Jesse Eisenberg In Zombieland By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2008 12:52 am EST Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland) is in final talks to join Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland, a horror comedy from Columbia Pictures. Eisenberg would play Flagstaff a “terrified shut-in whose cowardice makes him an expert at surviving the zombies but who is forced out of his shell to join the band of survivors, which includes” Woody Harrelson....
Leonardo DiCaprio Tipped For The Jew Hunter In Inglorious Bastards. Meh. By Hunter Stephenson/July 16, 2008 11:37 am EST Hopefully, I’ll have a script review of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards in shortly. After marinating on it for a few days, I don’t feel that it’s the knock out of the park that’s been widely reported. One character vital to the script that suffers from weird incongruities is the main antagonist, Colonel Hans Landa aka “The Jew Hunter....
LOL: Michael Cera Cast As Thor!!!! By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2009 3:10 pm EST Just when you thought the non-casting-news photo teases from Edgar Wright behind-the-scenes Scott Pilgrim photo blog were getting annoying, today we get some huge casting exclusives. Who will be playing Thor in the big screen Marvel comic book adaptation? We think that might be Michael Cera behind the photo, but it could be Brandon Routh. We’re not sure....
More Spies Like Us By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2007 5:50 am EST February has been an aweful month. Not a day goes by that another classic 1980’s film gets some rumored sequel buzz. Well today’s 80’s flashback is Spies Like Us. And I must admit that I really don’t mind about this one. Why? Mandel. Okay so most of you don’t even know who Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and Dave Mandel are....
Nine Minutes Of John August’s The Nines By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 14, 2007 11:31 pm EST Ever since I first saw John August’s directorial debut The Nines earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, I’ve wondered how they would market this film. I absolutely loved it, yet can’t even explain the plot. It’s a LOST-style mystery infused in a Go-style dialogue and reality. Three stories with the same actors. I am always hesitant to reveal too much, because going in clueless is part of the fun....
Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2008 12:05 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The trailer for Kyle Newman’s Fanboys will be attached to Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. [iesb] Last week Brett Ratner directed the new commercial spots for Guitar Hero: World Tour featuring Heidi Klum, Tony Hawk, Kobe Bryant, Marissa Miller, and Alex Rodriguez. Lost writer Brian K Vaughn says that next season ““is definitely going to be the strangest thing that’s ever been on network television....
Rocket Science Production Photos By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2007 8:53 am EST A stuttering teenager falls in love with the star of the debate team, and is asked to join her competitive world. We saw Rocket Science at this years Sundance Film Festival and loved it. In our review, we wrote: “Jeffrey Blitz has created the next Sundance classic. See this movie, see this movie, SEE THIS MOVIE.” It’s a mixture of Election, Rushmore, and Squid and the Whale....
Russell Crowe To Star In Paul Haggis’s The Next Three Days By Devindra Hardawar/July 29, 2009 8:57 pm EST We all love Paul Haggis around these parts (and by love, I mean mock and ridicule as much as possible), so we try our best to keep close tabs on his projects just to make sure we don’t miss a single thing. It looks like his next film is The Next Three Days, a remake of the 2008 French film Pour elle, and he’s tapped Russell Crowe to star....
Steven Spielberg And George Lucas Talk About Internet Spoilers By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2008 12:58 am EST Entertainment Weekly has a good sit down interview with Steven Speilberg and George Lucas. The most interesting part of the interview is where the two legendary directors talk about the effect that the Internet Spoiler has had on cinema. Here is a short excerpt:Spielberg: It really is important to be able to point out that the Internet is still filled with more speculation than facts....
The Losers Moves Back To April By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2010 1:51 pm EST Last week Warner Bros moved Sylvain White’s comic book adaptation The Losers from its previously announced release date of April 9th to June 4th 2010 in order to give Warner Bros’ other release Clash of the Titans more breathing room. Clash had been recently pushed back to an April 2nd release due to a last-minute decision to do a post-production 3D conversion....
Thirst Red Band Movie Trailer By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2009 3:10 pm EST Focus Features will open Park Chan-Wook’s new film Thirst on July 31, and so far we’ve had only international trailers through which to check out the film. Now IGN has a red band trailer made specifically for the US, and it’s pretty freakin’ great. Check out the escalating pace of this story about vampires and faith after the jump....
Tom Whalen’s Dark Knight Magazine Cover By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2008 12:34 pm EST Last month we stumbled across Tom Whalen’s incredible movie art, and decided to featured some of his best creations in our daily Cool Stuff column. Shortly after the publishing of that post, Whalen was contacted by the UK Magazine LOAD to create the cover art for their Dark Knight issue. How cool is that? You can see the original high resolution unwatermarked artwork on Tom’s deviant art profile....
Toy Story 3 Full Trailer By Russ Fischer/Oct. 12, 2009 8:01 am EST [Update:The real trailer is now online at MySpace. You can check out the embed below, or head there for an HD version.] I’m sure this isn’t meant to be on YouTube quite yet, but the full Toy Story 3 trailer is up now…we’ll see how long this version lasts. But while it does, the trailer looks and sounds great, even to an old Randy Newman-dismissing curmudgeon like me....
Universal Walks Away From DreamWorks Distribution Deal By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2009 12:16 pm EST
By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2008 8:17 pm EST 8 Television Commercials by Matthijs van Heijningen The Pitch: Matthijs van Heijningen will make his directorial debut on the Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead. Watch 8 popular television commercials directed by Heijningen after the jump: [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/heijningen.flv 400 300] [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/heijningen1.flv 400 300] [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/heijningen2.flv 400 300] [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/heijningen3.flv 400 300] Four More Videos After the Jump! [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/heijningen5.flv 400 300] [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/heijningen6.flv 400 300] [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/heijningen7.flv 400 300] [flv:http://bitcast-a....
VOTD: Saturday Morning Watchmen By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2009 12:00 am EST (Thanks to /Film readers Filip V, Joseph G, Arnold D, Ender)
VOTD: The Star Trek A-Team By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2009 12:00 am EST What do you get when you combine JJ Abrams’ Star Trek and The A-Team? This fantastic mash-up / faux television show intro created by PhamtomKnight. Watch it now, embedded after the jump. via: Screenrant VOTD: The Star Trek A-Team By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2009 12:00 am EST What do you get when you combine JJ Abrams’ Star Trek and The A-Team?...
Warner Bros Travels To The Tokyo Underworld By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2008 12:11 pm EST Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Robert Whiting’s Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan. Frank Baldwin, the screnwriter of Phillip Noyce’s upcoming film The Art of Making Money, will make his feature film debut. Published in September 2000, Tokyo Underworld is an “unorthodox chronicle of the rise of Japan, Inc....
Wes Craven Talks Scream 4 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 27, 2007 5:43 am EST Wes Craven has been quoted for years as saying that a fourth Scream movie would never be made. It now looks like he’s becoming more open to the possibility. “Actually, I recieved a call about that for the first time the other day…” Craven told a crowd at the New York Comic-Con. “Obviously, I’ve been asked about that for a long, long time… I think that it’s not completely off the table at this point, as far as the studio making it....
Will Smith’s Next Movie: Men In Black 3 Or The City That Sailed By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2010 9:00 pm EST Will Smith has to make a big choice when it comes to his next project: Men in Black III for Sony or the fantasy-adventure The City That Sailed for 20th Century Fox.Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder, Idiocracy) is penned the screenplay for Men in Black 3, and Josh Brolin had been rumored to be involved in the threequel....
