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Iron Man Deleted Scene Fills Plot Hole By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2008 1:41 pm EST Iron Man will be released on DVD/Blu-ray next month, and one of the deleted scenes has been released via Access Hollywood. The three-and-a-half minute sequence shows what happens when Tony Stark wants to throw a last minute party at his house in Dubai. This sequence gives an answer to a plot hole some had, because Stark can’t fly from California to the Middle East in the suit, as it would be technologically impossible....

Korean Pop Star Rain To Star In Wachowski Duo’s Ninja Assassin By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 13, 2008 9:37 pm EST The ambiguity of this news is just so ninja. Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski and their director protege James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) will likely soon begin filming a movie called Ninja Assassin with Korean pop star Rain (né Jung Ji-hoon) in the lead. Rain will be seen in the duo’s hyperactive Speed Racer and he previously starred in Park Chan-wook’s I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK....

Photo: Optimus Prime Has Lips, Did Michael Bay Lie? By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2007 1:27 pm EST Last month a Transformers television advertisement leaked online showing Optimus Prime talking. Fanboys were mortified. DreamWorks sent their legal watchdogs to have the video removed from all corners of the known universe. Michael Bay responded on his blog that the ad was a European test: “lets just say that it wasn’t OP or Cullen speaking....

Public Enemies Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2009 10:08 am EST Universal Pictures has released a second movie trailer for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies on MSN. The film tells the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Johnny Depp)—the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public....

Rian Johnson’s Looper Plot Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2008 10:26 pm EST Until now we’ve known very little about Brick director Rian Johnson’s upcoming third film, a sci-fi movie titled Looper. When we talked with Johnson in Toronto (interview coming in December), he described the film as being “really violent and dark” and compared it to the work of Phillip K Dick and the first Terminator film. Now thanks to THR, we have an official logline:...

Sam Raimi To Return To Horror? By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2007 11:55 pm EST Bloody-Disgusting is reporting that Spider-Man 3 director Sam Raimi is “planning a return to the horror genre”. Although the site doesn’t give any indication where the confirmation came from, or what exactly was said. This much is certain: Sony is going to try their best to sign Raimi on for Spider-Man 4. If Sam turns down the job, I’m sure New Line is mighty interested in the Evil Dead director helming The Hobbit....

Secretary Screenwriter Pens Steamy New Show For HBO By Russ Fischer/Nov. 23, 2009 6:34 am EST Screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson had a big hit with Secretary in 2002. Well, maybe not a hit in the commercial sense, but definitely in the cultural sense; it’s a film that people still talk about, and which will likely continue to have a real presence for years to come. But Wilson hasn’t had a great many produced credits since then....

Stephen King’s The Mist Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2007 4:15 pm EST At Comic-Con 2007, Frank Darabont premiered footage from his upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist, and everyone (including myself) was not impressed. Stephen King adaptations are tough. They can either be really good, or really bad (heck, with The Shining, they made one of each). Darabont definitely knows how to do it right. Find me one person who hated The Shawshank Redemption or The Green Mile....

Telluride Review: Flash Of Genius By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2008 4:42 pm EST Flash of Genius is one of the surprise films that is being shown at this year’s Telluride Film Festival. Based on a true story, Flash of Genius follows Doctor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear), a Detroit-based inventor and engineer professor, who decided to take on the automotive industry, and more specifically Ford Motor Company, who he claimed stole his patented idea for the intermittent windshield wiper....

The Condemned Poster, Movie Trailer And Stills Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2007 5:39 am EST WWE won’t give up. They have their mind set on making a genre classic with a WWE wrestler in the lead role. Too bad, their track record has been pretty bad: See No Evil, a bloody horror/thriller starring Kane, and The Marine, an action thriller starring John Cena. Now comes a film starring the man that started the second wrestling revolution, Stone Cold Steve Austin....

True Blood Season 2 Finale, Beyond Here Lies Nothin - What Did You Think? By Devindra Hardawar/Sept. 14, 2009 9:50 am EST True Blood has quickly become my favorite summer show. With the airing of last night’s season two finale, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin”, I can already feel the pain of another year-long wait ahead of me. Just like Dollhouse, the first season of True Blood took a few episodes to truly get in gear—but once the series found its groove it became an intoxicating combination of sex, violence, and camp....

