Trailer for the Spierig brothers’ Daybreakers
Daybreakers stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas, Michael Dorman and Vince Colosimo, and is directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig, better known as the Spierig brothers, who directed the Aussie zombie film Undead, which wasn’t well received critically, but became a cult ‘grindhouse’ hit.
House of Flying Daggers director to remake the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple?
Back in February, Shockya reported that Spider-Man director Sam Raimi was attached to produce a remake of the martial arts film House of Flying Daggers. Now comes a report from Empire, that Zhang Yimou – director of that seminal kung fu epic as well as Jet Li’s Hero, and choreographer of the amazing display at ….
Magnet to release acclaimed indie horror House of the Devil
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired U.S. release rights to Ti West’s critically acclaimed horror film The House of the Devil. A homage to 1980s horror masterpieces, the film premiered at Tribeca earlier this year and is expected to be an instant classic among genre fans, building ….
The 50 greatest movie trailers of all time
IFC has put together the ultimate list of “The 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time,” with a list that ranges from The Shining to Pulp Fiction.
Trailer for the Richard Kelly sci-fi thriller The Box
Cameron Diaz stars in the Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko)-directed sci-fi thriller The Box, based on Richard Matheson’s (writer of I Am Legend and The Shrinking Man) short story Button, Button about a suburban couple with a young child, who receive a simple wooden box as a gift from a mysterious stranger, who delivers the message ….
The Last Airbender teaser trailer
This teaser for The Last Airbender really looks great, but M. Night Shyamalan has been letting me down with his last few movies. Great, high concept vehicles that don’t provide the punch. I’m pulling for this one to be not only a hit, but a good film.
Sexy U.S. trailer for The Girl From Monaco
French comedic-crime-dramas can be quite shocking. One minute, you can have two people laughing buoyantly at someone’s jokes, and the next minute, someone falls out of the trunk of a car, bloodied with no I.D. The great thriller With A Friend Like Harry had that sorta vibe. While The Girl From Monaco doesn’t seem to ….
Australian horror Lake Mungo remake gets writer
David Leslie Johnson, who wrote the script for the Orphan, which hits theaters on July 24th, has been tapped to pen a remake of the Australian horror suspense film Lake Mungo for Paramount Vantage, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Vantage grabbed remake rights to the film in November, when it premiered at the American Film ….
Trailer for the mystical martial arts film Beetle (Besouro)
The folks over at QuietEarth posted this trailer the Brazilian martial arts film Beetle (Besouro), and it looks spectacular. Has the feel of Wes Craven’s The Serpent and the Rainbow, but with kinetic martial arts added to the black magic. Directed by João Daniel Tikhomiroff, Beetle features Hiuen Chiu Kuâ who also appeared in The ….
Award-winning indie comedy Knuckle Draggers to screen at ReelHeART Film Fest
The indie comedy Knuckle Draggers will be screening at the ReelHeART Film Festival as an official closing night film this Saturday, June 27th, at 7:15pm. The indie comedy – which has already nabbed two “Rising Star” awards at the DelRay Beach Film Festival
VIZ Pictures to release action film K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces in U.S. and sponsors festival screenings
VIZ Media distribution arm VIZ Pictures has licensed the new action film, K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces, and announced two screenings at the New York Asian Film Festival 2009, which starts today and runs through July 2nd, at the IFC Center in New York City. The New York premiere of K-20: The Fiend with ….
Check out this naughty trailer for the Bobcat Goldthwait-directed World’s Greatest Dad
A red band trailer for the Bobcat Goldthwait-directed comedy World’s Greatest Dad, has been posted exclusively to Hulu. The film will be on VOD, XBOX Live and Amazon starting July 24th, and THEN in theatres on August 21st, 2009. A thoughtful but outrageous comedy from Bobcat Goldthwait, World’s Greatest Dad is a story about a ….
Nobel Son DVD review
Nobel Son is an eccentric crime drama written by husband and wife team, Jody Savin and Randall Miller. The film tells the zig-zagging tale of Barkley Michaelson – son of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Eli Michaelson – whose life is in a deep life rut. He’s struggling to finish his PhD thesis on cannibalism and trying ….
Watch the planet get ripped apart in this 2012 trailer
I have not idea why 2012 isn’t being released this summer. It looks like the kind of summer smash-up ripe for “tentpole” status. Well, it not due in theaters until November 13, 2009, but Emmerich just released the full trailer for the film, which gives more info on the storyline, characters and sheer scale of ….
New trailer for Whiteout goes online
U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) searches for a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months, in the comic adaptation Whiteout, which is based on the Greg Rucka graphic novel.
