The Simpsons Movie (Fox) dipped an estimated 17% from its meteoric Friday opening, but the animated TV adaptation still grabbed approximately $24.15M. With a conservative 20% Sunday drop, the first big screen adventure for Homer and family will still have banked a phenomenal $72.5M. That's 45% more than industry tracking services NRG, MarketCast and OTX…
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The Simpsons Movie debuts today in just under 4,000 locations, and, to me, the question is "Will this be a $10 experience?" After 19 years and 400 episodes, how many jokes remain untold? We're about to find out. After averaging 13.4 million viewers per episode back in season 1, the TV series on Fox declined…
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 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry will probably challenge Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix for the weekend crown, but Hairspray is the movie that holds the most box office intrigue. Directed by Adam Shankman (Bringin' Down the House), Hairspray is getting the widest opening for any film musical in the…
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 HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX continued its box office roll on Saturday grabbing an estimated $28.82M, putting the fifth installment of the Potter franchise past the $100M mark on just its 4th day of release. It will be tough for HP5 to reach $80M for its traditional Fri-Sun 3-day, but my…
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 HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (Warner Bros) continued its strong run at the box office on Friday grabbing an estimated $26.5M, bringing its 3-day cume to just shy of $90M. That should put HP5 right at $80M for the traditional Fri thru Sun 3-day weekend, and it will give ORDER OF…
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Our friend Steve Mason at FantasyMoguls sends exclusive word that sometime on Monday, Paramount Pictures passed $1 billion in domestic ticket sales for 2007. And apparently July 9 is the earliest that any studio has ever topped the billion dollar mark. Congratulations is in order for Paramount. But it doesn't stop there. Sometime this weekend,…
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As predicted, Transformers kicked more ass at the box office this weekend, with a Sunday morning estimate of $67.6 million. This brings the giant robot film to a grand total of $152.5 million in just 6.1 days of release (the film opening on Monday night at 8:00pm). WOW. Our friend Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls…
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 In a summer full of big blockbuster movies, adaptations, sequels and threequels, you would think that Hollywood would have made some record scratch. Not so! According to the AP, attendance is running behind last summer's and has even fallen below that of the summer of 2005. According to Media By Numbers, 279 million tickets had…
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For months George Lucas and Steven Spielberg promised that Sean Connery's character (Dr. Henry Jones Sr.) was included in the script for Indiana Jones 4. So when the film went into production and Connery announced that he would not be back after-all, we cried fowl. I hope Conner's part was very small, for their sake.…
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Kino-Govno have posted five postcards from the BuyNLarge corporation which were passed out at Comic-Con in promotion of Disney's WALL-E. We posted extensive coverage of the Saturday afternoon Pixar panel held at the convention, which includes a ton of new plot and character details (you can see the characters in the posters below). WALL-E is…
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Malemunyon has sent us some interesting information on the possible title for the JJ Abrams' produced top-secret monster movie code-named Cloverfield. Apparently Group One Productions, LLC, and Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer registered a trademark (#77232885) "Overnight" on July 18, 2007, for the use in "motion picture, television and music production and distribution services." The Attorney of…
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 Variety is reporting that Michael Bay's production company Platinum Dunes hope to release a remake of Friday the 13th in 2009. Four of the films have been released on Friday the 13th, which just seems like too big of a marketing gimmick to drop. And 2009 contains three Fridays that happen to fall on…
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The new movie trailer for Dedication came out while we were away from the real world at a place called Comic-Con). Dedication is a new independent romantic comedy about a misogynistic children's book author (Billy Crudup) who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator (Moore) instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend…
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We've been following Jason Reitman's career for some time now. Ever since we peeped his incredible short film In God We Trust on Atom Films several years ago. Jason is of course the son of Ghostbusters and Animal House director Ivan Reitman. But he's not standing it Ivan's shadows. He's been making a name for…
Read More Vince Vaughn is "soooo Money." According to Variety, the actor has signed a first-look two-year deal with Universal to produce three features as potential starring vehicles. The three Universal projects include: Male Doula: A high-concept comedy to be scripted by Dana Fox (The Wedding Date). An Untitled Jon Favreau Comedy: A comedy about couple that…
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One of the few posters we missed at Comic-Con 2007 is this exclusive Hellboy 2 teaser poster illustrated by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. I definitely would have picked this one up if IÂ had seen it on the show-floor. The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy…
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 Judd Apatow is on a roll. 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and SuperBad (which I had a chance to see during Comic-Con. It's possibly the best teen comedy since American Pie.) And Apartow isn't wasting any time. He's striking while the iron is hot and cranking out so many movies, a backlash is…
Read More I just got back from Comic-Con yesterday morning, and the exhaustion hit me hard. With only three hours of sleep (whose idea was it to go watch a late showing of The Simpsons Movie?), I caught a 7:00am flight from San Diego to SFO. I transfered to the BART (our local subway/commuter train) to downtown…
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Sony has put the new red band movie trailer for 30 Days of Night on the official website. I'm very surprised at how this film is turning out. I haven't read the comic book series but have picked it up many times while browsing the shelves at Borders or my local comic shop. The art…
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When AFI released their list of the Top 100 Movies of All Time, many people were up in arms over the selections. Over 50 members of the Online Film Journalist Community decided to join together and create a list of their own. A list that might better reflect the views of everyone else who didn't…
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The Iron Man footage and The Incredible Hulk reveal from Comic Con 2007 have found their way onto YouTube. The Iron Man footage is what everyone at the Con is talking about. Favreau told us that the fan reaction to the clip has convinced Paramount to go full throttle promoting the film. Check them out…
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John Woo's Hard Boiled and Last Hurrah for Chivalry hit DVD store shelves on July 24th, and we have a copy of each for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On August 5th we will e-mail the winner with the best…
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At the Marvel Studios panel at Comic Con 2007, it was revealed that The Incredible Hulk star Edward Norton also wrote the script. "I came into this and I wrote the screenplay," revealed Norton. "I was the Marvel kid. I had subscriptions to a lot of the marvel comics. I loved Hulk, the early incarnation…
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The following is my transcript from Andrew Stanton's WALL-E panel at Comic Con 2007. More information than ever before was revealed of Pixar's next Summer release. But don't listen to me, here is Andrew talking about the project: There was this one leftover nugget that wasn't even a full idea. It was just a question.…
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Disney premiered the new movie trailer for National Treasure: Book of Secrets at Comic-Con 2007. The new trailer revealed much more about the film's plot. A missing page from John Wilkes Booth's diary reveals that treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage)'s great grandfather might have actually been the one responsible for Lincoln's assassination. Gates…
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"Doomsday is hugely inspired by the films I grew up with, post apocalyptic thrillers - Mad Max, Road Warriors, says Descent director Neil Marshall. "I wouldn't say it's a horror movie but I would say it's a dark and brutal action thriller." The place is Great Britain. The year is 2007. A deadly plague, known…
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LucasFilm released yet another teaser poster for Indiana Jones 4 during the Star Wars panel at Comic-Con 2007. The new poster is the most official looking yet (as the one we posted a few days back was actually just a collage of Indy artwork from the first three films).The new poster features Indy's signature hat…
Read More Okay, so doing Comic-Con is more daunting than I ever could have expected. I thought I would be able to keep up with the news outside of the con inbetween panels. But there really is no time in between panels. And when you get back to your hotel at 3:00am the last thing you want…
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Last night was a lot of fun. I met up with most of the other big movie bloggers from across the U.S., a list which includes:Â John (themovieblog), Kevin (Cinematical), Vic and John (Screenrant), Alex, Jessica, Josh, Dave (FirstShowing.Net) and Jen (Rotten Tomatoes). The party took place on the roof of the W Hotel on…
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The Host hit DVD store shelves on July 24th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On August 3rd we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found…
