by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 3:36 PM
Another major piece has just fallen into place for the Jose Padilha directed remake of Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop. We already knew that The Killing star Joel Kinnaman would play the robotically enhanced crime fighter and now we know that...
by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 3:15 PM
Just five weeks away from their scheduled release of GI Joe: Retaliation and perhaps feeling a bit of performance anxiety due to the monster sized competition in what is already shaping up to be the blockbusteriest of blockbuster season,...
by Swarez, May 24, 2012 7:13 AM
Reynir Lyngdal's found footage horror film FROST seems to be gathering up speed at Cannes this last weekend with Alliance snapping up the UK rights and other companies circling this promising looking flick.For those who don't know, the story revolves...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 2:20 PM
RoboCop is the new Batman. Or, at least, he is the new voice of Batman.Warner Brothers currently have director Jay Oliva hard at work on a two film animated adaptation of Frank Miller's 1986 comic miniseries The Dark Knight...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 10:25 AM
It seems Natalie Portman is ready to get back in the saddle, both figuratively and literally. Having taken a good block of time away from work following Black Swan to focus on being a parent, Portman is at the...
by Andrew Mack, May 23, 2012 10:25 AM
From my childhood there are ever-so-brief memories of watching someone's adaptation of Pippi Longstocking. Television, film and animation versions of Astrid Lindgren's children's books have dotted the entertainment landscape since the late 40s. It had to be one of...
by Peter Martin, May 23, 2012 3:05 AM
Ahead of its world premiere today in the Directors' Fortnight section at Cannes, Ben Wheatley's Sightseers has been acquired by IFC Films for distribution in the U.S., according to Indiewire. Alice Lowe and Steve Oram star in what is...
by James Marsh, May 23, 2012 2:05 AM
Screen Daily is reporting that Mainland Chinese actor Jiang Wen is set to direct and star in Gone With The Bullets, a spiritual sequel to his 2010 smash hit Let The Bullets Fly and that Gong Li is likely to...
by James Marsh, May 22, 2012 9:38 AM
Renowned British film critic Mark Kermode today launches an intriguing new online film club concept on his blog over at the BBC's website. Inspired by questions about the relevance of film festivals for the general public and the dying art...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
by Peter Martin, May 18, 2012 10:00 AM
Financing is now locked and loaded for the English-language remake of John Woo's The Killer, to be directed by John H. Lee (A Moment to Remember). Sarah Yan Li will co-star; casting for the lead roles is still up...
by Jim Tudor, May 18, 2012 3:15 AM
Welcome to my second-ever illustrious column, "Tudor's Twitchin' Travel Tours". I'll admit it up front: As satisfied as I was with my debut entry last week, I don't think it exactly set the world on fire in terms of must-read...
More >>
by Todd Brown, May 17, 2012 7:30 PM
Full marks to the marketing team behind Sam Mendes' Skyfall for understanding the style and icons of the classic era James Bond - and the importance of respecting both - in their poster for the latest Bond effort. The...
by Todd Brown, May 17, 2012 7:10 PM
There is big news from the world of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner follow up with word breaking in The Hollywood Reporter that producers are now in talks with original Blade Runner screenwriter Hampton Fancher to pen this new entry....
by Pierce Conran, May 17, 2012 2:30 PM
The long-gestating Doomsday Book three-part omnibus, from directors Kim Jee-woon (I Saw the Devil, 2010) and Im Pil-sung (Antarctic Journal, 2005), was finally completed earlier this year before going on limited release in its native Korea last month. M-Line Distribution...
by Pierce Conran, May 17, 2012 10:22 AM
Korean production house Mirovision has been screening its first promotional trailers for Empire of the Ants, a $25 million 3D adaptation of Bernard Webber's popular sci-fi novel, to buyers at the Cannes film market. The book is the first installment...
by Andrew Mack, May 17, 2012 8:03 AM
Eli Roth, director of Cabin Fever and Hostel, is returning to the director's chair after a lengthy hiatus spent producing and acting and such. Worldview Entertainment has signed on to produce and finance his new horror thriller The Green Inferno....
More >>
by Todd Brown, May 16, 2012 8:05 PM
Do you like to watch big, burly men punching each other? Well, so do I! And so this summer Twitch will present a film series dedicated to the biggest, beefiest stars of them all with a retrospective of films...
by Todd Brown, May 16, 2012 2:50 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you what may be the greatest, most ridiculous poster ever made for a movie which does not yet exist. Freshly arrived in Cannes I made my first foray into the Marche du Film...
Rainbow Song
