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The fun-loving monsters are back! Pixar is already in production on Monsters University, a prequel to Monsters Inc, directed by Dan Scanlon (Tracy). The animated odd couple, Mike Wazowski and James P. 'Sulley' Sullivan, are back at the University of Fear. The film tells us how...
Cowboys & werewolves? Not any time soon, as Disney has shown by nixing preproduction on producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s adaptation of The Lone Ranger. Just two months before shooting was to take place in New Mexico under the direction of Gore Verbinski...
This fall may actually bring the long-delayed release of The Rum Diary, an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s first, but long lost novel. Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean 4) once again pays ...
The recent Hollywood "trend" of converting board game properties into movies seems to be waning a bit, even though it really never got completely off the ground. Of course Battleship is set to arrive in theaters next summer, and if the trailer for that film is ...
Read more: McG's OUIJA Adaptation Dropped; FRANKENSTEIN Developments - UPDATED
With or without Bill Murray's involvement, Ghostbusters 3 finally seems to be moving forward. At least that's what Dan Aykroyd says. We know it's getting kind of tiresome hearing about the on-again off-again nature of this production, but this latest bit ...
Add another remake to the list! Rumor has it that Paramount is developing a remake of the 1974 drama The Gambler. Deadline is reporting that the product is possibly to be directed by Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island) and a screenplay written by William Monahan (The Departed)...
Fright Night. The Gambler. Footloose. What connects these films? They are all among Hollywood’s plight to remake anything and everything. So it’s no surprise that Columbia Pictures has a remake of Flatliners in the works, alongside Further Films who produced the ...
The Coen-quirk continues as the dynamic duo reveal the subject and title of their next film. Joel and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man) are creating a movie centered around 1960’s folk music scene in New York’s Greenwich Village entitled Inside Llewyn Davis ...
Read more: Subject, Title Revealed for Next Coen Brothers Project
While announcements and buzz about the upcoming Expendables sequel have the cast turning over more frequently than a Pillsbury pastry, one recent tidbit of casting news caught our eye. Millennium Films had briefly updated the ...
After stumbling out the gate with crippling bouts of ego posturing, casting dilemmas, and production delays, director Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby has finally gotten under way. Principal photography ...
Read more: GREAT GATSBY Production Gets Under Way in Australia
After much speculation, rumors, and hopeful optimism over the last few months, we have (almost) official word that J.J. Abrams is indeed boarding the Enterprise once again to bring us a sequel to his smash 2009 hit, Star Trek...
It’s official: Hollywood is either out of ideas or simply won’t take a chance on any new ones. Remakes, re-imaginings and way-too-late sequels seem to be all the rage for the studios to bring money to them...
We learned earlier this summer that the production on the Bonnie and Clyde legend called The Story of Bonnie and Clyde, was to get underway this fall with Limitless director Neil Burger taking the helm and Hilary Duff in the role ...
Read more: Lindsay Pulsipher to Tote Bonnie Parker's Machine Gun
Who knows if that boycott called for by the hardcore Star Wars fans did any good for those who had hoped to punish Lucas for his filthy molestation of a cinematic classic. If it did, it was minimal, because today Twentieth Century Fox said that the recently released ...
Read more: STAR WARS Boycott Has Little Effect on SAGA Blu-ray Sales
The scourge that is the recent rash of 3D movies is about to get worse... and even more expensive. That's because Sony Pictures Entertainment recently sent a letter to theater owners informing them that after May 1 of next year, the studio will ...
Word came down today from Working Films that production has begun on Joe Wright's adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy classic, Anna Karenina. The film marks Wright's fourth film with Working title and his third collaboration with Keira Knightley who will star opposite ...
Read more: Production Underway on Joe Wright's ANNA KARENINA
Official hope has arrived! It was announced on Sunday at The New Yorker Festival that an Arrested Development movie will happen after a new lead-in season on television. Fans of the cult classic show have been waiting patiently for word of a movie since its ...
Read more: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT New Season and Movie on the Way
Finding itself a victim of its own success in the online streaming business, Netflix will continue to do battle with stingy content providers by funding original productions. In fact, Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer of Netflix sat down with Mike Lang at MIPCOM in Cannes this week to announce ...
Read more: Netflix Adds LILYHAMMER to Original Broadcast Slate
In a move that seems to have gone over well with investors today, Netflix said it will not separate its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services as it had previously announced back in September. "It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we ...
Read more: Netflix Reverses Course; Will Not Separate DVD and Online Delivery of Movies
Seems a poor box office showing isn't the only thing the distributors of the crime drama Drive are left to face after the film failed to catch traction with the general public following a scorching run on the international film circuit. Now it must go up against the court system since one viewer didn't think the film was...
Read more: Movie Distributor Sued Because DRIVE Isn't Like FAST AND FURIOUS
There's a bit of good news coming out of Hollywood for anyone who prefers curling up on the couch to take in a new flick over schlepping to the nearest cineplex. Seems that universal is plowing forward with a controversial plan to ...
