Well, it looks like Guy Ritchie (right) and Joel Silver’s Sgt. Rock will have to wait. Ritchie will direct Sherlock Holmes for Warner Bros., an adaptation of producer Lionel Wigram’s upcoming comic book. Neil Marshall was previously attached to helm, and WB has said that the film will have the same realism and seriousness as [...]

Lionsgate has released the official teaser trailer for Frank Miller’s big screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit. I’m actually surprised at how well Miller has been able to translate his visual style to the big screen. I was, and still am, quite skeptical in Miller’s directing ablities, especially with Robert Rodriguez not at his [...]

Update: Watch The Spirit Teaser Trailer Here.
Lionsgate just released the new one-sheet for Frank Miller’s The Spirit featuring the film’s signature catchphrase, “My City Screams,” spelled out in noir-ish sooted city brick. Really well executed, don’t cha think, and this is merely the early lead-up to the movie’s January 2009 release. I’m sure the marketing [...]

The graphic novel/comic book miniseries, The Damned, has been described as a cross between “Hellblazer and The Untouchables.” Relative newcomer David DiGilio (8 Below) will adapt the screenplay for DreamWorks. From the minds of Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, The Damned is notable for being set in the prohibition-era of American crime and follows an [...]

Just three years old, high school-noir got its start with Rian Johnson’s Brick (released in 2006 after being picked up at the Sundance Film Festival a year earlier). Set in a Northern California high school and centered on the investigation of missing student by her former boyfriend, a detective of sorts, and featuring hyper-stylized dialogue [...]

The following review contains spoilers and touches on topics and themes from the film, There Will Be Blood, which may prove unsettling for some readers. This review is long as hell because TWBB is long as hell, but it is also one of the best films ever made and the best film this decade.
The fact [...]

In what will mark their second consecutive film examining the Jewish experience following 2009’s A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen will write, direct and produce an adaptation of feted author Michael Chabon’s 2007 bestseller The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Mega-producer Scott Rudin, who was behind the Coens’s No Country for Old Men as well as [...]

Oh yes, my first Quentin Tarantino post here on the great Slash. Warning: I am not going to get to the point. There are some directors I still cannot wait to interview. Not Tarantino. Like Michael Jordan, a living Bobby Fisher, Gregory Isaacs, J.D. Salinger, the Rza, or my favorite ex gal, I’d [...]

A couple years ago Alex Merkin made a short film called Across the Hall, which ran the film festival circuit. Entourage’s Adrian Grenier starred, and festival-goers compared the Merkin short to a modern day Hitchcock flim. On February 6th Merkin will go into production on an expanded feature length version of the film noir thriller [...]

One of the best films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival is the Assassination of a High School President, which I described in my review as “If John Hughes had made Chinatown set in a High School” or “Brick with a sense of humor.”
I was just able to score five video clips from the upcoming [...]

Assassination of a High School President is a murder mystery set in a high school, without the murder. Assassination of a High School President will likely be compared to Brick in every review you read, and every conversation you have about te flick. Yet, Assassination is not a copy of Brick, in fact, it was [...]

Worst trailer, ever. Get smart, trailer. What has happened to us as a people? Steve Carell is a genuinely funny dude. Anne Hathaway is such a babe she can make guys who chop down trees for a living enjoy a movie about the dying publishing industry, and almost cry. How do you eff this up? [...]

Director Zack Snyder has posted the two storyboards viewed below for his 2009 tent pole, Watchmen, on the film’s official website. The storyboards, which map out scenes with Rorschach, can be seen as yet another gage of how faithful Snyder is staying to Alan Moore’s championed graphic novel. Snyder goes into considerable detail about this [...]

With Sin City 2 in some kind of delayed limbo — some people speculate that the film is stuck in the same place that Captain Jack found himself at the beginning of Pirates 3. So I’m not exactly sure how credible this is, but Frank Miller has told MTV that he is also planning to [...]

Yesterday we told you that Michael Madsen believes that Sin City 2 might not going to happen due to the box office failure of Grindhouse. We wondered how one of the film’s main stars was so unsure about the production, when the movie was scheduled to start shooting in June. Now we have word (via [...]