LOS ANGELES — Tom Cruise is starring in another impossible mission. Paramount Pictures announced Tuesday that Cruise will be back in front of the camera for "Mission: Impossible IV," due in theaters over Memorial Day weekend in 2011. Cruise and "Mission: Impossible III" director J.J. Abrams previously agreed to produce a fourth movie in the action franchise. But it had not...
The Mission: Impossible franchise has been a difficult series to get a handle on. The first one was damn good and took most people by surprise, I think. The second one was absolutely atrocious, suffering heavily from the over-stylization of...
Filed under: Chicago Auto Show , Crossover , Ford 2011 Ford Edge - Click above for high-res image gallery As dutiful American consumers, we've been taught to believe that choice is good. To that end, the splintering of the automotive market into different niches (four-door coupes, small panel vans, high-riding hatchbacks, etc.) is a positive development for buyers. But while the range of total models...
The Henson Company continues to create some of the best viral video content on the internet.... now if only someone would fast track another one of their movies into production, maybe we could see some of this magic on the big screen. The latest video features Beaker's very sad performance of the famous Kansas-performed ballad Dust in the Wind. Watch it now, embedded after the jump.
In this week’s episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen , Devindra Hardawar , Adam Quigley and Russ Fischer discuss their thoughts on this year’s Oscar nominations, reflect on the novelty of 3D upconversion, assess Taylor Lautner’s career, show some love for Drew Barrymore’s Whip It , and share theories about the final season of Lost . You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com,...
Director Joe Carnahan had been a client for 10 years of Endeavor's Phil Raskin who sequed to WME. The agency most recently got him The A-Team directing gig. I will forever remember when the hothead started bashing the Writers Guild on his blog and had to apologize.
Continuing its uninterrupted streak of uncreativity, all The Jay Leno Show could come up with for its final taping tonight was this hackneyed bit of NBC cross-promotion: to have Donald Trump tell the host via satellite, "You're fired!" Oh barf.
If you've been reading /Film for a while, then you know my obsession with minimalistic movie poster design. We've featured many of these simple 2-4 color streamlined posters on the site in the past, but never anything having to do with television. Graphic artist Albert Exergian has created a bunch of minimalistic posters for some of television's most popular shows. And while these aren't as conceptually...
Universal has purchased David Guggenheim's spec Safe House for $600k against $900k, winning out against two other movie studios in a bidding war. The action thriller tells the story of a CIA agent who becomes the only survivor after a CIA safe house attack, and must help a dangerous prisoner avoid being killed as they escape to a second safe house, "outmaneuvering various forces that want them...
Today's big news was of course the announcement that Warner Bros is in fact going ahead with yet another Superman reboot. That's not terribly surprising,...
The poster for the original film. If there's anything Hollywood loves more than remakes nowadays, it's 3-D, so it makes perfect sense that there are rumors today of a, yep, 3-D remake of the 1975 classic Jaws . Cinema Blend cites a source at Universal Pictures who says the studio is “strongly considering” remaking the Steven Spielberg flick. But before you go rolling your eyes, the insider...
LONG BEACH, California — Bedfellows were never more strange than those assembling this week for the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference launching Wednesday. Avatar director James Cameron, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, former covert CIA analyst Valerie Plame, 4chan founder and provocateur Christopher “Moot” Poole and potty-mouthed comedian Sarah Silverman are...
LOS ANGELES — Consumers sent tepid signals to The Walt Disney Co. during the holiday quarter, as many of them still required discounts to step into theme parks and reduced spending on food, beverages and merchandise when they got there. A nascent advertising recovery also had an uneven effect on the company, as ESPN and the Disney Channel benefited from higher ad revenue, while the ABC broadcast...
PORTLAND, Ore. – Chris Paul made a 15-foot jumper with 3.8 seconds remaining, lifting the New Orleans Hornets to a 98-97 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night. With the Hornets trailing by a point, Paul was left wide open at the free throw line when he caught a pass and buried the shot. Paul led all scorers with 24 points, and also had 12 assists. Marcus Thornton had 19 points, David...
PORTLAND, Ore. – Chris Paul made a 15-foot jumper with 3.8 seconds remaining, lifting the New Orleans Hornets to a 98-97 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night. With the Hornets trailing by a point, Paul was left wide open at the free throw line when he caught a pass and buried the shot. Paul led all scorers with 24 points, and also had 12 assists. Marcus Thornton had 19 points, David...
PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) –When Amir Bar-Lev first looked into the story of U.S. football star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman, he was intrigued that the apparent steely-jawed war hero was an intellectually curious man who harbored doubts about the U.S. war effort. "Then I realized I was doing the same thing to Pat Tillman that everybody had done to Pat Tillman, which is to try to appropriate him and shear...