Liam Neeson Will Be A Monster In ‘A Monster Calls’ By Angie Han/May 8, 2014 8:00 am EST Anyone who’s ever seen Taken knows that Liam Neeson can be pretty damn intimidating on the big screen when he wants to. Even so, it’s not often that he gets to play an out-and-out monster. But he’ll soon get his chance in Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls, based on the acclaimed novel by Patrick Ness....
LOL: Conan O’Brien Offers Alternate ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Titles By Germain Lussier/May 9, 2014 8:30 am EST Here’s why you have to love Conan O’Brien’s show. His writers read websites like this. How else do you explain that the talk show host knew a rumored Star Wars Episode VII title is “An Ancient Fear?” It’s not like that hit the mainstream media. Plus, what’s even cooler about Conan is he takes rumors like that and turns them into bits....
Marvel And Disney’s ‘Big Hero 6’ Reveals Character Names And Heartfelt Story By Germain Lussier/Aug. 9, 2013 3:30 pm EST The first Marvel/Disney animated feature film is coming in 2014. It’s called Big Hero 6, directed by Don Hall, and tells the story of a 14-year-old genius name Hiro who lives in a city that’s blend of San Francisco and Tokyo: San Fransokyo. When one of his new technologies, Microbots, is stolen by a super villain, Hiro decides to build a team of superheroes to stop them....
Now Bradley Cooper Has Also Dropped Out Of ‘Jane Got A Gun’ By Angie Han/May 2, 2013 6:00 am EST I don’t believe in curses, but if I did I’d be inclined to believe Jane Got a Gun was suffering from one. Bradley Cooper has just dropped out of the notoriously troubled Western, making him the third actor to do so in just two months. Joel Edgerton, Natalie Portman, and Noah Emmerich remain on board....
Pixar Bits: ‘Monsters University’ Featurette; Pete Docter’s Next Officially Titled By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2013 5:33 pm EST Couple good little Pixar notes today. The first is that the next film from Up director Pete Docter has officially been titled. Instead of the Untitled Disney-Pixar Inside the Mind Film, it will be called Inside Out. Which we mostly knew, but it’s good to have that point settled. The temp title was just awkward....
Steve Pink To Write And Direct ‘The Toxic Avenger’ Remake By Adam Quigley/Nov. 5, 2010 2:00 pm EST Earlier this year it was revealed that Akiva Goldsman (producer of remakes and adaptations such as Lost in Space, Starsky & Hutch, Poseidon, The Losers, and Jonah Hex) and a couple of others had acquired the rights to The Toxic Avenger, based on the cult Troma character in all his incarnations: five films, an animated show, and comic books....
Steven Spielberg May Direct ‘The BFG,’ Based On Roald Dahl Book [Updated] By Russ Fischer/April 25, 2014 6:18 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Sorry, Doom fans, that title doesn’t refer to a rifle. It’s an acronym for “Big Friendly Giant.” The 1982 story, as Angie once explained, follows “a girl named Sophie, who encounters and befriends the Big Friendly Giant. Though his initial appearance is intimidating, the BFG turns out to be a softhearted soul who’s considered an outcast by the other giants because unlike his peers, he refuses to eat boys and girls....
By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2014 6:00 am EST Read about all of these things after the jump. Disneyland has announced that they will be having a Disneyland Resort Diamond Celebration, beginning spring 2015, to celebrate the theme park’s 60th anniversary. The logo was revealed, above, but no real details have been announced. “It’s an incredible time at the Disneyland Resort as we prepare for next year’s Diamond Celebration,” said Michael Colglazier, president, Disneyland Resort....
Upcoming Third Season Of ‘The Newsroom’ Will Be Its Last; Plus Aaron Sorkin Completes Steve Jobs Script By Germain Lussier/Jan. 13, 2014 2:00 pm EST When it comes to HBO’s series The Newsroom, people either love it or hate it. Knowing that, today everyone got some good news. For fans, a third season of the show has officially been announced. That third season will also be the series’ last. The news also came with a postscript: series creator Aaron Sorkin has turned in his long gestating screenplay about Steve Jobs....
Watch: Penn Jillette In A Clip From Telluride Hit ‘Tim’s Vermeer;’ Plus Early Buzz By Germain Lussier/Sept. 6, 2013 3:00 pm EST Below, we’ve got a clip from the film that makes that above paragraph a bit more clear, as well as some early buzz from noted film critics. First up, the Toronto Film Festival (which is also screening the film) posted the below clip. And here is some early buzz on the film, which is incredibly positive....