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Warner Bros has released a new photo and teaser trailer for the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. The new photo shows The Joker (Heath Ledger) holding a knife up to Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal). The teaser trailer would have been great if it had been released a few months ago, but now that we've…
Read More Zack Snyder made an appearance at Comic Con to promote his upcoming big screen adaptation of Watchmen. Snyder is one of those guys who talks in sound-bytes. Everything he says is interesting of relevant and he spits out the information in a rapid fire pace, at times almost like a Machine gun. I really tried…
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Joel Silver was at Comic-Con to premiere the first trailer for the big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Whiteout. The clip began by showing Antarctica. A helicopter flies by some snow filled mountains. "The most isolated land mass on the planet." "No official government, No official population, because when the winter comes the sky…
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During the Whiteout panel at the 2007 Comic Con, Kate Beckinsale was asked if she had any interest in playing Catwoman in the next Batman movie. "Because I have a thing for black latex," joked Beckinsale. "I think Michelle Pfeiffer was such an awesome Catwoman. I would be intimidated but I don't know if my…
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Director Peter Segal, stars Steve Carell, The Rock, Masi Oka, Ken Davitian, and Nate Torrence were in attendance to debut the first video clips from the big screen adaptation of Get Smart during the Friday morning Warner Bros panel at Comic-Con 2007. The clip begins with a voiceover telling us that "There has always been…
Read More Comic Con is 15 times bigger than I expected. Covering the panels on Thursday was an extemely overwhelming experience. Especially since I'm trying to cover everything by myself. I came out of the Paramount panel knowing that it was not my best work. The result feels very rushed. The good news is that I've started…
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AICN is reporting that the title for JJ Abrams upcoming top secret monster flick (currently code-named Cloverfield or 1-18-08) might be Colossus. No official confirmation. Paramount released a limited edition set of four teaser posters at comic-con. Each poster shows the same headless statue of liberty picture. What's different is the wording on the top…
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Paramount had a strong showing at the first official day of Comic-Con 2007. In addition to our previous posts, the studio released a comic-con exclusive Sweeney Todd moI'm not exactly sure that I'm excited to see this flick as I'm not typically a musical guy. But if this poster is any indication, the film could…
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Nomad: The Warrior hit DVD store shelves on July 24th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On August 1st we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be…
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Paramount was handing out a bag full of stuff at the Paramount panel. The swag bags included three t-shirts: Star Trek, Iron Man and Slusho (a frozen drink from JJ Abrams' Cloverfield). Check out the photos after the jump.
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SAW IV producer Mark Burg and director Darren Lynn Bousman announced at Comic-Con that the MPAA has given SAW 4 an NC-17 rating. I assume they will go back and make cuts to earn a R-rating but producer Mark Burg says "One day we'd like to have the guts and leave it like it is"…
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Note: This article was posted live from Comic Con during the panel. So please excuse us if we dont go into many details on some stories. I'm typing as fast and accurately as we can. :) 6,500 people have packed the big exhibition hall (which looks like a very large warehouse or airport hanger) for…
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I'm sitting in Hall H for the Paramount panel, so this is a quick update. Paramount has given us the new posters for the JJ Abrams produced monster flick code-named Cloverfield and his upcoming Star Trek prequel. It looks liked "Monsterous" has been removed from the poster. I wonder if Paramount had secound thoughts about…
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Last night a movie theater full of film press packed a big digital theater in downtown San Diego to watch 20 minutes of Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf. Screenwriters Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman were on hand to field questions following the screening. The screening started late because the theater was at the end of a multi-level…
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While waiting outside of Comic Con , we ran into two busses decked out in full promotion for the upcoming Spaceballs animated series and the WarGames direct to DVD sequel. We were able to snap off a couple photos before they drove away. We've written at lengths about our disgust for movie studios raping some…
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I just got back to our hotel from the big Beowulf footage premiere and party at Comic-Con 2007. One of the many things they showed us was this movie trailer, but in digital 3D. I'm interested in hearing what you guys think of this one because on the computer screen it looks a little flat…
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I was surprised to find that Paramount are handing out Indiana Jones 4 teaser posters on the show floor of Comic-Con 2007. I grabbed one on my journey through the massively crowded and exhausting preview night. The new poster is a collage of past character paintings of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. The bottom reads…
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USA Today published a new photo of Disney/Pixar's Wall-E (Trailer, Photos). The year is 2700. WALL•E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for. From Academy Award®-winning director, Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo), WALL•E is the story of one robot's comic adventures as…
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The casting for Zack Snyder's big screen adaptation of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel Watchmen has been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. But honestly most of the names on the list have been rumored to be attached to the project for months. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is the only name not in our report from last…
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I just arrived in San Diego this morning, and boy is this place beautiful. The airport was packed with comic book geeks. You couldn't look in any one direction without seeing at-least one Star Wars, Grindhouse or a Sin City t-shirt. The city is prepared to be taken over by convention attendees. When Comic Con…
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Lionsgate has released a new international movie poster for SAW IV. The poster depicts Tobin Bell's (who plays Jigsaw in the film series) head in a supermarket produce scale. So yes, Jigsaw is dead. The previously released official plot synopsis is below. Click on the poster image to the right to enlarge. Jigsaw and his…
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Heroes star Greg Grunberg revealed to TV Guide that he has been cast in JJ Abrams' top secret monster movie project code-named Cloverfield. "It'll probably be something where no one will be able to tell it's me," he said. "As you know, J.J. calls me his good-luck charm, so he's got to put me in…
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 On July 24th, I had the chance to sit down with Hot Rod and Lonely Island trio Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer. You can tell instantly that these three guys have been friends since 7th grade. They play off each other like they've been doing it for many years. The interview was…
Read More This morning I will be hopping on a plane and heading to San Diego for the 2007 Comic-Con. The convention officially starts on Thursday but we'll be at ground level for the preview night. We also have a special invitation to a screening of 3D Beowulf footage. So I should have something to report back…
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Dynamite Warrior and Yo-Yo Girl Cop hit DVD store shelves on July 24th, and we have a copy of each for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On August 1st we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information…
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 The Los Angeles Times has a first look at Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf. The article includes two brand spanking new images (seen above and to the right). Here is an interesting clipping from the newspaper's feature: His knack for a good scrap is on show in one of the film's pivotal fight scenes when Beowulf…
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Someone just e-mailed us this photo. Apparently a spy snuck onto the show floor of Comic Con and captured this photo from (presumably) the Hasbro booth. It appears to be a miniature from this new film that is currently in production - Indiana Jones 4. Ever hear of it? The working title of the film…
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Marvel producer Avi Arad revealed the following tidbit in article about super hero filmmaking in Australia: Arad would not name the films he planned to shoot in Australia, but he did reveal he was attempting to hire an Australian director for one of the movies. He declined to say the director's name, but there has…
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 Did You Know: Hot Rod was actually written for Will Farrell? We met with The Lonely Island Boys Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer earlier today and they shared with us the following story: This woman Pam Brady had written it. She had written for the South Park series, then she co-wrote the…
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Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly will be at Comic Con on Friday. Today the official release date for Southland Tales was announced. The film will hit theaters on November 9th 2007. "I will be down at Comic-Con to sign copies of the new Southland Tales teaser poster," Kelly wrote on his MySpace Blog. Kelly also…
