The card-counting thriller 21 (Sony) enjoyed a solid 19% increase Friday-to-Saturday for an excellent $10.17M Saturday. Based on the book Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich and produced by Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, the hip gambling saga will likely grab another $6.3M on Sunday, which will be enough to push it to $25M for…
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The book Bringing Down the House has long been one of my favorites, so it's not a huge surprise that Sony's film adaptation is the film equivalent of a blackjack. Produced by and featuring Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey, 21 has delivered an $8.2M opening day, and Sony will finish the weekend with a stack…
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Horton Hears a Who (Fox) continued its box office roll Saturday, adding another $9.45M, but it was down 10% from its monstrous Good Friday. The CGI animated Dr. Suess adaptation should grab another $6.61M or so on Easter Sunday for a 3-day of $26.56M, giving Horton the all-time 4th-best Easter weekend box office performance. ALL-TIME…
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Easter weekend will be a triumph for Horton and his tiny friends in Who-ville. Fox's animated Dr. Suess adaptation Horton Hears a Who enjoyed a great Good Friday, adding $11.3M, and the well-reviewed family film will register an estimated $28.15M in ticket sales for the weekend, giving it a second consecutive weekend win. Despite the…
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An elephant named Horton and the residents of a certain tiny white speck are celebrating a huge opening weekend for the CGI animated Horton Hears a Who (Fox). Featuring the voices of Jim Carrey, Steve Carrel and comedy legend Carol Burnett, the Dr. Seuss adaptation received a 40% family-driven Friday-to-Saturday increase for an $18.62M 2nd…
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Dr. Suess' Horton Hears a Who (Fox) delivered an elephant-size $13.75M at America's box offices Friday, and the animated film will finish the weekend with a monstrous $42.62M. If that number holds, Horton will be the 14th-biggest animated opening in modern box office history. ALL-TIME TOP 15 ANIMATED OPENINGS 1. Shrek the Third - $121.6M…
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Roland Emmerich's 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) received a better-than-expected 9% uptick in Saturday business, delivering an estimated $13.62M. Many were looking for a Friday-to-Saturday dip in ticket sales, but the badly-reviewed prehistoric epic wasn't especially front-loaded. With an anticipated 38% drop on Sunday, 10,000 B.C. should rake in another $8.44M or so for a 3-day…
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It ain't 300. That's one way to describe the opening day performance of Roland Emmerich's 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros). With almost unanimously awful reviews (only 8% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), the prehistoric epic stumbled out of the gate with a disappointing estimated $11.55M Friday. That will likely translate to an underwhelming $33.14M, less than half…
Read More 10,000 B.C. has very strong Total Awareness of 83%, compared to a nearly-identical 82% for 300 last year, but the Emmerich-directed prehistoric epic has better Definite Interest 57%-52%, although 300 scored better with Males Under 25 (78%-57%) and Males 25 Plus (59%-49%). The 2 films have identical 24% First Choice numbers at the same stage…
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When Michel Gondry introduced the idea of sweding to the masses in (or to the few people who saw) Be Kind Rewind, I expected a big response on YouTube of fans recreating their favorite movies. And that has happened, but one thing I never expected has started. I always believed the point of sweding movies…
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When Time Warner announced that New Line would be gobbled up by Warner Bros, we speculated that layoffs would be minimized for the short term. Variety now reports that at least 75% of New Line's 600 staffers will likely get the axe in the coming months. As for the company's upcoming slate of films, Warner…
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There was no Saturday miracle for New Line's Will Ferrell comedy Semi-Pro. The R-rated comedy managed only a 10% bump for an estimated $6.1M. The tepidly-reviewed comedy will finish its opening weekend with a disastrous $15.16M, as New Line goes out with a whimper, not a bang. Semi-Pro is only the 8th-best opening of Ferrell's…
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Will Ferrell's Semi-Pro has tanked, ending a disastrous week for New Line. Not only did the studio cease business as a full-fledged studio on Thursday, now its 70's-style basketball comedy managed only $5M on Friday, and it is likely headed for a meager $14.3M for the weekend. That would make Semi-Pro only the 9th-best opening…
Read More Every year there is one day that all the major, almost unbelievable news stories break. Today seems to be that day. There are so many huge announcements, and crazy leaks happening that we just can't cover them all. So I've decided, like last year, to compile a list of links to the huge entertainment stories…
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"Me?!?" Peter and I discussed doing an item on real life Sarah Marshalls who are angered and perplexed in the wake of ubiquitous Forgetting Sarah Marshall marketing, but instead we just waited for The Onion to blow it up like a sand castle. Alas, Zap2It has struck first, and even though the site seemingly only…
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Enzym found this new WALL-E Theater display in Australia. The new display featuring WALL-E and Eve on a park bench, a semi-recreation of a scene from the film (seen in the trailer). You can notice the WALL + EVE Heart etching on the bench. In the movie WALL-E burns the etching into the trash basket.
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When applicable, IMDB should include an "Actress: Theatrical" entry for porn stars. Sony Pictures has enthusiastically announced that Jenna Jameson (Private Parts) will once again be sliding down America's luxurious cineplex flagpole, this time in the grindhouse-y Zombie Strippers alongside Robert Englund. On April 18th, the direct-to-DVD flick will play in numerous select American cities…
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Even though some fans have criticized the teaser trailer for featuring more computer generated effects than most had expected, production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas assures io9 that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be mostly CGI-Free. "There really wasn't much CGI. We built all the sets... We built all of the…
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Update (04/01/08): JoBlo reports via a reader who attended the same event as Bloody Disgusting that Danny Trejo said that Robert Rodriguez may "start up again" on Machete as early as this month. More on this as/if it develops... Gore hounds and knife show infomerical zombies, rejoice! In yet more machete-related news, Blood Disgusting ran…
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"Dude, Indiana Jones killed Batman." Fandango, the online movie ticket provider, recently polled several thousand movie fans about their most anticipated summer movie and the site reports that May's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was not only numero uno (82%) but nearly doubled fan anticipation for July's The Dark Knight (42%).…
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Lately on /Film we've profiled a couple movie theaters as part of our Cool Stuff feature: Tha Alamo Drafthouse, the coolest movie theater EVER, and the AMC Pacific Place Cinema, the coolest looking movie theater in Hong Kong. /Film Reader Xavier Maury told us to take a look at the Cinedom in Cologne, Germany: "I…
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Just when you though the Juno news posts on /Film had finally come to an end, we bring you news of a sequel... kinda. The soundtrack to Juno was almost as big as the indie film sensation itself, hitting number one on the Billboard charts and becoming the best-selling album on the United States iTunes…
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You've probably heard by now that a federal judge decided last week that Time Warner is no longer the sole proprietor of Superman. The court has ruled that the heirs of Jerome Siegel (of Siegel and Shuster) are entitled to a share of the US copyright to the character. The quick backstory goes like this:…
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When it was announced that Jason Segel and Nick Stoller had signed on to develop a new Muppet movie, I was really excited. Details were unavailable, all we had to go on was the promise that Segel wanted to return to the Muppet roots, a call back to the original Muppet films ("I've just grown…
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Now that "I Drink Your Milkshake" has exploded into a cult phenomenon, we bring you this interesting There Will Be Blood factoid: According to cinematographer Robert Elswit, the oil used on screen in the movie was actually created using the same industrial material used by McDonald's to thicken their milkshakes. How funny is that? via:…
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/Film reader Addict sent us word that he received another phone call from Harvey Dent, as part of the continuing viral campaign for The Dark Knight. Here is what Harvey's message said: "Hello, this is Harvey Dent. Weeks ago, I asked for your support... Concerned Citizens For A Better Gotham have started a smear campaign…
Read More At the bottom of a lake sits a film a la Rudy or The Rookie about a guy who conquers an Everest of doubt to fulfill his lifetime dream of playing Jason Voorhees in the latest Friday the 13th film. According to Bloody Disgusting, horror fans can add one more name to the legacy behind…
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Game Trailers have compiled an extensive retrospective focusing on the many Star Wars video game adaptations over the years. The result will be a ten part series that spans the series Atari beginnings to the recent LEGO Star Wars Saga. Check out Parts 1 and 2 below.
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A new TV spot is now online for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and it's moderately superior to last month's clunky teaser trailer. The "genius" line between Harrison Ford and a stiff-haired Shia LaBeouf has the kind of smart ass pop that the classic adventure franchise warrants. Also, notice that the…
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If true, thank booze. Cinema Blend says they received an email from a reader who spotted future Flash Adam Brody at a bar in British Columbia. What a tip, eh? There's more though. Brody, who was allegedly boozing it up with director George Miller, went on to rundown the cast for the newly/oddly titled Justice…
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Sideshow Collectables has finalized the designs for the release of life-sized figures of R2-D2 and C-3PO. The most authentic life-size reproductions ever available to private collectors are now available for pre-order. Crafted of fiberglass and various quality materials, both figures include light and sound function, for the most 'real' experience possible. Each figure also includes…
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Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego Bruno has recently been causing trouble in Kansas, shooting the follow-up to Borat, titled Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt (now try to say that five times fast). FilmDrunk reported earlier…
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The Asylum is best known for their cheap rip-off DVD movies, which includes such titles as: Transmorphers, Snakes on a Train, I Am Omega, Da Vinci Treasure, HG Wells' War of the Worlds, AVH: Alien vs. Hunter, Monster (the Cloverfield rip) and Pirates of Treasure Island. AMC has termed the genre "Knockbusters". This April they…
Read More Editor's Update: We've updated this story with the film's official movie trailer. A poster and movie trailer for the Pang Brothers' August remake of their '99 Thai crime thriller, Bangkok Dangerous, starring Nicholas Cage has hit the Web. Really, is this the best poster a designer could envision with a title like that? Cage, who…
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At a party a couple weeks ago I got to talk to Dan Callahan, an actor who wrote wrote a film called College, which was originally scheduled to be released last month. I'm not entirely sure what happened, but you can be sure it was one of those Hollywood situations where somehow the film went…
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"Sayonara, Bonfire of the Vanities!" Frank Darabont's adaptation of the classic novel Fahrenheit 451 ranks right up there with Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards, Fincher's Rendezvous with Rama and Aronofsky's take on Lone Wolf & Cub as an epic dream project that's been discussed for ages. For nearly a year, Tom Hanks had been pegged for…
Read More Lakeshore has released a new/updated green band movie trailer for Pathology, following the disappearance of the leaked red band a couple weeks back. Written by the madmen behind Crank, Pathology follows a group of medical students devise a deadly game: to see which one of them can commit the perfect murder. I got a chance…
Read More Eleven new photos from Peter Berg's superhero comedy Hancock have hit the web. Found on DVD-Forum (via: Rejects), these new photo show down and out superhero Hancock (played by Will Smith) in action. We also get a look at his love interest (played by Charlize Theron). The catch is that Theron plays the wife of…
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Yesterday I posted a new Behind the scenes photo from Bryan Singer's Valkyrie. Turns out the Empire Magazine has two more, which can be seen above and below.
