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- First Look: Joel Kinnaman On Set As RoboCop!
- Animation Legend Ralph Bakshi Returns With New Political Short ‘Trickle Dickle Down’
- 20th Century Fox Chairman & CEO Tom Rothman Steps Down
- ‘Stand Up Guys’ Trailer: Not Your Old Man’s Last Hurrah Kind Of Film
| First Look: Joel Kinnaman On Set As RoboCop! Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:12 PM PDT  Thanks to our friends at ComingSoon.net, the film enthusiast community has their first look at Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) in the new RoboCop suit! Director Jose Padilha's remake of RoboCop began filming today in Toronto, where Kinnaman was spotted in costume. Check out the photos here below. Recently, a draft of the screenplay by Josh Zetumer and Nick Schenk was leaked onto the Internet, which revealed that there would be numerous versions of RoboCop as OmniCorp refined their design, so while I doubt this will be the only RoboCop suit you see Kinnaman in; I think this is probably the final, combat-ready design [...]            |
| Animation Legend Ralph Bakshi Returns With New Political Short ‘Trickle Dickle Down’ Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT  Ralph Bakshi has always been one of my heroes. The animation legend, who started out working for Terrytoons and Paramount Pictures before making his jump to feature filmmaking with his 1972 cult classic adaptation of Robert Crumb's Fritz the Cat, has always displayed a unique gift for smashing the boundaries for traditional animated storytelling. He alternated personal projects like Heavy Traffic, Coonskin, and American Pop with large-scale animated fantasies like The Lord of the Rings, Wizards, and Fire & Ice, his wonderful creative collaboration with the legendary fantasy artist Frank Frazetta. It was Bakshi's version of The Lord of the Rings that Peter Jackson has credited with inspiring him to become a filmmaker and mount his own epic Rings trilogy more than two decades after the Bakshi version failed to set the box office afire. In the years that followed Bakshi would attempt to make live-action/animated adaptations of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye to no avail. After butting heads with Paramount studio heads over the direction and casting of his 1992 film Cool World, Bakshi retired from cinema and moved to New Mexico to focus on his painting, but his legacy as an animator and filmmaker endures to this day.      |
| 20th Century Fox Chairman & CEO Tom Rothman Steps Down Posted: 15 Sep 2012 10:30 AM PDT  As the CEO and Chairman for Fox Films, Tom Rothman was one of the few that set the standard for film distribution. Now only did he find major blockbusters, but he also saw the potential in smaller indie films, and as a result was one of those who was responsible setting up Fox's indie distributor Fox Searchlight. But today that comes to an end as Rothman is now stepping down from his post as Chairman and CEO of the major movie studio. THR was the first to report on the very surprising news. As far as we know, there weren't any power struggles within the organization that could have sparked Rothman's resignation, so his sudden departure comes as a huge surprise in the industry. According to THR, "all studio operations will be consolidated under studio co-chairman Jim Gianopulos." [...]      |
| ‘Stand Up Guys’ Trailer: Not Your Old Man’s Last Hurrah Kind Of Film Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:41 AM PDT  Hey, young guys are not the only ones who can get drunk, high, and cause disorderly conduct. When it was announced that Christopher Walken, Al Pacino, and Alan Arkin would star in Fisher Stevens' Stand Up Guys, a lot of people thought it just be the Hangover but with senior citizens. But the trailer shows us something that surprisingly unexpected. Check out the trailer here below. Sure enough, the premise of the film is just that, but with a slight twist. Walken, Pacino, and Arkin all star in Stand Up Guys, a film where Val (Pacino) reunites with his old pals Doc (Walken) and Hirsch (Arkin) to go an all-out bender which includes drinking, hard drugs, sexual encounters, and grand theft auto. The twist is that Doc has been hired to kill Val, and Val knows it [...]      |
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