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We haven't had much (if any) coverage of James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma remake on /Film based purely on my dislike of movie westerns. But it seems like everywhere I look there is something else about this new flick. Today it's the movie poster [via our friends at FirstShowing ComingSoon], which even I must admit,…
Read More For a while now Zachary Quinto (who plays Sylar on the hot tv show Heroes) has been going around publicly campaigning for the role of young Spock in the upcoming JJ Abrams Star Trek film. Well it seems that JJ is/was more than interested as it is now being reported that Quinto's deal with Paramount…
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We warned you last week, and now here it is - the movie trailer for Wes Anderson's new movie The Darjeeling Limited. The film is "An emotional comedy about three brothers re-forging family bonds. The eldest, played by Wilson, hopes to reconnect with his two younger siblings by taking them on a train trip across…
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Many people say Watchmen, but for me the greatest comic book series of all time is without a doubt, Brian K Vaughn's Y: The Last Man. A big screen adaptation has been in the works since early 2006. New Line Cinema has finally tapped D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) to direct a film version based on a…
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Back to the Future is my favorite movie of all time. It's not one of my favorite movies, it is my favorite movie. I remember my first journey to Universal Studios as a young kid. I ran through the park on a mission to ride the DeLoreon and go Back to the Future. The television…
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Fox Atomic wants everyone to know that just because their big brother (20th Century Fox) has pulled out, doesn't mean that Fox's genre division won't have a presence at this week's San Diego Comic Con. Check out the press release below. Fox Atomic Announces Presence at San Diego Comic-Con 2007 LOS ANGELES, July 23 --…
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Screenwriter turned director John August has posted an update about one of my favorite films from this year's Sundance Film Festival (Review). The Nines was chosen to play the Venice Film Festival as part of Critics' Week, which takes place the first week of September. The film will be released in limited US markets ("New…
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Warner Bros has released 30 production photos from their big summer Invasion of the Bodysnatchers remake. We were originally excited to see The Invasion (Poster, Trailer) after hearing rumors that the film had been almost entirely rewritten by The Wachowski Brothers. But then the film's trailer was enough to make us look the other way.…
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Paramount Pictures has announced a detailed scheduling for the planned Thursday, July 26th 1:30pm Comic-Con panel. Here is the rundown thanks to ROS: Transformers - taped message from Michael Bay Hot Rod - Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone present Stardust - Neil Gaiman present Beowulf - Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary present Sweeney…
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Some photos of what appears to be the theatrical teaser poster for JJ Abrams top secret monster flick which is code-named Cloverfield. The unfiction forum user took the pics with a Motorola V3 camera phone at Frank & Son's warehouse sale. The poster depicts a headless statue of liberty overlooking New York City. The top…
Read More I found this spoof of the now infamous Cloverfield movie trailer while surfing around YouTube. Stick with it, it has a couple laugh out loud moments and has somet clever stuff to say about the mystery surrounding the project/trailer/monster. Check it out after the jump.
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CS has posted this updated plot synopsis for Universal's remake/sequel/do-over of The Incredible Hulk: The explosive, action-packed adventure in one of the all-time most popular superhero sagas unfolds with a cure in reach for the world's most primal force of fury: "The Incredible Hulk." We find scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) living in shadows, scouring…
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 It seems like 20th Century Fox are so nervous that bloggers might post an early review of one of their upcoming big budget films that they've forgotten that the main culprit is actually the print media. The London Times have published their review of The Simpsons Movie yesterday, a full five days before the…
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Our friends at Collider asked Hot Rod star and Sacha Baron Cohen's fiancé Isla Fisher if a Borat sequel would ever happen. This is what she said: Not at this stage. Much as I would love to see the yellow thong out again (the room erupts in laughter) and the handlebar mustache. And while we…
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Good News, Bad News. Good News: Walt Disney Pictures is remaking Escape to Witch Mountain. Bad News: They are letting the guy who made She's the Man and The Game Plan (which almost seems to us like Mr. Nanny with The Rock instead of Hulk Hogan) and a 2003 direct to video movie titled Who's…
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 They have added a screening of the Reaper pilot to Kevin Smith's panel on Friday night at the San Diego Comic Con. Reaper is a new ABC television dramedy about a twenty-something slacker works as a bounty hunter for the devil. Smith also hopes to bring some of the cast members in to field…
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It isn't exactly news: Dreamworks and Paramount are not the big happy family that everyone imagined 15 months ago. Despite the insistence of Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, director Steven Spielberg is said to be so unhappy with the current situation that he may be planning to defect from the company with David Geffin. The duo…
Read More Later this week at the San Diego Comic-Con, Zack Snyder is expected to reveal the cast for his upcoming big screen adaptation of the classic Alan Moore graphic novel Watchmen. But as we near our Wednesday afternoon flight to San Diego, actors names have started to leak onto the interwebs. IESB reports that Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias…
Read More As you probably know, Thomas Jane pulled out of The Punisher sequel because he didn't want to be part of a movie that he didn't believe in. The search began for a Frank Castle replacement, and LatinoReview are now reporting that Ray Stevenson (HBO's Rome) has been cast in The Punisher 2. The timing of…
Read More Our friends at CloverfieldClues have pointed us to a video which appears to be the first behind the scenes footage from the JJ Abrams produced top secret monster flick Cloverfield. The footage, which can be seen after the jump, shows people running down a city street and military vehicles in action. In one of the…
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Yesterday we reported that Knocked Up star Seth Rogen was in talks to write and star in a big screen adaptation of The Green Hornet. We marveled at how spectacular this bad idea was. And that is coming from a guy who has followed Rogen's career since Freaks & Geeks. We didn't think this idea…
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We have just received confirmation the first movie trailers for the computer animated big screen adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic Horton Hears a Who and the live action/computer animated big screen Alvin and The Chipmunks will be attached to The Simpsons Movie, which hits theaters on July 27th 2007. Horton Hears a Who features…
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Entertainment Weekly have published a new photo of Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark in Jon Favreau's Iron Man. The image seems to be from a point in the film where Stark is engineering the Iron Man armor. I'm sure we'll see much more at Comic Con next week. Iron Man will hit theaters on…
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A fourth photo (seen above) has been added to the 1-18-08.com Cloverfield viral website. The last website photo appeared on Thursday July 12th, which leads me to believe this will become a weekly thing. Let's first take a look at the first three photos and figure out where the puzzle pieces fit. The original photo…
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On Monday July 16th I had the chance to sit down with Trainspotting/28 Days Later director Danny Boyle about his new film Sunshine. Fifty years from now, the sun is dying and a solar winter has enveloped the earth. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a…
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A couple days back, we told you that Hollywood was planning a big budget remake of John Carl Buechler's 1986 horror film TROLL. An official press release has been posted [via: BD]. Buechler has signed on to remake his cult classic film, which they hope will also launch a new animated television series and line…
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20th Century Fox has hired Gavin Hood to direct the X-Men spin-off film Wolverine. Scripted by David 25th Hour scribe Benioff, Wolverine will start Hugh Jackman, who played the character in the X-Man series. Hood is the South African director whose 2005 film Tsotsi won the best foreign film at the Academy Awards. Fox supposedly…
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Hairspray is a balls to the wall musical. It's not a performance after performance show like Dreamgirls. It doesn't take itself too serious, even though it sometimes deals with some serious issues of racism/segragation. Usually I'm against remakes, but this is a perfect example of how to do it right. Adam Shankman has created a…
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The theatrical movie poster for Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson's next film The Darjeeling Limited was released online tonight. The film's trailer will debut this weekend in front of Fox Searchlight's Sunshine and Once. I'm sure the trailer will show up online next week. We posted some photos from the film last…
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Sunshine takes place 50 years in the future, and follows a crew of astronauts aboard a spaceship named the Icarus II. The characters are venturing into space to deliver a payload to reignite the sun which is about to burn out, obliterating all mankind. The entire film takes place away from earth as the small…
