July 17, 2011 - July 23, 2011 Archives
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- Sir Ridley Scott says: "I'll never work without 3-D again," This is just like when Dad got so excited about emails the week after he bought that Compaq. - Steven Spielberg says Jurassic Park IV will happen in the next two or three years, Michael Crichton's angry spirit notwi... / Continue →
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Steven Soderbergh's long talked-about retirement plans may or may not be happening, but if he does decide to stop making films, at least he can go out knowing he's worked with pretty much every working actor Hollywood has. The Ocean's series and the recent, surprisingly-large c... / Continue →
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Time is money, as your boss chuckles. But what if time ACTUALLY WAS OUR CURRENCY??? Ohhhhhh nooooo! I hope you weren't stoned when were reading that shit! Anyway, that's the conceit behind Andrew Niccol's latest, In Time, which proposes a future wherein humans live until 25, s... / Continue →
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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy's title may be a bit misleading. Yes, it's about a group of people fucking, but this isn't your usual fast-forward-past-all-the-talking-then-clean-yourself-up orgy film we're most accustomed to. In fact, this is basically the antithesis of that: an org... / Continue →
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A Drive that's better than The Cars' Drive? Yes, impossible, I know, but Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive looks like it comes pret-ty close. Reverting back from ab-flashing, rom-com Ryan Gosling to classic, indie Ryan Gosling, Ryan Gosling plays the kind of stoic bad-ass usually re... / Continue →
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Addressing a crowd from the back of a Real Steel-themed truck, Hugh Jackman yesterday revealed who the antagonist of the next Wolverine movie will be. Drawing inspiration from the film's Japanese setting and from people liking shiny things, Chris McQuarrie's screenplay has, acc... / Continue →
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One-upping yesterday's Avengers poster by as slim a margin as possible, here's the Amazing Spider-Man poster, aka, a photo of Spider-Man's back. Expect limbs to follow shortly.... / Continue →
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- Here's a first look at Ridley Scott's Alien sort-of-prequel, Prometheus. Doesn't really seem like a lot out of context, but it works if you imagine that the context is a lavish sci-fi-tinged production of Singin' in the Rain. - Zack Snyder's Superman film, The Man of Steel, ... / Continue →
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Afro Samurai, the cartoon samurai whose distinguishing feature is having an enormous afro, will soon be portrayed by an actual human wearing an enormous afro wig. As part of the Comic Con gaiety, it was announced today that Indomina Group Vice Chairman and CEO Jasbinder Singh M... / Continue →
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Relativity Media's Tarsem Singh-directed Snow White film still does not have a title, but hey, it does have actual little people playing the dwarves. And it also has the lovely eyebrows of Lilly Collins playing Snow White, as seen in this first photo of the Genesis heir in-cost... / Continue →
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With the Joss Whedon-directed, Chris Hemsworth-starring The Avengers coming to theaters next May, Lionsgate has decided that might be a good time to drop off that other Whedon/Hemsworth collaboration they've been sitting on, too, and have set an April 13 release for The Cabin i... / Continue →
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Only ten months since the last Paranormal Activity film, the Paranormal Activity 3 trailer is already here, and with it comes clear visuals of how, remarkably, the studio figured out a way to make this series look even cheaper than it already did. Their secret? VHS camcorders. ... / Continue →
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In a rare instance of Hollywood for once not gorging itself on empty calories just so its open bag of junk food won't expire, New Line has allowed the option to drop on their plans to do a hollow remake of John Carpenter's 1981 classic, Escape from New York. Plans to dump that ... / Continue →
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Your weekend wide releases: Captain America: The First Avenger Director: Joe Johnston Starring: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell Good if you want to see: Chris Evans take a serum to transform himself from Digitally-Skinny Chris Evans to Standard Chris Evans, America's ... / Continue →
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Like Ikea furniture, action figure playsets, and high school pep rallies, the promise of assembly seems to be the most vocal commitment given by The Avengers. How the conglomeration of Iron Man, Hammer Man, Shield Man, Green Man, Arrow Man, and Attractive Woman turns out remain... / Continue →
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- Disney has the G.I. Joe screenwriters working on a gargoyles movie that, thankfully, is in absolutely no way associated with Gargoyles, the beloved '90s cartoon series that employed the voices of half the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Hopefully these gargoyles will ... / Continue →
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In Dream House, Daniel Craig plays a father of two and husband of Rachel Weisz who, through some loitering goths, comes to learn some disturbing news about his new home: a mother and two children were murdered in there, and the killer is still on the loose! Why didn't his RE/MA... / Continue →
