If you are a regular 30 Rock viewer then you have probably surmised that Tina Fey is a massive Star Wars fan; after all, her character Liz Lemon can barely get through an episode without referencing Princess Leia or comparing Jack Donaghy's office to the Death Star. Well, while promoting her memoir Bossypants on Tuesday night, Fey finally confirmed your suspicions on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
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Our cinematic future includes board game adaptations like Peter Berg's Battleship, Gore Verbinski's Clue, Candy Land (perhaps directed by Lord Licorice himself), and Ridley Scott's Monopoly. We're most concerned about that last one, because, uh, can a Monopoly movie be legitimate? With Candy Land, you at least get Wonka splendor. With Monopoly, you get... property acquisition? Thimble humor? We're worried that Funny Or Die's new satirical Monopoly trailer, posted after the jump, is all too close to what the actual film will be.
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This is been living under the radar since its announcement in January and its online debut a few weeks ago, but some things are worth the wait: Vincent Cassel is back in the cologne-selling racket. And he's reteamed once again with an auteur for whom he'd previously done some of his best work. Does lightning strike twice?
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Over five million people have watched last week's premiere episode of Kevin Tancharoen's Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series -- an impressively-shot introduction to baddie Kano (Darren Shahlavi) and heroes Sonya Blade (Jeri Ryan) and Jax (Michael Jai White). The second episode picks up right after the explosive cliffhanger of the debut with even more eye-catching camera work, striking action, and general badassery on display, as the show dives right into the origins of Jax and Kano's infamous bionic accoutrements.
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If there is a silver lining to Nicolas Cage drunkenly assaulting his wife this weekend in New Orleans, it is that the gang at Next Media Animation has another ridiculous Hollywood story to parody via crude animation. Please watch then as the Taiwanese news company explains what really happened early Saturday morning when the intoxicated actor morphed into demon vigilante Ghost Rider, dragged his fear-stricken wife into a cab and then breathed fire at a well-meaning police officer.
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It's been nearly two years since Michael Mann last released a film (Public Enemies), but that doesn't mean that the Chicago director/writer/producer hasn't been busy. To prove this much, HBO uploaded a sneak peak of Luck, the original drama series that Mann is executive producing about the kind of people who frequent a horse racing track. Like Dustin Hoffman -- who in his first starring television role -- plays "Ace," the Tony Soprano of the track set.
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The week is barely twelve hours old and it is already being dominated by Harry Potter, boy wizard. Hot on the heels of news regarding the epilogue to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II comes a leaked opening scene from the July film. Click ahead to learn about the titular children's story from ol' Mr. Ollivander.
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Of all the movies to come out 11 years ago, who'd have expected Bring It On to churn out three sequels and now its own musical? Its staying power is sort of incredible. I mean, why not Love & Basketball at that rate, y'know what I mean? The cheerleading extravaganza will be touring the country in its new format, dazzling you with toe-touches, spirit fingers, and enough pairs of Spankies to intrigue most j.v. football teams. You may need sunglasses for the following video preview.
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From Antonioni to Wong Kar-wai, from Wim Wenders to Werner Herzog, the landscape and character of the American road has long captivated some the world's most visionary auteurs. Now it's apparently Paolo Sorrentino's turn to give us his take in his upcoming Cannes competition premiere This Must Be the Place, featuring Sean Penn as a retired, wild-haired, lipstick-rocking Robert Smith knockoff scouring the country for the Nazi who tormented his late father. Um, natch?
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Not only is Peter Jackson taking on the intense, arduous task of bringing another epic fantasy novel to life, but he's still finding time to explain his technical decisions and also make ten-minute video diary entries for each step of the way. He's just posted the first video, but given that production just started shooting, is it safe to assume we'll see about a hundred of these before the movie finally hits?
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The Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series starring Michael Jai White as Jax and Jeri Ryan as Sonya Blade has finally premiered, sustaining director Kevin Tancharoen's tacit promise to do justice to the beloved '90s video game where Paul W.S. Anderson's 1995 feature film version decidedly did not. After the jump, watch the first 12-minute episode and decide if it delivers enough action, Mortal Kombat references, and fatalities to satisfy.
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If I watch anymore Scream 4 teasers, I'm going to figure out who the killer is. In fact, I already have five guesses: 1) Old age; 2) Kristen Bell's alcoholic character from Burlesque; 3) Sidney "Pushed to the Edge" Prescott; 4) Kevin Williamson; 5) Mike Ryan, now that he's spent six hours sitting through the first three movies. Let's check out two more clips from the fourth installment starring Hayden Panettiere and Courteney Cox as the divine Gale Weathers.
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Hold on to your hats, action buffs, because Hong Kong star Donnie Yen is about to blow your minds. In this Movieline exclusive clip from Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, Chen Zhen (Yen) -- in France with his fellow countrymen to help the Allies -- decides he's had enough with this trench warfare b.s., grabs a couple of knives, leaps, slides and sideways runs his way through a barrage of bullets, and single-handedly takes out a squadron of Germans. Thor, Transformers, Captain America -- the gauntlet has been thrown down.
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Did you put any bananas in your cereal this morning? Because Ashton Kutcher may have. As part of his "Real Men Don't Buy Girls" campaign, the celebrity do-gooder has produced a set of new videos that inform the public about the perils of child sex slavery. Which would be great, if the videos weren't so insanely tone-deaf.
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On the one hand, this full-length remake of Footloose by 54 filmmakers worldwide is kind of a brilliant, awe-inspiring protest against the current remake culture we're facing in Hollywood. It's an impressive accomplishment, and their hearts were clearly in the right place. On the other hand, why Footloose?
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