In our fifth exclusive video blog from the set of Quantum of Solace, take a peek at the sweeping Mexican desert where production pilot Cliff Flemming flies the skies above the latest Bond adventure.
No longer the sole domain of Marlin Perkins and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, nature documentaries have become big business at the box office -- a business that Warner Bros. and Disney aim to have a piece of.
If you, like many others, opted out of The Golden Compass while it was in theaters, never fear; your chance to watch it at home has arrived. Then again, instead of picking up that or the underwhelming wedding rom-com 27 Dresses, you could go for the wondrous, Oscar-nominated Diving Bell and the Butterfly. More new releases inside.
Universal has optioned Resurrection, the Oni Press comic written by Marc Guggenheim, with the hopes of bringing the story about human survivors of a hostile alien invasion to the big screen.
The full schedule won't be announced until July, but the organizers of the Venice Film Festival have revealed that this year's lineup will be led by the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading.
It's getting buzz for its infamous Hilary Duff scorpion-pants scene, but there's a lot more to War, Inc. -- including its co-writer, producer, and star, John Cusack.
Don't read it if you're spoiler-sensitive, but Terrence Howard recently sat down with SuperHeroHype for a chat about his role in Iron Man -- and where he sees any potential sequels heading from here.
The actor and director tells RT how to deliver the ultimate fanboy superhero movie, what to expect from Iron Man future and why listening to the online fans is important.
Cinematographer, Roger Deakins, comes out from behind the lens to discuss his long time collaboration with the Coen brothers and No Country for Old Men.
The females beat the males this week as Baby Mama outdueled Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay for the top spot at the box office in this, the final weekend before the summer movie season kicks off.
This week's Ketchup bottle recaps the 10 biggest stories in the world of upcoming movies, including news that Guillermo Del Toro has signed to direct The Hobbit, new possibilities for Wonder Woman and Superman films, and a bevy of horror remakes, including The Fury and Happy Birthday to Me.
"Mixed martial arts movie starring Tim Allen" might sound like the setup for the most absurd comedy of the year, but it's actually a rough outline of Redbelt, the latest David Mamet film.
Warner Independent is adapting Brock Clarke's bestselling book, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, with Garrett Lerner and Russel Friend on board to write the script.
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay reunites Cho and Kal Penn as the hapless BFFs, starting right where the original left off. The movie opens this Friday, and Rotten Tomatoes spoke to Cho in San Francisco about life as an English major, Star Trek, and what would've happened if Kal Penn sucked.
This week at the movies, we have expecting ladies (Baby Mama, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler), on-the-lam stoners (Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, starring John Cho and Kal Penn), and embroiled bankers (Deception, starring Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman). What do the critics have to say?
Two new buddy comedies enter the marketplace during the final weekend of the spring box office hoping to cash in on what business is left in the last week before Iron Man flies into theaters kicking off the summer blockbuster season.
Charlie Wilson's War tells a tale of political intrigue, backroom dealings, and debauchery so wild it would seem unbelievable -- were it not a true story. With the release of the Certified Fresh War, starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, to DVD this week, RT relived the saga with one of its key players: Charlie Wilson himself.
The film's buried secrets are revealed to RT and hints at what to expect from the man's planned two sequels emerge. But what about Sam Jackson's Nick Fury?
In an interview with Collider, Brandon Routh chalks Justice League's failure up to bad timing -- and predicts the next Superman film will start shooting early next year.
The Hugh Jackman/Ewan McGregor drama Deception might seem like an odd fit for 20th Century Fox, but it actually proves that Hollywood is built on relationships after all.
Observe and Report -- the Jody Hill comedy which finds Seth Rogen starring as a deluded mall cop who starts a turf war with local police -- has added Ray Liotta, Anna Faris, Michael Pena, and Jesse Plemons to its cast.
In lieu of some negative sentiments towards Paramount's G.I. Joe, Peter Sciretta explores a few potential elements of the movie that, if true, could actually make it pretty cool.
What happens in Sin City, doesn't stay in Sin City...at least, not when Frank Miller's at the helm. Watch the new teaser trailer from Miller's presentation of Will Eisner's 1940s-era comic strip The Spirit and take a peek at Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson in the first character shots from the 2009 flick.
In Part II of our conversation with former Village Voice critic Nathan Lee, we delve deeper into his recent public break with the Voice and get his thoughts on the future of film criticism...and it doesn't look pretty.
