The Shawshank Reunion to be held in Ohio this August

By Michael Saba at 10:45 AM on June 17, 2008

Conventions for movies are nothing new; they offer obsessives a chance to dust off their favorite costume and nerd it up with others who have just as much of a fixation over their media of choice. Now, a reunion, that's a little more classy. It seems that an anonymous member of the production team of The Shawshank Redemption knows this, because they've organized a get-together for the movie's cast and crew....  read more

Office spin-off show picks up Aziz Ansari

By Adam Daniels at 1:14 PM on June 16, 2008

Chances are, not many are as thankful for the revamping of the NBC sitcom than Aziz Ansari. In the past two weeks, Ansari has signed on for parts in not just one, but two, of the network’s comedies that once again made Thursday nights “Must See TV.” ...  read more

Catching Up With... Guy Maddin

By Sean Gandert at 11:50 AM on June 16, 2008

It's safe to say that Guy Maddin's films look like no one else's. A throwback to early American and Weimar films, his avant-garde features show what has been lost by the current cinematic grammar while remaining extremely contemporary. His newest film, My Winnipeg...  read more

The Incredible Hulk

By Patrick Rollens at 11:34 AM on June 16, 2008

It’s a common misconception that Marvel Studios’ The Incredible Hulk is...  read more

Fresh Weeds: Little Boxes Dimebag #1 on sale tomorrow

By Julia Reidy at 8:53 AM on June 16, 2008

If ever there was a reason to listen to the same song 10 times in a row, this is probably it. Weeds, the popular Showtime program chronicling the life of a suburban drug dealer/mom and her family, will release its Little Boxes Dimebag #1 tomorrow (June 17). The digital-only album features 10 versions of the show's iconic theme song, "Little Boxes," which is performed by a different artist at the start of each episode. This collection includes versions by Rise Against, Engelbert Humperdinck, Randy Newman and Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters, amongst others....  read more

Paramount absorbs indie studio

By Kasia Galazka at 3:47 PM on June 13, 2008

[Above: The cast of Little Miss Sunshine]It's a sad season for independent films everywhere, but especially in Hollywood. As more and more movies flood the market, studios are being forced to scale back or absorb their indie studios. According to the Wall Street Journal, Paramount will disperse its label Paramount Vantage. The move will essentially save them a few million bucks per year....  read more

Encounters at the End of the World

By Sean Gandert at 2:36 PM on June 13, 2008

"The National Science Foundation had invited me to Antarctica even though...”  read more

Bob Odenkirk vs. Rogue Wave: the saga continues

By Michael Saba at 2:23 PM on June 13, 2008

There's something satisfying about seeing two heavyweights slugging it out, something about the grandiloquence of conflict between two binary opposites writ large. Ali Vs. Frazier. The Celtics Vs. The Lakers. Obama Vs. Clinton. Abbott & Costello Vs. Frankenstein. This world of epic matchups is poised to add another brawl to its ranks: Odenkirk Vs. Rogue Wave. As previously reported, the ex-Mr. Show star and the alt-rock up-and-comers recently had a fake spat over Mr. Odenkirk's artistic vision for their "Chicago X 12" music video. Well, it looks like Rogue Wave has responded with a salvo of their own, leaving little...  read more

My Winnipeg

By Jesse Jarnow at 2:20 PM on June 13, 2008

In his ninth feature, My Winnipeg, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin uses...  read more

Leonardo DiCaprio founding Atari as Nolan Bushnell

By Sean Gandert at 1:28 PM on June 13, 2008

The rise and fall of the Atari empire is one of the fabled stories from the early days of video gaming, before games had elaborate orchestral soundtracks or fancy 3-D graphics. Heck, even before they had scrolling screens and a sound chip that could make more nuanced noises than "blip" or "bloop." As fascinating as this all is from a historical standpoint, it's a bit surprisng that this tale is being turned into a feature film with Leonardo DiCaprio as the star....  read more

The Happening

By Robert Davis at 12:20 PM on June 13, 2008

The Sixth Sense may be clever, but its coattails are only so long, and even if...  read more

Sangre de mi sangre (Blood of My Blood)

By Alissa Wilkinson at 10:42 AM on June 13, 2008

Fusing a bit of Shake-spearean...  read more

Jake Gyllenhaal moon film finds new writer

By Adam Daniels at 10:17 AM on June 13, 2008

After recently receiving the crushing blow that Jake Gyllenhaal would not be appearing in the sequel to his breakthrough film Donnie Darko, rabbit-seeing psuedo-existential time traveling teens everywhere sighed an angst-ridden collective sigh. (At least, that's what we think they did.) But alas, there may be light at the end of the dreamy Gyllentunnel after all. ...  read more

Quid Pro Quo

By Alissa Wilkinson at 10:10 AM on June 13, 2008

Billed as a steamy detective story about voluntary paralytics and...  read more

Steroid doc Bigger, Faster, Stronger* hits theaters

By Henry Freedland at 7:35 AM on June 13, 2008

Whatever your feelings on muscle men Sylvester Stallone and Hulk Hogan, you're going to want to see this. And it's getting easier: over the next few weeks, Christopher Bell's documentary about steroid culture, Bigger, Stronger, Faster*, will be expanding from 19 to 51 screens around the country....  read more

The Foot Fist Way

By Robert Davis at 4:44 PM on June 12, 2008

Good-natured and exceedingly goofy, The Foot Fist Way is...  read more

The Kiss Army's new recruitment tool: reality television

By Michael Saba at 4:37 PM on June 12, 2008

It's official: Kiss really is going to rock and roll all night and party ev-er-y day. Longtime band manager Don McGhee recently confirmed that the group will use a reality TV show to replace Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, eventually replacing all four members of Kiss. The show will ape American Idol, leaving the viewers to vote in would-be rockers as the new members of the band....  read more

Cameron Crowe goes RomCom with Stiller, Witherspoon

By Elizabeth Hendley at 3:22 PM on June 12, 2008

Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon have signed on to star in an upcoming movie directed by Cameron Crowe, Variety reports. The as-yet-untitled romantic comedy will be released on Columbia Pictures, after winning a bidding war against four other studios for distribution of the fully developed project. ...  read more

Judd Apatow unveils star-studded cast for Funny People

By Michael Saba at 1:08 PM on June 12, 2008

Judd Apatow certainly isn't wasting any time cashing in on the cred that his cinematic success has brought him over the past few years. His latest foray onto the silver screen, tentatively titled Funny People, looks to impress just as much as his recent offerings, with a list of names that overwhelms by sheer starpower alone. ...  read more

Iron Man 2 to begin production soon, or maybe not

By Michael Saba at 10:49 AM on June 12, 2008

There's news about Tony Stark on the horizon, and we're not talking about Ghostface Killah. Soon after the revelation that Robert Downey Jr. will be making a cameo in the upcoming Incredible Hulk movie, Marvel announced that Iron Man 2 is set to begin filming next year, in time for an April 30th, 2010 release. ...  read more