Watch ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Short ‘The Machine In The Ghost’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 11, 2014 2:00 pm EST Here’s a new Star Wars Rebels short, The Machine in the Ghost, to give you a taste of some of the characters from the new show. It’s the first of four Rebels shorts that will premiere over the next few weeks. Originally meant to premiere tonight, the official Star Wars YouTube account is already running the three-minute story....
Watch Tom Hiddleston Sing “The Bare Necessities” From ‘The Jungle Book’ By Angie Han/Aug. 12, 2013 10:00 am EST Tom Hiddleston sure knows how to work a crowd. Although his entrance at D23 wasn’t quite as dramatic as his big Loki monologue from Comic-Con, what it lacked in menacing villainy, it more than made up for in adorable musicality. The Brit actor was at the event to promote The Pirate Fairy, Disney’s new animated musical about a badass fairy and a young Captain Hook....
‘9’ Director Shane Acker To Make ‘Beasts Of Burden’ Comic Adaptation By Russ Fischer/Feb. 20, 2013 1:30 pm EST The project is Beasts of Burden, based on the Dark Horse Comics series written by Evan Dorkin and drawn by Jill Thompson. This one has been in development for a couple years, and Darren Lemke (Turbo, Shrek Forever After) is scripting. Reel FX is producing the CG-animated film that features a team of dogs (and one cat) dealing with supernatural occurences in a small town....
‘Chef’ Trailer: Jon Favreau Gets Hungry With Robert Downey Jr. And Sofia Vergara By Germain Lussier/April 7, 2014 10:16 am EST Jon Favreau returns to his roots with the upcoming comedy Chef. He wrote, directed and starred in the film, which tells the story of a chef who tackles his own independent food truck after being unhappy with his more traditional restaurant job. The film is a far cry from Favreau’s latest work, the Iron Man films and Cowboys and Aliens....
‘Johnny English Reborn’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2011 1:01 pm EST I probably have no business writing about the trailer for Johnny English Reborn, as I have never seen the original 2003 spy comedy. But it seems simple enough — Rowan Atkinson returns to reprising his role as “the accidental secret agent who doesn’t know fear or danger” in an adventure which puts him against “international assassins hunting down the Chinese premier....
‘Mud’ Director Reunites With Michael Shannon For Sci-Fi At Warner Bros. [Updated] By Russ Fischer/May 8, 2013 4:59 pm EST With a stretch of ever more-impressive films that includes Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, and the excellent recent release Mud, director Jeff Nichols has been a sort of indie king. But he’s just made the jump to studio pictures, by selling a movie pitch to Warner Bros. Or he’s in the process of making the jump at least, as Deadline reports that Nichols has sold his next movie, which shoots early next year, to the studio....
‘Orange Is The New Black’ Sets Premiere Date; Watch The First Teaser By Angie Han/Feb. 17, 2014 6:05 am EST As you recover from this weekend’s House of Cards marathon, it’s time to look ahead to your next Netflix-enabled binge. The streaming service has revealed that the second season of Orange Is the New Black will premiere June 6, 2014. As is typical for Netflix, all 13 episodes will hit on the same date....
‘The Avengers’ Deleted Scene Features An Indecisive Bruce Banner By Germain Lussier/Aug. 20, 2012 10:21 am EST The Avengers hits DVD and Blu-ray next month, packed with deleted scenes, videos and images that lift the hood on the third biggest film of all time. One of the first deleted scenes has now come online and it’s 56 more seconds of Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner. That’s the good news. The bad news?...
‘The Double’ Trailer: Two Snakes Fight For Life By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2014 11:15 am EST Richard Ayoade made a significant directorial debut with Submarine, and he returns to the director’s chair for The Double. (Not to be confused with the 2011 thriller of the same name starring Richard Gere and Topher Grace.) The new film, based on a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, stars Jesse Eisenberg as a guy who discovers he has an exact double, and that the other guy is better and more successful in pretty much every way....
‘The Jungle Book’ Adds Christopher Walken And Giancarlo Esposito By Germain Lussier/July 28, 2014 10:53 am EST Jon Favreau is filling his jungle with the best of the best. He’s currently casting a new, live action take on The Jungle Book and just added Christopher Walken and Giancarlo Esposito to the cast. That cast already includes Oscar winners Ben Kingsley and Lupita Nyong’o alongside popular actors Idris Elba and Scarlett Johansson....
