Another weekly batch of film development news to catch up on. The good news is the top 10 almost got by without a remake. The bad news is how often this week's column uses the word "Ratner."
In a weekend of near-polar opposite wide releases, we discuss the swanky handbag fun of Sex and the City: The Movie and the canvas bag-faced thriller The Strangers. We'll answer a viewer question and take a look at some artwork from the forums that captures (perhaps inadvertently) the spirit of both films.
Jon Cryer and James Spader have joined William H. Macy and Leslie Mann in the cast of Robert Rodriguez's Shorts, a "family adventure movie" set to shoot in Austin.
A stack of new details about James McTeigue's Ninja Assassin have emerged, including an official synopsis and the news that the legendary Sho Kosugi has joined the cast.
Filming has begun on director Jeff Beesley's adaptation of Stephen King's Dolan's Cadillac, with Christian Slater, Wes Bentley and Emmanuelle Vaugier starring.
Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to The Carol Burnett Show and on the big screen in Blazing Saddles, died Thursday.
This weekend a quartet of New York City gals will try to boot Indiana Jones out of the number one spot at the North American box office as the much-hyped comedy Sex and the City makes its way into multiplexes on Friday backed by an army of fans. Lovers of horror will have the chance to see the Liv Tyler thriller The Strangers which will try to scare up some business of its own. The new releases kick off what could be a banner summer for R-rated fare. Overall, the marketplace stands a realistic chance of beating last year's performance.
This week at the movies, we've got love and commerce (Sex and the City: The Movie, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall) and romantic getaways gone wrong (The Strangers, starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman). What do the critics have to say?
The casting rumors for those Hobbit movies have started to make the rounds, and today's gossip has the part of Bilbo Baggins being played by James McAvoy, Daniel Radcliffe, or...Jack Black?
Box-office receipts for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull are big, and getting bigger -- and so is the list of assorted mistakes that viewers have found in the film.
Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane, Joanne Whalley and Melvil Poupaud have joined Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, and Tim Roth in the British gangster drama 44 Inch Chest.
Sony has responded quickly to rumors that Tobey Maguire was being replaced in the next Spider-Man sequel, stating flatly that "No one is being considered for the role but Tobey. Period."
In a new interview, Watchmen screenwriter David Hayter has opened up about the years of behind-the-scenes struggles that were necessary to bring the classic graphic novel to the screen.
With this Friday's Stuck, Mena Suvari adds another strange chapter to the decidedly un-Hollywood story she's written for herself since starring in American Beauty.
Disney CEO Robert Iger has called the May 16 release of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian a mistake, saying the sequel's failure to meet expectations is a result of a too-crowded marketplace.
Dario Scardapane has been hired by DreamWorks to turn around Lorenzo di Bonaventura's long-in-development prison thriller Ancient History -- and brought on board by Universal to write a remake of The Mission for Peter Berg.
The Hasbro/Universal deal to bring the toy maker's board games to the big screen is starting to come together: Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes has agreed to produce a film inspired by the Ouija game.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has projected that the company's subscriber base will reach 10 million by the end of the year -- and predicted that the DVD-by-mail business will peak in as few as five years.
The film rights to Alanna Nash's biography of Elvis Presley's manager Tom Parker, The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley, have been purchased by producers David Permut and Steve Binder.
Countering rumors that she has been fighting drug or alcohol addiction, Kirsten Dunst has told reporters that it was actually depression that prompted a recent rehab stint.
Talks with the Screen Actors Guild are still on hold, but the AMPTP has struck a tentative deal with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
The deaths of Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella have cast a shadow of uncertainty over the future of the studio they were partnered in, Mirage Enterprises.
Disney has partnered with a group including Ahmet Zappa to form Kingdom Comics, a publishing house dedicated to creating "graphic novels for film adaptation" and turning "past live action pics into comicbooks."
