Status Updates On Remakes For The Birds, Nightmare On Elm Street, And Rosemary’s Baby By Adam Quigley/July 28, 2008 1:17 am EST While at Comic Con, I got the opportunity to sit down and talk one-on-one with Friday the 13th producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, both of whom were nice enough to give me the lowdown as to what stage of production their other upcoming remakes are currently at....
Stoic Movie Trailer: Uwe Boll Gets Serious! By Russ Fischer/June 5, 2009 4:25 pm EST What if Uwe Boll made a movie that wasn’t trash? That’s not to say that Stoic, starring Edward Furlong as a prison inmate who is involved in the savage death of his cellmate, will actually be good, but does the new trailer for the movie actually suggest that Bol is…trying? gasp! Watch the clip after the jump....
Stuart Beattie Talks Halo, Tarzan And Tomorrow, When The War Began By Russ Fischer/July 17, 2009 9:17 am EST Stuart Beattie is starting to promote G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra, but he’s got a lot more projects to talk about. Beattie was recently announced as the writer/director who would adapt the Australian book series that begins with Tomorrow, When the War Began, and he’s got a Tarzan script and a Halo spec that he’s trying to get off the ground....
Sundance Film Festival Goes On Tour By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 5, 2009 4:00 pm EST I knew it was bound to happen eventually… in the future the masses won’t have to travel to the snow-filled mountain town of PArk City Utah to attend the Sundance Film Festival. Eventually the festival will offer digital streaming of some of the independent feature film premieres the movie theaters across the country. While that day is still a few years off, Sundance announced yesterday that they will be launching a new expansion this year called Sundance Film Festival USA, a new program which will screen films from the festival in eight cities across the country as the festival coems to a close in Park City....
The Forbidden Kingdom Promo Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 15, 2007 2:50 am EST The first video footage from the Jackie Chan/Jet Li collaboration The Forbidden Kingdom in now online. The Forbidden Kingdom is about a bullied New York teenager (Michael Angarano) who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and classic Kung Fu movies. One day he discovers a legendary warrior’s staff in a Chinatown pawnshop, which transports Jason back to ancient China....
Top Class Editors Called In To Rework The Wolfman By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 17, 2009 3:34 pm EST You may not immediately jump to this same conclusion, but I think there’s finally some good news to share about Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman. Having said that, this is a film I’ve been feeling really quite down on since original director Mark Romanek left the project and, to be honest, I don’t think anything we could end up with now will be even a mere shade of what Romanek could have realised....
Up In The Air Deleted Scene: Ryan Bingham Goes To Space By Peter Sciretta/March 8, 2010 4:29 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/UpInTheAir_OnlineClipReel_Clip4_Spacesuit_QT.flv 550 412] I actually really dig the segment on its own, but I can see how it would have felt too on the nose at that point in the film. Here is information on the home video release: UP IN THE AIR DVD & Blu-ray...
Video: On The Set Of Speed Racer With Matthew Fox By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2007 8:08 pm EST
VOTD: Jason Segel Performs Song With Once Musicans The Swell Season By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2009 3:30 am EST Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) joined The Swell Season, Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová (you know, the musical artists from the indie musical Once) on stage at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on November 18th, 2009. Segel joked that the movie Once beat out the Dracula Love song from Forgetting Sarah Marshall at the Academy Awards due to Hollywood “politics....
Watchmen, Terminator Salvation And Dante’s Inferno Video Game Trailers By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2008 1:28 am EST Last night during the SpikeTV Video Game Awards, they premiered the trailers for upcoming movie video game adaptations Watchmen and Terminator Salvation. They also showed a first look at Dante’s Inferno, the Electronic Arts video game which was subject to a bidding war last month which ended with Universal Pictures winning the right to develop a big screen movie adaptation....
/Filmcast Ep. 38 - The International (GUEST: Russ Fischer From CHUD) By David Chen/Feb. 17, 2009 8:32 pm EST In this episode of the /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley discuss their their thoughts on the Inglorious Basterds and Wolverine trailers, explain why Scott Pilgrim may be the next great comic book film, and revel in the joys of the new Friday the 13th. Special guest Russ Fischer joins us from CHUD....
2-Minute Sneak Peek At Predators By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2010 1:40 am EST Coming to theaters on July 7th, 2010
Anthony Minghella Dead At Age 54 By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2008 2:05 pm EST Oscar-winning director and writer Anthony Minghella died on Tuesday at age 54. The Guardian reports that the director suffered a fatal hemorrhage after a “routine operation” was motivated by a growth on his neck which was suspected to be “cancer of the tonsils and neck.” The surgery took place last week and everything looked good, until “he developed a haemorrhage last night and they were not able to stop it....
Clash Of The Titans International Trailer: Behold The Fury Of Zeus And Hades By Russ Fischer/Feb. 1, 2010 12:38 pm EST We’ve seen a couple trailers for the Louis Leterrier remake of Clash of the Titans, but they’ve been mostly monster and action shots so far, seemingly aimed at those who know the original film. A teaser isn’t meant to give any indication of story, so we’ll give that one a pass, but watch the first full length trailer and you’ll see little that gets across any story besides, “hey, monsters!...
Cool Stuff: How Did R2-D2 Get His Name? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 10, 2008 8:34 am EST Flipping through The Star Wars Vault hardcover book (which I plugged in Cool Stuff a few days back), I came across an interesting bit of Star Wars trivia that I had never known before How Did George Lucas come up with the name for R2-D2? The amazing must-see photo answer after the jump. There must be some complicated technical answer, right?...
Cool Stuff: Mark Brooks “Starbuck” By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2009 6:00 am EST Mark Brooks wondered what currency might look like in a galaxy ruled by the Empire. Created for the Star Wars Fan Days in 2007, the result is the “Starbuck”. As a guest artist and I wanted to do something for the show. There’s a lot of artwork out there most as posters, lithographs or prints so I wanted to do something different....
Cool Stuff: Unobtanium T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2010 1:30 pm EST Many critics and moviegoers alike have laughed at Avatar’s element of value — Unobtanium. For those of you who don’t know, Unobtanium is not a real element, but is a real word used in the world of science. Derived from unobtainable + -ium, Wikipedia says the word is used to refer to “any extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material needed to fulfill a given design for a given application....
David Goyer Leaving FlashForward By Devindra Hardawar/Feb. 7, 2010 10:59 pm EST Things haven’t been going as planned for FlashForward, ABC’s Lost-replacement sci-fi drama that debuted last fall. Ratings have dropped steadily for the series since it launched, it lost Marc Guggenheim as its first showrunner in November (who was replaced by co-creator David Goyer), and then ABC decided to extend the show’s hiatus until March to avoid January competition. Oh, and it’s also sort of terrible....
By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2007 6:19 am EST I believe this trend began when Lionsgate green-lit SAW 2 immediately following the opening weekend of the original. It seems to be a growing trend in horror movies. I’m under the belief that the development executives believe there is a finite shelf life for a movie property. And by shelf life, I don’t mean one, two or three films. I mean – a time limit....
Has Simon Pegg Been Cast In Harry Potter? Nope! By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 21, 2010 7:00 am EST Update: Simon Pegg has responded “I am NOT in Harry Potter but I am the new Q in James Bond. (FALSE).” So as expected, it is not true, and was just a joke by the Brit comic actor. I know this is extremely speculative (and yes, we’re being very up front about that fact), but Harry Potter fans have begun to speculate that Star Trek/Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg has scored a cameo or small role in the last installments of the Harry Potter film series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows....
