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Juno, WALL-E And The Dark Knight Take Home Grammy Awards By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2009 2:16 pm EST James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer took home a trophy for Best Score for The Dark Knight, beating out Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Iron Man, There Will Be Blood and Wall-E. And the Grammy for Best Motion Picture Song went to Thomas Newman and Peter Gabriel for “Down to Earth” from Pixar’s WALL-E, beating out Carrie Underwood’s Ever Ever After from Enchanted, John Mayer’s Say from The Bucket List, Amy Adams’ That’s How You Know from Enchanted and John C Reilly’s Walk Hard from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story....

Magnet Picks Up Neil Marshall’s Centurion For US Release By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2010 7:12 pm EST Neil Marshall’s upcoming film Centurion has generated a good bit of excitement based on Marshall’s reputation and the bloody, grimy trailer released not long ago. That was an international trailer, because at the time the clips was released the film did not have US distribution. Now it has been picked up by Magnet, the genre arm of Magnolia, which will release Centurion later this year....

Man About Town Movie Trailer: Ben Affleck Goes Direct To DVD By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2007 5:16 am EST Didn’t Ben Affleck learn his lesson? I thought he was going to stop the whole “one for me, one for them” thing. Well it looks like the man has done another generic romantic comedy, which was… released this week on DVD. That’s right, Affleck is now making direct to DVD features! Why, God why?...

Michael Shannon In Talks To Join The Runaways By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2009 2:00 am EST Michael Shannon is negotiating a role in The Runaways, the bio-pic about the all-girl band of the same name that introduced Joan Jett and Lita Ford to the world. He joins Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning in the film by award-winning music video director Floria Sigismondi. The question is, who will Shannon play?THR only notes that the script contains a number of prominent male roles, all of which (because he’s biologically equipped) Shannon is potentially vying for....

Miyazaki’s Latest Movie Makes Ten Billion At Box Office By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 22, 2008 2:28 am EST Legendary Japanese Anime director Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film is a huge box office success in Japan. Ponyo on the Cliff has surpassed 10 billion YEN (or about $93.2 million) in just 31 days of release. That means that over 8.43 million tickets have been purchased so far. The film which is tracking closely to Miyazaki’s 2001 hit Spirited Away, will likely sell around 25 million tickets by the end of it’s Japanese theatrical run....

New Airbender Banners And Trailer News By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 25, 2010 11:57 am EST Throw what you want, it won’t stick anyway – I’m really looking forward to M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. It seems to me that he’s got just the skills, story instincts and appropriate technical discipline to pull off a film of this type. Yahoo have unveiled two banners for the film, one showcasing the fire nation and Dev Patel’s villainous prince Zuko, the other Noah Ringer as the air nation’s Aang, our hero....

New Chuck & Larry Movie Poster Looks BLAH By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2007 12:46 pm EST JoBlo has the official movie poster for the Adam Sandler/Kevin James comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (Movie Trailer). Doesn’t it look cheap? Fan-made even? The Spider-Man 3 Poster we just uploaded looks way more glossy than this one, and the Spidey poster may very well be fan created. I liked the promotional poster that was displayed at ShoWest more, and that even looked cheap....

New Posters: Frank Miller’s The Spirit By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2008 9:40 am EST UGO has two new posters for Frank Miller’s The Spirit. It’s amazing how well the marketing department at Lionsgate has been able to promote this movie. You would have no indication from any of the production photos, posters or trailers, that the film is nearly as horrible as the clips presented at Comic Con. New Posters: Frank Miller’s The Spirit...

New Wanted Photos By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2008 1:43 am EST Official Plot Synopsis: Based upon Mark Millar’s explosive graphic novel series and helmed by stunning visualist director Timur Bekmambetov-creator of the most successful Russian film franchise in history, the Night Watch series-Wanted tells the tale of one apathetic nobody’s transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. In 2008, the world will be introduced to a hero for a new generation: Wesley Gibson....

Poll Reminder: What Movie Should Win Best Picture? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2007 1:53 pm EST Just a reminder that our Oscar Poll is still going strong. Who do you think will win Best Picture at the 2007 Academy Awards? Right now it looks like Scorsese’s The Departed is the favorite, followed by Little Miss Sunshine. Have You Voted. Head over here and vote now, as the poll closes early Sunday afternoon....

