by Hugo Ozman, May 21, 2012 7:55 PM
MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST 2.0 winning web-series, Event Zero, has just premiered on Movie Extra's YouTube Channel. The first episode of the seven-part series has been embedded below for your viewing pleasure. It looks fantastic. About Event Zero: Created by Enzo Tedeschi...
by Ryland Aldrich, May 21, 2012 5:18 PM
"The D is silent." -Jamie Foxx in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. That catchphrase lit up the twittershpere as journalists streamed out of the Weinstein Company's show and tell Monday evening in Cannes. Harvey was on hand to present just...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, May 21, 2012 4:55 PM
Bursting with tons of new footage, this teaser featurette only ampilfies my anticipation for Ridley Scott's Prometheus. All that can be said about this up-coming science fiction has been said. Let's just sit back and let the amazing visuals...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, May 21, 2012 4:00 PM
Last season AMC's The Walking Dead really pulled a hat trick, wrapping up a lot of loose ends, ramping up the action, and making some serious ballsy moves as far as who lives and who dies. The series got...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, May 21, 2012 12:52 PM
It's been 5 long years since P.T. Anderson's last triumph, with the expansive and challenging There Will Be Blood. Now, on Oct. 12 the Weinstein Company will release Anderson's latest film, The Master. A period piece set in the...
by Andrew Mack, May 21, 2012 11:02 AM
I want to say something like 'This is a local film, for local people. We'll have no trouble here', because the sales rights for Toronto filmmaker Rodrigo Gudino's debut The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh have been bought...
by Hugo Ozman, May 21, 2012 10:59 AM
As many of you would know, Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmasters now has a scheduled released date of December 2012. While the world is waiting with anticipation and WKW is presumably busy with post-production(and possibly shooting / reshooting scenes) of...
by Jason Gorber, May 21, 2012 10:32 AM
We don't usually get too excited about home media press releases around here, but this is a set that has been anticipated for a very long time. Plus, they tied the official announcement just in time for those of us...
by James Marsh, May 21, 2012 4:38 AM
It doesn't really matter that Ridley Scott is releasing a prequel to his own insanely influential science fiction opus Alien next month, or that Christopher Nolan will be wrapping up his Batman trilogy a few weeks later. There is a...
by Andrew Mack, May 20, 2012 10:52 PM
Check out the North American trailer for Tom Lin's Starry Starry Night. The film has been playing this weekend (19th, 20th and 22nd) at the Seattle Film Festival, then at the New York Asian Film Festival and then opening July 6th...
by J Hurtado, May 20, 2012 10:05 PM
Welcome to a long overdue new series from Twitch's Video Home Invasion!I have no really good reason for taking so long between columns. I will only tell you that between reviewing home video releases almost every day, keeping up...
by Al Young, May 20, 2012 1:18 PM
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Crystal Sky Pictures has announced during the Cannes film festival that Dwight H. Little's live action fighting video game film Tekken will get a prequel under the titled Tekken: Rise of the Tournament and director...
by Hugo Ozman, May 20, 2012 7:44 AM
(Updated with official responses from Roadshow Films on the upcoming limited release of The Cabin In The Woods across Australia - not exactly breaking news now but included here just so that everyone who really wanted to see this film...
by Peter Martin, May 19, 2012 4:00 PM
Fans of U.S. TV show Community were cheered by recent word that it would be returning for a fourth season, but that reaction has been tempered by news late Friday night that creator Dan Harmon will not be returning...
by Peter Martin, May 19, 2012 3:00 PM
Director Xavier Gens made a big splash in the genre pool with the very impressive and hard-edged Frontière(s) before tangling with Hollywood on the ill-fated Hitman and then delivering the apocalyptic (and divisive) The Divide. Now he's set to...
by James Marsh, May 19, 2012 12:44 PM
Word has broken over at Indiewire that XYZ Films looks to continue the phenomenal success it is currently enjoying around the world with Gareth Evans' The Raid by putting two more Indonesian action films into production just as soon as...
by Ryland Aldrich, May 19, 2012 12:00 PM
While the very best of world cinema is unspooling upstairs at the Palais (see our reviews of Paradise: Love and Reality), there is a-whole-nother world of cinema happening downstairs. Probably the biggest draw of the fest isn't the red carpet glamour or the...
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by Hugo Ozman, May 19, 2012 8:23 AM
When launching his latest film Chinese Zodiac in Cannes, Jackie Chan announced that the film will be his 'last big action movie' because of factors such as his age, safety and his family. The 58-year old actor is the action choreographer,...
by Al Young, May 19, 2012 8:22 AM
As the Cannes film festival is underway, a trailer for Switch (富春山居图) has been release at this event. No official word on the story behind the 20-million budgeted action adventure film yet but from the trailer, I'm assuming leading...
by Al Young, May 19, 2012 8:22 AM
What's old is new again. Exactly two decades ago, notorious filmmaker Wong Jing produced Naked Killer, a "Girls With Guns" film that became a Hong Kong cult classic due to its graphic violence and explicit sexual nature. He then followed...
by Todd Brown, May 19, 2012 5:17 AM
Will Johnny Depp's other revival of a classic, horror themed television series turn out better than Dark Shadows did? Given the talent package assembling around The Night Stalker, it would appear to have a fighting chance.Word broke back in...
by Todd Brown, May 19, 2012 5:05 AM
It seems such an obvious - and stellar - choice for a film that the only real question to ask is "Why has it taken this long?"Duncan Jones - the director of Moon and Source Code - has been...
by Todd Brown, May 18, 2012 9:06 PM
Who would have thought - when he first appeared on the scene as part of The Art Of The Devil directing collective Ronin Team - that Thailand's Kongkiat Khomsiri would emerge as one of his nation's most consistently compelling...
by Andrew Mack, May 18, 2012 8:29 PM
The collective of Canadian filmmakers out of Geulph, Ontario who brought us If A Tree Falls and Neverlost have just wrapped up post on their next film, the psychological thriller In The House of Flies. And we have the first exclusive...
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by Todd Brown, May 18, 2012 8:15 PM
San Francisco based horror directors The Butcher Brothers - helmers of Sundance selected The Violent Kind - are paying a fresh visit to their favorite family with their latest effort. A sequel to their breakout hit The Hamiltons, The...
by Todd Brown, May 18, 2012 7:30 PM
Rubber and Wrong director Quentin Dupieux is sending his Wrong Cops to arrest the internet on May 24th. That would be the day that the cult director premieres the first chunk of his proposed Marilyn Manson starring feature film...
by Todd Brown, May 18, 2012 6:46 PM
International sales of Andrew Lau's upcoming The Guillotines have been brisk and in a press release announcing this fact sales agents We Distribution included a brand new still from the picture, which you can see above.We Distribution continues to...
by James Dennis, May 18, 2012 3:33 PM
Hammer's exciting catalogue restoration continues with a duo of swanky new home entertainment releases - The Plague of the Zombies and The Reptile, shot back to back by John Gilling in 1966. Both due for release as double play Blu-ray/ DVD...
by Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, May 18, 2012 11:16 AM
The North American rights to Catalan director Jaume Balagueró Sleep Tight have been acquired by MPI at the Cannes Film Festival this week, according to Deadline Hollywood. The film, released in Spain last year, is a psychological thriller about a...
by Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, May 18, 2012 10:17 AM
Óscar Aibar is not as well known outside of Spain as he should be. His films have that strange and wonderful blending of genres, such as comedy and sci-fi in Platillos Volantes (about textile workers obsessed with UFO's), sci-fi and western in Atolladero (set...
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