October 2, 2011 - October 8, 2011 Archives
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- This poster for Shame asks us to reflect on all the deplorable things we've done in our beds, but I will not. The stains already tell their story to me every night. - Aaron Eckhart is attached to play the lead in Lionsgate's adaptation of I, Frankenstein, which is just one o... / Continue →
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Now in theaters: these things! Real Steel Director: Shawn Levy Starring: Hugh Jackman, boxing robots Good if you want to see: Hugh Jackman's successful search for, in his own words, "anything [he] can use to put a fighting robot together." The Ides of March Director: George C... / Continue →
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Lionsgate's Judge Dredd reboot, simply titled Dredd, has faced some criticism for things like buying the wrong size helmet and letting Karl Urban do the facial equivalent of Christian Bale's Batvoice, but for fans of the comics, hope remained that director Pete Travis might be ... / Continue →
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Here are two new posters for J. Edgar, Clint Eastwood's latest Oscar swipe that sees Leonardo DiCaprio as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Now that you've seen them, start planning so that, when you see them again on a bus shelter, you'll be ready with something to draw going in o... / Continue →
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As you're probably all too aware, Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence, like Human Centipede: First Sequence, focuses on a guy sewing a chain of unwilling participants together, ass to mouth, into what could reasonably be described as a "human centipede." Sadly, that image makes so... / Continue →
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Today, on the 162nd anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's death, what better way to celebrate the author's life than watching John Cusack play Poe in some hammy B-movie a half-step removed from ABC's Castle? Probably no better way. Let's get on with it then:... / Continue →
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In his pursuit to play every legal delighter of children, Johnny Depp has played the Mad Hatter, the creator of Peter Pan, and Willy Wonka, and he may soon be adding Dr. Seuss to that list of child-loving non-offenders. THR reports Depp is working with Illumination Entertainmen... / Continue →
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After catching some flack for Eddie Murphy making epilepsy sound too hilarious in the first Tower Heist trailer, greasy director Brett Ratner promised to rectify the situation with a new trailer for his action comedy that is about a tower heist. Here is said fixed trailer. Now ... / Continue →
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Ready to see Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Samuel L. Jackson in a room together, probably discussing the merits of using magic bludgeoning weapons versus shields or metal super suits? Well, there's still about seven months to go before The Ave... / Continue →
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The Juno team of writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman are together again, but this time all that baby-makin' is going on post-high school. In Young Adult, Charlize Theron plays the popular high school girl everyone hated, now a successful young adult author, returned t... / Continue →
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Like a visit to a fancy strip club, when watching a film by Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall), the eye-catching visuals are paramount and, if Vince Vaughn suddenly shows up, well, that's just a not-entirely-unexpected bonus. Singh's next, Immortals, has so far seemed a bit lack... / Continue →
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Could Skyfall be the name of the film that will follow-up the descriptively-titled Quantum of Solace? Short answer: yes, it may well be. And doesn't it sound like the most first-person-shooteriest Bond name since Goldeneye became a more memorable Nintendo 64 game than a film? ... / Continue →
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Ignoring that any week spent with Marilyn Monroe would clearly be spent trying to convince her it's your birthday, and that you'd like someone to somehow memorably commemorate it, and that she should keep in mind you're the president of something, Simon Curtis's My Week with Ma... / Continue →
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- A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas has some new posters that take advantage of things like "loaded" meaning having bullets AND being drunks, and how "dope" must have a Christmas meaning I'm unaware of. - After years of promises about an Arrested Development movie, I see ho... / Continue →
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Having firmly asserted his detective skills in Sherlock Holmes (and other films, for that matter), Robert Downey Jr. is ready to see if he can make some real lawyer money on his deductive talents. According to Variety, the actor is teaming with Warner Bros. on a reboot of the P... / Continue →
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Starting at Cannes and still continuing as recently as late September, Lars von Trier seemingly exchanged his film career for a controversial but prolific career saying stupid shit about Nazis. Since May, the director has said he sympathizes with Hitler, is a Nazi, isn't a Nazi... / Continue →
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Steven Spielberg's War Horse a bit too heavy a tale of horse and loss for you? Well, you lucky dog, Spielberg has another Christmastime release for you--The Adventures of Tintin--and this one appears to be all intense, Indiana Jones-esque action-adventure and NO horses. Actuall... / Continue →
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Though Renee Zellweger will forever continue the Sisyphean task of deciding which Love, Actually star is the most charming (Colin Firth, it last seemed, BUT IS HE REALLY???), Paul Feig is having nothing of it. The Bridesmaids director had been working with Universal in developi... / Continue →
