Brad Pitt’s Plan B shingle is working on the development a film version of the upcoming video game Dark Void with Pitt possibly starring as the lead combatant. No writers have been hired as yet.
Void follows a cargo pilot named Will (Pitt’s presumed character) who, after crashing in the Bermuda Triangle, ends up in a parallel universe where a band of humans must fight an alien threat they had long been thought extinct. Will and the other humans are outmanned but have a number of weapons and powers to help them beat back the alien invasion.
In January, the game will be released for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Now, it is obvious that video games are not always successful at the box office like Max Payne. Dark Void, as a game, was purposely developed to appeal to wide-screen mindsets in which they see a world full of adventure in cinematic scope and magnitude.
Last night, mischief and mayhem ensued when midnight screenings of Fight Club were held in Los Angeles and New York! The theaters were boarded up and free coffee and donuts were served in the back like a support group, and everyone received a “hello my name is” sticker!
Remember, Screenhead is holding a giveaway for the Fight Club 10th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray disc now!
People Magazine picked one of my favorite actors Johnny Depp as this year’s “Sexiest Man Alive.”
Depp, who is 46, won in 2003 is being called “iconic status in terms of sexiness.” That is a mouth full.
People representative also said, “Johnny Depp was someone who was sexy 10 years ago. He’ll be sexy 10 years from now. He’s someone who appeals to multiple generations of women.”
Brad Pitt, Richard Gere and George Clooney also hold the honors of being a double winner.
Check out the issue of People Magazine if you ladies want to see more sexy men of 2009.
FIGHT CLUB 10thAnniversary Edition Blu-ray disc will be available on November 17, 2009. The Ed Norton and Brad Pitt movie is packed full of punches with all-new bonus materials including two interactive featurettes – “A Hit In The Ear: Ren Klyce and the Sound Design of Fight Club” which allows usersto remix four key scenes themselves with the help of Oscar-nominated sound designer Ren Klyce; and “Insomniac Mode: I Am Jack’s Search Index,” giving viewers the ability to access any part of the disc’s extensive bonus material via interactive tools.
Fight Club is based on the book of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk (Choke). A lonely, isolated thirty-something young professional in an unidentified, semi-stylized city, seeks an escape from his ordinary life with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find their release from the prison of reality through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world denies them.
Fight Clubwas directed by David Fincher and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.
To win a copy of Fight Club 10thAnniversary Edition Blu-ray disc, post your name and Screenhead will pick the winner Wednesday, December 2, 2009.
If you really, REALLY, just couldn’t get enough of the movie Seven, then I’m somewhat happy to announce that you’ll get to enjoy a low-rent knockoff in the form of Horsemen, new from Lions Gate.
When a recently widowed detective finds himself forced to make ends meet between his detective work and his family, he ends up on the bad end of a murder spree focused around the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And as his family situation steadily deteriorates around him, the case only gets stranger and more horrifying.
Okay, okay–so it watches like a low-budget version of Seven, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Just because we don’t have Brad Pitt screaming about what’s in the box doesn’t mean we can’t have fun with Dennis Quaid being a mostly absentee father!
But it’s true–Horsemen is a fairly involving crime drama, but it does leave a lot of unpleasant plot holes. Frankly, I wondered why they even bothered with the whole family thing at all–it’s not like it made much difference on the plot.
The Screenhead Ten Scale, meanwhile, hands this ambivalent crime thriller a four out of ten for not being too bad, but not being anything special, either. Plus, being derivative is never helpful in these situations; if you’re going to rip someone else off, at least do it right.
So after seeing–and enjoying!–the trailers for Despicable Me, it’s interesting to see that another supervillain-centrated cartoon will be hitting theatres.
After catching my colleague Kenna’s take on the whole thing, I had to throw in my own two cents–this is just bizarre. Really, bizarre. Took about two minutes to scrape my jaw off the floor after THAT little chunk of news hit. I mean, in what universe do you replace ROBERT DOWNEY JR. with Will Ferrell? Isn’t this like replacing A-Rod with Charlie Brown?
