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Watch Aziz Ansari Do Stand-Up Comedy In Judd Apatow’s Funny People By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2009 3:18 pm EST Universal has been launching a bunch of cool viral websites for Judd Apatow’s Funny People. First we had some clips from Jason Schwartman’s character’s pilot television show Yo Teach. A couple weeks ago they launched the official website for comedian/acotr George Simmons (the main character of the film played by Adam Sandler) complete with video clips from some of his filmography....

Watch This: The Tournament Movie Trailer By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2009 1:00 am EST I wasn’t even aware of the film The Tournament until Peter pointed out the trailer this evening. Now that I am, I can see it being a crazy, fun time totally untethered to any sort of reality. That is, one of my preferred action movie modes. The Tournament posits that every seven years in a small town, the world’s greatest assassins come together to compete for a tremendous cash prize and great renown....

Zak Penn Talks Young X-Men Spin-Off By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2007 5:19 am EST When can we expect this young X-Men flick? “I had been attached to direct one of the [X-Men] spin-offs; in fact, I’m in discussions about that now,” said Penn. “The original idea was to have me do a young X-Men spin-off, a spin-off of the young X-Men characters. But someone came up with a pretty interesting idea which I can’t discuss....

20 New Photos From Rush Hour 3 By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2007 2:13 pm EST I’ve never really cared for the Rush Hour movies, or director Brett Ratner for that matter. I mean, the first one was fun, but did we really need two sequels? But someone, somewhere is contributing to the series’ box office success. For those people, I bring you this post (it probably helps that it’s also a slow news day)....

A Spoiler Regarding Two Face, And Halloween Costumes For The Dark Knight And Joker By Hunter Stephenson/March 26, 2008 8:42 am EST Over at SHH, a tipster sent in pics of Halloween costumes and masks from a Las Vegas showcase for The Dark Knight, including those pretty friggin’ eerie Heath Ledger/Joker masks above. Halloween 2008 just got a helluva lot scarier imagining six year old hooligans giggling down darkly lit streets in those things....

Avatar Coverage Saturates The Web; Here’s A Recent Roundup By Russ Fischer/Nov. 25, 2009 11:43 am EST First, there’s word that Avatar may premiere at Butt-Numb-A-Thon, the 24-hour film festival curated each December by Harry Knowles. More than a few high-profile films have had their debut at the geek-fest, such as There Will Be Blood two years ago. BNAT takes place Dec 12-13, just a few days before Avatar’s official Dec 18 opening....

Cha Cha Improves Sundance Process Due To /Film Comments By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 20, 2008 12:59 pm EST Yesterday I commented on Cha Cha’s txt service which is being promoted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The human search company had set up exit polls a all the venues with the idea that you could txt Cha Cha with your mobile phone and find out the buzz on a film you may be interested in....

Comic Con: Alex Proyas’ Knowing Footage Fails To Impress By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2008 5:46 pm EST Alex Proyas showed an extended trailer for his upcoming thriller Knowing, which just finished shooting. The footage begins with a young girl standing in a school yard looking up at the sky. A teacher calls everyone inside, but Lucinda doesn’t move. Title card: Lexington, Massachusetts 1959. The teacher instructs the kids to draw pictures of what they think the future will look like....

Cool Stuff: Chainsaw Killer Bunny T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2008 6:00 am EST Assault Shirts is offering /Film readers 20% off and free shipping with the code “slashfilm”. Jason who? Designed by Candice Ciesla, the Chainsaw Bunny T-shirt features a killer rabbit, and is availible in both men and women sizes for $19.99.Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff?...

Cool Stuff: Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving T-Shirt And Poster By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 15, 2007 7:47 pm EST “Arrive hungry…leave stuffed.” Eli Roth’s movie trailer for a fake horror movie titled Thanksgiving was one of the most talked about parts of Grindhouse. Even the outspoken crowd of Roth-bashers seemed to like Roth’s hilarious take on the Holiday slasher flicks. Ever since Thanksgiving hit theaters, Roth has been fielding requests from fans for a feature length version of the idea....

