Ramon Stokes spent 60 hours creating this custom modified Clerks-themed Nintendo Wii. Stokes' company Morphon Mods was commissioned by Smith's friends "Ken, Zak and Joey" to create the Wii as a Christmas Gift for the Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith. The Wii was painted using flat gray scale colors to match the black and white clerks…
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Finally there is an alarm clock for hardcore film geeks and aspiring filmmakers. Chinavasion presents this director's clapperboard shaped alarm clock, which displays the time in a 24 hour format (complete with deci-seconds) as well as the date. When the alarm rings, just like a director, use the clapper and clip the board just like…
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The idea of Jurassic Park has always intrigued me. After taking the splash on the theme park ride at Universal Studios in Hollywood, I often wondered why a whole theme park couldn't be created around this idea. And now it is finally happening. A new $1.1 billion Jurassic theme park called Restless Planet, is being…
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I first discovered this t-shirt a couple months back, but it was sold out. Thankfully Threadless decided to reprint Jayson Dougherty's t-shirt design. As of this posting, all sizes are in stock, however I expect that to change fast. So pick up with cool t-shirt while it's still available. Cool Stuff is a daily feature…
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Rob was going to Japan, and a bunch of friends gathered to throw him a going away party. But that was just the beginning. We've all seen the trailer (you know, the one where the guy clearly saying "It's Alive!" and not "It's a Lion!" right before the statue of liberty's head rolls down the…
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"Slusho! Make You Feel Freezing, Now Slusho! Make You Look Cool!!" The online store for everyone's favorite fictional Japanese frozen beverage has recently introduced black fitted hoodies featuring the Slusho! logo. Slusho! make high-quality shirt for YOU!!! Available in sizes ranging from Small to Extra Large for $28.00. Back in the day, Slusho! orders included…
Read More Yesterday I came across a very cool independent t-shirt place called SplitReason. They have some great t-shirts for film geeks and gamers. Here are a few of the designs that I found interesting: Run R2 Run Flux Zombie Pwnage Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products…
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Professional model maker Dimitri Kaliviotis likes to recreate wrecked and destroyed vehicles out of sci-fi models. The rusted Abandoned Refuge AT-AT wreck shown above, won the Starship Modeler's Wrecks online contest. Don't ruin your $1500 Master Replicas Star Wars AT-AT Imperial Walker Studio Scaled Replica just yet. Kaliviotis' model took 2 months to complete, and…
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Alex tipped me off to a new Alien VS Predator Exclusive Ultimate Showdown Collector's Set, which is being offered exclusively in the states by Best Buy. The new set is being sold for $169.99 and includes 15 discs: Every Alien Movie (2 discs each) + bonus disc Predator 1 and 2 (2 discs each) AvP…
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Without the Flux Capacitor, Time Travel would not be possible! Diamond Select has begun taking preorders for a officially licensed Back to the Future prop replica of the Flux Capacitor (DeLorean Time Machine Not Included) from the 1985 classic Back to the Future. All you need is 1.21 jigowatts of electricity and 88mph, and you…
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In 2005, we posted a photo of a Nintendo GameCube which had been modded into a Star Wars AT-AT. Well, apparently the owner of the creation has decided to sell it on eBay. My guess is he finally realized that the next generation of gaming consoles were out... Aside from the mod being "internet famous",…
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There is something for everyone at America's multiplexes and arthouses this weekend, and a fair share of the wide release and specialty fare is performing well. By end of business on Wednesday, Will Smith's I Am Legend (Warner Bros) will likely be the 8th-best grossing 2007 release at $207.3M, Alvin & the Chipmunks (Fox) will…
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Nicolas Cage's National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) continued its holiday domination with a $9.52M Thursday, down 17% from the day after Christmas. The sequel about treasure hunter Ben Gates has posted an estimated 7-day total of $86.43M. Treasure has generated the 6th-best 7-day gross in modern box office history, about $7.5M stronger than last…
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With National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) continuing strong with another $11.47M on the day after Christmas, the focus is on 3 Christmas Day openers that plummeted precipitously on Wednesday. The massive drop of 55% for Fox's schlocky Alien Versus Predator: Requiem makes sense. The movie wasn't screened for critics and fanboy zeal can only…
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As is the tradition, American's opened Christmas presents and then flooded the nation's multiplexes. National Treasure: Book of Secrets easily won the day, and in so doing may have posted the 2nd-best all-time single day Christmas gross with an estimated $14.75M. ALL-TIME TOP 5 SINGLE DAY CHRISTMAS GROSSES 1. Meet the Fockers - $19.5M 2.…
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Christmas Eve is never a big day at America's multiplexes, but Monday was considerably stronger than December 24, 2006. The top movie last year was Night at the Museum with $5.7M. By comparison, National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) has registered an $8.4M estimated haul. The latest adventure of treasure hunter Ben Gates has now…
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Nicolas Cage's National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) was down on Saturday from its enthusiastic Friday opening. The return of treasure hunter Ben Gates added an estimated $16.9M with a Per Theatre Average of $4,410.Now the question becomes how will the weekend box office play out considering that Monday is Christmas Eve and a holiday…
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Jessica Simpson's new movie Blonde Ambition was released on 8 screens this weekend in Jessica's home state of Texas, before it gets dumped on DVD next month (January 22nd 2008 to be exact). /Film correspondent Steve Mason sent us this hilarious report: As has been reported, Jessica is dating Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, and…
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The role of treasure hunter Ben Gates has vaulted Nicolas Cage to his single best day ever at the box office, and he will also receive an early Christmas present – his all-time best opening weekend. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) has racked up an estimated $18.5M on its opening day, and the sequel…
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Will Smith's I Am Legend (Warner Bros) is the biggest opening of his storied career. The sci-fi thriller, adapted from the 1954 Richard Matheson novel of the same name, has grabbed a spectacular $28.35M on Friday, and it's headed for a weekend of at least $70M. The film will be a bit frontloaded, but my…
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It has been a dismal fall at America's multiplexes. Aside from November releases American Gangster (Universal) with $126.2M domestic and Bee Movie (Dreamworks/Paramount) with $121.4M, most everything else has met with responses ranging from lukewarm to indifferent. There have been a few upside surprises like This Christmas (Sony), which has a $43.5M take, and even…
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There was no Saturday miracle surge for New Line. The Golden Compass, an effects-laden family film starring Nicole Kidman with a reported budget of $200M, received a modest 16% increase from its opening day, posting an estimated $10.2M on Saturday. Assuming a Sunday drop of 33%, Compass will finish its opening weekend with a disastrous…
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New Line's The Golden Compass, which has a reported budget of $200M+, has staggered out of the starting gate with an opening day of $9M or so, and it will likely muster only an estimated $27M for the weekend. In the realm of big budget, family-oriented family films, The Golden Compass opening is absolutely anemic.…
Read More IMAX has inked a deal with AMC theaters to install 100 digital IMAX screens over the next three years. The screens will be installed in the company's top-performing theaters in 33 top U.S. markets. For example, Variety says that 12 new IMAX will install screens in 12 locations in the Los Angeles area alone. The…
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Joe Carnahan still isn't sure which of his two greenlit films will go into production next, but he gives us this update: "There are two actors that I'm interested in for [White Jazz]. Both are available and both are apparently keen on the script. But it's all speculation at the point. [Killing Pablo] on the…
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The weekend after Thanksgiving is always one of the more sluggish 3-day periods of the calendar year, and 2007 is no exception. Disney's Enchanted got a solid 51% Saturday bounce, but still, it will only manage a weekend of about $17.1M. Since opening on the Wednesday prior to "turkey day" the family film featuring likely…
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Disney's Enchanted, starring near-certain Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Amy Adams, continued its royal box office run adding another $4.9M on Friday, and the well-reviewed family film will manage a solid hold on its 2nd weekend. The "princess-out-of-water" animation-live action hybrid is on target for an estimated $17.6M for the weekend, representing a 49% drop…
