March 2008 News Archive (Page 11)

Hilarious director Judd Apatow recently spoke with MovieWeb about the upcoming Owen Wilson comedy, Drillbit Taylor. Here's an excerpt:

Who are some of your favorite on-screen bullies, and did you pull anything from them and reflect that back into this film?
Judd Apatow: Matt Dillon. His first couple of film roles were as a bully. I loved him in My Bodyguard. He was really charismatic and handsome, and terrifying all in one. I also love the bully in Three O'Clock High. The Phil Joanou movie. My buddy Paul Feig was an actor in that film. He was the creator of Freaks and Geeks.

I remember when I first met Paul, he told me he was in Three O'Clock High, which had just came out. This was the most exciting thing that I had ever heard. That he played one of the kids in Three O'Clock High. But other than that, I don't know. I'm not sure. I think Alex Frost, who plays the bully in this, and he is in this new movie Stop Loss, is a great actor. He is both scary and funny.

We also have Josh Peck from the Drake & Josh show on Nickelodeon. He plays the other school bully, and he is a pretty funny kid. He does some interesting, demented stuff in this movie.

Read the full interview with Apatow now.

We've added a series of pictures from the upcoming George Clooney movie, Leatherheads.

The handsome, fun-loving actor directed this football comedy, which also stars John Krasinski and Renée Zellweger.

Actor Andy Serkis recently discussed his upcoming film project, Tintin, along with a pair of fairly well-known directors involved with it.

Are you going to be reuniting with Peter Jackson again for Tintin?
Andy Serkis: In fact tomorrow I'm flying out to start on Tintin. Steven Spielberg is directing the first one, and then Peter Jackson is doing the second. The bulk of the shoot starts in September, but things got a little bit moved around after the writers' strike.

Do you feel a special kinship with him?
Andy Serkis: Yeah, I mean at the moment he's doing The Lovely Bones at the moment, which I think is going to be amazing. But we do seem to be in sync, certainly in terms of collaborating and creating characters and so on. I think we have a similar sense of humour about things, so yeah we do seem to have fused in a particular way.

Put down that keg of suds, Beerfest fans, and check out the following photo tribute to your favorite, alcohol-infested comedy.

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As soon as the trailer for Sex and the City: The Movie was released, fans hit the message boards with questions.

Were Carrie and Big getting married? What's going on with Charlotte and a baby? How much sex would Samantha be having?

Regarding the preview Sarah Jessica Parker said the spot aimed to tell some of the story without giving away too much.

"We also knew that people would make decisions about what that trailer meant and what those words meant and who knows what order we put it in and why," the actress added. "I think in large part we did it because photographs had already [leaked] out and so people were telling us the movie that we were making â€" which was wonderful, but no one has yet told us actually the story that we're telling. So it's all out there in the trailer, but it's not really the story."

Does that mean that there were fake-outs in the trailer? Were fans duped?

"Um, yeah, there are fake-outs. I mean, not like a bait-and-switch â€" people aren't going to come to the theater and feel hoodwinked or taken advantage of. We just had to be careful because it's a movie with an ending that we wanted to keep protected.

So we had to be a little clever and a little stealth with the trailer, but we also had to give people a trailer. It's not enough to just give you the images and music â€" I would be perfectly fine with that, but apparently that's not acceptable!"

After adding Daredevil to the site, we felt obligated to bring you a much better Frank Miller adapted comic book movie, Sin City.

Sin City had an unbelievable cast including Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Josh Hartnett, Britnay Murphy, Mickey Rourke, Elijah Wood, and way too many other people to list here.

But what really made Sin City what it was was the incredible style. To show that off, we put together the biggest gallery of Sin City pictures. Check out a sample.

Oh and of course we have all your favorite one liners in our Sin City quotes page.

Be sure to keep coming back to Reel Movie News for the latest info on the sequel, Sin City 2!

Christopher Nolan recently commented on the performance of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.

"The psychopathic clown, that's an icon to stand with the guy with the ears and cape. It's just a wonderful visual relationship, and it's a terrifying image. I think he'd be very pleased to see we're just moving ahead as is. If you try to honor somebody, you honor them by respecting their work and putting it out there for as many people to see.

He was immensely proud of the work he did on the film. I feel a great burden to present that in an undistorted form."

Added Producer Charles Roven about Ledger's own reaction to final product: "He was just blown away by his own performance. He said, 'Can I see it again?' So he was really, really thrilled."

With I Am Legend coming to DVD on Tuesday, we've updated our photos and quotes for the film. Please browse our complete collection of I Am Legend Quotes, starting with the follow samples:

Neville: [to a pretty mannequin in the video store] I... I promised a friend I would say hello to you today.[begins to cry]Neville: Please say hello to me.[sobs]Neville: Please say hello to me.

Neville: Day one thousand and one. We came in close contact with a hive today. Blood tests confirm that I remain immune to both the airborne and contact strains. Canines remain immune to airborne strain only. The vaccine trials continue. I'm still unable to transfer my immunity to infected hosts. The Krippen Virus is... elegant.[mind wanders]Neville: Just fishin' in the dark, son.[after a long pause, going back to his train of thought]Neville: Behavioral note - an infected male exposed himself to sunlight today. Now it's possible decreased brain function or growing scarcity of food is causing them to... ignore their basic survival instincts. Social de-evolution appears complete. Typical human behavior is now entirely absent.

Neville: He had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives. When he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him WHY - He said, "The people, who were trying to make this world worse... are not taking a day off... how can I ? Light up the darkness.

Neville: Everyone you've ever known or loved is dead! They're all dead! There is no god.

Neville: He believed that he could cure racism and hate - literally, cure it - by injecting music and love into people's lives. One day he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, gunmen came to his house and shot him down. Two days later, he walked out on that stage and sang. Somebody asked him, why? He said, The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off... How can I?

Neville: Day one thousand and one. I am still unable to transfer my immunity to infected hosts.

Granted, Never Back Down sounds like the name of a Steven Seagal or Jean Claude Van Damme movie. But is that so bad?

The Mixed Martial Arts-themed film at least looks to be entertaining, as proven by the following photos from it:

Days after The X-Files 2 finished shooting in Vancouver, the cast and crew held a press conference in that city.

David Duchovny, for example, said - perhaps jokingly - that he and Gillian Anderson staged their full-on kiss in the movie, a photo of which has appeared on sites across the Internet.

As for spoilers being leaked and journalists following the movie around from shoot to shoot, creator Chris Carter said:

"It's been a two-way street. To tell you the truth, I would like to make the movie secretly and put it out there on July 25, have everybody get a gift they could open."

Duchovny finished work late the night before and was catching a plane to Los Angeles yesterday. The rest of the crew were to finish by week's end. The movie is a stand-alone story unconnected to the series' ongoing conspiracy thread, but beyond that they're not saying much.

"We're not doing an exercise in nostalgia to appeal to the fans of the show," said co-writer and producer Frank Spotnitz. "We saw this as an opportunity to introduce the characters to people who may have been too young . . . It has a reason for being, even if there'd never been a television show before."