The Fox-affiliated production company New Regency, which produced the initial Daredevil has plans to reboot the franchise. What’s worse is the company has hired screenplay writer David Scarpa best known for the awful 2008 sci-fi remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. The first Daredevil film, which was only released seven years ago performed [...]
Directors David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express), Jody Hill (Observe And Report) and star Danny McBride (Foot Fist Way)who signed a two year first look deal with Mandate Pictures to produce high concept comedies have announced that their next project L.A.P.I. The film will be directed by Jody Hill and is set to star Danny McBride [...]
A no-holds-barred cultural examination of the conflicted dynamic between George Lucas and his fans over the past three decades.
THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS has been selected for the prestigious Spotlight Premiere section at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas, which runs from March 12th to 21st 2010. THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE [...]
King Crab Attack! is a seven minute long French film. Here is 36 seconds worth of trailer, which is dubbed in English.
The film is basically about transgenic giant crabs that attack the beaches of Trouville. The evil Raymond Santos, owner of a nearby processing plant, seeks to increase his company’s profitability by mucking about with [...]
The Secret of Kells surprised just about everyone with it’s Oscar nomination this year. The Irish-Belgian-French animated feature film by Cartoon Saloon (who also created the television series Skunk Fu!) premiered on February 8, 2009, at the Berlin International Film Festival. It went into wide release in Belgium and France on February 11, and in [...]
LOS ANGELES, CA (Feb 1, 2010) – Lakeshore Entertainment’s chairman and CEO Tom Rosenberg announced today that Lakeshore will re-team with writer / actor Kevin Grevioux and director / award-winning special effects designer Patrick Tatopoulos of the UNDERWORLD franchise on I, FRANKENSTEIN. Production is scheduled to begin in July of 2010.
I, FRANKENSTEIN is a contemporary fantasy [...]
With the box office success of Ong Bak 2, Sahamongkol Film was quick to announce their intention to film this sequel. Filming of new footage for the follow-up will begin before the end of the year and will also incorporate unused footage from Ong Bak 2.
Sia Jieang, an Executive of Sahamongkol, stated the film will [...]
The 52 Annual Grammy Awards was held last night and despite the show’s poor taste in nominations and awards in music, it still somehow manages to get the film categories right each year. Of course they still need to get their release dates right since the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire won the Best Compilation Soundtrack [...]
The 2010 Razzie Awards has been released and with no surprise Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Land Of The Lost have topped the year’s hall of shame nominations earning seven nods a piece. Looking back at 2009, our Transformers 2 review was by far the most controversial show reciting negative feedback from Michael Bay [...]
The Sundance Film Festival is always an exciting time for move buffs world wide. Even if you can’t make it down to Utah, the festival showcases some promising films to look out for in the year. The Festival has changed over the decades from a low-profile venue for small-budget, independent creators from outside the Hollywood [...]
Loving the muscular feel of the trailer, and the movie’s directed by Oliver Stone so hopefully he’ll deliver another entertaining, testosterone-pumped film.
But there’s a few problems:
the SHAMELESS theft of the priceless prison scene from the Blues Brothers. You do not attempt to touch greatness, you leave it alone and worship it from afar. For shame!
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When it comes to film festivals nothing beats the midnight screenings. The 2010 Sundance Film Festival is just over a month away and now fans of genre cinema have seven more reasons to get excited. The non-competition Park City at Midnight program has premiere some indie hits in the pasts including Black Dynamite and [...]
The most important and highly regarded festival for independent film in the United States released part of its competition lineup this past Thursday. Among the line up is many Canadian features including Montreal-based filmmaker Lixin Fan’s documentary, Last Train Home which follows the lives of migrant Chinese workers and Grown Up Movie Star, the debut [...]
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Directed by Lee Daniels
In Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Lee Daniels unleashes an urban drama nightmare steeped in verite realism, a powerfully emotive story filled with hope and optimism. The film, adapted by Geoffrey Fletcher from a work by poet and author Sapphire, has been [...]
Twisted Pictures, the production company behind the never-ending Saw series, is in talks with LIONSGATE to buy the movie rights to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with plans to relaunch the series in 3D.
Stephen Susco, a horror specialist who is most famous for penning the remake of The Grudge will write the script and Carl Mazzocone, [...]