Read More As you know, we're hosting a Special Super-Duper New Years Indy 4 movie poster give-away. I was just giving one of these posters the close look over and noticed something strange. Maybe it has already been spotted, but I don't recall reading about it. If you look behind Indiana, between the eyes of the crystal…
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The 22nd James Bond film and Casino Royale sequel will begin principal photography in the U.K. on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008. Director Marc Foster explains how this film (rumored to be titled 007) will be more of a journey into 007's inner-being: "When Bond began in the Connery days, travel was a luxury not everyone…
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Patrick Sisam's The Year of Getting to Know Us premieres at Sundance, but an early trailer (with a different title - Rocket) has popped up online. Jimmy Falon stars in what Sundance describes as a "darkly comic exploration of the classic dysfunctional-family dynamic" and "a quirky exploration of how the people in our lives make…
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Michel Gondry's upcoming film Be Kind Rewind is anything but conventional, and the upcoming marketing efforts are anything but normal. Gondry will be taking over downtown New York's Deitch Projects, transforming the Soho art gallery into a "Sweeding movie studio" from January 24th to March 1st. "Groups of people walk in and will have access…
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Before BeetleJuice, Batman, Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure, and Sweeney Todd, Tim Burton directed a modern gothic violent retelling of Hansel and Gretel. Never heard of it before? I assure you, It exists. Although very little evidence can be found. And if you haven't seen it, you likely never will. Filmed for $116,000 on 16mm,…
Read More The UK's Sunday Times is reporting that Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) has been "persuaded by Steven Spielberg" to play Abbie Hoffman, in the upcoming film The Trial of the Chicago Seven. Written by Aaron Sorkin, and based on the true story of the seven defendants charged with conspiracy and inciting to riot at the 1968…
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Australian soap star turned late-90's pop singer Natalie Imbruglia (remember her one hit wonder Torn?) auditioned for a role in Gavin Hood's X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The singer/songwriter supposedly tested two weeks ago for a role in the upcoming X-Men prequel/spin-off film starring Hugh Jackman. No word on the role that she read for, or if…
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Every year new names become popular. Cinemascopian points out that 2007 has had three films featuring lead characters with the unusual name of Anton: Anton Ego, "Ratatouille" Anton Corbijn, "Control" Anton Chigurh, "No Country for Old Men" I wonder if such a cinematic occurrence might eventually someday reflect in those popular baby name charts. Don't…
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Fox Searchlight has a huge hit on their hands with Juno. The film grossed $3.285 million on 998 screens on Friday night (December 28th). I hate to say I told you so, but... well, I told you so. Juno is connecting with mainstream America. The film was given the patented platform release that we've grown…
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Who is the audience is for Tyler Perry's movies? The comic actor/writer/director is considered a decently big box office draw, yet no one I've ever talked to has admitted to being a fan of his movies. Sure, I might not be in the right demographic, but surely someone I know is, right? His critically bashed…
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The WGA has inked a deal with David Letterman's Worldwide Pants to allow writers to return for Letterman and Ferguson. While making an individual deal like this comes off as a big FU to the AMPTP, having some writers working while others stand in the streets, may cause trouble among members in the writers union.…
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Oceanic Airlines, the fictional airline featured in the television show LOST has issued the following press release: Oceanic Airlines announced today their return to the airways. Beginning December 31, operations and flights to nine markets will resume, "Taking You Places You Never Imagined." Destinations include: Los Angeles, CA Tustin, CA Ames, IA Miami, FL New…
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Check out the new posters for Hancock and Drillbit Taylor after the jump. IMPA has a look at the teaser poster for Will Smith's super-anti-hero film Hancock, which hits theaters on July 2nd 2008. I like the concept, but featuring a city in his sun glasses might confuse some consumers as New York City played…
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I'm still back visiting family and friends in my hometown out east (in a little suburb outside of Boston best known for it's mall). I made the trip into the city today with a friend and spotted some of the Cloverfield viral marketing at work. Last week I reported on strange chalk grafiti that began…
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I almost stayed away from posting this next news item as I'm not exactly interested in posting major spoilers about major films, especially the ones I'm majorly interested in. But the story has already started to engulf the web, and besides, these new lego sets have an original announced release date of early May 2008,…
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JoBlo spotted this new theater display for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Looks a lot like the comic con exclusive teaser poster. Click on the image above to enlarge.
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Universal has sent us the first photo from the new comedy Baby Mama, which stars Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, and Sigourney Weaver. Writer turned director Michael McCullers' (Austin Powers 2 and 3) feature film debut tells the story of "two women, one apartment and the nine months that will change their…
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Lets make one thing perfectly clear. There are two Paul Andersons" Paul Thomas Anderson and Paul W.S. Anderson. One is a great director who created one of the best films of the year (There Will Be Blood) and what people are calling a cinematic masterpiece, and the other is a hack director who somehow found…
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John C. Reilly, one of Paul Thomas Anderson's regulars (also known as the PTA players) recently told the story of how he talked himself out of being in one of the best films of the year - There Will Be Blood. "Paul and I talked a lot about it. He wrote me a part for…
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Grindhouse is one of my favorite movies of 2007 (list hopefully upcoming) but have yet to buy Planet Terror or Death Proof on DVD. Because like most fans, I envisioned the experience as a double header, and don't want to get screwed with a couple single releases. Well the expected super duper special edition box…
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When I first saw Juno at the Toronto Film Festival in September, one of the things I made mention of was the super-cool rotoscoped color-pencil animated opening sequence done by Shadowplay Studios. Shadowplay has put the sequence online, which can now be watched below. I love this style so much, I wish that the marketing…
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Universal has sent us the first official photos of Edward Norton as Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk. Click on the production photos to enlarge. Edward Norton stars in this new beginning as Bruce Banner, a scientist desperately hunting for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force…
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Disney has sent us a first look at their upcoming non-Pixar 3D computer animated film Bolt (previously titled "American Dog"). Click on the image above for a super duper high resolution look. Not as impressive as a Pixar screenshot, but if you really start to appreciate this photo while looking at the high resolution version.…
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There is nothing I dislike more than a boring period drama. Keira Knightley seems to be obsessed with this genre. The teaser trailer for her newest, The Duchess is now online. The film is based on Amanda Foreman's best-selling novel 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire', chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, an ancestor of…
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You've seen the teaser, you've seen the red-band, and now the official theatrical movie trailer for Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is now online for your viewing pleasure. More racial profiling, escape footage, and NPH on a unicorn (just like in the teaser poster). I'm still not sold on the guy they cast…
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Want some Holiday reading? The screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood is finally online at Paramount Vantage's For Your Consideration page.
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What happens when Sweeney Todd becomes a Pirate? Check out this nice movie trailer mash-up combining Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Watch the trailer after the jump.
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Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis did an extensive 56-minute interview with Charlie Rose about There Will Be Blood. Watch it below.
