What’ll it be? A G-rated sci-fi family-pleaser from a remarkable studio with nothing but hits? Or a sexy, hyper, bullet-dodging actioner with a good cast? How about both?
:: WALL-E
Rotten Tomatoes: 98 / 100
Metacritic: 91 / 100
filmcritic.com: 5 / 5
Easily, the most impressive reviews of the year. As spectacular as the visual detail of a Pixar film. There’s […]
In the world of movie marketing, this is definitely bigger than a Happy Meal. To promote Will Smith’s July 4th weekend release, Hancock, Columbia Pictures will pay off one family’s home mortgage.
The hook: The prize, up to $360,000, will go to a “deserving” family that writes a 200-word essay explaining why they should win. If they […]
You may have read our coverage of Transsiberian, Brad Anderson’s (Session 9, Next Stop Wonderland) newest film, the Opening Night feature at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Now the strangers-on-a-train thriller (yep, stole that from Norm) will be opening nationwide on July 18, 2008.
Kingsley at the IFFB Q&A
Transsiberian follows an American couple played by […]
I can’t recall such comprehensive grass-roots marketing for a megamovie like The Dark Knight, but Warner Brothers continues setting a new precedent. The latest nugget: The unannounced actor playing the “Gotham Tonight” newscaster has been revealed… it’s Anthony Michael Hall!
Um, so what’s the big deal? This is a movie marketing “secret”? I mean we like the Dead Zone star, and the Sixteen Candles twerp he once was, […]
There’s nothing better than a director talking straight up to moviegoers, especially when his or her movie is still in the works. That’s what we have here: A not-yet-published blog post from The Spirit writer-director Frank Miller, on the role CGI plays in moviemaking. (See our recent character posters from The Spirit.)
Miller, a CGI skeptic and huge […]
Lobby reader Mike H. clued us in to new production on The Surrogates, the Bruce Willis-led adaptation of Robert Venditti’s sci-fi graphic novel (left).
In the film, we humans have become homebodies for good, sending “surrogate” robot types out to do our damage on the world. Bruce Willis plays a cop (again) forced to leave his […]
