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Friday, October 17, 2008
Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie
Straight outta the woolly nethers of Portsmouth, Ohio, comes Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie, Jay Delaney’s infiltration of a two-man league of Appalachian folklore, faith, and depression. “I’m a loser. I’m a complete failure. I never amounted to anything and I never will,” says Wayne, a rumble-voiced Midwesterner and unlikely drama queen who clings to his Bigfoot “research” for godforsaken life. Wayne’s partner is the slightly more stable Dallas, a half-cocked straight shooter who claims he has sheep DNA and, perhaps not coincidentally, has cultivated a gibbering sasquatch call to lure the beast from the brush. The two run a website filled with look-hard-and-you’ll-still-miss-it photos taken over months in the woods, where they cultivate their own language, mythology, and abject devotion. Delaney chronicles the brief rift that results after Wayne inadvertently discredits their work on a local radio show. “I really dread being a person; I’d rather be one of them,” a Bigfoot conference attendee says, chopping to the heart of not only why people see hairy men in the woods but pretty much every belief system going. The men reveal their desperation in some cruelly intimate moments and walk the fine line of foolishness during a moonlit, pseudo-Wiccan sortie, but Delaney is clearly at pains to protect his subjects, and the sheer, doomed tenacity of belief against all odds takes the day. — Michelle Orange
Movie Review: 'Max Payne' a straight-up action picture - the name says it all
Here's the one thing that makes "Max Payne" comparatively painless: Unlike most movies based on video games — the entire filmography of German director Uwe Boll, for example - it doesn't try to replicate the sensation of playing. It doesn't make you think you're controlling the characters, doesn't place you in the middle of their nausea-inducing world.
Instead, "Max Payne" is just a straight-up action picture, and a rather bombastic, familiar one at that.
Director John Moore ("Behind Enemy Lines") rips off John Woo with endless, hyperstylized shootouts, all in slow motion with shattered glass showering everything in a million little pieces. All that's missing are the strategically placed doves.
That's not all that's coming down, though: It seems to rain or snow constantly in the movie's darkly gothic vision of New York, an attempt at emulating classic noir style. Some of the lighting, shadows and camera angles at the beginning are sufficiently evocative of the genre, but after a while it all feels dreary and smothering. Then again, "Max Payne" the video game was inspired by film noir, and has now, in turn, inspired a movie of its own. It's so meta.
Mark Wahlberg looks like he's in perpetual agony as the title character, an NYPD detective still searching for the killers of his wife and infant son years later. The return to action isn't a horrible fit for Wahlberg, but after his Oscar-nominated performance in "The Departed" and his behind-the-scenes work with the hugely successful "Entourage," he doesn't need this kind of dopey gig anymore.
"I don't believe in heaven," Max says in the opening voiceover as he's about to drown in an icy river. "I believe in pain. I believe in fear. I believe in death." He doesn't exactly lighten up - or develop much as a character - from there.
Max teams up with Russian mob assassin Mona Sax (Mila Kunis), whose sister (new Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko) was killed in a way that may tie her to Max's family. Kunis is incredibly sexy with her luxurious, dark hair and knee-high black boots, but it's impossible to take her seriously as a machine gun-toting enforcer. When she screams at Max in a dark alleyway, "Kneel the (expletive) down!" it sounds like her "Family Guy" character, Meg, yelling at younger brother Chris for embarrassing her at the mall.
Among those who cross Max path's in his search for the truth are his former partner (Donal Logue), an internal affairs agent (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, woefully underused in just a few scenes) and a longtime family friend and former cop (Beau Bridges) who's now the head of security for the pharmaceutical firm where Max's wife worked.
Somewhere amid the noise and the homicidal valkyries - oh yes, "Max Payne" has those, too - there may be a just-say-no-to-drugs message. There may also be an anti-war message. The valkyries may be real, or they may be a hallucination, the result of taking too much of a highly addictive blue liquid substance. Hard to tell - or care - even once the game is over.
One and a half stars out of four.
Instead, "Max Payne" is just a straight-up action picture, and a rather bombastic, familiar one at that.
Director John Moore ("Behind Enemy Lines") rips off John Woo with endless, hyperstylized shootouts, all in slow motion with shattered glass showering everything in a million little pieces. All that's missing are the strategically placed doves.
That's not all that's coming down, though: It seems to rain or snow constantly in the movie's darkly gothic vision of New York, an attempt at emulating classic noir style. Some of the lighting, shadows and camera angles at the beginning are sufficiently evocative of the genre, but after a while it all feels dreary and smothering. Then again, "Max Payne" the video game was inspired by film noir, and has now, in turn, inspired a movie of its own. It's so meta.
Mark Wahlberg looks like he's in perpetual agony as the title character, an NYPD detective still searching for the killers of his wife and infant son years later. The return to action isn't a horrible fit for Wahlberg, but after his Oscar-nominated performance in "The Departed" and his behind-the-scenes work with the hugely successful "Entourage," he doesn't need this kind of dopey gig anymore.
"I don't believe in heaven," Max says in the opening voiceover as he's about to drown in an icy river. "I believe in pain. I believe in fear. I believe in death." He doesn't exactly lighten up - or develop much as a character - from there.
Max teams up with Russian mob assassin Mona Sax (Mila Kunis), whose sister (new Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko) was killed in a way that may tie her to Max's family. Kunis is incredibly sexy with her luxurious, dark hair and knee-high black boots, but it's impossible to take her seriously as a machine gun-toting enforcer. When she screams at Max in a dark alleyway, "Kneel the (expletive) down!" it sounds like her "Family Guy" character, Meg, yelling at younger brother Chris for embarrassing her at the mall.
Among those who cross Max path's in his search for the truth are his former partner (Donal Logue), an internal affairs agent (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, woefully underused in just a few scenes) and a longtime family friend and former cop (Beau Bridges) who's now the head of security for the pharmaceutical firm where Max's wife worked.
Somewhere amid the noise and the homicidal valkyries - oh yes, "Max Payne" has those, too - there may be a just-say-no-to-drugs message. There may also be an anti-war message. The valkyries may be real, or they may be a hallucination, the result of taking too much of a highly addictive blue liquid substance. Hard to tell - or care - even once the game is over.
One and a half stars out of four.
Taking on the movie business from the inside
"What Just Happened" is deep Hollywood inside-baseball, and for a while it cooks along with malevolent glee. Robert De Niro plays a successful movie producer and the initial shock is that the star seems actively engaged in his role. De Niro's not phoning it in! Stop the presses!
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What Just Happened
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Written by: Art Linson, based on his book
Starring: Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, John Turturro, Robin Wright Penn, Sean Penn, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Stewart, Catherine Keener
At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs
Running time: 107 minutes
Rated: R (language, some violent images, sexual content, and some drug material)
His character, Ben, has been around the block and understands that a producer's industry mojo rises and falls with each new movie he makes. Where you're positioned on the cover of the annual Vanity Fair Power Issue says it all, and at the moment, Ben is practically over by the staples.
His latest film, a grueling arthouse drama directed by a British bad boy (Michael Wincott) and starring Sean Penn (who plays himself), has just received possibly the worst sneak-preview cards in history. (Sample: "I want to find the people responsible for this movie and kill them.") Studio head and Lord High Executioner Lou Tarnow (Catherine Keener) demands a recut.