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Every year A Christmas Story endlessly plays in the background in most family Christmas parties thanks to TBS. I know I've personally seen the film over 60 times, and its also the first film I remember seeing theatrically. But seeing and knowing are two different things. For example, did you know that Jack Nicholson was…
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Lionsgate has erected a 78-foot tall graffiti-inspired Rambo billboard in Times Square (Seventh Avenue north of 47th Street). TMZ captured Sylvester Stallone walking around Los Angeles with the same image airbrushed on his back (seen below). Probably a piece of cast and crew swag. source: NYPost
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A teaser trailers for for Steve Shill's backdoor pilot... errr I mean TV Movie remake/reboot Knight Rider have started to run on NBC. Yes, it is a slow news day week. Watch the first teaser after the jump. And no, I'm not all too interested, although everyone does get just a tad excited about ideas…
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from your friends at /Film. artist: Morticunata
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In this week's FightCast, we fight about five of this Holiday's biggest movies: I Am Legend, Walk Hard, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Sweeney Todd, and Juno. We both had a lot of catching up to do and decided to talk about a bunch of the big films that are playing this week. I Am…
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Mad Movies has the first photo of Corey Feldman in action as Edgar Frog in Warner Home Video's Lost Boys 2: The Tribe. In the photo above, Frog fires a Holy Water Bazooka, likely at some villainous vampire foe. Official Plot Description: "This sequel takes us to the shady surf city of Luna Bay, California,…
Read More Last month we featured a custom home theater designed to model the Enterprise NCC-1701D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. We return in December to show you the home theater set-up of a retired naturalist who thought that her cellar would be a great Batcave. That's right, a Batcave themed home theater created by New…
Read More Dragonball star Emmy Rossum talks about training and filming with Chow Yun Fat in her latest blog entry: "Sorry I've been rather quiet for a bit, I've been working on a very exciting new film that I'm shooting outside the US. I'm working with the great Chow Yun Fat and I'm very excited about the…
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SHH has a better look at the new Hulk (seen above) from the upcoming Universal reboot/sequel The Incredible Hulk, which is due in theaters on June 13th 2008. I know that fanboys were upset with Ang Lee's version of the character, particularly the special effects in the now infamous Superbowl advertisement. I was never really…
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News is usually slow on this yearly holiday week, but, "I assure you, WE'RE OPEN!" Don't expect our usual extensive coverage, but we'll be posting a few features, and a couple really cool contests (did someone say Indiana Jones??? ), and whatever news leaks out. So keep checking back, and Happy Holidays! Peter Sciretta /Film…
Read More This is the time of year when all the critics and websites begin to publish their Top 10 lists for 2007. But every list is different, just like every person is different. Last year I attempted to compile all the lists together, to figure out what movies appear on the most Top 10 lists. But…
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Rumor has it that the upcoming 2009 Pixar animated film Up is somewhat a re-telling of the classic Don Quixote fable. For almost 60 years now the Walt Disney Company has been trying to turn Don Quixote into an animated feature film, but without success. The episodic nature of the fable is often cited as…
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New Line has released a new Red Band (read: R-Rated or uncensored) movie trailer for Will Ferrell's upcoming comedy Semi-Pro, and it actually makes the movie look funny (unlike every piece of advertising that has come before it). Walk Hard suffered from the same problem. Most people were turned off by the film's advertising. The…
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One of the best movies of the year is, without a doubt, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. No question - this film is a modern cinematic masterpiece. Blood hits theaters in New York City and Los Angeles on December 26th, and will expand during January. Not willing to wait that long? Paul Thomas…
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A /Film spy sent me two radio advertisements for Cloverfield, which are scheduled to air around the country starting on Monday. It seems like Paramount is really pushing the phrase "The Mystery Will Be Revealed!" Listen to the new monsterific radio spots below. [audio:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/audio/PRJJ_0276.mp3] [audio:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/audio/PRJJ_0273.mp3] Cloverfield hits theaters on 1-18-08.
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Neil Gaiman has released a sneak peek at some early, not-quite-final footage from Coraline. Based on Gaiman's short children's novel of the same name, Coraline is a young bored girl who discovers that bricked-up wall behind a door in her house leads to another dimension, where she has a different mother, and different father. A…
Read More I've always wondered what director Michel Gondry (Enternal Sunshine, Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind) worked on while being an artist-in-residence at MIT . In the new issue of WiReD Magazine, Gondry talks about some of the crazy science experiments during his time serving as an MIT AIR. Gondry spent 2005 as an artist-in-residence at…
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Our friends at Screenrant have a new full body photo of Iron Man. It's very similar to one of the previously released promotional images, but in a different pose. Check it out after the jump.
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We knew this was coming sooner or later, but Sacha Baron Cohen has announced that Borat is dead. Cohen told The Daily Telegraph that he's retiring the Kazakh journalist, and his other alter ego, Ali G. "When I was being Ali G and Borat I was in character sometimes 14 hours a day and I…
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Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, The Rundown, The Kingdom) has confirmed to MTV that he will be directing a big budget remake of Dune. But the project is in the early developmental planning stages as there's no script, YET. "If it weren't for the writer's strike, we'd be in it right now." So this probably…
Read More I've never been a monster of the week type of guy, and always found that format to be quite dull, but somehow I got sucked into watching Smallville, not because it was a good show, but mostly due to the inside superman references. But I began to enjoy the series somewhere between season 1 and…
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MTV has a first look at Michael Cera (SuperBad) and Kat Dennings (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) in the big screen adaptation of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Directed by Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas), and based on the novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, "It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend…
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New Line has released a trailer and new theatrical poster for the upcoming supernatural romantic comedy Over Her Dead Body from former Drew Carey Show writer Jeff Lowell. Paul Rudd, Eva Longoria, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, and Lindsay Sloane star in the story of a woman who discovers her new boyfriend is being haunted by…
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Today Chalk graffiti was found all around San Francisco. The message reads "What is Cloverfield? 1-18-08". Did Paramount hire viral marketers to spread the word about the upcoming monster movie all over the city sidewalks? Or is there some crazy JJ Abrams fan with chalk on the loose? photo: SFist
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Sideshow Collectables is now selling a Life-size Cylon, as seen in the re-imagined Sci-Fi Channel series 'Battlestar Galactica'. Standing 7-feet tall, Cylon features "the haunting visor lights of the robotic soldier synchronized to the menacing, eerie hum of the Cylon Centurion." The life-size figure features a 100% fiberglass body with a Hammered Duo-Tone Finish. Each…
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I remember sitting in the Egyptian theater in downtown Park City Utah almost a year ago, wondering why I wasn't sleeping. You see, sleep is something that just doesn't happen during the 10-days of the Sundance Film Festival. Either you're partying or seeing movies. And I'm the type to usually over-exhaust myself with celluloid. I…
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Universal has released an extended 8-minute long video clip from Charlie Wilson's War. And this is possibly the best scene in the film, with Philip Seymour Hoffman meeting with Tom Hanks' character for the first time. I wish they had released Hoffman's hilarious angry award worthy speech from the beginning of the movie, but this…
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Hatchet, directed by Adam Green, is a disturbingly funny horror film about a group of tourists in New Orleans who end up on a haunted swamp tour. After their weird tour guide sinks their wimpy boat in gator infested waters, they are forced to wander the woods in search of civilization. In the dark and…
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In National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Nicolas Cage's character Ben Gates is after the President of the United States' book of secrets.