Read More So, like, The Hills might become a movie. Discuss: Don't discuss this. Slashfilm is not "Coffee Talk." ÂÂ
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Junk Food Clothing has created a cool retro line of Indiana Jones t-shirts, which will be released in May to coincide with the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. My favorite it the Raiders t-shirt shown above, which features the original 1982 Raiders of the Lost Ark poster artwork by…
Read More A new poster for the X-Files sequel has been found floating around the interwebs, although I'm not quite sure it's real. If it is official, it looks poorly hacked together. Real or Fake, I'm sure the truth is out there, and we'll find out soon. Update: As it turns out, the poster is actually real.…
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What is Dark Sky? /Film reader Dort Druben sent in the following report: ---- So working at Culver Studios a few weeks ago I noticed a very ominous sign telling me subconsciously that if I entered through that doorway ninjas would descend upon me ripping my heart out of my chest before I could cross…
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Since it's premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, movie critics have been comparing this year's best film (so far) American Teen to John Hughes' 80's teen classic The Breakfast Club. Paramount Vantage has decided to run with this idea, and curb the marketing for the film (or at least the poster) around the idea…
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Compared to most authors, onetime New York it-boy Bret Easton Ellis's works have had a pretty good translation record at the cinema. American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction and Less Than Zero were all pretty faithful, quality adaptations that kept Ellis's sensational penchant for drugs, kinky sex and sociopathic detachment intact. A tall order these…
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Another Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull promotional photo from the upcoming May issue of Empire Magazine, after the jump. As always, click to enlarge. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull hits theaters on May 22nd 2008.
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Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men was one of my top 10 movies of 2006. When I saw the movie I was so enamored with this post-apocalyptic world where women have become infertile, and no one had been born in the last 16 years. Basically it's a world where everyone is living in knowledge that they…
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Right around when Adam Sandler's hair goes from 'fro to flaming in the latest trailer for his summer hairdresser bomb-edy You Don't Mess with the Zohan, I started to cringe as if locked inside a salon/prison. When the sight of Sandler quietly handling guns makes you wax nostalgic for his flop Bulletproof for its entire…
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Cinematical pointed me towards these really cool videos on YouTube by a 25-Year-Old freelance editor nicknamed barringer82, who has edited together a few compilation music videoes of his favorite directors. The Paul Thomas Anderson one is definitely worth a watch, especially if you're a dan of his films. Check them out after the jump. The…
Read More "Bad cat." Before we begin, no, not Afterburner the video game, it's Afterburn, and it still sounds pretty cool. Tobey Maguire and Neil Moritz (I Am Legend, xXx) are producing a feature film adaptation of the sci-fi comic book Afterburn, which follows a group of treasure-hunters for hire in the future who "recover" exotic…
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This might possibly be the most obscure item we've ever posted on Cool Stuff. If you don't get the reference, than you haven't seen Miranda July's 2005 indie film Me and You and Everyone We Know, which sort of became a cult film in some circles. If you have seen the movie than you know…
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Our amigos at First Showing directed us to these new lysergic images from the Wachowski Brothers' Speed Racer. The still above makes me want to sink into an altered state and get a $50 car wash with a $5 Sweet Pear air freshener. That's a first. These images will appear in an upcoming cover story…
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Late last month, a teaser trailer appeared briefly online for July's The X Files 2 and today another CAM bootleg has surfaced over at XFilesNews, this time for a full length trailer (embedded below). While I think the bootleg teaser trailer, which is now back up at YouTube here, is more intriguing, I'm left wondering…
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Rather epic new images for this summer's Iron Man have touched down over at Yahoo that show Tony Stark facing off against the film's main villain Iron Monger aka Obadiah Stane (played by Jeff Bridges/killer effects). Loving how the SUV above is packed with people. Click to make them all pop. I'd say about 90%…
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Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind might have not taken off at the box office, but it definitely spawned a movement of online sweded short films. I've seen a lot of said sweded trailer. Some of them are funny, some of them creative, a lot of them are bad (hey, thats what you get in the…
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On Monday we featured some cool billboard advertisments for the Star Wars saga on SpikeTv. Someone needs to give the marketing department behind this campaign a raise, especially after seeing this incredibly cool bus-shelter advertisement. AMNY snapped this photo on 34th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. The advertisement doesn't look nearly as cool during…
Read More In light of the recent coverage of director Steven Brill's e-mail replies to Star Wars fanboys, I thought it might be time to finally share a story I've been sitting on this since August. When the first Drillbit Taylor movie trailer was released, I was highly critical of the preview for being unfunny, and sarcastically…
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"How did we end up in Steve Brill's mind?" BRILL-IANT UPDATE: Slashfilm reader "Sam R" put together this Brill-iant prototype design for t-shirts. Too good to leave it shining in our comments section like a diamond-studded chariot. Click here to witness the Slash-tastic work! Also, see Sam's new shirt design on Zazzle. And be sure…
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"Did he make a comeback yet?" In a recent interview with the L.A. Times, Kevin Smith called '80s director/'00s recluse John Hughes his "generation's J.D. Salinger." I'm not going to get into that comparison, no way, but it's worth mentioning that Salinger hasn't written anything in 40 years, whereas Hughes hasn't done much movie-wise in…
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A few new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull photos have hit the interwebs via empire and theraider. Again, nothing earth-shatteringly cool, but worth checking out.
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Something has been bothering me for a while now. It's this claim that Video Games will overtake Movies as an entertainment industry. Sorry to tell you guys, but it just isn't going to happen. I understand it's the more interesting story to claim that the video game industry will be bigger than Hollywood, but it…
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There was an instance where I was arrested at a student protest and it would have been great if Forest Whitaker had suddenly appeared to passionately articulate and argue my case to the police rather than the guy who yelled, "Dude! Run! No! Don't!" Whitaker, who plays one of the main Wild Things in in…
Read More As much as I will forever remain a fan of Tracy Morgan's "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah," I won't be checking out Superhero Movie in theaters this weekend. Insert commenter saying, "yeah Hunter, but it's still worth a torrent." But Slashfilm would like to salute young actor and Harvard alum Miles Fisher for easily giving the…
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/Film Reader PixarSpy sent over an interesting update on Brad Bird's live action feature debut adaptation of James Dalessandro's 1906. As you may already know, the film follows a young man who discovers a series of secrets and lies that left San Francisco highly vulnerable to the fires that engulfed the city in the aftermath…
Read More "Want to see my Bush impression?" UPDATE: EW now reports that Jeffrey Wright (Casino Royale) is in talks to star as Colin Powell, James Cromwell (Babe) is in talks to portray George Bush Sr. and Robert Duval (The Godfather) has been contacted for the frightening role of Dick Cheney. This flick is really shaping…
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Over at SHH, a tipster sent in pics of Halloween costumes and masks from a Las Vegas showcase for The Dark Knight, including those pretty friggin' eerie Heath Ledger/Joker masks above. Halloween 2008 just got a helluva lot scarier imagining six year old hooligans giggling down darkly lit streets in those things. Also, the tipster…
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"The Dead Will Walk In A Galaxy Far Far Away. When there's no room on the deathstar, the dead will walk on Endor and eat some spicy ewoks, prefer Brains." We have Marvel Zombies, and now Zombie Star Wars. There is a Star Wars tribute photo contest going on at WiReD, featuring the cool zombified…
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It became very clear after visiting film geek heaven (The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin Texas) that there is a better way to handle the theatrical experience. And since my visit to Texas, I've been thinking a lot about what could be changed and improved in the multiplex. A new deluxe movie cinema is set to…
Read More "Is that a sequel?" Constantine is a prime example of an R-rated comic book movie that almost nailed it but stumbled into an abyss of mediocrity. Like Hellboy, which wasn't too great either but had an equally killer premise lingering in the dark side, Constantine could actually benefit from a sequel. Unlike Hellboy, which…
Read More "Red and blue make 3D." Who do you cast in a remake of Quentin Tarantino's favorite slasher movie? Judging by the upcoming remakes of lovely '80s knife-wielding shlock like Prom Night (April 11th) and April Fool's Day (straight to DVD/ugh), I'd say, "I dunno, that girl today at Pinkberry?" But, noooo! The lead…
Read More JFX gives us out first look at Will Ferrell in Universal's upcoming adaptation of Land of the Lost. Ferrell plays Dr. Marshall, a wacky scientist who ends up the laughingstock of the scientific community after attacking the quadriplegic and wheelchair-bound Stephen Hawking while being interviewed on Anderson Cooper 360. Dr. Marshall is reduced to becoming…
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"So, it's a comic book, a video game and a movie, with maybe another movie after that. Sounds good." Today, I had to buy some contacts, but it took forever. So, I started browsing the glasses. Is there a single A-thru-C lister without a line of cheesy glasses? American Idol reading glasses? Ignorance is bliss.…
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"Curb it, punks." Can one of our commenters suit up as "The Internet" and have a wrastlin' match with George Lucas already? The Star Wars poobah is back to his "let's be realistic" and "most of you will probably hate it, but so what?" schtick, but this time he's voicing his (non)concern about expectations for…
Read More A couple weeks ago I wrote about Universal's genius viral marketing campaign for the upcoming Judd Apatow-produced comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which had taken over San Francisco. Signs on buses, bus shelters and billboards with cryptic messages that read "I hate You Sarah Marshall", "My Mom Always Hated You Sarah Marshall" and "You Don't Look…
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A slew of spoilerific and amazing character descriptions for Crank 2 just hit the web over at Spoiler TV. We've pasted them all after the jump. Judging from the run down, directors and Slashfilm party mates Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor seem to really love the word "sociopath," and their Ritalin milkshake of a sequel…
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Hey! Watch out hombre! It's the new TAOJJBTCRF! Warner Bros. has snatched up the film rights to a book proposal by writer Josh Lieb (The Daily Show, a Deuce Bigelow) entitled I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President. On board to produce is McG via his production…
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Disney has released photos of an upcoming series of action figures of Disney / Muppet Characters dressed as Star Wars characters. The Disney characters will be sold individually for $9.95, and include Mickey Mouse as Anakin, Minnie Mouse as Amidala, Goofy as Jar Jar, Donald Duck as Darth Maul, and Stitch as Yoda. These figures…
