August 5, 2012 - August 11, 2012 Archives
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When production on Kenneth Branagh's Jack Ryan is endlessly delayed by girlish daydreaming, now you'll know why.... / Continue →
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If you thought Chris Hemsworth's charismatic delivery of Thor's dialogue meant he could sell anything, you haven't yet heard the lines he's asked to say with a grimace in Red Dawn. The predictably-polished remake of the 1984 original casts Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson,... / Continue →
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Italian special effects legend Carlo Rambaldi--the man responsible for creating the weird, long heads of such popular long-headed aliens as E.T. and the Alien xenomorph--has died after a long battle with a yet-unspecified illness. He was 86.... / Continue →
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Though 2011 already brought us a straight-to-video Amityville film and the promise of a found-footage Amityville movie from Dimension Films and Miramax (The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes!), still the haunted house begs for its story to be told again, and without Ryan Reynol... / Continue →
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Mel Stuart--the director whose adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remains the definitive film version of the tale, no matter what Johnny Depp will tell you--has reportedly died at the age of 83.... / Continue →
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It's shaping up to be a good week for those still clinging to the high-concept sci-fi-comedy glory of the late '80s. Following news that an ALF movie is happening, now comes word that the long-promised, belated second sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is still somehow ... / Continue →
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From USA Today, here's a first look at Russell Crowe as he'll appear in Darren Aronofsky's Noah. See, whenever I'd read through the Book of Genesis, I'd always pictured Noah as more like Russell Crowe from Virtuosity, but I guess this works too.... / Continue →
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It's a match made in some bullshit Manhattan gallery opening! Or maybe in a Parisian café, over coffee and a discussion on relationships? Either way, Julie Delpy wants to get Woody Allen in a movie.... / Continue →
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On the official Wreck-It Ralph movie Facebook, Disney has revealed some preliminary sketches of the various manifestations John C. Reilly's voice could have taken in the upcoming video game baddie-centric film. As you can see, earlier in development the character was imagined a... / Continue →
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Both long delayed while a bankrupt MGM got its shit together, an exciting new chapter of the Bond series and a disheartening new chapter of remaking everything from the '80s are coming to theaters this November with Skyfall and Red Dawn. The Skyfall Facebook and Yahoo have some... / Continue →
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Brandon Cronenberg, the son director David Cronenberg birthed when a fleshy pod erupted from his festering boil and scuttled off screeching into a corner before he could incinerate it, has grown up and made his feature-length writing and directing debut with Antiviral. The sati... / Continue →
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Finding it impossible to ignore the way Shia LaBeouf's raw sexuality oozed from every loose seal in Bumblebee's chassis, the way each cried "OPTIMUUUUS!!!" echoed like a final shriek of ecstasy punctuating a steamy night spent with someone named after a robot semi-trailer, Dani... / Continue →
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'3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom' Trailer: Lizzie Caplan in a Bikini, Ron Perlman Also in a Lovely NumberNo matter your tastes, 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom seems determined to get a "Hey, it's that person from that show I like!" out of you. The dark, offbeat indie comedy stars Sons of Anarchy's Charlie Hunnam, The IT Crowd's Chris O'Dowd, Party Down's Lizzy Caplan, Whitney's Whitne... / Continue →
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Confirming once again that this series is legitimately happening (let's say confirming for the last time, because I don't really want to ruin something we've been waiting six years for), and that it has not been re-cast with the stars of Workaholics, here's a look at Jason Bate... / Continue →
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Once just the sad, starry-eyed dream of the only man whose ALF conversations extend beyond "Remember ALF?", a feature film about Melmac's first cat-eating sitcom star is now an actual thing, thanks to Sony and a producer of The Smurfs.... / Continue →
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Seeking to reassure audiences that The Expendables 2 will include just the kind of implausible action bullshit one demands from the accumulation of its similarly-implausible stars, Lionsgate has released to MTV this clip in which Sylvester Stallone ramps a motorcycle up into a ... / Continue →
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The Town proved Ben Affleck could handle both action and goofy costumes, and Warner Bros. wants that expertise and ability to command a Superman-looking dude on their Justice League project.... / Continue →
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With Taken revitalizing the protective father thriller genre in ways Mel Gibson's insisting shouting never could, Hollywood bottom-feeders Nicolas Cage and Brendan Fraser have both recently been handed a shot at proving their parental love through action conventions. Now, a you... / Continue →
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If your film needs a stocky, aging, Cockney tough guy, I'm afraid you're going to have to go with your second choice.... / Continue →
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To tide you over until legendary director Hayao Miyazaki delights us with kamikaze attacks, here's the trailer for From Up on Poppy Hill, the new Studio Ghibli film coming from Miyazaki's son Goro. Set in 1963, the animated film is reportedly about a group of a teens trying to ... / Continue →