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Columbia Pictures has signed Knocked Up star Seth Rogen to write and probably star in the superhero adventures of The Green Hornet, according to the LA Times. Huh? What? Neal H. Moritz is developing the project with Rogen via the producer's Original Film company. Moritz has been chasing the rights for years having been a…
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Moviefone has been provided with two new clips from The Simpsons Movie. The first one features the Simpson family on the lam. Marge and Bart take risky measures in a convenience store to keep from getting caught. The second clip is much shorter and shows Homer upset because he missed Access Hollywood after the residents…
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If you didn't know, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman have a new reality television show on A&E. You must watch this video clip which features Corey Haim hitting rock bottom when he hears from Feldman that there is a Lost Boys direct to dvd sequel and he wasn't asked to be a part of the…
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United Artists has released the first images of Tom Cruise as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg in Bryan Singer's Valkyrie. The film portrays the real life story of a German officers attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Check out the image above which shows a comparison between Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (left); and Tom Cruise (right). And…
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A few months back, Bryan Singer was forced to drop plans to helm a remake of the 1976 cult sci-fi film Logan's Run. Last we heard, producer Joel Silver turned to commercial director Joseph Kosinski to helm the film. Apparently that is a no-go. Silver has confirmed to Sci Fi that no new director has…
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A couple months back we reported that The Halcyon Co. has obtained the rights to the Terminator franchise and planed on launching a new trilogy of films without Arnold Schwarzenegger or James Cameron. And now we have another Hollywood legal fight which could prevent Terminator 4 from going forward. The Halcyon Co. has filed a…
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In a shocking last minute move, 20th Century Fox has decided to pull out of its scheduled San Diego Comic Con appearance. According to the Los Angeles Times, the studio canceled claiming "clips from its slate of effects-heavy films just aren't ready." The studio was originally set to promote Jumper, Aliens vs. Predator 2, Babylon…
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The Weinstein Co has moved the release date of The Nanny Diaries yet again. The romantic dramedy adaptation was originally set to open on April 20th, but was pushed back to September 7th. Harvey Weinstein claimed the move was made to push the film in awards contention. But now the movie has been moved forward…
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Big screen director Tony Scott will make his small screen debut, helming the season premiere of Numb3rs. Scott and his brother Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) have long served as producers on the mathematical procedural. According to CBS: "Scott's episode will serve as a template that freshens up the production values of the show…
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On Monday June 25th I had the chance to sit down with Hairspray director / choreogrpher / executive producer Adam Shankman and star / newcomer Nikki Blonsky, who plays Tracy Turnblad in the film. Nikki is a 17 year old from Long Island who won a nationwide search to win the coveted role of Tracy.…
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Sometimes there is nothing better than a great behind the scenes documentary. The doc on the DVD release of JAWS is extensive, and a must watch, but it's essentially a version of the documentary which was released on the laserdisc and earlier video releases. A bunch of fans came together to create a fan documentary…
Read More When the Cloverfield trailer hit one of my colleagues commented on Paramount's genius marketing plan. I told him it's not Paramount, JJ Abrams and his production company Bad Robot deserve the credit. I knew this because I've followed the viral marketing of Lost. The whole idea sounds less like an old school Hollywood idea and…
Read More John Leguizamo has been cast in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, according to Variety. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg as a man who takes his family on the run, in an attempt to survive a natural global environmental crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity. Mother Nature is sick of our polluting ways and…
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BD is reporting that someone in Hollywood has decided to make a big budget remake of John Carl Buechler's 1986 horror film TROLL. The only thing we know so far is the provided plot synopsis: The film is about a young boy enters a parallel world of wizards and magic where he befriends a good…
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Lionsgate has released two new photos for Sylvester Stallone's John Rambo. I wasn't a huge fan of the initial photos, or the horrible Cannes movie trailer, so I'll spare you from my angry rant about why I believe this movie is going to suck. Keep in mind, I loved Rocky Balboa, so I'm not just…
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Cinemanotizie has sent us the poster for Righteous Kill. The new crime drama follows two cops who try to catch a serial killer, while resolving issues between themselves. The poster reads "The Most Acclaimed Actors of our time in the Film Event of the Year." And the film stars Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and... 50…
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Okay, so we knew that SAW 5 was being prepped for a possible Halloween 2009 release. But like the last few releases, we thought that all depended on the success of the current release (ie the studio gives the official greenlight after the opening weekend). Apparently not. Lionsgate has already signed a director for both…
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This Friday Universal Pictures presents the summer comedy that asks you... "Just how far would you go for a friend?" Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Jessica Biel star in the comedy about two best friends who stumble down the aisle with the best of intentions in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. The movie…
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The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog hit DVD store shelves on July 17th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On July 24th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the…
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The Weinstein Co has released the theatrical movie poster for Dedication, the new romantic comedy starring Mandy Moore and Billy Crudup. I heard some descent buzz for the film at Sundance, where Weinstein and First Look purchased the film for $4 million. The movie follows a misogynistic children's book author (Crudup) who is forced to…
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The marketing department at 20th Century Fox have created a San Deigo Comic-Con exclusive poster for the Kevin Bacon thriller Death Sentence. It's a huge improvement over the red blob they previously released. We posted the trailer for the film last week. James Wan's (SAW) new movie follows John Hume (Bacon), a local business manager…
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The Chicago Film Critics Association has announced a boycott of 20th Century Fox releases. They claim that the studio gives unequal access to screenings. But truth is Chicago is not the only region effected by Fox's short minded practices. It's a national problem. I've had a lot of problems with Fox in the past and…
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United Artists is targeting August 8th 2008 (8-8-08) to release the Bryan Singer-directed Valkyrie which stars Tom Cruise in the real life story of the attempted assassination of Adolph Hitler at the height of World War II. Valkyrie will go head to head with New Line's Journey 3-D, Sony's Pineapple Express, Disney's South of the…
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 Moving McAllister is one of those road trip indie comedies that is written by its main star.The official plot synopsis reads: Rick Robinson is a ladder-climbing law intern from Miami with four days until the Bar Exam. Desperate to score points with his boss (McAllister), he commits to a favor he can't afford. He…
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Rotten Tomatoes have published their Mid-Year Report, which features a list of the best and worst reviewed movies of the first six months of 2007. You can see the top ten of each below. Best Reviewed Movies 1. "Ratatouille" 2. "Away From Her" 3. "Once" 4. "Knocked Up" 5. "Hot Fuzz" 6. "Sicko" 7. "The…
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We didn't fall in love with Zack Snyder's 300 like everyone else, and kind of feel left out on that hole phenomena. Our friends at MadAboutMovies have posted some photos of the upcoming 300 2-disc gift box set. I can certainly appreciate a well made DVD release. Apparently this might be only available in Canada…
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We've made it very clear that we're extremely excited to see Ben Affleck's feature directorial debut Gone, Baby, Gane. The trailer looks amazing, Kevin Smith says it's "a total award contender." Miramax has provided us with the film's theatrical movie poster and two new production photos. I love the tagline "Everyone wants the Truth... Until…
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Paramount's new comedy Hot Rod starring SNL's Andy Samberg is set to hit theaters on July 24th, and Paramount has given us a bunch of cool goodies for you to win. We have Hot Rod t-shirts (girl and boy – see link), underoos (photo right), and drumroll please... an AUTOGRAPHED poster. All you need to…
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Factory Girl hit DVD store shelves on July 17th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film readers. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On July 24th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found…