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The movie trailer for Meet Dave, Eddie Murphy's Norbit follow up, has hit the web. Directed by Brian Robbins (Ready to Rumble, The Shaggy Dog, Norbit), Meet Dave stars Eddie Murphy as an alien spaceship in human form. A crew of miniature aliens operate are trying to save their planet, but encounter a new problem,…
Read More Photo Removed at Request From Fox Legal Troy Mustang snapped this photo of one of the Mexican film sets for 20th Century Fox's big screen live action adaptation of Dragonball. As always, click to enlarge. Not sure what the scene involves, but the photo is pretty cool. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on…
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For the most part the life of a blogger is rather boring. We sit in front of a computer screen for 12+ hours a day, hunting for news, researching articles, calling people on the phone...etc. A couple times a week we make the trip downtown to see an advance screening of the movies which get…
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Earlier today we wrote about how Star Wars fanboys were planning on boycotting The Weinstein Co's Superhero Movie due to the way the company is handling the release of Fanboys. I just received a press release from The Weinstein Co, announcing that they would be releasing both cuts of the film on DVD "with the…
Read More Jason Reitman has been very tight lipped about his next film project. What we know so far is that he was working on a screenplay when he came across Diablo Cody's Juno script (prompting him to cease work on said mystery script). MTV was able to squeeze a few more details out of Retiman "Yeah,…
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Just found this absolutely brilliant Spike TV Star Wars Advertisement featuring Darth Vader (apparently Spike TV will be airing the Star Wars saga starting April 4th). I've updated this story below with official photos of the other two advertisements featuring Chewbacca and Darth Maul. via: scaryideas, StarWars.com
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Due for release this summer from Magnolia Pictures, Special is a superhero spoof starring New York veteran actor Michael Rapaport (True Romance, The War at Home) about a parking lot cop who is prescribed antidepressants and begins to believe and act like he has super powers. The film, the debut of writer/director team Hal Haberman…
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Star Wars fans are still very angry over The Weinstein Co's horrible handling of Fanboys. Their movement has gained a bunch of mainstream press, including the New York Post, the Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, and thousands of websites. The group is now organizing Stop Darth Weinstein Protests in New York and Los Angeles on March…
Read More As you probably know, Warner Bros has ramped up the viral campaign for The Dark Knight and have sent Dentmobles around the country. Supposedly an "independent grassroots movement of Gotham City citizens are traveling around to garner support for Gotham City's Harvey Dent potential decision to run for District Attorney. Old news, I know... Here…
Read More Last week I posted a cool stuff feature on the coolest movie theater on the planet - The Alamo Drafthouse, an independently run theater in Austin Texas. That's not to say that a huge corporate cinema chain couldn't create a cool movie theater. /Film Reader George J sent me a tip about this cool looking…
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Ramuardo found these interesting concept background paintings for WALL-E at the Pixar - 20 Years of Animation exhibit in Finland. The first of the new paintings feature a new look at the Axiom luxury starliner where humanity (or what is left of it) has made their new home after Earth became unlivable. The second features…
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Four new photos from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull have been found online. Nothing really too exciting, as they're all "character photos", but you can check them out after the jump.  source: Filmz.ru
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When I was a kid, I always hated the game of Operation. Maybe because I just suck at handling delicate tasks without shaking. Plus that opperation guy was just creepy if you think about it, laying on the table with that weird look waiting for little kids to touch him. But I probably would have…
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Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie, a documentary directed by Jay Delaney, is, true to the title, not about Bigfoot (a.k.a. Sasquatch, a.k.a. Yeti), the mythical apelike giant that first chronicled in the 1920s in the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, and, more recently, the American Midwest. Bigfoot has appeared in stories, novels, horror films, and on…
Read More What if I told you that the hottest comedy producer in Hollywood today, Judd Apatow, was making a movie written by 80's pop-directing legend John Hughes and Seth Rogen? I'd say it's in theaters, and you didn't even care to go see it. Drillbit Taylor actually began as a story from John Hughes. You know,…
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Kevin Smith has updated his fans on the post-production of his latest, Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Kevin revealed that the 110-page shooting draft resulted in a first cut that was "over two and a half" hours long. 25 minutes have since hit the cutting room floor, and Smith gives us the following update:…
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Due in December, nothing substantial or even trivial has leaked from 20th Century Fox's big budget remake of sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves, John Cleese, Jennifer Connelly and Kathy Bates. Reeves, who will next be seen in Aprils's LAPD actioner Street Kings and plays the alien Klaatu in the…
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Three days ago we came across a production listing for Rambo 5 on an international film news website. The rumored next installment in Sylvester Stallone's second biggest franchise was listed to shoot on one or more new sound stages now being constructed in Bulgaria by a major European production studio. While Sly has played up…
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Just three years old, high school-noir got its start with Rian Johnson's Brick (released in 2006 after being picked up at the Sundance Film Festival a year earlier). Set in a Northern California high school and centered on the investigation of missing student by her former boyfriend, a detective of sorts, and featuring hyper-stylized dialogue…
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General Oddity is selling Palpatine-Cheney merchandise on CafePress. "Re-elect Palpatine and his right-hand man Dick Cheney to the head of the Galactic Empire!" I've been very disappointed with CafePress' t-shirts in the past, but the bumper sticker is pretty cool, and maybe worth a few bucks. Meanwhile, Goats.com is selling Republicans for Voldermort merchanise, including…
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Juno hits DVD on April 15th 2008, and the special edition DVD features 11 deleted scenes. Fox Searchlight has released an advance look at one of those scenes. "Cafe Triste" features Juno (Ellen Page) performing a one man show at a little cafe with best friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) and always-awkward former semi-boyfriend Paulie Bleeker…
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According to the Daily Mail, rather accomplished 17-year-old British actor Thomas Sangster, whose credits include Love Actually, Nanny McPhee and appearances on the UK's Doctor Who, is nearly a lock for the lead title role in the 3D motion-capture trilogy Tintin from Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. Kid's last name is pretty cool and, if…
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"Yeah, these movies are pretty dumb." Gotta love how the four actors who make up the Fantastic Four all treat a (non-) proposed Fantastic Four 3 sequel like a huge pile of lowbrow dishes in the sink. Actor Chris Evans, who plays Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch in the cornball Marvel franchise, follows up…
Read More The last recent rom-com I watched (re: politely forced) was Music and Lyrics, which was so amazingly terrible it even made the domineering rental-picker blush. One of the problems nowadays with this genre is an utter void of chemistry between the leads in favor of "mall hot" eugenics. Feh to that! Without even knowing the…
Read More "Jason never had a show on The CW." Can actor Jared Padelecki (Supernatural, Paris Hilton's House of Wax) defeat one Jason Voorhees? We'll find out next Valentine's Day the 13th, when Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes and MTV Films unleash the Friday the 13th remake on hickey'd teens and horror fans still mesmerized by Crystal…
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/Film reader Ignatius F sent over There Will Be Vader, a short video mash-up of the video from Star Wars and the audio from There Will Be Blood. It starts off a bit slow but trust me, stay with it for 3 minutes, and it really gets pretty good, then sputters again near the end.…
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Besides those who imagine La Lohan giving a great performance as a groupie, there is not much general interest in Chapter 27, the indie film opening March 28th about John Lennon's murderer, Mark David Chapman, starring an obese Jared Leto. Peter hated it (4/10), and the movie has a 5.7 rating on IMDB from its…
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The best movie of 2007 that you haven't seen is finally going to get a theatrical release. The Go-Getter premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival up against Son of Rambow, and most of the big movie buyers missed it. The Playlist has confirmed that the film will see its first official release from Peach…
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The movie trailer for Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was attached to Horton Hears a Who! but has yet to find it's way online. If you're dying to see it, a bootleg version has shown up on the russian file sharing website RuTube. Hopefully Fox will have an official version up soon enough…
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Update: We've updated this story with a second image (seen above), and a higher resolution version of the first image (below). Paramount has released the first photo of Ray Park as Snake Eyes from the upcoming live action G.I. Joe movie. So what do you guys think? Is the live action Snake Eyes as bad…
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Hopefully Thor isn't developing a serious beer belly waiting for Matthew Vaughn's ambitious adaptation, once proposed for $300 million, to come to fruition. According to Moriarty at AICN, Vaughn (Star Dust, Layer Cake) is currently writing and set to direct an adaptation of Mark Millar's nascent comic book Kick-Ass. Many know Millar from his work…
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"Fool, you betta call me!" If John Singleton (Higher Learning, 2 Fast 2 Furious) needs someone to walk the Earth in search of the perfect gold dookie chains for his re-envisioning of the hit '80s show The A-Team, I'll do it for free shrimp. That's right, the suspect action show that kept a million kids…
Read More Yep, another day, another brown drip of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li casting news. Actor Neal McDonough (Minority Report, Ravenous, The Hitcher) will fill the shiny boots of the late Raul Julia in the role of the video game adaptation's muscled militant villain M. Bison (below, nice likeness). McDonough joins a short bus…
Read More His recent, loud homage to Mad Max and killer viruses, Doomsday, was mostly ignored and deflated quickly at the box office, but genre director Neil Marshall is still going strong. He's now attached to his second project of the month, an L.A.-set action mystery vehicle for Hugh Jackman at Universal entitled Drive that looks to…
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Mr. Purple's Threadless t-shirt design Color-Coded Criminals is a Crayola-styled take on the infamous scene from Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. And now is the time to buy anything on Threadless, because they are running a Spring Cleaning Sale until March 23rd, with most t-shirts (including this one) going for only $9 (40% off the normal…
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Update: Still no official confirmation or denial from the studio regarding the Dirty Harry 6 rumor. MovieWeb now reports that a close friend of the site who works for Eastwood's production company has confirmed that Gran Torino is indeed a Dirty Harry sequel. Meanwhile FilmJerk says that a source has told them the film is…