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IndieWire polled "106 leading North American film critics," and they came up with the Top 100 Movies of 2007. Here is the top twenty films: 1. There Will Be Blood 2. Zodiac 3. No Country for Old Men 4. Syndromes and a Century 5. Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 6. I'm Not There 7.…
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Universal has released the teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Watch it now below. Official Plot Synopsis: After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the…
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Dwight Little is directing the big screen adaptation of Namco's Tekken. Little is the guy responsible for crappy bargain bin titles such as Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid and Marked for Death, which starred Steven Seagal. And the screenplay was written by Alan McElroy, the guy behind The Marine, Wrong Turn, and Halloween…
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I hate to do another compilation post, but I have a lot of first look production photos to show you. Dito Montiel's (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints) Fighting stars Channing Tatum as Sean Arthur, a young ticket scalper who is introduced to the world of underground street fighting. Terrence Howard, Brian J. White, Luis…
Read More Spider-man and Evil Dead director Sam Raimi is expected to helm the upcoming Peter Jackson-produced Hobbit films, after making his return to horror with Drag Me to Hell (more on that later). But what if Raimi and New Line can't ink a deal? Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro is said to be in consideration…
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A lot of new posters hit the interwebs today. Here is a look at the more interesting (or not so interesting) one-sheets you can expect to see at your local cinema this weekend. Let's take a look. 20th Century Fox has released a batch of new character banners for their computer animated adaptation of Dr.…
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Access Hollywood has the movie trailer for Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the new Judd Apatow-produced comedy. From Undeclared screenwriter Nicholas Stoller, comes the story of Peter Bretter (Jason Segel), who takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). Little does he know Sarah's traveling…
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I think it's clear that Hollywood is really desperate to find the next big superhero franchise. Most of the A-list stars have been done, and almost every b-level superhero character has a film in production or in various forms of development. Even comic mastermind/creator Stan Lee agrees, "They're all being done. Every one of them. …
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DreamWorks has released a movie trailer for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Scott Smith's bestselling novel The Ruins. Smith is of course the critically-acclaimed author and screenwriter of A Simple Plan. The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico , who become entangled…
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Jared Hess broke onto the scene with a small indie comedy at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Napoleon Dynamite quickly took over the world, becoming one of the biggest cult blockbusters of all time. Jess followed the film up with Nacho Libre, which sounded like a sure thing - Jack Black as a masked Mexican…
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A new Cloverfield television advertisement has shown up online at Movieweb. A different one from the bootleg we posted a couple days back. There are some cool new shots that make this worth watching. Check it out below. And if you haven't yet, definitely check out the five minute video clip we previously posted. Cloverfield…
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The first movie trailer for Hellboy II: The Golden Army will hit the interwebs on Thursday afternoon. But to hold you off for now, IGN has released three new production photos, one of which gives us our first look at Johann Kraus, played in the film by John Alexander.. Did that wet your appetite? Didn't…
Read More There's a lot of casting news tonight, and instead of boring you with three separate news stories, I thought it might be better to combine them into one Casting update. So here we go. Chow Yun Fat has been cast as Master Roshi in 20th Century Fox's live-action Dragonball Z movie. Chow's character trains Goku,…
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Paramount's quasi-sequel Jackass 2.5 is now available for free on blockbuster.jackassworld.com. You need to install a crappy Microsoft plugin to play the thing. I'm on a Mac, and my experience was horrible. The audio quickly became out of sync, and the video player does not allow you to rewind or fast forward, which is key…
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The movie trailer for Nim's Island, the new family adventure comedy from Fox-Walden, is now online. Based on the popular novel by Wendy Orr and Kerry Millard, about a young girl named Nim (Abigail Breslin) who lives on an isolated island with her scientist father. When the father goes missing, Nim requests the help of…
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Our friend Devin at CHUD has a bunch of new details about the upcoming fourth Terminator film, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Most of the information below will probably be revealed in the trailers and pre-release advertising, and is not all to spoilerish. But if you want to be kept in the dark, stop reading…
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Paramount Vantage has provided us with video interviews with the stars of one of the best films of 2007 - Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. Watch below as Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano talk about this new film classic. It's amazing how much different Daniel is from the characters he creates. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/bloodlewis.flv…
Read More Two new bits of GI Joe Casting have just hit the interwebs before the upcoming Holiday week. IESB is reporting that Korean star Byung-hun Lee has been cast as Storm Shadow (aka Tommy S. Arashikage), Snake-Eye's (Ray Park) brother and rival. He is the only member of the GI Joe team to switch sides several…
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The rumors are true: Lord of the Rings trilogy filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Line have come to an agreement, and will band together to bring The Hobbit to the big screen, split over two live-action films. MGM and New Line will co-finance the project, with New Line handing North American distribution, and MGM handing…
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The Judd Apatow backlash has begun, and it is being started by... Judd Apatow? "It's not viral marketing... It's comedy!" In this new FunnyorDie.com video, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, Justin Long, and Craig Robinson talk about Walk Hard and their other projects, inciting a fight between Robinson and Apatow. Watch the video below.
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Over the weekend we got a ton of emails from readers who saw I Am Legend. You see, during the opening sequence in an abandoned Time Square, a huge billboard is visible advertising a Batman vs. Superman feature film which will hit theaters on 05-15-10. Fans have started to speculate that this could be the…
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I haven't seen Untraceable, but I have seen the trailer, and I feel like I've seen probably two minutes too much for this film. Yes, I am prejudging this flick, but at least I'm disclosing this fact upfront. IMPA has two new posters for the Diane Lane/Colin Hanks FBI Hacking Thriller. You got to love…
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The first television commercial for Cloverfield has begun to air. So far I have only been able to find the ad online in low quality (video camera shot). It includes a bunch of new shots and is probably worth checking out regardless of quality. Plus I'm sure it will bring back memories of watching the…
Read More Star Trek co-writer Roberto Orci is now saying that William Shatner might appear in JJ Abrams' Star Trek prequel/reboot after all. "Still, it could happen," Orci admitted after explaining to SciFi that the problem is two fold: "One, from our point of view, we are still hoping to find a way. Secondly, one of the…
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The new movie trailer for Pixar's WALL-E will be attached to National Treasure: Book of Secrets. But you don't have to wait to see it, because Disney just released the new preview on the Fox network websites. This is by far my most anticipated movie of next year, narrowly beating out The Dark Knight and…
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On Friday we published a camera phone photo of the new lenticular Speed Racer poster. Update: We now have a studio issued high resolution version of the poster. Check it out below.