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The ending of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows appears to have been leaked online days before the planned release laster this week. Various sources are reporting that the book concludes with an epilogue that takes place nineteen years later and lasts nine pages (photo are available on some websites). If you don't…
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Last week we posted the movie trailer for the big screen adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles. The Nickelodeon/Paramount film looks like it may deliver where many recent children fantasy films have failed (The Chronicles of Narnia, Bridge to Terabithia, Arthur and the Invisibles) Paramount has sent us the film's teaser one-sheet, which can be seen…
Read More Anne Hathaway is set to play 10-year rehab patient in Jonathan Demme's (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia) next film Dancing with Sheba. The Devil Wears Prada star told Black Film: "It's a fun premise for a movie actually. Not fun, but it's a dark comedy. I play an ex-model who's been in and out…
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 Google Street Views has to be one of the coolest web features of the year. Right now the feature can only be viewed in select cities, which includes my current home town - San Francisco. There are so many interesting "easter eggs" to be found in these photos. What does this have to do…
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 Tomorrow (Tuesday, July 17th) Clerks writer/director Kevin Smith and his producer Scott Mosier are hosting a cult movie themed art show in Los Angeles. The show will be held at Gallery 1988, the same place that held the popular video game-theme art exhibition I Am 8 Bit. Looks like there will be some cool…
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Earlier today we reported a rumor [via IESB] that Indiana Jones 4 star Shia LaBeouf had signed a contract which included options for three more Indiana Jones sequels. The rumor turns out to be false. "That's purely a rumor," John Singh, Director of Publicity for Lucasfilm. Ltd told MTV News. "Idle chatter among Internet fans."…
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This weekend MTV broke the news that Sunshine director Danny Boyle had an idea to direct a 28 Weeks Later sequel. Today I was lucky to sit-down with Boyle to talk about his new film Sunshine and to hopefully extract some new details about 28 Months Later. "I've got an idea for it. I didn't…
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This week on "Best Week Ever" on VH1, they did a segment on Cloverfield. The show is basically an offshoot of I Love the 80s, where they bring celebrities and comedians together to narrate and attempt to make jokes about some of the hot topics of the week. As it turns out, /Film was featured…
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Steven Spielberg is currently hard at work filming Indiana Jones 4. Could Indiana Jones 5, 6, and 7 be far behind? I kid you not. IESB is reporting that Shia LaBeouf, who plays Indy's son in the fourth adventure, signed a contract which gives Paramount the option to bring LaBeouf back for three sequels. I'm…
Read More Update: We have removed the set photos until we can get verification from Paramount if they are copyrighted. Everyone continues to talk about the movie currently code-named Cloverfield (the top secret JJ Abrams produced monster flick). We're not the only ones getting tired of referring to the movie by a codename. According to FX Specialist…
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Zodiac will hit DVD store shelves on July 24th, but you might want to consider holding off on that purchase. Aside from the fact that the studio is releasing the film bare-bones (aka next to no extra features), there is now something new to consider. Apparently David Fincher's Zodiac: 2-Disc Director's Cut will be arriving…
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An X-Files sequel might actually happen after-all. I know, I know, we've said this before. Show helmer Chris Carter has said this before, and the stars have SAID - THIS - BEFORE. But this time it might be for real. Series and film co-star David Duchovny made an appearance for his new Showtime series Californication…
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I recently became addicted to the HBO hit series Entourage. One of Vincent Chase's (the main character on the show) dream projects is a Pablo Escobar epic biopic. The film within the show is going to the Cannes Film Festival, and HBO has released a faux theatrical movie trailer for Medellin. HBO has also created…
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When Aaron Eckhart was cast in the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight as Gotham's young District Attorney Harvey Dent, the internet began to wonder if he would transform into the villainous Two-Face. The screenwriters and cast had fueled the fire, and every week someone seemed to be reporting that may-be he would or may-be…
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 Rumor has it that Warner Bros will premiere a teaser movie trailer for the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight at the 10:30am Warner Bros Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, according to SHH. The trailer would then be attached to The Simpsons Movie which hits theaters on July 27th. This sounds likely but…
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Variety has an interesting article on the scheduling of the upcoming summer tentpoles for the next three years. The article claims that Sony Pictures will announce a Summer 2010 release date for the 23rd James Bond film. The next Bond film, tentatively titled Bond 22, will go into production later this year aiming for a…
Read More  Last Summer we warned you that Morgan Creek was developing a third Ace Ventura: Pet Detective film. And now moviehole has gotten word on Jim Carrey's replacement. Drumroll please. The new Ace Ventura is.... Josh Flitter! Wait, who? That was my response. Josh has been a side character in a bunch of recent movies.…
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Just to follow up on our story from Friday about All The Boys Love Mandy Lane being delayed, we now know more. Apparently Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment, Inc., a production and finance company based in Berlin and Los Angeles, has bought the film and will distribute it domestically. Dimension will handle the home video distribution…
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Could a Cars sequel be in the works at Pixar? JVPixarNews is reporting this rumor, citing an anonymous source who claims that Cars 2 is being developed in the Mouse owned computer animation studio. Earlier this year, Cars voice actor Paul Newman slipped that Pixar was making Cars 2. Newman has since announced he is…
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 I was actually interested to see All The Boys Love Mandy Lane. My press screening was scheduled for Friday (today by the time you read this), but was canceled just hours before. Why? Apparently the film will no longer be released on July 20th and no new release date has yet been announced. My…
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It seems likely that Judd Apatow is the second coming of [insert name of insanely funny legendary comic genius here]. His next film (as a producer, at least) is SuperBad, which hits theaters on August 17th. The film is already getting exceptional buzz. Jeff Wells says it's "the funniest, most cleverly written youth comedy in…
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We're really excited about this one. Someone has finally acquired US distribution rights to the Larry Charles/Bill Maher anti-Religion documentary. From what I understand footage from the film was shown at Cannes in an attempt to nab a buyer. The footage was said to be amazing, but most studios were afraid to make a move…
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 20th Century Fox has released the new trailer for James Wan's (SAW) Death Sentence. The film stars Kevin Bacon as John Hume, a local business manager of Boston, a peaceful, calm and very caring man with the perfect family and life. But all that changes one night when his eldest son is murdered during…
Read More Yesterday we reported that Jim Carrey had signed on to star in Yes Man. Some people were excited since it will be Carrey's return to high concept comedy. We weren't too interested, but that has changed - Peyton Reed has signed on to direct the film according to The Hollywood Reporter. Peyton created one of…
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It started with this whole Ethan Haas fiasco. It seems like a new website appears everyday claiming to be the next official Cloverfield viral website. The problem is 99% of the websites are obvious fakes, yet the internet chatter continues to consider them legit. We're getting sick of all the false information still floating around,…
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 A third photo (seen above) was added to the 1-18-08.com Cloverfield viral website today. All of the photos thus far have featured time codes. Let's first take a look at the previous photos and analyze the clues. The original photo showed a close-up of two wide eyed fearful young women at 12:36 am. Some…
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I like many people I've met was a huge fan of Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Apparently none of us have Nielsen boxes, and the show has been canceled. Sorkin is still very busy in Hollywood, and has signed a deal to write three films for DreamWorks. The first film will be…
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Harry Potter producer David Heyman is developing a comedy film called Yes Man with Jim Carrey attached to star. "It's about a man who finds himself very depressed, and is always saying no. When friends ask him out, he always says no," Heyman revealed to MTV. "[The film will explore] what happens when he decides…
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 Mark Ryan, the man who "voiced" Bumblebee (briefly) in Michael Bay's big screen adaptation of Transformers says that a prequel may be coming. That's right. We've all been talking about Transformers 2, but who knew they were planning a Transformers 1.5? SKNR asked Ryan about a potential sequel to the film and if he…
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In May we told you that Sam Rockwell was set to star in a big screen adaptation of Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk's Choke. Well now it seems official because the trades are reporting the story as fact, and we now have new confirmed details. Angelica Huston will play Victor Mancini's (Rockwell) mother who is…
