It's been fifteen years since Katie Holmes indulged in her bad girl side. Way back in Doug Liman's cult quirkfest, Go, Holmes' goody two-shoes went off the rails and into the arms of badboy Timothy Olyphant. For Karen Leigh Hopkins' upcoming thriller, Miss Meadows, she's set to walk a similar path.
With the horror genre constantly undergoing reinvention, is there room for an old-school traditional scarefest? Of course there is! For every Scream and The Cabin In The Woods, both game changers in their own right, there's still filmmakers whose approach to fear is grounded in straight-up scares. That means no nudging, winking or in-jokes. That's clearly on the agenda in the teaser trailer (courtesy of The Playlist) for Jack Heller's Dark Was The Night.
Halloween's nearly upon us and the folks at Lionsgate are gearing up to scare us all silly. It's been fifteen years since newbie filmmakers Eduardo Sanchez and Dan Myrick brought us The Blair Witch Project, and the found footage genre persists. There's been the inevitable cash-ins on the pair's scary witch fable, but nothing has bettered it in the shakycam department. Could Sanchez's next feature, Exists, be the film to beat it?
Guy Pearce and Dominic West have signed on to appear in Michael Grandage's directorial debut, Genius. Best known for his work in the theatre world, Grandage has assembled a solid cast for his first feature. Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Nicole Kidman and Jude Law have already committed to the project, which is based on the novel Max Perkins: Editor Of Genius by A. Scott Berg.
There's not long to go now until we're finally able to see the first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's seventh feature, Inherent Vice. With the movie set to debut at the New York Film Festival next week, Warner Bros. are prepping us eager moviehounds with another new image. It's the prospect of a full-length, or heck even a teaser trailer that we're most excited for. But a pic is better than nothing.
Set in an apocalyptic wasteland, Jake Paltrow's Young Ones preys on the human experience in the aftermath of a catastrophic event. By placing his characters in a barren landscape where water is a rarity, he evokes an abundance of emotional responses.
Disney and Marvel's co-venture, Big Hero 6, will soon be inescapable. Think about it: two of the world's biggest studios with a history of box office success, and merchandising strategies that have folks digging into the pockets time and time again. The slant of this imminent release is aimed more at younger children, whose parents will hopefully find some Marvel easter eggs tucked away in the background...
Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman is one of many, many, titles slated to play at this year's imminent New York Film Festival. In the wake of its unanimous praise at Telluride and Venice, we can look forward to seeing it on cinema screens this October. But before then, we've got this awesome new poster to feast our eyes on.
Nerds and geeks have never been so popular. Wait, isn't that an oxymoron? Who knows, with the rules of social mores being decided by the powers that be: other people. The rise of TV fare like The Big Bang Theory and the eminent shagability of the supposed "geeky scientists" on every crime procedural means those of a sweaty-palmed nervous disposition can reign in audiences. But it helps when there's someone cool thrown in, too. Such is the case in Sony's upcoming comedy, The Wedding Ringer.
