Neil Burger directs the thrilling sci-fi Limitless, a morality tale on speed that stars Bradley Cooper as a down-on-his-luck writer who stumbles upon a designer drug that allows him to tap into his full potential. With the Blu-Ray hitting the streets on July 18th, Burger sat down with me to talk about the film.
The environmentally friendly superhero Captain Planet and his team of young environmentalists are getting the silver screen treatment. According to Deadline, Cartoon Network has just struck a deal with the producers of Transformers: Dark of the Moon to develop the early ‘90s cartoon series Captain Planet and the Planeteers into a live-action feature film.
Ron Howard's ambitious film project to bring Stephen King's The Dark Tower book series to cinematic life is officially dead. THR reports that Universal has passed on the huge project, which included three movies and a TV series, due to budgetary issues.
Minecraft, originally a PC game designed by Markus "Notch" Persson and his studio Mojang, is growing faster than you can stack up 3D cubes. Earlier this year we learned that the sandbox construction video game was getting iOS and Android versions, then at E3 2011 we learned that an Xbox 360 version was in development. Now Notch has leaked some new details regarding the Xbox game and Kinect functionality.
After news came out earlier this month that Limitless director Neil Burger would be replacing David O. Russell as the director of upcoming video game-to-film project Uncharted, many fans rejoiced. Now I've had confirmation from Burger himself that not only is the script being re-written from scratch, but that he's a huge Uncharted fan and the movie will definitely stay true to the video game.
The recent release of Disney’s Winnie the Pooh has me nostalgic for all those great 2D drawn-animation flicks that I grew up with. It is a style of animation that is now, sadly, disappearing. Kudos to Disney for keeping Winnie the Pooh old-school. I’m not saying stop-motion and CGI animation aren’t wonderful in their own way, but this list is in appreciation of the best in traditional animation (so don't come crying that there are no Pixar pics on the list; and if it was all types of animation, Nightmare Before Christmas would probably be #1).
This week’s episode deals with self-acceptance, and dog-abuse. But in its usual tongue-in-cheek style, the dog abuse in Wilfred consists of a man who likes to spread peanut butter on his balls and have dogs lick it off.
There are some new still photos available for Robin Hardy's upcoming horror pic The Wicker Tree, a re-imagining of the original 1973 cult classic The Wicker Man. British Lion Film Corporation's The Wicker Tree will premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival next month in Montreal, with Anchor Bay as its distributor.
Anchor Bay's The Howling: Reborn trailer has many horror fans up in arms. After you watch the trailer, you might be able to see why. This reboot looks like a werewolf pic for the tweener, and it is about as antithetical to the original The Howling as you can get.
Alexander Skarsgard has put his Nordic good looks to use, playing a 1000-year old viking vampire in HBO's True Blood, and now set to star a viking adventure pic for Warner Bros. Variety reports that the handsome Swedish actor will play the lead role in The Vanguard, a possible tentpole project for the studio.
