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Nightmare On Elm Street Reboot Gets The Greenlight By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 12, 2008 2:14 am EST Andrew Form has confirmed to ShockTillYouDrop that Michael Bay’s genre production company Platinum Dunes’ A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot has been officially greenlit by Warner Bros, and will likely start shooting in Spring 2009 in suburban Chicago. Cape Fear/Arachnophobia screenwriter Wesley Strick penned the script, which producer Bradley Fuller says that it will be a complete reboot taking inspiration from the entire original series, much like the new Friday the 13th film....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2008 11:31 pm EST A new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull poster has shown up on pipocacombo. Patrick Swayze will be asked back to reprise the role of ‘Bodhi’ in the recently announced Point Break 2. [Moviehole] Three new American character banners for Hellboy II: The Golden Party have appeared online. [Empire] Shock has a first look at photos from Dario Argento’s latest horror-thriller Giallo starring Adrien Brody and Emmanuelle Seigner....

Rachel Portman Scoring Never Let Me Go, Mark Romanek Photographs Ben Stiller By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 24, 2010 2:49 pm EST There’s been a few little bits of interesting Mark Romanek business hit the web in recent days and I think a quick round up is in order. Firstly, Mark Salisbury wrote a piece for Time Out on The Wolfman, giving some clues as to why Romanek left the project and how the picture changed when Joe Johnston came on board....

Repo! The Genetic Opera Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2008 1:46 am EST A new movie trailer for Darren Lynn Bousman’s Repo! The Genetic Opera has gone online as the Fantasia Film Festival begins next week. I hate to rehash the quotes used in the trailer, but the movie looks both stunning and original, and might very well become an instant cult classic. It looks like Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Blade Runner meets Saw....

Resident Evil Series Getting A Semi-Reboot By Devindra Hardawar/Sept. 8, 2009 9:30 am EST Bloody Disgusting has confirmed that the Resident Evil franchise will be getting a slight reboot after the next film, Resident Evil 4: Afterlife. Tentatively titled Resident Evil Begins, the new project will take us away from the increasingly convoluted adventures of Milla Jovovich’s Alice, and will potentially retread the events of the first film by focusing on a military unit tasked with taking down a rampaging supercomputer, while also fighting off former-scientist zombies....

Ripping Off Juno: ABC’s New Pregnant Teen Dramedy By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2008 4:39 pm EST ABC Family has hired 7th Heaven creator Brenda Hampton to create what appears at first glance to be a rip-off of the popular indie dramedy Juno. TV Guide offers a detailed synopsis for this yet-to-be-titled upcoming series about a “Fifteen-year-old” who gets pregnant and “struggles to deal with her feelings for Ricky”, the “father”. The main character has “loving but ’nice’ middle class parents” and “supportive but not too helpful” friends....

Rob Cohen Producing A Remake Of Monster Squad?! By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2008 5:48 pm EST The bad news is that Hollywood has decided to rape your childhood once again. Rob Cohen revealed to Bloody Disgusting that he will be producing a remake of classic 1987 movie Monster Squad for Paramount. If there is anyone out there remotely excited by the idea of a Monster Squad remake, let me remind you that Cohen has directed some of the worst films of recent years: xXx, Stealth, The Skulls, and from I’ve heard, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor....

See Bug, Get Five Minutes Of Hostel: Part II By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2007 6:36 pm EST Lionsgate will premiere the first five minutes of Hostel: Part II attached to William Friedkin’s Bug, according to AITH. One of my good friends who has seen the movie (Bug) says it’s much more of a psychological thriller than the horror film it’s being advertised to be. And with the marketing campaign in full force, the buzz on the film is almost non-existent....

Seth Rogen & Elizabeth Banks In Kevin Smith’s Zack & Miri Make A Porno By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 15, 2007 10:03 pm EST Seth Rogen (Knocked Up) and Elizabeth Banks (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) have been cast as Zack and Miri in Kevin Smith’s upcoming comedy Zack & Miri Make a Porno. The movie is about two platonic friends who decide to make a porno movie to solve their finacial problems, and in the process, they discover they have feelings for each other....

