Jeff Daniels Says ‘Dumb And Dumber To’ Shoots In September By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2013 12:00 pm EST The proposed sequel to Dumb and Dumber — the real sequel, made by Bobby and Peter Farrelly and starring Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey — has been an on-again off-again thing for a little while. But now, after being dumped by New Line and Warner Bros. and picked up by Universal, the film is set to go....
New ‘Inside Out’ Synopsis Reveals More Details On Pixar’s Latest By Angie Han/May 26, 2014 6:00 am EST 2014 is the first year to go by without a Pixar film since 2005. But the beloved animation studio will make up for it next year with two releases. Today, we have new story details on the first of them, Pete Docter’s Inside Out. The film centers on the five emotions competing for control within the mind of a young girl....
Ninja-Fightin’ ’80s Rediscovery ‘Miami Connection’ Wants Your Oscar Consideration By Russ Fischer/Oct. 26, 2012 9:00 am EST It’s weird that talking people into seeing a film about “a tae kwon do-themed synth-rock band called Dragon Sound and the group’s 10-fisted battle against an evil Florida empire of cocaine-dealing motorcycle ninjas” can be difficult. Where did all these pro-ninja crazies come from? Hopefully in the past 24 hours you’ve stumbled across the great piece from Alamo Drafthouse programmer Zack Carlson at Wired, where he takes on the idea of films that are “so bad they’re good....
Oscar Isaac Talks Star Wars Episode 7 Stormtroopers, Cast, Leaks And Energy By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 23, 2014 11:30 am EST Star Wars Episode VII star Oscar Isaac recently talked with Entertainment Weekly and during the interview the award-winning actor talked a bit about the upcoming Star Wars film. Isaac talked about his decision to join the sci-fi franchise, his interactions with the original trilogy cast of Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Mark Hamill, the recent leaks and more....
Page 2: Breaking Bad, Up, Tucker And Dale Vs Evil, Doctor Who, Zombieland, Tron: Legacy, George Lucas, Futurama, Star Wars, Pink Panther, Dan Trachtenberg, Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 2, 2011 8:00 am EST The DVD/Blu-ray release of Transformers: Dark of the Moon is September 30th 2011. MTV has premiered Tony Moore’s illustrated poster for Tucker And Dale Vs Evil.EW has an article titled “Stop hating George Lucas, and stop loving Star Wars so much: Why it’s time to grow up”...
Page 2: BTTF, Indiana Jones, Alien, Godzilla, Kill Bill, Star Wars, Escape From New York, Ghostbusters, Simpsons By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2014 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: Time Formers T-Shirt Andy Serkis Does Everything, Animators Do Nothing, Says Andy Serkis 7 More Wes Anderson Tourist Attractions We’d Like to See These Coffee Mugs Feature Evil Corporations Like Weyland-Yutani Why Netflix’s Price Increase Won’t Cost You… For NowThe 10 Best Stories In the Star Wars Expanded Universe...
Page 2: Transformers, Big Lebowski, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Netflix, Despicable Me, Doctor Who, Bond, Breaking Bad, Taxi Driver By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2014 4:30 pm EST Header Photo: A Fascinating Profile of Omni Consumer Products, A Developer of Real-World Versions of Fictional Movie Products Don’t Hate Movie Trailers, Hate the Way We Watch Movie TrailersHow to Get Away With More Viewers: DVRs and VOD Even Bigger This Fall Florey’s Transformers t-shirts...
Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Kick-Ass 3, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, X-Men, Spider-Man By Germain Lussier/Feb. 7, 2014 4:00 pm EST Where can you find out the secret origin of Hit-Girl? Was Chris Pratt confident about his Guardians of the Galaxy audition? Who is the last superhero that needs to be cast for Avengers: Age of Ultron? Do The Amazing Spider-Man producers think a crossover with The Avengers is a good idea?...
The Next Marvel One-Shot Is Called ‘All Hail The King’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 2, 2014 8:19 am EST The wait between Marvel Cinematic Universe feature films can be excruciating. Thankfully, Marvel helps ease the pain with short films called One-Shots, which are canon within the larger story of the feature films. So far, most DVD/Blu-ray releases have had One-Shots such as Item 47 and Agent Carter. Last year’s Thor: The Dark World hits Blu-ray February 25, and will features a One-Shot called All Hail The King....
The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 20 - The World’s Not What It Used To Be By David Chen/March 12, 2010 12:00 pm EST Stephen talks about the Romance of Travel and the realities of shooting on location, relating some Rules of the Road he has gleaned from experiencing the good, the bad, and the very bad. The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky....