Vanessa Hudgens Auditioned For Twilight Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 12, 2009 12:16 am EST If you didn’t already have enough disdain for Twilight, it now looks like a High School Musical star might be joining the cast. Twilight actress Ashley Greene revealed to MTV that High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens (you know, the one who is always having naked pictures of herself “leak” onto the internet) has auditioned for the role of Leah Clearwater in the Twilight sequel New Moon....

Where The Wild Things Are Trailer Attached To Monsters Vs Aliens? By Peter Sciretta/March 16, 2009 12:51 pm EST A full 3-minute trailer for Spike Jonze’s big screen adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are will screen in front of DreamWorks Animation’s Monsters vs. Aliens, which hits theaters on March 27th 2009. Scored to the song Wake Up by Arcade Fire, a scooper over on CHUD describes the trailer as “beyond the most grandiose superlatives: ‘beautiful’ and ‘gorgeous’ and ‘breathtaking’”, calling the environments “a work of incredible vision” and the finalized monsters “some kind of incredible technical achievement”, “nothing short of real and feel very alive and very, very huggable....

Almost Confirmed: Brett Ratner To Direct Conan By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2008 1:19 am EST Aint It Cool News is kinda, sorta, may be, confirming the rumor that Brett Ratner will be directing Conan for Lionsgate. Written by Outlander scribes Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain, the $100 million R-rated tent pole is neither a remake or a sequel, as they are starting over from the original stories. Conan was created by Robert E....

Astro Boy Gets New Director By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 24, 2008 7:50 pm EST Imagi Studios has a lot to prove in my opinion. They royally sucked the life out of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with last year’s TMNT. I mean, that old Saturday Morning computer animated kids’ show, ReBoot, is still exponentially more badass than TMNT, which had for source material one of the most freeing, original and well known kids’ properties of our time....

Behind The Scenes Of Adventureland By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2008 11:51 am EST As you probably already know, Superbad director Greg Mottola is in post production on a film based on his own experiences at the Long Island amusement park. Adventureland is a period comedy film set in the 1980’s which follows a college graduate, played by Jesse Eisenberg, who was prepared to spend his summer in Europe but when his father is laid off, he is now stuck at home and forced to get a job at a local amusement park called Adventureland, where comedy ensures and love blossoms....

Box Office: Worst October Weekend Since 1999 By Steve Mason/Oct. 7, 2007 1:23 am EST As I reported Friday night, the surprise weekend winner is The Game Plan (Buena Vista), which enjoyed an estimated 69% Saturday bounce for $7.35M. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s family flick will likely finish the 3-day with $16.92M. The Kingdom (Universal) is headed for a 3rd place finish with about $9.05M, followed by Resident Evil: Extinction (Sony) with $4....

Contest: Twin Peaks: Season 2 On DVD By Peter Sciretta/April 7, 2007 12:05 am EST Twin Peaks: Season 2 hit DVD store shelves on April 3rd, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On April 12th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....

Cool Stuff: Totoro Forest Project By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2008 4:00 am EST An exhibition/auction is being held to support the non-profit organization, “Totoro No Furusato National Fund”, which was established by Oscar winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.The benefit auction, which will be held at the Pixar Animation Studios campus in Emeryville, CA on September 6th 2008, will feature more than 200 pieces of original art from some really incredible arts from the worlds of Animation comic books, illustration and the fine arts....

David Fincher To Produce CG Animated Comic Book Film The Goon By Hunter Stephenson/July 2, 2008 3:57 pm EST “Feed me, feed me comics,” booms Hollywood. According to TheGoon.com, /Film fave, David Fincher, has optioned movie rights for The Goon with plans to adapt the Dark Horse comic book into a CG animated film from Blur Studio. If this news sounds familiar, back in March it was announced that Fincher would team with Blur to produce and co-direct a new animated Heavy Metal anthology flick....