Now We’re Really In The Sewer: New ‘Garbage Pail Kids’ Film In Development By Russ Fischer/March 12, 2012 1:00 pm EST Opinions are divided on whether 1987’s The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (a Topps Chewing Gum Production!) is so bad its good, or so bad that you’ll want to cut your throat with blades chipped into the rock-hard gum once packed with the original ’80s Cabbage Patch Kids parody sticker collection....
Rumor: ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Casting Breakdown Reveals Seven Major Characters [UPDATED] By Angie Han/June 19, 2013 12:00 pm EST [UPDATE: TheForce.net has reached out to Lucasfilm, who confirmed that the casting rundown below is genuine.] Another day, another Star Wars Epsiode VII rumor. And one that seemingly contradicts the last Star Wars Episode VII rumor, no less. A site claims to have gotten ahold of a casting breakdown for the film’s seven lead characters — which, it should be noted, don’t include a pair of 17-year-old male-female twins....
See The Original ‘Star Wars’ Casting Announcements From Before 1977 By Germain Lussier/May 1, 2014 10:18 am EST Tuesday’s Star Wars Episode VII casting announcement made international headlines. The world stopped and looked at the photo posted on Star Wars.com featuring returning cast members like Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher and new additions like John Boyega and Daisy Ridley. That’s partially because social media has changed how we digest news and also because fans have wanted to see what’s next since 1983....
Spider-Man 3 To Break Records, Then FAIL MISERABLY? By Peter Sciretta/May 1, 2007 6:18 pm EST Spider-Man 3 hits theaters this Friday Thursday night. Sony has super-booked many theaters with 12:01 midnight screenings of the film (which will count to the Friday and weekend numbers). And we’re not talking one or two theaters, we’re talking 6 to 9 in some bigger market multiplexes. The studio is trying to stack the deck to ensure a $100-plus opening weekend....
Superhero Bits: The Avengers 2, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Thor: The Dark World, Lego Marvel, Wolverine, Christopher Nolan By Germain Lussier/Jan. 8, 2013 12:00 pm EST Does Jeremy Renner think Hawkeye’s character will be expanded in The Avengers 2? Where might Joss Whedon shoot that massive sequel? Is Emma Stone happy with the script to The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Who was the original basis for Superman’s visage? Want to play a Marvel Lego video game?...
The 2014 BAFTA Award Nominations By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 8, 2014 12:27 am EST Best Film Outstanding British film Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Director Best Adapted Screenplay Best Original Screenplay Best Documentary Best Animated Film Rising Stars Film Not In English Language Original Music Cinematography Editing Production Design
Trailer For Leslie Iwerks’ Documentary About Walt Disney Imagineering By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2013 11:00 am EST You may remember Academy Award and Emmy nominated director Leslie Iwerks from her fantastic documentaries on cinema: A Pixar Story and Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible. If you haven’t seen them, stop reading this and go find them. She’s also from a family of multi-generational Disney legends — the daughter of Disney Legend Don Iwerks and granddaughter of Ub Iwerks, the animator and co-creator of Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit....
Watch An Adorable Blooper Reel For ‘The Lego Movie’ By Angie Han/Feb. 13, 2014 2:00 pm EST The Lego Movie isn’t perfect, but it’s close enough. Every aspect, from the performances to the soundtrack to the meticulously constructed sets, was excellent, or “awesome,” as protagonist Emmet would put it. All that effort paid off handsomely, earning Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s film an impressive $69 million opening weekend and a sky-high 96% Rotten Tomatoes score....
‘A Single Shot’ Trailer: Sam Rockwell Has A Very Big Money Problem By Russ Fischer/July 25, 2013 11:16 am EST Sam Rockwell has been seen in a smiling, funny, and very good supporting role this year in The Way Way Back. Now here’s the grim opposite of that appearance. A Single Shot stars Rockwell as a hunter who hits the wrong prey when taking aim at an animal. A new trailer has been released, and you can see it below....
‘Amazing Spider-Man 3’: Is Shailene Woodley Mary Jane? By Angie Han/April 1, 2014 12:00 pm EST A solid performance at the box office last weekend ensured that Divergent would be getting a sequel. But even as Shailene Woodley prepares to move ahead with one big-budget blockbuster franchise, she’s still uncertain about her fate with another. In a new interview, Woodley casts doubt on whether she’ll play Mary Jane Watson in The Amazing Spider-Man 3, as was originally expected when she was cast in the role in 2012....