Hollywood's fashionistas came out Tuesday night in full glam force for the New York premiere of Sex and the City: The Movie. See who joined Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda on the red carpet!
One good franchise return deserves another -- at least according to Harrison Ford, who has supposedly told a British newspaper that he'd be interested in making more Jack Ryan movies.
So, now that it looks like Sony's moving ahead with two more Spider-Man movies, who might the studio be eyeing to step into the red-and-blue spandex and sling those webs?
Yes, Bat-fans -- we're just weeks away from The Dark Knight hitting theaters, and to celebrate, the new issue of Empire has not one but TWO covers inspired by the film!
Willem Dafoe has joined the cast of Chris Weitz's adaptation of Darren Shan's vampire novel Cirque du Freak, playing a "foppish vampire" named Gavner Purl.
Sharon Stone's recent public musings about whether or not an earthquake which has left at least 70,000 Chinese citizens dead was the result of "karma" have provoked predictable outrage from the Chinese government -- and some of Stone's peers.
With two Oscar wins and plenty more nominations under his belt, Sydney Pollack was a filmmaker that Hollywood admired. He was also a proven actor's director whose fruitful relationships with performers like Robert Redford resulted in films like Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were, and Jeremiah Johnson.
A three-hour theatrical cut? A director's cut over four hours long? A tie-in DVD released along with the film? Zack Snyder's Watchmen adaptation has entered post-production, and it's shaping up to be a doozy.
Rob Knox, the 18-year-old actor who plays Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was stabbed to death in a brawl outside a London pub over the weekend.
A live chat held at the Weta website over the weekend yielded some details about the upcoming Hobbit films, including a production timeline and responses to those persistent casting rumors.
For their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, reaching screens in November, director John Hillcoat and stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee take the bond between father and son to the end of the world -- literally.
MTV has commissioned short films from a number of stars, including Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., and Adam Sandler, to be aired during the network's Movie Awards ceremony on Sunday.
It is fitting that Hugh Hefner has suggested Robert Downey Jr portray him in the Hef biopic Playboy. After all, Downey Jr may be the only man still breathing whose party exploits rival those of The Hef himself.
Harrison Ford scored his first number one opening in eight years with the much-hyped adventure sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull which dominated moviegoing over the Memorial Day holiday weekend grossing more than all other films in the marketplace combined.
Zack Snyder announces a second Watchmen movie (kinda) and Sly Stallone announces his director's cut of Rambo -- so should you pick up the theatrical cut on DVD this week? Find out more inside.
It's time to share our exclusive interview with the one, the only, Uwe Boll! Read on for our candid chat about his latest flick, Postal, how he almost cast Kevin Costner, the challenges of distributing a film that features Nazis, Dave Foley's genitalia, Osama bin Laden, and Verne Troyer, and much, much more.
This week we discuss Dr. Indiana Jones' long-awaited return to the screen in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , deliver a message directly from the Raging Boll AKA the Teutonic Terror AKA Postal director Uwe Boll, and answer more viewer mail.
Production on Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins is underway in New Mexico, and to kick things off, Warner Bros. and Halcyon have released an official synopsis of the film.
Madonna's newest film, a documentary about the struggles of Malawi titled I Am Because We Are, will screen at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival in August.
Joan Cusack and her little brother, John, have co-starred in ten films together since the early 1980s; this week they join forces again to skewer the military industrial complex, the corporatization of America, and the teenybopper-pimping machine that is pop culture.
The summer movie season gets a big shot in the arm as the highly anticipated launch of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull kicks off the extended Memorial Day holiday weekend a day early with its Thursday bow.
Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek, producers of the new Terminator movies were in Cannes this week and let slip some info on the sci-fi franchise to The Guardian.
Looking for early hints about those upcoming Captain America, Thor, and Avengers movies? Lucky for you, CHUD got a few minutes with Marvel chief Kevin Feige, and he spilled a few beans.