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John Rambo, stayin' alive? Today on Screen Daily it was reported that Rambo 5 is scheduled to film in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. Nu Boyana Studios, a substantive production house for Southeastern Europe, is building 10 new sound stages in the area, and apparently the next installment in the Sylvester Stallone war-vet franchise is…
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Universal Studios Orlando has announced that they will be building The Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit Rollercoaster, a new high-tech roller-coaster ride which will hold the title of the tallest coaster in Central Florida and one of the fastest in the state. Rockit will rise 167 feet into the air, then corkscrew downwards, twisting eight times,…
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Enock Carvalho from the Harry Potter Brazilian fansite oclumencia.com.br sent over this new photo from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The photo which comes from the new issue of Nick Magazine, shows Harry (Dan Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson), and Ron (Rupert Grint) sitting in the Gryffindor Common Room. I know, not very revealing... As…
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The second movie trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will hit the web later this week. When? We're not exactly sure. I called a couple of my Paramount sources and couldn't get a definite date and time. One thing we do know is that Paramount will be releasing the new…
Read More Last month we posted a video of a three year old's hilarious review of Star Wars, which went on to take over the interwebs. Today we bring you a follow-up, a 50-year-old nerd's video review of Star Wars. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/50yearoldstarwars.flv 460 346] You might recognize Toby Radloff, because he's actually the world's most famous nerd.…
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Dreams with Sharp Teeth, a twenty-six-years-in-the-making bio-doc on the life, times, rants, and raves of science fiction writer/raconteur Harlan Ellison directed by Erik Nelson, is a perfect primer for anyone unfamiliar with Ellison's contributions to the written word, television, and film. Be forewarned, though, Nelson gives Ellison free reign to express his dissatisfaction about anything…
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Warner Bros has released four new character movie posters for The Wachowski Brothers' Speed Racer. I had high expectations for this film, and the first few movie trailers disappointed me greatly (as they did most of the internet). The recent domestic trailer got me back on board the Mach 5. But these new character posters…
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If you see Rick Baker, given him a high five! The genius of movie make-up behind American Werewolf in London has once again created one helluva Wolfman! Yes, that is Benecio Del Toro fully transformed into the full moon-friendly title beast in director Joe Johnston's The Wolfman. EW got first dibbs on these two images…
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The Weinstein Co has announced that Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno will hit theaters on October 31st 2008. The film will go head to head with Guy Ritchie's new gangster film RocknRolla starring Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton, Tom Wilkinson and Jeremy Piven. Zack and Miri stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as…
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The photo above goes out to all the girls of the world who go nom nom nom for Michael Cera. This is a demographic that is growing exponentially. I even know a gal who left a guy to venture out in search of Juno's lithe and witty impregnator. So, given this bewildering trend, it's only…
Read More Not satisfied with having one movie due this year as a director, Clint Eastwood will follow-up November's Changeling starring Angelina Jolie with a mystery project entitled Gran Torino that is being fast tracked by Warner Bros. for a release in December. I like how the Hollywood legend habitually and quietly moves in for the Oscar…
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When I was a kid, I collected baseball cards. When I became a young teen, this morphed into collecting comic book related card sets. Now I own a cardboard box full of cards which are nearly worthless. At various comic conventions I'll see some of the sets I spent so much time trying to complete…
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After getting Dragged to Hell, Sam Raimi plans to develop and direct a series of films based on the popular Tom Clancy-created Jack Ryan book series. Paramount is hoping to release the first film in Summer 2010. Alec Baldwin first took the character to the big screen in John McTiernan's 1990 The Hunt for Red…
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Check out Chuck Anderson's cool but unused Jumper movie poster concept, commissioned by Concept Arts, after the jump. I was going to comment on how much more money Fox could have made using ads with this style of design, but then I noticed that Jumper had already made $173+ million worldwide. As it turns out,…
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Anton Yelchin (JJ Abrams' Star Trek, Charlie Bartlett) is in negotiations to star as John Connor's father Kyle Reese in director McG's Terminator 4 (which is still untitled... I say they just call it T4: The Future Begins). Yelchin would play a teenage version of Reese, who was played by Michael Biehn in the original…
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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, a heart-wrenching, thought-provoking documentary edited and directed by Kurt Kuenne explores, in often excruciating detail, the death of his best friend, Andrew Bagby, a twenty-eight year old doctor completing his residency in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. On the morning of November 5, 2001, Bagby's bullet-riddled body was…
Read More /Film reader Sheryl Z pointed us towards this trailer for a very well done Juno parody titled Jewno. The title tells you everything. Written by Daily Show scribe Rob Kutner & Sheryl Zohn, and directed by Stephen J Levinson for The Shushan Channel, Jewno tackles almost every possible Jewish joke (and then some) in the…
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Has Tony Stark met his match? With grosses expected to be as high as $360 million in its first week alone, Grand Theft Auto IV, the long, long awaited sequel to Rock Star Games' classic video game franchise, will no doubt out gross Jon Favreau's Iron Man. That is not the showdown alluded to in…
Read More Acclaimed sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke has died at age 90. Clarke is probably best known as the writer of Stanley Kubrick's landmark film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clark is considered a scientific visionary, known as "the godfather of the telecommunications satellite". He also foretold future technological ideas such as space stations, the moon landing,…
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You have to give Judd Apatow credit for still not having a single sequel, especially a Knocked Up with Twins, on his vast production buffet. MTV recently spoke to him about the sequelitis that all big producers feel at one point or another, and Apatow admitted there is one film, Anchorman starring Will Ferrell as…
Read More "Man, you guys didn't go see my Bigfoot movie." There's this pair of shorts, the coolest shorts on Earth in my estimation, that I found on South Beach for $5. I think they're from the '70s. Every time I open a drawer to get some socks, I see the shorts and know that my…
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Oscar-winning director and writer Anthony Minghella died on Tuesday at age 54. The Guardian reports that the director suffered a fatal hemorrhage after a "routine operation" was motivated by a growth on his neck which was suspected to be "cancer of the tonsils and neck." The surgery took place last week and everything looked good,…
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After countless delays (to some fanboys' enjoyment), the Justice League of America 2009 tent pole from Australian director George Miller has hit another snag, a major one that has been months in the making. The production was just refused a tax rebate vital to filming down under by the Australian government. Miller is right angry...…
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When we reported last week that Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nick Stoller and writer/star Jason Segel had signed on to develop the next Muppet movie, I speculated that these would be the guys to get it right ("The early Muppet films were absolutely genius, but the last few failed due to an attempt to dumb…
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Okay, so our daily Cool Stuff feature has definitely taken off. We've gotten tons of great feedback, and each new post is more highly read than the last. But I'm starting to find the daily schedule rather limiting. I have a backlog of hundreds of submitted and found items to report on in future Cool…
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BadTaste.it offers us a look at this cool Iron Man promotional standee. I can't quite tell if this is 3D or just a regular 2D stand-up. Either way it looks way cool. Cinematical has a look at the domestic poster for Wong Kar Wai's English-language debut My Blueberry Nights, which stars Norah Jones, Natalie Portman,…
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I know, I know... I'm late to this party! The one big takeaway from my time in Austin at the SXSW Film Festival (aside from the hot indie rock girls, the parties, the great movies, and great food) was that I fell in love with the Alamo Drafthouse Movie Theater. I've been to movie theaters…
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George Lucas talked to Entertainment Weekly about the announced live-action Star Wars television show, and revealed a couple new tidbits. "The live-action has [none of the characters from the Star Wars movies], because it's after Episode III, so everybody's dead, basically, or hiding somewhere. You hear about the Emperor, just like you do in Episode…
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Troy Duffy has a big announcement for St. Patrick's Day: Boondock Saints 2 might be happening after all. According to Duffy, Sony Picture Studios has greenlit The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day, and the original cast (with the exception of Willem Dafoe) are excited to return. Duffy claims that the film will begin shooting Summer…
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The full movie trailer for Tropic Thunder has finally dropped and I'm still not sold. When the photo of Robert Downey Jr. playing a black soldier in the movie about the making of a movie, I garnered a bit of hope. My good, but easily excited, friend Alex at FirstShowing saw some footage at ShoWest,…
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Can you imagine if The Dark Knight was the last Batman film for actor Christian Bale? Clearly no person plays more into the monumental equation of a trilogy starring him than director Christopher Nolan. Bale recently spoke with EW about a second sequel to Batman Begins, or as the odd interviewer incorrectly called it, Batman…
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Buried in this report covering yesterday's Wizard World convention in L.A. is the news via a panel that Samuel L. Jackson may not have a cameo as Marvel character Nick Fury in Iron Man after all. Nearly a year ago AICN reported the casting news as a definite for the summer blockbuster, and since then…
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Universal is really trying to push the viral marketing campaign for Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I'm back home in San Francisco, and decided to grab a sandwich at AK Meats (the best sandwich place in the city) when I noticed the billboard on the side of the MUNI Bus did not read "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" but…
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As announced earlier this month, Jamal Woolard will star as the lead role in Notorious, a big screen adaptation of the life of rapper Christopher Wallace a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G. Fox Searchlight sent us a first look of Jamal as B.I.G., and I must admit, he looks pretty dead on. Jamal's casting isn't without controversy.…
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This is the second Saturday Night Live digital short I've posted on Slashfilm, but at the risk of "Andy Samberg man-crush, much?" accusations, it's worth it. Jonah Hill, who hosted last weekend, absolutely slays here as his semi-self, as does SNL writer/actor James Downey as "Andy's Dad." Serious yuks. And Bill Hader nearly steals the…
