Deathly Hallows Location Snap And Cliffhanger Film-Split Tease By Brendon Connelly/April 21, 2009 12:35 pm EST [No photo] London location filming is afoot on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Above you’ll see a snap from the set, showing Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in action – legging it from a (white-on-white, do highlight) Wedding when the Death Eaters threaten to show up and turn it all The Graduate....
F. Javier Gutiérrez To Direct ‘The Ring 3’ By Germain Lussier/July 18, 2014 10:51 am EST The second Ring film, a sequel to the remake of the Japanese movie Ringu, opened in 2005. That’s nearly a decade ago, which in Hollywood terms means we’re long overdue for another sequel. Now a third Ring film, which we’ll unofficially call The Ring 3, has been announced. It’ll be directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez, a Spanish filmmaker who has long been attached to direct The Crow remake....
First TV Spot For ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Highlights Big Action And ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Connection By Angie Han/Oct. 23, 2012 10:01 pm EST A full-length trailer gets somewhere between two and two and a half minutes to make its case, but a typical TV spot only runs about thirty seconds. Best to just to cut to the chase, then. The new TV ad for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey barely gets to establish who Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is or why Gandalf (Ian McKellen) is encouraging him to venture out into the wide world before the poor fellow is thrown into the midst of an action-packed fantasy adventure....
Jake Gyllenhaal Finds His Double In The Intense And Mysterious ‘Enemy’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Jan. 31, 2014 2:00 pm EST Yesterday we showed you the great poster for Enemy, the second film from the director/actor pair of Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhall. (They also made Prisoners together.) Now we’ve got the film’s trailer, and it’s a terrific piece of work. Gyllenhaal plays a teacher who finds a man who seems to be his exact double....
Jason Segel To Play David Foster Wallace In James Ponsoldt’s ‘The End Of The Tour’ By Angie Han/Dec. 12, 2013 7:00 am EST I’m as big a fan of actor Jason Segel and writer David Foster Wallace as anyone in this world. But are they two great tastes that taste great together, as the Reese’s slogan goes, or are they better kept separate? We’ll find out when James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour gets underway....
LOL: ‘Daria: High School Reunion’ Trailer Starring Aubrey Plaza By Angie Han/July 25, 2013 10:00 am EST Everything else we loved from the ’90s is back, and now we can go ahead and add the hit MTV show Daria to the list. Lawndale High’s favorite misanthrope, now played by Aubrey Plaza, returns to the screen in Daria: High School Reunion, and you can watch the trailer below. … Okay, you can relax, this isn’t a real movie....
New ‘Amityville’ Movie Starts Casting; Franck Khalfoun To Direct By Angie Han/March 27, 2014 5:00 pm EST Like most good movie monsters, the Amityville home refuses to go away. A new Amityville movie has been in the works at Dimension Films for quite some time, and now it’s picking up steam as casting gets underway. As of today, Shameless star Cameron Monaghan is the latest to board the cast, joining Bella Thorne and Jennifer Jason Leigh....
New Posters For Comic Book Adaptations ‘Man Of Steel’ And ‘R.I.P.D.’ By Germain Lussier/May 7, 2013 9:13 am EST Another day, another set of new posters for comic book adaptations. Tuesday brings brand new looks at both Robert Schwentke’s R.I.P.D. starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds as well as yet another banner for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams and Michael Shannon. Both posters expand on previous ones, adding action and scope....
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Paramount Rebooting ‘The Naked Gun’; Ed Helms Is The New Leslie Nielsen By Angie Han/Dec. 13, 2013 8:51 am EST The new reboot isn’t Paramount’s first attempt to restart the franchise. After Nielsen’s death in 2010, it emerged that the studio had been considering a fourth Naked Gun without Nielsen at one point. The plan was to release that installment straight-to-video, but in the end nothing came of it. (AICN’s 2009 review of that script is still up, if you’re curious to know more....
