WALL-E Visits Morning Show by CN8 The Pitch: The life-size animatronic WALL-E made an appearance on a local morning show on CN8. Thanks to The Pixar Blog for passing this along. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/lostindy.flv 350 262] Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the LOST Island by RavenStake.com The Pitch: Perhaps Indiana Jones can tell us what the smoke monster is. Might not be as funny if you havent watched this season of Lost. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/pollackcell.flv 400 300] Sydney Pollack - "Is My Directing Interfering with Your Phone Call?" by Cingular The Pitch: In memory of the late actor/filmmaker Sydney Pollack, here is a in-theater anti-cell phone public service announcement Pollack recorded for Cingular. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing…
Read MoreActing with James Franco Episode 3: Scene Work by FunnyOrDie The Pitch: In previous Video Of The Days, we've featured FunnyOrDie's continuing series "Acting with James Franco". In Acting with James Franco Episode 3: Scene Work, James Franco and his brother Dave do a scene from "Rebel Without a Cause." Watch More Cool Videos Here!…
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The Sunday Box Office estimates are in and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has taken in an estimated $126.3 Million. Steve Mason is predicting that Crystal Skull will be the All-Time #2 Memorial Day Opening and the All-Time #5 Five-Day Opening in movie history. Indy is projected to add another $21.72…
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I've always been fascinated with the behind-the-scenes going-ons at Disneyland. Every time I've been to the Magic Kingdom, I can be found looking behind gates, wondering what goes on behind the scenes. LAMagazine has a great article with one of the actors who use to play Captain Jack Sparrow at the Magic Kingdom. Here are…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/raidersofthetoybox.flv 460 260] Raiders of the Toy Box by Probot Productions The Pitch: The classic truck chase from Raiders of the Lost Ark recreated with action figures. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD?…
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The early first day box office estimates for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull have arrived. Steve Mason is reporting the film took in $26 Million. Nikki Finke says that "analysts believed that any total over $18 million for Thursday would be considered major moolah."Â The Wednesday midnight shows were also a…
Read MoreRon Burgundy Interviews Tom Brokaw by FunnyOrDie The Pitch: Ron Burgundy interviews the most distinguished anchorman of our time at Radio City Music Hall during the Funny of Die Comedy Tour. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/happeningimprov.flv 460 260] The Happening Improv Experiment by mrtruffle The Pitch: A flash mob/improv group (like ImprovEverywhere) organized a public re-enactment of a scene from M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening to help promote the film. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have…
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Paramount will release Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on over 9,500 screens (4,260 official playdates) according to Steve Mason. MovieTickets.com reports that as of 4:15 p.m. ET, the movie has accounted for 77 percent of its total tickets sold today. And the total volume of Indiana Jones tickets sold at MovieTickets.com…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/ilovesarahjane.flv 424 194] I Love Sarah Jane by Spencer Susser The Pitch: A different kind of Zombie Film. A short film selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Jimbo is 13. All he can think about is one girl, Sarah Jane. And no matter what stands in his way - bullies, violence, chaos, zombies -…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/indylegoboulder.flv 460 342] Indiana Jones and the Giant LEGO Boulder of Doom by MacAttack The Pitch: To celebrate the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a bunch of Indy fans rolled a 9-foot tall 5-million piece LEGO boulder down a San Francisco hill. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/starwarsdrunkdriving.flv 360 270] Star Wars 1979 Drunk Driving PSA The Pitch: Rare PSA featuring the creatures of the Star Wars Cantina in the famous "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" campaign. This was produced for the US Dept of Transportation in 1979. Thanks to /Film reader Jonny for submitting this video. Watch More Cool Videos…
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The early Friday night box office estimates are in, and Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian failed to match the opening of 2005's The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe. Caspian took in $18M on Friday, and is looking at a $51 million weekend, almost 25% less than the previous film in the series.…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/sexpelled.flv 460 260] Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed (Expelled parody) by sarah95pekoe The Pitch: Anticipating success with their feature film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Producers Mark Mathis, Logan Craft and Walt Ruloff have already leaked a teaser trailer for the film's sequel. Their "teach the controversy" slogan seemed to work well in getting the general public…
Read MoreWhen it was first announced that Paramount Vantage and Overture would be distributing Michael Moore's next film, the press release stated that "the subject matter of the new film is being kept under wraps by all the principals." I think where people got confused is the release also called the film "a searing and provocative…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/familyguymatrix.flv 460 306] The Matrix / Family Guy Movie Trailer Mash-Up by themarkman2001 The Pitch: What would happen if The Matrix were created in the style of The Family Guy? Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us…
Read MoreIndiana Jones and the King of Swing by Black20 The Pitch: Watch Indiana Jones as he swings his way out of trouble, again and again and AGAIN. Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com.
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Steve Mason is predicting that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will make $162 - $172 Million in it's first five days of release domestically. It opens on Thursday, May 22 at Midnight (Wednesday night), so this will make for a huge opening day, which I am projecting in the $41M-$44M range…
Read MoreMUTO A Wall-Painted Animation by BLU The Pitch: VOTW, or at least the video you'll be hearing about for the rest of the week. In perfect time to counter another boring interwebs ousting of street artist Banksy yesterday, Blu has created a jaw-dropping animation where street art comes alive (and then dies) that was made…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/hotfuzzjapan.flv 460 364] Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright Promote Hot Fuzz in Japan The Pitch: Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright record some idents for Japanese TV. Hilarious! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com.
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/starcrash.flv 460 258] Star Crash Movie Trailer The Pitch: Apparently in 1979, New World Pictures producer Roger Corman picked up the film to see if the market was viable for a low budget space opera. The result is a ridiculous Star Wars rip-off titled Star Crash, featuring a lightsaber battle featuring David Hasselhoff (seen below).…
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The Saturday Box Office estimates are in over at Fantasy Moguls, and Paramount's Iron Man is beating it's second weekend expectations, adding an estimated $21.72M on Saturday, which should result in a $52M 3-day ($163.66M cume). Speed Racer is doing even worse than expected, heading for a very disappointing $18.72M opening weekend. Surprisingly, this should…
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Speed Racer, as expected, struggled at the box office on Friday, pulling in an estimated $6.5 million, targeting a $28 million weekend according to Steve Mason. Paramount's Iron Man ended Friday with an estimated $14.5 million, meaning it will likely end the weekend $49 million richer ($175.63M cume). Here are the estimates: Friday Estimates 1.…
Read More[flv:http://slashfilmmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/bttfmusical.flv 400 276] Back to The Future: The Musical created by Goldentusk The Pitch: What if one man attempted to tell the story of Back to the Future through music? From the same guy who brought us Indiana Jones: The Musical, comes Back to the Future: The Musical. Video of the Day is a daily…
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Filmmaker Playlist is a new feature on /Film where we ask writers, directors, and stars to tell us their favorite movies of the moment. I've always found the celebrity playlists on iTunes to be interesting. Most everyone in the film business became involved after discovering their love of films. And I always love talking to…
Read MoreAt the 2008 VES Awards, Michael Bay retold the story of how he predicted the failure of Raiders of the Lost Ark while working at LucasFilm. Bay went on to tell a little story involving Indiana Jones 4. Watch the video below. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/bayindy4suck.flv 350 242]
Read MoreDeath By Chocolate created by Jason Reitman The Pitch: These series of SNL Digital shorts were filmed by Thank You For Smoking and Juno director Jason Reitman. Chocolate snuffs out life with gusto. Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on…
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What is wrong with Speed Racer (Warner Bros)? A studio exec just filled me in on the latest industry tracking for the Wachowski Brothers' update of the late 1960's anime cartoon classic, and this picture has real problems in the marketplace. The tracking has improved a bit, especially since Iron Man moved from Opening This…
Read MoreAny Given Sundance created by The Simpsons The Pitch: On this week's episode of The Simpsons, Lisa makes a documentary about her family for a school project and is encouraged to enter the film into the Sundance Film Festival. The entire episode is presented for free with limited commercials on Hulu. The episode offers funny…
Read MoreTransformers Go Hollywood created by College Humor The Pitch: Leader-1 from Challenge of the GoBots runs into Optimus Prime and Megatron in Hollywood after the success of Transformers. Thanks to /Film Reader Gregory V for passing this along. Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video…
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The summer blockbuster season is off to a flying start with Robert Downey, Jr. in Iron Man. Financed and produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount, the spectacularly-reviewed comic book adaptation received an estimated 12% improvement from its opening day for a staggering $36.4M Saturday. That should translate to a $94.74M 3-day, and when…
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No matter how you look at the numbers, Iron Man (Paramount) is in the stratosphere, but I still believe that this first film from Marvel Studios will reach $100M for the weekend. My final prediction on Wednesday night was for the John Favreau-directed superhero pic to soar to $102M from Thursday night previews through Sunday.…
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After grabbing $5.2M in Thursday night advance screenings, Iron Man (Paramount) has soared to an estimated $35M on Friday. With near-perfect reviews, an A-list cast, including Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Terrence Howard, and excellent word-of-mouth, this first film financed by Marvel Studios will likely power to a staggering $91M+ by Monday morning, and…
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Paramount's Iron Man is, by all accounts, off to a tremendous start, although it is well under the opening night eve totals of $8M+ for last year's Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and Transformers. My sources tell me that Iron Man played at about 2,500 locations last night with the screenings starting at…
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I did a personal survey of studio sources today, and they were unanimous in saying that the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3 video game sensation released on Tuesday, will have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the box office performance of Iron Man (Paramount) this weekend. As I…
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Thought Slashfilm had let this one get past us, did you? No way! Like a freshly charged cougar stashing away a coveted Von Dutch trucker hat (and an STD) at the mall, we were saving it for the weekend. Platinum Dunes is teaming up with Hasbro to bring the board game, Ouija Board, to so…
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The neighbors of the Transformers 2 Bethlehem Steel movie set have gotten a letter from the location manager warning them of, among other things, "large scale pyrotechnics". Yes that's right folks... As expected, Michael Bay will be blowing more s*** up in the Transformers sequel, beginning next week (Not that anyone was expecting anything less...).…
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It appears that The Weinstein Co has brought director Kyle Newman back on board to make the final cut of Fanboys. The New York Times ran a story a couple weeks back about Microsoft. Newman worked on a short film / advertisement for the Redmond-based software company. Apparently no one in the movie sector read…
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Autobot Jazz will make a return in Michael Bay's Transformers 2. TFW2005 has confirmed that the silver/gray customized hardtop Pontiac Solstice GXP vehicle prop arrived on the set of the Transformers sequel early Friday. A second tipster also spotted Darius McCrary, the voice of Jazz from the original film, also on set. For those who…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Empire has a new international Hellboy II: The Golden Army movie poster. DVD producer Paul Prischman has brain cancer and they are trying to raise funds by having a very special screening…
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Warner Bros has released new details on The Wachowski Brothers-produced Ninja Assassin. As you probably already know, Ninja Assassin is directed by James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) from a screenplay by Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski. The film stars stars Korean pop star Rain (Speed Racer) as Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in…
Read MoreYou've seen WALL-E encounter a vacuum, a magnet, a Hula Hoop, headphones and now our favorite little animated robot comes face to face with with a floor full of bouncy balls. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/walleballs.flv 400 226]
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Remember that horrible sounding Donnie Darko sequel we told you about a couple weeks back? The one in-which Richard Kelly has no involvement or even support? Well that movie just added two more names to the roster. How about Oscar nominated Jake Gyllenhaal? Nope. Or how about Golden Globe nominated Maggie Gyllenhaal? Wrong again. Maybe,…
Read MoreRobert Rodriguez always has like five projects going at the same time. He's been hard at work "developing" Barbarella (or trying to convince the studio to give him the money to make it with his future wife Rose McGowan in the lead) and just announced a TV show called Women In Chains (also starring Rose…
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The photo above of Jeff Anderson and Seth Rogen comes from Kevin Smith's upcoming comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno. When the photo was released last month, I commented on the cool Monroeville Zombies hockey jersey, and concluded that it would probably eventually be available to order on Kevin Smith's online store. And now…
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Emily the Strange was created by Santa Cruz skateboarder Rob Reger in the early 1990's to help promote his company Cosmic Debris Etc. Inc. Before becoming a cult counterculture icon, Emily began on a sticker that was passed out for free at concerts, record stores and skate shops to help promote Cosmic Debris. I give…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/ironmanadventures.flv 450 360] Iron Man, Spider-Man and Hulk Computer Animated Crossover by Marvel The Pitch: Marvel released this as a three part webisode series to help promote comic books to kids. The resulting computer animated crossover is actually very cool. /Film reader Lukáš submitted this video. Brian from Film School Rejects showed me this video…
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I just discovered this quote from master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, talking about how the introduction of sound and dialogue had in many ways hurt cinema: "The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema; the only thing they lacked was the sound of people talking and the noises. But this slight imperfection did not warrant…
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Focus Features has released a red band movie trailer for Burn After Reading. Written and directed by The Coen Brothers, this new dark-spy comedy stars Academy Award nominee John Malkovich as an ousted CIA official, whose memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) intent on exploiting…
Read MoreHollywood.tv captured footage of a fight between Jason Segel and former Incredible Hulk Lou Ferrigno on the set of I Love You, Man. During the scene, Segel decides he can take Ferrigno and insults him right to his face. But You don't want to see the former Hulk when he's angry! Pretty funny, check out…
