Fantastic Four, when your trailers are pretty much the bottom rung of trailerdom, you’ve got yourself a bit of a problem. Even the inclusion of the TRUE human torch, Jessica Alba (you know, ’cause she’s hot), may not be enough to salvage this one. This new trailer starts off alright, but about a third in, … Continue reading
Casting for the remake of Wes Craven’s classic The Hills Have Eyes has pretty much finished, and director Alexadre Aja (the fine hand behind High Tension, a movie I guess only I liked) has gotten himself some pretty good people. In the interest of it being 2 AM by me and I am sleepy, here … Continue reading
Tom Hanks’ Playtone and Universal Pictures have bought the life rights to Mark Felt and his family. You may recall that Felt was the stunningly disappointing person behind the Deep Throat monicker, the guy whose inside info led to the breaking of the Watergate scandal and the fall of the Nixon Administration. Hanks and friends have bought … Continue reading
Who do you look for as a director when you’re remaking the family classic Swiss Family Robinson? If you’re Disney you go right for the dude who directed T3 and U-571, Jonathan Mostow. It seems like a weird choice to me, but then again no one thought that Scorsese had a women’s film in him … Continue reading
It’s a big reunion for Felicity creator JJ Abrams and his star Keri Russell – she’s going to be appearing in the "It’s seriously happening even though Tom Cruise has apparently completely lost his mind" Mission: Impossible 3. Tiny skinny Russell is taking the role once earmarked for curvy, pneumatic Scarlett Johansson, a young spy … Continue reading
Remember how cool Vin Diesel was in his breakthrough role as intergalactic outlaw Riddick in Pitch Black and its sequel? It was considerably less cool seeing him contend with loaded diapers and cantankerous water fowl in The Pacifier, so it’s refreshing to hear he’s getting back into murder mode. Diesel will star in an adaptation … Continue reading
So far, X-Men 3 has a loaded cast, another new director, a release date Fox is apparently hellbent on making regardless of detriment to the film, and a whole lot of fans concerned about the direction that Marvel’s mutant franchise is (rumored to be) going. Now it also has a teaser poster, and you just know … Continue reading
I don’t know how the adaptation of V For Vendetta will come out – people I know who have been to the set said it looks good, and friends who have read the script and not shared it with me (!) have said that it’s quality, if pretty different from the comic (it’s been seriously … Continue reading
Disney has purchased the rights to a book, I Would Tell You I Love You But Then I Would Have to Kill You, which ingeniously mixes two of the finest concepts ever: all-girl’s schools and spies. The book is set at a secret school in Washington DC that is full of daughters of spies, and … Continue reading
The movie version of Speed Racer is far from dead, and Vince Vaughn is still attached, a scooper tells Corona Coming Attractions at Cinescape. The movie, based on the Japanese racing cartoon, seemed sort of in limbo for some time – we’ve been reporting on it for something like five years now – but the … Continue reading