Cool Stuff: DKNG Bill And Ted Posters From Mondo By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2014 2:30 pm EST The Alamo Drafthouse recently held a Bill and Ted screening which included two new DKNG poster prints for Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure and the sequel Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. I’ve been a fan of DKNG for a long time and I love how much detail they were able get into both of these prints....
Emma Watson In Talks To Be ‘Cinderella’ For Kenneth Branagh By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2013 8:00 am EST The cast of Harry Potter went all genre on the final day of February. Mere hours after word broke that Daniel Radcliffe would be joining Frankenstein, Emma Watson was reportedly in early talks to play the lead role of Cinderella in Disney’s live action remake of the property. Kenneth Branagh is attached to direct and Cate Blanchett is the wicked stepmother....
First Look: Jewel As June Carter Cash In Lifetime Biopic By Angie Han/June 8, 2012 5:30 am EST While we’ve been busy fussing over how much Lindsay Lohan looks (or doesn’t look) like Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime’s Liz & Dick, another biopic from the cable channel has quietly been pushing forward. Singer/songwriter Jewel was cast last month as the lead in the TV movie The June Carter Cash Story, and we now have the first look of her in character alongside Matt Ross (American Horror Story), who plays Johnny Cash....
Jerry Seinfeld Accuses ‘The Lego Movie’ Of Stealing His Superman Joke By Angie Han/Feb. 14, 2014 11:00 am EST For a film based on an iconic toy line and produced by a major studio, The Lego Movie was surprisingly original. Or that’s what we thought — but it seems that not everyone agrees. Jerry Seinfeld took to Twitter to complain that Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s film “stole” his bit about the awkward relationship between Superman and Green Lantern....
Joel And Ethan Coen Will Rewrite World War II Biopic ‘Unbroken’ For Angelina Jolie By Angie Han/Feb. 25, 2013 6:03 pm EST When Angelina Jolie signed on last year to replace Francis Lawrence at the helm of Unbroken, she became the latest in a long line of filmmakers who’ve tried to bring the Lou Zamperini tale to the big screen. And I mean long: Universal has been attempting to make a biopic of the Olympic track star turned World War II Air Force officer for over five decades now, to no avail....
Meryl Streep Joins Robert De Niro In ‘The Good House’ And Jeff Bridges In ‘The Giver’ By Angie Han/Aug. 7, 2013 8:00 am EST Meryl Streep being who she is, it’s never particularly surprising when she signs on to work with an iconic actor. But her talent is such that we’re intrigued anyway, and this week she’s signed on for two interesting new projects. One featuring one of her first-ever co-stars, and another starring a fellow Oscar nominee I can’t believe she hasn’t worked with yet....
Mondo Reveals ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Poster By Germain Lussier/April 3, 2014 2:45 pm EST Mondo and Marvel go together like Iron Man and metal. Since the earliest films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Austin-based collectable company has been creating beautiful limited-edition posters for the studio’s films. Iron Man 2, Thor, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Hulk and Captain America: The First Avenger are just a few of the posters they’ve made so far....
New ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Images: Tom Hardy And Charlize Theron In The Wasteland [Updated] By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2014 2:30 pm EST The fourth film in the Mad Max series, Mad Max: Fury Road, doesn’t land in theaters for another year. And, despite the fact that most of the film shot over a year in the past (the first round of photography finished in December 2012) we’ve seen almost nothing from the rather unlikely new chapter in the series....
See How The Film Restoration Process Works At The Criterion Collection By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2014 11:00 am EST If you’ve watched all the supplements on several Criterion releases over the past decade or so, you’ve no doubt seen some short pieces on how the company’s film restoration process works. But methods always change, and the Criterion workflow changes with new technology. One of the label’s latest releases is Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent, available this week....
Some Chinese Theaters Are Now Projecting Text Messages Onscreen By Angie Han/Aug. 20, 2014 3:00 pm EST For most cinephiles, there’s nothing more obnoxious than a glowing cell phone screen in the middle of a dark theater. But the fact is that there are plenty of other moviegoers who don’t mind, or even prefer, texting during movies. And now some theaters are experimenting with a new way to welcome them. Certain cinemas in China are rolling out “bullet screens,” which will display text messages from the audience about the film that’s playing....
Superhero Bits: Superman Lives, S.H.I.E.L.D., Man Of Steel, Iron Man 3, Secret Service, The Avengers By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2013 2:00 pm EST Want to see a new image from Iron Man 3? Is someone spying on the set of Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D? How can you help create a documentary on Tim Burton’s Superman Lives? Does Joseph Gordon-Levitt think he’ll be appearing in Man of Steel? How did the Leviathan aliens in The Avengers almost look?...