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Two days ago, we delved into rumors that the next Peter Parker could be played by the Macguire-esque Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous, Wristcutters) or the younger, spunkish Michael Angarano (Sky High). Well, Sony wants to put some Internet skywriting out there and fast. Their message is: "Tobey Maguire you're the best, you're our Spider-Man!...right?" Sony's…
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Bay promised that the sequel will feature a lot more actual Transformers, but he certainly isn't dialing back much on the human components. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that a bunch of the original Transformers cast has signed on to return for the sequel. Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro will reprise…
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ENI has a new batch of images from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Check them out on ENewsI.com. Official Plot Synopsis: On the front lines of an intergalactic struggle between good and evil, fans young and old will join such favorite characters as Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padmé Amidala, along with brand-new heroes like…
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Universal has released a new television spot for The Incredible Hulk, which features a little bit of new footage. Watch it now below. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/hulktv4.flv 380 284] The Incredible Hulk hits theaters on June 13th. source: YouTube
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/wallephilly.flv 400 226] Disney's life-size fully animatronic WALL-E (which was spotted in LA last month) has now made an appearance at the Philadelphia Science Museum. /Film Reader Peetah sent over the following: The audio-animatronic Wall-E is apparently making the rounds to science museums and he did a stopover here in Philadelphia yesterday (publicity around these…
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Last year we wrote about the Suit-able Star Wars t-shirts, basically they were a version of those screen-printed tuxedo t-shirts, but instead of the tux, it featured the iconic uniforms of some of the classic Star Wars characters. They now have done the same thing for the Ghostbusters. The Venkman Uniform Ghostbusters t-shirt lets you…
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Disney CEO Robert Iger is now claiming that The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian isn't performing as well as expected at the box office because the May 16 release date was "too competitive". It probably had nothing to do with the fact that a large portion of moviegoers were A. disappointed by the first film,…
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JK Rowling has penned a prequel to the seven book Harry Potter series. The 800-word outline was donated for an auction to raise money for English PEN and Dyslexia Action charities. Before you get too excited, Rowling says that the prequel doesnt actually exist, ending the outline with: "From the prequel I am not working…
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Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival (read about the reaction here). In the last couple weeks, we've brought you production photos and video clips, and now IonCinema brings us the movie poster. I love the imagery of Hoffman overlooking the endless tables of papers. It gives you…
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The season finale of LOST is on tonight and Variety has some clips from the show. I'm not going to watch, because, well, I want to be surprised. But for those who don't care about potential spoilers, enjoy the three clips after the jump.
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The rumors appear to be true afterall, Disney is giving Star Tours an overhaul. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull computer graphics artist Hayden Landis told CNet that he has moved onto "another nostalgia-oriented project – a redo of the Star Tours ride at Disneyland." I remember when the Star Tours ride…
Read More"Peace sign or eye gouge?" Before we begin, there is something you must know about Brett Ratner. Similar to the combination of gremlins and water, when the moon is right and Ratner applies baby powder to his ass, out pop multiple epic-ly shitty movies. Tonight, it was thick. The trades are reporting that Ratner is…
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I've always found the Internet Movie Database user ratings to be a pretty accurate indication of film quality. At least more so than film critic rating websites (Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic). I know it's a bit early, but the IMDb user rating for Sex and the City is currently: 3.5 out of 10 with over…
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I bet when everyone first heard Fred Durst scream the chorus of his rendition of George Michael's late '80s hit "Faith", they had no idea he would someday make a feature-length film, never-mind two. Yes, TWO - he also helmed a indie drama titled The Education of Charlie Banks, which won an award at the…
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I just got an e-mail from Luke Shapiro. I only mention this because Luke Shapiro is a fictional character in a movie (one of my favorite movies of the year - The Wackness). And by that, I don't mean that someone who liked the movie adopted the name of their favorite character for their online…
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The DVD release of Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay will allow viewers to choose their own adventure. Not much has been revealed yet, but the official press materials lists a special feature called "Dude, Change the Movie!" which will allow "you to select from new and alternate scenes to change the course of…
Read MoreWe bring you this post live from the vacant, fully constructed sets of Robert Rodriguez's Barbarella remake. It's really damp and dark in here. Is that a thong? Anyhow, genre movie auteur Rodiguez and his fiancee, Rose McGowan, are pitching a new hands-on television series entitled Women in Chains! to various networks, among them NBC…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Omelete has posted some great new international banners for The Dark Knight. Click the image above to see them in higher resolution on Omelete. Transformers will be released on Blu-ray in September…
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Sometimes I get to write about some really cool films like The Dark Knight, or a small little indie film which I've fallen in love with like American Teen, and then every once in a while I have to write about a romantic comedy. And it's not that I hate romantic comedies, because I'm not…
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If you haven't checked out the promo vid for Evil Dead: The Musical do so here. Lots of red syrup and possessed hand action makes for a seemingly faithful, campy adaptation of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's classic goofball horror. The Toronto production has released three poster spoofs of the Broadway staples Hairspray, Mamma Mia!…
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During a presentation at the Cannes Film Festival, MGM chairperson Mary Parent mentioned that the company is toying around with the possibility of making more Rocky films. Parent's big buzzword of the presentation was "franchise". And she believes Rocky Balboa might have some more fight in him before he calls it quits for good. Why?…
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Cory Edwards is hard at work writing the screenplay for The Weinstein Co's upcoming Fraggle Rock movie, and has completed almost 50-pages of his first draft based on an extensive 17-page studio approved outline. "[The outline] is the product of many meetings with the Henson and Weinstein folks, and has every little story beat we…
Read MoreJollyJack's latest Online Comic shows what happened to the script for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. See More of JollyJack's artwork on Deviant Art.
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Rainn Wilson has been cast in Michael Bay's Transformers 2, and will be playing the part of a professor. "I play a college professor," he told MTV before jokingly adding, "that turns into a robot, and turns into a car." We got a tip earlier in the month that Bay and Company will be shooting…
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I'm sure you've heard, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is being boycotted by upset members of Russia's Communist party. To celebrate Merchbot has created a new t-shirt which shows those commies who is more powerful (all in fun of course). The Indiana Jones Hat is greater than Communists t-shirt is available…
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The new issue of Empire Magazine offers our first look at one of the explosive vehicular battle sequences from Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race. Click on the photo above to enlarge. Before this photo hit, the Vegas odds of Death Race being any good were lower than Stephen Sommers' G.I. Joe, and that's saying a…
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Columbia Pictures has released a new red band movie trailer for Adam McKay's new comedy Step Brothers. Will Ferrell and John C Reilly star as two spoiled guys become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents get hitched. While I'm usually a huge advocate of red band movie trailers (my argument is that they usually represent…
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Not that anyone was expecting the answer to change, but Back to the Future co-writer and producer Bob Gale has again put sequel/remake rumors to rest. "Let me answer one question before anyone asks it, which is, 'Is there ever be a Back To The Future Part IV...No," Gale told the crowd of the 5th…
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In the past few weeks we've heard mumblings that Sony had renewed their option to make Spider-Man movies, and internet rumors of preliminary plans to shoot Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5, back-to-back. Now comes word via LatinoReview that Patrick Fugit is the top name in the running to replace Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker. Now…
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Fox Searchlight has released the movie trailer for Clark Gregg's big screen adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's Choke. If you were a fan of Fight Club, you'll love Choke. I've seen the movie two times now, and /Film's Mel Valentin is even quoted in the trailer (right after Entertainment Weekly), how cool is that (you can…
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Japanese-based video game developer/publisher Capcom has revealed it plans to make a new batch of horrible video game movie adaptations. Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto says he hopes his company will revitalize video game movies just as Marvel has revitalized comic book movies. "We are in the process of working out contracts for several offers we…
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Last week three new clips from The Incredible Hulk hit the net, and had everyone talking. It seems like Marvel's plan of having no one care about the Hulk sequel/reboot until the last minute might actually be working. Universal has released two new clips. I'm convinced that by the time the film comes out, we'll…
Read MoreThe Alamo Drafthouse is bringing their Rolling Roadshow tour to Spain to pay tribute to one of the most influential film series of the modern age, Sergio Leone's "dollars" trilogy: Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Quentin Tarantino will be in attendance at the screenings…
Read MoreThe big screen adaptation of Top Cow's Witchblade begins production in September 2008, and Platinum Studios and Arclight Films have launched an official teaser website at Witchblade2009.com, and released an official teaser movie poster. I'm not sure what to think about this as I've never read the comic book series. The original Top Cow comic…
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This past weekend we asked /Film readers to tell us what they thought of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. We got over 2025 votes on our poll and 266 comments. While the majority of readers who voted in the poll Loved the film (41%, while 18% voted "It Sucked"), the comments…
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Zack Snyder is in post production on his big screen adaptation of Watchmen, and is currently sitting on a three-hour superhero movie. "The main picture is nearing three hours long and I know I have a fight on my hands just with that," Snyder told the New York Times. And the eventual Ultimate Edition DVD…
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If you read /Film on a regular basis, then you know that we're huge Pixar fanatics. GreatWhiteSnark has alerted me to another great geek deal. Turns out that Amazon.com has the classic Pixar DVDs on sale for $13 each (a 56.6% discount from the normal retail price). You could essentially buy these six Pixar films…
Read MoreLOST The Future in 8:42 by Dan Berry The Pitch: Spoiler Alert: If you havent watched Lost this season, don't read of watch. /Film Reader Dan Berry pieced together a montage of all the LOST Flash-forwards in chronological order. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing…
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Thanks to everyone who came out for the premiere episode of the /Filmcast, our new weekly podcast on slashfilm.com. I would like to thank everyone who was on the air: David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley, Dave3 from Geeks of Doom, and Neil Miller from Film School Rejects. The show will be available for…
Read MoreLet's go to the tape from Cannes! Shortly after a giggly French interviewer hands him a video camera and requests to "directed," Quentin Tarantino is asked what his next film will be. Will it be Kill Bill 3? Kill Bill 4 (those silly Frenchies!) No, he says, it will be Inglorious Bastards...coming to Cannes in…
Read MoreIESB got a couple shots of Sienna Miller in costume as the bloodied Baroness in Stephen Sommer's live-action GI Joe movie. Taken on the streets of Prague, where G.I. Joe is currently filming, these photos feature Sienna Miller in skin tight black leather toting a big gun. The Baroness serves as the COBRA Organization's intelligence…
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Earlier this month, we reported on the possibility of a new HBO show based on 2006's engrossing hit documentary, Cocaine Cowboys, from uber players Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer. Today, Slashfilm gives you an exclusive review of the script for Cocaine Cowboys' pilot episode written by Billy Corben and David Cypkin of Rakontur, the Miami-based…
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Yes, the rumors are true - We've decided to launch a weekly movie podcast called the /Filmcast. I've hired the best of the best to helm this new weekly show - hardcore geeks/bloggers/journalists David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley (formerly of The Watchers podcast) will debate, pontificate, and delve into the latest films, film…
Read MoreIt's that special time everyone: the return of the Slashfilm Muxtape! I've compiled another well-tested selection of anthems from (or inspired by) choice movies. This time the summer soundtrack theme is: coming in from the pool/beach with wet trunks, quickly checking your email (no Blackberries), enjoying a beer in the shower and watching half a…
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Save the Clock Tower! Mayor Wilson is sponsoring an initiative to repair that clock. We at the Hill Valley Preservation Society think it should be preserved exactly the way it is. 30 Years ago, lightning struck that clock tower, and the clock hasn't run since... SnorgTees has joined the cause and is selling Save the…
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You've waited 19 years (wait, has it really been that long?) and the moment we've all been waiting for is finally here - Indiana Jones is back on the big screen and you saw the movie! So what next? It's time to tell us about your experience! Vote in the poll below which I'm running…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Last week we featured a 365 photo art project in Cool Stuff called Troopies where Icedsoul takes a photo each day of LEGO Star Wars stormtrooper figures in different situations. A lot…
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Over the weekend a 9-minute Cannes promo reel for John Woo's Red Cliff showed up online. The 4-hour 2-episode $80 million epic adaptation of The Battle of Red Cliffs is the biggest budget Chinese film ever to be greenlit. Red Cliff stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Lin…
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"Grotto!?!" Over the last six months, I've had four unrelated sources tell me off the record that Robert Downey Jr. was a total lock to star in a Hugh Hefner biopic entitled Playboy. Of course, this was before Iron Man's grosses went interstellar. Chicago's Sun Times now reports that the actor is close to signing…
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It's the 25th Anniversary of Star Wars - Return of the Jedi. To celebrate, Matt Busch, Lucasfilm, The 501st Great Lakes Garrison, and Paul Michael Kane have teamed up to produce this beautiful poster commemorating all of the villains from Return of the Jedi. The best part is, all of the proceeds will go to…
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With one of the choicest "stranded on an island with entertainment center" filmographies, genre or otherwise, director John Carpenter is without a doubt a fave here at Slashfilm. Next month, the man himself will be on hand for two out of four nights to wax awesome on his various '80s era classics at a film…
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Cinemaencena.com has 80 new photos from M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, most of which are pretty uninteresting. I've included seven of the behind the scenes production photos after the jump.
