After combining on the award-winning, Oscar-nominated stop motion animation Coraline, Focus Features and LAIKA Inc. have re-teamed for a new 3-D stop motion animated dark comedy about a boy who can speak with the dead (voiced by Let Me In's Kodi Smit-McPhee) who must save his town from a zombie attack. Full first look after the jump!
Just two days after Oscar-winner Barry Levinson announced that he will direct Gotti: Three Generations, John Travolta's wife and daughter -- Kelly Preston and Ella Travolta -- have joined the mob picture. Preston will play Victoria Gotti, the wife of her husband's character John Gotti Sr. while Ella will play the couple's daughter Angel. Lindsay Lohan and Joe Pesci will co-star in the film, which is supposed to shoot this fall. [EW]
Fox has released the first substantial clip (as opposed to those 20 annoying three-second snippets designed to drive you insane) from Terrence Malick's anticipated summer drama The Tree of Life. More important than fancy suits, dinosaurs and beautiful cinematography that verges on the pretentious, the film appears to promise serious oedipal conflict. Watch out, Brad Pitt!
Judging from the fact that the planned Glee concert movie has two exclamation points in its title, you can assume that all parties involved are pretty excited about bringing the hit Fox television show to the big screen. Glee Live! 3D! will receive a limited two-week engagement in theaters starting on Aug. 12. In 3D. Sorry... in 3D!
Once in a great while a movie comes along that leaves you forever changed. Will the tongue-in-cheek (and in-other places) neo-noir The Big Bang be such a movie? In three new clips, watch private dick Antonio Banderas as he learns dirty porn secrets from XXX director Snoop Dogg, meets James Van Der Beek and his "albino little person" companion, and engages maybe-crazy mad scientist Sam Elliott in a conversation about dropping acid, physics, and God's "magic wand." Right!
Remember when you went slack-jawed at the news that Vanilla Ice was playing a "gay wedding coordinator" in the upcoming Adam Sandler comedy I Hate You Dad? It gets better: former 90210 star Ian Ziering has also been added to the cast. Dad tells the story of a man (Sandler) who fathered a son (Andy Samberg) with his schoolteacher when he was a boy. Ziering will play Sandler's character in a fictionalized TV version of the story. James Caan and Leighton Meester co-star. Of course. [Variety]
· Stephanie Zacharek's review of summer kick-off blockbuster Thor will post here at Movieline on Thursday, but in the meantime, does film critic extraordinaire MC Hammer think the Norse god is 2 legit 2 quit? Great question! Find out ahead, then stick around for more Buzz Break.
Malin Akerman is a pretty awesome bronze medalist. Deadline reports that Akerman has been cast in Rock of Ages as the rock journalist who sleeps with Stacie Jaxx (Tom Cruise), a role that was previously earmarked for both Anne Hathaway and Amy Adams. Sorry, gals! Looks like only Malin will know the pleasures of singing Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is" with a blonde-wigged Tom Cruise. [Deadline]
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment today announced its acquisition of the film-centric social media site Flixster and its review-aggregating subsidiary Rotten Tomatoes. "Driving the growth of digital ownership is a central, strategic focus for Warner Bros.," Warners video boss Kevin Tsujihara said in a statement. "The acquisition of Flixster will allow us to advance that strategy and promote initiatives that will help grow digital ownership." In other words, the DVD/Blu-ray market is slowly suffocating, that Dark Knight-on-Facebook thing kinda came and went, and Friendster shut down before they could get it on the cheap. But what does it mean for you and the movies?
Leave it to Roland Emmerich to make a film about how William Shakespeare actually didn't write any of the masterpieces he wrote. That's the premise for Anonymous, which posits that Shakespeare was actually a fraud. Like the trailer -- which featured precious little mountain crumbling -- the new poster for the film keeps thing decidedly mysterious and sorta subtle. Might this be the least excessive film from the king of excess ever? Click ahead for a first look.
If Unknown wasn't enough of a Taken sequel for you, fear not! Like they did with the first film, Twentieth Century Fox will distribute the Taken sequel into theaters, having just acquired the rights from EuropaCorp. Producer Luc Besson also announced that French director Olivier Megaton will handle behind-the-camera duties on Taken 2, which will hopefully be a megaton of fun. What? [Variety]
Just who is Marion Cotillard playing in The Dark Knight Rises? Right: Miranda Tate, "a Wayne Enterprises board member eager to help a still-grieving Bruce Wayne resume his father's philanthropic endeavors for Gotham." But who is that? "My role is a secret," Cotillard told 24Frames, "as is the whole project." Glad that's cleared up! Now what can you tell everyone about Joseph Gordon-Levitt? [LAT/24Frames]
Also in this Wednesday edition of The Broadsheet: Lisa Cholodenko is No Good... Bruce Willis and 50 Cent: together again... a few Friends sign up for End of the World... and more ahead.
Now, I will go bananas over some OPI special edition nail polishes; why, with cleverly punny names like "Skull and Glossbones," even Captain Jack Sparrow himself would rock some silver crackle polish on his grubby pirate claws. Probably. But who in the world is gonna drop hundreds on designer purses, scarves, and jewelry merchandising tie-ins to Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides?
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