Mark Wahlberg To Star As Cocaine Cowboy For Peter Berg By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 18, 2008 1:02 am EST Continuing his ascent as one of Hollywood’s go-to lead actors, Mark Wahlberg is set to star as an international drug dealer in a still untitled film based on real events for Hancock’s Peter Berg. The drug dealer in question is Jon Roberts, who a few of you may have seen in the shockingly good ‘06 documentary Cocaine Cowboys....
MGM Partners With GK Films On New ‘Tomb Raider’ Film By Russ Fischer/March 27, 2013 3:45 pm EST Briefly: The slowly developing new cinematic take on Tomb Raider has been given some momentum by the popularity of the latest video game release. Despite the fact that game publisher Square/Enix has called the 3.4m sales of the new Tomb Raider a disappointment, that’s a pretty good number for a late-model release in an old franchise, and the game has done well with critics and fans....
Penn & Teller Will Bring ‘Fool Us’ To The U.S. On The CW By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2014 6:05 pm EST Magician duo Penn & Teller are finally set to bring one of my favorite UK TV series, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, to broadcast in the States. Penn had hinted at a potential deal recently on a Reddit AMA appearance, but now everything has been finalized. Details after the jump....
Quentin Tarantino Says ‘Django Unchained’ And ‘Inglourious Basterds’ May End Up As Two Thirds Of A Loose Trilogy By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2012 12:00 pm EST Quentin Tarantino is well-known by fans as a guy who likes to construct inter-connected narratives. His characters and their relatives pass from one film to another, to the point where he’s got two “universes,” describing the real life of his general character set, and the films those people might go see....
Rewatch The Dancing Groot Scene From ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ [VIDEO] By Angie Han/Aug. 14, 2014 2:30 pm EST At present, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who are madly in love with Groot, and those who haven’t seen Guardians of the Galaxy yet. If you’re in the latter category, we suggest returning to this very spoiler-y post after you’ve shifted into the former category. But for everyone else, have we got a treat for you....
SNL Marvel Trailer Parody: Chris Pratt Proves Marvel Can’t Fail By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2014 7:00 am EST The debut of the 40th season of NBC’s Saturday Night Live was broadcast over the weekend and Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt hosted the premiere episode which included a skit showing the future of Marvel movies and how the superhero studio just can’t fail — no matter what they release. The trailer lampoons Ant-Man and reveals Marvel’s future slate of superheroes you’ve never heard of, that you won’t want to miss on the big screen....
VOTD: Steve Wozniak, Dan Kottke, And Andy Hertzfeld Dissect The Fact And Fiction Of ‘Jobs’ By Angie Han/Oct. 8, 2013 8:00 am EST Steve Jobs may not be around to tell us what’s right or wrong about Jobs, but plenty of his former friends and colleagues are. That includes Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who’s voiced his disappointment with the film’s inaccuracies in the past. Now, early Apple employee Daniel Kottke and Apple developer Andy Hertzfeld have joined Woz in an even more detailed two-hour discussion about the movie, hosted by Apple engineer John Vink....
Watch A Brief ‘Jurassic World’ Behind The Scenes Tour By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2014 9:27 am EST We’re still a year out from the release of Jurassic World, but the team behind the film knows there is a good deal of interest in the film already. And so the producers and PR team have been dropping little bits of info here and there. We had a great interview with director Colin Trevorrow, and then the first batch of images went online....
Watch Nash Edgerton’s Short ‘Bear,’ Featuring Teresa Palmer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 1, 2013 1:30 pm EST Nash Edgerton has made his mark as a stuntman (the Matrix films and Star Wars prequels) and actor (Zero Dark Thirty) but it’s his work as a director that we want to focus on today. Edgerton’s short Spider is a wicked, wonderful little thing, and his thriller feature The Square got my attention as a good take on how duplicitous dealings can go bad very fast....
‘Ghostbusters 3’: Phil Lord And Chris Miller May Not Direct [Updated] By Angie Han/April 7, 2014 12:55 pm EST Update: Jeff Sneider at The Wrap reports that Lord and Miller have turned down the Ghostbusters 3 directing job. No potential next choice has been reported, but expect that news to come out shortly. There’s always the chance that they could yet be lured into the franchise, but at this point it seems like the job is open....
