August 21, 2011 - August 27, 2011 Archives
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- That Romancing the Stone remake we've been talking about for years may finally be moving forward, and possibly with Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler in the leads, to try to recapture that Ugly Truth magic. Can Danny DeVito still be Danny DeVito, though? - Comedian Gabriel I... / Continue →
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Yesterday, we learned model-cum-sort-of-actress Marisa Miller would be playing a ghostly Jeff Bridges' avatar in R.I.P.D., and today comes news that James Hong has also joined the film in a similar role, thus keeping things from getting too sexy. Hong--whose vast filmography sp... / Continue →
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The trailer for Lucky McKee's The Woman is here, and it appears to be the horror morality tale that will at last answer the age-old question: if one finds a feral girl in the woods, is it cool to bring her home, string her up in the garage, and attempt to domesticate her throug... / Continue →
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The Expendables was really less a movie than a action film-themed sideshow, a group of veiny freaks gathered together so that we could see them lined up and shot at, just to say that we saw it. A sequel, then, is pretty redundant unless some new freaks have been dragged out to ... / Continue →
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Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson: classic combo. Johnny Depp and rum drinking: also a classic combo. Now both Depp blends are available in one convenient package, thanks to Withnail & I writer/director Bruce Robinson's adaptation of Thompson's early novel The Rum Diary. It's ... / Continue →
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Now in your theaters: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Director: Troy Nixey Starring: Katie Holmes, Bailee Madison, Guy Pearce Good if you want to see: some little gremlin things haunting Tom Cruise's internee and the girl from Just Go with It. Our Idiot Brother Director: Jesse Pe... / Continue →
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- In addition to the lingerie model, the cast of R.I.P.D. grew a little more today with the addition of Mike O'Malley as a ghost. Back to you, Mo. - Production on The Wolverine has been pushed back to spring due to Japan's weather and Hugh Jackman shooting Les Misérables. That... / Continue →
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Considering the current record for deeply-belated franchise sequels, along with the noticeable plummet in quality from Ghostbusters to Ghostbusters 2, I think most of us would be just fine if the Ghostbusters' storage facility were left permanently shut down to the music of Mic... / Continue →
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With Our Idiot Brother opening nationwide tomorrow, the Weinstein Company wants to make sure you know, this film is more than just Paul Rudd acting affably goofy in a pair of Crocs: it earns its R-rating, everyone! It is very edgy! So edgy that, according the studio's PR depart... / Continue →
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With Transformers 3's Rosie Huntington-Whitely and Just Go With It's Brooklyn Decker having shattered the glass ceiling between blonde model and thespian, they proved to young, hot women everywhere that you can indeed take that step from bikini demo body to unconvincing actress... / Continue →
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With Fantastic Voyage stalled until Will Smith submits to being shrunk down inside the human body, director Shawn Levy is looking for another project to keep his mind distracted from its instincts of making another magic museum film. And with Levy's upcoming boxing robot movie,... / Continue →
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When one country discovers raw joy ore in its purest form, it would be near-criminal to not share it, and spread to the whole world the unadulterated laughter that can only spurt forth from an inexplicable set piece involving double-dutch with one's identical twin. So please, E... / Continue →
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- Remember the rumor that Jonah Hill would be in Neighborhood Watch? Well, that panned out, and he'll star alongside Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn in the story of a neighborhood watch group that uncovers a plot to destroy the world. So now you'll spend most of that film thinking... / Continue →
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The Star Wars saga at last comes to Blu-ray on September 12th, but as is so often the case when Star Wars journeys to a new format, there have been puppet casualties on the way. This time, it seems, we've lost one of our latex Yodas--the one in The Phantom Menace--replaced by a... / Continue →
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To be honest, this new trailer for Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy doesn't really do much more or less than the previous two. But, hey, it's late August and nothing is really happening, so let's just enjoy that this movie still looks really good and provides one ... / Continue →
