April 8, 2012 - April 14, 2012 Archives
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Over seven years after the release of the original Sin City, Robert Rodriguez is finally preparing to make another one. He also might give Mel Gibson something to do now that Warner Bros. has decided maybe Mel isn't the best guy to be making a movie about a Jewish hero.... / Continue →
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Never mind about Woody Allen extending his European vacation into Denmark. / Continue →
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This must have been what Jason Statham was holding out for.... / Continue →
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Though it's technically an ad for Disney's Tokyo resort, this brief commercial plays out more like the kind of touching short that would get nominated for Best Animated Short Film and lose to something Pixar knocked out. Like another Japanese-animated short we saw last month, t... / Continue →
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In this first trailer for Looper, star Joseph Gordon-Levitt sets himself up as a trained, well-paid killer for major crime organizations, but to call him an assassin would probably be overstating it. As the title puts forth, he's a "looper," a member of a secretive profession t... / Continue →
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If Jason Statham is going to look pissed about driving a cool car again (which he will), it will be on his own terms.... / Continue →
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It's been almost five months since Arrested Development was, at long last, confirmed for an additional season and a film. Has the lack of updates and/or paparazzi shots of cut-offs got you nervous? Me too. Al Roker, too, apparently. When Will Arnett showed up at NBC Today to pr... / Continue →
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With studios still looking to create a female-driven superhero property but not yet willing to again try stretching more vinyl over Wonder Woman, Sony has decided to approach the task from an entirely new angle. Instead of starting with a superhero, they're just going to treat ... / Continue →
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Spoiling the dramatic reveal of just how Batman is able to put so much detail work into his DrawSomething art, EntertainmentWeekly's latest print issue has hit newsstands with some new photos (since scanned by Batman-News) from The Dark Knight Rises. Have a look below.... / Continue →
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Remember that charming Target commercial that adorably dressed kids as the heroes of The Avengers? Well, here's a far less cute, still kind of charming take on that concept, with fully-grown, out-of-shape adults clad in sad, homemade superhero costumes. It's part of an Avengers... / Continue →
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Like the breasts above, the zombie "what if" scenarios of Opai-Zuki-Zombie (aka Zomboobies) are weighty and twofold. Firstly, the film asks, "What if, instead of craving brains, zombies crave breasts (boobies)?" Secondly, it asks, "What if we attempt to take the deviant, campy ... / Continue →
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It's taken them a while, but film marketers seem to finally be catching on to the fact that if you the ever-critical internet has a welcoming soft spot for minimalist poster design. For Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Django Unchained--his spaghetti western-style film that sees Ja... / Continue →
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Speaking to the L.A. Times, Alvin and the Chipmunks director Tim Hill has revealed how he plans to update his Short Circuit remake for savvy audiences more aware of robotic technology and what an actual Indian guy looks like. Think more realistic for the robot and more pre-pube... / Continue →
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The man who transformed The Hunger Games into the year's biggest Lenny Kravitz film about kids killing each other has decided he's had enough of the franchise: Gary Ross has officially announced he will not be returning to direct Lionsgate's Catching Fire.... / Continue →
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No, Meryl Streep has not been cast in the title role of Mother Goose!, but she should be so lucky. According to the press release, Hannover House's Mother Goose! is probably going to be just about the best movie ever shouted!... / Continue →
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With an Anchorman sequel now officially confirmed, writer/star Will Ferrell and writer/director Adam McKay can now look forward to a couple years of every reporter asking about that. In a recent interview with McKay, radio host David Sirota had the opportunity to deliver the fi... / Continue →
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The Avengers isn't the only summer superhero blockbuster that doubles as a latex fetish film, for those times you want your fetishistic masturbation bolstered by vigilante heroism. Warner Bros. today released this new The Dark Knight Rises shot of Anne Hathaway in her full Catw... / Continue →
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As the only human to have ever thought, "Man, we could really use another cover of Don't Stop Believin'," YouTube editor dondrapersayswhat has pieced together lines from films into a full-length Journey cover featuring the tone-deaf "singing" of RoboCop, Pinhead, a moribund Cha... / Continue →
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We've already been teased with this scene in all the Avengers previews where Robert Downey Jr. smugly brags of possessing a Hulk, but here's the full scene in which Loki and Tony Stark have a gentlemen's chat over drinks and magic staves. The film is more than just a bunch of e... / Continue →
