‘Child Of God’ Trailer: Hobo With A Shotgun By Angie Han/Jan. 21, 2014 6:00 am EST 2013 was a big year for James Franco. Not only did he star in a whole bunch of things, from Spring Breakers to Oz the Great and Powerful to This Is the End to ABC’s The Mindy Project, he also hit the film festival circuit with three separate films that he’d directed. Two of them, Interior....
/Film Previews 20 Minutes Of ‘Maleficent’ [Video Blog] By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2014 6:00 am EST This weekend WonderCon took place in Anaheim California. Despite the fact that the Anaheim Convention Center is a few steps away from Disneyland, Disney decided not to have a presentation at the convention. Instead they launched a 20 minute preview of Maleficent in their theme park across the street. The preview is being shown in the Bugs Life Theater in Disney California Adventure theme park until June so all park visitor will have a chance to experience the magic complete with 4D effects....
‘Friday Night Lights’ Movie Not Happening, Says Peter Berg [Updated] By Angie Han/Dec. 9, 2013 9:27 am EST It’s become de rigeur for any beloved show on its way out to tease the possibility of a movie sequel, and sometimes those promises even come true. Veronica Mars is headed to the big screen next year, for example, and Entourage is set to shoot next month. But don’t expect Friday Night Lights to join them in theaters....
‘Made In America’ Trailer: Ron Howard Watches Jay-Z Put On A Show By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2014 7:00 am EST Ron Howard looks to Jay-Z and other performers to find the power of music in Made in America. The documentary (no relation to the Ted Danson/Whoopi Goldberg movie of the same name) finds Howard looking at the creation and execution of Jay-Z’s Made in America festival, which took place last year in Philadelphia....
‘Masters Of Sex’ TV Trailer: The Study Of Impolite Science By Angie Han/Aug. 8, 2013 1:30 pm EST Into a TV landscape littered with antiheroic morality tales and Scandinavian crime dramas, Showtime is introducing something a little different with Masters of Sex. Michael Sheen stars as William Masters, a real-life sex researcher whose pioneering work still serves as the basis for much of what we know about sex today. Lizzy Caplan stars as Virginia Johnson, his partner in science and, eventually, love....
‘Oliver Twist’ Gets ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Style Action Makeover For ‘Dodge And Twist’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 12, 2013 3:36 pm EST THR explains that Dodge & Twist “takes pickpocketing rivals Oliver Twist and Artful Dodger and re-imagines them 20 years down the road. The two are on opposite sides of the law and get embroiled in an affair to steal the Crown Jewels.“Cole Haddon is scripting; he has already re-imagined Dracula for television....
‘Prometheus’ Bits: Neville Page Joins Design Team, Set Photo Leaked, Michael Fassbender Talks By Angie Han/June 2, 2011 9:30 am EST Details on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus have remained shrouded in secrecy from the very beginning, and not much has changed now that shooting is actually underway. A couple of new tidbits today don’t reveal a whole lot more, but in the absence of any solid details about the film, seem worth noting nonetheless....
‘Spring Awakening’, ‘Wicked’ Movies Still In The Works By Angie Han/April 1, 2014 5:00 pm EST As cinematic classics Heathers and Rocky try their luck on the stage, two beloved stage musicals are eyeing a leap to the big screen. The long-awaited Wicked adaptation is reportedly “gearing up,” while Spring Awakening aims to get going later this year with McG at the helm. (Nope, not an April Fool’s joke.) Hit the jump for the latest updates on these movie musicals....
‘The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies:’ Check Out This Massive Banner By Germain Lussier/Sept. 15, 2014 1:00 pm EST In terms of box office, this Winter comes down to two sequel: The Hunger Games: MockingJay Part 1 and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Well the first one released a trailer today and Peter Jackson’s epic isn’t far behind. They’ve revealed a massive, massive banner for the film that’s basically the equivalent of seven new Hobbit 3 posters....
10-Year ‘Lost Reunion Set For PaleyFest 2014 By Germain Lussier/Jan. 8, 2014 11:00 am EST In the immortal words of Jack Shepard, “we have to go back!” At this year’s PaleyFest in Hollywood, from March 13-18, several popular TV shows will unite their casts on stage for lively Q&As. Orange Is The New Black, Parks and Recreation, Veronica Mars, Agents of SHIELD, Community, Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother and Masters of Sex are just a few....
