I've been waiting and waiting to feature a video interview from Making Of for a long time. If you haven't ever heard of Making Of, it's an incredible new website that focuses on the filmmaking process. They post new interviews daily with some of the most talented and brilliant filmmakers out there talking about their own process and some techniques and tips. I finally found a video today that I wanted...
James Bond Weekend At USC Starts Tonight The University of Southern California will host a weekend long Centenary tribute to legendary James Bond producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli this weekend in Los Angeles. The weekend will comprise screenings of many classic Bond films (including examples of every actor to play 007 in the official canon), panel discussions with key behind-the-scenes...
It's nothing like the merry-go-round of screenwriters but it does sometimes seem that pretty much all studio pictures go through a few directors on their way to the screen. Very often a director will board a project, wrestle with it for months, if not years, then depart. Other times, a whole list of directors will have passed pretty much as soon as they close the script and a project can find some...
Geneva - Argentinian football star Lionel Messi joined Thursday a campaign to support the humanitarian work of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The Our world. Your move campaign, launched in May, aims to highlight humanitarian...
For most of you, Max Brooks needs no introduction. He wrote the novel "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War," which is currently on the road to getting a big screen adaptation with Marc Forster directing a script from Matthew Michael Carnahan. Brooks was kind enough to take some time to chat with [...]
Someone forgot to send the memo to Daniel Craig that the start date for the next James Bond flick isn’t public yet. According to Variety, after a performance of “A Steady Rain” Friday , a fan asked Craig about the follow up to 2008’s Quantum of Solace. Craig responded that the next 007 flick will begin [...]
Some have worried that high-profile endorsements from Oprah and Tyler Perry might overshadow Precious , this fall's Sundance- and Toronto-fêted Oscar-contending drama about a Harlem teenager living under abuse (were Oprah and Perry to blame for the film's snub by the Gotham Awards? wonder Lou Lumenick and Tom O'Neil ). But last night, the Times posted Lynn Hirschberg's awesome profile from Sunday's...
Will Ferrell is set to star in a $10 million independent dramedy, Everything Must Go, based on a work by renown, late short story author Raymond Carver entitled "Why Don't You Dance." The project marks the feature debut of newcomer Dan Rush, a former commercials director whose screenplay for Everything was included on last year's insidery Black List. Ferrell will play "a relapsed alcoholic"...
It's been a while since we've heard anything about the status of the movie adaptation of Max Brooks' World War Z. But it looks like the revised script may be finally finished. MTV spoke with the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
If you haven't read it, "World War Z" is one of the sharpest books to be released in the past decade. Set in a grim possible future, the book is presented as a series of interviews with survivors of a globe-spanning zombie war, an incident which very nearly brought about the downfall of human society. [...]
James Bond Spy Gadgets . With the latest Bond film, Quantum of Solace, being released recently, here are some great spy gadgets that will satisfy anyones spy fantasies. Unfortunately they don't come cheap. Land Rover Defender 10 (£67850) ...
So, that’s it then. With this movie review, Picturenose lays its cards on the table. Long live the new King - Daniel Craig, in just two portrayals, has wrested the ‘Best James Bond Ever’ title from one Sean Connery (remember him') and, in Quantum of Solace (2008), director Marc Forster and writers Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, have delivered the first direct Bond sequel. Boy, have they