New ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Featurette And Poster Highlight The Huge Cast By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2014 2:30 pm EST The Film Stage pointed to this poster. Meanwhile, I truly love the percussive opening of this featurette, but I quickly closed out the video as it seemed to be outlining more of the story than I really wanted. If nothing else, check out that opening The Grand Budapest Hotel opens on March 7....
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Page 2: Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Harry Potter, Smurfs, Star Wars, Goonies, Back To The Future, Planet Of The Apes, Hunger Games, The Simpsons, Doctor Who, John Carter, Alfred Hitchcock, Robocop, Battleship By Peter Sciretta/March 19, 2012 8:00 am EST ‘21 Jump Street’ Leaps to First Place at Domestic Box Office With Strong $35M Did You Create Something On 20th November 2009? You Could Be In Breach Of Twilight Trademark...
Sam Rockwell In Early Talks For ‘Poltergeist’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2013 4:15 pm EST Briefly: You can complain about the idea of a remake of Poltergeist, but there’s not much bad to say about the cast for the movie so far. Rosemarie DeWitt was the first cast, and now Sam Rockwell is in talks for a role in the remake, says The Wrap. Rockwell is choosing between this and other films, but the site says he’s the top choice on MGM and producer Sam Raimi’s list, and that Rockwell likes the idea of working with Raimi....
By Russ Fischer/Sept. 4, 2014 12:45 pm EST Deadline has the news. Affleck stars as Joe Coughlin, a Boston police captain’s son who becomes more and more enmeshed in the criminal underworld of the Gulf Coast during Prohibition. Here’s the new casting breakdown, with info on how each character fits into the story: Ben Affleck has adapted Lehane before, with his directorial debut Gone Baby Gone. Affleck is also producing the film, through the Pearl Street banner, with Jennifer Killoran Davisson and Leonardo DiCaprio from Appian Way....
Star Trek Bits: IMAX Limited Edition Poster, New Clip, And Chance To Meet J.J. Abrams By Germain Lussier/April 29, 2013 12:30 pm EST Have you noticed that most of the late night IMAX screenings for the past year or so have been giving out limited edition posters? That tradition will continue, and expand, will the release of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness. IMAX is launching a new program called IMAX FanFix, which teams up with talented artists and curators to give fans high-quality, limited edition art....
Star Trek Casting: Simon Pegg As Scotty, John Cho As Sulu; Budget $150M+ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2007 9:59 pm EST I know I was a little let down by the Villain and Kirk castings announced earlier this week, but this shocker is more to my liking. Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg has been cast as Scotty in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. Pegg joins Eric Bana (as a villain named Nero), Anton Yelchin (as Chekov), Zachary Quinto (as young Spock), Zoe Saldan (as Uhura), Leonard Nimoy (as older Spock), and possibly Chris Pine (as Kirk) who was offered the role or Kirk....
Stephen King Short Story ‘Bad Little Kid’ Will Become A Movie By Russ Fischer/May 2, 2014 2:15 pm EST It is rather amazing that, after forty years of publishing stories, the work of Stephen King is just as popular (perhaps more popular) than ever. Novels and short stories become potential movies and TV shows from almost the moment they are published, if not sooner. Take the newest Stephen King short story Bad Little Kid, which hasn’t even properly hit the US yet....
Steven Spielberg Hopeful The Next ‘Tintin’ Will Arrive In 2015 By Russ Fischer/March 12, 2013 4:00 pm EST It’s been a year and a half since the first Tintin film was released, but the partnership between Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson may still be on track to return to theaters in a couple years. While Peter Jackson, who will direct the mo-cap footage for the next Tintin film, is pretty busy with two more Hobbit movies, he said last year that he would shoot the mo-cap work this year....
Superhero Bits: Kick-Ass, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Thor: The Dark World, Batman: Arkham Origins By Germain Lussier/Oct. 1, 2013 4:30 pm EST Is there a Kick-Ass video game on the way? How is Peter Dinklage playing Trask in X-Men: Days of Future Past? Want to see some new Thor: The Dark World images? Which new characters were revealed in Batman: Arkham Origins? What does Joe Quesada have to say about Agents of S....
Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Zero Theroem’ Arrives This Summer By Russ Fischer/March 5, 2014 12:30 pm EST After a long wait, audiences in the US will finally get to see Terry Gilliam’s latest film, as The Zero Theorem arrives this summer. The release is courtesy of Amplify and Well Go USA Entertainment. (The latter company will handle the home video release.) The Zero Theorem stars Christoph Waltz as an eccentric computer programmer who is tasked with a potentially impossible problem....
The Killing Season 4 Trailer: New Cases And A Climactic Conclusion By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2014 12:00 pm EST The six-episode fourth season of The Killing will be available on Netflix on August 1st 2014, and the company has released the first real trailer — promising cover-ups of an old mess, new mysteries, driving to a climactic conclusion of the story. Watch The Killing Season 4 trailer now after the jump....
Toby Kebbell Joins ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes,’ Plot Info Revealed By Russ Fischer/May 8, 2013 2:10 pm EST Matt Reeves has been shooting Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, his sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, for a little while. (Don’t think too much about the prequel/sequel status of these films as they relate to the original Planet of the Apes films — thats just a wormhole....
Universal Still Blasting Away At ‘Asteroids’ With New Screenwriter By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2012 9:45 am EST Briefly: Universal doesn’t want to let Asteroids float away, despite losing the interest of one-time potential director Roland Emmerich. The big-screen adaptation — I think here, the term “adaptation” has to be used very liberally — of the early ’80s arcade game has just picked up a new screenwriter. Jez Butterworth (the playwright who co-wrote Doug Liman’s Fair Game) has been hired to take up screenwriting duties in the wake of Matt Lopez and Evan Spiliotopoulos....
Watch ‘The World’s End’ Gag Reel By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2013 2:15 pm EST The three films and one TV show from Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost are notable for their entertaining engagement of well-known genre ideas, and for the way that they subvert some of the typical uses of those ideas to examine friendship and personal growth. But, let’s face it, the films resonate with audiences at first blush in large part because Pegg and Frost and the rest of the casts of each project clearly have a great time working together....
Watch Newly Restored ‘A Fistful Of Dollars’ Outtakes By Russ Fischer/May 15, 2014 5:00 pm EST The Cannes Film Festival will close this year with a presentation of a restoration of Sergio Leone’s 1964 film A Fistful of Dollars. (Released in the US in early 1967.) The movie, an uncredited remake of Yojimbo, turned Clint Eastwood into a movie star and made the spaghetti western the hottest genre going. Quentin Tarantino will present the film at Cannes, but even if you can’t attend that show we’ve got a good treat, in the form of some newly discovered and restored A Fistful of Dollars outtakes....
What Happened To All The Post-Tarantino Directors? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2007 7:51 am EST Kimberly Peirce, Darren Aronofsky, David O. Russell, Spike Jonze, David Fincher, Baz Luhrmann and Mark Romanek were supposed to be the next generation of filmmakers. What happened? Sharon Waxman of the New York Times has a great article titled “The Mystery of the Missing Moviemakers”. “Is it a sign of timidity, or laziness, or some unexpected lack of drive?...
What Were The Lowest Grossing Films Of 2012? By Angie Han/Dec. 31, 2012 2:13 pm EST You don’t have to be a movie junkie to figure out what some of the year’s biggest box office smashes were. Hell, we could’ve predicted in 2011 that The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises would rank near the top in 2012, though that doesn’t make their $1 billion-plus takes any less impressive. But do you know what the year’s lowest-grossing title is?...
‘Force Majeure’ Trailer And Poster: Check Out This Hilarious, Unique Festival Darling By Germain Lussier/Sept. 19, 2014 1:30 pm EST I literally just walked out of a screening of Force Majeure at Fantastic Fest 2014 and had to let you know about it. Thankfully for me, a new poster and trailer came out earlier this week. Directed by Ruben Östlund, the film follows a family who are on a ski vacation....
‘Mood Indigo’ Trailer #2: Love And Heartbreak, Michel Gondry Style By Angie Han/March 12, 2013 10:30 am EST After branching out with a superhero comedy and an experimental urban drama, Michel Gondry is back to his usual whimsical tricks in Mood Indigo. And what great tricks they are. A musical-olfactory pianocktail device, a kitchen assistant no bigger than a table spoon, a lung pierced with a water lily, and an underwater church wedding are just a few of the dreamlike images you’ll see in the new trailer....
