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$31 Million Dollar Spider-Man Musical Hits A Few Speedbumps By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 21, 2009 12:00 pm EST According to a report on the Bloomberg website (at the end of a trail I picked up at JoBlo), the massively expensive, tremendously ambitious Broadway musical based upon Marvel Comics’ friendly, neighbourhood Spider-Man has been smacked with delays. On the new schedule, rehearsals will begin in the Autumn and the show is likely to premiere at some point in 2010....

Ang Lee To Adapt Life Of Pi By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2009 1:03 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The UK edition of the novel won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2002. The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes....

Batman Vs. Superman By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2007 4:14 am EST Over the weekend we got a ton of emails from readers who saw I Am Legend. You see, during the opening sequence in an abandoned Time Square, a huge billboard is visible advertising a Batman vs. Superman feature film which will hit theaters on 05-15-10. Fans have started to speculate that this could be the Justice League movie. As we’ve told you before, director George Miller recently announced that the Justice League film was still on the fast track, but would be released under a new title....

By Steve Mason/May 1, 2008 12:09 am EST I did a personal survey of studio sources today, and they were unanimous in saying that the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3 video game sensation released on Tuesday, will have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the box office performance of Iron Man (Paramount) this weekend. As I wrote on Monday, this Jon Favreau-directed comic book adaptation is out-tracking last summer’s Dreamworks/Paramount smash Transformers, which is no small feat....

Brian And Wendy Froud Promise Dark Crystal Sequel Is Still Coming, Comic Book Spin-Offs Also Due This Summer By Brendon Connelly/March 29, 2010 8:31 am EST The long, long wait for a sequel to The Dark Crystal has left me feeling doubtful about whether or not we’ll ever get to see the film at all. Consider me heartened, then, to report that Brian and Wendy Froud seem quite certain the film is on the way....

Cemetery Junction Movie Teaser By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2009 2:30 pm EST If you don’t think Ralph Fiennes can be funny, you probably haven’t seen In Bruges. And if you haven’t seen In Bruges four or five times to enjoy just how much fun Fiennes can be, you should probably watch it again. Meanwhile, there’s this lovely new trailer for the Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant film Cemetery Junction, in which Fiennes co-stars....

Confirmed: Scarlett Johansson To Replace Emily Blunt As Black Widow By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2009 12:30 am EST Update: Nikki Finke has now confirmed this story. Scarlett Johansson is now signed to play Black Widow in Iron Man 2, The Avengers and a series of connected Marvel adaptations. According to Finke, Scarlett originally screen tested for the role and lost the part to Blunt, who as you know had to step down due to contractual obligations....

Doctor Who Scribe Hired For Spielberg/Jackson’s Tintin By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 2, 2007 9:52 am EST British screenwriter Steve Moffatt (Doctor Who, Coupling) has been hired write an adaptation of the Eurpean comic strip The Adventures of Tintin for Dreamworks. As you already know, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackscon have signed on to direct a trilogy of films based on Georges Remi’s Belgian. It’s a passion project. Spielberg has been trying to get the film rights to the series for more than 25 years....

Eva Green And New Dr. Who, Matt Smith, Jump Aboard Cloning Drama “Womb” By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 9, 2009 12:59 pm EST Eva Green sure likes her dramas to come at you slanted and askance. Already on her slate are Franklyn – featuring alternative world sci-fi and a masked freedom fighter taking on multi-theistic fascism; and Cracks – a female swim-team spin on Lord of the Flies with a dash of cross-generational Lesbianism....

First Look: Pixar’s Up - Computer Rendered Photo By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2008 2:57 pm EST In January, we published concept art from Pixar’s Up (seen below), which was on display at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Pixar has finally released a computer rendered version of the same frame (seen above), giving us a better look at what the film might look like. I hear the first teaser trailer will be attached to WALL-E next month....

