‘Trance’ Red-Band Trailer Gets Right Inside The Characters’ Heads By Russ Fischer/Feb. 13, 2013 4:43 pm EST In just a few weeks we’ll get to see a new Danny Boyle movie, and that’s pretty great. The film is Trance, and as the slice of art above suggests, it leaves the psyche of a man, played by James McAvoy, in less than perfect shape. This new red-band trailer shows more of Boyle’s heavily-stylized return to all-out genre fare....
By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2012 3:28 pm EST Tom McCarthy has made a couple of really successful little dramas, Win Win and The Station Agent. (And he was less successfully associated with the beginning of Game of Thrones.) Now McCarthy is teaming with The West Wing writer Josh Singer to tell a much bigger and more culturally loaded story: the history of “the Catholic Church’s decades-long cover-up of child molestation in Massachusetts,” and of the Boston Globe reporters that uncovered the local efforts to hide evidence of the abuse....
Alexander Skarsgård And Samuel L. Jackson Wanted For David Yates’ ‘Tarzan’; Plot Details Revealed By Angie Han/Nov. 14, 2012 12:45 pm EST Alexander Skarsgård has been teetering on the verge of movie stardom for a while now, but even as peers like Tom Hardy and Henry Cavill have found their way to comic book tentpoles, Skarsgård’s mostly been alternating between TV roles (Generation Kill, True Blood), indies (Disconnect, What Maisie Knew), and supporting parts in higher-profile pics (Battleship)....
Animated Prequel For ‘47 Ronin’ Explains How The 47 Ronin Came To Be By Angie Han/Dec. 12, 2013 4:30 pm EST The trailers for Cark Rinsch’s samurai epic 47 Ronin have not been short on action or spectacle. But if you were too busy being dazzled by the colorful, fantastical CG effects to pay attention to the story, the new short 47 Ronin: The Way of the Warrior should help set you straight....
Breaking: Former MPAA President Jack Valenti Is Dead By Peter Sciretta/April 26, 2007 3:57 pm EST Jack Valenti, an influential American lobbyist and a long-time president of the Motion Picture Association of America, is dead. According to DHD, Valenti died after falling into a coma following a series of strokes. The former MPAA President checked out of Johns Hopkins University Medical Center earlier this week after being hospitalized since March after a stroke....
Check Out James Mangold’s Portraits Of The ‘Wolverine’ Cast By Angie Han/March 14, 2013 10:44 am EST We’ve yet to see any actual footage from The Wolverine, but thanks to James Mangold’s Twitter account we’ve gotten plenty of other material about the film. Over the past few months, the director has posted stills and set photos, revealed his inspirations, and taken us into the editing bay. Today, he’s sharing black and white portraits of the film’s three leads (Hugh Jackman, Rila Fukushima, and Tao Okamoto), taken on the last day of production....
First Look: Don Cheadle As Rhodey In Iron Man 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 7, 2009 2:19 am EST [No photo]SpoilerTV has the first photo of Don Cheadle as Col. James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes in Iron Man 2. The actor was photographed talking on his phone, in costume on set, during the first day of shooting. Meanwhile, Terrance Howard, who played Rhodey in the first film, has been talking about how Marvel betrayed him during contract negotiations....
Guess The Scott C. Great Showdown, Win A Book - Day 1: Germain’s Favorite Movie Of All Time By Germain Lussier/Oct. 29, 2012 10:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Each day this week, we’re going to world premiere a brand new, never before seen showdown. Each showdown is based on the favorite movie of one of five /Film writers: myself, David Chen, Russ Fischer, Angie Han and, of course, Peter Sciretta....
HBO Promo Reveals First ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 4 Footage By Angie Han/Dec. 18, 2013 7:00 am EST Game of Thrones, a show which has never had a reputation for being kind to its characters, completed what may have been its bloodiest season yet this year. So fans were naturally alarmed to hear that Season 4 would contain more deaths than ever. But the first tiny bit of footage, just released as part of a larger promo for HBO, isn’t not so bad....
Page 2: Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Frozen, Jason, Tom Cruise, GoT, Harry Potter, Kevin Smith, Home Alone, Doctor Who By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 2, 2014 4:00 pm EST Header Photo: Eric Tan’s amazing Jurassic Park poster 5 Things We Learned About ‘Men, Women & Children’ From Jason ReitmanFive Best Sound BarsWhy Are Movies Still Afraid of the Internet? King of the Horror t-shirt WHAT DOES DAVID FINCHER NOT DO? THE 4 THINGS THAT SET HIM APART...
