Month: June 2008 | FilmBuffOnline

SERENITY Charity Screenings This Weekend

June 17, 2008 Rich Drees

If you have to say one thing about fans of Joss Whedon’s shortlived Firefly television series, it is that they are a tenacious lot. It was their devotion to the shortlived science-fiction series that helped [click for more]

John Cleese Working On Musical Called WANDA?

June 17, 2008 Rich Drees

John Cleese is working on a musical version of his classic comedy A Fish Called Wanda, according to an interview published over the weekend in Britain’s The Daily Telegraph. Spurned on by the success of [click for more]

Poster: VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA

June 17, 2008 Rich Drees

Even when he has a string of bad pictures in his recent filmography, I am still always willing to give writer/director/actor Woody Allen the benefit of the doubt whenever he brings out a new film. [click for more]

BREAKING: Stan Winston Has Died

June 16, 2008 Rich Drees

Stan Winston, three time Academy Award winning special effects and makeup genius, has died last night. AintItCool broke the story a little while ago, and his confirmed it. Winston won Oscars for his make-up and [click for more]

Will COWBOYS & ALIENS Defeat IRON MAN?

June 16, 2008 Rich Drees

Hollywood Reporter ran a story that Robert Downey, Jr. was currently in negotiations to star in Cowboys & Aliens, a comic book adaptation that DreamWorks and Universal are looking at as a possible 2010 summer [click for more]

DARK KNIGHT Video: GOTHAM TONIGHT

June 15, 2008 Rich Drees

With all the news this past few weeks concerning Marvel Comics superhero properties on the big screen, it would be understandable if one forgot that DC Comics hero Batman was making a return to the [click for more]

MacDonald’s DEEP BLUE GOOD-BY Gets Director

June 15, 2008 Rich Drees

Gary Fleder, who has directed the crime thrillers Runaway Jury and Kiss The Girls, is in talks to direct an adaptation of John MacDonald’s mystery novel The Deep Blue Good-By, the first in his long [click for more]

PLANET OF THE APES Coming To Blu-Ray!

June 14, 2008 Rich Drees

Ever wonder just how dirty the stinkin’ paws of those damn dirty apes were? You’ll get your chance this fall when Twentieth Century Fox Home Video releases a giant box set of the classic Planet [click for more]

Review: THE HAPPENING

June 13, 2008 Rich Drees

When someone writes the book When Bad Movies Happen To Good Screenplays, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening certainly deserves its own chapter. An eco-thriller with a great premise that promises much but delivers nothing [click for more]

Marvel Movie Logos? Plus: Leo as CAPTAIN AMERICA?

June 13, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

MTV Movies Blog has given us what it thinks is a sneak peek of the logos for the next films in the line from Marvel Studios, taken directly from the New York Licensing Expo: Above [click for more]