Movie posters certainly aren't what they used to be -- but for movie fans (and a new generation of filmmakers), the one-sheet work of artist Drew Struzan remains the peak of the art form.
Citing scheduling conflicts, Martin Scorsese has dropped out of a Bob Marley documentary being produced by the Marley family, handing the directorial reins over to Jonathan Demme.
Shakespeare's tragedy is gearing up for a new big-screen treatment with buckets of blood and battles promised by its makers - plus, a fair amount of star power.
This week at the movies, Indiana Jones makes his return after 19 years in The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford. What do the critics have to say?
Everyone has their favorite Indiana Jones movie -- and their own thoughts on if Raiders of the Ark is better than Last Crusade. (Sorry, Temple of Doom -- there's no contest). So how does this week's long-awaited third sequel, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, measure up to its predecessors?
Pre-production is about to begin on The Hobbit -- and according to a recent report in Variety, "preliminary contact" has been made with Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, and (of course) Ian McKellen.
Halcyon's Victor Kubicek recently divulged a few behind-the-scenes details about the studio's plans for the Terminator franchise -- and revealed that Christian Bale is already on board for three films.
He's just a few weeks shy of his 78th birthday, but Clint Eastwood is working harder than ever -- he's making the rounds at Cannes behind his latest film, The Changeling, and has two more pictures on the way.
Take a trip down to sunny Panama in our exclusive video on-set diary with executive producer Callum McDougall as he illuminates his role on the 22nd Bond film, Quantum of Solace.
After spawning a slew of sequels and television shows, 1986's Highlander is coming full circle -- it's getting the remake treatment, courtesy of Summit Entertainment and two of the writers of Iron Man.
After months of rumors, Disney has finally confirmed what Latino Review told us weeks ago: Jake Gyllenhaal will play the lead in Mike Newell's Prince of Persia.
Spielberg - whilst discussing Indy IV at Cannes this week - said: "We are going to make three Tintin movies back-to-back. I'll direct the first one, Peter will direct the second one. We'll probably co-direct the third one."
MGM's planned remake of RoboCop is still on track -- and oh, by the way, they're also gearing up to remake John Milius' 1984 teen-guerrillas-meet-invading-Commies opus, Red Dawn.
John Woo, master of balletic gun-fights replete with slow-mo dove flying, has surprisingly announced at Cannes yesterday that his next project wil be a big budget Chinese romance.
Phoenix Pictures has purchased the film rights to the John Grisham novel Playing for Pizza, about "a washed-up NFL quarterback who finds a new perspective on life and a love for all things Italian."
Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, Jean Smart, and M. Emmet Walsh have been added to the cast of Miguel Arteta's Youth in Revolt, joining Michael Cera in the film adaptation of the adaptation of the C.D. Payne novel.
The American rights to Welcome to the Sticks, currently poised to become the highest-grossing film in French history, have been purchased by Warner Bros. and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment.
Exciting announcements abound this week (Fearless Director's Cut! A new Little Mermaid movie! Gossip Girl on DVD!) while Nicolas Cage's treasure-hunting adventure sequel, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, tops new releases.
With Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull out Wednesday, there's no better time than now to revisit the globe with our favorite archaeologist! With our interactive map, we suggest starting in Indy's home country and then embark on his legendary journeys told across five continents, a dozen artifacts, and countless frequent flyer miles.
The "first wave" of presenters for this year's MTV Movie Awards has been announced, and the names include Lindsay Lohan, Anne Hathaway, Jack Black, Steve Carell, Robert Downey Jr., Seth Rogen, Megan Fox and Jennifer Hudson.
John Cusack has signed on to star in Roland Emmerich's 2012, an apocalyptic thriller about "an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe and makes contact with his double in order to prevent an apocalypse predicted by the ancient Mayans."
You've heard all the rumors about Jurassic Park 4 -- and so has Laura Dern, who says the long-discussed sequel should be coming together "over the next year."