‘The Power Of Few’ Trailer: Skid Row Christopher Walken Wants To Clone Jesus By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2013 12:04 pm EST I’m not going to pretend I know what the hell is going on in the trailer for The Power of Few. What I do know is that it has a few recognizable faces, such as Christopher Walken, Christian Slater, Anthony Anderson, and Moon Bloodgood in some sort of multi-perspective crime caper....
2014 Independent Spirit Awards Winners: ‘12 Years A Slave’ Dominates By Germain Lussier/March 2, 2014 10:04 am EST Here are all the nominees with the winners bolded. BEST FEATURE (Award given to the Producer, Executive Producers are not awarded) 12 Years a Slave (Producers Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad)All Is Lost (Producers: Neal Dodson, Anna Gerb)Frances Ha (Producers: Noah Baumbach, Scott Rudin, Rodrigo Teixeira, Lila Yacoub)Inside Llewyn Davis (Producers: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin)Nebraska (Producers: Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa)...
3D Porn Film Beats ‘Avatar’ On Opening Day In Hong Kong By Germain Lussier/April 20, 2011 1:30 pm EST In the end, the only thing that could take down the Na’vi was full frontal nudity. Among its many box office records, Avatar held the single day box office record in Hong Kong, grossing 2.63 million Hong Kong dollars on its opening day. That record has now fallen, though, as a 3D soft core porno film called 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy made HK$2....
BBC America’s ‘The Real History Of Science Fiction’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2014 9:00 am EST BBC America has produced a four part mini series called The Real History of Science Fiction, which will begin airing on April 19th 2014. The documentary mini-series will feature “filmmakers, writers, actors, and graphic artists looking back on their experiences and on how their obsession and imagination has taken them into the unknown.” The series features everyone from William Shatner to Nathan Fillion, from Richard Dreyfuss to John Carpenter....
Ben Affleck And Matt Damon To Produce John Krasinski And Oren Uziel Adventure Script By Germain Lussier/Dec. 17, 2013 3:00 pm EST Briefly: There’s not a lot of information available yet, but the names alone here are pretty exciting. John Krasinski (The Office) and Oren Uziel (22 Jump Street) just sold an “action-adventure spec script” to Warner Bros. which Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s production company, Pearl Street, will produce. There are no details on the plot but Krasinski and Damon teamed up for last year’s Promised Land so there’s already a working relationship there....
Dan Harmon Confirms ‘Community’ Return By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2013 11:21 am EST There’s no business quite like show business when it comes to people flip-flopping between friendship and antagonism. (Or the business versions thereof.) Community creator Dan Harmon was often famously at odds with the exec staff at Sony Television over his three-season run on the show. After his ouster, David Guarascio and Moses Port were brought on to keep Community going, but while the fourth season kept some people watching, it was deemed to be less than what it was with Harmon’s inspired brand of madness powering the comedy....
DreamWorks/Universal? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 23, 2007 3:32 pm EST The rift between Paramount and DreamWorks is no secret. Many industry insiders expected a split sooner rather than later. Today DreamWorks and Universal heads were seen breaking bread together, could this mean that Universal/DreamWorks won’t be far behind? Nikki Finke reports: “Jeff Zucker and Ron Meyer had lunch in the Universal Studios commissary today with Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider — and everybody was all smiles....
Gillian Anderson And David Duchovny Confirm X-Files 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2007 5:43 am EST We didn’t believe David, because he said the same thing two years ago and it never evolved into anything. But now his X-Files co-star Gillian Anderson also confirms the latest development: We’ll do another movie or two, we’ll continue to do movies if the next one does well. According to Duchovny, the current story treatment brings back both Scully and Mulder, and is “a supernatural thriller....
Guillermo Del Toro Was Approached For ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ But Was Too Busy To Consider Directing By Germain Lussier/Jan. 7, 2013 9:24 am EST In the past four months, many major filmmakers have been asked about directing Star Wars Episode VII. Most have said they couldn’t do it or wouldn’t want to do it. Some have said they really want to do it and others have remained curiously quiet on the subject....
Jared Harris Will Clean House In ‘Poltergeist’ Remake; Nicholas Braun Also Cast By Germain Lussier/Sept. 4, 2013 6:00 pm EST Mad Men and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows star Jared Harris has just been cast in Gil Kenan’s upcoming remake of Poltergeist. That piece of information has two deeper layers of meaning. First, it’s a good week to be Jared Harris. The actor was also just cast in Guy Ritchie’s The Man of U....
