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Brett Ratner takes on The Wolfman, Avatar, Prince of Persia and more
3 hours ago | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Director Brett Ratner has had no involvement with Quentin Tarantino's recent war thriller Inglourious Basterds or with the upcoming films Avatar, The Wolfman or Prince of Persia, but somehow he has managed to get a cameo appearance in all of them, courtesy of some spoof posters on a new website.
Ratnerfilms depicts the filmmaker digitally added to publicity images of Joe Johnston's The Wolfman, James Cameron's Avatar, Mike Newell's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Grant Heslov's comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats (or stare at Ratner in this case), as well as several other releases.
It's not the first time Ratner has popped up imitating other roles. X-Men fans will remember him donning mutton chops, fake metal claws and a leather suit to portray Wolverstein, his version of Jackman's Wolverine, in a spoof publicity shot for X-Men: The Last Stand.
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- David Bentley
Universal Takes Blu-ray and iPhone Interactivity to the Next Level
4 hours ago | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Unviversal Studios Home Entertainment just dropped a press release in our mailbox that we'd like to share with you. It becomes increasingly relevant as I prepare several articles on the Blu-ray format for later this afternoon -- including my long awaited This Week in Blu-ray column, which is frighteningly overdue. Alas, the news today is that Universal is adding a very cool set of new features to their Blu-ray releases -- namely Bruno, Funny People, 9, American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, Public Enemies and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. These new Blu-ray features will integrate applications for the iPhone and iPod, as well as a newly redesigned Bd-Live center that will deliver a new and improved connected experience. It's enough to have me itching to pop in the Bruno Blu-ray copy that is currently sitting on my desk, waiting to be reviewed. For all of the details, please see the official press release below: Universal City »
- Neil Miller
Brad Pitt Jonesing to Get Basterdly Again
4 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Directors, beware! If you plan on booking Brad Pitt for a film, you may want to check in with Quentin Tarantino first. Sounds like an Inglourious Basterds prequel is Pitt's top priority. "Everybody would drop whatever they're doing to go back to work with Quentin," Pitt's Basterds costar Eli Roth told us at the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards presented by Movieline.com in Hollywood. "All the time, Brad says, 'Prequel, prequel!' All the 'basterds' would jump on it in a second." In fact, this possible prequel is already under way...sorta. Read on for the details. "We have three scenes that we shot in Boston that take place before the war, and... »
Brad Pitt Jonesing to Get Basterdly Again
4 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »
Directors, beware! If you plan on booking Brad Pitt for a film, you may want to check in with Quentin Tarantino first. Sounds like an Inglourious Basterds prequel is Pitt's top priority. "Everybody would drop whatever they're doing to go back to work with Quentin," Pitt's Basterds costar Eli Roth told us at the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards presented by Movieline.com in Hollywood. "All the time, Brad says, 'Prequel, prequel!' All the 'basterds' would jump on it in a second." In fact, this possible prequel is already under way...sorta. Read on for the details. "We have three scenes that we shot in Boston that take place before the war, and... »
Joel Silver Finally Revives Sgt. Rock By Bringing Him To The Future
6 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
No matter what Lieutenant Aldo Raine and Quentin Tarantino may have done for the war movie, World War II is still not hip with American moviegoers apparently. Joel Silver has spent 20 years trying to make a movie based on the DC Comics Sgt. Rock character, and only now, by setting the movie in the future, has he actually pulled it off. According to THR, I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence will take over on Sgt. Rock, with Akiva Goldsman writing the script and producing as well. Sgt. Rock had always been a World War II character in the comics, even though he debuted in 1958, near the beginning of the Vietnam War. THR notes that Sgt. Rock had been a symbol of American jingoism, and that even G.I. Joe was getting out of that racket, having dropped the "Real American Hero" tag in the latest movie. There's no telling if »
'Sgt. Rock' Movie To Be Set In The Future, New Writer & Director Attached
6 hours ago | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Guy Ritchie's attachment to "Sgt. Rock" was immediately put in question once the filmmaker was announced for "Lobo," but now the question has been answered—Ritchie is out and a new team is in for the DC war hero's big-screen debut.
"I Am Legend" helmer Francis Lawrence is the latest director attached to the long-developing "Sgt. Rock" film, based on a new screenplay from Chad St. John. Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman, two names with plenty of comic book connections, are producing the picture. Despite the departure of Ritchie, the addition of a new director-writer team means that fans of the classic World War II hero can hope to see Rock on the big screen before too long.
Except that Sgt. Rock won't be a World War II hero in this version—instead, he's heading into the future.
The Hollywood Reporter notes that the surprising decision to jettison the »
- Josh Wigler
'Sgt. Rock' Looks to the Future with Francis Lawrence
7 hours ago | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Once upon a time, Sgt. Rock was in the hands of Guy Ritchie, and many an Easy Company fan was upset. But you'll undoubtedly wish that Ritchie and Joel Silver had made it to the finish line, because Sgt. Rock will not make it to the big screen in a form you'll recognize. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he has a new director in Francis Lawrence and a whole new space-time continuum. Joel Silver is still on board as producer, and he's bringing Akiva Goldsman on board to help. They've hired newcomer Chad St. John to pen the script.
