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Blockbuster To Rent Movies On SD Cards: Too Little, Too Late? By David Chen/Nov. 11, 2009 5:53 am EST Things aren’t going well for video news rental goliath Blockbuster. Netflix’s rental service arguably offers a superior consumer experience. Redbox DVD kiosks are cheap, convenient, and fast. And online streaming from Netflix, Hulu, and other companies threatens to destroy a huge chunk of the DVD industry at a whole. In September we learned that they might be closing almost 1,000 of their remaining 4,400 stores....

Dare Comics’ The Hunter Being Adapted To Film By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 8, 2009 3:10 am EST Another day, another comic book adaptation. This time we’ve learned that Scarlet Fire Entertainment is developing an adaptation of the Adam Hamdy’s Dare Comic property, The Hunter. The series concerns an FBI agent who discovers that he has extraordinary powers. Hamdy is set to produce the adaptation, and will also be writing an entirely new adventure for the film....

Details Revealed: Simon Pegg And Nick Frost’s Road Trip Comedy Paul By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2008 12:41 pm EST Want some more details about Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s next comedy? Paul will follow the two British geeks, who after visiting Comic-Con, go on a road trip to Area 51 where they encounter a small alien named Paul, who enlists them to help him find his way home. Written by Pegg and Frost, and directed by Greg Mottola (Adventureland, Superbad)....

Diablo Cody Writing The Playboy Movie? By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 25, 2009 2:21 pm EST I can see how Brett Ratner and Hugh Hefner would go together like compact mirrors and rolled up banknotes, and Robert Downey Jr. can easily sit at the same table with me only feeling a vague sense of disappointment and not weird awkardness but… Diablo Cody? The Hef himself has this week had a meeting with Cody “to talk about the Brian Grazer Playboy film”....

Eat, Pray, Love Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2010 7:00 pm EST Sony has released the first movie trailer for Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love. Julia Roberts plays “a happily married woman realizes her life needs to go in a different direction, and after a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey.” Watch the trailer now, embedded after the jump. Watch the trailer in High Definition on Yahoo....

Fred Simmons On Conan O’ Brien; The Foot Fist Way Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2008 1:27 pm EST Who is Fred Simmons? Why is he The King of the Demo? And what does “King of the Demo” even mean? I’m not quite sure… On February 26th, Danny R. McBride appeared as Simmons on the Conan O’ Brien show in a fake promo to promote the upcoming Paramount Vantage comedy The Foot Fist Way....

Guillermo Del Toro: ‘I Don’t Like Hobbits’!? By Peter Sciretta/April 26, 2008 12:30 pm EST Let me first say, I’m a huge fan of Guillermo del Toro and am very excited to see what he will be able to bring the Tolkien’s universe. That said I found the following quote from del Toro in an article on salon.com, talking about how he’s never had any interest in the Lord of the Rings genre of fantasy… wait, what?...

Has Christopher Nolan Signed On For Dark Knight Sequel? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 4, 2008 11:57 pm EST Has Christopher Nolan signed on to direct a sequel to The Dark Knight? A story has been going around the interwebs this weekend, that originated from the latest issue of Production Weekly, which has Nolan listed as director, with a pre-production start date of February 2009. Before you get too excited, I’m not sure any contract has been signed YET....

Hot Tub Time Machine Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 10, 2010 12:31 pm EST MGM has released a second green band movie trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine, a new sci-fi comedy starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Lizzy Caplan, Crispin Glover and Chevy Chase. The film follows a group of best friends who’ve become bored with their adult lives: “Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who can’t find the party; Nick’s (Craig Robinson) wife controls his every move; and video game-obsessed Jacob (Clark Duke) won’t leave his basement....

I Am Legend Movie Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2007 11:49 am EST Warner Bros has released the movie poster for I Am Legend. The teaser trailer for the film will hit the net later tonight. Click on the iamge to the right, which features the very cool tagline “The Last Man On Earth Is Not Alone”, to enlarge. Here is the official studio plot synopsis: “My name is Robert Neville....

