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Rumor: Katee Sackhoff Researching Typhoid Mary Role For A Daredevil Reboot Or Deadpool Movie? By Brendon Connelly/May 23, 2009 10:40 am EST Typhoid Mary being one of the key characters in the Daredevil series, it would seem quite likely that the film in question is this rumoured reboot. Of course, she also appeared in some key Deadpool storylines… so… perhaps… maybe… So we got a little visit in our comic shop last week by Katee Sackhoff, also known as Starbuck for her role on BSG....

Sleep Dealer Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2008 8:18 pm EST I remember leaving the theater after seeing Sleep Dealer at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, convinced that Alex Rivera could be the next George Lucas (you can read my full review here). I was amazed at what this Spanish-language low budget sci-fi indie was able to accomplish. Watch the trailer below. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/sleepdealer.flv 460 256] Set in a future where people can plug into a global computer network using installed body modified holes that tap in their nervous system....

Star Trek Casting: Rachel Nichols, Jennifer Morrison And Winona Ryder By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2007 10:36 pm EST Today has been a hot day for Star Trek news with the casting of Captain Christopher Pike, Janice Rand, Spock’s Mother, and some behind the scenes photos which have sparked even more rumors. Earlier today we reported that 51 year-old Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood had been cast as Captain Christopher Pike in the JJ Abrams prequel/reboot....

Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back Sweded By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2008 4:18 pm EST You must check out this sweded version of Star Wars – Empire Strikes Back. Rob Kenyon. Mark Breeze, Paul Nadin, Jamie Broadrick, and Leonora Whitehouse filmed this 60-second short film over the course of two days using a lot of cardboard and gaffers tape. Everything was created from scratch, from the costumes to the puppets, from the Ships to the droids....

By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 12, 2009 1:30 pm EST While signing copies of his new novel Under the Dome in a Dundalk, Maryland Walmart last night, Stephen King also took part in a decent-length, rapid-fire Q&A that has already been posted to YouTube. You can see the whole thing below the break, or leave it up to me to tell you which bits and pieces I found the most interesting. King says early on in the clip that he “thinks” Under the Dome is “actually” going to be a HBO series....

Sundance Interview: Michael Winterbottom And Mat Whitecross, Co-Directors Of The Shock Doctrine And The Road To Guantanamo By David Chen/Jan. 29, 2010 2:40 pm EST Directors Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross are premiering a new documentary at Sundance 2010 called The Shock Doctrine, based on the best-selling book by author Naomi Klein. The film posits that governments have used periods of crisis, or “shock,” in order to foist Milton Friedman’s free-market ideologies onto the people, often to negative consequences (e....

The Dark Knight Completes The Trifecta With DGA Nomination By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 8, 2009 11:22 am EST Yesterday, The Dark Knight grabbed Writers Guild and Producers Guild nominations, shocking some Hollywood insiders who don’t believe that the comic book movie has a chance at the Best Picture Academy Award. Today Christopher Nolan and the film have been nominated for the Director’s Guild of America Awards. Here is the list of nominees:...

Video: Writers Strike Explained By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 7, 2007 7:14 pm EST I have gotten a bunch of e-mails asking me to explain the current writers strike. Why are the writers picketing in front of the movie studios? Aren’t they paid enough? What is this whole thing all about. The good folks at UnitedHollywood have put together a video which explains the major points of debate between the WGA and the movie/television studios....

VOTD: Report Card By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2009 12:00 am EST Each year, The Alamo Drafthouse holds a Filmmaker Frenzy competition, where the contestants put together 30 second bumpers that play before the Fantastic Fest features. The 2008 Fest had this shot titled Report Card by Jason Eisener, the award-winning short film director of Treevenge (which is in this year’s Sundance Film Festival). Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....

VOTD: Requiem For A Day Off By Peter Sciretta/June 20, 2008 1:49 am EST Requiem For A Day Off by Shakes McFaddenThe Pitch: Shakes McFadden has created a new Ferris Bueller’s Day Off trailer using the music from Requiem for a Dream, proving once again that any movie can be 100 times more epic when you add Clint Mansell’s lux aeterna to the soundtrack. Note: the full orchestral remix is also used....

