Review - Let the Right One In

A fragile and bullied pre-teen boy makes friends with a unusual girl who has just moved into his apartment complex. As a friendship develops between the two, the boy soon comes to realize that the intriguing girl may be something far darker than he ever realized. Coinciding with the arrival of the girl and her guardian, murders and a disappearance in the town gives rise to suspicion surrounding the new tenant...

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A Quartet of Stars Join Alice in Wonderland

Casting news a plenty comes our way for Disney's Tim Burton adaptation of Lewis Caroll's "Alice in Wonderland." The stars that have been added to the cast are nothing to scough at either. Prepare for some of the better casting news you'll read in awhile. First up, Alan Rickman has been cast as the Caterpillar! This is a absolutely perfect pic for the snobby insect. Rickman has played this type of character perfectly before as Severus Snape in Harry...

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Review - Body of Lies

A covert CIA operative, Roger Ferris works in the middle east trying, by any means necessary, to find terrorists who have bombed civilian targets. With the aid of his CIA boss in Langley and a Chief Jordanian Intelligence agent, Ferris creates a plan to infiltrate a high ranking terrorist threat's network. How far will Ferris' alliances stretch in the highly dangerous climate he finds himself in the middle of becomes a very important questio...

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Weinstein Co. Pushes Fanboys & Others Around!

Once again, "Fanboys" has been moved from it's release date! The Weinstein Company has decided to shift it and 3 other films to 2009. This news arrives just a few days behind the antcipated shift of "The Road" to 2009 also. Harvey Weinstein conveys that everything is fine and the bumps in dates are all for better positioning and marketing, because the end of this year is already so crowded. Clearly, the Weinstein Co. is trying to make the most money...

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Review - Eagle Eye

Two strangers are brought together by mysterious phone calls that informs the individuals that they have become activated, forcing them to carry out elaborate tasks that can risk both of their lives including the lives of others. The identity of the mastermind caller remains a mystery, but it is clear that she has a overwhelming control of the technology throughout the world, utilizing it to dictate every aspect of the tasks the two strangers are...

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Fast Track & Eckhart for Jack Ryan?

A couple days ago I did a story regarding Sam Raimi officially saying he would not be invloved in the upcoming Jack Ryan sequel. Eventhough he was never officially attached. Regardless of Raimi, the folks over at Paramount have decided to fast track the next sequel despite the fact they do not have a worthy script, director, or actor to play the famous CIA agent Ryan.Paramount has reached out to a long time contributor to the Ryan franchise, Mace...

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Review - Burn After Reading

Two obtuse gym employees discover a disk that they believe has classified government documents within it and intend to sell it. Meanwhile, the owner of the documents has quit his job as a CIA analyst having decided to write his memoirs and is facing a unexpected divorce from his wife. His wife has been having an affair with a married Treasury agent, who is also dating one of the two gym employee...

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Top 10 Scariest Movies of All Time

Halloween is just around the corner and what better than some scary movies to get us in the mood. Horror is probably one of my all time favorite genres for a couple of reasons. First off, there is no other type of film that can create the same intensity in which a great horror film can provide. A truely great horror film will grab the viewers undivided attention from the get go and doesn't let go to the credits roll. Secondly, there is so many different...

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3D Rock 'n' Roll Cleopatra Musical

Director Steven Soderbergh is getting ready to release "Che" starring Benecio Del Toro, but that hasn't stopped him from prepping his next couple projects. Soderbergh intends to make a live-action rock 'n' roll musical, in 3D, that is based on the life of Cleopatra. Soderbergh had previously tapped the indie rock band Guided by Voices, who have already written the music and their former bass player James Greer has penned the script."Cleo" as the...

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McFly Finds Wonderland

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is currently filming and has been on a steamrole of casting news filling out the portion of the cast that will utilize the 3D motion-capture. Today comes news that Crispin Glover has signed on to play the Knave of Hearts. Glover joins Johnny Depp (Mad Hatter), Matt Lucas (Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum), Anne Hathaway (White Queen), Helena Bonham Carter (Red Queen) and Mia Wasikowska (Alice) in the Disney live action/motion...

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Full Length Notorious Trailer

"Notorious" is the story of Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls aka Notorious B.I.G. and I have the first full length trailer for your eyes. The last trailer was somewhat shadowed and didn't really feature much of Jamal Woodward (B.I.G.) but just some of the vibe of the film and some of Biggie Smalls biggest hits. The new trailer is a much better look into the film and just what we have in store. I am not 100% sold on Woodward based on this trailer....

