David Slade To Direct ‘Powers’ By Angie Han/July 9, 2014 9:00 am EST At this point, Sony has been trying to adapt Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming’s Powers for well over a decade — first as a movie, then as an FX show, and now as the PlayStation Network’s first original series. Only time will tell whether this latest iteration will work out any better than the earlier ones did, but for now it seems to be making some good progress....
Fantastic Fest Review: Stake Land By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2010 8:00 am EST Last night I screened Stake Land — the best film I’ve seen thus far at Fantastic Fest. Stake Land premiered last week at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was completely off my radar until it won the audience award in the Midnight Madness category. Imagine a film which is a combination of Children of Men. 28 Days Later, The Road, and Y: The Last Man....
First Look: Chloe Moretz And Asa Butterfield In Costume For Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo Cabret’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2010 2:00 pm EST Zimbio has the first photo of Chloe Moretz and Asa Butterfield in costume as Isabelle and Hugo on the Paris set of Martin Scorsese’s Martin Scorsese is directing a 3D adaptation of Brian Selznick’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Click over to Zimbio to see all 11 photos from the set of Hugo Cabret....
First XBox Live Programming Coming Early 2014; When Will Steven Spielberg’s ‘Halo’ Hit? By Germain Lussier/Dec. 16, 2013 4:28 pm EST Tellem spoke at a Variety event in Los Angeles and said development on the XBox original programming has been “slower” than anticipated, but some of that is because releasing content on a video game system is such a new thing: Tellem did say, however, they hope to “put something up in the first quarter, at minimum second quarter” on XBox Live....
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Godzilla 2 Monsters Revealed [Comic Con 2014] By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2014 1:02 pm EST A couple years back, Legendary Pictures surprised San Diego Comic Con International with an FX test for Godzilla created by director Gareth Edwards. The footage was the talk of Comic Con that year, and in 2014 Legendary has once again surprised Hall H with a reveal of the potential Godzilla 2 monsters. Legendary Pictures head Thomas Tull first presented a video from Gareth Edwards which was recorded in San Francisco where he is working hard on Star Wars....
Gore Verbinski To Produce, Fredrik Bond To Direct The Host Remake By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2008 9:09 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/thehostold.flv 470 250] If you haven’t yet, check out Fredrik’s commercial work in our Commercial Directors Spotlight. “Maybe three or four years down the line, if The Host [remake] comes out, and there’s a cool director who takes it on and makes it a real great film, then I’d be very happy,” Bong told SciFiWire in an interview, through a translator....
Is ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Fox’s Second Most Expensive Movie Ever? By Angie Han/Nov. 20, 2013 2:00 pm EST Big superhero franchises don’t come cheap, but just how not-cheap they are can vary quite a bit. The first X-Men had a budget of just $75 million in 2000, according to Box Office Mojo, while 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand cost more than twice as much at $210 million. And now, the newest entry in the series could be the costliest of all....
LOL: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Honest Trailer Reopens Old Wounds By Germain Lussier/Dec. 5, 2012 10:00 am EST Remember July 2012? The Internet was abuzz about a little film called The Dark Knight Rises, the third film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. After an unprecedented amount of hype and anticipation, the actual release of the film started an unstoppable furor of online discussion regarding the details of the plot. Many forgave plot holes in favor of Nolan’s cinematic eye....
By Angie Han/Oct. 9, 2013 8:45 am EST Officially, The Wolf of Wall Street is still set to open November 15. But a couple of weeks back, word got around that Martin Scorsese was having trouble getting it together in time for that deadline, and it looked like we’d have to wait until 2014 to see it. Today, though, we’re hearing that the situation might not be quite that dire. According to a new report, Scorsese and his editor Thelma Schoonmaker are scrambling to finish the cut by Thanksgiving....
