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LOL: Man Sentenced To Prison Time For Singing “Spiderpig” To Police Officers By David Chen/Nov. 25, 2008 7:35 am EST Those who saw The Simpsons Movie know that Homer Simpson’s oft-advertised singing of the song “Spiderpig” encapsulated either everything that was awesome with that film, or everything that was wrong with the Simpsons franchise as a whole (depending on how big of a fan you were at that point). I happen to fall in the latter category....

McG Explains Terminator Salvation Alternative Ending, Claims 30+ Minutes Of Deleted Scenes By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2009 7:38 pm EST McG tells our friends at Collider that the Terminator Salvation DVD will likely have 30 to 40 minutes of deleted scenes. We know about the now infamous Moon Bloodgood topless scene, and after the jump, we’ll talk about the alternative ending, but McG also says “There are great long takes of Connor giving speeches, evoking Sarah Connor that we ultimately lifted because I didn’t want it to feel that he was dependent on the voice of his mother to find his leadership....

New Images: Tony Stark, Whiplash And Black Widow In Iron Man 2 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 1, 2009 2:08 pm EST Hot on the heels of the new poster and those comments from Jeff Bridges about the first Iron Man, Paramount has dropped four new images from Iron Man 2. (I didn’t intend to do two Iron Man posts in a row, I swear.) These aren’t earth-shaking; we see only Mickey Rourke’s appearance from early in the film and the photo of Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow basically repeats what we saw of her in previous photos and the Comic Con footage....

New Photo From Pixar’s Partly Cloudy By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2009 11:41 am EST In March we posted the first photo from Pixar’s newest short animated film Partly Cloudy. But to be honest, the first photo was a wide shot, and you really couldn’t see the characters that well. Pixar has released a new photo on AICN (click on over to see the image in high res). I wonder if the short film will also be projected in digital disney 3D....

New York Times Explores Transformers Behind The Scenes Squabble By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2007 11:45 pm EST Last week we republished an angry blog post from Transformers director Michael Bay, which had been removed from his website hours after being posted. The blog post angrily attacked the producers of the film. It made us respect Michael Bay more than we ever thought could be possible. It’s a very interesting read, but first you may want to read the new article published today be the New York Times, which explains what led to that posting....

Question: Is The IMAX Experience Worth It? By David Chen/July 2, 2009 3:00 am EST As IMAX technology has become a more popular filmmaking process over the past few years, we’ve tried to keep up with it as much as we can here at /Film. Just this past week, I wrote about how the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen IMAX experience compares unfavorably with The Dark Knight from last year. I’ve also urged people to see Watchmen in regular format before you check it out in IMAX....

Set Visit Preview: A Nightmare On Elm Street By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2009 8:16 pm EST On Thursday June 25th, I had the oppurtunity to visit the set of Platinum Dunes’ remake/re-imagining of A Nightmare on Elm Street. With a Comic Con panel scheduled for later this week, Warner Bros has given us the green light to post a short preview piece, giving you a no-so-detailed tease of some of the stuff we saw, and our impressions....

Spider-Man 3 Gets Mixed Reviews By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2007 6:10 am EST While the first reactions were over-the-top positive, the new batch of Spider-Man 3 reviews have been very mixed. Is Spider-Man 3 not everything it promised to be? A scooper at The Movie Blog had a lot to complain about: “The Peter/MJ relationship has nothing to it now they’re together, The plot is ok but mostly serves to set up each new villain and fight sequence, There are too many new characters to deal with,” and the aftermath of the finale was so weak that about 50 people apparently left a couple of scenes from the end....

Terminator 4: John Conner And T-600 First Look, T-800 Casting By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2008 4:26 pm EST Warner Bros released the first high resolution photo of Christian Bale as John Connor (seen above). Meanwhile, io9 took a closer look at the kick ass Terminator Salvation teaser trailer and spotted what is believed to be a a T-600. In an earlier blog posting, the filmmaker explained that the T-600 is a “bigger, grimier, nastier version that preceded the T-800…....

Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life To Get Cannes Premiere? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2010 11:54 am EST If I were putting together a ‘most anticipated films of 2010’ list one of the highest-ranked entries would be The Tree of Life, the new Terrence Malick generational family drama that has been simmering in an edit bay for months. Once positioned as a possible release late last year, the film wasn’t finished in time, and has been penned in for the best possible release date: when it’s done....

