Month: January 2011 | FilmBuffOnline

The Top 5 MPAA Ratings Screw Ups Of 2010

January 18, 2011 Rich Drees

The Motion Picture Association of America’s Classification and Ratings Administration board have made a number of odd decisions last year. Here are the five biggest ones.

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Summit Orders RED Sequel Script

January 18, 2011 Rich Drees

Last fall’s action comedy Red didn’t set the critical world on fire (a respectable 70% on Rotten Tomatoes) but it seems to have done well enough at the box office to encourage Summit Entertainment to [click for more]

Kathy Griffin Tweets MUPPETS Set Pics

January 17, 2011 Rich Drees

Comic Kathy Griffin has tweeted some pictures from the set of the upcoming Muppet film The Muppets. As we can see, Griffin is appearing in a scene with Ricky Gervais and Billy Crystal. It looks [click for more]

Lee Byung-hun Returning For G I JOE 2

January 17, 2011 Rich Drees

In movies, death is often not the impediment that it can be in real life and because of that there is more work for actor Lee Byung-hun. Byung-hun played fan favorite ninja Storm Shadow in [click for more]

Another New CAPTAIN AMERICA Pic

January 17, 2011 Rich Drees

This weekend offered up another new picture of Chris Evans in Captain America: The First Avenger, this time courtesy of the Los Angeles Times‘ summer preview. It’s a great shot Cap running. Towards what, we [click for more]

MGM Gearing Up For Bond’s 50th Anniversary In 2012

January 17, 2011 Rich Drees

For some time now, the James Bond series has been the longest running franchise in film history, launching back in 1962 with Dr. No. Some quick math tells us that it is now approaching its [click for more]

Scott’s ALIEN Prequel No Longer ALIEN Film

January 15, 2011 Rich Drees

You know that Alien prequel director Ridley Scott was working on? It’s no longer a prequel to the popular science-fiction/horror franchise. Instead, it will be its own contained film entitled Prometheus according to an announcement [click for more]

Review: GREEN HORNET

January 14, 2011 Rich Drees

Since 1936, crusading newspaper publisher Britt Reid and his friend Kato risked their lives so that criminals and racketeers within the law may feel its weight by the sting of the Green Hornet first on [click for more]

One Half Of PIRATES Scripting Duo Returning For Fifth Installment

January 14, 2011 Rich Drees

Terry Rossio, one of the screenwriting pair who have scripted all four installments of Disney’s Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise, has signed with the studio to write a fifth installment. The move is a surprise [click for more]

Review: Black Swan

January 14, 2011 Bill Gatevackes

Black Swan has garned much acclaim. It has an 88% Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes, it has garnered strong Oscar Buzz for the film itself and Natalie Portman in particular and it has made many a [click for more]