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SXSW Movie Review: Choke By Mel Valentin/March 15, 2008 1:36 am EST Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) has a problem, actually many, many problems. Victor numbs himself with meaningless sex with a random assortment of women, young, middle-aged, beautiful, and not-beautiful, then shows up for his weekly group therapy for sex addicts. When he’s not pursuing women with his fellow sex addict and best friend, Denny (Brad William Henke), he’s working as a “historical interpreter” (i....

The Ruins Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2007 12:34 am EST DreamWorks has released a movie trailer for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Scott Smith’s bestselling novel The Ruins. Smith is of course the critically-acclaimed author and screenwriter of A Simple Plan. The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico , who become entangled in a brutal struggle for survival after visiting remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological dig....

Tom Cruise’s United Artists Plots Sci-Fi Trilogy From Ronald D. Moore By Hunter Stephenson/April 18, 2008 12:58 am EST “Sci-fi.” So, a writer/producer for Battlestar Galactica, Ronald D. Moore, is writing a sci-fi trilogy for Tom Cruise’s fledgling United Artists. That’s all of the info offered basically. As we’ve said before, original sci-fi seems to be on the comeback as we close out the decade and enter a considerable unknown. Moore previously worked on Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 2....

Wall-E Teaser Movie Poster? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2007 1:20 am EST UpcomingPixar have posted this teaser poster for Pixar’s WALL-E. I’m not quite sure if this is real, but if so I really need to get this one-sheet for the office. And if it is legit, I’m guessing that it’s probably European mainly due to the use of “cinemas”. The poster is essentially an extended version of the WALL-E photo that was released at Comic-Con....

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps International Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2010 12:37 pm EST A full length international movie trailer for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps has been released in The Sun. The trailer shows a lot more than the domestic teaser trailer (probably giving away too much of the plot this early on), and sports a much better soundtrack: the Rolling Stone’s song Sympathy For The Devil. Watch the trailer after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below....

24 New Photos From Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2007 12:24 am EST We’ve just found a boatload of new Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End photos, thanks to the guys over at Movie.de. Check them out below. Some of them you’ve seen before floating around the web, and some are brand spanking new. But they look to be the official Disney photo stills from the movie....

3D Meet The Robinsons Advertisement, Featurette, And Fun Facts By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2007 12:47 pm EST Disney has started airing new television advertisements for their new movie Meet The Robinsons, touting its release in Disney Digital 3D. You can watch the new ad below, followed underneath by a behind the scenes featurette on the 3D process. We also have a list of fun 3D facts involving the movie. Like did you know: In New York City, MEET THE ROBINSONS will only be seen in Disney Digital 3D?...

ABC Fall Line-Up Ad Features Dead Lost Castaway By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2009 2:49 pm EST A new promo for ABC’s new fall line-up features one of the dead castaways from the television show Lost. Will someone be returning from the dead in the sixth and final season? Watch the promo after the jump. No actual footage from the show is featured, but its still a very possible spoiler. Why would ABC have included such a huge potential spoiler in this tv spot?...

Another Vague Hint That The Goonies Sequel Might Not Be Dead By Brendon Connelly/July 1, 2009 11:45 am EST Do you want a sequel to The Goonies? Really? Well, you might be in luck. The original’s scriptwriter Chris Columbus has been speaking to Sci-Fi Wire about the possible new picture, revealing that Joe Pantoliano, who is starring in Columbus’ Percy Jackson and was Francis Fratelli in the original Goonies, has had some relevant chatter with Richard Donner....

Cameron Crowe Directed Pearl Jam Music Video “The Fixer” By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2009 9:30 pm EST We haven’t heard much from writer/director Cameron Crowe’s (Fast Times at Rigemont High, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) since production on his next film, the Hawaiian adventure romantic comedy Deep Tiki, got postponed until 2010. Crowe decided to also direct a music video for the band Pearl Jam. Watch the video embedded after the jump....

Cloverfield: So What Did The Rest Of You Think? By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 20, 2008 11:21 pm EST This is a forum for all of you piling out of Cloverfield this morning, afternoon, evening and throughout the weekend/month. Did you think J.J. Abrams’s and Matt Reeves’s film was a modern day classic? Did the monster meet your expectations? Did you expect [that] to happen? I’ll be chiming in with my review shortly....

Danny Boyle Reteams With Slumdog Scribe Simon Beaufoy For Maximum City By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2009 2:34 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The book is partly an autobiography, part travelogue , and part socio-political analysis of the history and people of Mumbai. Boyle referred to the book as his “bible” on Slumdog, using it through filming of “inspiration, comprehension and balance.” The book has been widely acclaimed, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize....

Dare Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2009 2:15 pm EST Adam Salky’s feature directorial debut Dare premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The movie is based on Salky’s 2005 short film which was met with acclaim at film festivals. The feature length version stars Emmy Rossum in a story about what happens when “a pompous actor tells good girl Alexa (Rossum) that she hasn’t lived, she embarks on a bold journey that takes her to mysterious bad boy Johnny (Zach Gilford)....

David Fincher’s Rendezvous With Rama Is Not Happening By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 13, 2008 2:39 pm EST David Fincher has been trying to get Rendezvous With Rama off the ground for some time now. Arthur C. Clarke’s 1972 novel is set in the 22nd century, a group of human explorers, who intercept a thirty-mile-long cylindrical alien starship that passes through Earth’s solar system, and attempt to unlock its mysteries. Last we heard the Zodiac director was still waiting on a script, with preliminary plans to shoot the film using performance-capture....

Final Poster For Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time By Peter Sciretta/March 10, 2010 3:00 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has premiered the final movie poster for the big screen adaptation of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time on UGO. The poster features Jake Gyllenhaal as the rogue Prince Dastan, Gemma Arterton as the mysterious princess Tamina and Ben Kingsley as Nizam. Click the link to see the poster in larger resolution....

By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2008 10:05 am EST Apparently a huge oscar campaign for Mickey Rourke is part of the package. I’m guessing this probably means the film will hit theaters in late December to qualify, although an official announcement is forthcoming.

International Transformers 2 Poster By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2009 10:59 am EST Head on over to Empire to see the poster in higher resolution. I would normally post something like this in Page 2, but its a slow news morning.

Iron Man 2 Viral Launched: StarkIndustriesNow.com By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2009 2:57 pm EST You might not have noticed, but at Comic-Con Marvel launched a viral for Iron Man 2. For those of you who didn’t hit up the show floor, the Iron Man 2 section was set-up like Stark Industries, complete with “assistants” handing out business cards for those interested in a job. The cards directed con attendees to the website StarkIndustriesNow....

Ivan Reitman Will Direct Ghostbusters 3 By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2010 10:32 am EST Since the script for Ghostbusters 3 is currently being written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, writers of the Harold Ramis film Year One, there has been some speculation that Ramis could come on board to direct Ghostbusters 3. (Though the relative failure of Year One on both a creative and commercial level didn’t add much weight to the speculation....

Konami Pick Up Saw Videogame, Reveal First Images By Brendon Connelly/April 2, 2009 3:45 pm EST I’m not a fan of the Saw series at all, not so far, so I would like to solicit your comments on what makes it worthwhile. It’s a mystery to me how it attracts so many viewers. And, while you’re here, Saw fans, please also share your feelings on the upcoming videogame spin-off. The game was in development for a good while before original publisher Brash went bankrupt....