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Mel Valentin sends along word about Eternal Sunshine director Michel Gondry's 30-minute short film which will appear in the upcoming Tôkyô!, a triptych film in the same tradition of New York Stories or Paris, je t'aime). Not so coincidentally, Gondry was originally set to direct a segment of Paris, je t'aime, but had to drop…
Read More JoBlo has the teaser trailer for Will Smith's upcoming superhero comedy Hancock (formerly titled Tonight, He Comes). Their servers are going slow, so I've embedded the YouTube version after the jump for the many of you who are having trouble getting the trailer to play. Tell me what you guys think in the comments below.…
Read More Heroes star (and Rocky Balboa's son) Milo Ventimiglia has joined the cast of the currently untitled Gerard Butler action sci-fi movie (codenamed: Game). You know, the film from the two maniacs who brought us Crank. Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor were also the guys who wrote Milo's last film Pathology, which we swear will get…
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Brickshelf user Arvo created Iron Man out of LEGOs. Click on the image above to enlarge. If only Marvel would make a deal with LEGO so that we could spend $150 to buy the blocks and build this creation... I guess we could always figure it out ourselves without directions. But that would probably involve…
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Good News: Jon Favreau has signed on to re-team with Vince Vaughn on the big screen. Bad News: The movie is New Line's romantic comedy disaster Four Christmases. The film was recently (or maybe even currently) shooting in my home city - San Francisco, and the local newspapers have been reporting that co-star Reese Witherspoon…
Read More News is really slow today, so I'm really trying to search the webs for some quality content. Transformers director Michael Bay made an appearance on AMC's Sunday Morning Shootout, and some clips are online. Bay talks about how he "couldn't stomach" the original Transformers cartoons, and how he through Raiders of the Lost Ark was…
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The official version of the new movie trailer for The Dark Knight is now online. Watch it below now! I've watched it three times now and am still shaking. What do you guys think? I want your first impressions (or second impressions if you've already seen it in the theater or on YouTube). Comment Now!…
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On Saturday, the American Film Institute picked its Top Ten American Films of 2007. The list is available below in alphabetical order: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Into the Wild Juno Knocked Up Michael Clayton No Country for Old Men Ratatouille The Savages There Will Be Blood I…
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/Film Reader Yair Raveh sent me a link to a video about the Tarjan type-face (aka font). Like me, you probably have never heard of it, but chances are - you've seen it. Tarjan is being over-used to death on countless movie trailer and posters. Watch the video below. via: cinemascopoan
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I'm not really a fan of the "Why So Serious?" series of posters. I much preferred the painted International Dark Knight posters. Imagine if Drew Struzan made a poster for the film... now that would be awesome. These two new posters feature The Joker writing "Why So Serious?" on windows with blood or red paint…
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The Dark Knight's seven minute prologue which is being shown before IMAX prints of I Am Legend has been leaked online. I still haven't had a chance to see it and refuse to watch a poor quality bootleg. I'm still hoping to sneak into a theater this week. But for those of you who are…
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Peter Jackson regular Andy Serkis (you know, the guy behind the characters of Golumn and King Kong) has signed on to star in the upcoming Tintin trilogy. No word on what character (or characters) Serkis might play. The film will be shot using performance capture technology similar to that used on Beowulf. And the completed…
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One of the big complaints about The Golden Compass, was the abrupt ending. Fans of the novel complained that the last few chapters of the book had not been included. And people that never read the book series could sense that something was missing. Truth is, they were actually filmed more scenes, but they were…
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Jackass 2.5 will be released on the internet exclusively next week, but you don't have to wait until then to see some of the madness. Below I have included six small video clips from the film. Enjoy! [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/jackass25tee.flv 400 300] [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/jackass25kite.flv 400 300] [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/jackass25missile.flv 400 300] [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/jackass25nailluge.flv 400 300] [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/jackass25peegun.flv 400 300] [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/jackass25snake.flv 400 300]
Read More I've written 29 news stories in the last 48 hours, yet, believe it or not, wasn't able to get to everything I've wanted to show you. I usually let go of these "missed opportunities". After all, there are only 24 hours in a day. But I've decided to make it a new years resolution (yes,…
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Warner Bros has released a new poster and production photo for Roland Emmerich's 10,000 B.C. The new theatrical trailer just went online on Thursday. The new photo shows Steven Strait as D'Leh facing what looks like a muppet Sabertooth tiger. Click to enlarge. I like how the poster lists the release date as 03.07.08 A.D.…
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United Artists have decided to push Bryan Singer's Tom Cruise starrer Valkyrie back from it's planned summer release. The film, which is based on actual events, and follows a plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler, was originally scheduled to hit theaters on June 27th of next year, up against Pixar's WALL-E, the comic book adaptation of…
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Director Matt Reeves has begun doing press for the upcoming JJ Abrams-produced monster flick Cloverfield. Here are some highlights from the various interviews: On the Movie Poster: "The inspiration came from the poster of Escape from New York. The poster had an image on it of the head of the Statue of Liberty and that…
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Universal has released the movie trailer for Leatherheads, a romantic comedy set in the world of 1920s football. The story follows the owner of a professional team who drafts a straight-laced college sensation in an attempt to legitimatize the sport, only to watch his new coach fall for his fiancée. Directed and starring George Clooney,…
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Check out these cool new images of Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face in The Dark Knight. Well guess what... They are FAKE. F A K E I'm told they are photoshop manipulations from The Black Dahlia. But they are quickly spreading their way around the internet, and I thought it would be best to warn you…
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Pixar produces some of the best coffee table books. Details on their newest, The Art of WALL-E, have hit the web. The release includes more than 250 imaginative pieces of concept art, including storyboards, full-color pastels, digital and pencil sketches, character studies, color scripts, and more. The 160 page hardcover book features astute quotes from…
Read More The following movie review is from /Film correspondent Elaine Mak. The Kite Runner, directed by Marc Forster, follows the story of two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, as they are torn apart after Amir witnesses the rape of Hassan. This film, based on the best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, begins in Kabul, Afghanistan, with the…
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Warner Bros has released the first production photo from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. More of the same, nothing shocking or unexpected. Check it out after the jump. Click on the image to enlarge. Director: David Yates Writer: Steve Kloves Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Jim Broadbent,…
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Yesterday we posted a cool new International movie poster for The Dark Knight which featured Batman overlooking a city (which many people believe to be Tokyo). Today we're treated to part two of this potential series. Enter Heath Ledger as The Joker, who is walking the streets. Check out this awesome new poster after the…
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The movie poster for Speed Racer is in 3D. No seriously. Our friends at FirstShowing found a new lenticular Speed Racer poster at his local multiplex. The helmet under Speed's arms pops out at you, and the background is also in 3D. Check out the poster after the jump. We hope to have a better…
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What happens when a small town in Oregon hires B Movie legend Bruce Campbell to fight a real monster attacking their town? Find out in Dark Horse Entertainment's My Name is Bruce. Great concept for a movie, not too sure about the execution, but I do want to see it. Watch the movie trailer after…
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ShockTilYouDrop has a new movie poster for the remake of Prom Night, and a new banner for The Eye starring Jessica Alba, both of which look really horrible (I'm talking about the posts and the movies they are promoting). Check them out after the jump. Prom Night Release Date: April 11, 2008 Directed by: Nelson…
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Warner Bros has released a new trailer for The Dark Knight attached to I Am Legend, and it has already found its way online. Found on YouTube via AICN, check it out below. Talk about a well cut movie trailer, this is intense. This is as good as it gets. Anyone not yet convinced about…
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I always say that musicals just aren't my thing. Maybe it's the after effects of being forced to watch The Sound Of Music as a kid way more times than anyone should. But in recent years I've discovered that the modern musical ain't so bad. I believe it started with Moulin Rouge, and flowed into…
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The list of the directors rumored to be involved with the remake of Clash of the Titans has included Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City). The screenplay was penned by screenwriting legend Lawrence Kasdan, you know, the guy who wrote Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark. And finally tonight, Warner…
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The trailer for the computer animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who premiered on selected prints of The Golden Compass and is now online. I love the look of this thing. Fox has perfectly captured the Seussian style without going off the deep end. And this is coming from a guy who hated…
