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Janis Joplin will be coming to the big screen courtesy of Martha Marcy May Marlene director Sean Durkin

Posted 14 years ago

Filmmaker Sean Durkin made some waves last year with his excellent debut film MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE starring Elizabeth Olsen, about a woman who flees an abusive cult and the struggles she faces while attempting to reintegrate into a normal...

Simpsons 3D short film The Longest Daycare gets the shortest trailer ever

Posted 14 years ago

There’s a “Simpsons” 3D short film that will be playing in front of ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT later this month called THE LONGEST DAYCARE that follows yellow tyke Maggie Simpson and her time at the ‘Ayn Rand School for Tots’,...

Will director Steven Soderbergh make the swtich from film to television?

Posted 14 years ago

The stories of Steven Soderbergh’s so-called retirement from filmmaking are nothing new as the director first hinted at the possibility back in 2009 in an interview with Esquire. Since then, Soderbergh chum Matt Damon has confirmed that the director is...

Martin Scorsese abandons film, will shoot The Wolf of Wall Street on digital this August

Posted 14 years ago

A filmmaker many believed would never put down the celluloid camera has done exactly that. In an interview with Empire Magazine, Martin Scorsese’s esteemed editor and long-time collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker reveals that Scorsese will not only shoot his next film...

The new domestic trailer for Rian Johnson’s Looper is here!

Posted 14 years ago

Two days ago, we showed you guys the international trailer for Rian Johnson’s fascinating-looking sci-fi actioner LOOPER, and it gave away quite a bit of the film’s story (so much so that the flick’s own Twitter page even gave us...

Go back to Brooklyn with the first trailer for Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer

Posted 14 years ago

Filmmaker Spike Lee makes his return to the streets of Brooklyn (and also to the role of ‘Mookie’ which you should recall from his masterpiece DO THE RIGHT THING) with his new joint RED HOOK SUMMER. The film actually premiered...

Jackie Chan will produce and star in a new English-language action-comedy

Posted 14 years ago

Serious question: Has Jackie Chan ever made a “great” English-language film? THE KARATE KID remake was pretty decent and the KUNG FU PANDA movies don’t count since they’re animated… which leaves what? The RUSH HOUR films? Whatever the case may...

First trailer and poster for City of God director Fernando Meirelles’ new film 360 has arrived

Posted 14 years ago

360 was a film I was particularly interested in when its development was first announced back in 2010 – it’s scripted by prolific English scribe Peter Morgan (THE QUEEN), it’s directed by Fernando Meirelles, the man behind one of last...

George Clooney to direct The Yankee Comandante based on the New Yorker article by David Grann

Posted 14 years ago

Always the one to lean towards politically-charged stories, filmmaker George Clooney has now turned his attention to a project called THE YANKEE COMANDANTE, an adaptation of the massive New Yorker article from writer David Grann about William Alexander Morgan, an...

Roland Emmerich wants Jamie Foxx to play the president in the action drama White House Down

Posted 14 years ago

A movie called WHITE HOUSE DOWN starring Channing Tatum from doomsday director Roland Emmerich is currently in development. It’s being described as an “action drama”, so you may be able to imagine the levels of absurdity that will likely come...

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