Alex Tse may have found his niche: adapting famously-reclusive authors for the big screen ( Read more... )

Hey look, a review of the upcoming horror/comedy "Zombieland" by... um... nobody...

http://www.cinemaspy.com/article.php?id=3174

Am I the only one excited about this? Not only is Warner Bros. committed to investing $150 million in a live-auction "Green Lantern" movie, but they've hired a pretty good director for it, the site Cinemaspy reports.

"Director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) will be at the helm of the comic book's big-screen adaptation, working from a script by Greg ( Read more... )

If the rumors that Andrew Stanton ("Wall-E") wants to do a "John Carter of Mars" movie are true, then it's probably going to happen, for a 2012 release, no less. But who will be writing the screenplay? According to the site io9 it'll be Michael Chabon, the novelist behind "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay."

I can't recall just how much ( Read more... )

So Hugh Jackman has chimed in over the leaked copy of his upcoming "Wolverine" film and, not surprisingly, he's unhappy it got out.

“It’s a serious crime and there’s no doubt it’s very disappointing - I was heartbroken by it,” Jackman told a news conference widely reported by the Australian media, according to the ScreenIndia. “Obviously people are ( Read more... )

It appears that Turner Classic Movies (a division of Time Warner) has put out its own list of The 15 Most Influential Movies of All Time, CNN reports.

“The Birth of a Nation” (1915); “Battleship Potemkin” (1925); “Metropolis” (1927); “42nd Street” (1933); “It Happened One Night” (1934); “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937); “Gone With the Wind ( Read more... )

Apparently, some executive at Sony does, which is why a spin-off of the character is in the works, the site Sci-Fi Land reported.

"Sony is officially moving forward with its Spider-Man spinoff movie focusing on Venom and has hired Zombieland writing team Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese to pen the script, the writers told a group of reporters."

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It's not your parent's "French Connection," that's for sure.

NOWHERE TO HIDE (1999), dir. Myung-Se Lee
From the site "Look! A Bunch of Movie Reviews!"

Imagine “The French Connection” with Wong Kar-Wai and such luminaries of Japanese cinema as Seijun Suzuki and Shohei Imamura at the helm, and you’d end up with something like “Nowhere to Hide.” ( Read more... )

One of the inevitable mistakes any journalist will make is misspelling someone's name. For those who don't know, I spent about two years working as a newspaper reporter, and I did that a few times myself. Still, at least I had the excuse of not being able to easily look up every person whose name I needed to spell. Not so with the writer of the ( Read more... )

It's like three-and-a-half minutes of bad haircuts, prosthetic teeth, and so-so CGI. They also overdo the fast-motion to slow-motion thing that's become all the rage in movie trailers ( Read more... )