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 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the new all-time Wednesday box office champion, topping Spider-Man 2's $40.4M. The opening day estimate, however, sailed past my target range of $39M-$42M. HP5 is in the stratosphere with a breathtaking estimated $44.3M to start its domestic run. Harry's record-breaking day started off Tuesday night/Wednesday…
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We have a copy of Transformers Armada Best Battles on DVD for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On July 18th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump.…
Read More Last week we posted the movie trailer for Ben Affleck's directional debut Gone, Baby, Gone. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out. We wrote that the film looked like it had award potential. It looks extremely promising. Well the first mini-review is in, and it's over the top positive. Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith…
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I was cruising around eBay today when I noticed that Premiere Props is selling the screen used 1977 Yellow Chevy Camaro which turns into Bumblebee in Michael Bay's Transformers movie (which coincidentally featured eBay product placement throughout). This Camaro is in overall good running condition with extensive upgrades throughout. The vehicle has a rebuilt V8…
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Michael Moore has tackled Downsizing, School Shootings, the culture of fear, The Iraq War, President Bush, and most recently - the American healthcare system. What's next for the controversial documentary filmmaker? Homophobia. That's right, Moore has revealed that homophobia and the anti-gay Christian right movement might be the topic of his next documentary. "I think…
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 The newest Indiana Jones 4 Video diary features the first official epic footage of Harrison Ford back in his Indy gear. We see Harrison shooting a scene, and in between takes joking around with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. I hope these video diaries will become more frequent and feature more substance and less…
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I've received many e-mails and comments from readers asking why I don't do the weekend box office rundown on a regular basis. Honestly, I've avoided reporting on the numbers due to a lack of personal interest. I just don't like writing about numbers and money. It's something that's been lacking on /Film, but we've just…
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is tracking to take $128 million in the first five days of release. Looking at the 5 major 2007 summer sequels I've calculated a formula to redict the success of the latest Potter. Using Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3, Pirates 3, Ocean's Thirteen and Fantastic Four 2, there's…
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 From the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow comes an epic film set back in 10,000 BC. The story follows a member of a primitive tribe during the dawn of man. 21-year-old mammoth hunter D'Leh (Steven Strait) travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from extinction. D'Leh,…
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The Harry Potter series has grown on me. I remember attending the first movie wondering what the big deal was. I half dismissed it, but was there opening night for the sequel. I've since read all the books (or rather, listened to them on audiobook/ipod, which I highly recommend), I own all the DVDs, and…
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Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) holds vicious marauder Viper (Leanne Liebenberg) at knifepoint Rogue Pictures just released the first official photo from Neil Marshall's upcoming thriller Doomsday. Many of you may remember Marshall as the guy who made a pretty sweet horror film released last year called The Descent. As always, click on the images to…
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Last night at the Microsoft keynote at the E3 video game convention (or whatever is left of it), they announced that Disney would offer movie rentals on demand through X-Box live. My friend has rented a bunch of High definition content through his X-Box, and aside for the stupid gamer point thing (it's kinda like…
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Okay, so we wouldn't normally post a commercial for a video game but this one is different. It's a live action commercial for Halo 3 directed by Neil Blomkamp, who was announced by Peter Jackson as the director of the Halo feature film. The studios were unhappy to hand the big screen adaptation to a…
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Bad News: It looks like Bryan Singer will be filming The Mayor of Castro Street before the Superman Returns sequel after all. Good News: This morning it was announced that Kevin Spacey has signed on to return as Lex Luthor in Superman: Man of Steel. Spacey hopes to shoot his part during a six-week block,…
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Bad News: MGM Studios and 360 Pictures have joined forces with horror producer Frank Mancuso Jr. to make a sequel to the Bill and Ted movies. But it gets even worse, if that's possible. The new movie will not see the return of he original leads Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. Both stars had made…
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I'm not sure if you caught this yesterday, but it has become one of the hot topics of conversation today. Michael Moore appeared on CNN to promote Sicko, and was sideswiped with a piece which attempted to disprove some of the facts in the film. Moore was live on the show and hucked everything and…
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I've never seen the original 1972 mystery film Sleuth which featured a young Michael Caine up against an older Laurence Olivier, but I know it's consider a classic. The movie was nominated for 4 Oscars and users have rated the film at an 8.2 (#204 of all time) on the Internet Movie Database. Michael Caine…
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 Warner Independent has released the movie trailer for Paul Haggis new film In the Valley of Elah. For me Paul Haggis has been off and on. I thought Million Dollar Baby was okay if not overrated, I loved Crash, Casino Royale, and Letters From Iwo Jima. I liked The Last Kiss, and hated Flags…
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Good News: /Film is growing faster than ever before. This month so far we've gotten more visitors, pageviews and comments than ever before. Bad News: Popularity also leads to a couple negatives. In the last week we have been attacked by more comment spam than ever before. We have a system that protects us from…
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A travesty! Apparently William Shatner will not be in Star Trek 11 but Leonard Nimoy is featured in the script. Shatner revealed the news himself while making a radio appearance, captured on video on Shatner Vision. Check out the video after the jump. "There is a new Star Trek movie. So I called Leonard and…
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 When I was a kid I use to watch a lot of Get Smart on Nick at Nite. Now-a-days, most people under 25 don't even know what Get Smart is. And at first a big Hollywood adaptation of the show sounded like a horrible idea. Heck, it didn't work out so well for Bewitched,…
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After The Wedding hit DVD store shelves on July 10th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film readers. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On July 17th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be…
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Update #2: Watch Five Minutes of Cloverfield Right NOW! Update: One of our reliable studio sources/spies has confirmed that this website is a part of the viral marketing campaign. We can now confirm that the Slusho.jp site is a part of the Cloverfield viral marketing campaign. I just spent the last half an hour watching…
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On July 5th, in our continuing Cloverfield coverage, we wrote an article titled "Has Cloverfield Gone Viral?" In the article, we wondered if a viral game site EthanHaasWasRight.com was really related to JJ Abrams top secret monster film. I'm still unable to confirm that this website is related the Cloverfield, and I have my suspicions…
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The teaser trailer for Fred Claus was crafted to appeal to all audiences. It featured Paul Giamatti as Santa and Vince Vaughn as Santa's bitter older brother Fred, sitting on a couch going back and fourth. The two actors had a great comic chemistry that is seen rarely on the big screen. The teaser touted…
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 I've been extremely disappointed with the recent batch of fantasy films based on bestselling children's books. The Chronicles of Narnia, Bridge to Terabithia, Arthur and the Invisibles - it seems like the movie studios are trying to capture the magic of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. They are looking for a family…
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Many people have asked me, why is the new J.J. Abrams produced monster movie code-named Cloverfield? Residents of Santa Monica and Los Angeles might have some ideas. We set out to find an answer, and this is what we came up with. Abrams' production company Bad Robot is located on West Olympic Blvd. in Santa…
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 Oh My God, The Motion Picture Association of America actually caught some people pirating Transformers. The group announced today that five arrests were made for illegally recording Transformers in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and New York. I've always said we need to keep our eye out for those movie pirates in Georgia but no…
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A few months back it was reported that Michael Bay would direct a apocalyptic thriller 2012: The War for Souls, based on the forthcoming book by Whitley Strieber. It has since been reported that Bay will be directing the big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Both…
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It looks like the rumors are true. Disney will be releasing a collection of Pixar short films on DVD. No details have been released as an official announcement has not been made. But up until now the only way to watch most of the Pixar shorts have been in the movie theater or on iTunes.…
