Contagion, possibly the viral outbreak film to end all such genre entries (cast-wise, at least), now has a home. Steven Soderbergh’s action thriller, which was announced less than two weeks ago, has been picked up by Warner Bros. for distribution, reports Deadline Hollywood, with Participant Media already involved to co-finance the production’s $60 million budget. The [...]

The words “a new film about an outbreak of a deadly virus” most likely induce yawns and indifference, and understandably so. By now, Hollywood has fished this well so many times that you might as well peg on ‘post-apocalyptic” and call it a day. Every now and then, however, an addition to such a tired [...]

For decades of pop culture, Sherlock Holmes has been a stuffy sort of hero.  He’s as fixed and unmovable as his statue on Baker Street – forever in tweed, puffing on a pipe, and coolly surveying the underworld from a height of moral logic.  That’s not Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes.
To be fair, that’s not Sir [...]

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is Terry Gilliam’s best film since Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or perhaps 12 Monkeys in 1995. In Parnassus, Gilliam proves that he retains the ability to pair his unique sensibilities with a beating heart of a character driven story. His visuals alone are noteworthy, but in this [...]

Sherlock Holmes debuts in theaters on Christmas Day but that hasn’t stopped producers from looking ahead to the future.
Kieran and Michele Mulroney (Paper Man) will begin work on a script for a follow-up to the yet-to-be-released detective story. Though Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams  and director Guy Ritchie have not yet [...]

Presenting three clips from Terry Gilliam’s fantastical morality tale The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
“The film follows the leader of a traveling theatre troupe who, having made a deal with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations.  Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, and Heath Ledger star in the film, though Ledger’s [...]

Warner Bros. just released the international trailer for their upcoming picture, Sherlock Holmes. Though the trailer appears mostly like the domestic version, it does contain some never-before-seen footage.
The trailer also presents Sherlock Holmes in a more thrilling light, instead of the comedy film it was originally portrayed as. The interwebs were not thrilled. Now they [...]