‘Battlestar Galactica: Blood And Chrome’ Teaser Trailer: Young Adama Fights First-Wave Cylons By Russ Fischer/March 21, 2012 11:30 am EST The fortunes of Blood and Chrome, the prequel to the revamped Battlestar Galactica, have risen and fallen over the past couple years. Planned at various times as a TV movie, a possible pilot for a new BSG series, and a web series, Blood and Chrome was conceived as an action-oriented project with most of the footage shot against greenscreen, composited with CG reconstructions of BSG sets that were scanned before the end of the show’s fourth season....
‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Featurette: The ‘Most Fun And Challenging’ Film Of J.J. Abrams’ Career By Germain Lussier/Jan. 30, 2013 12:40 pm EST Relentless action, 3D spectacle, and IMAX-size scope. In less than 90 seconds all that and more is discussed in regards to J.J. Abrams’ next movie, Star Trek Into Darkness. With all the news centering on that other film Abrams will soon work on, it’s been easy to overlook this film, a sequel to the hit 2009 Star Trek revival....
‘Submarine’ Trailer #2 And New Poster By Germain Lussier/April 21, 2011 12:30 pm EST If you’re a regular reader of /Film not only have you heard of Submarine, you’re insanely excited for it. Or at the very least you’re curiously aware and that’s good enough. Directed by Richard Ayoade, Submarine is the tale of awkward teenager Oliver Tate who has a unique world view and very simple goals. How he goes about achieving them, however, are very different from the normal person....
‘The Heat’ Trailer: Sandra Bullock And Melissa McCarthy Buddy Up For ‘Bridesmaids’ Director Paul Feig By Angie Han/Nov. 16, 2012 10:22 am EST Thought 2011 was a good year for Melissa McCarthy? Just wait til you see her in 2013. Since breaking out in 2011’s Bridesmaids, she’s been booking comedy roles left and right, and next year is when they finally hit the big screen. Among her upcoming releases is The Heat, which reunites her with Bridesmaids director Paul Feig for another female-driven story....
‘The Lone Ranger’ Super Bowl Spot: Ghosts Of The American West By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2013 2:58 pm EST Disney’s biggest movie of the year might just be The Lone Ranger, which resurrects the classic American hero with Armie Hammer behind the mask. But the real hero of this take is really the Native American warrior Tonto, played by Johnny Depp. Gore Verbinski’s movie looks lie a big western in the style of WB’s Sherlock Holmes with a little bit of native mysticism and a whole lot of gunplay and train action....
2008 Oscar Noms - So What Do You Think? By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 22, 2008 3:00 pm EST Before we dive into today’s non-Oscar-related news, this is a forum to express your thoughts on the nominations for the 80th Academy Awards. I’m not sure why I expected to grimace when the bigger categories were announced. Good choices, all. It’s hard to say, for me at least, that any notable pictures were snubbed, except for The King of Kong, one of the top three highest rated films of 2007, for Best Documentary Feature....
Disney Confirms Tron And Avengers Animated Television Series By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2010 11:18 pm EST We’ve been hearing rumblings of a Tron television series for the last month or so (first, second), and now Disney has confirmed the reports during their upfront presentation Tuesday evening. The mouse house has also revealed a new animated series for Marvel’s The Avengers. The Tron animated series would be broadcast on the Disney Channel and geared towards kids aged 6-14....
Doug Liman’s ‘Everest’ Eyes Benedict Cumberbatch; Baltasar Kormakur’s ‘Everest’ Plans Fall Start By Angie Han/Oct. 22, 2013 11:30 am EST One of the hottest actors in the industry could be headed toward one of the coldest places on the planet. Benedict Cumberbatch is being eyed to star as George Mallory in Doug Liman’s Everest, with Joel Kinnaman, James McAvoy, Tom Hiddleston, Henry Cavill, Luke Evans, Dan Stevens, Matthew Goode, and Jim Sturgess also in the mix....
Eli Roth Borrows Werner Herzog’s Tactics To Shoot Cannibal Movie ‘The Green Inferno’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2012 3:49 pm EST Or maybe you can’t. The villagers thought the film was a comedy, Roth tells Movieline. So that worked out OK. And I do like the idea of retreating to a totally remote location to shoot a horror film, even if in doing so Roth is inviting comparisons to Herzog films like Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo, which very few movies can hope to match....
Everything Wrong With ‘Thor: The Dark World’ And ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ By Germain Lussier/April 4, 2014 10:00 am EST Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits theaters today, which means it’s a day to celebrate the achievements of Marvel Studios. We’re in the middle of a comic book storytelling renaissance, folks, and Marvel is at the head of it. The way they have weaved all these characters and movies together into one huge story is truly remarkable....