Peyton Reed’s ‘Ant-Man’ Will Contain Some Of Edgar Wright’s Visuals By Germain Lussier/July 20, 2014 6:30 pm EST After working on Ant-Man for the better part of a decade, director Edgar Wright left the project earlier this summer. Eventually, he was replaced by Peyton Reed and the Marvel film is still on schedule for a July 2015 release. No one has come forward and flat-out said why Wright parted ways with Marvel and no one is likely to do so for some time....
Star Wars Bits: Zack Snyder Doesn’t Want To Direct ‘Star Wars’, Jimmy Smits Maybe Willing To Return, ILM To Save Disney $20M A Year By Angie Han/Nov. 9, 2012 6:00 am EST As we anxiously wait to hear who’ll get to helm the next Star Wars, it seems there’s at least one name we can definitively rule out. Man of Steel helmer Zack Snyder says that he, for one, doesn’t want the coveted gig....
Stephen King’s Short Story “Ayana” Could Become A Drama At NBC By Angie Han/Feb. 5, 2014 5:00 am EST I can barely keep track of all the various Stephen King-based projects in development, there are so many. Here’s another one to add to that long, long list. NBC is mulling over a drama series based on King’s 2007 short story “Ayana,” which is being developed by Universal TV. Chris Sparling (Buried) is writing the pilot....
Stephen King Still Not A Fan Of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ By Angie Han/Sept. 19, 2013 3:30 pm EST Thirty-three years after its release, The Shining is regarded by most cinephiles and horror junkies as one of the all-time highlights of the genre. But there are a still a few who don’t agree with that assessment, and one of them is a guy who knows the story better than anyone....
Superhero Bits: Dark Knight Returns, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Injustice Gods Among Us, Captain America, Hellboy By Germain Lussier/Nov. 6, 2012 12:30 pm EST Want to watch Stan Lee pitch Marc Webb on his Amazing Spider-Man 2 cameo? How do you turn Adventure Time into Batman? What does the cover of The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 look like? Which Batman villain now has a rap album? How did the video game Injustice: Gods Among Us get made?...
tilda swinton julia Tilda Swinton Hopes You’ll See Her 2008 Film ‘Julia’ [Trailer] By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2014 4:00 pm EST The movie, inspired by John Cassavetes’ Gloria, features Swinton in the lead role as a woman who kidnaps a young boy in hopes of ransoming him for a large amount of money. Below, read her comments, and watch the trailer for the film. In the Reddit AMA, Swinton said,...
Watch The Full ‘Hannibal’ Pilot Online By Angie Han/April 5, 2013 3:00 pm EST 2013 has already seen the debut of multiple serial-killer TV series, including Fox’s The Following and A&E’s Bates Motel. Yet by all accounts NBC’s Hannibal is the best of the bunch. The Silence of the Lambs prequel series has drawn raves from critics for Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy’s performances as Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham, as well as for Bryan Fuller’s eye for gorgeous, gory detail....
Who Will Direct ‘Ant-Man’? [Updated] By Germain Lussier/June 3, 2014 5:15 pm EST A week has passed since the upsetting bombshell news that Edgar Wright had left Marvel’s Ant-Man. In that time, speculation and fact have blurred as fans tried to figure out how one of the most successful companies in Hollywood could suddenly go in a different direction from the talented, exciting director who had been working on the film for years....
‘12 Years A Slave’ And ‘Gravity’ Tie At Producers Guild Awards By Angie Han/Jan. 20, 2014 10:00 am EST The results are a blow to American Hustle’s Oscar odds, since the PGA Awards are a fairly reliable predictor of the Best Picture trophy. Of the past 24 Darryl F. Zanuck Award winners, 17 have gone on to win Best Picture. The last time the two awards didn’t match up was 2006, when the PGA chose Little Miss Sunshine over The Departed....
‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Clip: Spidey Confronts Electro In Times Square By Germain Lussier/March 12, 2014 5:30 am EST The Amazing Spider-Man 2 might be filled with villains, but the most important one is Electro. It may not feel like that in some of the more recent trailers but the first full Amazing Spider-Man 2 clip makes it pretty clear. Set in the middle of Times Square, this quick, minute long scene features Spider-Man’s (Andrew Garfield) first encounter with a fully-operational Electro, played by Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx....
