Month: August 2008 | FilmBuffOnline

RODAN and WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS Coming To DVD

August 12, 2008 Rich Drees

Classic Media, whose release of seven early Godzilla films on DVD in 2006 and 2007 rank as the best treatment the classic monster movies have ever received on home video, will be releasing a double [click for more]

PRINCESS AND THE FROG Pre-Production Art

August 11, 2008 Rich Drees

Disney Animation has released some beautiful pre-production artwork for their upcoming animated feature The Princess And The Frog. Set mostly in New Orleans’ French Quarter, the pictures have a rich and lush palate of colors [click for more]

Breaking: Isaac Hayes Has Passed Away

August 10, 2008 Rich Drees

Isaac Hayes, the funk and soul musician who won an Oscar for composing the theme to the 1971 blaxploitation classic Shaft, has passed away this afternoon at his home in Mephis, Tennessee. He was 65. [click for more]

Breaking News: ORIGINAL KING OF COMEDY Bernie Mac Has Passed Away

August 9, 2008 John Gibbon

Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who starred in the Golden Globe nominated series The Bernie Mac Show and appeared in the successful Ocean’s 11 films, passed away earlier this morning in Chicago at age [click for more]

INGLORIOUS BASTARDS Casting Omnibus: Pegg, Kinski, Krumholtz

August 8, 2008 Rich Drees

Another day, another story on casting for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards. There’s been a few different bits announced, so we’re going to lump them all together into one big post. First, and most exciting, is [click for more]

FLASH GORDON Gets Screenwriters

August 8, 2008 Rich Drees

That Flash Gordon project over at Sony we first told you about back in May now has some screenwriters attached to it. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless have been signed by the studio to write [click for more]

LETHAL WEAPON 5? Really?

August 7, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

I guess we can blame Rocky Balboa and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for this. They proved that long-dormant franchises can be revived with some success. TrackingB.com is reporting that Shane [click for more]

Pitt Officially An INGLORIOUS BASTARD

August 7, 2008 Rich Drees

And the casting news for Quentin Tarantino’s World War II epic Inglorious Bastards keeps on coming. We told you last month that Brad Pitt was in talks to take the role of Lt. Aldo Raine, [click for more]

Tarantino Picks Another BASTARD

August 7, 2008 Rich Drees

Back at the beginning of the summer, we were questioning whether Quentin Tarantino would be able to live up to his claim at the Cannes Film Festival that he would return in 2009 with his [click for more]

Tony and Pulitzer Prize Winning AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Heading To The Big Screen

August 7, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

Variety announces that playwright Tracey Letts has begun work on a screenplay which will bring his Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning masterpiece, August: Osage County, to the big screen. The project is still in its infancy, [click for more]