As if we didn’t need further proof of an eternal feud between Gerard Butler and his agent, the trailer for the inspirational surfing drama Chasing Mavericks has hit the web today, showcasing the agent’s latest retort to the devastation Gerard Butler presumably wrought upon the agent’s family. It’s the latest in a back-and-forth duel where [...]
Read More Abigail Spencer, Chasing Mavericks, Curtis Hanson, Elisabeth Shue, Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston, sports, Surfing, Trailer, True story
When this faithful remake owes most of its success to the original though, it’s hard to justify its existence beyond financial gain. Miike’s divergences are a mixed bag–his first and third acts are more efficient, while the second act flashbacks become overlong and tedious. This version feels a bit bleaker and more polished, but it lacks some of Kobayashi’s punch…
Read More Ebizo Ichikawa, Japan, Koji Yakusho, Masaki Kobayashi, Remake, Samurai, suicide, Takashi Miike
After being cruelly ripped from the breast of the 7 minutes of footage showcased at Cannes, then subjected to endless cutting and torture at the hands of vicious editors and Entertainment Tonight and finally being attached to a chain-gang of other trailers for the benefit of Prometheus, Django Unchained’s first teaser has broken lose from [...]
Read More Cannes Film Festival, Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, featured, Jaime Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino, Trailer, Western
Between the teasing Cannes reports about the 7 minutes of screened Django Unchained footage and the promise of the first official trailer playing before Prometheus upon its June 8th release, things are looking pretty grim for all of us who are too lazy to go to France or the movie theatre. Fortunately, six new stills [...]
Read More Cannes Film Festival, Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Jaime Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino, Western
Continuing where they left off with 1996’s Romeo + Juliet, Baz Luhrmann and Leonardo DiCaprio have taken the next step in their incredibly elaborate and expensive effort to get high schoolers to complete their English requirements: the first official trailer for their upcoming adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel, The Great Gatsby, has [...]
Read More Amitabh Bachchan, Baz Luhrmann, Carey Mulligan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, featured, Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton, Leonardo DiCaprio, The Great Gatsby, Tobey Maguire
After playing the carefree, dandy, Oscar Wilde analogue twice (1999′s An Ideal Husband and 2002′s The Importance of Being Earnest) and waiting for more than a decade for some discerning writer and/or director to understand his strong hints, Rupert Everett has just decided to say screw it. He’s written his own Oscar Wilde biopic, which [...]
Read More Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Oscar Wilde, Rupert Everett, The Happy Prince, Tom Wilkinson
Because the Jewish people haven’t suffered enough unspeakable horrors over the past few millennia, someone has decided to unleash a new Judaism-rooted supernatural horror to inhabit the public’s consciousness with the upcoming horror-thriller film The Possesssion and the claim that it’s “based on a true story.” In the vernacular of the horror world, however, those words are [...]
Read More exorcism, Horror, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Ole Bornedal, Sam Raimi, The Possession
Because movies need dramatic showdowns and one can only squeeze so many dramatic showdowns into a movie, the trend of dueling Hollywood studio projects exists in order to create meta-dramatic showdowns and Sony has now figuratively cocked its Channing Tatum gun. The Hollywood Reporter reports with far less suggestive imagery that Channing Tatum is now [...]
Read More action movie, Antoine Fuqua, Channing Tatum, Gerard Butler, Roland Emmerich, White House Down
After being saddled with an NC-17 rating back in March, Killer Joe has decided to just let it all hang out like last year’s Shame and push forward with its first trailer in anticipation of a July 27, 2012 release date. The self-proclaimed “totally twisted deep-fried Texas redneck trailer park murder story” is based on [...]
Read More Emile Hirsch, gina gershon, juno temple, killer joe, matthew mcconaughey, thomas haden church, william friedkin