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Jessica Rabbit Untooned By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2008 1:12 pm EST You may have seen Pixeloo’s real life renderings of famous animated characters floating around the interwebs: First there was Mario from Super Mario Brothers, then there was Homer from The Simpsons, and his latest is Jessica Rabbit from Robert Zemeckis’ Who Framed Roger Rabbit. She has really big… eyelids. Check out the full picture below. Jessica Rabbit Untooned By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2008 1:12 pm EST...

Joe Johnston To Direct Captain America By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 9, 2008 8:51 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Marvel Studios has just signed Joe Johnston to direct The First Avenger: Captain America. Like many, I was impressed with Johnson’s early art/effects work, loved October Sky, but was pretty disappointed with everything he has done since (::cough:: Jurassic Park III ::cough::). However, the footage I saw from The Wolf Man at Comic Con was very impressive....

Johnny Depp To Star In A Salvador Dali Biopic Entitled Dali? By Hunter Stephenson/March 12, 2008 1:12 am EST “To grow a surreal ‘stache or to not grow a surreal ‘stache?” According to The New Zealand Herald, Johnny Depp is currently holding auditions for screenwriters to pen an upcoming movie based on the life of the late, great surrealist painter and world renown eccentric Salvador Dali (at right). It’s said that Depp will star as Dali, which sounds like a role he’d gravitate to, though this is the first time I’ve heard of the film and moreover Depp’s involvement....

Jon Hamm Joins Ben Affleck’s Directorial Effort The Town By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2009 11:42 am EST After Gone Baby Gone, which I quite liked, I’m excited for Ben Affleck’s upcoming follow-up The Town, which starts shooting in Charlestown, MA next month. I’m more excited now that Variety reports Jon Hamm has joined the cast, as has Frost/Nixon’s Rebecca Hall. The film is an adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Thieves....

Judd Apatow Creates New Short Film For The Oscars By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2009 11:16 am EST The Academy of Motion Sciences has enlisted filmmaker Judd Apatow to write and direct a short film, some kind of tribute to comedy, for the February 22nd Oscar telecast. Not only that, but Apatow will also be contributing “live material to that part of the show” according to Oscar producer Bill Condon. According to the AP, Moulin Rouge!...

LOL: James Cameron’s Avatar Is Disney’s Pochontas By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 2010 9:35 pm EST Did you know that James Cameron’s Avatar is just Disney’s Pochontas in disguise? Of course, this isn’t very surprising. If you know anything about screenwriting or storytelling, than you know about Joseph Campbell’s Heroes Journey, the mythic structure that has been utilized in many many Hollywood films. You might remember that popular video from College Humor which compared JJ Abrams’ Star Trek to the original Star Wars....

LOL: Racer X Halloween Costume By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2008 6:00 am EST You can be the coolest one at this year’s Halloween party by dressing up like Speed Racer’s Racer X on Halloween? Yes, I was being sarcastic. LOL: Racer X Halloween Costume By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2008 6:00 am EST You can be the coolest one at this year’s Halloween party by dressing up like Speed Racer’s Racer X on Halloween?...

LOL: The Joker As An Even Creepier Ronald McDonald By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 13, 2008 3:08 pm EST This not a good week for fast food (is it ever?). While Burger King is dealing with a prized employee bathing in the friggin’ sink, Gotham’s Clown Prince is peddling Happy Meals at McDonald’s. We can foresee this rad fan-made image being a perennial poster favorite in spring break head shops and messy dorms....

Marvel News: Ryan Phillipe For Captain America?; No Hulk Sequel, But Avengers Appearance Still Possible By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2010 11:56 am EST The forward momentum on casting The First Avenger: Captain America seems to be moving rather slowly. Sure, casting Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull is a great start, but there is still that famously contentious shortlist of possible actors to play Steve Rogers, aka Captain America. That list has had a couple names knocked off, but now there’s word that one more has been added: Ryan Phillippe....

Matthijs Van Heijningen To Direct Zack Snyder’s Army Of The Dead By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2008 8:19 pm EST Commercial filmmaker and visual artist Matthijs van Heijningen will make his directorial debut on the Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead. Joby Harold (Awake) wrote the screenplay based on an original idea by Snyder. The story follows a father on a mission to save his daughter in a quarantined and zombie-infested Las Vegas....

