Last year, Torontonians were disappointed when Carlton cinema was shuttered by parent company Cineplex Odeon. Perhaps the closing wasn’t entirely unsurprising – the Carlton was run-down, sight lines were poor, and the equipment was rather dated. However, many people considered it a shame that Cineplex didn’t invest some money into refurbishing the Carlton, given its …
Can a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters reproduce the works of William Shakespeare? Probably not without defecating on said typewriters. But can a thousand science fiction fans at a thousand laptops produce a Syfy Original Movie? Thankfully, the answer is yes – and you too can be one of those monkeys, though defecating on …
With the last Academy Awards not even 5 months behind us, next year’s ceremony is already in talks. After the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced yesterday that they were considering moving the ceremony forward to January, they announced today that they would go ahead and stick with …
The legions of Tolkien fans who pumped their fists and jumped for joy on receiving news that the visionary director Guillermo Del Toro had signed on to direct The Hobbit will now have to bow their heads in disappointment as he announces today that he is relinquishing the project. TheOneRing.net released a statement today announcing …
Shocktilyoudrop.com broke news today that two of the biggest ongoing trends in the film business are ready to overlap: vampires and 3-D. Dario Argento, famed Italian horror director, has announced his next project: a 3-D movie rendering of the classic Dracula. The news comes direct from the Cannes film festival, where FilmExport Group is working …
Pitchforkmedia has revealed that indie rocker Bob Pollard (former Guided By Voices frontman) will score the forthcoming documentary about the legendary and scandalous baseball player Pete Rose. Just another project to add to Robert Pollard’s ridiculously long résumé. When interviewed at Spin, Pollard says that the filmmakers are using instrumental versions of many of his …
After it was recently reported that the second installment of the Anchorman franchise was going to camera next year, the director of the project and long time Will Ferrell collaborator Adam McKay posted on his Twitter account that the film was dead in the water. “So bummed” McKay wrote yesterday. “Paramount basically passed on Anchorman …
With MGM studios hemorrhaging money and it’s future bleak, Bond producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli have stopped development of the next James Bond film which had been scheduled for release sometime next year. “Due to the continuing uncertainty surrounding the future of MGM and the failure to close a sale of the studio, we …
The Transformers franchise will continue on with a third installment, according to Tyrese Gibson who plays Sergeant Epps. On his twitter page, @Tyrese4Real, he informed the world, ” Transformers 3: Is full throttle full steam ahead…Michael Bay gave me the start date…and I can’t share.” The untitled Transformers movie is due to be released July …
It was only four years ago that Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone vowed that Tom Cruise would “never work” with Paramount Pictures again. Well, never say never. Paramount announced its plans this week to release a fourth in the Mission Impossible saga. While I think they are highly overestimating the interest of fans, Paramount has seen …
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 film …
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.
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 …
Andy Baio of waxy.org has been tracking the online distribution of Oscar screeners since 2003, only to discover that every year, the piracy scene manages to release nearly every film by nomination day. Last year, all but three films were leaked in DVD quality by nomination day. According to Andy, fewer Oscar screeners leaked online …
The good folks over at /film put up a link to this great video. Some of you may remember some of the rumours floating around stating that director Wes Anderson of all people would direct the next Spiderman film. Well I think it’s a safe bet that we will never see that happen but in …
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 …
Two exciting new music promos were released this week. The first from former music video director turned filmmaker Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine and The Spotless Mind) and the second by Indie fave David Lynch. Here is Michel Gondry’s promo clip for Mia Doi Todd and David Lynch’s introduction clip for Ariana Delawari’s album Lion of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Director Ti West, best known for his 2009 smash hit horror film House Of The Devil (listen to our review here) is prepping his next project The Innkeepers, about the last two staffers of a haunted hotel that’s going out of business. Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix which have been a major contributor in the …