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Already attached to star in a belated adaptation of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, Reese Witherspoon will continue her mission of furthering every romantic-comedy conceit we neglected in the mid-'90s with a lead role in The Beard, a movie Chernin Entertainment is plan... / Continue →
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If Clint Eastwood's Trouble with the Curve trailer wasn't enough redemption-filled, vaguely sports-titled, sneer-coated melodrama for one day, give Playing for Keeps a shot. Directed by the heavy hand of Pursuit of Happyness and Seven Pounds helmer Gabriele Muccino, the film se... / Continue →
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Stepping away from the camera so that he might devote all of his remaining energy into snarling, Clint Eastwood takes a starring role but leaves the directing up to his longtime assistant director/producer Robert Lorenz for the inspirational redemption tale Trouble with the Cur... / Continue →
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We can look forward to more of these awkwardly-heroic poses in the near future. / Continue →
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As tweeted by Jason Bateman and confirmed by Deadline, today was Arrested Development's first day of shooting for the new season that will premiere on Netflix and probably immediately break it. Barring any natural disasters, sudden deaths, or laryngitis from Ron Howard, this is... / Continue →
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Seven years after the events of The Dark Knight Rises, and eleven years since the madcap mafia antics of Corky Romano, where are Bane and Chris Kattan? Oh, here they are.... / Continue →
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The checks still not coming in from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Kevin Costner is looking at some other jobs to pay for the next batch of Kevin Costner & The Modern West ringer tees.... / Continue →
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"THIS IS EVERYONE'S STORY," promises this trailer for Judd Apatow's Knocked Up sort-of-sequel, This Is 40. But mostly it's everyone who is 40-ish, white, comically-charming, and relatively well-off's story, with this latest preview focusing on such sitcom-level struggles as fak... / Continue →
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Well, it looks like Daniel Day-Lewis's Lincoln will not be wearing the Great Emancipator's historically-debated dad jeans. From EW, here's a first look at the actor in costume for Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's biopic that follows the president's final four months in office, right... / Continue →
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With the deadline looming on when they must start production on a Daredevil movie, lest the superhero's rights revert back to Marvel, Fox is closing in on a director for their reboot. Unfortunately for them, they've now waited so long that they may be forced to decide between g... / Continue →
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Following up a cryptic, potable first poster, this new poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's Scientology-tinged The Master leans slightly more mainstream with a family portrait of stars Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Why is their photo filtered through the ... / Continue →
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Once again hoping to work alongside law enforcement and encased heroes, The Wire and Trapped in the Closet star Michael K. Williams has entered talks to join MGM and Sony's José Padilha-directed RoboCop remake.... / Continue →
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Following the trail of wig hairs Mike Myers left for him, Sacha Baron Cohen is headed toward the familiar terrain of the Bond spoof.... / Continue →
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Does Superman's Kryptonian dog, Krypto, have super dog poops? Good question! And one that's explored in Brett Underhill's charming little animated short, Superman's Best Friend. It's not exactly unsafe for work, but just so you know, the film does include depictions of Krypto's... / Continue →
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Now that Chuck Norris's Christ-loving will has been defied with an R rating, The Expendables 2 team is really going after his unforgiving wrath now with this The Last Supper parody depicting Sylvester Stallone as a weapons-loving messiah (that's a bowl of bullets he's about to ... / Continue →
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Originally scheduled for a Christmas release that would set star Leonardo DiCaprio's many pensive and knowing glares up for some awards, Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby adaptation has now been tossed amid the blockbusters of summer 2013.... / Continue →
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Not a lot of newness in this latest trailer for The Hobbit, but Tolkien fan site TheOneRing has noticed a few deviations from the original preview that could make it worthwhile: 0:23 -- Bilbo's reaction to Gandalf's arrival 1:57 -- Bilbo hiding behind a tree in Mirkwood 1:59 -... / Continue →
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If the point of this teaser is to make one of the worst terrorist criminals in history seem like some kind of cool new Bourne character, congratulations, Kathryn Bigelow. Jeremy Renner can GTFO and make way for Osama bin Laden:... / Continue →
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The plot of Larry David's improvised HBO film has been revealed, and it sounds like one hell of a bald, four-eyed fuck of a thing. In the best way possible.... / Continue →
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The sad venn diagram overlap between Scary Movie 5 and the Machete franchise increases.... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. The Dark Knight Rises - $36.4 million, winning the box office for the third straight week. And yet still the crowds cry for Kilmer. 2. Total Recall - $26 million. So, perhaps Colin Farrell is not Ireland's answer to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Colm Mean... / Continue →
