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First Teaser Trailer For Treme, The Wire Creator David Simon’s New HBO Show By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 12, 2010 10:54 pm EST A simple — yet very effective — teaser for David Simon’s (The Wire, Generation Kill) new HBO series Treme has just popped online. Even at a mere fourty-seven seconds, it’s already giving me goosebumps. Hunter has covered some statements from Simon about the series last month. Here’s a primer: Treme is about a group of musicians and other folks living in the Treme neighborhood of post-Katrina New Orleans....

How Netflix Is Changing The Future Of Movies By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 16, 2007 6:23 am EST We all knew this was in the works. The future of media is on demand / digital, and not HD DVD or Blu-Ray. Everyone knows this to be true. And now Netflix has officially announced they will be offering Internet Movies On-Demand. No, this isn’t a lame movie download service like the ones you’ve seen in the past....

Indiana Jones Cereal By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2007 12:15 pm EST Check out this photo of a salesman sample box of Kelloggs’ new Indiana Jones cereal. I’m sure the final box art will feature an older looking Harrison Ford, but who knows. The new cereal promotion is just one of the many tie-ins that will coincide with the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which hits theaters on May 22nd 2008....

James Cameron To Write Avatar Prequel Novel By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2010 2:54 am EST James Cameron’s Avatar has surpassed $2.35 billion worldwide, and keeps on going. A sequel is almost definite, but won’t be seen on the big screen for a couple of years, at very least. But that doesn’t mean we have to wait until 2012 or 2013 to return to Pandora. Producer Jon Landau revealed to MTV that Cameron plans to write a novel set within the world created in Avatar, a prequel to the story of the film....

Lawsuit Might Hold Up Mortal Kombat Reboot By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2010 1:42 pm EST We’ve been hearing for a while now that a new Mortal Kombat feature film was in the works, be it a new sequel directed by Christopher ‘mink’ Morrison or a reboot written by screenwriter Oren Uziel, author of the Black List 2009 entry Shimmer Lake. But a pesky reoccurring lawsuit might keep the video game franchise from returning to the big screen....

Metric Unveil Black Sheep, Our First Listen To The Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 28, 2010 12:42 pm EST In devising the soundtrack for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Edgar Wright has chosen specific bands and artists to sub for the fictional musicians of the comic strip. Pilgrim’s band Sex Bob-omb have had their tunes supplied by Beck, Broken Social Scene will be providing the noise of Crash and the Boys and Metric were tapped to bring The Clash at Demonhead to life, at least in terms of the music they make....

Mini-Bidding War For Sundance Hit Catfish; JJ Abrams And Paramount Versus Brett Ratner? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2010 8:51 am EST What a weird set of potential buyers for Catfish, the documentary hit that has already been tagged as the next Paranormal Activity. Not that Catfish is anything like Paranormal Activity at all, except for the fact that it is a low budget documentary-style film (more on that in a second) and is now being courted by Paramount....

Mitchell Hurwitz Discusses His Plans For The Arrested Development Movie By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 25, 2009 5:21 pm EST Saturday saw not one but two separate special events with Mitchell Hurwitz take place in Austin, Texas and luckily I had remote ears attending both. The first was a panel discussion called “The Art of Storytelling,” also featuring Ron Howard and Steve Zaillian, and the second was the clearly-titled “Conversation With Mitchell Hurwitz....

Monsters Vs. Aliens To Become The First 3D Trailer In Superbowl History? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2009 8:13 pm EST Last week I recieved a mysterious e-mail: Happy New Year - please keep a lookout for an exciting announcement crossing the AP Wire this Sunday, January 4th concerning the new film, MONSTERS VS. ALIENS. Ooze gonna’ save us in 2009? I sent a inquiry out to my Twitter followers trying to figure out what the big announcement could be, but got no response....

More Concept Art From Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland? By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2009 9:52 pm EST Russian film site Filmz.ru has gotten their hands on what appears to be new concept art from Tim Burton’s 3D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. The initials on the bottom of that art reads “JM”, and the only crew members with those initials are the set designer Jeff Markwith or lead model maker Jason Mahakian....

