Hailed as one of the preeminent stylists of contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, Kathryn Bigelow was often too easily pigeonholed as a female director with a flair for traditionally masculine movies. After making an unusual entrance to cinema by way of the art world, Bigelow put her distinctive stamp on standard genre films like the Western-twinged vampire [...]
Nearly every slasher pick since 1978 owes a debt to John Carpenter, and it’s all because of a little movie called Halloween. Like any horror flick worth its salt these days, it earned itself a proper remake, courtesy of musician-turned-horror director Rob Zombie back in 2007. Much like the original flick, Mr. Zombie’s film has [...]
On Monday morning, The Walt Disney Company announced that they have purchased Marvel Entertainment Group for $4 billion in US stocks and cash. This deal will give Disney full ownership of over 5,000 Marvel characters, including Daredevil, Spider-Man and the X-Men clan. This is Disney’s largest acquisition since it bought Pixar Animation Studios in 2006. [...]
Mystery Team
Directed by Dan Eckman
After Derrick Comedy won America’s heart a few years back with their breakout youtube sensation, Bro Rape: A Newsline Investigative Report, the troupe could have easily faded into obscurity. They didn’t, as fans of funny online videos can attest, and instead they convinced somebody to [...]
The battle for the role of B.A. Baracus in the A-Team Movie has finally been won over by UFC Fighter Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, who beat out big names like Ice Cube and Tyrese Gibosn. Jackson who never acted before will share the screen time along side Bradley Cooper as Lt. Tempelton ‘Faceman’ Peck and Liam [...]
DreamWorks studios recently attained rights for transforming Michael Crichton’s final novel Pirate Latitudes for the big screen, with Steven Spielberg to possibly produce and direct. In the screen-writers chair is David Keopp, long time Spielberg and Crichton collaborator, who all worked on Jurassic Park and The Lost World.
Set in [...]
This is definitely the week for Rob Zombie fans to come together and celebrate their favorite singer/writer/director/producer. With Halloween 2 hitting theaters this Friday, Rob Zombie is yet again signing on to direct another remake. According to Variety Magazine, Zombie will write, produce and direct a remake of the 1958 horror [...]
Ernessa Carter a blogger at www.fierceandnerdy.com and author of the book called Molly Ringwald Ending announced that Miramax optioned the rights to her second novel 32 Candles. Ever since John Hughes past away, any mention of anything related to him or is work has been generating buzz. With all the fan appreciation since his death [...]
Harry Knowles from Aint It Cool News, every film geek’s favourite purveyor of movie gossip, has reported that “The THIRD chapter of Christopher Nolan’s Caped Crusader’s saga could very well be FULLY shot in IMAX, not IMAX Digital – but the beautiful, stunning IMAX that we saw pieces of THE DARK KNIGHT in.” Knowles acknowledges [...]
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With the loud, dumb and often-disappointing summer movie season behind us, I go into fall with some optimism. There’s a good amount of work by reliable writers and filmmakers, which gives the season a lot of potential. And it’s our first bombardment of Oscar Bait, with many of the titles here [...]
Valentino: The Last Emperor
Directed by Matt Tyrnauer
Valentino: The Last Emperor is like any fashion show – lavish, beautiful and entertaining, but with little depth. The documentary, directed by Vanity Fair’s Special Correspondent Matt Tyrnauer, attempts to work as a profile piece on Valentino Garavani, the now 77-year-old designer and head of the so-called “last” haute [...]
Website ComingSoon.net recently spoke to producer Mark Johnson about the third installment to the Chronicles of Narnia franchise, Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader..
The third chapter finds Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their cousin Eustace, swallowed by a painting and mystically placed aboard the Dawn Treader ship. Along with [...]
Fans of The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan start your clocks. Yesterday, the teaser trailer for Nolan’s new film, Inception, made its debut on Yahoo!Movies. From information given, the film is described as a sci-fi/action flick taking place within the architecture of the mind. Pretty trippy!
The film will star Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Michael Caine, [...]
Dr. Coolsex is a sketch comedy group based in New York City. Alex Charak, Dustin Drury, Ken Kosces, and Greg Murtha all met at The Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center while studying sketch and improv comedy. Individually some of their credits include “As The World Turns”, “Human Giant”, “Yo Mama!” and projects on Channel 101:NY.
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2005’s March of the Penguins proved that animal documentaries, even those with a subtle environmental message, could generate good box office. Moving off the ice flow and into the ocean, a couple of recent docs have taken up the plight of two diametrically opposed, yet sometimes confused sea creatures: dolphins and sharks. Tonight, Sound on [...]
