Principal photography has already started on Scott Derrickson’s "reinvention" of The Day the Earth Stood Still, but there’s some eleventh hour casting news to report: Jaden "Son of Will" Smith will play the "rebellious" eight-year-old stepson of Jennifer Connelly’s scientist character. This will be a quite the stretch for Jaden: he’s due to turn ten … Continue reading →
It’s difficult to tell with this smallish version, but there’s more going on in the above picture than you might think. Lots more. And the only way to properly sleuth the photo is to head over to Comingsoon, which scored this latest Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (*brow wipe*) exclusive. But … Continue reading →
I am finishing up my packing for the big move to Studio City, and right after that I’m flying off to Utah for Sundance, which means you’ll be seeing very little of me around here until maybe Friday. It’s just as hard for me to leave you as it is for you to see me … Continue reading →
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a relentlessly bleak read like pretty much everything else he’s written, which means John Hilcoat is both a perfect and wrongheaded choice for director. In a way, Hilcoat’s The Proposition was an ideal, rigorously one-note warm-up for the misery of The Road. Not only does he possess a vivid, diseased … Continue reading →
The flash game is fast becoming a staple of the online movie marketing machine (and it’s probably the only component missing so far from the massive Cloverfield and Dark Knight campaigns, but I digress…). The latest property to jump on the mini-game bandwagon is Saw IV, or, specifically, the impending release of Saw IV on DVD. … Continue reading →
I’m not going to try to sell you on this one ‘cuz, frankly, Lionsgate ain’t trying either! The trailer for Roger Donaldson’s The Bank Job – inventive title, that – plays like a tribute reel to Ocean’s Eleven, Sexy Beast, Layer Cake, The Italian Job (original or remake), Scandal and Inside Man. Among others. And … Continue reading →
The Wire‘s Jimmy McNulty is one of the great characters in television history, and while you have to lay a lot of that at the feet of creator David Simon and his team of insanely talented writers, you must leave room in your praise for Dominic West, the man who gives McNulty his soul. Fans … Continue reading →
For those of you who dared to believe that Ice Cube would sand down the rough, rusted, tetanus-inducing edges of Welcome Back Kotter… motherfucker, does he have some words for you: "There’s a script. We’ve got the same characters, they’re just re-vamped to suit the times, totally different. It’s, like, flipped. With me playing Kotter, … Continue reading →
I troll MySpace less and less — look ma, I’m growing up! — so it was easy to miss the Diary of the Dead trailer the site posted as an exclusive at the end of last week. The clip highlights the film’s basic conceit — a kid with a camera captures the rise of the … Continue reading →
How do you, with a straight face, make a movie about a group of buddies taking their terminally ill friend to break into Skywalker Ranch to see Episode I before it comes out (and before he dies)? Unless the film ends with Cancer Boy seeing the bad film and using it to make his peace … Continue reading →