Month: July 2010 | FilmBuffOnline

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Enrolls Beast, Banshee, Cyclops

July 8, 2010 Bill Gatevackes

It appears that X-Men: First Class is on the fast track to get made as casting confirmations are coming almost as fast as the casting rumors hit the wire. Variety is reporting that Nicholas Hoult [click for more]

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AVATAR Getting Extended Cut, Rerelease Next Month

July 8, 2010 Rich Drees

James Cameron’s Avatar will be making a limited, 3D-only return engagement to theaters on August 27, presumably because they just didn’t make enough money the first time around. The film will actually be eight minutes [click for more]

“Weird Al”‘s Second Film In Turnaround

July 8, 2010 Rich Drees

If you’re waiting for pop culture satirist “Weird Al” Yankovic’s second film, you are going to have to wait a little longer. Of course, since it has been 21 years since his first film, UHF, [click for more]

Review: DESPICABLE ME

July 8, 2010 John Gibbon

No one ever said living as a middle-aged adult was easy. There is the constant state of worry about job stability, Social Security, maintaining the ‘excess around the middle,’ irritable mood-swings, being upstaged by a [click for more]

Whedon’s WONDER WOMAN Costume Designs

July 7, 2010 Rich Drees

Last week saw a major hub-bub arise in the world of comic book fandom with the unveiling of a new look for superhero and Amazonian warrior Wonder Woman as part of a storyline kicking off [click for more]

ORDER OF THE PHOENIX Has Yet To Turn Profit

July 7, 2010 Rich Drees

So how do you make a film that grosses almost a billion dollars and still be $167 million in the hole? By having the same accountants as Warner Brothers apparently. It used to be a [click for more]

Full GRINDHOUSE DVD Finally Coming?

July 6, 2010 Rich Drees

Fans of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s mashup love letter to the exploitation cinema of the 70s, Grindhouse, may have reason to rejoice. Director Edgar Wright tweeted yesterday – Since Don’t is one of the [click for more]

Andrew Garfield’s SPIDER-MAN Payday

July 6, 2010 Rich Drees

If you had any doubt that Sony squeezed Sam Raimi out of the Spider-Man franchise that the director launched for the studio, you need only look at the paycheck that newly cast Andrew Garfield will [click for more]

Cooper Out Of Shyamalan’s Mystery Project

July 6, 2010 Rich Drees

This past weekend was a mixed one for M. Night Shyamalan. Although his new film The Last Airbender, a live action adaptation of the popular cartoon series, earned a respectable $57 million dollars, it was [click for more]

Kevin Smith’s RED STATE To Shoot Next Month

July 5, 2010 Rich Drees

Red State is a film that writer/director Kevin Smith has been talking about making for some time. Unfortunately, he has been quite candid in describing his “political horror” film as “bleak. Beyond bleak, even. Remember [click for more]