Month: July 2008 | FilmBuffOnline

New Releases: July 11

July 10, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

1. Hellboy II: The Golden Army: (2,950+ Theaters, 110 Minutes, Rated PG-13): The summer of comic book movies continues, as we get another Hellboy movie. I happened to like the first Hellboy flick. But then [click for more]

Robert Downey Jr. Signs On As SHERLOCK HOLMES

July 10, 2008 Rich Drees

A little while back, we told you that one of the projects that currently hot Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. has been circling was a new version of the classic detective Sherlock Holmes being [click for more]

Media Post-Mortem: Is INCREDIBLE HULK A Flop?

July 10, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

Two articles hit the web today, from sources as diverse as Reuters/Hollywood Reporter and E! Online, doing a post-mortem on The Incredible Hulk. This attention was brought on by the fact that in its fourth week [click for more]

RED DAWN Remake Readying For Attack

July 9, 2008 Rich Drees

Wolveriiiinnnneeessss! Red Dawn, the 1984 Ruskies-invade-middle-America-only-to-be-defeated-by-the-local-high-school-football-team film that became a constantly-in-rotation staple of HBO for the rest of the decade, is being eyed for a makeover by its studio MGM. The Hollywood Reporter brings word [click for more]

ELFQUEST Making The Trek To The Big Screen.

July 9, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

One of the most legendary independent comic books might finally complete its journey to the silver screen. The Hollywood Reporter states that Warner Brothers and director Rawson Thurber will present us with an Elfquest movie. [click for more]

Tarantino Thinks Brad Pitt Might Just Be A BASTARD

July 9, 2008 Rich Drees

Brad Pitt is in talks with Quentin Tarantino to headline his World War II epic Inglorious Bastards. Tarantino is currently shopping the project, with Harvey Weinstein and Lawrence Bender attached as producers, to a quartet [click for more]

Universal To Release Special Edition Hitchcocks, TOUCH OF EVIL

July 9, 2008 Rich Drees

While not the worst, Universal Studios certainly has not been the best of the major studios at mining their back catalog of films for decent DVD releases. That is why it comes as a pleasant [click for more]

Tarantino Shopping INGLORIOUS BASTARDS Script

July 8, 2008 Rich Drees

Quentin Tarantino is now actively taking his just-finished screenplay for his long-in-development World War II action flick Inglorious Bastards around to the various major studios to see if there is any interest in actually making the [click for more]

(Nearly) Complete Copy Of METROPOLIS Found!

July 7, 2008 Rich Drees

One of the greatest films of the silent era is Metropolis. A Gothic science-fiction tale and social critque, it is now taught in both film and literature courses in colleges and universities and continues to [click for more]

DARK KNIGHT On IMAX

July 7, 2008 Rich Drees

If you are planning on seeing the Batman opus The Dark Knight from director Christopher Nolan in the theaters, you will probably want to think about seeing on an IMAX screen. Why? Well, Nolan has [click for more]