Bryan Cranston Will Reprise LBJ Role In ‘All The Way’ On HBO By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2014 4:00 pm EST Bryan Cranston won a Tony playing President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the play All the Way, and now he’s taking the role to television. Cranston will reprise his take on LBJ for an HBO Films version of All the Way, which will be scripted by playwright Robert Schenkkan.Variety describes the play as it reports:...
Cool Stuff: Preview The ‘Bleeding Metallics!’ Art Show At The Hero Complex Gallery In LA By Russ Fischer/July 31, 2013 7:48 pm EST For the month of August, the Hero Complex Gallery in LA will showcase a set of pop-culture art pieces oriented around metal. The Bleeding Metallics! show will feature “artwork crafted with metallic inks, paints, papers, and metal itself.” The show features work derived from Alien and Aliens, RoboCop, Game of Thrones, the Dead Space game series, the Silver Surfer, and Japanese pop icons such as the Shogun Warriors and Ultraman....
Ellen Page Drops Out Of Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 29, 2008 1:46 pm EST The horror genre’s nasty feud with Oscar nominees continues, as Juno star Ellen Page has pulled out out of the dark place that is director Sam Raimi’s upcoming horror-thriller Drag Me to Hell. Bloody Disgusting reports that the sweet tart wasn’t happy over the latest draft of the script, which was written by Raimi and his brother Ivan Raimi, but they speculate that this is really “Oscar cold feet....
By Germain Lussier/Feb. 5, 2014 9:00 am EST 2015 is only a year away but you can have everyone’s favorite 2015 movie on your wall starting this Friday. Laurent Durieux, he of that excellent Die Hard poster, among others, is having his first solo art show at the Mondo Gallery in Austin TX on February 7. We’re delighted to debut one of the many pieces in the show: Back to the Future Part II....
First Look: Brief Footage From Edgar Wright’s ‘The World’s End’ By Germain Lussier/April 26, 2013 10:00 am EST That headline is true. This story features the first footage anywhere from Edgar Wright’s The World’s End, one of our most anticipated films of 2013. However, it’s brief. Very brief. Three seconds brief. It’s used as part of a montage for something called the “Summer of Cinema,” a UK event. It’s actually a really cool trailer featuring footage from a ton of big, and small, summer movies, made even more exciting by the two shots from The World’s End....
First Look: Kristen Bell And Jason Dohring In The ‘Veronica Mars’ Movie Sequel By Angie Han/June 18, 2013 1:00 pm EST 2013 is turning out to be a pretty good year for people who were glued to their TV sets in the mid-aughts. First Arrested Development made its highly anticipated return on Netflix with a 15-episode fourth season, and now the long-promised Veronica Mars movie sequel has finally started shooting....
First Look: Morgan Spurlock’s Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 2, 2007 1:34 am EST Many people are speculating that Spurlock may have done what the U.S. government has been unable to do, and actually found Bin Laden. The film’s director of photography, Daniel Marricone added fuel to the fire, telling the press that Spurlock “definitely got the holy grail.” Not much information has leaked about the film, and even the director is keeping quiet....
J.J. Abrams Suggests ‘Star Wars’ Could Prevent Him Making ‘Star Trek 3’ By Russ Fischer/May 7, 2013 8:38 am EST Since being hired to direct Star Wars: Episode VII, J.J. Abrams has had a secondary role in addition to keeping the Star Trek series on track: being a cheerleader for two very different series owned by different companies. As the new captain of Trek, Abrams is just about to launch his second Enterprise mission, and then will have to quickly shift over into Star Wars mode to get Episode VII rolling early next year....
Jason Reitman Reviews Celebrity Porn By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2007 3:07 pm EST Pam & Tommy, One Night in Paris, even Colin Farrell, Director Jason Retiman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking) reviews the blockbuster titles of celebrity porno in his latest blog entry. Reitman wonders why celebrity porn is considered kosher when most other porn is considered taboo. “When it first came out, I made a copy of the Pam & Tommy tape for my then-girlfriend’s father....
John Landis To Direct Feature About EC Comics Publisher: Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 15, 2008 2:55 pm EST I’m not sure how much play this post will get in the comments, but to me this is a very cool and very important project. Director John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, Coming to America) is set to helm a feature biopic on the life of EC Comics publisher and personality Bill Gaines, nicely entitled Ghoulishly Yours, William M....
