HBO Might Be Coming To iTunes

Porfolio.com is reporting that you might soon be able to find Tony Soprano in the iTunes Store. HBO, the premium cable channel known for their original programming, is in talks with Apple to add their programming to the iTunes Store.
This is good news for fans of HBO shows, but the real story here is the [...]

Hitman on iTunes Free (Unintentionally)

If you were among the ten people to actually see this videogame-to-movie adaptation in the theaters, well, now you can watch it for free in your own home thanks to a mis-price by iTunes. Just follow the instructions below, and you’ll be able to download all 1.09 GB of bald gunplay for yourself — all [...]

iTunes Movie Downloads Now Available Same Day As DVD Release

Given the choice between buying a physical DVD and grabbing a downloadable iTunes version of the same movie, you might choose what’s behind door #2 for convenience, iPod playability and speed; that is, if you’re willing to wait it out while the DVD-only window ticks away. Up until now it’s been about 30-45 days post-DVD [...]

Indiana Jones Electronic FX Whip

Even though the Indiana Jones films were Lucasfilm productions, I don’t remember the original 3 featuring as extensive a marketing or product tie-in push as the Star Wars films did, but it seems they’re going to make up for that with the 4th Indiana Jones film that’s set to hit theaters in less than a [...]

New Anime Sequence Written for Kill Bill

Kill Bill lead actress Uma Thurman told MTV Movies Blog that director Quentin Tarantino “had already written” the new anime sequence that will serve as the intermission between the two volumes of the film in a planned re-release. However, she also emphasized that the anime sequence has nothing to do with her or her Bride [...]

Detroit Metal City Trailer Posted with Death Note’s Matsuyama

The Japanese website for Kiminori Wakasugi’s Detroit Metal City rock comedy manga and spinoff projects has posted the first teaser trailer for the live-action film version this past weekend. The teaser briefly covers how the mild-mannered, struggling crooner Sōichi (played by Death Note’s Ken’ichi “L” Matsuyama) transforms into “Johannes Krauser II,” the profane lead singer [...]

Memories of Nobody Set to Run In Theaters June 11-12

National CineMedia’s NCM Fathom, a digital theater distributor, has revealed that the animated Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody will run in American theaters on June 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. The movie is the first theatrical spinoff from the Bleach television series, which itself is an adaptation of Kubotite’s Bleach manga. Subscribers of [...]

DreamWorks Will Make 3D Live-Action Ghost in the Shell

DreamWorks has revealed that it has licensed the rights to adapt Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell cyber-police manga into a 3D live-action film. The story of an elite paramilitary unit in future Japan has already been adapted into three animated films and two television anime series. DreamWorks has released the second animated Ghost in [...]

Korea’s Eight Peaks Invests In Captain Harlock Movie

The Korean production company Eight Peaks announced on April 10 that it signed a joint production contract with Japan’s Genome Entertainment to make a Captain Harlock film with an initial investment of $10 million. Eight Peaks projects that the total production cost of the film will be in the $100-million range, and that it will [...]

Press Release: 2008 New York Asian Film Festival Details

Date: June 20 – July 6, 2008
Place: the IFC Center
(323 Sixth Avenue, at West 4th Street)
and
Japan Society
(333 East 47th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
It’s back like a bad dream – the New York Asian Film Festival kicks off its seventh edition this summer and they’re exploding with the rich smoky taste of pure Asian [...]

Uwe Boll Will Quit Making Movies for 1M Signatures

Uwe Boll, the infamous German director behind such video game adaptations as House of the Dead, BloodRayne, Dungeon Siege and Postal, has recently admitted that he would retire from making movies if enough people want him to stop.
When FearNet mentioned to Boll a petition online signed by 18,000 people requesting that he cease making films, [...]

New Hellboy II Trailer!

A little earlier than expected, Yahoo Movies has posted the new trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The visuals look even more intense than the first film’s, and the two-and-a-half-minute trailer alone is packed with enough unbelievable creature designs to fill three comic book movies. If you were hoping for a [...]

Speed Racer Will Close NYC’s Tribeca Film Fest

Speed Racer, the Wachowski Brothers’ live-action take on the classic 1960s car-racing anime, has been selected as the closing film of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The festival, which was founded by legendary director and actor Robert De Niro, will utilize various locations throughout New York City from April 23 to May 3.
The film is [...]

Who’s the Real MIT Blackjack Mastermind?

21, the top movie at the box office last weekend, has everyone talking about the real identities of the MIT blackjack team members fictionalized in the movie and in the 2002 book, Bringing Down the House, on which the film is based. Last week a number of stories pointed to former MIT student and Las [...]

The Joker’s Set To Reappear Tomorrow

Harvey Dent’s viral campaign has ended with a rather disappointing announcement that Dent is running for D.A. But, no doubt, this political campaign has been leading up to something more.
I was one of the thousands who received a voice mail from Dent Sunday afternoon urging me to help him fight the Citizens for a Concerned [...]