October 2009
IMDb Gossip
Seacrest Granted Restraining Order Against Alleged Stalker
Minnelli Sex And The City Storyline ‘A Hoax’
Niemi Feared Drink Would Kill Swayze
Anna Nicole Case Goes To Trial
Richie Wins Restraining Order Against Paparazzi
via: IMDb News
Roger Ebert - Sun Times
Astro Boy
“Proof at last that A.I. can fly” “Astro Boy” is yet another animated comedy in which the hero, who is about the same age as his target audience, is smarter, braver and stronger than the adults in his world. Toby is also a quick learner; after…
The Yes Men Fix the World
“All the news it’s fit to fake” The Yes Men are a New York political...
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Avatar Updates - Trailer Comparison Video and International Posters
I think the real world (or le monde, as the image has it above) is starting to wake up to James Cameron’s Avatar. Within the last two days I’ve been asked about the film by three non-cineaste and non-geek folk, the type who seldom go to the…
World War Z and My Fair Lady: Who’s On and Who’s Off?
It’s nothing like the...
First Showing
Martin Scorsese Picks 11 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time!
If there is anyone I would want to choose what movies I watch this Halloween weekend (besides Stephen King or Wes Craven), I’d want it to be Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese. He’s a genius filmmaker and I’m sure he knows great horror when he sees…
Check This Out: Creepy Poster for Charisma Carpenter’s...
Guardian Film Blog
Casting the news: The 112-Year-Old Bridegroom
Put on your movie-producing caps and help us plan the wedding picture of the century about one very spirited Somali man and his new 17-year-old bride The first line of the news report could be the tagline for the movie: “He’s old enough to be her great-great-grandfather”….
via: Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
Cinematical - News
Cinematical Previews the ‘Prince of Persia’ Trailer
Tuesday afternoon at no less than the offices of Jerry Bruckheimer himself, Cinematical joined a small group of reporters from other online entertainment and gaming sites to screen the forthcoming theatrical trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of…
Hugh Jackman Not Hosting Oscars, Neil Patrick Harris Now Rumored
As award...
IMDb Studio News
No New Treats At Halloween Box Office
25 Million View Trailer For “Twilight” Sequel
Sony Thinks “This Is It!” Deserves Best-picture Oscar
New On-demand Movie Channel Debuts
Lang’S “Metropolis” To Be Featured At Berlinale
via: IMDb News
IMDb Gossip
Reeve Charity Hit With Lawsuit
Anderson Not Pregnant
Broadway Bosses Defend Broderick Play Director
Lohan’s Bodyguard Arrested
Peet’s New York Home Burgled
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Apple movie trailers
2012 - Clip
2012 - Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle…
Michael Jackson’s This Is It - TV Spot - Event
Michael Jackson’s This Is It - TV Spot - Event Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT will...
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Casting Notes: Cheadle and Gleeson, Witherspoon is #1, and Djimon Hounsou Works With Ong Bak Director
Here’s your blast of casting bites for the end of the week. First up, Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson will team as unlikely cop partners in The Guard. Film follows the confrontational small-town Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Gleeson), who likes hookers and…
Gattaca to Spawn TV Series
We don’t know a...
First Showing
Anthony Hopkins to Play Odin in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor!
I did not see this coming! No, it won’t be Robert De Niro or Jude Law or Brian Blessed, apparently Odin, Thor’s father, will be played by none other than Anthony Hopkins in Marvel’s upcoming Thor movie. THR’s Heat Vision Blog reports that Hopkins is “in…
Tropic Thunder’s Etan Cohen Writing Men...
Guardian Film Blog
The view: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T and other great lost children’s films
Why put up with tat the likes of Daddy Day Care or Beverly Hills Chihuahua when there’s a treasure trove of genuinely brilliant kids’ films out there? Let’s not be ungrateful here – for film-lovers with kids, these are heady times indeed. I’m not sure…
Playing Top Trumps with the...
Cineuropa - European cinema
Festivals - Latvia - Northern Table for Country Wedding
The Icelandic film Country Wedding by Valdís Óskarsdóttir was awarded the Northern Table, or Best Film prize, as well as then Audience Award, at the 10th Nordic Film Days in Riga, Latvia (October 16-24). The competition section of 14 Nordic feature…
Production - UK - Optimum, Big Talk, Film4 team up to Attack the Block
Optimum...
