Mobile video downloads mature
Cricket, a provider of unlimited wireless services, recently announced a flat-rate unlimited mobile video service that allows users to view one-to-four-minute-long video clips directly from select handsets. Videos available include music videos, artist interviews, music documentaries, sports clips from FUEL TV such as soccer and mixed martial arts, entertainment news from Hollywood Insider, movie trailers, ….
Same gang to return for Inside Man 2
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a sequel to Spike Lee’s Inside Man has been green-lit at Universal, with Terry George (Hotel Rwanda, The Boxer) in negotiations to write the screenplay and Lee returning to the director’s chair. The project is tentatively titled Inside Man 2, and picks up on the characters from a different storyline ….
Soul Men film trailer
After more than twenty years since they last spoke to one another, two estranged soul-singing legends (Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac) agree to participate in a reunion concert at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader. Soul Men also stars Isaac Hayes The film represents the next to last on-screen performance ….
Trailer for the Russian film 12
Below is the trailer for 12, which follows 12 jurors who must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather. Nikita Mikhalkov (Quiet Flows the Don) directed the 2007 film. The film is loosely based on the 1957 classic 12 Angry Men.
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One lucky winner will be rewarded $2,500 in the Anchor Bay Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer Sweepstakes. Also, when you register you will find exclusive clips, interviews with cast and crew, and more. All you have to do is go to TheMonsterSlayers.com to enter the Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer Sweepstakes. After witnessing the brutal murder of ….
Benefit screening of Steven Soderbergh classic satire Schizopolis coming with director attending
Steven Soderbergh, acclaimed director behind Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, and Sex, Lies and Videotape, will host a rare screening of his mind-bending satire Schizopolis, at the IFC Center in the West Village, New York City. The screening will be part of a special benefit event celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Slamdance Film Festival (where Schizopolis ….
The Crash TV series widget
The Crash TV series premieres exclusively on Starz, on Friday, October 17, 2008 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Starring an ensemble cast led by film icon Dennis Hopper, the series looks at the way different lives intersect and collide in the melting pot of LA, and will be quite different from the movie portrayal. From the ….
Bone thriller adds a cop and a thief to cast
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paul Walker (The Fast and the Furious) and Hayden Christensen (Star Wars sequels) have joined the cast of the Screen Gems crime thriller Bone Deep, which is being helmed by John Luessenhop. This will be Luessenhop’s sophomore effort after directing Lockdown in 2000. Bone Deep was co-written by Luessenhop, Gabriel ….
Tom Cruise nabs rights to ‘Monster’ serial killer book
Variety reports that Tom Cruise and United Artists have grabbed the rights to the serial killer thriller The Monster of Florence, with Cruise attached to produce and possibly to star. This according to Douglas Preston, author of the bestseller. The author, along with Italian journalist Mario Spezi, told an Italian periodical that they have contracted ….
Michael Moore feature film Slacker Uprising to go online for free
I just read on Yahoo News that Michael Moore’s next feature film, Slacker Uprising, will be made available for legal downloading from the net for three weeks, starting on September 23, 2008. Moore says he was inspired by Neil Young and Radiohead, to release his new film online and for free, after previously considering a ….
Ghostbusters reunion film moving forward
Variety updated recent rumors about Columbia Pictures prepping a new installment of its blockbuster Ghostbusters movie franchise. According to the report, the studio has contracted The Office producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write a script for the film, which will bring back the original cast of Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and ….
New funny ass r-rated trailers for Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Zack and Miri Make a Porno is looking better and better with each passing trailer. I just had to post these before signing off to la la land for the night. The film follows lifelong platonic friends Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks), who need to solve their cashflow issues, before becoming homeless, and ….
Washington goes to the wasteland and a first look at Pelham 123
Variety reports that Denzel Washington is set to star in the post-apocalyptic drama Book of Eli, which will be directed by Allen and Albert Hughes. Washington will play a lone type in a dystopic future America, who must trek across America to deliver a book that could be the key to its redemption. Gary Whitta, ….
Welle Die (The Wave) film trailer
German thriller The Wave screened at Sundance this year, along with the Edinburgh Film Fest in June. It revolves around a high school teacher’s experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship, but it soon spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of ….
The Burrowers film trailer
The Burrowers takes place in the Wild West, and follows the story of a rescue party that falls prey to creatures risen from underground to feed on the inhabitants of a town. The Lions Gate film screens at the Toronto Film Festival this month, and there’s no word on a theatrical release date yet. Check ….