David Lynch And Frank Herbert Discuss Dune By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2010 11:08 pm EST Back in1983, the Waldenbooks chain recorded a long conversation between David Lynch and Frank Herbert. The occasion was the impending release of Lynch’s version of Dune. The final film, as most well know, was often derided as an artistic failure, and it was undoubtedly a commercial disaster. In the years since the film’s release, Lynch rarely speaks of it....
Denzel Washington Gets Off Tony Scott’s ‘Unstoppable’ Train By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2009 9:57 pm EST So what happens now? I’d like to see Scott make the movie for a lot less — get him to do a down and dirty thriller. But that’s not his style. He could walk, and put this back into development at Fox, which has been working on the film for a while. (Robert Schwentke and Martin Campbell were both attached at one point....
Diablo Cody’s Burlesque Musical: “Moulin Rouge Meets Cabaret” By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 16, 2007 12:15 pm EST Blogger turned Screenwriter Diablo Cody (NOT pictured right) is the new screenwriting IT girl in Hollywood. If you don’t recall, Cody wrote Juno which is one of the best movies of the year. It’s sure to earn her a best screenplay nomination. She’s working with Spielberg, and now Variety reports that Cody has been brought on board to rewrite/revise a contemporary musical titled Burlesque, which Steven Antin (The Good Mother) will direct....
Drillbit Taylor Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2007 10:33 am EST Judd Apatow is on a roll. 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and SuperBad (which I had a chance to see during Comic-Con. It’s possibly the best teen comedy since American Pie.) And Apartow isn’t wasting any time. He’s striking while the iron is hot and cranking out so many movies, a backlash is bound to happen sooner or later....
Five Gone Baby Gone Video Clips By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2007 2:53 pm EST Ben Affleck’s directorial debut Gone Baby Gone is nothing short of one of this year’s best. It’s a great film, with a few unexpected twists. Ed Harris easily earns an Oscar Nomination before your eyes, and I think this might be Casey Affleck’s breakout role. Our friends at Collider have five clips from this amazing film. Check them out, and mark this movie on your calendar (October 19th)....
Gore Verbinski To Direct Clue By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2009 7:26 pm EST Universal Pictures has made a series of deals with Hasbro to adapt board games and toys into big screen movies. Last year the studio signed Ridley Scott to develop a movie based on Monopoly. Over the past month it was announced that Platinum Dunes was developing a movie based around the Ouija board, Etan Cohen was writing a screenplay for Candyland with Enchanted director Kevin Lima to direct, and Steve Oedekerk to write a big screen adaptation of Stretch Armstrong....
Howard Chaykin’s Spy Film To Star Vinnie Jones By Brendon Connelly/May 3, 2009 5:00 pm EST There has been a brief report published in The Hollywood Reporter about Elevate Entertainment. They describe it as a “full-service management company that includes talent, literary and reality departments as well as a development and production arm”. Amongst the first signings are Vinnie Jones and Howard Chaykin. I don’t mention those two at random – though you’d be forgiven for not spotting the connection had I not made a headline out of it....
Kevin Smith Might’ve Reviewed Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 22, 2008 7:18 pm EST Entertainment Weekly should probably hire Kevin Smith to write movie reviews. Heck, they’ve sent Diablo Cody to do set reports!? It seems like Smith is seeing all the films early now-a-days. First The Dark Knight, then Watchmen, and now… Star Trek? Maybe so. The Clerks director was a guest on KROQ’s Kevin and Bean show and eludes to having seen JJ Abrams’ Star Trek....
Kick-Ass Movie Trailer: More Story, More Characters, More Ass Kicking By Russ Fischer/Jan. 8, 2010 12:39 pm EST We’ve seen a teaser trailer and a violent red-band trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, based on Mark Millar’s comic of the same name, but not a proper story-oriented full-length one. Now we’ve got that, too, and it’s pretty fantastic. This new trailer uses some of the same footage as the clips we’ve seen before, but puts it all into a story context so there’s a little more than ‘real-world kid heroes’ going on....