Zach Braff To Direct Swingles By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2009 1:05 am EST What has Braff been doing the last six years? (don’t say Scrubs) Is he worried about producing a sophomore flop? It looks like Braff has finally found a new project. Braff is in talks to rewrite, direct and co-star in the comedy Swingles for Paramount Pictures. The original spec script from Duncan Birmingham has been described as a 21st century When Harry Met Sally....

Aaron Eckhart Says Two-Face Is Gross, Like, Really Gross By Hunter Stephenson/May 5, 2008 10:32 am EST When you see Christopher Nolan’s vision of Two-Face up on screen in The Dark Knight, you have no idea and you’re going to vomit. This is basically what Aaron Eckhart is telling fans in a new interview with the LAT. He also peels back more of the villain’s “vigilante” psyche, leading us into slight spoiler territory....

Chris Pine May Be The New Jack Ryan By Russ Fischer/Oct. 13, 2009 9:34 pm EST I suppose we should have seen this coming. Over the last few months we’ve reported quite a bit on the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan film series — a franchise that has been all but dead since The Sum of All Fears failed to make a big dent in the box office. We know that Paramount has been planning to revive it, however, and thanks to films like The Hunt For Red October and Patriot Games (and their respective portrayals of the character by Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford) there’s quite a bit of interest in seeing the character continue....

Cool Stuff: NECA’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Action Figures By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2007 2:25 am EST Like most children of the 1980’s, I grew up watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and collecting the action figures. It always bothered me how they decided to come out with like five million different variations of the turtle fighting team. For example, were Metal Mutant Michaelangelo or Kowabunga Crackin’ Turtle Egg Don really necessary?...

Daybreakers Extended TV Trailer By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 29, 2009 11:10 pm EST We haven’t talked much about Daybreakers, the upcoming vampire film by writer/director siblings Michael and Peter Spierig, but the release of the film’s extended TV trailer seems reason enough to shed some light on it. The film stars Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe in a world where vampires rule, and humans are a minority hunted for blood. In the trailers it’s revealed that the vampires blood supply is dwindling, and that they’re searching for a synthetic blood substitute....

Dell’s Plan To Overtake iTunes: Selling Iron Man Preloaded On New Computers By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2008 12:53 am EST We’ve heard that digital movie purchases are the future of entertainment, but Dell and Paramount Pictures are taking the concept to the extreme. Customers will be able to purchase new Dell computers with a $20 option to have Iron Man pre-loaded on the machine. The $20 investment will also include “exclusive bonus footage” not included in the DVD release....

Duncan Jones Will Follow Moon With Mute By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2009 7:38 am EST We’d recently thought that Moon director Duncan Jones would make the submarine thriller Escape From the Deep as his next feature, but now it seems like Mute, the film he’d previously likened to a Berlin Blade Runner, will be next after all. Moon won the prize for best new British feature over the weekend at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and that win may have helped push Mute forward....

Entertainment Tonight Previews Iron Man 2 Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2009 9:49 am EST Entertainment Tonight has a first look preview of the new trailer for Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2, complete with annoying voiceover and quick cuts. I’ve heard the trailer will be attached to Sherlock Holmes, although there have also been rumors that it might be included on james Cameron’s Avatar. The ET footage runs about 25 seconds, and can be watched after the jump....

First Photos: Luc Besson’s Adele Blanc-Sec By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 27, 2009 12:10 pm EST We brought you the poster and first details of Luc Besson’s upcoming comics adaptation Les Aventures Extrodinaire d’Adele Blanc-Sec back at the end of October, and now the first official images have been released by Europacorp. Most of them are stills from the film but there’s also one behind the scenes shot, and you can see the whole lot after the break....

Hollywood Studios Bidding For Pride And Prejudice And Zombies By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 9, 2009 8:54 pm EST According to the Sunday Times, Hollywood studios (I quote) are already fighting for the rights to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a Jane Austen rewrite that injects a little undead action and is due to hit bookstores in April. Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel apparently makes liberal use of Austen’s original text, so far out of copyright that anybody could do anything they want to it with only the hordes of rampant Austenites to worry about....