WonderCon: X-Files 2 By Mel Valentin/Feb. 24, 2008 2:16 am EST Not surprisingly for an audience packed with X-Files fans, the trailer met with enthusiastic approval. Trailer riffed on the The Thing From Another World], something under the ice, a white-haired man in eyeglasses (Billy Connolly) leads an FBI team to an isolated location near a farmhouse. The agents set up a perimeter while the white-haired man digs frantically in the snow....
30-Second Sneak Preview Of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2009 11:06 pm EST Entertainment Tonight will be premiering the first trailer for Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of The Lovely Bones on Tuesday, August 4th. The trailer will be attached to Julie & Julia, which hits theaters this Friday. On Monday, ET ran one of those 30-second first look sneak previews, complete with loud blabbering annoying voice over....
Ana De La Reguera Joins Kevin Smith’s A Couple Of Dicks By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2009 10:15 pm EST A tiny exclusive: Film’s New York City spies tell me that Ana de la Reguera (best known as Sister Encarnacion in Nacho Libre) has joined the cast of Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks as the third major lead. The R-Rated buddy cop comedy stars Tracy Mogan and Bruce Willis as two veteran LAPD detectives who attempt to track down a stolen, mint-condition, 1952 baseball card, get tangled with a sports memorabilia-obsessed gangster....
Awesome. By Hunter Stephenson/July 2, 2008 11:04 am EST Don’t worry, /Film isn’t dyeing its hair purple and designing a line of Hot Topic apparel. According to various gossip sites, Rose McGowan and Robert Rodriguez have split, thus throwing McGowan’s roles in Barbarella aka “my space ship is nearly finished, seriously,” the newly announced Red Sonja revamp, and Girls in Chains! into question. If true, this is like the end of an era in GeekLand, and we’re pretty happy about it....
Big Bang Theory Star Kaley Cuoco Joins I, Hop By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2010 4:00 am EST Kaley Cuoco (who plays the character Penny in The Big Bang Theory) has signed on to star alongside Russell Brand in the Easter Bunny comedy I, Hop. Described as “the world’s worst houseguest,” Brand plays an Easter Bunny who is accidentally injured by an unemployed slacker played by James Marsden, who is then forced to take the holiday creature in until he recovers....
Che Bootleg Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2008 2:02 pm EST A bootleg trailer for Stephen Soderbergh’s two part Che Guevara biopic Che has hit the interwebs. The Benicio Del Toro film which premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in May has yet to find a domestic distributor. It certainly seems like a hard sell, especially as two films. I think I’d rather see a four-hour cut the combines both films....
Cool Stuff: Darth Vader Diorama By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2008 4:00 am EST Sideshow Collectibles and Lucasfilm will be releasing a diorama which recreates one of the most dramatic Star Wars scenes from the entire film series – the moment when Darth Vader “exerts his dark power” on the loyal Captain Antilles. Each diorama is hand cast in high quality polystone, hand-finished and hand painted to exacting standards. Expected to ship in early 2009, the diorama is available for preorder for $224....
Cool Stuff: Lot 29’s Batman Costume Hoodie By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2009 2:14 am EST We’ve seen Batman costume hoodies before, but nothing like this. Lot 29 Urban Wear has released a new Full Zip-Up Batman costume hoodie. This Batman hoodie is a full blown image of Batman screen printed on a full zip-up black hoodie. I’m not sure who would wear this thing with the hood zipped up, but it comes with eye holes for said person....
First Look: Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2007 3:25 pm EST David Fincher’s big screen adaptation of Fight Club is one of my favorite films of all time. The book and author behind the book are even better than that. I’ve been waiting for years for Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor to become a film. If there were a top 10 list of unadapted novels, Survivor would probably be in the top five, somewhere close to Catcher in the Rye....
Frank Miller Updates His 300 Follow Up: Xerxes By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 15, 2009 9:12 am EST I think that Zack Snyder’s 300 was one of the more surprising big hits of recent years, a film that somehow managed a sizeable box office return despite having no stars, an unfashionable genre and setting and that oft-avoided R-rating from the MPAA. Perhaps – shock horror – it suggested that none of those apparent hurdles were hurdles at all....