Read MoreWarner Bros has released 39 new photos from Get Smart. Check them out after the jump. As always, click on the images to enlarge. Enjoy. Official Plot Synopsis: The action comedy "Get Smart" sends CONTROL agent Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) on his most dangerous and important mission: to thwart the latest plot for world domination…
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Earlier today, executive producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro answered questions from fans in an online chat about The Hobbit and its announced sequel. We have the entire transcript available after the jump, but have compiled cliff notes for those who don't have the time to read the full transcript: Guillermo has already…
Read MoreThinkway Toys just revealed their entire line-up of WALL-E merchandise. I usually don't get excited over toys and action figures, but I have a feeling I'm going to waste too much money on plastic Wall-E toys this Summer. Check out some of my favorites below. U-Command WALL•E Action packed WALL∙E with realistic expressions, light-up eyes,…
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The Animation World Network has a two-page article talking about Pixar's latest short film, Presto, which will be attached to WALL-E. We first told you about the film last month when a short synopsis showed up online. Doug Sweetland's five minute film follows Presto DiGiotagione, a turn-of-the-century magician, who is famous for an astounding hat…
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"Think." Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York aka If You Can't Pronounce My Title, You're an Effin' Plebe!!! showed at Cannes and the reviews are hitting the Web like steaming intellectual veg patties. We'll include the plot synopsis at the bottom, but for now just imagine it's about a former disgruntled employee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of…
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Disney/Pixar has released a new WALL-E featurette called "The Man and the Machine" which focuses on director Andrew Stanton and the creation of our favorite little robot. We get to see how Andrew directs, intercut with interview clips and some never-before-seen footage from the film. Watch the video below. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/wallef2.flv 470 264] WALL-E hits theaters…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Lobster Johnson created this custom Heath Ledger-version Joker Munny. Patrick Read Johnson has found financing to complete post production on his autobiographical indie "77," (formerly titled 5/25/77) which chronicles the director's journeys…
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McG has posted the first update on the official website for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, featuring our first look at concept art for post-judgment day Los Angeles. Click on the image below to enlarge. I think even the naysayers have to admit, it looks f'n cool. But to play devil's advocate: a lot of…
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Will the original squad be back, or will Sony recruit new talent? A week ago we reported on the rumor that Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5 will be filmed back-to-back, Back to the Future styles. Today, a quote from Marvel's Vice Chairman, Peter Cuneo, hit the Net via IESB regarding Sony's stirring plans for a…
Read MoreUpdate: Added Third Clip. Universal has released two new clips from The Incredible Hulk. I've been saying this for months, but I think Hulk will be the sleeper hit of the summer (maybe not in box office sales, but with fans). The first clip, which is available in HD on Yahoo or embedded below, features…
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Earlier this month we told you how Disneyland was planning The Indiana Jones Summer of Hidden Mysteries which included new Indy inspired events and activities throughout Adventureland. Well the Summer event has begun and MiceChat has photos. Above is our first look at "The "Secret of the Stone Tiger" show takes place in "The Oasis"…
Read MoreUpdate: We've embedded the International version of the movie trailer in this posting. Want to see the movie trailer for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? I've heard it's playing in front of most prints of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And word has it that the trailer won't…
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/Film Reader Teymur (aka Icedsoul) is 80-days into a 365 day art project entitled Troopies365, where he takes a photo each day of LEGO Star Wars stormtrooper figures in different situations. Below are some of our favorites, but you can check out all of the photos and continue to follow the project's progress on Flickr.…
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Universal has a new international trailer for Universal's Wanted. I normally wouldn't be posting a Russian language trailer on /Film, but this trailer shows off some of the incredible cinematography that all of a sudden got me excited about this film. It's also uncensored. This same trailer would certainly be redband if it were released…
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Overture Films has released the second movie trailer for Righteous Kill. Obviously the main selling point for this film is the fact that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro team-up for the first time in cinematic history (sure, they shared a scene together in Heat, but we don't count that). I'm a big advocate of…
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Capcom Japan just released the first photo of Smallville star Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (seen above). My immediate reaction is that she isn't wearing the traditional blue outfit or the "ox horns" hairstyle as seen in the video game. And I'm not complaining, it's probably for the better.…
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Warner Bros sent out a press release announcing the start of production on Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (wait, didn't they decide to change the title a while back? I'm confused...) And yes, this press release is a tad bit late, considering the film began lensing in Albuquerque, New Mexico almost two and a half…
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Note to self: Must download Photoshop, arggghh. The Sun Times reports that a lawyer for troubled r&b godsend and aspiring Batman, R. Kelly, has used the Wayans Brothers' masterpiece, Little Man, in court to explain why it might not be Kells on that infamous, illegal sextape... [R. Kelly's attorney], in an attempt to suggest that…
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DBthemovie has gotten their hands on new scans from Roadshow Magazine showing the first official look at the cast of Dragonball. I've cropped and cleaned up some of the photos for better presentation. Emmy Rossum as Bulma and Joon Park as Yamcha  Chow Yun-Fat as Master Roshi  Justin Chatwin as Goku Justin Chatwin as Goku…
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A new television advertisement for Hellboy II: The Golden Army aired during the finale of American Idol last night. Watch it embedded below or in High Definition (1080p) on the Hellboy website. Enjoy! [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/hellboy2tvspot.flv 470 264] Hellboy II: The Golden Army hits theaters on July 11th.
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One of my favorite films of 2007 was never released. You see, The Go-Getter premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival up against Son of Rambow, and most of the big movie buyers missed it. But finally Peach Arch Entertainment will be releasing the movie in limited theaters on June 6th 2008. Check out the…
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The magazine, Print, has compiled an excellent and diverse selection of movie posters featuring the campy, cliche, classic A-frame design. Check it out (pulp novels, DVDs, and ZZ Top are also included). It's an interesting look at how gender has been universally portrayed in pop culture up to the present (not much has changed, add…
Read MoreKid's movie posters that command you to do something are next levs. Still, there's not a chance in hell that Space Monkeys will reign supreme over 1987's Project X as the top monkeys-in-flight-afternoon-delight movie of our times. Even with voice talent including Cheryl Hines, Jane Lynch, Kenan Thompson (did he start taking funnay pills?), Andy…
Read MoreYou special kids can stop meddlin' with your mashed potatoes because the last major bit of casting on Oliver Stone's W. is close to a done deal: ass tamale Richard Dreyfuss will play elusive veep Dick Cheney. Wow. There wasn't any question that Stone was going for the president's jugular with this biopic, but Dreyfuss…
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Back in February we featured Kotobukiya's Raiders of the Lost Ark ArtFX Statue in Cool Stuff. We told you that they would be releasing four different Indy ARTFX Theatres Statues, one based on each film in the series. Now we have our first look at the second release in the series which focuses on Indiana…
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I knew it was going to happen eventually, Marvel Studios has announced that they will be brining Brian K Vaughn's Runaways to the big screen. Vaughn, best known for the critically acclaimed Y: The Last Man Series (also in some stage of development with DJ Caruso and possibly starring Shia LaBeouf), created Runaways in 2002…
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Universal has released a new UK quad poster for The Incredible Hulk. Meanwhile Paramount has released a combined character poster for Tropic Thunder. Notice how Ben Stiller has been moved to the middle of the group. I noticed in many movie theaters (and even subways) the three character posters were placed next to each other…
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Today, director Steven Soderbergh's four hour subtitled Che Guevera biopic, Che (presented as two films entitled The Argentine and Guerilla) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Online, critical reception is already momentously loud and divided, in a "Here we go..." way. And as you might expect, the film(s)'s questionable commercial prospects and controversial depiction…
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Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige revealed today that the Captain America movie will be a period film, set during World War II. I've never read any Captain America, but some of my friends who are really into the series have insisted that a WWII period setting would be the only way to do…
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Clint Eastwood unveiled his latest movie at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this week. The Exchange (which is being released under it's former title Changeling in the U.S.) stars Angelina Jolie as a mother whose young son suddenly vanishes. Set in 1928 Los Angeles and based on one of the most notorious crimes in LA…
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times has an interesting interview with Get Smart creator (and did I mention comic genius) Mel Brooks. Here are a couple highlights: "Someone called me up and said, 'They're making a movie of 'Get Smart.'' I said, 'Oh, really? What are they going to call it?' They said, ''Get Smart.'' I said,…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Movieland has the first blurry photo of Yun-Fat Chow as Master Roshi in Dragonball. Steven Spielberg is creating a new social networking site called "The Rising." The site will be dedicated to…
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Netflix has released the first set top box which will allow you to live-stream movies to your television on demand. The first unit is produced by Roku for only $99, and all you need is a netflix subscription to use it. I think I'm more excited about this device than anyone else I know. It's…
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I'm not sure if you've heard this yet, but Steven Spielberg had this idea which is the basis for Shia LaBeouf's next film. NO, I'm not talking about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (that was clearly George's idea). I'm talking about Eagle Eye, the first original story Hollywood has seen from…
Read MoreJames Cameron revealed at the Microsoft Advance '08 event that Avatar will be the first film to feature photo-realistic characters which actually look real. "Avatar will make people truly experience something. One more layer of the suspension of disbelief will be removed. All the syn-thespians are photo-realistic. Now that we've achieved it, we discovered CG…
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Magnolia Pictures has released the theatrical trailer for Quid Pro Quo, the new thriller from Carlos Brooks. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to good reviews. My friend Scott Weinberg at Cinematical wrote that it was "worth seeing for the two leads alone", and described it as "a low-key cross between Garden State,…
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You might remember Gallery 1988: LA as the art gallery who held the I am 8-bit (video game), Crazy4Cult (Movie), and Stan Lee themed art exhibitions. Their next exhibition begins on May 20th and is called "One to Grow On". The highlights include movie related artwork from Scott Campbell ("Friends with E.T.") and Dave Chung…
Read MoreLike a good number of dudes and a fair number of gals, I haven't followed the NBA with much interest since Michael Jordan exited in 2003. Tried, but too much bark and vanity in my opinion, not to mention the Lakers. Jordan's remained super low-key since his final retirement--a few Hanes cameos and the ever…
