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Philip Seymour Hoffman Negotiating for Latest John le Carré Adaptation, ‘A...
Now that John le Carré’s spy novel “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” has been adapted into a highly acclaimed film of the same name that made a bunch of money on a worldwide level, we can probably expect...
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Weekly DVD Drinking Game: A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
Sometimes, choosing the right movie for the weekly DVD drinking game is a tough decision. Other times, it comes as naturally as breathing. This week, we breathe in the Christmas goodness of the latest...
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Makes Next Logical Step: Will Write and Direct First...
After hitting the stage to conduct a live show version of his hitRECord website (dedicated to open collaboration production with his users) at last month’s Sundance Film Festival, it looks like Joseph...
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Todd Phillips Re-Signs With Warner Bros., Has His Pick of Four Future Projects
Director Todd Phillips has made three films for Warner Bros. so far: The Hangover, Due Date, and The Hangover Part II. Say what you will about their varying degrees of quality, but there’s no denying...
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The Next ‘Twilight’? Jack O’Connell and Alice Englert to Lead ‘Beautiful...
Sometime around 2008, when The Twilight Saga was proving to be beyond bankable, bookstores were deluged with a bevy of YA titles that all seemed hellbent on capturing the presumed magic of Stephenie...
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Movie News After Dark: Dredd, Downton Abbey, A Batman Musical, Al Pacino, The...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column about movie news. That is all. We begin this evening with a look at Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby in Dredd, the revival of the Judge Dredd...
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Channel Guide: Who’s the Real Underdog on NBC’s ‘Smash’?
Karen Cartwright imagines herself in a shimmering white dress, center stage, belting out that ultimate dreamer’s song, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” She stretches her hands above her head, ever so...
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Reject Radio #120: Sweded
On the eve of the Berlinale, Swedish director Daniel Espinosa joins us to talk about waterboarding Denzel Washington and the mind games of Safe House. Plus, we look forward to a few films to catch in...
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Trailer for ‘The Bourne Legacy’: Welcome to the Program, Jeremy Renner
“There was never just one.” Well, that’s a nifty way to explain why Matt Damon isn’t in the latest installment of the Jason Bourne franchise, The Bourne Legacy. Damon’s out, and Jeremy Renner is in as...
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Brian De Palma to Remake ‘Heat’ (No, the Burt Reynolds One) With Star Jason...
If you ask me, Brian De Palma has been really underperforming over the last decade or so. I think I remember seeing Femme Fatale and The Black Dahlia from him, and that’s about it. When was the last...
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SXSW Announces Midnights Features and Shorts, Including ‘V/H/S,’ ‘Intruders,’...
Here is the place where I will start screaming about how everyone needs to just shut up and make room on their calendar to check out V/H/S because it’s so fun and scary and cool and such a great...
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Natalie Portman Will Return to Acting for a Terrence Malick Two-fer
Due to her Oscar-winning role in Black Swan and her pregnancy-imposed break from acting, Natalie Portman has been the subject of much talk in the movie world. When will she come back to work? What...
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John Goodman the Latest and Greatest Recruit For ‘Trouble With the Curve’
Have you been following the development of this baseball drama Trouble With the Curve? It started out as just a glimmer, a hope. It was maybe the project that would bring Clint Eastwood out of acting...
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Movie News After Dark: Street Spock, Billy Connolly, Dr. Strangelove, Gary...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly collection of things that serious movie lovers will find interesting, useful, or both. We begin this evening with an image from the website of the LA...
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‘Iron Sky’ Trailer Gives Us Something New to Fear: Moon Nazis
Listen, everybody knows that eventually a world-beating threat is going to come out of its hiding place on the dark side of the moon and try to take over Earth. That’s just obvious. What the upcoming...
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Tom Felton in Negotiations to Join ‘Thérèse Raquin’: Ten Points for Slytherin!
Thérèse Raquin, the period drama that Elizabeth Olsen and Glenn Close are teaming up for, has got some new casting news. In case you don’t remember, Thérèse Raquin is an adaptation of an Émile Zola...
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Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd Will Try to Out-Paul Each Other in ‘Lucky Dog’
Phil Morrison, the director of June Bug, has another project in the works, and it’s worth noting because it’s going to be starring my two favorite Pauls currently working in Hollywood. Lucky Dog is a...
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Slamdance 2012 Review: Identity Theft Is No Rapping Matter in ‘I Want My Name...
You may have heard the song “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang (“I said a hip hop, a hippie, a hippie to the hip hop”), but what you might not know is this song helped hip hop break into the...
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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Farewell, My Queen’ Turns the French Period...
The realm of 18th century France is a dusty one. Period dramas, especially lofty costume dramas, are so numerous that you can barely toss a powdered wig without hitting one. With Farewell, My Queen...
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DreamWorks Set to Remake Hitchcock’s ‘Rebecca’ Because, You Know, Why Not?
Let us take this time to bemoan Hollywood’s love affair with unnecessary remakes. DreamWorks and Working Title Films are reportedly set on remaking Alfred Hitchcock‘s Academy Award-winning Rebecca...
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