Read More Today I received an e-mail tip from /Film reader Al M, regarding the #1 video on YouTube today, which has over 1.1 million views. "Have you guys seen this yet? Some people are saying it's CLOVERFIELD 2, but I don't think so. http://youtube.com/watch?v=dxzrPHaWda8 http://youtube.com/user/EricsVideoBlog It looks like a tape of a government shooting that happened…
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Written and directed by Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough, The Upsetter promises, with more than a bit of hyperbole, to document Jamaican music pioneer Lee "Scratch" Perry's life and times (definitively at that). Perry, a songwriter, singer, and producer, helped to define reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s, working with Bob Marley…
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"I'm back. [belch!]" Oh yes, to be bathed in ketchup-colored red by an R-rated movie trailer inside a cinema. It's been nearly a decade since the largest theater chain in North America, Regal Entertainment Group, showed its last restricted movie trailer but times are a changing. Regal will reintroduce the kid hating trailers before R-rated…
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A writer's writer, author Richard Price (Clockers, The Wire) just released what is possibly his best reviewed novel yet, Lush Life, and now Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin (No Country For Old Men) will produce the feature film adaptation with Miramax. Price will write the screenplay. The novel centers around a murder that occurs when…
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Director Louis Leterrier recently did a shot-for-shot recap of The Incredible Hulk teaser trailer with Empire and if you missed it, there are some tasty chunks of info therein. For instance, Leterrier recognizes how late in the marketing game it is for the June Hulk reboot, but still emphasizes that none of the special effects…
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Okay, so this cool TRON hoodie doesn't exist, YET. Martiandrivein's hoodie concept "The Electronic Gladiator" is currently being voted on for a potential upcoming product from Threadless. Go place your vote and sign up for the "I'd Buy It!" option so that we can make this happen. The idea is for the blue screenprint to…
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Directed and co-written by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry, The Last Good Breath), Stop Loss dramatizes the U.S. military's "stop-loss" policy that allows the military to postpone the honorable discharge of U.S. soldiers and send them back to Iraq and Afghanistan for another tour of duty (usually a year to eighteen months). Alas, Stop Loss…
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Mark Neveldine has confirmed that Crank 3 will be shot in 3-D. "We were actually thinking of trying to do RED 3-D for GAME for a while," Brian Taylor revealed to Collider. "We think it's the way things are going. The problem for us is that the rigs are still a little too cumbersome. They're…
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The Movie Blog have gotten their hands on a new red band movie trailer for the upcoming Milo Ventimiglia thriller Pathology. Written by Neveldine/Taylor, the madmen behind Crank, and directed by music video director Marc Schoelermann, Pathology follows a group of medical students who devise a deadly game: to see which one of them can…
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It's Saturday, it's raining, college basketball is slowing down, and Doomsday belly-flopped: how about a Neil Patrick Harris post? Why not, right? Peter didn't exactly chug a pitcher of beer in totes awe after watching Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay at SXSW, but I think it's safe to say we'd both like to…
Read More Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is rated R for good reason. The film contains a lot, and I mean, a lot of swears. Don't believe me? Watch the NSFW clip below which compiles all the foul language into a one minute and fifteen second spoiler-filled video clip. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/kumar2foul.flv 470 264]
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A documentary directed by Rene Pinnell and Claire Huie about Pinnell's uncle, Texas filmmaker Eagle Pennell (Last Night at the Alamo, The Whole Shootin' Match), The King of Texas, is both an affectionate tribute to Pennell and his brand of regional-based, DIY filmmaking and a cautionary tale about substance and alcohol abuse and the premature…
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I just received a package via FedEx at the house that we're staying at in Austin Texas for SXSW. I don't know how they found me, but they did. The return address on the FedEx package lists an address for the I Believe in Harvey Dent Campaign Office. Inside was a folder containing a press…
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Coming Soon had a chance to speak with producer Michael De Luca (21, Ghost Rider) and he passed along news that a Metal Gear Solid movie, based off the long-running hit espionage video game franchise, is once again going ahead. The project has been in the very early stages for sometime (see eerily similar Slashfilm…
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Lost Boys 2: The Tribe hasn't even been released yet, yet Corey Feldman is already talking about a possible third film. "The stage is set," Feldman said of the ending to The Tribe. "So it's really up to you, the viewer, and you, the audience, to see that final chapter comes into fruition." "Personally the…
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After watching Choke, an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's (Survivor, Fight Club) novel directed by Clark Gregg, the words vulgar, crude, profane, blasphemous, obscene, and, best of all, hilarious, all come to mind. A sharp critique aimed at our self-centered, self-absorbed culture, with a few digs at group therapy, psychiatry, and dysfunctional parenting, Choke is the…
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Some documentaries enlighten. The best documentaries do both. Case Directed by Ellen Spiro, a professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, and Phil Donahue, the former television host whose last television program was cancelled by MSNBC (ostensibly for low ratings, but probably for his liberal-progressive views), Body of War,…
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22-Year-Old artist Evan Shaner wondered what it would be like if Carlie Brown cartoonist Charles Schulz created the Watchmen. The drawing above includes Charlie Brown as Doctor Manhattan, Linus as The Comedian, Schroeder as Ozymandias, Lucy as Silk Spectre, Snoopy as Rorschach, and Pigpen as Nite Owl. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com.…
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The first teaser trailer for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is attached to Horton Hears a Who, which hit theaters today. While I'm not a big fan of the Ice Age series, the teaser trailers have always entertained me. Probably because they remind me of the old Looney Toons or Disney shorts. Scrat is…
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The official website for this September's Punisher re-do Punisher: War Zone is now online. The site is pretty bare right now, offering a mere two stills from the film, but the presentation is heavy on tone, with hushed police sirens, faint voices and a buzzing drone of dread all present as gunshots pierce glass and…
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Director David Fincher (Se7en, Zodiac) is set to co-direct, oversee and produce an animated feature film based on Heavy Metal Magazine, the adult fantasy and sci-fi publication founded in the '70s that's still in print today. The R-rated flick will consist of eight or nine individual animated tales, each to be helmed by a different…
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Universal Pictures and Dark Horse Entertainment have signed a three-year production and distribution agreement which would give Universal creative access to all Dark Horse characters and properties. I'm not quite sure which Dark Horse properties would be available. Dark Horse's catalogue contains a lot of creator owned books/characters, and licensed material like Star Wars, Buffy,…
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A rock opera/musical that's part Tommy and part Cabaret, Rainbow Around the Sun is a perfect example of what a talented group of artists and musicians can do when they have a modest budget and modern technology (e.g., HD cameras, Final Cut Pro) to work from. Filmed in and around Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by directors…
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When I talked to director Kevin Lima after seeing Disney's Enchanted, he told me that the film featured a ton of easter eggs referencing the classic Disney animated films. I know I had seen a few, but he claimed their were thousands of little things. To promote the DVD release of Enchanted, Disney has released…
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AICN pointed out a press release today from MGM that lists a new RoboCop movie alongside upcoming franchise films already in development like Quantum of Solace, The Thomas Crown Affair 2 (with RoboCop director Paul Verhoeven on board) and everyone's favorite future films, The Pink Panther 2 and 3. Here's the excerpt... MGM is planning…
Read More Last week I came across a photo of Eli Roth wearing a SCORSESE t-shirt. As a film geek, I thought it was just the coolest but I didn't know where to find one. CUT TO: A week later, I'm in Austin Texas for the SXSW film festival. Aside from being the coolest movie theaters in…
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Bananaz, Ceri Levy's behind-the-scenes/tour documentary centered on Gorillaz, the virtual band created by Damon Albarn, lead singer and songwriter for the Brit-pop band, Blur, and Jamie Hewlett, the co-creator of Tank Girl, is, alas, the kind of insular, for-fans-only documentary that means a limited theatrical run, if any, and a somewhat appreciative audience on DVD…
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Last year it was announced that Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg would be directing a trilogy of 3D performance capture films based on the popular comic book series The Adventures of TinTin created by Belgian artist Hergé. However, it was never revealed who would direct the first film. Andy Serkis, who will play Captain Haddock…
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How long will it take 20th Century Fox to shut down /Film if I post an entire feature length film? Let's find out. Below you can watch all one hour and twenty one minutes of their popular computer animated family comedy Ice Age. I know, not a great film selection, but I thought this experiment…
Read More /Film reviewer Zach Lawrence might not have loved 10,000 B.C., but the 12-year-old video blogger/movie reviewer/internet phenom Sexman has returned with a new haircut, giving the movie 4 out of 5 stars (calling it "a pretty good film"). Sexman criticizes it for their not being "enough gore" or action, but praises the unexpected humor and…
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Okay, I understand that most of you, including Hunter, are not happy with the movie trailer for The Lost Boys direct-to-dvd sequel, Lost Boys: The Tribe. But I think that everyone's expectations were just so unreasonable high. Many people forget that this project began as nothing more than a direct-to-dvd movie without any returning stars.…
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Last month, the red band movie trailer for Pineapple Express leaked on to the interwebs. Columbia Pictures has been working overtime to get an official greenband movie trailer out, which will likely be attached to Drillbit Taylor and Forgetting Sarah Marshall next month. The new trailer is not as great as the red band trailer,…
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The campaign dates for Gotham D.A. hopeful Harvey Dent's "Dentmobile" tour have been revealed on The Dark Knight character's official site. We've posted the tour's city dates, which kicked off today in New York City, Houston, Columbus (Ohio), Chicago, and Los Angeles and treads both coasts but leaves the Midwest a little ignored, after the…
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What do you do if the whole world starts turning into Zombies? Hope to god that you invested in the "In Case of Zombies Break Glass" Mounted Survival Kit. Found on eBay, via Gizmodo, this novelty survival kit is currently selling for around $200 with 9 more days on the auction. The auction listing reads:…
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After seeing Forgetting Sarah Marshall the other night at SXSW, it was no surprise to me that Disney had hired the star/writer Jason Segel and director Nick Stoller behind Judd Apatow's latest to develop the next Muppet movie. Segel and Stoller will write the screenplay and Stoller will direct. A major sequence in Sarah Marshall…