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Paramount has finally come to their senses and posted the much talked about Cloverfield trailer online for all the enjoy. Yeah, we know - it took them long enough. So now you can see the trailer for yourself in much better clarity (the ones leaked onto YouTube last week came from camera phones). So let…
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AICN reports a new huge Indiana Jones 4 rumor, which if true, might be a great way to wrap up the series. See, the idea is to go back to the beginning. We know that Marion Ravenwood is in it. We also know that she had a kid with Indy (Shia?). And now we learn…
Read More  The San Diego Comic-Con has posted the full 2007 schedule online. The convention runs from July 26 to 29. /Film will be covering the show live this year. Check out the movie and television highlights after the jump, or read the whole schedule at comic-con.org. Thursday, July 26 11:00-12:00 DVD Sneak Peak 2007-Bill Hunt…
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In case you were wondering (because we certainly were), Southland Tales is still in post production, and will eventually see the light of day. Director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) says that they are about half way through completing all the new visual effects. "We have to deliver everything by the end of summer," Kelly wrote…
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 Last week we republished an angry blog post from Transformers director Michael Bay, which had been removed from his website hours after being posted. The blog post angrily attacked the producers of the film. It made us respect Michael Bay more than we ever thought could be possible. It's a very interesting read, but…
Read More  Steven Spielberg is making a return to video games. Newsweek reports that the legendary director has teamed with Mario designer Shigeru Miyamoto to create a new action-puzzle simulator for the Nintendo Wii. Code-named PQRS, the new game "neatly blends the creativity of the building-blocks game Jenga with the charm of a Saturday-morning cartoon. It runs…
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 Okay, so we all know that Bart Simpson gets naked in The Simpsons Movie. They showed part of the scene in the trailer where Bart rides through town in his baby suit, cleverly concealed by strategically-placed props ala Austin Powers. But did you know that we get to see Bart's ding dong? I'm serious.…
Read More The following is an editorial by /Film correspondent Zach Lawrence. Like many of you Slashfilm enthusiasts out there, I have just read the article on Gone Baby Gone by Peter Sciretta, and watched the cool trailer. While he makes all the right points in all the right places, he lacks a few aspects to what…
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Last week producers of Bryan Singer's Harvey Milk biopic, The Mayor of Castro Street, were claiming that would be Singer's next project following Valkyrie. Of course, the Superman Returns sequel Superman: The Man of Steel was scheduled for a June 2009 release. But the Castro producers claimed that "The next Superman, that's a ways off.…
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In my review for Michael Moore's latest film Sicko, I referenced a segment from Moore's short lived television show The Awful Truth. The segment featured a father who was being denied an operation by his HMO which could/would save his life. Moore confronted the HMO company Humana with the case, and when they didn't respond,…
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Yes, another climate crisis documentary. But this one is produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. While Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was a powerful film, it was essentially a big screen adaptation of his slide presentation. And in effect, it sometimes lacked the cinematic qualities of a documentary (although they pulled it off well). The…
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Yahoo Movies has posted four new movie posters for the Christmas-time Vince Vaughn/Paul Giamatti comedy, Fred Claus. We were originally excited to see this film, but the ninja elf posters are worrisome. The full length theatrical trailer will hit the web this Monday night. The film hits theaters on November 9th 2007. Check out the…
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 I want to apologize ahead of time for the abundance of Cloverfield updates on /Film. Aside from it being a slow holiday news week, this seems to be the hot topic on the web. Last I checked Cloverfield was the 40th most searched term on Google. The Cloverfield viral website 1-18-08.com has been updated…
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Update: When we originally found this quote from JJ Abrams on Jeff Wells' Hollywood Elsewhere website, the tenses were in first person ("he" was "I"), as if they were directly quoted from Abrams. Shortly after we posted the story, Wells changed his story from "Producer JJ Abrams" to "A guy in the pipeline of producer…
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I've never really cared for the Rush Hour movies, or director Brett Ratner for that matter. I mean, the first one was fun, but did we really need two sequels? But someone, somewhere is contributing to the series' box office success. For those people, I bring you this post (it probably helps that it's also…
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Check out the movie trailer for Ben Affleck's directorial debut Gone, Baby, Gone, an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane (Mystic River) novel about two detectives in search of a 4 year old girl that has been kidnapped in Boston. The film stars Morgan Freeman, Ben's brother Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Ed Harris and Robert "brother…
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Ratatouille usually takes a few viewings to catch everything. And even then, you are probably missing out.
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Danny Boyle (Sunshine, 28 Days Later) talked some trash about horror director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) during a recent interview with the New York Daily News: "His movies aren't even particularly well done," Boyle said. "They're not even scary. They're horrible, but that's not scary. It's not suspense. And if you watch my films…
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Yesterday we reported that Dennis Hopper is set to star in Speed 3. We wondered is Speed series helmer Jan de Bont would also make a return, but decided that he would probably be too busy. Bont has been attached to Meg, a monster flick which involves the Carcharodon Megalodon, the 70 foot, 40 ton…
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Update: July 9th: JJ Abrams says Ethan Haas has "Nothing To Do With" Cloverfield So what happens when you complete each of the five puzzles on the Cloverfield viral website EthanHaasWasRight.com? You get a video. But why go through all the work of solving the puzzles when you can just watch the videos on YouTube?…
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Earlier today we published a rumor that music video turned feature director Michel Gondry was in talks to direct Jim Carrey in Ripley's Believe it or Not, which Tim Burton recently walked away from. We had and expressed our doubts about the rumor, but wanted it so badly to be true. Heck, Gondry is probably…
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The Hollywood trade papers have just published some interesting articles on the Cloverfield madness. And with that we have learned a few new details about the film's secret development. Apparently, Paramount greenlit the project in February around the same time that JJ Abrams agreed to direct Star Trek 11. The Hollywood Reporter writes: The casting…
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Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do? The Guardian has revealed that 20th Century Fox has plans to make a third Speed movie, which will…
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Michael Bay is already talking about the possibility of a Transformers sequel. The action director told Entertainment Weekly that it all depends on the success of the first movie. Well, It's looking more and more like Transformers might actually come close to doing $150 million in it's first week alone. I think everyone involved would…
Read More A couple weeks ago it was reported that Tim Burton would no longer be directing the Jim Carrey action/adventure biopic Ripley's Believe It or Not! Paramount was said to be looking for a new director for the troubled project. Our friends at FilmIck are now reporting that Michel Gondry is in talks to direct the…
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Cloverfield is becoming the new iPhone of the movie blog world. So please stick with us as I don't expect the Cloverfield coverage to stop anytime soon. Has Cloverfield gone viral? It appears that a viral blog has been set up to help draw people to viral website which has Cloverfield undertones. EthanHaasWasWrong.blogspot.com links to…
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Oh wow, ventriloquists are creepy. I'm afraid of everything, so my review of the Dead Silence unrated DVD may be a little different than those brave souls out there. Let me just start by mentioning that the PR team for this film sent me an e-card last week, which made me laugh out loud… and…
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Good News: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are hard at work on their next screenplay. As you may remember, the Boston boys broke onto the mainstream scene with Good Will Hunting (one of my all time favorite films). Hunting won the boys an Academy Award for best original screenplau, although not without controversy. US Magazine reports…
Read More Now that the movie trailer for the top secret JJ Abrams produced monster movie (tentatively titled Cloverfield) has been unleashed on the world, a big faction of the internet refuses to believe that it's just another monster movie. Much of the speculation around the fanboy circles points to either another American Godzilla movie or a…
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Audiences love Disney/Pixar's new film Ratatouille. So much so, that over 6,000 Internet Movie Database users have voted the movie onto the coveted Top 250 Movies of All Time list. Ratatouille currently sits on the list at #33. And before you say "All good new movies land on the list because of the number of…
