January 2010
115 posts
Interview - Denzel Washington in 'The Book of Eli'
Six months ago or so, Collider enjoyed the rare opportunity to visit the set of The Book of Eli, Allen and Albert Hughes’ postapocalyptic thriller about a laconic hero (Denzel Washington) who battles a shrewd but ruthless mercenary (Gary Oldman) and picks up a plucky barkeep (played by Mila Kunis) while walking across country to deliver a mysterious book. The day we were on set, however, there...
Collider Goes to the Set of 'The Book of Eli'
“It’s a man on a mission with something that everybody wants,” Allen Hughes said of the story for The Book of Eli, his forthcoming action film starring Denzel Washington. “It’s pretty simple. One man is trying to get something somewhere.” In late March of 2009, Collider visited the New Mexico set of the film, and we were met by torrential waves of dust and debris that filled every last nook...
The Best SlashFilm Interviews from 2009
The Best /Filmcast Moments from 2009 Posted on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 by David Chen On the /Film podcast, we produce a lot of audio content on a weekly basis. On a given week, about 3.5 hours of audio gets sent through the /Filmcast feed (occasionally, some of it is even good!). With the sheer volume being what it is, it’s entirely possible that you might have...
December 2009
107 posts
Denzel Washington Interview THE BOOK OF ELI
Six months ago or so, Collider enjoyed the rare opportunity to visit the set of The Book of Eli, Allen and Albert Hughes’ postapocalyptic thriller about a laconic hero (Denzel Washington) who battles a shrewd but ruthless mercenary (Gary Oldman) and picks up a plucky barkeep (played by Mila Kunis) while walking across country to deliver a mysterious book. The day we were on set, however, there...
Best Movies of the Decade: Fans, Critics and Blog...
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on December 30, 2009 As you may have noticed, the blogosphere is all a-twitter with Best of the Decade lists. To our credit, we here at FSR have published two lists. The first was our 30 Best Films of the Decade, composed by the editorial staff here at FSR — a website that has existed for almost half of this decade. The...
Interview - Stunt Coordinator Garrett Warren took...
December 28, 2009 | 10:35 am Still recovering from “Avatar”? Garrett Warren can relate. The stunt coordinator for the film is now a self-proclaimed expert in the tricky art of banshee riding, and he’s also an in-demand man in Hollywood with credits on some of the biggest upcoming releases, including “Iron Man 2,” “The Adventures of...
Warner Bros is 2009's Most Proftable Movie Studio
by Elisabeth Rappe Dec 28th 2009 // 2:35PM Filed under: Warner Brothers, Box Office, Newsstand, Harry PotterIf Warner Bros was a movie character, it would be Demi Moore in Indecent Proposal — sexy, successful, and with piles upon piles of money to roll around in. That’s because as of today, according to Deadline Hollywood Daily, Warner Bros has become the most profitable studio of...
Trailer - The New 'Inception' Trailer Finally...
BY: Brad Brevet | December 28th 2009 at 12:48 PM Photo: Warner Bros. The previously released French international trailer for Inception was removed as it was accidentally made available to online outlets, but today the English version of that trailer has made it’s online debut and I am sure you are chomping at the bit to...
Trailer - Jet Li in 'The Warlords' Fight Scenes...
Theatrical Trailer for The Warlords Submitted by Jason Bene on December 25, 2009 – 10:32 pm Jet Li is back to kicking butt in the new film The Warlords. Look for it in theaters on April 2, 2010 from Magnet. Synopsis: Set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, WARLORDS stars Jet Li as General Pang, who...
Interview - Chat with Sherlock Holmes Director Guy...
www.firstshowing.net December 24, 2009 by Alex Billington Just last week I caught up with Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie for a chat on the phone since he was in London (and I live in LA). I’ve interviewed him once before (for RocknRolla in Toronto), so I knew what to expect, but it’s still always crazy interviewing Guy Ritchie. At one point, he started...
Complete Official 2009 Christmas Weekend Movie...
www.firstshowing.net December 25, 2009 by Marco Cerritos Following the success of our Thanksgiving Movie Guide, Marco has put together another new movie guide for Christmas. So here it is, our very first Christmas Weekend Movie Guide. Marco has seen almost everything out there, and while you may not always agree with him, he provides the best review he can to make it...
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Movie Script - 'The Days Before'...Just read it...
Genre: Sci-fi Premise: A man who possesses a time travel device uses it to go back in time to prevent an alien invasion. About: Oh how quickly fortunes change. Chad St. John is a writer nobody had even heard of last year. Now he’s on fire. And I’m not talking about that wussy orange fire either. I’m talking the steel-melting blue type of fire. With two scripts on this year’s black...
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Movie Review - 'Sherlock Holmes' gets an A-
Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on December 23, 2009
2009 comes to a close at the movies not with a whimper, but with a bang. And while you may think it’s due to a blockbuster movie featuring beautifully animated CGI characters that leap off the screen and impress with their stunningly life-like appearances, Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel actually has nothing to...
What's Next for Avatar and James Cameron
www.firstshowing.net December 24, 2009 Source: MTV, Hero Complex by Alex Billington Now that James Cameron’s Avatar has been out in theaters for nearly a week, it’s time to look at what’s next for James Cameron. And what’s next for Avatar. What will we see in sequels? What will Cameron direct next? Back when Iron Man came out in ‘08, I wrote...
First Photos from Peter Weir's New WWII Film 'The...
www.firstshowing.net December 22, 2009 Source: Quiet Earth by Alex Billington Its been almost seven years since Peter Weir last directed anything. I don’t know where he’s been all this time, but I’m glad he’s back. Quiet Earth found the first six photos from Weir’s new WWII film The Way Back. The drama follows a group of soldiers and...
New Alice in Wonderland Images Give a Good Look at...
New Alice in Wonderland Images Give a Good Look at the Creatures Posted on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 by Brendon Connelly The first teaser for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland left me scratching my head a little. That may have partly down to incomplete effects, but some of it was down to the unexpected aesthetic. By the time the next trailers rolled around, however,...
Hollywood Tops $10 Billion for First Time in 2009
With Avatar the reigning champ and Sherlock Holmes still to come, Hollywood crossed the $10 billion line for the first time in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales for 2009. Through Sunday, the total stood just $36 million short of crossing the $10 billion line, according to tracking firm Hollywood Box Office, and was set to plow across it Tuesday night. The year’s top box office attractions were...
Kevin Smith Explains How he Managed to COP OUT on...
With the trailer for his buddy cop movie starring Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis just having hit the Internet, director Kevin Smith railed in his signature, profanity-heavy style to Entertainment Weekly’s Hollywood Insider blog on just why he agreed to Cop Out on the flick’s original title, A Couple of Dicks. It was already fairly well known that the big three TV networks balked at the original...
Movie Review - 'Crazy Heart' by Roger Ebert
BY ROGER EBERT / December 23, 2009 Cast & Credits Bad Blake Jeff Bridges Jean Maggie Gyllenhaal Wayne Robert Duvall Tommy Sweet Colin Farrell Manager James Keane Fox Searchlight presents a film written and directed by Scott Cooper. Based on the novel by Thomas Cobb. Running time: 112 minutes. Rated R (for language and brief sexuality). ...
Interview - Joe Letteri, FX Supervisor on...
Stephen Lang plays Col. Miles Quaritch, the military contractor who finds himself pitted against the Na’vi in James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Credit: 20th Century Fox/WETA Last Friday, I got up incredibly early to go watch a bunch of four-year-olds in bathrobes sing some Christmas songs and carry around a rubber doll...
Trailer - Starz Renews 'Spartacus'...Looks like...
Now that’s some serious confidence! The Starz network has renewed Spartacus: Blood and Sand for a second season and the show hasn’t even premiered yet! Starz Entertainment EVP of Programming Stephan Shelanski explains: “We couldn’t be happier with the first season. Spartacus delivers on all levels – action, characters, intrigue, romance and excitement. Spartacus is the...
Summit 2010 Preview: Synopses and Images of New...
Summit Entertainment has released synopses and some first look images from their 2010 films and it’s all after the jump. They’re 2010 preview includes The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, directed by David Slade (Hard Candy) and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, and Bryce Dallas Howard; Furry Vengeance, directed by Roger Kumble (College Road Trip) and starring Brendan Fraser...
Trailer - For 'The Karate Kid' Looks pretty Good.....
Trailer for The Karate Kid Remake December 22, 2009 Source: Yahoo by Alex Billington Okay, here we go. Sony has debuted the first official trailer for The Karate Kid remake starring Jaden Smith as the kid and Jackie Chan as Mr. Han, the Mr. Miyagi like mentor he meets. Yes, technically I think they’re using Kung Fu in this and not Karate, so complain all you want...
The 30 Best Films of the Decade by FSR...Not a Bad...
Posted by FSR Staff (editors@filmschoolrejects.com) on December 22, 2009 We’re all in that humanistic mode of evaluating our lives – coming up on the end of the year and the last time a zero will be the third digit on our calendars. We’re all (from Variety to Cat Fancy) also waxing expert on what films were the best of the best of the best of the past ten years. Which is...
Scott Cooper: The Body and Soul behind 'Crazy...
The critics have been raving nonstop, and rightfully so, over Jeff Bridges’ peerless performance in “Crazy Heart” as Bad Blake, the burned-out country music star who finds himself running on empty, reduced to playing bowling alleys as he tries to regain a small measure of his self-respect. But so far, with ”Crazy Heart’s” many admirers hailing the...
'James Bond' Writer Says It Has A ‘Shocking Story’
Apart from the behind-the-scenes stuff like who the screenwriters are, when it may be shooting, and rumors of who the villain might be, we haven’t heard anything about Bond 23 (as it’s being dubbed until we get wind of an actual title) on the story front. That is until now. Bond fansite MI6 got a chance to speak with screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon), who we learned...
'James Bond' Writer Says It Has A ‘Shocking Story’
Apart from the behind-the-scenes stuff like who the screenwriters are, when it may be shooting, and rumors of who the villain might be, we haven’t heard anything about Bond 23 (as it’s being dubbed until we get wind of an actual title) on the story front. That is until now. Bond fansite MI6 got a chance to speak with screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon), who we learned...
The Buzz: Filmmakers React to Avatar
www.slashfilm.com Posted on Monday, December 21st, 2009 by Peter Sciretta James Cameron’s Avatar has been unleashed upon this world. We’ve run reviews from half of the /Film staff: David Chen, Brendon Connelly, Russ Fischer, and Hunter Stephenson. You might have even added your own mini-review. But you might be wondering, with all the talk of game-changing advances in the...
Roger Ebert’s Best Film Lists for 2009
www.slashfilm.com Posted on Sunday, December 20th, 2009 by Devindra Hardawar It’s that time of the year again. Top ten lists are popping up everywhere (the /Filmcast’s will hit next week), and the annual movie list aggro war is in full swing (it’s a thing, trust me). Roger Ebert has finally unveiled his selections, and this time he’s going against the grain by...
Movie Clip - From 'TOY STORY 3'
An extended clip from Toy Story 3 aired today on ABC Family and has found its ways to the interwebs through the magic of YouTubes. I feel bad showing you this clip because it’s so good you’re going to be sad once it’s over. It’s not a some cute stand-alone clip that you can enjoy but one that relates to the plot and when it was over I think I audibly shouted “No!” at my computer. ...
Avatar Sets December Box Office Record $232...
The weekend’s nearly over and the estimates for James Cameron’s Avatar are in. We’re looking at a $73 million domestic opening and just over $159 million worldwide bring its town debut gross at over $232 million. Are these good or bad? Well, fans of the industry should be happy to know that this is the largest opening ever for an original film not based on an existing property (novel, short...
Documentary Exposes Brutal Dolphin Hunt in 'The...
December 14, 2009 | By Bob Bayless The Cove is one of fifteen films short-listed for the 2009 Best Feature Documentary Oscar After a screening of The Cove, I was moved and impressed as well as depressed by the experience. When I heard that cast member and associate producer Charles Hambleton was keynote speaker for a Cinema Innovators Night, held recently at Gordon...
Walton Goggins on THE SHIELD Finale and His New...
A few days ago, on the set of Predators, I got to speak with Walton Goggins along with a number of other online journalists. While we are embargoed to write anything Predators related, we were given permission to cover things unrelated to the movie. So if you’re a fan of The Shield and curious what Goggins thought of the finale, his thoughts are after the jump. Also, Goggins revealed to us...
TV - Awesome '24' Season 8 Trailer
A short 30-second TV spot for the upcoming season of awesome (read: 24) was picked up by SpoilerTV today and it shows exactly what we’ve come to expect from the season: intensity and action. Titled “The World Hangs in the Balance,” this trailer brings the power and energy as well as some looks at the new characters that the previous 24 Season 8 trailer from October didn’t show. That one...
Backstory - The Making of 'Avatar'
December 15, 2009 | By Scott Essman Neytiri (Zoë Saldana) and Jake (Sam Worthington) make final preparations for an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world. James Cameron’s long-awaited epic fantasy Avatar is definitely “titanic” in size and scope. “It’s got a big story—that’s where it starts,” said producer Jon Landau, who also produced...
'Clash of the Titans' Crew Returns for Reshoots. ...
The crew of Louis Leterrier’s Clash of the Titans has been called back to active duty. The film — which has been in production over the past few months– is a remake of the 1981 Desmond Davis film of the same name, a loose retelling of the Greek myth of Perseus. Starring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, and a slew of digital Gods and monsters, the big-budget flick is adding some...
Shooting 'The Abyss': The day James Cameron nearly...
As I mentioned the other day, I’ve been reading “The Futurist,” Rebecca Keegan’s new book, which offers an in-depth look at the trials and troubles and tantrums that have marked James Cameron’s 25-plus years in the movie business. With “Avatar” already poised to have a huge opening weekend, Cameron should be feeling as if he’s on top of the...
Interview - 'The Messenger's' Ben Foster
With awards season in full swing, Movieline has launched a new recurring feature called “For Your Reconsideration,” where we speak to the talented people whose contributions to the year in film are worthy of a second look. This week: Ben Foster from The Messenger. For years, directors have counted on Ben Foster to add verve and nerve to a host of supporting parts in films like 3:10 to...
Paramount Studios 2010 Slate of Movie Releases
Paramount has released the synopses and a bunch of first look images from all of their 2010 releases. Some of the first look images are from Morning Glory (Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton), She’s Out of My League (Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve), and How to Train Your Dragon. In addition to the first look images, they’ve provided us with high resolution versions of a few images that have...
Review - 'Avatar' by SlashFilm
Russ’s Avatar Review: A Grand, Colorful World with Lessons Writ in Blazing Neon Posted on Thursday, December 17th, 2009 by Russ Fischer [Editor’s Note: Last week we published David Chen’s and Brendon Connelly’s reviews of Avatar. Here is a different take on the film from Russ Fischer.] James Cameron sure can build a world. His obsessive, detail-oriented...
Funny Shit..4yr old Gets Drunk and Steals...
4-year-old Tennessee boy Hayden Wright was found wandering the streets of his neighborhood on December 15, 2009, wearing a dress that had been intended as a Christmas present for his neighbor. It was later alleged by authorities that Wright had drank a Bud Light, broken out of his own home and stolen five wrapped presents from a neighbor’s...
Rumor: Spider-Man 4 on 'Indefinite Hold' Due to...
www.firstshowing.net December 17, 2009 Source: IESB, SHH by Alex Billington This is only a rumor and I’m writing about it purely for the sake of discussion. IESB claims they’ve heard from an “inside source” that Spider-Man 4, or Spider-M4n as it’s currently being referred to at the studio, was put on “indefinite hold” due to...
16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Nominations are...
Screen Actors Guild nominations are out Submitted by Melissa Molina on December 17, 2009 – 10:34 am Even though the Golden Globe nominations were announced earlier this week does not mean that this is the last of the nomination announcements were going to be seeing. The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be going underway this January 23rd, 2010,...
Sundance 2010: Park City at Midnight - New Images...
Along with the images from 7 Days, Frozen, HIGH School, and Splice, we also have new images today from The Perfect Host starring David Hyde Pierce, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil starring Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine, and The Violent Kind. All these films will be premiering at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the “Park City at Midnight” category. The films that play in this category may not have...
New Posters for KICK-ASS, DATE NIGHT, and EDGE OF...
Courtesy of IMPAwards, the world’s best movie poster site ever, we have three new posters for Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, Shawn Levy’s Date Night, and Martin Campbell’s Edge of Darkness. The Kick-Assposter feature Chloe Moretz as “Hit-Girl” and completes the set of the previously released posters. The Date Night poster is so plain that they just took an image we’ve already seen, slapped a gray...
Video - Behind the Scenes of a ‘Robin Hood’ Battle
“Robin Hood and Little John walkin’ through the forest; laughin’ back and forth at what the other’ne has to say.” Ah, Disney’s Robin Hood, what a classic cartoon movie; Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, however, will not be so warm, fuzzy or musical. Even though I wasn’t a fan of the background music from the latest trailer for Robin Hood, I’m still very much looking forward to watching Russell...
James Cameron “Reviews” 'Terminator Salvation'
With James Cameron’s mammoth sci-fi motion-capture 3D epic, Avatar, opening in most markets tomorrow (December 18th), I thought it’d be interesting to share Cameron’s thoughts on Terminator Salvation, the fourth installment in a franchise he made legendary with The Terminator and T2: Judgement Day in the ’80s and early ’90s. Jordan Hoffman over at UGO managed to get some “quality one-to-one...
Bryan Singer Confirms He Will Be Directing 'X-Men:...
www.firstshowing.net December 16, 2009 by Ethan Anderton Tonight in Hollywood, the who’s who of the entertainment industry turned up for the premiere of James Cameron’s Avatar, which has been gaining more and more positive buzz as reviews start pouring in. But some non-Avatar news came from the “blue carpet” of the premiere tonight as director...
Trailer - The First 'Iron Man 2' Trailer is Here
BY: Brad Brevet | December 16th 2009 at 6:26 PM Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and War Machine (Don Cheadle) in Iron Man 2 Photo: Paramount Pictures I don’t think I need to say much to get you to hit play on this one as Paramount has just released the first official trailer for Iron Man 2, which will be hitting theaters...
The 20 Best Foreign Language Films of the Decade
Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on December 16, 2009 As part of our epic, two week long Decade in Review, master of the Foreign Objects Rob Hunter lays down his picks of the best foreign language films of the decade. I can reel off the best foreign films of the year without pause and feel fairly confident that I haven’t missed anything notable, but best...