Ben's other big production hasn't begun shooting and never may, since star Bruce Willis (who plays himself) has arrived on set with a huge beard and a bigger attitude. Those who know their Hollywood gossip may recognize a real-life source: Alec Baldwin's similarly hirsute grandstanding during the filming of 1997's "The Edge." Producer Art Linson got a book out of that (2002's "What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line") and he serves as screenwriter here, lightly fictionalizing real dirt into true lies.
That may be the problem with the film, actually. De Niro, Linson, and director Barry Levinson are all longtime insiders, and they offer no larger message than that careers in Hollywood are nasty, absurd, and short. Robert Altman's "The Player" brought paranoia and a devastating moralism to this subject, and movies as diverse as "Sullivan's Travels" and "Swimming With Sharks" have been funnier. "What Just Happened," by contrasts, mostly just happens.
It's taken for granted that everybody in the film industry smiles as they backstab, that stars and directors are egotistical children. After a while you wait for the movie to tell you something you don't know. The large and varied cast has fun biting the hand that feeds them: Stanley Tucci as a double-dealing writer, Robin Wright Penn as Ben's estranged second wife, Kristen Stewart as a wayward teenage daughter.
The only actor who pushes the envelope into necessary gonzo territory, though, is John Turturro as a sniveling scaredy-cat of an agent, hiding out in nail salons rather than facing the wrath of Willis. De Niro, while present, doesn't make Ben into the engaging human monster he seems to be on paper. The movie's about an average guy (more or less) trying to make a living (and maybe a good movie) in a business fueled by rapacious, soul-sucking greed. So what's in it for Ben? The film never really clears that up. Eventually it just stalls.
Linson's dialogue has crackle, at least, and the looking-glass logic of LA is expertly punctured when Ben and his wife meet for a divorce therapy session. "You're going to feel so good about being apart that you're never going to want to get back together" they're told, and right there the film touches on something bigger: That insistent Left Coast pleasantness that kills thought and spirit. Otherwise, "What Just Happened" is so myopic you feel like answering back "Why Should I Care?"
Movie review
Comedy. Starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks and James Cromwell. Directed by Oliver Stone. (PG-13. 130 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select theaters, go to sfgate.com/movies.)
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Josh Brolin stars in Oliver Stone's new film, "W."Josh Brolin as George W. Bush, before he became president.Thandie Newton plays Condoleezza Rice in Oliver Stone's n... View Larger Images
After nearly eight years in office, George W. Bush is still a mystery. How smart is he? How dumb is he? Does he have regrets about the way his presidency has gone, or is he as impervious as his facade? Does he care? Is he really a nice guy? Is he really a horrible guy? Is he a religious person, or is that just a pose?
Love him or hate him, everyone has his or her own Bush, and so no screen portrayal of the president will satisfy everyone. But it's safe to say that the Bush depicted in Oliver Stone's "W." - and the movie itself - will put off viewers who approve of the president and at least amuse those who consider him a disaster.
"Harding was not a bad man," Alice Roosevelt Longworth once said of another president. "He was just a slob." And that's basically Stone's angle on Bush. The film presents him as a black sheep who drank away his youth, glided on family connections and embroiled the country in a needless, catastrophic war. Stone's viewpoint has its limitations: There's a shrewdness about the real-life Bush that is only hinted at in Josh Brolin's portrayal, and extant videos show that the young Bush was a lot more charming and charismatic than the hyperactive fool presented here.
Then again, if the young Bush were truly as confident as he seemed, why was he drinking heavily until he was 40 years old? Surely, there was something dark underneath the surface, which the movie attempts to bring to light.
The younger Bush's lifelong struggle with his father forms the psychological underpinning of "W." What was it like to be the drunken no-good son of a war hero/successful businessman/congressman and, later, president of the United States? What was it like to be the despised son in a family of high achievers? Brolin, who himself knows what it's like to have a celebrated father, tears into the Oedipal aspect of the role. W.'s pain, shame, embarrassment and resentment are all made real.
The movie is less sure-footed when it comes to W.'s religious conversion. As a psychologically astute director, Stone understands the ways that Bush used his "Higher Father" to ward off and fortify himself against his biological father. But Stone is too secular to get a handle on what it's like for a world leader to sincerely believe he's God's chosen instrument. Stone doesn't convey the charismatic, but dangerously delusional confidence, that such conviction might inspire. As such, "W." remains a secular portrait of a man who saw himself only partly in secular terms.
Still, Stone's Bush is only a first step, and no doubt other Bush movies will fill in more of the picture. In the meantime, Stone gets more than enough to keep his film fascinating from beginning to end. The screenplay, written by Stanley Weiser, follows two tracks, with scenes of the lead-up to the Iraq war in 2002 and 2003 interspersed with scenes from Bush's early life. We watch the young Bush from his college days through his decision to run for president, in 1999, when he tells his pastor that God is calling him.
Along the way, we meet the various people in Bush's life. James Cromwell gives the film's standout performance as George H.W. Bush, playing him as a serious, decent man who is at a loss when it comes to his oldest son - and ultimately ashamed of what W. does on the world stage. Cromwell is the one actor who makes no effort to sound like his real-life counterpart, nor does he look like the elder Bush, except in terms of height and weight. But he conveys his gravity, simplicity and essential decency.
The rest of the actors are immediately recognizable in their roles. Toby Jones is a sly Karl Rove, shorter than the real-life Rove but conveying the same impish self-satisfaction. Elizabeth Banks makes a lovely Laura Bush. Jeffrey Wright is Colin Powell, out of his depth and outnumbered in Cabinet meetings by the war faction, led by Richard Dreyfuss as a formidable Dick Cheney. As Stone's point of view is decidedly anti-war, Don Rumsfeld (Scott Glenn) and Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz (Dennis Boutsikaris) hardly come in for friendly treatment. But the one Stone really has it in for is Condoleezza Rice, who gets it worse than anybody.
At least Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz are portrayed as people with strong opinions. Rice is presented as a mere fawning appendage, who sits trying to read the president's mind so as to agree with him in advance. Thandie Newton looks as much like Rice as Tina Fey looks like Sarah Palin, and her performance is the funniest and meanest element of the movie. Indeed, mean or not, Newton alone is worth the price of admission.
In the end, "W." makes up in immediacy what it lacks in objectivity. Perhaps years from now, the film may play like an in-joke between a filmmaker and his audience. Yet even then, future audiences will have to appreciate the daring nature of what Stone is attempting: to put the national trauma known as the Bush years into historical and psychological perspective, even as they're still going on.
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Josh Brolin stars in Oliver Stone's new film, "W."Josh Brolin as George W. Bush, before he became president.Thandie Newton plays Condoleezza Rice in Oliver Stone's n... View Larger Images
After nearly eight years in office, George W. Bush is still a mystery. How smart is he? How dumb is he? Does he have regrets about the way his presidency has gone, or is he as impervious as his facade? Does he care? Is he really a nice guy? Is he really a horrible guy? Is he a religious person, or is that just a pose?
