Jack Black Gets ‘Goosebumps’ From ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Director By Angie Han/Sept. 13, 2013 4:00 pm EST If you think about it, a normal-sized person stumbling onto an island populated by a minuscule race sounds like just the kind of twisted concept that horror writer R.L. Stine might’ve come up with. So maybe it’s appropriate that his Goosebumps series will be brought to life by the same team that made Gulliver’s Travels....
By Angie Han/April 25, 2014 10:00 am EST Mark Millar has captured the attention of Hollywood yet again. Following last week’s news that his Superior would be adapted into a feature film by Fox, we now have word that an upcoming title, Mark Millar’s MPH, is headed to the big screen as well.Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has just optioned the book, which hits shelves in May. Get more details and a sneak peek at the art, by Duncan Fegredo, after the jump....
Mary Jane Watson Has Been Cut From ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ [UPDATED] By Angie Han/June 19, 2013 10:55 am EST Between James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now, Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard, and the YA adaptations Divergent and The Fault in Our Stars, Shailene Woodley is about to become totally ubiquitous. One place we won’t see her, though is in Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The rising actress has just revealed that her small part as Mary Jane Watson has been excised entirely from the comic book sequel, months after she finished shooting scenes for it....
New Spots: ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ And ‘Oblivion’ By Angie Han/March 25, 2013 3:00 pm EST If action heroes are your thing, you’re covered this spring. G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s nine-month delay finally comes to an end this weekend, while Joseph Kosinski’s gorgeous sci-fi adventure Oblivion opens a few weeks later. New spots for both have just hit the web, and you can check them out after the jump. [via THR] Most of the G....
Pixar’s WALL-E Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2007 7:02 am EST We’ve been wondering what Pixar has up their sleeves after Ratatouille. For months now we’ve been speculating over what exactly Andrew Stanton’s follow-up to the Academy Award winning Finding Nemo would be. All we knew was a name. Well now we have a picture. Disney’s Robert A. Iger revealed the first photo from the film in a letter to the Disney shareholders....
Russell Crowe Says Robin Hood Was The Bad Guy By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2007 6:10 am EST I’ve always been interested in contemporary adaptations of literary and film classics (as is evident with the Disturbia Movie Trailer posting). Well some interesting news just hit the wire that Russel Crowe has signed on to play the Sheriff of Nottingham, in a modern day REVISIONIST live-action Robin Hood adaptation titled Nottingham. Nottingham is a 180 degree spin of the Robin Hood story-line where the Sheriff is the protagonist and Robin Hood is the bad guy....
Sequel Bits: ‘Super Troopers 2’, ‘Horrible Bosses 2’, ‘Dredd 2’, ‘Expendables 3’ By Angie Han/July 24, 2013 7:38 am EST After Dredd’s dim box office performance, the odds of getting a Dredd 2 seemed vanishingly slim. But that was before the sci-fi film found new life on home video. Now star Karl Urban is hoping that the fans can rally and make a sequel happen. You heard the man — get to campaigning if you want another Dredd....
Sony Aiming For 2014 With ‘21 Jump Street’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/April 17, 2013 7:56 pm EST Briefly: The idea of another 21 Jump Street movie is hardly new; writers Jonah Hill and Michael Bacall were working on a sequel even before the first movie opened. In the summer of last year, we heard the sequel might shoot last fall. That obviously didn’t happen, but not long afterward, Hill said that Sony wanted to shoot in September 2013....
Superhero Bits: Catwoman, Superman, Spider-Man, Nick Fury, Stan Lee, William Shatner, Baking By Germain Lussier/Aug. 5, 2011 12:00 pm EST [No photo] That Catwoman makes also an appearance over on Geeks of Doom who took at look at the new image of Selina Kyle and gone into detail with analysis. Head over there to read their thoughts on all of it. And, Batman News has this nugget in their announcement of Catwoman....
Trailer Parodies: ‘Iron Man 3’ Sweded And ‘World War Pee-Wee’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 12, 2012 1:49 pm EST YouTube, late night television and Michel Gondry all deserve spots in the trailer parody hall of fame. Gondry’s film, Be Kind Rewind, gave birth to the low budget “sweding” of trailers where people do cheap, shot by shot, remakes. Late night TV shows like Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Conan have made a sport of parodying trailers for highly anticipated films and YouTube makes the consumption of these things extremely easy....
