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Sundance preview!
5 December 2008 4:25 AM, PST
The Sundance Film Festival kicks off in just over a month and for the lucky bunch of you that are heading to Park City we've compiled a list of some of the early must-sees screening at the fest. While there isn't much at first glance to dispel the notion that Sundance has gone too mainstream, there's certainly enough to keep film fans of all shapes and sizes interested. Keep in mind this is just a preliminary list of films you might want to check out and in no way indicates these are the...
Mike Sampson
No Karate Kid crane?
5 December 2008 1:07 AM, PST
Jaden Smith, co-star of the upcoming sci-fi thriller The Day The Earth Stood Still and son of actor Will Smith, recently signed on to star in a remake of the 1980s classic Karate Kid. Obviously I feel that perfection was achieved in the original and a remake is completely unnecessary. My protest of the remake becomes more vehement when I hear that young Jaden wants to do away with the famous crane kick. Yeah, that crane kick. Young Jaden, who by all accounts seems like a nice enough kid,...
Mike Sampson
Faris sets up next
5 December 2008 12:46 AM, PST
Let's face it - despite my love of Anna Faris, The House Bunny was a stinker. While the movie itself had me groaning, I couldn't help but continue to be impressed at Faris' comedic chops? I mean, did you see her on "Saturday Night Live?" She could've been a cast member if she didn't get sucked up into the Scary Movie franchise. Now Faris has set up two new projects - one an untitled comedy at Paramount, the other a romantic comedy titled 20 Times A Lady at Sony. The first was...
Mike Sampson
Review: Punisher: War Zone
4 December 2008 11:37 PM, PST
Plot: When a local Mob boss is set free due to a technicality, The Punisher takes out the trash, Punisher style. This soon brings out the wrath of a new villain named Jigsaw. not the one who makes torture devices. With the cops looking for every move the man of vengeance makes and a new group of evildoers to fight, he finds himself protecting a mother and her daughter from this new group of baddies. Meanwhile, every clichéd stereotype is explored. and the Punisher finds himself in a...
JimmyO
Review: Frost/Nixon
4 December 2008 11:37 PM, PST
Plot: In the summer of 1977, an interview took place between correspondent David Frost and Richard Nixon. Frost simply felt that the ex-President should take responsibility for the mess that is known as Watergate. In Frost/Nixon, we are introduced to those precious moments right before the legendary interview and finally to its consequences. Review: It is hard to imagine that a stage play turned into a film would not necessarily feel like a...
JimmyO
Int: Michel Gondry
4 December 2008 11:36 PM, PST
I.ve always found Michel Gondry to be a bright star in the world of film. Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind is easily one of my favorites and he always seems to bring out a certain flair with his actors. Recently, he brought us Be Kind Rewind which I enjoyed because of the idea of making a movie a communal experience. I actually liked the film more the second time around. As for his other work, I.m a huge fan of the videos he has done with Bjork. Gondry.s world is strange and...
JimmyO
Tdk Re-release
4 December 2008 9:17 PM, PST
So the rumours that The Dark Knight will not be re-released are indeed false. Warner Bros. has officially announced that they will in fact re-release The Dark Knight on Jan. 23 in a nationwide launch, guaranteeing that it will become the fourth film to take in more than $1 billion in worldwide box office. Many people are sick and tired of The Dark Knight hoopla that has overtaken our cultural landscape, but to be honest--there aint nothing those people can do. This film is a phenomenon,...
Daniel Barna
Adams' Best Days
4 December 2008 9:03 PM, PST
Get used to hearing the words "Amy Adams" and "starring vehicle" together. This girl is white hot. This girl is the real deal. This girl is my girlfriend so back off. Twentieth Century Fox has just acquired the rights to Adena Halpern's novel 'The Ten Best Days of My Life", which they plan on developing into a starring vehicle for Amy Adams (see, I told you!). Adams will play a woman who dies and goes to heaven but is in danger of being demoted to a lower level...
Daniel Barna
Wiseman in Atlantis
4 December 2008 3:23 PM, PST
Director Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free Or Die Hard) seems to be taking steps to ensure he'll be busy for a while -- he's spent the past year or so getting involved with high-profile, high-concept, high-budget projects. Plop another on the stack -- Wiseman is attached to direct Dreamworks' Atlantis Rising, an action-loaded sci-fi political techno-thriller based on a Platinum comic series. The story involves the denizens of the legendary submerged city reappearing after centuries to...
Dave Davis
Terminator clippage
4 December 2008 2:31 PM, PST
Will we have to wait until the Oscars or the Super Bowl before we get a real solid official trailer for next summer's Terminator Salvation? Could be... so in the meantime we'll have to chew on little morsels like this preview of a preview from Et. It's an all-too-brief glimpse, but it does feature some iconic imagery (endoskeleton eyes!), Christian Bale as John Connor (with some leftover Tdk cowl-growl), and one gigantic stonking McTerminator shooting McMissiles. Check out the clip below and wonder what else director McG has up his tailored sleeve.
Dave Davis
Tr2n renamed?
