René Carson

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 Hideo Nakata, the director who is wrapping up work on the Ring Part 2, is taking on helming duties for the remake of the Entity. Nakata will begin work on the Fox Searchlight project, with a reported budget of $15 million, after he soon as he completes his work on ….

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 The future is a bleak and lonely place, and the present’s not much better. That’s the unhappy conclusion Mamoru Oshii, the celebrated anime director and screenwriter, has come to. It’s reflected in his latest film, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, which had the distinction in May of being one ….

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 Guess Who is a modern day re-telling of the classic Sidney Poitier, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. We thought it was slated for a summer 2005 release, but it looks like it’s been pushed up to March 25th. The story revolves around a sarcastic father (Bernie Mac) who has lots ….

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 Film Fetish has gotten hold of images for a pre-visualization map and title treatment for the upcoming Hannibal the Conqueror film. Vin Diesel stars as the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca, who rode an elephant across the Alps to attack Rome in the 3rd Century B.C. Diesel’s production company, One Race ….

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 New Line Cinema and Marvel Studios have signed Nick Cassavetes to direct the highly-anticipated big screen adaptation of Iron Man, based on the Marvel comic. Cassavetes recent projects include The Notebook and John Q. The film is scheduled to be a 2006 tentpole release. The project is being produced by ….

Originally Published: March 7, 2005 Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro and Amazon.com head Jeff Bezos announced last week that the giant online retailer is hosting a short-film competition in connection with the fest. The announcement reads that Amazon and the Tribeca Film Festival invite you to premiere your short film to an audience ….

Originally Published: June 5, 2005 My friends over at Scribble Bibble have worked long and hard to get their first feature, So Fresh, So Clean, on shelves. Well, Waner Brothers Lightyear will be releasing the comedy on June 28. So Fresh, So Clean…a down and dirty comedy is a day-in-the-hood, slice of urban life story ….

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 Apple Computer has a profile of the surprise hit Napoleon Dynamite on its website. Twenty Five year old Jeremy Coon made Napoleon fresh out of school on a $400,000 budget. Jeremy also edited the film in his apartment using a $6,000 editing system, that included Final Cut Pro running on ….

Originally Published: March 28, 2005 Filming has begun in Vancouver on Revolution Studios’ The Fog, a remake of the classic 1981 horror/thriller of the same name. Directed by Rupert Wainwright, the film is based on The Fog, written by John Carpenter and the late Debra Hill. The film will be released by Columbia Pictures on ….

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 I guess you could call this an early Christmas gift. I have links to trailers, photos and web sites for more Sony films, including Are We There Yet?, starring Ice Cube, Spanglish, starring Adam Sandler and Man of the House starring Tommy Lee Jones. All of the following material can ….

Originally Published: December 3, 2004 I have been reading a lot about Spike Lee’s newest joint Sucker Free City. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival a few months ago. It got great reviews, but a few people seemed to be turned off by the violence (it’s a gang film, violence is a part of ….

Originally Published: July 6, 2005 Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, Appian Way, will develop and produce a feature film based on Kurt Vonnegut’s classic sci-fi novel Cat’s Cradle in partnership with producer Hillard Elkins’ Elkins Entertainment, Variety reported. James V. Hart (who wrote Sahara) and his son, Jake Hart, will write the script, based on Vonnegut’s ….

Originally Published: December 17, 2004 In a rare personal appearance, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Antoine Fuqua will be holding a live Q&A at ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood on December 20th to mark Buena Vista Home Entertainment’s December 21 DVD release of the KING ARTHUR Director’s Cut as part of the prestigious Hollywood’s Master Storytellers series, ….

Originally Published: December 17, 2004 The Slamdance Film Festival, set for January 21-28, 2005 in Park City, Utah, will present a record 23 world and U.S. independent feature premieres, which include works-in-progress. The festival will open with Amy Sewell’s documentary Mad Hot Ballroom, a look at New York kids training for a ballroom dancing contest, ….

Originally Published: June 8, 2005 As an exclusive to film site webmasters, Decca Records and Paramount have provided us with the first samples from the Official Soundtrack to the War of the Worlds. We also have a screenshot of the CD art work and a link to order the soundtrack. Here is the soundtrack listing ….