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Outlander Movie Poster By Hunter Stephenson/June 4, 2008 2:41 pm EST Though it recently showed at Cannes and received a fan-site response equal to, “if you want to watch a movie about vikings and a human alien versus an alien creature, go for it,” Outlander still remains tucked in at the Weinstein Co. and is without a release domestically. Meanwhile, an international release for the James Caviezel (Passion of the Christ) sci-fi actioner is tentatively planned for late summer....

Photos: Editing The Wrestler, The Happening, Street Fighter Storyboards, The Spirit Billboard By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2008 3:12 pm EST So many photos, so little time. I’ve bunches these all together to save on the room. Enjoy. FilmSchoolRejects has a photo of one of the new billboards in Los Angeles advertising The Spirit. Much cooler than the crappy production photos released a couple days back. There are supposedly more billboards like this around Los Angeles, but no photos are yet available....

Robert Rodriguez’s Shorts Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2009 2:17 pm EST Warner Bros has released a new movie trailer and poster for Robert Rodriguez’s PG-rated kids film Shorts. I understand I’m not the target audience for this type of film but I can’t even imagine being interested in this if I were a 10-year-old. I mean, sure, the concept of wish fulfillment is fun, especially if you’re young… but the special effects seem extremely cheesy....

Spontaneous Sundance Interviews: Actor Samm Levine, Composer David Mazjlin, Radio Host Jesse Thorn By David Chen/Jan. 26, 2010 9:00 am EST If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve been recording audio blogs pretty frequently while i’ve been attending Sundance. Here’s some insight into how these work: I’ll strike up a conversation with random people next to me on the bus, or with an actor/director that I recognize, then request their permission for a brief interview....

SWAG: Tropic Thunder Bobblehead Set By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2008 6:07 pm EST I returned home from Comic Con to a package in my mail from Dreamworks/Paramount containing a set of mini bobbleheads based on the characters in Tropic Thunder. Click on the photos to enlarge. At Comic Con, I actually got a chance tp see a screening of Tropic Thunder, and it was hilarious. I was one of those people who wasn’t completely aboard this film, having been burnt from Ben Stiller countless times over the past few years....

Trivia: Wil Wheaton Voiced Romulans In JJ Abrams’ Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2009 8:00 am EST What If I told you that Wil Wheaton appears in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek? You’d probably say that you didn’t believe me. Heck, we saw the movie, twice even, and didn’t see or hear a not-so-young anymore Wesley Crusher at all, not even in the corner of the screen. Or at least we thought that was the case....

TV News: Heroes Villain Gets Lost, AMC Renews Mad Men For Fourth Season By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2009 10:38 am EST I have some television news this morning: AMC is happy with the ratings for Mad Men and have taken steps to extend the show, and a Heroes regular is joining Lost. Details after the jump. First up, Variety reports that AMC has decided to renew Mad Men for a fourth season, after seeing the very healthy rating numbers for the third season premiere....

Universal’s Bride Of Frankenstein Remake May Actually Happen By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2009 2:00 pm EST Seems like Universal has been angling for a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein for years. Now, according to the Risky Biz blog, it is rising again, this time with director Neil Burger (The Illusionist) slated to make the film a reality. Burger would write the film as well, with Illusionist co-writer Dirk Wittenborn. But when the only previous remake of the James Whale original is The Bride, with Sting and Jennifer Beals, what makes Universal think this one will fare better than previous attempts?...

Will Disney Greenlight Pirates Of The Caribbean 4: The Fountain Of Youth? By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2007 10:22 am EST Update: Pirates of the Caribbean 4 to Follow Captain Jack’s Search For Atlantis? Despite not breaking Spidey’s record and some questionable accounting, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is another blockbuster success. And while the creative people involved have said that it is the last film in the trilogy, which might spin-off into future films (one of which is hinted in the last act of the film), nothing is guaranteed....

WTF: Secret Wachowski Brothers Futuristic War Movie In Production? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2009 2:53 pm EST Are the Wachowski Brothers shooting a top secret movie right now? This is the question I received in my email from /Film reader Seann A, who included a link to Arianna Huffington’s twitter account. Many of you will recognize Huffington as a syndicated columnist and co-founder of the liberal news website The Huffington Post....