‘Mythbusters’ To Do A ‘Breaking Bad’ Inspired Episode By Germain Lussier/Nov. 2, 2012 2:00 pm EST Breaking Bad, while being one of the most intense and revered shows currently on television, does sometimes require suspension of disbelief. It never feels fake, but the ways in which things happen to work out just so for teacher turned meth dealer Walt and his protege Jesse can sometimes raise an eyebrow or two....
‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Deleted Scene: “Goodbye Pamela” By Germain Lussier/March 13, 2014 5:00 am EST Saving Mr. Banks wasn’t the runaway award contender Disney hoped for, but a newly found deleted scene sure looks like it was. Featuring Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson and Paul Giamatti, it’s a pretty revealing and well-acted scene that probably gave away too much too soon for director John Lee Hancock. Still, if you want to see almost the entire conflict of the movie condensed into a two-minute scene, this will do it....
‘Saw’ Scribes Adapting ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ For CBS Films By Angie Han/Dec. 4, 2013 12:30 pm EST If you grew up in the ’80s or ’90s, you probably spent at least a little bit of your childhood being scared silly by Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Now a whole new generation of kids will get the opportunity to be spooked by those stories, thanks to CBS Films....
‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Set Photos Reveal New Tumbler And Bane’s Full Costume By Germain Lussier/July 30, 2011 7:05 pm EST Update: We’ve added one more, even possibly more revealing, photo.The Dark Knight Rises hit Pittsburgh this week with an incredible amount of fanfare. The city put up a huge bat symbol, held a press conference and now set photos from the shoot have revealed some pretty spoiler-heavy images. The first is a full-body reveal of Tom Hardy as Bane and we also see the Tumbler, but with a new twist....
‘The Maze Runner’ Will Be The First Movie Presented In A New Panoramic Format By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2014 2:45 pm EST A company called Barco is now pushing a display tech it calls Escape, in which two additional screens are positioned on either side of a primary cinema screen to create a panoramic image. Now, the first Escape auditoriums are being finished, and The Maze Runner will be the first film to take advantage of them, starting September 19....
By Angie Han/Aug. 28, 2014 6:00 am EST But that could change with Transparent. The “psychosexual comedy” stars Jeffrey Tambor as a father who comes out as a trans woman late in his life, rocking the lives of his family including his ex-wife (Judith Light) and their three adult children (Amy Landecker, Jay Duplass, and Gaby Hoffmann). Transparent was created by Jill Soloway, an Emmy-nominated TV vet whose credits include Six Feet Under, United States of Tara, and How to Make It in America....
Arnold Schwarzenegger Believes ‘Terminator 5’ Will Start Filming In January 2014 By Germain Lussier/June 13, 2013 11:30 am EST Jumping off the recent news that the rights to the Terminator movies might head over to Paramount, the star of the franchise has a potentially exciting update. Arnold Schwarzenegger was at a conference in Australia and said Terminator 5 should start filming in January 2014. Plus, he added he’ll be back playing a Terminator, not just a human side character....
Cool Stuff: Wayne Dorrington’s ‘Back To The Future’ Poster By Germain Lussier/Dec. 24, 2012 12:00 pm EST In 2011, illustrator Wayne Dorrington hit the pop culture conscious with his Star Wars Iconoscopes. Reimaging the original trilogy as almost a hieroglyphic, his pieces went viral and announced him an artist to keep an eye on. He’s just started a brand new series of posters based on great films of the 1980s and what better film to start off with than Back to the Future?...
David Fincher Wants Christian Bale To Play Steve Jobs By Germain Lussier/March 20, 2014 11:42 am EST David Fincher will only direct the Aaron Sorkin-scripted Steve Jobs biopic if Oscar-winner Christian Bale plays the lead role. That’s what The Wrap is reporting this afternoon. Fincher has been in talks to direct the film, which reportedly centers on three key keynote addresses in Jobs’ life. In a meeting with the head of Sony Pictures, Amy Pascal, the Fight Club director said he’d only do the film if Batman himself took on the role....
Denzel Washington Attached To Dystopian Thriller ‘Shovel Ready’ By Russ Fischer/June 6, 2013 1:59 pm EST Briefly: Having Denzel Washington attached to star in the movie version of your yet to be published first novel isn’t a bad place to be. The actor could end up starring in Shovel Ready, a sci-fi thriller based on the forthcoming 2014 novel by Adam Sternbergh, who is culture editor at the New York Times Magazine....