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Guillermo del Toro will enter pre-production on the two-film big screen adaptation of The Hobbit after Hellboy II: The Golden Army hits theaters in July. Variety reports that Warner Bros has already had "preliminary contact" with three actors from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy about reprising their roles for the upcoming prequels:…
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Fox Searchlight has released the teaser poster for the Clark Gregg's big screen adaption of Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk's Choke. The poster features a silhouette of Sam Rockwell choking on either Kelly Macdonal or Anjelica Huston. Either way I'm not sure I get the symbology, but it's certainly a cool looking image. You can…
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Rayyyden! Sorry, wrong movie, but at least I didn't intro with an iffy "there can only be one" joke. Writing team Art Marcum and Matt Holloway previously scribed Iron Man (btw: 9/10) as well as this December's Punisher: War Zone, and now they will envision a reboot for 1986's bit of sci-fi brilliance Highlander for…
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Even though far more people believe in Sasquatch and Reptilians than in the chance that a Dirty Harry 6 starring Clint Eastwood would see the light of day, the man himself finally killed the fledgling rumors for good. Cinematical reports that when Eastwood was asked at Cannes, where he's promoting his well-received and reviewed Changeling,…
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Get your most asinine soap joke ready in the comments, because it seems that Green Arrow will be joined behind bars by a vast and infamous stable of DC villains in David Goyer's Supermax. Latino Review took a look at the script by Goyer (Batman Begins, X-Men Origins: Magneto) and Justin Marks (that new Street…
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A new video has turned up online claiming that if you look closely, you can find WALL-E in the background of certain scenes in Toy Story, The Incredibles and Cars. And I wouldn't put it past the guys at Emmeryville. If you watched the teaser trailer for WALL-E than you know that the cute little…
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My good friend Mike at Great White Snark passes along another great Geek Deal. As part of Amazon.com's Spring TV Event, they have some great geek tv series on DVD on sale for 50% off (or more!). Firefly - The Complete Series The Family Guy The Simpsons 24 The Ren & Stimpy Show Stargate Atlantis…
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Cannes2008 has the first video clip from Michel Gondry's "Interior Design", a 30-minute short film which is part of the upcoming three part anthology project Tôkyô!, a triptych film in the same tradition of New York Stories or Paris, je t'aime from directors Bong Joon Ho (The Host), Leos Carax (Bad Blood) and Michel Gondry…
Read MoreAs if there was any doubt, Halcyon Pictures honcho Victor Kucibek confirmed today that Christian Bale is signed on for not one, but three Terminator films. I'm pretty sure most people already knew that. McG's Terminator 4 will begin a three picture story arc about the future war between man and machines. Bale plays John…
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The Hollywood Reporter has just confirmed a story that was rumored on internet websites last month, Jake Gyllenhaal has been crowned the Prince of Persia in the big screen Disney live-action adaptation of the popular video game series. Prince of Persia is an action adventure video game which follows an adventurous prince who teams up…
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Cannes2008 has released thre first three clips from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind) directorial debut Synecdoche, New York. The three clips don't reveal much. The first screening of the film happened at Cannes on Saturday. Anne Thompson writes that those who…
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DC Direct have just revealed their initial Watchmen line-up which includes the first wave of action figures (available on January 28th 2009) and a series of cold-cast porcelain busts (January 21st). Featuring exquisite sculpting and detailing, this NITE OWL figure stands at 6.75" and features multiple points of articulation and a base. Packaged in a…
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Warner Bros has released five new television spots for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Get Smart. I grew up on a steady diet of Nick at Nite: Get Smart, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Mr. Ed. The Mel Brooks created spy comedy series was always my favorite of the bunch, so understandably I've…
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Universal has released a new teaser trailer / video clip from the upcoming comic book adaptation Wanted. This is the beginning of what becomes an insane car chase sequence which I had the chance to see at WonderCon. I'm actually surprised they didn't show more. I'm still blown away by the behind the scenes featurette…
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M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller The Happening is the director's first rated-R film, and he wants you to know it. 20th Century Fox has released two new Red Band Movie trailers, which you can watch below thanks to JoBlo and IGN. We also have three new television spots which you can check out below that.
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! A new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull poster has shown up on pipocacombo. Patrick Swayze will be asked back to reprise the role of 'Bodhi' in the recently…
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John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor (Redbelt) have been cast in Roland Emmerich's sci-fi summer blockbuster movie 2012. An academic researcher opens a portal into a parallel universe and makes contact with his double in order to prevent an apocalypse predicted by the ancient Mayans. December 21st 2012 is the last day of the Mayan calendar,…
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Steven Spielberg has confirmed that the current plan is to co-direct the third TinTin movie with Peter Jackson. "We are going to make three Tintin movies back-to-back. I'll direct the first one, Peter will direct the second one. We'll probably co-direct the third one." The first movie in the performance capture series is scheduled to…
Read MoreDVDForum has a new International movie poster for M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening. One thing is for sure, the marketing team at Fox is doing a great job of making this film look cool, even if it might be a clunker. The Happening hits theaters on Friday June 13th 2008.
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MTV has a batch of new movie posters from Cannes. The three most interesting can be seen above: Werner Herzog's (Grizzly Man) remake of Bad Lieutenant starring Nicolas Cage. Frank Darabont's (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) Law Abiding Citizen which stars Gerard Butler as an assistant D.A. is targeted by a victim of the…
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Metal sculptures are starting to become really popular within the geek community. Robot Models, the Phuket Thailand-based sculptor company have created a 7-foot 485-pound Transformers Optimus Prime sculpt is made from old junk parts. Very bad ass, but extremely expensive with a price tag of $4,838.71 (I wonder how they came up with that really…
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Even though his stories are not usually something typical of interest to me, I have always loved Baz Luhrmann for his visuals. His new film Australia is a period love story, but the beautiful cinematography immediately grabbed hold of my inner cinephile heart. That said, I'm not sure I'll like this film as much as…
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BadTaste.it has two new international movie posters for Hellboy II: The Golden Army. One of the character posters features Prince Nuada (Luke Goss), the other, the Angel of Death (Doug Jones). Click on the photo above to see the images slightly larger. I'm surprised that the U.S. character banners don't feature any of the more…
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Good news for Transformers fans, Soundwave will appear in the Transformers sequel. When Michael Bay was developing Transformers, rumor had it that Soundwave would make an appearance (possibly as a modern day MP3 player). And while that never happened in the original film, screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have confirmed that Soundwave is included…
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You will be able to read my review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull later, but for now let's take a look at what the rest of the movie critics are saying: "I can say that if you liked the other Indiana Jones movies, you will like this one, and that…
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NCS is selling Star Wars R2 Droid Shampoo Pump Dispensers. Taking a detour from conventional designs, these liquid dispensers may be filled with roughly 6 ounces worth of shampoo, creamy lotion, or liquid soap. R2 can leave the bathroom and even be used to water small plants or spray your cat in the face. The…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Someecards has an awesome new ecard which takes aim at Indiana Jones, pictured above. Up to three "Battlestar Galactica" TV movies might get made later this year. But no deals have officially…
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Chris Penn's funnay brother from another, Jonah Hill, talked up his upcoming reincarnation of 21 Jump Street to MTV, mentioning that the flick has a part open for the show's original cover boy Johnny Depp. Seeing Hill and Depp cutting up togeths on screen would not be un-rad in my estimation... "We have an…
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Empire has posted a very cool featurette for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Mark Millar's Wanted. The behind-the-scenes look might actually make you excited to the the film. Intercuting panels from the comic book with sequences from the film, the cast and crew from the film explain why this movie might actually be worth…
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Stanley Kubrick fans have new computer desktop wallpaper. Kol created this Hal 9000 wallpaper depicting the infamous computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Download now on Deviant Art. Be aware, You need to use the Download link in the left sidebar to access the higher and lower resoltuion versions. Cool Stuff is a daily feature…
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Hope everyone is having a pleasant Saturday afternoon. Writing this latest Uwe Boll item poolside recalls the floater scene in Caddyshack, so let's make it short and easy. Next weekend, Boll's Postal, based on the "shocking" videogame, was set to open against Spielberg's Indiana Jones, but its domestic theatrical roll-out has been greatly reduced…
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A promotional trailer for the new JJ Abrams' Fox series Fringe has hit the interwebs. The new series is set to premiere this fall on Tuesday Nights at 9:00pm after House. What is with Abrams obsession with airplane tragedies? This show has gotten a lot of criticism for being n X-Files knock off, but this…
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In the mid-90's, George Lucas proposed an a fourth Indy film called "Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars." Jeb Stuart, screenwriter of Die Hard and The Fugitive, was hired to pen the script. An unconfirmed 1995 draft showed up online ten years later, and the story involved an alien artifact which continuously changes…
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Rumors began in July 2007 that Shia LaBeouf signed a contract to reprise his role of Mutt Williams, in a series of Indiana Jones sequels. MTV quickly got a denial from LucasFilm, although it turns out that IESB.net's source probably wasn't far off after all. It has now been revealed that George Lucas has an…
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A farm hand so retarded he'd make Sean Penn blush with envy. A blatant diss at Eddie Murphy (who really needs Inglorious Bastards). Another generous helping of Robert Downey Jr. as an angry black man. Nick Nolte bustin' capillaries like squibs (on the job). And, well, a requisite death-to-throwaway-foreign-kid, but Rambo already pwned that jingo…
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Warner Bros has released a new Joker Banner and television spot for The Dark Knight. BatmanonFilm brings us The Joker banner seen above, head on over to BOF to see the higher resolution version. Seems like a perfect companion piece to the Batman "Welcome to a World Without Rules" poster (you remember, the one with…
Read MoreTransformers 2 begins production next month in Pennsylvania, and one of the scenes is set to shoot in front of the iconic furnaces in south Bethlehem (shown above). The production will transform the old steel site into an Asian city during the first week of June. They are currently casting local 'Asian men and women,…
Read MoreUGO has the first poster for Punisher: War Zone, which is probably much better than the actual film.
