Avatar Coming to DVD and Blu-ray on Earth Day
Fans can’t get enough of James Cameron’s insanely successful blockbuster, Avatar. But will they be as pleased with the special-effects 3-D stunner when they’re watching it in their living rooms? We’re about to find out. Avatar will be released on Blu-ray on April 22, which, not coincidentally, is Earth Day.... read more
Jason Segel Now Starring, Co-Producing and Co-Writing Muppets Movie
Jason Segel has signed on to star in Disney’s Muppets movie. The actor, who also happens to be one of Hollywood’s most well-known puppeteers (Remember the Dracula puppet musical at the end of Forgetting Sarah Marshall?), will play the film’s lead non-puppet role, according to The Hollywood Reporter. His as-yet-unnamed character is on a quest to round up the Muppets and reunite them.... read more
Michel Gondry and Björk Unveil...Scientific Musical?
After the news that Björk and Michel Gondry were teaming up again, we made some predictions as to what their new, “very undefined” project might be. Turns out, we were pretty wrong.... read more
Martin Scorsese Casts Sacha Baron Cohen in Kid's Movie
File this one under “Things We Didn’t See Coming.” Martin Scorsese, Paste‘s recently-crowned Best Living Director and master of goofiness, Sacha Baron Cohen, are teaming up for a kid’s movie. According to The Guardian, Scorsese is in talks with Baron Cohen to cast him in his upcoming adaptation of the children’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, which won the 2008 Caldecott Medal.... read more
Titanic 3D: Coming to a Screen Near You in 2012
Just like the love of Titanic characters Jack and Rose, James Cameron movies never die. Cameron recently announced his intentions to re-release a director’s cut of Avatar this summer to give the new 3D box-office champ, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, a run for its (literal) money.... read more
Watch the Trailer to Sydney Pollack's Unreleased Aretha Franklin Documentary
The movie could be released as early as later this year... read more
Actor Peter Graves: 1926-2010
Peter Graves, best known for his role as Jim Phelps on the Mission: Impossible television series, died at his Los Angeles home on Sunday. He was 83.... read more
Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman to Switch Bodies in New Movie
What do you get when you cross The Hangover with Freaky Friday? Apparently, a forthcoming movie called The Change-Up, which casts Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman as best friends who switch bodies, according to Variety. Written by the same team behind The Hangover, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the film casts Bateman as a responsible parent while Reynolds plays a lazy bachelor.... read more
Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Line-Up Revealed
We told you that Shrek Forever After was set to open this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, but now the initial lineup is out. Although this year’s numbers have been pared down from 120 to 85 feature films (plus 47 shorts), the submissions are as varied as ever, with filmmakers hailing from 38 countries.... read more
Showtime and DreamWorks Partner on Movie Deal
Sure, most TV connoisseurs associate Showtime with its popular original programming like Dexter and Weeds, but the cable network was founded on movies, and they still take up a large part of their airwaves. That’s why when a trio of studios—Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—abandoned their longtime Showtime alliances to begin a new channel, Epix, they also left behind a rather gaping hole in the network’s lineup.... read more
3D Movies Push Worldwide Box Office to All-Time High
As a moviegoer, the novelty of sporting funny-looking glasses to experience a film in 3D may have waned, but for Hollywood (and for movie theaters worldwide, for that matter), our apparent obsession with being visually immersed in movies is literally paying off. In 2009, 3D sales boosted overall ticket revenue eight percent, bringing global ticket sales to almost $30 billion—the highest yet.... read more
Avatar to be Re-Released This Summer?
Just when we thought Avatar reign at the box office might finally be ending, it looks like the Oscar-nominated picture may be holding on to some of those silver screens. According to The Hollywood Reporter, James Cameron and Fox are in talks to bring Avatar back to the box office this summer, mostly in 3-D theaters. The re-release will feature previously unreleased scenes, that will bring the movie’s run time to a whopping 170 minutes (the limit for an IMAX movie).... read more
Release Date for Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Gets Pushed
Back in January, we showed you the Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps trailer, director Oliver Stone’s sequel to his 1987 film Wall Street (both versions star Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko). Everything’s still a go with the flick, which was previously set to hit theaters in April, but Fox has announced they’re pushing the release date back to September.... read more
Herbie Hancock to Score Miles Davis Biopic
Don Cheadle's biopic of jazz legend Miles Davis has been slow to develop, but big news came recently... read more
The Cove Director Louie Psihoyos Goes After Santa Monica Sushi Restaurant
For director Louie Psihoyos, making the Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove—a film that follows activist Ric O’Barry in his quest to stop the capture, slaughter and sale of dolphins in a small Japanese town and around the world—was not enough in the way of activism. In the days leading up to the Oscars, the filmmaker continued his work to stop the unlawful sale of dolphin and whale meat—this time off screen.... read more
Robert De Niro Signs on to Play Vince Lombardi
Robert De Niro has signed on to portray football legend Vince Lombardi in an upcoming biopic being developed by ESPN, the NFL and Andell Entertainment, reports the AP. The aptly-titled Lombardi will tell the story of the Hall of Fame coach’s successful three-year transformation of the Green Bay Packers, leading them to win the NFL championship in 1961.... read more
Six Companies Expected to Vie for MGM
It’s a tale that’s become all too familiar to American ears: Debt leads large company to falter financially and look at filing bankruptcy as an option. So goes the plight of MGM, the 86-year-old studio responsible for iconic films like The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind. Last November, the company announced that it was up for sale after struggling since a 2005 buyout left it riddled with debt.... read more
Precious Star Gabourey Sidibe Joins Showtime's The Big C
It seems Academy Award nominee Gabourey Sidibe, fresh from basking in the glow of her well-received performance in the film Precious, is ready for a new project. She’s going to appear in a recurring role on Showtime’s upcoming series, The Big C. Sidibe will play a sass-talking student in central character Cathy’s class.... read more
Tom Morello Scoring Iron Man 2
Former Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello recently announced via Twitter that he is scoring Iron Man 2. On March 7, Morello tweeted, “I’m working on score for Iron Man 2. Rockin. Movie is awesome.” Morello’s no newcomer to the Iron Man scene; he contributed to the original movie’s score and had a small part in the film as a terrorist.... read more
Sopranos Creator Working on '60s Rock Movie
When you think about it, the fact that the central theme of David Chase’s new movie is music really makes sense. After all, the creator of HBO’s The Sopranos always brought music to the forefront in his acclaimed TV series, personally and meticulously selecting all the tracks played on the show. And the combined effect was an impressively eclectic collection—one that perhaps inspired this latest project.... read more
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