August 14, 2011 - August 20, 2011 Archives
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If you took the time to watch Mark Steven Johnson's 2007 attempt at a Ghost Rider film, in all likelihood, you have reached the conclusion that Mark Steven Johnson did not do a very good job at that. But have you ever taken the time to consider exactly what his adaptation was m... / Continue →
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- A couple of the Avengers have united on the Ohio set, and Captain America is already getting all petulant about it. - Gerard Butler is rumored to be up for a lead role as a naval captain in the submarine thriller Hunter Killer. The Hunt for Red October standard of inexplicab... / Continue →
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Alleviating some of those fears that watching two hours of pure shirtless hunks might turn you into gay, Steven Soderbergh has added a couple ladies to his upcoming stripper-centric movie, Magic Mike. The film's ab count has been rising steadily all week, with Matthew McConaugh... / Continue →
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"He rides again," the first poster for Ghost Rider promises, referring to Nicolas Cage's aflame skeleton once again wearing a leather jacket and touring on a motorcycle that has fire for tires. Curiously, the one-sheet leaves out all of that dumb shit in favor of just Cage's cl... / Continue →
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If the trailer for Ghost Rider was too fanciful a jaunt into the realm of flame excretion for your tastes, here's a film seemingly tailor-made to make you livid with the feeling that DON'T I GET ENOUGH ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT AT HOME? In Roman Polanski's Carnage (abbreviated from t... / Continue →
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"Look, I'm either going to do a remake of Fantastic Voyage with Will Smith or some other big-ass star, or fuck it, I'm going home." That is, probably word-for-word, Shawn Levy's current position on if he's doing that Fantastic Voyage remake. The Night at the Museum visionary ha... / Continue →
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Was The Help too girly of a "white star does accent to help black people" story for you? Well, here's one with Gerard Butler, and rocket launchers. Plus, it's based on a true story, so that means it washes away twice as much white guilt.... / Continue →
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- True Blood's Joe Manganiello and White Collar's Matt Bomer will join Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, and Matthew McConaughey in Steven Soderbergh's male stripper drama, Magic Mike. Expect to hear a lot about this one come next awards season--if not for its merits then because ... / Continue →
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The good thing is, you don't have to be a Twilight fan to enjoy the latest chapter in the series, Breaking Dawn, Part I. You can also just really like stock photography tagged "happy, couple, engagement, white."... / Continue →
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Sam Worthington can do all the dialects! Australian, American, Na'vi, Learning Computer, maybe slightly English or something for Clash of the Titans, and now, with Texas Killing Fields, he adds to that list the more specific American dialect of Texan. He can play a Sam Worthing... / Continue →
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A couple months ago, we learned that Robert Rodriguez has added scratch-and-sniff cards to Spy Kids 4-D in his bid to become the modern-day, cowboy hat-wearing William Castle. That sounds fun and all--I liked getting those stickers on a graded paper, too, Rob--but what was care... / Continue →
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Remember how Alcon Entertainment purchased the rights to Blade Runner, and planned to, despite all protests, make some more Blade Runners? Well, Ridley Scott is going to make those extra Blade Runners for you. The production company behind such winning titles as Dude, Where's ... / Continue →
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When Kate Beckinsale was able to reduce her role to a brief monologue in the last Underworld film, Rise of the Lycans, it seemed like she might just be at last escaping from her prison beneath the series' dim blue party lights. Alas, that was not the case. Like with Milla Jovov... / Continue →
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So, there are these trespassers, and these guys, they're trespassing in Nicolas Cage's mansion, right? They will leave Nicolas Cage's mansion under one condition: let them in your safe full of money and diamonds, please. Nicolas Cage, though, hoo boy, he is NOT keen on letting ... / Continue →
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- Rosamund Pike beat out Hayley Atwell and Alexa Davalos for the dubious distinction of becoming Tom Cruise's love interest in One Shot. It's just going to be hard imagining Cruise with anyone new when we all see so much fiery passion between himself and his actual wife, right?... / Continue →
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Back in March, Tom Hanks's Larry Crowne emerged as a clear frontrunner for most agreeably bland feature of the year. Remember how much Mom liked slurping down that watery imagery of Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts pleasantly riding a moped? It seemed like no one was even going to t... / Continue →
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Over so many months of Captain America: The First Avenger promotion, Chris Evans consistently, tirelessly delivered so, so many pouty faces to let us all know just how grumpy he was that Mom combed his hair. But is it possible he'd saved his most pettish expression yet for his ... / Continue →
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If you're one of the many who belong to the generation that grew up on Back to the Future's story of time travel, flying DeLoreans, hoverboards, etc., chances are, if you were going to start asking hard questions of the series, you would have started somewhere around the fading... / Continue →
