Month: February 2011 | FilmBuffOnline

Red Band Trailer: BAD TEACHER

February 23, 2011 Rich Drees

Jake Kasdan is posed to become a major comedy director. He’s got a solid filmography behind him with films like The Zero Effect, The TV Set and the brilliantly observed Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox [click for more]

DJ Caruso Confirms He’s To Direct PREACHER

February 22, 2011 Bill Gatevackes

A film adaptation of Vertigo Comics’ Preacher graphic novel line has be inching along through 13 years of development hell. An announcement has come today that might make it seem that journey is close to [click for more]

Top 20 Films (And The Bottom 6) Of 2010

February 21, 2011 Michael McGonigle

FilmBuff Online contributing writer Michael McGonigle is the film lecturer for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His best and worst films of 2010 may surprise you.

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Christopher McQuarrie Enlisted To Write US Live Action STARBLAZERS

February 21, 2011 Rich Drees

Christopher McQuarrie has been hired to turn the classic 1970s anime Space Cruiser Yamato, better known to audiences in the US as Starblazers, for Skydance Productions and Paramount Pictures. The series told the story of [click for more]

AVENGERS Drops Plans To Shoot In Michigan

February 21, 2011 Rich Drees

Marvel Studios has apparently decided to not shoot part of its upcoming The Avengers on location in Michigan as initially announced. The Detroit Free Press is reporting that the production is pulling out of the [click for more]

Luhrmann Moving Forward On GREAT GATSBY In 3D

February 21, 2011 Rich Drees

For a while now, director Baz Luhrmann has been giving off a “Maybe I will, maybe I won’t” vibe concerning his in development adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby. Luhrmann has [click for more]

Review: UNKNOWN

February 19, 2011 Rich Drees

Unknown is a perfectly adequate thriller of Hitchcockian extract, with Liam Neeson turning in a performance perhaps a bit better than the material deserves. Unfortunately, its true effectiveness as a mystery is undercut by the [click for more]

Judge Featured In Moore’s CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY Found Guilty Of Racketeering

February 18, 2011 Rich Drees

A Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania judged featured in Michael Moore’s 2009 documentary Capitalism: A Love Story has been found guilty of 12 of 39 criminal counts stemming from his involvement in what has become known as the [click for more]

NARNIA Exec Producer Perry Moore Found Dead

February 18, 2011 Rich Drees

Perry Moore, the executive producer of the successful Chronicles Of Naraia film series, was found dead in his Soho Manhattan apartment Thursday, the victim of an apparent drug overdose. He was found yesterday morning at [click for more]

Can MEN IN BLACK III Be The Hit Sony Expects It To Be?

February 18, 2011 Rich Drees

Is the latest delay in the production of MEN IN BLACK III the least of the threequel’s problems?

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