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Cool Stuff: Fan Built Batman Forever Batmobile Replica By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2009 6:00 am EST In August we featured a fan built replica of The Tumbler from Batman Begins/The Dark Knight . That design was built by Bob Dullam, with help from his sculptor partner Bob Causey. Well now Causey is showing off his ride, created with help from Dullam, a driveable replica of the Batmobile from Batman Forever. More photos, and even a video, after the jump....

Cool Stuff: WALL-E GameCube Mod By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2008 10:46 am EST No, we’re not posting another WALL-E action figure or remote control robot. This WALL-E is actually a fan creation, a modified Nintendo GameCube! Bit-tech user thechoozen, based out of Germany, built this project in a few days. “First we build a movable platform out of a child toy and a rest of Plexiglas. Then we build a cover for the Front ports and attached it to the Platform so that it can hide all ports when they are not needed....

Duncan Jones’ Mute Faces Financing Difficulties By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 8, 2009 5:42 pm EST Ever since seeing Duncan Jones’ indie feature directorial debut Moon, I’ve been waiting to see what he would do next, when he has a bigger budget and more resources. And we’ve been closely following every little detail of Jones’ next, a sci-fi thriller Mute, which has often been compared to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Now Duncan has told The Age that Mute is “mired in financing difficulties,” although the piece says that Jones is “sanguine about events....

Geek Deal: How I Met Your Mother: Seasons 1-4 On DVD For $59 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2009 11:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Guillermo Del Toro Mentoring Muschietti’s Mama By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2009 1:37 pm EST Guillermo del Toro is in talks to produce and mentor commercial director Andres Muschietti’s horror film Mama for Universal, according to RiskyBiz. Andy is writing the English-language screenplay with his sister and producer Barbra. The movie will be based on their acclaimed Spanish-language short film Mama, which traveled the European festival circuit last year. The short film told the story of Victoria and Lily, two girls who are go on the run from a ghostly woman in a Gothic home....

Jay Baruchel Cast In Justice League? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 13, 2007 12:01 am EST Knocked Up and The Rules of Attraction star Jay Baruchel sat down with Le Journal de Montreal and revealed that he has been cast in an ultra secret big budget project for Warner Bros. ObsessedWithFilm provides the following translation: “He’s been chosen by Warner to star in the next big fantasy action film, scheduled for 2010. The highest budgeted project produced by the Burbank studio, a secret for the moment....

JJ Abrams Sells Mysterious Supernatural Thriller Pitch To Paramount By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2007 10:15 pm EST JJ Abrams has sold a pitch for a new supernatural thriller to be written and directed by Maria Full of Grace filmmaker Josh Marston. The yet-to-be-titled-film will be produced under JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot production company, which means – we don’t know and won’t know shit for a long while. That’s right, yet another film being produced by JJ Abrams where the details are being kept under wraps....

Michael Keaton, Eva Mendes, And Damon Wayans Jr. Join Will Ferrell’s The Other Guys By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 14, 2009 12:45 pm EST Filming on The Other Guys, the ‘10 cop comedy from writer/director Adam McKay (Step Brothers, Anchorman) rolls this month in New York, and today sees three new additions to the cast. Formerly entitled The B Team, I’m curious to see what McKay has up his twisted sleeve, because the buddy-cop formula isn’t just asthmatic, it’s cliche to the point of surreality, and he’ll also have Hot Fuzz to contend with....

By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2008 1:43 pm EST Futuresource Consulting projecting that more than half of all DVD sales in the United States will be Blu-ray by the year 2012. I’m finding it harder and harder to believe that we’ll have hoverboards and flying cars just three years later. via: Cinematech via: Cinematech

By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2007 12:53 pm EST The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Yesterday we brought you the new movie trailer. Today we bring you the new theatrical movie poster.

Movie Review: Air Guitar Nation Is Hilarious And Fun By Elaine Mak/March 22, 2007 11:50 pm EST Air Guitar Nation is yet another “Spellbound formula” doc, this time, centering around two determined contestants, following their journey to the World Air Guitar Championships in Finland (who knew that even existed?). I don’t know about anyone else, but even after seeing so many of these films, I still haven’t gotten tired of the format....

