London, Jul 19: Filmmaker Stephen Spielberg has revealed that he was turned down to direct a Bond film not once but twice. Speaking on The Michael Ball Show on Radio BBC 2, "The BFG" director revealed that he offered his services to direct a Bond film twice but producers didn't feel he was right for the part, reported Digital Spy.
Fantasy meets reality in The 9th Life of Louis Drax , the latest film from modern horror master Alexandre Aja . While we wait for it to hit theaters on September 2nd, the official one-sheet has arrived, and it teases the mystery we will soon be jumping headlong into.
On one side, Sigourney Weaver 's Ripley, trying to rescue the little girl Newt , the lone survivor of a decimated colony who stands as a surrogate for Ripley's own lost daughter. On the other, the gargantuan Alien Queen, who mercifully spares Ripley and Newt - only to have the human betray their unspoken deal and torch her nest of hatchlings.
Actress/writer Cassandra Peterson is known for her portrayal of one of pop culture's most beloved icons, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. It has been 35 years since Elvira made her debut as horror hostess on a local LA television show; and to celebrate the milestone anniversary, Cassandra combed through her personal archives to assemble a beautiful 240-page hardcover coffee table book titled Elvira, Mistress of the Dark .
It is a film lauded by film critics as a masterpiece, one that routinely tops Must See and Best Film lists, and yet it is still largely unavailable on DVD and has never been released without the interference of heavy handed studio censorship and edits. It is a film that critics encourage viewers to watch via an illegal stream, simply because it must be seen.
However, according to writer/director James Cameron , most people at that time tried to convince him not to make the movie. After all, they reasoned, any positive elements of the film would be attributed to "Alien" director Ridley Scott , and all the negative parts would be viewed as Cameron's fault.
Sometimes the tensions in the real world can be affected by what's on the big screen. A film's subject matter can become a national news story and people will either sing its praise or boycott it into oblivion.
Jennifer Lopez, Keke Palmer and Jessie J attended Saturday's premiere of their new animated movie "Ice Age: Collision Course." NEW YORK, July 15 -- Violet Ramis Stiel implored fans to stop using her late dad, "Ghostbusters" star Harold Ramis, as an excuse "to spew bile" about the female-led reboot.
A true tale that plays like fiction, director Brad Furman's The Infiltrator concerns a federal agent who poses as a money launderer to help bust Pablo Escobar's drug cartel, and it's based on a memoir written by said agent Robert Mazur, not on a pre-existing movie. Yet it somehow feels like even more of a remake than the new Ghostbusters - principally a remake of Donnie Brasco, The Departed, or any number of similar entertainments involving disguised cops playing long cons, wire-tapping, bloody retribution, and swarthy gangsters in flashy suits conversing while topless women pole-dance in the background.