Nov 24, 2009

Tweet Hey Chicago & Milwaukee, want to win a screening pass for two to the advance screening of Armored? Well, Reggie Ponder, The Reel Critic, wants to know if you’re “armed” with the facts about the film. Send an email to ARMOREDMIDWEST@gmail.com with the amount of money in the armored car...

Nov 11, 2009

Tweet Recent trends show that America’s veterans face a new adversary – unemployment. According to statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 500,000 unemployed veterans between the ages of 18 and 64 currently live in the United States. And amid the greatest economic uncertainty since...

Oct 22, 2009

Tweet Do you want to play a game? Join The Black Box Office and Reggie Ponder, The Reel Critic, as we set our Halloween movie week off right, by going to see the latest movie in the “Saw” series! If you’re in the Chicago area, we’ll send you passes for two to go see the movie at the ICE...

Oct 13, 2009

Tweet Though 50 Cent is adding a free DVD of a full-length original movie to his fourth album, Before I Self Destruct (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope), releasing Monday, November 23, 2009. The gritty 90-minute film, also titled Before I Self Destruct, written, directed and starring Curtis Jackson (aka 50 Cent), is a...

Oct 12, 2009

Tweet HONG KONG — Imagi’s Astro Boy went into general release in Japan this past weekend, following a successful world premiere in Tokyo on October 5th. The news comes just days after Japan named Astro Boy as its “PR Ambassador” for the country’s campaign to host the 2018/2022 FIFA...

Oct 1, 2009

Tweet What if I told you that Fox Searchlight was actually going to make a Ramones movie. Is that something you might be interested in? Looks like it may happen. It’s not a done deal, but according to the Hollywood Reporter, Searchlight is in negotiations to do the project, which initially had been conceived...

Sep 25, 2009

Tweet Image by Getty Images via Daylife If you’re one of the many who needed a little more than the teaser from Comic-Con, check out the new trailer featuring a little more Denzel Washington and Mila Kunis and a little more sword edge in the Hughes Brothers’ upcoming post-apoc epic “The Book...

Sep 21, 2009

Tweet Image via Wikipedia Heirs to the comic-book artist Jack Kirby, co-creator of characters and stories like “X-Men” and “Fantastic Four,” among many others, last week sent 45 notices of copyright termination to Marvel, Disney, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures...

Aug 20, 2009

Tweet It’s easy to claim to be a geek these days. Let’s be honest, geek culture isn’t that bad. Olivia Munn describes reports on culture 5 nights a week on G4. So it’s easy to go to a Spider Man movie and “geek out”. But to be clear, you are NOT geek unless you have memories of...

Tweet Here’s a look at the pilot episode of “Brothers”, starring CCH Pounder, Carl Weathers, Darryl “Chill” Mitchell, and former NY Giants star Michael...

Tweet When news of this remake came out, I wasn’t exactly thrilled. I liked the original series, but by “The Final Battle”, I was done with it. When word got out that Morris Chestnut was in this remake, it still sounded bad. Now that we can SEE it…I dunno. It doesn’t look like this is...

May 20, 2009

Tweet An announced project to tell the story of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the big screen is already running into opposition from two of the civil rights leader’s children. DreamWorks Studios announced plans for the film to be co-produced by Steven Spielberg. The studio touted the project as the first...

May 18, 2009

Tweet Back in February, we told you about Universal Pictures’ deal with Hasbro to bring some of their more famous games to the big screen. the idea, which is great on paper, is that since Transformers and GI Joe are great ideas that make big movies…what ELSE do they have? But then they took it left...

Tweet The Hollywood Reporter has a great article today that quotes Michael Lynton, chairman & CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, as saying this morning that “I am a guy who hasn’t seen any good come out of the Internet…It seems to have done damage to every (part) of the entertainment...

Tweet One of the most anticipated new series at ABC is “Flash Forward”, a show written by David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga (I know, right) which is loosely based on Robert J. Sawyer’s novel, written in 1999. Looks like it’s on course to get picked up! The show has to be screened by...

Tweet Here’s the first full trailer from Paramount’s upcoming GI Joe: the Rise Of Cobra. Dude. This looks like serious improvement from the 80s cartoon. An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of “The Pit”, takes on an evil organization led by...

Tweet The Hollywood Reporter is indicating that the sequel rights to “Sin City,” Frank Miller’s popular noir comic, are being shopped around Hollywood, in what appears to be “a sign that Dimension Films has lost rights to the property”. The Weinstein Co./Dimension continue to maintain...

Tweet Sci FI Channel (SyFy, as of July 7) has ordered “Unfinished Business”, which is being called “a drama about an ex-cop who starts seeing flashes of memories from the recently deceased. The visions compel him to help wronged souls resolve their unfinished business.” This 2-hour original...

Tweet Every movie lover has their secret source for their favorite stuff. A lot of our staff are New Yorkers, or former New Yorkers, and we all remember having a spot downtown to get movies. From Mondo Kim’s and TLA video to theaters like the Angelika and Quad, in every town, big and small, there’s a...

Tweet TOKYO — Texas-based anime distrib FUNimation Entertainment has inked to stream Japanese studio Toei Animation’s toons on its web site. All toons will be subbed in English. FUNimation began offering episodes of Toei’s classic “Fist of the North Star” on Friday. It will add one new...

Tweet Are you one of the hundreds of thousands of people recently laid off? What better way to pass the time than by watching a reality show — about being laid off! Variety reports today that Endemol USA is producing “Someone’s Gotta Go” for Fox TV, for a release date sometime this...

Tweet Sony Pictures have decided that they are so far ahead of the game with science fiction, that they can do sequels to Men In Black and Ghostbusters. And you know what? They’re right. The studio that is releasing “Moon”, “District 9″, “2012″, and bought the rights to...

Mar 31, 2009

Tweet While speaking to a reporter for New Zealand’s 3 News in Hong Kong, Jackie Chan confirmed that he will star in producer Will Smith’s upcoming remake of THE KARATE KID and that shooting will begin after he finishes working on Chinese historical epic BIG SOLDIER, SMALL GENERAL. He also had something...

Mar 23, 2009

Tweet [NOTE: If you have not had a chance to see the finale of Sci-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica, stop reading now. We're going to get into some details that will ruin your viewing experience, and the responses to this piece will also more than likely ruin it for you. I say again, SPOILERS below if you have...