Chinese ‘Iron Man 3’ Scenes To Be Turned Into Short FIlm By Germain Lussier/May 9, 2013 10:00 am EST Audiences worldwide will eventually get to see the extended Iron Man 3 scenes that were exclusive to China. Director Shane Black shot several scenes in the country, with native actors Wang Xueqi and Fan Bingbing, that are all but absent from the domestic cut of the film. They remain in Chinese theaters, but reportedly don’t add much....
Chris Pratt May Take Lead In ‘Jurassic World,’ Irrfan Khan Sought To Support By Russ Fischer/Nov. 13, 2013 5:29 pm EST Briefly: For his role in Guardians of the Galaxy, comic actor Chris Pratt did some serious working out, and the aftereffect of his physical work is that other producers are looking at Pratt as a leading man. (OK, being chosen to lead what may be Marvel Studios’ biggest film yet probably didn’t hurt....
First Look At Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, And Domhnall Gleeson In ‘Frank’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 10, 2013 9:00 am EST Frank is a movie I’m pretty psyched for this year — the UK comedy casts Michael Fassbender in what seems to be a quirkily comedic role (you know, like his gig in Prometheus) alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal and Domhnall Gleeson. The picture sets Gleeson as Jon “a young wannabe musician who discovers he’s bitten off more than he can chew when he joins a band of eccentric pop musicians led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Fassbender) and his terrifying sidekick Clara (Gyllenhaal)....
Game: Match The Movie To Its Famous Filming Location By Germain Lussier/April 4, 2014 12:00 pm EST It’s Friday so you can kill a few minutes at work, right? We’ve got just the thing. A site called “What Film/TV Set?” offers ten real life locations you can explore in your Internet browser before guessing what movie or TV show they are part of. This movie location game is a quick time-waster, but it’s fun....
Michael C Hall God Fearing Man Michael C. Hall To Star In Stanley Kubrick-Penned ‘God Fearing Man’ By Angie Han/Aug. 12, 2014 12:30 pm EST Hall will executive produce the miniseries as well as star. British screenwriter Stephen R. Clark is adapting Kubrick’s script to make it more suitable for the TV medium. There’s no word yet on when or where we’ll get to see the finished product, but eOne is shopping the mini to networks as we speak....
New Line Buys Found-Footage Horror ‘Superstition’ By Russ Fischer/June 23, 2014 2:42 pm EST Jason Blum’s impressive run as a producer continues. The Paranormal Activity producer has also been behind films such as Insidious, The Conjuring, and The Purge. Now New Line wants in on the action that other studios have enjoyed in the past few years. Blum’s new found footage horror Superstition, which is being called a new take on stuff like I Know What You Did Last Summer, has been picked up by New Line....
Page 2: Spider-Man, Seth Rogen, Harry Potter, JJ Abrams, Back To The Future, Conan O’Brien, WALL-E, Cameron Diaz, Ghostbusters And More By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2011 8:00 am EST Read a 12-Year-Old Harry Potter fans’ outraged letter to ‘Mr. Dumbledore’" [vulture] Walt Disney World’s Enchanted Tiki Room (the horrible updated version featuring Lion King characters) has shut down after sprinklers extinguished a fire in its attic this week. [boingboing] YouTube user Charman64 has created a mash-up using Good Wall-E Hunting and WALL-E....
POTD: Kevin Smith Is Writing ‘Clerks III’ By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2013 10:27 am EST Friday morning, Kevin Smith got out of bed and started writing Clerks III. We know this because he posted the cover page on Facebook and Twitter. The Facebook post is particularaly enlightening because Smith reveals today is the 20th anniversary of the first day of shooting on Clerks. He also vows that Clerks III will be “the best film I’ve ever made....
Ricky Gervais Calls His Upcoming David Brent Movie “Almost A Musical” By Germain Lussier/Aug. 27, 2014 1:30 pm EST Ricky Gervais has revealed some new details on his Office spinoff movie, Life on the Road, and it’ll be music to the ears of fans.Life on the Road is a mock-documentary that’ll revolve around David Brent, the character Gervais played on The Office. It’ll catch up with the former office manager a few years after the show’s conclusion as Brent continues his quest to become a rock star....
Simon Kinberg Suggests ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Could Introduce ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Characters By Russ Fischer/Sept. 11, 2014 12:00 pm EST The new animated series Star Wars Rebels bridges the gap between Episode III and Episode IV as it charts the rise of the rebellion as the Empire takes hold of the galaxy. That puts it several decades on the timeline before Star Wars Episode VII. Still, we’ve wondered if characters or elements from the new movie might first show up in Rebels....
