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Movie auteur Robert Rodriguez certainly is a busy boy of late. Robert Rodriguez and fiancée Rose McGowan are at it again. No… I meant movies, not sex. Well, actually maybe a bit of both…

Over the past 79 years, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has presented a total of 80 Best Actor awards to 73 different actors. Let’s see who’s gonna get it this year.

Heath Ledger first stole our hearts in 1999 with his role as Patrick Verona in director Gil Junger’s Ten Things I Hate About You.

Will Michelle Monaghan appear as the seductive Silver Fox in the upcoming movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine? We sure hope so.

ScarJo wants to make movies. We are okay with that…

Speed Racer’s rival car was recently revealed at an auto convention in Tokyo.

For a long time, Hollywood looked to books for “fresh” movie material. After a while, they turned to comic books, graphic novels, television shows, cartoons… and finally video games.

Just in time for those of you dying to catch up on the suburban drama of your favorite women from Wisteria Lane, Buena Vista Home Entertainment has released a special edition of the third season of the 2007 Emmy nominated show Desperate Housewives. The latest edition to the DH DVD collection is titled Desperate Housewives: [...]

Big time playa Justin Timberlake is set to appear in yet another movie, reports Variety.com, joining the cast of a Paramount Pictures film titled The Love Guru, starring the unlikely combination of Mike Meyers and Jessica Alba. Although the former teenybopper heartthrob turned “actor” didn’t score a major role in the film, he’s got to be pretty happy with himself nonetheless.

Question: What could possibly be more kick-ass than a Paul Bartel (television actor/director) cult classic starring both David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone about a brutal cross-country road race, set in the futuristic year 2000 (the movie was released in 1975), in which drivers purposefully run down pedestrians to score points along the way?

On Tuesday, producer Tom Rosenberg told ComingSoon.net to expect an announcement in the near future as to whether or not Screen Gems Production Company will greenlight another film in the Underworld franchise.

Kurt Sutter, a writer and co-executive producer for the Fox television series The Shield, is teaming up with Warner Independent Pictures to direct a “remake” of the movie that single-handedly ignited the international kung-fu cinema craze and made Bruce Lee the ne’er replaceable god of martial arts movies: Warner Bros. Pictures’ 1973 Enter the Dragon.

Despite recent reports to the contrary (or simply because Michael Bay is following in Eli Roth’s footsteps as a whiny little bitch), the Transformers director does indeed appear to be on-board for a second installment of the summer blockbuster.

Apparently, Mary Kate Olsen makes out with an old dude in her new newest movie (a.k.a. the only movie she’s made in how many years? And she’s not even a major character…), a comedy written and directed by Jonathan Levine and appropriately titled The Wackness. As the resident old-dude-loving female Reject writer (so I like Bruce Willis, so what?), it was only too perfect that I comment on this story.

Recently released information from an industry “insider” describes the film as “an old-fashioned monster movie retold in a very modern Blair Witch sort of way.” So expect a whole lot more of the nausea-inducing shaky camera technique used in the film’s mysterious trailer, which premiered before Michael Bay’s summer blockbuster Transformers.

With all of the most popular comic books being gobbled up by the majors as fodder for multi-million-dollar box office blockbusters—most of which are devoid of both plot and significant talent the future of adapting graphic novels and animated television series for the big screen looks dim, especially given recent announcements regarding the planned production of movies based on The Mighty Thor franchise (Marvel Studios) and Voltron: The Defender of the Universe (New Regency).

So apparently hating Jews in Hollywood is a bad idea. Just ask Mel Gibson. While other actors of his generation, like Harrison Ford and Bruce Willis, are out trying to re-prove their vitality by making multi-million-dollar fourth installments of the action series they starred in during their younger years (Live Free or Die Hard and Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods, respectively), Gibson “will never be allowed to work on a big-budget movie again,” reports Hollywood.com.

After a couple years out of the saddle, director David Cronenberg (A History of Violence) has teamed up with screenwriter Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things) to produce Eastern Promises, set for release next month. The buzz about Eastern Promises revolves around a “naked” fight scene that takes place in a London bathhouse between History of Violence star Viggo Mortensen and two other male actors.

While many of Scarlett Johansson’s fans will be disappointed to learn that the actress won’t be playing Jenna Jameson in the planned biopic adaptation of the book by the porn star/“actress” titled How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Johansson will be making an appearance in not one…not two… not even three—but four major motion pictures set for release in 2009.