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The movie trailer for filmmaker David Gordon Green's (George Washington, All The Real Girls) adaptation of the Stewart O'Nan novel Snow Angels is now online. Snow Angels is one of those movies you either love or you hate. I saw the film last January at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and really took to it.…
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Collider has a look at the new international movie poster for the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight. I agree with Frosty, this one is much better than that "Why So Serious" viral movie poster (what was the point anyway?). The first six minutes of the film are attached to IMAX versions of I Am…
Read More You can watch the first three minutes of I Am Legend on Yahoo! Movies. It's a pretty cool sequence with Will Smith and his dog Sam driving around trying to hunt deer in an abandoned New York City. Sadly, the animal effects you see in this clip are the best they get in this adaptation.…
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The guys at BadRobot have devised a new viral plan, and have decided to launch a contest urging fans to embed a new video clip on their blogs and myspace profiles. The top 20 people whose widget is grabbed the most will win a prize. If you think about it, this is actually a very…
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I live down the street from LucasFilm, and I've even been in the facilities in The Presidio, but I'm not on the LucasFilm Holiday Card List. For the last 30 years, Lucasfilm has created special holiday greeting cards for its employees and business partners. This year's card by Lorraine LeBer, photographed above, features three rows…
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Lionsgate Films has finally set an official release date for Religulous, Larry Charles' follow-up to Borat. Bill Maher hosts this documentary which takes on the the current state of religion. I saw a bunch of footage from this film at Toronto this year, and the festival-goers packed in a huge auditorium were laughing out loud…
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Here are the nominations for the 2008 Golden Globes, followed by my thoughts: BEST DRAMA American Gangster Atonement Eastern Promises The Great Debaters Michael Clayton No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood ACTOR (DRAMA) George Clooney - Michael Clayton Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood James McAvoy - Atonement Viggo Mortenson…
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Director Jason Reitman and and screenwriter Diablo Cody sit down to watch and discuss a scene from Fox Searchlight's Juno. It's kinda like a directors commentary of just one scene, only more promotional. I'm not sure how insightful Reitman's commentary is here, and Cody doesn't get many words in, but offers a funny "button" on…
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Disney has uploaded a sneak preview of a car chase sequence from National Treasure: Book of Secrets to help promote the sequel, which hits theaters on December 21st 2007. It's your basic car chase sequence, nothing remotely special. Check out the National Treasure 2 Car Chase after the jump. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/nationaltreasure2carchase.flv 470 194]
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Warner Bros has released a new movie trailer for Roland Emmerich's 10,000 B.C. "Before Everything We Know, Lies a Legend, Never Told..." I'm not quite sure why, but I'm just not getting hyped for this movie. I've watched the trailer three times now and find myself unable to narrow it down. Maybe it's the fact…
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When Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation, one of the big topics of conversation revolved around what Bill Murray's character whispered in Scarlett Johansson's ear at the conclusion of the film. Sofia Coppola gave interviews saying that nothing was officially scripted, and that only Johansson and Murray know what was really said. YouTube user Vid22 used…
Read More Knocked Up and The Rules of Attraction star Jay Baruchel sat down with Le Journal de Montreal and revealed that he has been cast in an ultra secret big budget project for Warner Bros. ObsessedWithFilm provides the following translation: "He's been chosen by Warner to star in the next big fantasy action film, scheduled for…
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UGO has a new craptastic poster for Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. And by craptastic, I mean, it's not as good as the teaser poster. How can you get any better than Neil Patrick Harris on a unicorn? The new poster also features the new funny play on words tagline "This time they're…
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A couple months ago, we broke the news that Paramount/MTV was secretly filming footage for a Jackass 2.5 feature film release. We didn't have very many details back than (just some spycam video footage of a shoot in action), but now it has been revealed that the film won't be released in theaters or on…
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Sony Pictures has released the movie trailer for their upcoming Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Directed by Dennis Dugan (Big Daddy, Happy Gilmore), Zohan's screenplay was a collaboration between three comedy greats: Judd Apatow (40-Year-Old-Virgin, Knocked Up), Robert Smigel (SNL) and Adam Sandler. The film stars Sandler as an Israel Intelligence…
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Want to see the best film of the year? Jason Reitman's Juno was released in New York City and Los Angeles last week, and will be expanding across the country in the next few weeks. Fox Searchlight has released a listing, and you can now find out where and when you can see Juno on…
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Universal Pictures has released the first photo from Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The photo features Ron Pearlman as Hellboy, showing off his gigantic gun. Check out the new photo after the jump. Click on the image to enlarge. Hellboy 2 hits theaters on July 11th 2008. source: hellboymovie.com
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Why can't they leave the movies from my childhood alone? Months ago it was rumored that Will Smith's nine-year-old son Jaden was in talks to star in a modern day remake of The Karate Kid. The rumors were quickly denied by a spokesman for Smith. However it was confirmed that Smith's production company Overbrook Entertainment…
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Warner Bros sent us two new photos from the upcoming big screen adaptation of Get Smart, starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. Click on the photos to enlarge. I'm sold on the trailer, and believe this could be the next Austin Powers. The few people I have spoken to who have seen the movie liked…
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What is the best movie soundtrack of the year? It's a tie between Jason Reitman's Juno which features some really cool indie folk rock from Kimya Dawson, and Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, which features an experimental original score by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. I highly recommend both. Juno is available now digitally through…
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20th Century Fox has announced plans to push James Cameron's sci-fi 3D epic Avatar back from it's original May 2009 release date, and replacing it with Shawn Levy's Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian (which is the new subtitle). Fox is giving Cameron six more months of "just in case" time to…
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Director Eli Roth (Hostel, Thanksgiving) and actor Josh Brolin (Goonies, No Country For Old Men) sat down and had a conversation and MySpace shot it for their video interview feature Artists on Artists. Josh Brolin tells the story of how he got Robert Rodriguez to shoot his audition tape for No Country, while Quentin Tarantino…
Read More I just got done reading a October 14th draft of Robert Siegel's The Wrestler, which is being brought to the screen by Darren Aronofsky, the filmmaker behind Pi, Requiem For A Dream and The Fountain. Before I go any further, let me first give you a little background: I use to be a hardcore professional…
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Yahoo! Movies UK has the first five Minutes of Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem online for your viewing pleasure. It doesn't take the full five minutes to realize that this film is a lot better than the crappy Paul W.S. Anderson film. It might actually be worth a trip to the movie theater. Our friends at…
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I have comed across what appears to be another new photo from Spike Jonze's big screen adaptation of of Maurice Sendak's classic children's fantasy book Where the Wild Things Are. The previously released photo can be seen right. Click to enlarge. The story follows Max, a mischievous little boy, who creates his own world -…
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Warner Bros has also provided us with the first photo from Ridley Scott's (Gladiator, American Gangster) big screen adaptation of David Ignatius's novel, Body of Lies. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris, an injured former Iraq War journalist who is hired by the CIA to track down an Al Qaeda leader. And the…
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Warner Bros has released the first two production photos from Guy Ritchie's RockNRolla, a crime thriller starring Gerard Butler. Click on the images to enlarge. Everyone is hoping that this film might be a return to form for Ritchie, who has had a string of critical bombs and box office failures. We have a reader…
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Our friends at FilmSchoolRejects has a first look at Rainn Wilson in the upcoming Fox Atomic film The Rocker. Too bad the movie is gonna suck. I recently came across two reader submitted test screening reviews of the film, and sadly, prospects don't look good: This review is from "Ralphie": "Not very good. Think of…
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Sarah Michelle Gellar continues her streak of starring in really horrible remakes of good Asian horror/thrillers. Joel Bergvall's Possession is a remake of Young-hoon Park's South Korean film Addicted. The story follows Jessica, a woman whose husband and gets in a horrific car crash with his brother. When the brother-in-law wakes up, he insists that…
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Paramount Pictures has sent us the theatrical movie poster for The Spiderwick Chronicles. I much prefer the coloring on the teaser poster, plus the huge BEWARE warning at the top is super cheesy. Check out the full poster after the jump. As always, click to enlarge. Synopsis: From the beloved best-selling series of books comes…
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All this Cloverfield viral marketing has got me wondering. I have now talked to four people who have seen an early cut of Cloverfield. I haven't heard one negative so far, although everyone is very reluctant to share any details about the film. But I have been able to confirm something that I have believed…
Read More Warner Bros has released a new photo of Batman riding his BatPod in the new Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. Click on the image to enlarge. The film is set to hit theaters on July 18th 2008.
