Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney Reunite For ‘The Heart’ By Angie Han/April 3, 2014 8:00 am EST Less than a year after The Way, Way Back hit theaters, directors Jim Rash and Nat Faxon are prepping a reunion of sorts in The Heart. The pair have just cast The Way, Way Back actors Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney in their upcoming action-comedy, which stars Kristen Wiig. Hit the jump for plot details and more....
Superhero Bits: Dark Knight Rises, Green Lantern, Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Iron Man 3 By Germain Lussier/March 7, 2013 4:00 pm EST Which star won’t be back for X-Men: Days of Future Past? Does Marc Webb’s latest Amazing Spider-Man 2 tweet hint at yet another villain? Is there an Iron Man 3 contest where Marvel is looking for young Tony Starks? Where can you get both the most realistic, and unrealistic, Bane costumes from The Dark Knight Rises?...
TV Bits: ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Smash’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘Hannibal’, ‘The Mindy Project’, Hugh Laurie By Angie Han/Nov. 21, 2012 6:00 am EST The Bryan Fuller-created series follows FBI agent Will Graham and Mads Mikkelsen as psychologist/cannibal Hannibal Lecter in the early days of their relationship. Hannibal will make its debut in early 2013. [TV Line] Rick Grimes and his grimy band of survivors are about to welcome one more member....
Watch A Clip From Pixar’s Upcoming Short ‘Lava’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 28, 2014 11:30 am EST Next Summer, when you finally sit down to see a new Pixar movie, you’ll first see Lava. It’s the company’s latest short film, directed by James Ford Murphy, which will play before Pete Docter’s Inside Out starting on June 19, 2015. The short stars a massive Hawaiian volcano named Uku who sits in the ocean, century after century, singing about his desire for love....
Watch Steven Soderbergh’s Silent B&W Version Of ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ By Angie Han/Sept. 23, 2014 8:00 am EST Steven Soderbergh’s “retirement” has been a delight to follow. Freed of the demands of film directing, he’s found time to do all sorts of other things, from an Off-Broadway stage play to a Cinemax TV series to a Twitter novella to a Gus Van Sant / Alfred Hitchcock Psychos mash-up. His latest endeavor, released today, is a silent, black-and-white version of Raiders of the Lost Ark....
‘22 Jump Street’ Stand-In Trailer: Who Needs Movie Stars? By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2014 1:00 pm EST 22 Jump Street opens today, with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in the lead roles. But there is a different version of the movie out there, or at least an alternate trailer. Ivan Hoey Jr. and Brad Cookus were the stand-ins for the two stars — that is, the guys who run through scenes so that the camera team and other departments can get the tech details of a scene worked out....
‘A Most Wanted Man’ Trailer: Philip Seymour Hoffman Does John Le Carré By Angie Han/April 11, 2014 12:27 pm EST One of the very last films Philip Seymour Hoffman completed before his passing this past February was A Most Wanted Man, Anton Corbijn’s adaptation of John le Carré’s novel. The film premiered at Sundance this year to mostly (if not wildly) positive reviews, and is now heading toward a theatrical release this summer....
‘American Horror Story’ Renewed For Fourth Season By Russ Fischer/Nov. 6, 2013 5:00 pm EST Briefly: American Horror Story, which kicked off with the Murder House storyline in 2011 and passed into the Asylum and current Coven incarnations, will get a fourth season in 2014. No surprise there, as Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s series has continued to grow its audience with each season. Coven sees the show becoming far more popular than Asylum....
‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Super Bowl Teaser And Posters By Angie Han/Jan. 31, 2014 8:20 am EST It costs a jaw-dropping $4 million dollars to get a 30-second spot in the Super Bowl. Can you blame studios, then, for wanting to make the most of their purchase by hyping up the ads in advance? Marvel Studios has released a brief teaser for their latest Captain America: The Winter Soldier promo, which will debut during the big game on Sunday....
‘Elysium’ Set For IMAX Release August 9 By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2013 12:45 pm EST Briefly: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 follow-up, Elysium, is getting a lot bigger. The film will be released in IMAX theaters on August 9, to play alongside the standard-def presentation. This is a digital re-master rather than a presentation featuring footage shot in native IMAX format, so that’s a downside. On the other hand, what we’ve seen of Elysium so far (revisit the trailer here) suggests that Blomkamp has expanded his vision of human sociaety as it could stand many years from now, and the massive scope of IMAX could be a great way to see the vistas of the orbital colony Elysium....
