Michael Myers is ready to slash his way to an all-time 4-day Labor Day weekend record, and, by Monday, he'll pass Jigsaw to become the 4th-biggest grossing movie "killer" in modern box office history. The original 1978 John Carpenter film HALLOWEEN is, for my money, the scariest of all scary movies. Donald Pleasance is just…
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Our friends at FirstShowing and The Movie Blog have reported an interesting new statistic: 51% of Teens First Hear About New Movies From the Internet. Like John and Alex, I find this figure interesting because it still seems that most of the movie studios are still living in the dark ages. They believe that print…
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The raunchy "nerdfest" SUPERBAD (Sony) has coasted to an easy weekend win, becoming only the 3rd summer movie to win back-to-back weekends (joining SPIDEY 3 and PIRATES 3). Produced by Judd Apatow and written by Knocked Up star Seth Rogen, this teen comedy, budgeted at just $18M, stormed to another $6.52M on Saturday, and its…
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The raunchy Judd Apatow-produced teen comedy SUPERBAD will, as expected, hold off flock of "lame duck" releases for a second consecutive weekend win. Written by KNOCKED UP star Seth Rogan and directed by Greg Mottola (THE DAYTRIPPERS), SUPERBAD added another $5M on Friday, bringing its 8-day cume to $55.5M. I'm targeting a 15.5M 3-day, which…
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The Toronto International Film Festival have announced their full line-up of 349 films today. There are alot of films that I'm excited to see. Here are some of the movies that caught my eye while browsing the new list: Michael Moore's Mike Across America Man From Plains by Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs): A…
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This coming weekend (8/24-26) offers 5 movies, and 1 of them stands out in early industry tracking. WAR (Lionsgate), from rap video director Phillip J. Atwell (he's worked with 50 Cent, Xzibit and Eminem), is at just 45% Total Aware, but its Awareness with Males Under 25 is 64%. The Let Li/Jason Stathan action flick…
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The Judd Apatow-produced SUPERBAD (Sony), written by KNOCKED UP star Seth Rogan and directed by Greg Mottola (THE DAYTRIPPERS), couldn't hold up the furious box office pace it set on Friday, but, even with its estimated 12% Friday-to-Saturday drop, the raucous teen comedy still delivered a very solid $10.64M. With an anticipated $8.5M on Sunday,…
Read More  2007 is the summer of Judd Apatow and Seth Rogan. They teamed on KNOCKED UP (Universal), which has grossed nearly $150M since opening back on June 1. Now they have struck again with SUPERBAD (Sony). With a script by Rogen and Apatow producing, the long anticipated, foul-mouthed yet smart, comedy has grabbed a spectacular…
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Judd Apatow is among the hottest talents in Hollywood right now. Apatow really hit his stride producing, writing and directing August 2005's The 40-Year-Old-Virgin ($21.4M opening - $109.4M cume), producing last August's Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ($47M opening - $148.2M cume) and producing, writing and directing June's Knocked Up ($30.6M opening -…
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Hello all, My name is Steve Mason, and I'm the guy who wrote that $50M was slightly disappointing for Rush Hour 3 (Editors Note: The comment thread spun off into an editorial written by Peter Sciretta comparing the film's box office to Mission: Impossible 3). I've got nothing against Brett Ratner or Chris Tucker or…
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Last year CNN published an article titled "Mission: Impossible III opening disappoints." The $150 million movie starring Tom Cruise made a whopping $48 million at the box office on it's opening weekend, but was somehow considered a "disappointment." That Monday, the same type of article ran in almost every newspaper on the planet. In one…
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Rush Hour 3 dipped 8% from its opening day for a $17.57M Saturday, and the re-teaming of Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan and Brett Ratner appears headed for a slightly disappointing 3-day opening weekend. New Line claims that Rush Hour 3 grabbed $19.1M on its opening day, but other studios say that the real number was…
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New Line's re-teaming of Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan and director Brett Ratner has proved worth every penny of its investment as RUSH HOUR 3 is officially a blockbuster. The action-comedy has grabbed an estimated $17.8M on its opening day, and that should translate to a 3-day haul of approximately $49.8M. That's less than RUSH HOUR…
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The Bourne Ultimatum got a 6% 2nd-day bump in ticket sales as the Paul Greengrass/Matt Damon thriller grabbed an estimated $25.97M on Saturday. A conservative 20% Sunday drop will nudge Ultimatum past $70M for an estimated $71.25M. 5 suspect when the actuals come in on Monday, my Friday night target of $72M will be right…
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 Universal's The Bourne Ultimatum grabbed $25.5M on Friday, which should translate to a staggering $72M opening weekend. That's easily the best opening in the franchise, topping The Bourne Identity's $27.1M and The Bourne Supremacy's $52.5M. This also marks the best opening weekend of Matt Damon's career. Last week's big winner The Simpsons Movie is…
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With the Toronto Film Festival ready to ramp up next week, we've just gotten our hands on a ton of new production photos from some of our most anticipated films of Fall 2007. Michael Moore's documentary about the Slacking UprisingTour of 2004 is set to premiere at the festival, and we have seven photos from…
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With the Toronto Film Festival ready to ramp up next week, we've just gotten our hands on a ton of new production photos from some of our most anticipated films of Fall 2007. First up is a new photo from Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, a romantic musical told through the music of The Beatles.…
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SuperheroHype have posted the poster for the upcoming IMAX big screen release of Michael Bay's Transformers on September 21st. Not too exciting, just a combination of the many theatrical posters released thus far. I don't know why, but I'm strangely excited to see this movie again on the huge screen. I'm not quite sure why.…
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Check out the first photo from Wes Anderson's 12-minute short film, Hotel Chevalier. Click on the image to enlarge. Apparently the short film stars Natalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman, and acts as a prequel to The Darjeeling Limited. The short was filmed way before Darjeeling started production, and Anderson now plans to release the short…
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Lionsgate has finally released a teaser trailer for SAW IV. And like any good teaser, it shows us very little, while making us want more. I'm still amazed at how little we've seen or know about this film, at this late stage of the game (two months before release). I'm still very unsure if this…
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Much of the horror community theorized that The Weinstein Company forced Halloween director Rob Zombie to film a series of reshoots.