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Looking at the movies of 50 Cent--from his directorial debut, Before I Self Destruct, to Setup, to the movie about 50 Cent's Doug E. Doug wig falling off because of football cancer, to Gun (the movie about 50 Cent having multiple guns)--it quickly becomes apparent that we shoul... / Continue →
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- In an inspired casting decision, Werner Herzog has joined Christopher McQuarrie's adaptation of One Shot and will play the central villain, a former POW known as The Zec. In less inspired casting, Tom Cruise is still playing the protagonist--Jack Reacher--a 6'5", 250-pound ex... / Continue →
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As the white-hot heat of Hot to Trot cools with age and the breeze of Bobcat Goldthwait's comical shouting, the need has come for another talking horse film to bear the saddle of gut-busting laughter. To fill that stable, Fox 2000 has purchased the films rights to Mr. Ed, CBS's... / Continue →
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With The Lion King 3D re-release topping the box office for its first two weekends of release, and set to cross the $80 million mark before this week is over, Disney has realized this selling-their-old-things idea might be an even easier moneymaking scheme than their carwash id... / Continue →
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Boy finds and bonds with a miraculous creature, the government forcibly seizes possession of said creature, and the boy is left to ride in and try to save his beloved companion under the swell of a melodramatic score. What is this, Spielberg, E.T. again? Yes, says this new trai... / Continue →
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Hey guys, sorry about the audio ads. They slipped into the rotation somehow and we're trying to figure out where they're coming from so we can get them pulled. We're not cool with auto-playing audio ads so huge apologies for the ear raping you've been experiencing on the site. Ho... / Continue →
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By some estimates, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has, thus far, lined the pockets of Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow jacket with around $350 million. It's maybe not Tyler Perry money, but for four movies, it's not so bad either. In fact, by Johnny Depp's own account, that i... / Continue →
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In news that could dangerously offset the Fast/Furious franchise's already unbalanced hair-to-muscle ratio, TwitchFilm is reporting that Jason Statham may be in talks to join the coming chapters of the Vin Diesel Drives Cars series. The site's sources also claim Universal is lo... / Continue →
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Mark Ruffalo and Chris Evans have been doing all our most recent pouty faces to promote being Avengers, but let us not forget the film originators of such seductive expressions: the main cast of Zoolander. A sequel to the Ben Stiller comedy has long been discussed as an eventua... / Continue →
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Since June, Darren Aronofsky has been looking to put together an "edgy re-telling of the Noah's Ark story" that would finally show how REAL it gets when various competing animal species all somehow share a single giant boat. Unfortunately, like the original, non-edgy Noah's Ark... / Continue →
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Alright, Aung San Suu Kyi fans, you guys ready to ROCK with a new film about the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Burmese opposition leader and longtime subject of house arrest? Then let's KICK ASS with this new trailer about the GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY!... / Continue →
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- David Cronenberg has revealed he's written a script for an update of The Fly that "is not exactly a remake, it's sort of a sequel, kinda." Like Teen Wolf, Too, but with fly men? - With their Hunger Games adaptation already going full steam, Lionsgate have picked up the right... / Continue →
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes spoilers alert: despite being largely responsible for the ascension of super-smart apes to the eventual role of Earth's dominant species, Dr. James Franco manages to survive the initial onslaught of ape-on-man bridge violence. Phew, close one, Jam... / Continue →
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J.J. Abrams is working on a new, original film and, in classic Abrams fashion, we don't really know anything about it. What little has just been revealed is only that it is a "mystery adventure" that Abrams concocted with State of Play screenwriter Billy Ray, and that Paramount... / Continue →
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Do the various televised incarnations of Stargate, collectively, still have more dignity than you're looking for in a film-to-television sci-fi series? Well, perhaps we can find something shitty enough for you in this new crop of offerings from FreemantleMedia Enterprises and S... / Continue →
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Having proven his dual-role ability on the sets of Fierce Creatures, Wild Wild West, and Dave, Kevin Kline will once again have a couple characters' lines to remember on Charlie Kaufman's sophomore directorial effort, Frank or Francis--a film said to be a meta, musical satire o... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Dolphin Tale - Last weekend it opened at number three, but this weekend it finally caught on: it's a tale about a dolphin, but also the story has to do with its tail! ($14.2 million) 2. Moneyball - $12.5 million, holding fast on the second spot aft... / Continue →
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Sensing that the oft-told folk legend of a hypothetical Arrested Development movie is beginning to lose the crowd's attention around the comedy nerd campfire, series creator Mitch Hurwitz this weekend took to the New Yorker's Arrested Development reunion panel to further increa... / Continue →
