Author: Solani Verma

Our JP4 scooper, ‘Doc’, has just written in with some new info on the upcoming Die Hard 4 film, or as it is being referred to, DH 4.0. ‘Doc’ admits the news is third-hand, and therefore this should be taken as strictly rumor, but it is certainly some intriguing news to read. Doc writes: Got some third-hand news on a…

Wills is Open to Die Hard 5 and Unbreakable 2: In a pair of interview quotes Bruce Willis talks about the possibility of Unbreakable 2 and seems quite confident there will be a Die Hard 5. As for Unbreakable 2 he says, “I talked to [M. Night Shyamalan] over the holidays, and he is still thinking about doing the fight movie between me and…

I already posted this on my blog, but I can’t help but do the same right here. Roger Ebert has posted the following commentary on his site with regard to John McCain and his behavior during last week’s debate and the subsequent advertising campaign he ran. I agree with everything in this commentary and since it is Roger…

The only thing that makes me even slightly interested in the upcoming remake of Stephen King’s Carrie is the fact it’s directed by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry). Because, really, what is there to do with this film that wasn’t already done in Brian DePalma’s 1976 original? Even the casting of Chloe Moretz (Let Me In) seems too on-the-nose to be…

Wes Anderson has been making some of his best work over the past several years, and I think a lot of that has to do with his exposure to stop motion animation. Fantastic Mr. Fox was a film that took Anderson’s diorama approach to a literal diorama, and it turned into a fantastic film. His next to projects, Moonrise…

If you were watching tonight’s Election coverage you likely saw this new TV spot for Steven Spielberg‘s Lincoln more than once. One RopeofSilicon reader tweeted me saying just that, writing, “I think I have seen the TV spot for Lincoln about 15 times during the election coverage.” Well, if you’re interested, you can now watch it for a 16th time.…

During the November 26 taping of “The Tonight Show“, Jay Leno had Quentin Tarantino on as a guest and he revealed his next film will be a Western. “I can’t talk that much about it,” he told Leno, “but I will say one thing — I haven’t told anybody, but I will say the genre — it’s a Western.”…

Over this past weekend Fox Searchlight released 127 Hours, Danny Boyle’s follow-up to the Oscar Best Picture-winning Slumdog Millionaire, into four theaters. The same day as its release I spoke with Boyle after first seeing the film at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year and enjoying it so much I made sure to catch it…

Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment issued a press release today announcing the start of principal production in Los Angeles on the 3D Motion Capture Film The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn which will be directed by Steven Spielberg and will star Jamie Bell as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a…

FilmDistrict has officially released the first poster for Spike Lee‘s remake of Oldboy along with news the red band trailer will be released this Wednesday, July 10. The studio was explicit in noting the below poster is “a shot from the film (instead of a composed comp) and is a nod to the trailer.” Oldboy follows the story of an advertising executive (Josh…