4 December 2008 2:20 PM, PST
When Disney unveiled teaser footage at this year's Comic Con of the Tron sequel that they're developing, the general awesomeness of it kind of masked the fact that they decided to go all Web 2.0 on it by naming it TR2N. Which really isn't so bad. It's the twenty-first century, it's hip and the kids will like it. However, the folks over at "Cinema Blend" were browsing through "Production Weekly" and noticed a report on Disney's plan to rename the sequel Trz? Say what, you...
Omar Aviles
Friday 13th trailer!
4 December 2008 1:48 PM, PST
After hacking through hundreds of humans, traveling to hell, venturing into space and going head-to-crispy-head with another horror icon, Jason Voorhees is hurtling all the way back to the beginning. Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes is restarting the Friday The 13th franchise with a new yet familiar flick about Crystal Lake's notorious resident. Marcus Nispel (Texas Chainsaw Massacre remaker) directs the carnage. Check out the full trailer below or in HD at Yahoo.
Dave Davis
Romancing remake
4 December 2008 1:21 PM, PST
Buckle up, kids, another remake is coming your way. For whatever reason, Fox has decided to remake the 1984 Robert Zemeckis directed Romancing The Stone in which Michael Douglas starred as a soldier of fortune who helps romance novelist Kathleen Turner find her lost sister in Columbia. The movie made a star out of both leads as well as Danny DeVito and it's pretty damn fun in its own right so who knows why the hell Fox thinks it's ripe for remaking. They're looking to Eagle Eye scribe Daniel...
Omar Aviles
Tarzan the pirate?
4 December 2008 12:44 PM, PST
When Tarzan once again makes it to the big screen by way of fauxteur Stephen Sommers and veteran scribe Stuart Beattie, he won't be an ape-raised savage with a heart of gold. He'll be a 1930s era Pirates Of The Caribbean style jungle heartthrob with a penchant for parkour. At least that's what the folks over at "Hollywood Insider" are saying and they're usually pretty spot on about these things. Needless to say, this has Jerry Bruckheimer type action epic written all over it,...
Omar Aviles
Excl: Hancock 2 coming?
4 December 2008 10:29 AM, PST
Despite mediocre reviews, Hancock did pretty well at the box office, but I still never thought we'd really see any further adventures from Will Smith's superhero in the future. Apparently, I was wrong. We just got done talking to Will Smith, who's promoting Seven Pounds, and he told us that we'll "definitely" be seeing a sequel. When we asked Will if he'd ever be up for playing another superhero he replied that there were a lot of unexplored characters in...
Mike Sampson
New Friday poster!
4 December 2008 6:49 AM, PST
I loved the first teaser poster for the remake of Friday The 13th. Simple, yet effective. Today we get the final poster for the film and sadly it's exactly what you'd expect. Jason? Check. Machete? Check. Woods? Check. Fog? Check. Lake? Check. I realize that this film is pretty much being sold on the iconography of Jason Voorhees but wasn't there something slightly more interesting to be done here? Am I being overcritical? What do you all think?...
Mike Sampson
Depp and Burton VIII
4 December 2008 3:58 AM, PST
Collider spoke with producer Richard Zanuck and is now reporting that following Alice In Wonderland Tim Burton and Johnny Depp will team up to make a big screen adaptation of Dark Shadows, a show from the 1960s or some such shit. I don't know, I wasn't alive back then, so whatever. This will be Burton's next film. The movie will be about what happens when a governess arrives at the Collins' family mansion to find that there are vampires afoot. The gothic soap opera also featured werewolves,...
James Thoo
Swank's Residency
4 December 2008 3:41 AM, PST
Nothing intrigues me more than a solid stalker story. That's why I'll be first in line when The Resident is released, a story about a doctor who moves into a Brooklyn loft and discovers her landlord is well, a stalker. The film stars an actress who makes such a sweet stalker victim too--Hilary Swank. Don't ask why, but e-mail me if you disagree. That's what I thought. The film will be directed by Antti J. Jokinen, A Finnish dude who cut his chops directing music videos for some of...
Daniel Barna
Watchmen runtime
4 December 2008 3:35 AM, PST
As Watchmen slowly arrives, we're getting some more information on the film's runtime through director Zack Snyder and his wife, producer Deborah Snyder, who says "We're getting really close... We're at two hours and thirty five minutes." However, there will also be a director's cut version of the film that features the movie within a movie, Tales Of The Black Freighter. "The Black Freighter version of the movie that we're working on--which has the ins and outs of the Black...
James Thoo
Affleck joins Fincher?
4 December 2008 2:17 AM, PST
Here's something I just don't get: Paramount has a David Fincher crime thriller ready to go and are dangerously close to letting the option expire next month. Fincher has set up Ness, a script based on the Brian Michael Bendis graphic novel "Torso," with Matt Damon to star but can't get the studio to commit. He's also gotten Casey Affleck and Rachel McAdams to star in the film but that's still not enough. And why is Paramount hesistating? Jeff Wells adds that a source close to...
Mike Sampson
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