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JK Rowling’s New Harry Potter Mini-Movie By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2008 5:10 pm EST J.K. Rowling has penned a brand new story featuring the characters in her fantasy best-selling Harry Potter book series. According to the Sunday Mirror, the story is being adapted into a mini-movie which will be shown at Universal Studio’s The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida. The report says that all of the regular cast, including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, are said to be involved....

Joel Silver Confirms That Justice League Is No More By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2008 2:31 pm EST Joel Silver has confirmed to CHUD at the Speed Racer Junket that Warner Bros big screen adaptation of Justice League has been “tabled”. Before you get too excited, this doesn’t mean the film is officially canceled, but I’m pretty sure that: A. It won’t be happening anytime soon. B. If and when it does happen it will have a new cast, and maybe possibly a new script and director....

Judd Apatow’s Funny People - What Did You Think? By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2009 7:45 pm EST Judd Apatow’s latest film Funny People hits theaters nationwide today. As I noted yesterday, I haven’t seen the movie yet, as my press screening conflicted with Comic-Con. I have talked to quite a few people who have seen the movie, and their opinions are as across the board as they come – from absolutely hated it to best movie of the year....

Lars And The Real Girl Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2007 11:46 pm EST Were you a fan of the HBO series Six Feet Under? I was one of those people who discovered the movie on DVD, and watched almost every single episode in the span of a few weeks. I have yet to see another show with the same sensibilities. Six Feet Under screenwriter Nancy Oliver’s new movie Lars and the Real Girl has some of the same dark weird dramatic comedy....

Liam Neeson And Cedric The Entertainer Cast In Lee Daniels’ Selma By Russ Fischer/March 24, 2010 11:29 am EST What’s the surefire way to attract more geek interest in a film? Cast Liam Neeson. (Not sure if this is really going to work for Chloe, which is opening limited now, but that does also boast Amanda Seyfried in a sexed-up role, just FYI.) Precious director Lee Daniels has been moving forward on Selma, and he’s just nabbed Neeson for one role and Cedric the Entertainer for another....

Michael Bay Lies Again? More Proof Megatron Is In Transformers 2 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2009 1:27 am EST Many have called me a Michael Bay apologist. I enjoyed Transformers and am very much looking forward to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I understand that Bay wants fans to enjoy the movie without knowing too many spoilers, but where do you draw the line? I don’t understand why Michael Bay feels the need to go around and try to pass off blatantly false misinformation to try to trick fans....

Mickey Rourke Will Not Appear At WrestleMania By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2009 7:04 pm EST Lets recap: At the SAG Awards, Mickey Rourke said that he would be appearing at WrestleMania 25, and even challenged WWE wrestler Chris Jericho to be ready for him. Last night, Jericho appeared on Larry King Live with Rourke, and turned up the fake hostility in what appeared to be a prelude to the Pay-Per-View event....

Photo: Christopher Mintz-Plasse As Red Mist In Kick-Ass By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2008 4:29 am EST AICN has the first official photo of Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Red Mist in Matthew Vaughn’s big screen adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book series Kick-Ass. Head on over to AICN for the full photo, which accompanies a report chronicling their recent visit to the London movie set.Plot Synopsis (beware of possible comic book spoilers): Dave Lizewski is a kid growing up in a rundown suburb of America, he isn’t a gamer, he isn’t a jock, he isn’t a mathlete, he’s just a regular kid....

Pixar’s Up Wins Best Feature At The 37th Annual Annie Awards By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2010 12:23 am EST The 37th Annual Annie Awards were held tonight and Pixar’s Up ended up walking away with the Best Animated Feature Film award. The Annie for best animated feature has matched the eventual Oscar winner almost every year, except twice, since the Academy Awards first created the category in 2002. You can find a listing of all the winners, in the official press release, posted after the jump....

Possible Synopsis For The First Avenger: Captain America Sounds A Lot Like…Captain America By Russ Fischer/March 3, 2010 10:44 am EST You’ll probably be seeing a lot about this around the interwebs today, so might as well get it out there: a reported synopsis for Marvel’s upcoming film The First Avenger: Captain America has been posted at featurefilmcasting.com. The casting notice, which you can read after the break, is primarily intended to draw principals and extras in London....