Love him or hate him, everyone has his or her own Bush, and so no screen portrayal of the president will satisfy everyone. But it's safe to say that the Bush depicted in Oliver Stone's "W." - and the movie itself - will put off viewers who approve of the president and at least amuse those who consider him a disaster.
"Harding was not a bad man," Alice Roosevelt Longworth once said of another president. "He was just a slob." And that's basically Stone's angle on Bush. The film presents him as a black sheep who drank away his youth, glided on family connections and embroiled the country in a needless, catastrophic war. Stone's viewpoint has its limitations: There's a shrewdness about the real-life Bush that is only hinted at in Josh Brolin's portrayal, and extant videos show that the young Bush was a lot more charming and charismatic than the hyperactive fool presented here.
Then again, if the young Bush were truly as confident as he seemed, why was he drinking heavily until he was 40 years old? Surely, there was something dark underneath the surface, which the movie attempts to bring to light.
The younger Bush's lifelong struggle with his father forms the psychological underpinning of "W." What was it like to be the drunken no-good son of a war hero/successful businessman/congressman and, later, president of the United States? What was it like to be the despised son in a family of high achievers? Brolin, who himself knows what it's like to have a celebrated father, tears into the Oedipal aspect of the role. W.'s pain, shame, embarrassment and resentment are all made real.
The movie is less sure-footed when it comes to W.'s religious conversion. As a psychologically astute director, Stone understands the ways that Bush used his "Higher Father" to ward off and fortify himself against his biological father. But Stone is too secular to get a handle on what it's like for a world leader to sincerely believe he's God's chosen instrument. Stone doesn't convey the charismatic, but dangerously delusional confidence, that such conviction might inspire. As such, "W." remains a secular portrait of a man who saw himself only partly in secular terms.
Still, Stone's Bush is only a first step, and no doubt other Bush movies will fill in more of the picture. In the meantime, Stone gets more than enough to keep his film fascinating from beginning to end. The screenplay, written by Stanley Weiser, follows two tracks, with scenes of the lead-up to the Iraq war in 2002 and 2003 interspersed with scenes from Bush's early life. We watch the young Bush from his college days through his decision to run for president, in 1999, when he tells his pastor that God is calling him.
Along the way, we meet the various people in Bush's life. James Cromwell gives the film's standout performance as George H.W. Bush, playing him as a serious, decent man who is at a loss when it comes to his oldest son - and ultimately ashamed of what W. does on the world stage. Cromwell is the one actor who makes no effort to sound like his real-life counterpart, nor does he look like the elder Bush, except in terms of height and weight. But he conveys his gravity, simplicity and essential decency.
The rest of the actors are immediately recognizable in their roles. Toby Jones is a sly Karl Rove, shorter than the real-life Rove but conveying the same impish self-satisfaction. Elizabeth Banks makes a lovely Laura Bush. Jeffrey Wright is Colin Powell, out of his depth and outnumbered in Cabinet meetings by the war faction, led by Richard Dreyfuss as a formidable Dick Cheney. As Stone's point of view is decidedly anti-war, Don Rumsfeld (Scott Glenn) and Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz (Dennis Boutsikaris) hardly come in for friendly treatment. But the one Stone really has it in for is Condoleezza Rice, who gets it worse than anybody.
At least Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz are portrayed as people with strong opinions. Rice is presented as a mere fawning appendage, who sits trying to read the president's mind so as to agree with him in advance. Thandie Newton looks as much like Rice as Tina Fey looks like Sarah Palin, and her performance is the funniest and meanest element of the movie. Indeed, mean or not, Newton alone is worth the price of admission.
In the end, "W." makes up in immediacy what it lacks in objectivity. Perhaps years from now, the film may play like an in-joke between a filmmaker and his audience. Yet even then, future audiences will have to appreciate the daring nature of what Stone is attempting: to put the national trauma known as the Bush years into historical and psychological perspective, even as they're still going on.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Director Cronenberg Gets in MGM's 'Circle'
tags tags: thriller political novel metro-goldwyn-mayer denzel washington david cronenberg bourne adventure adaptation action war
Director David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence) is in negotiations to helm political thriller The Matarese Circle for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, according to Daily Variety. Denzel Washington is attached to star in the film, which is based on a Robert Ludlum (Bourne) best-selling 1979 novel. read more...
Last Updated: 10-07-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 47 Category: News Comments (0)
Ford: Momentum High for Fifth 'Indy'
tags tags: action adventure franchise harrison ford indiana jones sequel
Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford told the Los Angeles Times that momentum is already building for a fifth movie. "It's automatic, really; we did well with the last one, and with that having done well and been a positive experience, it's not surprising that some people want to do it again." read more...
Last Updated: 10-06-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 160 Category: Rumors_Link Comments (0)
3-D 'Panda' Sequel Coming in 2011
tags tags: 3-d adventure angelina jolie animation dreamworks dreamworks animation family jack black paramount sequel
DreamWorks Animation is moving forward with a 3-D Kung Fu Panda sequel, titled Pandamonium and slotted for release on June 3, 2011, Daily Variety reported. read more...
Last Updated: 10-06-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 107 Category: Top Comments (0)
Dekker in Talks to Enroll in 'Fame' Remake
tags tags: thomas dekker revamp remake musical mgm fame tv series
Thomas Dekker, the star of Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," is in talks to take a lead role in MGM's remake of the 1980 musical Fame, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dekker is gunning to play Marco, a working-class kid with some gnarly acting chops who is competing with thousands of hopefuls to get into and survive an elite New York public high school for the arts. read more...
Last Updated: 09-30-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 143 Category: News Comments (0)
'Eagle Eye' Soars to Top of Box Office
tags tags: shia labeouf romance richard gere drama diane lane box office suspense thriller
Thriller Eagle Eye soared to the top of North American box office, taking in $29 million in its first weekend in theaters on the wings of Shia LaBeouf, according to studio estimates on Sunday. read more...
Last Updated: 09-28-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 236 Category: News Comments (0)
Fox to Lead Cast of 'Fathom'
tags tags: 20th century fox comic book fathom fox atomic megan fox transformers
Transformers star Megan Fox has reportedly signed on to lead the film adaptation of Michael Turner's "Fathom" comic series. Citing an anonymous source, IESB.net reported that the live-action movie is still at 20th Century Fox but has officially been handed over to the "genre" arm of the studio, Fox Atomic. read more...
Last Updated: 09-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 356 Category: Rumors_Link Comments (0)
McAdams Joins Warner's 'Sherlock' Cast
tags tags: robert downey jr. rachel mcadams jude law guy ritchie adventure action sherlock
Rachel McAdams, who stars in this weekend's limited release of The Lucky Ones, reportedly has signed up for a role in Guy Ritchie's star-studded movie Sherlock Holmes, according to The Hollywood Reporter." The action-adventure pic is scheduled to begin shooting next month. read more...
Last Updated: 09-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 207 Category: News Comments (0)
Willis to Make Directing Debut on 'Stories'
tags tags: 2009 bruce willis camilla belle disney drama indie kieran culkin
Bruce Willis, who was most recently seen in Live Free or Die Hard, is will make his directing debut on independent drama Three Stories About Joan, which will star Camilla Belle and Kieran Culkin. Willis will also take a supporting role in the feature, which will begin shooting in early October in Shreveport. read more...
