http://www.moviemake-out.com ...because you love movies. Fri, 09 May 2008 18:58:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Variety has broken that Nu Image/Millennium Films has acquired the film adaptation rights to Buck Rogers, "the venerable pilot who awakens in the 25th Century and battles evil." Nu Image/Millennium plans to find a studio partner to develop the project, as it has done with Conan, now being developed with ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/05/09/buck-rogers-to-wake-up-on-the-silver-screen/ Yesterday, Variety broke the surprising news that Warner Bros. is shutting down its Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures divisions. The two independently-operated wings will bleed out 70-some positions (between the two studios) over the coming months, retaining enough people to handle their remaining films before closing their doors in the ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/05/09/warner-bros-cuts-picturehouse-and-warner-independent-pictures/ The Criterion Collection has announced the titles for the influential label's first BluRay offerings in its newsletter: The Third Man Bottle Rocket Chungking Express The Man Who Fell to Earth The Last Emperor El Norte The 400 Blows Gimme Shelter The Complete Monterey Pop Contempt Walkabout For All Mankind The Wages of Fear Alongside our DVD and Blu-ray box sets of The Last Emperor, ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/05/09/criterion-announces-its-first-bluray-offerings/ The Hollywood Reporter has announced the development of a trilogy of feature film adaptations of famous Chinese ghost stories. The first, titled Painted Skin (no relation to the 1992 film of the same name by King Hu), is due out September 28 in China, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. According to Kathy Lan ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/05/08/painted-skin-to-come-with-sequels-tv-spinoffs/ Coming Soon has the news I've been waiting to hear all weekend. Not only did Marvel Entertainment spend the weekend revelling the amazing success ($205 million worldwide) of Iron Man, but they let us in on a little bit of news: The release dates of four highly-anticipated upcoming ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/05/05/as-if-iron-man-wasnt-awesome-enough/ A trailer for The Dhamma Brothers, a documentary about 36 prisoners with life sentences who undergo a 10-day Buddhist retreat and the controversy that it sparked — about whether it was successful and the propriety of teaching Buddhism to prisoners in the Bible Belt. Not having seen it, I can't ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/05/04/trailer-watch-the-dhamma-brothers/ The new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is online over at the official website. Still looking great to me… Related posts: Trailer Watch: Indiana Jones http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/05/04/trailer-watch-new-indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull-trailer/ A new trailer for The Dark Knight is online now. You can see it in HD over here. The most interesting part of it to me was that, as you can see above, Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) is seen with burn marks right at the edge of his profile. The right ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/05/04/trailer-watch-the-dark-knight/ It's been four years since his last film (Paparazzi) and six since his last starring roles (Signs, We Were Soldiers), but Mel Gibson is officially stepping out of the director's chair and back onto the screen. Variety has announced that Gibson is signed on to star in a remake of ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/30/mel-gibson-returns-with-edge-of-darkness/ The full Incredible Hulk is finally online, in glorious Quicktime, with just a few days left 'til Iron Man (which has been getting almost uniformly, enthusiastically positive reviews) strikes theaters. Fanboy shit-talkers have been saying that the lack of promotion for the Hulk reboot was proof it was a sure-fire ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/30/trailer-watch-the-incredible-hulk-full-trailer/ The full second teaser trailer for The Wackness is up at MySpace, and it's a big improvement on the earlier (first) teaser trailer, which just looked kind of odd and hard to pin down. Director Jonathan Levine's Sundance hit stars Josh Peck as a high school grad in the '90s ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/30/trailer-watch-full-on-wackness/ Variety has more info about the upcoming Coen Bros. flick, Burn After Reading. The film, with a script by the Coens, will open the 65th Venice Film Festival this summer. It will open in the states via Focus Features on September 12th, a few weeks after its August 27th debute ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/28/more-about-burn-after-reading/ American Beauty screenwriter and Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball makes his feature directorial debut with the upcoming adaptation of Alicia Erian's novel, Towelhead. The film had previously been retitled Nothing Is Private, but apparently the producers decided to stick with the book's title anyway. The coming-of-age story revolves around Jasira ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/28/trailer-watch-alan-ball%e2%80%99s-towelhead/ Though it was seemingly inevitable — despite many, many hurdles — Variety has announced that Guillermo del Toro has officially signed on to direct the New Line-MGM feature The Hobbit, as well as its sequel. The films will be produced by Lord of the Rings producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh back-to-back ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/24/quick-cuts-the-hobbit-the-heretic-taking-woodstock/ A Japanese teaser trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys is up at YouTube (and higher-res over at the official site). There's not much to it, but the one, brief real visual we get is pretty neat. The film — the first of a planned trilogy — ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/24/trailer-watch-20th-century-boys-teaser/ A trailer for the Martin Gero's acclaimed sex comedy/drama Young People Fucking has hit the interwebs, thanks to YouTube. The film involves five separate, interrelated but not intertwined sexual encounters (four couples and a threesome), yet the trailer and the reviews I've seen all indicate a smarter, more intelligent, and ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/24/trailer-watch-young-people-fucking/ Forgetting Sarah Marshall's $17.7 million take this past weekend may not have bested the pairing of Jet Li and Jackie Chan at the box office, but it was enough to keep director Nick Stoller under producer Judd Apatow's employ. Variety tells us that Stoller has just signed to write and ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/23/sarah-marshall-director-nick-stoller-goes-greek/ According to The Hollywood Reporter, Moon Bloodgood (of the underrated Journeyman) is going to play the female lead in McG's upcoming Terminator sequel, previously known as Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. (Contrary to the HR report, the film is currently without a title.) She will star alongside Christian Bale in ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/22/quick-cuts-terminator-salvationthe-future-begins-ninja-assassin-hard-boiled/ Over at YouTube, we have the release of the long-anticipated teaser trailer for Frank Miller's upcoming adaptation of Will Eisner's legendary comic, The Spirit. The film will see release on January 16, 2009 by Lionsgate. Comingsoon.net describes the plot as "the story of a former rookie cop who returns ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/20/trailer-watch-the-spirit/ A trailer for Three and Out, an upcoming British comedy starring Mackenzie Crook (Gareth Keenan from the British Office), Colm Meaney, Gemma Arterton and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake and Dolores Umbridge in the Potter movies), is online courtesy IGN Movies. The film centers on a railway conductor who has accidentally ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/19/trailer-watch-three-and-out/ Moviefone brings us a red band trailer for the Sundance Film Festival prom queen, Hamlet 2. (The film sold to Focus Features for $10 million, making it the biggest acquisition of the festival.) In the film, a failed actor turned high school drama teacher "looks to motivate his students and save ... http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/04/18/trailer-watch-hamlet-2-red-band-trailer/