, so hopefully these Thor and Capta... / Continue →
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I hope you didn't fill up on the Our Idiot Brother trailer's Steve Coogan starter, because there is still so much more Coogan News to consume, guys. Such as: the above poster for the US theatrical release of The Trip. Released as a six-part television series in the UK, the semi... / Continue →
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If you thought you were getting away with a Captain America movie sans a big culture shock jump to present day, it appears you were mistaken. On Saturday, Chris Evans and Samuel L. Jackson were spotted picking up some last minute shots in Times Square, shooting a Forever Young-... / Continue →
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Earlier this month, when Marvel revealed they'd hired notable writer Shane Black to direct yet someone else entirely to write Iron Man 3, it was starting to feel like Dad bought an XBox just to play his Paul Simon CDs again. They've got this great action-comedy writer working o... / Continue →
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Bad news if you were looking forward to having your very own action figure of the guy who played "Sean" on EastEnders. Actor Robert Kazinsky, who was set to play the young dwarf Fili in The Hobbit, has reportedly left Peter Jackson's in-production film for personal reasons. Tha... / Continue →
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Having played straight man to Steve Carell's defective in Dinner for Schmucks, Paul Rudd is finally getting his turn at the infuriating retard part in Our Idiot Brother, in which our impossible-to-dislike star plays the title sibling, a hippy caricature being passed around by h... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Rio - $26.8 million. Funny, when I'd dreamed of birds taking down Tyler Perry, it was always much different: him, on his back, incapacitated by his signature character's layers of costume padding, as the pecking birds mercilessly ignore his cries--s... / Continue →