Last Updated: 09-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 188 Category: News Comments (0)
Spielberg Might Direct 'Chocky' Movie?
tags tags: adaptation chocky dreamworks paramount sci-fi steven spielberg universal
The newly reinvigorated DreamWorks Pictures has re-optioned the film rights to John Wyndham's sci-fi novel Chocky. Spielberg is said to be keen to make the adaptation his next read more...
Last Updated: 09-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 347 Category: Top Comments (0)
Reeves Bites into Overture's 'Right One'
tags tags: suspense remake overture films matt reeves horror hammer films swedish vampire
Cloverfield director Matt Reeves has signed on to write and direct the vampire tale Let the Right One in for Overture Films and Hammer Films, according to Daily Variety. The project, which is a remake of Tomas Alfredson's Swedish film "Lat Den Ratte Komma in", centers on a young boy who befriends a female neighbor who moves to town. read more...
Last Updated: 09-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 196 Category: News Comments (0)
Hathaway Attracted to 'Opposite of Love'
tags tags: novel comedy anne hathaway adaptation 20th century fox romance
The adorable Anne Hathaway, who was last seen in summer actioner Get Smart, has signed on to lead the cast of The Opposite of Love at 20th Century Fox, according to Daily Variety. The actress, who will next be seen Rachel Getting Married and Passengers, will star as a commitment-phobic attorney who finds her well-constructed life coming apart at the seams when she rebuffs her ready-for-marriage boyfriend. read more...
Last Updated: 09-25-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 176 Category: News Comments (0)
Warner Plans 'I Am Legend' Prequel
tags tags: action adventure franchise francis lawrence overbrook prequel sci-fi warner bros. will smith
Warner Bros. Pictures moving ahead with plans to do a prequel to the Will Smith starrer I Am Legend, according to Daily Variety. The plan is for Smith to reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville, with Francis Lawrence returning to direct. Akiva Goldsman and his Weed Road banner will produce with James Lassiter, Smith�s partner in Overbrook Entertainment. read more...
Last Updated: 09-25-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 605 Category: Top Comments (0)
'Wanted' Director Harpoons 'Moby Dick'
tags tags: universal pictures timur bekmambetov tale moby dick reimagining graphic novel whale
Director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) will helm a reimagining of Herman Melville's whale tale Moby Dick for Universal Pictures, according to Daily Variety. Adam Cooper (Accepted) and Bill Collage (Accepted) are on-board to pen the screenplay. The writers revere Melville's original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. read more...
Last Updated: 09-23-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 309 Category: Top Comments (0)
Director Black Enters Universal's 'Cold'
tags tags: thriller spy shane black action universal pictures
Screenwriter-turned-director Shane Black, who directed 2005's flop Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, will next helm Cold Warrior for Universal Pictures, according to Daily Variety. Based on a script by Chuck Mondry, the story revolves around a spy from the Cold War era who comes out of retirement to team with a younger agent from the new school to confront a domestic terrorism threat orchestrated by Russia. read more...
Last Updated: 09-23-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,128 Category: News Comments (0)
Knightley Lands Lead in Zelda Biopic
tags tags: biopic drama film department keira knightley nick cassavetes period
Keira Knightley, who can be currently seen in period-drama The Duchess, is in negotiations to play Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and the Damned. Actor-turned-helmer Nick Cassavetes (Alpha Dog, The Notebook) will direct the biopic for independent production company the Film Department. Hanna Weg wrote the screenplay. read more...
Last Updated: 09-23-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 24 Category: News Comments (0)
Cage and Sena Enter 'Season of the Witch'
tags tags: relatively media nicolas cage dominic sena supernatural thriller
Nicolas Cage, who can currently be seen in Bangkok Dangerous, will reteam with his "Gone in Sixty Seconds" director Dominic Sena for the supernatural thriller Season of the Witch for Relativity Media, according to Daily Variety. Shooting is scheduled to begin in early November in Austria and Hungary. read more...
Last Updated: 09-21-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 930 Category: News Comments (0)
'Lakeview Terrance' Tops Box Office
tags tags: samuel l. jackson romance paramount mgm lionsgate kate hudson dreamworks dane cook cop comedy box office sony screen gems thriller
The terribly-bad crazy cop thriller Lakeview Terrace, which stars Samuel L. Jackson, topped the weekend box office in US and Canada, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday. The other new releases were largely ignored by moviegoers. read more...
Last Updated: 09-21-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 675 Category: News Comments (0)
Chow to Direct and Star in 'Green Hornet'
tags tags: 2010 adventure columbia pictures comedy evan goldberg green hornet neal h. moritz original film seth rogen sony pictures stephen chow
Stephen Chow will direct Seth Rogen and star opposite him as Kato in Columbia Pictures' The Green Hornet, set for release June 25, 2010, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. read more...
Last Updated: 09-19-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 525 Category: Top Comments (0)
Johnson Sets Sights on 'Tomorrowland'
tags tags: action adventure dwayne johnson fantasy race to witch mountain sci-fi tomorrowland walt disney pictures
The Walt Disney Studios is developing an action-adventure movie set in space, to star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, supposedly inspired by the Tomorrowland section of its Disneyland theme park, Daily Variety reported. read more...
Last Updated: 09-19-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 289 Category: Top Comments (0)
Vaughn and Favreau Reunite at 'Retreat'
tags tags: vince vaughn universal scott stuber jon favreau jason bateman iron man comedy
"Swingers" and "Made" co-stars Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau getting back together again in Universal's Couples Retreat. According to Daily Variety, the frequent co-stars will join Jason Bateman (Hancock) and Faizon Love (Elf) in the comedy Couples Retreat. The film is based on a script by Favreau and will be directed by Peter Billingsley. read more...
Last Updated: 09-19-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 246 Category: News Comments (0)
Law in Talks for 'Sherlock Holmes' Role
tags tags: judd apatow guy ritchie comic book comedy adventure action jude law robert downey jr. sacha baron cohen sherlock holmes warner bros. will ferrel
Jude Law, who last starred in flops My Blueberry Nights and Breaking and Entering, is in negotiations to join Mr. Popular (aka Robert Downey Jr.) in Sherlock Holmes for Warner Bros. Pictures, according to Daily Variety. The trade says Law is "close to a deal" to play useful sidekick Watson to Downey's Holmes in the Guy Ritchie-directed feature. read more...
Last Updated: 09-19-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 256 Category: News Comments (0)
Bloom and Knightley Doing 'Fever' Remake?!
tags tags: classic comedy john travolta keira knightley orlando bloom remake
Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley will be reportedly starring in the remake of the 70s blockbuster "Saturday Night Fever". The remake, titled "The Fever Returns", will be a new take on the John Travolta classic, reports the Daily Mirror. read more...
Last Updated: 09-17-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 530 Category: Rumors_Link Comments (0)
Norton: Future of 'Hulk is 'Opaque'
tags tags: edward norton franchise hulk marvel superheros the avengers
Edward Norton has admitted that he is uncertain about the future of the Incredible Hulk franchise. The actor told MTV News: "The minds of Marvel are sometimes opaque. I won't say [they're] obtuse, but I don't have any idea what they want to do." However, Norton suggested that the character could return in The Avengers, a film uniting Marvel's most popular superheroes.
