Nicolas Cage is an actor who has made some very good movies and some very bad ones, but right now the star is having a renaissance that looks set to continue with his starring role as Dracula in Universal’s horror-comedy, Renfield. As a character that has been portrayed by dozens of actors on screen, Cage will be bringing his own unique style to the iconic Count, and he recently teased how he developed his voice for the role....
The Good Sienna Guillory and Milla Jovovich. An interesting screenplay. The Bad This movie is too stylized for it’s own good. Resident Evil: Apocalypse seemed like a good idea because the first Resident Evil was a pretty good film. Depending on your tastes, you either like the present day Zombie movies or you don’t. As I don’t consider myself exclusive to either camp (maybe I will in a few more years?...
Now, don’t confuse John August’s The Nines with Rob Marshall and Harvey Weinstein’s Nine. The first is an existential out of body experiment about celestials. The second is Chicago director Rob Marshall’s latest musical, which he has begun to cast. According to Variety, The Weinstein Company is currently in talks with Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and Javier Bardem to star in the long gestating project. Marshall would like to start casting early, so that he can fit the actor’s strengths with their characters....
AMC today announced a series order for the pilot Low Winter Sun, a co-production between Endemol Studios and AMC Studio. Chris Mundy (Criminal Minds, Cold Case) will serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner on the project, which stars Mark Strong (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Zero Dark Thirty) and co-stars Lennie James (The Walking Dead, Jericho, Snatch). Season 1 consists of ten, one-hour episodes. Here’s what AMC’s Joel Stillerman had to say about the series....
The world is a big enough place as it is, but when you’re a tiny shell that can use a raisin as a bean bag chair, it can seem downright enormous! One little shell is getting ready for the adventure of a lifetime, and we get to follow him in Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. The trailer and synopsis are available below. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On started out as an animated short film in which a nameless documentary filmmaker follows a little shell and interviews them on their daily lives....
Now this is just bloody depressing. In a story from Bloody-Disgusting, it seems that they had a chance to chat with Marcus Dunstan. As you probably know, he and Patrick Melton scripted the horror, bloodbath Feast together. Now, they got the chance to see their movie made because their script won Project Greenlight 3. However, for some reason HBO Home Video most likely isn’t going to be releasing that season of Project Greenlight on DVD....
According to Variety, Marvel Entertainment is putting together a group of writers to bring various projects that they own to life. The plan is for this writer’s group to follow in the footsteps of the fellowship program the Walt Disney Co. has been running since 1990. This program picks a dozen writers to ply their craft with executives to develop content for ABC, the Disney Channel and ABC Family. Marvel plans to tap 5 writers a year to write specific projects....
You would think that anyone heading into Marvel Studios to make an MCU movie should have some idea of the characters they are about to work with. However, according to Marvel producer Nate Moore, it can be much more of a hindrance than a help. Moore recently told The Town with Matt Belloni that for him, there is a “red flag” moment when writers come in with specific detailed knowledge of Marvel Comics....
Matt Smith isn’t too bothered by Morbius underperforming in its theatrical run. Released in theaters back in April, Morbius was pummeled with negative reviews and currently sits with an abysmal 16% score at Rotten Tomatoes. Its box office performance was not much better as the feature film fell far below studio expectations. An internet campaign had led to Sony bringing Morbius back to theaters for another limited run, but most of those campaigning must have been doing so as a joke, as the re-release was not successful....
Michael Vartan hopes to land a canine co-star as he heads into pilot season this January We recently chatted with Michael Vartan about his latest Blu-ray and DVD release Colombiana, where he stars opposite Zoe Saldana as a sensitive painter who falls in love with a deadly assassin. While talking about the movie, we hit upon the cancellation of Hawthorne, which ended with Season 3, and the fact that Michael is heading into pilot season this January with an open mind about the future....
