Here’s How The Chinese Cut Of ‘Iron Man 3’ Is Different By Germain Lussier/May 1, 2013 2:03 pm EST Marvel is well-known for inserting scenes into their films to surprise audiences, and Iron Man 3 is no different. As always, stay to the end of the credits. What is different about Tony Stark’s latest adventure is that the film’s Chinese release is four minutes longer than in the rest of the world....
James Wan In Talks For ‘Fast & Furious 7’ By Angie Han/April 10, 2013 7:51 pm EST When Justin Lin decided to exit the Fast and the Furious series after directing four consecutive installments, he opened up a plum gig at one of the hottest franchises in Hollywood. Now it looks like Universal’s found just the man to take it. Saw director James Wan has entered talks to direct The Fast and the Furious 7, with the deal expected to close sometime in the next week or so....
Movie Trailer: ‘Hall Pass’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2010 6:02 pm EST And do you think they asked Patton Oswalt about borrowing the chloroform gag? Not like he’s the only one to ever use that, but in the last few years that joke is pretty definitively his. (Maybe he did uncredited rewrite work.) Dig the supporting cast, though. In addition to Richard Jenkins it looks like Stephen Merchant and J.B. Smoove get good moments, and since Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate get their own hall pass, hopefully they have their own moments as well....
Paul Greengrass And George Clooney Team On Thriller From ‘Argo’ Writer By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2012 10:00 am EST Briefly: A year ago not so many people knew Chris Terrio’s name. He was a screenwriter with popular work on the Black List and a feature directorial credit to his name. (Heights, which went to Sundance in 2005.) But then Ben Affleck decided to direct Terrio’s script Argo, and things changed. Now Argo producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov are working with Terrio on a crime script, and they’ve got Paul Greengrass attached to direct....
Paul Walker To Star In Rebooted ‘Hitman’ Film Called ‘Agent 47’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 5, 2013 6:35 pm EST Agent 47 will be written by Mike Finch and Skip Woods and directed by Aleksander Bach, a commercial director making his feature debut. Oddly enough, Woods also wrote the first movie for Gens and Olyphant. There’s more below.Deadline broke the news of this reboot, which will shoot in Singapore and Berlin this Summer....
Quentin Tarantino Continuing Work On ‘The Hateful Eight’ Script By Russ Fischer/April 21, 2014 1:01 am EST It seems like the best hope for Quentin Tarantino’s live read of The Hateful Eight — that working on the staged reading of the script would revive the director’s interest in making a film — could become a reality. On Saturday night at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, the director assembled a cast of “Tarantino Superstars” to perform a one-time reading of the first draft of his western The Hateful Eight....
Scarlett Johansson’s Steamy Lesbian Sex Scene With Penelope Cruz!? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2008 1:01 pm EST Men everywhere rejoice – Scarlett Johansson filmed a “steamy lesbian sex scene with Penelope Cruz” for Woody Allen’s new star filled porno film Vicky Cristina does Barcelona. A source tells the NY Post that the scene is “extremely erotic” and that “people will be blown away and even shocked.” Apparently, Penelope and Scarlett go at it in a red-tinted photography dark room, and “it will leave the audience gasping....
Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man 2, Thor, Daredevil, Catwoman, Batman Vs. Superman, Hellboy By Germain Lussier/Dec. 27, 2013 12:00 pm EST Who are the most popular superheroes on social media? When can you see The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on New Year’s Eve? Did Mattel make a Batman Utility Belt? What does Benedict Cumberbatch look like as the Joker? How much is Thor’s castle? Want to see Catwoman play Batman’s theme on the piano?...
Superhero Bits: Katee Sackhoff, Amazing Spider-Man 3, X-Men: First Class, Deadpool, Iron Man, Arrow By Germain Lussier/Sept. 11, 2013 3:00 pm EST Was the Katee Sackhoff and Ms. Marvel connection greatly exaggerated? Does Chris Cooper think Norman Osborn will appear in The Amazing Spider-Man 3? How does Jamie Foxx talk about Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2? What does Chris Hemsworth do different with a Thor movie versus an Avengers movie?...
The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 65 - All In By David Chen/May 30, 2014 5:00 am EST We’re all gamblers. The only difference is that some of us know what a sure thing looks like. The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky. You can e-mail Stephen at stephentobolowsky(AT)gmail(DOT)com....