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Why exactly would anyone want to remake a classic film? With so much to live up to, times five, due to the time tested nostalgia factor, there is almost no conceivable way you can trump the expectations. But if there was one person that I would trust to remake Halloween, it would probably be Rob…
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"Everyone thinks they're right in a War, but everyone still dies in the end," Detective Wallis tells Nick Hume in Death Sentence. I've always found vigilante stories fascinating. To me, it's one of the big appeals of Batman (and how Christopher Nolan is handling the character. However, I must admit, while I was excited to…
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A couple days back, we posted four behind the scenes videos from Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. Fox Searchlight has sent us three more videos, again, accompanied by description from Wes Anderson himself. Check them out after the jump. "Waris and the Cobra" "We originally wanted to cast a little, red, spectacularly posoinous species called…
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The movie trailer for the American remake of Takashi Miike's 2004 J-Horror film One Missed Call is now online. Interesting concept, but it looks like just another bad horror remake (ala Pulse). Here's the plot synopsis, followed with the trailer after the jump. In One Missed Call, a chain of people receive terrifying cell phone…
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At Comic-Con 2007, Frank Darabont premiered footage from his upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist, and everyone (including myself) was not impressed. Stephen King adaptations are tough. They can either be really good, or really bad (heck, with The Shining, they made one of each). Darabont definitely knows how to do it right. Find…
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The long rumored Goonies sequel might seem improbable at this point, but that doesn't mean that the series won't continue. Remember, Goonies Never Say Die. "I would like to say that there's a great writer on it and it's coming soon [but] I have nothing for you," Goonies star Corey Feldman told MTV. "It's a…
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AintItCool has a new scoop on the JJ Abrams produced monster flick code-named Cloverfield/1-18-08. An e-mail tipper named DJ confirms that the teaser trailer footage is actually in the film, but in a more unabridged fashion. He talks about a new scene which may be used for a second movie trailer (or may-be not) where…
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Cinematical has posted the theatrical movie poster for Run Fatboy Run, a movie by David Schwimmer (yes, the Friends guy) starring Simon Pegg (of Shaun of the Dead fame). I just caught the film yesterday but am not allowed to review it until the Toronto Film Festival screens the film next week. I will say…
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When Clerks 2 was getting ready for release, Kevin Smith had a great idea to release an audio commentary track for the film a couple weeks after the film had hit theaters. The idea was to encourage people to go back and pay for the movie again, and to listen to the film commentary on…
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Billy Bob Thorton (Sling Blade) and Kim Basinger (LA Confidential) have signed on to join Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), Austin Nichols (John from Cincinnati), Ashley Olsen (Full House), Jon Foster (Terminator 3) and Lou Pucci (Thumbsucker) in the big screen adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' The Informers. Sounds like a pretty well rounded cast, but…
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Kevin Smith has finished the first draft for his upcoming horror film, Red State. Not only is it done, but it's the shortest script Smith has ever written, and contains the least amount of dialogue. "Not to say there's no dialogue; just that there's about half as much as I normally write," Smith revealed on…
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If you ask the movie studio, Balls of Fury was a huge Comic Con sensation. Rogue Pictures announced that they had decided to move the release date of Balls of Fury up because of the incredible response they received at the convention. While I was covering the con, I talked to hundreds of people, yet…
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At Comic-Con in July, SAW IV producer Mark Burg announced that the MPAA had given the first cut of the film an NC-17 Rating. "One day we'd like to have the guts and leave it like it is" Well no guts this time around (apparently), because the MPAA have given a new cut of the…
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Fox Searchlight has launched the official website for Jason Reitman's (Thank You For Smoking) Juno, which premieres in a couple weeks at the Toronto International Film Festival. Yesterday we showed you the first production still from the movie, and today via the official website, we bring you (what we assume is) an early glimpse of…
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Grace is Gone was probably the most talked about film at Sundance this year (aside from the Dakota Fanning rape film and the Bestiality Horse documentary). The Weinstein Co scooped up the film, and Clint Eastwood enjoyed the flcik so much that he asked to score the film. You can hear some of that score…
Read More MyFoxChicago has video footage of The Dark Knight's Gotham City Hospital being imploded. You can also see the explosion in the above animated gif image courtesy of batman-dark-knight.moviechronicles.com.
Read More A couple days ago Kevin Smith announced that he would be directing an upcoming episode of Battlestar Galactica. We were excited at the prospect, but alas it doesn't seem like it will come to be. Galactica showrunner Ronald D Moore told fans at the official SciFi Channel Web site that a "scheduling conflict" has come…
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Owen Wilson's recent suicide attempt has put his acting career on hold. EW reports that sources close to the production of Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder say that Wilson will no longer be doing the film. Wilson was scheduled to shoot for a week on the film which also stars Bill Heder, Jack Black, and Robert…
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Zack Snyder (300, Dawn of the Dead remake) has signed on to direct an adaptation remake based on Ray Bradbury's collection of short stories, The Illustrated Man. This is part of a first look deal that Snyder and his wife signed following the success of 300. For some reason, I 'm betting that this is…
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Michael Moore's new film Captain Mike Across America will premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Bad title, I know - I voted for Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising Tour. "Captain Mike" seems like a really bad marketing idea to me, but what do I know? You can see the first image from the film…
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One of the film's I'm most excited to see at the Toronto International Film Festival next week is Jason Reitman's follow-up to Thank You For Smoking: Juno. Check out the first production photo from the film above. Ellen Page stars as Juno (also the film's title), a whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned pregnancy by her…
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Lionsgate has confirmed a report we published two weeks ago, that the Bill Maher Religion documentary is titled Religulous. Maher and director Larry Charles (Borat) will be at the Toronto Film Festival in early September to preview some footage and hold a question and answer session. Lionsgate has also released the first official still from…
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I don't quite understand why anyone at this point still has hope for the upcoming sequel. The first film wasn't good enough to warrant a sequel, and The PunisherPunisher himself, Thomas Jane, supposedly walked away from the project after having doubts about the script/project. Well, according to IGN, the Lexi Alexander-directed sequel now has a…
Read More Which big Hollywood director just bought Hulk Hogan's Miami Beach house for $19 million? Hogan bought the home for $12 million in April 2006. A fat $7 million profit? Not Bad. But the question is what Hollywood director has that type of Cash. Answer after the jump. Hints: Was rejected by USC's film school. He…
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Dwayne "Don't call me The Rock" Johnson has signed on to the Disney remake of Escape to Witch Mountain. What has happened to Johnston as of late? He has a promising career in medium level Hollywood action flicks. Even his turn in Gridiron Gang wasn't bad. But now he's going from one Disney family comedy…
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Last week we told you about a massive funeral scene they were shooting for The Dark Knight. We now know who was in the coffin. After the jump. According to Comic Book Resources, there was a large framed picture of Morgan Freeman above the coffin. However, this doesn't sound right to me. Was Fox Military…
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A follow-up to our story from last week where Paul Giamatti mentioned that Bruce Campbell might not return for a Bubba Ho-Tep sequel. We didn't believe it. The idea of Giamatti playing Colonel Parker, who would have to team with Campbell's Elive to fight Vampires, seemed too good for even Bruce to pass up. Well,…
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I haven't been this excited to se a direct to DVD movie since, well, never. And now Corey Haim's manager told MTV that Haim might not appear in the Lost Boys sequel after all. Apparently major logistical obstacles exist, concerning the immigration problems Haim may have in traveling in and out of the country (the…
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A workprint of Rob Zombie's Halloween has been leaked onto the internet. The copy turned up on several bit torrent websites just four days before the film's theatrical movie premiere on Friday. Hopefully Halloween won't suffer the same fate as Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II which had an unfinished work-print leak online a week before…