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Like an Avengers of gratuitously shirtless dudes--in case Thor and Captain America weren't already gratuitously shirtless enough for you--Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike will unite some of our greatest shirtlesses into one epic tale bound with sinew and unnecessarily-exposed pec... / Continue →
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First thing's first: Chris Evans is NOT your normal lawyer! In the trailer for Puncture, you figure that out pretty fast once you see Evans shirtless, in a tie, in a hotel room, practicing an argument on some drug users. Mostly because immediately after that scene, a title card... / Continue →
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In the first teaser for Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe's frightful encounter with a zoetrope made the whole film seem sort of like The Ring for the Victorian-era gentleman. This primitive animating device is haunted, everyone! But, with blunt narration, this latest trailer ma... / Continue →
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- Still no clue who all the villains will be in The Avengers, but these new photos reveal those villains will be coming equipped with some toys you can buy your kids. - Brad Pitt is in talks to star in The Gray Man, which would cast him as "a CIA operative-turned-assassin targ... / Continue →
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TWO different children! TWO entirely different places! But sonofabitch if both of these kids aren't haunted by the same seemingly-supernatural force!--some sort of shadowy figure that drips, growls, explodes light bulbs, and, according to this trailer's editing, would seem to s... / Continue →
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In Relativity Media's Machine Gun Preacher, Gerard Butler stars as real-life hero Sam Childers, a criminal, maladjusted youth who eventually found salvation through helping the children of war-torn Sudan. Thankfully, some of that helping involved being this bad-ass guy with a g... / Continue →
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I think we've all pretty much given up on the perpetually "once we work out everyone's schedule" Arrested Development movie by now--I know I've moved on so that I might focus my energy on other likely-impossible dreams, like winning the lottery, French kissing an alien, and see... / Continue →
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As the only cast member of Mike & Molly still mobile enough to walk out of CBS's fat joke home of her own comedic locomotion, Melissa McCarthy has done pretty well for herself in the last year. Farting her way to a standout performance in Bridesmaids already secured her a starr... / Continue →
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Justified's Brian Glazer-haired, Hobbit-named star Walton Goggins has signed on to join Paramount's G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation. Emmy-nominated Goggins will play Warden Nigel James, a new Joe invented just for the new movie, because it's not like there's a catalog of hundreds of G.... / Continue →
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If you hoped Amy Adams' Lois Lane would look like the comic, animated series, Teri Hatcher, or whatever: sorry, not the case. It seems she's just going to look like Amy Adams, as this is how Amy Adams looked yesterday on The Man of Steel's Plano, Illinois set, where she was spo... / Continue →
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So, remember how Bradley Cooper was going to be our new The Crow? He's not doing that anymore. Perhaps due to scheduling conflicts with Paradise Lost, perhaps due to Cooper suddenly realizing that the Crow get-up is exactly the makeup/clothing pairing he used to beat up goth ki... / Continue →
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- Hayley Atwell, Alexa Davalos, and Rosamund Pike seem to be the three actresses up for the female lead in One Shot, the Christopher McQuarrie film that's cast Tom Cruise as a character (Jack Reacher) written as a 6'5", 250-pound dude. According to THR, all three have read for ... / Continue →
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I'll give Faces in the Crowd this much: it's rare to see such single-minded enthusiasm for a a clearly-stumbled-upon-online disorder outside of a television crime/medical procedural. In the film, Milla Jovovich plays a woman attacked by a serial killer on her way home one night... / Continue →
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Over in the streets of Cleveland (above), explosions are happening and people are freaking the eff out, all in the name of pretending Marvel superheroes The Avengers are doing things on the streets of Manhattan. Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, a cluster of arbitrarily-assembled panel... / Continue →
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Over a decade after the first American Pie film, one still can't look at those defiled pie remnants without thinking, how sad will it be when Eugene Levy dies with his stock look of astonished horror frozen into his face on the set of an American Pie sequel? What a legacy. Anyw... / Continue →
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Giving the Halloween USA chain their first hope in a decade of clearing out all that leftover "Groovy Swinger Spy" costume stock, a fourth chapter of the Austin Powers series is now reportedly getting close enough that, if you close your eyes, you can hear the phantom "yeah, ba... / Continue →
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The stock market is crazy, unemployment is high, the U.S.'s credit rating has dropped, and you can read more things to worry about at CNN.com, yet is there any greater indication of our current state of economic turmoil than when Disney won't even pay for a broad, Johnny Depp-s... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes - $27.5 million. Charging admission to the ultimate contest between ape and man seems to hold up at a national level just as well as it does when staged in a backyard, fought by various recently-discharged circus perfo... / Continue →