Cinematical - News
Cinematical Sevens: Villains That Should Have Been Used More
Let’s face it, your the hero of your movie is only as good as your villain is bad. If you’ve got an amazing, swashbuckling, ass-kicking hero who faces off against someone wimpy, it just feels like you had an amazing appetizer and a lackluster main course….
Interview: ‘House of the Devil’ Director Ti West
If...
IMDb Studio News
Jackson Film In Less-than-Thriller Start
“Transformers” Transforms Dull Video Market
Online Piracy Tracker Tells Studios To Search For Alternatives
“A Prophet” Wins Best Film At London Festival
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Rotten Tomatoes - US Boxoffice
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
This overstuffed, scattershot vampire flick suffers from poor characterization and an unwieldy mix of scares and chuckles.
Paranormal Activity
Using its low-budget effects and mockumentary method to great result, Paranormal Activity turns a simple haunted house story into 90 minutes of relentless suspense.
Saw VI
It won’t earn the franchise...
Rotten Tomatoes - News
Emmerich Poised for Career-Best Debut with 2012
According to some reports, it’s tracking better than Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” and “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.” Ladies and gentlemen, we give you: Roland Emmerich’s “2012.”
Willem Dafoe Recalls His Brush with Batman
Remember how surprised everyone was when Michael Keaton was picked to star...
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Ridley Scott Describes the Timeline of His Alien Prequel
We don’t know much about what Ridley Scott is planning to do with his prequel to Alien, the landmark sci-fi horror film he directed in 1979. There has been a lot of speculation that the film would involve the race of creatures from which hails the…
Some Groovy Attack the Block Updates - Shaun of the Dead With Aliens?
Attack the Block...
First Showing
Casting Tidbits: Jessica Biel, James Caan, Anne Heche & More
Casting Tidbits ahoy! First up, Variety reports that Anne Heche has tacked on two promising comedies to her upcoming roster. Heche has nabbed the female lead opposite Ed Helms in the Fox Searchlight comedy Cedar Rapids about a sad-sack insurance agent…
H.R. Pufnstuf Helped by Wild Things But Don’t Expect a Copy
After the...
Guardian Film Blog
You review: Michael Jackson’s This Is It | Ben Child
Liz Taylor loves it, the critics don’t mind it - looks like the boycotting fans are the only ones not convinced by Michael Jackson’s This Is It. Have you seen it yet? Was it … bad? A group of fans decried it as an airbrushed facade which fails to tell…
via: Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
Cineuropa - European cinema
Funding - Netherlands - Johan 1 and Pizzamaffia get Film Fund support
Two films received funding from the Dutch Film Fund this month. Mainstream comedy-drama Pizzamaffia from director Tim Oliehoek was awarded €350,000, while arthouse feature Johan 1 received €500,000. Pizzamaffia is the adaptation of a novel…
Sales - UK - Wartime, Adrift, Control find European homes
Post the Silver...
Cinematical - News
Interview: ‘Boondock Saints II’ Director Troy Duffy
The MacManus brothers are back with guns blazing in the long-awaited sequel to The Boondock Saints. The Saints are living in Ireland with dear old dad (Billy Connolly) when they get word a priest in Boston has been killed in a way that sets them up to…
Why Tom Hanks Needs to Go Sci-Fi
By: John Gholson How is it that someone as...
IMDb Studio News
Movie Reviews: “This Is It!”
Yves St. Laurent Tops Dead Celebrity Money List
Dreamworks Experiencing Downs And Ups
Scientology Spokesman: We’re Not Anti-gay
via: IMDb News
Yahoo! trailers
Twilight Saga: New Moon
Following Bella Swan’s ill-fated 18th birthday party, Edward Cullen and his family abandon the town of Forks, Washington, in an effort to protect her from the dangers inherent in their world. As the heartbroken Bella sleepwalks through her senior year…
Spy Next Door
A man (Jackie Chan) is forced to defend some neighborhood children who have been put in his care...
IMDb Gossip
Swayze’s Wife Struggling To Move On
Friel Enjoys Nude Scenes
Lohan Seeks Out Secure Home
Lee’s Kids Urged Him To Take Drugs
Willis’ Game Show Role
via: IMDb News
New York Times - movies
ArtsBeat: This Was It: Scenes From Michael Jackson’s Film Opening
In Harlem, where thousands gathered in the days after Michael Jackson died, a theater was showing his film “This Is It,” on Tuesday night, and it was far from sold out.
Scene Stealer: The Skinnier Look of Studio Management
As Hollywood cuts costs by thinning its executive ranks, will the remaining managers be less...
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Alice in Wonderland Teaser Trailer #2: Essentially a Remix of the First
Back during Comic Con we saw the first teaser for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which will be released in 3D in March 2010. It showed off the expected stuff: Burton’s warped landscapes and character designs and a bit of the basic story…
Renny Harlin Takes Val Kilmer and Emmanuelle Chriqui to Georgia
We wrote a...
First Showing
Official Trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Invictus Debuts Online!
Is this 2009’s Best Picture? Warner Brothers has debuted the official trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Invictus tonight on Apple in HD. I think with Eastwood directing you never know what to expect (especially for Gran Torino), but this looks like it promises…
Alejandro Jodorowsky Gets Funding for Dream Project...
Guardian Film Blog
Clip joint: the best deadpan film clips
Know your Bill Murray from your Buster Keaton? This week, Pinkos smacks his lips and delivers a tray of bone-dry comic amuse-bouches for you to sample I like my comedy the way I like my sherry and my bathroom floor – dry. In fact, the greater the understatement,…
Peter Bradshaw: Why Roger Moore’s Post Office advert makes me cry
Sir Roger is a...
Cineuropa - European cinema
Production - UK - Ironclad gets underway in Wales
Principal photography has commenced and will go on for seven weeks on location and in studio in Wales for Mythic International Entertainment’s Ironclad. This action/historical feature is the biggest ever production to be shot entirely in Wales. Based…
Institutions - UK - Woolley, Richards, Wilkerson join Film London Board
BAFTA-winning...
Cinematical - News
Cinematical Seven: Good Actors in Bad Horror
I’m sure Peter Sarsgaard didn’t intend to make a horror movie that would provoke gales of unintentional laughter. Yet in a key, emotionally-wrought scene near the end of Orphan — out on DVD today and, perversely enough, worth a rental — that’s exactly…
“Matt Damon!” New Trailers for ‘Invictus’...
IMDb Studio News
Will We See “Saw” Again?
Sony Braces For Critical Barbs About Jackson Film
Netflix Movies To Begin Streaming On PS3’S
Polanski Victim Says She’s Being Victimized Again
Scripts Being Altered To Take Advantage Of Tax Incentives
via: IMDb News
IMDb Gossip
Craig And Jackman Sell Shirts Off Their Backs
Sand Throws Support Behind Sex Tape She Wanted To Block
Francis Hits Back At Nicole With Countersuit
Dafoe Was First Choice For Batman’s The Joker
Von Teese’s Drug-ravaged Boobs
via: IMDb News
Wired - Underwire/Culture
New Colbert Report iPhone App Delivers ‘The WØrd’
A new Colbert Report app means iPhone users never have to be without “The WØrd.” The $1 app, released Monday by Comedy Central, includes every “WØrd” video done by hyper-real talking head Stephen Colbert so far and will be updated…
New Web Series Serve Up Vampire Tales, Slasher Horror
Heading toward Halloween weekend, a pair of new web...
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J. Michael Straczynski Penning Strategy Video Game Adaptation Shattered Union, Still on Silver Surfer and Paul Greengrass Project
The game Shattered Union only came out in 2005, but I doubt too many people remember it. The PC and Xbox turn-based strategy title speculated on a political future in which the US sees states seceding from the Union after the second-term retention of…
This Week...
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Eva Green is Gorgeous on the Poster for Jordan Scott’s Cracks
Thank you Martin Campbell for introducing me to Eva Green as a Bond girl first! She is such an amazingly beautiful person and I would’ve been begging to see her play a Bond girl if that wasn’t her big breakout role anyway. Now you’re probably wondering…
Paul Blart Director Steve Carr Hired for the Short...
Guardian Film Blog
Up still soaring, as Michael Jackson’s shadow falls over UK box office
The moving 3D adventure turns into one of Pixar’s strongest performers, the Saw series shows its first dip, and fans line up for small-hours premieres of This Is It The winner Pixar’s Up remains super-buoyant at the top of the box office, with yet another…
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Third Man remake is...
