Movie News

The beard enthusiast (and sometimes actor) is in talks to voice Humpty Dumpty. Beats getting high and agreeing to G-Force.

If we never see the fine folks from Pajiba again, we now know why. They are reporting today on a film project so secretive, it threatens their very lives to even whisper its name.

Production on The Tourist is set to begin early next year. The players within that production seems to be changing daily.

Ever since Universal Pictures released the first teaser trailer for their upcoming animated comedy Despicable Me back in July, I’ve been curious about it. After trailer two, I’m interested.

Ridley Scott has been talking about directing Monopoly for some time now. Peter Berg is still waiting to board a Battleship movie. Kevin Lima is going to take us to Candyland. And now, Sony Pictures is planning a big screen adaptation of RISK.

Our friends over at First Showing got an interesting little scoop this afternoon, picking up some casting news from Robert Redford’s upcoming Lincoln assassination film The Conspirator.

There’s no doubt that Warner Bros. wants this version of Sherlock Holmes, of which the vision is derived from the wild mind of Guy Ritchie, to be the exciting, exhilarating version of Sherlock Holmes.

Spotted at the American Film Market: a new poster from Scream 4. Spotted in the FSR newsroom: audible boredom from the Rejects’ staff.

It’s been a long time coming for Steve Guttenberg, or “The Gutt” to his friends. He’s headed back to the big time, back to the marquee… back to the 80s well.

Remember back when we reported that Angelina Jolie was coming on to the project known as Salt, taking over for Tom Cruise and forcing a re-write of the script to change the title character’s name from Edwin A. Salt to Evelyn A. Salt? This is that film.

Will changing your name to mimic a big success from the year yield new success? What flavor are your nightmares?

Sure, these posters look like they are turning out great, but there’s a noticeable lack of any robotic, gold-plated owls.

What is it with Owen Wilson and movies about dogs?

This seems to be the height of what we might call non-news, but since we have not yet reported on this ever-developing story, it’s worth saying something.

Producer Barrie Osborne might be asking for trouble with this one…

Coming off of his long-gestating project The Road, director John Hillcoat is looking toward the future. Toward a story of Prohibition bootleggers that may star two of Hollywood’s best young actors.

Shawn Levy, director of the Night at the Museum franchise, is embarking on something akin to making a movie out of a board game — which is dumb — he’s producing a movie based on the popular series of children’s books known as The Berenstain Bears.

George Clooney is currently flying around the world, promoting his three new movies that will hit theaters in the next two months. Yet, that still hasn’t stopped him from finding even more work…

Hasbro had a mega-hit with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and the studio hoped for lightning in a bottle with their August release of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. It made some green, but you might need to have a few drinks to really enjoy the film again on Blu-ray or DVD.

Step one to being taken seriously: Make a socially conscious film. Step two: Have a typo in the trailer.