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Today, a scoop is circulating via Cinematical that possibly spells the fate of the lucrative Spider-Man franchise. It was already known that screenwriter James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, The Rundown) was working on the script for Spider-Man 4, but apparently he's turned in a draft to Sony/Columbia that allows a Spider-Man 5 to be shot simultaneously. According…
Read MoreIf you're a moviegoer who doesn't generally dislike George Clooney but reacts to movie news about him like an allergic reaction to salt-and-peppered dander, you'll want to make an exception here. The actor is set to star in an adaptation of Jon Ronson's book, Men Who Stare at Goats, a wily nonfiction account of the…
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Our friends at Collider have the first reader review of M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening and it's not good at all: "The Happening is a terrible, terrible movie. I mean, it's bad on an epic scale. It's so bad that I can't possibly tell you how bad it is without understating the point or making…
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I've heard a lot of people complaining about the computer generated Hulk in the new Incredible Hulk movie. Personally, I had no problems with the design in this upcoming movie or Ang Lee's film from a couple years back. /Film reader Mark C sent over a fan created 3D rendering, which I even agree, looks…
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One last TV story, and we'll return to the regularly scheduled film news programing. ABC has ordered 13 episodes of Life on Mars, an American remake of the popular BBC television series. The story follows a 21st century detective Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) who who finds himself waking up in 1972 after he's run over…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! TotalFilm has a batch of production photos from Pixar's WALL-E. David Poland calls Sex and the City: The Movie "the Lord of the Rings of Chick Flicks… not that it's anywhere near…
Read MoreJames Cameron told the Hollywood Reporter that he wants "to do something a lot smaller" after Avatar. It is possible that Cameron's next project could be The Dive, about the romance between controversial Cuban free diver Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras and Frenchwoman Audrey Mestre. Based on a true story, Mestre became a free diver under his…
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Universal has released the official teaser trailer for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. While some of the production photos actually gave me a little hope, I think this new trailer proves there is no hope. What was I thinking, this movie is directed by Rob Cohen, the same guy responsible for Stealth, xXx,…
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead is in negotiations to star opposite Michael Cera in the big screen adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead helmer Edgar Wright is set to direct based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Bacal (who is also penning the fictional remake of The King…
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Universal has released a sweet new poster for Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army. You gotta love the tagline "Believe it or Not, He's the Good Guy" and billing del Toro as "the Visionary Director of Pan's Labyrinth", which is both expected and cool. Check out the high resolution version of the new…
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When I first saw The Wackness in January at Sundance, I proclaimed that it was one of my favorite films of the year so far. It's very easy to make such claims in the first couple weeks of a new year, especially when you're in Park City. I've seen the film now four times, in…
Read MoreUpdate: We've added new video clips from both Fringe and Dollhouse. We reported a couple days back in Page 2 that both JJ Abrams' Fringe and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse were picked up by Fox. We have new information and the first batch of marketing materials including posters, photos and trailers for both shows. So let's…
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Character designer Miles Teves explained how the new Terminator 4 will go back to the future in the design of the new Terminators. Â "I did all kinds of work on the new sort of Terminator... uh, I can't describe without being in breach of contract... But there is a new endo-skelleton-type super Terminator that in…
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David Strick has 24 new photos from the set of the big screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling novel Twilight. We've included five of the more interesting shots after the jump, but head over to The Backlot for more photos in high resolution. And with that, let the Twilight Comment Wars continue! Official Plot Synopsis:…
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Is it just me or does the teaser poster for The Rocker look a lot like the posters for Judd Apatow's The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up? The Rocker follows the story of Robert "Fish" Fishman, the drummer for an eighties hair band. He's living the rock n' roll dream… until he is kicked out…
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A couple new photos from Lexi Alexander's Punisher: War Zone have shown up online. The film stars Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, who faces his most deadly foe yet: Jigsaw. I've also included the previously released photos below. As always, click to enlarge. Yup, looks pretty shitty. Punisher: War Zone hits theaters…
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The latest fantasy novel adaption from Fox Walden is City of Ember. Based on the 2003 novel by Jeanne Duprau, Ember follows two kids, Lina and Doon, who live in the City of Ember, where the sky is always dark. As Ember's power source begins to fail and the lamps start to flicker, they search…
Read MoreLeonardo DiCaprio's company Appian Way bought the rights to make Fleming, a film based on the life of British author Ian Fleming, best known as the creator of James Bond. The story follows Fleming, who fought as a Commander of Naval Intelligence in World War II while creating James Bond and the many characters from…
Read MoreWe've written extensively about Mighty Muggs in past editions of Cool Stuff (Star Wars Waves 1 & 2, Indiana Jones, Waves 3 & 4 of Star Wars and even a couple Comic Con exclusives). Hasbro's line of figures trying to capitalize on the Urban vinyl collectible figure craze have gotten popular, and we haven't had…
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Lionsgate has revealed new details about the future of the SAW franchise. The fifth installment, follows Hoffman (Costas Mandylor), who has been carrying Jigsaw's (Tobin Bell) legacy, goes on a man hunt after the secret is threatened. "People escape one trap, just to get caught in another; it's closer in feel to the original SAW…
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Platinum Dunes has revealed the first photo of Caleb Guss as Young Jason Voorhees in the upcoming Friday the 13th remake. "The make-up is awesome, freaky and true to the original," writes producer Brad Fuller on the film's official blog. "Though he only worked a few days - the imagery adds a very disturbing depth…
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A large crystal skull, the real life basis for the upcoming Indiana Jones film, was stolen from a Southern California-based New Age store. The 500-year-old skull was on loan at Kindred Spirits in Claremont for about the last four months before it went missing about two weeks ago. Hundreds of crystal skulls are believed to…
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As of Tuesday morning, Jon Favreau is still unsigned for a Iron Man sequel. "They haven't offered me anything yet," Favreau told Howard Stern. "They're all talking - they want to do it, they even announced a date." After much harassment from Stern, Favreau revealed that he made $4 million for the first film and…
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From the producer of American Pie and the director of American Pie 2 comes American Summer, which is actually completely unrelated the the aforementioned franchise. AICN called the movie the "American Pie version of Risky Business." The story follows uptight Harvard bound Alex Sperling (Brett Davern), who after a summer internship unexpectedly falls through, has…
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Earlier today we posted a featurette which showed a couple clips of Steven Spielberg directing on the set of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Someone commented "I would LOVE to have a good hour video of just raw footage of a set behind the scenes". And while I'm sure Lucas will…
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Steven Spielberg and George Lucas recorded video interviews for the EPK of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom for the Crystal Skull. You can watch the interviews below. Spielberg talks about the demand for a fourth film, casting Harrison Ford, Ford as an action hero, on setting the story in 1957, how Mutt enters the story,…
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Obama chimp t-shirts. The Love Guru. These guys. "That f'ing hat." How many words are wasted criticizing, analyzing and decrying today's world, when all we really need is a "This sucks!" delivered by an AWOL Beavis and Butt-Head? Bring 'em back. The brilliant creator of America's foremost juvenile delinquents, Mike Judge, tells MTV that he's…
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Fox Searchlight has just informed us that the big screen adaptation of Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk's Choke has been pushed back to September 26th 2008. When the company snapped up the film for a hefty $5 million at Sundance, they immediately announced an August 1st release date. The last Friday of July/first Friday of…
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Disney/Pixar has developed a mobile animatronic version of WALL-E to roam the Disney amusement parks. /Film Twitter friend Jeremy C spotted the robot in the streets of Los Angeles and was able to capture this video footage of the droid in action. I want one, how much?
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Paramount has released a new featurette for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull focusing on the directing talents of Steven Spielberg. It's essentially just a bunch of shots edited together of Spielberg directing. There isn't even interviews, so it might be considered more of montage than a featurette, but I digress. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/indy4-spielberg.flv…
Read MoreSince Jason Reitman announced that his next movie will be a book adaptation, we've been trying to figure out which property he might be adapting. Reitman's hint of "'Thank You for Smoking,' but instead of political it's corporate" led many to believe that he might be working on a big screen adaptation of Max Barry's…
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Universal has released a new International movie trailer for Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk. Most of the footage contained within has been seen in the last two trailers with a little more "Hulk Smash", but it's probably worth a look. I don't know that many people excited for this film, but for some reason, I…
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Time Crimes director Nacho Vigalondo revealed that David Cronenberg is in the running to direct the upcoming English language remake of the popular Fantastic Fest award winner. The original Spanish-language indie sci-fi thriller followed a man who accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour, and finds himself in…
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It seems like we've been reporting a new WTF sequel/remake/adaptation story everyday for the last week. The latest involves Jonah Hill, who is in negotiations with Sony to develop a movie adaptation of the popular 1980's television show 21 Jump Street, which starred Johnny Depp. Hill would work on the screenplay, serve as executive producer,…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Cinematical has a photo of the I Love You Philip Morris billboard at Cannes. Adam Brody talks to IGN about his preparation for the now defunct Justice League movie. National Lampoon's Homo…
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 Thinkway's WALL-E action figures have begun to hit Toys 'R Us stores nationwide (although I'm told they aren't supposed to street until next month). MWCToys has gotten their hands on a few of the figures in the set. The figures range from three to five inches in size, and retail for around $6. There…
Read MoreHistoric 'Blockbuster' Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past by The Onion The Pitch: The Blockbuster Video Living Museum offers tourists a glimpse of how Americans rented movies before the advent of services like Netflix and iTunes. Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations.…
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Did Slashfilm piss off the Ghost of April Fool's Day? Topping off a day of odd movie announcements and rumors, Variety reports that director Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Aguirre: Wrath of God) will helm a remake of Abel Ferrara's NC-17 classic Bad Lieutenant starring Nicolas Cage in the title role, formerly inhabited, and fantastically…
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"This sequel is, like, so Hollywood." Surreal. It's beginning to feel like I'm the windshield and Hollywood's remakes and sequels are the insects. Jan de Bont (yes, Speed, Speed 2: Cruise Control) will direct a sequel to 1991's Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze/Gary Busey starrer Point Break entitled Point Break: Indo. Yes, it's a theatrical sequel from…
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The movie trailer for Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona has hit the web, in preparation of the film's premiere at Cannes. The story follows "two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually…
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UPDATE #1 : I just received an email from Kotaku editor, Brian Ashcraft, who originally spoke with Konami's Aki Saito in person and here's what he said: "Hey Hunter, [Saito] said Paul Thomas Anderson, not just Paul Anderson, but specifically 'Thomas.' Hope that helps!" I just asked Brian again if Saito possibly meant to say…
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Summit Entertainment's big screen adaptation of Twilight just recently entered post production, but the filmmakers are already talking about the possibility of filming the sequels back to back. And for good reason. "Our vampires can't age…if they were like 45, people would say 'What's up?'" laughed director Catherine Hardwicke told MTV. "[Filming them together] could…
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UPDATE: A number of readers have pointed out that the above model is 1) FAKE, 2) LAME, 3) "Probably left over from Small Soldiers" and 4) Not worth talking about Like a good number of 20somethings, a ThunderCats movie makes me want to run far far away and hide from the Langolier that is booming…
Read MoreParamount Vantage and Overture Films have announced that they are co-financing and co-producing a sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11 with documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. Overture will distribute the film domestically, while Vantage will handle international. The big news is that Moore is leaving The Weinstein Co, which distributed his last two films. The yet-to-be-titled documentary will…
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Are Michael Bay and 3D the new PB&J? A promotional PDF released by Dolby for this year's ShoWest lists Transformers 2 under 2009's 3D features alongside well known 3D flicks like AVATAR and Tintin. Bay hasn't updated his blog to confirm or deny the announcement. Given the fact that the man eats Epic brand cereal…
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again - the stuff we feature in Cool Stuff probably won't get you laid. So when you bring the R2D2 Ice Bucket to your romantic picnic, don't expect to get lucky. Although I'm pretty sure this is actually intended to be an accessory for that minibar you…
Read MoreI dare you to watch the trailer for Surfwise and not find yourself intrigued. As of late, there have been quite a few surfing documentaries that are all mashed together in the head of pop culture, but this one, from director Doug Pray (memorable grunge doc Hype!) focuses on the intricacies of an eccentric familial…
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For some kids it was Sesame Street, for others it was the Smurfs, for my best friend Jon it was Nightmare on Elm Street (which explains... a lot), but for me I grew up watching Fraggle Rock. I've always believed that the Jim Henson created 1983 television show was vastly underrated. Meanwhile the characters have…
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Last week, IGN reported that director Frank Miller would follow-up The Spirit with a remake of Buck Rogers, the "campy '80s sci-fi TV series" most people under 30 have never thought about. Turns out, the writer-producer of the Buck Rogers film, Flint Dille, says Miller is definitely not directing it, leaving Nu Image/Millenium on the…
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Disney has released a new featurette for WALL-E titled "A Hero's Journey. It's basically a reworked version of the featurette we posted last month (but were quickly asked to remove). If you have no interest in seeing this movie after watching this little guy vrooom around, than you frankly have no heart. Enjoy. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/walle-herosjourney.flv 470…
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A film adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr's Kick-Ass has now officially entered pre-production according to Comic Book Resources. Based on the creator-owned comic from Marvel's Icon imprint, the story follows a a 15-year-old boy named Dave Lizewski who attempts to become a real-life superhero. The catch is that he has no powers…
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Fresh off working with Guy Ritchie on Rocknrolla (due this October), mega-producer Joel Silver says he's tapped the British director/major Madonna fan to see through his long gestating comic book adaptation of Sgt. Rock. AICN got the succinct scoop... Moriarty: But you do that with properties. You stick by them, like SGT. ROCK. You have…
Read MoreLiberty City's Vlad and Niko are (predictably) not siked right now. That's right, Slashfilm's original, indefatigable voodoo child, Uwe Boll, recently confessed to Vulture that he's the perfect manimal to helm Grand Theft Auto: The Movie. Moreover, Boll said he would choose to direct a "very brutal" $30 million adaptation that would absolutely destroy Michael…
Read MoreThe latest issue of Comic-Con Magazine has the first official photo of Samuel L. Jackson as The Spirit arch-enemy the Octopus. They also have an interview with Frank Miller talking about the upcoming comic book adaptation. Click to enlarge. The Spirit hits theaters on Christmas 2008.