Read More We told you it would be out before Christmas, and here it is - the new poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Drawn by poster legend Drew Struzan (they don't make them like this anymore), the poster features an older Indy with his whip, with a giant crystal skull peering…
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As you know, Tim Burton recently signed a two picture deal with Disney which will allow him to make a feature length version of Frankenweenie. I always wondered how Burton convinced Disney to remake his 1984 short. The story about a young boy who brings his dead dog back from the dead, is sure to…
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I opened up my email this weekend and was greeted by a message from Todd Brown at Twitch, who wanted me to check out the movie trailer for a Japanese movie called Machine Girl. He assured me that this might be the cult film of next year, and judging by the trailer, he might be…
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Writer/Director Kevin Smith has been busy prepping his upcoming film Zack and Miri Make a Porno, which beings shooting next month. Last month the big announcement was made that Knocked Up/SuperBad superstar Seth Rogen had been cast as the male lead (oh yeah, and the girl from Invincible too). But it looks like Kevin isn't…
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Joe Carnahan plans to embrace the new high definition revolution, and hopes to shoot his upcoming Pablo Escobar biopic Killing Pablo on the new Red camera system. "I really want to do a great deal of KP on the Red or another digital format that gives me the same kind of freedom that that particular…
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Most major city regions have a society or association of film critics, who each year join together to vote on the best films and performances of the year. This weekend the winners have been announced for the National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO), The…
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On Friday, the annual Black List was released. The list is compiled with a poll of 150 development executives and high-level assistants, and contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywoodland, which were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2007 and will not be released in theaters during this…
Read More Update: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Movie Poster Just Added!!! Here are some new scans from the French magazine CinéLive, which features a new close-up photo of Batman's updated batsuit from The Dark Knight, and a new international Iron Man poster. Check them out after the jump. via: Uruloki
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The second trailer for Fox's sci-fi adaptation of Jumper is now online. I'm a sucker for sci-fi action flicks, so I'm looking forward to this one despite some of the bad buzz coming out of the post production. What do you guys think? Jumper is an epic sci-fi action film about a race of people…
Read More Rumors of Gerard Butler's (300) departure from the Escape From New York remake have been greatly exaggerated. Butler, who has been doing press for his new romcom P.S. I Love You, insists that he hasn't dropped out of the project, but is taking a wait and see position. In October, New Line hired Terminator 3:…
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The FightCast has returned for Round Two. In this week's FightCast, we fight about the newly debuted Speed Racer trailer and The Golden Compass, two of the biggest topics of discussion heading into this weekend. The very first trailer for the Wachowski Brother's adaptation of the Japanese cartoon Speed Racer arrived yesterday, and is getting…
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George Lucas is wrong again (I must admit, that is fun to type). The Indiana Jones producer told press a few months back to expect the first teaser trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull before the end of the year. Well apparently Paramount is not ready to release a trailer,…
Read More The international movie trailer for Definitely, Maybe has hit the interwebs. I know, it's another romantic comedy... But this one has a cast that has gotten my attention. With Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks and Isla Fisher as the three romantic leads, at least you'll have something to look at. And with Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail…
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The teaser poster for M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening is now online thanks to ComingSoon. The poster features the cheesy tagline text "We've Sensed It, We've Seen The Signs, Now... It's Happening." Check out the full poster after the jump. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg as a man who takes his family on the run,…
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Based on the bestselling memoir by Toby Young, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People follows a disillusioned British intellectual named Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York City based Sharps magazine, and he…
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I made a comment earlier about how Speed Racer doesn't look like a "live-action cartoon" but instead, a "live-action video game". And I've already gotten a bunch of emails and seen a bunch of forum comments saying that the action sequences look like video game cut scenes. /Film Reader Mark G sent me this screenshot…
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The movie trailer for Speed Racer is now online. When I posted the first set of production photos this morning, I asked for your opinions. I was unable to make a judgement just looking at the still photos, but now that there is full motion video, here are my first thoughts: The Wachowski Brother's wanted…
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I've never watched an episode of Sex in the City, nor do I ever plan to, probably because I don't fit into the targeted demographic (i.e. I'm a guy). But I'm sure some of our female readers (ie Ms. Thompson and friends) are very interested in the movie. For you few, here is the trailer…
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The photo above is our first look at Ray Stevenson (Rome) as Frank Castle aka The Punisher in Lionsgate's The Punisher: War Zone. Click on the photo to enlarge. I've always thought that The Punisher would be one of the best comic book to film adaptations, however I wasn't a fan of the previous Thomas…
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The new trailer for Will Farrell's Semi-Pro is now online. Looks like another generic Will Farrell comedy, which might be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your age range. Farrell stars as Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, who "rallies his teammates to make their NBA…
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Apparently /Film was briefly mentioned and shown on G4TV's Attack of the Show yesterday. They were talking about the Ray Park G.I. Joe casting news story that we broke on Tuesday during "The Feed" segment hosted by Kristin Holt. I used to be an avid viewer of this program back in the day (and by…
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Five weeks after Repo! The Genetic Opera! wrapped production, director Darren Lynn Bousman reports that a first cut of the film in is the can. And while that is a cause for celebration, Bousman is becoming more unsure of what the audience for this musical horror film might be. "The truth of the matter is…
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Christopher Mintz-Plasse will forever be known as McLovin. In the way that Seann William Scott will probably always be referred to as Stiffler. Plasse would probably be better off changing his name officially to McLovin. Judd Apatow is trying to get Mintz-Plasse some more work in Hollywood, casting the SuperBad star in the 2009 Harold…
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Before Michel Gondry made Eternal Sunshine, Science of Sleep, and Be Kind Rewind, he made his name directing music videos. Actually, he still directs music videos, and his latest video is his seventh collaboration with Björk. Gondry's videos for Bjork have always been very experimental, and "Declare Independence" is no different. You can watch that…
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Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle wasn't just a stoner comedy, it was laced with smart undertones which touched on social/racial stereotypes. The sequel, Harold & Kumar 2: Escape from Guantanamo Bay looks to be very similar in both tone and humor. And if the title wasn't a give-away, this one seems to get…
Read More EW was able to talk to Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins producers Derek Anderson, Victor Kubicek, and Moritz Borman about the fourth film in the Terminator series, directed by McG. Here is what I learned: The movie is set to begin shooting in either Australia or Budapest on March 15 The budget is "north of…
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Slusho! We got the Flavor! You can't drink just six! The marketing guys at Bad Robot have created a television commercial for the fictional Japanese frozen beverage Slusho! It's everything you might expect, talking animals, weird imagery, a mermaid and a group of robots. It would be hilarious if Paramount started running this advertisement on…
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USA Today has released eight new photos from The Wachowski's Speed Racer. When I heard the cast and crew describe how the film looked like "a live action cartoon", the picture that entered my head looked something like Sin City. But the actual result, seen above, is indescribable. "The effects are beyond belief. We called…
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The first Wanted movie trailer was greeted with much ridicule online. The film was being referred to as a cheap "Matrix rip-off". Universal has now announced that they are moving back the release date from March 28th to June 27th 2008. The studio head is trying to spin this move as a bow of faith…
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Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold best-selling novel The Lovely Bones is preparing to shoot in the MacDade Mall in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania. The production is transforming the location into a 1970's shopping mall for the project. J.M. (Janetjunkie1) was able to snap a few photos of the recreations of the 70's era mall stores.…
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The HD-DVD release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix offers a revolutionary new DVD feature called "Live Community Screening": Gather your own army of fellow wizards for a live community screening party. Invite other owners of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix HD DVD to simultaneously watch from their…
