300 Will NOT Break Box Office Records By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2007 3:34 pm EST Fans rushed to the early showings of 300, drawing sell-out crowds. Imax reported that all 57 of its 12:01 a.m. Friday screenings had sold out as its advance ticket sales for the weekend hit a new record for the month of March. And many of the rest of the nation’s 600 theaters with early morning shows also played to capacity crowds....
Armored Movie Trailer 2 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2009 8:30 pm EST Screen Gems has released a second trailer for the action-thriller Armored. This film looks like one of those middle of the road action movies you don’t hear about before or after it hits theaters – it just seems to float in and out of existence. But since director Nimrod Antal is signed up to direct Predators, the Robert Rodriguez-produced Predator reboot for 20th Century Fox, everyone is taking a bit more notice....
Beauty And The Beast 3D Sequence Wows At ShoWest By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2009 2:43 pm EST When Disney first announced that they would be rereleasing Beauty and the Beast upconverted into Digital 3D, I was very skeptical. For a film like Toy Story, the up conversion makes sense because the movie was animated using 3D models. But with a hand drawn animated film like Beauty and the Beast, you have an entirely different animal altogether....
Box Office: Obsessed Is The Biggest Last-Weekend-Of-April Opener Ever By Steve Mason/April 24, 2009 11:16 pm EST OPENINGS FOR BEYONCE MOVIES Austin Powers: Goldmember – $70.3M opening Obsessed – $27.5M opening (projected) Pink Panther (2006) – $20.2M opening Dreamgirls – $14.1M wide break (after a platform start) The Fighting Temptations – $11.7M opening Cadillac Records – $3.4M opening Now a million-selling solo artist with ubiquitous hits like Irreplaceable and Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), she is beginning to cash in at the box office....
Box Office: Potter Adds $28.8M On Saturday, Transformers Tops $200M By Steve Mason/July 15, 2007 6:16 pm EST HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX continued its box office roll on Saturday grabbing an estimated $28.82M, putting the fifth installment of the Potter franchise past the $100M mark on just its 4th day of release. It will be tough for HP5 to reach $80M for its traditional Fri-Sun 3-day, but my revised 3-day projection is still a magical $76M, giving it a 5-day opening of $137....
Cool Stuff: Eric Tan’s Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Poster By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2009 6:00 am EST We’ve featured many of artist Eric Tan’s creations in past Cool Stuff columns: we’ve spotlighted his work for past Pixar productions, X-Men, among other things. Tan has been creating a series of posters for the Indiana Jones film series. You can see his Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom posters in our linked Cool Stuff articles....
Cool Stuff: McFly’s Hoverboard T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/June 9, 2008 12:17 am EST Lafraise is selling a McFly’s Incredible Hoverboard t-shirt, an obvious reference to the prop and character from Back to the Future 2. Printed on American Apparel T-shirt and available from sizes Small to XXL for 22,00 Euros (or roughly $35 American). Why is it so expensive to buy cool t-shirts from Europe? Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm....
Creation Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2009 9:11 pm EST One of the trailers we missed last week was the British promotional trailer for Jon Amiel’s Creation. Based on the book Annie’s Box by Randal Keynes, the great-grandson of Charles Darwin, the film tells the story of a world-renowned scientist who conceives a book which will essentially prove the non-existence of God. Of course we’re talking about Charles Darwin and “The Origin of Species....
Did Judd Apatow STEAL Knocked Up? By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2007 4:42 pm EST Did Judd Apatow STEAL the idea for Knocked Up from a book? Of course not. But that won’t stop people from filing frivolous lawsuits (our legal team would like me to note that the following statement is my opinion, and NOT a fact). A Canadian journalist named Rebecca Eckler says she is suing Universal for stealing her personal tale of an unplanned pregnancy which she detailed in the book Knocked Up: Confessions of a Hip Mother-to-be....
First Full Trailer For Chan Wook Park’s Thirst By Brendon Connelly/April 5, 2009 12:06 pm EST The good folks at Affenheim Theater have been digging in the code of the official website for Chan Wook Park’s Thirst and, despite it not yet being officially released, uncovered the film’s full trailer. Good work, fellas, I’ll be sending over a brass Deerstalker and rosette designed to look like a magnifying glass. This full trailer follows the teaser Peter embedded a few weeks back (as well as a censored Korean version of that teaser)....