Read more: TOWER HEIST May Change How We Watch Movies - UPDATE
True Blood's Anna Paquin will join Twilight's Cam Giganet in Shana Sosin's indie production called Free Ride. Written and directed by Sosin, the drama is based on a true story in which an abused uneducated single mother (Paquin) struggles ...
Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: "Free Ride", "Avatar 2" and "Rentaghost"
Speaking at MIPCOM recently in Cannes, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos suggested his company looks at what people are pirating in different parts of the world to help figure out what titles to license for for that region. An ...
Read more: List of Top 10 Most Pirated and Top 10 Most Rented Movies
Less than stellar DVD sales have continued to drag the home video market down in 2011, but a strong showing from X-Men: First Class, Thor, and The Star Wars Saga on the blu-ray format, have prompted a 156% surge in ...
Read more: STAR WARS SAGA, X-MEN, and THOR Spur Blu-ray Rebound
Mimicking the home video embargo strategy utilized for years by Disney whereby popular films are pulled from the market and placed in the Disney Vault, Reuters is reporting that Warner Bros. has announced it will remove all its Harry Potter DVDs and Blu-ray discs from ...
Read more: Warner to Vault HARRY POTTER Movies at End of Year
The attempted revival of 80s TV continues with the recent report that Stephen J. Cannell's series Wiseguy is coming back as a contemporary take on the disgraced former cop who cuts a deal to work undercover for time off his sentence. The series, ...
Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: '80s TV; DAMAGES; Sudeikis in DOG FIGHT
Ben Affleck (The Town) and Matt Damon (Contagion) are rumored to reunite for their first collaboration since their first feature film, Good Will Hunting. The duo are seeking to do a biopic on New England ganster Whitey Bulger, Boston’s most notorious ganster. The project is part of a new deal to revamp the team’s...
Thanks to an increased appetite for HD - as well as a larger availability of cheaper Hi-def televisions - Americans spent about 5% more on home video during the third quarter over the same period last year. This represents the first increase since early 2008.Though the increase could be a ...
Read more: Rosy Days for Blu-ray. Hi-def Disc Sales Boost U.S. Home Video Spending
Bond is back for the 23rd installment of the franchise. Sony/Columbia has Skyfall scheduled to be released in November 2012 coinciding with the series’ 50th anniversary. Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (Away We Go) will be directing his first James Bond film, which starts...
Though Walden Media is currently saying that Jennifer Lopez is only set to produce the Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? big screen adaptation, experience tells us it will only be a matter of days or weeks until the story is revised to report that Jenny from the Block will don ...
Read more: Jennifer Lopez Might Know Where in the World is Carmen San Diego
Although several The Man From U.N.C.L.E. adaptation attempts have come and gone through recent years, none was closer to coming to fruition than Steven Soderbergh's vision which was to begin taking shape in the form of a production schedule beginning in March of next year. But now, even this one has been officially mothballed due to ...
Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: Soderbergh; 20,000 Leagues; Tomb Raider
Though Tony Scott is no longer attached to the film, the folks over at 20th Century Fox are reportedly ready to pull the trigger on the oft-rumored 24 big screen adaptation. Rumors began popping up earlier this year about the return of Jack Bauer in a big theatrical tent-pole film version of the...
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, of which we are a proud member, voted the comedy-drama THE DESCENDANTS as the best film of 2011, according to the results of its 18th annual critics’ poll released today. Rounding out the ...
Read more: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Name DESCENDANTS Best Picture of 2011
NBC is reviving the classic '60s comedy The Munsters and will present it as a weekly comedy/drama. Bryan Fuller of Pushing Daisies fame has written the story loosely based on the original but with a modern twist, while Bryan Singer (Superman Returns) will produce and direct the pilot...
Read more: Deals and Rumors Report: THE MUNSTERS; LOST KEATON; and THOR 2
As the curtain falls on the 2011 movie season, it's not only time to reflect back upon all the salted pretzels eaten, the gallons of soda chugged, and the tubs of artery-clogging gelatinous goo (posing as hot butter) poured over calorie-loaded coconut-oil-cooked popcorn, but it's also the...
Paramount Pictures had the best movies of 2011. That is, if big box office take equals "best." With a huge slate of financially successful films released throughout last year, including Michael Bay's mega-hit Transformers film, the relaunch of the Mission: Impossible franchise, and its first original ...
Read more: Paramount was Best of 2011; to Release PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 in 2012
Netflix's movement to become a legitimate playing in the original programming arena takes another step forward this February when its original series Lilyhammer will hit the internet. We first learned of Lilyhammer back in October when Chief Content Officer Ted Serandos sat down at MIPCOM and announced ...
