TV Trailers: ‘Community’ Sneak Peak, ‘Game Of Thrones’ Teaser By Angie Han/Jan. 11, 2013 1:57 pm EST Fall is traditionally the start of the TV season, but this winter has some promising geek-friendly premieres coming up as well. We’re just under a month away from the long-awaited return of Community, which is entering its fourth season. Another two-ish months after that, we’ll get to enjoy the debut of Game of Thrones Season 3....
Watch ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Viral Videos And Trailer Tease By Russ Fischer/May 7, 2014 10:00 am EST The new trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes hits tomorrow, May 8, and we’re pretty psyched to get a new look at the collision between mankind’s crumbling society and the emergent ape civilization. With a cast that includes Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Judy Greer, we’ll watch just about anything that transpires....
Watch The First 6 Minutes Of The ‘Psycho’ TV Series Prequel ‘Bates Motel’ By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2013 11:00 am EST A&E has released the first six minutes of their upcoming tv series Bates Motel, which is a prequel of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film Psycho. Watch the footage after the jump while you still can, as we’re not sure how long it will be available online. Leave your thoughts in the comments below....
Will Smith Joins NFL Concussion Film; ‘Blind Side’ Director Takes On Baseball Film By Germain Lussier/June 4, 2014 3:30 pm EST A pair of sports film just took significant jumps up the production ladder. First up, superstar Will Smith is in talks to star in a film about head injuries in the NFL produced by Ridley Scott. Peter Landesman (Parkland) is scheduled to direct. Second, John Lee Hancock – director of the highest grossing sports film of all time, The Blind Side – will direct a film about the life of baseball superstar turned financial criminal, Lenny Dykstra....
‘Entourage’ Set Photos Direct From Director Doug Ellin By Germain Lussier/March 24, 2014 12:30 pm EST The Entourage movie doesn’t open for 15 months, but production is well underway. In fact, the film opens on the same day as Jurassic World, and Entourage will be in the can before director Colin Trevorrow shoots a foot of film on the dinosaur sequel. The writer and director of Entourage, Doug Ellin, has been doing a pretty amazing job documenting the production via Instagram....
/Film Interview: ‘Short Term 12’ Director Destin Daniel Cretton By Germain Lussier/Aug. 20, 2013 2:00 pm EST Brie Larson (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) and John Gallagher Jr. (The Newsroom) star as two young adults who put their own personal problems aside every morning when they go to a halfway house for despondent young kids called Short Term 12. Cretton not only creates rich, realistic characters in every single role, but they make you laugh one instant and cry the next, with the emotions never feeling forced or out of place....
‘Hunger Games’ Writer Penning ‘Guys And Dolls’ Remake By Germain Lussier/Dec. 16, 2013 11:00 am EST Deadline broke the news of the deal. Strong won a few Emmys last year for writing the HBO movie Game Change, which set his writing career on fire. He did Hunger Games, Lee Daniels’ The Butler and the Dan Brown/Robert Langdon adaptation, The Lost Symbol. Before that, he acted on on Mad Men, Gilmore Girls and a ton of other things....
‘Maleficent’ Teaser Trailer & Images: Disney Sends Angelina Jolie To The Dark Side By Angie Han/Nov. 13, 2013 6:00 am EST In the original Sleeping Beauty, there’s little debate that Maleficent is one nasty fairy. She curses a child to death; she kidnaps a prince; she refers to herself as “the Mistress of All Evil,” for crying out loud. But Disney’s upcoming Maleficent aims to muddy that perception a bit. In this live-action retelling, Maleficent (played by Angelina Jolie) starts out as a perfectly sweet gal before tragedy hardens her heart....
‘The Book Of Life’ Trailer: Love In The Land Of The Dead By Russ Fischer/May 29, 2014 10:42 am EST In theaters this Halloween will be a different sort of ghost story. The Book of Life is a film based on the images and stories about the Day of the Dead, and features a man, recently deceased, who hopes to journey back to the land of the living to be with the woman he loves....
Adam Sandler’s Next Film Will Be A Return To Romantic Comedy, Possibly With Drew Barrymore By Germain Lussier/Feb. 22, 2013 7:00 am EST After a few years attempting to return to his gross-out roots, Adam Sandler’s next film drops him back into a more female-friendly genre: romantic comedy. Sandler will next star in an untitled Warner Bros. comedy about two families forced to deal with each other. Ivan Menchell and Claire Sera wrote the original draft, a director search is underway and Drew Barrymore has been approached to play the female lead....