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Spidey Trumps Jack Ryan for Raimi

Visionary director Sam Raimi recently talked with MTV News and has said that he doesn't think it will be possible for him to direct the new revision of Jack Ryan. The reason being that he is now attached to Spider-Man for a long while. Personally, it is better that Raimi sticks with Spidey for now. Allow him to finish his story of Peter Parker. Then he can move on to other things, like finishing Evil Dead!Raimi commented on the idea of Jack Ryan...

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Gran Torino One-Sheet

Actor director Clint Eastwood has "The Changeling" releasing at the end of this month and coming in December is "Gran Torino." Usually we get a bit of a gap from Eastwood, but both of these are coming right at us in a two month period. The Changeling has had mixed reviews and we have yet to hear any grumblings from Gran Torino.Gran Torino synopsis goes as follows: Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski (Eastwood) sets out to reform his neighbor,...

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Gentlemen Broncos Viral Site

Jemaine Clement is one of the funniest people out there and if you do not immediately know who this guy is, slap yourself and then continue reading. Jemaine Clement has only recently broken out in public awareness in America. He has starred in films like Tungan Ninja and Eagle vs. Shark, but is most well known for his hit HBO show and band, Flight of the Conchords. I highly recommend you check this guy out, you wont be disappointed.Jared Hess creator/director...

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Friday the 13th Teaser Trailer!!

Yesterday I gave you some exclusive footage that was shown at Comic Con and at Spike TV's Scream Awards, but today I got the official teaser trailer for you! The teaser trailer is alot of the same footage from yesterday's stuff except one major exception. It has Pamela Vorhees narration from the original film explaining Jason's untimely death. This film is going to kill all kinds of ass! Jason looks so good this time around and Platinum Dunes spin of Vorhees sound legit. I guess we will have to wait until Feburary 13th, 2009. Until then, scroll...

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Hell Ride 2 & 17 other Direct-to-DVD Titles

The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films have just announced a slate of direct-to-dvd titles that will be coming our way in 2009. Direct-to-dvd titles are an easy way for a studio to make some fast cash and not have a big hurt if the feature doesn't do as well as hoped. Personally, I hate direct-to-dvd titles and out of all of the names announced the only one that has any hope is Hell Ride 2.Hell Ride released this year and came from the mind of...

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Another Zack & Miri Trailer

Kevin Smith looks to regain his stature as a great comedic director with Zack & Miri Make a Porno. Smith has been as of late, stuck in his snootchie-boochie phase of reguritating old material, but here in his newest film, it looks like he has finally broke free from the bonds that are Clerks and Silent Bob. I am glad that he has finally moved on and hope he doesn't return to the usual schtick. Reviews have been very strong for Zack & Miri and every bit of promo that has come out for it is extremely strong! This newest and last trailer...

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Awesome Watchmen Poster & Trailer!!

Watchmen is the quint-essential comic book and comic book geek Zack Snyder has already brought us 300, but next year brings us the Watchmen. The film looks to be amazing and has had nothing but great reviews coming from the lucky individuals that have had a chance to see it. This week at the Scream Awards Snyder came out and showed a extended trailer. Also today I found this amazing new teaser poster for the film. The trailer is not much different...

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Friday the 13th Footage!!

Friday the 13th is one of the more fun horror franchises around. Sure some of the sequels have been real hit or miss, but they are always good for a laugh if not a scare anytime you watch them. Platinum Dunes has been at the remake buisness for quite some time now and their most recent remake is Friday the 13th. From the footage and images that have been shown, it looks like they have another hit on their hands and I have some footage for you that was shown at the Spike TV Scream Awards this week. The footage isn't much different from the footage...

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Review - Max Payne

Max Payne is a Cold Case police officer who has been unsuccessfull in finding his wife's murders for four years now. When a women he has just met is killed, Payne realizes her death may be linked to his wife's. Payne must solve the murders in order to find out what really happened to his wife and who was behind her killin...

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Rollout for Transformers: The Ride!!

Universal Studios has unveiled that an all new Transformers ride is being developed for the Hollywood and Sinapore Theme Parks. The ride will feature HD-3D footage with life size robotics all unfolding on a track based ride that puts the riders right in the middle of the action. The ride is said to open in early 2011.Clearly we will get a full array of Transformers including Autobots and Decepticons transforming and battling right in front of the...

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WB to go on Odyssey with Pitt & Miller

Warner Brothers have decided to develop another one of Homer's most popular works. WB adapted The Iliad into the 2004 film "Troy" and have now tapped director George Miller and Troy star Brad Pitt for Homer's other epic The Odyssey. The report coming from Variety says that WB wants Pitt's Plan B prodcution company, to co-produce the film, while George Miller is top choice to helm the film. The biggest news however on the adaptation, is the film...