Superhero Bits: Thor: The Dark World, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Stan Lee, The Flash By Germain Lussier/Sept. 9, 2013 5:30 pm EST Who are the three actors up for The Flash in the Arrow? How excited is Hugh Jackman for X-Men: Days of Future Past? Which superhero film was Christopher Nolan jealous of? Was Elizabeth Olsen forthcoming about her potential role in Avengers: Age of Ultron? Where can you get a Stan Lee POP figure?...
By Germain Lussier/Oct. 18, 2012 1:15 pm EST Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph, an epic adventure set in a video arcade, primarily focuses on the worlds and characters of three fictional games: Fix-It Felix Jr., an old-school stand up inspired by Donkey Kong and Rampage; Sugar Rush, a sit-down racing game blending Mario Kart and Candyland; and Hero’s Duty, a first person shooter in the mold of Time Crisis, Call of Duty and Halo....
By Germain Lussier/Oct. 19, 2012 9:45 am EST Video game fans are well-aware that Halo 4 is hitting stores November 6. It’s the gaming equivalent of The Dark Knight Rises or The Avengers being released: a guaranteed blockbuster with huge, mass appeal across multiple mediums. The difference is Halo 4 will probably gross more because it costs $60 a pop instead of $15. But unlike the standard practice of popular movies being turned into video games, popular video games don’t always get turned into movies....
Watch A Classic ‘Fight Club’ Scene Minus Tyler Durden By Angie Han/Jan. 21, 2014 9:00 am EST In Garfield Minus Garfield, artist Dan Walsh erases the signature orange tabby from each panel of Jim Davis’ comic strips, turning what was once a cute cartoon about a mischievous cat and his exasperated owner into an unsettling portrait of a lonely man. The new video “Fight Club minus Tyler Durden” does pretty much the same thing, only with (you guessed it) Tyler Durden and a scene from Fight Club....
Why Did ‘Star Wars Episode 7’ Stars John Boyega And Daisy Ridley Suddenly Leave Twitter? By Germain Lussier/Sept. 29, 2014 3:30 pm EST For the past five months, Abrams has been all over the world filming Star Wars Episode VII with a near-unprecedented level of curiosity surrounding the production. Paparazzi have been clamoring for set photos. Images of the actors simply walking on the streets are news. Recently, drones captured set images Abrams was surely not happy to see....
‘A Most Violent Year’ Trailer: Jessica Chastain And Oscar Isaac Lead J.C. Chandor’s Latest By Angie Han/Sept. 18, 2014 12:30 pm EST Just as summer always brings a rash of big-budget blockbuster sequels, fall and early winter reliably provide a crop of prestige dramas laden with Academy Award-nominated names. Among the many this year is A Most Violent Year, from Oscar nominee J.C. Chandor, two-time Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain, and actual Oscar / future Oscar nominee Oscar Isaac....
‘Almost Human’ Trailer: Karl Urban And Michael Ealy Form Uneasy Human-Robot Partnership By Russ Fischer/Oct. 22, 2013 4:30 pm EST The J.J. Abrams television machine keeps working, and its latest project is Almost Human, which is already being billed as a Ro-Bromance. See, the show is kind of like the old Alien Nation conceit, where a grumpy human cop was paired with an alien detective. But in this case, it’s a grumpy human back from the force after being wounded (Karl Urban plays him) paired with a very human-like “synthetic” partner (well played by Michael Ealy)....
‘Arrested Development’ Reveals Nine Character-Free Character Posters By Angie Han/April 10, 2013 10:30 am EST It seems like every major film or TV campaign now includes at least one set of character posters, but trust Arrested Development to have a little fun with theirs. Nine new posters have dropped for the highly anticipated fourth season of the comedy, but they don’t show the Bluth clan’s handsome mugs. Instead, they showcase a series of objects that should look very familiar to anyone who’s followed the first three seasons of the show....
‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Interview: Watch 30 Minute Talk With Chris Pratt, James Gunn And Kevin Feige By Germain Lussier/March 10, 2014 9:09 am EST The team behind Guardians of the Galaxy spent their weekend pumping up the film, which doesn’t open until August 1st. Star Chris Pratt, writer/director James Gunn and producer Kevin Feige sat down for a cool 30 minute interview to discuss the trailer, the comic book influences, the tone, potential crossovers…pretty much any question they can answer at this moment was addressed in the discussion....
