Under The Dome First Look: Stephen Kings Novel Comes To TV

There’s a good chance that Under the Dome is show everyone will be talking about this summer. ABC is adapting the Stephen King best-seller about a small town that’s suddenly isolated by a ... See full article

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Ridley Scott Producing Child 44 With Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace

This week we spoke with Damon Lindelof about the sequel to Prometheus and, in the conversation, he mentioned that Ridley Scott was finishing The Counselor and had “Child 44 lined up right behind... See full article

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A Royal Affair Director Nikolaj Arcel to Helm Remake of Alfred Hitchcocks Rebecca

Remakes can be tricky propositions under the best of circumstances. When the property in question is a former Academy Award winner or a beloved classic by a revered auteur — in other words, some... See full article

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Rob Thomas Reveals Veronica Mars Plot Details, Kristen Bell Announces Twitter Live Chat

If you’re one of the 60,000 or so backers of the Veronica Mars movie project, you’re probably starting to get a little curious about what your money’s actually going to buy. Sure, we... See full article

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Warner Bros. Officially Greenlights Veronica Mars But Wont Give Additional Funding; Find Out Where to Stream the Original Series

It took Rob Thomas and Kristen Bellseveral years to get as far as a Kickstarter campaign for the long-awaited Veronica Mars movie sequel, and fans less than twelve hours to scrape together the neces... See full article

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Veronica Mars Movie Completely Funded By Kickstarter In Less Than 12 Hours [Updated]

Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: In less than 12 hours from launching the kickstarter, Rob Thomas has raised over $2,000,000 for the Veronica Mars movie, hitting the goal of the project. Of course, ... See full article

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Sherlock Planned to Continue Into a Fourth Season

Yesterday the news came out that the third season of BBC’s Sherlock is about to go into production, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman reprising their lead roles as modern day versions... See full article

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Poltergeist Remake Will Be Directed by Monster House Helmer Gil Kenan

There has been speculation about MGM’s remake of Poltergeist for a long time now. It reached a height when Sam Raimi was announced as a producer, and once we thought there was a chance he would ... See full article

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Top of the Lake Trailer: A Missing Girl, a Drug Lord, and a Tenacious Investigator

Jane Campion‘s last film was the truly excellent Bright Star, and after a movie like that I’d normally leap at any opportunity to see the director’s next effort. But I missed Campion... See full article

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Stream Shane Carruths Full Score For Upstream Color

Shane Carruth‘s film Upstream Color is my favorite film of the year so far. The strange but tender love story is colored with surprising and unsettling sci-fi concepts, all told in a manner that... See full article

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Side Effects Review: Steven Soderbergh Diagnoses Paranoid Fears in His Final Theatrical Outing

Steven Soderbergh, so often adventurous over the course of his career, closes out his theatrical run with the relatively conventional thrillerSide Effects.Though the ideas within are familiar, a... See full article

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Computer Chess Teaser: Preview One of Sundances Weirdest Films

I saw three films at Sundance this year that I would characterize as incredibly specific, because they dedicate themselves so thoroughly to a premise and aesthetic that they exist as their own one-fil... See full article

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Philip Seymour Hoffman to Direct 30s-Set Ghost Story Ezekiel Moss

Philip Seymour Hoffman is down in Atlanta right now, filming the second Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire, and probably also enjoying some of the afterglow of The Master having a record-setting weeken... See full article

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Shawn Ryan Would Like to Make a Terriers Movie With Kickstarter Funds

You can’t always count on your favorite shows to stay on the air as long as you’d like, but these days you can count on them to spark movie sequel rumors on their way out. Following the fo... See full article

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30 Minutes Or Less Collar Bomb Heist Gets True-Life Dramatic Treatment

In Ruben Fleischer’s 2011 comedy 30 Minutes or Less, Jesse Eisenberg played a pizza delivery boy forced to rob a bank when two men strapped a bomb to him. The idea came from a real-life event th... See full article

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TV Bits: Touch, The Walking Dead, Dexter, The New Normal, Fringe, American Horror Story, Charlie Sheen, Neil Marshall

There may not be a whole lot to watch on TV right now, but there’s plenty to watch in TV Bits. After the jump: Neil Marshallwill directMichael Bay‘s pirate dramaBlack Sails John Boyd... See full article

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Fox Fires Up Its Own Dystopian YA Adaptation The Maze Runner, With Ruin Director Wes Ball

Not content to sit by and let Lionsgate/Summit hog the dystopian YA pie, 20th Century Fox is getting a move on with its own post-apocalyptic teen novel adaptation. Relative newcomer Wes Ball, who rece... See full article

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TV Bits: Game of Thrones, Community, Dexter, Downton Abbey, American Horror Story, Sons of Anarchy, Fringe, Michael J. Fox

As August inches to an end, the days of having nothing to watch on TV (well — nothing but Breaking Bad) are about to come to an end. After the jump: Game of Thrones casts Daario Naharis and Grey... See full article

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WTF: WWE To Produce Animated Scooby-Doo Film Set at WrestleMania; Man Shoots Himself in the Butt During Bourne Legacy

The next two statements are totally true. World Wrestling Entertainment is producing an animated Scooby-Doo film centering on a murder mystery at Wrestlemania, and a man shot himself in the ass while ... See full article

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Remake Bits: New Gremlins Needs Spielbergs Blessing; Red Dawn Poster; The Loft Trailer

Sometimes we put all the depressing remake news in one place, but this installment is relatively uplifting. It has news about one big hurdle any new Gremlins film faces, an innocuous new poster, and a... See full article

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Sacha Baron Cohen May Spoof Bond

Briefly: Sacha Baron Cohen‘s next project with Paramount may be a slightly more traditional type of comedy than his Da Ali G Show spin-off satires have been. The writer/actor just sold a pitch t... See full article

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Killing Them Softly Trailer: The Splendid Reunion of Andrew Dominik and Brad Pitt

Here’s the trailer for Andrew Dominik‘s new film, Killing Them Softly. We’ve been waiting to see more footage from this one, especially after the tease provided by the one previously... See full article

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Lee Daniels to Direct Hugh Jackman in MLK Assassination Film Orders to Kill

After Precious became a hit, director Lee Daniels ended up looking into dual true-story films with civil rights interests. The first, Selma, lined up an impressive cast (Hugh Jackman, Liam Neeson, Dav... See full article

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Watch Minnesota Nice, a 25-Minute Documentary About the Coen Brothers Fargo

Any excuse to write about Fargo is a good thing. So, even though this 25-minute documentary about The Coen Brothers‘ classic has been online for a year and is available on the Blu-ray release, w... See full article

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Watch a Featurette About Handmaking the World of ParaNorman

The film ParaNorman, in which a spiritually-inclined boy named Norman has to rally some unusual friends to save his town from an attack by the undead, is the latest stop-motion animated film from prod... See full article

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