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Emily Blunt NOT Joining Forgetting Sarah Marshall Spin-Off By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2009 12:04 am EST Update: Entertainment Weekly reports that this story is false.Emily Blunt won’t be the Black Widow, but she will be co-starring in the upcoming Judd Apatow-produced comedy, Get Him to the Greek. Most of you will remember that this film is actually a semi-sequel/spin-off of Nicholas Stoller’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Russell Russell reprises his role as British rock star Aidous Snow, who has fallen off the waggon....

First Look: The Road By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2008 12:34 pm EST Dimension Films has released new production photos for John Hillcoat’s upcoming adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road in USA Today. Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen, Academy Award winners Robert Duvall and Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and 12-year-old Kodi Smit McPhee star in the the story of a man (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) traveling through a desperate, post-apocalyptic world....

Garrett Hedlund Cast As The Lead In Tron 2.0 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2009 11:14 pm EST Disney has finally announced the lead star for their upcoming Tron sequel. Garrett Hedlund, star of such films Friday Night Lights, Eragon, Georgia Rule, and Death Sentence, beat out Ryan Gosling, Chris Pine and Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield) for the role. Disney is keeping a tight grasp on the film’s story details and won’t even reveal the name of Garrett’s character....

Geek Deal: 50% Off Kotobukiya Vinyl Statues And 20% Off Graphic Novels By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2008 10:06 pm EST Things From Another World is having two notable sales: They are offering 50% off featured Star Wars Kotobukiya Vinyl Statues (use code SWKOTOS). The offer is good until December 31st 2008. TFUW is also offering 20% off graphic novels, Trade Paperbacks, and hard-covers for the whole month of November. Use the code MistleToe on your order to get free shipping....

George Romero Plans For Sixth Zombie Film? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2007 10:44 pm EST We hated George Romero’s Diary of the Dead, and by the look of the emails and comments we have gotten, we’re not the only ones. As we reported earlier this week, The Weinstein Co bought the film, because, well, it’s marketable – even though it may be god awful. And don’t get me wrong, I love Romero’s earlier zombie flicks....

Joe Johnston Offers Small Captain America Update By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 30, 2010 11:53 pm EST The Wolfman director Joe Johnston recently did an interview with Film Journal, and gave a new update on his next project, the Marvel comic book adaptation of The First Avenger: Captain America. “We’re in prep,” Johnston says. “Rick Heinrichs is production-designing and we’re set up down in Manhattan Beach [California]. It’s the part of the process that I love the most,” he enthuses....

Jon Farveau Already Working On Iron Man 2 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2008 11:23 am EST Jon Favreau told the Los Angeles Times that, while there has not been any formal announcement, he has already begun developing an Iron Man sequel. “We’re working on it now, which hasn’t been officially announced,” he said. “It will be released in 2010.” Here is a recap of what we already know: Tropic Thunder screenwriter Justin Theroux has been hired to write the script Robert Downey Jr....

Kevin Smith Talks About A Couple Of Dicks By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2009 8:18 pm EST If you haven’t yet listened to the Special Watchmen Review Edition of /Filmcast, you should do so now. Kevin Smith joined the crew and to geek out in depth about the “unfilmable” comic book adaptation. Smith’s next film, A Couple of Dicks, will be his first feature film based on a screenplay that he also didn’t write....

Kevin Smith Talks About Hit Somebody By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2009 8:31 pm EST In May, Kevin Smith announced that he was developing a movie based on the Warren Zevon song, Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song), which was co-written by sportswriter and Tuesdays with Morrie author Mitch Albom, and featured the backing by The Late Show’s CBS Orchestra, anchored by Paul Shaffer. With Stern on vacation, I’ve finally found some time to catch up on some of my favorite podcasts, which includes Smith’s Smodcast (highly recommended)....

LOL: Terminator 3 Deleted Scene Explains Why The Terminators Look Like Arnold By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2009 10:24 am EST Like many of you, I’ve never purchased or rented Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines on DVD, so this deleted scene has eluded my attention (update: some people in the comments claim that the scene was actually recorded for the T3 video game, but it was included on the T3 DVD as a deleted scene)....

