Paramount Pictures and the Oscar-winning duo of the Coen brothers have teamed up to remake the 1969 John Wayne film True Grit.
The movie, based on Charles Portis’s novel of the same name, focuses on a young girl traveling with two lawmen to find her father’s murderer.
Jeff Bridges was the first actor approached by the Coen [...]
After much disagreement regarding budget and tone, director Kenny Ortega has split from the Paramount Pictures remake of Footloose.
Ortega, who directed all three of the High School Musical movies, had been involved with the Footloose project since its conception, back when HSM star Zac Efron was still on board as the movie’s lead. From the [...]
Despite the film still being in theaters, Paramount Pictures is already hoping to capitalize on the unexpected success of Paranormal Activity after the film’s run is over.
Paramount’s chairman has announced the company has acquired the rights to a potential Paranormal Activity 2, and is looking for a plot that would make sense as a sequel [...]
Paramount Pictures is taking the first steps in moving forward with production of their newest drama, The Art of Making Money, by wooing actor Chris Pine and director D.J. Caruso to be involved with the project.
If negotiations go as Paramount would like, Pine, who audiences will remember from his recent portrayal as James T. Kirk [...]
Oren Peli’s horror flick Paranormal Activity has garnered such unexpected success that Paramount Pictures is expanding the film’s showings for already the second time since its theatrical release.
The movie was originally released in a select few big cities in the U.S., quickly selling out screenings and eliciting positive reviews. The film met with such success [...]
Paramount Pictures presents us the newest trailer from Martin Scorsese’s latest film Shutter Island. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, this thriller mystery revolves around U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels who’s investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island. This film, [...]
This past weekend, debut director, writer, producer and editor Oren Peli’s low-budget horror film Paranormal Activity was released in a few big cities to pretty great reviews and many unexpected sold out midnight screenings, proving that the film is playing well to its target audience: college kids and high school kids up past their bedtime.
In [...]
G.I. Joe, where have you been all summer? Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and X-Men Origins: Wolverine failed to deliver the kind of mindless, entertaining fun that summer so often brings while everything else outside of Star Trek has been more concerned with being artistic than enjoyable. It’s strange, scribing those sentences and the ones [...]
Nobody at Paramount Pictures this morning had to worry about the overall box office (and those that do should get their head examined) intake totaled in so far for action mainstream director Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Joining The Dark Knight in its gigantic numbers (despite the huge wave of negative reviews), Transformers [...]
Generally, I like Michael Bay and will defend the guy when my peers and others claim he’s terrible or one of the worst people alive in the world today. The guy knows what he makes even if he indulges in himself a little too much at times. His films (outside of that bastardization of an [...]
Screw you, I like Michael Bay. Yeah, the guy made Pearl Harbor and likely he’ll never get over that one but the guy knows what he is (as evidenced by the awesome Verizon commercial.) Whether it’s the pure hilariously badness of Armageddon or the greatness that is Bad Boys II, Bay has mostly delivered on [...]