Star Wars Bits: Disney Weekends, The Yoda Chronicles, Clone Wars And Jon Favreau By Germain Lussier/March 11, 2014 6:00 am EST Exclusive merchandise, essential Star Wars stories and Episode VII what-ifs. Read about it all in this edition of Star Wars Bits. Check out the limited Star Wars merchandise available during Disney’s Star Wars Weekends. LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles will continue later this year. Rumor has it digital versions of the full Star Wars saga will be made available this winter....
Superhero Bits will return July 28 after San Diego Comic-Con. Superhero Bits: Namor, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Daredevil, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Thor, Batman By Germain Lussier/July 24, 2014 3:00 pm EST Want to hear the showrunner of Daredevil talk about the show? Which Avenger is coming back to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D? Is Agent Carter in Avengers: Age of Ultron? Are Arrow and The Flash going to cross over? What happens to Thor when a lady takes over the Hammer?...
Tina Fey And Amy Poehler Will Host The Next Two Golden Globes By Angie Han/Oct. 15, 2013 8:30 am EST The bad news is, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler definitely won’t host the Oscars anytime soon. The good news is, that’s because they’ll be tied up hosting the Golden Globes for the next two years. NBC and Dick Clark Productions have set the comedy duo for the 2014 and 2015 ceremonies, after their first outing at the 2013 ceremony drew a ratings bump and a glowing critical reception....
Watch: ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Legacy Video And Never Before Seen Episodes By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2014 4:12 pm EST Star Wars fans who want to be in the know have a lot of work to do before Episode VII. Of course there’s Star Wars Rebels, which is released online Friday, and which starts a whole new chapter in the Star Wars canon. Many of us also have to catch up on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the six-season cartoon that tells the official story of the legendary battle between the Galactic Senate, Jedi Order and Clone Troopers versus the Separatists, Sith and Trade Federations....
Will Forte And Tim Robbins Replace Ty Burrell And Dennis Quaid In ‘Jackie Brown’ Sorta-Prequel ‘The Switch’ By Angie Han/Jan. 8, 2013 2:29 pm EST Fifteen years after Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown hit theaters, Dan Schechter is making plans to travel back fifteen years before that movie took place. The writer-director has been amassing quite a cast for his sorta-prequel The Switch, including John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), Jennifer Aniston, and Isla Fisher....
‘Batman V Superman’ Rumors: Lex’s New Look And Tao Okamoto’s Role By Angie Han/June 19, 2014 5:00 am EST Rumors have surrounded Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice from the get-go, and today we have three more to share. One has to do with Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor, who will apparently not be sporting the traditional chrome dome. The others have to do with actresses Tao Okamoto and Holly Hunter, and whom they might be playing in the film....
‘Hysteria’ Trailer: Maggie Gyllenhaal And The Invention Of The Vibrator By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2011 5:29 pm EST This is quite possibly the most absurd thing I’ve seen today, but also fairly cute and just a bit charming. The trailer for Hysteria shows the work of Jonathan Pryce, Hugh Dancy, Rupert Everett and Maggie Gyllenhaal in a period sex comedy about the invention of the vibrator. Or, to borrow a line from the trailer, “we are NOT going to take a dangerous electrical device and press it against a lady’s most gentle areas....
‘Night At The Museum 3’ Scheduled For Christmas 2014; Shawn Levy And Ben Stiller Returning By Russ Fischer/Feb. 7, 2013 2:45 pm EST
‘Sex Tape’ Trailer: Cameron Diaz And Jason Segel Do “The Full ‘Lincoln’” By Angie Han/April 24, 2014 12:15 pm EST In Sex Tape, Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel play a couple desperately trying to keep their racy video from being seen by anyone. But Sony, of course, wants just the opposite for the film itself. So the studio has put out a new Sex Tape green-band trailer, all the better to appeal to those who couldn’t see that last red-band trailer....
‘Stalingrad’ Director Will Make ‘Odysseus’ For Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2014 3:30 pm EST While such as The Coen Brothers have flirted with the influence of ancient epic poems, in O Brother Where Art Thou? and Inside Llewyn Davis, but it’s been a few years since US producers did a full-scale film based on one of Homer’s works. (Troy, from 2004, adapted The Iliad.) Enter Fedor Bondarchuk, whose WWII action film Stalingrad was the highest-grossing Russian film of 2013, and the first IMAX 3D film to be shot in Russia....