It's been pushed back twice, and its trailer has been roundly mocked. Will Valkyrie end Tom Cruise's days as a bankable star -- and take the new United Artists with it?
Amanda Peet, Rebecca Hall, and Oliver Platt have joined the cast of Nicole Holofcener's latest film, described as "a tale of family, death, and real estate."
In a recent interview, Al Gore discussed plans to adapt his forthcoming Inconvenient Truth follow-up book, The Path to Survival, into a sequel to the award-winning 2006 documentary.
According to director Joe Carnahan, his Pablo Escobar biopic, Killing Pablo, might film "in the streets where Pablo was detonating bombs week after week."
Thomas Tull, the CEO of Legendary Pictures, has apparently told students of Hamilton College that the next Superman sequel will present the Kryptonian hero as "an angry god."
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Slusho, whatever that is! Cloverfield stomps its way onto DVD as not only the most exciting new release of the week, but the one most chock-full of special features. Charlie Wilson's War, The Savages, and The Orphanage are also new -- but be on the lookout as the year's worst flick to date, One Missed Call, also shuffles onto shelves.
As Baby Mama nears release, co-stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler discuss the movie -- and the pressure to settle the tired old debate over whether women can be funny.
After some time away from the spotlight, Helen Hunt has re-emerged as the producer, director, co-writer, and star of an adaptation of Elinor Lipman's novel Then She Found Me.
David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and Chris Carter sit down with Entertainment Weekly's Whitney Pastorek to discuss this summer's X-Files: I Want to Believe.
What appears to be the first review of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull -- and a whole mess of (potentially plot-spoiling) photos -- have hit the Web.
Audiences were fired up for the first-ever showdown between martial arts legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li as their new fantasy actioner The Forbidden Kingdom opened at number one at theaters across North America.
The RT 20 breaks down the 20 things this week in film and pop culture that made us sit up a little taller in our chairs, wake up from our stupor and in some cases pop open the champagne. This is not a countdown list or rated list ... just 20 quick random things we liked seeing or thought about this week.
This week's Ketchup bottle brings us breaking news about the death of the Justice League film, Steven Spielberg's plans to adapt the anime classic Ghost in the Shell, and casting news and rumors about Austin Powers 4, Atlas Shrugged, and Amelia.
It's Hollywood-meets-Hong Kong as Chan and Li play mentor to a hapless teen (Michael Angarano) whose obsession with classic kung-fu movies lands him squarely in ancient China. But what movies shaped Chan into the actor-filmmaker-superstar he is today?
I'm in Long Beach at the Speed Racer junket and I briefly cornered producer Joel Silver to ask him how the Justice League movie would affect Wonder Woman. The answer: it won't. According to Silver, who would be in the know, Justice League has been 'tabled.'
Thanks to a career-defining role on a television show about superheroes, Milo Ventimiglia has become a household name. But fans of his wholesome roles on Heroes and Gilmore Girls had better steel themselves for his latest character: a competitive, exacting medical student seduced into a game of sex, drugs and murder in Pathology.
The long-awaited showdown between Jackie Chan and Jet Li in The Forbidden Kingdom got us thinking; what are the greatest fights ever filmed? We sifted through quite a few battles, and came up with a list that celebrates the finest in hand-to-hand combat.
This week at the movies, we've got a martial arts extravaganza (The Forbidden Kingdom, starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li), a painful breakup (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, starring Jason Segel and Kristen Bell), and a race against time (88 Minutes, starring Al Pacino and Alicia Witt). What do the critics have to say?
The Babylon A.D. production blog has officially refuted the rumor that the US will receive a drastically shorter version of the film than European audiences.
Danielle Panabaker has been cast as the female lead in the new "Friday the 13th" film, which Marcus Nispel is directing for Platinum Dunes. The horror flick is a negative pickup for New Line.
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In anticipation of its May 1, 2009 release, promotional materials are slowly trickling out for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the Gavin Hood-directed, Hugh Jackman-starring movie exploring the beginning days of Marvel's beloved feral hero.
After four straight weeks of the box office falling significantly behind last year's pace, the marketplace is finally set to post a win thanks to a trio of new releases targeting different audience segments.
Milla Jovovich will star in Gold Circle Films' thriller "The 4th Kind." Olatunde Osunsanmi, a former assistant to filmmaker Joe Carnahan, is making his directorial debut on the film, which he also wrote.