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A teaser trailer for Madagascar: The Crate Escape premiered on the DVD release of The Bee Movie. Ben Stiller gives us an introduction to what we should expect from the sequel to the 2005 hit computer animated film. So far I'm not impressed. I think a lot of people were very disappointed with the first…
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What would happen to your brain and body if you smoked good weed for 30 days straight? That is the premise of comedian Doug Benson's Morgan Spurlock-one-upping documentary Super High Me. The film is currently showing at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, and while Peter hasn't seen it, reviews thus far have been favorable,…
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Brad Bird has officially signed on to make his live-action feature directorial debut in a co-production between Warner Bros and Disney/Pixar. Based on James Dalessandro's 2005 novel 1906, Bird is rewriting the original script penned by John Logan. The assumption is that Pixar will be providing the computer generated effects. Here is the official plot…
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When The Wachowski Brothers announced they would be making a live action cartoon-looking adaptation of the classic anime series Speed Racer, I was all for it. When it was revealed that the film would be Rated G, because the brothers wanted to make a family film, I was still on board. But when the first…
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Hey guys, I'm still in Austin Texas at South By South West, but /Film Reader Dustin R is in Las Vegas at ShoWest, and sent us this report from the DreamWorks/Paramount event: ------- Hey you guys, I was able to attend the ShoWest event last night at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, NV to…
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MGM and Lakeshore have released the final theatrical one-sheet for Pathology. It's much better than the teaser poster that was released at comic Con. Written by Mark Neveldine/Brian Taylor, the madmen behind Crank, and directed by Marc Schoelermann, Pathology follows a group of medical residents studying pathology who devise a deadly game: to see which…
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MTV has dibbs on several first images of DC Comics collectibles for The Dark Knight, including Joker figurines and busts (nice Heath Ledger likeness, nice camo tie), Batman figurines/statues and grappling launcher and batarang prop replicas. More photos after the jump, click to make them pop. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know…
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If, like the vast majority of music listeners, you're unfamiliar with the term "nerdcore," then you're in luck. Nerdcore Rising, an engrossing documentary directed by Negin Farsad, will answer any and all questions you may have about nerdcore, a relatively new hip-hop genre made by and for nerds (e.g., computer nerds, gaming nerds, and pop…
Read More Editors note: This review is a little late, and its entirely my fault as I accidently passed it while working at SXSW in Austin. The Following is Documented Wiki Info: The 10th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch. [World population was…
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FINALLY!! After months and months of waiting, Universal has released a movie trailer for The Incredible Hulk reboot/sequel. Whatever company cut this trailer deserves a bonus. I love how you could have no idea this is an Incredible Hulk movie until the last 30 seconds. And the prolonged suspense of seeing the first reveal of…
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Harry Potter fans rejoice! Warner Bros is expected to officially announce plans to release the adaptation of the last and final Harry Potter book, split into two separate films. This makes more than perfect sense considering the 36 chapter plus epilogue book is a whopping 759 pages long. Fans have complained that the last two…
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Every year, 25,000 students apply to New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. Out of those 25,000 students, only 750 get in. A meritocracy in the best sense of the word, Stuyvesant pulls in the best and the brightest, regardless of wealth, class, race, or gender. Most of the students are the children…
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Dear director P.J. Pesce and screenwriter Hans Rodionoff, please never cross my path in life. And please do a Spitzer. Lost Boys: The Tribe (formerly Lost Boys 2: The Tribe) will (and should definitely) go straight to DVD in July. Buy a copy, attach it to a skateboard and run over it with your grandfather's…
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When Andrew Cripps, President of Paramount Pictures International, announced at Showest that Iron Man would be released Day-and-Date internationally on April 30, rumors started to circulate that the domestic release would be moved up two days. Well apparently that is just wishful thinking. Paramount has issued the following statement: The domestic release date of Iron…
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It has been a few days since the last time I found a few minutes to blog about my SXSW adventures. And it's not for a lack of stories or interesting tales. If Sundance was the internet, than SXSW would be Web 2.0. At Sundance everyone is working (well, actually, that isn't true because the…
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"To grow a surreal 'stache or to not grow a surreal 'stache?" According to The New Zealand Herald, Johnny Depp is currently holding auditions for screenwriters to pen an upcoming movie based on the life of the late, great surrealist painter and world renown eccentric Salvador Dali (at right). It's said that Depp will star…
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Does big time studio director Brett Ratner lie around the Grotto half-naked with Hugh Hefner and his Bunnies while searching through ancient Valiant comic books for his next franchise? If not, did an assistant bring him a copy of Harbinger and if so, why not a copy of Turok Dinosaur Hunter or X-O Manowar…
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The new and final movie trailer for Pixar's WALL-E has hit the interwebs. It begins much like the international trailer which leaked to the web a few weeks back, but continues on with a ton of new footage, including our first look at what has become of the human race, the inside of the starliner…
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Last week Paramount premiered the first photo from the upcoming Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder which featured Robert Downey Jr dressed as a black man. The movie studio has released two new photos and a official plot synopsis at Showest. As always, click on the photos to enlarge. "When a group of actors shooting a…
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Possibly the unfunniest comedy ever made, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is…. Wait, let's back up. That's completely backward. Written by actor Jason Segal (Knocked Up Undeclared, Freaks and Geeks), Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the kind of romantic comedy straight men can get behind and not just because Segel unveils his manliness more times than you can…
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I'm def digging the official title treatment above for Lost Boys: The Tribe (the 2 is now gone) that STYD just got their hands on. It's not some cheesy '00s update like I feared. Even cooler is that the world premiere of the trailer to the seminal '80s vampire flick will appear tomorrow morning at…
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Some major developments for the sequel to Superman Returns, tentatively titled Superman: The Man of Steel, hit the web today in quick succession. First, IESB reports that they've received "100%" confirmation that Bryan Singer will return to direct the flick and they've also heard that writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Transformers, J.J. Abrams's Star…
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Why not? Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, the minds behind the hit comedy site Ask a Ninja, are set to make their feature film debut with a remake of the lucrative 1978 B-movie spoof Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. They are currently working on the script. Nichols will direct. Both appear to be very fond…
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"I've got the touch." Over at Deadline Hollywood Daily, Nikki Finke is reporting that actor Edward Norton and Marvel Studios are in an escalating tizzy over editing and final cut on The Incredible Hulk. Oh boy, this is not good. Norton, who pretty much received the right to rework Zak Penn's script however he wanted,…
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Sad but true: Universal Pictures has plans for two more Mummy sequels. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor star Maria Bello told MTV: "I don't know when, but it's going, [There will] absolutely be The Mummy 4." Bello revealed that she is already signed on for a whole new trilogy, if Universal wanted to…
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If you're in the mood for survival horror (and really, who isn't?), then Dance of the Dead, directed by Gregg Bishop (The Other Side) and written by Joe Ballarini, will satiate your appetite and then some. Made on a modest budget (not a micro-budget, thankfully) and featuring a cast of unknowns (as is usually the…
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Three quick news tidbits that have emerged from Showest in Las Vegas: Warner Bros has decided to drop the silly/stupid title for Terminator 4, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. The film will now go into production without a title, targeting a May 22nd 2009 release. Iron Man might be released a few days earlier in…
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As you may know, American Teen is my favorite movie of the year so far. It's the first documentary that has true mainstream appeal. And by that I mean beyond political bounds, and able to tap the minds of the post-MTV / American Idol generation. I was just able to catch the film for a…
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A comedy-drama written and directed by Steve Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness, The Weather Man, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway), The Promotion gently satirizes the insular world of grocery chains, consumerism, and, of course, the American Dream of success through hard work, hard effort, and fair play. Depending less on the broad, low-brow comedy generally associated with…
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DreamWorks Animation has revealed the voice cast and released a new photo for their 2009 computer animated 3D film Monsters vs. Aliens. Based on the horror comic Rex Havoc, the film attempts to reinvent the classic 1950's monster B-movie starring Reese Witherspoon as Susan Murphy, a California girl who, on her wedding day, has the…
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"Awesome." Here at Slashfilm, if a holiday doesn't go well with movies we just ignore it. Sometimes we'll remain totally oblivious to a holiday. For others, we won't even get out of bed, or we'll just sip on a beer and pretend it's Slashfilm Day, and it always is. You can't make a movie party…
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I've never been one to criticize Pixar. Even when they began production on a movie with talking Nascar cars, which fell in a place sooo outside of my interest range (because I still understood the mass appeal). And I've always loved Pixar's view on sequels and 3D. Things like "Sequels are not part of our…
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In just three films, actor/comedian/screenwriter Simon Pegg has gone from playing a lovable, if clueless, slacker fighting off a zombie apocalypse and saving his girlfriend, his best friend, and a pint of beer (not necessarily in that order) in Shaun of the Dead to an anti-slacker/overachiever/cop exiled to a small sleepy town experiencing a rash…
Read More "Wasn't me." Peter emailed me the following question regarding the announcement that Justin Long will now star in Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell: How did a movie go from so much potential with a return to old form, an Oscar nominated actress [Ellen Page] attached, to a Justin Long movie? I have no idea,…
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The trailer for The Incredible Hulk will premiere this Wednesday at 9:56pm eastern standard time on MTV. But to hold you off until then, MTV has released this teaser advertising the the trailer, which can be watched after the jump.
