Kevin Feige Says Thanos Is To The Marvel Universe As The Emperor Is To Star Wars By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2014 10:00 am EST The mad Titan Thanos, a character who is among the biggest of Marvel’s big bads, showed up at the end of The Avengers. That set him as a potential antagonist for, well, just about everyone. Defeating the guy is no small task. But we don’t know when that showdown will happen, or how....
New ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ Promo Sells The Film From Inside A Casino By Germain Lussier/March 8, 2013 7:00 am EST Having not yet seen The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, I can’t comment on the quality of the film. But the marketing has been awesome. How could it not be, really? You’ve got a stellar cast (Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde) and the world of magic to play in....
Page 2: Star Wars, Miyazaki, Tron, Ghostbusters, Scorsese, Sherlock, Frozen, Kubrick By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2014 1:00 pm EST Header Photo: Maleficent Looks Good As A Sith Oscars: The Best Underrated Performances Of The 2014 Actor & Actress Nominees 6 Unforgettable Philip Seymour Hoffman Performances You Are What You Create How ‘Capote’ Changed the Direction of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Career14 essential performances by the great Philip Seymour Hoffman Here’s A TRON Cosplaying Dog To Improve Your Day...
Roland Emmerich Developing ‘Lawrence Of Arabia’ TV Miniseries By Germain Lussier/May 1, 2013 12:42 pm EST Even at over three and a half hours long, David Lean’s masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia only scratches the surface of who T.E. Lawrence actually was. To tell that full story you’d probably need a much longer time. Maybe a miniseries. And someone who knows how do make epic films. There are many of those, but the one interested in the task is Roland Emmerich....
See Five Alternate ‘Godzilla’ Designs By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2014 3:00 pm EST After years of secrecy about the look of Legendary’s new take on Godzilla, the giant lizard’s current form has been seen round the world via marketing materials and screenings of the new film. But the big guy wasn’t just born like that. Many concept designs were produced and considered as the folks at Legendary, along with director Gareth Edwards, decided on the proper look for their film....
Sony Picks Up Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Chappie’, More Plot Details Revealed By Angie Han/Aug. 13, 2013 11:20 am EST Elysium’s box office performance this past weekend was nothing to get excited about, but evidently that hasn’t slowed Sony’s enthusiasm for director Neill Blomkamp. Sony is once again teaming with Media Rights Capital for Blomkamp’s next, the sci-fi comedy Chappie. And with that announcement come more details about the movie, which had previously been kept under wraps....
TV Bits: ‘Bored To Death’ Season 3 And ‘Ringer’ Trailers; ‘Goodfellas’ Writer Develops 1960’s Vegas Crime Drama; ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ Creator Quits Twitter By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2011 6:02 pm EST Ralph Lamb served as sheriff of Clark County from ‘61 to ‘79 – a long run! — and actually rode his horse on duty for many of those years, even as he modernized the Vegas sheriff’s department and created the city’s first SWAT team....
TV Bits: First Photos Of Jonny Lee Miller And Lucy Liu As Sherlock And Watson For CBS, Plus: More ‘Game Of Thrones’ Promos, ‘The Office’, ‘Community’, ‘Luck’, Mindy Kaling By Angie Han/March 22, 2012 11:30 am EST Kaling’s Office co-star Ed Helms will play potential love interest Dennis, a Wall Street analyst who goes on a blind date with protagonist Mira (Kaling). Another NBC vet, Saturday Night Live player Bill Hader, has signed on to play Mira’s ex Tom, an “upbeat, humble, almost infinitely appealing boy-next-door type....
Tyler Perry, Kim Dickens And Patrick Fugit Round Out David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’ Cast By Germain Lussier/Sept. 5, 2013 1:30 pm EST Before Ben Affleck plays Batman, he’ll be playing a husband accused of something terrible. He and Rosamund Pike are the stars of David Fincher’s upcoming thriller, Gone Girl, based on the best-selling book by Gillian Flynn. Pike plays a seemingly perfect American wife who goes missing and her husband is instantly blamed....