Cool Stuff: Pumba T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2008 10:53 am EST Extreme! is selling a Puma parody t-shirt featuring everyone’s favorite Lion King character. At the time of this posting, 12.10 Euros equates to about $19 American, and who knows how much shipping.Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com....

Cool Stuff: Star Wars Galaxy Map By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2007 5:42 am EST One of the coolest thing about the Lord of the Rings books is that they have included maps of Middle Earth. It gave the fictional locale a depth of reality. I guessing seeing is reality, right? As far as I know, George Lucas never created a map of the Star Wars galaxy. But the galaxy map pictured above was first compiled and published in 2002, in Issue One of The Official Star Wars Fact File....

Cool Stuff: Vitruvian Voltron T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2009 6:00 pm EST What if Leonardo Da Vinci had designed five robot tigers that would combine to form a giant futuristic bad ass fighting machine, the design might look a lot like this t-shirt. ThinkGeek is selling the Vitruvian Voltron t-shirt, which features da Vinci-esque drawings printed all over the front (but not the back… the back is plain) of a sand-colored, 100% cotton t-shirt....

Could The Dark Knight Sink The Titanic? By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2008 1:05 pm EST Could The Dark Knight overtake Titanic to become the largest grossing domestic movie of all time? In just 13 days, The Dark Knight has taken in over $342.6 million domestically, and another $128.3 million internationally. The film is already in the top 15 films of all time, and is adding millions more each day. But will Batman be able to top Titanic’s $600....

David Fincher’s The Social Network In October 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2009 10:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield and Joe Mazzello. Columbia Pictures has given the film a rumored $47 million budget. Based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, The Social Network tells the story of Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg, the founders of Facebook....

Funny Games Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2007 7:03 pm EST I must reluctantly admit that I have yet to see Funny Games, the home invasion horror/thriller from Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke. The film got some great reviews and was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 1997. Time Out described it as “a masterpiece that is at times barely watchable”. Warner Independent hired Michael Haneke back to direct an American remake of the the film, starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth as a wealthy couple who are trapped and tormented in their Hamptons vacation home by a pair of vicious psychopaths....

George Lucas Talks Live-Action Star Wars TV Series By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2008 1:24 am EST George Lucas talked to Entertainment Weekly about the announced live-action Star Wars television show, and revealed a couple new tidbits. “The live-action has [none of the characters from the Star Wars movies], because it’s after Episode III, so everybody’s dead, basically, or hiding somewhere. You hear about the Emperor, just like you do in Episode IV, but it’s mostly about a whole different world....

Guess Who: Extract Edition By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 13, 2008 7:47 pm EST Guess which actor (seen right) was photographed sporting this new look outside the set of his new movie. Not sure if this one is too easy or not. Answer after the jump. Hint #1: The movie in question is Mike Judge’s new film Extract Hint #2: He once played Superman, kinda Hint #3: He was the bomb in Phantoms The Answer is… … … …...

Is The Hollywood Movie Star Dead? By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 16, 2009 12:35 am EST A Reuters piece that’s been making the rounds this weekend speculates that Hollywood may be thinking twice about banking on A-list celebrities in the future. The piece points to recent low-budget and star-free fare like The Hangover, District 9, and Paranormal Activity that each went on to be wildly successful, and contrasts them with big-budget, star-studded flops like A Christmas Carol, Land of the Lost, and Funny People....

James McTeigue On Comic Book Rumors: Plastic Man Probably Won’t Ever Happen, Won’t Confirm Or Deny Superman Reboot By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2009 12:00 pm EST Later this week we’ll be publishing our full interview with director James McTeigue (V For Vendetta, Ninja Assassin), but until then I’ve been posting some of the more newsworthy bits to come out of our discussion. Yesterday, McTeigue revealed his next project, a Se7en-stlye thriller titled The Raven, and he gave us an update on the development of the sci-fi adaptation Altered Carbon....