November 13, 2011 - November 19, 2011 Archives
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The Sisyphean task of going city to city punching buildings to the ground will soon be an experience to be explored in a feature film from the confused brains at New Line Cinema. The studio is currently meeting with writers and producers to develop a movie based around Rampage,... / Continue →
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Likely upsetting a generation of nerds who'd always assumed the protagonist of Ender's Game would look just like them, director Gavin Hood has selected his lead for the title role in his adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel. The winner: Asa Butterfield, star of Martin ... / Continue →
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If you've been wondering how Baz Luhrmann's 3D interpretation of The Great Gatsby is coming along, JustJared has some photos from the set, showing stars Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, and Leonardo DiCaprio in their period costumes. While we may have previously questioned the ne... / Continue →
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Ridley Scott has promised us an Alien sort-of-prequel with his upcoming Prometheus, and he's also promised us a future that will include more Blade Running and a Monopoly movie, and now he would like us to believe he will also make some films with the main cast of Lara Croft To... / Continue →
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At last reaching the conclusion pretty much everyone else had already come to, Steven Soderbergh has decided maybe remaking The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is not such a great idea after all. It's not for lack of trying, though. As we've documented, Soderbergh has for months been havin... / Continue →
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As the trailer for Gone begins, Amanda Seyfried's sister is moments from being kidnapped and tossed in a hole dug specially for the storage and disposal of kidnapped girls. We, the rapt viewer, have no real knowledge of said hole, but Amanda Seyfried offers compelling evidence ... / Continue →
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- Bryan Singer is rumored to be up for directing Leonardo DiCaprio in a film adaptation of The Six Million Dollar Man--now being called The Six Billion Dollar Man to adjust for the rising cost of bionic eyes. The doll above perfectly captures the universal excitement being felt... / Continue →
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Proudly showing off both its NC-17 rating and the singing voice of Carey Mulligan, but still just a tad shameful about how Michael Fassbender keeps having sex just to fill an emptiness within him that never seems to get smaller, here's the latest trailer for Steve McQueen's acc... / Continue →
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From Moviefone, here's a supplement to today's earlier Avengers banner and evidence that the pistols-and-leather-ladybutt motif exemplified by G.I. Joe has survived beyond that travesty. God bless it.... / Continue →
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Senselessly straddling the line between romance and romantic-comedy with well-lit young actors navigating a premisy plot, the trailer for The Vow is here for you weep over, everyone. Desperately pressing together the soap slivers of The Notebook and Dear John in the hopes of c... / Continue →
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Yahoo has just debuted a new banner for The Avengers, and if you'd been wondering if Mark Ruffalo's take on The Hulk was going to look absurdly similar to author, visionary, dreamweaver--plus actor--Garth Marenghi, there's now an answer. (The answer is yes.) Below, see Captain... / Continue →
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Your new releases: The Twilight Sage: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 Director: Bill Condon Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner Good if you want to see: vampire and girl finally have sex. About time those two finally work out all that pensive glaring. Happy Fee... / Continue →
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Driven by mankind's innate desire to see old cartoon characters brought into the real world through CGI and celebrity voices, Illumination Entertainment is developing a feature film based around animated, troublemaking, avian instigator Woody Woodpecker. Though no specific dire... / Continue →
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Titanic is headed back to theaters this April, so to remind anyone who's forgotten what Titanic is, there's now a special trailer for the 3D release. And in an introduction by James Cameron, the director thanks us (again?) for being true to Titanic, closing his awkward message ... / Continue →
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The involuntary manslaughterer of the King of Pop at last sentenced for his crime, the family of Michael Jackson is at last beginning to healing process. Naturally, that process is beginning with figuring out who's going to handle the movie rights, and it sounds like it will be... / Continue →
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Those curious as to how Ice Cube finished off his final Friday of the month soon will wonder no longer, as the Are We There Yet? star is reportedly in talks to write, produce, star in, and possibly direct a fourth film in the Friday series. And while Chris Tucker has been absen... / Continue →
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Hey, do you like girls doing archery? Do you not want to give in to watching The Hunger Games trailer? At last, a solution: Brave, a Pixar film about a Scottish princess that, like so many a princess heroine, is not content with sitting around being princessly. Surrounded by we... / Continue →