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You know movie monsters? You know the English alphabet? Well, here are both of those things in a video in which letters are stylized to represent famous monsters. Granted, the term "monster" is used pretty liberally here. "D" stands for "Dexter," and you're like, "Alright, fair... / Continue →
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For years Simpsons fans have, bored by debates about the best Lionel Hutz quotes, tried to determine the location of the town of Springfield. Unfortunately for them, Springfield as depicted in The Simpsons is not an actual town, so it's pretty hard to figure out exactly where i... / Continue →
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Spoiler: the title is a reference to exhibiting bravery. / Continue →
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Last night, on WWE's Monday Night Raw, the Three Stooges (as played by Three Stooges stars Will Sasso, Sean Hayes, and Chris Diamantopoulos, naturally) appeared to promote their Friday release. And, just as when the Three Stooges cast previously appeared at a NASCAR event, the ... / Continue →
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More Dinklage! More scenes about how good a sword is! More people having good times with whores! More brutal scenes that end in laughter! More furrowed brows! More ravens sent like emails! All because HBO has renewed Game of Thrones for a third season.... / Continue →
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Avengers co-star Cobie Smulders appeared on The Late Show last night and brought with her a clip to show Dave what exactly an Avenger is. Embedded below, the clip focuses on Smulders' Maria Hill, who until now has been seen as only a silent deliverer of stern-but-sexy poses. Th... / Continue →
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Though the internet hoped it would be Ryan Gosling to lose all his arm mass and play Walt Disney, it seems it will instead be Tom Hanks playing the animator in an upcoming film. Our mothers prefer it that way.... / Continue →
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Further burying his credibility in another layer of cartoonish villainy (see: BloodRayne, Thunderbirds, What Planet Are You From?, War, Inc., Suspect Zero, and the historical docudrama Prince of Persia), Sir Ben Kingsley has reportedly entered talks to play a bad guy in the Sha... / Continue →
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As we learned through a trailer released in February, Japan is not yet done with their time-honored horror tradition of having long-haired girls climb out of screens. Quite the opposite, they've been investing heavily in long-haired girl screen technology, and now have a long-h... / Continue →
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This is a six-minute PAC-MAN movie called PAC-MAN The Movie. Despite how much thought went into the name, it's actually not bad, clever, and the production value was reasonably high. If you've got six minutes to kill, give it a go. If you've only got three minutes to kill, just... / Continue →
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Release dates are changing! Adapt or die. / Continue →
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It's been over a year since Fox hired The Kids Are Alright's Lisa Cholodenko to direct an adaptation of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, but just now are they getting around to the business of filling this shitty day with some actors. The studio stil... / Continue →
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Flex Is Kings is an in-progress independent documentary that focuses on the culture of "flexing," a style of dancing directors Deidre Schoo and Michael Nichols describe as "a unique and vibrant dance form in deep Brooklyn [that] channels the grittiness of East New York into cho... / Continue →
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Yeah, so, it's another one of those: a trailer for a trailer, this time for Brick director Rian Johnson's sci-fi actioner, Looper. But in this case, there may actually be some utility to having a preview of a preview, as stupid as it sounds to even say that. Introduced by Johns... / Continue →
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Recognizing that the Paranormal Activity series does not adequately represent America's diverse tapestry of cultures haunted by ghosts that knock chandeliers around, Paramount and producers Jason Blum and Oren Peli are developing a new "Latino-themed" addition to their family o... / Continue →
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The group that turned Doug into a Zack Braff-ian dramedy has once again reached into the big orange splat of Nickelodeon programming to scoop out the subject of a fake movie trailer. This time we get a live-action reunion of the Hey Arnold! gang--now grown into adults with less... / Continue →
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A cerebral, British, high-concept dark comedy about an addled writer played by Simon Pegg? Yeahhhhh, that sounds like something I would probably get pretty excited about. But does it have any creepy-yet-quirky stylized sequences, maybe with some charming stop-motion elements? A... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. The Hunger Games - $33.5 million, topping the box office for the third straight weekend. This is the Donald Sutherland movie the world has been waiting for. 2. American Reunion - $21.5 million, opening lower than both American Pie 2 and American We... / Continue →