I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell Movie Trailer By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2009 11:32 am EST I want to hate Tucker Max, blogger and author of the full-length memoir / ode to assholery I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, but I can’t. Not entirely. I think it’s because I know that I’m supposed to hate him. Or maybe because, despite all his self-aggrandizing storytelling and hype about his own game with women, many of his stories end up with Tucker looking like the jerk, covered in his own filth, not getting laid....

Jeff Bridges Talks About The Tech Of TRON 2 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2008 1:32 am EST A teaser trailer for Disney’s TRON sequel TR2N was the huge shocker at Comic Con this year. Recently The Guardian was ask Jeff Bridges about Tron 2 while doing press for How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, and here is what the actor said: “[TRON 2 is] another unique, wild experience that was too good to turn down....

John Malkovich And Anne Hathaway As Spider-Man 4’s Vulture And… Vulturess? By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 8, 2009 7:52 am EST This is where those Black Cat stories from a few weeks back get really interesting. It’s also where some purists start throwing little fits. New reports have John Malkovich and Anne Hathaway in the frame for roles in the new Spider-Man picture as father and daughter villains. Malkovich would be playing The Vulture, and Hathaway would be playing The Vulturess....

Jonah Hill Not In Transformers 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2008 12:28 am EST Last 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 Princeton. Chuck (19-25 yrs) runs a conspiracy theory website and is funny in an irreverent, edgy way, he is shocked to see his conspiracy theories come to life....

Mark Millar Promises Kick-Ass 2 Set Up In Kick-Ass 1 By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 16, 2009 11:53 am EST We already know that Mark Millar has plans for a sequel to Kick-Ass because he’s told us when he thinks it will go before cameras but we don’t, officially at least, know much about what it will entail. Now, though, he’s promised that a teaser for the sequel is going to play out at the end of the first film....

More Stupid Batman Casting Rumors: Sam Worthington To Replace Christian Bale By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2009 6:50 pm EST The Australian newspaper The Herald Sun is reporting that “Industry gossip now suggests the rising Australian star [Sam Worthington] could score the part of Batman in the third installment of the successful prequel franchise.” We’ve already gotten a bunch of e-mails linking this story, which means the story is already getting around the internets....

Movie Trailer: Park Chan-Wook’s Thirst By David Chen/March 16, 2009 12:23 pm EST I didn’t have a chance to catch Park Chan-Wook’s last film, I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK, but I loved his “vengeance trilogy,” which consisted of Sympathy for Mr./Lady Vengeance and the inimitable (despite what some people will tell you) Oldboy. Now, a trailer for his latest film, Thirst, which he wrote and directed, has surfaced (via CHUD)....

New Photo From Kevin Smith’s Cop Out; Hit Somebody To Shoot In 2010? By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 4, 2010 1:11 am EST The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly features an all new photo from Kevin Smith’s Cop Out. Sharp-eyed readers may recognize Tracey Morgan’s costume in the pic from our first look at the film back in June. The Playlist is also reporting that Smith’s next feature, the hockey film Hit Somebody, may start filming sometime in 2010....

New Terminator Salvation Photo Shows John Connor On The Hunt By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2009 11:48 am EST I’m not exactly sure where this came from (likely a magazine scan?), but /Film reader Christopher M got his hands on another new photo of Christian Bale as John Connor in Terminator Salvation. It looks like Connor and a crew of survivors are traveling through an underwater bunker half-filled with water. I’m pretty sure this if from the same scene that is shown in the first teaser trailer with the cool shot of the T-100 series terminator rising out of the water in the background....

New Transporter 3 Photos By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2008 10:16 am EST /Film reader Christopher M sent over some new photos from Transporter 3. More after the jump. New Transporter 3 Photos By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2008 10:16 am EST /Film reader Christopher M sent over some new photos from Transporter 3. More after the jump. More after the jump.