Tetsuo Three - Finally! By Brendon Connelly/May 6, 2009 12:08 pm EST Screen Daily have some very good news for fans of nightmarish body horror and man-maching splatterpunk today, with their report on an imminent third film in Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo series. I’ve just done a handstand. If you haven’t, you probably don’t know the original films, each of which details the gradual and painful mutation of the protagonist from meek and fleshy human to metallised, mechanical cyborg killbot thing....

The Godfather 2 Becomes A Video Game By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2008 2:37 am EST EA is planning on releasing a video game adaptation of The Godfather 2 early next year. Full details on /gamer. The Godfather 2 Becomes A Video Game By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2008 2:37 am EST EA is planning on releasing a video game adaptation of The Godfather 2 early next year. Full details on /gamer.

The Grindhouse R-Rated Cut And Running Time By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2007 4:51 pm EST Yesterday we reported that Grindhouse earned an R-Rating, days after Page Six suggested the film would be stuck with an NC-17 without massive cuts. We speculated that some of the more controversial sequences were probably cut for the theatrical release. Now co-director Robert Rodriguez checks in with an update. According to AICN: Rodriguez – who is celebrating getting his R-rating for the double feature without having to sacrifice much of anything....

The Mechanic Sales Trailer By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2010 10:25 am EST Jason Statham is starring in director Simon West’s remake of the Charles Bronson thriller The Mechanic. He’s got Ben Foster along for the ride, presumably taking over the role played by Jan-Michael Vincent in the original, and Donald Sutherland as well. Now there’s a sales trailer to show off what West is doing with the story of a killer (Statham) who takes on an apprentice (Foster)....

Tron Legacy Set Visit Preview By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2010 11:00 pm EST The day after the world learned of Michael Jackson’s death, I found myself in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada revisiting my 1980’s childhood. Its not what it sounds like. I was on the set of a sequel to a film I had first seen 27 years prior. If you had told me as a kid that I would someday have a chance to enter the world of Tron, I wouldn’t have believed you....

WALL-E Meets A Vaccume By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2008 11:22 am EST /Film Reader Casty The Clown sent me this funny video clip of WALL-E meeting a vacuum (which appears to have been made by the Buy N Large Corporation). [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/wallevaccume.flv 470 260] Now isn’t he just the cutest robot ever? WALL-E Meets A Vaccume By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2008 11:22 am EST /Film Reader Casty The Clown sent me this funny video clip of WALL-E meeting a vacuum (which appears to have been made by the Buy N Large Corporation)....

Which Film Will Jason Reitman Direct After Up In The Air? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2009 8:05 pm EST Whispers in Bedlam – Based on a short story by Irwin Shaw, this comedy is about a football player with hearing problems who receives experimental surgery and finds himself suddenly able to hear everyone talking from far distances. Written by Matt Spicer and Max Winkler (son of Henrey Winkler, co-writer of the upcoming comedy The Adventure’s Handbook)....

Aubrey Plaza In Scott Pilgrim By Peter Sciretta/May 29, 2009 11:52 am EST Edgar Wright has finally released a first real look at Aubrey Plaza as Julie Powers in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Some of you might remember that we posted a half concealed photo of her giving the middle finger in March. In the film adaptation, Plaza (seen above) plays bitchy Julie Powers, the obnoxious on-off-on-again girlfriend of Stephen Stills, the lead singer and guitarist of Scott’s band, Sex Bob-omb, and Stacey Pilgrim’s (Anna Kendrick) coffee shop co-worker....

Avatar’s Alien Language Is Real, Or As Real As Fake Languages Get By Russ Fischer/Nov. 23, 2009 1:10 pm EST James Cameron is a seriously detail-oriented guy. Every major profile of the filmmaker written since Avatar has hit the promo trail has pointed that out, whether via anecdotes about making minor tweaks to technology designs, foliage coloration or the physics of CGI breasts. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Cameron hired a linguist to create an actual alien language for the giant blue Na’vi....

Bruce Springsteen In The Wrestler By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2008 1:01 pm EST The reason why Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler has the un-popular position of closing the Venice Film Festival, is because the film is waiting on a new song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. The song was written for the closing credits and is also titled The Wrestler. Aronofsky calls the song “beautiful” … “wonderful acoustic piece”. “Makes me choke up every time i hear it,” Aronofsky writes on his blog....