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We've got glitter-covered vampires, Kate Beckinsale vampires, U.S. president-fighting vampires, and more on the way, and now there's yet another Dracula-derivative threat looking to set up its coffin bed in our local cineplexes: Cambodian jungle vampires. THR is reporting Mille... / Continue →
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If you've seen the film, or even just a trailer or TV spot for Rise of the Planet of the Apes, you know that the film's climax involves a bevy of apes storming the Golden Gate Bridge, led by a super smart chimp that James Franco gave special medicine. Seems pretty scientificall... / Continue →
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It's been almost a year since our first, waxy look at Michelle Williams in her Marilyn Monroe get-up. Now here's the official poster for My Week with Marilyn, which focuses on when Monroe was apart from husband Arthur Miller and chaperoned by this Kenneth the Page guy seen abov... / Continue →
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If that first shot of Henry Cavill in his Superman suit left you with some questions, and if those questions were about if Superman still has his underwear outside his jeans, here are the answers: nope. These first, distant shots of Superman's nether-regions reveal that Zack Sn... / Continue →
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Just weeks after Universal cancelled plans to do a Clue remake, the film future of another board-based property now hangs in the balance, its future unclear despite it being a plank specifically designed to foretell the future through spirit magicks. Ouija--the Ouija Board-cent... / Continue →
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One film involves our latest model Olsen and a close-knit, often-sexual cult; the other, more provocative film involves cat genitalia and prison rape. Both now have motion posters to tempt you with their entrancing repetitive motion. See the respective moving posters for Anton... / Continue →
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Director Ben Affleck has taken an important step forward in establishing himself as the dominant personality of Ben Affleck's fractured, bi-polar mind today, with Director Ben entering talks to direct Warner's Line of Sight from a script by Halo: Reach writer Peter O'Brien. Th... / Continue →
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As the Weinsteins' upcoming remake of The Seven Samurai and Chris Rock's planned update of High and Low have taught us, remaking the of Akira Kurosawa is a fun and potentially lucrative hobby. The only issue: Yikes, getting those international remake rights! What a pain! Here w... / Continue →
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If you thought Luc Besson's fetish for beautiful, powerful women only covered violent beautiful, powerful women, here's proof otherwise: Besson--the director behind La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, and Angel-A, and writer of the upcom... / Continue →
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This November marks the tenth anniversary of the death of George Harrison, and while each of us will memorialize him in our own way--quietly listening to his amazing solo debut, All Things Must Pass, perhaps, or dancing in a den full of living taxidermic animals--Martin Scorses... / Continue →
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Arnold Schwarzenegger joins with the forces of rotoscoping and a pack of highlighters in The Schwarzenegger Trilogy, a series of shorts featuring clips from Last Action Hero, Terminator 2, Kindergarten Cop, Conan, and more, rendered in 1600 frames of hand-drawn, blindingly neon... / Continue →
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The same Gods of Better Endings that smiled upon Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden movie have mercifully smiled on another in-development film based on gruesome, momentous, real-life events. As I'm sure you heard, the so-called West Memphis Three are finally out of prison--one off de... / Continue →
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Watching Tree of Life--beholding all the beautiful imagery of space, creation, life, family, dinosaurs, and Sean Penn--Sean Penn could not help but be taken aback and wonder, "Do we really need all the Sean Penn? Seriously, what is this guy doing here?" In fact, he wondered so ... / Continue →
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There just isn't enough Zach Galifianakis for him to show up every time a fit leading man needs an overweight sidekick to squabble with. Thankfully, we have the very funny Patton Oswalt on-hand to pick up some of the slack. Oswalt, who hasn't really had a leading film role sinc... / Continue →
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This weekend in Anaheim, Disney held the D23 Expo, an event that shows off and celebrates all the new films and things Disney would like you to purchase as entertainment and, later, as denim varsity jackets. While it was mostly Finding Nemo tattoos being shown on the floor, on... / Continue →
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Your lackluster weekend box office: 1. The Help - $20.5 million, dropping only 21% to claim the top spot after a second-place start. Now comes the Freddy Vs. Jason-style crossover where Emma Stone and The Blind Side's Sandra Bullock compete to be the more racially-sensitive pr... / Continue →