Spider-Man 4 Still Planned With Or Without Tobey Maguire By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2007 11:31 am EST Tobey Maguire may have lost interest in playing Spidey, but that doesn’t mean the end for Spider-Man. “This story has been going on a long time and it will continue going,” says Spider-Man 3 producer Avi Arad. “There’s some issues that will come not to an end but to a conclusion, but Peter Parker’s story will continue forward....

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Debut Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2008 2:22 pm EST EW.com has premiered a new trailer for LucasArts’ Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. I haven’t played a Star Wars video game for years, but that might change as some cool games are on the horizon: Forced Unleashed and the upcoming lightsaber game for the Nintendo Wii. Obviously the selling point of The Force Unleashed is that you get to use your awesome force abilities to an extent that was only hinted at in the films....

Sundance: Snow Angels Movie Review By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2007 2:18 pm EST I didn’t want to see Snow Angels at first. I was outside the first screening when a busload of people decided to walk out. “Terrible, Depressing” they said. But then in the days that followed I ran into a lot of people on the shuttles and at the theaters that were raving about the flick. But I still refused to believe it was good....

The Simpsons Movie Voted One Of The Best Movies Of All Time? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2007 12:57 pm EST With 36,600 user votes, Simpsons seems to be holding its spot on the list. So the question is: Is The Simpsons Movie one of the best movies of all time? Does it deserve this placement?

The Universe Doesn’t Hate Us: No Heathers Sequel By Russ Fischer/July 2, 2009 2:30 pm EST Every time Winona Ryder does something that interests the movie press (something that doesn’t involve getting arrested) she talks about a Heathers sequel. Listening to Ryder, you’d think there was a packaged project all ready to go, waiting in a studio exective’s office with a white sheet thrown over it, just waiting to be revealed like a classy sculpture....

Twenty Films Submitted For Best Animated Oscar, Resulting In Five Nominees Instead Of Three By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2009 4:30 pm EST The best animated feature Oscar is a category that has been limited in the past few years to only three nominees. At least sixteen films must be submitted each year to push the category to include five nominated films. This year, for the first time since the category was created in 2001, the Academy has twenty submissions for the category, and with the list in hand the race for Best Animated Film just got interesting....

VOTD: Bumblebee Dancing By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2008 12:00 am EST The Pitch: Bumblebee takes the floor! Thanks to /Film reader James J for submitting this video. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. VOTD: Bumblebee Dancing By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2008 12:00 am EST...

VOTD: Meet “Quentin Tarantino’s Camera Angel” In The Inglourious Basterds Clapper Outtakes By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2010 12:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you own the DVD/Blu-ray release of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, then hopefully you’ve seen the hilarious special feature: Quentin Tarantino’s Camera Angel. On a normal movie set, a clapboard operator announces the scene numbers before each take. For the letters following the scene numbers, the clapboard operator usually employs the International Radio Operator Alphabet (example, scene 21a would be “scene twenty one alpha” and scene 140c would be “Scene One Forty Charlie”)....

22% Of Vanity Fair’s Top 100 Are Filmmakers By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2008 6:30 pm EST Vanity Fair has released the VF 100 – an annual listing of the top 100 leaders of the information age. Below you can find a listing of movie related entries on the list. Check out the full list on VanityFair.com. Steve Jobs – Former Pixar CEO, Member of Disney’s Board of Directors Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt – Actors...

Air Guitar Nation Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2007 5:30 am EST Did you know: There is a world championship event for playing the air guitar? Well someone decided to film a documentary around it. I first heard about Air Guitar Nation at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, but was unable to see a screening. And judging by the trailer, I missed one funny doc. Check out the trailer after the jump....

Angelina Jolie To Star As Sleeping Beauty’s Evil Queen In Tim Burton’s Maleficent? By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2010 3:46 pm EST Earlier this week it was revealed that Alice in Wonderland screenwriter Linda Woolverton was penning the script for Tim Burton to possibly direct titled Maleficent. The project is the previously rumored revisionist retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story that focuses on the Mistress of all Evil. But who could play the evil queen?...