‘The Last Of Us’ Movie Coming From Screen Gems And Sam Raimi By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2014 11:34 am EST One of the biggest video games of 2013, The Last of Us, is officially getting a movie. Screen Gems has just signed to distribute a live action version of the Naughty Dog game and creative director of the game, Neil Druckmann, is writing. Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures will produce....
‘The Strangers: Prey At Night’ Review: An Effective Sequel That Conveys The Triviality Of Terror By Candice Frederick/March 9, 2018 8:00 am EST The merit of most sequels is hard to evaluate without bringing up their predecessors — especially when it’s The Strangers. The 2008 horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino that had all the makings of a rudimentary home invasion thriller ended up being a statement on the weaponization of idle behavior among seemingly innocuous young adults....
12 Projects Chosen For January 2010 Sundance Screenwriters Labs By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2009 3:00 pm EST Sundance has announced the 12 projects they have chosen for the 2010 January Screenwriters lab. Why should you care? Well because the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program has hand picked some of the most original filmmakers of the last 28 years. Here are some of the films that have come out of the program: Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Hard Eight, Kimberly Peirce’s Boy’s Don’t Cry, Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Peter Sollett’s Raising Victor Vargas, Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know, Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson, and most recently Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre and Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer....
Adam Sandler Is A Good Actor…But Does He Know That? By Josh Spiegel/Oct. 18, 2017 9:00 am EST Last week, amidst its various ’80s-TV revivals, animated shows, and comedy specials, Netflix released yet another new original film. Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) depicts the slow-burn, middle-aged fracturing of a family whose patriarch (Dustin Hoffman) is both suffering from illness and still able to emotionally damage his three adult children....
British Superhero Show ‘Misfits’ Is Getting An American Remake On Freeform, Which Is Probably A Bad Idea By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 7, 2017 3:00 pm EST The original Misfits wasn’t a spectacular show, but it was definitely a show the hooked and held onto your attention. Crude, violent, and bizarre, it felt like lightning in a bottle: a combination of a stellar cast, including a pre-Game of Thrones Iwan Rheon and a pre-Loving Ruth Negga, outlandish plots about teens who use their abnormal superpowers to get into dumb hijinks and have lots and lots of sex....
Comic-Con: Cast And Crew Talk Battle: Los Angeles By Peter Sciretta/July 29, 2010 8:00 am EST I had predicted that Jonathan Liebesman’s Battle: Los Angeles might be the surprise hit of this year’s Comic-Con. I was wrong. I’ve talked with a bunch of people who have screened early cuts of the film, and the buzz I’ve been hearing from these people is overwhelmingly possitive. For those of you who haven’t been following the film’s production, the movie has been described as a Black Hawk Down-style military story set in an alien invasion....
Cool Stuff: Hot Toys The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Sixth Scale Figure By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2014 5:00 am EST Sideshow Collectibles sent me a sample of Hot Toys’ The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Sixth Scale Figure. Lets unbox this figure and take a look at whats inside the box. After the jump you will find photos of the Hot Toys The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Sixth Scale Figure, alongside my thoughts on the product....
Daily Podcast: Attendance Numbers Vs. Box Office Grosses, Captain Marvel, GeoStorm, Shaun Of The Dead & More By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 25, 2017 4:30 pm EST On the October 25, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Ben Pearson and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest news, including Captain Marvel gets a Star Wars villain, Geostorm’s box office failure, Venom motion capture, a Shaun of the Dead sequel, an American Gangster prequel tv series and Mark Wahlberg asks God for forgiveness....
Disney Buys More Land Across The Street From Disneyland By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2015 12:00 pm EST In June, we told you that The Walt Disney Company was considering a $1 billion-plus expansion of the Disneyland Resort, which would bring unknown new attractions, a new parking structure with at least 5,000 parking spots and other improvements to the Southern California-based theme parks. The Disney Company asked the city of Anaheim for an extension on their deal to forgo a tax on theme park admission tickets for another 30 years, which was approved last month by a 3 to 2 vote by the Anaheim City Council....
Douglas Trumbull Plans To ‘Reinvent’ Cinema Beyond The Work Of Peter Jackson And James Cameron By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2012 12:30 pm EST Douglas Trumbull, the man who helped redefine visual effects in cinema working on films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Blade Runner, has very lofty goals. Despite being on the outside of Hollywood looking in, for the most part, since the mid-eighties, the director is still trying to push the limits of cinema in innovative and interesting ways....