Cineuropa - European cinema
Festivals - Germany - IDFA showcasing 21 German titles
The International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA), to be held in Amsterdam from November 19-29, features 21 German (co)productions in the line-up of its 22nd edition. The Competition section of feature-length documentaries includes the German co-productions…
Institutions - Netherlands - Netherlands Film Sector Institute is born
At the...
Cinematical - News
Cinematical Seven: Best Villain-Hero Romances
We love it when our heroes fall for the suspicious types: the wolves in sheep’s clothing, the dangerous femme fatales. It happens often in film noir and a heckuva lot in comics, and provides some of the best last-act twists and turns as our hearts palpitate…
Monday Night Poll: Does ‘Saw VI’ Deserve An X Rating?
Sunday over at...
IMDb Studio News
The “Little Film That Could” Did
Jackson Documentary To Be “Wall-to-wall Music,” Says Director
Director Paul Haggis Angrily Quits Scientology After 35 Years
via: IMDb News
IMDb Gossip
Carr Apologises For Amputee Joke
Cross: ‘I Took Cocaine In Front Of The President’
Celebrity Designer Von Furstenberg Robbed
Shriver In Trouble For Parking Violation
Law Has Not Seen Lovechild Since Birth
via: IMDb News
Apple movie trailers
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - Clip - Silver Spoon
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - - Silver Spoon In Werner Herzog’s new film BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs — while playing…
Until the Light Takes Us - Trailer
Until the Light Takes Us - Until The Light Takes Us...
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Geek Deal: Angel: Seasons 1-5 Collectors Set for $53
Amazon’s Gold Box Deal of the Day today is the Angel: Seasons 1-5 DVD Collectors Set for $52.99, 62% off the $140 list price. I’m sure most Buffy/Whedon fans already own this one, but for those of you who don’t yet, you aren’t…
Boondock Saints Director Troy Duffy Responds to Overnight; Calls the Documentary an Unfair Smear Job
With The...
First Showing
Casting Tidbits: Dinner for Schmucks & Unknown White Male
With all the random casting news that runs in the trades day after day and the sometimes uncertain nature of talent being attached to various projects, here at FirstShowing we’ve decided that rather than clogging the newswire with individual stories for…
Indie Trailer Sunday: Hal Holbrook in That Evening Sun Trailer
Earlier...
Guardian Film Blog
Lynch mob: how David’s son finds the Lynchian in ordinary interviews
Interview Project, a series of interviews with ordinary Americans conducted by David Lynch’s son Austin and fellow film-maker Jason S, is an addictive experience that plays to the internet’s strengths The personal, warts-all interview is generally the…
Paranormal Activity gives spirited performance at US...
Cineuropa - European cinema
Awards - UK - British Animation Awards adds European category
The 2010 British Animation Awards has added a special category for Best European Animated Feature. Any European-made feature film that has been theatrically released in any EU member country in 2008 and 2009 is eligible. BAA Director Jayne Pilling said,…
Production - UK - Winstone set to begin Tracker
British star Ray Winstone...
Cinematical - News
Have You Had a Horror-ble Weekend? Or Had Enough?
October certainly brings spooks and scares to movie theaters nationwide. The month began with a bang, as Zombieland proved an unexpected hit, even as Paranormal Activity began making waves that are still cresting. The Stepfather was more a pallid thriller…
Paramount Eyes ‘Paranormal Activity’ Sequel
We’ll have our full box...
IMDb Gossip
Aniston Set For Small Screen Comeback
Pratt Apologises For Drink-driving Arrest
Sizemore Hit With Demand For Child Support
Pitt Knocked Off Motorcycle
Lloyd Webber Undergoing Treatment For Cancer
via: IMDb News
Yahoo! - US Boxoffice
#1: Paranormal Activity
“Paranormal Activity”
Distributor:Paramount Pictures
Gross:$1,911,768
Cumulative: $40,476,518
#2: Where the Wild Things Are
“Where the Wild Things Are”
Distributor:Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Gross:$1,546,319
Cumulative: $39,539,575
#3: Law Abiding Citizen
“Law Abiding Citizen”
Distributor:Overture Films
Gross:$1,526,883...
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Keira Knightley and Joe Wright Reteaming For My Fair Lady Remake
Keira Knightley has been informally linked to a remake of My Fair Lady for some time now. It was always something of a no brainer to see her as the most likely candidate, and I suspect some of the previous stories were nothing more than guess work based…
George Miller Shows Off The Cars of Mad Max 4 on Video
George Miller has...