In early June of this year, Variety reported that Warner Bros. studios is currently working on a live-action CGI movie based on the popular 80’s cartoon television series Thundercats in conjunction with producer Paula Weinstein (who most recently produced The Astronaut Farmer and Blood Diamond), action animators Dick Robertson and Lew Korman, and writer Paul Sopocy. Thundercats fans know, however, that this is not the first time a major motion picture studio has dangled the promise of a Thundercats movie in front of adoring fans — originally the live-action version of this popular cartoon was set for release in 1998, nearly a decade ago, a date that was repeatedly put off before the project was scrapped altogether.

What do Angelina Jolie and a 2007 Dodge Viper have in common? They’re both smokin’ hot, that’s what. Not to mention the fact that I’d consider making out with either, despite the threat of lacerations from sharp metal objects… oh, and making out with a Viper would probably be kinda difficult, too… but after wiping the drool from my chin I’d sure as hell try.

Cinematical published a list of movies titled “Teen Sex Comedies That DON’T Suck,” including Luke Greenfield’s underrated 2004 film The Girl Next Door, Paul Brickman’s 1983 Tom Cruise sorta-kinda-almost-naked classic Risky Business, and Paul Weitz’s 1999 endless sequel and straight-to-DVD movie spawning American Pie. The real question, however, is not “Which teen sex comedies didn’t suck?,” but rather, “Why the hell do we need a list of teen sex comedies that don’t suck to begin with?”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin, Wicker Park) recently announced the four actors set to star in his latest pre-production film, simply titled Push. In addition to Hollywood regulars Chris Evans (Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four movie franchise), Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond, Constantine), and Camilla Belle (When a Stranger [...]

Director Joe Carnahan’s schizophrenic and over-the-top action comedy Smokin’ Aces earned $14.6 million dollars during its opening weekend, a disappointing figure given the film’s relatively star-studded cast (including Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Ben Affleck, and Jeremy Piven) and $17 million-dollar production budget. This disappointing box office turnout combined with Carnahan’s desire to capitalize on the cult following that has developed around Smokin’ Aces (as is evident from the film’s impressive DVD sales) were most likely the determining factors in the recent announcement that the Smokin’ Aces prequel will skip a large theatrical release, going instead straight to DVD.

Breakout comedic actor Seth Rogen is known primarily as the hefty, unattractive but devastatingly funny actor (with a gigantic ass) who gave life to Cal in The 40 Year Old Virgin (“You know how I know you’re gay?”) and, more recently, to Ben Stone in Knocked Up (“You know how they say to never drink and drive? Well, never drink and bone”).

Since its premier at the VC Film Festival in Canada in October of 1999, the art house cult horror film Audition (”dishon) has earned its creator, longtime Japanese film and television writer and director Takashi Miike, an ever-growing international fan following.

Very little credit can be given to director Michael Bay for the box office success of what is arguably this summer’s biggest movie blockbuster: Transformers. As a whole, the film is nothing more than a mish-mash of elements predetermined for success with male audiences of virtually any age: sweet cars, big guns, massive explosions, widespread physical devastation, smokin’ hot chicks (a.k.a. Megan Fox, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, 2004, and Rachael Taylor, See No Evil, 2006), and an animated television show that 90% of our country’s male population grew up watching…

Fred Thompson is what we like to call a “lawyer turned actor turned senator turned actor turned presidential candidate.” Because we use terms like that to describe people all the time. Personally, I can’t think of anyone better equipped for the position, especially after spending the past eight excruciatingly long years suffering through the painful attempts at public speaking made by our completely inept President. At least Thompson will be able to deliver a speech without stumbling over words like “I” and “nuclear.”

Former camera operator Craig DiBona’s directorial debut is a poor-at-best attempt to breathe life into novelist Virginia C. Andrews’ (author of the popular 1987 novel Flowers in the Attic) somewhat obscure, somewhat popular novel Rain, suggesting that perhaps camera operators should stick to operating cameras.
In an opening scene that leads viewers to believe initially [...]

Once a month actor Samuel L. Jackson (Unbreakable, Die Hard: With A Vengeance, S.W.A.T., Pulp Fiction) takes time out of his busy schedule to talk with Film School Rejects editor Paige MacGregor. Below is a transcript of this month’s interview, which focuses on a topic that we all know is extremely relevant in the lives of our readers: guns.