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The Soloist, Defiance, & The Road All Move

Academy Award season is just around the bend and studios are positioning their films for the best chance at Oscar. It seems Paramount and the Weinstein Co have decided to shuffle the deck. One of the films Paramount thought would be in heavy in contension has not screened as well as they had hoped and has been officially bumped to next year and out of Oscar contension. Paramount has moved "The Soloist" from November of this year to March 13th 2009.The...

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Rogen From Rad to Terrible on GB3?

There has been alot of speculative word on the development of Ghostbusters 3 since forever, but it has had actual weight behind it since Comic Con. Harold Ramis and Bill Murray have commented on the film and both seem raring to go. The original spin that the film would be a sort of role-over to new recruits. The pitch was that Apatow would help produce and doing so bring along his all-stars including Seth Rogen. Rumors have swirled on the net and...

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Robotech to Begin Production Next Year?

Robotech like Transformers has a huge fan following that grew up loving all of the cartoons and figures that came out. With the uber success of Transformers it only seems natural that films like Voltron and Robotech would naturally begin development. Producer Chuck Roven has some inside scoop on Robotech and what is exactly happening with the film.Roven tells IESB at the Spike TV Scream Awards that they are currently writing the script now for the...

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Umbrella Academy Optioned by Universal

Frontman for My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way has been working with Dark Horse Comics and has had a successfull run of his hit comic the "Umbrella Academy." It seems that fans of the comic are not the only one's to have taken note on his work. Way tells IESB that Universal has in fact optioned the comics to be developed into a feature film. Way added that he had just recently finished his first sit down with the studio regarding the adaptation of...

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More Fury in Iron Man 2!

Samuel L. Jackson recently spoke with IESB and had something very interesting to say regarding his screen time in Iron Man 2. It appears that Jon Favreau has talked with the star and has told him that his role of Nick Fury will be far more defined in Iron Man 2. I guess that means we wont just see him after the credits, hopefully! Jackson also said that he is looking forward to working with his newest cast member Don Cheadle.This seems like good...

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Review - Quarantine

A news reporter and her camera man are assinged to shadow a two firemen for the night and are sent on a emergency call to an apartment building in downtown Los Angeles. Once inside the apartment building the reporter and firemen quickly realize the situtation is far more serious then thought. The group are sealed in the building in what they soon find out is an outbreak of rabies that has a deadly effect on anyone who contracts the viru...

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Review - Filth and Wisdom

Three flat mates lifes are put on display in Filth and Wisdom. One, a Ukrainian immigrant who dreams of trans-continental stardom for his band Gogol Bordello and meanwhile turns tricks as a cross-dressing dominatrix. He secretly desires his roommate Holly, who is an aspiring ballerina that has to work as a stripper until her dreams are fulfilled. The third roommate Juliette, has been stealing medicine from her job in hopes that one day she may travel...

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Review - Chapter 27

The assassination of John Lennon forever changed music and shocked the world. Mark David Chapman was a delusional and a socially awkward man who was obsessed with Lennon and the novel Catcher in the Rye. Based on the novel by Jack Jones "Let Me Take You Down," the film follows Chapman for three days leading up to his murder of the Beatles legend, in front of Lennon's hotel, The Dakot...

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Yet Another The Spirit Poster

It looks like Lionsgate wanted to give all of The Spirit fans who have been so vocal saying that the film and one-sheets look far too much like Sin City. The newest poster strays away from the look and gives the on-looker just a normal color palette without all the black & white and over stylized look. Anyways these things have come a dime a dozen, so scroll down to checkout the new one-sheet. Click the latest one-sheet for higher resolutionSo...

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Damn it! Ratner Directs Conan!

This has got to be the worst news for a good long while! You might as well bend me and Conan over and screw us because, the reboot of "Conan" is a goner with the news I have for you. AICN has word that Brett Ratner will helm the sword swinging badass in the reboot of Conan for Lionsgate! It seems that with Ratner taking the reins on Conan will make him anything but a badass. Ratner is the WORST desicion Lionsgate could make for a director.Why in...

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First Look at Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine!!

Production has begun on Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" (Yes, it's misspelled on purpose) in Germany and now we have our first look at Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine. Brad Pitt plays the leader of 'The Basterds' a group Jewish/American soldiers who are selected to wreak havoc on the Nazi party during WWII. The team reportedly is hired to hunt down and scalp members of the Third Reich to influence fear throughout the Nazi party. QT has said...

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Raimi Talks Spider-Man 4 & 5

Director Sam Raimi recently spoke with MTV about the well talked of Spider-Man 4 & 5 double shoot. The genius who directed Evil Dead and all of the Spider-Man films to date told MTV that a script is not written and that there is still alot of work to do before the project even begins shooting. Raimi infact suggested a best case scenario of beginning production in March of 2010.First up, Sam Raimi was asked if the recent statements of Kristen...

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