Southland Tales UK Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2007 10:39 am EST And I thought the US movie poster for Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales was pretty bad, now check out the UK one-sheet. I showed it to one of my friends who knew nothing about the movie. She was confused and asked me why Seann William Scott is pictured twice. The answer is that he plays twin brothers. But it’s confusing to the unknowing audience....

Strange Days For Cameron’s Avatar - Is The Film’s Most Showstopping Set-Piece Doomed? By Brendon Connelly/March 6, 2009 1:33 pm EST The MarketSaw 3D cinema blog’s obsession with all things Avatar continues unabated and this time, appears to have yielded some very interesting tidbits about a key action set piece. According to the correlating reports they have received, one of the film’s big standout sequences is a 12 minute, first person perspective chase....

Superman Reboot Confirmed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 22, 2008 1:11 pm EST Jeff Robinov confirmed to the Wall Street Journal, that Warner Bros will reboot the Superman franchise. “Superman [Returns] didn’t quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to,” said Robinov. “It didn’t position the character the way he needed to be positioned. Had Superman worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christmas of this year or 2009....

SXSW Movie Review: Dear Zachary By Mel Valentin/March 19, 2008 12:02 am EST Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, a heart-wrenching, thought-provoking documentary edited and directed by Kurt Kuenne explores, in often excruciating detail, the death of his best friend, Andrew Bagby, a twenty-eight year old doctor completing his residency in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. On the morning of November 5, 2001, Bagby’s bullet-riddled body was found in a public park....

The /Filmcast Is Now A Featured Podcast On iTunes By David Chen/Oct. 26, 2008 9:57 am EST Today a long-time dream comes true: The /Filmcast is now a Featured Podcast on iTunes! Essentially, this means that iTunes’ editors have deemed us interesting/worthy enough to be displayed in the “Featured” list of the TV & Film Podcasts section. A huge thanks go out to all of our listeners, to all of the people who tune in live every Monday night, to everyone who writes and calls (781-583-1993) week after week, to every single guest who has given of their time and energy to contribute to our conversation, to all the fans who gave generously of their time to write us a review on iTunes, and of course, to /Film head honcho Peter Sciretta for making all of this possible....

VOTD: Seth Gordon’s VW “See Film Differently” Ads By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2009 5:00 am EST I admire Volkswagen for their support of independent film over the past decade. If you attend a regional or big time film festival, you’re likely to see them listed as a sponsor on the big screen before each film. In the past, we’ve featured some of their “See Film Differently” television spots which featured film fanatics sharing their vastly different interpretations of classic movies (if you haven’t seen those, check them out now)....

Whip It Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2009 2:11 pm EST The trailer feels like a mix of Adventureland, Juno and Bring It On, which to me is an interesting mashup. I’m a sucker for coming of age films, and its always great to see a story with a female lead which isn’t a paint by numbers romantic comedy. And not to mention its good to hear Weezer being used in a trailer....

WonderCon: Star Wars - The Clone Wars By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2008 1:55 pm EST The director of fan relations of LucasFilm made a surprise appearance during the Warner Bros panel at WonderCon to present some footage from the upcoming Star Wars computer animated movie and television series. The Clone Wars will premiere on movie theater screens worldwide on August 15th, before continuing as a half hour computer animated series on the Cartoon Network and TNT this fall....

Zhao Wei To Play Mulan In Live Action Movie By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 13, 2009 12:00 pm EST Another big screen adaptation of the Hua Mulan story is coming, and director Jingle Ma has cast Zhao Wei, aka Vicky Zhao, in the title role. Twitch directed me to the original story at CriEnglish. Zhao is not only an actress but also a pop singer, as appears to be the norm in Asia....

Zombieland Set Visit Video Blog By Peter Sciretta/July 7, 2009 12:00 am EST Back in March, Columbia Pictures invited /Film and a few select other online sites to the set of Zombieland, short film and commercial director Ruben Fleischer’s feature film debut — a zombie buddy comedy road-trip adventure film. I’ll be completely honest, I wasn’t expecting much going in. I mean, what do you expect from a movie titled Zombieland?...