Gerard Butler to Star in Every Movie Made in 2007

Or at least it seems that way. Nowadays I can’t go a day now without hearing that Gerard Butler is either in talks to join, or has already joined, some project. There is “Game” with the directors of “Crank”, “Island” with Jodie Foster, the “Escape from...

May 18th, 2007 | Read More

Can’t Miss Weekend Movie Pick: Shrek the Third

Seriously, how can you go wrong picking “Shrek The Third” for anything? There’s a reason there isn’t another wide-release on the same weekend as everyone’s favorite green ogre. I’ll probably end up seeing it on DVD, or maybe if one of my nieces and nephews bugs me...

May 18th, 2007 | Read More

First Movie Review of Hark, Lam, and To’s Triangle

Variety’s Asian arm has got your first review of Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, and Johnnie To’s upcoming crime film collaboration “Triangle” from Cannes (which means the film was okayed by the Chinese censors in time for screening after all). The reviewer calls the film “a seriocomic...

May 18th, 2007 | Read More

Rob Schmidt’s The Alphabet Killer Gets a Trailer

The new horror movie “The Alphabet Killer” didn’t register on my radar until I found out Rob Schmidt was directing it. I’m a fan of Schmidt, have been since he turned in the backwoods horror of “Wrong Turn”. For my money, that is an under appreciated gem in the genre...

May 18th, 2007 | Read More

New Transformers Trailer, New Transformers Robots Pictures

They’re bigger, they’re tougher, and they’re going to destory us — or at least turn the planet into one giant metal junkheap. That’s what it looks like in a new “Transformers” trailers now available at Yahoo! Movies. If you still didn’t think Transformers...

May 17th, 2007 | Read More

Martin Scorsese’s The Golden Door

Martin Scorsese doesn’t actually direct the Italian movie “The Golden Door” (aka Nuovomundo), but he does “present” it, similar to the way Quentin Tarantino ends up “Presenting” every Asian movie with a pulse. Which basically means the studio heads knew that...

May 17th, 2007 | Read More

Watch the First 3 Minutes of British Comedy-Horror Severance

It started with “Shaun of the Dead”, and the Brits have continued churning out the comedy-horror. Their latest is “Severance”, which our very own James Mudge reviewed a while back, and really liked, and calls it, “one of the best British horror films in years.” High...

May 16th, 2007 | Read More

Sony Pictures Classics to Release Wong Kar Wai’s Ashes of Time Redux

Wow, Wong Kar Wai is doing a reworking of his classic “Ashes of Time”? I friggin love that movie. Almost as much as I love cheese, and I love cheese pretty damn much, let me tell you. The 1994 martial arts period film “Ashes of Time” was about a guy played by the late-Leslie Cheung...

May 16th, 2007 | Read More

First Images from The Dark is Rising

It sucks enough being a kid, and then you find out you’re immortal, can travel through time, and that you’re destined to defeat the forces of darkness. I mean, geeeez, when’s he gonna find time for a girlfriend and MTV? Such is the plight of Alexander Ludwig, who plays Will Stanton...

May 16th, 2007 | Read More

Holy Crap Optimus Prime is Really Big

Here’s a couple of two new looks at Michael Bay’s upcoming “Transformers”, featuring Megan Fox, Shia LeBouf, and the huge, honking head of Optimus Prime himself as he confronts the two puny humans (images below). Geez, I didn’t know Optimus would look that big on the screen,...

May 16th, 2007 | Read More

Thomas Jane Quits The Punisher 2

Well this comes as a bit of a surprise, but Thomas Jane has officially pulled out of the upcoming “Punisher 2″, the sequel to the 2004 comic book movie adaptation about a cop who takes up vigilantism when his entire family (and I mean all of them) is butchered by drug dealers. How do we know...

May 15th, 2007 | Read More

Wong Kar Wai Opens Cannes with My Blueberry Nights, Trailer and Images

Returning to the film festival that gave him the Best Director Award in 1997 for “Happy Together”, Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai shakes off the shackles of his 5-year odyssey making “2046″ to open the festival with his latest, “My Blueberry Nights”, a film about...

May 15th, 2007 | Read More

Emperor Motion Picture Picks Up Jay Chou’s Kung Fu Dunk (formerly Slam Dunk)

News from Cannes is that Emperor Motion Picture has picked up international sales rights for Jay Chou’s upcoming Taiwanese high school action film “Kung Fu Dunk”, formerly called “Slam Dunk”. (The name change was to keep the film from being confused with a comic book of...

May 15th, 2007 | Read More

Hitman-Comedy You Kill Me Gets a Trailer

It’s hard to do a mob hitman comedy, but it can be done. “The Whole Nine Yards” managed it, although its sequel, the “Whole Ten Yards” fell harder than William Shatner in Yoga class. The “Analyze This” films, both of them, managed to tread the same ground of...

May 15th, 2007 | Read More

Nick Stahl Back for Terminator 4?

It might very well be that I am the only person in the known universe who didn’t think “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” was such a bad movie. In fact, I really liked it for the wild practical stunts it went for instead of relying solely on CGI and computer effects. So sue me, but...

May 15th, 2007 | Read More

Because You Demanded It — Point Break 2: Point Breaker

In the original “Point Break” (1991), FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) posed as a surfer dude in order to bust a group of surfer dudes who also moonlights as notorious bank robbers. The leader of those bank robbers was Bodhi, played by Patrick Swayze, whose character was insinuated to...

May 14th, 2007 | Read More

Jet Li and Jason Statham’s War (formerly Rogue) Trailer

Jet Li may have sworn off wuxia for good, but that doesn’t mean he still isn’t kicking a whole lotta ass in his movies. His latest is a collaboration with Jason Statham (of “Transporter” and “Crank” fame) as the two go head-to-head in “War”, formerly called...

May 14th, 2007 | Read More

Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart Trailer

Angelina Jolie’s accented adaptation of Mariane Pearl’s “The Breve Life and Death of my Husband Danny Pearl”, aka “A Mighty Heart”, gets an emotional trailer. I don’t know what’s stranger — that we’re supposed to be enthralled by what will happen...

May 14th, 2007 | Read More

Lam, Hark, and To’s Triangle Gets a Poster

So these three guys, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark, and Johnnie To decides to make a movie together. Except instead of co-directing the movie, they’re going to make separate 30-minute films that will combine into one movie. One director will start, another will continue, and the third will finish. And it’s...

May 14th, 2007 | Read More

Korean Pop Star Rain to Join Speed Racer?

According to his management (which means it might not be true, or even happen), South Korean pop star and actor Rain (his stage name, his real name is Jung Ji-Hoon) will be joining the cast of the Wachowski Brothers’ live-action adaptation of “Speed Racer” (the brothers’ first...

May 14th, 2007 | Read More