Release Date Round-Up: ‘The Dictator,’ ‘Ender’s Game,’ and ‘Maleficent’ Get...
If it’s a Monday, Hollywood is cleaning out the refuse left over from the weekend – like a big old mess of release date announcements and changes! While scheduling shuffles and calendar mix-abouts...
View ArticleBen Kingsley May Be Shane Black’s ‘Iron Man 3′ Villain
Ben Kingsley is in negotiations to play a villain role in Iron Man 3, according to sources familiar with the subject — as passed through the folks at THR. There isn’t much word yet on which villain he...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Rush, The Dark Knight’s Rating Rises and A Movie...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly collection of links and thinks from around the world of movie and television news and reviews. It spends its weekends racking its brain trying to cull...
View ArticleThis Week In DVD: Aliens In Russia, Naked Australian Girls, Norwegian...
Welcome back to This Week In DVD! This is actually the third anniversary of my stewardship of the column, and I want to thank all of you for stopping by each and every Tuesday to check out the week’s...
View ArticleTeen Heartthrob Woody Harrelson Negotiating to be the Bad Guy in ‘Out of the...
Scott Cooper’s followup to 2009’s Crazy Heart has been making a lot of headlines lately due to all of its impressive casting announcements. Out of the Furnace is a movie about an ex-con trying to get...
View ArticleBox Office: ‘Hunger Games’ Beats ‘Titanic 3D’ and ‘American Reunion’ and...
The 1990s are so 13 years ago. At least, that was the attitude this weekend when two films with roots in the last decade of the 20th Century came, saw, and had their proverbial butts kicked by...
View ArticleTom Hanks and Emma Thompson in Talks to Play Walt Disney and P.L. Travers in...
Saving Mr. Banks is a Kelly Marcel-penned Black List script that details the 14 years it took Walt Disney to convince author P.L. Travers to give him the movie rights to her Mary Poppins character....
View ArticleF. Gary Gray Straight Outta ‘Captain America 2’ Contention After Signing On...
While it was generally always assumed that Marvel would be doing a sequel of their Captain America film after their super hero team-up project The Avengers got out of the way, it was only recently...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ Renewed for Season Three, Nerds Rejoice
Raise your hand if you didn’t think Game of Thrones would get picked up by HBO for a third season? If your hand is up, that will be convenient, as your next step is to use it to smack yourself in the...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: The Real Springfield, Katniss Barbie and How Game of...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie-related link dump written by a guy who is having all kinds of trouble typing at the moment. Look out, all you armchair copyeditors. This one might...
View ArticleGary Ross is Officially Not Directing ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel ‘Catching Fire’
First, there was some question as to whether he’d be back. Then there was word that he was still taking meetings. Now, it’s double super official: Gary Ross won’t be directing Hunger Games follow-up...
View ArticleInterview: Drew Goddard and Kristen Connolly Talk Scream Queens, the...
What can be said about a movie that you’re not supposed to talk about? A lot, apparently. Recently, Kristen Connolly, star of the new genre-bending horror film Cabin in the Woods sat down with us to...
View ArticleA World-Ending Giveaway! Win a DVD/Blu-ray Combo of Xavier Gens’s ‘The Divide’
Xavier Gens proved he loved intensity with Frontier(s) and he set out to show it wasn’t a fluke with the bomb shelter mayhem of The Divide. The movie focuses on a group of blast survivors who are...
View ArticleThe 20 Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2012
Nothing says “summer at the movies” quite like a metric ton of big name blockbusters flooding theaters near you – superheroes on top of superheroes, classic television series brought back from the...
View ArticleAaron Sorkin Plagiarizes Aaron Sorkin in the Leaked ‘Newsroom’ Pilot Script
In 1985, John Fogerty was sued for plagiarizing himself. It was a bizarre courtroom situation that arose because Fogerty had forfeited the rights to his old Creedance Clearwater Revival hits to a...
View Article6 Filmmaking Tips From Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock was born in the 19th century but gave birth in the 20th century to the age of modern filmmaking. Famous for his wit, inventive appreciation of the macabre, and a firm belief that...
View ArticleSFOTD: A 9-Year-Old Builds a Cardboard Business That Will Restore Your Faith...
Why Watch? This one is already making the rounds, and rightfully so because it’s a truly remarkable short movie. Caine is a bright young kid in East L.A. who went to work with his father at an auto...
View ArticleInterview: Peter Farrelly Talks Finding ‘The Three Stooges’ in Modern America...
The Three Stooges has been a passion project for the Farrelly brothers for almost a decade. From swapping studios to switching up actors, the project has gone through plenty of ups and downs, and it...
View ArticleJon Amiel’s WWI Black Comedy, ‘The Poisoners,’ Casts Emily Watson, Anna...
There’s nothing quite like applying humor to a horrific slice of history to give new blood to some well-tread territory – thus a “pitch black comedy” set during WWI that centers on romantic affairs...
View ArticleReview: Guy Pearce Comes (So) Close to Rescuing Messy, Schlocky ‘Lockout’
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – in a future America, an important member of the First Family gets trapped in an inventive super-max prison the likes of which we’ve never seen, and the only...
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