According to The Playlist, various sources from the European media are reporting that Lars Von Trier told Danish television that Penelope Cruz will take the lead in his psychological disaster film, Melancholia. Shooting will reportedly take place in Sweden and Germany on a $5 million dollar budget with the ultimate goal to premiere the [...]
Warner Bros. has turned to Christopher Nolan to help develop a new Superman movie. According to Deadline Hollywood, Nolan who rebooted the very successful Batman franchise has been asked to play a “godfather” role and ensure The Man Of Steel gets off the ground after a 3 1/2-year hiatus. Warner Bros. has a lot of [...]
/film is always a great place to find interesting and cool new videos featured on YouTube. Here is three clips of Quentin Tarantino telling stories from the Directors on Directing panel in Santa Barbara this weekend. The clips were originally posted by Jeff Wells.
Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption) has been cast in Green Lantern, the Martin Campbell-directed comic book adaptation of the ongoing popular DC Comics series. According to Heat Vision, Robbins will play Senator Hammond, a former astronaut who becomes infused with psychic powers and telekinetic abilities. The character who does not appear in the comic book [...]
The 37th Annual Annie Awards which recognizes the year’s best animated features, television productions, commercials, short subjects and outstanding individual achievements in the field of animation saw Pixar’s Up win Best Animated Film and Best Directing in a Feature. The Oscar contender beat out some heavy competition including Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Secret [...]
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 [...]
Daryl Hannah spoke to UK TV channel Film 24 about her role in Raoul Ruiz’ A Closed Book. During the interview they brought up her role in Tarantino’s Kill Bill series where she played Elle Driver. She told the channel:
“He always meant it as a trilogy…Think about it. There’s always been a tradition of blind [...]
Great news for customers of Netflix who announced this week that they will add hundreds of award-winning and critically acclaimed Indie Films that can Be seen instantly through a string of new streaming deals. The selection of films includes works from The Criterion Collection, Gravitas Ventures, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Regent [...]
Although the worldwide advertising market has been severely affected by recession, online advertising has appeared to be resilient during these rough times, as it has stabilized, and sometimes developed, in many countries.
The nine-day film SXSW film fest opens March 12 with the world premiere of Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, starring Aaron Johnson, Cholë Grace Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who will all attend a Conversation panel at the SXSW Film Conference, along with the comic’s writers, Mark Millar and John S. Romita. 119 features will be screened, including [...]
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 [...]
Johnny Depp has reportedly divulged that he’s set to direct a documentary based on Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones guitarist and the inspiration for his Jack Sparrow character in Pirates of The Caribbean. It was on the set of the third instalment that they met, in which Richards played Capt. Jack Sparrow’s father.
As The Playlist [...]
The Oscar telecast will air on ABC on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at 8 pm EST.
Best Picture
Avatar
dir. James Cameron
Stars:
Sam Worthington
Sigourney Weaver
Michelle Rodriguez
The Hurt Locker
2009
dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Starring
Jeremy Renner
Anthony Mackie
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
dir. Lee Daniels
Stars:
Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe
Mo’Nique
The Blind Side
dir. John Lee Hancock
Stars:
Quinton Aaron
Sandra Bullock
Tim McGraw
District 9
dir. Neill Blomkamp
Starring
Sharlto Copley
David James
INGLORIOUS [...]
Avatar has taken another box office weekend for the 7th straight week in a row with $31.3M while grossing $596M. Mel Gibson’s thiller, Edge of Darkness came in second at 17.2 M followed by the romantic comedy When in Rome 12.4M. The Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson’s Tooth Fairy brought home $10M while theater goers seemed [...]