As you may or may not know, Sgt. Rock is a WWII soldier. He's always fought in WWII. The poor guy has never even gotten to leave the European theater. (It was rumored in Swamp Thing that he was transferred to the Pacific, but never confirmed.) Any attempt at a movie »
- Elisabeth Rappe
Cool Stuff: “Say Tweet Again” T-Shirt
18 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
This awesome parody of that famous scene involving Samuel L Jackson from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction takes on society and the media's obsession with the popular microblogging website Twitter. Available from headline shirts for $24, sized small to Xxxl. Check out a zoomed in version of the t-shirt design after the jump. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. »
- Peter Sciretta
Review: The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band)
22 hours ago | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
The Palme d’Or. The prize awarded by the jury at the Cannes International film festival, for the best film in the competition. In recent times, it has been awarded to both up and coming film directors, like Steven Soderbergh, the Coens, and perhaps most famously Quentin Tarantino, and veterans of their art like Gus Van Sant and Roman Polanski. The Palme d’Or is considered one of the most prestigious awards in film.
This year, it went to Michel Haneke. It’s been a long time coming for the Austrian. Considered one of the most talented directors in Europe, Haneke will be best known in the UK and Us for his only English language effort, 2007’s Funny Games Us. A remake of his own 1997 Austrian movie, it wasn’t the best showcase of his work. He has returned to his native tongue, and hopes this year’s award winning »
- Barry Steele
Hanks, Bening Join Governors Awards Lineup
23 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Steve Pond
Tom Hanks, Annette Bening and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel have joined the lineup of celebrities slated to participate in Saturday's Governors Awards, the new event at which the Academy will salute this year's four honorary Oscar winners.
The new names join previously announced participants Jonathan Demme, Kirk Douglas, Angelica Huston and Quentin Tarantino in paying tribute to honorary Oscar recipients Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman and Gordon Willis, and Irving Thalberg G. Memorial Award recipient John Calley.
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- Steve Pond
Pam Grier Joins Smallville as DC Villain
9 November 2009 2:26 PM, PST | TVGuide - Breaking News | See recent TVGuide - Breaking News news »
The Smallville mythology is growing this season with the introduction of Agent Amanda Waller. The L Word star Pam Grier, who began in 1970s blaxploitation films, has taken on the role of the DC Comics villainess, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
Who's returning to Smallville?
The 60-year-old Grier, whose career was revived by Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film Jackie Brown, will make her first appearance in...
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- Natalie Abrams
'Name That Movie' ... Based on These Drawings
9 November 2009 12:45 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Most of us know our favorite movies by heart, and we can quote dialog (although not always accurately), describe a scene down to its last detail, or even recount production history if we are particularly geek-minded about it. When movies are a big part of your life, the attention to detail can become downright obsessive, but as we all know, a movie is really just a sum of its parts. Paul Rogers, an illustrator who works at the California Art Center College has taken those separate parts and devised a clever little game of Name that Movie on his blog, Drawger. Rogers' game takes some of our favorite flicks and breaks them down into six drawings, and covers the gamut of Hollywood classics old and new. So if you are a fan of Pictionary and showing off your movie knowledge, this is definitely the game for you.
Now I don't want to brag, »
- Jessica Barnes
Looking for Inspiration for Hotel Design? Try Violent, Profane Movies
9 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
Quentin Tarantino's cult classic, Reservoir Dogs, with its cast of violent, sociopathic killers with names straight out of a Crayola box--Mr. Orange, Mr. Blue, Mr. Pink--was the inspiration for a 10-pack of rooms at the recently-opened Paradise Tower at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. Like skulls stenciled on your bedroom wall? Got that. A bed illuminated by blue neon? Check. Wall-sized images of topless women enjoying a post-coital smoke above the headboard? No problem.
"Everyone was so afraid we'd look like another Morgans Hotel property," says Hard Rock Cmo Phil Shalala. "But we kept our brand." Indeed.
