On the totally random, cool filmmaking news front, according to a report on slashfilm.com and Rolling Stone, Spike Jonze will team up with Arcade Fire — whose “Wake Up” served as the stirring backdrop for Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are trailer — on a short film likely based around one of the songs on [...]

Next Friday, Director Nimrod Antal’s third movie, the crime-thriller Armored starring Laurence Fishburne, Matt Dillon and Jean Reno will open nationwide and he’s already hard at work directing Robert Rodriguez’s relaunch of the Predator franchise, Predators.
“So far, it’s been great, and I think that the fans who may have been underwhelmed by the last two [...]

Four Hollywood Veterans Bring Movies To Texas With Official Launch of Wildfire Films.
Wildfire Films, LLC, an Austin-based film production company, officially launches today. Wildfire Films was created from four separate film production companies located in both Austin and Los Angeles that will now provide full-service development and production for feature films, television and new [...]

First Look at Jason Voorhees’ Mask and behind-the-scenes video.

Well, the Marcus Nispel-directed remake of Friday the 13th has been filming in Austin for a while now and, it’s odd, but I NEVER read anything on it locally. You’d think that a major feature film shooting in Austin would get some press but apparently [...]

Robert Rodriguez Signs Jon Cryer, William H. Macy, Leslie Mann and James Spader for Austin, Texas Lensed Feature Film “Shorts.”

TV stars Jon Cryer and James Spader are returning to the big screen, signing up to star in Robert Rodriguez’s “Shorts,” a Warner Bros. family adventure movie that also stars William H. Macy and Leslie [...]