/Film Interview: ‘Fast And Furious 6’ Director Justin Lin On Linking Stories And Designing Ever-Larger Spectacle By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2013 8:35 am EST With Fast and Furious 6, Lin does that again but now he’s leaving the franchise behind him. However he leaves behind a newly rejuvenated fan base, a laundry list of beloved characters and a complete story with room to expand. We spoke to Lin on the eve of Fast and Furious 6 and discussed those things as well as the wacky timeline, building a mythology, filming the street race scenes, trailers spoiling the action, shooting 6 and 7 back to back and and the all-important Corona budget....
‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Photos: Full Body Portraits Of The Whole Team By Germain Lussier/April 2, 2014 8:12 am EST Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens this weekend, and then all eyes turn to the skies. That’s where James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy takes place: in deep, deep space. There, an Earth-born transplant named Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) will be arrested and meet four other crazy creatures to form a formidable team to fight Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace)....
‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Will First Shoot In Morocco By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2014 3:58 pm EST We’re getting to the point where there will have to be some hard and fast news on Star Wars Episode VII. The movie is scheduled to begin shooting in just over a month, after which details will certainly leak. Right now we know many participants on the technical side, and we’ve got a plot of rumors about potential cast members....
‘The Lone Ranger’ Trailer #4: The Rise Of An American Hero By Germain Lussier/May 21, 2013 9:34 am EST Disney’s The Lone Ranger is a summer film punctuated with a huge question mark. On the one hand, it’s from director Gore Verbinski, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and star Johnny Depp, a proven triumvirate of Hollywood magic, and the trailers have certainly shown spectacle on the grandest scale. Then there’s the fact it’s based on a property many of today’s kids have never heard of and set in a genre that rarely resonates with younger, Disney centric audiences....
‘The Simpsons’ Pays Tribute To Hayao Miyazaki In Reference-Filled Sequence By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2014 2:16 pm EST When Homer Simpson and a salaryman friend wander the streets after drinking too much wine, they find themselves in an altered reality derived from the films of Hayao Miyazaki. Yep, in The Simpsons’ ceaseless quest to catch our attention with short, referential sequences, the show has bowed deeply to the master animator with a sequence packed with visual gags that will be recognizable to even casual fans of the director....
‘Turbo’ Trailer #3: They’re Letting Snails In The Indy 500 Now By Angie Han/July 1, 2013 6:51 pm EST DreamWorks Animation has already gotten us to believe that pandas can be kung fu masters, dragons can be man’s best friend, and cats can be swashbuckling outlaws. In that light, I guess an snail competing in the Indy 500 isn’t that much of a stretch. Turbo stars Ryan Reynolds (or his voice, anyway) as an ordinary snail who dreams of going fast....
2013 Hero Complex Film Festival Features Guillermo Del Toro, John Carpenter, Roland Emmerich And More By Germain Lussier/April 8, 2013 9:30 am EST Los Angeles film fans, April and May is a great time to live in the City of Angels. One of the many reasons is the return of the Hero Complex Film Festival, which takes place from May 10-12 at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. In previous years, stars such as Malcolm McDowell, Warren Beatty, Christopher Nolan and Ridley Scott have been part of the festival....
Behind The Scenes Photos: Ryan Gosling In ‘Only God Forgives’ By Russ Fischer/May 30, 2012 2:30 pm EST Drive team Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling reconvened earlier this year to shoot the Thai-flavored western Only God Forgives in Bangkok. We’ve seen one photo of Gosling that comes from the film, but there wasn’t much to that image. Now a set of moody black and white photos has shown up online, and they do a nice job of complimenting the report of footage shown off late last week at Cannes....
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Emily Blunt And Christine Baranski Follow Rob Marshall ‘Into The Woods’ By Angie Han/May 17, 2013 6:00 am EST Rob Marshall has directed one really good musical (Chicago) and one not-so-great one (Nine). Presumably it’s the former that has Hollywood’s biggest stars eagerly lining up for his next one.Emily Blunt and Christine Baranski have entered negotiations to team with Marshall for Disney’s Into the Woods, joining Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Chris Pine....
