Edgar Wright News

Folks in the UK can break out their calendars and clear a space for August 27, 2010 because The Playlist is reporting that's the day Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs.

Back in November, Total Film assembled at a secret location somewhere in London for a photoshoot to die for.

Today, filmmaker Edgar Wright is basically in the world for your amusement. First he and his fellow Shaun of the Dead visionaries Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunited for a photoshoot for Total Film , in which the magazine staff played zombies and the three heroes dressed in white tuxedo jackets and laughed the whole thing off.

The first four or five titles sprang to mind without hesitation, but extracting the rest from two or three dozen worthy contenders proved difficult.

Channel 4's Spaced was one of the most brilliant comedies to have been written in the past 20 years and it's currently mid-series repeat on Dave on Monday nights.

Darryl Mason exposes Murdoch's own Klepto streak... Murdoch Media Busted Stealing Blog Content .

Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright says his third film with Simon Pegg will be "mint choc chip" flavoured and that the pair will probably cut off communication to get the script finished.

Before they brought you Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright developed a short-lived TV series that would become one of the best sitcoms at the time.

One of my big films in 2010 is director Edgar Wright's "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World". A As the director of "Spaced", "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz", Edgar Wright has proven that he's one of the best directors working today.A While I'd be interested in whatever project he chose to do as his next film, the fact that he's making the fantastic ...

"More of this is true than you'd believe," read the opening words of Grant Heslov's riotous docu-comedy, based on the 2004 U.S. military expose written by Guardian journalist Jon Ronson.

Studio Canal-owned U.K. indie distributor Optimum Releasing has joined up with British production label Big Talk, the team behind movies including "Shaun Of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz," sealing a co-financing and co-production pact, the duo said Thursday.

You may not know much about writer and soon-to-be-director Joe Cornish , but you might in the very near future.

If you've ever rented a grotty flat, done a rubbish job or watched a lot of 90s telly and films, you'll love Spaced Few sitcoms demonstrate how to escape a teenage mugging using the power of mime, how to use "sex noise" sound effects to fool your landlady, how to profess your sorrow through the medium of a tank, or how to liberate kidnapped pets ...

The second offering in our three part series Halloween at the Movies presents you with a list of the different horror features currently playing at one of our many fine theaters around town.

Attack the Block is set to be the directorial debut of Joe Cornish , a south London comedy-action film that will pitch a gang of yoots against an alien invasion.

Hailed as First Film for 'Joystick Generation' Edgar Wright's big-screen adaptation of the Scott Pilgrim comic books isn't even done yet , but Juno director Jason Reitman thinks you should be excited about it a ' especially if you play videogames.

You should start by knowing that Jason Reitman and Edgar Wright are pals, that they look almost exactly alike , and every now and then refer to each other as husbands.

DREAD DATE NIGHT " Halloween on Screen " slithers into AFI Silver once again for a festival of blood-curdling cinema and freaktastic film.

ComingSoon.net attended the UK press junket for Richard Curtis' Pirate Radio , at which we spoke with actor Nick Frost, who plays ultra-hip '60s DJ "Doctor Dave." During the roundtable interview, the subject of Frost's next film Paul came up.

The folks at MakingOf.com passed along this really cool interview with actress Aubrey Plaza who plays Julie Powers in the upcoming film "Scott Pilgrim vs.