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Frank Miller Not Directing Buck Rogers By Hunter Stephenson/May 12, 2008 11:28 pm EST Last week, IGN reported that director Frank Miller would follow-up The Spirit with a remake of Buck Rogers, the “campy ’80s sci-fi TV series” most people under 30 have never thought about. Turns out, the writer-producer of the Buck Rogers film, Flint Dille, says Miller is definitely not directing it, leaving Nu Image/Millenium on the prowl for a new “contender” to launch the 80-year-old character into the Oughts....

Friday Box Office: High School Musical 3 Hits Huge With $16.5M, $55M Weekend Likely By Steve Mason/Oct. 24, 2008 11:04 pm EST There is no way that Disney could have known what it had when the original High School Musical debuted on The Disney Channel on January 20, 2006. For the uninitiated, it’s basically The Breakfast Club meets Busby Berkely. The setting is the imaginary East High, where all the kids are good looking, cliques dissolve into song-and-dance numbers, and the breathtakingly earnest and impossibly good-hearted tone may be exceeded only by the wattage of Troy Bolton’s smile....

Halo Movie Still In Development, Microsoft In Talks With New Studio By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 30, 2007 9:20 am EST Fear not young gamers, a Halo movie is not dead in this “post-Halo 3 $300 million in its first week of sales” world. Microsoft is already in talks with other movie studios to continue development on a Halo feature film, according to producer Peter Jackson’s representative Ken Kamins. Apparently, preparation on the film has not stopped at Weta Digital and Weta Workshop in New Zealand....

How To Train Your Dragon Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 13, 2009 10:10 pm EST Dreamworks Animation has released the first teaser trailer for Chris Sander’s How to Train Your Dragon. It doesn’t show much, but you get a first glimpse at the dragons in motion, embedded after the jump. As always, leave your thoughts in the comments below. Removed by request from DreamWorks From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda” comes “How To Train Your Dragon” — an adventure comedy set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, based on the book by Cressida Cowell....

Howard Stern’s Porky’s Gets A Green Light? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2007 11:31 pm EST Howard Stern has been hard at work on a remake of the cult teen comedy film Porky’s. Last week Stern took a vacation from his daily Sirius Satellite Radio Show and worked on the film project which the Shock Jock now claims is “ready to go.” “They say it’s all greenlit and everything, ready to go....

Jason Reitman Gives Updates On Upcoming Movies: Labor Day, Whispers In Bedlam, A Mystery Project And A… Hockey Movie? By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 22, 2010 12:29 pm EST Jason Reitman is this week’s guest on ESPN’s Bill Simmons podcast, The BS Report (mp3). Amidst all of the discussion of The Golden Globes, how Clooney got involved in Up in the Air, Reitman’s second choice casting for the role of Ryan Bingham, and when the director is going to start work on his next project....

John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke Set For Hot Tub Time Machine By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 23, 2009 9:58 pm EST Well, I was going to put together a snazzy PhotoShop masterwork for this bit of casting news, but I spent the last hour debating Devin at CHUD about globe-spanning Watchmen embargoes0101. Any readers want to give it a shot in the comments? The trades report that a fine cast has mounted up for a novelty sex comedy entitled Hot Tub Time Machine: John Cusack and Rob Corddry have already signed and Craig Robinson (The Office, East Bound & Down) and Clark Duke (Kick-Ass, not Michael) are close to....

Lawsuit Seeks To Derail The Hobbit, No Bilbo Casting At Comic Con By Russ Fischer/July 17, 2009 1:16 pm EST Yesterday we helped perpetuate the rumor that Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson might announce the actor who’ll play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit while at San Diego Comic Con next week. But reportedly, that isn’t happening. No surprise, but too bad. News would have livened up the Con quite a bit....

Lost Season 5 Poster By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2008 1:05 am EST A couple weeks ago we posted a poster for the Fifth Season of Lost. It turned out to be an early marketing promo. ABC has finally released the final one-sheet for the upcoming season. What do you think? Lost Season 5 Poster By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2008 1:05 am EST A couple weeks ago we posted a poster for the Fifth Season of Lost....

