Rejoice, film lovers, for a blow has been struck in the name of good cinema. Universal Pictures’ Focus Features has signed a deal with the legendary Three Amigos – Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu – to be the home of their new production company, cha cha cha. That’s the name of … Continue reading
It was only a couple of days ago that we brought you the news that Lionsgate is going to be the folks behind Frank Miller’s film adaptation of The Spirit, and now there’s already casting news: Samuel L Jackson is Frank Miller’s first choice to play The Octopus, ‘a meek lab assistant who reinvents himself … Continue reading
“We’re going to be blowing up a lot of little Furbies,” Michael Bay says proudly. Last August I flew out to Los Angeles to visit the shoot of Transformers, the movie that’s set to dominate this July 4th weekend. A couple of blocks of downtown LA had been shut down, mostly for crew and equipment, … Continue reading
DeYahoo! Movies has posted the newest trailer for The Transformers, and if this one doesn’t make a believer out of you, then you’re going to just have to be content with jacking off to your cartoon DVD sets. The trailer, which includes some amazing scenes of robot transformations and action, sets up the film to … Continue reading
The official site for The Dark Knight, which has been showing a Bat Signal for the last week or two, has updated with… a link! The link takes you to ibelieveinharveydent.com, which right now only has a ‘campaign’ image of Dent running for District Attorney. Technically, this is the first image of Aaron Eckhart as … Continue reading
I hope someone makes a movie about my life someday. If they do, I’m guaranteed to not only be remembered forever, but also to be remembered as better looking than I really am – after all, they rarely cast uglies in the lead of a motion picture. For example the Bronte sisters were not exactly … Continue reading
When people think about teen films from the 80s they fall into a John Hughes reverie, but for my money one of the best teen films of the decade had nothing to do with that guy or his players; it’s Taps, a 1981 military school drama with a killer cast, including George C Scott, Timothy … Continue reading
A joke among the journalists covering The Dark Is Rising set visit in Bucharest over the last couple of days was that the movie has only changed three things from the Newberry-winning novel on which it’s based: they’ve changed the lead kid’s nationality from English to American, they’ve changed the lead kid’s age from 11 … Continue reading
Once is the kind of movie that ruins it for other movies. Once isn’t just a nearly perfect little film, it’s effortlessly so, and you walk out wondering why more movies can’t just be this good. Glen Hansard, who sings for the Irish band The Frames in real life, is The Guy, an Irish busker … Continue reading
I would have attended the press day for Once no matter what, but the fact that there was going to be a musical performance sealed the deal. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, the stars or Once and real life musical collaborators, came in and did a trio of songs from the film as well as … Continue reading