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Last Updated: 09-17-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 627 Category: Rumors_Link Comments (0)
'Hills' Star Joins 'Sorority Row'
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Reality TV star Audrina Patridge has joined the cast of upcoming horror remake Sorority Row. Patridge, who starred in MTV's "The Hills", will join Rumer Willis and Briana Evigan (Step Up 2: The Streets) in the Summit Entertainment film, reports Bloody Disgusting. Stewart Hendler (Whisper) will direct the project, which focuses on a group of sorority sisters murdered at a party after they accidentally kill a teacher. read more...
Last Updated: 09-17-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 283 Category: Rumors_Link Comments (0)
'Twilight' Co-Star 'Cowboys' Up
tags tags: action cam gigandet rachael leigh cook shane west thriller
Cam Gigandet (Twilight, Never Back Down) is in negotiations to play the lead role in Mario Van Peebles' fighter plane thriller Kerosene Cowboys. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Shane West and Rachael Leigh Cook (Nancy Drew, "She's All That") are also negotiating for the film, which is set up at Svarog-Afterburner Films. read more...
tags tags: thriller political novel metro-goldwyn-mayer denzel washington david cronenberg bourne adventure adaptation action war
Director David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence) is in negotiations to helm political thriller The Matarese Circle for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, according to Daily Variety. Denzel Washington is attached to star in the film, which is based on a Robert Ludlum (Bourne) best-selling 1979 novel. read more...
Last Updated: 10-07-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 47 Category: News Comments (0)
Ford: Momentum High for Fifth 'Indy'
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Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford told the Los Angeles Times that momentum is already building for a fifth movie. "It's automatic, really; we did well with the last one, and with that having done well and been a positive experience, it's not surprising that some people want to do it again." read more...
Last Updated: 10-06-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 160 Category: Rumors_Link Comments (0)
3-D 'Panda' Sequel Coming in 2011
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DreamWorks Animation is moving forward with a 3-D Kung Fu Panda sequel, titled Pandamonium and slotted for release on June 3, 2011, Daily Variety reported. read more...
Last Updated: 10-06-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 107 Category: Top Comments (0)
Dekker in Talks to Enroll in 'Fame' Remake
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Thomas Dekker, the star of Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," is in talks to take a lead role in MGM's remake of the 1980 musical Fame, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dekker is gunning to play Marco, a working-class kid with some gnarly acting chops who is competing with thousands of hopefuls to get into and survive an elite New York public high school for the arts. read more...
Last Updated: 09-30-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 143 Category: News Comments (0)
'Eagle Eye' Soars to Top of Box Office
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Thriller Eagle Eye soared to the top of North American box office, taking in $29 million in its first weekend in theaters on the wings of Shia LaBeouf, according to studio estimates on Sunday. read more...
Last Updated: 09-28-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 236 Category: News Comments (0)
Fox to Lead Cast of 'Fathom'
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Transformers star Megan Fox has reportedly signed on to lead the film adaptation of Michael Turner's "Fathom" comic series. Citing an anonymous source, IESB.net reported that the live-action movie is still at 20th Century Fox but has officially been handed over to the "genre" arm of the studio, Fox Atomic. read more...
Last Updated: 09-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 356 Category: Rumors_Link Comments (0)
McAdams Joins Warner's 'Sherlock' Cast
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Rachel McAdams, who stars in this weekend's limited release of The Lucky Ones, reportedly has signed up for a role in Guy Ritchie's star-studded movie Sherlock Holmes, according to The Hollywood Reporter." The action-adventure pic is scheduled to begin shooting next month. read more...
Last Updated: 09-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 207 Category: News Comments (0)
Willis to Make Directing Debut on 'Stories'
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Bruce Willis, who was most recently seen in Live Free or Die Hard, is will make his directing debut on independent drama Three Stories About Joan, which will star Camilla Belle and Kieran Culkin. Willis will also take a supporting role in the feature, which will begin shooting in early October in Shreveport. read more...
Last Updated: 09-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 188 Category: News Comments (0)
Spielberg Might Direct 'Chocky' Movie?
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The newly reinvigorated DreamWorks Pictures has re-optioned the film rights to John Wyndham's sci-fi novel Chocky. Spielberg is said to be keen to make the adaptation his next read more...
Last Updated: 09-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 347 Category: Top Comments (0)
Reeves Bites into Overture's 'Right One'
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Cloverfield director Matt Reeves has signed on to write and direct the vampire tale Let the Right One in for Overture Films and Hammer Films, according to Daily Variety. The project, which is a remake of Tomas Alfredson's Swedish film "Lat Den Ratte Komma in", centers on a young boy who befriends a female neighbor who moves to town. read more...
Last Updated: 09-26-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 196 Category: News Comments (0)
Hathaway Attracted to 'Opposite of Love'
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The adorable Anne Hathaway, who was last seen in summer actioner Get Smart, has signed on to lead the cast of The Opposite of Love at 20th Century Fox, according to Daily Variety. The actress, who will next be seen Rachel Getting Married and Passengers, will star as a commitment-phobic attorney who finds her well-constructed life coming apart at the seams when she rebuffs her ready-for-marriage boyfriend. read more...
Last Updated: 09-25-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 176 Category: News Comments (0)
Warner Plans 'I Am Legend' Prequel
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Warner Bros. Pictures moving ahead with plans to do a prequel to the Will Smith starrer I Am Legend, according to Daily Variety. The plan is for Smith to reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville, with Francis Lawrence returning to direct. Akiva Goldsman and his Weed Road banner will produce with James Lassiter, Smith�s partner in Overbrook Entertainment. read more...
Last Updated: 09-25-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 605 Category: Top Comments (0)
'Wanted' Director Harpoons 'Moby Dick'
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Director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) will helm a reimagining of Herman Melville's whale tale Moby Dick for Universal Pictures, according to Daily Variety. Adam Cooper (Accepted) and Bill Collage (Accepted) are on-board to pen the screenplay. The writers revere Melville's original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. read more...
Last Updated: 09-23-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 309 Category: Top Comments (0)
Director Black Enters Universal's 'Cold'
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Screenwriter-turned-director Shane Black, who directed 2005's flop Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, will next helm Cold Warrior for Universal Pictures, according to Daily Variety. Based on a script by Chuck Mondry, the story revolves around a spy from the Cold War era who comes out of retirement to team with a younger agent from the new school to confront a domestic terrorism threat orchestrated by Russia. read more...
Last Updated: 09-23-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 1,128 Category: News Comments (0)
Knightley Lands Lead in Zelda Biopic
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Keira Knightley, who can be currently seen in period-drama The Duchess, is in negotiations to play Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and the Damned. Actor-turned-helmer Nick Cassavetes (Alpha Dog, The Notebook) will direct the biopic for independent production company the Film Department. Hanna Weg wrote the screenplay. read more...
Last Updated: 09-23-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 24 Category: News Comments (0)
Cage and Sena Enter 'Season of the Witch'
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Nicolas Cage, who can currently be seen in Bangkok Dangerous, will reteam with his "Gone in Sixty Seconds" director Dominic Sena for the supernatural thriller Season of the Witch for Relativity Media, according to Daily Variety. Shooting is scheduled to begin in early November in Austria and Hungary. read more...
