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Guillermo Del Toro To Direct Champions, 3993 Update By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2007 2:14 pm EST Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) has signed on to write, direct and produce Champions for United Artists. The sci-fi action film will be based on 1968-69 British television series The Champions, which starred Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, and William Gaunt as a trio of agents for a Geneva-based United Nations law enforcement organization called “Nemesis”....

Introducing Hunter Stephenson By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2008 5:04 pm EST When I first started /Film, I intended the site to be a forum for film geeks to blog about film. We launched with 20 part-time writers. But that time has long past. Aside from our Box Office Guru Steve Mason and and occasional review or list, /Film is virtually a one man show. I’ve been writing and editing 99% of the content you read on this site....

John Gaeta Shows Off Ninja Assassin By Brendon Connelly/May 8, 2009 11:30 am EST Courtesy of Boing Boing there’s a new video online that showcases some behind the scenes Ninja Assassin footage, cut with an interview with John Gaeta, the film’s FX head honcho. Some picture-in-picture footage is shown and while it appears implicit that this comes from the finished film, I’m not convinced. The post work on display in these boxed-in clips isn’t particularly tasteful and some might even consider it tacky....

Kristen Bell Cast In Heroes By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2007 11:31 pm EST Slightly good news for those of you suffering from Veronica Mars withdrawals: No, the show has not been renewed. No, there is no movie adaptation in development. But star Kristen Bell will be making her return to the small screen as a superhero (or super-villain). Bell has been cast for a multi-episode arc in the second season of the hit NBC television series Heroes....

Leaked: MGM Internal Memo On Valkyrie’s Breathtaking Buzz Surge By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 30, 2008 6:42 pm EST UPDATE: It turns out that roughly 80% of the quotes in this memo came from FirstShowing’s Alex Billington. I should have known. Alex’s glass is 80% full. Not content with being owed one million dollars from Harvey Weinstein, vigilante blogger Nikki Finke has published an MGM internal memo that breaks down the online perception of Valkyrie 2....

LOL: Star Condoms? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2008 10:00 am EST I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t trust “the force” to these Asian Star Wars knock off condoms. The slogan on the front of the package reads: “A long time ago in a galaxy for, for away…” via: theswca LOL: Star Condoms? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2008 10:00 am EST I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t trust “the force” to these Asian Star Wars knock off condoms....

Lost Star Joins The Dark Knight, Batman To Face New Villain Named Gamble? By Peter Sciretta/May 17, 2007 10:06 am EST MTV has learned that rapper/actor David Banner auditioned this week for the part of a new villain named “Gamble” in The Dark Knight. That’s right, a new villain. No mention of the character has ever been made in the long running comic book series (as least as far as we can figure)....

Marvel Studios And Brian K. Vaughan Developing Runaways Movie By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2008 10:36 pm EST 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 with Adrian Alphona, and is also penning the screenplay....

Matthew Carnahan Rewriting World War Z By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2009 10:06 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Brooks, son of comedy legend Mel Brooks, revealed that Paramount Pictures has hired a new writer for the project, while making an appearance on Fangoria Radio. Who is the new writer? Matthew Michael Carnahan, brother of director Joe Carnahan, and writer of The Kingdom, Lions For Lambs, and State of Play....

More On Hall Pass, The Farrelly Brothers Comedy Starring Owen Wilson And Jason Sudeikis By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2010 11:18 am EST We’ve got a few more details now, thanks to trade reports. I’m betting there’s not yet enough known to ignite more than cautious curiosity in most readers. THR offers a slightly expanded synopsis of the film, which was written by Peter Jones as a spec, then rewritten by Kevin Barnett and Peter and Bobby Farrelly....

NBC Interested In Picking Up 24 By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2010 12:47 pm EST Previously: Last month it was announced that Billy Ray had been hired to pen the screenplay for a big screen 24 movie. All we know about the planned story for the feature film is that it will be set in Europe. Kiefer Sutherland and producers have said that the big screen movie would be “a two-hour representation of a day....

New Fido Movie Trailer Revealed By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2007 12:05 pm EST “While Shaun of the Dead played with the conventions of the Zombie film genre, Fido plays against them.” Fido was one of the flicks we really dugg at Sundance this year. So much so that Lionsgate even quoted us on the theatrical movie poster. Soon enough you’ll finally be able to see the film for yourself. Watch the new trailer below, followed by the official plot synopsis and six production photos....

New Harry Potter DVD To Come Bundled With Portable Digital Version By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2007 6:10 pm EST Last year we wrote an article on how we wished that movie studios didn’t force us buy a movie in 5 different formats. I have a library of thousands of DVDs, which I now must re-buy in HD-DVD or Blu-ray, in addition to spending hours encoding them for my iPod video or iPhone or plunking down another $15 for a small extra-less digital version on iTunes....

New SAW V Video Clip By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 17, 2008 3:16 pm EST Lionsgate has released a video clip from SAW V on the film’s official website. I’m told that the clip is the same one that was shown at Comic Con in July. It begins with a man bound to a table. A recorded video message plays where Jigsaw explains that the man must sacrifice his hands in order to save himself....

New Speed Racer Photos By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2007 7:34 am EST USA Today has released eight new photos from The Wachowski’s Speed Racer. When I heard the cast and crew describe how the film looked like “a live action cartoon”, the picture that entered my head looked something like Sin City. But the actual result, seen above, is indescribable. “The effects are beyond belief. We called it ‘car fu,’ because it was like kung fu with the cars,” Silver says....

Red Begins Principal Photography By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 18, 2010 12:26 pm EST Principal photography on the big screen adaptation of the DC Comics/Warren Ellis graphic novel Red has begun in Toronto. Summit Entertainment has issued a press release, which includes details on the full cast/crew. You can read the release after the jump. PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY UNDERWAY ON SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT’S “RED” January 12, 2010 — Toronto, Canada – Principal photography has begun in Toronto on Summit Entertainment’s spy-thriller “Red,” based on the DC Comics graphic novel of the same name by Warren Ellis....

Rumor: Will Smith On Board For Two Independence Day Sequels? By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2010 10:49 pm EST Emmerich previously said that the reason for two movies is that he wants “to do a bigger [story] arc” which will “continue the story” and begin “twelve, thirteen, fourteen years” after the first one ended. Emmerich even floated a possible title for the new films: “ID4-Ever” followed by “Part I” and “Part II” Lets hope that much changes....

Steven Speilberg’s Stolen Norman Rockwell Painting By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2007 11:17 pm EST A Norman Rockwell painting stolen more than three decades ago was found in the possession of super director Steven Speilberg. Explain this one Stevie! Actually, as it turns out, the Academy Award winning filmmaker acquired the painting legally. Spielberg realized the painting was stolen property after seeing an FBI posting. Rockwell’s “Russian Schoolroom,” which art dealers say could be worth as much as $700,000 today, was stolen from a St....

Sundance: Zoo Movie Review By Sundance Spy/Jan. 25, 2007 6:27 am EST One of the most talked about and controversial films at Sundance this year also turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments. The description for Zoo had Sundancers talking long before the festival even started. Slated as a documentary about bestiality, the subject of Zoo sounded unique enough for patrons to wait up to five hours in line for tickets....

The Warlords Movie Trailer: Jet Li’s Recent War Epic Finally Comes To The States By Russ Fischer/Dec. 28, 2009 2:00 am EST The Warlords is a two-year old Chinese mini-epic starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro in a tale based on The Assassination of Ma, a story from China’s mid-1800s civil war period. The film cleaned up at the 2008 Hong Kong Film Awards and is finally hitting the states courtesy of Magnet’s Six-Shooter Film Series....