‘Dreadstar’ And ‘Federal Bureau Of Physics’ Films In Development By Russ Fischer/April 9, 2014 11:00 am EST While the reports of new indie comics being developed as feature films seem to have slowed a bit, two not-quite-indie titles are being set for the big screen. Vertigo and Epic Comics are (or were, in Epic’s case) the arms of DC and Marvel Comics that blur the lines between indie and major publishers....
‘Ernest & Celestine’ Trailer: Mouse Meets Bear In Oscar-Nominated Animation By Angie Han/Feb. 6, 2014 1:00 pm EST Of the five nominees up for the Best Animated Feature Oscar this year, Ernest & Celestine is likely the least known. But it looks every bit as worthwhile as the other contenders, with a pleasingly old-fashioned animation style that stands in stark contrast to the slick CG works by Disney, Illumination, and DreamWorks....
‘Exodus: Gods And Kings’ Posters Imprison Christian Bale And Joel Edgerton In Grey And Gold By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2014 9:30 am EST The new movie from Ridley Scott, Exodus: Gods and Kings, is meant (I believe) to be a serious re-telling of the story of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. So why do these first Exodus posters make the movie look like an awkward cross between Batman Begins and 300?...
‘Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Sets A Premiere Date By Angie Han/July 16, 2013 2:41 pm EST Briefly: We’ve known for some time now that ABC’s awkwardly titled yet highly anticipated Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would air on Tuesdays this fall. Heck, ABC’s actually building the entire evening around that one promising new show, rather than anchoring the night with a returning favorite. Now, happily, we can get a little more specific....
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Reboot Casts Three More Turtles By Angie Han/March 25, 2013 11:30 am EST Though Leonardo is generally considered the leader of the gang, Raphael was the first Turtle cast last week when The Hunger Games: Catching Fire actor Alan Ritchson boarded director Jonathan Liebesman and producer Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot last week. But apparently the rest of the group weren’t too far behind. Pete Ploszek, Jeremy Howard, and Noel Fisher have just been cast as Leonardo, Donatello, and Michaelangelo, respecitvely....
‘The Playroom’ Trailer: ‘Deadwood’ Stars Make For Terrible Parents By Angie Han/Jan. 18, 2013 3:30 pm EST While The Sessions earned film festival staple John Hawkes a lot of critical acclaim last year, another of his indie performances flew mostly under the radar. In Julia Dyer’s The Sessions, he and his former Deadwood co-star Molly Parker play a dysfunctional couple in ’70s suburbia. The pair are in the habit of inviting the neighbors over for grown-up get-togethers that get more sexually charged the more freely the booze flows....
‘Through The Looking Glass’: Helena Bonham Carter Returns For Alice In Wonderland 2 By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2014 3:51 pm EST Look who is also coming back through the looking glass: Helena Bonham Carter is in final negotiations to reprise her role as the Red Queen in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland sequel Through the Looking Glass. Previously announced, Sacha Baron Cohen was in talks to rejoin Sweeney Todd co-star Johnny Depp, who is also reprising his role as the Mad Hatter alongside Mia Wasikowska as Alice....
‘White House Down’ Teaser Posters: The Calm Before The Storm; Trailer Out Tuesday By Germain Lussier/March 25, 2013 12:00 pm EST UPDATE: A second poster has been added. Teaser poster Monday continues with the latest from the director of Independence Day. “It will start like any other day” says the first posters for Roland Emmerich’s June 28 action film White House Down. The movie stars Channing Tatum as a secret service agent who finds himself in the White House when a group of terrorists take over....
‘Winter’s Tale’ Review: Not Even A Winged Horse Can Make This Nonsensical Romance Soar By Angie Han/Feb. 13, 2014 9:00 am EST Once there, however, he begins to think that the best thing he’s ever stolen is something he hasn’t stolen yet, i.e., the heart of beautiful young consumptive Beverly Penn, played by Downton Abbey’s Jessica Brown-Findlay. She happens to be home when he breaks into her house, and the two instantly fall in the kind of earth-shattering love that leads Peter to wonder aloud, to her father, whether it’s “possible to love someone so completely that they simply cannot die....
Cool Stuff: Tom Whalen’s ‘Batman’ TV Series Comic-Con Posters By Germain Lussier/July 18, 2013 10:30 am EST One of the underrated moments in recent licensing history was people finally being able to make merchandise from the classic Sixties TV show, Batman. Now you can finally buy officially licensed toys, collectibles, prop replicas and more from the classic show, which starred Adam West and Burt Ward. The latest pieces of old school Batman merch are these awesome screenprints by artist Tom Whalen....
