By Simon Miraudo June 18, 2014 I’d like to report a murder. The buddy-cop comedy is dead, drowned in a sea of d*** jokes by directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Hey, at least it died doing what it loved. In 22 Jump Street, Lord and Miller, along with screenwriters/accomplices Michael Bacall, Oren Uziel and […]
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ becomes highest grossing R-rated film in AU history
February 6, 2014 
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In news that should inspire a drug-fuelled, pansexual, anything-goes celebration at Wolf HQ, The Wolf of Wall Street has broken the record previously held by Pulp Fiction and Basic Instinct to become the highest grossing R18-rated film in Australian history. FilmInk note the picture’s $12.96 million tally (from just two weeks of release) also makes the movie Martin Scorsese’s most successful in Aus. Basic Instinct hit […]
Continue readingLeonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill reteam for Olympic bombing flick
February 6, 2014 0 Comments
Oscar-nominated Wolf of Wall Street stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill are set to reteam for a new Olympic-set drama, Deadline reports. Their BFF status is yet to be confirmed by the duo. Fox has closed a deal with Vanity Fair for the rights to their 1997 article ‘The Ballad of Richard Jewell’, which told the true […]
Continue readingJonah Hill starred in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ for $60,000
January 24, 2014 0 Comments
Jonah Hill has revealed his (relatively) minuscule payday for The Wolf of Wall Street: $60,000. He dropped the figure will chatting with Howard Stern. Though the number seems decent for seven months of work, it equates to the American Screen Actors Guild minimum wage. Don’t feel too bad for him, though: he scored an Oscar nod for his […]
Continue readingExcess is the best revenge – The Wolf of Wall Street review
January 22, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo January 22, 2014 True story: my priest phoned midway through the screening of The Wolf of Wall Street, as if he had sensed – rightly – that I had been revelling too giddily in the debauched antics of disgraced stockbroker Jordan Belfort. Turns out he was just calling to confirm something about […]
Continue readingThe Wolf of Wall Street may not be delayed after all
October 23, 2013 0 Comments
After weeks of rumours suggesting Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street would be delayed until 2014, sources close to the production tell the L.A. Times it will indeed see release in 2013. Paramount will reportedly distribute the picture on Christmas Day. That is, in the U.S. No word as to when Australian and New […]
Continue readingThe Wolf of Wall Street might be delayed until 2014; will miss Oscar cut-off
September 26, 2013 0 Comments
Martin Scorsese’s upcoming feature The Wolf of Wall Street was meant to be one of the big players at the upcoming Oscar race. Well, not anymore. According to Showbiz411, sources close to the production have confirmed it will not meet its November 2013 release date. The picture will now likely hit cinemas in 2014, making […]
Continue readingHoly Seth – This Is the End review
July 15, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 15, 2013 This is… a very strange movie. An assortment of A-Listers – playing themselves – assemble for a pitch-black, gross-out apocalypse comedy, debating the value of their lives when confronted with the confirmation of God’s existence. Imagine if this vanity project had been conceived by Tom Cruise, Will Smith, and […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Wolf of Wall Street
June 17, 2013 0 Comments
Leonardo DiCaprio gets his Gatsby on once again in the trailer for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Just as Kanye West and Jay-Z’s ‘No Church in the Wild’ scored Baz Luhrmann’s first trailer for The Great Gatsby, ‘Black Skinheads’ from West’s latest album, Yeezus, opens up the latest DiCaprio joint. Based on Jordan […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: This Is The End (Red Band)
April 2, 2013 0 Comments
The red-band trailer for Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s all-star directorial debut This Is The End has arrived online. The picture stars Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and Jay Baruchel as themselves; the only survivors of a house-party gone catastrophically wrong. In this new clip, we see their famous friends – namely Rihanna, a coke-snorting […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Django Unchained (with our first look at Sam Jackson and Jonah Hill)
October 12, 2012 0 Comments
Another trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Django Unchained is released, giving us the best look at this audacious film yet. This exciting trailer shows us a much wider picture of the world the film is set in, showcasing several scenes with a greying Samuel L Jackson doing his best wise old Morgan Freeman impression. We […]
Continue readingProtect yourself – The Watch review
September 13, 2012 1 Comment
The Watch – Starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill. Directed by Akiva Schaffer. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. The Watch will be an odd experience for anyone not acquainted with director Akiva Schaffer’s previous effort Hot Rod. To the casual observer, this all-star sci-fi comedy with a fixation on male appendages of all […]
Continue readingDownhill – The Sitter review
July 24, 2012 0 Comments
The Sitter – Starring Jonah Hill, Ari Graynor, and Sam Rockwell. Directed by David Gordon Green. Rated MA. By Richard Haridy. The Sitter arrives on DVD and Blu-ray July 25, 2012. Jonah Hill starred in two films in 2011; one of those movies, Moneyball, garnered him a well-deserved Academy Award nomination, whilst his other, The […]
Continue readingAll class – 21 Jump Street review
July 19, 2012 0 Comments
21 Jump Street – Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Brie Larson. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Rated MA. Originally published March 7, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. 21 Jump Street is now available on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia, and via Quickflix Pay Per View. In this cinematic reimagining of the 80s TV show 21 Jump Street, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star as incompetent and immature police […]
Continue readingDujardin, Spencer, Malick, and McConaughey now Oscar voters
July 2, 2012 0 Comments
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended invites to 176 individuals, granting them voting rights in future Oscar ceremonies. Deadline has the full list of new members, including 2012 winners Jean Dujardin and Octavia Spencer, as well as recent nominees Jonah Hill, Melissa McCarthy, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, and Bérénice Bejo. Industry stalwarts […]
Continue readingAussie Margot Robbie might star in Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street
