Elizabeth Berkley joins S. Darko, creepy rabbit still MIA
Production recently began in Utah on the contentious sequel to 2001's Donnie Darko, shrewdly titled S. Darko after Donnie's little sister Samantha. Although the film remains Jake Gyllenhaal-less, director Chris Fisher and producer Ash R. Shah just revealed the addition of Elizabeth Berkley to the cast. Berkley cut her teeth as Jessie on Saved By The Bell before taking on a smattering of TV and movie roles, most recently Julia Winston on CSI: Miami.... read more
Watch the trailer for new Coens project Burn After Reading
Brad Pitt getting jiggy with his iPod. John Malkovich punching Brad Pitt in the face. A bearded George Clooney hitting on his Michael Clayton co-star Tilda Swinton. If these scenes intrigue you to any extent whatsoever, then there's a certain movie trailer you need to see:... read more
HBO's John Adams coming to DVD on June 10
John Adams, the HBO miniseries that starred Paul Giamatti as the founding father himself and Laura Linney as his wife Abigail, will be hitting video shelves on June 10... read more
Sam Raimi's Evil Dead becomes hit Broadway musical
We are currently in an age where books are adapted into movies, movies are turned into TV series, TV series morph into Broadway plays, and plays turn into running online commentaries authored by the actors. You just never know whether you'll see your favorite comic strip turn into a blockbuster or a Saturday morning cartoon first; it's a slow, gradual transformation from one medium to the next. Kind of like the Animorphs. But you know you've struck gold when your favorite b-list movie becomes a musical.... read more
Sony nips at Mike Tyson documentary
James Toback’s documentary on the career of infamous boxing legend Mike Tyson takes a sympathetic spin on the story. The film premiered at Cannes this month and has Sony Pictures Classics in talks of picking up the piece.... read more
Savage Grace
In a decade when the dysfunctional family has become its own film genre... read more
Blockbuster to offer in-store downloads
Two years ago, Blockbuster, once king of the movie-rental business, verged on bankruptcy. It seemed that the giant may have fallen. ... read more
Watch the trailer for Chuck Palahniuk's Choke
Victor is a historical re-enactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park where fellow employees greet him, “Victor, how art thou?” He has meaningless sex with a string of random women, and then attends a weekly group therapy session for sex addiction. He has also developed a unique means of earning money to pay for his mother’s Alzheimer’s care: he purposefully chokes in nice restaurants and after allowing patrons to “save” him, milks them for money when they feel responsible for his well-being. No, this isn't the story about your sleazy cousin. Rather, it's a filmadaptation of Fight Club author and... read more
T.I. to star in MTV reality series
Hot on the trail of the news that the members Velvet Revolver won't become reality TV stars in their search for a new lead singer, comes the news that rapper/house arrestee T.I. will.... read more
Cartier teams with Reed, Cotillard, more for charity
The Age of Disco gave us a lot of cultural touchstones, not the strangest of which was the Cartier Love bracelet. Fashioned after chastity belts of yore, the bracelet came with a tiny screwdriver and actually had to be bolted around the wearer's wrist in a permanent fashion, presumably by the giver. Add to the weird factor that it was way on the pricey side, as well as the fact that you were strictly forbidden (by Cartier) from buying one for yourself (it had to be from your lover, being the Love bracelet), and you've got yourself the Decadent Years'... read more
New Spider-Man movie slated for 2010-ish
The fourth movie in a series is usually not much of a cinematic sweet spot, but Marvel Vice President Peter Cuneo has reportedly confirmed Sony Pictures’ web-brained scheme to make yet another Spider-Man movie. (Pun made to honor the last Spidey film, which maintained a level of wit on par with a cereal advertisement.) ... read more
Madonna's documentary to play Michael Moore's fest
Michael Moore has picked up Madonna’s documentary I Am Because We Are for his Traverse City Film Festival. The piece premiered at Tribeca and also played at Cannes this month. The film was inspired by the icon’s own difficult experience adopting a Malawian child whose mother had died during childbirth. The AIDS epidemic has orphaned over one million children in Malawi, and with adoption laws seemingly nonexistent, they are left with few options.... read more
Guillermo del Toro and Mark Johnson on board with Hater
As the fuss around poor little Bilbo Baggins continues to mount along with pre-pre-production for The Hobbit, Guillermo del Toro has just scooped another project onto his already brimming plate (Seriously, does the guy sleep?). Producer Mark Johnson (The Chronicles of Narnia) and del Toro will produce an adaptation of David Moody's book Hater, a thriller about an epidemic of ordinary people suddenly acting violently with no regret that can strike anywhere and anyone. Even you!... read more
Sydney Pollack: 1934-2008
Academy Award-winning director/producer/actor Sydney Pollack passed away on May 26 at the age of 73, leaving behind a legacy of films spanning nearly every genre. As a director, Pollack worked with a bevy of Hollywood legends—Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand—in movies like... read more
Flash Gordon follows comic-book suit, hits big screen
Not sure if you've noticed, but lately, a lot of the big blockbusters have been based off of old comic books. Beloved for their special effects, action sequences against the "bad guy" and nifty outfits, guys flock to these movies in droves, bring (drag?) along their girlfriends and put them at the top of the box office.... read more
Laurence Fishburne to direct, star in Alchemist adaptaion
Last seen making his presence felt in the high-stakes gambling thriller 21, Laurence Fishburne continues to provide yeoman supporting performances without too much acclaim. But Hollywood clearly likes this guy; he's slated to appear in seven more films over the next two years. Life post-Matrix trilogy is quite good, it seems.... read more
Aziz Ansari to join Scrubs cast
Comedian Aziz Ansari, or one-third of MTV's Human Giant whom we still fondly remember as an indie-clerk asshole, will be one of three new interns (i.e. fresh, tauntable meat for Dr. Cox) on Scrubs. TV Guide reports Ansari will join the Sacred Heart staff along with... read more
What is your favorite Tom Waits movie role?
Vote in PasteMagazine.com's latest poll... ... read more
Mortensen, McKellen and Serkis all in talks for Hobbit roles
It's great that Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson are both on board for the upcoming Hobbit features, but what about everyone else involved with The Lord of the Rings? For the most part it looks like they're just as excited about the feature as everyone else. Two key roles, and one perhaps-ancillary one, are in talks to be filled with the same actors as in the original trilogy. ... read more
Oliver Stone taps Richard Dreyfuss to play Dick Cheney
As Obama and McCain begin conducting VP interviews this week, director Oliver Stone thinks he has already found his own ideal running mate for W, his upcoming film about the Bush Administration. Dreyfuss is in “final negotiations” for the role of Dick Cheney, whom he already bore a passing resemblance to as Michael Douglas’ opponent in 1995’s The American President. In fact, Dreyfuss, an outspoken liberal activist, has been somewhat of a go-to guy for controlling right-wingers, having portrayed Secretary of State Andrew Haig in The Day Reagan Was Shot. ... read more
