May 8, 2011 - May 14, 2011 Archives
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- Rob Lowe has agreed to direct Butterfinger the 13th, a Bart Simpson-less comedy-horror short that Butterfinger is claiming "will be the first-ever film produced not by a major studio or filmmaker, but by one of America's iconic candy brands," which really discounts the cinema... / Continue →
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A recent New Yorker article made the claim that, regarding film, "funny women must not only be gorgeous; they must fall down and then sob, knowing it's all their fault." It's a pretty broad statement to make, but one that's also kind of hard to argue against--even more so now t... / Continue →
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Today has already surprised us with another entry into the "polished, serious '80s horror remake" genre, and now we've also got a new addition to the "gritty '70s genre pictures remade as sweaty sadism pornos" genre bursting into our homes unannounced. Sony just released the tr... / Continue →
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The original, 1985 Fright Night was enjoyable in a corny enough way that its remake is one of the few that had a fighting chance if it didn't take the somber, so-fucking-serious path already scampered down by oh so many an '80s horror remake. As you've probably already guessed,... / Continue →
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Returning to the world of time travel he explored in Twelve Monkeys and the word of shooting guns he explored in being Bruce Willis, Bruce Willis appears in Brick director Rian Johnson's Looper as the future, bald version of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character, and Empire has prov... / Continue →
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Hollywood's hunt for well-known fairy tales old enough to not have any rights issues has finally led someone to consider, "Hey, how about The Pied Piper of Hamelin?" 20th Century Fox has hired screenwriter Max Landis to write Pied Piper, described as a "fantasy thriller" take o... / Continue →
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Even Danish art-house filmmakers are apparently not immune to the call of the remake, and Lars Von Trier will be teaming up with Martin Scorsese to remake 2003's The Five Obstructions--itself a film about making remakes, thus defining the gravitational singularity of our remake... / Continue →
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In this economy, even someone so prone to winning as Charlie Sheen isn't immune to being replaced by some young hotshot eager to do your job for half the pay with half the binge time off. Case in point, Ashton Kutcher is going to be taking over Sheen's Whole Man spot on the ine... / Continue →
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- Apparently it "appears doubtful" NBC will pick up Wonder Woman, so we may never get to see and cruelly mock whatever the third costume with the shorts is. Shame, that. - Alexander Skarsgard will join Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan in Scott McGehee and David Siegel's contemp... / Continue →
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With the 2003 film Something's Gotta Give providing some assurance Diane Keaton totally goes for aging actors that were once icons of a generation but are now usually just the cranky old recognizable guy in broad comedies, Robert De Niro at last has the confidence to attempt a ... / Continue →
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Want to watch some cute kids putting on a musical production of Star Wars? Sure you do; you aren't an evil jinn, are you? OK, then, so watch this trailer for an in-production documentary about just such a thing. The preview was put together to raise the $8000 the directors need... / Continue →
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The American-vs-European racing rivalry of Talladega Nights, the candy-lacquered driving of Speed Racer, and the intolerable Larry the Cable Guy-as-a-hero scenario put forth by Witless Protection, all put in a blender and served in three dimensions, with an exceptionally bitter... / Continue →
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Every so often Jack Black likes to take a break from Gulliver Traveling and being a panda, giving his vocal cords a brief respite from shouting with a more subdued role in something like Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding. It sounds like that time has come yet again, with ne... / Continue →
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From the set of The Hobbit, here's Gandalf wearing funny glasses. That is all. (From Sir Ian's Flickr, where he already made the "ZZ-Gandalf" joke; via.)... / Continue →
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Last we heard about what studio would be delivering us the next Terminator film, Universal, Sony and Lionsgate, and CBS Films were reportedly "looking hard" at rights-holder Pacificor's package, all carefully considering whether a pension-aged Schwarzenegger as a Terminator mak... / Continue →
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9 to 5's trio-committing-a-boss-kidnapping premise is taken to its natural next level when comedy everymen Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day all decide, simultaneously, they should team up and murder each of their title bosses and just hope the cops never put toget... / Continue →
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Lest the latest, epic trailer and alien-centric posters for Green Lantern starts you thinking the film is all grand-scale space stuff, here's a poster for Peter Sarsgaard's character, Hector Hammond, to remind you there's this lumpy pederast guy, too. Have a full look at his ma... / Continue →
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You thought Piranha 3DD's newcomer cast of the gangling kid from Nacho Libre, 82-year-old Clu Galager, Glory Daze guy from the AT&T "old minutes" commercials and Final Destination 5's David Koechner was as good as it gets? Well, now the Piranha 3D sequel has got Hasselhoff, too... / Continue →
