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Cool Stuff: Eric Tan’s Sleeping Beauty and Little Mermaid Posters
14 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
We've featured many of artist Eric Tan's creations in past Cool Stuff columns: we've spotlighted his work for past Pixar productions, X-Men, Lost, among other things. Tan has been creating a series of posters for the Indiana Jones film series. You can see his Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom posters in our linked Cool Stuff articles. Last month Disney published new posters from Tan of two of Disney's animated classics, which he created specifically for The Art of Disney Princess book. Tan explains his process on his blog: Little Mermaid came out when I was in high school and reinvigorated the entire Animation studio which influenced me to want to get into field that as a career. Although I found I didn't have the chops for animation, it led me down the path to my current position with Disney and it'll always be one of those »
- Peter Sciretta
Jerry Bruckheimer and Jordan Mechner Delve Into Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
4 November 2009 4:09 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Last week I was invited down to Santa Monica to the offices of Jerry Bruckheimer Films to check out the brand new trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which is set for a release date of May 28, 2010 ( to watch both the domestic and international trailer for the film). Of course, we weren't invited all the way down to the west side just to watch a trailer before anyone else, we got to talk to two of the men responsible for bringing this film to the big screen. Jordan Mechner created the original video game in 1989 and also the more recent games from Ubisoft (which serve as more of a basis of the film than the original game, as he will explain), and he also wrote the original drafts of the script and serves as the executive producer. Mechner was also responsible for getting his video game to Jerry Bruckheimer, »
Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Game Creator Jordan Mechner Interview
4 November 2009 4:01 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Last week I went to producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s office in Santa Monica to get an early look at the “Prince of Persia” trailer along with a number of other online journalists. As I said last week, I think “Prince of Persia” is finally going to break the movies based on a video game curse. Up to now, every video game based movie has been treated by Hollywood as a joke. They never have a budget. The scripts have been terrible. Also, after you see the movie, you lose respect for the game it’s based on. But after watching the trailer and speaking with Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and “Prince of Persia” creator Jordan Mechner, I think they’ve done everything they could to try and make this movie work.
Anyway, after we all watched the trailer, Bruckheimer and Mechner answered questions for about twenty minutes. While they discussed all »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Jake Gyllenhaal Takes a Stab at Being an Action Hero
3 November 2009 6:10 AM, PST | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
It's all about the dagger, see? In The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Jake Gyllenhaal must team up with a beautiful princess to battle an evil dude who has unleashed the sands of time, and the only way to do it is to use a dagger that can control time. There's more, but pretty much all anyone cares about is whether a long-locked Jake looks good with his shirt off (he does!) and whether the rousing CG-enhanced adventures look like good fun (not sure!). People yell, things crash, and Jake and his costar bicker and banter before (we imagine) falling in love. Based on a venerable video game, the trailer makes the film seems a little bit The Mummy, a little bit Raiders of the Lost Ark and a little... »
Cool Stuff: Retro Up Posters
3 November 2009 2:00 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Correction: Apparently Eric Tan did not create all these posters, I was wrong in that assumption. He created "Journey into the Wild" (with the dogs), Craig Foster did the Saa South American Air (with the Lama), Erik Evans did the "Paradise Falls" (with the bird), and Paul Conrad did the five remaining posters. To celebrate the November 10th DVD & Blu-ray Combo pack release of Pixar’s Up, Disney has released high resolution copies of Eric Tan's awesome retro posters which were created during the development of the film for inspiration, and were hung in Pixar Animation Studios during production. We've featured many of artist Eric Tan's creations in past Cool Stuff columns: we've spotlighted his work for past Pixar productions, X-Men, Lost , among other things. Tan has been creating a series of posters for the Indiana Jones film series. You can see his Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple »
- Peter Sciretta
Description of The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Trailer
28 October 2009 7:31 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I pulled up to the Santa Monica offices of Jerry Bruckheimer Films. I mean, this is the man who has brought us blockbuster after blockbuster for nearly 30 years, and yet when I arrived at the building, it was about as unassuming on the outside as it was impressive on the inside. As I waited for the rest of the press group to arrive, I was amazed at the sheer size of the place... and the random dog trotting about the lobby, which I learned later was actually one of Jerry Bruckheimer's dogs. But we weren't there to marvel at his taste in office decor, we were there to take a look at the brand new trailer for the latest in his seemingly never-ending string of blockbusters, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which is set for a May 28, 2010 release.