Ready for Iron Man to start the summer movie season with a bang? Take a tour of Tony Stark's tres sweet bachelor pad, hosted by the flick's own swingin' director, Jon Favreau.
Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas have opened up to Entertainment Weekly about what fans can expect from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Ashley Tisdale, best known as Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical movies, is preparing to star in a remake of Teen Witch -- and produce a "mall-set show based on her life for the Disney Channel."
Finding themselves flush with development budgets and light on post-strike spec scripts, Hollywood studios are turning to books, magazines, and graphic novels for ideas.
It's tax week, and RT knows that means most people are pinching pennies and spending hours in line at the post office. So to help you save money and time, we've enlisted funnyman Doug Benson (VH1's Best Week Ever) to give you the inside scoop on upcoming new releases in theaters and on DVD.
As if Hollywood were reading our mind, they've cast another favorite of ours - actress Rachel Nichols ("Alias," P2) - as Scarlett in the upcoming live-action GI JOE movie.
The truth is finally out there about the new "X-Files" movie title.
The second big-screen spinoff of the paranormal TV adventure will be called "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," Chris Carter, the series' creator and the movie's director and co-writer, told The Associated Press.
In a statement released to Entertainment Weekly, Edward Norton has addressed his rumored behind-the-scenes battles with Marvel over the final cut of The Incredible Hulk.
Zyzzyx Road, the Katherine Heigl-starring thriller famously profiled by Entertainment Weekly for grossing $30 during a single-screen theatrical run, is headed for a free online premiere.
Better buy the large popcorn when you head out to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: it's apparently over two hours and twenty minutes long.
The Weinstein Company's Asian Film Fund is moving the studio toward producing "high-quality, action-packed, Asian-themed adventures" -- including a remake of Seven Samurai.
According to at least one news site, Orlando Bloom, Chow Yun Fat, and Liam Neeson are starring in a remake of the 1970 French film The Red Circle for director Johnny To.
For better or worse, recently departed Village Voice writer Nathan Lee has become something of a poster boy for the disappearance of the film critic. Read on for the first in our two-part interview with the incredibly intelligent, delightfully profane critic in which Lee answers our Meet a Critic questionnaire.
Special effects wizard Howard Berger recently spoke with Total Film about his work on The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian -- and brought some exclusive images along.
You don't even have to be a dork to know that Chewbacca was Han Solo's co-pilot, not his wingman, although maybe you do have to be a dork to point out that the trilogy's most prominent wingman was Luke's fellow X-Wing pilot Wedge Antilles.
M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening opens in June -- but the director is already prepping his next project, the first installment in a planned trilogy based on the popular cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Sean Astin and Giovanni Ribisi will play gophers who team up with an old oak tree (voiced by Ron Perlman) to save their forest from Anjelica Huston in the CGI-animated Spirit of the Forest.
Thanks in part to the efforts of Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks has acquired the rights to Ghost in the Shell -- and plans to make a 3-D live-action feature out of the popular manga.
The life of a print journalist isn't what it used to be -- but as next year's Robert Downey Jr./Jamie Foxx drama The Soloist makes clear, the work they do is no less valuable.
Read on for everything you need to forget Sarah Marshall, as told by Segel, co-stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Russell Brand, Jack McBrayer, director Nicholas Stoller, and producer Shauna Robertson.
If you're not sick of hearing Diablo Cody this, hamburger phone that, then this week's bonus-packed release of Juno should be numero uno on your list, home skillet. Otherwise, there's plenty else to keep you company --- bring home your very own Predalien, a guy with a blow-up doll, Uwe Boll's latest, and Tila Tequila.
Curious about that long-discussed Greatest American Hero movie? Turns out it's still in development, minus Owen Wilson -- and will be presented rather differently from the '80s cult classic TV show.
Shia LaBeouf is set to star as a man whose experiments with a top-secret drug have serious consequences in Neil Burger's The Dark Fields, a thriller based on the book by Alan Glynn.
Timothy J. Sexton, who earned acclaim for his adaptation of P.D. James' Children of Men, has been signed to write Timecrimes, United Artists' English-language remake of Nacho Vigalondo's Los Cronocrimenes.