New Derrick Comedy Video: Don’t Jerk Off To This By David Chen/Dec. 1, 2009 11:04 pm EST There’s something heartening about Derrick Comedy’s solidarity as they engage in promoting their feature-length debut, Mystery Team. When all the elements are taken together, the whole enterprise seems like a triumph of the web: Derrick’s online roots and Youtube success; the blogger/festival circuit buzz about the film; the use of the Demand It campaign to bring the movie to specific cities; and the video at hand that was recently posted on their Youtube page, “Don’t Jerk Off to This....

New Watchmen Trailer Will Premiere Online On Thursday Night By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2008 9:24 pm EST As you know, the second trailer for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen and the first trailer for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek will be attached to Quantum of Solace, which hits theaters this Friday. The only way to see the Star Trek movie trailer this weekend (aside from the inevitable blurry shaky youtube bootlegs) will be in the theater (the trailer will be posted online on Monday morning)....

Photo: Jack Black Is Driving Miss Daisy In Michel Gondry’s Be Kind, Rewind By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2007 1:16 am EST Another photo from Michel Gondry’s Be Kind, Rewind has found it’s way onto the internets. Last time we showed you a photo of the guys spoofing / reinacting Ghostbusters. This time Jack Black and Mos Def are Driving Miss Daisy. Be Kind, Rewind follows a junkyard worker (played by Jack Black) who believes that a power plant is melting his brain....

Pixar’s Up Tie-In George And AJ Now Online By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 21, 2009 1:28 pm EST George and AJ is a short film-cum-animatic that, until today, was only officially available as an extra with the iTunes release of Up. Now, though, the clip is online and you can see it after the break. Like Burn-E or Jack Jack Attack before it, this is a side story to the main narrative of the associated feature film, in this case featuring Shady Oaks caretakers George and AJ dealing with the aftermatch of Carl’s big escape....

RSVP For The 20 City Transformers 2 Trailer Premiere Event By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2009 2:10 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released the official list of RSVP e-mails for the 20 city Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen trailer premiere which is taking place on April 29th. If you live in one of the 20 cities and would like to attend the event, send an e-mail your your name and information....

Sam Raimi Knows Nothing About Spider-Man 4; But Talks About It Anyway By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2008 2:32 am EST A couple weeks ago, Kirsten Dunst told MTV she’s “in” for Spider-Man 4. That was only two split seconds before she denied her casting confirmation (“I’m not saying anything, I know there’s rumors…”). So which is it? Will Dunst be reprising her role as Mary Jane in the upcoming Spider-Man sequel double shoot?...

Saturday Box Office: Halloween Drops 20%; Balls Of Fury Up 20% By Steve Mason/Sept. 2, 2007 3:46 am EST The 2007 version of John Carpenter’s 1978 classic HALLOWEEN was definitely frontloaded. MGM/Weinstein’s remake/re-imagining of the Michael Myers slash-fest took a dramatic 20% drop on Saturday for a day 2 gross of about $8.65M. Based on the drop, I’m revising HALLOWEEN to a 3-day of $27.28M and projecting a 4-day take of $32....

Summit Finds A New Thriller: The Cold Light Of Day By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2009 8:47 am EST Some of the early big pictures for Summit Entertainment was involved in were thrillers: Memento, Vanilla Sky and Insomnia. But the company has courted kids lately with Twilight, Sorority Row and Sex Drive. But the company hasn’t ruled out making fantasy films for adults — Summit has just picked up a script called The Cold Light of Day, by writers Scott Wiper and John Petro, which the company will co-finance and distribute....

Sundance Movie Review: Funny Games By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 23, 2008 3:23 pm EST Funny Games is not a movie I would wish upon anyone I care about. People complain about movies like Hostel and SAW, referring to them as Torture Porn, well then Funny Games is Psychological Torture Porn. And by that I mean boring, and stupid. Why anyone would remake this film I will never know. Director Michael Haneke remakes his film from 10 years prior, and from what I understand the new film is almost shot for shot the same....