Exclusive: Tim Burton Developing Monsterpocalypse, Full Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2010 9:01 am EST Last month, it was reported that John August was in talks with Dreamworks to pen a big screen adaptation of the Monsterpocalypse board game which has been described as “part strategy, part Kaiju Big Battel, and part Rampage!, all played out with miniatures on a tabletop.” At the time, it was speculated that the involvement of Burton’s regular collaborator might mean that Tim Burton was developing the project to direct....
Force Awakens Bits: Early Concept Art, Cool New Posters, An In-Depth Journey Behind The Scenes By Jacob Hall/Dec. 21, 2015 11:00 am EST What? You think that we’re done with Star Wars news just because Star Wars: The Force Awakens has opened and just about everyone has seen it several times by now? Bah! We’re justing getting started! Today: An in-depth look at the making of The Force Awakens. A terrific new poster from Matt Taylor....
George Lucas Speaks Out Against Altering Films In 1988 By Germain Lussier/Aug. 31, 2011 5:30 pm EST In the 1980s, a controversy swirled in Hollywood when there was a notion to colorize black and white films. The issue made it all the way in front of Congress due in large part to the passionate backing of several important filmmakers. Eventually, their efforts helped to establish the National Film Registry which, to this day, takes historically significant films and preserves them in their natural state forever....
Judd Apatow Explains Omitting ‘Knocked Up’ References He Shot For ‘This Is 40’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 9, 2012 9:15 am EST When Judd Apatow announced that his fourth feature film, eventually called This Is 40, would star Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann in the same roles they played in Knocked Up, it created more questions than it answered. If this film is set in that universe, would Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl return?...
Louis C.K. Announces The End Of ‘Horace And Pete’, Which Gave Him Millions Of Dollars In Debt By Ethan Anderton/April 17, 2016 11:00 am EST After surprising fans with a new web series called Horace and Pete earlier this year, comedian Louis C.K. has delivered 10 episodes of the series that isn’t really a straight-up comedy series. The project plays out more like a stage production with an interesting blend of comedy and drama, driven by some very compelling characters written by Louis C....
Movie Review: Inception - Eye Candy, Or Mind Candy? By Adam Quigley/July 16, 2010 1:00 pm EST Spoiling Inception is near impossible without writing out a manual to explain what those spoilers mean, but regardless, this review includes vague references to plot points that could be deemed spoilers by those who probably shouldn’t be reading reviews anyway if they really wanted to avoid finding out anything about the movie. You’ve been warned....
Sequel Bits: ‘Iron Man 3’ Set Photos Offer Still More Plot Hints, Plus: ‘Prometheus’, ‘Scary Movie 5’, ‘Star Trek 2’ By Angie Han/June 7, 2012 2:30 pm EST As production gets underway, news is coming in fast and heavy from the Iron Man 3 set. After the jump: Iron Man 3 to shoot in Miami; see set pics with Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle now Photos from the North Carolina set confirm A....
Sundance Premieres Include ‘The Raid 2,’ Roger Ebert Doc, And Nick Offerman By Russ Fischer/Dec. 9, 2013 1:12 pm EST Approaching the Sundance competition lineup each year can be like pulling close to a great frontier: there are many new discoveries to be made, along with surprises and disappointments in equal measure. The Premiere and out of competition Documentary Premiere slates are just as promising, but in a different way — these tend to be films we’ve heard something about, and which have bigger backing, or a parade of recognizable talent....
Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man 2, Batman, Iron Man 3, Green Lantern, Marvel Heroes, Guardians Of The Galaxy By Germain Lussier/Feb. 22, 2013 2:00 pm EST Where will The Amazing Spider-Man 2 be shooting next week? Want to see a massive Iron Man 3 spoiler? What’s the latest on Guardians of the Galaxy casting? Does Mark Strong think Green Lantern 2 will happen? Is there a happy medium between Looney Tunes and the Batman universe?...
The 13 Biggest WTF Moments In ‘Jupiter Ascending’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 12, 2015 12:30 pm EST Jupiter Ascending, from Andy and Lana Wachowski, has moments of incredible technical brilliance, flashes of good character comedy, and some wild leaps of imagination. It also features more than a few things that left us wondering what the hell was going on with the Wachowskis. Some of these elements (not many, but some) were things we liked....
