24 words a second: Adapting Novels for the Big Screen

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It’s a concept that directors and audiences alike have been battling with since the birth of cinema; how to convert novels to screen? From the 1930’s classic interpretation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind, to the release of Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John le Carré’s spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy just last week, [...]

Second Trailer Released for Mr. Popper’s Penguins tarring Jim Carrey

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Earlier this week, 20th Century Fox released the second trailer for Jim Carrey’s new movie, Mr. Popper’s Penguins and as you’ll see, it’s as crazy as the first! Mr. Popper’s Penguins is directed by Mark Waters and also stars Carla Gugino, Madeline Carroll and the legendary Angela Lansbury. Synopsis: An adaptation of the beloved 1938 [...]

Point Your Peepers at This New Poster for Mr. Popper’s Penguins Please

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Alliterative nonsense aside this new poster for the Jim Carrey film Mr. Popper’s Penguins is strategically targeted to take a chunk of cynicism from you in order that you might enjoy the family friendly fun of Fox’s forthcoming flick. Mean girls director Mark Waters is behind the camera for this film which has Carla Gugino, [...]

Javier Bardem Close to Securing The Dark Tower Deal

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Academy Award-winning actor Javier Bardem (Biutiful) is close to securing a deal to co-star in Universal Pictures’ feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s mammoth 7-novel series The Dark Tower. Bardem is in line to topline the film as Roland Deschain. Gunslinger Roland Deschain roams an Old West-like landscape in search of a dark tower, in the hopes [...]

First Crazy Trailer for Jim Carrey’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins

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20th Century Fox (via Fandango and thanks to Trailer Addict for the embed) have released the new trailer for Jim Carrey’s new movie, Mr. Popper’s Penguins. This trailer came out earlier this week and we’re slowly catching up on our trailers after such a crazy couple of weeks! Mr. Popper’s Penguins is directed by Mark [...]

Get Behind the Scenes with The Green Hornet

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As we inch closer and closer to the release of Michel Gondry’s new film, The Green Hornet, the LA Times has decided to released their behind the scenes images to the loving public, and there’s a lot of them. Having already seen the film, which I thought was extremely entertaining and a lot of  fun, it’s really [...]

The Dark Tower Starts Touting Actors for the role of Roland of Gilead

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The Dark Tower is finally being developed for the screen with Universal leading the multi-platform release of Stephen King’s incredible Seven novel fantasy adventure series. Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman are already onboard to create the first film and the following first season, with Howard Directing and Akiva Goldsman writing, this will be part of [...]

Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman To Reunite?

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The L.A. Times are reporting that one of cinema’s most inventive creative forces are pitching a new project to financiers and whenever Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze are mentioned in the same sentence I’m immediately interested. The past few years have been good for the pair with Synecdoche, New York marking a solid directorial debut [...]

First Set Photos of Mr. Popper, Jim Carrey & his Penguins

Jim Carrey at the "Mr Popper's Penguin" set in Central Park, NYC

While I’m surprised it took this long for set pics to arrive, photos from Mr. Popper’s Penguins, starring Jim Carrey and Carla Gugino, have finally hit the net. The film has been shooting on and off in New York City for about the past two months now and it truly amazes me that these are [...]

Spielberg’s War Horse Now has an Official Synopsis!

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As the long road continues to the release of Steven Spielberg’s first real film since 2008, that Indy movie that everyone loved, we can now offer up some more details regarding the plot of the film. It is no secret that War Horse is an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s children’s book but we never knew 100% for sure if [...]

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Review

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The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest is an excellent film and you really should see it but there are several reasons why the idea of doing so may not yet have crossed your mind. As you’re probably already aware it’s based on the final book of the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy which I [...]

First Look at Karl Urban as Judge Dredd

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Here’s the first image from the new Judge Dredd movie, titled simply Dredd, and our first look at the Karl Urban chin. Taken from a rehersal and found on 2000ADonline by our friends at Bleeding Cool the size of Urban’s helmet is the subject of much discussion on the various forums and comment boards across [...]

Two New Clips from ‘RED’

I, like many of you, am excited about the upcoming film Red directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Karl Urban, Helen Mirren, John Malcovich, Richard Dreyfuss and Brian Cox.  As its release date slowly creeps up on us, Summit Entertainment has been releasing new trailers, posters, and clips to keep our mouths wet. [...]

New Poster for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest

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Oh the Millennium series, how I love you so much.  One of the best trilogies to come around since Lord of the Rings, the Millennium trilogy brings to us the modern age mystery thriller, one that can actually be faithfully adapted to the screen and will entertain us from beginning to end. While the Swedes [...]

Mickey Rourke is now a Contract Killer for the Mafia

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One might call Mickey Rourke’s next movie, Rourke: The Professional, but unfortunately that would be copying Luc Besson’s title for the amazing Leon film starring Jean Reno. Now that I think about it – screw that title because the name of his newest film is even better, its called The Ice Man, a true story about a [...]

Judge Dredd is Now Just Dredd & Synopsis Revealed Too

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Well folks we have finally been treated to some new news on the upcoming Judge Dredd film.  In an attempt to bring back the bad ass Judge from the dead, the powers that be have decided to shorten the name from Judge Dredd to the more powerful sounding DREDD This sci-fi action flick stars Karl [...]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Review

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a movie adaptation of the Jeff Kinney series of books of the same name from director Thor Freudenthal. I’ve never read them or heard anything about them so I had feelings I was about to watch a patronizing and childish movie about a brat and his time at school. [...]

Is Premature Sequel Development An Insult?

Last week it was revealed that Michael Goldenberg (who adapted Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) had been hired to pen a sequel to the forthcoming Green Lantern movie. When i say forthcoming, of course, i mean not until 2011, meaning the follow-up has begun development almost a year before the initial film’s [...]

Paramount is the ‘Last Man Standing’

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One of the big hits at Comic Con this year that was actually comic book related was the unveiling of LMS, or Last Man Standing.  Dan LuVisi’s graphic novel has been in development for the past two and a half years and once it was available for sale it had sold out in two hours.  You [...]

Could Robin Wright Be Next to Star in The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo?

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Deadline has reported that Robin Wright is currently in negotiations to play Erika Berger, the publisher of Millennium Magazine, in the English language adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. She is also the same character who occasionally falls in love with Mikael Blomkvist, the journalist who will be played by Daniel Craig, in [...]