In an interview with IGN Movies, Roberto Orci confirmed that Soundwave will put in an appearance in Transformers 2 -- and discussed the experience of writing the upcoming Star Trek movie.
Jonah Hill may have turned down a role in Transformers 2, but he's excited about his upcoming 21 Jump Street adaptation -- and he's made sure to leave room for an appearance by Johnny Depp.
It isn't as popular as it used to be -- and it's still against the law -- but train-hopping has never really gone away, and it's being celebrated now with the films of the Hobo Film Festival.
It's been a long time since Karen Allen lit up our screens. What has the actress -- who returns to theaters this week with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- been up to?
Elite Squad director Jose Padilha has been hired by Warner Bros. to direct an action thriller about "an American Federal agent who goes undercover in South America's dangerous triborder area" to fight a terrorist network.
Sigourney Weaver will co-produce and star in Prayers for Bobby, a Lifetime drama about "a deeply conservative and religious woman who begins to question her opposition to homosexuality after the suicide of her gay son."
The early reviews of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull are in, and it looks like Indy and the gang still have a bit of the old magic. Skull, which reunites the team of director Steven Spielberg, producer George Lucas, and star Harrison Ford after a 19-year layoff, drew applause at its Cannes premiere, as well as solid -- if not spectacular -- notices from the critics.
Could moviegoers be holding their dollars for Indy? Disney's heavily-hyped fantasy sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian seized control of the box office throne, but attracted far less business than expected and even fell short of matching its predecessor's bow.
According to one of Cinematical's "trusty top secret super delegate Hollywood insiders," Sony is making plans to film the fourth and fifth Spider-Man movies back to back.
Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jet Li, and a whole mess o' undead terra cotta soldiers are headed for a theater near you...and Universal has just unveiled your first extended glimpse of all the action!
So much hair gel, so little time -- new shots of Justin Chatwin and Emmy Rossum as Dragonball's Goku and Bulma have surfaced. You are powerless to resist!
For some strange reason, theaters don't seem to be interested in screening Uwe Boll's Postal against Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
As The Passion of the Christ proved, there's a lot of money in so-called "faith-based" film marketing -- but it's proving disappointingly elusive for the major studios.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is in negotiations to star as Michael Cera's "dream woman" in the forthcoming film adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim graphic novels.
PETA Germany, acting on information from the American Humane Association, is filing charges of animal abuse against a trainer on the set of Speed Racer.
The Eternal Sunshine helmer has judged submitted music videos for the first Babelgum Online Film Festival, with an awards ceremony in Cannes next week.
Following on from last year's Iraq flick Redacted, Brian De Palma has announced a second film set in the region and dealing with the fall-out from the war.
This week's only wide release is the second film in The Chronicles of Narnia saga, Prince Caspian (starring Ben Barnes and Anna Popplewell). What do the critics have to say?
Following the announcement, a full year ago, that an Asian-themed sequel to 1991 action flick Point Break was in the works, news coming out of Cannes today suggests the film now has a director and title.
The culture wars continue. Inflammatory documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has announced at the Cannes film festival that he is planning a sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11, his acclaimed by some, loathed by others documentary about 9/11.
It's only the first day of Cannes and yet the film announcements are coming thick and first. The latest concerns Pope Joan, and sees one German beauty departing the project only to be replaced by another.
Good news from the Croisette - James Corden and Matthew Horne, the BAFTA-winning stars of TV hit Gavin and Stacey and the hottest properties in British comedy right now - have announced plans to star in a feature film.
After over a decade away from his classic cartoon duo, Beavis & Butt-Head creator Mike Judge is entertaining the idea of bringing them back to the big screen -- in a live-action movie.
Spring is in the air, and Hollywood's biggest stars are headed for France. You know what that means, gang: It's Cannes time! What do you say we take a look at this year's festival schedule?
