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Leonardo DiCaprio Is Nolan Bushnell In Atari By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2008 8:26 pm EST Screenwriters Brian Hecker (Tribeca short film Bart Got a Room) and Craig Sherman (Pop Warner’s biopic) sold the pitch to Paramount on Friday, and DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way will produce. Hecker and Sherman told THR that they hope to play with elements from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Tucker. Having grown up a kid of the 1980’s, I have a huge amount of respect for Nolan Bushnell....

LOL: Even More Christian Bale Fun - 8 New Videos By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2009 10:32 am EST As long as there are people on the internet, people will be creating pointless internet clips for us to laugh at. And this week the topic of conversation is the Christian Bale tirade. Watch eight new VOTD-worthy video clips after the jump. Someone edited the audio clips into the Terminator Salvation movie trailer....

Napoleon Dynamite’s Kip Directs Comcast Commercial By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2008 11:58 am EST Ever wonder what happened to the actor that played Kip from Napoleon Dynamite? Aaron Ruell has been trying to make it as a filmmaker, and has since filmed a couple short films. Just recently Ruell directed a television commercial for Comcast, seen below. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/kipcomcast.flv 460 344] Napoleon Dynamite’s Kip Directs Comcast Commercial By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2008 11:58 am EST...

New Concept Art From Rob Zombie’s Tyrannosaurus Rex By Hunter Stephenson/July 7, 2008 2:36 pm EST More pulp violence from Rob Zombie today, with the director posting a new piece of art from his secretive, live-action film entitled Tyrannosaurus Rex on MySpace. The art is in the same style as the previously released teaser poster, and bears similarity to this cover of The Nail, the Dark Horse comic book Zombie collaborated on a few years ago....

New Harry Potter Theme Park? By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2007 5:29 am EST I’ve always thought that the world of Harry Potter could make an incredible theme park. Well it looks like Universal had the same idea. Universal Studios Florida are finalizing terms to bring a “Harry Potter World” to its Orlando resort, according to Nikki Finke. I’m pretty sure that the Potter world would be part of the studio’s Islands of Adventure park, rather than the original studio theme park....

New Line Goes Back To Police Academy By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2010 10:31 pm EST Even with the onslaught of 3D news, Hollywood hasn’t stopped signing new deals to remake some of the films from our childhood (or at least, my childhood). Tonight New Line Cinema and Warner Bros have announced that they will be returning to the Police Academy series. The police-based comedy franchise began in 1984, and spawned six sequels, an animated television series, and a live-action sitcom....

Paramount Wants Star Trek Sequel; Transformers 2 To Be Self Contained By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2008 1:00 am EST Paramount is not only interested in another Star Trek sequel, but they are apparently trying to sign the contracts to bring the writers back for a follow-up “I can give you a spoiler about the Studio’s state of mind (not about the movie itself). The spoiler is that they already want to lock us down to write the sequel,” co-writer Roberto Orci revealed to TrekMovie....

Poster Arrives For Fantastic ‘Violence As Art’ Flick Bronson By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2009 9:00 pm EST Sundance was the premiere of a handful of movies that I’ll probably spend the rest of the year pushing on people, even if I didn’t see some of them until the Independent Film Festival Boston. One of the best was Bronson, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring a wickedly dedicated Tom Hardy. The movie fictionalizes the life of notorious British prisoner Charlie Bronson, born Michael Gordon Peterson....

Real Life Sarah Marshalls All “What’s Going On?!?” And Stuff By Hunter Stephenson/March 31, 2008 5:59 pm EST “Me?!?” Peter and I discussed doing an item on real life Sarah Marshalls who are angered and perplexed in the wake of ubiquitous Forgetting Sarah Marshall marketing, but instead we just waited for The Onion to blow it up like a sand castle. Alas, Zap2It has struck first, and even though the site seemingly only found three vocal Sarah Marshalls (we wanted 1,000 “No fair!...