Gwyneth Paltrow Joins Soderbergh’s Contagion By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2010 10:44 am EST Brief news on Contagion, the recently announced Steven Soderberg viral thriller penned by Scott Z. Burns. The film already has a hell of a cast: repeating Soderbergh star Matt Damon plus Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law are all in the lineup. Now Gwyneth Paltrow has joined as well, making this a cast that is sizable enough to span continents as a deadly virus spreads around the globe....
Harry Potter: The Exhibition By Peter Sciretta/April 26, 2008 3:27 pm EST Warner Bros announced on Friday that they will be bringing a 10,000 square foot Harry Potter exhibit to 10 or more cities throughout the world over a five year span. Harry Potter: The Exhibition will open in a major market in Spring 2009. Read the press release after the jump. BECKER GROUP AND WARNER BROS. CONSUMER PRODUCTS ANNOUNCE “HARRY POTTER: THE EXHIBITION"International Touring Exhibit to Debut in 2009 (Baltimore — April 25, 2008) Becker Group, in partnership with Warner Bros....
January Jones Teams Up With Nicolas Cage For Hungry Rabbit Jumps By Devindra Hardawar/Oct. 27, 2009 11:11 pm EST Not surprisingly, it seems that things are going well for January Jones’s career after her great work in Mad Men. In a recent page 3, we mentioned that Jones would be joining Diane Kruger and Liam Neeson in Unknown White Male. Now it seems she has another theatrical project lined up. Jones will be starring in Hungry Rabbit Jump, alongside Nicolas Cage as his wife....
Leonardo DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 7, 2007 12:50 pm EST Yes, another climate crisis documentary. But this one is produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. While Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was a powerful film, it was essentially a big screen adaptation of his slide presentation. And in effect, it sometimes lacked the cinematic qualities of a documentary (although they pulled it off well). The 11th Hour seems to focus more on that aspect of the production....
Let Me In Gets October 2010 Release By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2010 12:30 pm EST Overture Films has announced a release date for Matt Reeves’ Let Me In, the American adaptation of Let the Right One In. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on October 1st, 2010. Currently shooting in New Mexico, the film directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) stars Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road), Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass) and Oscar® nominee Richard Jenkins (The Visitor)....
Marvel Studios Planning Venom Spin-Off Movie By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 3, 2008 3:13 pm EST A random news symbiote has infested the Nets today and, as Ned Ryerson would squeal, “it’s a doozy.” IESB reports that Marvel Studios is prepping a Venom spin-off and has already met with “several A-list writers.” Before you fire off the sirens to alert the strikers, you may recall that a bit ago Marvel cut a deal with the WGA....
McG To Direct Spy Film Adaptation; Potential New Franchise By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 23, 2008 1:45 pm EST After Terminator Salvation, McG will direct a big screen adaptation of the upcoming spy novel, Dead Spy Running for Warner Bros. Written by Daily Telegraph journalist Jon Stock, the novel tells the origin story of former MI5 agent Daniel Marchant. Patrick Janson-Smith has described the new series as “John le Carré meets Jason Bourne” and claims that Stock has “reinvented the spy novel for the 21st century....
New Transformers 2 Movie Trailer - What Did You Think? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 13, 2009 1:09 am EST The first offical Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie trailer is attached to Friday the 13th, which is in theaters this weekend. Crappy copies of the trailer are already all over YouTube. That was fast. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Thanks /Film reader Stark1299 for the tip. New Transformers 2 Movie Trailer - What Did You Think?...
Paul Blart: Mall Cop Director To Helm Short Circuit Remake By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2009 4:18 am EST We’ve known that Dimension would remake Short Circuit, and we’ve known that Robot Chicken writer Dan Milano would be scripting. Now we’ve got a director: Steve Carr. Who? How about this: he’s the guy who directed Paul Blart: Mall Cop. I haven’t seen Paul Blart: Mall Cop. It might be more funny than a lot of people would like to admit....
Prepare To Choke In August 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 25, 2008 7:33 pm EST August 1st 2008 Directed by: Clark GreggWritten by: Clark Gregg, adapted from the novel by Chuck PalahniukCast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Brad Henke, Clark GreggPlot Synopsis: Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private mental hospital by working days as a historical reenactor. At night he runs a scam where he deliberately chokes in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who “save” him....