Danny DeVito has signed on to play one of Kristen Bell's would-be suitors in Mark Steven Johnson's When in Rome, joining a cast that also includes Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Josh Duhamel, Anjelica Huston, and Dax Shepard.
Teen girls seized control of the North American box office powering the horror remake Prom Night to number one. Adult men settled for the runnerup spot with the Keanu Reeves cop thriller Street Kings as the overall box office failed to generate any kind of notable heat. The marketplace has now trailed last year's grosses during eight of the last nine weekends.
In response to an online poll calling for his early retirement, German filmmaker Uwe Boll has posted a rousing video retort of his own. Pick your side as the Battle of the Boll wages on!
This week, Greg gives us a long look at the next few movies coming from Pixar, casting news for Oliver Stone's George Bush biopic, and possible upcoming projects for Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Despite all rumors to the contrary, Rose McGowan says she remains firmly entrenched in her intergalactic go-go boots for Robert Rodriguez's Barbarella remake.
In a wide-ranging interview with Variety, James Cameron talks about his upcoming 3-D epic Avatar -- and his plans to bring 3-D technology to the world of "small dramatic film."
During a Thursday appearance on the Howard Stern Show, director Jason Reitman revealed that he'd been offered the opportunity to direct Justice League of America -- and turned it down.
Tony Gilroy's follow-up to Michael Clayton -- the Clive Owen/Julia Roberts-led Duplicity -- is filming now, and Latino Review is offering a review of the script.
Chris Bertolini's Battle: Los Angeles -- described as similar to Cloverfield, only on the West Coast and without the handheld cameras -- has been picked up by Neal Moritz and Columbia.
Bigger isn't always better -- and Hollywood's recent race to ever-larger megawide openings has no logical finish line, as the major film studios are slowly discovering.
This week at the movies, we've got crooked cops (Street Kings, starring Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker), misanthropic academics (Smart People, starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Page), and dead dance attendees (Prom Night, starring Brittany Snow and Idris Elba). What do the critics have to say?
On the eve of the release of her latest movie, Baby Mama (and the return of 30 Rock), Tina Fey sat down with Entertainment Weekly to talk about projects past, present, and future.
Multiplexes gear up for another weekend of empty seats as Hollywood supplies three new films that are unlikely to energize the North American box office.
RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems. In his 15th column, Kim explores the colourful sci-fi The Terrornauts.
A long list of actors -- including Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, and Scarlett Johansson -- have signed on to appear in the collection of twelve short films titled New York, I Love You.
Looking for the latest updates on X-Men Origins: Wolverine? You're in luck: Superhero Hype! has gathered a bunch of them in one place for your eager perusal.
It might have cost $150 million to make, but Marvel chairman David Maisel now refers to 2003's Hulk as "like test-driving a car" -- and with June 13's The Incredible Hulk, the studio hopes to take one of its best-selling titles out for a blockbuster spin.
She might have missed her own senior prom, but Brittany Snow made up for it by spending three months in formal wear for Prom Night, opening this Friday.
The movie rental behemoth has seen Netflix, Apple TV, and other services eat into its profits -- but Blockbuster is hoping to reverse that trend by developing a set-top device for streaming films directly to your television set.
In honor of David Ayer's Street Kings we did a little bad-to-worse survey of the boys who soil their blue. Some of them are hot, some of them caustic, but all of them are fascinating. The cops on this list might shame those who loyally "Protect and Serve" but you know what they say, it's hard to look away from a train wreck.
Former adult star Jenna Jameson is branching out into mainstream fare with a starring role in Zombie Strippers -- as, you guessed it, a zombie stripper -- and we've got a batch of new photos from the pic, which also stars Nightmare on Elm Street icon Robert Englund.
Last weekend's opening tally for Shine a Light, the Martin Scorsese-directed Rolling Stones concert film, came to $1.5 million -- about $500,000 more than U2 3D.
Twenty-two feature films and 36 shorts -- including dramatic winner "Frozen River" and doc winner "Trouble the Water" -- from January's Sundance Film Festival will screen at the third annual Sundance Institute at BAM series taking place May 29 - June 8.
Many of Hollywood's most recent attempts to mine box-office gold with female-oriented films have been met with failure -- but they haven't stopped trying.
Indiana Jones diehards of all ages and sizes recently met in Southern California to swap trivia, hat sizes and bullwhip techniques before the cameras of documentary filmmaker Brandon Kleyla.
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