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Geek Deal: Rambo Blu-Ray Box Set For $22 By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2010 12:25 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein Is Not The Traditional Creation Story By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2008 9:55 pm EST I’m not sure Guillermo del Toro will ever get to make his big screen adaptation of Frankenstein. After the director tackles The Hobbit films, he will return to a dining room filled with overflowing plates of projects he has already committed to. And the fact of the matter is that this horror remake is probably one of the least interesting projects on his slate is a testament of the quality of films del Toro has in development....

Interview: Darren Aronofksy - Part 2 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2008 5:00 am EST Darren Aronofsky: He did not like that scene, just so you know. Because he just felt the shame of Randy the Ram. Most of it was improvised; in fact a lot of those customers were not actors, they were real customers and we just started filming. They knew the camera was there, and we were like, “Hey!...

Is James Cameron’s Avatar Actually An Uncredited Rewrite Of A 1957 Poul Anderson Story? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 26, 2009 12:07 pm EST The line between deliberate rip-off and unintentional reflection is thin and blurry. There’s now an accusation that James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar might sit somewhere uncomfortably close to that line. Seems that the film bears an uncanny resemblance to Poul Anderson’s 1957 short story Call Me Joe. io9 was directed towards a synopsis of the tale, which the site recounts as follows: Call Me Joe centers on a paraplegic — Ed Anglesey — who telepathically connects with an artificially created life form in order to explore a harsh planet (in this case, Jupiter)....

Jessica Biel As Pocahontas? Tina Fey As Tinker Bell? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2008 12:42 pm EST Last year Disney decided to create live-action reenactments of classic Walt Disney Animated classics using some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Rachel Weisz as Snow White, Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella, Beyoncé as Alice in Wonderland… Disney has decided to create another series of these Dream Portrait Series Ads by photographer Annie Leibovitz. Check them out below....

Mark Millar Promises More Punkified Kids Tunes For The Kick-Ass Soundtrack By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2009 10:00 pm EST One of the many things I loved about the footage we saw from Matthew Vaughn’s big screen adaptation of Kick-Ass at Comic-Con was the music they used during the Hit Girl sequence. For those who don’t know, Hit Girl is an costumed, sword-wielding young 11-year-old girl who has been trained to be a super assassin by her crime-fighting father, nicknamed Big Daddy....

New Year’s Rocking Eve Cloverfield Trailer And Times Square Billboard By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 2, 2008 1:31 pm EST Cloverfield Billboards have been spotted in Times Square, and a new movie trailer aired during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. A couple new shots are featured, but the footage remains the same for the most part. Watch the new trailer after the jump. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/cloverfieldnewyears.flv 400 320] Cloverfield hits theaters on 1-18-08. source: CloverfieldClues...

Pixar’s Television Commercials By Peter Sciretta/July 22, 2009 5:00 am EST Shortly before Toy Story, Pixar was forced to create television commercials. The company had been losing money for years and Steve Jobs was hoping to recoop some of the money by having the company produce animated television commercials. The hope was that with commercials, the company could become self-supporting, and the goal was a computer animated television movie or feature film....

Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 14, 2009 12:00 am EST FirstShowing has discovered a short 15 second teaser trailer for Roman Polanski’s mystery thriller The Ghost. Based on the Robert Harris novel, the film tells the story of a ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) who is hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister, and somehow uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy. The film also stars Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Timothy Hutton, James Belushi, and Tom Wilkinson....

Samuel L Jackson And Maggie Cheung Join Inglourious Basterds By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 31, 2008 3:27 am EST Just yesterday it was announced that Samuel L Jackson had been cast as Sho’nuff in a remake of The Last Dragon. Now, The Playlist has learned that Jackson will reteam with Quentin Tarantino in his WWII film Inglourious Basterds. Jackson, who was featured in Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Volume 2, Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction, will provide his voice for the narration which is sporadicly used throughout the film....

Stormtroopers Invade Witch Moutain SuperBowl TV Advertisment By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2009 12:23 pm EST MTV has gotten their hands in Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain Superbowl television spot, and it begins with a bunch of Stormtroopers getting into a cab driven by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. You can watch the television spot after the jump or in High Definition on MTV.com. Stormtroopers Invade Witch Moutain SuperBowl TV Advertisment By Peter Sciretta/Jan....

