Hot on the heels of announcing that Martin Scorsese’s untitled Rolling Stones documentary would be released through Paramount, the studio is trumpeting a four year first look deal with the director. The deal is for Scorsese to “direct and produce entertainment across all platforms including feature films, made-for-DVD, digital content and television for Paramount Pictures … Continue reading
When you’re called Batman On Film, you don’t have a lot of options on how to fill your daily content quota*. That means I’m not surprised when every single actor in a certain age group eventually gets mentioned on their site as a candidate for this role or that in The Dark Knight. The latest … Continue reading
John Ford is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I’ve argued in the past that his epic western The Searchers is the best movie ever made, and I haven’t really changed my mind yet. The man had a long and fascinating career, peppered with many classics, and he lived a life worthy of … Continue reading
The epic story of Mötley Crüe is finally coming to the big screen in the form of an adaptation of the tell-all book The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band. I haven’t read the book yet, but I am eager to – if just to see if the Crüe managed to top … Continue reading
Who ever thought we’d be seeing another Hulk movie? And who thought it would be the summer after next? But it’s happening – Marvel, now their own studio, has planted their big green flag on June 27th, 2008 as the date when the Green Goliath will return to movie screens in The Incredible Hulk. This … Continue reading
Morgan Freeman tends to play nice guys. Wise sages. He’s even played God in a couple of films. Thankfully he’s just as sick of the nice image as the rest of us – he’s signed on to play an assassin in the movie adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book Wanted*. He’s not straying too far … Continue reading
Hey, remember when I declared a moratorium on Indiana Jones IV stories? If so, you’ll remember I gave myself a little out, saying I would run a story if I got a quote directly from someone involved in the film. And now I have, so here’s an Indiana Jones IV story. This evening I got … Continue reading
Recently I caught a documentary about the Stanford Prison Experiment, a controversial study that put some student volunteers into the position of prisoners and some into the position of guards. Within 24 hours the whole situation went to hell, and the footage taken of the actual experiment looked more than a little like what happened … Continue reading
Coming Soon’s Ed Douglas, declared a pervert this morning by new Bond girl Eva Green (I was there when it happened), has gotten the scoop on Iron Man from none other than Tony Stark himself, Robert Downey, Jr. Downey was in New York to do press for his new film, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of … Continue reading
Quentin Tarantino fans are used to waiting around for the director to get moving on some of the projects he’s talked about publicly – we’ve been waiting nigh upon a decade for some forward motion on Inglorious Bastards, his proposed WWII epic. One of the projects that I think most of us have given up … Continue reading