Updated Bumblebee Marks End Of ‘Transformers 4’ Car Show By Germain Lussier/July 2, 2013 5:26 pm EST The new cars of Transformers 4 have been on display for over a month now. Beginning with Autobot leader Optimus Prime and leading through a mysterious alternate big rig, it’s pretty obvious Michael Bay’s part-sequel, part-reboot is going to have a lot of machinery under the hood. Paramount just released what they’re saying is the final reveal of the cars of Transformers 4....
Warner Bros. Rebooting ‘I Am Legend’ Without Will Smith By Angie Han/Oct. 2, 2014 10:00 am EST Warner Bros. really, really wanted to make a franchise out of the Will Smith-starrer I Am Legend. And they tried really, really hard to make a sequel or prequel, to no avail. Smith just didn’t seem interested. But now they’ve found another way to revive the property without involving Smith. I Am Legend will come back as a reboot, based on a script that originally had nothing to do with I Am Legend....
‘Boardwalk Empire’ Ends With Fifth Season By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2014 4:22 pm EST Briefly: If you’d asked the creators of Boardwalk Empire last year about a possible end for the show, you probably wouldn’t have got much out of them. Terence Winter said in one interview “‘Where are we going? Do we see an end in sight here?’ That’s the debate we’re having now every day with each other. It’s let’s tell the best story possible and when we’re done we’ll move on and tell another story....
By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2014 4:20 pm EST The Dead Rising video game series is set during an epic zombie outbreak. Here is the official description from Capcom: The game allowed players to control Frank as he explored the mall, using any available object as a weapon. The sandbox game featured several endings, which one you got was dependent on the decisions the player made during the story. Dead Rising follows the harrowing tale of Frank West, a freelance photojournalist after the scoop of a lifetime....
‘Pixels’ Video Game Characters Include Pac-Man And Donkey Kong [Updated] By Russ Fischer/July 22, 2014 2:30 pm EST The film Pixels stars a few humans that each enjoy a great deal of popularity. Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Josh Gad (The Book of Mormon, Frozen), Michelle Monaghan (True Detective), and Adam Sandler (all pictured above) must band together to defeat an unusual host of alien invaders. But those three actors might not truly be the stars of the film, because the invading aliens are all veterans of classic games....
‘The Better Angels’ Trailer: Terrence Malick Protege Chronicles Abe Lincoln By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2014 11:00 am EST The Better Angels is a “young Abraham Lincoln” story seen through the eye of director Terrence Malick. Or, in actuality, seen through the eye of Malick’s associate A.J. Edwards, here making his directorial debut with a feature that employs Malick’s visual hallmarks. Braydon Denney plays young Abe, while Brit Marling, Jason Clarke, Diane Kruger and Wes Bentley round out the cast to explore the story of the President’s formative years....
‘The Shining’ Documentary ‘Room 237’ Will Be Out March 29 By Germain Lussier/Jan. 25, 2013 3:00 pm EST Good news, Stanley Kubrick fans. The fantastic and fascinating documentary Room 237 directed by Rodney Ascher will be released by IFC Films on March 29. The film, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, is an incredible look at secrets and theories buried in The Shining. Read our review here and check out the trailer below....
Amanda Seyfried Is The Love Interest In ‘Ted 2’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 24, 2014 11:45 am EST Thunder buddies John and Ted may not have a lot of luck with women in 2015’s Ted 2. Writer/director/star Seth MacFarlane has just cast Amanda Seyfried as the leading love interest in the film. That might sound odd considering the place John (played by Mark Wahlberg, who is returning) was in at the end of the first film with Mila Kunis’ character....
Apehood: A Mash-Up Trailer Of My Two Favorite Movies Of 2014 Thus Far By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2014 10:00 am EST We usually put mash-up trailers in our link blog round-up Page 2, but I think this one is worth a breakout because it combines the two best movies of 2014 (so far, at least in my opinion), Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood....
Brief ‘Doctor Who’ Season 8 Teaser Keeps Peter Capaldi In Shadow By Russ Fischer/May 23, 2014 11:30 am EST We’ve seen a shot or two of Peter Capaldi in costume as the new regeneration of Doctor Who, but we have yet to see any real footage of the new Doctor in action. Now there is a Doctor Who season 8 teaser trailer, if a very brief one. “Tease” is the name of the game here, as this footage only gives a silhouetted look at Capaldi’s new Doctor....
