Brace yourselves: Avatar 2 may not come out till 2016. At a recent screening to demonstrate how much more impactful the human suffering will be on Titanic thanks to the new 3D version, website Bleeding Cool quoted producer Jon Landau saying that the sequel is “four years away.” Hopefully someone will leak some clips long before then, cause it would suck to have to wait that long for the inevitable and highly entertaining, right wing backlash.
Here’s a trailer for the documentary The Rep on repertory movie theaters where you watch the best/cultiest/classic-most of cinema. From NYC’s FilmForum to Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse to LA’s New Beverly, these are our musty cathedrals, film nerds. Read more »
Security was tight on Wall Street as choruses of loud shouts echoed through the air and angry mobs clashed with police. No this wasn’t an Occupied Wall Street march, it was the filming of en epic battle scene for the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. I managed to slip through their checkpoints twice and snap some photos. Read more »
Don’t cringe. Americans have been wanting to see 3D war porn since the times of Civil War stereoscopes, it’s just getting a little tackier because Avatar ruined movies forever and the masses only want to see things boom bang bang all up in their face. Coming at some point, the “all CG 3D action thriller” set in Baghdad, starring Matthew McConaughey and Gerard Butler. Read more »
Here’s a fresh mash-up supercut from ScreenWerks’ Jordan Laws. He’s purged all those feature film lines stored in his movie-nerd head, assembled them in rhyming order and kicked it up with a beat. I want you to hit me as hard as you can. Say hello to my little friend. Like that. Yeah. Read more »
This weekend, the $50 all-you-can-watch MoviePass program launches in cinemas around San Francisco, presumably to save you money so you can spend it on popcorn and the required smart phone.
This summer, watch Crooklyn at the Brooklyn Bridge, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in Bryant Park and catch more movies from this nifty list of outdoor screenings in NYC. Next winter, you can look back on this fondly.
There’s a bunch of seven-year-olds in Massachusetts that just saw a chick get buzz-sawed and a forced amputation. The theater accidentally screened a bit of Saw 3D instead of Megamind… Worst. Birthday. Party. Ever?
“As opposed to Dada, we’re more doo-doo,” Johnny Knoxville told the New York Times, but they deemed the quote unprintable. Seems sound, since Jackass 3D (opens today) was screened at MoMA and really how are the Jackass psycho-yogi antics any less performance art than carving a star in your stomach? Read more »
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