‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Writer Levels Up to Co-Director For Disney’s ‘Frozen’
Seeing as Wreck-It Ralph was Disney Animation’s most well-received movie in quite a while, the studio has wasted no time in getting one of its main creative talents to work on a new project. Today...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Hugh Jackman Will Likely Pop His Claws in ‘Days of Future...
What is Casting Couch? It’s starting to wonder how many times Hugh Jackman can play Wolverine before his sideburns start to stick that way. Hot on the heels of the announcement that the original...
View ArticleNick Hornby Set to Go ‘Wild’ for New Reese Witherspoon Adaptation
While most movie-going audiences familiar with author Nick Hornby know him best for seeing his own written works turned into films (like High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, and About a Boy), the writer has...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: How Obama Saved Star Wars, Webcomics and Kaiju Attacks!
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly mashing together of things about film and television because that’s what the kids on the Internet are into these days — mashing things together. Obama Wan...
View ArticleFirst Footage From ‘The Host 2′ Hopes to Get By on CGI and a Little Girl in...
Bong Joon-ho‘s 2006 hit, The Host, was both a domestic success and an international one that accomplished two things in short order: it moved Bong to the list of top tier Korean directors, and it...
View ArticleDailymotion Wants to Give You Money to Make Your Movie
Dailymotion has become the latest media website to begin actively funding independent film projects, but the projects aren’t limited to traditional formats. Now, filmmakers looking to make short...
View Article‘Freeloaders’ Trailer: Broken Lizard Tricked Into Appearing in a Terrible Movie
The last time Dan Rosen directed a movie, it was the middling thriller The Curve (aka Dead Man’s Curve) in 1998. He hasn’t been steadily working since then or anything, but now he’s back with a second...
View ArticleReview: Robert Carlyle’s Strong Performance Can’t Quite Redeem the Murky...
A man who’s down on his luck looks for redemption when a time of need arises in his life – will a new love interest save him, or will the gained love of his estranged daughter do the trick? Sounds...
View ArticleHoliday Gifts for Movie Lovers: Home Decor Edition
Now that it’s post-Thanksgiving – the real holiday season, in my book – it’s time to start thinking about what to get for those movie lovers close to your heart. Speaking from personal experience,...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Collection’ Amasses a Staggering Body Count
Editor’s note: This review originally ran as part of our Fantastic Fest 2012 coverage, and since The Collection hits theaters this week, we felt obliged to scrape off the dried blood and post it back...
View ArticleDisney Announces ‘Girl Meets World,’ World Approves
The most important TV news of the week was, perhaps, overshadowed by Two and a Half Men’s titular half man Angus T. Jones and his sudden, spiritually motivated disavowal of the series that he’s...
View ArticleReview: ‘Killing Them Softly’ Provokes As It Entertains
After only about five people paid to see Andrew Dominik‘s beautifully poetic The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the popular belief was that any director in that position would...
View ArticleDear Hollywood Reporter: Women Also Made Movies This Year
One of the highlights of the Oscar season is the series of round table discussions produced by The Hollywood Reporter, and for good reason. We spend much of the fall and winter comparing drastically...
View ArticleSFotD: Spencer Susser’s ‘Eugene’ is a Curious Comedy That Makes Wishes Come True
Why Watch? A while back, we promoted a contest from W Hotels, Intel and Roman Coppola that was looking for short scripts. The Four Stories competition resulted in some excellent short films, and...
View ArticleRelive The Glory Days of College With Two Cuddly Cute ‘Monsters University’...
While not many films about professional partners doing their jobs together tend to make audiences sit back and wonder, geez, I wonder what these two were like in college?, not many films about...
View ArticleDid You Miss ‘End of Watch’ In Theaters? Open Road Films Is Fixing That
On the heels of two Independent Spirit Awards nominations for actor Michael Pena (for Best Supporting Male) and cinematographer Roman Vasyanov (for Best Cinematography, naturally), Open Road Films has...
View ArticleAndrew Dominik, ‘Killing Them Softly’ Director: “I’m Not Interested in...
Killing Them Softly is both a surprising and unexpected return for director Andrew Dominik, whose name has been missing from the big screen for five long years. What’s most surprising about the film...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Jon Hamm Wants to Prove He Has the Funny, Dale Dickey Is Going...
What is Casting Couch? Today it’s mostly about smaller-name actors getting roles in upcoming projects, but that can be interesting too. Not everyone can be an old favorite coming back to an X-Men...
View Article‘A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III’ Trailer: Charlie Sheen Loses...
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III is Roman Coppola‘s first film in over ten years. His directorial debut, CQ, was received with a mixed response. It didn’t garner much love, but it’s a...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Big Special Effects and How ‘Looper’ Should Have Ended
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly news column that was on hiatus, but has now been back for a solid week. And it feels good to be back. As Ernie Hudson might remark, it loves this town....
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