May 08, 2008
The RT Review Revue: What Happens in Speed Racer, Stays in Speed Racer
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! The RT Review Revue is here to talk about this week's pair o' flicks: What Happens in Vegas (AKA Cameron vs. Ashton) and Speed Racer (better known as The Wachowskis Blow Minds, Part II). More...

May 08, 2008
Box Office Guru Preview: Can Speed Racer Defeat Iron Man?
Fast cars and comedy stars make their way into North American multiplexes on Friday hoping to shake things up after Iron Man's sheer dominance of the box office over the past week. More...

May 07, 2008
UK Box Office Breakdown: Summer Season Begins With a Bang
Summer box office season began with a bang last Friday, with Iron Man the first of the pumped up, big-budget teen-friendly blockbusters to emerge from the bowels of the Hollywood studios this week. Paramount's juggernaut crushed all the... More...

March 31, 2008
Check Out the New Speed Racer Poster Right Here --- In Three Dimensions!
The future of movie posters has arrived online: check out the new, moving 3D Speed Racer teaser poster right here! More...

March 25, 2008
Speed Racer Cast Promises "Things You've Never Seen Before"
Whether you love it or hate it, when the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer hits screens on May 9, you'll at least be forced to admit you've never seen anything quite like it. More...

February 15, 2008
Weekly Ketchup: Wolverine On Film, Justice League May Lose A Couple Of Heroes
In this week's column, Greg Dean Schmitz gives us the lowdown on some upcoming superhero movies, like Wolverine, Justice League, and Dr. Strange. There is also news about some game adaptations, such as Mortal Kombat, Tekken, believe it or not,... More...

February 04, 2008
Ricci Promises Positive Female Role Model in Speed Racer
We know Speed Racer will be a visual treat with plenty of action, but perhaps it will have good values too. Christina Ricci, who plays Trixie, described all the progressive women's lib stuff she gets to play in the movie. More...

December 06, 2007
Joel Silver Excited About Speed Racer's "Car Fu" (Article Updated With Photos!)
What has Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox, live monkeys, and a brand new trailer? More...

November 08, 2007
Joel Silver Explains Speed Racer Technology
Joel Silver is sort of the unofficial spokesman for the Wachowski Brothers. Silver ushered the visionaries into Hollywood and explains their process whenever he can. With Speed Racer wrapping principal photography and onto the visual effects... More...

October 07, 2007
Susan Sarandon Gets Animated for Speed Racer
Susan Sarandon may be one of the most acclaimed thespians of her day, but she totally gives in to newfangled moviemaking. Playing Mom Speed gave Sarandon challenges she'd never faced before in any of her Oscar nominated roles. More...

September 19, 2007
Emile Hirsch On Speed Racer Monkey Business, Dialogue, and His First Big Role
Emile Hirsch still has his hair a little dark, only a week and a half after wrapping Speed Racer. He kind of resembles the animated Speed, and it sounds like he did his part to portray him as fans remember. He also shared how his costar turned... More...

August 22, 2007
Hiroyuki Sanada Mediates Wachowskis' Speed Racer Vision
After menacing Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 3, Hiroyuki Sanada will play another villain in a big budget action movie: the Wachowski Brothers' live action Speed Racer movie. More...

August 13, 2007
New Conan the Barbarian Film Finds a Home
If there are two things we've learned about Hollywood this year, they are: 1) No license is too old, or too strange, to adapt for the big screen; and 2) The studios never met a franchise they didn't like. The folks who manage the film rights for... More...

July 06, 2007
The Weekly Ketchup: "Transformers," "Indy 4" Set Pics, And More "Transformers"
In this week's Ketchup, "Transformers" was so hot that the mere mention of a Tomatometer warranted its own news item, and readers were eager to gauge (and rebut) the critics' reviews. More...

June 11, 2007
Trailer Bulletin: Craig & Kidman in "The Invasion"
There's been a lot of talk about the Nicole Kidman / Daniel Craig sci-fi flick "The Invasion," most of it ... not good. But here's our first peek at a trailer... More...

June 05, 2007
Scott Porter Signs On for a "Speed Racer" Role
Fans of TV's "Friday Night Lights" may be familiar with actor Scott Porter. Movie fans will see him in next year's "Speed Racer" adaptation. More...

June 01, 2007
First Look at the "Speed Racer" Car!
Emile Hirsch wan't kidding when he said they got the car right. More...

May 17, 2007
Test Screening "Reviews" for "Invasion" & "Pirates 3"
We've got some more early word on how Nicole Kidman's "Invasion" is a mess -- plus the first test screening / junket reviews of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End." More...

April 20, 2007
"Speed Racer" Nabs a Racer X
By now you've probably heard that Christina Ricci has joined the "Speed Racer" cast, but it looks like Fox and the Wachowski Brothers have found their "Racer X" villain. Fans of the TV series "Lost" will no doubt... More...

April 13, 2007
Here She Comes, Here Comes "Speed" Ricci
Christina Ricci has joined the cast of the 2008 Wachowski brothers adaptation of "Speed Racer," in which she'll play Trixie, girlfriend to the titular auto-racing hero. More...

