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Paramount Vantage Sends Free Milkshakes To Press By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2008 12:41 pm EST You have to give Paramount Vantage credit. They’ve decided to embrace the cult popularity of the “I Drink Your Milkshake” quote from Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Today I had to sign for a couriered letter. The return address said nothing more than the THERE WILL BE BLOOD logo. I open up the letter and am greeted with the black card seen above....

Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief Teaser Trailer By Brendon Connelly/July 14, 2009 3:26 pm EST You can see the first Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief teaser trailer embedded after the break. There isn’t any wonder that it features title cards announcing that it is from Chris Columbus, director of Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone/Chamber of Secrets. The entire enterprise is standing on the shoulders of Potter, irrespective of any help it might or might not actually need from the boy wizard, or indeed the relative quality of the books and films....

Samuel Bayer To Direct Nightmare On Elm Street Remake By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2009 10:56 pm EST Music video and commercial director Samuel Bayer has been hired by Platinum Dunes to direct the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street, according to RiskyBiz. Bayer got his start directing music videos when Nirvana, according to legend, hired him to direct Smells Like Teen Spirit because his test reel was the worst one that the band had seen....

Scott Patterson Cast In Saw 4 By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2007 9:06 am EST Gilmore Girls star Scott Patterson has been cast in SAW 4, according to a scooper at BD. We have no idea what role Patterson will play. What we do know: Darren Lynn Bousman’s Saw 4 will hit theaters on October 26th 2007. Scott Patterson Cast In Saw 4 By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2007 9:06 am EST...

The Original Pitch For Monsters Inc. By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 14, 2009 1:12 pm EST One of the many things that sets Pixar apart from other animation studios (less so Disney these days, you might imagine) is their dedication to nurture and cultivation. This applies both to the talent, the animators and directors, but also to their projects. As such, many of their films begin with a pitch that’s rather different than the film we finally end up with in cinemas....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, Orphan, Whatever Works, And More By Adam Quigley/Oct. 27, 2009 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This movie is balls-out insane, in the best way possible. I remember watching the trailer several months back and shaking my head, wondering when we’d finally escape the overused “evil child” horror formula. Having now seen the film, I’m happy to admit that I judged too soon: This may be the best entry in the genre yet....

Updates: The Goon Script Is Finished; First Hobbit Script Done, Too; Forbidden Planet Could Be A Franchise By Russ Fischer/Nov. 24, 2009 7:16 am EST Peter’s got a massive Page 2 for you today, but here are three bites that didn’t make it. Each one is a small but significant update on a going project. First up: the movie version of Eric Powell’s comic book The Goon. Last we heard of this was at my favorite panel, bar none, from Comic Con this past summer....

Video Clip: Iron Man’s First Flight - What Do You Think? By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2008 1:41 am EST Paramount has released a new video clip from Iron Man featuring Tony Stark’s first flight in the Mark II armor. I got the see this clip and five or so more minutes of footage at WonderCon in February, but seeing the clip in full 1080p on my MacBook Pro makes me just as excited....

VOTD: No Signal Horror Movie Montage By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 25, 2009 12:18 am EST If you find yourself somewhere scary and don’t have cell phone service, you’re probably next. College Humor has put together a montage of this growing horror movie cliche, embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Ignatius F for the tip. VOTD: No Signal Horror Movie Montage By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 25, 2009 12:18 am EST If you find yourself somewhere scary and don’t have cell phone service, you’re probably next....

VOTD: The Dark Knight NES Video Game By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2009 12:00 am EST If The Dark Knight came out 20 years ago, and Warner Bros Licensed a video game adaptation of the movie for the Nintendo Entertainment System, it might look a little something like this video found by our brothers at /Gamer. El Macbee created this retro animation with original Music by Vic Sagerquist. But forget about the sweet looking cut scenes and 80’s style flash effects, I want to see what the game play looks like....

WALL-E Meets A Hula Hoop By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2008 12:11 am EST You’ve seen WALL-E encounter a vacuum, you’ve seen WALL-E encounter a magnet, and now watch as WALL-E comes face to face with a Hula Hoop. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/wallehula.flv 460 262] WALL-E Meets A Hula Hoop By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2008 12:11 am EST You’ve seen WALL-E encounter a vacuum, you’ve seen WALL-E encounter a magnet, and now watch as WALL-E comes face to face with a Hula Hoop....

