More Photos: The Wrestler By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2008 12:32 pm EST We just got sent another batch of photos from Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. I’m guessing this is probably the last of them considering the film hits theaters within a matter of weeks. The Wrestler is being released in limited theaters on December 17th 2008. More after the jump. More Photos: The Wrestler By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2008 12:32 pm EST...
New Iron Man 2 Photos By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2009 11:15 pm EST USA Today has published a bunch of preview photos from Iron Man 2. The photo above features Robert Downey Jr. as a very pissed Tony Stark, standing in wreckage on a race track. You might recognize the set-up because a similar photo was published in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. This is no doubt the aftermath of Whiplash’s destruction....
New Photo: Pixar’s Up By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2008 2:39 pm EST BadTaste has posted a new image from Pixar’s Up, which was released in an Italian Film Magazine. The image is from a sequence shown at Comic Con, which involved the 78-year-old lead Carl Fredricksen and a 9-year-old wilderness explorer stowaway named Russell, who are dragging Carl’s floating house through the jungle ala a baloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade....
New Photos: Pixar’s Presto By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2008 11:56 pm EST The Animation World Network has a two-page article talking about Pixar’s latest short film, Presto, which will be attached to WALL-E. We first told you about the film last month when a short synopsis showed up online. Doug Sweetland’s five minute film follows Presto DiGiotagione, a turn-of-the-century magician, who is famous for an astounding hat trick. Presto’s apprentice rabbit, Alec, however, is dissatisfied as he shares none of Presto’s wild success....
Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 16, 2009 12:48 am EST Indonesian artist Agan Harahap creates political commentary by photoshopping fictional movie and comic book figures into famous vintage photographs. Above you can see Batman at the Greenham Airfield on June 5th 1944, and below you can see Darth Vader at the Yalta Conference 1945. Click on through to Deviant Art to see more. [via scifi] Joe Sabia attempts to demonstrate Google Wave using a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction....
Ron Silver Passes Away At 62 By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2009 7:30 pm EST Ron Silver passed away earlier today after a two-year-battle with esophageal cancer. The 62-year-old actor appeared on The West Wing, Skin, Veronica’s Closet, Chicago Hope, and appeared in films such as The Ten, Find Me Guilty, Ali, The Arrival, Timecop, Reversal of Fortune, Mr. Saturday Night, Romancing the Stone, and Silkwood. Silver is also known for his political activism....
Spoiler Photos For The X Files 2 Hit The Web! By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 22, 2008 9:18 pm EST Unless July’s X Files sequel (still untitled) ends up being the franchise’s equivalent to Waxwork, I’d say the following photo contains a detrimental spoiler. If /Film was the government or Matt Drudge, we might unleash the sirens and Code Red alerts right now. Am I glad I saw them? Not really. Actually, no way!...
Stone Promo Trailer Featuring Edward Norton, Robert De Niro And Mila Jovovich By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2009 3:00 am EST Millenium Films has released a marketing trailer for The Painted Veil and We Don’t Live Here Anymore director John Curran’s new film, a prison-set psychological crime thriller. Edward Norton stars as a convicted arsonist who looks to manipulate a parole officer (Robert De Niro) into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife (Mila Jovovich) in the lawman’s path....
Terry Gilliam To Finish Imaginarium With Computer Generated Heath Ledger? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2008 7:38 pm EST Last week The Sun reported that director Terry Gilliam had his sights on Johnny Depp to finish what remains of the late Heath Ledger’s role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. However, now comes word that Depp’s reps tell People that “There have been no official talks, and he is currently working on Public Enemies for Michael Mann for Universal....
Thanks For Joining Us For The /Filmcast By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2008 6:52 pm EST Thanks to everyone who came out for the premiere episode of the /Filmcast, our new weekly podcast on slashfilm.com. I would like to thank everyone who was on the air: David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley, Dave3 from Geeks of Doom, and Neil Miller from Film School Rejects. The show will be available for download sometime tomorrow....
This Week In DVD: Australia, Watchmen: The Motion Comic, And More By Adam Quigley/March 3, 2009 9:24 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Not the complete misfire that some people made it out to be, Australia is a thoroughly entertaining and visually lush movie-watching experience. That’s not to say it isn’t flawed though, with its biggest setback being its desire to do far too much....
This Week In DVD: Dirty Harry Box Set, Semi-Pro, Meet The Spartans, And More By Adam Quigley/June 3, 2008 4:34 am EST THE DIRTY HARRY ULTIMATE COLLECTOR’S EDITION BOX SET Prepare yourselves Clint Eastwood fans, because the Dirty Harry series is getting an upgrade. All five films are available on this set, including Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool. Like most franchises, the first entry is the best of the bunch, with the following films getting progressively worse as they go on....
Transformers 3 Will Shoot Big Action Sequences In Chicago And Moscow By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2010 9:27 pm EST I know this isn’t much, but Michael Bay’s official website has been updated with information big action sequences will be shot for Transformers 3 in Chicago and Moscow this time around. Of course, that doesn’t really tell us much, as the Asian power plant opening sequence of Revenge of the Fallen was actually filmed at a factory in Bethlehem, PA....
VOTD: Muppets July 4th Viral Video By Peter Sciretta/July 4, 2008 1:26 pm EST Muppets’ July 4th Viral Video The Pitch: Have no idea where this comes from, or who created it, but once I saw it I knew that we needed to post this second Video of the Day on July 4th. “I, Sam the Eagle, present a musical salute to America.” Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....
VOTD: Wonka Recut By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2008 12:00 am EST Wonka: Recut Trailer The Pitch: Dogfoodfilms recut Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory as a dark, hallucinogenic thriller slash morality tale. Thanks to /Film’s own David Chen for passing this along. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail....
1408 Screenwriter Remaking Stephen King’s Pet Sematary By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2010 11:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. King’s original novel was published in 1983, and was nominated for Best Novel at the World Fantasy Awards the next year. The book was brought to the big screen in 1989 with a film directed by Mary Lambert, and starring Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby and Fred Gwynne....
2011: Disney’s Year Of Sequels? TRON 3D, Cars 2, Pirates 4, National Treasure 3 By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2008 4:41 pm EST A tipster at AICN claims to have inside knowledge Disney’s plan to make 2011 a year of sequels. Again, none of this is confirmed, but let’s take a look at what we know so far about the projects mentioned: TRON 3D: It was reported last year that Commercial director Joseph Kosinski was in talks to direct “the next chapter” of TRON, although we’ve heard this isn’t necessarily a sequel (you can check out some of Kosinski’s commercial work here)....
Bruce Willis Says Live Free Or Die Hard Is BETTER Than Die Hard By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2007 12:36 pm EST Bruce Willis has seen Live Free or Die Hard and he says it’s the better than the first film. He couldn’t be in promotion mode could he? “It’s unbelievable,” claims Willis. “I just saw it last week. It’s BETTER than the first one. I personally think, it’s better than the first one....
Captain America Found In The Incredible Hulk Deleted Scene By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2008 2:35 pm EST You might remember that in June we reported that director Louis Leterrier was making the claim that Captain America had a brief cameo/easter egg in The Incredible Hulk. “As a filmmaker and as a fan, I like to go see movies and watch them several times, … and every time I see it, discover little things in the background,” director Louis Leterrier said....
Chicago Movie Critics To Boycott Fox By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2007 2:01 pm EST