NBC will return the Emmy Award-nominated Scrubs and move freshman comedy 30 Rock to Thursday nights beginning November 30 to form a new two-hour 8-10 p.m. (ET) comedy block with My Name is Earl and The Office. The change will follow a special super-sized night of comedy two weeks earlier on Thursday, November 16, with three 40-minute episodes of My Name is Earl, The Office and 30 Rock. The announcements were made by Kevin Reilly, President, NBC Entertainment....
The first footage has just been released for Resident Evil, a new live-action series at Netflix based on the popular video game. This series is separate from both the prior films by Paul W.S. Anderson as well as last year’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, imagining a new take on the story with Lance Reddick as Albert Wesker. You can see the first footage of the series below to get an idea of what it will be like....
As things are ramping up on the third season of AMC’s Emmy Award-winning drama The Walking Dead, Activision and Terminal Reality are proud to announce that series stars Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker will reprise their respective roles as fan-favorites Daryl and Merle Dixon in their upcoming The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. Their addition is central to developer Terminal Reality’s commitment to delivering an engrossing, original experience that stays authentic to the characters, tone and storyline of the series Entertainment Weekly called the “greatest thriller ever produced for television....
The Obi-Wan Kenobi series has dropped on Disney+. While fans are only going to be treated to six episodes by the conclusion of the series, so far, it has been absolutely everything that audiences could have ever hoped for. The long-awaited return of Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader has been nearly two decades in the making and has been both actors’ first return to the franchise in as many years....
Obi-Wan Kenobi is almost at an end of Disney+, but according to director Deborah Chow there are “more stories to tell” and that could lead to a second season of the show. It has taken a long time to get Ewan McGregor back in the Star Wars franchise as the Jedi Master, but with Obi-Wan Kenobi being marketed as a limited series with a precise story to tell it seemed like the return would be a short-lived one....
Orphan Black, the acclaimed sci-fi series by Temple Street Productions, assumes a new identity in the form of a comic-book series from IDW Publishing. IDW’s series will not be a clone of the show but will feature some all-new stories set in the complex and thrilling world of Orphan Black. Take a look at the cover artwork for the first issue, then read on for more details below. Here’s what Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief, had to say about the comic book in a statement....
In 1910, history took a drastic turn when the Korean Empire, which had maintained its independence for centuries, was annexed by Japan. The Japanese government attempted to eradicate all traces of Korean culture and identity, thus brutally enforcing policies that oversaw widespread tragedy. Not only was the Korean language banned and replaced with Japanese, but any attempt at protest was forcefully put to an end, and cultural artifacts were destroyed. In 1919, Korean activists, students, and citizens began what is now known as the March 1st Movement, where it is estimated that 7,500 were killed, 16,000 wounded, and 46,000 arrested....
Paramount Pictures has filed a motion to dismiss the copyright infringement lawsuit against Top Gun: Maverick that it was slapped with recently. Tony Scott’s Top Gun was inspired by Ehud Yonay’s 1983 article, Top Guns, published in California Magazine, and the author was duly credited in the film. But Yonay’s name or any mention of the article is missing from Top Gun: Maverick, which apparently doesn’t sit well with his family, among other things....
Pixar has come to be known for many things, among them, high-quality animation, intriguing storylines that the young and old can relate to, which are present on their award-winning feature films and shorts as well. The Wall-E DVD release, which hits the shelves on DVD and two-disc Blu-ray on November 18, features all of these aspects of this wonderful studio. Like most Pixar DVD releases, Wall-E comes with a few short films as well, one of which being the parellel tale of Burn-E....
Six years ago, the world was taken by storm by a new Netflix show. Stranger Things introduced a perfect mixture of science fiction, horror, and drama, all while infusing the right amount of ’80s nostalgia and a killer soundtrack. The show became a phenomenon, leaving many fans obsessed with the ideas of aliens, the Upside-Down, Dungeons and Dragons, superpowers, and all the great points of the show. With season 4 coming up and the show’s ending drawing nearer and nearer, fans are more hungry for an extension of the series than ever....