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 A month ago the MPAA attacked /Film for posting a couple red band (aka R-Rated) movie trailers without age verification. The truth of the matter was that the MPAA didn't care until the New York Times started asking questions. Well it looks like either the MPAA stopped caring again (now that a national newspaper…
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A 13 minute video of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix aired on HBO last night and is now available on GoogleVideo. The preview contains a bunch of new footage inter-cut with the usual cast and crew interviews. Check it out after the jump. Although, I must warn you, they reveal a lot…
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Star Wars goes through cycles. When Episode I hit, it became mainstream again to like the trilogy. Somewhere along the way, Star Wars has gone back to being considered a "geek" or "nerd" thing. I'm now happy to report that we're entering the cycle of underground indie coolness. I know this because super uber designer…
Read More The teaser trailer for the top secret JJ Abrams produced monster movie Cloverfield can now be watched at this link. The movie which is code-named Cloverfield, is a big New York Monster movie from the perspective of a small group of people with consumer video cameras. Produced by JJ Abrams (Lost, Alias), directed by Matt…
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 The Tuesday night box office estimates are in, and FM's Steve Mason reports that Transformers took in an estimated $29.5 million. This means that Michael Bay's new film is now holds the record of the biggest Tuesday opening of all time, easily surpassing Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest [$15.7M]. It's likely that…
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You may be checking your calendar, but I assure you, today is not April 1st. For years I defended Jason Lee. His performance in Mallrats was the level of a comic genius. He was given the chance to star in some films which turned out to be horrible. In-between he made a couple good choices…
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In honor of the fourth of July holiday, we bring you the movie advertisement which has been credited with starting the whole Superbowl advertisement extravaganza (at least in terms of Hollywood films). For those of you you enough not to have seen this advertisement when it first aired in January of 1996, let me tell…
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A lot of the industry talk now-a-days is about the viability of day and date releases (ie releasing a movie on dvd and theatrically on the same day or week). Most theater owners are against the idea, fearing a loss of revenue. And most of the big Hollywood studios are also against the idea because…
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How do you make a huge blockbuster summer action flick for only $150 million? You cut costs in every area you can. You might recognize one or two of the shots from Transformers, because it's likely that Michael Bay recycled them from his other films. Why spend a boat load (pun intended) of cash for…
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Cinematical has posted the new theatrical movie poster for The Invasion. We were once excited to see this Invasion of the Bodysnatchers remake, with rumors that the film had been almost entirely rewritten by The Wachowski Brothers. But then the film's trailer scared us off. It was so bad that we stopped even caring about…
Read More Transformers fanboys (and probably a few normal people too) showed out in full force last night for the big opening of Michael Bay's Transformers. Our sources are claiming that the film took in around $8.5 million. Not bad for a film that only played for four hours. In perspective, it probably took Pixar's Ratatouille the…
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BD has posted the full cast list and updated plot synopsis for Saw 4. Most of this we already knew, but now it's shiny and official. Warning: as with most sequels, plot spoilers for the previous films are contained in the details below: Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of…
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The photo to the right shows a graph of our website pageviews. Usually around 6:00pm, like most other websites, the traffic starts to dissipate. So why is /Film seeing a dramatic rise around the 8:00pm (pacific time) hour on Monday night. Was /Film dugg? Nope. Farked? Nope. Slash-dotted? Nope. Drumroll.... And the answer is: The…
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Today in the mail we received an unmarked package containing a DVD-r. Written on the DVD-r in black sharpie are the words "Do You Have the Crazy?" (as seen above in my iPhone snapshot) Most of you probably don't recognize the phrase, because it's featured in a great zombie/horror movie that I saw at Sundance…
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The Cream of the Crop film critics on Rotten Tomatoes have deemed Transformers fresh with a shockingly high 80% rating. The less important movie reviewers have given Michael Bay's latest a less favorable 63% rating, which is still considered "fresh" any way you look at it. The Internet Movie Database users (over 5,500 at the…
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As you probably know, while most of the sets might be computer generated, Speed Racer's pet chimpanzee Chim-Chim is being played by an actual real monkey in the Wachowski Brothers big screen adaptation. There are now allegations that the chimp was beaten after biting one of the human actors. PETA is pissed: "We are in…
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Our friends at dTheatre have posted a complete list of the rumored (but not confirmed) cast for Zach Snyder's big screen adaptation of Watchmen. Kate Winslet as Silk Spectre Patrick Wilson as Night Owl Jason Patric as Dr. Manhattan Jude Law as Ozymandias Thomas Jane as The Comedian Jeremy Irons as Moloch Virginia Madsen as…
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The Dark Knight star Christian Bale told The Star Ledger that the new Batman film hints at a possible third film. "The script leaves room for a very interesting follow-up, too," Bale says of the potential for a third film. "I think we could take it somewhere else." But a third Batman film has always…
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A few months back we reported that 7-11 had entered into a marketing partnership with Fox to turn a bunch of 7-11 stores into KWIK-E-MARTs to help promote the upcoming release of The Simpsons Movie. Well the first store has popped up in Burbank, CA at the corner of Olive & Verdugo. It seems like…
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I was leaving a screening of Arctic Tale with one of my buddies (also a film reviewer) on Saturday morning when we noticed a poster for a movie titled Charlie Bartlett. It's funny because I've never heard next to nothing about the film, yet something drew us over to the one-sheet. May-be it was the…
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Check out the movie trailer for Ang Lee's (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) new film. Adapted from Eileen Chang's short story by Lee's Crouching Tiger screenwriter Wang Hui-Ling, Lust, Caution follows a powerful political figure (Tony Leung) in World War II-era Shanghai who enters into a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with an young…
Read More It looks like Benicio Del Toro might be forgoing the computer generated effects for his next role in The Wolf Man. TMZ caught Del Toro driving somewhere in Beverly Hills (where else?). Mark Romanek's (One Hour Photo) remake of the 1941 horror film features Lawrence Talbot as an American man who returns to his ancestral…
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Transformers is a movie based not on a television show, comic book character, novel or cartoon, but instead a line of toys. Sure, Transformers has been there, and done that - but it all started as a toyline. It amazes me that Hollywood has to reach that far to find the next "sure thing." But…
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Reshoots is usually not a good thing. Word came in this weekend via BD that Rob Zombie has been hard at work filming new scenes including a new ending for his Halloween remake/prequel. Apparently they spend seven days to film the six new death sequences which are said to give the film a "serious boost…
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 One of the stories we missed on Friday was that Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf will also be released in IMAX 3D simultaneously with the film's domestic release in conventional theatres on November 16, 2007. Beowulf will be digitally converted and re-mastered in IMAX 3D using the same technology that was used for Superman Returns and…
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Bryan Singer has been telling everyone that he will begin work on the Superman Returns sequel Superman: The Man of Steel after production wraps on Valkyrie. And with a tentatively announced release date of June 2009, production will need to start in early 2008. But Singer's producers are saying differently. The Mayor of Castro Street…
Read More Okay, we have a little more information about the JJ Abrams produced top-secret monster movie which is being referred to as Cloverfield. We're being told that this is just a deceptive production title, and the movie's real title will be something different. But don't expect to see any title on the film's teaser trailer which…
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The numbers are in and Michael Moore's Sicko has made an estimated $4.5 million in it's first weekend on just 441 screens. This is well above expectations. The Weinstein Co has plans to expand the release in the coming weeks, beginning with the addition of 200 more screens on Tuesday. And with 93% of moviegoers…
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It was Friday afternoon, and I was half way through my Ratatouille review when I started to look at my rss feeds. Not the movie news items, but my tech feeds. For those of you who were stuck in a hole, Friday was iPhone day. What you are about to read is a long explanation…
Read More The following is a counter-point movie review by Francisco Saco. You can read Peter Sciretta's original positive review at this link. The announcement of a new installment in the Die Hard series caused a wave of deep skepticism to wash over me. The fact that every geriatric actor in Hollywood has decided to once again…
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