We »
Fun For Everyone Halloween Films – Part III!
28 October 2009 8:01 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
The belfry has struck twice in the land of Fun For Everyone Halloween Films here at Screen Rant, and the third, final chime is preparing to strike!
Join the Screen Rant team as we detail this last entry for our 2009 Fun For Everyone Halloween Films listing and “chime in” with your own!
5. Edward Scissorhands (1990): I would love to see how something like Edward Scissorhands would go over in today’s society. Clearly, if the school he’d be attending observed any of today’s weapon policies, he’d be expelled instantly and have at least 4 interviews on news programs and talk shows before the week was over about how the institution is “denying his fundamental right to express himself.” Edward Scissorhands reminds me a lot of many of the movies that came out in the late 80s, up until 1990. Lots of teen angst with a dash of fantasy – lots »
- Mike Wilkerson
House Of The Devil Movie Review
27 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
The House Of The Devil is as perfect an 80's horror film as we'll ever get in this decade. The only thing missing is the giant clamshell VHS case. The look, style, tone, pacing, even the credits nail the feel of a flick your friends would've rented out for a slumber party, but weren't quite sure what it was about. It's fun for fans of the genre (yes, 80's possession horror is a sub-sect) but Add-editing style fanatics should move along to the next defanged crappy remake.
The House of the Devil is the classic story of a nubile young coed Samantha, played by Jocelin Donahue and who could be the younger sister of Marion from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Samantha is enrolled at a sleepy college and has roommate problems. Namely, her roommate is always having raucous sex, distracting from her scholarly duties. Samantha wants out, and has »
The 25 Scariest Moments in Non-Horror Movies
27 October 2009 10:11 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
When you sit down to a horror film, you know, at least on a basic level, what you're getting into. Whether or not the movie delivers, what you've been promised, and what you're braced for or looking forward to, are scares. Which is why, when we look back on those truly traumatic movie memories, the titles that come to mind often are not horror films at all.
The most frightening movie moments can arrive out of nowhere, in the midst of where they shouldn't belong, catching you when you're vulnerable -- which is why there are a few alleged children's films on this list. But they can also creep up on you, working a different kind of dread, which is where some of the documentaries included below fit in. Fear is a funny thing. It comes in different varieties, it can work its way on you in unanticipated, and, as our collection here proves, »
- Alison Willmore
Watch Out!: The Seventh Curse (1986)
23 October 2009 9:54 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Welcome to the absurd. The Seventh Curse is one of the most unreasonably entertaining B-movies you'll see out of Hong Kong, mainly because it’s so fucking insane. The names involved already promises a bastard of a movie; with a screenplay by low-brow legend Wong Jing (who has written and directed over 100 movies, including the God of Gamblers series and a couple of Jet Li films), and directed by Ngai Kai Lam (the director of cult favorite Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky).
