Source: Slash Film

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the modern day British Martin and Lewis to me. Put those guys together in anything other than a gay pornography and I’ll buy the special edition DVD in a heartbeat. Pegg and Frost themselves have given us the first look into their new film, PAUL, a buddy film about two geeks who find an alien while vacationing in the states. The video from What is Paul.com shows our heroes in costume-with Frost’s long hair looking perfect for the part-and several other actors behind the scenes, including an incredibly skinny Seth Rogan in a motion capture suit for the titular alien.

PAUL is directed by Greg Motola (SUPERBAD), who may not be Edgar Wright, but he seems to be “revealing his inner Spielberg” according to Pegg.  Check out the full video here.

Extra Tidbit: Pegg’s undergraduate thesis at the Univeristy of Bristol was “A Marxist overview of popular Seventies cinema and hegemonic discourses.” Thanks, Wikipedia!

Source: MTV News

The story, it kicks ass. The cast, it kicks ass. The title, it kicks ass. The picture, it’s adequate. MTV has an exclusive picture of Christopher “McLovin” Mintz-Plasse in full costume as The Red Mist in the upcoming film adaptation of Mark Millar’s graphic novel, KICK-ASS. The Matthew Vaughn directed film doesn’t have a release date yet, but expect more details coming our way after the kick-ass KICK-ASS panel at Comic -Con.

In the film, Minz-Plasse plays Chris D’Amico, a young vigilante inspired by the exploits of Dave Lizewski, the unlikely hero the series/film is named after.

What do you think about this picture? I think the costume looks a little too I’m-a-kid-pretending-to-be-a-superhero for me but I’m willing to let it slide for Mintz-Plasse; I think ththat kid is genuinely funny. Check out the full sized pictures here.

Update: Looks as if Ain’t It Cool News has an exclusive picture of their own over here.

Extra Tidbit: How much tail do you think Mintz-Plasse is getting now?

Source: Bloody Disgusting

Bloody Disgusting has gotten their misanthropic mitts on two exclusive hi-res pictures of Michael Myers from Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN II. The pictures feature the masked murderer’s menacing mug shot backlit in a murky sky and the malevolent marauder of massacred men, meandering up the stairs.

HALLOWEEN II comes to theaters August 28^th this year. Check out the images in high resoultion here.

Extra Tidbit: October is only 1month and 3 days away from August 28^th. Just saying.

Source: Hulu

I’m very excited about Bobcat Goldthwait’s new film WORLD’S GREATEST DAD. Some of you will watch this red band trailer and think this film is only risqué for its constant mentioning of the menstrual cycle and maybe an f-bomb here or there. But for those of you who heard the big twist in the film (and it’s not in this trailer, believe me) will look at this and realize this is just the tip of the raunchy iceberg. I won’t spoil the pleasant surprise (it’s on IMDB if you’re curious) but let’s just remember that Goldthwait’s last film, LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE, revolved around bestiality and fellatio. Check out the red band trailer here.

Note: this is hosted on Hulu, you non-North Americans will have to be patient before it arrives in your country.

Extra Tidbit: Goldthwait graduated high school with Tom Kenny, who voiced SpongeBob and several Autobots in TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN.

Source: Slash Film

The name might be just TRON now, but the sequel to the original TRON that once went by the name TR2N, or TRON 2.0, and TRON: REVENGE OF THE TRON just got an official plot from Disney.

TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

I’m still not sure why they are calling it TRON? It’s not a remake, it certainly sounds like a sequel to me. Does the TRON Guy know? Are people going to come up to him and say “hey, TRON Guy, did you see TRON yet?” and then he’ll passionately respond “no, I haven’t seen that piece of crap, TRON is the only TRON for TRON Guy! TRON can suck one!”

Extra Tidbit: TRON: THE ARCADE GAME earned more money than the movie’s initial release.

Source: Making Of

GHOSTBUSTERS 3 is a hypothetical movie that has that has been bouncing around the interwebs for a few years now.  Although older fans might not appreciate it, we did get a pretty cool Ghostbusters video game this year which says something about the franchises worth. I, for one, enjoy that I get to be in control of a new adventure with Slimer and the crew without all the weight gain and hair loss that a new movie would bring. For those of you without a Z-Box 500, or whatever those kids call it, Director Harold Ramis sat down with Making Of and talked a little about the potential third film GHOSTBUSTERS IN HELL. Check out the full interview in all it’s creamy goodness here.

Extra Tidbit: The GHOSTBUSTERS animated show was called THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS due to imitators on other networks.

Source: Cinematical

I dated this girl once who read THE LOVELY BONES and told me to give it a go while she took a shower. Within the first 10 pages our protagonist and narrator, a young girl, is horrifically murdered and her body hidden by an old man she trusted. The rest of that afternoon was not one of the most comfortable of lazy days we shared to say the least. And this poster? Not the most comforting poster for a movie that has had so many issues in the past including loosing leading man Ryan Gosling.

