Duncan Jones’ Moon was one of the best debut films from a young and talented director to have been released in quite a while. He got an amazing performance out of Sam Rockwell and the film looked like a mash-up of Kubrick, Aronofsky and The Twilight Zone. And while his next project, Mute (said to [...]
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Jarred Hess is the man behind the much-loved Napoleon Dynamite and the Jack Black wrestling comedy Nacho Libre. It’s been over 3 years since Libre and he’s finally back to bring another offbeat comedy to the big screen. His latest Gentlemen Broncos deals with a young writer’s ambitions, crappy science fiction and an at-the-end-of-his-career sci-fi [...]
A couple days ago, we brought to you the news that Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle had signed on for his next project, 127 Hours, a film that will tell the true-life story of Aron Ralston, the mountain climber who spent 5 days trapped by a boulder before finally amputating his own arm.
One big detail of [...]
In the last couple of years, the debate over whether ninjas or pirates would win in a battle has become increasingly heated.
Well, Hollywood’s not quite ready to settle this matter for us, but they are going to give us a different ninja battle to satisfy us for a bit.
Straight from Japan, a hotbed for low-budget, [...]
Just when you think Eminem has slipped off the radar, the man makes a re-entrance onto the scene.
Marshall Mathers, who goes by the stage persona of Eminem, will be starring in the aptly named Shady Talez, a 3D anthology horror film from D.J. Classicz/Davis Entertainment.
Shady Talez, which is described as “The Twilight Zone meet Creepshow,” [...]
I don’t know about you, but I remember chain letters being huge when I was about nine or ten years old. You know how they go: You get a letter, it tells you a story of some sort, then advises you to pass the letter on to a certain number of friends or have bad [...]
Hideo Nakata, the director behind the Japanese version of The Ring and the English version of The Ring 2, has signed on to direct the supernatural thriller Voice From the Stone.
An adaptation of an Italian novel, Voice From the Stone follows a child psychologist helping a boy who promised his dying mother he would remain [...]
Daniel Craig is stepping off of the Broadway stage and heading back to the big screen–but not just in the role of James Bond.
Craig is moving from Pinewood Shepperton’s studio in Britain, where the James Bond films are shot, to the company’s Toronto location to star in Jim Sheridan’s psychological thriller Dream House.
In the film, [...]
Taking on a fairly interesting duo of roles, Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman have both signed on to star in The Danish Girl.
The film is based on the real life relationship between Danish artists Einar and Greta Wegener, but is adapted from a David Ebershoff novel dealing with the same story.
Although dealing with a relationship, [...]
Heading into its second weekend in theaters, the Michael Jackson movie This Is It has already brought in the big bucks.
According to Sony, This Is It has raked in more than $100 million from international box offices. This far exceeds the expectation for the film, which many thought would see similar intake as 2008’s concert [...]
It really was only a matter of time before a film was put into production that directly emulates The Hangover in style and content. Universal has their hands on what’s potentially the first of these knock-offs: a spec script from Ellen Rapoport entitled Desperados. The film will be produced my Mark Gordon and Jason Blum, [...]
Twilight is out of control, and now its floodgates have burst, spilling its contents everywhere. Bit players such as Ashley Greene from the Twilight films are now getting genre work — in this case, it’s The Apparition for Joel Silver’s Dark Castle production house.
(To be fair, I have no idea how big or small of [...]