Bad Movies: The Dukes Of Hazzard: The Beginning Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2007 6:28 am EST In May, we warned you that Warner Bros was planning a direct to DVD prequel for The Dukes of Hazzard. Well it’s finally here, check out the trailer. [youtube]6d0iwpQldpM[/youtube] The direct-to-DVD prequel titled The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning features none of the stars from the 2005 comedy. Instead we finally get to see how Bo and Luke as teenagers....
Cool Stuff: Cuyler Smith’s ‘Cut Short’ Art Show At Bottleneck In Brooklyn, NY By Germain Lussier/Aug. 7, 2013 11:00 am EST Sometimes an artist comes up with an idea and rides it to greatness. Think Scott Campbell and his Great Showdowns (Link here for context). It’s a simple, clean idea that can be adapted to almost any movie. Mike Mitchell does something similar with his Super and Just Like Us series’ too....
Director Unearthed For ‘Day Of The Dead’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Nov. 26, 2013 5:30 am EST Briefly: George Romero’s Day of the Dead, the third of his original loose trilogy of zombie films and in some ways the strangest, hasn’t been left in a grave to journey quietly into movie eternity. It has been ravaged by a sorta-sequel and a sorta-remake (from 2005 and 2008, respectively) and now will be exhumed once more for another remake....
First Footage From ‘Oldboy’ Director Park Chan-Wook’s English-Language Debut ‘Stoker’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 20, 2012 9:00 am EST It’s not a proper trailer — in fact, this is one of those irritating footage presentations on Entertainment Tonight where the talking heads yammer over the top of scenes from a film. But it is the first footage from Stoker, which marks the English-language directorial debut from acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, responsible for Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, and Thirst....
First Looks And New Pics: True Grit; On The Road; Let Me In; Buried; And Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 13, 2010 12:01 pm EST The Entertainment Weekly fall preview issue is a bonanza of first looks and new images. Scans from the magazine are showing up online, and they have the first official still from the Coen Bros. remake of True Grit, new images from Let Me In and Buried, and the first look at Clint Eastwood’s drama Hereafter....
Here’s What Brad Bird And Damon Lindelof’s ‘Tomorrowland’ Is Actually About By Germain Lussier/March 3, 2013 11:56 am EST HitFix has now gotten their hands on the description of Tomorrowland, which Disney will release on December 19, 2014. This is the description that’s going around to agencies as Bird assembles his cast, beyond stars George Clooney and Hugh Laurie. If you’d like to keep the mystery alive for a bit longer, you’re going to want to avoid this....
Inception Character Names Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2009 1:15 pm EST [No photo] As you probably know, the movie trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception is due in theaters this Friday attached to some prints of Inglourious Basterds. Until that trailer screens, we really haven’t been told much about Nolan’s sci-fi action film which has been described as “set within the architecture of the mind.” The production has been shooting in Paris all week (see a set photo above thanks to ComingSoon), and a site called CloneWeb (found via NolanFans) has apparently gotten their hands on the call sheet....
Justin Lin Lines Up Another Film: The Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Hibernation’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 2, 2012 1:30 pm EST Justin Lin has begun to enter Guillermo Del Toro territory. The director of Fast Five is currently shooting Fast and Furious 6 and was expected to immediately follow that with the seventh installment. Whether that’s the case or not, he’s now attached to at least five additional projects, with the fifth one just being announced....
Page 2: Ratatouille, Totoro, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, Hobbit, ET, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Big Lebowski, Fanboys By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 15, 2013 3:00 pm EST Header Photo: Ratatouille cosplay. The 9 Craziest Star Wars Rumors That People Actually BelievedWhere Are the Serious Movies About Non-Suffering Black People? Today’s t-shirt of the day on RIPT Apparel is a Totoro/Alice In Wonderland-inspired design MPAA Wants Theaters To Call Cops On People Who Dare Take A Photo During A Movie...
Superhero Bits: Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Captain America, Fantastic Four, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Spider-Man By Germain Lussier/April 3, 2014 3:45 pm EST Who will help Doctor Doom fight Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four? How can you be an extra in Batman vs. Superman? Want to tour Marvel’s prop house? What happens if Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn’t get picked up for season 2? Where can you read a prequel to Guardians of the Galaxy?...
