Rebecca Keegan’s book, The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron, was recently released to coincide with the release of James Cameron’s Avatar (you can read all of our Avatar coverage, including news/reviews/interviews by clicking here). I haven’t had a chance to read [...]
One of the great things about Inglourious Basterds getting loads of critic association awards is that Quentin Tarantino is still out talking to people, and naturally he’s talking about his next possible projects. (Talking is still what Tarantino does best.) So, what does the director’s 2010 [...]
/Film reader and Brazilian artist Mario Graciotti has created a few series of posters I wanted to showcase on the site. The posters showcase the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, and Pixar Animation Studios. Check out some of Graciotti’s minimalistic posters, [...]
Stories like this make me want to bellow like the Kool-Aid Man. At the beginning of November there was a tiny mention in an otherwise unrelated Variety article that suggested David Cronenberg was still developing The Talking Cure, a film based on Christopher Hampton’s 2002 play [...]
Below the break you’ll be able to see high-resolution versions of both the one sheet and quad designs for the Robin Hood poster. Combining the posters and stills with the two trailers so far released, the lesser rock-addled US cut and the more plot-driven UK one, we’re [...]
Though you may not know his name, Kim Peek directly inspired Dustin Hoffman’s role in the Oscar-winning film Rain Man. He died from a heart attack on Saturday morning. Peek was 58, and perhaps one of the world’s most famous savants. He couldn’t perform basic tasks like [...]
Tanga is selling a Back to the Future Flux Capacitor T-Shirt for only $5.99 (plus $1.99 shipping and handling).
Amazon has a few last minute holiday deals:
Gold Box Deal of the Day (24 hours ONLY): The King of Queens: The Complete Series on [...]
I’m not nearly as in love with the social movie ranking site Flickchart as other movie fans, but I can admit that they’ve sort of struck gold with their concept. Not only is that movie comparison data fun to share with your friends, but it also [...]
Who will be the action heroes of the future, CGI or human actors? You decide. Featuring an epic ensemble cast, Black20’s new trailer mash-up AVATAR Wars features the final showdown between the future CGI characters and the human acton heroes we’ve grown to love. Watch [...]
ABC has released yet another 1 minute trailer for the sixth and final season of LOST. We’ve seen a lot of promos for this upcoming season, none of which contain any new footage (something mandated by the series producers, in order to avoid spoilers). This [...]
Well, this is a nice little surprise. If you can stand not knowing the content of the dialogue and voice-over, here’s the French version of the first full trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film Inception. Check it out after the break.
Actually, I almost prefer seeing the trailer [...]
The holiday trailer flood continues today with three new clips for one film that has a large, eager audience and two that, to be fair, probably don’t. Sex and the City 2 was inevitable, given the success of the first film, and this is the first footage [...]
This post is probably going to be a bit like kicking a beehive. Every time we run an article about the upcoming Thor movie, starring Chris Hemsworth as the Norse god of Marvel comics and legend, there is a flurry of comments reiterating the fan opinion that [...]
I’m not sure I’m totally comfortable with a comic book about fantastical monsters from the midst of WW2 being called Night and Fog, the same name as Alain Resnais’ shocking, often very hard to swallow documentary about the real atrocities of that war. All the same, that’s [...]
Taiki Waititi’s indie comedy Eagle vs. Shark (which featured a pre-Conchords Jemaine Clement) was one of my favorite films from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival (I was even quoted on the international DVD cover). Waititi returns to Sundance in 2010 with Boy, which will [...]
Consider me shocked that The Karate Kid remake starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan actually looks like it may be a fun film. We’ve covered the film over the past year with increasing trepidation — especially when the studio decided to stick with the Karate Kid [...]
I hope Twilight fans are happy with the fast-growing monster that is Taylor Lautner. He’s got two big movies in the works already (Max Steel and Cancun) and now he may star in a remake of the Matthew Modine coming of age film Vision Quest. This one [...]
With US audiences at least, Yuen Woo Ping is probably the best known and most popular of Chinese martial arts movie choreographers. His work on American pictures like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix helped cement his cult status, though it’s probably fair to say much [...]
We don’t have as many big new posters dropping at the end of the year as we do trailers, but a few new images have cropped up for films that premiere early in 2010. It’s mostly horror and thriller stuff, but then there’s a new image for [...]
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Evan Young and Jareth Grealish are the co-writers of the comic book series the forgotten, officially all in lower case like that. It’s a murder mystery series featuring a lead character with one very unusal power , “the ability to reach out with his own mind to [...]
Each year Gallery 1988 holds a “Under The Influence” art show. In years past, they’ve done tribute shows to the Beastie Boys and Stan Lee. This year’s honoree is a tribute to He-Man and The Masters of the [...]
I’ve got no doubt that Peter Weir is one of the greatest of great filmmakers working today and every one of his too-rare films is a real event for me. While I’m waiting for his next picture The Way Back every little scrap of information is valuable, [...]
We last reported nearly a year ago that Warner Brothers was aiming to develop a live-action film version of Tom and Jerry, with the titular cat and mouse being CG. Needless to say, it seemed like a bad idea. Just recently our pal Frosty got a [...]
As part of their upcoming interview issue, Newsweek invited James Cameron and Peter Jackson to have a chat about filmmaking in the technology age. There’s the typical banter praising each others projects, as well as some fairly good insight into how they both use technology, and [...]