First Look: ‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’ Go Way Back In Their WABAC By Angie Han/Oct. 17, 2013 11:30 am EST If each human year is equivalent to seven dog years, that makes Mr. Peabody, who first appeared in the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show around the late ’50s, nearly 400 years old. Given that, he looks pretty damn great in these new stills from DreamWorks’ Mr. Peabody & Sherman. There’s nothing like a shiny CG makeover to make one feel young again, apparently....
Guillermo Del Toro Drops New ‘Dark Universe’ Details Including Main Character Info And Script Status By Germain Lussier/April 1, 2013 7:00 am EST At a comic book conventions Guillermo Del Toro is a god, both for the goodies he brings and the goodies he announces for the future. At WonderCon 2013, Del Toro brought footage from Pacific Rim, which is out this year, but also discussed what’s next. As we know, he’ll first direct Crimson Peak....
J.J. Abrams Is “Constantly Talking” With George Lucas About ‘Star Wars’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 8, 2013 9:32 am EST When Disney bought Lucasfilm last year there was some rejoicing, based in part on the idea that new Star Wars projects might take shape away from the influence of creator George Lucas. It’s rare that a core fanbase wants to see new episodes of a storyline created without the person who gave the series in question original life, but this is Star Wars, and after the prequel trilogy it was time for some new blood....
Jon Stewart Will Take Summer Vacation From ‘The Daily Show’ To Direct A Movie, ‘Rosewater’ By Russ Fischer/March 5, 2013 1:16 pm EST Jon Stewart is taking the summer off from The Daily Show, leaving the comedy newscast in the capable hands of John Oliver for eight of the twelve weeks Stewart will be away. There’s good reason for the host’s break from the show, however: he’s doing to direct his first feature film....
Movie Trailer: Catherine Hardwicke’s ‘Red Riding Hood’ Starring Amanda Seyfried By Russ Fischer/Nov. 16, 2010 2:36 pm EST Catherine Hardwicke may not have really been given the chance to play with werewolves in the Twilight series, but she’s done the next best thing: she’s directed Red Riding Hood, in which Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman are inhabitants of a medieval village that is beset by a werewolf. Sadly, if predictably, the film looks to be going for tone and content that is very similar to Twilight....
Natalie Portman, Shia LaBeouf, ‘Twilight’ Stars Top Most Bankable Actors List By Angie Han/Dec. 27, 2012 3:00 pm EST If you ever want to feel bad about your paltry salary, looking into what you favorite A-listers make per film is a good way to do it. No doubt Kristen Stewart works hard on her Twilight movies — it can’t be easy saying some of those lines with a straight face — but can her $25 million payday for Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2 really be worth it?...
No, Sony Is Not About To Sell Rights To ‘Spider-Man’ By Russ Fischer/May 22, 2013 3:12 pm EST Today you may be seeing rumors that Sony is going to sell off rights to Spider-Man. It’s all based on six degrees of uninformed speculation, which is to say: don’t believe it for a second. The point of the real conversation going on is that the Sony Entertainment division — music and movies, in other words — is the profitable arm of the company, and has been propping up Sony as a whole while the electronics divisions lose money....
Original George Lucas Script ‘The Star Wars’ Gets Comic Adaptation By Germain Lussier/April 1, 2013 9:40 am EST The original script for Star Wars was very different from what audiences saw on screen in 1977. George Lucas first wrote The Star Wars as a much campier tale. Some of the now-popular characters were aliens, some didn’t exist and others were different older or younger. Author J.W. Rinzler has written about the script in his fantastic book The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film but few fans have ever been able to explore it fully....
Page 2: Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, Wes Anderson, The Thing, Apes, Jurassic Park, Transformers, Godzilla, JJ Abrams By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2014 1:30 pm EST Header Photo: The Line To Get Into San Diego Comic-Con Was Brutal In 1983 I’m sorry for coining the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” Voyages About Nothing: How Seinfeld Influenced Star Trek’s Legacy “Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face!"-Action figure Why People Can’t Enjoy the VFX in The Star Wars PrequelsWhat ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Teaches Us About Human Compassion...
Pretty ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Trailer Draws On Familiar Imagery By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2013 3:45 pm EST There’s a new take on Beauty and the Beast, starring Lea Seydoux, of Blue is the Warmest Color, and Vincent Cassel, and you can get a look below. The film is from Christoph Gans, and visually looks a bit like the recent fantasy offerings from Burton and Raimi, but filtered through the gauze of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s style....
