‘Game Of Thrones’ Ending After Seven Or Eight Seasons By Angie Han/March 11, 2014 11:00 am EST It doesn’t feel that long ago that HBO first took us into the magical land of Westeros. But sometime during Game of Thrones’ upcoming fourth season we’re going to hit the halfway point of the entire series. According to showrunners David Benioff and David Weiss, the current plan is to wrap up the show after “seven or eight” seasons....
‘Helix’ TV Trailer: A Sci-Fi Chiller From ‘Battlestar Galactica’s Ronald D. Moore By Angie Han/Nov. 5, 2013 9:45 am EST Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ronald D. Moore is returning to Syfy this winter with another tale of people isolated in inhospitable surroundings, as the threat of the end of all humanity looms over them. The specifics, however, are very different this time around.Helix follows a group of CDC scientists who journey to the Arctic to look into reports of a disease outbreak at a research facility, and then quickly discover that the problem is much more horrifying than they’d feared....
‘Oblivion’ Director Joseph Kosinski Sets Up Thriller With ‘Elysium’ Financiers By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2013 6:00 am EST Briefly: Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rodgers, writers of the upcoming AMC series Halt & Catch Fire, have written a new action-thriller script that now has Oblivion and Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski set to direct. In fact, Kosinski came up with the story, and then had the screenwriting pair flesh out the script....
‘Pacific Rim’ Animated Series Will Bridge Gap Between Films By Germain Lussier/July 10, 2014 10:30 am EST The news of a Pacific Rim sequel came with good and bad details. That it’s happening at all is the biggest bit of good news. Guillermo del Toro’s film wasn’t a massive hit in the United States but did well enough internationally to warrant a sequel. The downside is that fans will have to wait about three years to see the film....
‘Peanuts’ Trailer: Charlie Brown And Snoopy Go 3D And CG By Angie Han/March 18, 2014 7:17 am EST But now the very first Peanuts trailer has arrived, and we’re thrilled and incredibly relieved to see that it is nowhere near horrible. In fact, it’s quite good. Aside from the fact that they’re now 3D and CG-animated, Charlie Brown and Snoopy are exactly as you remember them. Hit the jump to check it out....
‘Pixels’ Bumped Back To July 2015 By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2014 4:00 pm EST Those four above have a longer walk than they originally thought. Earlier today we had word of one Sony film hitting theaters earlier than planned, as Fury moved from mid-November up to October 17 2014. Now the video game-influenced action/comedy Pixels, based on the short film from Patrick Jean, has been pushed back from May 15, 2015 to July 24, 2015....
‘Spring Breakers’ Red Band Trailer: Sex And Crime Go Hand In Hand With James Franco By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2013 10:50 am EST When Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers premiered in Toronto late last year, it instantly became a must-see film. Some people hated it, other people loved it; arguments went that many either loved that they hated it so much or hated that they loved it so much. Films like that don’t come along very often....
‘Star Wars Rebels’ Renewed For Season 2 On Eve Of Premiere By Germain Lussier/Oct. 2, 2014 8:26 am EST The first step to Episode VII takes place Friday night when Star Wars Rebels debuts on The Disney Channel. Set between Episodes III and IV, the cartoon is the first piece of new content being released under the Disneyfied Star Wars umbrella, which boasts a fully connected universe. Rebels is 100% part of the Star Wars canon and will not only set the tone for Episode VII next year, it will have teases toward it too....
‘Tak3n’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Is Now A Fugitiv3 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 30, 2014 9:15 am EST Liam Neeson, special set of skills, daughter in danger, it’s all pretty familiar now. Time to shake things up just enough to bring audiences back. So for Taken 3, now officially called Tak3n, the Neeson character Bryan Mills is in Richard Kimble mode as he’s framed for the murder of his wife. Now a fugitive, Mills goes on the run to preserve his own freedom and watch over his surviving daughter (Maggie Grace) while trying to elude authorities....
‘The Simpsons’ To Get Short Film In Front Of ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ By Germain Lussier/May 21, 2012 12:00 pm EST Thanks to Cartoon Brew for the heads up. The following clip played during Sunday’s season finale of The Simpsons. Will a Simpsons short film be enough to get you into Ice Age: Continental Drift? The film opens July 13.
