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The Brothers Bloom Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2008 1:09 am EST Over the weekend, Summit Entertainment released a trailer for director Rian Johnson’s follow-up to the 2006 indie high school noir Brick, The Brothers Bloom. Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz and Mark Ruffalo star in a comedy about the best con men team in the world – The Brothers Bloom, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now the brothers have decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world....

This Week In DVD: Hellboy II, Kung Fu Panda, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, And More By Adam Quigley/Nov. 11, 2008 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Please don’t take the commentary on the movies and TV shows too seriously, as they’re meant not to be reviews but rather previews that include the general thoughts and ramblings of a twice-committed DVD addict. In regards to movies and shows the author hasn’t seen, the DVD release is placed in its respective category based on critic and audience response....

Tim Burton Asked To Butcher Sweeney Todd, Warner Bros Wants PG-13 Rating? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2007 5:40 pm EST Warner Bros wants Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street director Tim Burton to “butcher” his own film, according to a report from the Daily Mail. Apparently the early footage from the film was so extremely bloody that the studio executives have become a tad squeamish and are requesting the film to be re-cut....

Trailer: Sleepwalking Starring Charlize Theron By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 21, 2008 9:53 pm EST “Joleen is a woman stuck in yesterday.” The trailer for Sleepwalking, the new film starring Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Hopper and Woody Harrelson, exemplifies a terrible grasp on the power of italics. As for the rest, it’s sad to say as the cast is eclectic and has stories for days, but I’m ready to flick this film off to the overpopulated land of promising-indies turned unnecessary-and-forgotten-bummers....

Trailer Watch: Where The Wild Things Are, Sherlock Holmes, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Jennifer’s Body, District 9 By Peter Sciretta/July 3, 2009 3:10 pm EST The new trailer for Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are will premiere attached to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which hits theaters on July 15th 2009. JoBlo is reporting that the trailer will run one minute and thirty three seconds, a bit shorter than the first trailer....

Uma Thurman Talks Stanley Kubrick’s Wartime Lies, Role Of Her Career By Hunter Stephenson/April 30, 2008 12:28 pm EST When I think of actresses lucky enough to have a perfect part, one tailored and empowered with the entire spectrum of human emotion and not simply the giddy sex appeal that plagues Hollywood films, I think of Uma Thurman and Beatrix Kiddo/The Bride in Kill Bill. She should have received an Oscar nom for either volume, and won....

Amanda Seyfried OUT Of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2009 2:43 pm EST Zack Snyder just lost his leading lady. According to Entertainment Weekly , Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body, Mama Mia) won’t headline Snyder’s action fantasy film Sucker Punch after all due to “scheduling conflicts”. Snyder has called the film “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns”, an R-Rated $100 million budgeted 1950’s-period action movie which tells the story of a girl named Baby Doll (the role Seyfried was originally set to play) who is confined to a mental institution by her evil stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days....

Back From Comic-Con By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2007 9:28 am EST I just got back from Comic-Con yesterday morning, and the exhaustion hit me hard. With only three hours of sleep (whose idea was it to go watch a late showing of The Simpsons Movie?), I caught a 7:00am flight from San Diego to SFO. I transfered to the BART (our local subway/commuter train) to downtown San Francisco, and hunted to find a replacement the digital recorder since I lost mine at the convention (note: CompUSA Sucks)....

Bart Gets Fully Exposed In The Simpsons Movie By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2007 12:37 pm EST Okay, so we all know that Bart Simpson gets naked in The Simpsons Movie. They showed part of the scene in the trailer where Bart rides through town in his baby suit, cleverly concealed by strategically-placed props ala Austin Powers. But did you know that we get to see Bart’s ding dong? I’m serious. Reports from a ten minute screening in London last week say that after the elaborate Austin Power sequence, “the audience gets a full view of his private parts through a gap in a hedge....

Big Announcement: /Film To Launch /Filmcast - LIVE Show Tonight! 10pm EST - 7pm PST By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2008 10:14 am EST Yes, the rumors are true – We’ve decided to launch a weekly movie podcast called the /Filmcast. I’ve hired the best of the best to helm this new weekly show – hardcore geeks/bloggers/journalists David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley (formerly of The Watchers podcast) will debate, pontificate, and delve into the latest films, film news, television shows, and entertainment-related items from the past week every Monday Night LIVE on SlashFilm....