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Providing us a hollow-eyed May-July-ish romance to look forward to next year, Katie Holmes and Chace Crawford have signed on to star in the romantic-comedy Responsible Adults, in which Holmes will play a 30-year-old med student whose "chemistry is electric" with Crawford's 22-y... / Continue →
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With only two weeks left before Rock of Ages table readings, Alec Baldwin has seemingly come to the revelation that doing a grown-up Glee with Tom Cruise isn't such a hot idea after all, reportedly asking that New Line please let him out of doing this movie "if at all possible.... / Continue →
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With Jeremy Renner set to play the new guy who is similar to Bourne--but definitely not Bourne--in the new Bourne film, Universal's attention has shifted to the concern of who will be a girl in The Bourne Legacy, because everyone at the studio agrees there should be at least a ... / Continue →
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Boasting a cast as impressively hodgepodge as Brett Ratner's Tower Heist--albeit with far higher blood-alcohol level--the heist comedy Sleight of Hand will be shooting in Paris with Gerard Depardieu, Thomas Jane, Til Schweiger, Jon Lovitz, Keifer Sutherland, Johnny Hallyday, an... / Continue →
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Wait until you see what the number "2" is doing! (It's bursting out of the skull.) / Continue →
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- Here's a photo of Bill Hader as he appears playing a spot-on Andy Warhol for one of Men in Black III's back-in-time scenes. I get it, Men in Black: eccentric celebrities are aliens. (via) - After pursuing Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, Hugh Jackman, and Joel Edgerton w... / Continue →
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Hey, another Peter Pan adaptation! Adding to Sony's Channing Tatum-starring Pan, Disney's thoughts for a prequel, and the peanut butter, now we've got Aaron Eckhart starring in writer Ben Mag and director Ben Hibon dark, modern take on the story, which is being made because we ... / Continue →
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Jon Favreau's adaptation of the Cowboys & Aliens graphic novel has yet to hit theaters, but already it's sparked a revolution in the film industry, wherein buying up comics about arbitrary combinations of geek-popular stock characters is quickly becoming a replacement for think... / Continue →
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"Anything I could use to put a fighting robot together," Hugh Jackman asks of his junkyard-searching son in the latest trailer for Real Steel. Add the word "movie" somewhere in that sentence and you get what I imagine Shawn Levy demanded at every pre-production meeting for this... / Continue →
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If you can't get Steven Spielberg, might as well just get the guy who did X-Men 3 and the Rush Hours, right? DreamWorks concurs, and has signed Brett Ratner to direct The 39 Clues, a family franchise previously being set up for Spielberg until he got so busy making a Lincoln bi... / Continue →
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Five months into 2011, we still have yet to hear any confirmation of the entire Arrested Development cast freeing up a chunk of their schedule at the last minute to get a movie shot and released by the end of the calendar year. Still, though, let's continue to delude ourselves ... / Continue →
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OK, so you didn't like the dirt golems of the Conan the Barbarian trailer, and no one particularly cared for watching Conan letting his hair dangle from atop his skull collection; maybe you'd prefer Conan just hacking up some normal dudes in armor, then? So hopes the film's new... / Continue →
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- Sam Worthington will star in F. Gary Gray's The Last Days of American Crime, an Equilibrium-meets-Minority Report-meets-Heist-type sci-fi thing that follows a thief pulling off one last big job before a government-run mind control process stops all human ability to commit unl... / Continue →
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and Friday the 13th (2009) director Marcus Nispel's latest remake, Conan the Barbarian, still has another three months before audiences are exposed to a decidedly less-Austrian take on the character, but already Nispel is ready to move on to a new... / Continue →
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I've heard actors say--particularly recently, with all the superhero films--that they sometimes only fully form an understanding of their character once they get their costume on, so I can sort of see how when you put a Robert Smith wig on Sean Penn, he might feel some need to ... / Continue →
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Production design on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: It's more than just adding some American flags to the leftover Van Helsing sets, apparently! With this film competing on the same stage as a href="http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2011/05/lincoln-gets-more-people-to-pretend-bein.p... / Continue →
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Quentin Tarantino's years as a movie geek working at a video store may give him an encyclopedic knowledge of film most of us could only dream of, but that doesn't mean that when he thinks "African-American leading man," his mind doesn't go the same place your Mom's does. Thus, ... / Continue →
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Well, the fifth chapter of the Final Destination series seems to have dropped it's "5nal Destination" title, but, fear not, that prior title's misguided sense of creativity still remains the murdering of fake teenagers! In this trailer alone, we're already shown a handful of th... / Continue →
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Following a morning of technical delays, here, at last, is your weekend box office: 1. Thor - $66 million. And here I thought we couldn't have a successful film about a muscular, displaced, Aryan, alien warrior in a post-Suburban Commando, post-Masters of the Universe world. ... / Continue →
