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Red Gets 2010 Release Date By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2009 6:00 pm EST Warren Ellis’ Wildstorm comic book three-issue mini-series told the story of a former black-ops CIA agent who is forced out of retirement when a high-tech assassin shows up to kill him. The official comic description from Wildstorm reads: As a C.I.A. operative, Paul Moses’s unique talent for killing took him around the world, from one hotspot to another, carrying out the deadly orders of his superiors....

Richard Linklater’s Slacker On Hulu By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 9, 2008 12:59 pm EST Richard Linklater’s indie classic Slacker is now available for free steaming on Hulu. Aslo, Kevin Smith, who credits the film as his inspiration for making Clerks, contributed a new written introduction about the film for the hulu blog. Richard Linklater’s Slacker On Hulu By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 9, 2008 12:59 pm EST Richard Linklater’s indie classic Slacker is now available for free steaming on Hulu....

Robert Carlyle Enthuses About Trainspotting Sequel, Sells Johnnie Walker Whiskey By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2009 8:53 am EST Ever since he owned the screen in Trainspotting, Robert Carlyle has been a favorite actor for a lot of us. But matching a role and performance like the psychopathic Francis Begbie is difficult, so it’s no surprise to hear that the actor would jump at the chance to revisit it. While that still seems like a distant possibility, Carlyle is talking it up anyway....

Saturday Box Office: Rush Hour 3 Dips; Bourne Still Strong By Steve Mason/Aug. 12, 2007 1:13 am EST Rush Hour 3 dipped 8% from its opening day for a $17.57M Saturday, and the re-teaming of Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan and Brett Ratner appears headed for a slightly disappointing 3-day opening weekend. New Line claims that Rush Hour 3 grabbed $19.1M on its opening day, but other studios say that the real number was closer to $18....

Steven Seagal Taking Offers For Under Seige 3…Wants To Make It Sci-Fi By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 2, 2008 3:00 pm EST UPDATE: I would like to thank the NAVY SEALS for reading my post. We were so close to posting two Steven Seagal items in a single month. It would have made for a Slashfilm record and depressing office party. The contemplative martial artist marinated with MTV on the status of Under Siege 3, the (only?...

Terminator Salvation Running Time Revealed? Josh Brolin Was Almost A Terminator! By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2008 11:56 pm EST Remember earlier in the year when rumor spread across the interwebs that Josh Brolin would be playing a Terminator in McG’s Terminator Salvation? Well it turns out there was something to the rumor after all. Brolin admitted to MTV that he was in talks to join the production. “Yeah. I talked to Christian [Bale] for a couple hours,” Brolin told MTV....

The Howling To Be Reborn, And Where Have All The Werewolves Gone? By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 23, 2009 1:02 am EST It seems that Joe Dante’s The Howling is now up for remaking. Tonight we’ve learned that Joe Nimziki, a former studio marketing executive, will be making his feature film debut with The Howling: Reborn. Nimziki also wrote the script. The original Howling spawned a series of sequels that, from what I can remember, were pretty much all crap....

The Spiderwick Chronicles Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2007 9:22 pm EST I’ve been extremely disappointed with the recent batch of fantasy films based on bestselling children’s books. The Chronicles of Narnia, Bridge to Terabithia, Arthur and the Invisibles – it seems like the movie studios are trying to capture the magic of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. They are looking for a family friendly film that could be fleshed out into a franchise....

The Vicious Kind Movie Trailer And Clip By Hunter Stephenson/Dec. 9, 2009 6:11 pm EST Here’s a little indie starring Adam Scott, J.K. Simmons, and I guess I should continue, Brittany Snow, that a growing number of people are on the lookout for. Entitled The Vicious Kind and executive produced by sometime-gangster Neil LaBute, the film sees the irreverent, dry-witted Scott in a more serious role compared to those in Step Brothers and the addictive Starz series Party Down....

This Week In DVD: Be Kind Rewind, Fool’s Gold, Roscoe Jenkins And More By Adam Quigley/June 17, 2008 3:06 am EST As disappointed as I was personally by Be Kind Rewind, the latest film from director Michel Gondry (of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind fame), there’s no denying that the film’s garnered a positive response amongst both audiences and critics, and thus, it would be unfair of me to label it under “The Bad....