Four Brothers Sequel In The Works, Unsurprisingly Titled Five Brothers By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 14, 2010 12:33 am EST I guess Mark Wahlberg really enjoyed making 2005’s Four Brothers, because THR is reporting that he has gotten the ball rolling on a sequel entitled Five Brothers. Wahlberg apparently developed the sequel idea with the first film’s writers, David Elliot and Paul Lovett (who both also worked on G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra)....

Four Talking Posters From The Spirit By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2008 4:59 pm EST When I first heard that Yahoo had talking posters from Frank Miller’s The Spirit, I thought to myself “Cool, this is the future of movie marketing”. I mean, eventually one-sheet displays will be replaced with flatscreen televisions which can easily switch in and out various movie posters. Say a screening of The Happening just gets out, the theater can load movie posters of films that people who went to see an M Night movie would also enjoy....

HaHa: Tenenbaum FAIL Tumblr By Hunter Stephenson/March 23, 2009 6:17 pm EST Imagine if FAIL Blog was a hipster blood bath sponsored by the Criterion Collection. The nascent but incredibly popular tumblr, Tenenbaum FAIL, posts abhorred photos of people dressed up like the famously stylized, overly fetishized characters from Wes Anderson’s filmography. Crappy facsimiles of Steve Zissou and Max Fischer await. The site also accepts anonymous photo submissions. Whoever is behind this, Slashfilm likes you....

Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, And Robert Duvall To Star In CMT Films’ Crazy Heart By Hunter Stephenson/July 17, 2008 5:01 pm EST Dropping a huge CMT logo on Slashfilm readers is like lobbing two Wall-E fatties into our communal swimming pool. I had to. The amount of monies offered to Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall to star in CMT Films’ Crazy Heart was not revealed. This logline is awesome…...

LOL: President Obama And His Lightsaber By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2009 10:00 pm EST President Obama was photographed swinging a Star Wars lightsaber toy around during an announcement of Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games. I’m not exactly sure what the Olympics has to do with lightsabers (apparently something to do with fencing), but I thought the photo was interesting enough to pass along. And how cool is it that the President of the United States is a Jedi?...

Marvel Studios And Lionsgate Make Deals With WGA By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 24, 2008 8:51 pm EST Joining United Artists, the Weinstein Co. and Worldwide Pants in the “If we can do it, so can you” club, Marvel Studios and Lionsgate made interim deals today with the Writer’s Guild that allow their studios to return to business as normal. We’re very excited about our summer releases Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, and look forward to resuming work with writers on our future projects including Captain America, Thor, Ant-Man, and The Avengers," said Marvel Studios Chairman David Maisel in a press release....

Must Watch: John August’s The Nines Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2007 8:43 pm EST My favorite film from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival is the feature film debut of screenwriter John August (Go, Big Fish). There isn’t really any way to describe The Nines without ruining much of the plot. The plot summery I’ve seen floating around the web describes the film: A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2008 2:59 am 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! Last week we featured a 365 photo art project in Cool Stuff called Troopies where Icedsoul takes a photo each day of LEGO Star Wars stormtrooper figures in different situations. A lot of our readers checked it out, enough that they called the spike if traffic “the /film effect”....

Paul Thomas Anderson Already Writing Next Movie By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2007 7:22 pm EST Magnolia and Boogie Nights are amongst some of my favorite films of all time. Ten years ago, many people considered Paul Thomas Anderson to be the next big director to emerge from the 70’s generation of filmmakers. But Anderson (not to be confused with that hack that makes those video game movies) hasn’t made a film since 2002’s Punch-Drunk Love....

Rosario Dawson’s Occult Crimes Taskforce Searches For A Director By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2007 5:01 am EST As you probably know, the Rosario Dawson created comic book O.C.T.: Occult Crimes Taskforce is coming to the big screen. We talked briefly with Rosario about the current status of project, and she says they are close to hiring a writer director. It is going really well. It’s been really fascinating reading scripts from the perspective of a producer....