While it is true that there is very little new ground broken in The People vs. George Lucas, it is still a well-constructed documentary on the subject of our generation's most inspirational work of fiction. No other body of work has so ingrained itself into the pop culture, so fueled the dreams of the young and forged who they were as adults as Star Wars has. And it is with that in mind that this documentary-cum-breakup letter was made. Make no mistake about it: despite the premise of the…
The '50s are the birthplace of so many of our modern American ideals: the belief that we deserve a well-paying job, a nuclear family, the white-picket fence. While it feels suspicious today, the idea that suburban America could ever really have existed, that very idea gave rise to many of the problems and oddities we find ourselves dealing with today. Nicholas Ray's prolific film Bigger Than Life addresses the degeneration of these dreams from the inside out. Made in 1956, Bigger Than Life is…
When you saw the trailer for The Bounty Hunter, your first thought was probably, "Why did the Oscars expand the Best Picture category to 10 nominees? They're only gonna need one next year!!" But how does a movie this original and daring get made? We take you now to the pitch meeting, where all is revealed.
The Pitch Meeting for The Bounty Hunter
ANDY TENNANT: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Andy Tennant, and I am the director of such films as Hitch, Fools Rush In, and Sweet…
Sandra Bullock has pulled out of the London premiere of The Blind Side as news broke Wednesday that her husband of five years cheated on her.
Ladies, say it with me: "NOOOOOOO!"
A cleaned-up Jesse James had been by Bullock's side throughout her winning award season, culminating in her teary acceptance speech for Best Actress at the Oscars March 7, when women everywhere sighed over the couple's obvious love for each other.
Now, In Touch is reporting that James cheated on Bullock for nearly a…
These lists are fun but exhausting. I started compiling a list of could-be 2010 Oscar contenders and wound up with about 40 movies -- and that doesn't include the out-of-nowheres. I tried to compile a list based not entirely on my personal feelings -- for example, I can't wait for Mark Romanek's return in Never Let Me Go, David O. Russell's take on the Mickey Ward story, The Fighter, and I'm intrigued by Anton Corbijn's The American ... but they didn't make this cut -- but more on pedigree and…
By way of The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Blog we've learned that Jason Segel will star in a Muppets movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter:
The actor's coming aboard is a natural extension of the development process; he wrote the script with pal Nicholas Stoller.
This will come as no surprise to anyone who remembers his turn in Forgettting Sarah Marshall, below you can watch him expand upon the song "Dracula's Lament" on The Craig Ferguson Show.
Our friends over at /Film added in another…
The Hurt Locker's Best Picture victory over Avatar at last week's Oscars was seen as a triumph of art over commerce, of substance over style. But it also signified a major triumph for Summit Entertainment, the little studio that could that had a lot to celebrate in 2009 between The Hurt Locker's critical acclaim and the monstrous box-office success of The Twilight Saga: New Moon. But does the rise of Summit signify the dawn of a new era of mid-major studios?
Looking back at the year's 10 Best…
They like to kick off the South by Southwest Film Festival with a kick-ass movie, so it's fortunate that this year, someone actually made a movie called Kick-Ass. If ever a movie was designed for the SXSW crowd -- mostly young, male, and slightly geeky -- it was this, an action comedy based on a graphic novel, featuring superheroes, buckets of blood, and outrageously vulgar jokes. Imagine if Judd Apatow and Robert Rodriguez teamed up to make a Spider-Man movie.
Kick-Ass is about an ordinary…
Variety is reporting that Welcome to the Rileys, starring Kristen Stewart and James Gandolfini has been picked up by Apparition and Sony Pictures Worldwide. According to Variety:
A seven-figure deal for North American rights closed Friday.... Apparition plans a fall release.
The most interesting aspect here will be the marketing.…