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A couple days ago we reported that Warner Bros executives were apparently unhappy with the extremely gory early footage from Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. And now distributor Dreamworks have announced that they are releasing the film wide on Christmas (December 21st). Is this new announcement part of a PR…
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Lionsgate is so sure people will like 3:10 to Yuma, that they have decided to run a nationwide sneak preview on September 2nd 2007. We are pleased to announce the SNEAK PEAK of 3:10 to Yuma, the new film from director James Mangold (WALK THE LINE), starring Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Gretchen Mol and legendary…
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Fox Searchlight has sent us four behind the scenes videos for Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, which hits select theaters on September 29th 2007. It is rather strange timing to release these videos on a day which has the media reporting on the health problems of star Owen Wilson. Either way, you can check them…
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Today I finally found some time to sit down and sift through the 352 official selections of the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. Many hours later, I present to you 65 must see movies at the Toronto International Film Festival. I did the work so that you don't have to. So why should you care about…
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Keanu Reeves has signed on to star in 20th Century Fox's remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. The Matrix star will play Klaatu (played in the original film by Michael Rennie), an alien who arrives on Earth accompanied by a large humanoid robot named Gort, with a warning to world leaders that their…
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The 2007 Teen Choice Awards were held tonight in Universal City, CA and broadcast live on Fox. I'm not sure anyone outside of the 10-16 year old audience cares about who actually won. And isn't it more of whoever shows up gets the prize? I mean, how else did Sophia Bush win three awards, one…
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We usually stay away from reporting on the private lives of movie stars, but this one came as a huge shocker. The National Enquirer and Star magazine are exclusively reporting that Owen Wilson tried to commit suicide on Sunday and has now been transported to St. John's hospital in Santa Monica. Police and ambulance responded…
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Warner Bros wants Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street director Tim Burton to "butcher" his own film, according to a report from the Daily Mail. Apparently the early footage from the film was so extremely bloody that the studio executives have become a tad squeamish and are requesting the film to be re-cut.…
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New Line Cinema has launched a new online game to help promote the upcoming release of Shoot Em Up (which is incredibly, fun by the way). The point of the game is to shoot all the bad guys in 30 seconds to see a a hot woman strip. They even have an r-rated version of…
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The exclusive R-Rated Beowulf trailer from Comic-Con 2007 has finally been released online. Yes, you get to see a digital motion/performance captured Angelina Jolie naked (kinda, she has some sort of mud on all the important spots). People are calling this the "Restricted" or "R-Rated" teaser trailer, but the film is to be rated PG-13,…
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20th Century Fox has moved the release date for the video game to film adaptation of Hitman from October 17th to November 21st. Maybe Fox wanted to distance Hitman from 30 Days of Night, which hits theaters on Friday, October 19th. Either that or there is still more work to be done on the film…
Read More Our friends at NewsAskew have some exciting news for Kevin Smith Fans. The Clerks director has signed on to direct an episode of Battlestar Galactica. I haven't yet gotten into that series (although everyone of my friends has pushed it on me). But from I understand most of it is pretty talky, so it should…
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The first Alien vs. Predator movie was a disaster. I don't know how, but Paul W.S. Anderson ruined it (like he has countless other movies). I mean, what was up with the secret underground pyramid underneath Antarctica? The sequel, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, is directed by Colin and Greg Strause (long time visual effects producers),…
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Am I the only one starting to get tired of all the recent JLA news and rumors? It seems like anytime new word breaks, it's quickly followed the next day by a retraction with new exciting information. It's not that I don't believe the film is going to happen, it's definitely going down. Warner Bros…
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When it was announced that D.J. Caruso had signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of Brian K Vaughn's Y: The Last Man, we speculated that Shia LaBeouf might be playing the lead. Shia had made statements in the past expressing interest in the project. Not only that but DJ Caruso directed him in…
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Yesterday we brought you the new movie trailer. Today we bring you the new theatrical movie poster.
Read More The Incredible Hulk is currently shooting at the University of Toronto, and a student took a few spy photos of a smashed NYPD police car. I assume that Hulk got very angry. There are also some photos of army vehicles parked on the sidelines. You can read the blog post at Adventale.Blogspot.com.
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The international trailer for Ridley Scott's American Gangster in now online. This trailer is a lot more action packed than the trailer from a few months ago. I'm extremely impressed. This is one of must watch films of the fall. I don't think there is any way this movie could be bad. If anything, it…
Read More Yesterday we reported on a story that claimed that Christian Bale revealed that 3:10 To Yuma co-star Russell Crowe was featured in the upcoming Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. We speculated that he must have been joking, because why would Russell appear in the film if he wasn't a lead character? Well turns out…
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A few more Dark Knight spoilers today. FilmSchoolRejects has gotten word on a shoot on Lasalle street with 400 cop extras. The rehearsed the scene on Thursday, and it turns out it's a funeral procession. They marched with a 7 gun salute. Three shots by each of the men. But here is the twist, the…
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In June, we posted the teaser trailer the big screen adaptation of the hit video game Hitman. I complained that it failed to impress me, and got almost 70 comments in agreement. The new trailer, which can be seen after the jump, impresses me a little more. The cinematography looks pretty impressive, but not much…
Read More Guys, sorry for the lack of updates this morning. Our web server was undergoing maintenance last night, which prevented us from making new posts. Keep it tuned to /Film for the next few hours and we'll try to update you on all the interesting new news in the world of movies.
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Variety has now confirmed a rumor that hit the movie websites a couple weeks ago: The Mummy series director Stephen Sommers has signed on to direct a big screen live-action G.I. Joe movie. The studio is hiring a writer immediately, IESB is reporting that Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, Collateral, Derailed, 30 Days of…
Read More Christian Bale told IFMagazine that 3:10 To Yuma co-star Russell Crowe is in The Dark Knight. "Russell's going to actually be in the new BATMAN movie, which is a big surprise and I want to reveal it to everybody right now," said Bale, who wouldn't disclose any more info. I don't think that Crowe would…
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Paramount has removed the 1-18-08.com website today. The site now redirects to the Paramount.com website. I wonder if this is just temporary? I always assumed that the site would evolve into a larger online viral game. But if the only purpose was to show us a few photographs, then I'm starting to wonder why they…
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Paul Giamatti is a hot actor right now, but even his name alone isn't enough to greenlight this movie. You see, they're waiting on b-movie legend Bruce Campbell. How can this be possible? Well, the film is Bubba Nosferatu, a prequel to the recent cult comedy Bubba Ho-Tep. "I would really like to do that,"…
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Richard Kelly's Southland Tales will hit theaters in November, and the theatrical movie trailer will premiere soon. Richard has said it will be online the first week of September. Although, there is some people online speculate that the trailer might be attached to Right at You Door, which hits theaters tomorrow. In the meantime, our…
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TWC head Harvey Weinstein is supposedly offering a $100,000 reward for the real life identity of the bitchy, self-absorbed shopaholic Upper East Side mom played by Laura Linney in The Nanny Diaries. The movie is based on a book, which much like The Devil Wears Prada, is based on real experiences. But the book's authors…
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Pop Candy have gotten their hands on a sample of the track list for the soundtrack to The Darjeeling Limited. One of the highlights of Wes Anderson's films is without a doubt, the soundtrack. So you might want to fire up your iTunes and create your own Darjeeling mix in preparation. The Rolling Stones' Play…
