Movie News After Dark: Save the Daleks, Expend the Females and Get Ready for...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column about movies that may or may not be skimming the good stuff off the top of tonight’s news sundae because it needs to go get caught up on Breaking...
View Article‘Stolen’ Trailer Puts Nic Cage in a Fairly Normal Hairdo But Provides Plenty...
A general rule of thumb to follow when dealing with modern Nic Cage movies is that the more ridiculous his hair looks in the trailer, the more awesomely bad the movie is going to end up being. Given...
View Article‘The Dark Tower’ is For Sale Again After Warners Passes
Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman must not have put out enough finger sandwiches because Variety is reporting that Warners has passed on their ambitious Dark Tower project which has already morphed quite a...
View ArticleThis Week In Discs: A Separation, Bernie, Moss, The Dictator and Season One...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Shuffle Every time Lovell falls asleep he awakens at a different point of his life. His...
View ArticleFrom Book to Board Game to Box Office: An Interview With ‘The Game’ Writer...
You know what Dune, Starship Troopers, and Harry Potter have in common? They were all books that became games before they were movies. It happens more often than we realize, and it happens almost...
View ArticleReview: ‘Hit & Run’ Is Slight, But Fast and Fun
Charlie Bronson (Dax Shepard) has something of a troubled past. For starters, his real name isn’t even Charlie Bronson, that’s the one he chose after he was put into witness protection for ratting out...
View ArticleHow Visual Albums Are Changing the Way We Think of Movies and Music Videos
The music video is in terminal condition, if not certainly dead. MTV hasn’t been associated with music for a long time, and nobody invests real money in the format that formerly revolutionized the...
View ArticleMay the Beer Be Ever In Your Favor With ‘The Hunger (Drinking) Games’
Along with Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, and Batman, a lesser-known heroine named Katniss Everdeen became one of the biggest box office draws of 2012. Now the immensely popular...
View ArticleWatch: ‘I’m 5 AKA The Horse, The Doll and the Goat Whisperer’ is a Child’s...
Why Watch? The idea behind I’m 5 is the kind of thing you might find in the manual for a Sociology/Theater class. It could go something like this: “Find a small child and ask them to tell you a story....
View Article‘The Impossible’ Trailer Nearly Drowns Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts in...
One of the most reliable ways we’ve devised of making sure a movie will be affecting, engaging, and able to jerk tears out of its audience members is to base its story off of a real life tragedy. And,...
View ArticleOriginal Voice Cast Back for Seconds in ‘Cloudy 2,’ Plus New Stars and a...
Get your eyes (plates?) ready to feast on a delicious new Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs sequel that’s apparently so tasty that almost all of its lead voice cast has returned for seconds. End food...
View ArticleOf Course James Franco Gets to Direct His ‘As I Lay Dying’
Considering the dazzling assortment of projects that multi-hyphenate/total lunatic James Franco gets involved with, tossing around the term “passion project” as it applies to any of them might be a...
View ArticleTerrence Malick Now Using Spaghetti Method of Casting: ‘Knight of Cups’ Will...
A few weeks ago, a filming notice plastered to the side of my apartment building revealed that Terrence Malick‘s Knight of Cups was filming within feet of my front door. Apparently, I should have...
View Article‘Dumb and Dumber’ Sequel to Center on Hilarity of Abandoned Children and...
It’s, in a word, perfect. Talk about Bobby and Peter Farrelly‘s sequel to their comedy classic Dumb and Dumber had just about reached Ghostbusters 3 proportions (a special new realm occupied by...
View ArticleChuck In HD! ‘Lone Wolf McQuade’ Sees Chuck Norris Shed His Sheep’s Clothing...
Scientists have worked tirelessly since the invention of Blu-ray looking for a way to capture the essence of Chuck Norris onto a high-definition disc. No matter how hard they tried though his fists,...
View Article‘Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall’ Continues To Round Out Its Cast
Earlier this summer, we learned that a Kick-Ass sequel called Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall was likely to go into development and was likely to be written and directed by a guy named Jeff Wadlow....
View ArticlePraise Thor, the Thunder God! Kat Dennings Back for ‘Thor 2′
Everyone, you can rest easy, Kat Dennings will be returning to the Thor sequel, Thor: The Dark World, to add her signature stinging charm and wit to the feature. Could you even imagine a film without...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: Remaking The Rocketeer, Remembering Tony Scott and...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s the nightly movie news that is always on time, even if it’s running late. Just think about it… Disney may reboot The Rocketeer. Luckily, the original movie is said...
View Article‘The Gambler’ Loses Scorsese But Wins Todd Phillips
After dominating the world with the comedic stylings of three hungover delinquents, Todd Phillips is making the wise decision to transition into serious drama. It makes sense. There’s a whisper thin...
View ArticleDaniel Stamm’s ‘Game of Death’ Remake Gets a New Name and a Fresh Indie Face
According to Variety, Mark Webber (Scott Pilgrim vs The World, The End of Love) is in talks to star in Daniel Stamm‘s (The Last Exorcism) remake of 13: Game of Death. With the prospect of getting a...
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