May 15, 2011 - May 21, 2011 Archives
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MGM's post-bankruptcy philosophy of betting it all entirely on sequels and remakes (because their Vin Diesel-the-Robot movie might as well be a remake) continues today with the revelation that the studio has hired Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to slap a new coat of pig blood on Carri... / Continue →
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Hey, are those explosions paired with the unending sensation that I'm staring into a blender? Must be a new Transformers trailer! Debuting this weekend, this one adds some 3-D footage that's sadly not going to look so 3-D on your computer screen, but still has enough fire, meta... / Continue →
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What with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher starring in basically the same film just a few months ago, Screen Gems has a tough task at hand in making their film look unique and worthwhile against No Strings Attached. So, really, who's going to blame them for not even bothering... / Continue →
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Taking a shot at matching the ridiculously crowded schedules of directors like Sam Raimi and Ridley Scott, Michel Gondry has added a French-language Audrey Tautou film to his future filmography. While the director had previously mentioned eclectic plans to do a movie about Bron... / Continue →
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The life of one beloved, colorful '80s icon may have been sadly cut short, but the life of another continues on, for better or worse, through the eternal flame that ignites Michael Bay's explosives. I refer, of course, to Transformers, and while we were originally going to be w... / Continue →
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The world today lets out a mournful "oooooooh, nooooo" with the passing of professional wrestling icon "Macho Man" Randy Savage. The two-time WWF champion and outspoken supporter of seasoned, dehydrated meat stalks died tragically in Floriday after a heart attack caused him to ... / Continue →
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Just yesterday shooting began on Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, and already a mysterious viral campaign has been revealed--and immediately sorted out--at TheDarkKnightRises.com, giving us a first peek at a sulky Bane. As determined by internet people, if you run th... / Continue →
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Now in your movie-showing establishments: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Director: Rob Marshall Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane Good if you want to see: Johnny Depp once again put on that special eyeliner costume that makes Disney money. Midnigh... / Continue →
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While similar to the last trailer for Mr. Popper's Penguins, this latest preview for the Jim Carrey vehicle distinguishes itself with the addition of several additional facets beyond "Jim Carrey in a Manhattan apartment, with penguins." Like the reveal that Clark Gregg is appar... / Continue →
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- In response to his Cannes banning, von Trier says he's "a little proud of being named a persona non grata," but added some clarifications: "I am absolutely no Mel Gibson ... I am not Hitler." Just what an evil chimera of Gibson and Hitler would say. - Topher Grace is joining... / Continue →
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In the 1999 film The Iron Giant, Vin Diesel provided the voice of a powerful, deadly robot who gets discovered and befriended by a boy, and later attacked by the government. The Brad Bird-directed film received overwhelmingly positive reviews and is already considered something... / Continue →
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From Empire, here is a new set of Horrible Bosses posters, each proclaiming their pictured supervisor's appropriate derogatory labels. Sure makes me glad Jesus is my boss!... / Continue →
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Curious why Christian Bale is suddenly absent from his usual Bale Burrows? Here's the reason: that new Batman started shooting today! Cherish that knowledge with the same sense of bitter anticipation as when you know already what you're getting next Christmas by January, becaus... / Continue →
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As if James Franco doesn't have enough going on with a Winona Ryder movie, making super-smart apes, documenting street gangs, being a wizard, adapting great American novels, a Linda Lovelace biopic, and all that tough Columbia homeworks, now our greatest entertainment Renaissan... / Continue →
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Hoping to cash in on some of that big Gnomeo and Juliet-style wordplay money, Paramount is negotiating to pick up The Hauntrepreneur, a spec script from Scott Rosenberg. Said to be tonally similar to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the film focuses on a family that moves to ... / Continue →
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Well, this should at least save Lars von Trier a ton of gas money. The Danish director and 2000 recipient of Cannes' top honor (the Palme d'Or) has officially been banned from the film festival following those misconstrued remarks about getting Hitler, being a Nazi, etc. Despi... / Continue →
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'Zookeeper' Poster: Kevin James Puts on His Brave "Pretend You're Happy, and Next to a Gorilla" FaceWould you look at yourself, Paul Blart? You can barely even muster enough of a smile to convincingly portray that you're happily riding alongside a gorilla, on a roller coaster specially-made to hold a gorilla. How on Earth are you going to make it through the shoot for Valet G... / Continue →
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- Mel Gibson is in talks to join the cast of Sleight of Hand, which would place him alongside Kiefer Sutherland, Gerard Depardieu, Thomas Jane, and Johnny Hallyday in the inevitable lineup to determine which of them was driving the vehicle before it crashed into a group of pede... / Continue →
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50 Cent's recent appearances in "a really bad movie" with Mickey Rourke, the self-proclaimed "most critically-acclaimed role of his career" with Ray Liotta, and what looks like the result of clandestine inbreeding in the bottom of a DVD bargain bin, with Bruce Willis haven't se... / Continue →
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Alleviating concerns that Jennifer Lawrence might just be a little too Nordic-looking to play the small, emaciated, olive-skinned brunette described as the lead of Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games, here's a first look at the actress in-costume as heroine Katniss Everdeen. It turns... / Continue →
