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Robert Zemeckis’ Next Christmas Tale To Be The Nutcracker? By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 11, 2009 3:38 pm EST Despite a number one position at the box office this weekend (in the US as well as here, in my motherland), we can’t exactly call Robert Zemeckis’ film of A Christmas Carol a smash hit. There’s definitely a little way to go until it turns a profit on it’s supposed $200 million budget. Off timing, then, to hear of his plans for another motion-captured Christmas story, The Nutcracker....

Space Chimps Movie Poster By Hunter Stephenson/May 22, 2008 11:21 am EST Kid’s movie posters that command you to do something are next levs. Still, there’s not a chance in hell that Space Monkeys will reign supreme over 1987’s Project X as the top monkeys-in-flight-afternoon-delight movie of our times. Even with voice talent including Cheryl Hines, Jane Lynch, Kenan Thompson (did he start taking funnay pills?), Andy Samberg, and Stanley Tucci....

Spike Lee To Direct Michael Jordan Documentary, Due 2009 By Hunter Stephenson/May 20, 2008 11:57 pm EST Like a good number of dudes and a fair number of gals, I haven’t followed the NBA with much interest since Michael Jordan exited in 2003. Tried, but too much bark and vanity in my opinion, not to mention the Lakers. Jordan’s remained super low-key since his final retirement–a few Hanes cameos and the ever present Jumpman23 logo–but now a documentary is set to be made about him and his unparalleled career by bud and former sidekick, director Spike Lee....

Step Up 2: The Streets Wins Best Dramatic Film Of The Year!? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2008 11:05 pm EST Not that anyone really cares, but the Teen Choice Awards apparently took place tonight. I mean how can you take any award show seriously that has a category like “Choice Bromantic Comedy” and where Step Up 2: The Streets can win Best Dramatic Film of the year?! The show will air on Monday at 8:00pm et/pt on FOX, but we have the list of movie related winners below....

Stephen King Novella The Colorado Kid To Become TV Series Called Haven By Russ Fischer/Sept. 29, 2009 8:31 am EST The same production team that brought The Dead Zone to television screens is teaming up with Stephen King once more. This time, showrunner Scott Shepherd and executive producers Lloyd Segan and Shawn Piller will adapt King’s novella The Colorado Kid for E1 Entertainment, the studio behind Hung. The product will be Haven, an hour-long episodic series taking place in “a spooky town in Maine where cursed folk live normal lives in exile....

The Baster Looking For More Family-Friendly Name? By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 12, 2010 4:35 pm EST According to Vulture, test screenings of The Baster have revealed a popular distaste for the title. Okay, in and of itself the title is barely offensive but it would seem these test audiences are finding it a little too on the nose in how it makes the film’s central maguffin, a turkey baster used for artificial insemination, too front and center....

The Inception Poster: A Couple Things You Might Not Have Noticed By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2009 10:12 am EST The teaser poster for Christopher Nolan’s Inception hit the web yesterday. There are a couple of observations that we didn’t include in our initial posting that I think some of you might be interested in. For instance, did you notice the similarity between the Inception poster and the Joker teaser poster for Christopher Nolan’s last film The Dark Knight?...

TV News: Vote For Totally 4 Teens To Become A New Adult Swim Show (A /Film Fave!) By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 25, 2010 11:12 am EST Almost a year ago, we pined over the freakishly original, disorienting and bizarre trailer for Totally 4 Teens, a proposed series for [adult swim] that appropriated the zany format of a vintage Nickelodeon kid’s show and then aspired to melt viewers’ faces off. You may remember that we recently interviewed the show’s creator and frizzy-haired host, Derrick Beckles, about his psychedelic workout tape and a music video he directed starring fresh-faced pal and fan Michael Cera....

By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2007 12:04 am EST Marilyn Manson’s newest album Eat Me, Drink Me is scheduled for release on June 5th. Titanic director James Cameron was hired to film the music video for Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides The Hand). And like everything Cameron does now-a-days, the video was shot in 3D. It is supposedly part of some larger project that Manson and Cameron are collaborating on. We have no further information about said project, and we have no idea how or when you will be able to view the footage in 3D....

VOTD: Battlestar Galactica Version Of The Beastie Boys’ Sabotage Music Video By Peter Sciretta/March 10, 2010 10:44 pm EST katamaran78 has created “Galactica: Sabotage”, a remake of Spike Jonze’s now classic music video for the Beastie Boys song Sabotage, but edited together using footage from Battlestar Galactica. I was very impressed how the video was copied almost shot-for-shot, so much so the creator also released a side by side comparison of the two videos....

