Month: July 2008 | FilmBuffOnline

New Releases: August 1

July 31, 2008 William Gatevackes

1. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Rated PG-13): I don’t know about this one. There’s a new director, a new setting, and Rachel Weisz is replaced by Maria Bello. And It’s a third [click for more]

More On Disney’s TRON Sequel

July 31, 2008 Rich Drees

Last week, Disney surprisingly shocked the crowd at the San Diego Comic Con with a three minute teaser trailer for a sequel to the 1982 cult favorite TRON. (By the way, Disney, you really need [click for more]

Couple Of New WATCHMEN Photos Surface

July 31, 2008 Rich Drees

The trailer for Zack Snyder’s upcoming adaptation of the landmark graphic novel Watchmen sure did its job as far as I’m concerned. Before seeing the trailer, I was cautiously optimistic about how the film would [click for more]

Stern Picks Writer For ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL Redo

July 31, 2008 Rich Drees

Actor/writer/director Alex Winter, best known as being the non-keanu Reeves half of Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure, has been signed to script a remake of Rock And Roll High School for talk radio superstar Howard [click for more]

Tony Jaa No Longer Missing

July 30, 2008 Rich Drees

Almost no sooner than the news began to spread about the difficulties on the Thai action film Ong Bak 2 and the disappearance of its director and star Tony Jaa, than the martial arts master [click for more]

Warners Developing Marvin The Martian Feature

July 30, 2008 Rich Drees

Bugs Bunny’s extraterrestrial nemesis Marvin the Martian is being eyed by the execs at Warner Brothers for a big screen film. According to Variety, the film will be a feature the tenacious alien coming to [click for more]

Review: AMERICAN TEEN

July 30, 2008 Rich Drees

We originally reviewed American Teen when it screened at the Philadelphia Film Festival last spring. As the film begins its roll out in Los Angeles and New York this weekend, we re-present our review. By [click for more]

FOUNDATION Heading To Big Screen

July 29, 2008 Rich Drees

Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, the former New Line Cinema execs who approved the production of Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings trilogy, have signed on to produce a film adaptation of another classic genre [click for more]

SDCC 2008: Odds And Ends Roundup- WOLFMAN, LAND OF THE LOST, More

July 29, 2008 Rich Drees

The 2008 San Diego Comic Con is all over except for sweeping out a few remaining halls at the convention center, but a few final reports are still showing up around the internet. The Wolfman– [click for more]

SDCC 2008: Post-Mortem:Marketing, Marketing, Marketing.

July 28, 2008 William Gatevackes

You might be wondering why if FilmBuffOnLine had a correspondent at the San Diego Comic Con, why did FilmBuff’s exhalted leader have to run a round-up from other news sites. The reason is this: This [click for more]