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Okay, so it's another slow news day. Warner Bros has released a new trailer for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. The movie's synopsis: "The private life and public exploits of America's most notorious outlaw. As the charismatic and unpredictable Jesse James (Brad Pitt) plans his next great robbery, he wages…
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On August 23rd 2005, slashfilm.com launched with a posting by Zach Lawrence, chronicling his Top 10 Movies of All Time. 5,631 posts later, /Film has become one of the premiere movie news sites on the internet. It's been a crazy two years. We've been to Sundance, Comic-Con, Tribeca, and next month we'll be going to…
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The Squid and the Whale star Jesse Eisenberg is set to star in SuperBad director Greg Mottola's next film Adventureland. "I play a lot of directors' awkward stages in their lives," Eisenberg revealed to MTV, adding that the comedy won't be nearly as broad as "Superbad." "It's probably closer [in tone] to 'The Daytrippers.'" Based…
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It seems like everyday now, a new rumor turns up which makes us question the legitimacy of a Justice League of America movie. We know this: Warner Bros has a script, and they want to make a movie. Rumor has it that George Miller is in talks to direct, and the film begins casting next…
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Todd McFarlane makes some of the coolest action figures and statues on the market today. I always thought that his dark and twisted Wizard of Oz line could make an interesting movie, but who would allow it to happen? By that, I mean, the figures were very twisted, and very out there. It's not something…
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Apparently if you buy the Clueless "Whatever!" Edition at Walmart, you'll get a colorful blue, white and purple Transformers beach ball. This has to be the weirdest DVD freebie promotion I've ever seen. How much of a crossover audience do you think there is between Clueless and Transformers? May-be the marketing team figures that a…
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A young girl out of college played by Hollywood's It girl gets an opportunity at a high class job and enters a world she previously knew nothing about. Her boss is a self obsessed rich elitist miserable bitch with marital problems. The young woman takes on the seemingly impossible job, devoting all the hours of…
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Eva Mendes has been cast in Frank Miller's (Sin City, 300) big screen adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit. Last week it was announced that Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) was in final negotiations to star as the femme fatale in the film. Mendes will play Sand Saref, the only woman who could break the…
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Just when I think I've convinced myself that the Justice League of America movie isn't coming anytime soon, another contradicting news report is posted which makes me reconsider my position. Yesterday, Christian Bale told IESB that not only has he not been contacted about the JLA movie, but he is not involved what-so-ever. This lead…
Read More Ever since it was announced that Anthony Michael Hall had been cast in The Dark Knight, the internet has been hard at work speculating what kind of role he would play in the film. Warner Bros decision to keep the project almost entirely secret (and limiting press access) has resulted in mass spoilers being leaked…
Read More Paramount made a very bad decision earlier this week when it was announced an exclusive partnership with HD-DVD. HD-DVD is clearly the losing format at this point in the next gen format war. Most of the other studios have decided to support Blu-Ray. Nikki Finke is reporting that the HD-DVD camp is paying over $150…
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When rumor spread that a film adaptation of Justice League of America was being fast tracked into production, I had my doubts. Bryan Singer's Superman: The Man of Steel would need to be pushed back, and options of Christian Bale and Brandon Routh's contracts would have to be used, which meant one less Superman and…
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Last week DreadCentral reported a rumor from an e-mail spy that claimed to know the identity of the Cloverfield / 1-18-08 / Overnight monster(s). According to "Mr. Slusho", much of the movie will revolve around the characters fleeing for their lives, not from the big one stomping the city, but from the "raptor-like" smaller versions…
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Okay so Logan's Run has finally found a director, but who the hell is Joseph Kosinski anyway? Well for starters, he hasn't directed a feature film. So why don't we check out some of his commercial work after the jump. You will be amazed. Saab Blackbird Commercial TRS-80 - Nike Promo X-Box - Starry Night…
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Commercial director Joseph Kosinski has signed on to make his feature film debut with a big screen remake of Logan's Run. Bryan Singer was originally attached to the project, and even got as far as to pre-visualize (think moving 3d storyboards) the project before he got pulled away to make Superman Returns. Logan's Run is…
Read More Last Week we told you that Wes Anderson's (Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums) latest film The Darjeeling Limited would be accompanied by a 12-minute short called Hotel Chevalier, which apparently acts as a prequel to the main feature. I've since found out a little more information about Chevalier. Apparently the short film stars…
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Magnolia and Boogie Nights are amongst some of my favorite films of all time. Ten years ago, many people considered Paul Thomas Anderson to be the next big director to emerge from the 70's generation of filmmakers. But Anderson (not to be confused with that hack that makes those video game movies) hasn't made a…
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Paramount Pictures has released a second production photo for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd. The photo shows director Tim Burton talking to star Johnny Depp. Click on the image to enlarge. You can also view the previous production photo and teaser movie poster by clicking the respective links. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street…
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Warner Independent has released this new poster for Paul Haggis' (Crash) In The Valley of Elah (movie trailer). His new drama is inspired by the true-life case of a retired Army veteran (Tommy Lee Jones) who discovers his son was killed by his own platoon members after they returned stateside but failed to shake battlefield…
Read More Ryan Reynolds has long been the rumored front runner to play the popular DC Comics superhero The Flash in a big screen adaptation. But the project quickly fell to the wayside. Reynolds now tells MTV that he might put on the red tights for the Justice League of America movie: "'The Flash' isn't dead at…
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The international movie trailer for Woody Allen's next film, Cassandra's Dream is now online. The film tells the story of two Cockney brothers (Collin Farrell and Ewan McGregor) in south London and their relationship with a young woman (Hayley Atwell) who lands in London on her search for fortune. She crosses the two men by…
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Want your own McLovin fake Hawaii drivers license? RopeofSilicon has created a template for you to do just that. I'm sure people who frequent the clubs and bars will love this.
Read More Breaking News: Judd Apatow didn't direct SuperBad. That's right, he was only the producer. I feel like everyone including the studio were trying to keep this fact secret. And it makes sense, Judd Apatow is now the new hot name brand in comedy movies (does anyone remember this is the same guy who once produced…
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Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer director Savage Steve Holland has been tapped to direct Legally Blonde 3. Holland told Collider: It's called Legally Blondes. I'm not sure how much I can say about it as I just got the call. But it's very sweet and funny. Beloved director Sean Macnamara was supposed to…
Read More Today seems to be a Monday full of casting announcements and speculation. UK's Sunday Mirror is reporting that James McAvoy has indeed been cast as Scotty in JJ Abrams' Star Trek. There is a questio mark, because I'm not sure how credible the Sunday Mirror is. The McAvoy rumor has been circulating for quite some…
Read More Last we heard, Kate Beckinsale was in consideration to play the lead role in Robert Rodriguez's remake of Barbarella. But to be honest, if Rodriguez's name wasn't attached to the project, we wouldn't have even known that much. And even then, I was kind of hoping that this was going to be one of those…
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Our friends at IESB are reporting that a screenplay for the proposed Justice League of America movie is finished, and has been warmly received at Warner Bros. I always believed that the film wouldn't happen until the Superman and Batman franchises started to die down. My theory being: why waste two superheros in one movie…
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Slightly good news for those of you suffering from Veronica Mars withdrawals: No, the show has not been renewed. No, there is no movie adaptation in development. But star Kristen Bell will be making her return to the small screen as a superhero (or super-villain). Bell has been cast for a multi-episode arc in the…
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SuperBad had a super weekend at the box office. But people didn't show up to buy tickets, they laughed and loved it. Here is a look at the critical and moviegoer response coming out of opening weekend: Almost 7,000 users on the Internet Movie Database rated the movie an 8.8 out of 10, which puts…
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Transformers BumbleBee made out of PAPER [via: engadget] An Alien made out of vegetables. [via: LaughingSquid] R2-Beer2 Droid made out of a Heineken keg can. [via: Geekstir] The R2-D2 Home Theater Droid gets an upgrade. For $2,799.95 it includes a DLP projector to 1,024 x 768 pixels and 1,500:1 contrast ratio, which can project an…