The Book Of Eli Theatrical Trailer By David Chen/Sept. 25, 2009 10:28 am EST What I love about Gary Oldman and Denzel Washington is that while they are both immensely talented, they’re also quite willing to lend those talents to crowd-pleasing films, complete with scenery-chewing and martial-arts-style takedowns. The Hughes Brothers upcoming film, The Book of Eli, seems to be just one of those types of movies. Yahoo! Movies has debuted the theatrical trailer for the film, and it sets up more clearly the conflict between Eli (Denzel’s character) and Carnegie (Oldman), a town leader who will apparently stop at nothing to get Eli’s book....

Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Sequel Deal? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2008 11:24 pm EST Tobey Maguire is that much closer to signing a deal for the next two Spider-Man films. According to The Times Online, Maguire is willing to shoot Spider-Man 4 and Spider-Man 5 back-to-back over six months next year for a record $50 million in salary and profit shares. The story makes a big deal of a supposed clause in the contract which would give Maguire unprecedented early mornings and evenings off for “family time”....

VOTD: Lego Matrix (440 Hours In The Making) By Hunter Stephenson/Nov. 25, 2009 10:56 am EST No matter the extent of one’s Neo-burnout, the following video recreating the bullet-time dodge scene in The Matrix using stop-motion and Lego deserves a shout on /Film. Its makers estimate the clip—less than a minute and a half long with credits—took 440 hours and $500 to make using a Canon 850IS camera and painstaking attention to detail....

VOTD: The Dark Knight Vs. Hellboy By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2008 5:00 am EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/tdkhellboy.flv 470 200] The Dark Knight vs. Hellboy by Patrick Boivin The Pitch: Batman takes on Hellboy in this new movie mashup. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. via: moviemoron...

Warner Brothers Developing A New Tom And Jerry Movie By David Chen/Jan. 21, 2009 9:36 pm EST Despite the critical drubbings that they took, films like Garfield and Alvin and the Chipmunks, which took classic childhood cartoon characters and inserted CGI versions of them into the real world, still made big bank. Desperately wanting to make too much of a good thing, Warner Brothers is now developing a Tom and Jerry film, which, unlike the disastrous 1992 Tom and Jerry film, will have a CGI version of the cat and mouse doing battle in live-action settings....

Watchmen Video: Creating The Owlship By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2008 4:37 pm EST Warner Bros has released a new Watchmen video journal on Yahoo. Director Zack Snyder takes us through the making of the Owlship. I also recommend you head on over to AICN and check out some of designer Alex McDowell’s production photos, one of which can be seen above. We got a chance to get up close and personal with the Owlship at Comic Con, and I must admit, it’s incredibly cool....

Wes Anderson Directs Brad Pitt By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 12, 2008 3:16 pm EST Wes Anderson recently directed Brad Pitt in a 30-second television advertisement for Japanese cellphone company Softbank Mobile’s winter 2008 collection. Inspired by Jacques Tati’s 1953 French film “Les Vacances de Monseieur Hulot”, the commercial was shot in a seaside town in France in September. Pitt has done a bunch of advertising work in Japan, and this isn’t Anderson’s first stint with commercials, as he directed and starred in a wonderful American Express “My Card” ad and did a series of commercials for AT&T in 2007....

What If Finding Nemo And WALL-E Featured An All-Human Cast? By Peter Sciretta/March 27, 2009 11:49 pm EST What would Pixar’s WALL-E look like if it was an anime series starring human characters instead of robots? Or what about Finding Nemo set on land instead of the ocean? These two Pixar/Andrew Stanton reimaginings were found on 4chan. The Finding Nemo art (available after the jump) is credited to Andrew Kalko, but I’m not sure who created the Wall-E piece....

Adam Shankman’s The 8th Voyage Of Sinbad By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2008 12:27 am EST The 8th Voyage will tell the tale of Sinbad’s quest to find the Aladdin’s lamp. According to THR, Sinbad and his shipmates “meet a beautiful empress and do battle with fantastic creatures and a rebellious Chinese general who threatens the kingdom.” Rob Cohen had been previously in line to direct the project with Vin Diesel attached to star....