Mickey Rourke To Gee Up For Broken Horses By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 30, 2009 7:40 pm EST The Gangster film Broken Horses is to be the American film debut of Vidhu Vinod Chopra, and Indian director who certainly likes to plan ahead. His official site lists no less than five films. Okay, Rodriguez and Del Toro style, his slate is full of many projects he only intends to produce, not direct, but it sounds to me like he has a different pie for every finger....

New John Rambo Photos By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2007 11:19 am EST Lionsgate has released two new photos for Sylvester Stallone’s John Rambo. I wasn’t a huge fan of the initial photos, or the horrible Cannes movie trailer, so I’ll spare you from my angry rant about why I believe this movie is going to suck. Keep in mind, I loved Rocky Balboa, so I’m not just “hating on Sly” as some people had commented on the previous post (although I feel even dumber for acknowledging a criticism that includes the slang use of “hating”)....

Oceans Teaser Trailer OR An Infomercial For Disneynature? By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2009 8:00 am EST March of the Penguins sparked a new life in eco-documentaries by adding the dramatic element, and Disney is attempting to build a brand on the concept. Attached to Disney’s Earth is a teaser trailer for Disneynature’s next Earth Day release, Oceans. The teaser doesn’t show much from the Jacques Perrin-directed ecological dramatic documentary, but it goes a long way to try to say “Walt Disney would’ve wanted you to see this movie....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2009 11:45 pm EST Jon Favreau’s Twitterpic geek tour of his house continues with a photo of a Zorgon spaceship from Zathura and a screen worn Mark 3 helmet from Iron Man. Click here to see the previous photos. Production is set to begin in May on a new Ben Hur miniseries for ABC. [Variety] Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks is set to begin filming in New York City in May 2009....

Quantum Of Solace Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2008 2:01 pm EST Sony has released the new Quantum of Solace movie trailer online. The dead might not care about vengeance but it sure looks like James Bond will get his. Watch the trailer and tell me what you think in the comments below! Quantum of Solace hits theaters on November 14th 2008. You can watch the new trailer in High Definition on Yahoo....

Rinko Kikuchi Starring In Film Adaptation Of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood By Devindra Hardawar/May 14, 2009 8:23 pm EST I’m not sure how I missed the news that Haruki Murakami’s tremendous novel Norwegian Wood was being adapted to film, or that one of my favorite little-known directors, Tran Anh Hung (Cyclo, The Scent of Green Papaya), was helming the project. If so, my mind would have been slightly more prepared to absorb the casting news we’ve received today....

The Simpsons Movie Full-Length Movie Trailer Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2007 8:50 pm EST The first full-length movie trailer for The Simpsons Movie has hit the web. [quicktime width=“480” height=“215”]http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/thesimpsonsmovie3.mov[/quicktime] “A cast of thousands in the movie event 18 years in the making.” I’ve been very critical in the past over this film. The teaser trailers offered very little funny. I feared that the movie was made probably 10 years past it’s prime (an animated Basic Instinct 2 if you will)....

Tropic Thunder International Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2008 2:02 pm EST Paramount has released a new international movie trailer for Tropic Thunder. And while it might not be as hilarious as the previously released red band trailer, it’s still pretty damn funny. Even with the fart joke. Ddi you know fart jokes are huge overseas? Apparently so. Could this be the funniest war comedy of all time? As always, tell me what you think in the comments below....

Who Needs Spider-Man? Tobey Maguire Eyeing Role As Chess Master Bobby Fischer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2010 11:07 am EST Hopefully you’ve read a bit of sarcasm into the title of this piece, because I truly expect that Tobey Maguire is quite likely happy to set aside the Spider-Man costume. There’s a very specific challenge to making big superhero films, but after three of them I’d expect that the challenge of playing something like his character in Brothers would be immensely more satisfying....

/Film UK - The Alan Partridge Movie, The Director Of American History X Returns, The Day Of The Triffids And More By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 11, 2009 7:22 am EST Finally, here comes the long promised Alan Partridge movie. Steve Coogan has told Empire that shooting will most likely take place late next year and that for some reason – most likely financial – the film is to be “done” in America....

28 Weeks Later Movie Trailer In HD By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2007 10:46 pm EST You can watch it now at Apple.com, although at the time of this post only the HD versions are properly downloading (I’m sure the Apple guys will fix that shortly). 28 Weeks Later seems to have lost most of the low budget charm of Boyale’s original, and instead borrows some ideas from Alfonso Cuaron’s Children Of Men....