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Will Danny Boyle’s Next Movie Be The Story Of Mountain Climber Aron Ralston? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 9, 2009 6:29 am EST Going back over all the projects he’s discussed in the last year, that sure could be pointing to the Aron Ralston story. I still love the idea of Boyle filming this tale. Ralston was forced to amputate his own arm in the field with a small knife after he was pinned by a boulder during a hiking mishap....

Blockbuster Goes Blu-Ray By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2007 11:23 pm EST Blockbuster has announced plans to expand it’s Blu-ray disc inventory to 1,700 corporate-owned Blockbuster stores by mid-July 2007. The newly selected stores will each start off with over 170 Blu-ray titles, and expand their offerings as more titles are released and interest grows. This is definitely more bad news for the HD-DVD camp. The company does offer both formats (Blu-Ray and HD-DVD) through it’s online rental division and in a select 250 stores....

Box Office: Madea Goes To Jail Grabs $14M Opening Day For A Possible $39.2M Weekend By Steve Mason/Feb. 21, 2009 12:15 am EST Although I am not necessarily a fan of Tyler Perry movies, I am a Tyler Perry fan. He traveled the country for years doing live stage shows in order to fine-tune his act, and he identified an under-served audience – African Americans, and more specifically black, Christian women....

Box Office: Simpsons On Track For $72.5M By Peter Sciretta/July 29, 2007 11:20 am EST The Simpsons Movie (Fox) dipped an estimated 17% from its meteoric Friday opening, but the animated TV adaptation still grabbed approximately $24.15M. With a conservative 20% Sunday drop, the first big screen adventure for Homer and family will still have banked a phenomenal $72.5M. That’s 45% more than industry tracking services NRG, MarketCast and OTX were calling for at the start of the weekend....

Comedy Central Orders 26 New Episodes Of Futurama By David Chen/June 9, 2009 2:57 pm EST When we brought back Family Guy several years ago, everyone said that it was a once in a lifetime thing — that canceled series stay canceled and cannot be revived. But Futurama was another series that fans simply demanded we bring back, and we couldn’t have been happier when Matt and David agreed that there were many more stories yet to tell....

Comic-Con: Dexter’s Past Explored Through Animated Webisodes, John Lithgow’s Killer Instinct By Russ Fischer/July 23, 2009 6:34 pm EST Because almost everything in certain parts of Comic Con was already running late today, but not quite everything, I raced from the Avatar footage (impressive, incredibly detailed, still more cartoonish than I expected) to the Dexter panel, only to finally be allowed to enter the hall just as the Season Four trailer finished....

Contest: Avatar: The Last Airbender - Book 2: Earth, Volume 2 On DVD By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2007 12:18 am EST Avatar: The Last Airbender – Book 2: Earth, Volume 2 hit DVD store shelves on April 10th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On April 18th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer....

Dreamworks Buys Paranormal Activity, Plans Remake By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 31, 2008 7:31 pm EST One film that’s already being touted as the next Cloverfield even more so than Cloverfield 2 is the recent Slamdance Film Festival sensation Paranormal Activity: Evidence of a Haunting. The indie, handicam-style haunted house flick, shot in a week’s time by video game designer and upstart director Oren Peli in his own house, has been purchased along with all remake rights by Dreamworks for nearly seven figures....

F’d Up Trailer Double Feature: Control Alt Delete And Deadgirl By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 18, 2008 11:06 pm EST Last week at the Toronto International Film Festival, I saw two of the strangest films I’ve seen all year: Control Alt Delete and Deadgirl. One film involves a guy who drills a hole in his computer tower and literally has sex with his computer. The other tells the story of a group of high school kids which find a zombie and turn her into their sex slave....

First Pictures Of John Woo’s Rain Of Swords, Starring Michelle Yeoh By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 2, 2009 10:49 pm EST It doesn’t look like John Woo will be returning to Hollywood anytime soon. After a string of not-so-great Western films, Woo returned to China and delivered the massive two-part epic Red Cliff. I’ve only seen the first film of the Chinese release (haven’t yet seen the condensed most other countries got), and while it certainly isn’t perfect, it towers above anything Woo delivered while in Hollywood....

