You Can’t Say No To This ‘Star Trek’ And ‘Hamilton’ Mash-Up I’m the hardest sell in the world when it comes to internet mash-ups of any kind. Just because youcanmash something up with another thing doesn’t mean that you should. I’m a firm believer in the “Think Twice Before You Draw TheMad Max: Fury RoadCast Like a Peanuts Characters” school of thought – not every single popular thing needs to be re-imagined as Calvin and Hobbes....
‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ Star Mary Elizabeth Winstead Cracks Open The Mystery Box We were as surprised as the rest of you when that10 Cloverfield Lanetrailerarrived out of nowhere a few weeks ago. In an age where studios have their schedules laid out a decade in advance and start pushing trailers and posters 18 months before a movie is set to open, the sudden and dramatic reveal of very interesting genre film with some very interesting talent attached felt like a breath of fresh air....
‘3, 2, 1… Frankie Go Boom’ Trailer - Sex, Lies, Videotape, And Female Ron Perlman If the title character of3, 2, 1… Frankie Go Boomlooks damn close to blowing a fuse, well, you might too if you had to put up with his problems. Played byCharlie Hunnam, Frankie is an aspiring novelist who’s spent his entire life suffering humiliation at the hands of his ne’er-do-well big brother Bruce (Chris O’Dowd)....
‘Attack The Block’ Director Joe Cornish Set To Adapt Neal Stephenson Novel ‘Snow Crash’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Afterkicking total asswith his directorial debutAttack The Block,Joe Cornishfound himself on seeminglyevery short listin Hollywood. Everyone wanted to work with the man who made Moses cool again and now he’s finally ready to trust. Cornish has just committed to write and directSnow Crash, based on the best-selling breakthrough novel byNeal Stephenson, which will be produced byKathleen KennedyandFrank Marshallat Paramount....
‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ Clip: Who Will Kill Who? AnR-rated, animated adaptation ofAlan Mooreand artistBrian Bolland’s “Batman: The Killing Joke” is almost here. Towards the end of the month,Sam Liu’s (co-director ofBatman: Year One) film will play in theaters forone nightonly, before it hits DVD and Blu-Ray the following week. The first clip released for the feature doesn’t show us whether the adaptation is as dark as the source material, but it’s a good character moment with a conflicted Batman....
‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Modern Family’ Win Top Honors At 2014 Emmy Awards Walter White may have had a rough year, butBreaking Badhad a great one. The AMC drama practically swept the 2014 Emmy Awards tonight with five wins, including Best Drama Series. The only series to pick up more statuettes this year wasSherlock: His Last Vow— and that’s only if you count the four Creative Arts Emmys it won earlier this month on top of the three it picked up during the telecast....
‘Constantine’ Is Definitely Dead Sorry,Constantinefans: the show is really, truly, officially dead. Following itscancellation at NBClast month, Warner Bros. TV attempted to find a new show for the series. And fans bothfamousand not tried to rally for the cause. But now showrunnerDaniel Ceroneconfirms Constantine is done for good. Read his Constantine cancellation statement after the jump. Constantinegot off to a shaky start at NBC. The show found its footing creatively as the first season went on, but its ratings were never great....
‘Desolation’ Review: There’s A New Killer In The Woods [LAFF] A mysterious man with reflective glasses stalks a trio of isolated campers inDesolation, the feature directorial debut of filmmakerSam Patton. When Abby (Jaimi Paige) loses her husband to sickness, she takes her 13-year-old son Sam (Toby Nichols) and her best friend Jenn (Alyshia Ochse) on a multi-day hiking trip to spread her husband’s ashes at the top of a mountain. But during the trip, the group slowly realizes they’re being followed by a silent man with a beard, hood, and sunglasses....
‘Frozen 2’ Is Not Yet In The Works Frozen, Disney’s biggest hit of all time, is getting a bunch of follow ups. It’s been reimagined onOnce Upon a Time. It’ll get an eventual Broadway adaptation. And next weekend, you can see the characters in a brand new short film,Frozen Fever. That short was directed byJennifer LeeandChris Buck, who also helmed the feature. In a new interview they admit while they’ve continually read online rumors about a feature film sequelFrozen 2, that’s not actually a thing just yet....
‘High Fidelity’ TV Series On Disney Streaming Service To Star Zoë Kravitz Disney’sHigh FidelityTV series has found its lead:Zoë Kravitz. TheRough Nightco-star will executive produce and star in the series, a re-imagining of the 2000John Cusackcomedy now told from a female point of view. The series will be for Disney’s upcoming streaming service. There’s a full-circle element to this casting: Kravitz’s mother, Lisa Bonet, had a significant role in the original film....
‘Hobbs And Shaw’ Writer Chris Morgan Reveals What Dwayne Johnson And Jason Statham Wanted In The Script [Interview] Chris Morganhas written every singleFast and Furiousmovie since 2006’sThe Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and he’s back as a writer/producer of the franchise’s first spin-off,Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw. But while Morgan had previously written all of his entries solo, this time he has a co-writer in the form ofDrew Pearce(Iron Man 3, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation)....
‘Joker’ Gets The Golden Lion Award At The Venice Film Festival, Giving Oscar Chances A Nudge The world premiere ofJokerat the Venice Film Festival hasalready started a huge swell of buzzforTodd Phillips’grim take on the origin story of Batman’s most notorious arch nemesis. Now the festival has givenJokeranother boost by awarding it the Golden Lion, the highest honor that the festival can give. Todd Phillips accepted the prize in Venice (viaThe Hollywood Reporter), immediately thanking Warner Bros....
‘Me And Earl And The Dying Girl’ Trailer: The Sundance Smash Opens June 12 Ourfavorite film ofthe Sundance Film Festival is coming out in June and the first trailer has been revealed. The film isMe and Earl and the Dying Girl,directed byAlfonso Gomez-Rejon, and it follows a high school slacker (Thomas Mann) who befriends a classmate (Olivia Cooke) who is dying. But that’s only part of the magic in this movie....