POTD: Dwayne Johnson Goes From Shooting ‘Hercules’ To ‘Fast And Furious 7’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 24, 2013 3:30 pm EST A few months back when Fast and Furious 6 was kicking ass at the box office and a seventh film was fast-tracked, producers talked about the schedule of Dwayne Johnson being a bit of an issue. The action star had committed to filming Hercules: The Thracian Wars with Brett Ratner, which has a July 25, 2014 release date, and was expected to return for James Wan’s Fast and Furious 7, which is scheduled for July 11, 2014....
Superhero Bits: Arrow, Supergirl, Gotham, The Flash, Captain America, Batman V Superman By Germain Lussier/Sept. 3, 2014 5:00 pm EST Want to see the first photos from the new season of Arrow? Which Prison Break star has joined The Flash? Has Gotham committed to one streaming service? Just how much does Stan Lee know about the Marvel Studios movies? What is Henry Cavill doing on the set of Batman v Superman?...
The 3D Porn Film That Beat ‘Avatar’ Gets North American Distribution By Germain Lussier/May 25, 2011 11:30 am EST When we ran the story about 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy beating the opening day box office record in Hong Kong of the all-time box office champion, Avatar, it was just kind of a joke. Those of us in North American never actually thought we’d get to see the movie in theaters....
The Strange Secret Behind Lost Mickey Mouse Short ‘Get A Horse!’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 9, 2013 1:15 pm EST Perhaps the most unusual thing shown at D23 today is the Mickey Mouse short Get a Horse!, which features the late Walt Disney voicing his signature character. The short played to raves at the expo, but it has a very unusual history. Get the full (and somewhat spoiler-ish) story below. So Get a Horse!...
Theme Park Bits: ‘Back To The Future,’ ‘Finding Nemo,’ ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ And ‘Warcraft’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 14, 2013 8:00 am EST Super packed edition of Theme Park Bits featuring lots of closings. Below, read about the following: The Back to the Future themed restaurant Doc Brown’s Chicken at Universal Hollywood is closing in January. The Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage at Disneyland is closing for refurbishment. Universal Studios Japan gets $250 million investment to build a Harry Potter park....
Tom Hiddleston Confirms Loki Isn’t In ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2013 2:15 pm EST If you were hoping to see more of Tom Hiddleston as Loki, better buy tickets for repeat showings of Thor: The Dark World, because the character won’t be in The Avengers 2, aka Avengers: Age of Ultron. That might be implied by the title, which says that we’ll have a new nemesis for the Marvel Studios heroes to fight....
Watch Zack Snyder’s Announcement Of The Batman/Superman Crossover Film By Russ Fischer/July 22, 2013 8:45 am EST One of the loudest crowd sounds I’ve ever heard in my life was the deafening roar that erupted in Hall H at Comic Con this year when Zack Snyder rolled a short video in which Superman’s ‘S’ logo appeared, then was shadowed by Batman’s own symbol. The video was the culmination of Snyder’s announcement that the sequel to Man of Steel will feature Batman....
WTF: Check Out The Chinese ‘Remake’ Of Pixar’s Short Presto By Russ Fischer/Nov. 18, 2009 11:15 am EST I’m not sure where I first saw this crazy piece of animation, but it was likely when Pixar’s Lee Unkrich mentioned it on Twitter. “The most strangely surreal thing I’ve seen in a while. Like being transported to an alternate reality,” he said. There has been a lot of Pixarn’t over the past few years, including ‘remakes’ of Ratatouille and Cars from Brazilian outfit Vídeo Brinquedo, both of which are linked below....
‘22 Jump Street’ Red-Band Trailer: Spring Break, Motherf*ckers By Angie Han/April 10, 2014 8:01 am EST Most directors are lucky to have one smash hit in a given year. Phil Lord and Chris Miller are about to have two. Fresh off of the success of The Lego Movie, Lord and Miller are releasing 22 Jump Street, once again starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill as a mismatched pair of undercover cops....
By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2011 3:00 pm EST If you liked the down on his luck superhero elements of the Will Smith film Hancock, but weren’t as much into the ‘gods and love’ story that dominated the second half, you should give some attention to Big Man Japan. That is Hitoshi Matsumoto’s 2007 Japanese mock documentary about a guy who can grow to gigantic size and fight monsters, but has to deal with a sagging public image....