VOTD: The Superhero Blockbuster Formula By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 26, 2013 3:00 pm EST This week being a holiday week, things are slow on the movie websites. So I thought I’d take this time to share a video that Slacktory put together which outlines “how to make a superhero movie in 10 easy steps”. It’s actually a fun dissection of the recent formula, cliches and even plot holes, of the superhero movie genre....
‘A Walk Among The Tombstones’ Trailer: Liam Neeson Might Be In Over His Head By Russ Fischer/May 29, 2014 2:00 pm EST It seems like a film adaptation of Lawrence Block’s novel A Walk Among the Tombstones has been in the offing for a very long time. We’ve seen Block’s Matt Scudder character on film before, played by Jeff Bridges in Eight Million Ways to Die. But now Liam Neeson takes on the character for an adaptation of Block’s 1992 novel....
‘Friday The 13th’ Reboot Moved Back Eight Months; ‘Scouts Vs. Zombies’ Takes Its Spot By Germain Lussier/May 30, 2014 4:00 pm EST Briefly: Jason Voorhees fans out there are still getting their new film, it’s just going to take a bit longer. Paramount Pictures just altered its release schedule a bit, moving the Friday the 13th reboot from the previously announced March 13, 2015 to November 13, 2015. David Bruckner is rumored to direct the film....
‘Game Of Thrones’ Actor Takes Over Lead In ‘Transporter 4’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2014 8:49 am EST Part of the formula that made the original Transporter films work was the mystique of main character Frank Martin. Played by Jason Statham, this was a man with no moral compass, who drove and killed people as long as he was properly compensated. Over the course of three films, we definitely learned more about what made him tick but with Statham leaving the franchise, producers decided to look back for the sequels....
‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Director James Gunn Explains Rocket Raccoon As A “Mangled Little Beast” By Russ Fischer/April 19, 2013 11:40 am EST With Iron Man 3 about to escape fully into the wild and Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Solider in various states of production, we’re moving closer to the point where things will be made clear about the studio’s next team movie, Guardians of the Galaxy....
‘In Fear’ Trailer: Terror Haunts The Back Roads By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2014 6:00 am EST We’re at the point of the year where this year’s Sundance films aren’t yet close to premiering in any wide release. (With the strange exception of Mitt, now on Netflix.) But some of last year’s crop of Park City debuts are still trickling out. In Fear premiered last year in the Midnight program where it did well....
‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Trailer: A Long Look At The Coen Brothers’ Latest By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2013 12:15 pm EST Here’s a new long trailer for Inside Llewyn Davis, the new film from Joel and Ethan Coen. Oscar Isaac stars as the title character, who is making his way through a music career in ’60s New York as he also navigates a few tricky personal and business relationships with the likes of Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, and John Goodman....
‘London Has Fallen’ Loses Director Fredrik Bond By Angie Han/Sept. 19, 2014 5:30 am EST Well, that didn’t last long. Just one month after London Has Fallen picked up director Fredrik Bond, it’s gone and lost him. Now the Olympus Has Fallen sequel is scrambling to find a new helmer, with the planned start of shooting just six weeks away. Hit the jump for more on the London Has Fallen Fredrik Bond exit....
‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Writers Return For ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 3’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 2, 2013 10:00 am EST Sony must be happy with how The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is turning out because they’re bringing back the credited writing team for the third film. Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner will write The Amazing Spider-Man 3, which already has a release date of June 10, 2016. Andrew Garfield will return for sure, and the studio apparently wants director Marc Webb to come back too....
‘The Leftovers’ And ‘True Blood’ TV Trailers: HBO’s Summer Of Blood By Angie Han/May 19, 2014 6:58 am EST As HBO’s Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley, and Veep approach their respective season finales, The Leftovers and True Blood are just gearing up for their season premieres. The former is a new series by Damon Lindelof, and follows a small American town in the wake of a global rapture-like event; the latter is entering its final blood-soaked season....
‘The Music Never Stopped’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 7, 2011 8:13 pm EST One of the films at Sundance was The Music Never Stopped, which boasts a rare leading performance from beloved character actor J.K. Simmons. The story is based on a case documented by Oliver Sacks in the story The Last Hippie (published in An Anthropologist on Mars) in which a man suffers a massive brain tumor that prevents him from remembering anything that took place after the ’60s....
