Is Ridley Scott worried about filming his new movie ‘Prometheus’ at the foot of Iceland’s active Hekla volcano?
Not at all. “If one is afraid of nature in this profession then it would be best to find a different job,” the director told reporters in central Reykjavik before heading off to begin filming. He said he’s not losing any sleep over the ominous — and erroneous — news reports… More
According to the editors at Autoblog, ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ director Michael Bay has cribbed someone else’s work — his own.
The latest iteration of ‘Transformers’ has broken box office records this weekend, so it seems that not many people have noticed –or cared — about the familiar footage from Bay’s 2005 flick ‘The Island.’ Frame-by-frame, it appears that the same footage is being used in ‘Transformers.’
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Peter Falk and Wim Wenders
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As rumpled TV detective Columbo and the grandfather in The Princess Bride, Peter Falk delighted audiences with his quirky charm.
But Falk, who died June 23 at the age of 83, was accomplished in drama, nominated twice for an Oscar in 1960′s Murder, Inc., and 1961′s Pocketful of
Paris Hilton and Todd Phillips
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• New couple alert? Paris Hilton may have recently called things off with beau Cy Waits – and the heiress has been getting cozy with the Hangover director Todd Phillips. The two headed to Beacher’s Madhouse, the vaudeville show inside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where they met up… More
Over the last few years, we’ve seen quite a few British filmmakers tackling the historic war epic, some of the more recent ones being Neil Marshall’s Centurion and Kevin Macdonald’s The Eagle. Both of those had their merits, but they don’t quite have the impact of Jonathan English’s Ironclad.
Branching off from the signing of the Magna Carta and the decision by King John to renege… More
Mere hours after Hugh Jackman was announced to headline Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables musical for Universal with the presumption that 20th Century Fox’s planned sequel The Wolverine would be delayed, Deadline is reporting that Fox and Jackman have a new first choice to direct the X-Men spin-off… James Mangold. Mangold previously directed the Oscar-winning biopic Walk the LIne for Fox along with last year’s Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz action movie Knight… More
Review in a Hurry: From sensitive, boring director Lasse Hallstrom (The Shipping News, An Unfinished Life), comes a love story featuring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried as the two most perfect…
One can only imagine the pressure felt by David Dobkin, director of The Change-Up , as he returns to R-rated comedy for the first time since 2005′s summer hit Wedding Crashers , a bonafide blockbuster which helped start one of the waves of comedy that’s gotten even more prominent in recent years. Except now he’s working from a script by the guys who wrote The Hangover , the only… More
The universe of world cinema has been expanding over the years, but other than South Africa, that continent has been somewhat slow in producing feature films that make it past the film festival circuit. That’s why it’s a pleasant surprise when a movie like Viva Riva! , the debut feature from Djo Tunda Wa Munga, turns up, marking the first feature length dramatic film from the Democratic Republic of… More
For many years, filmmaker Richard Ayoade was best known, mostly in Britain, for his work with the comedy troupe The Mighty Boosh and the television series “The IT Crowd” as well as his video work with the Arctic Monkeys, but his debut feature Submarine , based on a book by Joe Dunthorne, debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last September to rave reviews before being picked up by The… More