Tommy Lee Jones has agreed to adapt, direct, produce, and star in a new film version of Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream, with Morgan Freeman and John Goodman in talks to co-star.
The movie rights to novelist Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp character, "a post-9/11 hero who battles terrorism and the threat of war," have been purchased by CBS Films.
Now that the second film in Disney/Walden's big-budget reimagining of the Narnia series, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, is heading to theaters, we here at RT thought it would be the perfect time to revisit some of our favorite theatrical talking animals.
Among the films being shopped at Cannes this year is I Hate Valentine's Day, a romantic comedy that will reunite My Big Fat Greek Wedding stars John Corbett and Nia Vardalos.
The fake granite tablets used by Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments will be among the more than 1,000 pieces of Hollywood memorabilia auctioned off by Profiles in History this summer.
In honor of the legendary "Ask a (insert job/age/gender/personality disorder) Anything" forum threads and per Smi1ey's suggestion, this week, the Rotten Tomatoes Review Revue is giving you the opportunity to...(drum roll for anticipation....wait for it, wait for itttt...) Ask Rotten Tomatoes a Question!
Take a ride in our exclusive video diary with Bond pilot Skip Evans as he flies his WWII-era Douglas DC-3 airplane for the production of Quantum of Solace
Yes, you read that right: According to Entertainment Weekly, Jonah Hill is in negotiations to produce, help write, and potentially star in a 21 Jump Street movie.
Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Films has picked up Damian Stevenson's screenplay about the life of Ian Fleming, with DiCaprio potentially on board to star as the man who created James Bond.
Cameron Diaz and Gwyneth Paltrow, two of the "'It Girls' of the '90s," are in their 30s -- and their recent career choices, according to at least one writer, are a sign that the ongoing shortage of quality scripts for women is worse than ever.
The Cannes Film Festival is a hotbed of stars, filmmakers, and studio executives -- the perfect conditions, in other words, for "a convention of thieves."
The Never Back Down creative team -- writer Chris Hauty, director Jeff Wadlow, and producer Craig Baumgarten -- will reunite for CBS Films' The Eternals, which is being described as "a romantic supernatural thriller set on a college campus."
We deliver our take on tonight's opening-night film from director Fernando Meirelles that stars Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal.
It's hard to believe that it's been a year since the 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival in May 2007, but a year it has been, and Rotten Tomatoes has been summoned back to the south of France to spend a couple of weeks taking in the sights, the sun and the occasionally movie. Welcome to Le 61em Festival de Cannes...
Adam Brody, costar of the upcoming horror film Jennifer's Body, told IGN that he went through a extended preproduction process on Justice League before the film was eventually shelved.
It looks like The Rock won't be putting in an appearance in Stephen Sommers' G.I. Joe -- but the cast has picked up a new member: Gerald Okamura as Hard Master.
Well, that didn't take long: Rumors of Frank Miller directing the upcoming Buck Rogers revival have been debunked by the film's writer and producer, Flint Dille.
Wondering why Warner Bros. shuttered Picturehouse and Warner Independent last week? The Los Angeles Times has a few ideas -- and they're all sort of depressing.
Spaced, the UK cult hit series, is finally headed to the States this summer - but guess what's here now? A 3-disc Indiana Jones DVD collection and Narnia in Blu-ray! (Plus, we hear there's a bit of a virus going around overseas...) Read on for more news and releases.
We count down Harrison Ford's best-reviewed films outside of the Indiana Jones franchise and the memorable characters that he played in each celebrated film.
Director Peter Segal has spent time with The Klumps, gone 50 First Dates, and lived through Anger Management. This year, the go-to guy for summer comedies is gearing up to Get Smart, the spy spoof update starring Steve Carrell, Anne Hathaway, and Alan Arkin that's out June 20. Read on to find out Segal's five favorite movies as told to RT.
I've just been informed that my position at Premiere.com is being terminated...In any case, I now join the ever-growing ranks of film critics without staff positions.
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