Last Updated: 09-21-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 930 Category: News Comments (0)
'Lakeview Terrance' Tops Box Office
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The terribly-bad crazy cop thriller Lakeview Terrace, which stars Samuel L. Jackson, topped the weekend box office in US and Canada, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday. The other new releases were largely ignored by moviegoers. read more...
Last Updated: 09-21-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 675 Category: News Comments (0)
Chow to Direct and Star in 'Green Hornet'
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Stephen Chow will direct Seth Rogen and star opposite him as Kato in Columbia Pictures' The Green Hornet, set for release June 25, 2010, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. read more...
Last Updated: 09-19-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 525 Category: Top Comments (0)
Johnson Sets Sights on 'Tomorrowland'
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The Walt Disney Studios is developing an action-adventure movie set in space, to star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, supposedly inspired by the Tomorrowland section of its Disneyland theme park, Daily Variety reported. read more...
Last Updated: 09-19-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 289 Category: Top Comments (0)
Vaughn and Favreau Reunite at 'Retreat'
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"Swingers" and "Made" co-stars Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau getting back together again in Universal's Couples Retreat. According to Daily Variety, the frequent co-stars will join Jason Bateman (Hancock) and Faizon Love (Elf) in the comedy Couples Retreat. The film is based on a script by Favreau and will be directed by Peter Billingsley. read more...
Last Updated: 09-19-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 246 Category: News Comments (0)
Law in Talks for 'Sherlock Holmes' Role
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Jude Law, who last starred in flops My Blueberry Nights and Breaking and Entering, is in negotiations to join Mr. Popular (aka Robert Downey Jr.) in Sherlock Holmes for Warner Bros. Pictures, according to Daily Variety. The trade says Law is "close to a deal" to play useful sidekick Watson to Downey's Holmes in the Guy Ritchie-directed feature. read more...
Last Updated: 09-19-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 256 Category: News Comments (0)
Bloom and Knightley Doing 'Fever' Remake?!
tags tags: classic comedy john travolta keira knightley orlando bloom remake
Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley will be reportedly starring in the remake of the 70s blockbuster "Saturday Night Fever". The remake, titled "The Fever Returns", will be a new take on the John Travolta classic, reports the Daily Mirror. read more...
Last Updated: 09-17-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 530 Category: Rumors_Link Comments (0)
Norton: Future of 'Hulk is 'Opaque'
tags tags: edward norton franchise hulk marvel superheros the avengers
Edward Norton has admitted that he is uncertain about the future of the Incredible Hulk franchise. The actor told MTV News: "The minds of Marvel are sometimes opaque. I won't say [they're] obtuse, but I don't have any idea what they want to do." However, Norton suggested that the character could return in The Avengers, a film uniting Marvel's most popular superheroes.
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'Hills' Star Joins 'Sorority Row'
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Reality TV star Audrina Patridge has joined the cast of upcoming horror remake Sorority Row. Patridge, who starred in MTV's "The Hills", will join Rumer Willis and Briana Evigan (Step Up 2: The Streets) in the Summit Entertainment film, reports Bloody Disgusting. Stewart Hendler (Whisper) will direct the project, which focuses on a group of sorority sisters murdered at a party after they accidentally kill a teacher. read more...
Last Updated: 09-17-08 Votes: 0 Hits: 283 Category: Rumors_Link Comments (0)
'Twilight' Co-Star 'Cowboys' Up
tags tags: action cam gigandet rachael leigh cook shane west thriller
Cam Gigandet (Twilight, Never Back Down) is in negotiations to play the lead role in Mario Van Peebles' fighter plane thriller Kerosene Cowboys. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Shane West and Rachael Leigh Cook (Nancy Drew, "She's All That") are also negotiating for the film, which is set up at Svarog-Afterburner Films. read more...
Producer Lauren Shuler Donner Says Wolverine Kicks Ass
Coming Soon spoke with producer Lauren Shuler Donner about the upcoming Wolverine movie. It's safe to say that she thinks the movie will be good. Here are some the key words and quote snippets I have pulled from the interview so you guys have an inkling of what her opinion will be on Wolverine:
"little darker"
"a lot of action"
"It's really good."
"I think that it's good."
"Audiences are going to like it."
"it's darker and sadder."
"It's kick ass."
"There's a ton of action."
"It's really kick ass."
"It was fun."
"It was good."
"emotional core"
"fun and action"
Max Payne Film
The folks over at 20th Century Fox have provided Latino Review with two EXCLUSIVE film clips for their upcoming movie version of the hit video game "Max Payne" starring Mark Wahlberg, Chris O'Donnell, Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Mila Kunis, Donal Logue, and Amaury Nolasco.
The film is due October 17th 2008. Also check out the updated official site HERE! and check out the updated photo gallery HERE!
Based on the legendary, hard-hitting interactive video game, "Max Payne" tells the story of a maverick cop determined to track down those responsible for the brutal murder of his family and partner. Hell-bent on revenge, his obsessive investigation takes him on a nightmare journey into a dark underworld. As the mystery deepens, Max (Wahlberg) is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.
Exclusive: Green Lantern MAY Have A Notebook
Green Lantern casting update
El Mayimbe here…
So yes the word on the Green Lantern is that it is moving along and that rehearsals should start in February for a Spring 2009 shoot.
Earlier, I had received word from someone that the Green Lantern choices have been nailed down and that they were considering Seth Green, Justin Long, and David Boreanaz.
I was like WTF?!
Confused, I went to my guys to get to the bottom of what is going on and to see if it was true.
Thankfully, hell no, not true.
BUT…I did manage to find out something.
You know who the studio wants to wear Abin Sur’s ring and take up the mantle of The Green Lantern?
From my trusted source within the WB, I’m hearing…
RYAN GOSLING
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Personally, I think a really hot choice! Ryan Gosling is a dope actor and would kill the role. Remember folks that he is an Oscar nominee. Green Lantern/Hal Jordan in the script is 27 and currently Ryan is 27 (his 28th birthday is next month).
Mind you, I don’t know if an offer has been made, and if WB is into it now with Ryan’s people, but once again Gosling is who I’m hearing the WB wants for Hal Jordan.
Hal Jordan is a fictional character, a DC Comics superhero. He is the second Green Lantern and arguably the most famous hero to bear that name. Created by John Broome and Gil Kane, he first appeared in Showcase #22 (October 1959).
Hal Jordan's revamp as the Green Lantern was one of many old DC Comics characters to emerge in the Silver Age of comics. Like many of his contemporaries, Hal Jordan became more identified with his heroic identity than the previous iterations of the characters. Controversy erupted among comic book readers in 1994 when Hal Jordan became supervillain Parallax and Kyle Rayner replaced him as the Green Lantern.
Jordan underwent a number of further changes in the 1990s including dying and later returning as a new incarnation of The Spectre. Hal Jordan returned to the role of Green Lantern in 2004's Green Lantern: Rebirth miniseries and is currently the protagonist of the current volume of Green Lantern.
So what do you guys think?
In the meantime, you can follow my updates on TWITTER.