Read More Back in January I introduced you to waves 1 & 2 of the Star Wars Mighty Muggs, Hasbro's cute low-cost urban vinyl collectible figure line. I was able to find the first and second series online for around $12.99 per figure. Hasbro has since released photos of wave 3 and wave 4 of the collectible…
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Shock Till You Drop received a tip over the weekend from a source at 20th Century Fox who claimed that a sequel to last December's generally hated Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem is a "certainty." A second sequel in the battle royal sci-fi horror franchise would be rather surprising, as AvP-R didn't reach $50 million…
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The New York Times has a nice set visit feature on The Dark Knight. I would recommend you read it, but even the first paragraph features a pretty major spoiler. Sure, it was something we wrote about last year, but we gave you full warning, placed it after a jump, and were still criticized heavily…
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The (possibly) final theatrical movie poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by legendary movie poster artist Drew Struzan has been unleashed. The poster features the first official close-up look at the alien-like Crystal Skull and a snake crawling out from the foliage around the Mayan ruins ("Snakes. Why'd it have…
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Judd Apatow's directorial follow-up to Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin has announced its principal cast: Adam Sandler Seth Rogen Leslie Mann Apatow is the sole writer of this project, and details are being kept under wraps. Apatow might make an appearance at SXSW tomorrow for the premiere of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and if that…
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Last night's Saturday Night Live was pretty good, with the cast managing to maintain its surprising post-strike energy and wit. Host Amy Adams needed to be sedated though, anyone else notice? The highlight was a new superhero-spoofing SNL Digital Short starring cast member Andy Samberg entitled Hero Song. Playing a Big Apple yuppie who is…
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SXSW is a film festival that celebrates the long tail of indie films. The first two documentaries I've seen at SXSW have in one way or another focused on the idea of pop-culture escapism. Second Skin took a look at the addicted video gamers that inhabit the online virtual worlds, and now We Are Wizards…
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Scrat is going back in time, or at least that is the only probable explanation for the third film in the Ice Age series, which is titled ICE AGE: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. That's right, Dinosaurs! I'm pretty sure the dinosaurs died off before the Ice Age which means that, well, something is up. Yorrick…
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Warner Bros has released two new international movie trailers for The Wachowski Brothers' big screen adaptation of Speed Racer. I still remain unsold on this film. I loved the idea of a live action cartoon, but the result looks ridiculous, with a couple of the sequences looking more like a video game than a animated…
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"Takes all kinds, guys." The premiere for Horton Hears a Who! was held today at Mann Village Theater in Los Angeles. In attendance were stars (and Horton voices) Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, non-star Victoria Beckham, lots and lots of children and...a totally uninvited group of pro-lifers, who were apparently uber-inspired by the film's upbeat mantra…
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Last night I was able to catch a great movie called Second Skin (bad title), about the culture behind the gamers who inhabit the virtual online worlds of World or Warcraft, Everquest and Second Life. Over 50 million people around the world live in these online worlds, and Second Skin takes a look at a…
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"Thought you said this place had Pac Man." Robert De Niro saying the word "respect" in a voice-over. Check. The Rolling Stones doing a retake of their "Sympathy for the Devil." Check. Al Pacino squatting over a crime scene in sunglasses. Check. Rapper 50 Cent closing his cell phone. Check. Wait, what? The director behind…
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After The Golden Compass failed to crack $70 million at the domestic box office, many industry types and American moviegoers pfffft'd the notion that the other films in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy would ever be made. However, as Variety notes, the first film, which starred Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and had a…
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"Happy day." If you eagerly went to the local comic book store on weekends throughout the '90s you no doubt recognize the lil' white dude above named Fone Bone. Created by artist Jeff Smith, the Bone comics remain one the industry's biggest DIY success stories, published independently from 1991 to 2004. Warner Bros. has purchased…
Read More Having apparently dropped out of Dario Argento's giallo Giallo because he was disgusted that the director cast his daughter in the film and there after announced his retirement, actor and socialite Vincent Gallo is now set to star as the title character in Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro. Maybe cockiness gets you somewhere in life after…
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Avinash Arora spent two weeks programming his own algorithm and tinkering to create this six foot Star Wars Last Supper Mosaic. Every single image from the mosaic is extracted from all six of the movies, the total collection is approximately 69 thousand images, or about 1 every 20 frames in the entire series. Arora explains:…
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If you receive a call from a number marked 1-000-000-0000, pick it up, it's Harvey Dent and he wants your vote! The Dent viral campaign for The Dark Knight has kicked off something fierce this evening. Not only are the prerecorded calls going out from Dent himself, but IBelieveInHarveyDent.com has been uploaded with a boatload…
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Nolte totally cracked out! Creedence Clearwater Revival blaring! Robert Downey Jr. as a fake black man! Jack Black as an albino! A real black dude yelling, "I'm from Brooklyn motherf***er!" The red-band teaser trailer (who knew, right?) for Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder has arrived and it packs a soap-in-mouth wallop. Unfortunately, the characters are layered…
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Before you head out this Friday to wrap your hands around a cold brewsky, try wrapping your head around the following description of Aaron Eckhart's performance(s) as Harvery Dent and Two Face in July's The Dark Knight. Over at CHUD, Jeremy Smith spills all he knows about what Christopher Nolan has in store for us.…
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"Purrr." Isn't it funny/sad/make you angry when heated discussions you had when you were, like, nine, are made into beyond epic movies? Producer Neil Moritz (I Am Legend, Even Almighty) looks to make a movie called Animals from a script by former lawyer turned hotshot screenwriter Mike Sobel that was just purchased by Columbia. The…
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Have any Slashfilm readers in Hollywood seen the following costumed street team promoting Neil Marshall's Doomsday near Franklin and Highland? I'm not sure if this stunt would even grab my attention in L.A., because so many people in L.A. dress this ridiculously. In the book The Game such loud "fashion" is even referred to as…
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Fresh off the news that he'll produce and probably star in two big budget Akira flicks and the rumor that he'll star in Cocaine Cowboys, Leonardo DiCaprio is now circling a remake of the 2008 South Korean serial killer thriller The Chaser. What's more, according to Variety, screenwriter William Monahan, the guy responsible for a…
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Judging by the teaser image above, I can't blame you for mistaking it for The Smurfs Movie, but it's really the final poster for the Judd Apatow-produced rom-com Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The poster tags the movie as "The Ultimate Romantic Disaster Movie" and the design has a lite, slacker-esque feel that is somehow appealing to…
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Yahoo UK has a ten minute preview of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who.
