Doug Liman To Direct ‘Splinter Cell’ Movie Starring Tom Hardy By Germain Lussier/March 19, 2014 3:20 pm EST The Splinter Cell movie just took a big step forward. Director Doug Liman is in final talks to helm the popular Tom Clancy video game adaptation, which will star Tom Hardy as a highly trained secret agent on the hunt for terrorists. The hope is to start filming this summer for a 2015 release....
Guillermo Del Toro Does A Commentary For The ‘Pacific Rim’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/Dec. 13, 2012 5:35 pm EST The combination of giant robots, giant monsters, and Guillermo Del Toro had already set fan expectations high for his 2013 film, Pacific Rim. Then the trailer came out. Instantly everyone realized that this is the director going bigger, badder, and more bombastic than we’ve ever seen him do before, which is saying a lot....
Joss Whedon Describes Why Quicksilver And Scarlet Witch Are In ‘The Avengers 2;’ Hints At New Villain By Germain Lussier/May 27, 2013 11:00 am EST Joss Whedon was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last week and explained why he inserted the characters into The Avengers 2. He doesn’t mention Singer’s film explicitly but he explains the subjective, and objective reasons they’ll be in his film. Read that, as well as a quote teasing the sequel’s villain, below....
Laika Wants To Bring 2D Hand-Drawn Animation Back By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2014 3:02 pm EST Laika has made a name for themselves with their hand-crafted stop-motion animated feature films like Coraline, ParaNorman and the upcoming movie Boxtrolls. But the Portland-based animation studio wants to help hand-drawn animation make a comeback. During the Boxtrolls Hall H presentation at 2014 San Diego Comic Con International, Laika head Travis Knight would like to do a 2D hand-drawn animated feature film....
Listen To J.J. Abrams On Howard Stern: Admits He Doesn’t Watch Every Episode Of His TV Shows, Talks Trek And Star Wars By Germain Lussier/May 15, 2013 8:00 am EST Not only did J.J. Abrams stop by The Daily Show earlier this week, he popped by The Howard Stern Show on Sirius XM as well. Talking to Stern, Abrams talked about all the usual stuff: Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Wars Episode VII, etc....
New James Cameron Undersea Film Opening This Summer By Germain Lussier/May 6, 2014 10:04 am EST The last James Cameron film was released five years ago. The next one is two years away, but he’s sneaking a little something in this year — a starring role. James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D will hit theaters August 8. It follows Cameron on one of his many underwater explorations, this one to the deepest depths of the ocean in a single person vessel....
Roland Emmerich Hopes To Create A “Series” Of ‘Independence Day’ Films; Jeff Goldblum Expected To Return By Germain Lussier/May 12, 2013 5:19 pm EST Fans have waited over 15 years for concrete news about a sequel to the 1996 hit film Independence Day. A few months ago, we got some. Co-writers Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin confirmed that, yes, they have begun working on the sequels. Tentatively called ID Forever Parts One and Two, the rumor was that the films would take place in present day — about 20 years after the events of the first film — and center on the alien retaliation to human victory....
VOTD: Kermit The Frog Reviews 2014’s Summer Movies, Talks About His Failed Avengers Audition By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2014 3:30 pm EST Our friends at MTV got a chance to sit down with The Muppets stars Kermit the Frog and Pepe the King Prawn about the 2014 Summer Movie Season. Kermit and Pepe talk about Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (including the end credits stringer, spoiler be warned) and Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes....
Will Smith Replaces Ben Affleck In Con Artist Drama ‘Focus’ By Russ Fischer/April 17, 2013 6:02 pm EST When Ben Affleck was in his “choosing between projects” phase right after the completion of Argo, he flirted with acting in a Warner Bros. film called Focus. The movie, scripted and set to be directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Crazy, Stupid, Love) is about a young female con artist who teams up with an older, more experienced male counterpart....
‘Godzilla’ TV Spots Preview The Horror Of Giant Monster Attack By Russ Fischer/April 2, 2014 12:45 pm EST Gareth Edwards and Legendary are getting ready to serve up some serious monster attacks in Godzilla. Two new Godzilla TV spots preview even more of the devastation that takes place when Godzilla (and probably another monster or two) make landfall. The great thing about these spots is that they continue the run of marketing Godzilla like a horror movie rather than a big action movie or sci-fi tentpole....
‘Inception’-Inspired Board Game Is A Dream Come True By Angie Han/Feb. 28, 2014 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you walked out of Inception wishing you could spend a little more time in Christopher Nolan’s lush sci-fi world, a new (unofficial) Inception board game could be just the thing to make your dreams come true. Created by Bruno Gervasi and Reid Cuddy, Inceptor unfolds pretty much like the inceptions from the movie — only players roll dice and collect cards to manipulate the Mark, instead of injecting mind-bending chemicals and plugging in futuristic technology....
