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The Dark Knight Is Already The Most Downloaded Movie Of 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2008 1:47 am EST It was no surprise that The Dark Knight tops Yahoo’s top 10 downloaded movie trailers of the year: The Dark Knight Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Twilight The Incredible Hulk Iron Man Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Wanted Hancock Sex and the City Kung Fu Panda But the shocker came when Apple announced today that they have crowned a new best-selling digital movie download of the year....

The Joker Revealed By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2007 9:48 pm EST On Thursday we posted a photo of a Harvey Dent for Gotham District Attorney poster (seen below) that was released on The Dark Knight mini site ibelieveinharveydent.com. Most people (like us) complained about the horrible photoshop job. But what first seemed like a poorly done Internet release actually became viral, resulting in the unmasking of The Joker. These Joker cards were “found” spread all over a comic book store in Southern California....

TIFF Movie Review: Run, Fatboy, Run By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2007 11:31 pm EST Remember David Schwimmer? He played Ross on Friends, and now he wants to be a director. His feature film debut, Run Fatboy Run premieres at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. I was able to get an advance look at the film, although I wasn’t expecting much going in. The reason I wanted to see the film was because it starred Simon Pegg, who you may know from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz fame....

Universal And Focus Features Co-Producing Park Chan-Wook’s Thirst By Devindra Hardawar/Sept. 12, 2008 1:00 pm EST Korean auteur Park Chan-Wook, most famous for the phenomenally kickass Oldboy, is getting some help from American shores for his next film, Thirst. Universal Pictures and Focus Features will be investing and co-producing, and Focus will distribute the film in North America. The film, about a priest who becomes a vampire after a medical experiment gone wrong, certainly seems like an interesting project for Park....

VOTD: Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis And Charlize Theron By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2009 12:00 am EST One of the best web series going is the talk show parody Between Two Ferns, which features Zach Galifianakis as a selfish, boorish host of a cable celebrity talk show. He’s speared guests like Jon Hamm, Jimmy Kimmel and Natalie Portman in the past, and now talks to Charlize Theron. But Charlize isn’t fazed by the Galifianakis persona in the same way his guests have been in the past, and the results are some of the most hilarious the series has to offer....

VOTD: Giant Indiana Jones And The Giant LEGO Boulder Of DOOM By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2008 5:06 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/indylegoboulder.flv 460 342] Indiana Jones and the Giant LEGO Boulder of Doom by MacAttack The Pitch: To celebrate the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a bunch of Indy fans rolled a 9-foot tall 5-million piece LEGO boulder down a San Francisco hill. Watch More Cool Videos Here!...

Zack And Miri Make A Porno: New Photos And Production Logo By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2008 11:58 am EST The official Zack and Miri Makes a Porno website (zackandmiri.com) features some new photos and the first we’ve seen of the film’s production logo. I like it, but it should be noted that writer/director Kevin Smith warns it is only a production logo: “It was the production logo: on all the stationary, the chair-backs, the slate....

Anne Hathaway And Jim Sturgess In Talks For Lone Scherfig’s One Day By Brendon Connelly/March 11, 2010 12:20 pm EST On the blah blah rounds to promote her latest picture The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, producer Nina Jacobson has let slip the main talent attached to upcoming project One Day. She revealed that as well as director Lone Scherfig, BAFTA nominated for An Education, there’s also potential stars Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess in orbit too....

Cool Stuff: Aaron Horkey’s Dead Man Poster By Russ Fischer/Sept. 14, 2009 6:00 am EST Holy beautiful. It doesn’t take much to hook me on a poster that represents Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, one of my very favorite films. But to make a poster this elaborate for a film so austere takes some guts, and the design is so over the top that I can’t help loving it. I’ve seen some of artist Aaron Horkey’s work before, but in compsition, color and the letterpress accents, this one goes far beyond the other work I’ve noticed....

Cool Stuff: Chariots Retired T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2009 8:34 pm EST Ian Leino’s Chariots Retired t-shirt design features some of the coolest vehicles from the 1970’s and 1980’s. Here is a note from the artist: “As a kid, I grew up with all of these shows and movies where the vehicles were so much a part of the story that they almost felt like another character. Back then I tried building them with my legos, but I didn’t have any of the good pieces (just a lot of the chunky block ones), so they mostly ended up looking like multicolor cubes....