Read more: Netflix Original Series LILYHAMMER Available February 6th
Yet another brilliant horror film of the past will succumb to the filthy Hollywood remake machine when the Brian DePalma/Sissy Spacek high school bullying classic Carrie gets a revisit, this time by MGM and Screen Gems. The Carrie project was first hinted at last Spring when it was reported...
This weekend marks the release of the long-gestating George Lucas passion project Red Tails, a biopic of sorts about the Tuskeegee airmen who battled racism to fly fighter planes for their country during WWII. The film itself has been through its own uphill battle to see the light of day in theaters...
Read more: The Future of Black Movies Rests on RED TAILS; and Lucas Calling it Quits
Sequels have always had a lot of pressure behind them. To add to that pressure, it’s a sequel from a rebooted, iconic TV and movie franchise with an almost cult-like following. That’s right, Star Trek 2 is on its way. J.J. Abrams (Super 8) brought the Enterprise back to the final frontier over two years ago complete ...
Finally, the kind of movie sequel news we like to hear. Not typically a practitioner of the "discretion is the better part of valor" ideology, Hollywood is showing a bit of unexpected bravery with word coming down that Kristen Wiig et. al. are taking a pass on ...
Just one short day after settling the lawsuit that had held up production of the much talked about remake of The Crow, Relativity Media have announced that F. Javier Gutierrez has been brought on board to direct the ...
Aardman Animations, the outfit behind many recent stop-motion "clay-mation" films such as Chicken Run, the Wallace & Gromit series, Flushed Away, and most recently, Arthur Christmas, is coming under fire for a scene from its upcoming animated 3D film...
Read more: Leprosy Groups Demand Lepper Joke Walk the Plank from Upcoming PIRATES Movie
Conventional wisdom holds that the growing world popularity of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol since its inception in 2003, is the main culprit in the slumping U.S. movie box office. And that assumption, bolstered by the incessant harping from the movie studios about their struggle...
Read more: Study: BitTorrent Isn't Killing Hollywood. Something Else is..
If you haven't had a chance to catch The Adventures of Tintin yet (apparently most of you haven't), there's still a bit of time to see the Oscar nominated film as it finishes out its theatrical run in the States. Coming from the pages of Belgian artist ...
What could be more frightening to a parent than having to attend a crowded Puss in Boots screening chock full of sugar-fed, over-caffeinated children? Explaining to them that there's not really such a thing as a motorcycle rider whose head explodes into flames and that lady ...
Read more: Young Children Frightened by Horror Trailers in Front of PUSS IN BOOTS Screening
Sick and tired of outrageous movie snack prices? Apparently, so is Joshua Thompson, a Detroit area man who was so incensed at the $8 he had to shell out recently for a box of Goobers and cup of soda, that he decided to let the legal system take up ...
Looks like May 3rd is shaping up to be the Marvel Comics doomsday as AMC Theaters is cooking up the Ultimate Marvel Marathon in which the studio will screen six epic Marvel movies back-to-back leading up to the midnight screening of The Avengers 3D. The night won't be cheap though, with tickets ...
Read more: Marvel Geeks to Unite for May 3rd Ultimate Movie Marathon
Just in time to erin go a little braugh, Lionsgate and WWE (yes, that's the wrestling outfit) recently announced a movie production deal to share costs on a pair of movies, one of which is said to be a reboot of the Leprechaun franchise. Though we need ...
It appears Michael Bay has set off yet another explosion, but this time it's not of the incendiary type. Fans of the '80s inspired comic-book-to-TV-to-movie series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became incensed last week when word got out that the braintrust (led by producer Michael Bay) ...
Read more: Deals & Rumors Report: NINJA TURTLES and IRON MAN 3
More Articles ...
- RAGING BULL 2 Punching its Way to Big Screen
- Vince Vaughn to Headline Upcoming ROCKFORD FILES Film Adaptation
- Reel Reviews Critic Christopher Symonds Publishes First Novel
- Hulk May Get Another Solo Movie After All
- Wings (1927) - First-Ever Best Picture Oscar Winner Returning to Theaters
- Theater Patron Slaps Excessive Talker, Charged with Felony
- Paramount Pictures Celebrates 100 Years with Fabulous New Poster
- BEETLEJUICE 2 Rumors Resurrected... Again
- Scorcese Abandons Film; Will Shoot Digital
- Deals and Rumors Report: Hellboy 3; Captain America 2; Ouija Adaptation
- BREAKING BAD Spanks TV's Best/Worst
- JURASSIC PARK 4 Stomping into Theaters in 2014
- HOBBIT to Become Trilogy?
- Academy Changes Oscar Campaign Rules for the 85th Academy Awards
- Frank Marshall Says No INDIANA JONES 5
- Emma Watson for Anastasia Steele?
- Deals and Rumors Report: THE KILLING, THE OFFICE, The state of TRUST US WITH YOUR LIFE
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Movie Reviews
Morbidly Hollywood
- Colorado Street Suicide Bridge
- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman