Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Maria Bello, Kate Bosworth, Steve Buscemi, Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Carla Gugino, Josh Hartnett, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Marley Shelton, Christopher Walken, Elijah Wood, Rick Gomez, Jessica Alba, Nick Stahl, Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson
An adaptation of Frank Miller's stories based in the fictional town of Sin City. Chief amongst the town's residents is Marv, who trawls the darkest areas of town looking for the person who killed his one true love, Goldie.
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April 22, 2009: Sin City rights talk:
A couple of weeks ago, we told you about The Weinstein Co. debunking an apparent rumor that they had lost the rights to the upcoming SIN CITY sequel. The IESB landed the scoop but TWC lawyer Bert Fields quickly put the kibosh on it through an official...
April 10, 2009: Jolie in for Sin?:
Before the original Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez directed SIN CITY adaptation was even released, we were hearing rumors that Angelina Jolie would star in the sequel playing the lead "Ava" in the adapted "A Dame To Kill For" story. Then rumors about the...
April 8, 2009: Sin City not moving:
Yesterday, the peeps over at the IESB posted a scoop stating that The Weinstein Co. had lost the rights to the upcoming SIN CITY sequel. Robert Rodriguez, along with his Troublemaker Studios, was still attached to produce and direct (with "Sin City" graphic...
November 13, 2007: Bledel wants a Ride:
Adorable former Stars Hollow resident Alexis Bledel has agreed to star in Fox Atomic's comedy TICKET TO RIDE. Under director Vicky Jenson from a script by Kelly Fremon, the 15 million dollar project will see Bledel star as a recent college grad who incites...
October 17, 2007: Blinded by boobs?:
Who's boobs? Rose McGowan's boobs.
Granted, McGowan's sweater puppets are certainly in the top tier of Hollywood but are they powerful enough to derail a big budget Hollywood production? Apparently, they are. So enamored is Robert Rodriguez of his new...
May 31, 2007: Sin City 2 NOT off?:
Yesterday, we told you about Michael Madsen voicing concerns that the planned SIN CITY sequel had been shitcanned in the wake of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez' double whammy exploitation filmgasm, GRINDHOUSE, doing less than stellar business at the...
May 16, 2007: Lionsgate has Spirit:
After the enormous combined success of SIN CITY and 300, Lionsgate felt it was time to get into the Frank Miller business. They recently acquired the domestic and UK distribution rights to the noir drama THE SPIRIT, a live action adaptation of the 1940s Will...
July 8, 2006: Hottie Recap:
William H. Macy recently revealed while doing the press rounds for the psychological thriller EDMOND (which his pal David Mamet wrote) that he'd soon be directing his
first feature and that he enlisted the goddess Salma Hayek to star. He refused to say...
June 27, 2006: Banderas is Secure:
Antonio Banderas and Annette Bening have signed on to writer/director George Gallo's (writer of BAD BOYS and *gulp* THE WHOLE TEN YARDS) upcoming mystery
thriller HOMELAND SECURITY. There's no word on an actual plot, only that it's "a mystery in the...
January 16, 2006: Mickey Rourke wins!:
We announced the OFCS'
(Online Film Critics Society's) end-of-year nominations last
week , and today comes the official announcement of their
winners. I personally believe that A...
December 29, 2005: 1st Killshot pic:
The Weinstein Co.'s upcoming KILLSHOT coming from SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE director John Madden is yet another movie with a relatively high profile cast which we
haven't heard too much about. The official plot synopsis courtesy of the folks at BlackFilm is...
December 27, 2005: 300 video diary:
When we reported on the the official site for Zach Snyder's feature adaptation of Frank Miller's
300, there was nothing on it except a blog entry from Snyder and a detailed plot synopsis. They've recently added the first of their video diaries and...
December 22, 2005: 300 site active:
The official site for Zach Snyder's adaptation of Frank Miller's 300 is active and, fortunately for us, it's set up as a blog. It's fortunate for us because it means Snyder and
possibly other members of the cast and/or crew will be posting some cool...
December 12, 2005: Preacher character designs:
Taking his cue from our latest Comix-to-Flix column , Casey dropped us a line to let us know about some
great early make-up test shots and character designs that Vincent Guastini Productions (as it was one of the effects studios being considered for...
December 13, 2005: Sin City DVD Q&A:
I’m
a sucker for events involving free alcohol.
Hell, I’d probably attend a Klan rally if they promised an
open bar. That’s why I was
excited last Wednesday when the Buena Vista folks...
December 6, 2005: Sin City chat tonight!:
Update - Check out the chat transcript over HERE . A lot of interesting things came out, the most of which (I think) is that Rodriguez already shot 3 days of GRIND HOUSE and officially starts production in January.
If you're like us then you're no...
October 26, 2005: Grind House casting?:
The silhouetted figure in the picture to the right is John Jarratt as psycho killer Mick Taylor in the upcoming horror WOLF CREEK . I would have put up a clearer picture of him but I couldn't find any.
As long as he's been around, you'd think someone...
October 24, 2005: Sin City on TV:
Usual disclaimer…movie site…not tv site…but two tv stories in two days? "You lying sack of shit!!"…just coincidence…yadda yadda
yadda…and all that jazz… Krisi Ballentine is really hot .
According to...
October 21, 2005: 16 Blocks pics:
Black Film has got a first look at the upcoming action thriller 16 BLOCKS in which Bruce Willis stars as a cop who has to transport a witness, Mos Def, 16 blocks before
some baddies give them flowers. For their grave. After they kill them. The whole "black...
October 17, 2005: Sin City 2 plot?:
A very astute reader by the name of Mike recently pointed us in the direction of some new info regarding the SIN CITY sequel. In the "New Stories" section of
Wikipedia's Sin City entry, they mention this interesting little gem:
Frank Miller has...
September 9, 2005: The real Sin City DVD!:
We all complained about it (your comments at the
bottom of THIS
STORY and my RANT
HERE ), but it was more than obvious that despite the crappy
bare-bones SIN CITY DVD that was...
August 17, 2005: Sin City 2 talk:
I guess this interview with Robert Rodriguez about the SIN CITY dvd has been floating around for about a week or so but for whatever reason, this is the first time I'm seeing it
in its entirety, courtesy of the folks over at Latino Review. Part of it is...
August 4, 2005: Great Miller interview:
Daniel Robert Epstein from over at Suicide Girls usually conducts some pretty terrific interviews but his most recent with comic legend Frank Miller is, I think, his best yet. It's
one long very informative chat where Miller talks about everything...
August 2, 2005: Miller's 300 still on?:
Ain't It Cool News is reporting that Zack Snyder, who directed the surprise hit DAWN OF THE DEAD, is looking to direct the upcoming adaptation of Frank Miller's 300. I'm
not sure if Snyder left the project and most recently came back on because...
July 14, 2005: Berg likes Bran:
It's been a long time since we've had a good beefcake movie. Actually, has there really been a good one since CONAN THE BARBARIAN? Maybe KULL THE CONQUEROR but that didn't have the same oomph that CONAN did. Interestingly enough, both these movies were based...
May 23, 2005: CAN: Rourke & Me:
Along
with Sly, Dean and Brando, Mickey
Rourke meant a lot to me throughout my late teens and up.
Here was a guy
who grew up tough and survived the bad cards that life had dealt him.
Granted, he's fallen
many o'
times throughout his...
May 21, 2005: CAN: Sin City premiere:
Wednesday night was the official SIN CITY premiere in
Cannes, with the press
conference , the photo call, the evening red
carpet presentation and the after-party. Just like last year, I...
May 18, 2005: CAN: Sin City pics!!!:
HOT OFF THE
PRESSES! HOT OFF THE PRESSES!!
Much like my " Salma
experience ", the Arrow and I decided to stalk-- I mean, check
out the SIN CITY...
April 27, 2005: Sin City 2/Mummy 3?:
We've learned from a reliable source that director Stephen Sommers has completed a script for a third MUMMY sequel and is looking to start shooting at the end of this year and early 2006. There's no word yet as to whether Brendan Fraser or Rachel Weisz will...
April 20, 2005: Cannes film line-up:
The Cannes Film Festival recently announced their line-up of films. So far, it's not looking too bad. David Cronenberg's latest comic
book adaptation A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE is in there, Jim Jarmusch's latest, and Gus Van Sant's latest, which is...
April 4, 2005: Die Hard 4 news:
As you may recall, we recently reported that Ben Affleck might be looking to star in DIE HARD 4.0 as
John McClane's son. Well, now those rumors can be put to rest and replaced by another rumor that I consider to be a bitch slap to The Benster....
March 31, 2005: Hot premiere pics:
Yeah,
okay...so we're going ALL SIN CITY/ALL THE TIME!! on
JoBlo.com this week, but stop your bitching, as 1) movie news has
been slow this week and 2) starting next Monday, we ain't gonna have...
March 31, 2005: Sin City comic-to-film comparison:
Thank God SIN CITY opens tomorrow cause I'm not sure how much of this promotional campaign I could stomach before it backfired and started getting me sick of the movie. We're right up to the point of oversaturation but I think that'll serve the film well this...
March 31, 2005: Save $ on Sin City posters:
SAVE
$$$ ON SIN CITY POSTERS!!
MovieGoods.com
was cool enough to whip a 15% discount the way of all JoBlo.com
readers, so if you're looking to purchase anything from their...
April 1, 2005: Quiz: Sin City:
PLAY OUR SIN CITY
QUIZ NOW!!
Finish this line featured in the film's trailers: "Babydoll, I've had one bad day. I've been _______ everytime I turn
around?
jerked
around
beaten
up...
March 31, 2005: INT: Sin City...2/2:
Press
Conference #2:
Jessica Alba, Robert Rodriguez, Benicio Del
Toro
CLICK
HERE to read Press Conference #1 featuring Robert
Rodriguez,...
March 30, 2005: INT: Sin City...1/2:
Press
Conference #1:
Robert Rodriguez, Brittany Murphy,
Rosario Dawson, Clive Owen
Opening
this week is the latest comic book to...
March 28, 2005: Valance/Aoki are DOA:
Earlier this year we reported on the feature film adaptation of Tecmo's fighting game franchise DEAD
OR ALIVE. At that point, director Corey Yuen, who also directed the upcoming THE
TRANSPORTER 2 , and actress Natassia Malthe, who played Typhoid...
March 24, 2005: Chat with Rodriguez!:
How many things do I envy/admire
about director Robert Rodriguez?
1) Have you seen his
house/production complex called Troublemaker Studios? The man walks
around in his...
March 24, 2005: Review: Sin City:
"If you love your comic books violent, dirty, gritty, filled with badass characters either looking to kick ass or getting their asses kicked (or both), and your movies hyper-stylized,
cool, rapid-fire and chockfull of...
March 23, 2005: Madsen likes Bastards:
We know two things about Quentin Tarantino's next directorial effort, INGLORIOUS BASTARDS. We know i'ts getting made sometime in the next ten or twenty
years and we know Michael Madsen is set to star. However, Film Focus recently had a talk with Madsen...
March 23, 2005: More Sin City toys!:
Is it any surprise that our little ol'
site is apparently one of the top referral hosts to the OFFICIAL
SIN CITY WEBSITE ? Of course not. We've been pushing the flick
since we all saw the first...
March 21, 2005: Ben Affleck McClane?:
Despite the Funkmaster Fleck saying he's done with the whole summer popcorn movie era of his life, it seems he doesn't consider DIE HARD 4.0 to be in
that category. According to reports, he's looking to star alongside Bruce Willis as John McClane's son....
March 18, 2005: 11 minutes of Sin City:
As this blurb pertains to SIN CITY , the "logical" thing to do would be to put up
some directly related SIN CITY (a poster, a movie still, etc.) material to accompany the article. However, Jessica Alba just went ahead and did a photoshoot
in the...
March 25, 2005: Comix-to-Flix #6:
COMIX-TO-FLIX is a JoBlo.com column featuring reviews of comic book graphic novels that have been optioned to be made into motion pictures. Seeing as the universe of comic books and movies is becoming more and more...
March 11, 2005: Excl: Sin City pics:
We're always down with anything new
related to SIN
CITY (only 3 weeks to go before its release), so here are three
more exclusive pictures from the film given to our site. Me
likey Jessie Alba...
March 9, 2005: Sin City goodness:
Yahoo recently put up an interesting little feature about SIN CITY . First of all, they
have some brand new pics, two of which you can see below. Secondly, they have some artwork comparing the original comic panels to their counterpart in
the movie....
March 7, 2005: Final Sin City trailer:
Want the good news? The latest and final SIN CITY trailer made its debut online today! The bad news? It's in crappy AOL Media Player format. I know, I know... but to cheer you up, I'm giving you a sneak peek at Moviefone's premiere. If you look at their site...
March 4, 2005: Final Sin City poster:
Coming Soon has debuted the final poster for Robert Rodriguez's upcoming comic adaptation SIN CITY. If it looks familiar that's because...well it is. Unfortunately it's really just a mash-up of all the various teaser posters they've had onto one piece of paper....
March 4, 2005: Comix-to-Flix #3:
COMIX-TO-FLIX
is a new JoBlo.com column that will feature reviews of comic book
graphic novels that have been optioned to be made into motion
pictures. Seeing as the...
February 21, 2005: Slick Sin City pics!!!:
Yeah, it was only a couple
of days ago that I told you that we would have no shame in
plugging everything cool related to SIN
CITY on JoBlo.com until the film came out on April 1st (or...
February 18, 2005: Sin City toys...!!!:
If
you're asking yourself if JoBlo.com is going to be covering almost
everything related to SIN
CITY before its release on April 1st, the answer to that
query is a big, resounding, f*ckin' AYE!!...
February 16, 2005: Sin City/Gromit sites:
The official site for SIN CITY has gone
live and it's looking pretty damn good. As you may recall, the movie takes three of Frank Miller's graphic novels - Sin City, The Big Fat Kill and
That Yellow Bastard - and combines them into one flick. The...
February 14, 2005: New Sin City pics:
The lack of a web presence for the upcoming comic adaptation SIN CITY is starting to bother me. The movie is scheduled to open in April, about two months from now, and nary an official site to be found. Meanwhile THE WATCHMEN hasn't even started filming yet and...
January 17, 2005: Bruce talks Die Hard 4:
Like INDIANA JONES 4, DIE HARD 4 has been in gestation for the better part of the last decade. For whatever reason, things just can't seem to align so that
we can see John McClane yi pee kay yay his foot up some international bad guy's ass. However, in an...
January 10, 2005: Stahl feels Breeze:
Nick Stahl has a cool about him that's reminiscent of Johnny Depp. Sure, he doesn't have the "bad boy" quality that Depp once worked very hard to maintain
(and which I'm sure Sev would appreciate) but he does have an effortless coolness and like Depp,...
January 6, 2005: Welcome to Sin City!:
If ever there was a movie that has fanboys slobbering in anticipation it's Robert Rodriguez' and Frank Miller's SIN CITY . When Miller first introduced the graphic novel, he rocked the comic world
with his innovative use of black and white and...
December 20, 2004: Sin City trailer!!:
The trailer for Robert Rodriguez' and Frank Miller's comic opus SIN CITY
is finally here and all I gotta say is hell f*cking yeah!! Click HERE or on
any of the dozen character pictures below to check it
out. You can also read JoBlo's own SIN
CITY...
December 9, 2004: Cool Sin City short:
Unfortunately we've got some time to wait before Robert Rodriguez's SIN CITY hits the big screen. Unfortunately we still haven't even seen a trailer for the film (excluding that leaked ComiCon footage that showed up online). Luckily for us, it's the internet age...
December 6, 2004: Davis, Arquette in Lava:
Despite her run as the goody goody Charlotte on HBO's "Sex and the City" coming to an end, Kristin Davis is still hot property (pun intended). In fact, she, along with David Arquette, recently signed on to star in Robert Rodriguez's upcoming THE ADVENTURES OF...
November 5, 2004: New Sin City posters!:
It's a crime that Dimension is making us all wait until next spring to see Robert Rodriguez's SIN CITY. They tickle our ass with those first round of posters and then the footage at the ComiCon and then we have to sit around and twiddle our thumbs for months and...
October 25, 2004: Neca does Sin City:
I'm
not gonna turn down the opportunity to post anything related to
either Jessica Alba or the great-looking SIN
CITY , and this article features both of these
finger-looking-goodies, so here...
September 22, 2004: Rodriguez digs Lava:
Unless you've been living on a different planet (and even then you may have still heard something), then you're aware that Robert Rodriguez is
making an adaptation of Frank Miller's acclaimed SIN CITY . And, if you've seen
pictures or the Comic Con...
September 16, 2004: Update: Sin City Clips!!!:
UPDATE: So many people
have been emailing me about this, so if interested, the SIN CITY
CLIPS seem to be available on the Net again. Just click on the pics
below and enjoy. Thanks to ' everyone ' who emailed...
September 13, 2004: Sin City video clips!!:
UPDATE: Crap. Well, it
appears as though this amazing piece of footage has been pulled from
the Net for now. Stay tuned for its "official" launch, at
some point, I guess.
If your...
September 10, 2004: More Sin City pics!:
Those SIN CITY pics we posted and linked to earlier today sparked off a whole bunch of excitement out there in web world and a few of those excited people had some exciting things to share. How exciting! First off, the pics you're seeing are in fact screenshots...
September 10, 2004: Sin City screenshots?!:
I got these pictures e-mailed to me late last night that were posted up on the Rotten Tomatoes bulletin board. Not sure if that's where they originated but that's the first place I saw em. They're some sort of pics from Robert Rodriguez's upcoming SIN CITY....
August 11, 2004: Get sexy Alba poster!:
The
cool dudes over at MovieGoods.com
just dropped me a line to let me know that their Jessica Alba SIN
CITY poster has quickly become one of their best-selling movie
posters of the summer. No...
July 22, 2004: 1st pic of Sin City:
As some of you may already know, the Arrow, Indiana
Sev and I are currently in sunny San Diego for our annual coverage
of the SAN DIEGO COMIC CON ! Our
comprehensive movie panel coverage should run across the...
July 16, 2004: Owen talks Sin City:
By
now you've certainly heard about the film that features the biggest
"name actor" cast of the coming year, and I'm not talking
about OCEAN'S
12 . Robert Rodriguez's SIN CITY has now officially...
June 29, 2004: Tarantino's Sin work:
It's been rumored since the project began that Robert Rodriguez would recruit Quentin Tarantino to direct a sequence in his upcoming SIN CITY movie and now we can confirm Tarantino did in fact do just that. Unfortunately it's not as big a chunk of the movie as I...
June 1, 2004: Dawson wants in on Sin:
In
what's turning into yet another experimental project from director
Robert Rodriguez-- whom my brother now claims "sucks"
because ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO was crap-- SIN CITY has cast yet
another...
May 20, 2004: More Sin City cast:
Benicio Del Toro and Clive Owen have officially joined the cast of Robert Rodriguez's SIN CITY currently filming in Austin. Del Toro had been rumored to be part of the cast since it was announced but only recently did his deal become official. He will star with...
May 19, 2004: Pics: Sin, shark, slut:
The first images of Robert Rodriguez's SIN CITY have popped up over at ET
Online. Not much to go on here but man, is Jessica Alba hot or what?
Entertainment Tonight is on the set of the film so expect some good coverage on
their daily television show. ET...
April 27, 2004: Sin is in for Alba:
Jessica Alba has joined the star-studded cast of Robert Rodriguez's SIN CITY and will star alongside Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Josh Hartnett, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy and many more rumored cast members including Benicio Del Toro and Leonardo DiCaprio....
April 2, 2004: Superhero News!:
The official site for
SPIDER-MAN 2 has
got up a preview of the next trailer set to come out soon. That's right, a
preview of a preview. Thanks to AgEnTsMiTh for the heads up. You can also watch
the original teaser trailer and a couple of Webisodes...
March 19, 2004: Depp in Sin City?!:
How could a film that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Benicio Del Toro get any cooler? How about by adding Johnny Depp? AND Christopher Walken? AND Steve Buscemi?! That's not cool enough for ya? How about if Quentin Tarantino...
March 18, 2004: Sin City cast!:
How's this for a star-studded cast? Robert Rodriguez is looking to cast Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Mickey Rourke, Brittany Murphy, Benicio Del Toro, Kate Bosworth and Jaime King in his next film SIN CITY, the adaptation of Frank Miller's...
February 26, 2004: Rodriguez lives in Sin:
Writer/Director Robert Rodriguez will direct an adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel SIN CITY for Dimension Films with production set to begin next month. Actually, despite the fact the flick just got an official greenlight and filming isn't scheduled to...