The ten pool suites in "The Dime" were designed by South African designer Mark Zeff of ZeffDesign and Las Vegas-based designer Mark Tracy of Chemical Spaces to be decadent, party-like-a-rock-star spaces. Each one is outfitted with the accoutrements critical to the life of a hard-partying young music or entertainment industry »
- Linda Tischler
Eli Roth On His Acting Journey from 'Worst Extra Ever' to Bear Jew
9 November 2009 8:15 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Before this year, only horror geeks would stop Eli Roth on the street. Now, though, the Hostel director has cultivated a whole new fanbase as an actor after appearing as the Nazi-bashing Bear Jew in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Roth attended last night's Behind the Camera Awards with his friend and Basterds costar Christoph Waltz, and he had plenty to say to Movieline about his newfound recognition (as well as heaps of praise for Basterds editor Sally Menke, who was honored last night). Still, while the Bear Jew is all well and good, what we really wanted to know about was Roth's inauspicious acting debut in Barbra Streisand's The Mirror Has Two Faces. (No, we're not making that up.) »
Cassel, Ryder and Hershey Trio Added to Aronofsky's 'Black Swan'
9 November 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- After reminding cinephiles that Rourke and Tomei can play "washed up" but are far from being washed up in their careers, taking a page from Quentin Tarantino's book, today's golden scoop (courtesy /film.com) informs us that Darren Aronofsky has added vets Winona Ryder, Barbara Hersey and Vincent Cassel are the supporting cast to the already announced Kunis and Portman duet. Apparently, Ryder will play Beth, Nina’s “sorta friend” who has been the school’s running lead in all the productions, but who is nearing the end of her career. All the dancers are aiming to take her place as Odette, the Swan Queen, in the next big ballet: Swan Lake. Cassel will be playing the ”handsome but sinister Yevna,” the director of the new stage production. And Hershey will play Nina’s mother. Personally I wonder how Cassel feels about playing bad Russian-like figures. The film »
Inglourious Basterds Editor Sally Menke Talks Tarantino, Cannes Cuts, and Kill Bill 3
6 November 2009 11:45 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
There's one woman in the world who understands Quentin Tarantino better than anybody, and that's Sally Menke. Since her work on Reservoir Dogs, Menke has cut every single one of Tarantino's films, and for the last decade, she's eschewed almost all other jobs to devote herself solely to the genre-blending auteur. This Sunday, Menke will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement honor at the Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards, and as Inglourious Basterds begins its transformation from unexpected summer blockbuster to even-more-unexpected Oscar player, we thought there'd be no better time to talk to Menke about how she does what she does. »
Thurman keen for 'Kill Bill 3' training
6 November 2009 7:58 AM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Uma Thurman has revealed that she is keen to begin training for the upcoming third Kill Bill instalment. Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino recently confirmed that the follow-up will be out in cinemas in 2014. The actress, who starred as martial-arts trained The Bride in the first two films of the franchise, equated her previous regimen to "basic training in Vietnam". However, she admitted that she has grown lazy since the last movie completed filming in 2004. She told Empire: "They train you so hard that when you come to shooting, it's actually quite comfortable. It's not the same as real kung fu and I could not defend myself now if someone (more) »
- By Tim Parks
Thurman Eager To Shape Up For Kill Bill
5 November 2009 11:21 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Uma Thurman can't wait to begin work on the next Kill Bill movie - because the intense samurai training she endures for the films push her into the best shape of her life.
The actress spent months mastering her martial arts skills with professional stuntmasters to play The Bride, a killer assassin, in the first two instalments of Quentin Tarantino's action franchise.
And she's ready to kick off the gruelling sessions for a third time - after reverting back to her lazy ways since filming wrapped.
She tells Britain's Empire magazine, "They train you so hard that when you come to shooting, it's actually quite comfortable. It's not the same as real kung-fu, and I could not defend myself now if someone picked a fight! It was a transforming experience; I was part of a fight team for almost nine months, and that changed my life. They taught me to work harder than I had ever done before, physically, and it's an incredible thing to discover that your breaking point is actually much higher than you think. It's a great gift.
"It did change my life back then. Not that I'm changed still; I'm back to being the bum that I was! But I do miss it, and hopefully I'll get back on the stick one day. I'd never pushed myself to those extremes before. It was like surviving a kind of war; it felt like basic training in Vietnam. It was an emotional and physical thing - the envelope of the work sprawled and grew and changed, almost out of control." »
Michael Fassbender Takes A Single Shot
5 November 2009 3:29 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
Michael Fassbender has signed on to star in the upcoming David Jacobson pic, A Single Shot. Fassbender joins Forest Whitaker, William H. Macy and Thomas Haden Church and will play a poacher on the lam from a pair of killers.
Fassbender recently starred as Lt. Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and in the critically acclaimed Fish Tank. His magnanimous portrayal of Bobby Sands in Steve McQueen's Hunger proved that actors, unlike Orson Welles - bless him for trying in The Lady From Shanghai - don't have to be Irish to do an Irish accent.
So it would seem Fassbender is set to dive into mainstream stardom. The brilliant actor is on George Miller's shortlist to star in Mad Max IV: Fury Road. Although not entirely bankable as an action star at this point, he seems to be testing the water with the lead in Neil Marshall »
2012 director fearful of destroying Islamic site onscreen
5 November 2009 2:56 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
John Woo has his doves, Quentin Tarantino his fictional brands and Hitchcock had his cameos; directors love putting their signature stamp on movies and they come in all shapes and forms. Just look at the cinematic CV of German filmmaker, Roland Emmerich. 1996 – Independence Day, aliens lay siege to earth, taking out the likes of the Empire State Building and the White House. 1998 – Godzilla – New York under attack by a giant Japanese monster. 2004 – The Day After Tomorrow – global warming bites us in the ass with a giant storm that brings a new ice age. And now 2009 – 2012, a tale of global destruction based on the theory that the world will end according to the Mayan Long Count Calendar. Spot the similarities? Not that Emmerich is happy to destroy any old landmark that stands in his wake, with one apparently off limits to the disaster-loving director. »
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