Awards: Hurt Locker Takes Top Gotham Honor; Independent Spirit And Annie Nominations Announced By Russ Fischer/Dec. 1, 2009 10:06 am EST After the break, nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards and the animation-oriented Annies. Today the nominations for the 25th Anniversary Independent Spirit Awards were announced; awards will be given out in Los Angeles on March 5, 2010. Big nods went to Precious (5 noms, including Feature, Director and Actress) and The Last Station (5 noms, including Feature, Director, Actor and Actress) while (500) Days of Summer and Sin Nombre have good presence as well....

Cool Stuff: Muppets And Disney Star Wars Action Figures By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2008 5:20 am EST Disney has released photos of an upcoming series of action figures of Disney / Muppet Characters dressed as Star Wars characters. The Disney characters will be sold individually for $9.95, and include Mickey Mouse as Anakin, Minnie Mouse as Amidala, Goofy as Jar Jar, Donald Duck as Darth Maul, and Stitch as Yoda. These figures will be on sale inside Disney Theme Park Gift shops by early June 2008....

Cool Stuff: Two Wolfman Posters And One Very Limited Soylent Green T-Shirt By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2010 11:06 am EST I’m bunching up two different Cool Stuff posts here, but just as I was about to highlight the two great new Alamo Drafthouse posters for The Wolf Man and The Wolfman I saw this tasty little Soylent Green t-shirt that I thought folks might get a kick out of. And because the shirt is from TeeFury it is available today only — about ten more hours, to be exact....

Fan Made Tron Movie Trailer Featuring Daft Punk By Peter Sciretta/March 8, 2009 11:20 pm EST Last week we reported that Daft Punk would be providing the musical score for Tron 2.0. /Film reader Andrew sent over this fan made trailer for the original Tron that incorporates the music of Daft Punk. It take a little while to get going, but I think its worth watching, if only for its popculture flashback value....

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Character Posters By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2009 12:31 pm EST Warner Bros has released six new character posters for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on MSN. The posters include one shots of Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy and Alan Rickman as Severus Snape. Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Character Posters...

Has District 9’s Sharlto Copley Been Offered A Seat In The A-Team Van? By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 10, 2009 3:41 am EST Its only a rumour, but it’s a heck of an eye-catching one: is District 9’s Sharlto Copley in the frame for a star turn as Howlin’ Mad Murdock in Matthew Carnahan’s new A-Team movie? It would certainly be nice, wouldn’t it? He landed with one heck of a splash in District 9 and already an awful lot of film lovers have taken him to their hearts....

James Cameron Calls Out Glenn Beck And Global Warming Deniers By David Chen/March 24, 2010 5:34 am EST When your last two feature films have grossed over $3 billion worldwide at the box office, you can pretty much say whatever the hell you want. And that’s exactly what James Cameron did at a press junket yesterday. When asked why he was dangerous, Cameron responded: Responding to right-wing attacks to him, Cameron said:...

JCVD Director Adapts Graphic Novel The Insiders; Jessica Alba Still Attached By Russ Fischer/Nov. 30, 2009 11:19 am EST Back in June, we told you that Robert Rodriguez and Jessica Alba had optioned The Insiders, a French spy thriller comic book series featuring a female lead character that definitely harkens back to Alba’s career-originating turn on the series Dark Angel. At that point the whole thing was just a rights option with Rodriguez set to produce....

Page 2 For April 30th By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2008 4:11 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! WALL-E has been spotted hanging on to the side of San Francisco’s MUNI Fast Rail public transit system. [flickr]Phillip Noyce is in negotiations to direct The Art of Making Money, a DreamWorks project about a notorious counterfeiter who printed more than $10 million in fake bills....

Page 3 By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 30, 2009 5:44 am EST Page 3 is the eccentric little brother of Page 2 and compiles even more stories which, for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. There’s a whole heap of different items after the break – video clips, posters, pictures, odd snippets of news. Jean-Pierre Jeunet has been quoted by Tout Le Cine, and they say that he is interested in making some pornography....