Cool Stuff: Nightmare Town Toy Display By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2008 9:07 am EST Nightmare Before Christmas use to be one of my favorite films. Tim Burton’s designs would make such great toys, but all the releases from the Nightmare series have disappointed me to the point of no purchase. I did buy up all of the small figures from Burton’s short story book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, and those figures proudly stand on display on one of my book shelves....

Could Fewer Downloads Mean Bigger Box Office For Wolverine? By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2009 12:29 am EST Entertainment Weekly is claiming that the film is still tracking pretty high with the key demographics, but those numbers don’t reflect the buzz I’ve seen in the wilds of San Francisco. It could be that I’m just not interacting with enough 14-18 year olds (actually, now that I think of it, I don’t think I interact with the key demo at all) who are really excited to see the film, and aren’t among the estimated 1,000,000+ who have already illegally downloaded the film....

Mortal Kombat Redo In The Works By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 26, 2010 10:50 am EST There’s a surprising little story at Bloody Disgusting which reveals Warner Bros. are in early development of a new Mortal Kombat movie. They’ve already selected a writer in Oren Uziel, author of the Black List 2009 entry Shimmer Lake. That script was a twisty, suspenseful thriller that combined murder mystery with a bank heist plotline, so it would seem Uziel has a smarter way with narrative than is strictly necessary for a beat ’em up tournament film....

Motorcycle Diaries Duo To Adapt Novel American Rust By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2009 7:37 am EST Variety reports that Walter Salles and Jose Rivera are attached to direct and write the script from Philipp Meyer’s debut novel. Scott Stuber is producing and he’s got a first-look deal with Universal, though if the book and eventual film are as downbeat as most say, I’d be surprised if Universal picked up the movie....

Overture Troubles Hit New Projects From Seth Gordon And David Gordon Green By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 25, 2010 2:00 pm EST Overture are the film unit of Liberty Starz, itself a subsidiary of the Liberty Media Corp. This year they have Brooklyn’s Finest and the horror remakes The Crazies and Let Me In already scheduled for release, with Stone and Jack Goes Boating sure to follow afterwards. Beyond that…? Question marks....

Paul Rudd Says Anchorman 2 Might Be Set…in Space By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 14, 2008 11:30 am EST Or the ’80s. Music Television chatted with Paul Rudd—you get a free Rudd if you make a movie—about the possibilities for Adam McKay’s Anchorman 2. Yeah, it’s probably happening. It seems the filmmakers have considered strapping the 2004 film’s mustachioed love of the absurd to a rocket… “Last I heard they were starting to write it and they were thinking about setting it in the eighties,” Rudd said....

Paul W.S. Anderson Leaves Castlevania And Goes On A Death Race Instead By Peter Sciretta/March 27, 2007 9:23 am EST Paul W.S. Anderson will no longer be writing or directing Rogue Pictures’ adaptation of the classic Dracula video game series Castlevania. According to Dread Central, the director will instead turn his concentration to Death Race 3000, the remake of Death Race 2000. A teaser poster, seen left, for Castlevania had even been displayed at the 2006 American Film Market....

Peter Jackson Still Pondering A New Take On Gallipoli By Russ Fischer/Dec. 15, 2009 5:10 am EST He’s hardly got a plate as full as that of Guillermo del Toro, but now that The Lovely Bones is in theatres, Peter Jackson still has a few things to work on. There’s Tintin and a couple of Hobbit movies to finish, just for starters. But he’s still talking about a project that is dear to him: a new take on the Battle of Gallipoli, an attempt made during World War I to take the Turkish Peninsula....

Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool Played Major Part In Wolverine Reshoots? By David Chen/Jan. 22, 2009 3:28 pm EST According to a user on the site, “most of the footage shot included Reynolds and Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman,” and Reynolds’ appearance will be significantly more than a cameo. This implies that at least some of the reshoots went to doing significant character work; whether you interpret that as good or bad, I leave up to you....

Smokin’ Aces Prequel Greenlit… Again? By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 5, 2008 10:15 am EST We initially reported back in May 2007 that Joe Carnahan was working on a direct-to-DVD prequel for Smokin’ Aces, but little was heard about that project since then. I assume something fell through with that initial offer, because it seems that the prequel is go again. Carnahan writes on his blog: Finally, some actual ‘Smokin Aces’ news. Universal has officially greenlit the...