Video Interview: The Cast of City of Ember
Based on a novel by Jeanne Duprau, CITY OF EMBER is an upcoming film directed by Gil Kenan about an underground city powered by giant generator. When the city’s electricity begins to falter and the lights start to flicker, Lina Mayfleet (Saoirse Ronan) and Doon Harrow (Harry Treadaway) question the limits and borders of their once lit city by exploring the outer limits of a world that has protected and entrapped them for years.
Latinoreview.com recently had the pleasure of sitting down with the taleneted Saoirse Ronan, Bill Murray and Tim Robbins to talk about their roles in the forthcoming family adventure, their take on the story and their personal experiences while filming the CITY OF EMBER.
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We sit down and un-cover lies and espionage with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Body of Lies! MoviesOnline sat down with actors Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, director Ridley Scott, producer Donald De Line, screenwrit...
Incredible Hulk DVD Specs Arrive
The studio has just sent over the complete specs for the upcoming DVD release of The Incredible Hulk. From the Marvel Universe of the world’s most popular Super Heroes comes the $234.6 million worldwide summer hit that fans have been waiting fo...
Kirsten Dunst In For Spider Man 4?
Kirsten Dunst has made it no secret that she was never really interested in doing more than Spider Man 3. Of course this was all because Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire at the time were saying the exact same thing. Well guess what? They are all back and ...
Iron Man DVD Retail Exclusive Details
Iron Man is on DVD today and Paramount released a complete list of the various Retail Exclusives where you can get an EXCLUSIVE goodie for Iron Man. Below is the complete list. For pictures of each exclusive package go here Circuit City - Access t...
Win Indiana Jones 4 on DVD
Get your whip... lets go digg up a Crystal Skull. Enter to win Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on DVD! This go around we are giving away copies of the special edition Indiana Jones Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on DVD. As an added b...
Last Call: Win Nightmare Before Christmas Collectors DVD
This be your last call to enter to win Nightmare Before Xmas the Collectors edition. Bored with his perennial role as Halloween Town's frightening Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington wanders off and discovers the cheerful village of Christmas Town. Determ...
Once again we are bringing you the first look at dvd retailer exclusives and this time its for the upcoming release of Indiana Jones The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The following retailer exclusives are available; Circuit City - 2 lithographs of c...
Punisher WarZone Lenticular Poster
Lionsgate just sent over the poster for Punisher Warzone which is the newest 'lenticular' version. This brings our collection of posters for the film to a nice handfull. You can check it out below as well as earlier posters we shared with you all. Th...
Ghost Busters Ecto 1 Car For Sale!
This is awesome. Via SlashFIlm I discovered you can buy the Ecto-1 Ghost Busters car on Ebay. Somebody has it up for auction for the relatively reasonable price of $45,000. If anyone would like to go and buy the car for me I will not at all be upset ...
Depp Getting $50million for Pirates of the Caribbean 4
There are various internet reports saying that Johnny Depp is getting paid between $50 - 75 MILLION Dollars to come back nad reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Can you say Cha-Ching? You will recall that...
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer Clips
Below you can checkout 7 new clips for Jack Brooks Monster Slayer. It hit dvd yesterday and let me tell you its a charismatic and entertaining film. With solid action throughout and a nice role filled by genre vet, Robert Englund this is something th...
Matt Lucas Joins Cast of AstroBoy
Matt Lucas will join Nicolas Cage as a voice in the upcoming Astro Boy film. Anyone remember how Astro Boy sounds? Why Cage? Astroboy is one of my favorite TV shows as a kid but I am still not sold on the idea that it needs the film treatment....
Scarce Review
The big claim to fame for SCARCE is they were ableto get Darren Lynn Bousman the director of SAW to give them a quote that basically boils down to its one bad ass movie. It certainly intrigued me enough to pop the screener in and give it a watch. I w...
End of the Line Review
Its been a good week for Canadian Horror. Or at least its been a good week for me. I have just checked out another great horror film by the name of End Of the Line which AnchorBay is releasing onto DVD. Its gruesome, its entertaining and its Canadian...
Win 30 Rock Season 2 on DVD
Time for a new contest. This go around we have 30 Rock Season 2 on DVD up for grabs. I dont watch alot of TV because I have no time to in most cases but there is a short list of films I do watch. 30 Rock is one of them. I got sent Season 1 a while ba...
Pathology Review
Pathology came to theatres with next to no fanfare. Next to nobody saw it and most people said it really was mediocre at best and borderline crap. One of my good friends John who runs The Movie Blog was the only person I saw when it hit theatres sayi...
Hell Ride (2008) Review
Hell Ride has gotten alot of negative reviews so when I got an early screener copy I was concerned. Very concerned. Quentin Tarantino has used his name to sell us ALOT of shitty movies lately so having his name on this movie was actually a bad thing....
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer Review
What happens when you take a pissed off plumber whos family was killed by a forest troll and throw him into a science night-class that is taken over by demons? You get yourself an ass kicking good time in the form of Jack Brook Monster Slayer. No on...
Dark Knight DVD Specs A Bit Sparse
Cinematical have posted the DVD specs for the upcoming Dark Knight DVD release and frankly they strike me as a bit sparse. But at least we get a variety of DVD options available for us including a gift set that includes the bat pod. The specs are as ...
Shannon Elizabeth Takes on Demons
Shannon Elizabeth is set ot take on Demons in her new film Night of the Demons. Night of the Demons, inspired by the 80's cult classic of the same name, and featuring makeup by the Academy Award® winning Drac Studios (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mrs. ...
Marvel's Magneto Plot Revealed
Gotta love when somebody spills the beans on a films plot. A character designer talked to SplashPage and spilled the entire beans on the upcoming Marvel spin off X-Men Origins: Magneto. Andrew Simms told them; “Remember the scene [from 'X...
Three new Quarantine Clips
Below you can checkout 3 new spiffy clips for Quarantine. A remake of the Spanish film REC, a downtown Los Angeles apartment building is quarantined after a mysterious deadly and highly contagious strain of rabies breaks out. A reporter and her camer...
Captain America Movie Plot Revealed
From ProductionWeekly via FSR comes the synopsis for the upcoming Captain America movie. I think I am more excited for this movie then I was for Dark Knght. The synopsis goes as follows; Born during the Great Depression, Steve Rogers grew up a frai...
Resident Evil: Degeneration Poster
I am one of those rare animals that liked all the Resident Evil movies... although Apocalypse was pretty borderline on the like column. There is a new animated film coming and you can checkout the poster for it below courtesy of OutNow.ch In case you...
Carrie-Anne Moss Joins Unthinkable
Carrie-Anne Moss is likely best known as the super hot chick in latex from the MATRIX films but she is really quite talented. She did a fantastic job in Suspect Zero and in FIDO and now she will take on a new thriller called Unthinkable. The synpsi...
Max Payne Rated R.. what happened?
Awhile back it was reported that Max Payne got a PG13 rating but now it would seem that is not so. After it being widely reported it got its PG-13 rating the Hollywood Reporter is now reporting that the movie is RATED R. A real head scratcher to me. ...
