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Warner Bros Orders Hangover Sequel By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2009 8:58 pm EST When Warner Bros premiered the latest trailer for Todd Phillip’s The Hangover in front of a packed theatre of theater owners at ShoWest, it received the biggest laughs and best response of probably anything shown during the 4-day convention. Personally, I was far more impressed with some of the other presentations (see the video blog), but you could tell that the movie exhibitors were in love with The Hangover....

Another New Indy 4 Photo By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2008 2:53 pm EST Another new photo from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has popped up, this time on theRaider.net. Cate Blanchett looks very angry, but Harrison doesn’t appear to be fased. The photo appears to be part of a magazine spread, possibly Empire. Another New Indy 4 Photo By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2008 2:53 pm EST...

Contest: Shut Up & Sing On DVD By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2007 12:39 am EST Shut up & Sing hit DVD store shelves on February 20th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On March 2nd we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....

Cool Stuff: Sherlock Holmes Concept Art - More Extreme Than The Final Film By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 18, 2009 4:00 pm EST If you’ve watched the trailers, seen the posters or read the rapidly multiplying coverage, you’ll already know that Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes are very different men indeed. There’s definitely some core factors that tie them together, of course, such as their almost supernatural powers of observation and, to varying degrees, skill in a fist fight....

Cool Stuff: Stuck In The Past T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2010 3:00 pm EST We’ve featured a bunch of New Zealand artist Glenn Jones t-shirts in past editions of Cool Stuff. This week Glennz released a new Back to the Future parody tee. And anyone who has been following the site for more than a week knows that I’m absolutey obsessed with Back to the Future (yes, I do own a hoverboard and a flux capacitor), so it seems like a no-brainer that I’d feature this design in Cool Stuff....

Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler To Play The Toronto International Film Festival By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2008 2:15 pm EST Sure, Darren Aronofsky’s new film The Wrestler is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 5th, but I’m sadly not going to be there to see it. But I’m excited to report that the film will also be playing at the Toronto International Film Festival two days later. And yes, we will be there to file a report....

Eagle Vs. Shark Movie Trailer Revealed By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2007 7:16 pm EST Eagle vs. Shark was one of our top 3 favorite movies at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. We called the film “the best indie romantic comedy of all time.” We gushed over the movie so much that Miramax is using our quote on the official website. We called Well now you are finally going to see what we were talking about....

By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2009 1:06 am EST And according to the official press release, everything will be intertwined. The movie, , video game, and comics will feature “the same characters and high caliber military action, but with unique, intersecting storylines that complement each other.” The images in this post is actual concept art from the projects. More photos after the jump. No release dates for any of the properties have yet been announced....

Geoff Johns Tweets Confirmation That Mark Strong Will Be Sinestro By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 21, 2010 4:03 pm EST Regular Green Lantern comics scribe Geoff Johns has today tweeted about his trip to “Green Lantern town a.k.a. New Orleans!!”. According to his first tweet “Ryan IS Hal. And Mark Strong is going to be a brilliant Sinestro” and according to his second, “Kilowog, the Guardians, Oa…all breathtaking. The age of Green Lantern is upon us!...

Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters Gets A New Writer By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2009 9:18 am EST Writer / director Tommy Wirkola got on the map with Dead Snow, his zombie Nazi movie that hit a few festivals over the last year. Now he’s looking to follow that up with a film that catches up with Hansel and Gretel fifteen years after a witch tried to turn them into dinner. We heard about this one, called Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, for the first time back in April....

High-Res Teaser Poster And Wallpaper For Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2010 2:06 pm EST Yesterday, Peter took snaps of the teaser poster for Edgar Wright’s upcoming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the film based on the series of graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley. Now we’ve got a clean high-res version of the poster, and a version formatted as a desktop wallpaper. I know some people think that this is the first misstep in Universal’s marketing campaign, which is already moving slowly....

Hughes Brothers To Direct Denzel Washington In Dystopian Drama Book Of Eli By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 4, 2008 10:45 pm EST The Hughes Brothers have been absent from the big screen for far too long. Their last feature, the so-so adaptation of Alan Moore’s From Hell with Johnny Depp, was released way back in 2001. Since then, they’ve dabbled in docs and TV work, so I’m pretty astounded by my acute anticipation for Hughes Bros movies....

Iron Man On May 1st By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2008 4:49 pm EST Remember last month when it was announced at ShoWest that Iron Man would be released early to coincide with the international release on April 30th? Remember when Paramount quickly shot back that the domestic release date had not changed, and would remain on May 2nd? A lot of fans in the States were angry that International markets were going to see the red and yellow suit in action two days earlier....

John Woo To Direct Comic Book Movie By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2008 11:53 pm EST John Woo has signed on to direct a comic book adaptation! So what superhero will Woo bring to the big screen? A new Superman? Guess again. Captain America? Nope. Justice League? Yeah right. The answer is… Caliber: First Canon of Justice. Wait, what? Never heard of it? That’s because it Radical Publishing only released the first issue on April 30th....

Joust: The Movie? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2007 2:07 am EST Michael Cerenzie Black Water Transit and Christine Peters’ new production banner, CP Productions have officially announced that they have bought the rights to make the stupidest video game adaptation of all time. Okay, they didn’t exactly make the announcement with that context – I’m pretty sure they actually believe this is a good idea. According to Variety, they have secured an option to produce a film based on the 1982 arcade game Joust, from Midway Games....

Kurt Russell On The Escape From New York Remake By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2007 2:29 pm EST A couple weeks ago New Line Cinema won rights to remake Escape From New York with 300 star Gerard Butler attached to star. But what does Kurt Russell, the star of the original film think of all this? We found out. “My standard joke is, ‘Oh, my God, wait until stuntman Mike hears about this?...

Len Wiseman To Helm Atlantis Rising By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 5, 2008 12:53 am EST Underworld and Live Free or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman has signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of Platinum Studios’ five-part apocalyptic sci-fi comic book mini-series Atlantis Rising. The book’s official plot description follows: “After more than a thousand years of peaceful coexistence, Atlantis and the surface world are on the brink of war with the fate of both civilizations hanging in the balance....

LOL: Hustler To Release Star Trek Porn By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2009 6:58 am EST Yes, this movie actually exists. A Star Trek-inspired porn film. I assumed that porn parodies were a thing of the past, but apparently not. Twitch pointed me to the official trailer for Hustler Video’s This Ain’t Star Trek XXX, a self described “sexy space romp”, which hits store shelves just in time to coincide with the release of JJ Abrams’ big screen blockbuster action reboot....

Paul Verhoeven To Direct The Thomas Crown Affair Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2007 11:05 pm EST Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Total Recall) announced on a Dutch radio program (“Met Het Oog Op Morgen”) that he will direct a sequel to 1999’s The Thomas Crown Affair titled The Topkapi Affair. The sequel will be based on the 1964 MGM film Topkapi, and the Eric Ambler novel which it was based on, titled “The Light of the Day....

Penn & Teller Get Killed And Become Detectives - New DVD, New TV Series By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 18, 2009 7:13 am EST Seven seasons into their bunkum-busting Showtime series Bullshit, and on top of their decades of stage magic mastery, Penn & Teller are about to take their double act onto primetime TV in a most intriguing way. They’ll be starring in a new hourlong mystery series as themselves, give or take: Las Vegas performers who sideline as reluctant detectives....