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Bill Maher revealed to Larry King that the documentary he filmed with Larry Charles (Borat) might be called "Religulous,"Â a combination of religion and ridiculous. The film follows Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion, which is clearly an Agnostic view. We don't know much else, because, well - no one has…
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 Transformers is coming back to the big screen, and it will be bigger, longer and uncut. According to ComingSoon, Michael Bay's big screen adaptation will premiere at IMAX theaters on September 21st with extra footage not included in the conventional theatrical release. I always wondered why the film wasn't released on IMAX in the…
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I've seen SuperBad twice now and I still have not heard all of the jokes. Because SuperBad is one of those movies that you need to see in a packed movie theater. But that also means that you'll miss some of the jokes. Not because people are talking or texting, that wasn't going on when…
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The teaser movie trailer for Harold and Kumar 2 is now online. The new movie follows the due on a cross-country adventure as they try to outrun authorities who suspect them of being terrorists after they try to sneak a bong on board a flight to Amsterdam. The teaser shows a bit of how that…
Read More Okay, so the headline might be just a little bit deceiving. Disney is renaming the Disney-MGM Theme Park in Orlando to Disney's Hollywood Studio. But the park will not just be renamed, but restructured into different lands (almost like how Universal handles Islands of Adventure). According to Jim Hill, there are plans to increase George…
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Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) is in final negotiations to star as the femme fatale in Frank Miller's (Sin City, 300) big screen adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit. Johansson has also signed on to star in Mary Queen of Scots and Into You, but who really cares? Johansson will play a dangerous beauty named…
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While I was in a press screening downtown (King of Kong = Great documentary with geek appeal), a new set of production photos from The Dark Knight leaked online (presumably as part of Warner Bros viral campaign, or not... If that is the case, you can e-mail us). I don't exactly know who deserves credit…
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My friend Arya just sent over a link to the cover-art for the Hostel: Part II DVD release (via: dvdactive). I would like to say I'm surprised, but I knew about this for some time. After being quoted on all the Hostel 2 tv ads and newspaper ads, I received a phone call from Sony…
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USA Today has published a new photo (seen above) from Fox's big screen adaptation of the popular Hitman video game. While I will admit that this film appears to have style, I'm still not interested in seeing it. The official plot synopsis follows: Agent 47 (Olyphant) has been educated to become a professional assassin for…
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In June, we told you that Universal was planning a prequel to The Mummy Returns spin-off The Scorpion King with Resident Evil: Extinction director Russell Mulcahy attached to helm the project. Now according to moviehole, Dwayne Johnson has decided not to return (surprise, surprise - and who can blame him). Considering that The Rock was…
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Tophrman claims to have gotten his hands on the shooting details for this week's filming of Rory's First Kiss. As most everyone on the planet knows, Rory's First Kiss is the undercover production title for the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. Of course, we are unable to confirm the authenticity of this information with…
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News broke at Comic-Con 2007 that actor Edward Norton wrote the script for The Incredible Hulk. It was an announcement that virtually shocked everyone. The production had announced that X3 screenwriter Zak Penn had written a script long ago. Thankfully now the Los Angeles Times has connected the dots. The newspaper explains that Penn had…
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I first saw the trailer for Walk Hard at Comic-Con 2007, and was not impressed. Now you can check out the same trailer and decide for yourself. The movie written by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) and director Jake Kasdan (Orange County) is a comic take on musical biographies as Ray, Walk the Line, and Selena.…
Read More Oh No. I can hear the collective sigh of fanboys from around the world as I type the following bit of news: Katie Holmes is in talks to star in a big screen adaptation of Wonder Woman. In the past I've been very fair to Tom and Katie (unlike most of this country), and I…
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"Every movie I make is about someone who can't fit in, can't make things work or is dealing with failure," Anderson tells The Guardian. Wes Anderson's (Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums) latest film The Darjeeling Limited will be accompanied by a 12-minute short called Hotel Chevalier, which apparently acts as a prequel to…
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Cinematical has gotten a first look at the poster art for Disney's half animated / live-action crossover Enchanted (movie trailer). Sure, we did post some of the early poster art back in March, and the official poster isn't too far off from the conceptual art. You can click on the image to the right to…
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Last month we published the international poster for SAW 4. The poster has now been Americanized. What does that mean? Bigger and more in your face. Above you will see the original international poster left, and the new U.S. poster right. Click on either image to enlarge. The official SAW website has also revealed a…
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Ever since I first saw John August's directorial debut The Nines earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, I've wondered how they would market this film. I absolutely loved it, yet can't even explain the plot. It's a LOST-style mystery infused in a Go-style dialogue and reality. Three stories with the same actors. I…
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HollwoodChicago is reporting that Warner Bros has plans to implode a four-story building (the former Brach Candy factory site) on August 29th for the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. The scooper reports: I have been told this will be a day shoot. A typical building implosion does not have any flames. This will be…
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Warner Independent has released 15 new photos from Paul Haggis new film In the Valley of Elah (movie trailer). 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 somewhat…
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Fans of Veronica Mars are hoping for a future. I was an avid watcher of the show, and was shocked when it wasn't renewed. Fans around the world were in disbelief, thinking that an announcement was enviable. Another season of the show will eventually be announced with Veronica in FBI Training school. But no announcement…
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We missed this a couple weeks ago. Our friends at Lakeshore have released the theatrical movie poster for the upcoming thriller Pathology. We were able to catch the trailer at Comic-Con, and all I can say is this movie looks like it may pushes the boundaries of sick s*** movies. Written and produced by Mark…
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When I saw the movie poster for Grace is Gone on Cinematical, I immediately thought that The Weinstein Co used a quote from my Sundance review. I quickly realized that NY Post and Richard Roeper were the names under the quotes. The following quote did run in the review I posted last January: "Cusack is…
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Disney has sent us a full media kit for the upcoming Steve Carell family comedy Dan in Real Life. The movie follows an Advice columnist/relationship expert who somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent in this heartfelt comedy from director Peter Hedges (Pieces Of April). The movie also stars…
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Sony has moved the Judd Apatow music comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story back to December 21st 2007. The movie written by Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) and director Jake Kasdan (Orange County) is a comic take on musical biographies as Ray, Walk the Line, and Selena. Walk Hard follows the up-and-down-and-up-again struggle of legendary…
Read More Howard Stern has been hard at work on a remake of the cult teen comedy film Porky's. Last week Stern took a vacation from his daily Sirius Satellite Radio Show and worked on the film project which the Shock Jock now claims is "ready to go." "They say it's all greenlit and everything, ready to…
Read More Trek Movie Report shares this funny exchange between Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner at VegasCon 2007. As you probably already know, Nimoy has signed on to star as an older Spock in the upcoming JJ Abrams Star Trek revamp. Shatner has not officially been asked to be in the film. Nimoy's solo question and answer…
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 IndianaJones.com has been updated with a new video diary "Reuniting The Family". Director Steven Spielberg, Producers George Lucas, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy, and star Harrison Ford talk about coming back for a fourth film. It seems like most of the interviews were done before production. The package is cut to clips from the…
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Across The Universe is on our list for the most anticipated films of 2007. We've been waiting for this film for what seems like forever. The movie trailer was released in February and absolutely blew us away (if you haven't seen it yet, watch it now). Then came stories that director Julie Taymor was fighting…