Dan Aykroyd Spills ‘Ghostbusters 3’ Plot Details By Angie Han/May 20, 2013 2:30 pm EST We’ll say this much for Dan Aykroyd: The guy does not give up easily. Despite years and years and years of setbacks on Ghostbusters 3, the former Dr. Stantz is still as determined as ever. Indeed, he’s currently hopeful that production on the film could get under way by next year — and he’s more than happy to share the details on what we’ll see if and when it ever gets made....
First Image From Clint Eastwood’s ‘Jersey Boys’ Takes Center Stage By Germain Lussier/Jan. 3, 2014 4:00 pm EST The first image from Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of the Broadway musical Jersey Boys is now online. It doesn’t feature any stars, however, just the four members of the Four Seasons at the heart of the show, played by John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Vincent Piazza and Michael Lomenda. What’s interesting about the image is it looks almost like a carbon copy of the Broadway show....
Found-Footage Tornado Pic ‘Into The Storm’ Sets August Release Date By Angie Han/Sept. 25, 2013 1:30 pm EST Just as next year’s real-life tornado season winds down, Warner Bros. will unleash a twister of its own The studio has just set an August release for Into the Storm, formerly titled Black Sky or Category Six. Steven Quale (Final Destination 5) directs the found-footage tornado thriller, which centers around a group of storm chasers and stars Richard Armitage (The Hobbit), Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead), and Matt Walsh (Veep)....
Mark Romanek In Talks To Direct ‘The Shining’ Prequel ‘Overlook Hotel’ By Russ Fischer/July 18, 2014 10:21 am EST Warner Bros. is moving forward with Overlook Hotel, written as a prequel to The Shining. The film is scripted by former Walking Dead showrunner Glenn Mazzara; the script is an original story, albeit one based on a deleted prologue written by Stephen King for his novel The Shining. Now the studio has a director: Mark Romanek is in talks to direct the Shining prequel....
Mondo To Release Quentin Tarantino Blu-Ray Box Art In Poster Form By Germain Lussier/Nov. 19, 2012 2:45 pm EST If you’re one of those people who saw Ken Taylor’s gorgeous art for the Quentin Tarantino 20th Anniversary Box Set and thought, “I wish I could put that on my wall,” now you’ll have the chance. Tuesday, Mondo is releasing a 24 x 36 inch poster of the director that’ll come with a huge poster of the interior of the set....
New ‘Clouds Of Sils Maria’ Trailer: A Showcase For Kristen Stewart And Juliette Binoche By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2014 11:00 am EST Clouds of Sils Maria looks like an airy puzzle, and a showcase for its excellent cast. The new film from Olivier Assayas (Carlos, Demonlover) casts Juliette Binoche as an actress forced to confront the progression of time and her career. She once found fame playing the ingenue in a play about a woman who drives her employer to suicide; now she’s asked to take the play’s tragic role, as an emerging new star (Chloe Grace Moretz) nabs the juicier part....
Nicolas Winding Refn Hires Polly Stenham To Write “All-Female Horror” Film ‘I Walk With The Dead’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 22, 2013 8:45 am EST Nicolas Winding Refn is off Logan’s Run, but he does have the television revamp of Barbarella to work on. As far as features go, his next project may well be a Tokyo-set film that has been called The Avenging Silence, and which he has likened (in some manner — don’t take this too seriously, it turns out) to a prequel to Valhalla Rising....
Orange And Blue Shades Dominate In Movie Trailers, Too By Angie Han/Jan. 25, 2013 10:00 am EST That’s the finding of one analysis by Stanford University masters student Edmund Helmer, who compiled data from 312 different trailers for hue (color), value (distance from black), and saturation (intensity). Check out a nifty visualization and read more about Helmer’s results after the jump. And here’s a visual representation of the data he came away with:...
Page 2: Star Wars, A Christmas Story, Alien, Ghostbusters, Royal Tenenbaums, Lord Of The Rings, Simpsons, Doctor Who, By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: The Death Star makes everything cooler, even a dog’s Cone of ShameThe 10 Best Movie Twist Endings of the Decade ‘Star Wars 7’: Rules For A New Trilogy How George Lucas made the deal with Disney6 Filmmaking Tips From The WachowskisStar Wars Episode 7: 10 Things To Avoid...
Page 2: Star Wars, Hobbit, Mean Girls, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Home Alone, Breaking Bad By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2014 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: R2-D2 Likes to Cosplay As A Minion 24 Things We Learned from the ‘Planet of the Apes’ CommentaryRead New York Magazine’s 2009 Profile of Armond WhiteJOSHUA BUDICH’S STAR WARS TRIPTYCH SERIES, “SCOUNDRELS” TO GO ON SALE JANUARY 17, 201459 Films We’re Looking Forward To Seeing At the 2014 Sundance Film FestivalHeisenberg’s Picks: Top 5 Films Of 2013...