June 20, 2012 0 Comments
Australian actress Margot Robbie (Neighbours) is in talks for the female lead in Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of The Wolf of Wall Street, according to Deadline. The film, adapted from the bestselling memoir by Jordon Belfort, already has Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Jon Bernthal, and Jean Dujardin (The Artist) attached to star. Robbie would star opposite […]
Continue readingJonah Hill set for Django Unchained
June 18, 2012 0 Comments
Jonah Hill has scored a role in Quentin Tarantino‘s already-shooting Django Unchained, Deadline reports. Hill was originally set to star as the fellow who loses Django’s (Jamie Foxx) slave wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) to plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). When scheduling conflicts interfered, Hill was replaced by Sacha Baron Cohen, who himself exited the […]
Continue readingJean Dujardin in talks for Martin Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street
June 15, 2012 0 Comments
Oscar winning star of The Artist, Jean Dujardin, might star in Martin Scorsese‘s upcoming collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street. DiCaprio will star as Jordan Belfort – author of the memoir on which the film is based – a drug/alcohol/sex-addicted stock-broker who went from multi-millionaire to convict within the span of a […]
Continue readingKurt Russell and Sacha Baron Cohen pull out of Django Unchained
May 11, 2012 1 Comment
Production has already begun on Quentin Tarantino‘s spaghetti western Django Unchained, but two notable actors have pulled out of key roles. According to Variety’s Jeff Snider, Kurt Russell has abandoned the part of slave trainer Ace Woody. He follows in the footsteps of Kevin Costner, who first turned down the role. The reasons for his exit have not […]
Continue readingJonah Hill joins Scorsese and DiCaprio for Wolf of Wall Street
May 7, 2012 0 Comments
Jonah Hill is taking his career seriously. Following his Oscar nominated turn in Moneyball, he has signed on to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese‘s upcoming adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s memoir The Wolf of Wall Street. DiCaprio is attached to play Belfort, a drug/alcohol/sex-addicted broker who went from multi-millionaire to convict within the span of a decade. […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Watch
May 7, 2012 0 Comments
The first feature trailer for Akiva Schaffer‘s alien-invasion comedy The Watch has landed online. The pic stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade as wannabe vigilantes who patrol their local streets, and unwittingly happen upon an intergalactic plot for world domination. The picture was originally titled Neighbourhood Watch, but 20th Century Fox changed the title to distance it from the George […]
Continue readingWatson, Cera, Segel, and Rihanna joining Rogen’s Apocalypse party
May 2, 2012 0 Comments
Even more stars have joined Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s directorial debut/end-of-days party, The Apocalypse. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Harry Potter‘s Emma Watson is in negotiations to appear in the flick. Rogen previously revealed that Harry himself, Daniel Radcliffe, turned down an opportunity to star, stating, “it doesn’t look like he’s willing to push things […]
Continue readingThe great game – Moneyball review
April 12, 2012 0 Comments
Moneyball – Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Directed by Bennett Miller. Rated M. Originally published November 10, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Moneyball is now available on DVD and Blu-ray, and can be streamed via Quickflix’s Pay Per View service. Bennet Miller‘s Moneyball is an underdog tale, both on the screen and behind the scenes (but more on that later). It documents […]
Continue readingAziz Ansari brings in The Apocalypse
April 10, 2012 0 Comments
Aziz Ansari will join his buddies for an unforgettable end-of-the-world party in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s directorial debut, The Apocalypse. His casting was revealed in an interview with Grantland. Ansari – like fellow cast members James Franco, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and Rogen – will play a version of himself. Rogen and Goldberg’s script […]
Continue reading21 Jump Street sequel in the works
March 19, 2012 1 Comment
When we spoke to 21 Jump Street directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord last week about a potential sequel to their buddy comedy, they said they had to “wait and see if planet Earth likes it as much as we do.” Well, it seems planet Earth does. The picture opened to an impressive $35 million in the […]
Continue readingInterview: Chris Miller & Phil Lord (21 Jump Street)
March 14, 2012 0 Comments
Interview: Chris Miller & Phil Lord (Directors of 21 Jump Street). By Simon Miraudo. Chris Miller and Phil Lord are following in the footsteps of Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton (just barely) before them, leaving behind the world of animation and making their live-action feature debut. However, unlike Pixar alumni Bird and Stanton – who began the […]
Continue readingAll class – 21 Jump Street review
March 7, 2012 2 Comments
21 Jump Street – Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Brie Larson. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. In this cinematic reimagining of the 80s TV show 21 Jump Street, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star as incompetent and immature police officers banished to an experimental undercover department where they […]
Continue readingJonah Hill and James Franco team for dramatic True Story
February 29, 2012 0 Comments
Jonah Hill and James Franco are trading in comedy for drama in the Brad Pitt produced True Story, Deadline reports. The film is an adaptation of journalist Michael Finkel’s memoir and will be directed by Rupert Goold, who has predominantly worked in theatre and most recently wrote and produced Richard II with Patrick Stewart. Fresh […]
Continue readingThe Quickflix Oscar Live-Blog
February 27, 2012 0 Comments
Will French film The Artist become the first non-US/UK production to win Best Picture? Can Meryl Streep collect her third acting Oscar? Could funny people Jonah Hill, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Bret McKenzie take home an Academy Award? Will anyone be able to pronounce the name Michel Hazanavicius? All will be revealed. Join us for … Also follow us on Twitter and Facebook to see all the result […]
Continue readingYou’re invited to The Quickflix Oscar Live-Blog
February 22, 2012 0 Comments
By our count, it’s been … ooh … 51 weeks since the Countdown to the Oscars first began. Can you believe the 84th Academy Awards ceremony is now mere days away? UPDATE: It’s happening right here! Before we start heralding next year’s nominees (The Grey!), let’s send off the current batch in style. All 5,765 of the […]
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