There Will Be Blood Teaser Poster By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 6, 2007 5:05 pm EST AintItCool have posted the teaser movie poster for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. The 20 minute block of footage shown at Telluride is said to be the best thing shown at the festival, and Anderson certainly has a great track record (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love). Check out the full poster after the jump....
This Week In DVD: Speed Racer, The Love Guru, Pushing Daisies, 88 Minutes, And More… By Adam Quigley/Sept. 16, 2008 1:01 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A film that has earned equal shares vehement hatred and unabashed praise, Speed Racer has proven itself one of the most divisive films to come out in a long while. This fact was made very clear when the movie only earned back $40 million of its $120 million budget....
Transformers 2 Screenwriters Confirmed By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 4, 2007 10:53 am EST Good News: They are making Transformers 2.Bad News:Â Ehren Kruger and the writing team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are in talks to write the screenplay. Kruger’s scriptology consists of mostly bad horror films: Scream 3, The Ring, The Skeleton Key, The Brothers Grimm, Blood and Chocolate and Reindeer Games. Kurtzman and Orci are (f course) the team that were largely responsible for the first film, which may be a bad or good thing depending on your viewpoint....
Tune In Tonight At 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST For The /Filmcast Live By David Chen/June 16, 2008 6:15 pm EST Tune in tonight to Slashfilm’s live page at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST to hear us broadcast the /Filmcast live! Tonight will be a special crossover episode with The Drill Down podcast, as we’ll be joined by special guests Muhammad Saleem and Andy Sorcini. There will be tons to talk about, as we discuss the week’s news, review Darabont’s alleged Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods script that’s been floating around the internet, plus dive into The Incredible Hulk and The Happening....
Unaired Heroes Episodes To Be Released On DVD By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2008 12:45 pm EST It was announced at the Heroes panel that the Season 2 DVD release will actually include some unaired episodes which were shot but apparently cut due to the writer’s strike. Not much more information is known, but I’m sure we’ll find out more in the coming weeks. The DVD will hit stores on August 26th....
Vicky Cristina Barcelona Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2008 1:36 pm EST The Weinstein Co has released a new trailer for Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The story follows “two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, they’re drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), a charismatic painter, who is still involved with his tempestuous ex-wife Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz)....
VOTD: James Bond And Larry The Cable Guy In Live Another Death By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 5, 2008 12:00 am EST What happens when a Larry The Cable Guy-caliber trailer park hillbilly buys into James Bond’s super secret poker game? I missed this one last week. /Film reader Sam K sends over Saturday Night Live’s “Live Another Death” James Bond Spoof featuring Bill Hader as 007. VOTD: James Bond And Larry The Cable Guy In Live Another Death...
/Film News: Introducing Steve Mason By Peter Sciretta/July 11, 2007 2:25 pm EST I’ve received many e-mails and comments from readers asking why I don’t do the weekend box office rundown on a regular basis. Honestly, I’ve avoided reporting on the numbers due to a lack of personal interest. I just don’t like writing about numbers and money. It’s something that’s been lacking on /Film, but we’ve just filled the gap....
2009 Saturn Awards Winners By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2009 7:28 am EST Last night, the Academy of Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films held the 35th annual Saturn Awards. The Dark Knight was the big winner of the night, taking home five awards, including Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film, Best Supporting Actor (Ledger), Best Writer, Best Music and Best Special Effects. Iron Man, Battlestar Galactica, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button each won three awards....
4 New TV Spots For Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2009 2:37 am EST Warner Bros has started airing four new television spots for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Watch them all after the jump. Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching....
A Nightmare On Elm Street Teaser Trailer By Russ Fischer/Sept. 27, 2009 10:42 pm EST The teaser trailer for the new version of A Nightmare on Elm Street has finally been released, and it shows off Jackie Earle Haley in all his pre- and post-burn glory as the new Freddy Krueger. Those in Hall H for the Warner Bros. presentation at Comic Con this summer saw a teaser very very similar to this one....