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Originally scheduled to open wide on July 2nd, Religulous, Bill Maher and Larry Charles's documentary aimed at the pulsing jugular of all religions, will now be released on October 3rd, 2008. Lionsgate says the film wasn't ready to premiere at this month's Cannes Film Festival, where it would have become a "media lightning rod" according…
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 Last week when it was revealed that a Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko was about to enter into production, we passed along an e-mail with someone we know at Darko Entertainment that assured us that "Richard, Sean, and every ounce of Darko Entertainment are 150% NOT INVOLVED." Now Richard Kelly has decided to come out…
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Our friends at LatinoReview are reporting that Marvel wants Brad Pitt for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Thor. Let's face it, isn't Brad Pitt on every project's preliminary casting lists for dream stars? Of course, no offer has been made to the star, and when one is, I doubt he would actually be interested…
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My friend Mike over at GWS sent me a note that Amazon.com is having a sale on Blu-Ray. You can buy two get one free on select titles including: Independence Day, Predator, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Day After Tomorrow, Ice-Age, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Terminator, X-Men: The Last Stand, The…
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I'm a huge fan of foreign versions of movie posters. Recently I discovered this crazy Japanese Army of Darkness movie poster on PosterWire. Now if only they would make reprints of this one-sheet, then I would have Bruce Campbell soup cans framed on my wall. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of…
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Warner Bros has begun airing television advertisements for The Dark Knight. For those of you whou missed the season finale of "Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites" on Sunday night, we bring you this special encore presentation of the two new television spots. Enjoy! [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/tdk-tv1.flv 470 210] [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/tdk-tv2.flv 470 210] source: moviebox
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The new movie trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe is now online. What are you waiting for, watch it below and tell me what you think in the comments! [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/xfilestrailer1.flv 470 200] You can also watch The X-Files: I Want to Believe trailer in High Definition on IGN. The X-Files: I Want to…
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And the last photo we bring you from Festival De Cannes, is our first official look at Woody Allen's next film Vicky Cristina Barcelona about two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), who come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally…
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Another bunch of photos direct from the Cannes Film Festival, which begins this week. Tôkyô! is the upcoming three part anthology project, a triptych film in the same tradition of New York Stories or Paris, je t'aime, from directors Bong Joon Ho (The Host), Leos Carax (Bad Blood) and Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine). Each director…
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Next up we bring you new photos from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind) directorial debut. Synecdoche, New York stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a theater director named Caden Cotard, whose life in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele…
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With the Festival de Cannes kicking off later this week, a bunch of new production photos have surfaced. First up is Steven Soderbergh's Che, a pair of films (The Argentine and Guerrilla) starring Benicio Del Toro as Argentine revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna. The running time for the two films combined is a…
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With the success of the movie board game Scene It? and it's exclusive video game on Xbox 360, it was only a matter of time when we'd see a copycat game on another system. Well, thanks to Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) and it's hit trivial "Buzz!" games we now have "Buzz! The Hollywood…
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Universal has released a new batch of photos from The Incredible Hulk. The photo above is significant because it's our first look at the super serum that will be (or was) used to create the superhero known as Captain America. Apparently in the film, William Hurt's General Thunderbolt Ross tells Tim Roth's Emil Blonsky about…
Read MoreSomeone took a look at Steven Spielberg's day planner and spilled the details about the legendary director's upcoming film schedule. Apparently Spielberg is eyeing a September 2008 start for Tintin, the big screen performance-capture adaptation of the popular Belgian comic-strip hero (and his faithful dog Snowy). After which he will immediately begin work on the…
Read MoreSummit Entertainment has released a high resolution version of the Twilight movie poster, and a new official plot synopsis for the upcoming adaptation: TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern-day love story between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy…
Read MoreI've decided to consolidate a bunch of tv updates down to one posting, because, after-all this is still a movie blog. The writers strike caused LOST to lose two hours of it's planned fourth season. The show's producers have announced that they will reclaim those hours in the show's fifth and six season. That means…
Read MoreBrandon Bird created this oil painting titled "No One Wants to Play Sega With Harrison Ford" on a 36" x 12" canvas for the I am 8-bit art show. You might be wondering how this is movie related, but with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on the horizon, it isn't hard…
Read MoreNote: This post will be tacked to the top of /Film until Sunday. Okay, so Speed Racer hit theaters nationwide today. Most movie critics are slamming The Wachowski Brother's latest film (35% on Rotten Tomatoes). I actually had a lot of fun, but was left exhausted. I very much appreciated the cinematography and editing which…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Orlando United has photos of the exterior and queue area of Disney's new Toy Story Mania. I love the mini-replica of Pixar Studios. David Chase, creator of "The Sopranos," has signed on…
Read MoreIGN has a bunch of new photos from the next James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, mostly featuring supporting characters. Meanwhile, MySpace has a video from the Bregenz, Austria set featuring the cast and crew talking about filming there and the production as a whole. Check that out after the jump. …
Read MoreThere has been a lot of schedule shuffling going on at the studios this week. Universal has moved Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race remake up from September 26th to August 22nd 2008. The film was originally set to go head to head with DJ Caruso's Eagle Eye and Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua, but will now…
Read MoreDBlive has posted what appears to be the first possibly official photo of Justin Chatwin as Goku from 20th Century Fox's upcoming DragonBall live-action movie. The scan was said to be taken from the Japanese magazine Shonen Jump #24. Updated with a higher quality image. As always, click to enlarge. via: DBthemovie
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The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has the first photos of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks as George and Laura Bush from Oliver Stone's upcoming film W. Problem is, when we posted the photos last week no one had a high resolution scan of the two photos. Click on the photo above and below for…
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The official Indiana Jones website has launched a series of computer desktop icons representing the films from the Indiana Jones series. Right now only the Raiders of the Lost Ark set is the only one available. They will release the Temple of Doom set on May 13th, the Last Crusade set on May 20th, and…
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Middle-lower left corner Our friends at First Showing having confirmed that Captain America's red, white and blue shield appears near the 1 hr 30 min mark in Iron Man. I looked for a better screen grab, but haven't found one clearer than that above. The scene is the one where Pepper Potts/Gwyneth Paltrow walks in…
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Paramount has released yet another new movie trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Before you get too excited, I must warn you that this trailer is pretty similar to the last one. It actually took my friend Neil from FSR to point out that it was in fact new. And…
Read More[flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/marvelvsdcbatiron.flv 360 272] Hi, I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC - Iron Man and Batman created by ItsJustSomeRandomGuy The Pitch: Last year one of the popular viral videos was a parody of the then popular "Hi, I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC" commercials featuring Marvel and DC action figures (watch that short here).…
Read MoreImages Removed at Request From Warner Bros /Film reader KillingJoke just sent me 40 high resolution production photos from The Dark Knight. Some of these are clearly not new, but have never been released at this high res. A good portion of the photos appear to be new. They appear to be part of an…
Read MoreThe latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a first look photo of Derek Luke as Sean "P-Diddy" Combs and Jamal Woolard as Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) in Fox Searchlight's upcoming biopic Notorious, which hits theaters on January 16th 2009. Looks authentic enough to me, but will the movie be worth watching?