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Last week when we reported on a rumor that Sam Raimi was offered the Clash of the Titans remake, I wondered out loud (or on the web page) if this meant that he would not be making The Hobbit for New Line. Well it looks like there is more to this story. The LA Times…
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BloodyDisgusting reports that Universal Pictures has begun casting for Jurassic Park IV. Apparently the new film involves dinosaurs which have been outfitted with weapons by the US government (presumably for battle purposes). If this is true, than Universal should shut down production right now. It's one thing to expect such stupidity from the recent batch…
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I'm not a huge fan of comedy tour movies. I'd much rather watch an hour long uncensored comedy set on HBO. Everyone in a while I'll stumble into Bill Cosby's Himself on cable - I've watched that thing about 100 times and it never gets old. Anyway, Vince Vaughn produced and stars in a new…
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Shoot 'Em Up hasn't even been released and yet they're already talking about a potential sequel. Not only are they talking about it, but ComingSoon found out that writer/director Michael Davis has already written the script. "I've written another crazy wild funny action script that could be 'Shoot 'Em Up' if I made a few…
Read More I love to hate Bill O'Reilly. According to the man, my whole city should fall into the ocean, and The Simpsons Movie is "more realistic" than The Bourne Ultimatum. Yes, he actually wrote that. In his latest column titled The Bourne Buffoonery, Reilly calls out the film for being unpatriotic. "I knew this movie was…
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Entertainment Weekly did an indepth roundtable interview with SuperBad stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera, screenwriter Seth Rogen, and producer Judd Apatow. The most interesting part of the conversation has to do with the media's inability to admit that stars of Judd Apatow's comedies aren't really unconventional. Check it out below. [via: HE] "I'm noticing…
Read More I attended the world premiere of David Gordon Green's Snow Angels at this year's Sundance Film Festival. While some people hated this film adaptation (probably mostly due to the not so fairy-tale ending), I thought it was brilliant (you can read my review here). And since the festival, I've wondered and wondered and wondered some…
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A third teaser poster for JJ Abrams' Star Trek has popped up at VegasCon 07. The design seems to mirror the logo which premiered on t-shirts that Paramount passed out at Comic-Con earlier this month. Click on the image to the right to enlarge. Thanks to the Trek Movie Report for the image. And remember,…
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When Warner Bros announced that they were making a sequel to The Lost Boys, we were furious. Not only was it a sequel, but a direct-to-dvd sequel. Those are notoriously the worst because they usually became a remake of the original featuring an entirely new cast of bad actors and a horribly revamped script. But…
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Wizard World Chicago is ground zero for Dark Knight happenings this weekend. This morning at the DC Booth they passed out Dark Knight t-shirts, photo above courtesy of HollywoodChicago. It was later revealed at the end of the panel/footage that the t-shirts contain a hidden text that reads "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" when put under blacklights. A capacity…
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On Monday July 30th I rushed back to San Francisco, exhausted from Comic-Con, to the Four Seasons Hotel to sit down with SuperBad stars Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. The trio come off as a down to earth group of friends with impeccable timing and comic awareness. I was able to catch SuperBad…
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According to IESB, Mummy series helmer Stephen Sommers knows something, and "knowing is half the battle!" That's right, Paramount Pictures has offered Sommers the chance at making a live action G.I. Joe movie. With characters like Cobra Commander and Serpentor, GI Joe has the potential to be an fun accessible army action film like never…
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Our friend Adam at HollywoodChicago just sent us some information about The Dark Knight happenings at Wizard World Chicago this weekend. At the conclusion of the DC Nation panel earlier today, it was announced that there will be a special panel on Saturday at 6:00pm (not 2:00pm as previously reported) in the Dave Cockrum Room.…
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Comic-Con teaser poster aside, this is our first look at Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd. I don't know where exactly this production photo came from (someone just told me that it might be from Panavision?), but I'm sure more are probably on the way. I really dig the black white and brown color palette being used…
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One of our scoopers just sent us the latest Motion Pictures Association of America Title Registration Report. Lucasfilm, Ltd has filed for six different titles for Indiana Jones 4. The proposed titles include: Indiana Jones and the City of Gods Indiana Jones and the Destroyer of Worlds Indiana Jones and the Fourth Corner of the…
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It has been rumored for a couple months now that Stardust director Matthew Vaughn was in talks to direct a big screen adaptation of the Marvel Comics character Thor. And this morning Marvel has made the deal official. I Am Legend scribe Mark Protosevich penned the adaptation. The Mighty Thor is a Marvel Comics superhero…
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Daddy Day Camp opened on Wednesday in 2,184 screens, and didn't even break $1 million. The movie made $773,706! That's a per screen average of about $350 bucks. That's right, for the whole day. To give you an example of how bad that is: The Bourne Ultimatum, which opened last week made over $6.7 million…
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The 20th Century Fox-based production company New Regency is close to a deal with the Mark Gordon Company to bring Voltron: Defender of the Universe the the big screen. The live-action project was in development since 2004. Interest likely skyrocketed after the huge popularity of Michael Bay's Transformers. The popular 1980's japanese created animated television…
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My only question is, where is Remy? If I were a kid living in the 1980's, I would have loved a Pixar themed monopoly board game (likely due to the super advanced computer generated characters from the future) But in the new millennium, a board game seems retro. Or as Elijah Wood's character says in…
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Roving Mars hit DVD store shelves on July 31st, and we have a copy for FIVE lucky /Film readers. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On August 9th we will e-mail the winners with the best answers. More information on the release can be found…
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MovieWeb has a look at the new teaser poster for the big screen adaptation of the popular video game Hitman. I was less than impressed by the first teaser trailer which was released in June. I'm not a big gamer but some of my best friends are, and I've always found Hitman to be interesting.…
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Lionsgate premiered a clip from SAW 4 at Comic-Con 2007 (our coverage). You can now view that clip online at break.com. The video is from a studio source which leads me to believe that this is some sort of official release (as opposed to those god awful illegal cell phone video clips on YouTube). You…
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Yesterday a leaked call-sheet from the set of Paramount's Cheese (a code-name for the film which is code-named Cloverfield and 1-18-08) was posted on the internet by NY Magazine [click here to read our coverage]. The call sheet supposedly revealed the final scene of the film, an alternative ending, as well as the first couple…
Read More Yesterday I posted an article titled "Kevin Smith to direct Comic Book Movie... Supermax?" I posted Kevin's recent comments from Wizard Magazine that he might be doing a comic book movie for his tenth film. "I think is going to be a comic book movie - not The Green Hornet, though. There's something that we're…
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Our good friends at AdvancedIron (the best source for Iron Man news on the internet) have posted this very cool new promo image of Irom Man posing. According to AI, the pose is from a cover by Adi Granov from Iron Man vol. 3. I have no idea what that means, but I trust they…
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JohnAugust and Cinematical have posted the theatrical one-sheet poster for John August's directorial debut The Nines. Guys, this was my favorite movie of Sundance 2007. There isn't an easy way to describe The Nines without ruining much of the plot. The plot summery I've seen floating around the web describes the film: A troubled actor,…
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Were you a fan of the HBO series Six Feet Under? I was one of those people who discovered the movie on DVD, and watched almost every single episode in the span of a few weeks. I have yet to see another show with the same sensibilities. Six Feet Under screenwriter Nancy Oliver's new movie…
Read More Christopher Walken and Alessandro Nivola have signed on to star in Nigel Cole's (Calendar Girls, Saving Grace, A Lot Like Love) road-trip caper film Five Dollars a Day. The film actually has an interesting premise: Walken will play a conman proud of living like a king on $5 a day who reunited with his son…
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According to DH, Simpsons Producer/Writer James L. Brooks claims that there was 166 drafts of The Simpsons Movie screenplay. Is that a new record for Hollywood?
