Wednesday, April 6, 2011 1:43PM - By Damon Houx
One of the titles that came out of South By Southwest this year with incredible heat was writer-director Joe Cornish‘s Attack the Block. Executive produced by Edgar Wright and starring Nick Frost (among a young cast of Brits), the film was a fan favorite and recently had two screenings in Los Angeles, the first with ticket giveaway winners and a second for industry people. It seems those screenings went over like gangbusters, and the film was just picked up by Sony’s Screen Gems for release.
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Monday, March 14, 2011 1:18PM - By Damon Houx
One of the geek hits to come out of South by Southwest is Joe Cornish‘s Attack the Block, which was executive produced by Edgar Wright. Cornish and Wright have worked together for years, and also wrote the upcoming Steven Spielberg film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. With the two of them doing press on their latest effort, their long-in-development film of Marvel comic’s Ant-Man was bound to come up, and they teased some information to The Playlist. The money quote from Cornish: “We’re currently working on it, not right now. But the day after tomorrow we’ll go to Los Angeles and…”
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Monday, March 14, 2011 7:45AM - By Travis Woods
Well, it’s that time of year again–the yearly South By Southwest film festival has laid siege to Austin, Texas, having launched on Friday with a torrent of screenings, premieres, celebrity sightings, desperate conniving for SXSW Film badges, and more.
Wading through the deluge of movie reviews, Twitter-hypes, and blog denunciations can always be an eye-reddening slog, so allow us to break down the best of SXSW for you thus far:
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 5:30PM - By Mali Elfman
The first time I saw Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World was at Comic-Con, jam packed in a theater, from a balcony, in a room filled with so many fans it was hard to hear some of the dialogue because of all the laughter and cheers bouncing off the walls. At the press screening for the film in LA, I was reminded of how dull critics can be and how they can dampen the experience of watching a film like this. Though I am reviewing this film and technically a part of said “dull critics” and I did in fact love this film, it was obviously not made for me – it was made for the fans of the comic-book, fans of video games, fans of action, fans of humor, when you get down to it fans of movies in general. The amount of references in this film will blow your mind.
This is a great film and its goal is to entertain and it succeeds admirably — just don’t let the those “scared to laugh” critics get you down, have some fun and find out more about what makes this film great below…
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 2:00PM - By Mali Elfman
It’s finally time for Edgar Wright‘s upcoming extraordinary comic-book adaptation of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World to hit theaters this weekend! Not long ago we sat down to a roundtable with Wright to talk about how he managed to talk all the many parts that make Scott Pilgrim so phenomenal and put them together in such a unique, and yet easy and fun to watch film (we already published our Ant-Man news if you’re looking for that).
Find out everything from casting to why he never sits down on set despite the long, hard shoots in our interview with him below…
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:12PM - By Mali Elfman
Today, during an interview with Edgar Wright for his amazing new film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, he ever so slightly mentioned Ant-Man. Though he’s still in Pilgrim land and not quite focused on any upcoming projects, he was able to enlighten us a bit on the property and his working relationship with Marvel Chief, Kevin Feige. At the moment, the adaptation still seems vague and “in the works” but you can easily tell there’s something in the air. If Wright does decide to direct Ant-Man, and it’s anywhere near as good as Pilgrim, I’m in!
Here’s what he had to say…
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Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:11PM - By Laura Aguirre
We’ve got a full house here at Universal’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World panel at Comic-Con 2010. Director Edgar Wright and graphic author Bryan Lee O’Malley, are joined by cast members Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ellen Wong, Alison Pill, Mark Webber, Kieran Culkin, Satya Bhabha, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzman, Mae Whitman, Anna Kendrick, and Aubrey Plaza to answer questions about the upcoming action-comedy that looks like it’s going to be as enjoyable as Kick-Ass! Here we go…
6:10 pm: Scott Pilgrim is about to start. They just showed the trailer and some behind the scenes footage.
6:11 pm: Edgar Wright just walked out. It looks like he got a haircut. Nothing big, just a nice trim. He said they have 13 guests coming out!
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010 2:47PM - By Krystal Clark
For the past year it feels like comic book fans have been strung along by Marvel and their live action Ant-Man adaptation. The film’s been in development for years with British helmer Edgar Wright attached to direct. Recently Wright’s been concentrating on putting the finishing touches on Scott Pilgrim vs The World, which hits theaters this August but he hasn’t forgot about the Marvel hero. In a new interview with Box Office Magazine he spoke about the project and gave a little update…
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Monday, May 31, 2010 9:39AM - By Krystal Clark
It’s here! The second trailer for Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs the World has finally been released via the film’s official Facebook page. The director and Universal teased a few days ago that they would release the trailer early if they received 100,000 “Likes” on their page. Well guess what? They did and now it’s here for our own personal enjoyment. Check out all the epic, epicness of Scott Pilgrim below…
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