When MGM first announced they were developing a Robocop remake, I was one of the few who thought it had potential. But when I heard they were thinking of making the project in 3D, I lost all hope. This would have probably result in a PG-13 theme park ride on the big screen. I mean, [...]

Hearts of Darkness was a famous documentary which chronicled the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic war film Apocalypse Now.
Rain of Madness is a mockumentary chronicling the fictional war movie that is the subject of the upcoming Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder. A trailer has been released online.
The concept is actually a lot better than [...]

Citizens For Batman arranged meet-ups tonight in Chicago and New York. /Film reader Mike Wolf sends in this report from tonight’s Dark Knight viral event in Chicago. Photos thanks to PizzaPaul on CFB.org.
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I just got back from the Citizens for Batman rally in Chicago and it was very anti-climatic. Rather than having a real rally [...]

A superb and highly recommended bit of non-fiction writing that’s currently circulating amongst screenwriter types is “Montague the Magnificent,” by noted sports journalist Leigh Montville for Smithsonian magazine. We don’t do this often at Slashfilm but: Hey, Guy in Hollywood looking for a great movie premise, here you go. In the 1930s, a man calling [...]

UPDATED 07/08/08: Tarantino is reportedly now in talks with Brad Pitt to star in his WWII-Spaghetti Western blowout, Inglorious Bastards, according to Nikki Finke. Pitt previously starred as the stoner Floyd in True Romance, a QT script.
Before the update a few /Film readers speculated in the comments that Tarantino was going outside The Weinstein Co. [...]

Paramount has released a new international movie trailer for Tropic Thunder. And while it might not be as hilarious as the previously released red band trailer, it’s still pretty damn funny. Even with the fart joke. Ddi you know fart jokes are huge overseas? Apparently so. Could this be the funniest war comedy of all [...]

Remember last year when the first photo from Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist was released? Well they have now made the production photo (seen above) into a poster, which has been released on MTV.
Michael Cera (SuperBad) and Kat Dennings (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) star. Directed by Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas), and based on the novel [...]

Peter Jackson included the names of the members of the official Lord of the Rings fan club in the credits for the DVD releases of the LOTR trilogy. Guillermo del Toro might actually top him, promising that fans will actually have “a good chance” to appear on screen in The Hobbit and/or the announced sequel.
“In [...]

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Hellboy on Ghost Hunters and American Gladiators

The Pitch: Hellboy continues his promotional tour by appearing on Ghost Hunters and American Gladiators.
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You might not have to wait until Pineapple Express to see a new trailer for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Smith has posted on his website that “the marketing folks are working hard to have a Red Band trailer for Comic Con”. Either way, Smith is expected to show some footage in [...]

Rumor has it that the lead role of Alice has been cast in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. The latest name to enter the rumor mill is Ryan Nikole Parker (pictured right), a virtual unknown with only a few television credits (One Life to Live, Kids Incorporated and American Idol).
Other names circling the rumor mill [...]

Remember when Michael Bay revealed that his Awesome idea to have a transforming aircraft-carrier in Transformers was cut due to budgetary concerns? Well, apparently the idea was more than just an idea, because Transformers artist Tim Flattery recently released a batch of his concept art from the original film, and one of the pieces shows [...]

More pulp violence from Rob Zombie today, with the director posting a new piece of art from his secretive, live-action film entitled Tyrannosaurus Rex on MySpace. The art is in the same style as the previously released teaser poster, and bears similarity to this cover of The Nail, the Dark Horse comic book Zombie collaborated [...]

Sacha Baron Cohen strikes yet again. For his upcoming Borat follow-up Bruno, Cohen tricked Yossi Alpher, a former Israeli spy and Palestinian academic Ghassam Khalib into appearing in the film under the guise that it was a youth documentary. The Sun reports that Bruno mistook the militant Arab group Hamas for the food “hummus”, and [...]

Warner Bros has released four new high resolution photos from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Click on the photos below to enlarge.