Concept Art For Duncan Jones’ Mute, News On The Shoot By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 15, 2009 8:30 am EST [Update: Duncan Jones has now supplied us with a hi-res version of the same image and you can see it below the break. This version reveals more of the text - the sign can now be seen to read Fremde Traume, or Foreign Dreams and it is very clearly a strip club. Take a good look at the figures in the door way too....
DreamWorks Buys Into The Museum Of SuperNatural History By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2010 8:22 am EST I think we’re now one small step closer to /Film: The Movie. There’s a weird science / aliens among us / Sasquatch-spotting blog out there called The Museum of SuperNatural History, and it has just been optioned as fodder for a DreamWorks movie. The studio doesn’t yet have a script or even a concrete idea of what to do with the property, but evidently the name is enough....
Earth Vs. Moon Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2009 12:46 pm EST When I was on the set of Zombieland a few months ago, screenwriters/producers Paul Wenick and Rhett Reese told me about a new project they were working on called Earth vs. Moon. At the time, the screenwriting duo has just turned in a first draft and were waiting to hear back. The project was in the very early stages of development....
Friday Box Office: Zack And Miri Make A Box Office Miss By Steve Mason/Nov. 1, 2008 12:00 am EST The lesson here is that 13-year old girls prefer “trick or treating” to Troy (Zac Effron’s Troy Bolton character). That is to be expected, but even with tweens pouring into multiplexes Saturday and Sunday, HSM3 still MAY not crack double-digits, diving a disastrous 77% from opening weekend. That would make it the 15th-worst 2nd weekend drop in history on par with the tween-fueled 2003 bomb From Justin to Kelly, starring first season American Idol contestants Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini....
IMDB Watch: The Dark Knight Gets Dethroned By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2008 4:08 pm EST After 24 days at the top, The Dark Knight has been dethroned at the #1 ranked movie on the Internet Movie Database’s top 250 films of all time list. The Christopher Nolan Batman sequel is now placed #3 on the list. Interesting to note: The Shawshank Redemption comes out the victor in this contest of internet fandom....
Incredible Hulk PC Mod By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2007 11:36 am EST I know this isn’t exactly movie news, but hey, they are making an Incredible Hulk movie, so it somehow qualifies. Check out this Hulk PC-mod. It has to be one of the best custom PC-creations I’ve ever seen. It took the creator over 14 months to build. Now if only Marvel would license this sucker and sell it. Although, I’m afraid my cat would bite one of the wires and electrocute himself....
James Franco’s Daytime Soap Stint Is Fodder For An Art Movie Project By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2009 4:00 pm EST When James Franco’s short stint on General Hospital was announced, I figured it was something he was doing to challenge himself and set different acting boundaries. Like Lars Von Trier and friends created the Dogme 95 rules in part to establish a new filmmaking framework for themselves, acting on a soap opera would push Franco in unexpected ways....
Jennifer Hudson Turns Down $3 Million Role Over Nudity By Peter Sciretta/March 8, 2007 6:05 am EST Academy Award winning actress Jennifer Hudson has turned down a $3 million role in a Warner Bros. movie because of a nude scene. Ready for the twist? It wasn’t Jennifer’s character that gets naked. Update: Jennifer Hudson claims that this story, which originally appeared in British newspapers, is false. The Dreamgirls star says that she will never appear in a film that features nudity because she is a role model to aspiring young black women....
Johnny Hallyday Says Tarantino Is Writing A Script For Him, Has Had A Meeting With The Coens By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 25, 2009 7:19 am EST There is a story in the new print edition of Paris Match in which “The French Elvis”, Johnny Hallyday seeks to dispel recent rumours about his ill health and ease the French public’s concerns over one of their living national treasures. As well as promising we’ve far from seen the last of him yet, Hallyday goes on to tease some potential big screen appearances for the future....