‘Dumb And Dumber To’ Adds Kathleen Turner By Angie Han/Aug. 30, 2013 4:00 pm EST Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Jim Carrey, and Jeff Daniels have been trying to make Dumb and Dumber To for some time, and now they’re ready to bring a new face into the fold. Kathleen Turner has boarded the long-awaited comedy sequel, which is aiming to shoot this fall. More details after the jump. However, Bobby Farrelly said last year that the story would pick up about two decades after the last one left off, and center around “the fact that one of them may have sired a child....
‘Jack The Giant Slayer’ Trailer: In The HD Era, Can Fantasy Films Ever Look “Real”? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2012 5:51 pm EST The big argument against Peter Jackson’s use of high frame rate technology for The Hobbit, when previewed months ago, was that the result didn’t look like “cinema.” Rather, it looks real, which, ironically, means it looks fake. The increased detail presented in the HFR projection made costumes and sets look like mere costumes and sets, said naysayers....
‘Miss Julie’ Trailer: Jessica Chastain And Colin Farrell’s Toxic Romance By Angie Han/Aug. 8, 2014 4:30 pm EST It really is impressive how versatile Jessica Chastain is. As her Oscar nominations will attest, she’s equally convincing as a bubbly Southern misfit as she is a hardened CIA agent. Now she looks poised to knock our socks off again in the new Miss Julie trailer. Chastain plays the title character, an upper-class woman with a self-destructive streak....
‘Mobius’ Trailer: Jean Dujardin Will Hook Up With Cécile De France Even If It Kills Him By Russ Fischer/Jan. 9, 2013 11:35 am EST The subtitles here are in French, so this trailer won’t give you many of the core plot details of the French thriller Mobius, but you’ll definitely be able to latch on to the film’s tone and catch a glimpse of the cast at work. The big draw here for some will be Jean Dujardin, last seen in his Oscar-winning turn in The Artist....
‘Point Break’ Remake: Ray Winstone Is The New Gary Busey By Angie Han/April 7, 2014 9:00 am EST Compared to the world-ending waves in Noah, we can’t imagine 50-year storms seem all that impressive. Nevertheless, Ray Winstone has boarded the Point Break remake in the role of Johnny Utah’s older partner, played in Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 original by Gary Busey. Winstone joins Luke Bracey and Gerard Butler in the actioner, which is being directed by Ericson Core....
‘Rango’ Super Bowl Commercial By Germain Lussier/Feb. 4, 2011 1:30 pm EST Paramount must really think they have something special on their hands with Rango, Gore Verbinski’s first animated film featuring the voices of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Ray Winstone, Beth Grant, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton and Alfred Molina. The film, about a chameleon who fancies himself a hero in a wild-west town that is not hero friendly, is about to get hundreds of millions of impressions when it runs a commercial during the Super Bowl on Sunday....
‘The Call’ Trailer #2: From ‘The Machinist’ Director Brad Anderson By Angie Han/Feb. 21, 2013 3:00 pm EST In most professions, a work-related blunder isn’t, ultimately, that big a deal. Sure, we might annoy a client or piss off the boss (or get angry retorts in the /Film comments section…), but at the end of the day, everyone’s still alive and well. That, however, is not the case for Halle Berry’s character in The Call, a new thriller directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist)....
‘The Raid 2’ Deleted Scene And Clip: Blood And Guts By Angie Han/March 26, 2014 11:00 am EST The Raid was packed wall-to-wall with gory, glorious action, and The Raid 2 promises to up the ante even further. A new clip from the movie offers just a sample of the insanity we can look forward to, as Rama (Iko Uwais) tries to fight himself out of a car during a car chase....
Adam Scott Options Chuck Klosterman’s ‘Downtown Owl’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 16, 2012 12:45 pm EST Read more about the film after the jump and watch Gettin’ Rad’s first TV project, The Greatest Event in Television History, starring Scott and Jon Hamm. The news of the Scotts’ new production all came from The Hollywood Reporter and the actor had the following to say about Downtown Owl, the first fiction novel by noted pop culture commentator Klosterman:...
By Russ Fischer/Oct. 11, 2012 5:30 pm EST With Argo taking Affleck away from Boston and crime fiction, The Stand seemed like an interesting prospect as it would take him even further afield. But we’ve heard little about that all year, and now it seems like the director/actor is going back home. He’s even traveling with author Dennis Lehane, whose work provided the basis for Affleck’s directorial debut Gone Baby Gone....