By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2009 2:45 pm EST HOUSE jumpstarts its sixth season with a special two-hour premiere Monday, Sept. 21 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT). Sunday, Sept. 27 marks the return of ANIMATION DOMINATION with the amazing 20th season premiere of THE SIMPSONS (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT), the series premiere of THE CLEVELAND SHOW (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) and the season premieres of FAMILY GUY (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) and AMERICAN DAD (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT)....

Gary Ross Writing Lance Armstrong Biopic By Brendon Connelly/June 11, 2009 8:37 am EST According to the Risky Business blog, producer Frank Marhsall has teamed screenwriter Gary Ross with the long-gestating Lance Armstrong biopic. “We knew Gary well from is work on Seabiscuit and thought he’d be perfect for this”, said Marshall. Yeah, you know – a man and a horse and a man and a bike. I’m pretty chuffed with this news because, as I’m sure I would have told you before, I’m a big fan of Ross....

Geek Deal: The Sopranos: The Complete Series For $119 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2010 9:20 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Green Lantern Will Be “Loving And Respectful” By Russ Fischer/June 16, 2009 9:05 am EST Given that Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern is meant to start shooting in the next couple months, we really know nothing about it. Which is probably a good move on Warner Brothers’ part. This is one that can be kept quiet. So we don’t know what the story is, we don’t know who’s playing Green Lantern, we really don’t know anything....

Indiana Jones And The Stolen Set Photos By Sundance Spy/Oct. 3, 2007 1:09 am EST There was a break-in at the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull production offices on the Universal lot, which resulted in the loss of 2,500 production photos (including close-ups of all the props including the Crystal skulls and many more spoiler filled photos),the 400-page production budget for the film, and possible scripts and hard drives....

Interview: Darren Aronofsky - Part 1 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2008 12:30 am EST Check back for Part Two tomorrow.

Jessica Biel Is No Wonder Woman By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2007 2:34 pm EST  Jessica Biel will not be playing Wonder Woman in the Justice League of America Movie after all. Earlier this week it was first reported that Biel was officially in talks for the role. But now Entertainment Weekly reports that Biel has officially passed on the role. Comic Book fans around the world rejoice! May-be now they’ll find a good actress, whose body and stature more suits the role....

Kevin Smith Launches Smodcast.com, Shuts Down Quick Stop Entertainment By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 2010 2:00 pm EST Filmmaker Kevin Smith has decided to shut down QuickStopEntertainment.com*, formerly MoviePoopshoot.com, and move his popular weekly podcast series with Scott Mosier to its own website — Smodcast.com. If you’ve never listened to an episode of Smodcast, I would highly recommend you do. In fact, right now you should go to Apple iTunes and subscribe to… the /Filmcast....

Lauren Shuler Donner On Future X-Men Movies By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 21, 2009 11:18 am EST First up was Lauren Shuler Donner, X-producer responsible for all of the mutant movies so far, and by the sounds of things, plenty more to come. Though she wasn’t able to stay for a series of extended interviews, she did take some questions from the floor, including mine. The answer is coming up after the break – clarifying just what is going on with X-Men: First Class at the moment, not to mention the Deadpool movie and a couple of other, less expected mutant pictures....

Michel Gondry To Launch Website By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2008 6:19 pm EST Michel Gondry has decided to launch his own website on MichelGondry.com. The site is not yet live, but the main page features art from Gondry with promises of all sorts of cool stuff for sale, like a book by Gondry on the Be Kind Rewind exhibit, the Disastrology Calendar from sCience of Sleep, a new dvd of music videoes, t-shirts, an extended cut of Science of Sleep, 1000 Bad Jokes written by Gondry on toliet paper (I kid you not) and more!...