Jason Reitman’s First Kiss In Kindergarten Cop By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2009 11:48 am EST Before the Best Director nomination, before Up in the Air, Juno, Thank You For Smoking and even his wonderful short films, director Jason Reitman appeared as an “actor” in a bunch of films. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, Jason’s father, director Ivan Reitman, gave him small cameo roles in some of his movies. Jason played Granger Grandson in Twins, Brownstone Boy #2 in Ghostbusters II, the Vice-President’s son in Dave, the Wrong Kid in Alley in Father’s Day, and most importantly Kissing Boy in Kindergarten Cop....
LOL: The Slimey EPIC FAIL Cabinet For Oliver Stone’s W. By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 17, 2008 3:01 pm EST With potential for yet another mind-shattering Republican satire hanging in the balance, Vanity Fair has published the first look at the entire 2003 cabinet in Oliver Stone’s W. There’s a good overall likeness, sure, but I dig the quirky soap opera-esque caricature Stone seems to be shooting for. What better way to portray the walking jokes and greedy, delusional scumbugs that raped my early 20s?...
M Night Shyamalan Launches Official Website/Interactive Experience By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2009 9:39 am EST Director M Night Shyamalan has finally launched his official website. And as you might expect, its far from traditional. MNightShyamalan.com transports you into a dark mansion (possibly haunted) where you walk around and uncover clues which grant you access to rooms/locations from Shyamalan’s film history. I know this probably sounds like one of those annoying flash sites, where you’d rather just have easy access to a menu....
New Indiana Jones Television Spot By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2008 8:11 pm EST A second television advertisement for Indiana Jones sand the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has begun to air. Update: We’ve updated this posting with a better copy of the advertisement. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/indy4-tv2.flv 460 344] New Indiana Jones Television Spot By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2008 8:11 pm EST A second television advertisement for Indiana Jones sand the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has begun to air....
New Television Spot For M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2008 2:06 am EST A new television spot for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening aired tonight during LOST. It’s actually an abbreviated version of a new trailer which is attached to Iron Man and Made of Honor. Shyamalan refers to the project as “a 90-minute paranoia movie” to the LA Times and admits that it was inspired by the 1956 version of the classic horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers....
Ninja Assassin Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 23, 2009 8:04 am EST I’m sitting on the lawn outside of Hall H at the San Diego convention center where thousands of people are lined up to see Comic-Con’s first 3D panel (oh yeah, and that Twilight sequel). I’m unable to connect to a fast internet connection, but MTV has released a movie trailer for James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin. But just because I can’t watch the trailer, doesn’t mean you can’t....
Predators Gets July 2010 Release Date, Robert Rodriguez NOT Directing By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2009 12:36 pm EST The film will play 5 days after M Night Shyamalan’s Avatar live-action big screen adaptation The Last Airbender hits theaters. The Steve Carell/Jason Segel comedy Despicable Me is due to hit theaters 2 days later. Predators is expected to follow a team of commandos who must face a mysterious race of vicious monsters....
Steven Spielberg Talks About The Tech And The Look Of Tintin By Russ Fischer/Feb. 19, 2010 1:16 pm EST What will Steven Spilerberg’s Tintin look like? The motion-capture work for his adaptation of Hergé’s classic comic character was shot last year, with Peter Jackson and WETA now working on post-production. We have yet to see a single design that shows off what the character will look like when the film appears in theaters next year....
Thor And Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 Steal Spider-Man 4’s Glory By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2010 6:54 pm EST It seems like just yesterday that industry sources confirmed that script problems would probably keep Spider-Man 4 from hitting the announced 2011 release date. Oh wait, it was just yesterday… Box Office Mojo is now reporting that Marvel’s Thor has moved from the planned May 20th 2011 date to Spider-Man 4’s May 5th 2011 slot....
V-Day Box Office: Step Up & Jumper In A Virtual Dead Heat By Steve Mason/Feb. 15, 2008 12:05 pm EST The unusual Valentine’s Day kickoff to a 5-day weekend that includes President’s Day has provided a perfect opportunity for Fool’s Gold (Warner Bros) to jump-start its 2nd week as the Matthew McConaughey/Kate Hudson romantic comedy/action hybrid delivered another $3.42M, a 3rd place finish. Gold’s 7-day total is just shy of $30M....
