Year: 2008 | FilmBuffOnline

Eli Roth could be a BASTARD!

August 6, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

Variety is reporting that Hostel director Eli Roth is in talks to join the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s latest project, Inglorious Bastards. Roth would play Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, a baseball bat-wielding Nazi hunter. Roth played a small part in [click for more]

Ratner’s Deal With Paramount A HARBINGER Of Bad Things To Come?

August 6, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

To say Brett Ratner’s history with comic book movies was bleak would be putting it lightly. He was one of the numerous directors whose name was attached to Superman Returns during the disastrous time period before [click for more]

Smith Wins PORNO Appeal

August 5, 2008 Rich Drees

Chalk up another victory in what appears to be a never ending battle between filmmaker Kevin Smith and the folks over at the Motion Pictures Association of America. Smith’s latest film, Zack And Miri Make [click for more]

New Releases: August 6

August 5, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

1. Pineapple Express (2,800+ Theaters, 111 Minutes, Rated R): There have been pot comedies before (Cheech and Chong made their names from them), there have been action comedies (take the Rush Hour movies, please), but [click for more]

GOONIES 2 Rumors Never Say Die

August 5, 2008 Rich Drees

Goonies never say die, and it appears that goes for hope for a sequel to popular 1985 adventure film as well. Moviehole is reporting from an unnamed – “if I revealed his name, you’d know [click for more]

New STARBLAZERS/SPACE CRUISER YAMATO Film In Works

August 5, 2008 Rich Drees

Nearly a quarter of a century since it last flew across screens, the popular Japanese animated space opera Space Cruiser Yamato, known in the United States as Starblazers, is making a return. Yoshinobu Nishizaki, who [click for more]

Gilliam’s DON QUIXOTE Finally Re-Starting?

August 4, 2008 Rich Drees

Nearly eight years after it fell spectactularly apart during filming, director Terry Gilliam may be ready to remount his film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. In an interview with the British paper The Independent, [click for more]

Woo, Berg, and Singer Go RADICAL On The Big Screen.

August 4, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

One of the more odious trends I noticed at the San Diego Comic-Con was the one where new comic publishers start publishing comic books not to make great pieces of fiction, but to create high-concept [click for more]

GREEN LANTERN On The Fast Track Without Jack Black?

August 4, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

The last time we heard about a Green Lantern movie, Jack Black was in talks to play the lead and it was written by Robert Smigel as a comedy. Fans were in an uproar and [click for more]

New WATCHMEN Movie Posters Mimic Comic Book House Ads.

August 4, 2008 Bill Gatevackes

Ever since the first round of publicity photos came out, Zach Snyder has gone out of his way to show that his Watchmen adaptation will be slavishly faithful to the legendary comics. The teaser trailer [click for more]