‘Interstellar’ Oculus Rift Experience Coming To Select Theaters By Germain Lussier/Oct. 3, 2014 12:00 pm EST Movie studios are always looking for new ways to market movies. These days, a trailer and poster simply aren’t enough. You do documentaries. You do viral experiences. Maybe you do mobile games. And one of the newest tools studios have is Oculus Rift. At San Diego Comic-Con this year, the immersive, 360 virtual reality simulator was used to promote multiple films, such as Pacific Rim and X-Men Days of Future Past....
‘Museum Hours’ Trailer: A Dreamy Film, And A Serene Mental Playground By Russ Fischer/June 28, 2013 11:00 am EST In the quiet, there’s an opportunity to direct your attention inward, as well as out to whatever is before you. Museum Hours is a gorgeous, quiet, and very dreamy film from Jem Cohen. The director might be best known for making films that deal with very loud subjects. He made Instrument, about the band Fugazi, and Building a Broken Mousetrap, which documents the spectacularly long-lived (and simply spectacular) Dutch punk band The Ex....
‘Tai Chi Hero’ Poster Shows Off The Film’s Villain By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2013 11:00 am EST Last year’s martial arts/steampunk action/comedy film Tai Chi Zero was explicitly designed to be followed by a sequel — the two films shot back to back — and now that second film, Tai Chi Hero, is almost upon us. (It was released in Hong Kong last fall.) A variety of posters are being revealed today highlighting characters from the film, and we’ve got the villain....
‘The Legend Of Conan’ Moves Forward With ‘World Trade Center’ Screenwriter By Germain Lussier/Oct. 2, 2013 7:00 am EST A significant step has finally been taken in the development of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to the days of high adventure. Universal Pictures has hired Andrea Berloff to write the screenplay for The Legend of Conan, the sword and sandal sequel which will continue the story from the Conan films of the 1980s....
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Starring Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte And Leslie Bibb By Hunter Stephenson/May 9, 2008 12:12 pm EST A dirty old man once said, “There are friends who have, friends who haven’t and friends who lie either way,” and Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte (above) and Leslie Bibb will star as the former partakers in the comedy A Good Old Fashioned Orgy. In the battle of marquee titles befitting antiseptic Spencer’s Gifts boardgames, I’d say this one gets grandma’s attention faster than Zack and Miri Make a Porno, what about you?...
Brett Ratner To Direct Comic Book Adaptation Harbinger By Hunter Stephenson/March 12, 2008 12:08 am EST Does big time studio director Brett Ratner lie around the Grotto half-naked with Hugh Hefner and his Bunnies while searching through ancient Valiant comic books for his next franchise? If not, did an assistant bring him a copy of Harbinger and if so, why not a copy of Turok Dinosaur Hunter or X-O Manowar instead?...
Bryan Fuller And Bryan Singer’s ‘Munsters’ Re-Do ‘Mockingbird Lane’ Unlikely To Get Series Order [Updated With Fuller’s Denial] By Russ Fischer/Oct. 2, 2012 7:00 am EST Briefly: Over the past couple years Bryan Fuller and NBC have been working to come up with a new take on The Munsters, the ’60s TV show that vaguely melded the Universal monsters with then-popular TV sitcom family concepts. Bryan Singer ended up coming on board to direct the pilot for what became Mockingbird Lane, with Jerry O’Connell as Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi as his wife Lily, and Eddie Izzard as Grandpa....
Cool Stuff: The Films Of Joe Dante And Roger Corman Get An Art Show And Screening By Germain Lussier/May 22, 2014 1:45 pm EST Joe Dante and Roger Corman are two filmmakers with incredibly influential legacies. Corman’s eclectic, fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants style of filmmaking helped educate and launch the careers of everyone from James Cameron and Jack Nicholson to Ron Howard and Peter Fonda. Then there’s Dante, whose twisted sense of humor mixed with childlike wonder helped mold children of the Eighties in ways very similar to Steven Spielberg....
David Goyer’s ‘Constantine’ Gets Pilot Order From NBC By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2014 5:00 pm EST There’s no announced director, and we don’t know when in DC continuity the series is set, precisely what stories it will tell, or if there’s any possible connection to Guillermo del Toro’s mooted Justice League Dark film, which is also said to feature John Constantine. Definitely expect some difference between the show and the film Constantine, in which Keanu Reeves played the title role....
