Ridley Scott Writing The ‘Prometheus 2′ Script That Will Eventually Be Ruined
With a project as massive as Prometheus, it’s nigh impossible to place blame on any single individual, but considering the original draft and the work he did adding incomprehensibility, it’s not...
View ArticleAn Amazing ‘Star Wars Episode VIII’ From Alfonso Cuaron is Apparently a...
According to MarketSaw (via Celluloid and Cigarette Burns, who makes a case for the site’s track record of being right), Alfonso Cuaron is in the mix and could be the preferred candidate to direct...
View ArticleAudit Yourself with ‘The Master’ Drinking Game
Nominated for three Oscars, The Master was a passion project for director P.T. Anderson. It pulled the veil back on a fictionalized account of Scientology as well as proving that Joaquin Phoenix can...
View ArticleImagining The Oscar Ceremonies of The Next Ten Years
As the roar of responses to Sunday’s Oscar ceremony dies down, it’s important to keep in mind that the award, while not nearly the only avenue to cultural immortality, is still important to the tune...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Sweeney’ Is Brash But Not Quite Brash Enough
The Sweeney is a celebration of shoddy police work. Not that it’s different from many other cop movies in that respect. If you think about it, the amount of collateral damage that piles up in the...
View Article‘Family Weekend’ Trailer Brings a Family Together with Duct Tape
Remember House Arrest? Of course you do. Everyone does. Kevin Pollack and Jamie Lee Curtis made an excellent comic couple, especially after getting kidnapped by their children. That sort of thing...
View ArticleChris Cooper Will Bring The Insanity of Norman Osborn to ‘The Amazing...
In case you were worrying that Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man sequel didn’t have enough of Spidey’s villains rumored to be appearing in it, Heat Vision now has a report confirming that the film is...
View ArticleSundance Favorite ‘Toy’s House’ Gets a Release Date and a New Title
Briefly: Deadline Hollywood reveals that Jordan Vogt-Roberts‘ feature debut, the Sundance favorite formerly known as Toy’s House, has picked up both a new name (Kings of Summer, which is infinitely...
View ArticleCasting Couch: Tom Hardy Will Try to Tackle PTSD, Juliette Binoche Tries to...
What is Casting Couch? It’s feeling a little left out this week since casting agents seem to be focused on getting their clients pilots for the next TV season, but it’s got a couple pieces of big...
View Article‘The Conjuring’ Trailer Uses Old-School Scare Tactics To Freak You the Hell Out
Generally it takes a horror movie a chunk of time for it to start being scary. You have to establish a spooky atmosphere, a sense of dread, and then let the tension build to a breaking point before...
View ArticleCraig Brewer to Helm Wild True Life Tale of Drug Mule Who Claimed to Be Heir...
Clunky title aside, Craig Brewer‘s next project sounds pretty damn great. Brewer is now set to write and direct an adaptation of Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s Rolling Stone article of the same name, saddling...
View Article‘Cloudy 2′ Trailer Offers an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet of Puns
“Pun-fet” was a bit too far to go, even for me. You’re welcome. You’re also welcome for this Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 trailer that is overflowing with food and animal jokes. Phil Lord and...
View ArticleBroken Lizard’s Kevin Heffernan Growing His Mustache for ‘Super Troopers 2′
It’s been 12 years since Super Troopers launched Broken Lizard, and it’s been 7 years since they proclaimed publicly that a sequel was on the way. Anyone who held their breath is either dead or...
View ArticleWeinsteins Ensure ‘Salinger’ Documentary Will See Theaters
According to Deadline Hollywood, The Weinstein Company has acquired the rights to release Salinger into theaters. No word yet on when they plan to release the documentary about the famously reclusive...
View Article20 Totally Badass Ways Characters Reacted To Mortal Wounds
So you’ve been shot/stabbed/eaten/burned/dismembered/amputated/face melted by an ancient artifact, what are you going to do next? If you answered, “go into shock while screaming like an asshole” then...
View ArticleReview: ‘War Witch’ Is an Adventurous, Prosaic Achievement
Best Foreign Language Film nominee War Witch (aka Rebelle) is the story of a young girl kidnapped by a rebel army in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and forced into becoming a child soldier. Yet,...
View Article32 Things We Learned from the ‘Breaking Dawn’ Commentaries
Well, Twi-hards, with the release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part II on DVD and Blu-ray this week, the series has come to a final close. (That is, of course, until Lionsgate decides to...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Seagulls’ Makes Drone Warfare Sexually Creepy
Why Watch? This short film from Mato Atom is disturbing not simply because of the future it depicts, but because of the unsettling imagery used to paint it. Toss in a sexually predatory version of...
View ArticleTribeca 2013: Festival Eschews Blockbuster Opening Film, Picks Tour Doc...
Last year’s Tribeca Film Festival opened with the world premiere of the Judd Apatow-produced and Jason Segel-starring The Five-Year Engagement, a big studio film with big studio names, but this year’s...
View ArticleDane Cook’s Next Role: An Animated, Anthropomorphic Plane That’s Afraid of...
While Disney’s Cars series has been the proverbial whipping boy for many fans of the House of Mouse’s better animated outings, the franchise is a perennial favorite for the younger set (if you spend...
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