If you’ve ever wanted to see a distinguished knight of the British crown fire up the water bong and get high as a Boeing jet to the thumping beats of Notorious B.I.G., “The Wackness” is your chance.
Suffice to say, this is not a standard role for Sir Ben Kingsley.
(New York Post)

Shekhar Kapur, director of Badit Queen, Elizabeth and Four Feathers, explains to Marc Lee why he could never have made Elizabeth had it not been for Trainspotting.
(The Telegraph UK)
 

‘Vantage Point’, now on DVD, got us thinking about other, better films focused on derring-do in affairs of state — like ”All the President’s Men,” ”JFK,” and ”Munich.” Vote for your own favorites!
(EW)

With action heroes and sci-fi themes populating the fall TV schedule, studios are planning to increase the presence of their television properties at Comic-Con International.
The July 24-27 fandom mecca in San Diego will feature more than two dozen sessions promoting upcoming TV series. The events including panels for such shows as Fox’s “Fringe” and “Dollhouse,” […]

Have you gone on the internet in the last 36 hours? Are you a man, woman, or child who has, at one point, expressed even a passing interest in motion pictures? If so, I’d wager that 90% of you have already been forwarded the link to the beyond bad-ass trailer for the new James Bond […]

The Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviezel (pictured) will join Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings) in a remake of the ’60s sci-fi series The Prisoner for AMC that will premiere next year. The network will turn the classic into a six-part miniseries that will feature Caviezel in the title role of Number […]

Molly Ringwald modestly resists the label “style icon,” but her quirky looks in some of the quintessential films of the ’80s spurred trends aplenty. Girls ransacked thrift stores for fedoras and gleefully took shears to their mother’s prom dresses. Ringwald spills on the good, the bad and the ugly.
(LA Times)

How to get rid of the ghost that you want to keep close? It’s been more than twenty-five years now since Ingmar Bergman was regularly making feature films, but the master’s mammoth shadow looms over the national cinema with undiminished dominance, and indeed most of European art cinema in general; meanwhile it’s just one year […]

A major Hollywood studio and online search engine Google Inc on unveiled separate moves on Monday to put movie and TV-like content on the Web, highlighting the way in which both see the Internet as critical to reaching customers.
 
Sony Pictures Entertainment, a unit of Sony Corp, said it plans to make the Will Smith action […]

About the best thing that “Hancock” has going for it is the idea of a superhero who’s not a good guy; Will Smith’s titular titan is petulant, rude, alcoholic, destructive and generally peevish. And he’s the hero.
Hollywood has a history of giving us characters who manage to simultaneously drive us crazy and win us over. […]