McG To Resurrect Steve McQueen Vanity Project Yucatan By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2007 8:43 pm EST McG hopes to resurrect a lost Steve McQueen project as part of a new three-year first-look deal at Warner Bros. When Steve McQueen died 26 years ago, he left behind two custom-made trunks containing 16 leather-bound notebooks full of drawings, period photographs, a detailed script continuity containing over 1,700 pages of hand-typed/written material by McQueen....

New Cloverfield Details And Photo Emerge By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2008 11:55 pm EST Paramount sent us this new (but uneventful) photo of Mike Vogel and Michael Stahl-David from Cloverfield. Click on the image above to enlarge. A new article in Variety reveals a few new Cloverfield tidbits. Here are the interesting pieces: The film started out as an “elaborate 60-page treatment” by Lost writer Drew Goddard. Cloverfield features no musical score at all, “just source music and well-orchestrated ambient sound....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2008 1:18 pm EST Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2! Omelete has posted some great new international banners for The Dark Knight. Click the image above to see them in higher resolution on Omelete. Transformers will be released on Blu-ray in September [ROS]. Rumor has it that a new Pirates of the Caribbean DVD/Blu-ray set might be in the works for a fall release....

Possible Harold & Kumar Spinoff Film With Neil Patrick Harris? By Hunter Stephenson/March 15, 2008 3:48 pm EST It’s Saturday, it’s raining, college basketball is slowing down, and Doomsday belly-flopped: how about a Neil Patrick Harris post? Why not, right? Peter didn’t exactly chug a pitcher of beer in totes awe after watching Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay at SXSW, but I think it’s safe to say we’d both like to see this stoner comedy franchise continue....

Punisher War Zone Movie Poster By Hunter Stephenson/June 29, 2008 1:42 pm EST With the boffo box office and good worth of mouth for Wanted, we look toward the next violent and proud, R-rated comic book adaptation, Punisher: War Zone, opening this December. IGN received a new teaser poster for Lexi Alexander’s Marvel/Lionsgate reboot starring Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle, and besides the Indiana Jones rip-off tagline (look for future “LOL: Subway Vandals” Slashfilm posts), what’s not to like....

ShoWest: Kung Fu Panda And The Love Guru By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2008 6:29 pm EST ——- Hey you guys, I was able to attend the ShoWest event last night at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, NV to see a pre-release version of Kung Fu Panda. You probably heard about it, and it wasn’t that big enough to post on the site. But this mini-event was pretty amazing, if gave the public probably a few hundred people along with industry reps to see roughly 95% of Kung Fu Panda in it’s completed form....

Slumdog Millionaire: New Trailer, Poster, And Boyle Disappointed Over R-Rating By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2008 10:49 pm EST Last week we ranted about the MPAA’s decision to give the film an R-Rating, and a couple other websites picked up the fight. Our friends at Cinematical had a chance to talk to Danny Boyle about the decision, and he too expresses his disappointment and confirms something I had speculated about in my previous write-up: the film was shot with a PG-13 rating in mind....

Stephen Norrington To Direct WWII Supernatural Action Film The Lost Patrol By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2010 3:30 pm EST Stephen Norrington has been developing his new take on The Crow, but before he gets to that it seems like he’ll first do another project that pushes all his ‘geek buttons.’ The film to break him out of director jail, where he’s been chained to a wall since 2003’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, will be The Lost Patrol for Legendary Pictures, the production company behind massive comic book and fantasy films like Watchmen, The Dark Knight and Clash of the Titans....

Takers Movie Trailer (Like Heat With Paul Walker, Chris Brown, And T.I.) By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 11, 2009 9:01 am EST This is what happens when the Ed Hardies of the world demand a contemporary, made-for-BET version of Heat that stars lawless idiots like Chris Brown, T.I., and…Hayden Christensen thugged out in a $300 fedora and bowtie. Elegantly entitled to the chagrin of Bryan Mills, Takers, the film opens early next year....

Teaser Trailer: The Company Men By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 12, 2010 9:59 pm EST A teaser trailer/musical montage/sizzle reel for John Wells’ The Company Men has been discovered on vimeo (via this article on AICN). The film, which will screen at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of the Premieres category, tells the story of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company, and how that affects them, their families and communities over the course of one year....