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BIG SHORT's Adam McKay To Direct Comic Book Movie IRREDEEMABLE, Adapted By DEAD SNOW's Tommy Wirkola
This is an interesting combination. Deadline reported yesterday that The Big Short director Adam McKay will be directing an adaptation of the Boom! Comics comic book Irredeemable. Further adding to the intrigue, Dead Snow writer and director Tommy Wirkola is...
Review: THE BIG SHORT, Hey Stupid, Watch This Movie
Adam McKay's The Big Short quickly and stridently establishes a superior, condescending tone as it aims to mythologize a few men who were smart enough to recognize that a huge downturn in the housing mortgage market was looming in the...
Destroy All Monsters: The Marvel Cinematic Universe Scorecard
Each year offers its selective crop of new Marvel properties, and for the last couple I've been keeping a mental tally of how the MCU seems to be faring, creatively. We're still owed a third season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D....
AnarchyVision: Fantasia Edition - Jason Gorber Talks ANT-MAN, TRAINWRECK, DEATHGASM, More
This week's segment comes from Montreal, Canada, thanks to the fantastic Fantasia Film Festival. We chat about Ant-Man, Amy Schummer's breakout film Trainwreck, the Ian McKellen show Mr. Holmes, and fun NZ rocker romp Deathgasm.Video embedded below...
The Many Faces Of Michael Douglas
This week sees the premiere of Ant-Man, quite probably Marvel Comics's tiniest superhero. The inventor of Ant-man's technology is Dr. Hank Pym, who is played by the legendary Michael Douglas. And yes, I do not use the word "legendary" lightly....
Fantasia 2015 Review: ANT-MAN, A Cog In The Mighty Marvel Machine
It's always a bit of a danger judging a film by why it's not, or by what it could have been, versus what it actually is. This factor is made even more manifest when a beloved, fan-fav filmmaker leaves...
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Fantasia 2015: First Wave of Titles Announced! TURBO KID! ANT MAN! MISS HOKUSAI! And Many More!
They have dropped the capital "T" from the middle of the name for this years edition of Fantasia, which has long ago morphed from an Asian Fan Film festival (FanTasia, get it?) into the massive genre-film catchall mega-festival that it...
ANT-MAN: Second Trailer Provides A Tiny Look At A Tiny Superhero
UPDATED: The full second trailer has now dropped and you can watch it below.Marvel really seem to be having fun teasing out their Ant-Man trailers. Back in January a tiny 'Ant-Sized' teaser preceded the first proper look at Paul Rudd,...
Review: GET HARD, Two Men, Two Races, One Joke
Less a movie than a set-up for a haggard series of intended comedy blackouts, the new film Get Hard relies far too heavily on the well-established screen personas of Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart to be successful on its own...
SXSW 2015 Interview: Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart Teach Us How To GET HARD
Getting hard is not an easy process. There are many painstaking steps one must go through to achieve this deity-like way of life. Luckily for me and whoever reads this article, Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart tell us the...
The First Trailer For Marvel's ANT-MAN Has Arrived!
The first full trailer for Marvel's Ant-Man aired last night during the premiere of Agent Carter. In case you missed it you can now watch it below. If there is one Marvel project that has born much scrutiny since its beginning...
ANT-MAN: The First Poster Is Exactly What You Would Expect
Presenting the easiest graphic artist job in the history of making posters! It certainly goes with Marvel's attempt at humor when they released the itsy bitsy teenie weenie trailer teaser the other day. While there is an enjoyable trend of minimalist...
ANT-MAN Trailer Teaser Is Now Properly Human-Sized
So. Everyone got the double deuce of annoying the other day when Marvel released a trailer teaser for Ant-Man. There are those who feel this is already an annoying practice. On top that, someone thought it would be clever if...
First Look At Paul Rudd In ANT-MAN
Production began just yesterday on the Peyton Reed directed Ant-Man and what's this today? Why, yes, it's the first shot of Paul Rudd as Scott Lang. We've got the image for you below and remember you can click to enlarge.SAN...
ANT-MAN: Peyton Reed To Direct, Adam McKay To Write
Two weeks after Edgar Wright's departure, Marvel has released a statement (through its website) confirming that Peyton Reed is the new director of Ant-Man. Wright was attached to the project since 2006 and wrote the script together with Attack the...
ANT-MAN: Edgar Wright Is No Longer The Director
This is terrible, terrible news. Edgar Wright won't direct Ant-Man after all. While he had put together an amazing cast for his big Marvel film, including Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas, he is now out of the project due to creative...
Paul Rudd Or JGL May Experience Shrinkage In ANT-MAN
With Edgar Wright's big debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe now being pushed up to July 31, 2015, the Brit director is well into pre-production for the film with a start date for photography looming quite near, and that can...
Say Hello To Edgar Wright's ANT-MAN
Who's the man in the suit? It would appear the time has come for speculation to begin in earnest where Edgar Wright's Ant-Man is concerned. Having freshly concluded his press obligations for The World's End, Wright tweeted yesterday that he...
Edgar Wright's ANT-MAN Arrives November 2015
It's official:The Edgar Wright directed adaptation of Marvel Comics' Ant-Man is a go and now slated to arrive on the big screen November 6th, 2015. Which, yes, is a good while off but with Wright currently busy with The World's...
Real World Superheroes Step Aside: Superhero Cat, Raccoon and Ant Coming To The Big Screen!
I am not a comic book person. My first introduction almost every superhero besides The Phantom (because let's face it, Mr Walker* has always gone over huge in Australia) has been the movies. My introduction to Superman was the Donner movies;...