And, even on the off chance you’re going to try and replace Robert Downey Jr. with ANYONE, why Will Ferrell? I can think of a hundred better candidates off the top of my head! Seriously–couldn’t Stiller call in some help from his Mystery Man days? Surely William H. Macy could’ve handled the job. After playing The Shoveler, I can’t see how he couldn’t get Metro Man down. Dan Castellaneta’s Blue Raja comes easily to mind, and even Paul Reubens’ The Spleen could’ve probably done a better job than Will Ferrell.
Will this incredibly brave–or incredibly stupid–move pay off? We’ll have to wait to see–this is slated for a November 2010 release.
Dreamworks has made some casting changes for their latest animation project Oobermind.Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill offer their voices for the comedy that is schedule to open in fall 2010.
Wait a minute…Where’s Robert Downey, Jr.?
Ferrell replaces Downey in the title role of the super-villain who imagines all his dastardly dreams coming true after defeating good-guy rival Metro Man (Pitt), only to find life can be very boring without an enemy to fight. To fill the emptiness, Oobermind creates a new superhero, Titan (Hill), who also has a desire to be bad. Thus, Oobermind has to switch sides and be good. It’s a crazy story but works for me.
Look here, another actor joins the trio. It’s Tina Fey, who actually has been on board for some time. She plays the reporter, who must keep track of the city’s confusing superhero situation. Only a woman could do that! The movie sounds like fun.
Like Marmite or World music, you either love or hate Quentin Tarantino movies. Especially recently, when his films reek of self-indulgence due to his singular vision and overwhelming confidence as a film-maker. But if you give into Tarantino’s vision, you’ll find yourself lost in a fascinating and entertaining world of references and downright coolness. Kill Bill merged kung fu with spaghettis westerns and revenge flicks to make a thoroughly thrilling film that was accessible even to those unfamiliar to the genres. And now Tarantino has taken a stab at the almost forgotten action war genre with his strangely misspelt Inglourious Basterds.
The Basterds are a group of mainly Jewish tough-guys led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), whose mission is to murder and scalp as many Nazis as possible. But the Basterds mettle is tested when they become involved in a plot to destroy a French cinema that will host the premiere of an SS film, attended by the likes of Goebbels and Hitler himself. And while the cinema’s owner, Shosanna, a Jewish girl in disguise, is hatching her own plot to destroy the heads of the Nazi party, she must avoid the steely smarts of Colonel Hans Landa, a man who earned the nickname The Jew Hunter and who is most likely to uncover the plots of both her and the Basterds.
Lately Tarantino has been seemingly attempting to revive long lost sub genres of cinema, such as the poorly made gore of Grindhouse cinema, or blaxploitation movies (Jackie Brown). WWII action seemed like a genre that isn’t worth reviving, an insultingly “entertaining” view of the most horrid period of the last century. Even its best examples, such as The Dirty Dozen, are forgettable at best. Yet the downright dour tone of all recent WWII films are not only too heavy but predictably so, and none of them coming close to the brilliance of Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. But how does Tarantino manage to make an enjoyable without appearing irresponsible to the families of concentration camp survivors? He does this by being Tarantino. Inglourious Basterds constructs a world, not of the real 1940’s in Europe, but rather an imagined TarantinoWorld, where everyone knows their cinema, where Mexican standoffs are a dime a dozen, and where our history is rewritten so drastically that it seems preposterous to be offended by its attempt to entertain. Read the rest of this entry »
Entertainment Tonight’s film clip of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is so far the best one I have seen yet. ET grants the wild, horrific comedy lots of viewing time and worth the watch just to get a better feel for the film.
I like the pacing of this trailer better than the first one. Tarantino is written all over it. The quality is poor toward the end, but it is brutally edited.
Brad Pitt’s Plan B shingle is working on the development a film version of the upcoming video game Dark Void with Pitt possibly starring as the lead combatant. No writers have been hired as yet.
If you really, REALLY, just couldn’t get enough of the movie Seven, then I’m somewhat happy to announce that you’ll get to enjoy a low-rent knockoff in the form of Horsemen, new from 
So after seeing–and enjoying!–the trailers for 
Jonah Hill offer their voices for the comedy that is schedule to open in fall 2010.
Like Marmite or World music, you either love or hate Quentin Tarantino movies. Especially recently, when his films reek of self-indulgence due to his singular vision and overwhelming confidence as a film-maker. But if you give into Tarantino’s vision, you’ll find yourself lost in a fascinating and entertaining world of references and downright coolness.