We Own The Night Movie Poster Features Twin Towers By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2007 12:17 am EST On Saturday, we posted the movie trailer for James Gray’s New York City-based Russian mob story We Own The Night. We noted that the film showed promise, and went as far as comparing it to Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. Well, apparently the film takes place in the last millennium, because the film’s theatrical poster (via: IMPA) shows the movie’s stars, Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes and Robert Duvall with the Twin Towers and the New York City skyline in the background....

Will There Be A Sopranos Movie? By Peter Sciretta/June 12, 2007 6:11 am EST Yesterday, we speculated that The Sopranos series finale left room for the long rumored Sopranos movie. Shortly after our posting (which by the time of this posting, generated over 180 comments from outraged fans) a rumor began to sweep Hollywood and the internet that Warner Bros and HBO would be announcing a Sopranos movie on Tuesday morning....

Wolfman Composer Replaced; Danny Elfman Is Out, Paul Haslinger Is In By Russ Fischer/Nov. 9, 2009 12:00 pm EST I suppose there’s no small amount of irony here. The original trailer for the upcoming revamp of The Wolfman didn’t work nearly as well as the later, more music video-like version, which featured the sort of pseudo-industrial rock that you might expect to hear accompanying an Underworld or Paul W.S. Anderson movie....

1978 Battlestar Galactica Big Screen Movie? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2009 1:50 pm EST IGN is reporting a rumor that Universal Pictures is planning to turn the old Battlestar Galactica television series (1978-80) into a feature film. Series creator Glen A. Larson will be working on the script and is also expected the produce. I’m not sure I understand the concept of making a Battlestar movie based on the old television shows as the recent Sci-Fi channel series is basically an updated version of the original series....

Alan Ball’s True Blood Poster By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2008 4:14 pm EST HBO has released a poster for Alan Ball’s upcoming HBO series True Blood. In addition to creating Six Feet Under, Ball won an Adademy Award for America Beauty, and directed the upcoming film adaptation of Towelhead. True Blood is based on Charlaine Harris’ “Southern Vampire” novel series. The series follows the world of vampires set in small-town Louisiana....

Brian Cox To Play A Dwarf In The Hobbit? By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 14, 2009 1:53 pm EST There’s enough dwarves in The Hobbit to keep us in casting rumours for a year so I’m almost reluctant to set a precedent in reporting on them. Nonetheless, this particular rumour revolves around Brian Cox and therefore makes me pretty darn happy. There are thirteen dwarves in The Hobbit, travelling with Bilbo and Gandalf, and the most important of them would be Thorin Oakenshield or Balin....

Christopher Nolan Overseeing Superman For Warner Bros.; Batman 3 Moving Forward By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2010 7:40 am EST I’m sure quite a few people have called for something like this in discussions about what Warner Bros. should do to make Superman work on the big screen: the studio is reportedly turning to Christopher Nolan to act as a “godfather” to help shepherd development of a new Superman film. Before we go further, at this point Nolan is not writing, and is not directing....

Cool Stuff: 16-Inch Darth Vader Vinyl Collectible Doll By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 11, 2008 9:00 am EST Medicom Toy Corporation produced this cool unique Star Wars Vinyl Collectible 8-inch Darth Vader, but it was only made available in Japan. Made in extremely limited quantities, it sold out quickly. Sideshow Collectables has produced a limited edition 16-inch version of the figure, which is now available for pre-order for $199.99. This Vinyl Collectible Doll is individually numbered as one of only 600, and ships in the first quarter of 2008....

Despicable Me Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 4, 2009 4:21 pm EST In July we posted the teaser trailer for Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me, a computer animated film about a trio of orphan girls cause the normally deplorable Gru to rethink his plan to steal the moon. The trailer mostly focused on a world which has had famous landmarks stolen and completely replaced by giant blow-up replicas....

Early Reviews Of Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers Are Positive And Awesome By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 16, 2009 9:44 am EST One movie we’re surprised and stoked to see readers curious about is Trash Humpers, the new Harmony Korine “VHS-horror” flick. Part of the appeal thus far is the bizarre dubiousness resulting from only a handful of stills (like the one above) released online and then followed by a rickety, creepy teaser trailer....