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Okay, so I open up my e-mail and there is a message from a Chicago spy who has chosen to spill the beans on all sorts of plot points for The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan's upcoming Batman Begins sequel. So the question is, should I post them? I don't even know if they are legit,…
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Our interview with the stars of SuperBad will go live tomorrow, but while you're waiting I highly recommend checking out this YouTube video interview with the SuperBad crew. YouTube interview? Boring, right? Nope. Not when it's being conducted by Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright. Edgar asks some great questions like…
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We promised you yesterday, and now here it is. The official version of Michel Gondry's (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep) Be Kind Rewind movie trailer is now online for your viewing pleasure. Check it out after the jump, followed by seven new production photos Be Kind Rewind follows Jerry (Jack…
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It looks like Project Greenlight "winner" John Gulager might return two Feast sequels. I ran by Gulager while leaving The Mist panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, but didn't have time to stop and talk. Now I wish I had. "Feast 2 and 3 are coming together, with [director John] Gulager back," Feast co-screenwriter Marcus…
Read More Yesterday we told you that Rosario Dawson signed on to star alongside Shia LaBeouf in the D.J. Caruso thriller Eagle Eye. This however took Dawson out of the running for Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno, a romantic comedy that had been hand written for Dawson. And now Silent Bob finally speaks: "What…
Read More Carla Gugino has signed on to Zack Snyder's big screen adaptation of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel Watchmen. Gugino joins Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Malin Akerman. Gugino will play Sally Jupiter, a burlesque dancer turned superhero named The Silk Spectre. She is part of the Minutemen,…
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A great movie has just gotten even better. Clint Eastwood has agreed to composing a new musical score for James C. Strouse's Grace is Gone. According to The Envelope [via: HE], Clint Eastwood was so taken by the film which premiered at Sundance 2007, and was quickly snapped up by The Weinstein Co. Many people…
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Every-time I'm a Borders or Barnes and Nobles, I run into Sophie Kinsella's bestselling book Confessions of a Shopaholic. I'm a guy, and the book seems to be targeted for the opposite sex, so I've never actually picked it up or skimmed through the pages. The last time I went to the book store, I…
Read More NY Magazine has obtained the call-sheet for the JJ Abrams produced top secret monster movie code-named Cloverfield/1-18-08. The call sheet for "day 33 of 33" of shooting appears to reveal the film's opening scene, ending, and an alternative ending (both of which appear to be very similar on the call sheet). Warning: Do not click…
Read More 18-year-old Russian-born newcomer Anton Yelchin (Charlie Bartlett, Fierce People) is in negotiations to play Pavel Chekov in the JJ Abrams Star Trek reboot/prequel. I recently saw Yelchin in Charlie Bartlett, and was not impressed. Also fans are confused because the character of Chekov didn't appear until the second season of Star Trek. I'm not an…
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JJ Abrams has sold a pitch for a new supernatural thriller to be written and directed by Maria Full of Grace filmmaker Josh Marston. The yet-to-be-titled-film will be produced under JJ Abrams' Bad Robot production company, which means - we don't know and won't know shit for a long while. That's right, yet another film…
Read More Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith has revealed that he may be doing a Comic Book movie after all. Smith, was originally attached to write and direct The Green Hornet, bowed out after fearing that he would not be able to handle a big budget action movie. Of course, Smith has already lined up his next two…
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I don't exactly understand how I missed it, but the trailer for Michel Gondry's (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep) new comedy Be Kind Rewind premiered at Comic-Con last weekend. Someone taped the screen and uploaded the video to YouTube, but I could never recommend watching a handheld video taped version…
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Fox wasn't prepared to premiere material at Comic-Con, because, they claimed, everything was in such an "early" not ready for prime-time form. Yet 10-days later they have launched the official Jumper website, and have released four production photos from the 1992 Steven Gould sci-fi novel adaptation. A genetic anomaly allows a young man (Hayden Christensen)…
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Once is still one of my favorite movies of 2007. The little indie Irish-made musical (would you even call it a musical?) released earlier this year is still selling chugging away at the independent box office. It seems like uber-director Steven Spielberg has also fallen in love with the film. "A little movie called Once…
Read More We still don't have an update for out story from a couple days back titled "Renewed Interest in Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters?," but thanks to MTV, we now have a fuller plot synopsis for Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk's new book Snuff, and some new tidbits about the Choke movie adaptation. Palahniuk describes the Snuff:…
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IGN is reporting a juicy rumor that JJ Abrams is trying to convince Mission: Impossible III star Tom Cruise to do a cameo in the upcoming Star Trek prequel. If Cruise said yes, he would play Captain Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk's predecessor as captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise and Mr. Spock's first commanding officer.…
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Yesterday we posted the theatrical one-sheet, and now Paramount Vantage has released the movie trailer for The Kite Runner. Based on the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, Finding Neverland and Monster's Ball helmer Mark Foster directs this story of a man who returns to his native Afghanistan, which is under Taliban rule, to right…
Read More Someone sent us some new photos from Richard Kelly's Southland Tales. But first some news for Mandy Moore fans: A month ago Mandy Moore made a comment, wondering if she still appeared in the movie, after director Richard Kelly announced that the film had undergone major reedits: "I play The Rock's wife in the movie,…
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I see more films in a month years than most people see in a year, yet I'm still horrible at playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Thankfully Geekza has created a helpful guide for how to win when you're forced into playing at your next drunken get-together. There seems to be one key hint: The…
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Our friends at FilmIck have posted a visual guide to the Watchmen casting. The guide compares the characters to the various actors who were supposed to play them over the years. I'm unable to connect some of these names to the directors, but most of them seem legit. Click on the image to enlarge. Watchmen…
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 Sony is trying everything they can to get people to go see Daddy Day Camp. They shouldn't worry, they have a bad family comedy on their hands, America will probably show up in droves. Their latest plot involves attaching a follow-up to the 2002 Academy Award winning computer animated short film The Chubbchubbs!. According…
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I can't stress this enough: SuperBad is the best teen comedy since American Pie. It's a must see, no questions asked. A new R-Rated clip recently "leaked" onto YouTube. It features a segment of the film where Jonah Hill tells the story of his childhood phallic drawing problem. I wonder what the MPAA must think…
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Our friend Alex at RT has posted the movie poster for Paramount's big screen adaptation of The Kite Runner. Based on the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, Finding Neverland and Monster's Ball helmer Mark Foster directs this story of a man who returns to his native Afghanistan, which is under Taliban rule, to right…
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If you haven't realized this already, but it's a slow news day. So I thought we'd take the time to wish M. Night Shyamalan a happy 37th Birthday. Hey, not only can we can still remember back to the time when he made good movies, and I think I'm possibly the only critic to give…
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There really couldn't be a reason (other than may-be money) to make a movie based on the classic Parker Brothers' Monopoly board game. When I first heard rumblings that Ridley Scott was trying to adapt the game to the big screen, I tried to ignore them. I thought, 'It's probably one of those big money…
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Chuck Palahniuk is my favorite author. You can probably tell by the extensive coverage I've given the various movie adaptations in development. Most of you will know Chuck as the author of Fight Club. Invisible Monsters was published after that success in 1999. Following the success of Swimming Out to Holly, a short film that…
Read More A bunch of fanmade fake posters for the JJ Abrams produced monster movie code-named Cloverfield have been floating around the web. Some blogs are claiming that the posters are real. They aren't. So you might be wondering why I've decided to post them anyway. I thought some of them show some cool conceptual imagery. It…
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Okay, so I'm not as anti-remake or sequels as most critics. I'm probably the only one who was looking forward to Disturbia, D.J. Caruso's contemporary teen thriller remake of Hitchcock's Rear Window starring Shia LaBeouf. The teen audience certainly showed up in numbers and the movie was pretty decent to boot. But ever since the…
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 I, like most of America, saw The Simpsons Movie last weekend. An enjoyable film, with a lot of laughs, but still may-be 10 years too late. Most of the people I spoke with agreed that it was good but not great. My major complaint was that I wanted to see more of the film…
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Naming Number Two is a film from New Zealand directed by Toa Fraser. It is about about an old woman, Nanna Maria (Ruby Dee), who, following a dream, commands her grandchildren to throw a giant feast for her. She tells them that she wants them all there for the feast, where she will name her…
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AICN has the exclusive on a very cool bit of Get Smart casting. In the original 1960's television series, Dave Ketchum played Agent 13, a secret KONTROL agent who was forever being stationed inside weird places such as mailboxes, washing machines, lockers, and other objects. It was just one of the many funny running gags…
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 One of the teaser trailers from the early 1980s, just happens to be for my favorite movie of all time - Back to the Future. I assume this trailer was filmed early on in the production, as it contains absolutely no footage from the feature film. Most of the earlier teaser trailers were like…
