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Bus Photos: Spaceballs Animated Series And WarGames: The Dead Code By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2007 2:27 am EST While waiting outside of Comic Con , we ran into two busses decked out in full promotion for the upcoming Spaceballs animated series and the WarGames direct to DVD sequel. We were able to snap off a couple photos before they drove away. We’ve written at lengths about our disgust for movie studios raping some of our favorite films for a few quick direct to dvd bucks....

Dark Shadows Definitely Next For Tim Burton; Set To Shoot In Fall 2010 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 7, 2009 7:26 am EST A feature adaptation of the late-’60s vampire soap opera Dark Shadows has been rumored for a long, long time. Johnny Depp and his company came on board to produce the film in 2007 (Depp has called main character Barnabas Collins one of his childhood obsessions) and in 2008 Tim Burton was named as director, with John August scripting....

Disney’s Monster Attack Network By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2008 10:49 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has acquired the film rights to Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman’s graphic novel, Monster Attack Network. The official plot synopsis of the comic book follows: “MARVEL! At the Pacific island of Lapuatu, perfect in every way…except for the giant monsters. THRILL! As Nate Klinger and his daring team of first-responders at the Monster Attack Network expertly deal with the frequent rampaging-beast-related crises....

Evan Rachel Wood Joins HBO’s True Blood By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2009 6:00 pm EST Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler) has signed on to guest star in two episodes of HBO’s True Blood. According to the report, Wood would play a pivotal role of Sophie-Anne, the 500-year-old vampire Queen of Louisiana. Described as “charming, wily, ruthless and wise” the character has had relationships with many famous people in the last few centuries....

Geek Deal: Samsung Blu-Ray Player For $269!? By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2008 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Inception And Peter Carruthers’ The Architecture Of The Mind? By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2009 3:34 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Plot details for Christopher Nolan’s Inception are being kept tightly under wraps. One source told me that Nolan is the only person who actually has a full copy of the screenplay. Last week a script review hit the interwebs, but it turned out to be an April Fools Day joke....

Isla Fisher To Kiss And Tell By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2010 9:46 pm EST Confessions of a Shopaholic star Isla Fisher is set to star in a high concept romantic comedy titled Kiss and Tell for Universal Pictures. Based on a pitch by Dax Shelby and Robert Stevens, the story follows a woman who discovers she has the ability to see the exact length of a long-term relationship, and how it will unfold, when she kisses a man....

Jennifer’s Body Vs. HBO’s True Blood By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2008 1:49 am EST

Martin Hynes To Direct The Magician’s Elephant By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2009 8:15 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival up against Son of Rambow, and most of the big movie buyers missed it. A wonderful coming of age road trip story featuring Lou Taylor Pucci as a young man who steals a car and sets off on a journey to connect with his brother after the traumatic loss of their mother....

MGM Updates: The Hobbit, Robocop And A Remake Of FX By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 6, 2010 9:32 am EST The sell-off situation with MGM right now seems to be the eye of a film news storm, all sorts of other business swirling around it, crashing and smashing and, sometimes, just whizzing by perfectly intact like that darn cow from Twister. Just last night we found out that Bond 23 is being fast-tracked, despite earlier indication that he was being put on ice and today we get updates on Bilbo Baggins, Robocop and Rollie Tyler, FX supremo....

New Choke Photos By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2008 1:13 am EST

Release Dates: Valkyrie Eyes 8-8-08, Monsters Vs. Aliens Sidesteps James Cameron’s Avatar By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2007 1:43 pm EST United Artists is targeting August 8th 2008 (8-8-08) to release the Bryan Singer-directed Valkyrie which stars Tom Cruise in the real life story of the attempted assassination of Adolph Hitler at the height of World War II. Valkyrie will go head to head with New Line’s Journey 3-D, Sony’s Pineapple Express, Disney’s South of the Border, and Warner Bros’ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2....

Saint John Of Las Vegas: Photos, Poster And Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2009 4:00 am EST Steve Buscemi has been doing a lot of indie films recently, and his latest is no different. Saint John of Las Vegas is a dramedy directed by another first time feature film director Hue Rhodes. The film follows “the wild and funny trip a guy has to take to discover there’s more than one way to hit the jackpot in life....

Sundance: Starting Out In The Evening Movie Review By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2007 1:31 pm EST Andrew Wagner was at Sundance two years ago with his break-out film The Talent Given to Us. In his emotional introduction to Starting Out, he explained how he sat in the huge Eccles theater wishing to someday have a film of his own on the gigantic big screen. He couldn’t get anymore words out, he just tried to hold the tears back, for like two minutes....

The Dark Knight Teaser Trailer? By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2007 1:08 am EST The first teaser trailer for The Dark Knight is probably months away from being officially released, but recently a batch of fan made trailers have surfaced on the video sharing websites. The latest one created by WormyT is pretty impressive, and has even been fooling a lot of people, but I assure you it’s a fan made trailer....

Three More Minutes Of The LOST Season Six Premiere By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 30, 2010 10:09 pm EST On Friday, the opening scene from the premiere episode of Lost: Season Six leaked online. This weekend, a three minute sequence from the upcoming premiere episode, “LA X”, premiered on Verizon and was uploaded to YouTube. The video quality isn’t too great A better digital copy is now online, but I know some of you out there just can’t wait until Tuesday night....

VOTD: Drunk History With Jack Black And Clark Duke By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 17, 2008 12:21 am EST Right in time for the release of Sex Drive, we’ve posted this installment of VBS’s Drunk History starring Clark Duke as Benjamin Franklin’s “dickhead trust fund son.” As narrated by a hirsute and barfing drunk, we discover that it was a young William Franklin, not Ben (as played by Jack Black), who originally flew a kite attached to a key into a storm to prove, uh, something profound about electricity....

VOTD: Indiana Jones And The King Of Swing By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2008 12:00 am EST Indiana Jones and the King of Swing by Black20The Pitch: Watch Indiana Jones as he swings his way out of trouble, again and again and AGAIN.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.com. VOTD: Indiana Jones And The King Of Swing...

VOTD: Lost In The Air: The Jason Reitman Press Tour Simulator By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2010 12:43 am EST I’ve always found the process of interviewing filmmakers on press tours to be a bit strange. It usually happens at some big fancy hotel, in one of the suites, on an entire floor taken over by a press junket for the film release. You often enter a room as the last journalist is finishing up his interview or saying goodbye....

VOTD: Tom Hanks Performs The Big Rap By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2009 12:00 am EST Tom Hanks appeared on the BBC’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, and talked about the many things that fans say to him on the street. Somehow this conversation leads to him performing the rap from Big. (thanks to /film reader david s for the tip) VOTD: Tom Hanks Performs The Big Rap By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2009 12:00 am EST...