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By Summit Entertainment's estimates, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 will bring in between $110 and $125 million domestic this weekend, while rival studios contend it will more likely be in the $140 million area. But for Twilight fan Cathy Ward, seen above covered in s... / Continue →
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Like a strip mall Red Lobster, this new Happy Feet Two trailer hopes the promise of unlimited shrimp will entice you to pay over ten dollars for the experience of feeling nauseatingly overwhelmed by a deluge of crustaceans. If that's not enough for you, also promised in this tr... / Continue →
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Sylvester Stallone's Expendables sequel has already tragically cost us one human life, and Bulgarian authorities fear the shoot could also cost us many more in bats. The Bulgarian EPA has now fined the action production for illegally removing the flora from around a cave descri... / Continue →
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Last week, Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman trailer showed up and surprised everyone by looking really interesting and fairly beautiful. Now a trailer for Relativity Media's Mirror Mirror has shown up, and since, as the Snow White tale informs us, only one can be fairest... / Continue →
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- Here's the poster for James Cameron's 3D re-release of Titanic. Jokes about knowing how it ends now hold twice as much weight! - The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is reportedly split on whether to allow Ricky Gervais to once again host the Golden Globes. The other opti... / Continue →
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When Batman and the Dark Knight Rises crew came to Manhattan for two weeks of shooting, with them came the hope that they would visit and document Occupy Wall Street. That, of course, never happened; instead, they went to Trump Tower. Now, the OWS protesters have been evicted f... / Continue →
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To the ever-expanding universe of Muppet parody ephemera, add these new Twilight posters that just debuted, perfectly emulating the vacant stares and slack jaws the series is famous for. Rest now, Kermit. You've spoofed enough. The Wayans are feeling threatened. Full size at D... / Continue →
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With the casting of Garrett Hedlund as the lead in Warner Bros.' Akira remake not inciting quite enough internet outrage--that was the whole point of doing a live-action, all-white production of Akira in the first place, obviously--the studio has now reportedly put out an offer... / Continue →
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G.I. Joe team member and step-upper Channing Tatum is reportedly the latest in a line of actors being considered for the lead in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. that absolutely no one will take. Director Steven Soderbergh had originally counted on George Clooney to play Napoleon Solo, ... / Continue →
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In a promotional nod to the just-released book, Saul Bass: A Life In Film & Design, editor Ian Albinson put together this medley of some of the late Bass's many stylish and memorable film title sequences. It's a handy reminder that Saul Bass is still The Best, no matter how gro... / Continue →
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Adapted from Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Being Flynn stars Paul Dano as a social worker and would-be writer working in a homeless shelter. Robert De Niro co-stars as his father, a drunk who left Nick and mother Julianne Moore--and now he's coin... / Continue →
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In August, when Bradley Cooper abandoned plans to star in Relativity Media's remake of The Crow, it seemed he took with him the universal dream of finally seeing Bradley Cooper in Crow makeup. By and large, that remains the case, but thanks to Shock Till You Drop's discovery of... / Continue →
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The wizarding world of Glasses Wizard behind him, four-time Harry Potter director David Yates has decided he might as well move right long to the next fantastical, baton-wielding British icon. Variety reports Yates is about to start work on what the director predicts will be tw... / Continue →
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As noted Friday, Pixar's new Toy Story short, titled Small Fry, involves the hidden tragedy of our forgotten Happy Meal ephemera. In this first clip from the film--set to debut before showings of The Muppets--we meet a couple of these lost toys, including a Jane Lynch-voiced me... / Continue →
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Warner Bros.' Lego movie plans, in the works for over two years, are finally moving forward. Imagined as a live-action/CGI hybrid--like Smurfs, but with small Danish bricks instead of small Belgian devils--the film is reportedly being prepped as a 2014 release that will remind ... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Immortals - $32 million--depressing evidence that Meet the Spartans apparently did not tire us of 300 knock-offs. 2. Jack and Jill - $26 million--a fairly weak number for an Adam Sandler comedy, but a strong number for the most wretched concept eve... / Continue →
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Having debuted earlier today to ABC's early morning youth audience and the tourists of Manhattan, the trailer for Lionsgate's Hunger Games has now arrived online. Though the preview only shows footage from the first half of the film, fans will surely still pore over every detai... / Continue →
