Fox To Re-Tell The Story Of Moses…300-Style The same writing team hired to make a graphic-novel style, adventurous take onMoby Dickfor Timur Bekmambetov and Universal have sold a pitch to Fox that would see them re-telling the story ofMosesin the style of Zack Snyder’s300. Yep, Moses will soon be using the stone tablets bearing God’s laws to knock heads in at a theatre near you. The Bear Jew? Guy’s a pussy compared to this Moses....
Interview: Michael Fassbender Talks ‘Prometheus’ Last week in London I had the opportunity to sit at a table with other journalists and interviewPrometheusstarMichael Fassbender. Fassbender talks playing an earlier model of android, cinematic influences for the role, David’s contempt for humans, what David did the 2 years when everyone was in cryostasis, the possibility of appearing in Prometheus sequels, how humans treat David, not having time to do a lot of preparation for the role, further delving into the hinted relationships he has with Weyland and Charlize’s characters, playing up the comedy in moments of the film, working on the viral marketing for the project, trying to produce feature films, his future project slate, not acting for nine months, and much more....
Is Pixar Making A ‘Star Wars’ Movie? When Disney acquired theStar Warsfranchise, they quickly made it clear that they had more than just a new cinematic trilogy in mind. There’s been talk of TV shows (e.g.,Star Wars Rebels), comic books (to be published by Marvel), and spinoffs based on characters like Han Solo and Boba Fett. Now it seems we can also add a Pixar movie to that growing list ofStar Warsprojects....
Is Sabine Wren From ‘Star Wars Rebels’ In ‘The Mandalorian’? Is a character fromStar Wars Rebelsgoing to pop up in the upcoming live-actionStar WarsseriesThe Mandalorian? That’s the latest unconfirmed rumor. Word on the intergalactic street is that the helmet of Sabine Wren, a dropout of the Imperial Academy and a former bounty hunter who appeared onRebels, is being used inThe Mandalorianin some capacity. For now, this is all we really know....
Jody Hill’s The American Budget Shopping Network With Andrew Daly And Collette Wolfe Viral videos have popped up this week under the guise of scratchy infomercials for something horrendously calledThe American Budget Shopping Network. A few readers have emailed in to ask if these are previews for the upcoming season ofEastbound & Down, which is understandable since they are hosted byAndrew Daly, aka Principle “I’ve been goin' a little bit of crazy” Cutler, and are faux-aired from North Carolina....
Louis Leterrier To Direct Sci-Fi Disaster Movie ‘G’ Clash of the Titans/The Incredible HulkdirectorLouis Leterrierhas signed on to direct and produce the science fiction disaster movieGfor Universal Pictures. What is it about? Good question… The plot is being kept tightly under wraps butHeat Visionsays it has “shades ofThe Day After TomorrowandTaken.” What does that mean? My guess on the limited knowledge we have on the project is that a man must avenge the kidnapping of his wife and daughter and prevent some evil bad guy from using a device which would alter Earth’s gravity (G, get it?...
Matt Ryan Will Bring Constantine To ‘Arrow’ For “One-Shot Episode” Constantine, the show, may be cancelled, but John Constantine, the character, isn’t dead. And thanks to a new deal that confirms a rumor that began in the past few weeks, we’ll see John Constantine onArrow, at least briefly. Once again, he’ll be played by actorMatt Ryan, who starred in the short-lived NBC series. The CW announced the Constantine/Arrow crossover as set for an episode ofArrow’s fourth season....
Now Stream This: ‘The Mitchells Vs. The Machines’, ‘Tenet’, ‘Saint Maud’, ‘Crimson Peak’, ‘Twister’, ‘Synchronic’, ‘Wolf’, And More (Welcome toNow Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) Now Streaming on Netflix Release Date:2021Genre:Animated ComedyDirector:Mike RiandaCast:Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Mike Rianda, Eric Andre, Olivia Colman, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett This animated feature is bound to end up being one of the best films of 2021....
NYPD Calls For Boycott Of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ Quentin Tarantino(The Hateful Eight) has been accused of glamorizing violence all throughout his career. Time and time again his depiction of violence is misread, almost with every one of his films. Apparently, in this respect, even the NYPD has a problem with the director’s work. Read more after the jump. Over the weekend, Tarantino attended a rally protesting cases of police brutality in New York City....
Oscar’s Getting Odd: Peter Gabriel Is Out, Terminators, Harry Potter And Holmes Are In There are many, many changes to the typical formula planned for this year’s Oscar ceremony and while most are still top secret, the odd few have been leaking out. Courtesy ofPeter Gabriel, for example, we know that the Best Song nominations will be performed only in a medley. On a video on his site – linked below the break – Gabriel announces that he won’t be appearing at the ceremony as he’s not convinced that his song, Down to Earth fromWall-E, will work as a short excerpt....
Paramount And Bad Robot Set Writers For ‘Boilerplate’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of the latest trends in fiction is taking famous stories and giving them a genre twist. There’sAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,which surmises the 16th President not only freed the slaves but kicked vampire ass. There’sPride and Prejudice and Zombies,which populates Jane Austin’s period romance with the undead. And in 2010,J.J. Abrams' Bad Robotbought the rights toBoilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel, a graphic novel which imagines the world’s first robot soldier was around in the early 20th century, fighting alongside the likes of Teddy Roosevelt and hobnobbing with Mark Twain....
Poster: ‘We Gotta Get Out Of This Place’ By Eisner Award Winning Artist Sean Phillips In today’s Hollywood, unless a poster is sold online, odds are it stinks. The marketing for most films has become so generic that any kind of artistic expression of what a film is in its advertising has all but gone away. Every once in a while, however, a poster pops up to challenge that belief. That’s the case withWe Gotta Get Out Of This Place, directedSimonandZeke Hawkins....
Razzie Shortlist Reveals New Category: ‘Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse Of 3D’ As the movie industry evolves, so to do theRazzies. The anti-Oscars, which infamously recognize the worst movies of the year, have announced their short list of eligible films which includes a brand new category: Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D. What films are eligible for that award as well as Worst Film of the Year and more? Find out after the jump....
