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Stories By Brendon Connelly
  • Kevin Feige Confirms Line-Up For The Avengers

    Making a coherent Avengers film that somehow bridges the styles of the other Marvel universe movies probably won't be an easy job for whoever gets the job. Fans of the comic series are fairly well prepared to see discordant arrangements of characters both crossover and team up, but for a mainstream crowd, the collage might…
  • Green Lantern Concept Art

    It's worth remembering that the creation of concept art takes place specifically to explore a wide range of possibilities and to see which design routes will best suit the production, and as such, a piece of concept artwork does not necessarily represent the look of the film. Having said that, such images can sometimes reveal a…
  • John Requa And Glenn Ficarra To Direct Steve Carell Comedy

    Not too long ago, word came that Dan Fogleman had sold a spec script to Warners and it was now being set up as a Steve Carell vehicle. The premise, Russ reported, was simple enough: Carell would be “a father whose life unravels while he deals with a marital crisis and tries to manage his…
  • Sam Worthington In Negotiations For Role As Alex Proyas' Dracula

    The scoop belongs to Latino Review but consolidation (to put it politely) comes from The Hollywood Reporter: Sam Worthington, genre movie man of the moment, is in talks for the lead role in Dracula: Year Zero. Alex Proyas' long brewing origin picture is set to mix the story of Vlad the Impaler with familiar vampire…
  • Analyst Declares Sundance's Youtube Streaming Inititative A Flop

    Last week Devindra told us about a new initiative to democratise the Sundance experience just a little.  In a pioneering move to undercut the elite access of Utah-bound schmoozers and carousers, 2009 and 2010 selections The Cove, One Too Many Mornings, Homewrecker, Children of Invention, and Bass Ackwards were each made available on YouTube for…
  • Movie Trailer: The Insane Clown Posse's Western, Big Money Rustlas

    They say I have clown phobia, but phobias are irrational fears, so they're wrong. My fear is quite rational. Thanks to all the whiteface on display, watching the trailer for off-the-wall western Big Money Rustlas, the second Insane Clown Posse movie, was quite a thrill ride for me. Nothing quite as heart-jabbing as the big…
  • AC/DC Music Video With New Iron Man 2 Footage

    The soundtrack to Iron Man 2 at least seems novel. According to a new press release, it's going to feature an awful lot of AC/DC and, presumably, not much else. Pre-orders are open today for the album AC/DC:Iron Man 2, set to shelf on April 19th, 9 days before the movie hits. Below the break…
  • Mortal Kombat Redo In The Works

    There's a surprising little story at Bloody Disgusting which reveals Warner Bros. are in early development of a new Mortal Kombat movie. They've already selected a writer in Oren Uziel, author of the Black List 2009 entry Shimmer Lake. That script was a twisty, suspenseful thriller that combined murder mystery with a bank heist plotline,…
  • Repo Chick Movie Trailer

    On the basis of this trailer it would seem that Alex Cox's Repo Chick is less a sequel to his well-aged cult fave Repo Man as it is a strange, post-modern collage that simply uses the Repo connection as one more reference point in a tangled constellation. It also seems to be an openly disagreeable…
  • Red Band From Paris With Love Clip

    See a fresh red band clip from Pierre Morel's From Paris With Love after the break, courtesy of My Space. It gives us a pretty good idea of the particular 'types' John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers have been allocated. There's also a bit of swearing, some violence and a bit of business with a…
  • New Airbender Banners And Trailer News

    Throw what you want, it won't stick anyway - I'm really looking forward to M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. It seems to me that he's got just the skills, story instincts and appropriate technical discipline to pull off a film of this type. Yahoo have unveiled two banners for the film, one showcasing the…
  • Cars 2 Concept Art

    The first concept art for Brad Lewis and Pixar's upcoming Cars 2 has been unveiled. That's it above. Okay, I say concept art - it's probably, to be more specific, a panel from a colour script. Already we have a great feel for how thise scene is going to look, what kind of emotional texture…
  • Powers TV Pilot To Team Brian Bendis With Journeyman's Kevin Falls

    I've been trying to keep abreast of development on the possible Powers TV series for some time now. Okay, well, before February 2009, I thought I was keeping abreast of a possible Powers movie, but the interest has been there whatever the medium. If you don't know the original comics, here's the pitch: homicide detectives…
  • First Hobbit Movie Looks To Be Delayed Until The End Of 2012

    In a fresh Variety story about the rebooted New Line, there's one heck of a Hobbit bombshell. Let's just go straight to it: [Warners top dog Alan] Horn won't predict when the first of the two Hobbit films will be out, but says the most probable scenario would be a release in the fourth quarter…
  • Happy Tears Trailer

    The first trailer for Mitchell Lichtenstein's follow-up to Teeth is finally here, and embedded below the break, ahead of a limited theatrical release on February 19th and a VOD due date six days later. Happy Tears appears to be a kind of The Savages-lite comedy about families, particular child-father relationships, and stars Parker Posey, Rip…
  • /Film UK - Danny Boyle's Frankenstein, Mesrine, Zach Galligan And More

    Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already…
  • The 2010 BAFTA Nominations

    The nominations for the British Academy Film and Television Awards have been announced and Avatar, The Hurt Locker and An Education have run up the best totals. At eight nominations each it'd be an upset for any of those films to leave empty handed, which is just the kind of set-up that can add a…
  • Peter Dinklage In Talks For Knights Of Badassdom, Synopsis Revealed

    Peter Dinklage is reportedly in talks to take a role in Joe Lynch's horror/comedy/adventure The Knights of Badassdom. The film was produced and co-written (with Kevin Dreyfuss) by Matt Wall, producer of Dinklage's upcoming St. John of Las Vegas so there's clearly a relationship there and I can imagine anybody lucky enough to get Dinklage…
  • Clive Owen To Star In Soldier Vs. Mexican Gangs Actioner, Protection

    According to the latest twitter actions of Production Weekly, it's been all change both behind and in front of the camera with action drama Protection. Luckily for us, they're both changes for the better with original director Simon West out in favour of B:13 Ultimatum's Patrick Alessandrin and Paul Walker traded in for Clive Owen…
  • Pirnaha 3D Movie Trailer

    While there's still not an official online release of the Piranha 3D trailer, the latest version to pop up across the web at least takes us past the shaky-cam bootleg that was doing the rounds last week. You can see the new, stable version embedded after the break. The original Piranha was hardly the most…
  • Tarantino Updates His 2009 Top 8 - Plus, A Crazy Medieval Film Rumor

    Let's get this daftness out of the way first: The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., is reporting that Quentin Tarantino wants to cast Helen Mirren as a foul-mouthed queen in a medieval-era project. Really, The Sun? What on earth inspired that story, I do not know. Not that I wouldn't…