Vision’s ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Origin Mirrors The Comics By Germain Lussier/July 17, 2014 7:45 am EST Minor spoilers for Avengers: Age of Ultron below. Tuesday, it was finally confirmed what we’d assumed for months. In Marvel Comics, Ultron is created by Hank Pym. In Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, however, he’ll be created by Tony Stark. His original purpose? To lead an army called the Iron Legion against the bad guys, in order to give the Avengers a rest....
Watch A First Person Lightsaber Battle With Darth Vader [GoPro] By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2013 3:39 pm EST We’ve seen a lot of fan-created lightsaber battles over the years, but none like this one. Have you ever wondered what a lightsaber battle might look like in first person? The Stunt People used a GoPro to bring us inside the action. The short film features Eric Jacobus, who plays Stryker in the new season of Mortal Kombat Legacy as a Jedi in a life or death battle against Darth Vader....
Watch A Second ‘Sex Tape’ Red-Band Trailer By Russ Fischer/June 19, 2014 2:45 pm EST Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz are both going back to raunchy comedy under director Jake Kasdan. In Sex Tape, the couple make exactly what the title suggests. But it’s a heat of the moment thing, and in the morning they try to delete the video (recorded on an iPad) only to find that it has been uploaded to the cloud, and shared with all their friends and family....
‘22 Jump Street’ Adds ‘Submarine’ Star Craig Roberts By Angie Han/Oct. 16, 2013 4:00 pm EST Craig Roberts broke out playing an awkward outsider in 2010’s Submarine, but the actor himself seems to be pretty popular these days. The young Welsh star has just booked a supporting role in 22 Jump Street, joining Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. More about the film and Roberts’ role in it after the jump....
‘Batman V Superman’ Not On Warner Bros. Comic-Con Schedule; ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Also Out By Germain Lussier/July 8, 2014 4:18 pm EST For the past few years, Marvel has ruled Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con. Their panels have consistently had the most surprises, the most news, and the most new footage. At the end of the weekend, they’re what everyone’s usually talking about. Then 2013 happened. Marvel once again had a strong panel, but a few hours earlier, Warner Bros....
‘Byzantium’ Trailer: Gemma Arterton And Saoirse Ronan, Stained With Blood By Russ Fischer/Feb. 1, 2013 1:15 pm EST If you’re attracted to the idea of a fable-like vampire tale but don’t want to forego big splashes of blood and big, baroque emotional arcs, then Neil Jordan’s Byzantium might be one to see. The film features Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as mother and daughter, with the twist being that they share vampiric blood....
‘I’m So Excited’ Teaser Trailer: Pedro Almodovar Is, Once Again, Exuberantly Colorful And Strange By Russ Fischer/Dec. 14, 2012 2:00 pm EST One thing we can probably all use today is a light, colorful, perhaps even strange comedy. I’m So Excited! is the new film from Pedro Almodovar, and it couldn’t appear to be more different from his last, The Skin I Live In. This brief teaser shows a few bored or irritated passengers on an airplane, and then focuses on three male flight attendants who break into a rendition of ‘I’m So Excited,’ by the Pointer Sisters....
‘Maniac’ US Trailer & Poster: Elijah Wood’s First Person Trip Into Madness By Germain Lussier/May 23, 2013 7:00 am EST Though there have been multiple trailers released for Franck Khalfoun’s remake of Maniac, and we’ve even seen the first few minutes of the movie, this marks the first time the official US release gets some love. On June 21 IFC Midnight will release the film, which stars Elijah Wood as a deranged killer whose point of view makes up most of the movie....
‘Our Idiot Brother’ Trailer - Paul Rudd Is A Moron By Angie Han/April 24, 2011 11:44 am EST One film I’ve been looking forward to is Our Idiot Brother (formerly known as My Idiot Brother), which premiered at Sundance earlier this year to warm, if not spectacular, reviews. Jesse Peretz’s dramedy stars Paul Rudd as a good-hearted but dim man who gets passed around between his three sisters (Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer) as he tries to get his life together after his latest set of mishaps — one of which involved selling weed to a uniformed police officer....
‘Star Wars’ Spin-Offs Won’t Mess With Skywalker Saga Episodes By Germain Lussier/Jan. 17, 2014 3:30 pm EST With 90% of what Disney and Lucasfilm have planned for Star Wars still a mystery, any comment from one of the principals becomes noteworthy. Those principals are the man (metaphorically) signing the checks, Disney CEO Bob Iger, the director of Star Wars Episode VII J.J. Abrams, and the president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy. Over the past few months Kennedy has probably been the most frank on the topic, when and if she surfaces from endless meetings to discuss it....