Tupac Shakur Biopic Hires Michael Starrbury, Writer Of 2013 Sundance Entry ‘The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister And Pete’ By Angie Han/Jan. 23, 2013 9:30 am EST Progress on Morgan Creek’s Tupac Shakur biopic has been pretty quiet since 2011, when first Antoine Fuqua and then John Singleton left the project in a matter of months. But it hasn’t died down completely, and now it’s taking an important step forward. Michael Starrbury, writer of the buzzy Sundance drama The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, has been hired to do a new rewrite of the screenplay....
Twilight’s Rachael Lefevre Describes Method Acting, Pretended To Be A Cat To Prepare For Role By David Chen/July 26, 2008 12:41 am EST To prepare for In The Name of the Father, Daniel Day-Lewis slept in an abandoned jail and ate only prison rations. Lewis is the consummate method actor, a man whose commitment to his craft is so total that it boggles the mind and wins admiration from critics everywhere....
Video Blog: 15 Minutes From ‘Iron Man 3’ Give A Feel For Phase 2 Tone And Shane Black’s Humor By Germain Lussier/March 5, 2013 10:40 am EST Now that the final Iron Man 3 trailer is out, do you find yourself craving even more? How about some details on 15 minutes of footage taken from the film? Disney showed two complete scenes, in context, to journalists a few weeks back and we’re finally ready to tell you about it....
Watch The Live-Action ‘Destiny’ Ad From ‘Oblivion’ Director Joseph Kosinski By Russ Fischer/Sept. 4, 2014 3:00 pm EST Bungie and Activision are teaming for the “living game world” of the next-gen game title Destiny, and now Joseph Kosinski has directed a live-action ad/trailer for the game. While “live-action” might at first seem a bit generous in this context, as so much of the ad is CG, eventually you’ll see stunning environments pulled from real life....
‘Fish Tank’ Director Andrea Arnold Plans First US-Set Film, ‘American Honey’ By Russ Fischer/May 8, 2014 6:30 am EST Andrea Arnold’s films Red Road and i are must-sees, and her 2011 adaptation of Wuthering Heights is strong work, too. Those three films all have one thing in common, besides Arnold: they were all shot in the UK. Now Andrea Arnold is coming to America to shoot a film, and the result, American Honey, sounds like a road movie that could be a great framework in which a young new actress could take command of the screen....
‘Indie Game: The Movie’ Gets Special Edition With Online Downloadable Content By Germain Lussier/July 24, 2013 8:28 pm EST Indie Game: The Movie was one of the ten best films I saw last year. Currently available on Netflix, the documentary directed by Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky follows the development of three independent video games. You can read my full review here for more details. This week, the filmmakers are doing something truly awesome and fitting....
‘Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5’ Trailer: Now With More Spike Jonze And Catherine Keener By Angie Han/May 21, 2014 12:15 pm EST To date, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa is the only Jackass movie with a plotline, and the only one to be nominated for an Oscar. But one way it doesn’t differ from the other Jackass movies is the amount of footage shot for it. Like Jackasses 2 and 3, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa had enough leftovers for a not-quite-sequel, dubbed Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa ....
‘Laggies’ Trailer: Keira Knightley Has A Quarterlife Crisis By Angie Han/July 16, 2014 11:00 am EST Dramas about overeducated, underemployed 20somethings in the throes of a quarterlife crisis are a dime a dozen on the indie film circuit. But Laggies seems worth a look anyway, if only because of the names attached. Lynn Shelton (Your Sister’s Sister) directed the coming-of-age tale, which follows an aimless 28-year-old (Keira Knightley). When her anxieties about impending adulthood come to a head, she runs off to move in with a 16-year-old girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) and her single dad (Sam Rockwell)....
‘The Giver’ Trailer: Meryl Streep Rules The Future By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2014 11:00 am EST The Giver, based on the book by Lois Lowry, tells the story of a society in which people no longer feel, well, pretty much anything. There are no emotions, no colors, and no real sense of personal individuality. All that hits a tipping point when one young man, Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) is assigned to take over the work of The Giver (Jeff Bridges), who is essentially the world’s last living librarian....
‘Wolf Creek 2’ Trailer: Mick Taylor Terrorizes A New Pair Of Tourists By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2014 5:00 am EST Go back the the Outback, with that nice man Mick Taylor (played by John Jarratt) is ready to be your guide. A guide to Hell, at least. Jarratt returns in Wolf Creek 2, where he once again plays one messed-up son of a bitch — and this time writer/director Greg McLean has seemingly intensified Mick’s anti-social personality....