April 05, 2007
"Vendetta" Team Took Over Kidman's "Invasion"?
Seems like we've been hearing about upcoming sci-fi flick "The Invasion" for a pretty long time now. You know the one: It's the fourth adaptation of Jack Finney's "The Body Snatchers." Directed by "Downfall" helmer... More...

April 03, 2007
John Goodman & Susan Sarandon as "Speed Racer" Parents?
Larry and Andy Wachowski chose Emile Hirsch to star in their adaptation of the old "Speed Racer" cartoon, and it looks like the Americanization of the series is moving ahead full steam: John Goodman and Susan Sarandon have been tapped to... More...

March 24, 2007
Silver Confirms Casting, Talks Wachowskis' "Speed Racer" Vision
Rotten Tomatoes was there on Friday when Joel Silver confirmed the announcement of Emile Hirsch as the live action "Speed Racer." Then he addressed the Wachowski's visual ideas for adapting the anime property. More...

March 12, 2007
Warner Bros. Moves "Speed Racer" Up, Away From "Indy 4"
Release-date brinksmanship is a time-honored tradition in the movie biz, particularly when it comes to the summer blockbusters, and Warner Bros. is getting an early head start on next summer's schedule: Variety reports that "Speed Racer"... More...

February 15, 2007
"Speed Racer" to Take Off in May (and in Germany)
Andy and Larry Wachowski will finally start directorial duties on "Speed Racer," a live-action movie based on an old cartoon. (What will Hollywood think of next?) More...

November 03, 2006
"Matrix" Makers to Helm "Speed Racer" Flick
The Wachowski Brothers have been attached to a big-screen version of "Speed Racer" for quite some time, and now it finally looks like the project is moving forward. And the brothers will apparently direct, not produce, the flick. Cool. More...

July 10, 2006
Vince Vaughn Still On Board the "Speed Racer" Flick
Recent word from IGN FilmForce indicates that the Wachowski Brothers are still attached to the big-screen rendition of the classic animation series "Speed Racer." Also rather interesting is the news that everyone's favorite lanky... More...

June 05, 2006
Here He Comes? Here Comes "Speed Racer"?
IGN FilmForce may have received a bunch of denials when asking WB and Vince Vaughn's people if a "Speed Racer" movie was on its way, but the FF guys are pretty confident that their newest scoop has some truth to it: "Speed Racer:... More...

March 16, 2006
"V For Vendetta" Is Certified Fresh
"V For Vendetta" doesn't officially come out until tomorrow, but enough early reviews have poured in to give it Rotten Tomatoes' Certified Fresh seal of approval! More...

March 16, 2006
Critical Consensus: "Vendetta" Hits, "Man" Misses
This week's wide releases highlight a rarely-tread path in modern cinema, as both pics feature two of America's sweethearts -- every geek's fave, Natalie Portman, and cute little Amanda Bynes -- enduring two very different boyish makeovers, with... More...

February 27, 2006
"V for Vendetta" Has A Tomatometer
"V for Vendetta," a tale of rebellion in futuristic England, is currently Fresh with a Tomatometer of 60 percent. With five reviews, this is the first Tomatometer score for the hotly anticipated film, which stars Natalie Portman. More...

February 23, 2006
Photo Gallery Update: 50 "V For Vendetta" Pics!
Click over to the "V For Vendetta" page to view our updated photo gallery of fifty stills and production photos from the upcoming futuristic anarchist action-thriller, starring Natalie Portman and a masked Hugo Weaving. More...

February 13, 2006
The Early Word on "V For Vendetta"
The first few reviews have come out for the upcoming futurist action thriller, "V for Vendetta," and the word so far is that if you like your films dark and philosophical, you'll appreciate its profound thematic morality struggle as much... More...

December 16, 2005
Trailer Bulletin: V for Vendetta
You may have seen the first "V for Vendetta" trailer by now, since the flick was originally scheduled for an early November release, but the thing now seems locked in for March 17th. And with the new release date comes a new marketing... More...

August 18, 2005
"V for Vendetta" Moves to March
Sci-Fi Wire brings some rather disappointing news: The eagerly anticipated "V for Vendetta" has been moved from November 4th to March 17th, reportedly to give WB more post-production time on the expensive project. More...

July 25, 2005
Trailer Bulletin: V for Vendetta
Click right here to check out the trailer for the upcoming and highly anticipated "V for Vendetta" -- in glorious Quicktime. Based upon the widely admired graphic novel by Alan Moore, "Vendetta" tells the story of a shadowy... More...

May 10, 2005
Wachowskis Tap Weaving for "Vendetta"
James Purefoy is out and Hugo Weaving is in, according to Variety. The movie in question is "V for Vendetta," which is a big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel and stars Natalie Portman ("Closer"), John Hurt... More...

April 21, 2005
Casting News on The Wachowskis' "Vendetta"
Joe Utichi of FilmFocus got to chat briefly with the always-cool Stephen Fry at the UK premiere of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (Mr. Fry provides the voice of the Guide), and the affable British chap shared some interesting... More...

February 18, 2005
James Purefoy Has "Vendetta"
James Purefoy will join Natalie Portman in the big screen adaptation of Alan Moore's comic book, "V for Vendetta," according to the Hollywood Reporter. Purefoy will play the title character, V, a freedom fighter who is trying to oust the... More...