Obviously this is some teaser material for marketing purposes but it certainly doesn’t excite anyone in the least. Since it’s too late for Mark Wahlberg to drop out of the film, maybe put a nice big picture of his mug somewhere. Or everywhere. A big ol’ tapestry made of Mark Wahlberg faces. Sounds like a good idea to me.

Extra Tidbit: Mark Wahlber was Marky-Mark and I can never, ever forget that.

Source: ScriptShadow

If you told me in 2006 that I would one day be adding my childhood best friend’s parents on Facebook I would have called you a liar. Today, they still aren’t, but that’s only because I refuse to accept their endless friend requests. Thus is the social collosus that is Facebook. A Facebook movie was announced earlier this year to mixed reaction and no knowledge of the plot. Dubbed THE SOCIAL EXPIRIEMENT, the story is not about the site but actually about Mark Zuckerberg and his friends and their ensuing struggles while creating an Empire. Screenwriting guru, ScriptShadow, just got his hands on Aaron Sorkin’s first draft and really enjoyed it.

It’s a story about greed, about obsession, about our belief that all the money in the world can make us happy. But it’s also unpredictable, funny, touching, and sad. It gives us that rare glimpse into the improbable world of mega-success.

Sounds like an interesting story to me, although I like my idea for a quasi-adaptation of the site better. In the Year 2006, a young Drew Kaufman, about to start his first year of college when he is visited aliens called “Pokes” from the “Facebook Galaxy.” They’ve come to earth to find all of our attractive women tag them in photos. Also, my girlfriend is Zooey Deschanel and we have a sex scene. Maybe Eight. Check out the full review here.

Extra Tidbit: Are eight sex scenes not enough?

Source: Crave Online

These days, Marvel is churning out film-adaptations of their most popular comics like my Dad goes through pairs of socks. This year, our only woolen ankle warmer was the disappointing WOLVERINE, but in the upcoming years Marvel has some great looking lederhosen on it’s birthday list including: THOR, CAPTAIN AMERICA and IRON MAN 2. Then in 2012, Marvel is going to take all those films, put them in a blender, and give us the epic AVENGERS written by Zak Penn (X-MEN 2, THE INCREDIBLE HULK). Penn sat down with Crave Online and spoke a little bit about making comic book movies and gave some insight into the making of a superhero team movie.

My job is to kind of shuttle between the different movies and make sure that finally we’re mimicking that comic book structure where all of these movies are connected. It used to drive me crazy at Fox not being able to interweave. Why couldn’t we have Fantastic Four in this movie? Why couldn’t we do this? Now we will. Thor and Captain America will lead right into the Avengers movie, and Iron Man 2 as well. 

Although we don’t know who will be playing Captain America or Thor yet, we can surely expect them to be a part of AVENGERS as well the returning Robert Downey Jr. and maybe some other surprises. Penn went on to defend X-MEN 3 but promptly redeemed himself by admitting that ELECTRA-which he wrote-sucked.

We blew Elektra. That blew chunks. It should’ve been an R-rated movie and it should’ve been done like Sin City. 

Clearly Zak Penn is an honest dude and, therefore, is cool in my book. Check out the rest of the interview here.

Extra Tidbit: Zak Penn also wrote the story for LAST ACTION HERO.

Source: Gizmodo

If you haven’t seen TRANSFORMERS: REVENG OF THE FALLEN yet I’ll sum it up with this joke I just wrote. Ready? How long does it take to burn two-hundred-million dollars? Approximately 150 minutes, including credits. Thank you, thank you—I’ll be here all night!

But seriously, folks, a lot of time and hard work went into that film and no matter how lackluster the story was you cannot deny that the visual effects were truly awe-inspiring. Take, for example, this scene where Isabel Lucas’ character transforms from a human girl to a big, pointy, stabby robot. Gizmodo has an exclusive feature on how this scene was made, aptly titled Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete.

About six months ago, Michael Bay approached Digital Domain, the Academy Award winning special effects company behind movies like BENJAMIN BUTTON, TITANIC, and THE FIFTH ELEMENT, with a last minute request. He needed a close-up. Digital Domain was already working on some secondary characters for Transformers 2 while George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic building the main robots like Optimus Prime. Yes, TRANSFORMERS 2 had such a big budget that DD was hired just to ride shotgun.

The sheer amount of man power that it took to make just a small scene is astonishing. Check out the full article here, which includes some great pictures and some minor spoilers.

Extra Tidbit: The concept of Transformers pretending to be humans was tackled once before in the original toy line with the befittingly named subgroup, the Pretenders.