Movie Trailer: Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 13, 2007 11:31 pm EST The movie trailer for Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola’s first new film in 10-years, is now online. Coppola adapted, produced and directed the movie based on the 1976 novel by Romanian-born religious historian Mircea Eliade. The short teaser trailer looks interesting, but doesn’t really show much, or at least it doesn’t show much in terms of narrative story....

Paul WS Anderson Begins Work On A Prequel To His Death Race Prequel By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2009 5:24 am EST Paul WS Anderson never seems to stop working. It’s a lot easier, sure, when working with unabashedly commercial projects, but if some of the filmmakers that I like a lot more could manage to work half as often as he does, this would be a very different cinema landscape. Now, according to Shock Till You Drop, Anderson is working on a prequel to his 2008 film Death Race....

Phantom Menace Reviewer Takes On Avatar By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2010 4:00 pm EST In December, we made a post about a guy named Mike from Milwaukee, WI, who created a 70-minute video review of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The 7-part dissection tore apart George Lucas’ first installment of the prequel trilogy, and was linked by almost every website known to man. In fact, the video now has over 1....

RIP: Mr. Wizard By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2007 3:14 am EST You know you’re getting old when you run around franticly reporting the death of one of your childhood heroes, and half the people say “Mr. Who?” Don Herbert, who played Mr. Wizard on the popular 1980’s Nickelodeon television show Mr. Wizard’s World, died on Tuesday from bone cancer. He was 89. You made us believe that anything was possible through science....

Rob Zombie Reshoots Halloween: 6 New Death Scenes And A New Ending? By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2007 11:05 pm EST Reshoots is usually not a good thing. Word came in this weekend via BD that Rob Zombie has been hard at work filming new scenes including a new ending for his Halloween remake/prequel. Apparently they spend seven days to film the six new death sequences which are said to give the film a “serious boost in violence, gore and bloodshed” and a new ending which is only described as “Gruesome”....

Scott Pilgrim Diverges From The Graphic Novels Around The Third Book By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2010 1:58 pm EST MTV recently talked to director Edgar Wright, who confirmed what many people who have read the screenplay(s) for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World had known for a while: the story diverges from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s source material somewhere around book number three. Here is the quote from Wright: “After three volumes, it starts to take its own path, but very much within the spirit of the book — and approved by Bryan as well....

Sneak Preview: See Ratatouille This Weekend By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2007 12:05 pm EST There will be 800 sneak preview screenings of Pixar/Disney’s Ratatouille on Saturday, June 16th. That’s right, this weekend! Popular online ticket websites already have the sneaks listed in their database, although no tickets have gone on sale yet (nor have the theater listings been revealed). I’m sure you’ll be able to buy tickets later this week. Ratatouille will hit theaters nationwide on June 29th 2007....

The Incredible Hulk Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2008 3:53 pm EST FINALLY!! After months and months of waiting, Universal has released a movie trailer for The Incredible Hulk reboot/sequel. Whatever company cut this trailer deserves a bonus. I love how you could have no idea this is an Incredible Hulk movie until the last 30 seconds. And the prolonged suspense of seeing the first reveal of the big green guy was handled masterfully....

The Orphanage Remake Needs A New Director By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2009 1:30 pm EST When I first saw The Orphanage at TIFF ‘07, the moment the credits rolled I started thinking about the remake. That’s lame, yes, since there was plenty of good stuff to think about in the movie. It wasn’t that I was desperate to see the film remade. But I could see how a remake might do a few things differently, and possibly even better....

Transformers 2 Proceeds Into Pre-Production By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2007 7:55 pm EST Variety reports that Transformers 2 is far enough along to proceed with pre-production, location scouting and advance special effects work. This must mean that the studio at least has a thorough treatment in the can, if not a first draft. Michael Bay hopes to start shooting in June 2008, but if the strike lasts several months, the production will likely have to delay principal photography....