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Our friend Paul at FofR sent us the following scoop on the big screen World of Warcraft movie which is currently in development at Legendary Pictures. The new details were revealed today at BlizzCon 2007 by 300 producer Thomas Tull, who stated that a budget of over $100 million would be committed to the project,…
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Batmanonfilm has gotten their hands on a leaked info sheet for an yet-to-be-announced Batman anime project. The project would function much in the way that the Animatrix did for The Matrix films (which coincidentally was also released by Warner Bros). The memo says that the project would consist of sic short stories which help bridge…
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Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs hit DVD store shelves on July 10th, 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 9th we will e-mail the winners with the best answers. More information…
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Pixar's WALL-E is one of my most anticipated films of 2008. It's a sci-fi film unlike anything ever seen before. The computer animated movie takes place sometime in the future, when overpopulation and rampant consumerism literally buries the world in trash. And mankind, the entire population is forced to re-colonize for a mandatory five year…
Read More Photo courtesy of IESB IESB's Robert Sanchez has never been one to keep quiet. He's known for his no nonsense tough guy attitude, and is usually very vocal on and off the internet. During Robert's Masters of the Web panel at Comic-Con 2007, the IESB webmaster attacked Cinematical.com and the blogosphere: "It's not only established…
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Apparently there is a scene in Rush Hour 3 where Chris Tucker has an angry homophobic reaction (played for laughs) to a transsexual who removes her wig after a "sexual interaction". I haven't seen the movie so I may be getting this wrong as the contents of the scene are not completely spelled out. When…
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Warner Bros has pushed August Rush back from October 19th to Wednesday, November 21st. The film will now go head to head with The Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, the Jon Heder comedy Mama's Boy, and the Frank Darabont adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist. Seems…
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In The Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne will conclude his journey to find the answers to his mysterious past. While the answers yielded may not be enough for even the simplest of viewers, the action sequences are sure to keep you glued to the big screen. During one car chase sequence I found myself literally on…
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If The Invasion is anywhere as bad as the theatrical movie posters that have been released so far, than we have much to worry about. The film hits theaters in two weeks (August 17th), and the public awareness is very low. The production was troubled from the start, going through a series of re-shoots with…
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints director Dito Montiel and star Channing Tatum have signed on to reteam for an untitled feature film about underground street fighting for Rogue. According to Variety, "Tatum will play a young man scraping a living scalping tickets in Gotham who becomes involved in the underground sport after a chance…
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Stephen Lang (Gods and Generals, Gettysburg) and Michelle Rodriguez (Girlfight, Fast and the Furious, Lost) have joined the cast of James Cameron's $190+ million super-epic 3D performance-capture/live action/animation hybrid sci-fi film Avatar. Written by Cameron eleven years ago as an 80-page treatment, Avatar follows a wounded ex-marine who is unwillingly sent to settle and exploit…
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IESB is on a roll this week reporting some juicy rumors. I wonder how many will actually pan out. The latest one is that Warner Bros has offered Sam Raimi a multi-picture deal which includes the Clash of the Titans remake. As of press time, Raimi has not accepted the deal. The Spider-Man director is…
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Many of you might not remember this but, before Quake, Before Doom, there was Wolfenstein 3D - considered to be the first first person shooter video gameof all time. It's even more popular sequel, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, was released in November 2001. And now Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary is set to write and…
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Hot Fuzz hit DVD store shelves on July 31st, 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 9th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found…
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My favorite film from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival is the feature film debut of screenwriter John August (Go, Big Fish). There isn't really any way to describe The Nines without ruining much of the plot. The plot summery I've seen floating around the web describes the film: A troubled actor, a television show runner,…
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A 19 year old girl named Jhannet Sejas was immediately arrested after she recorded a 20 second clip from the movie Transformers that she wanted to show to her little brother. She now faces up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. According to the Washington Post, Sejas was celebrating her 19th birthday…
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The National Treasure: Book of Secrets trailer which Disney premiered at Comic-Con 2007 is now available online. As we previously reported, the new trailer reveals a lot more about the plot of the film: A missing page from John Wilkes Booth's diary reveals that treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage)'s great grandfather might have…
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IESB is reporting that that Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman is currently in talks with New Line Cinema to develop and direct both a big screen adaptation of the popular X-Box 360 video game Gears of War and the announced Escape from New York remake. On March 20th, it was announced that…
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Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr and Stan Winston were on hand at Comic Con 2007 to unveil the Iron Man Mark 1 armor on the show floor. We were in Hall H for a series movie panels and missed all this madness. But thankfully my new best friend (yeah, right...) Jon Favreau caught all the…
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Talk has already begun about a possible fourth Rush Hour movie, further proving that their must not be a God, or at least one who cares about good movies. Director Brett Ratner introduced Rush Hour 3 at the Mann's Chinese Theater premiere on Tuesday with a joke: "I'd like to welcome everyone to the first…
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I remember when non blockbuster movies would get only one movie trailer. One chance to sell an audience. But today is a much different time. Universal has released a third movie trailer for Peter Berg's The Kingdom. We've been following this one for a while now. The new trailer is a lot more flashy. It…
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Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating is a doc about Jason "Crazy Legs" Conti, a weird character who gets into competitive eating while working odd jobs as a sperm donor, window washer, and nude model. Throughout the course of the film, Crazy Legs becomes the world oyster eating champion, and then…
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Bloodlines hit DVD store shelves on July 31st, 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 8th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after…
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I Am Legend screenwriter Mark Protosevich is already talking about a potential sequel. The LA Times writes: "There is no word yet on how Protosevich plans to extend the story of lone military scientist Robert Neville's struggle to survive against a mutant populace. But it's a good bet that he's setting it at least 10…
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 McG hopes to resurrect a lost Steve McQueen project as part of a new three-year first-look deal at Warner Bros. When Steve McQueen died 26 years ago, he left behind two custom-made trunks containing 16 leather-bound notebooks full of drawings, period photographs, a detailed script continuity containing over 1,700 pages of hand-typed/written material by…
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Dreamworks Animation and Paramount have officially announced that they will release Shrek 4 on May 10th 2010, according to Variety. Earlier this year, Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg has announced that there will be a Shrek 4 and Shrek 5, but THAT IS IT! "It's a finite story, has been from the beginning and I think…
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A producer from CNBC's On The Money woke me up this morning. They were working on a news story on the "Overnight" trademark filed by JJ Abrams' legal team, which many believe to be the final title for the top secret monster movie currently code-named Cloverfield. I told them what I knew, thinking that they…
Read More Our friend Frosty at Collider is reporting that Happy Feet director George Miller has been asked to direct a live-action big screen version of the Justice League of America for Warner Bros. The source of the information seems to be credible, but I'm amazed to see that Warner Bros is actually pushing th development of…
Read More A couple years ago Roger Ebert decided to put his entire review library online at RogerEbert.com. I've spent many hours on that website researching past movies in the extensive review database. I use to collect Ebert's movie yearbooks which collected all his film reviews in a yearly collection. It amazed me that Roger would risk…
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 I was able to catch a sneak peak of Shoot 'Em Up last week in San Diego, and can't say enough good things about the film. Shoot'em up is like Crank but with guns. It's non-stop action, no questions asked, no plot needed, and no apologies offered. It knows what it wants to be…
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At Comic-Con, Rob Zombie premiered some new footage for his re-imagining of Halloween. And now a new trailer is available online. There are not many horror remakes that have me excited, but I have faith that Zombie has done it right. By the time that the music hits at the conclusion of the trailer, my…
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Cloverfan has a bunch of new photo and video from the New York City set of Cloverfield. The public production permit posted calls the production "cheese". The on set name-badges have a logo that says CHOCOLATE. And the director/star chairs have the Slusho logo. Click on the images below to see more.
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Yellow hit DVD store shelves on July 31st, 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 7th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after…
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Okay, I know this isn't movie news. It's barely entertainment news. But it's a slow news day and I'm, for some odd reason, excited. NBC has decided to resurrect the early 90's classic television game show American Gladiators! I wonder if Nitro, Turbo and Laser will return? They're probably too old now... According to Variety,…
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