August 2008 News Archive (Page 3)

Drake Bell is beloved by teens for his role on Nickelodeon's "Drake & Josh."

Those same viewers will be in for an uncultured shock when they seem him in this summer's R-rated College.

"I wasn't doing it specifically to get an older audience," the actor told The Los Angeles Times. "I was doing College just because it was fun. But the kind of movie it is, I hope it will bring in that [older] audience because that's something a bit lacking right now. I'm fine with 6 to 16; I need some 18 to 25."

In Transporter 3, Jason Statham returns as Frank Martin.

Watch this ex-Special Forces operative dole out a few shots in the following image from the movie:

A movie based around the online social network, Facebook?!?

If Aaron Sorkin - the writer behind West Wing, The American President and A Few Good Men - weren't the mastermind behind such an idea, we'd laugh at it.

Sorkin actually made the announcement on his own Facebook page this week. Isn't that cute?

According to Variety, the movie will revolve around the creation of the site by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, along with the way in which it changed his life and the lives of those around him.

We can't believe we're saying this, but Disaster Movie is no Scary Movie. It's not even a Date Movie.

While those spoof-riffic films had their funny moments, the latest installment of this Insert Generic Adjective Movie franchise can only be proud of the speed in which it was cranked out. The film makes fun of other films from this summer.

The problem is that those movies already mock themselves. Case in point: The Love Guru. How can you spoof a flick everyone hated, largely because the main character was already unfunny and over the top?

Read our complete Disaster Movie review now and let us know if you agree with it.

Here's another Righteous Kill trailer.

One of the most anticipated movies of the fall, this thrilled stars legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. They portray long-time police detectives that fear they may have put the wrong killer behind bars.

It might be the first animated feature ever nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

For those that haven't seen the masterpiece that is WALL-E - or wish to enjoy it again - the Pixar movie will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on November 18.

It will be available in both single-disc and triple-disc versions. The latter comes with special features that focus on the film's robot heroes, including Web vignettes and an interactive storybook, and a detailed documentary on Pixar.

We'll publish more details about the WALL-E DVD as soon as they're available. 

Sex Drive can easily be summed up: it's Road Trip meets American Pie.

In the comedy, due out October 10, a high school senior travels the country in order to hook up with a girl met met online. The tagline: He's leaving virgin territory. Naturally.

Check out the Sex Drive trailer now and click on the following two images from the movie. They're courtesy of ComingSoon.net.

Ready to give College the old college try?

The Drake Bell comedy hits theaters this weekend and here's the movie trailer for it:

We've added a new section of movie reviews to our site.

Now, you can find out just how many gummi bears we gave the latest Seth Rogen comedy in our Pineapple Express review. We didn't hate it, but we didn't think as highly of it as we did Superbad or Knocked Up, either. Not even close.

We've also reviewed two of the top three movies from last weekend's box office: Death Race and The House Bunny.

We hope you enjoy these new, more personalized, detailed review sections of the site. Feel free to write in and respond to any of them at any time!

Earlier this week, we quoted screenwriter Roberto Orci as saying that Transformers 2 would be darker than the original.

Now, fellow Transformers writer Alex Kurtzman has elaborated on the set up for the sequel.

“A boy and his car was really the emotional thrust of the first movie,” Kurtzman told MTV, “and we felt at the time that that made it a unique way into the story. We knew we couldn’t do the sequel until we had something as equally compelling for it.”

Sounds like they have that now. Kurtzman went on to say that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will delve far deeper into various back stories than the first film did.

“I think there’s an expectation that there will be a deeper mythology where the Transformers came from,” he said. “The key is not to get so mired in the mythology that it can’t propel the movie forward. We just touched the tip of the iceberg.”