To coincide with the release of the book jackets (above) for the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Warner Bros has issued new pictures for the upcoming Potter movie called Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix due this July.   
The Harry Potter franchise appears to have an edge over […]

Mark Wahlberg will star in director M. Night Shyamalan’s new disaster thriller The Happening, due to start shooting in the latter’s hometown of
Philadelphia. Friday, June 13, 2008 is the release date set by the studio, 20th Century Fox
Helen Mirren will join Nicolas Cage in National Treasure: Book of Secrets. The sequel to National Treasure […]

Most people in Hollywood consider director David O. Russell a very talented man. After all, he made the charming road-trip seriocomedy Flirting with Disaster and the engaging Three Kings with the right combination of action and war commentary. When he set out to make I Heart Huckabees a few years ago, the stars were aligned to […]

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With the blistering box-office success of 300 over the last few weeks, this is no doubt the first real blockbuster of the year. And with it comes even larger expectations for a blockbuster windfall in DVD sales. To gear up for its DVD unveiling, Warner Bros should be creating a sumptuous package for the home […]

In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings predicts that DVDs will still be around as a viable business for a while, eventually usurped by the movie downloading business. Hastings think it’s a matter of when DVDs will be come obsolete, not if. And right now, he thinks the time […]

With the release of “Children of Men” on DVD, director Alfonso Cuaron is graciously doing the rounds of promotion for this futuristic thriller that has garnered tremendous reviews. Cuaron is in the camp of directors not inclined toward commentaries and special features but he took some time out to chat to Aint-It-Cool-News about the DVD. […]

 CHILDREN OF MEN - WIDESCREEN EDITION

Special Features:

The Possibility of Hope - Alfonso Cuarón’s documentary on how the revolutionary themes in Children Of Men relate to our modern-day society
Under Attack - Discover how the filmmakers created the film’s most dangerous scenes
Children Of Men Comments by Slavoj Zizek
Deleted Scenes
Theo & Julian - Get the inside story from […]

I first saw Richard Jeni perform in a huge student auditorim on the campus of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois during the mid 90s. He had the crowd in stitches and even managed to re-heckle a heckler who walked out in disgust. When I saw him again live, post 9-11, in Hermosa Beach, California, his material […]

 
There comes a time when every filmmaker has to defend his or her film from the scathing criticisms of pundits and those just plain out to dog you. And filmmakers got a prime lesson this past week from none other than Mel Gibson. The tactful Gibson was giving a lecture to a film class about […]