Read MoreEffets-Speciaux.info has posted two new photos from Pixar's Up, which were unveiled at last month's New York City Disney/Pixar event. From the Academy Award®-nominated team of director Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc.) and co-director Bob Peterson comes Up, a comedic adventure taking off (and lifting spirits). Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Ed Asner) spent his entire life…
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I can't say this enough, American Teen is my favorite film of 2008 so far (you can read my review from Sundance). Nanette Burstein, the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker of On The Ropes spent one year following a group of teenagers during their senior year of high school. The movie won the directing award at the…
Read MoreA dirty old man once said, "There are friends who have, friends who haven't and friends who lie either way," and Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte (above) and Leslie Bibb will star as the former partakers in the comedy A Good Old Fashioned Orgy. In the battle of marquee titles befitting antiseptic Spencer's Gifts boardgames, I'd…
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Warner Bros has released the official trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which is attached to prints of Speed Racer. I'm actually kinda impressed at the animation, considering this is just a lead up to a television animated series. And I love the stylized looks of some of the classic characters like Jabba The…
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I'm a huge fan of Donnie Darko. Richard Kelly's debut film is not only one of my favorite films of 2001, but it's probably somewhere on my list of favorite films of all time. So when I learned this morning that a sequel was being made, I seriously began to doubt my commitment to sparkle…
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Yesterday, we posted the first, rather ace photos of Josh Brolin as the worst U.S. president of all time for Oliver Stone's W., and today brings word that the flick has picked up a distributor, Lionsgate, and is set for release nationwide on October 17th, 2008. Keep in mind that even though the film graces…
Read MoreYeah, like that. Director/Moviegoer Upper Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election) will take a dip into TV to direct HBO's new dark comedy series, Hung. Variety reports that Payne is also expected to hop on as an executive producer. Personally, another show, even a good one, examining the psyche of a middle-aged American man, a former high…
Read MoreDirector James McTeigue looks to follow-up his gig on the Wachowskis-produced Ninja Assassin, currently in production, with Revelation, a thriller with a sci-fi twist from Inferno Distribution. The pic will follow a female journalist following a string of "bizarre murders and discovers that the victims were all treated by the head of an org that…
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Sideshow Collectibles has started taking preorders for the Iron Man Prop Replica Helmets from Museum Replicas. Tony Stark, the billionaire industrialist and genius inventor has been kidnapped. His captors have one demand - to build a copy of his most deadly missile weapon, capable of unparalleled devastation. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds…
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The teaser trailer for the big screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best selling novel Twilight was viewed over 2 million in the first three days of release on MySpace.com. Back in March, the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull broke records with 4.1 million views on the Yahoo movie site…
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Universal Pictures has signed Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy helmer Gore Verbinski to direct and produce an adaptation of the popular video game BioShock. Aviator screenwriter John Logan is in talks to pen the script. Logan's filmography also includes Any Given Sunday, Gladiator, The Last Samurai and Sweeney Todd. Take-Two Interactive is getting a multimillion-dollar…
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A few years ago Frank Miller was a virtual unknown outside of the world of comic books. Sin City certainly changed everything. Miller's adaptation of The Spirit hits theaters later this year, but what next? IGN reports that Miller will climb back into the directors chair to tackle a remake of Buck Rogers. Miller will…
Read MoreDisney has released a batch of new super high resolution images from Pixar's WALL-E. By Super high resolution, I mean... SUPER high resolution. I had to compress the images down to 2500px wide due to file size reasons. Click on the images above and below to see them in all their glory. WALL-E hits theaters…
Read MoreLast month we brought you the teaser trailer for Recount, HBO Films' retelling of the behind-the-scenes happenings during the 2000 presidential election and the scandal that resulted. /Film reader Linton sent us the full length trailer for the upcoming film. Written by 33-year old actor turned screenwriter Danny Strong, Recount was the top film on…
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"Must escape." Last month, we posted about an alleged, albeit totes sketchy, early first review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull which called it "the best of the Indy sequels." Well, the film recently screened and reviews are beginning to trickle in. Umm, they are not positive at all. Update: a…
Read MoreLast month it was reported that Australian hottie Teresa Palmer had been cast in Michael Bay's Transformers 2. Bay denies the casting on his personal blog, claiming that "Teresa Palmer was not considered for a role." To complicate things further, IGN is now reporting that another Aussie actress Isabel Lucas (pictured right), has been cast…
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Marvel just announced a June 4th 2010 release date for Thor (six weeks after Iron Man 2), but Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Stardust) is no longer is attached to direct the live action adaptation because his holding deal expired December. Back in October Vaughn told the Guardian that Marvel loved the latest draft of the…
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You can now watch the first seven minutes of Speed Racer in High Definition over on Yahoo! Movies. Speed Racer is sure to polarize audiences. I saw the film with a group of five people, and the resulting opinions were across the board. One of the guys expected to hate it and ended up loving…
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TwitchFilm has the first movie trailer for Tôkyô!, the upcoming three part anthology project,a triptych film in the same tradition of New York Stories or Paris, je t'aime, from directors Bong Joon Ho (The Host), Leos Carax (Bad Blood) and Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine). Each director tells an odd little story set in Japan's capitol.…
Read MoreUpdate: We've updated this story with high resolution photos that Paramount sent us. Paramount has released photos of the cast of Stephen Sommer's live-action G.I. Joe movie. Chris Eccleston as James McCullen Destro XXIV. McCullen's Military Armaments Research System is the largest manufacturer of state-of-the-art weaponry, providing high-tech arms to any side able to meet…
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Sad news for the mini-major world of independent Hollywood, as Warner Bros has decided to shut down Picturehouse, the art-house/indie/foreign arm of New Line. But the bigger news is that WB also decided to close Warner Independent Pictures. The real problem is that the two companies had yet to find out a way to make…
Read MoreUpdate: We've updated this story with a new photo. When I first heard that Josh Brolin was cast as George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's new film W., I was confused. Brolin is a great actor, but if I were to list 20 actors to play George W, his name wouldn't have made that list,…
Read MoreThe items featured in today's Cool Stuff column are more geeky and overpriced than "cool", but its not like any of the items in Cool Stuff will ever get you laid (outside of SDCC) in the first place. DC Direct has launched a series of Justice League of America Trophy Room Replicas. The JLA Trophy…
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Yesterday we ran a report about how director Jon Favreau is not yet signed on to Iron Man 2. We noted that most of the stars have contract stipulations which allow up to two-sequels, concluding that Robert Downey Jr. is signed on for the sequel. Well apparently while that is the case, Downey Jr. is…
Read MoreParamount has finally released the press kit for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I've included 27 production photos after the jump, followed by an except from the film's production notes talking about the history behind the mystery of the Crystal Skulls. THE HISTORY BEHIND THE MYSTERY Eighty Years of Exploration and…
Read More[flv:http://slashfilmmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/bloodcar.flv 460 258] Blood Car created by Fake Wood Wallpaper The Pitch: The aptly-named Blood Car is a near-future tale about peak oil and bloodthirsty vegans. Gasoline is so expensive that it takes almost 500 bucks to fill your tank, and most cars have been abandoned in vast "car graveyards." Archie is a nice vegan…
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DreamWorks Animation has released the second movie trailer for Kung Fu Panda. I had the chance to catch an unfinished print of this film back in March, and had very low expectations as I've never really been impressed by DreamWorks Animated films. So when I say I really enjoyed Kung Fu Panda, that means a…
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If you have the cojones to watch this new trailer, please quickly seek rehabilitation afterward at FAIL Dogs. A friend close to this production continues to boast maniacally that $100 million box office is a lock. Rapping dogs kill, kids. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/beverlyhillschihuahua.flv 470 200] Beverly Hills Chihuahuah, starring the voice work of Drew Barrymore and George…
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If you're a real film geek than you have a section of your DVD shelf dedicated to Criterion Collection DVD releases. Good news for the High Definition fans, Criterion Collection has announced that they are going Blu! Check out the e-mail that was sent to Crietrion newsletter subscribers: Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber, We've got…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Global Nerdy brings us the photo of the day: Speeder Dogs. Charles Grodin will cameo in Jason Segel's new Muppet Movie. [mtv] TorrentSpy already shut its doors earlier this year, and now…
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School of Rock with teens instead of squirts equals this new trailer for The Rocker. Example: "You don't ask your parents for permission to rock!" And if you watch closely Rainn Wilson (yes, veddy good on The Office) even begins to resemble Jack Black in SoR near the end. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/therocker.flv 470 252] There are some…
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When character descriptions, released last week, for Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino confirmed that the film wasn't Dirty Harry 6, a lot of sites joshed that fans like you and me were out of our gluttonous minds for even desiring a sequel. Sure, the rumored return of Harry Callahan was supported by an infamously cool and…
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Pulp Fiction was featured at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater as part of the17-week "Great To Be Nominated" series.
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Back in January we posted the first photos of Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant's Milk. Focus Features has now released the first official production photo. Check out our previously released set photos of Emile Hirsch as gay activist Cleve Jones. Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected to any…
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Lionsgate has decided to move the release date of Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit up from January 16th next year to Christmas Day (December 25th 2008). Apparently Lionsgate's president Tom Ortenberg decided to change the release date after he saw the reaction to the film's teaser trailer at the New York Comic…
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We've written about the Alamo Drafthouse's limited edition movie posters in the past, and I even have a couple hanging proudly on my walls. The Alamo Ritz is just about to conclude their Big Screen Sci-fi Classics series. In the last couple weeks we've featured the commissioned posters for the screenings: King Kong, 2001, The…
Read MoreLast week it was reported that Jonah Hill was in early negotiations to costar opposite Shia LaBeouf in Transformers 2. Entertainment Weekly is now reporting that negotiations between Hill and DreamWorks have broken down and the studio has moved on to other choices. Supposed leaked casting breakdowns described the character as being Sam's roommate at…
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One thing is for sure, Marvel is on a roll - The new X-Men animated series doesn't look half bad. Check out the new trailer below. Wolverine and the X-Men begins as an explosive event shatters the lives of the X-Men and takes away their mentor, Professor X. The beaten heroes, including Beast, Storm, Cyclops…
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LucasFilm has released the theatrical one-sheet for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Apparently the first movie trailer will premiere on Cartoon Network, TNT, TBS, CNN, and Boomerang at 7:58pm in all U.S. time zones on Thursday, May 8th. The poster and trailer will be in theaters this Friday, attached to prints of Speed Racer. Meanwhile,…
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JoBlo has the premiere of the second Watchmen production video. If you remember, one video will be released each month on the 6th until the film premieres on March 6th 2009. The latest video is about the costume design in the film. Not as interesting as the set design, but hey, we have nine more…
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Greetings to our readers in Poland. XFilesNews nabbed an odd Polish one-sheet for this summer's The X Files: I Want to Believe. Why does Mulder's face look like it's been rebuilt with wax? Creepy. Thus far, the marketing has played up the bleary snow imagery and black helicopters to such a great extent that the…
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Tired of the same old action movie? Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was shot and edited to feel like an old school action film. Star Harrison Ford recently told The Australian that "we didn't shoot it like a Matrix style where if you hit somebody they end up in this big…
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Want to buy a Joker action figure for the upcoming film The Dark Knight? Good luck finding one. WENN reports that fans have cleaned out New York toy stores' entire supply of Heath Ledger's Mattel-produced Joker action figure within minutes of them going on sale. An employee of Times Square's Toys R Us store claims…
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Marvel has announced that Iron Man 2 will hit theaters on April 30th 2010. All the stars (including Robert Downey Jr, Terrance Howard and Gwyneth Paltrow) had standard three-picture deal stipulations worked into their respective contracts, and are basically nailed down for the sequel. But what about director Jon Favreau? He didn't even know about…
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I just got off the phone with cool Miami-based film producer, Alfred Spellman, in an attempt to get some concrete information about Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay adapting his and director Billy Corben's acclaimed '06 documentary, Cocaine Cowboys, into a new dramatic series for HBO and Warner Bros. You see, last night Variety published…
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Illegal. Judd Apatow once predicted that a sequel to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy would make for a juicy movie...in 30 years. However, the film's director, Adam McKay, recently told Collider that moviegoers won't have to wait for Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and David Koechner to sprout massive liver spots, four divorces…
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[crude caption censored] Back in April, we discussed whether Entertainment Weekly's prediction that Will Smith's Hancock would be the third highest grossing film of Summer '08 and the top superhero movie (discounting Indiana Jones), was accurate. On Slashfilm, interest in the big budget satire seems to be running far behind The Dark Knight, Iron Man…
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It would be kind of excellent if the theme song to Twilight was a reworking of Madonna's "Lucky Star." Oh, hi Twilighters. MTV, obviously, has the exclusive teaser poster for their probable blockbuster adaptation of author/future mogul Stephenie Myer's teen-lit vampire romance. Click to pop. Moreover, the poster was designed by 18-year-old rock photographer Joey…
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CinemaBlend is reporting that Matthew McConaughey is Marvel Studio's top choice to play the lead role in Captain America, which is currently scheduled to hit theaters on May 6th 2011. I'm sure that a contract has not-yet-been-signed, especially considering the project was only officially announced yesterday morning. What this all means is that nothing is…
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I first discovered Bonaroo t-shirts while talking with Quint from AICN standing outside the Alamo Drafthouse at the South By Southwest Film Festival. Quint had this totally rad Escape from new York t-shirt I had never ever seen before. Bonaroo is a t-shirt company in the UK which prints a bunch of tees which can…
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Production began earlier today on Terminator 4, and the final casting announcements are beginning to hit the wire. The newest addition to the cast is rapper Common, who has signed on to co-star as a freedom fighter and member of John Connor's (Christian Bale) inner circle. Let's tae a look at the rest of the…
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You've seen WALL-E encounter a vacuum, a magnet, a Hula Hoop, and now our favorite little animated robot comes face to face with Headphones. WALL-E hits theaters on June 27th 2008.
