June 17, 2012 - June 23, 2012 Archives
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It will be an all-new human cast in the newest Transformers film, but fear not, Michael Bay shall not to disregard the rich mythos he built through explosives, racial stereotypes that turn into cars, and a robot that undeniably had testicles.... / Continue →
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Regarded collectively, this minute of gasps is almost an audibly appalled enough reaction to thoughts the internet has had about Alison Brie. But, paradoxically, now it's wayyyy further from reaching that goal.... / Continue →
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Amanda Peet, Cobie Smulders, Rob Corddry, The Marriage Ref's Marriage Ref, and others have signed on to some movies. If you care at all about them or yourself, you'll skim the details below.... / Continue →
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The film is already in theaters, but Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom continues its viral campaign to aggressively goad you into describing it as "visually delightful." Following last week's animated book supplemental, there's now this charming New Yorker illustration (via) from... / Continue →
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Because the inclusion of Mel Gibson was apparently not enough to communicate that Machete Kills is not a very serious motion picture, and because Lindsay Lohan was already in the first one, director Robert Rodriguez has added the perpetually-triumphant Charlie Sheen to the cast... / Continue →
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That's My Boy failed to capture the public's interest in Adam Sandler doing a funny voice, so this fall, Sandler will once again attempt some kind of parental redemption story (now as Dracula, in case the problem was that Adam Sandler wasn't Dracula). As before, Andy Samberg is... / Continue →
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Through a tragic oversight, somehow this didn't already happen a decade or so ago, so Lionsgate-Summit has gotten straight to work at the necessary task of putting Reese Witherspoon in an adaptation of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from the Venus, the relationship self-help book... / Continue →
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Because ape men and dinosaurs are basically the same sort of thing, at least in the eyes of cartoons and themed mini golf courses, the writers of Rise of the Planet of the Apes have been signed to write the script for the perpetually in-development third Jurassic Park sequel.... / Continue →
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"Listen to me carefully, Kim. Your mother is gonna be TAKEN. People are gonna come for you, too." "What are you going to do?" "WHAT I DO BEST." Alright, Schindler, I think I see where this is going.... / Continue →
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From the avowed eternal Franco supporters of JamesFrancoForever.tumblr.com (via), here's a first look at James Franco in Sam Raimi's Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful. He's wearing a top hat.... / Continue →
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Hollywood always needs more superhero movies, and director Barry Sonnenfeld (Wild Wild West, Addams Family, MiB) always needs more comedic action-adventures to flood with high-key lighting and (ideally) a title track from an innocuous rapper. Through symbiosis and contract nego... / Continue →
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Continuing to plot his career future only in terms of campy sci-fi and/or brutal killers who can be played by Ryan Gosling, Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn has agreed to lend his touch to Gaumont International Television's planned TV remake of Barbarella. And suddenly this ... / Continue →
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You have to give some credit to Dredd that, in adapting its comic book namesake, it at least looks nothing like the miserable Sylvester Stallone/Rob Schneider vehicle of summer 1995. It does, however, look quite a bit like this year's The Raid: Redemption, only with less martia... / Continue →
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From Atonement and Pride & Prejudice director Joe Wright comes a new excuse for stuffing Keira Knightley into some period costumes: an expectedly-lavish, single-setting production of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Jude Law and Aaron Johnson co-star, though, as previously noted, y... / Continue →
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Following in the vast footsteps of that bird, 20th Century Fox has begun work on a Sesame Street movie to at last explore the untold narrative arcs of Grover, Gordon, and a specified letter and number combination.... / Continue →
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What would some sci-fi movie classics look like as pulp novels? Here are some answers from illustrator Timothy Anderson, who made these awesomely-convincing mock-ups of Blade Runner, Alien, and The Matrix as trashy book covers. Books: check 'em out.... / Continue →
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Shot for less than $700 and taking place almost entirely from the claustrophobic confines of a one-man spacecraft, Waltz for One is a short that imagines a '60s space race that also included a Richard Branson-like eccentric pioneer funding his own ventures into the galaxy, thus... / Continue →
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Well, despite Peter Farrelly's claim Dumb and Dumber 2 would shoot this September, it now seems the film won't be excruciatingly emptying itself into theaters. Also, it turns out the title wasn't Dumb and Dumber 2; it was Dumb and Dumber To, so correct your notes.... / Continue →