Christopher Nolan Signed for Dark Knight Sequel
Feign shock.. or at least try. ProductionWeekly reports that Christopher Nolan has been signed on to direct the Dark Knight sequel. Considering just how big of a hit the last two Batman films have been this should come as no surprise at all. Accord...
Box Office Report October 6th 2008
Dude here again. Some of you may wonder how I can come up with fresh and exciting new Box Office Reports week after week, full of all the insight and wit you've come to expect from this column. And the answer is simple: bottled up rage and a delusion...
Blind Thoughts Poster
Below you can checkout a poster for the new thriller Blind Thoughts. “Blind Thoughts” is set in suburban New Jersey and outlines the hunt for a serial killer known as Tally Mark who leaves his victims with tally marks cut into their bodie...
28 Months Later Gets a Director?
28 Months Later will be the third film in the zombie series from Danny Boyles a SERIOUSLY talented filmmaker. The new film is rumored to be based in either France or Russia and to continue the outbreak story... but of course with some unique and new ...
No Country for Old Men Review
This latest film from the Coen brothers takes place in West Texas, 1980. When cowboy Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles across a heroin deal gone wrong, he claims the drug money for himself and is pursued by ruthless killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Ba...
Be Kind Rewind Review
After the global success of Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, and the quaint lovability of Science of Sleep, we wonder what is next in store from filmmaker Michael Gondry? Be Kind Rewind follows the story of video (yes that’s right I do mea...
Harrison Ford talks Indiana Jones 5
Indiana Jones 4 was a fun movie. It did not quite have the magic for me that the first films did but it was a fun action tale that brought back a familiar character many of us love. Harrison ford told the LA Times that indeed Indiana Jones 5 is comin...
HOUSE Horror Poster Arrives
From acclaimed novelists Ted Dekker and Frank Perreti, Roadside Attractions presents: HOUSE, opens Friday, November 7, 2008. Below you can checkout the new poster that the studio sent to me. On a deserted back road in Alabama, Jack and Stephanie f...
Rob Brown Interview, The Express
MoviesOnline sat down with Rob Brown to talk about his new film, “The Express,” based on the extraordinary life of college football hero Ernie Davis (Brown) whom fans knew as The Elmira Express. In America in the late 1950s and early 60s,...
Iron Man 2 Movie Updates
Jon Favreau did a live webcast with the LA Times readers and provided some updates on the upcoming Iron Man 2 movie. Key amongst them is that he is directy involved in the script which they are hammering out and figuring out exactly where the story w...
Under Siege 3... Has Aliens?
Hilarious. Stephen Segal is interested in doing Under Siege 3 and tells MTV that it might have an alien angle. "I personally want it to be something more modern. In other words, I wouldn't mind if it was about something more mystical or…may...
Supernatural Brings on the Apocalypse
Eric Kripke’s horror drama “Supernatural” has gone Biblical, bringing on the Christian mythos of angels to go with the demons already incorporated from religious mythology as the show used the word “Apocalypse” for the f...
Kung Fu Panda Sequel Coming
Today the studio announced that a sequel to Kung Fu Panda will hit theatres in 2011. So yeah its coming but you have a wee bit of a wait before it happens. The film which starred Jack Black got pretty good vibes from film fans. For those of you who ...
Win Princess Bride Signed Prize Pack
Time for another fun contest. This go around you can win Princess Bride on DVD as well as a SIGNED animation print from the upcoming game. WorldWide Biggies recently released an animated videogame based on the wildly successful film The Princess Brid...
Let The Right One in Trailer & Poster
Below you can checkout the trailer for the upcoming foreign terror flick Let the Right One in. You can also checkout the poster ( click for a larger version ). A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmate...
The Harvest Project Poster
What if in order to save the life of someone you loved, someone else has to make the ultimate sacrifice? Harvest Project Films Inc. of Vancouver, B.C. announces it has completed production of the independent feature film "The Harvest Project", a psyc...
Dark Knight Sequel Beings Pre-Production
According to the good folks at Batman On Film the sequel for The Dark Knight has gone into pre-production. Sourcing members of the crew in chicago they say they are gearing up to begin doing the leg work for production on the sequel to begin. Al...
Shia Labouf Injured on Transformers 2 Set
TMZ is reporting that Shia Labouf was injured on the set of Transformers 2 when a piece of the set collapsed on him cutting his face requiring stitches to close it. Shia manned up and when right back to work on the blockbuster sequel. So its safe to ...
Miley Cyrus Bolt Poster
Below from IMPAWARDS and PosterGeek you can checkout a new poster for BOLt. For super-dog BOLT (voice of JOHN TRAVOLTA), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue— at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a ...
Zach Snyders Shows off Watchmen
Last night Warner Brothers invited us to checkout 3 extended clips from the Watchmen with Zach Snyder providing introduction as well as giving us an interview at the end of it all. There is no spoilers in this and really we get into little detail on ...
Tim Robbins Interview, The Lucky Ones
MoviesOnline sat down with critically acclaimed actor, writer, producer and director Tim Robbins at the Los Angeles press day to talk about his new film, “The Lucky Ones.” Directed by Neil Burger, “The Lucky Ones” tells ...
SPLINTER Video Podcast 3
Below you can checkout the 3rd new podcast for Splinter which Goon tracked down for us. For your convenience you can also checkout the past two podcasts below in case you want to play some catch up. You may not have heard anything about this movie o...
Gears of War Movie Director Confirmed
Oh dear oh me. UGO has confirmed what we told you awhile back that yes Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner will be directing the GEARS OF WAR movie. UGH! But we can add some good news to that for you all which is also not new news but still... The...
Meet The Beckers Online Series
Meet The Beckers is an online mini-series that launched the week of September 22nd, and will release new episodes throughout the Fall to let the online audiences get a bit more acquainted with the Beckers’ story of dysfunctional family bonding ...
Crowe, Ridley Scott & DiCaprio Interview, Body of Lies
We sit down and un-cover lies and espionage with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Body of Lies! MoviesOnline sat down with actors Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, director Ridley Scott, producer Donald De Line, screenwrit...
Incredible Hulk DVD Specs Arrive
The studio has just sent over the complete specs for the upcoming DVD release of The Incredible Hulk. From the Marvel Universe of the world’s most popular Super Heroes comes the $234.6 million worldwide summer hit that fans have been waiting fo...
Kirsten Dunst In For Spider Man 4?
Kirsten Dunst has made it no secret that she was never really interested in doing more than Spider Man 3. Of course this was all because Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire at the time were saying the exact same thing. Well guess what? They are all back and ...
Iron Man DVD Retail Exclusive Details
Iron Man is on DVD today and Paramount released a complete list of the various Retail Exclusives where you can get an EXCLUSIVE goodie for Iron Man. Below is the complete list. For pictures of each exclusive package go here Circuit City - Access t...
Win Indiana Jones 4 on DVD
Get your whip... lets go digg up a Crystal Skull. Enter to win Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on DVD! This go around we are giving away copies of the special edition Indiana Jones Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on DVD. As an added b...
Last Call: Win Nightmare Before Christmas Collectors DVD
This be your last call to enter to win Nightmare Before Xmas the Collectors edition. Bored with his perennial role as Halloween Town's frightening Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington wanders off and discovers the cheerful village of Christmas Town. Determ...
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