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The 10 Worst Movie Accents of All Time
Casting a famous actor in a role can be a crapshoot. Just because a director can snag a big name for their film doesn't always mean that they belong there. Case in point, generally talented and experienced actors, when asked to do foreign accents, may stumble somewhat...or they may stumble a lot. Here, we've listed 10 of the worst examples of famous actors doing infamously bad accents:... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayLive-Action Akira Driving Forward with Children of Men/Iron Man Writers Onboard
A live-action version of the classic 1988 animé Akira will go ahead, red motorcycle and all.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsWatch the Cheerfully Incoherent Teaser Trailer for Christopher Nolan's Inception
Christopher Nolan has evidently returned to his roots with Inception, the first teaser for which premiered with some prints of Inglourious Basterds this weekend. The architect of some staggeringly high-concept movies (Memento, The Prestige and some little-known, hardly-watched flick called The Dark Knight), Nolan has kept the details of his latest mindscape under tight control and certainly doesn’t let up now. All we know is that the movie has a pretty amazing cast and Nolan has definitely seen The Matrix. This one-minute teaser is open to interpretation, but we’ll leave that to you:... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsNolan's Inception Heads to Paris as Trailer Looms
Christopher Nolan couldn’t be farther from Gotham. He began shooting his sci-fi thriller, Inception, in London last month. And now, he is shooting in Paris, on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim. ... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsRidley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio to Produce Brave New World Film
Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio have teamed up to produce a new film version of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s fearsome cautionary novel from 1932.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsNew Twilight Zone Movie on the Way
Warner Bros. and, randomly, Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company have decided to greenlight a new film version of The Twilight Zone, the seminal sci-fi series that originally came to the screen in 1983.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsNeverEnding Story Movie Reboot Tentatively Planned
For fans of the book, 1984 movie The NeverEnding Story (and its sequels) was disappointingly dissimilar from the source material. With characters changed and endings altered, many bibliophiles left theaters feeling a little let down.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsLeonardo DiCaprio to reboot WarGames?
Besides its notability as the year that your correspondent was born, 1983 is also known for bringing about Matthew Broderick's career with WarGames, a film about an innocent, young computer hacker (Broderick) who plays with the computer in charge of America's nuclear arsenal and inadvertently starts the countdown to World War III. This is all resolved with a friendly game of tic-tac-toe, an infinite number of computed stalemates, and the message that you can't hug your children with nuclear arms. Now its rumored that Leonardo Dicapprio wants to remake the sci-fi flick.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsRevolutionary Road
Nearly a decade after director Sam Mendes crafted American Beauty... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsOscar Buzz: Who's ahead in this year's key races?
There's a surprisingly gargantuan Internet faction dedicated to predicting who will be up for film's most coveted prize, the Academy Award. Publications like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and New York Times all have Oscar blogs that obsessively trail the fluctuations in buzz amongst the year's top films. That's not to mention stand-alone sites like Awards Daily and In Contention, or well-known bloggers like Jeff Wells, Dave Poland and Anne Thompson. Even Roger Ebert has devoted a wealth of recent ink on the subject. But, the truth is, no matter how much someone knows, it's still... read more
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