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New Cloverfield Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 21, 2007 3:26 pm EST Paramount sent us the new theatrical movie poster for Cloverfield, which began appearing in stores this past week. It’s basically the same thing as the previous teaser posters, but now with the official movie title “Cloverfield”. Check out the poster after the jump. Cloverfield hits theaters on 1-18-08. New Cloverfield Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 21, 2007 3:26 pm EST...
New Iron Man Television Spot By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2008 11:27 pm EST A new Iron Man television spot (“Go Faster, Be Stronger and Fly Higher”) has hit the interwebs via TheMovieBox.net. Check it out below. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/ironmantv5.flv 470 168] Discuss: Who isn’t excited to see Iron Man? New Iron Man Television Spot By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2008 11:27 pm EST A new Iron Man television spot (“Go Faster, Be Stronger and Fly Higher”) has hit the interwebs via TheMovieBox....
Poster: Leatherheads By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 30, 2008 6:48 pm EST George Clooney’s third directorial feature, Leatherheads, is set for release in April and today the film’s rather snazzy official one-sheet was revealed. The 1920s pro-football dramedy finished shooting last May, but it seems like I’ve been hearing about this one for three years now; any longer and Will Ferrell’s 1920s pro-football light bulb would start to flicker. Full poster after the jump via ComingSoon....
Quote: Jon Favreau On Why Superhero Movies Sometimes Fail By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2008 1:44 pm EST It sounds like Jon Favreau has thought a lot about why some superhero movies just didn’t work while others are super successful. Here is a quote from the Iron Man director from a recent LATimes chat: “Either the director was unfamiliar [with the] source material or the director chose to depart from it for personal reasons....
Rose McGowan Cast In Conan… Is This A Red Sonja Cross-Over? By Brendon Connelly/March 17, 2010 5:03 am EST Are you keeping up with the Conan casting? Jason Momoa is in,and as Conan no less; Mickey Rourke is out, replaced by Ron Perlman; Stephen Lang has been rumoured then confirmed… and on and on. The latest break is that Rose McGowan has been handed a role. But, hang on – isn’t she supposed to be getting her own Red Sonja movie?...
Sam Raimi Still Interested In Spider-Man 4 By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2007 2:23 am EST Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst have always said they would only return for a Spider-Man 4 if director Sam Raimi also returned. Until now Sam has been very uncommitted when asked if he wanted to make another in the series. And with The Hobbit rumors starting to escalate, I thought the band breaking up for the fourth film was inevitable (remember however, Sony has said they are making a fourth film with or without the returnees)....
SNL To Make MacGruber Movie? By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2009 11:56 am EST Saturday Night Live hasn’t produced a big screen movie in almost ten years (unless you somehow count Mean Girls, Hot Rod or Baby Mama, which were produced by Lorne Michaels). And probably for good reason. SNL hasn’t been relevant for nearly a decade, but in recent years has gotten a new life thanks to among other things, the addition of The Lonely Island crew....
The Smith Family Robinson By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 21, 2009 12:48 pm EST Production Weekly were good to their tweet and this weekend’s edition is a monster. Their publication, in case you don’t know, is designed to inform craftspeople and crewfolk from the film industry about projects that will be hiring – and, not to put too fine a point on it, result in people getting work. As a side effect, they also give the world all manner of bits and pieces of breaking film news....
The Time Traveler’s Wife Will Finally See Release In August By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2009 8:00 pm EST Robert Schwentke’s big screen adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife has been sitting on the shelf for over a year. To give you an idea of how long that has been, The Time Traveler’s Wife went into post production before the non-canceled television series Journeyman even premiered. I mention Journeyman because many people accused the show of borrowing conceptual elements from the Audrey Niffenegger novel....
The Wackness Movie Poster By Hunter Stephenson/May 2, 2008 10:48 am EST Previously, Slashfilm lashed into Sony Pictures Classics for releasing a full-length trailer for The Wackness, a fave upcoming flick of the site, that shamefully sold the film as just another navel-ring piece of garbage starring an Olsen twin. Knowing full well who was in the movie, I still anticipated a cornrowed Bijou Phillips popping up and shaking her ass in the trailer at any second....