I stumbled onto The Seventh Curse somewhat by accident many years ago, when I was on a Chow Yun Fat binge. I didn’t even realize who the director was at first; but was then pleasantly surprised, needless to say. This one, I dare say, actually tops Riki-Oh in terms of being completely over-the-top, which anyone who has seen Riki-Oh can tell you, is a feat worthy of the Louvre. »
- Arya Ponto
retro trailer: ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’
17 October 2009 1:11 PM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
Interesting... this trailer actually features music from the actual score of the movie. That never happens, at least not in recent years. You’ll often hear music from another movie, an older movie, over a trailer for a different film, because trailers are typically cut today before a movie is even finished (and the score would be one of the last elements to be finalized). So what was the deal here, I wonder... But this music... this music is the music of my love of movies. This is the movie that made me realize that movies were gonna have to be my life, that I had no choice in the matter. Damn you, Steven Spielberg. Interesting, too, how little action there is in this trailer. A trailer cut today for this flick would be all action, no philosophy, no talk of God. It would be all Nazis screaming and the »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Fantastic Fest 09: Another review of Solomon Kane
9 October 2009 1:29 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Year: 2009
Directors: Michael J. Bassett
Writers: Michael J. Bassett
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: rochefort
Rating: 6 out of 10
The 1600's don't get nearly enough love in cinema, and it's a real shame. The era of witch hunts, musketeers, and flintlock pistols is a ripe one, and has been the setting for such gems as "Captain Blood", "The Three Musketeers" (partial to the Oliver Reed one, of course; totally badass), and "The Conqueror Worm" (aka "Witchfinder General"). And as much money as the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films have made, their success has led more to the greenlighting of franchises based on rides and brands than any real cinematic rediscovery of the 17th century. Anyway, there's something genuinely irresistible about this time frame, at least for me.
I don't know if it's the constant specter of religious strife in the pre- and post-Cromwell era, the fact that this part of »
Top Ten Working American Directors
7 October 2009 2:18 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Ten Working American Directors
A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American films. So there. I said it.
Yet, how do you weigh the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, a genius who delivered some of the all-time greatest films, but fizzled out 25 or so years ago, against a filmmaker like Woody Allen who has worked consistently for decades churning out both brilliant gems and disposable time wasters? How do you compare either of these directors against an auteur such as Spike Jonze who has only opened two films so far, but both are masterpieces?
In the end I just went with my gut. I knew there were »
- David Frank
Interview: Karen Allen and the Kingdom of Her Crystal Life
29 September 2009 5:07 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Actress Karen Allen, who made a debut smash in the 1978 film ‘Animal House,’ is most likely to be remembered as Marion in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and 2008’s ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.’
But the versatile performer is more than just a companion for Indiana Jones, having a long career in movies and on stage, including the films ‘The Glass Menagerie,’ ‘Challenger’ (playing astronaut Christa McAuliffe) and ‘The Perfect Storm.’
HollywoodChicago.com caught up with Ms. Allen during her appearance at the new Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Illinois, as she signed autographs and introduced a special showing of Raiders. She talked about the two Indiana Jones movies, her connection to Paul Newman and how she barely kept her head above water while making ‘The Perfect Storm.’
Karen Allen at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Il, September 25th, 2009
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The winning formula for getting Wonder Woman on the big screen
28 September 2009 2:13 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
In My previous poll on here, I asked if you wanted to see a Wonder Woman movie - and the majority of you said yes.
Over the month the poll ran, the results remained fairly consistent: 69 per cent want a movie, 17 per cent don't and 14 per cent don't care.
There were 1,770 votes, which is lower than on some other polls I've had recently - indicating that perhaps Wonder Woman is not in everyone's minds right now - but it's not exactly a trivial number either.
The Wonder Woman animated DVD/Blu-ray (released in March in the Us, and in July in the UK) may have helped to raise the profile of the character out of total obscurity.
So are we going to see the Amazon princess on the big screen again and what's the right way to do it?
Problems And Solutions
Firstly, take a look at this video in which the TV presenter, »
- David Bentley
Making the New Friday the 13th DVD's Truly Deluxe
25 September 2009 2:18 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
In the anticipation of the upcoming reissues of Friday the 13th Parts 7 & 8, Dread Central was part of an exclusive roundtable luncheon with Part 7 director John Carl Buechler, actor Kane Hodder, special features producer Daniel Farrands, Jason Takes Manhattan actor Vincent Craig Dupree, and special features assistant Andrew Kasch.
