It looks like Angelina Jolie is set to follow in her ex-husband’s footsteps (Billy Bob Thornton) by taking a stab at directing. Jolie, who has worked with such directorial legends as Clint Eastwood and Oliver Stone, is set to direct a Bosnian love story during the Bosnian War of 1990. According to THR, the film …
Despite the fact that Piranha 3D didn’t make huge box office numbers on opening weekend (only $10 million), Dimension Films has issued a press release announcing that they are already developing a follow-up with both director Alexandre Aja and producer Mark Canton returning. Considering Piranha 3d only has an estimated $24 million budget, the film …
The first review of David Fincher’s The Social Network is up and it is a douzy. Scott Foundas, former Village Voice film critic, now a film programmer, has seen the film and loves what he has seen. The review/essay will be published in the next issue of Film Comment, in which The Social Network, will …
“Rubber is this century’s Attack of the Killer Tomatoes…” Rubber Directed by Quentin Dupieux Director/writer Quentin Dupieux’s horror-comedy Rubber opens with the narrator asking the questions that have long baffled humanity: “Why is ET brown? In the movie JFK, why does that president get assassinated? And why do some people like sausages and other people …
Director Guillermo del Toro says he might return to the Hellboy film franchises sooner than expected now that he’s dropped out from directing the long-awaited adaptation of The Hobbit. When asked by MTV News about his Hellboy return, del Toro seemed to indicate that its fate rested in the hands of Ron Perlman and whether …
This weekend marked the ceremony for the 2010 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Award which awards all the minor and technical awards for the The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The Major Awards will be announced next week at the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. HBO and ABC walked away with 17 and 15 awards …
Body Count: Volume 2 I was recently asked to write a horror script that would be produced by a local group that’s trying the Sam Raimi/Robert Rodriguez means of raising money for real features by making schlocky b-pictures as a revenue source. They’re hell bent on producing a zombie picture because everyone seems to have …
Yesterday director/producer Bryan Singer (House, Trick ‘r Treat) spoke to Harry Knowles from Ain’t it Cool News and dropped some huge details about X-men: First Class. I’ve unfortunately been skeptical for a while about this movie, despite all the positive things we’ve been hearing lately about it. After the train-wreck (In my opinion) that was …
“Horror fans finally have a remake worthy of the original…” I Spit on Your Grave Dir. Steven R. Monroe (2010, USA, 107 mins.) Though the horror remake is fairly ubiquitous at today’s cinema, and though most horror remakes have been terrible, fans of Meir Zarchi’s 1978 controversial film can breath a sigh of relief. Director …
Anyone expecting a conventional horror or comedy film will be disappointed. Rubber Dir. Quentin Dupieux (2010, France, 85 mins.) Quentin Dupieux has brought us one of the year’s most interesting, intelligent, and worthwhile films. To say that Rubber is about a sentient, psychokinetic, murderous tire would be accurate, but would also miss the point. This …
Fehérlófia Directed by Marcell Jankovics Despite having an Oscar nomination and a short film Palm D’Or to his name, it is rare to hear the name Marcell Jankovics outside of hardcore animation circles (although I understand he is well loved in his home country of Hungary). None of his work is as criminally underrated as …
“Brash, numbing, shocking and laugh-out-loud hilarious…” Piranha 3d Directed by Alexander Aja There is nothing particularly funny or poetic about the carnage in Piranha 3D. Even “disturbing” seems a bit too strong a word to describe the excessive, but still somehow palatably cartoonish bloodshed on display – can a film about pre-historic. bloodthirsty piranha really …
Love is Colder Than Death (1969) Rainer Werner Fassbinder The style of this film is unlike any that came before or after. R.W. Fassbinder openly embraced his love of Noir and French New Wave to make a shadowy burst of a film that takes a bumpy boat ride full of moments of manic ferocity and …
The Switch Directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck Adaptation is a difficult art. Stay too faithful and you’ll wind up importing elements not appropriate to the new form, but stray too far and you’ll annoy proponents of the original. While the latter approach has probably resulted in a greater volume of good films, the …
Cult Cinema: Volume 7 Good comedy is a mix of the familiar, the unexpected, and the shocking. Which is an elaborate way of saying that ending a knock-knock joke with a line about killing a baby is a sure way to get a laugh. Try it some time. At work. So, it’s no surprise that …
That’s right ladies in gentleman! In the wake of other hype-spectacular biopics such as The Social Network, you can now look forward to Google the Movie in your theatre…eventually. John Morris and Groundswell Productions have teamed up and acquired the movie right to Ken Auletta’s biography about the Websearch giant, called Googled: The End of …
Paramount Pictures has announced who the screenwriters will be for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. According to HeatVision, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man, Punisher: War Zone) have signed on to pen the new feature which is in development with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes. Paramount and Nickelodeon picked up the rights to …
Bye Bye Billy (Miranda Webber) Gallery 1988 has quickly become one of the world’s most talked about art galleries. Opened in 2004 on the famous corner of Melrose and La Brea, by California natives Katie Cromwell and Jensen Karp, the gallery has become the nation’s number one destination for pop-culture themed artwork and the premiere …
Deadline recently reported that Tim Burton would reunite with Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski on a 3D stop-motion animated adaptation of Charles Addams‘ The Addams Family. “The project is based on artwork that Tim absolutely loves. The retrospective in New York of Tim’s own artwork showed how much of an influence Charles …
Overture Films has recently launched a viral website for Matt Reeves‘ Let Me In. Five new photos from the movie has been revealed. Considering the original film Let The Right One In is my favorite horror film since The Shining, I wasn’t too thrilled with the idea of a remake. However I must confess that …
“Don’t you see, the complexity is what makes it all so brilliant!” For those who found Inception simply annoying and convoluted, those jokers at CollegeHumor.com have recently produced the instructional video Inception Characters Don’t Understand Inception. In it, an increasingly exasperated actress who looks nothing like Ellen Page attempts to get her head round the …
AMC has released five new photos from the upcoming highly anticipated television series adaptation of The Walking Dead directed by Frank Darabont. The show premieres October 2010
“The Last Exorcism offers ample scares and twists; horror fans will be rejoicing in theatre aisles…” The Last Exorcism Directed by Daniel Stamm After 5 years, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival held its very first red carpet, premiering Eli Roth’s production of The Last Exorcism – a highly engaging, tension-filled horror film that is …