Movie Critics Rank 88 Minutes One Of The Worst Films Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2008 12:41 pm EST We have a winner! Columbia Pictures’s 88 Minutes has been voted one of the worst films of all time by movie critics. Metacritic.com, which compiles reviews from movie critics around the world, has ranked the film at #3 on their All-Time lowest review scores – a 2 out of 100....

New Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li Clips Unleash A Hurricane Kick Of Suck To Your Face By David Chen/Feb. 20, 2009 7:09 pm EST This morning, an e-mail about Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li hit my inbox: “Please note, STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGUND OF CHUN-LI will not be screening for press.” While this added fuel onto an already considerable fire of bad buzz surrounding this film, I was still willing to hold out a modicum of hope....

Official Lost Boys 2 Announcement, Corey Haim Not Included? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2007 1:45 am EST If I was Warner Bros, I would rewrite a scene or two in the script that could be shot in an interior set in the United States just so Haim makes an appearance. It seems like the couple hundred thousand to make that possible will make it worth it for long time fans of the original film....

Rainn Wilson And James Gunn Hawking New Superhero Script By Brendon Connelly/March 22, 2009 10:39 am EST Some little bird tells me that PG Pornocrat and Slither-meister James Gunn is going out to “indie producers” with the script for a new superhero project. The same little bird also reveals that Rainn Wilson is attached to the script, and that the premise is something like an “f’ed up low rent Watchmen”. This little bird – as has become increasingly common this last two months or so – is the little Twitter bird....

Rambo IV Renamed John Rambo By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2007 5:47 am EST Sylverter Stallone has announced that Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra has been renamed to John Rambo. When Stallone announced that Rocky VI would be called Rocky Balboa, I snickered. I just didn’t like the change from tradition. I understood that was the whole point, to publicly acknowledge and separate the film from the last couple bombs. But the title grew on me as time went on, and the movie did not disappoint (which is probably key)....

Sam Raimi To Direct Clash Of The Titans Remake? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2007 8:47 am EST IESB is on a roll this week reporting some juicy rumors. I wonder how many will actually pan out. The latest one is that Warner Bros has offered Sam Raimi a multi-picture deal which includes the Clash of the Titans remake. As of press time, Raimi has not accepted the deal. The Spider-Man director is also supposedly being courted by New Line to make a big screen adaptation of J....

Sundance Parties: Wednesday, January 24th 2007 By Sundance Spy/Jan. 23, 2007 8:02 am EST Everyone wants to know where the new hot party is happening at Sundance. /Film will give you an indepth look at all the parties going on in and outside of Main Street every night of the festival. Keep in mind that most of these parties are by invitation only. Knowledge of the events does not constitute an invite....

Sylvester Stallone Says No More Rambo Films By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 1, 2008 6:55 pm EST Say what?! Days after producer Harvey Weinstein started revving the hype machine for another Rambo sequel, director-star Sylvester Stallone is quoted as saying he’s forever done with the character. The following quote is attributed to Stallone by the Guardian UK newspaper, apparently while the actor was at a press conference… “This is the last Rambo just as Rocky Balboa is the last Rocky,” Stallone told reporters....

Terrence Malick Is Prepping Another New Film; Bale, Bardem, McAdams And Kurylenko Already Cast By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2010 1:08 pm EST Well, what’s this? Does Terrence Malick have yet another film in the works? According to Nikki Finke he does. She’s reporting that the reclusive, methodical filmmaker is prepping “an as yet untitled love story” for which he’s written a script. Claim is that he’s got Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Olga Kurylenko and Rachel McAdams on board to appear in the movie....

The /Film Super Bowl XLIII Ad Awards By David Chen/Feb. 1, 2009 9:10 pm EST Company Who Most Clearly Spent All Their Money on Buying Advertising Time (and nothing else): Vizio Vizio is known as a budget HDTV, and this advertisement goes a long way towards corroborating that reputation. This Doritos advertisement shows that even the Doritos company has enough skill to direct a Final Destination film. Best Use of Koala Abuse: CareerBuilder...