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Like any smart 20something, I am looking to retire in the next year or so, or at least go far far away to a land where the Drudge Report and Nick Denton have no reach. A loyal Slashfilm reader in Miami named 'Hot Turtle Sex' directed me to the following link belonging to a Welsh…
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The final theatrical one-sheet for Jon Favreau's Iron Man has hit the web. I'm not a big fan of the floating head aesthetic, and this is kind of an off-shoot of that overused marketing style. But at the same time I also understand that you can't just sell the movie with a bad ass photo…
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I've landed in Austin Texas, and it is much colder than expected. Isn't Texas supposed to be warm/hot? I think I brought some of the bad weather from San Francisco with me. It's been rainy, overcast, and cold. I don't think anyone in the house we're staying at planned for such. It appears that the…
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Want to be in a movie? Live in or around San Francisco? Gus Van Sant is looking for Extras to share the screen in his upcoming Harvey Milk bio-pic Milk. On Sunday morning (beginning at 8:00am-ish), March 9th, they will be re-creating Gay Freedom Day 1978 with exact time and place to be announced. So…
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Entertainment Weekly has yet another photo from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Indy (Harrison Ford), Mutt (Shia LaBeouf), and Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) race against a group of Russian soldiers through the Peruvian rain forest. EW has a super-gimmicky feature where you can use a virtual magnifying glass to enlarge part…
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Do you remember where you were and who you were with last June when The Sopranos went out with a (non) bang? Might one of the all time quizzical endings lead to a new beginning (perhaps an even greater one?), as rumors are coming in today that a theatrical movie is in the works. One…
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At one point, George Miller was in talks to take Justice League America down the all-CGI route a la Beowulf, and now Marvel's dream-team flick, The Avengers, might be headed in that direction as well according to screenwriter Zak Penn (X-Men 2 and 3, The Incredible Hulk). Of course, this whole uber-caped enchilada depends on…
Read More I'm about to make an admission that might make you question my overall taste in movies... I didn't hate the first Fast and the Furious movie. I actually thought it was a bunch of fun, in a don't take it serious, laugh at the cheesiness type of way. That said, the other two films sucked…
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I'm sitting in an airplane at 5:45am, waiting to take off to Colorado, and then to Austin Texas, for the South By South West Film Festival. Someday maybe this job will afford me a direct flight, sans connections. This will be my first time at SXSW, as well as my first time in Austin, so…
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The latest trailer for Wanted, starring a raccoon-eyed Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman (what happened to that bucket list), is truly terrible, even for a movie that missed The Matrix bus by nearly a decade! Like, the film's first trailer wasn't very promising, but this new one is bordering on the slo-mo inanity of Karate…
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Okay, now I'll admit it: Juno should have never been made! Fresh from getting mainstreamed in Diablo Cody's lil' indie that did, news arrives today that indie director David Gordon Green (George Washington, Pineapple Express) is set on remaking Dario Argento's Italo-horror classic Suspiria. Greene has been loosely attached for a few months but he…
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Watchmen comes out exactly one year from today, and to celebrate Zack Snyder has released the first batch of character photos from the film. I'm not quite sold on the costuming, but I guess its a fair contemporary adaptation of the comic book characters. Night Owl looks like a complete rip-off of Christopher Nolan's Batman…
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With his 2008 slate nicely stocked with cheeba and T&A (The Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri Make a Porno) gruffy, young superstar Seth Rogen looks to keep the debauchery rollin' into '09. He's set to star in the mall cop comedy Observe and Report, to be written and directed by Jody Hill, the latest to…
Read More Jason Reitman has officially signed on to team up with Jim Carrey on a comedy titled Pierre Pierre (yay!) for Fox Atomic (barf). You first heard about this project on /Film in early December 2007, before Juno became a monster hit at the box office. Pierre Pierre was ranked the 11th hottest screenplay in Hollywood…
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Last night I received an email from longtime /Film Reader Robby B claiming to have the scoop on a new movie trailer for The Dark Knight. I've tried all day to double source this one, but have come up with nothing. The most I can get out of anyone is that "Yes, the trailer focuses…
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Would you see more movies in the movie theater if it cost nothing? You might not know who Chris Anderson is. Some people know him as the editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine. Others know him as some sort of tech futurist, having coined the term The Long Tail in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded…
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Update: Did Steve Wiebe Reclaim His Title as The King of Kong? /Film reader Joseph D sent word that Steve Wiebe, noted Donkey Kong competitor and star of the 2007 documentary The King of Kong, will attempt to set the Donkey Kong World Record later today at Microsoft's MIX08 event tonight in Las Vegas, with…
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I'm not one to go goo goo for PC case mods. I respect the work that went into them, and appreciate the artistry, but I just don't have the time, effort, or interest to create something myself. Plus, I find the mac form factor to be all I need. But this case mod is different.…
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StarWars.com has a look at the concept artwork for Yoda for the upcoming computer animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie/television series. Click on the photo above to enlarge. Some of the detailed notes are pretty interesting.
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I opened up my email this morning to see a message from my friend Neil at FSR titled "LOL Are you kidding me? This is awesome..." Turns out that Entertainment Weekly released the first production photo for Ben Stiller's summer comedy Tropic Thunder, and it features our first look at Robert Downey Jr.'s character Kirk…
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It was big news that I Am Legend went through a series of reshoots. One of the big changes was the film's ending, which was reshot to give the film a more commercial conclusion. The special edition DVD hits store shelves on March 18th, and the alternative ending has been leaked onto YouTube. I'd be…
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Dragonball Z fans who were hoping to get some big screen live-action love this Summer will have to wait just a little longer. Actually, they're going to have to wait until next year. Fox has decided to move James Wong's Dragonball from it's announced August 15th 2008 release to April 3rd 2009. I'm guessing that…
Read More Blonds tells fewer blog jokes, it's a fact, so maybe director Sam Raimi is onto something by casting actress Alison Lohman (Beowulf, Flicka) in the lead role formerly occupied by Ellen Page (Juno) in his upcoming horror thriller Drag Me to Hell. Oscar nominee Page aborted the project days ago amid rumors that she was…
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On April 8th, I know what I'll be buying. So far, information is limited as details have not been officially announced, but Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood will be released in both a 1-disc and 2-disc special edition DVD. The single disc release will feature the movie in anamorphic widescreen with dolby digital…
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Who is Fred Simmons? Why is he The King of the Demo? And what does "King of the Demo" even mean? I'm not quite sure... On February 26th, Danny R. McBride appeared as Simmons on the Conan O' Brien show in a fake promo to promote the upcoming Paramount Vantage comedy The Foot Fist Way.…
Read More It's mighty windy outside and the news is a tad slow today, so let's cherish a moment to contemplate what mystery "comic book trilogy" actor Djimon Hounsou recently said he's set to star in. IESB, which broke the story after Hounsou cryptically announced the news at a press conference for Never Back Down, speculates that…
Read More After surviving Rambo, going head to head with Hayden Christensen, our favorite 12-year-old movie reviewer has returned to give a glowing review to Will Ferell's Semi-Pro. Watch it now after the jump. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/sexmansemipro.flv 320 240]
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Kotobukiya will be releasing a series of cute 5 cm high (1.97 inches) Indiana Jones "one coin figures". The set will include eight different figures, two of which are "secret characters: Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones in a mine cart, Henry Jones Sr., Marion Ravenwood, and Mola Ram. If I had to guess, I would say…
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Has Transformers 2 begun location scouting? It is revealed in an article in Mainline Today that Michael Bay's big budget sequel has applied for tax incentives to shoot in and around Philadelphia starting in June. M Night Shyamalan's big screen live action adaptation Avatar has also applied for the same incentives.
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I know I'm probably going to get complaints that we're publishing yet another Indiana Jones 4 Photo post, but every Indy photo post thus far has been very highly read. /Film reader Zoe G sent me these photos from the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull cover story from Cine Live Magazine.…
Read More We're not a political site, so I won't bore you with the important issues involved in the upcoming 2008 elections. Instead we have at some real hard facts which might help you decide who to vote for. That's right, we're taking a look at the leading candidates favorite movies. Hillary Clinton (D-New York) Favorite Movies:…
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So, it's sort of official that Will Ferrell killed edgy comedy last weekend with his b-ball floparoni Semi-Pro. An R-rated afro, post-Herzog bear fighting, and the era that Peter Frampton built (the '70s) only takes you so far in 2008. What's the solution? How about a three-year-old movie from The Onion? Yes, ladies and gentlemen…
Read More Uwe Boll may not be the most popular director out there today. Uwe Boll might not be the most innovative director out there today. But one thing you can not deny is that Uwe Boll is an absolute GENIUS! Boll has announced his sinister plans to release Postal on May 23rd, going head to head…
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Follow me as we once again ride the slippery mud (s***?) slide that is Hollywood's modern remake obsession. Blowing a loud horn all across Movieland today, STYD reports that Michael Bay's production company, Platinum Dunes, is on the hunt for writers to pen a remake of Rosemary's Baby, the 1968 classic horror film directed by…
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Paramount Home Entertainment have announced they will be releasing new Special Edition DVDs for the Indiana Jones Trilogy on May 13th, to coincide with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull's release. Most of you, like me, probably already own the Indiana Jones box set which was released a few years back. The new set features a…
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In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, MINDStyle has announced plans to release a series of Fraggle Rock vinyl figures later this year. The initial line-up will include: Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red, Uncle Traveling Matt, The Trash Heap, Sprocket, King Gorg, a Fraggle, and the Doozers, each of which will…
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EW has a sneak peak at the cover art for the latest James Bond adventure, Devil May Care, written by English author Sebastian Faulks. The idea was to write a James Bond book which would read "as though Fleming had written it," which explains the ridiculous cover credit: "Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming". Um,…
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About 68 minutes into a 103 minute 2005 Pixar lecture from the Computer History Museum (found via UpcomingPixar), writer/director Brad Bird (Ratatouille, The Incredibles) ranted passionately about how technology and convenience is ruining the theatrical experience: "I hope that [the theatrical experience] doesn't go away. I think that in our quest for 24 hour accessibility…
Read More Simon Pegg has released an official statement regarding the American remake of Edgar Wright's UK show Spaced, which is being produced by McG. If you're a huge fan of Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg (you know, the guys who brought us Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz), than you've might have seen…
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A tipster at AICN claims to have inside knowledge Disney's plan to make 2011 a year of sequels. Again, none of this is confirmed, but let's take a look at what we know so far about the projects mentioned: TRON 3D: It was reported last year that Commercial director Joseph Kosinski was in talks to…
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CHUD has learned that Guillermo del Toro has commissioned legendary poster artist Drew Struzan to create a poster for Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The duo collaborated for the first film, but the geniuses at the Sony Pictures marketing department thought it would be better to copy the style of Fox's successful X-Men franchise. Check…
Read More After winning the Academy Award for best animated feature Ratatouille/The Incredibles director Brad Bird talked to The Hollywood Reporter about his next film, his first foray into live action, an adaptation of James Dalessandro's 1906, about the San Francisco Earthquake: "At the time, Chinatown was coexisting with the Barbary Coast, which was like the Wild…
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As you've already heard, a monumental decision was passed by the court earlier this week. Time Warner lost the Superman copyright rights to the heirs of Jerome Siegel. We speculated that this could put the Bryan Singer-helmed Superman sequel The Man of Steel and the already troubled Justice League of America in jeopardy... And it…
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