Microsoft Shuts Down Xbox Entertainment Studio, ‘Halo’ Series To Continue By Russ Fischer/July 17, 2014 12:30 pm EST A year and a half ago it looked like Microsoft was really going to take the plunge into developing Netflix-style original content. The company hired a former CBS exec, Nancy Tellem, to lead the Xbox Entertainment Studios division, and announced a live-action Halo series produced by Steven Spielberg. Now, Microsoft has killed off Xbox Entertainment Studios, and in so doing is all but abandoning the plan to create original content for Xbox Live....
By Russ Fischer/May 9, 2013 2:34 pm EST Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Kill List) is making some of the best, smartest, and weirdest genre films going right now. His terrific black comedy Sightseers opens in some US theaters and on VOD this week, and now his follow-up effort has a distributor. Drafthouse Films has just announced the acquisition of A Field in England, which is being described as “a psychedelic trip into magic and madness....
Official ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Posters Offer Better Glimpse Of Rhino, Electro And Green Goblin [UPDATED] By Germain Lussier/Dec. 3, 2013 12:06 pm EST Last week, a three-poster array from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 leaked out that answered a major question about Marc Webb’s sequel. The poster confirmed the film features at least three villains, including Dane DeHaan as the Green Goblin (as well as Paul Giamatti’s Rhino and Jamie Foxx’s Electro)....
Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2009 3:00 am EST [No photo]DVDForum has found yet another photo of Michael Bay leading a troupe of soldiers on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. 26 news tidbits not fit for the front page, available after the jump. Twitch has new photos of Chow Yun-Fat as the great ancient philosopher in the upcoming biopic Confucius.Spoutblog lists 10 LOST theories Inspired by Movies....
Page 2: Star Wars, Rick Baker, Belleville, Robocop, Star Trek, Apes, Walking Dead By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2014 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: Etoile de la Mort Méliès t-shirt The Ones To Watch: 20 Breakout Actors, Directors & Talents From The 2014 Sundance Film Festival HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR PETITIONS DISNEY FOR A PLUS-SIZE PRINCESS Star Wars Boba Fett Performance Athletic Costume T-Shirt10 Most Essential Philip Seymour Hoffman PerformancesRoger Ebert’s Widow: Why Philip Seymour Hoffman Was Perfect to Play Critic on Film...
Ridley Scott Producing ‘Child 44’ With Tom Hardy And Noomi Rapace By Germain Lussier/March 29, 2013 12:15 pm EST Scott is not directing the film, he’s producing, but it’s a project we haven’t written about much on the site (just Page 2 mentions and one story) so we figured we’d fill you in on the details, even though it’s not exactly breaking news. Child 44, based on a crime novel by Tom Rob Smith, will be directed by Daniel Espinosa (Safe House)....
Rumor: Carrie Fisher’s Daughter Billie Lourd Joins ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ By Germain Lussier/June 30, 2014 5:00 pm EST Considering the long casting process J.J. Abrams and crew went through for Star Wars Episode VII, it’s surprising some missed one simple way to get in the movie: nepotism. The latest rumor surrounding the film is that Billie Lourd, the daughter of Carrie Fisher, has been cast in the movie. A second rumor on top of that says that she’s playing either Leia’s daughter or, oddly, a younger version of Leia herself....
Rumor: Will Spidey Meet Other Marvel Heroes In ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’? By Angie Han/Aug. 2, 2013 3:30 pm EST But as the Amazing Spider-Man franchise builds to the (rumored) introduction of the Sinister Six, Spidey could be in need of a little help. And he just might get it, judging by producer Avi Arad’s reaction when asked whether another Marvel superhero might appear in the next film. Hit the jump to see what he said....
Sequel Bits: ‘Kick-Ass 2’, ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’, ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’, ‘Beetlejuice 2’, ‘Roger Rabbit 2’, ‘Grown Ups 2’, ‘Willow 2’, ‘Anchorman: The Legend Continues’, ‘The Expendables 3’ By Angie Han/March 13, 2013 2:30 pm EST Fair enough. And if you’re wondering how he feels about possibly tackling J.J. Abrams’ other big sci-fi franchise, the answer is pretty much the same. [IGN] It’s a very different thing jumping into someone else’s franchise, someone else’s cast....
Sundance Drama ‘A Teacher’ Getting HBO Series Adaptation From The Duplass Brothers By Angie Han/Feb. 11, 2014 1:30 pm EST Hannah Fidell’s A Teacher didn’t get quite the acclaim or attention that Fruitvale Station or The Spectacular Now rdid at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, but it got some buzz nonetheless thanks to its scandalous premise, fine performances, and pared-down style. Now, it’s also getting a TV show.Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, and Michael Costigan are set to executive produce an HBO drama based on Fidell’s film, with Fidell herself on board to write, executive produce, and possibly direct the pilot....