Tonight At 9 PM EST: An Evening With Clifton Collins Jr., Man Of A Thousand Faces By David Chen/June 14, 2009 2:13 pm EST Update: The broadcast is over! Thanks to everyone who tuned in! To make sure you don’t miss the final recorded episode, you can subscribe to the /Filmcast using the following links: You may not know it, but Clifton Collins Jr. is one of the most talented and prolific character actors alive today....

21 High Resolution Photos From James Cameron’s Avatar By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 2, 2009 9:35 pm EST Release: December 18th 2009 Director: James Cameron Written by: James Cameron Producers: James Cameron, Jon Landau Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldana, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver Synopsis: AVATAR takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save the alien world he has learned to call home....

Another Disney Film Canned: Robin Williams Comedy Wedding Band Is Scuttled By Russ Fischer/Dec. 14, 2009 12:05 pm EST There are changes afoot at Disney. Rich Ross became the new chief not long ago, and about a month later he canned development on Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Now he’s killed off Wedding Band, the romantic comedy with Robin Williams, Anna Faris and Diane Keaton. We’ve primarily reported on the film in Casting Notes pieces and it wasn’t a movie I was much looking forward to....

Big Daddy Revealed In New Kick-Ass Poster And Red Band Clip By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2009 12:28 pm EST Lionsgate has released a new character poster for Matthew Vaughn’s big screen adaptation of Kick-Ass, revealing our first real look at Nicolas Cage in costume as Big Daddy. I wonder how mainstream audiences will respond to Big Daddy, especially cince the character’s design is a kinda a knock off of Batman. I noticed that they tried to keep the costumed Big Daddy out of the first movie trailer, likely for this reason....

Box Office: Quantum Of Solace Is The Biggest Bond Ever With $27M Friday; Possible $71.5M Weekend By Steve Mason/Nov. 15, 2008 12:18 am EST ALL-TIME BEST SINGLE DAY GROSSES FOR THE 007 FRANCHISE Friday, November 14, 2008 – Quantum of Solace – $27M (estimated) Saturday, November 23, 2002 – Die Another Day – $19M Friday, November 22, 2002 – Die Another Day – $16.6M Friday, November 18, 2006 – Casino Royale – $15....

By David Chen/April 3, 2009 12:42 pm EST I’m already paying fees to RealD for the systems. I’m paying to put in the silver screens and I’m paying to train employees to run the product. To come in at this point and say they aren’t going to pay for the glasses, yet they want all the upside of the revenue, is ridiculous. I’ve never much liked the Ice Age films, but there’s no question that they’re a major cash cow for FOX, with the first two films raking in over $1 billion worldwide for the studio....

Grayskull Is Dead By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 16, 2008 4:59 pm EST You might remember that a few month ago, a review of Justin Marks’ screenplay for the live action He-Man movie Grayskull: The Masters of the Universe was creating some big buzz on the interwebs. Phrases were being tossed around like “fanboy masterpiece” and the story was described as “Lord of the Rings meets The Matrix meets Batman Begins.” It was enough to get us excited about the project – we even listed off five reasons the movie could actually be cool....

Iron Man 2 Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2009 4:15 pm EST As you know, over the past week, the Iron Man 2 viral has been in full effect: newspaper clippings have been turning up around the internet, providing clues to… what? We didn’t know. The last and final clue, pictured above, showed up on LatinoReview this afternoon. This somehow led fans to the website starksecretconfessionrevealed.com, which provided a ticking timer which led to the launch of the Iron Man 2 movie trailer on Apple....

JJ Abrams On “The Mystery Of Magic” In WiReD Magazine By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2009 11:39 am EST In addition to editing this month’s issue of WiReD Magazine, writer/director JJ Abrams wrote an editorial called “The Mystery of Magic” which deals with the importance of mystery in movies and storytelling, and how spoilers effect audience enjoyment. “People often ask me how Lost is going to end. I usually tell them to ask Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, who run that series....

Juno On Track To Blow Little Miss Sunshine Away; Expands To 2,000 Screens By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 2, 2008 7:57 pm EST Juno has drawn comparisons to Little Miss Sunshine (I actually wrote that it was “This year’s Little Miss Sunshine” in my Toronto review, so I might have been the first), but truth is Juno is going to blow Little Miss out of the water. How crazy is that? Who would have thought?...