Ridley Scott Talks Monopoly Movie By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2007 11:23 am EST There really couldn’t be a reason (other than may-be money) to make a movie based on the classic Parker Brothers’ Monopoly board game. When I first heard rumblings that Ridley Scott was trying to adapt the game to the big screen, I tried to ignore them. I thought, ‘It’s probably one of those big money development deals that will fall by the wayside’, right?...

Sex And The City Movie Poster By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 19, 2008 10:14 pm EST Look closely. Is it me or did Sarah Jessica Parker just finish stepping in a huge puddle of what Fletch would refer to as “gook”? How New York of you, poster. If you like to be amazed by things that are exponentially more gaudy and obnoxious than your friend’s (okay, your) Lisa Frank notebooks from middle school, head for the jump....

Sharlto Copley’s A-Team Birthday Cake By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 28, 2009 2:54 pm EST Many of you know Sharlto Copley from his feature acting debut in District 9 (speaking of which, am I the only one crazy enough to believe that Copley should get some recognition for his performance come awards time, but realistically won’t). Copley is playing Capt. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock in The A-Team movie. /Film tipster Jimmy Jab sent over this photo, which he claims features a cake Copley’s mother sent to the set of The A-Team for her son’s birthday (Sharlto turned 36 on November 27th)....

Superman Returns Sequel To Be Titled Superman Unleashed? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2009 12:32 pm EST /Film reader Alex Litel just sent me a link to a password protected page from the official Legendary Pictures website that lists “Superman Unleashed” as one of their upcoming films in development. The temporary plot synopsis included follows: “Ramping up the action of its esteemed predecessor, the sequel to ‘Superman Returns’ promises to raise the stakes and take the audience to heights of action that no other superhero movie can achieve....

Sylvester Stallone To Star In Cliffhanger 2: The Dam? By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 16, 2008 2:29 pm EST If true, this is a bad move. PR Insider reports that Sylvester Stallone is in negotiations with Sony Pictures to revise his character Cliffhanger, er, Gabe Walker, in a sequel to 1993’s Cliffhanger, which grossed $84 million domestically and $200 million plus worldwide. The sequel will be entitled The Dam, which automatically makes me think of the “surefire” pitch that became 1996’s megaflop Daylight: Stallone versus dam tunnel....

The End Of Terminator Salvation Will Divide Audiences By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2009 11:45 am EST When a fourth Terminator film was first announced, it was revealed that the film would be the first of a planned three-film story arc, or trilogy. Halcyon has already announced the development of Terminator 5. All that is needed before they get the official green light is a nice opening weekend box office, which at this point, is pretty much expected....

THR’s Filmmaker Roundtable: Cameron, Jackson, Reitman, Tarantino, Bigelow And Daniels By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2009 10:11 pm EST The Hollywood Reporter recently conducted a round table interview with some of the biggest directors of the year, including Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Lee Daniels, Peter Jackson, Jason Reitman and Quentin Tarantino. THR has released a few segment where the filmmakers talk about a couple different topics, including what they would do instead of directing, how they deal with challenging scenes, and if they consider themselves insiders or outsiders....

Top Ten Greatest Movie Endings By Zach Lawrence/Aug. 22, 2007 2:21 am EST I, in the past couple of years, have written more Top Ten articles then I can count for the prestigious Slashfilm. Soooooo, these flicks coming at you are the contenders for best ever. They are in my eyes terrific and great endings, a dreamy “cap it all off” nightcap of honey, warm milk and Nyquil type ending that leave you stuffed and satisfied....

Toshiba Declares HD DVD Officially Dead By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 19, 2008 12:00 pm EST Great news! The War is over. No… not that war… Not that we weren’t expecting this to happen, but Toshiba has finally bowed out of HD DVD. This makes Blu Ray Disc the undisputed winner of the next generation dvd format war. Toshiba formally conceded defeat Tuesday morning, confirming that Toshiba will cease making and shipping players in the HD DVD format by March 31st....

Will The SAG Strike Ruin Comic Con? By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2008 3:02 pm EST One thing that we haven’t talked much about on /Film is the looming SAG strike (the contract expires on June 30th). And truth is the strike might directly effect your fandom more immediately than the writers strike. Our friends at Collider point out that the strike could mean that any actor with a SAG card would not be allowed to promote anything that has to do with a movie studio property....