On the set of Sex and the City: The Movie, Kim Cattrall and Jason Lewis share a laugh. They'll be sharing a lot more than that during other scenes in the film, we're guessing...
As There Will Be Blood continues to pick up awards, many are wondering if we're looking at the winner of this year's Best Picture at the Oscars.
If that's not enough to entice people to check out the Daniel Day-Lewis vehicle, here are a series of reviews from America's top critics:
- There Will Be Blood strives for boldness, instead of just being bold. It doesn't cut, and it doesn't bleed. -- Salon.com
- There Will Be Blood, the joint venture between actor Daniel Day-Lewis and director Paul Thomas Anderson, might be the most incendiary combination since the Molotov cocktail. -- Los Angeles Times
- For bleakness, the movie can't be beat -- nor for brilliance. -- Entertainment Weekly
- Paul Thomas Anderson's loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! finds the director exhibiting newfound maturity and restraint without sacrificing any measure of artistry. -- Slant Magazine
As major fans of Love Actually, the staff at Reel Movie News is excited about Definitely Maybe.
Here's a synopsis of the movie:
It's a romantic comedy starring Ryan Reynolds, Derek Luke and Abigail Breslin. Reynolds stars as Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love.
My Blueberry Nights marks the feature film debut of Norah Jones.
The singer plays a sensual, alluring young woman who sets out on an unforgettable journey of discovery in pursuit of true love.
In the image below from the movie, Jones is speaking with a newly blonde Natalie Portman:
Move over, The Kite Runner.
You aren't the only recent popular book to be remade into a movie.
John Grogan's bestseller Marley & Me is set for a big screen adaptation. It will star Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston and, as just announced, Alan Arkin.
The plot revolves around a Philadelphia newspaper columnist that decides to adopt a dog with his wife. The Labrador retriever turns out to be a destructive handful.
Arkin will be playing the editor of the newspaper, as the film begins shooting this month.
The High School Musical actors are expanding their resumes.
First, Zac Efron signed on to star in Seventeen.
Now, Ashley Tisdale has signed on to make her feature film debut in the adventure comedy They Came From Upstairs.
Robert Hoffman, Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler and Ashley Boettcher have also been cast.
The movie focuses on a group of teens who team up to defend their Maine vacation home from aliens who have invaded via the upstairs. Naturally.
Tisdale will shoot They Came From Upstairs before moving on to the High School Musical 3, which is being developed as a theatrical feature for the first time.
Amy Ryan - who is receiving Oscar consideration for her role in Gone Baby Gone - will star alongside Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon in a Paul Greengrass-directed untitled Iraq War thriller for Universal Pictures.
Based on Rajiv Chandrasekaran's nonfiction book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone," this fictional thriller will be set in the fortified Iraqi ''Green Zone,'' where U.S. troops stay during the Iraq occupation.
Ryan will play a New York Times foreign correspondent sent to Iraq to investigate the U.S. government's claims of the existence of weapons of mass destruction. Meanwhile, Damon portrays an officer who teams with a senior CIA officer to search for said weapons, while Kinnear plays another CIA officer.
Will this war movie have better success that other recent efforts, such as Lions for Lambs and Rendition?
Next up, Ryan stars in the Clint Eastwood-directed feature The Changeling.
Coming this week to a theater near you...
First Sunday
What's It All About: Tracy Morgan and Ice Cube star in a comedy about two men who decide to rob a neighborhood church.
Why It Might Do Well: As 30 Rock fans know, Tracey Morgan is really funny.
Why It Might Not Do Well: Have you seen the movie trailer? Jokes don't look too original.
Number of Theaters: 2,000
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
What's It All About: A sword and sorcery film based on a video game starring Jason Statham as a man who sets out to rescue his wife and avenge the death of his son at the hands of a race of animal warriors.
Why It Might Do Well: An diverse cast includes Burt Reynolds, Ron Perlman and Ray Liotta; has an aggressive ad campaign that may attract audiences.
Why It Might Not Do Well: Director Uwe Bolle was also at the helm for House of the Dead, which no one saw. .
Number of Theaters: 2,500
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie
What's It All About: Vegetables. Seriously. Talking, computer generated vegetables who give up their lives as busboys to travel back in time to the 17th century and become pirates.
Why It Might Do Well: Kids who enjoyed the Veggie Tales TV show and/or the previous film Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie will enjoy this one.
Why It Might Not Do Well: Don't kids hate vegetables?
Number of Theaters: 1,200
The Bucket List
What's It All About: Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play terminal cancer patients who compose a list of things they want to do before they die.
Why It Might Do Well: Did we mention Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are in it?
Why It Might Not Do Well: It might be overly cheesy and sentimenal.
The Kite Runner is a well-known, well-respected, best-selling book.
But what about the film version? Here's what critics are saying about it...
- [Director Marc Forster']s mix of topicality and sensationalism makes The Kite Runner sentimental, not profound. -- New York Press
- I won't deny that the film is sometimes rushed, oversimplified and skimpy on the details of Afghan culture that informed the book. But the tale still takes hold. -- Rolling Stone
- A dark tale of gnawing lament and an all-consuming yearning to atone for lifelong shortcomings. -- Arizona Daily Star
- The young actors are quite good, as is Homayoun Ershadi as Amir's intellectual father. -- Philadelphia Daily News
J.J. Abrams and those behind Cloverfield have done all they can to keep the monster in their movie a secret. No one has seen a shot of this creature yet.
But here's a a Cloverfield monster toy, created by Peter Konig, the art director for the film. Might it be what the actual destructive force in the movie looks like?