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Did The Adjustment Bureau not have enough dressed-up-man-running-with-distressed-beautiful-woman-in-his-hand moments for you? You're in luck: It turns out Andrew Niccol's In Time is basically just that, too! Here's a first look at the film--formerly given the intolerable title ... / Continue →
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It runs a full two-and-a-half minutes, but don't expect a lot of plot or Spidermanning in this first trailer for Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man. Instead, the preview divides the time between rehashing the same origin story we saw a decade ago--though now with modifications ... / Continue →
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Saving the Lone Ranger wardrobe department from having to purchase one more cowboy hat, Dwight Yoakam will play Butch Cavendish, leader of the Cavendish gang and the primary villain of Disney's upcoming Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp-starring film, reports Variety. Also in talks ... / Continue →
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Back when we first heard about Ben Stiller starring in 20th Century Fox's Secret Life of Walter Mitty remake, it truly seemed destined to end up under the directorial leadership of Night at the Museum's Shawn Levy. After all, we're talking about a film about Ben Stiller getting... / Continue →
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In Steve Harvey's 2009 book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment, the comedian divulges to women exactly how Steve Harvey believes the male brain works, because Steve Harvey is not afraid to tell it like it... / Continue →
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- Because Captain America is somehow still not enough of a fanboy porn for Joe Johnston, the director, in his own words, is "trying to get George [Lucas] to make a feature based on Boba Fett." And if that doesn't get the fanboy contingent cheering for him, he'll move on to cham... / Continue →
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A man made of numbers! A frightening glimpse at the digital population of the future, as foretold by Rush? Surely. A stylish poster to accompany the equally stylish trailer for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Solider Spy? That as well. Here's the full thing:... / Continue →
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If you've read the Hunger Games books, then you'll recognize this iconic mockingjay pin, a symbol of protagonist Katniss's rebellion against the oppressive Panem government. If you haven't read it, apparently that's what this is. Either way, this is the first poster for the Gar... / Continue →
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Our world is once again in peril, and Don Murphy, a producer of the Transformers series, can no longer stand the terrible lack of live-action adaptations of heavy-handed, '90s environmental cartoons plaguing our planet. Thus, he, Cartoon Network, and producing partner Susan Mon... / Continue →
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I hope no one was really looking forward to Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman's adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower, because, sorry, we aren't doing that anymore. The ginger director and his lamentable screenwriter had been hoping to stretch King's seven-plus books across a... / Continue →
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- Here's a new shot of Karl Urban dressed up like Judge Dredd. Still no sign of Rob Schneider. - Remember how Tom Cruise was in talks to play a hulking, 6'5", 250-pound ex-Army cop? That still sounds fine to everyone involved, so they're going ahead with it. - After beginning... / Continue →
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Quentin Tarantino's cast for Django Unchained is Costner-less no longer. Joining Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, and Samuel L. Jackson in the film is ol' Kevin Costner, who's now in talks to play Ace Woody, a trainer who works on DiCaprio's Candyland slave ranch... / Continue →
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Rhys Ifans and Daniel Craig, seen above as a high-spirited gay couple you're having brunch with, may once again be sharing the screen on the next James Bond film. If the The Telegraph is to be believed--and I'm not sure it should be--Ifans, who last co-starred and shared lip co... / Continue →
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Someone doing push-ups, two masked men, and a mustached guy in a hospital bed? Don't worry; no one has found your porn collection: it's the first trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. Prepare to be teasered and watch it here.... / Continue →
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Sean Bean, whose work in Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones has already given him a well-established record of co-starring with dwarves, will once again foster positive Bean-Dwarf relations in Tarsem Singh's still-untitled Snow White project. The actor is reportedly in late ... / Continue →
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Director Noam Murro has won the best kind of victory: the kind where you didn't have to really try, because the other guy dropped out of the competition. With Jaume Collet-Sara no longer interested in directing 300: Battle of Artemisia, instead focusing his attention on what's ... / Continue →
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Your record-setting, magical weekend box office: 1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 - $168.5 million, beating The Dark Knight's $158.4 and setting a new record for highest-grossing opening weekend ever. Makes sense it would be Harry Potter who takes out Batman. Es... / Continue →