The New Blood and Jason Takes Manhattan mark the last two Jason Voorhees entries with Paramount Pictures so giving both films a proper reissue was important to everyone at the studio and for those who either worked on the films twenty years ago or worked on putting together the special features over the last several months.
“One thing that has always plagued me with this particular movie in post production was the compromises we had to make,” explained Buechler. “For me, that has everything to do with me as a director especially since I have a background with effects. We had so »
- thehorrorchick
Interview: An Ice Cream Social With Oscar Winner Richard Dreyfuss
23 September 2009 8:46 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Actor Richard Dreyfuss is comfortable. This was on display as he was eating ice cream while talking about his career and life, just before an appearance at the brand new Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Ill.
Dreyfuss made a huge splash in the 1970s starring in the triptych of classic films: “American Graffiti,” “Jaws,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” He won his Best Actor Oscar – the youngest actor in Academy Award history to do so at the time – playing Elliott Garfield in the comedy, “The Goodbye Girl.”
Oscar-winning Actor Richard Dreyfuss in a Candid ‘Close Encounter’ at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Illinois, September 19th, 2009
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com He continued with great films throughout his career, including roles in “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” “What About Bob?,” another Best Actor nomination for “Mr Holland’s Opus” and “W” as Vice President Dick Cheney. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
What classic movie do you most want to see in 3-D?
23 September 2009 7:27 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
To 3-D or not to 3-D? That is the question in Hollywood, which will be studying the 3-D conversion of Disney's Toy Story films, due in theaters Oct. 2. If Woody and Buzz light up the box-office, other studios might be persuaded to resurrect their most popular films with the eye-popping technology. At Comic-Con in July, James Cameron announced that a 3-D version of Titanic was in the works. Now that Lightstorm Entertainment has now suggested to The Hollywood Reporter that a 3-D release date for the Oscar-winning epic is less than a year away, and that 3-D tests have been done on Terminator 2: Judgment Day, I can't help but hope that some of my all-time favorites will be part of the next wave of 3-D conversion classics. Can you imagine the boulder scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark in 3-D? How about the bullet-motion scene from The Matrix? »
- Jeff Labrecque
Sean Connery and Harrison Ford To Return For Indiana Jones 5?
19 September 2009 10:54 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Sean Connery and Harrison Ford are set to return to the “Indiana Jones” franchise.
Back when “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” was being written, George Lucas revealed that the script had Indy’s father in it, which meant that Sean Connery (Professor Henry Jones Senior) would need to reprise his role. Unfortunately, 79-year-old veteran actor refused and the script was quickly re-written. However, creators on the next movie, the fifth in the hugely successful franchise, are planning to bring Henry back.
A source said:
“Steven Spielberg has been working on a script with George Lucas and there is an element of the story that could see Sean returning. Anything is possible in these movies and if Sean wants to return he will become central to the new story.”
No confirmation or denial has been disclosed on this story just yet.
Sean starred in the third film »
- Allan Ford
Sean Connery Could Return For Indiana Jones 5
19 September 2009 3:49 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
While hardcore fans of the Indiana Jones franchise may have been disappointed by elements of the latest chapter in the Steven Spielberg and George Lucas collaboration, there's no doubt that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was a colossal hit. With a production budget of $185 million, Skull became a blockbuster its opening weekend — earning over $100 million — and went on to rake in nearly $790 million worldwide.
Many complained that the franchise had been reduced by the inclusion of aliens into the Indy mythos, while others were simply hoping to see Sean Connery reprise his role as Indy's father, Prof. Henry Jones. Connery's character was initially written into the Skull script, but was removed when the Scottish actor refused to appear again. Though it is implied in the fourth chapter of the Indiana Jones series that Indy's dad has passed away, an insider source is claiming that Spielberg and »
- BrentJS Sprecher
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