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Most of my friends are Lord of the Ring nuts. They are the type of people who were really looking forward to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and were really deflated and disappointed after having seen it. I'm not sure if they were expecting a harder edged movie, or…
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A couple months ago it was revealed that SAW series production designer David Hackl had been hired to direct not one but two SAW sequels, possibly even back-to-back. Rumor had it that Lionsgate wanted to, for the first time in four years, take a year off from the SAW series. But I'm happy to report…
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Paramount has sent out a new photo of Iron Man for the winter movie previews. FirstShowing has the goods, seen above. Click on the image to enlarge. Iron Man continues to stand tall on my list of most anticipated films of 2008. The suit is just so cool. Although I am surprised at how flimsy…
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"The book of the summer. . . . No quietly building, Ruth Rendell-style suspense here; Smith intends to scare the bejabbers out of you, and succeeds. There are no chapters and no cutaways-The Ruins is your basic long scream of horror. It does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches in 1975.…
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A couple months ago we posted four video clips from Jason Reitman's Juno ("Best Movie Of The Year..." "...This year's Little Miss Sunshine"). We now have two new clips from the film, which hits theaters in New York and Los Angeles on December 5th, and the rest of the country in the coming weeks. Watch…
Read More Entertainment Tonight has some video footage from the set of The Wachowski Brothers' Speed Racer. Matthew Fox (Lost), who plays Racer X in the film, takes the crew around the virtual set. We also get to see some footage of Fox in costume, and the some of the cars featured in the film. Watch the…
Read More I have just confirmed that Star Wars Episode 1 star Ray Park has been cast as Snake Eyes in Stephen Sommer's big screen live-action adaptation of GI Joe. Snake Eyes is one of the original members of the GI Joe series. Hasbro has released over 30 figures of the character since his debut in 1982.…
Read More Last month we reported that O.C. star Adam Brody was rumored to be cast as Wally West aka The Flash in George Miller's Justice League of America movie. Today the Los Angeles Times, who actually mentions/references SlashFilm.com, has confirmed the rumors, reporting that Brody has closed negotiations for the role. However, Warner Bros is still…
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Don't get me wrong, I love the viral stuff the guys at Warner Bros are doing for The Dark Knight, but this teaser poster for The Dark Knight is a bit disappointing. It might have been interesting if it were released before we ever saw a photo of Heath Ledger as The Joker. But since…
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I hate to publish rumors, especially with the recent spell of inaccurate information spreading its way across the interwebs, but this is just too good not to comment on. When I was a kid, I was big into comic books. And I was a sucker for comic book crossovers, where one superhero would team-up or…
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The first six minutes of The Dark Knight will debut in front of IMAX screenings of I Am Legend. Shot with IMAX cameras, Nolan intended this six minute introduction of The Joker to function as a stand alone "short film." Christopher Nolan was in New York City to premiere the footage for select press. Alas,…
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New Line has released the first five minutes of The Golden Compass online for your viewing pleasure. I was able to see the first film adaptation from Philip Pullman's controversial "His Dark Materials" trilogy on Saturday, and we hope to have a FightCast review up on Tuesday. But I will say this: my feelings are…
Read More Ben Kingsley and Mark Ruffalo have joined the cast of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island. Based on the Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone) novel, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, who travels to Shutter Island, a small island in Massachusetts' Outer Harbor, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find…
Read More Last week conceptual artwork which was supposedly from James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic film Avatar "leaked" online. We hoped and prayed that it wasn't real, as it wasn't too impressive (actually it looked a lot like Angelina Jolie as Grendel's mother in Beowulf). Well Cameron e-mailed the guys at AintItCool to clear the air and…
Read More Katherine Heigl is a hypocrite. There I said it. Heigl bashed Knocked Up in an interview with Vanity Fair: "It was hard for me to love [Apatow's] movie" because it's "a little sexist...it paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as goofy, fun-loving guys." But it was easy…
Read More Two days ago I posted the first production photo from Choke, which premieres January at Sundance. But my posting was more of a rant about one of author Chuck Palahniuk's other novels. Everyone knows about Fight Club (despite the first rule...), and everyone has seen David Fincher's film adaptation, but what you probably don't know…
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Even with the writers strike in full effect, preproduction on the big screen adaptation of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is ramping up. Last month Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire helmer Mike Newell signed on to direct the video game adaptation. Our friends at Collider spoke with Jerry Bruckheimer, and the producer…
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Robert Zemeckis has signed a bunch of new stars for his upcoming performance capture digital 3-D adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Robert Zemeckis revealed in the official Beowulf podcast that Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth and Gary Oldman have officially joined the cast. Robin Wright Penn also announced that she will also be involved…
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George Lucas originally told press that the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull would hit theaters around Thanksgiving, but before Christmas. Thanksgiving has come and went, and speculation that the Indy 4 trailer will be attached to Disney's National Treasure 2 is looking unlikely. Coming Soon is now reporting that…
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The line-up for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival was announced earlier this week. I just got my hands on a boat load of photos from the films in this year's festival. We actually have too many photos to feature in just one posting, so we have divided this feature into a few parts. Our third…
Read More New Line has provided us with six new photos from the much anticipated comedy sequel, Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Check out the photos after the jump. As always, click on the images to enlarge. Director: Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn Rob Corddry, Roger Bart and Neil Patrick…
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How Do You Get Whatever You Want For Christmas? Answer from screenwriter Diablo Cody after the jump.     Adult Readers Only... This photo of screenwriter Diablo Cody um, "checking Santa's Lists for him" was taken by Juno director Jason Reitman while on the road promoting the film. Looks like Cody is getting whatever she wants this…
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/Film Reader Gabriel P spotted the Cloverfield Monster while watching NBC's 30 Rock. "The image I have attached is a screenshot of the latest episode of 30 Rock (207). I just might be a little paranoid, but my wife and I both first thought of Cloverfield when Kenneth showed a sketch of his dreams. Then…
Read More Photos removed Six new promotional photos featuring Christian Bale as Batman and Heath Ledger as The Joker, have leaked onto the interwebs. Sent to me by /Film reader Cameron H, these Dark Knight promo images give us a better preview at Ledger's performance, and I'm still not sold on him. Sure, Christopher Nolan won't let…
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The line-up for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival was announced earlier this week. I just got my hands on a boat load of photos from the films in this year's festival. We actually have too many photos to feature in just one posting, so we have divided this feature into a few parts. Our second…
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The line-up for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival was announced earlier this week. I just got my hands on a boat load of photos from the films in this year's festival. We actually have too many photos to feature in just one posting, so we have divided this feature into a few parts. Our first…
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I was at Sundance in 2004 when Morgan Spurlock took over the festival with his documentary Super Size Me. Four years later, Spurlock returns to Park City with Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?, a film documenting the director's search for the most wanted man on the planet. The Weinstein Co quickly snapped…
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/Film Reader Spencer S. sent me this video which shows you Shia LaBeouf's obsession with the word "No" in Michael Bay's Transformers. I saw the movie on he big screen three times and didn't notice. Check it out after the jump.
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David Fincher's big screen adaptation of Fight Club is one of my favorite films of all time. The book and author behind the book are even better than that. I've been waiting for years for Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor to become a film. If there were a top 10 list of unadapted novels, Survivor would probably…
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According to Wikipedia, the Pineapple Express is a non-technical, shorthand term popular in the news media for a meteorological phenomenon which is characterized by a strong and persistent flow of atmospheric moisture and associated heavy rainfall from the waters adjacent to the Hawaiian Islands and extending to any location along the Pacific coast of North…
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What is the largest and most expensive DVD Box Set ever released? Not including some box sets which are being sold as a collection of other box sets, the biggest and most elaborate DVD release has to be the upcoming United Artists 90th Anniversary Prestige Collection. This unprecedented collection features 90 of United Artists most…
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