20th Century Fox has released the first teaser trailer for the new Tom Cruise action/comedy Knight & Day. Directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line / 3:10 to Yuma / Girl, Interrupted), the film centers on a fugitive couple (played by Cruise and Cameron [...]
BBDO, AT&T and BlackBerry have just released a new interactive advertisement directed by Michael Mann (Public Enemies, Heat, The Insider) that ties a broadcast TV spot (a 24-style action-thriller) with a your Facebook account information to insert you into the story. The television broadcast version of [...]
A week ago, we saw the first trailer for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. Now we’ve got an international version, and it omits the silly and inappropriate rock soundtrack heard in the domestic cut. Instead, this clip offers up a bit more story and' [...]
For years, the Criterion Collection has been around to provide one of the best film educations a casual viewer can receive. Just by checking out any chunk of the now-massive collection, you’ll be exposed to an incredible array of films that cover every spectrum of entertaining and [...]
This evening, I attended a packed advanced screening of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. About 95% of the time at these screenings, they don’t show trailers before the film. Tonight, I was surprised to find a brand new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception attached. The trailer isn’t [...]
Pixar has released a set of six photos from the Color Script of Lee Unkrich’s Toy Story 3 on The Pixar Blog, Upcoming Pixar, and PixarTalk. For every Pixar movie, a color script is created, which is essentially an at [...]
Hatchet writer/director Adam Green’s Frozen is a single-room thriller set on a ski-resort chairlift. The story follows three college students (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers) who are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, and are “forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put [...]
If reports are to be believed, Peter Jackson is at work right now on his next movie and it’s another fantasy novel adaptation. Mortal Engines is the first film in a series of (so far) five books by Phillip Reeve that also collectively go by the Mortal [...]
After the character posters for Kick-Ass come the character trailers, and it’s a case of Last In, First Out as Hit Girl becomes the star of the opening effort. It’s of immediate interest that this is a Red Band trailer, complete with extreme profanity and explicit acts [...]
In July we posted the teaser trailer for Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me. And while the computer animated film is supposedly about a trio of orphan girls cause the normally deplorable Gru to rethink his plan to steal the moon, the trailer focused on [...]
News that Bryan Singer had signed to direct X-Men: First Class created a lot of excitement, but just as many questions, in the world of comic book movie fandom. We know that Jamie Moss has been hired to write, and the director had [...]
Are you a fan of DC comics’ Hawkman? I don’t know how much success the character has actually had. I’ve carried out a quick straw poll of my non-geek associates and none of them actually knew who he was and two of them thought I was talking [...]
Sony Pictures has provided us with an exclusive clip from the DVD/Blu-ray release of District 9, giving us a look into what was involved in designing the prop alien guns used in the film. Watch the clip after the jump, along with a gallery of [...]
John Wells‘ The Company Men will screen at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of the Premieres category. The film tells the story of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company, and how that affects them, [...]
The Sundance Institute announced today the addition of three world premieres which will screen out of competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival:
It’s a Wonderful Afterlife: Bend it Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha and co-screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges return to Sundance with a comedy centered on an [...]
Last week a viral for Christopher Nolan’s Inception began, revealing the first one sheet for the film. It was discovered at the completion of an internet mini game called Mind Crime, which involved users creating a maze for people to play around in.
With only a [...]
We’ve featured the work of UK artist Olly Moss, in past editions of Cool Stuff. He is probably best known for his popular t-shirt designs which have virally spread across the interwebs (the Spoilers t-shirt and a series of retro [...]
20th Century Fox has released the teaser trailer for Marmaduke, the big screen adaptation of the Brad Anderson-created comic strip.
For Phil and Debbie Winslow, moving their family from Kansas to the O.C. is a big deal. For their enormous Great Dane “Marmaduke,” (voiced by Owen Wilson) however, [...]
Amazon’s Gold Box Deal of the Day us The Complete First Two Seasons of the BBC television series Torchwood for $33.99 each on DVD or $38.99 on Blu-Ray, upwards to 61% off the retail price.
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James Cameron’s Avatar has been unleashed upon this world. We’ve run reviews from half of the /Film staff: David Chen, Brendon Connelly, Russ Fischer, and Hunter Stephenson. You might have even added your own mini-review. But you might be wondering, with all the talk [...]
[Update: This morning, the estimates for Avatar's domestic and worldwide box office take were revised. Avatar performed better on Sunday than initial estimates. The headline has been updated with the correct figures. The following article will be updated as more details come in.]
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For everyone who’s always wished that your vast and encyclopedic knowledge of the Star Wars films could somehow come in handy, Star Wars Weather has arrived! This brilliant meteorological system explains what your local weather conditions are by comparing them to one of the planets [...]
Right near the top of my 2010 most-anticipated list is Luc Besson’s Adele Blanc-Sec, a film I previously described as a “little bit Indiana Jones, a little bit Tintin and a little bit Hellboy”.
Our first look at the film came via a teaser poster, then there [...]
This story will eventually get along to news of a potential original film from Robert Rodriguez but first of all, we need to tidy up a lot of loose ends regarding his ever mounting pile of in-the-works sequels. He’s a franchisomaniac.
All of this info comes from the [...]
Somehow, I’m not surprised that Lucasfilms is the first major Hollywood production company (that we’ve heard of) to look into consumer-level DSLR digital cameras that can shoot HD video. For better or worse, George Lucas has always been a pioneer in digital filmmaking. Learning how to use [...]
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