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Looks like Twilight won't be saving Speed Racer after all. Summit Entertainment has released the first teaser trailer for Twilight on MySpace. Based on the bestselling book series by Stephenie Meyer, and directed by Catherine Hardwicke, Twilight tells the story of 17-year-old Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) who moves to the small town of Forks, Washington…
Read MorePhoto Removed at Request from Warner Bros I guess that confirms that it was legit Could this be actual concept artwork showing us what Two-Face's "other side"? ComicBookResources seems to think so. Click on the image to see the unblurred spoilerific photo. One thing is for sure, this isn't Joel Schumacher's Two-Face... Ad even if…
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A bunch of websites are posting what they claim to be the first photos from Cloverfield 2. My friend Dennis from CloverfieldClues sent these over to me last week, and I wasn't really sure they were newsworthy or not. Truth is, these are not photos from a Cloverfield sequel. The following photos are the result…
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Paramount has released two new television spots for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Meanwhile, The Playlist noticed a very telling slip-up in a recent Harrison Ford interview: "It was the three of us, Steven, George and I, coming to agreement on the central notion of it all," Ford said. "I think…
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In our continuing series of Cool Stuff features which began with what f if Charlie Brown cartoonist Charles Schulz created the Watchmen, continued with what if Dennis The Menace cartoonist Hank Ketcham created The Fantastic Four, we now bring you - What if The Simpsons/Futurama creator Matt Groening created Hellboy. The catch here is that…
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When you see Christopher Nolan's vision of Two-Face up on screen in The Dark Knight, you have no idea and you're going to vomit. This is basically what Aaron Eckhart is telling fans in a new interview with the LAT. He also peels back more of the villain's "vigilante" psyche, leading us into slight spoiler…
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An umbrella won't help. Hot off the $100 million opening of Iron Man (nice job Steve!), the ever powerful Marvel Studios opened its war chest up today, revealing the company's in-house feature roll out through 2011. Here's what it looks like... 2010 April 30th: Iron Man 2 June 4th: Thor (directed by Matthew Vaughn) 2011…
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Warner Bros has released three minutes of Wachowski Brothers' Speed Racer online. Think you've seen the crazy cinematography of the wacked out action sequences in the trailers? Think again. This new clip shows how it's all cut together with insane non-stop transitions and I'm actually surprised at how much it actually plays like a cartoon.…
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Last summer one of the big stories was the trend of PG-13 over R-Rated action movies. Live Free or Die Hard opted for teenage friendly over intense action and graphic language, and the film went on to gross over $380 million worldwide, the highest for the series. And in 2008, things have not changed. Cloverfield…
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I had the chance to interview The Wackness writer/director Jonathan Levine and star Josh Peck over the weekend, after having seen the film for a fourth time. The Wackness is one of my favorite movies of the year so far, and if you read the site daily than you know I've been pushing the hell…
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Right now, there are two beloved /Film readers at opposing ends of the MacGyver spectrum. One is planted in a computer chair bathing in the brain light of the largest makeshift explosion known to man and the other is thinking "EPIC FAIL" and then typing it in the comments with the eerie calm of having…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! ComingSoon has the poster for Focus Features' Hamlet 2. The New York Times has a audio commentary slideshow with Aaron McBride, the visual effects art director for Iron Man, describing how the…
Read MoreSince the new trailer for The Dark Knight went live earlier this morning, A lot of fans have been analyzing the footage frame by frame for hidden clues (however, no one has found Waldo yet). Most people picked up on the scene that I mentioned in the earlier trailer posting where Harvey Dent is behind…
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Images Removed at Request from Disney /Film Reader Enock C sent over these new photos from WALL-E yesterday. I'm not sure where they exactly originated from. They appear to be high resolution screen-captures. Disney's programable toy robot Ultimate WALL-E was shown off at the Maker Faire this weekend. It will feature 10 motors for realistic…
Read MoreLast week it was reported that Eli Roth was going to make a PG-13 mass-destruction movie. All the AP-wires ran the story with the headline announcing that Eli was leaving horror behind. Apparently that isn't exactly true after all. Roth is making a PG-13 film, but has no plans of ditching the horror genre. "As…
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Any news, even a light dusting, that involves Dave Chappelle returning to the big screen is worth writing about. The lithe Eminem of comedy hasn't been present at the cinema since his and director Michel Gondry's Wattstax homage, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, in 2005, and our chums at Vulture seem to have uncovered plans for…
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"Let's dance, Tom." In the dizzying sinkhole of modern remakes, enough time has passed with 1954's Creature from the Black Lagoon to dampen fanboy squabbles over a new studio effort. Of course, the sci-fi horror reboot still needs to impress, and that responsibility falls with its director. While I hoped to see John Landis or…
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Advanced Iron forum member TMP just completed his custom Iron Man costume just in time for the film's theatrical premiere. Incredible work! Stan Winston would be proud. TMP says he spent $1500-2000 on the material compound alone, never-mind months of trial and error. The resulting suit looks pretty real to me. But outside of Comic-Con…
Read MoreNote: This story will be tacked at the top of the front page until Sunday Night... So you've seen Robert Downey Jr. in action as the man beneath the robotic metal suit. Movie critics are calling Iron Man not only the best comic book movie of all time, but the best movie of the year…
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Remember how The Joker promised the new movie trailer for The Dark Knight on Sunday? Well it's now Sunday, and the movie trailer is officially online. This new trailer features some great moments and great quotes. For example, Batman flying through the air 100 stories above the city, or Harvey Dent's "Either you die a…
Read More[flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/streetracer.flv 470 192] Street Racer created by The Asylum The Pitch: The Asylum, a direct-to-dvd production company responsible for producing cheap knock-offs of the latest big budget Hollywood movies (termed "Knockbusters) takes on Speed Racer with a movie that looks more like a film from The Fast and the Furious series. The Asylum's past titles…
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Many of you probably saw the new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in front of Iron Man, judging from Tony Stark's boffo weekend numbers, and now it's online. The coolest reveal here is that the plot's plush Amazonian temple is said to be guarded by the undead, so on…
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Thursday we posted about the life-sized Incredible Hulk Statues that Universal sent to multiplexes nationwide. And of course, as always, The Arclight in Hollywood has something cooler. 52878 has posted photos of the Iron Man Mark III Suit which is on display now at the Arclight. Did I mention that The Arclight is probably the…
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Today is the only day each year when you can walk into your local comic book store and walk out with an arm full of free comic books. Sure, most of the selections are probably not worth paying for in the first place, but who knows, you might discover something really cool. For those of…
Read MoreIn Search of Stan Lee created by Our friends at Black20 The Pitch: "One man's multi-day journey to get a one on one interview with comic book legend Stan Lee at the 2008 New York Comic-Con." Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should…
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/Film reader Editor E has passed along word that screenwriters Derek Haas and Michael Brandt have already been hired by Universal to pen a sequel to Wanted. Derek Haas revealed that "We're just finishing up a book adaptation for Universal of the James Siegel novel Deceit. We've been hired to write the sequel to Wanted…
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/Film reader S. McGruff informs us that Michael Bay will be filming sequences for Transformers 2 at the University of Pennsylvania: I've been reading for a couple months and love the site. Not sure if this is newsworthy but you can decide. I'm a student at the University of Pennsylvania and a few of my…
Read More[money shot from Scanners] When I was a kid, I used to ponder in math class, "What if Summer School's Mr. Shoop starred in a dark dorktastic action comedy with a lot of cocaine." And then I saw True Romance, probably my favorite Hollywood-Hollywood film of all time, and I didn't ask any more questions…
Read MoreJosh Schwartz, the creator of Gossip Girl, Chuck, and The O.C., let it slip that he's currently working on the screenplay for the next X-Men film, a prequel/spin-off of sorts. The film will center on the other teenage characters attending the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. "I'm very well aware that I'll be bludgeoned by…
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Our fellow War Machines at FirstShowing just nabbed a small crop of new images from Joel and Ethan Coen's follow-up to their Best Picture winning No Country For Old Me, Burn After Reading. Lots of comical mouth-breathing going on here, and it's nice to see Brad Pitt in a role that recalls Floyd from True…
Read MoreYesterday word leaked onto the interwebs that Peter Jackson and one of his art directors have been supposedly duking it out over the depiction of heaven in The Lovely Bones. The film tells the story of a 14-year-old girl, raped, murdered, and dismembered by a neighbor, who watches from a personalized heaven as her family…
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Last night I posted a new television spot for M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, explaining that it was actually an abbreviated version of the new movie trailer which is attached to prints of Iron Man and Made of Honor. Well, now that new movie trailer is online for your enjoyment. I'm actually quite digging the…
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Previously, Slashfilm lashed into Sony Pictures Classics for releasing a full-length trailer for The Wackness, a fave upcoming flick of the site, that shamefully sold the film as just another navel-ring piece of garbage starring an Olsen twin. Knowing full well who was in the movie, I still anticipated a cornrowed Bijou Phillips popping up…
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/Film Reader Nader spotted The Incredible Hulk at his local multiplex: "I (jokingly) asked the manager if "i could have it" and he (seriously) replied telling me "No, they have to send it back to the studio when they're done with it". I went up to feel it and I'm pretty sure it is made…
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Iron Man is not only a great comic book movie, but it's a great film. Jon Favreau's Marvel comic book adaptation is the best reviewed movie of the year (so far). The film currently has a 96% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 117 reviews. The only two 2008 releases which have garnered more critical…
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A new television spot for M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening aired tonight during LOST. It's actually an abbreviated version of a new trailer which is attached to Iron Man and Made of Honor. Shyamalan refers to the project as "a 90-minute paranoia movie" to the LA Times and admits that it was inspired by the…
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JJ Abrams recently spoke with the Associated Press about his upcoming Star Trek, and talked about the direction of the upcoming prequel/reboot. "The whole point was to try to make this movie for fans of movies, not fans of `Star Trek,' necessarily,'" Abrams said. Not that hardcore Trek fans are being totally ignored. Abrams assures…
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Back in January we featured the Star Wars R2-D2 Projector and Millennium Falcon Remote Control in Cool Stuff. Nikko has recently released video footage of this DVD projector droid in action. Very cool, however, I'm not sure I'd pay $2995 for the thing. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/r2d2projector.flv 320 240] Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com.…
Read MoreIron Man (Addictive TV Remix) created by AddictiveTV The Pitch: The new Iron Man film gets the Addictive TV remix treatment… Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com.
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Cinematical has released the first official cast photo from the upcoming big screen adaptation of Twilight. Apparently the last bunch were unapproved character test shots. Fans seem to be very pleased with the look of the characters.
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They're really playing up the dystopian poncho fashion with the new poster and teaser trailer for the perma-looming Vin Diesel sci-fi vehicle Babylon A.D. Might the eventual tagline be "This way late summer, put on your poncho as we journey into a future where anything can happen and it rains a lot"? You'll find out…
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If you still haven't seen The Duplass Brothers' The Puffy Chair, you should netflix it now because it's everything that is right with real independent filmmaking. And no, I'm not talking about multi-million dollay mini major movie studio funded independent filmmaking. I'm talking about a bunch of talented people who just go out and are…
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At the Hollywood premiere of Iron Man, Viacom/CBS Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone and Paramount Pictures CEO Brad Grey told Entertainment Tonight that if the movie does as well as expected, Paramount will greenlight a sequel for the same week in 2010. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader already holds claim to…
Read MoreAll of us wily fans of highly unlikely action premises can let out a logical sigh, as MovieHole has received the official casting breakdown for Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino: a dirty, septuagenarian Harry Callahan is no where to be found. Dirty Harry 6 is back to being a daydream, but I'm sure Eastwood had a…
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A bunch of new photos popped up on the web today. Official Pix has started selling photos from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for $5.99. Here are a few of the new photos they are selling (beware: potential spoilers if you're smart enough to connect the dots): Cinematical has new photos…
Read MoreHey Peter Jackson, while you're heatedly discussing the ideal Heaven, I stumbled upon a serviceable Hell for you. Click to enlarge (yes, Sandler's crotch). Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess With the Zohan opens, yes wide, on June 6th. via JoBlo
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Pardon the Christopher Guestish humor in this situation, but Flicks.Co.NZ is reporting that Peter Jackson and one of his art directors are in a big tiff on the set of The Lovely Bones. Why? Because they can't agree on the film adaptation's notion of Heaven. Filming has temporarily stopped until The Pearly Gates, a major…
Read More[flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/ironmansweeded.flv 460 344] Iron Man Sweeded with Action Figures created by COL321 The Pitch: A sweeded version of the Iron Man movie trailer created using action figures. Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com.
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it's the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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In this inaugural episode of the /Filmcast, Peter, Dave, Adam, and Devindra debate McG's involvement in Terminator Salvation, question the casting in The Prince of Persia, and reflect on the Indiana Jones trilogy, culminating in a heated discussion of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Special guests Dave3 from Geeks of Doom,…
Read MoreDirector Sydney Pollack passed away today due to cancer at his home in Los Angeles. He was 73. Notable films as a director: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (nominated: Best Director 1970), Tootsie (nominated: Best Director/Best Picture 1982), Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were, The Yakuza, The Firm, Jeremiah Johnson, Out of…
Read MoreFox has provided us with THREE COPIES of Season One Special Edition on DVD, which hit store shelves on May 20th 2008. How do you enter to win? It's easy:1. You send us an e-mail at slashfilm@gmail.com with your name and address. Please include 24 in the subject of your email. 2. You must subscribe…
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