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Disney•Pixar has today released four variant trailers for Monsters University, the Monsters, Inc. prequel that will reveal Mike and Sulley's lives as idealistic young college monsters, before they got all corporate, man. The reason for such a cornucopia of teasers? Because BILL... / Continue →
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In this second chapter of Breaking Dawn--the final Twilight film until we almost immediately start it over again--Kristen Stewart is now a vampire, and her dead-eyed love affair with Robert Pattinson has brought the joyless couple an equally dead-eyed 10-year-old daughter. Unfo... / Continue →
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Horse: not that scary. Mostly-naked man in a rubber horse mask, moving around like a maniac while video game music plays? Confirmed to be super fucking terrifying. Alien from the original Alien: already pretty scary. Mostly-naked man in a rubber alien mask, moving around like a... / Continue →
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While the first teaser for Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master didn't get much into the film's widely-acknowledged Scientology critique--instead touching on Joaquin Phoenix's fugue state and sand-breast creation--this newest pseudo-trailer that's popped up on the Weinstein Compan... / Continue →
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To promote tomorrow night's one-hour premiere of Futurama, Comedy Central commissioned a handmade, largely-cardboard recreation of the show's familiar opening sequence. Not since The Simpsons parodied the "Hardest Button To Button" video has there been more overlap between Groe... / Continue →
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Larry David's upcoming improvised comedy may have its central antagonist/schmohawk in Jon Hamm.... / Continue →
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Though there's still almost two years until Maleficent is scheduled to hit theaters and tell us all why the Sleeping Beauty villain has an upside-down dwarf crotch strapped to her head, Disney already started production on the film last week, and today released this first photo... / Continue →
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Alright, so apparently I lied when I said the previous trailer was the final one. There's now another full, even more revealing trailer for The Dark Knight Rises here to remind you that there's this awesome-looking new Batman movie filled with intensity, explosions, and fisticu... / Continue →
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Take in and study some of the best pre-mortem one-liners from the likes of such action heroes as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Randy Quaid, and Worf in this supercut from Ziccup. Never again be left without something awesome to say right before you waste some ambiguously... / Continue →
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Though the ever-increasing mass of Paranormal Activity sequels and Latino-themed spin-offs should be more than enough to slowly bring the found footage genre crashing in on itself, directors David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Adam Wingard, and directing colle... / Continue →
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Making the most awesomely rotoscoped film recreation since Terminator was rendered in highlighter, artist Anders Ramsell has animated over twelve minutes of Blade Runner using over 3000 beautifully-hazy aquarelle paintings. It's all the excitement of Ridley Scott's enduring sci... / Continue →
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Director Sean Dunne, whose American Juggalo documentary short brought some surprising lucidity to a community that purposely mimics insane clowns, is working on a new feature-length documentary that will once again shed some light on a subculture you probably find sort of alarm... / Continue →
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With Breaking Dawn, Part 2 this fall completing The Twilight Saga, drawing down the flesh-toned shirt that's forever shuttering the Lautner ab factory, Lionsgate is already reportedly looking for ways to prolong their recently-acquired franchise. And as we know, the laziest and... / Continue →
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As to the question of when actor William Forsythe will begin work on a sequel to Raging Bull: he already started this weekend, so get off his back about it.... / Continue →
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From Empire, here is a photo of Liam Neeson loitering about, pistol in hand, waiting for someone to show up so he can Taken them to death. Or maybe he just finished Takening someone, and now he's reflecting on how awesomely he used his extremely specific skillset. Regardless, t... / Continue →
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See an early, overalls-free design of Roger (voiced here by Paul Reubens), and a human-cartoon interaction test with a Jessica Rabbit so crudely sketched you'll barely start masturbating to her, in these rarely-seen, decades-old preliminary pencil tests from the 1988 noir-comed... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Madagascar 3 - $35.5 million, Audiences continue to feel a strong need to check this extolled "circus afro" out for themselves. 2. Prometheus - $20.2 million--jusssst about enough to purchase a rare device that does automatized robotic surgery, so ... / Continue →