Movie Trailer: ‘The Rite’, The Exorcism Film Starring Anthony Hopkins By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2010 11:10 am EST Since Anthony Hopkins was first cast in Mikael Hafstroem’s film The Rite earlier this year, I’ve wondered what kind of film it might end up being. The script is based on Matt Baglio’s book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, which seeks to delve into the real-world practice of exorcism. I was afraid the film would be to the book what Wes Craven’s The Serpent and the Rainbow was to Wade Davis’ excellent ethnographic book of the same name....
New Company Working On ‘American Gods’ TV Series By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2014 5:00 am EST Once upon a time, Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods was bound for HBO, with rumored notions developing for a six-series adaptation that would feature new material in addition to the original storyline of the novel. The story, about a man who is drawn into a conflict between gods old and new, is certainly big enough for several seasons....
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Top Honors To ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ And ‘Lincoln’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2012 12:24 pm EST There’s a lot to be said for timing when it comes to film awards, and in that respect things couldn’t have worked out better for Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. While most audiences won’t even have a chance to see the film until early next year, the first screenings of the movie have drawn rave reviews....
Possible First Glimpse At The Dinobots In ‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 8, 2014 12:32 pm EST Audiences will get their first official glimpse at footage from Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction on February 2 during Super Bowl XLVIII. And while that’s pretty exciting, it’ll be more exciting if we get to see the Dinobots. The addition of the transforming dinosaurs to the film is definitely one of the coolest things about it and fans have long wondered how the unique look of Bay’s Transformers would extend to Grimlock and his friends....
Poster For Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Sees John Hurt Standing Above The Masses By Russ Fischer/Feb. 6, 2013 9:51 am EST This year marks a big event for some movie fans, as three of South Korea’s biggest directors make their English-language film debuts. And the conversion is off to a rocky start, as The Good, the Bad, the Weird and I Saw the Devil director Kim Ji-woon stumbled with The Last Stand a couple weeks ago....
Relativity Not Making ‘Stretch Armstrong’ Either By Angie Han/Oct. 14, 2013 11:00 am EST Peter called the developing Stretch Armstrong movie the “worst idea ever” when he reported on it in 2009, and now it seems Relativity’s come around to his point of view. The studio has just announced the cancellation of the long-gestating project, nearly two years after Relativity plucked it out of Universal Studios’ dustbin. More latest on the movie that never was after the jump....
Sam Mendes Making Dave Eggers Comedy By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 24, 2008 6:43 pm EST If you’ve never had the pleasure of spending five or so minutes looking for an “unstuffy, blue skies” photo of Sam Mendes, try staring at a piece of gray construction paper until your eyes glaze over. At least this new, upcoming project sounds like a nice change of pace (color?) for the director of American Beauty, who hasn’t been on auto-pilot since snagging Best Director in ‘99, but sometimes it feels that way....
Sequel Bits: ‘Taken 3,’ ‘Transformers 4,’ ‘Fast And Furious 6,’ ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D,’ ‘Ninja 2,’ ‘Paranormal Activity 4’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 9, 2012 3:00 pm EST After Taken 2’s surprising $50 million opening weekend, it seems inevitable that the Taken franchise would continue to a third film. Star Liam Neeson wasn’t too keen on the idea before the opening weekend, telling Empire, “I don’t see it. I don’t think it’s going to happen....
Superhero Bits: Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Agents Of SHIELD By Germain Lussier/April 4, 2014 3:45 pm EST Want to see some more X-cellent X-Men: Days of Future Past posters? How much did Captain America: The Winter Soldier make Thursday evening? Has Chris Evans made it to the South Korean set of Avengers: Age of Ultron? What does Groot look like as a Guardians of the Galaxy Lego figure?...
Superhero Bits: Avengers Age Of Ultron, Sin City 2, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Aquaman, Batman By Germain Lussier/July 16, 2014 5:00 pm EST Want to read some details about the first Ultron scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron? What does the final Sin City: A Dame to Kill For one-sheet look like? What happened on the set of Kingsman: The Secret Service? Were Kate Mara’s Fantastic Four comments on Tuesday accurate?...