‘Winter’s Tale’ Trailer: Akiva Goldsman’s Directorial Debut Blends Romance And Fantasy By Germain Lussier/Nov. 6, 2013 5:10 pm EST Or something like that. It’s a bit difficult to put together the pieces from the first trailer, which has just been released. And maybe that’s a good thing. The film stars Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Downton Abbey’s Jessica Brown Findlay. Check out the romantic fantasy trailer below. Thanks to Apple for the trailer....
Cool Stuff: New Mondo Posters For Sam Raimi’s ‘Evil Dead II’ And ‘Army Of Darkness’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 13, 2014 4:30 pm EST One of the complaints many people have about the pop culture poster scene is that the same handful of movies keep getting posters. It’s a valid argument. Massively popular films like Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, The Big Lebowski and Kill Bill do have infinitely more posters than their smaller counterparts....
David Lowery And Casey Affleck To Reunite On Sci-Fi Thiller ‘To Be Two’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2013 10:00 am EST With every month that passes this year only seems to get better for David Lowery. The guy kicked off ‘13 with three Sundance films in which he had a hand, the most notable being his turn writing and directing Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. (In theaters and on VOD now.) That led to deals to write and/or direct several other projects: a new version of Pete’s Dragon, the thriller Torso, and The Old Man and the Gun, with Robert Redford....
Early Buzz: ‘Man Of Steel’ Is An Action-Packed, Great Time By Germain Lussier/Feb. 27, 2013 12:24 pm EST Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has begun to screen and word is that it’s fantastic. We’d heard that executives at Warner Bros. truly loved the film and now, reports are coming in from other people too. (And from people who don’t have billions and billions of dollars potentially invested in the success of a rebooted Superman....
Exclusive ‘Boyhood’ TV Spot Charts The Growth Of Young Star Ellar Coltrane By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2014 2:15 pm EST This Boyhood TV spot opens with something that communicates the unusual scope of the Richard Linklater film in just a few seconds. A set of photos of the central character, Mason Jr. (played by Ellar Coltrane) flashes by in quick succession, illustrating his growth from age 6 to age 18. While the feature itself is a terrific vision of the growth of the boy and the family around him, that parade of images is a perfect way to condense the film into just a few seconds....
First ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Character Poster Spotlights Groot And Rocket By Germain Lussier/June 9, 2014 11:38 am EST This week will bring a slew of Guardians of the Galaxy character posters and Marvel and Disney are starting things off right. The first one features the duo of Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) and Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel) in full on badass mode. The film, written and directed by James Gunn, opens August 1....
First Official Image From ‘I, Frankenstein’ Highlights Aaron Eckhart’s Monstrous Abs By Angie Han/July 11, 2013 1:26 pm EST In Mary Shelley’s classic novel, Victor Frankenstein is horrified the first time he looks upon his creation because the thing is flat-out hideous: eight feet tall, with watery eyes, black lips, and translucent yellow skin. The creature is so ugly, in fact, that Frankenstein immediately flees the room. In Stuart Beattie’s I, Frankenstein, however, he doesn’t look nearly so grotesque....
Is Sam Raimi Really Going To Direct The ‘Poltergeist’ Remake? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 17, 2012 2:45 pm EST MGM, which is remaking movies left and right, wants to do a new version of Poltergeist. We’ve known that for some time, and over the past year the story got interesting with news of the involvement of playwright and Rabbit Hole writer David Lindsay-Abaire and then the addition of Sam Raimi. (The former of whom did work on Raimi’s later Spider-Man efforts, and also on his Oz: The Great and Powerful....
Kristen Stewart Confirms Return For ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Sequel By Angie Han/Dec. 21, 2012 12:36 pm EST Universal’s been unambiguous about its desire to see a Snow White and the Huntsman 2, but it’s been less clear about the direction it wants that sequel to take. After the studio fast-tracked the follow-up in June, news broke in August that Snow White (Kristen Stewart) could but cut out of the equation altogether — only for the studio issue a denial and insist that they were still “exploring all options....
Paramount Sets Release Dates For Alexander Payne’s ‘Nebraska’ And Platinum Dunes’ ‘Almanac’ By Germain Lussier/April 29, 2013 9:37 am EST Briefly: One highly anticipated awards contender and another highly anticipated genre film have just been given release dates by Paramount Pictures. The awards contender is Alexander Payne’s follow-up to The Descendants, Nebraska. Starring Bruce Dern and Will Forte as a father and son on a road trip, it’ll be released November 22....