Cool Stuff: X-Men Poster By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 1, 2008 7:22 pm EST This UFA German-inspired X-Men film poster was created by Disney designer Eric Tanner. He was responsible for some of the great retro Incredibles artwork. “I’ve always dug those UFA German cinema posters, especially the Metropolis ones. Using them as inspiration, I sketched up a little comp on a napkin. They’re all gonna be sporting their retro uniforms and it’s gonna be like 3 colors max....

Frankenweenie Character And Plot Details Show Differences Between Short Film And Feature By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 1, 2009 10:00 am EST Seeing as some of this is potentially light-ish spoiler material, I’ll hide it after the break. What isn’t sensitive information is the news that these characters are all children aged between 8 and 11. I’m sure the screenplay is more specific than this, but it is interesting to note the absence of adult roles....

Friday Night Shocker: Disney Chairman Dick Cook Fired After 38 Years By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2009 7:51 pm EST After three days of no significant news, it’s crazy that the week’s biggest event went down literally at five PM Pacific on a Friday night. Dick Cook, the popular chairman of Disney who’s been working for the mouse house for the past 38 years (chairman for the last seven years), was fired tonight by CEO Robert Iger....

Geek Deals: 20% Off DVD/Blu-Ray At Deep Discount! By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2008 6:30 pm EST Deep Discount is running their biannual DVD and Blu-ray sale. With the coupon code DDAF you can get 20% off the already lower than low prices (with the exception of pre-orders). Also, posters, Fun Stuff and Storage Units are included in the sale. To give you an example of the kind of deals you can get, I was able to snag the 20-disc Star Trek Motion Pictures Collection (which includes all 10 movies) for $55....

Harold And Kumar Duo To Direct American Pie 4, Some MTV Director To Helm A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas By Peter Sciretta/April 1, 2010 11:36 pm EST A couple months ago it was reported that Universal Pictures was looking to bring the American Pie franchise back to the big screen, but not as a reboot, but a fourth film in the series featuring the cast of characters from the original trilogy....

JJ Abrams Cloverfield 1-18-08 Movie Trailer Released By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2007 3:20 pm EST Paramount has finally come to their senses and posted the much talked about Cloverfield trailer online for all the enjoy. Yeah, we know – it took them long enough. So now you can see the trailer for yourself in much better clarity (the ones leaked onto YouTube last week came from camera phones). So let the discussions begin....

John Cusack’s Stopping Power Has A 51-Minute Chase Sequence By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2007 5:53 pm EST Speed director Jan de Bont has been shopping his latest film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Stopping Power (a colloquial and euphemistic term used to describe the ability of a particular weapon to stop the actions of an individual by means of penetrating ballistic injury) stars John Cusack as an American tourist whose daughter is kidnapped....

Joss Whedon On Dollhouse’s Survival For A Second Season By Devindra Hardawar/April 18, 2009 4:55 pm EST In a recent conversation with Whedon, Sci Fi Wire reports that all may not be lost for the show. When asked if he’s heard anything about cancellation, Whedon responds: Obviously, there has to be a number we reach that is viable for them economically, or it would be senseless for them, unless they were insane fans like me....

Juno Free Advance Movie Screenings By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 25, 2007 8:31 pm EST There are 74 upcoming free advance screenings at the time this was posted. You can RSVP here. Promotional screenings are on a first-come, first-served basis and not guaranteed seating. No purchase necessary. Seating is limited to theater capacity. Check out the list of theaters and dates after the jump.

Louis Leterrier In Talks To Direct Y: The Last Man? By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2010 1:31 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Latino Review is reporting a rumor that Louis Leterrier, director of The Incredible Hulk and Clash of the Titans, is circling a big screen adaptation of Brian K Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man. If you haven’t yet read the series, pick up the paperback (or the new hardcover) of the first volume, as I very highly recommend it....