Sarah Polley Will Direct Seth Rogen And Michelle Williams In Take This Waltz By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2010 1:14 pm EST I’m a big fan of Sarah Polley. In addition to her work developing and promoting film in Canada, she’s long demonstrated an ability to choose smart, interesting roles, whether in small dramas or off-center genre stuff. On the occasion where she jumps into a bigger studio film, she adds considerable heft to it; witness the Dawn of the Dead remake, which features a fantastic opening that centers all around Polley....

Sucker Punch Logo And Character Art Revealed By Brendon Connelly/July 28, 2009 1:04 pm EST Lucky visitors to the Watchmen panel at the San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend were given one of those infamous con-only goodies that money simply can’t buy. In this case, the bounty up for grabs came in the shape of Sucker Punch t-shirts. News of the shirts broke at Deadline Hollywood Daily, where one of the Finkettes ran the image excerpted at the head of this post....

Sundance: Weapons Movie Review By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 21, 2007 7:37 am EST Most of the films at his year’s Sundance have titles which only loosely fit their subject matter. An American Crime was about a crime committed in America, but there wasn’t anything overtly American about it. Rocket Science was not about Science, nor was it about Rockets. And now we have Weapons, a movie which involves gang violence but isn’t at all really about the guns or the effects of their use....

The Dark Knight Sets New Record: $400 Million In 18 Days By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2008 9:22 am EST The Dark Knight has just crossed the $400 million mark in a record setting amount of time – just 18 days of release. To give you an idea of just how big that is, let me share with you the previous record holder – Shrek 2, which crossed the same $400 mark in 43 days!...

The Flaming Lips Prep New Movie, Angling For Many Guest Stars Including Justin Timberlake By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2010 9:58 am EST Over a period that spanned many years, Wayne Coyne and his compatriots in The Flaming Lips made a movie called Christmas on Mars. The film is a weird psychedelic adventure that isn’t for all tastes, but you have to respect it for at least one thing: Coyne wanted to make a movie, and proceeded to collect junk that he turned into sets in his back yard....

The Nanny Diaries PUSHED BACK For Award Consideration? By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2007 7:48 pm EST The Weinstein Company is moving the big screen adaptation of The Nanny Diaries (trailer) back FIVE MONTHS. The new Scarlett Johansson chick flick was scheduled to hit theaters on April 20th, but will now bow on September 7th 2007. While a last minute release move is usually a bad sign, Harvey Weinstein claims the movie was made to push the film in awards contention....

The Nutcracker, In Action Movie Form: Like A Simpsons Parody Come To Life By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2009 4:13 pm EST If I were Jon Stewart this would be the time to cackle, “here it is: your moment of zen.” New Line has bought a pitch from Jack the Giant-Killer writer Darren Lemke that would re-cast the tale of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King as an action movie. Friggin’ seriously?...

The Real Michael Bay Is NOT On Twitter; Calls It “A Waste Of Time” By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2009 2:11 pm EST Just to update the story we posted a couple days ago , Michael Bay has NOT joined twitter. The REAL Bay posted a message on the online message board of his official website stating that he “will never have a Twitter account”. “Twitter. Never. What a waste of time,” wrote Bay....

Tranformers International Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/April 25, 2007 12:59 pm EST SolaceinCinema has posted the International Movie Poster for Michael Bay’s Tranformers. I love the quote on the top of the poster from Pia Magazine. I wonder if they have even seen the movie? I bet they haven’t. The quote seems to have been taken from a summer movie preview or something. And this further goes to prove my theory that anything with Asian script looks so much cooler than in English....

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Fun Facts By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2009 12:27 pm EST Did you know if you took all the robot parts from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and laid them out end to end, they would stretch from one side of California to the other (about 180 miles)?. Paramount has released a list of fun facts relating to Michael Bay’s alien robot sequel. Check out the full list after the jump....

Two New Indiana Jones TV Spots; Harrison Ford Implies That George Lucas’ Wacky Ideas Are Stupid By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2008 11:25 am EST Paramount has released two new television spots for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Meanwhile, The Playlist noticed a very telling slip-up in a recent Harrison Ford interview: “It was the three of us, Steven, George and I, coming to agreement on the central notion of it all,” Ford said....