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Usually it's his films' clitoridectomies that earn all that shocked awe at Cannes, but today it was director Lars von Trier himself earning the festival's gaping faces when, at a conference for his upcoming Melancholia, he sort of kept saying he was a Nazi, joking with the audi... / Continue →
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Roger Corman--or another, less notable low budget filmmaker who equally considers SyFy Channel airings to be a legitimate means of film distribution--never lets us down with inventing a new match-up of unconvincing CGI abominations at least once a season. We still have a little... / Continue →
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Man, Sam Worthington turns around for one second to do an indie drama and next thing he knows, someone has taken his spot as the unmemorable-looking Australian actor of choice to suddenly be in everything out of nowhere. That part now belongs to Joel Edgerton, who's just been c... / Continue →
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Congratulations, Mark Wahlberg: it looks like your guest pass to Adam McKay and Will Ferrell's comedy club has been upgraded to a permanent photo ID. According to Deadline, the actor will once again be providing some genuine rage across from The Other Guys co-star Will Ferrell ... / Continue →
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After Blue Valentine and the upcoming Take This Waltz, Michelle Williams is going to take a little break from showing us how fucking depressing marriage can be with a more lighthearted part in Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful. In the Wizard of Oz prequel/origin story, she... / Continue →
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- Here's the poster for Apple's new line of self-mobilized 4G Muppets. - Another morsel has been piled on to that ever-growing buffet plate Ridley Scott swears he'll finish, with Scott signing on to the Cold War drama Reykjavik. Just so long as the story of Monopoly is told, R... / Continue →
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While a Bill & Ted reunion remains a somehow possible unlikely Keanu Reeves project, Akira does not. Just two weeks ago, Reeves had reportedly been taking meetings with Warner Bros. about starring as a too-old lead in their remake, but now, according to JoBlo, he joins Brad Pit... / Continue →
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As much as Working Title would love for their Merlin-in-the-modern-world movie to be the only Arthurian wizard competing for our movie dollar, it looks like that that's just not going to happen, guys. Warner Bros., in need of some sort of wizard bullshit to make up for not havi... / Continue →
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Zookeeper Kevin James Character thought he had the life: a job he enjoyed and an enviously modelesque girlfriend who was seemingly fine with his comical weight problem. Unfortunately for him, it turned out she DID have a problem with him tending to exotic animals, and the two s... / Continue →
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Apparently unimpressed by whatever gossip Johnny Depp reported back from the set of The Tourist, Tim Burton has broken off his loose, year-long attachment to direct Angelina Jolie in Maleficent. Undeterred, Disney's plan to tell the live-action story of Sleeping Beauty's green-... / Continue →
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Even films constructed entirely around an excuse for Jean-Claude Van Damme to show off how well he does the splits are apparently not immune to Hollywood's remake disease. ScreenDaily reports that producer Ed Pressman has hired original Karate Kid writer Robert Mark Kamen and S... / Continue →
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This first trailer for The Adventures of Tintin doesn't give us a lot of the plot, nor does it give us much of a look at its possibly-nightmarishly-reanimated-looking, motion-capture characters. But, like the posters that debuted yesterday, there is one thing it is so, so rich ... / Continue →
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- As if Seth MacFarlane's current majority ownership of Fox's Animation Domination block weren't enough, MacFarlane has now worked out a deal by which he'll be adding to that a new version of The Flintstones that will see the series return from Stephen Baldwin's Barney bowl cut... / Continue →
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The combination of Spielberg, producer Peter Jackson, and a promising writing pedigree has made The Adventures of Tintin one to watch as it attempts to straddle the uncanny valley of super creepiness. A trailer is expected to soon let us evaluate how well they did, but in the m... / Continue →
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Entertainment Weekly has posted the first look at Ed Harris in costume as John McCain in HBO's adaptation of Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's book about the last presidential campaign. Whereas Julianne Moore basically looked like Julianne Moore dressed up in a 20... / Continue →
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Video game-based movies maybe haven't worked out so well by and large, but that sure isn't going to stop Ubisoft from giving it a few more shots. The Parisian software publisher's film and tv production arm is reportedly validating its existence with the development of 3-D film... / Continue →
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Sofia Coppola was nearly wooed over to the Twilight franchise, but it looks like Jim Jarmusch will instead be the indie auteur who first makes us all ask "why the fuck are they doing a vampire movie?" According to ScreenDaily, the art house director is working on what he calls ... / Continue →
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Because Twilight still isn't blatantly female-oriented enough of a vampire tale for some folk, Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton are attached to star in a mother-daughter vampire story called Byzantium. Set to be directed by Interview with the Vampire's Neil Jordan from a script... / Continue →
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Michael Hoffman's Coen Brothers-scripted remake of Gambit began shooting in London this month, and CBS has just released a first look at stars Cameron Diaz and Colin Firth as they appear filling in for the original's Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine. The "sibling cops in a ne... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Thor - $34.5 million, holding the top spot for a second straight weekend. And here I always stupidly thought Xolotl would end up being the most commercially marketable thunder god. 2. Bridesmaids - $24.4 million, a solid opening for an R-rated come... / Continue →