Why The Dark Knight Will Beat Titanic By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 6, 2008 4:28 pm EST Box Office analysts are predicting that The Dark Knight will finish with $530-$540 million domestically, about one Forgetting Sarah Marshall away from breaking Titanic’s $600.7 million record. But I believe they are wrong – and here’s why. I’m sure that Warner Bros will rerelease the film in theaters eventually. The film has made a record $55 million on IMAX screens alone, and IMAX Filmed Entertainment chief Greg Foster tells The Hollywood Reporter that there is “a real possibility” of an IMAX rerelease in future years....

WTF: Nick Cave And Andy Serkis Making Mo-Cap Threepenny Opera By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2010 10:16 am EST OK, I’m stunned. What is there to possibly say about the news that actor Andy Serkis and multi-hyphenate Nick Cave are planning a motion-capture version of The Threepenny Opera? It’s an idea that sounds so mad and so perfect I can’t imagine not rushing out to see it. But mo-cap? Granted, if that’s the technique at hand then Serkis is obviously the go-to performer, but still....

Anna Kendrick Cast In Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2008 9:35 pm EST Kendrick has a small role in Twilight, but don’t let that scare you away. I remember her from a wonderful coming of age film called Rocket Science, which I saw a couple years ago at Sundance. Anna played a fast talking debate team leader named Ginny. Unfortunately, the film came and went, unseen by most of the movie-watching world (but please got Netflix it if you have the time)....

Apple To Offer iTunes Movie Rentals? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2007 11:45 am EST Apple is working on adding 30-day movie rentals to the iTunes movie store, according to CNN sources. It is believed the plan will allow customers to rent a movie for 30-days for $2.99. Apple would also allow transfer of he movies to iPod video enable devices. This is a step in the right direction as clearly the future is on demand and digital based....

Chris Hemsworth Is Thor By Peter Sciretta/May 16, 2009 12:45 pm EST Chris Hemsworth has been cast as the title character in Kenneth Branagh’s big screen adaptation of Marvel’s Thor. Hemsworth will also be playing the mythic comic book character in the Summer 2012 superhero team-up film The Avengers. You might be wondering, “Who the hell is Chris Hemsworth?” While you might not recognize his name, you saw him on the big screen last weekend in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek as George Kirk....

Comic Con: Watchmen Footage Revealed By Adam Quigley/July 25, 2008 5:47 pm EST Director Zack Snyder and the entire Watchmen gang had a lot to live up to at Comic Con after that extensive teaser trailer took the world by storm in front of all those Dark Knight screenings. As it turns out, they weren’t quite able to live up to it, but that’s not at all a commentary on the quality of the film....

Cool Stuff: Idiot Box Art Show By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2009 4:00 am EST Alex Pardee “S.Urkel Jerk” ink on clayboard 16 x 20 inches (Framed approx. 22 x 26) $1,000.00 – SOLD (Family Matters) Mike Maas “The Eighties Bunch” acrylic on board (some 3-D elements) 20 x 20 inches $650.00 (Assorted Television Shows) Allison Reimold “The Geeks vs. McKinley High” oil on board 20 x 26 inches $750.00 – SOLD...

Cool Stuff: LightSaver T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2009 10:34 pm EST Threadless has released a new Star Wars parody t-shirt design by Matthijs Smit, which takes the concept of being green to “a galaxy far far away.” Someone needs to save the force energy, or it might run out. Available in sizes small to XXXL on Asphalt American Apparel tee. for a discounted $15. The best part is that the light design is printed to glow in the dark....

Cool Stuff: Mario Graciotti’s Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock And Pixar Poster Art By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2009 8:00 am EST /Film reader and Brazilian artist Mario Graciotti has created a few series of posters I wanted to showcase on the site. The posters showcase the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, and Pixar Animation Studios. Check out some of Graciotti’s minimalistic posters, after the jump. Paul Thomas Anderson inspired posters: ....