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Photos From Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2007 6:25 am EST The first four official production photos for the next Coen Brothers film have been released. When a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande, violence and mayhem ensue. No Country for Old Men stars Josh Brolin (Grindhouse, Goonies) Tommy Lee Jones (Fugitive), Stephen Root (Office Space) and Woody Harrelson....

Pirnaha 3D Movie Trailer By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 20, 2010 12:00 pm EST While there’s still not an official online release of the Piranha 3D trailer, the latest version to pop up across the web at least takes us past the shaky-cam bootleg that was doing the rounds last week. You can see the new, stable version embedded after the break. The original Piranha was hardly the most subtle comedy ever mounted for the big screen but it certainly raised plenty of laughs....

Roy Rogers To Return By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2009 8:20 am EST The legendary “white hat” singing screen cowboy Roy Rogers will make his way back to screens in a trilogy of new films, says Variety. Which is weird, because he’s dead. A Nashville company, working in concert with the Roy Rogers Family Entertainment Corp, plans to bring a new ‘King of Cowboys’ film series to audiences alongside all the other modern merchandising accouterments: TV, video games, Burger King glasses, etc....

Sandy Collora’s Hunter Prey: New Poster And Photos; Trailer Next Week By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2009 8:06 pm EST Back in November, we posted a couple photos from Hunter Prey, Batman: Dead End director Sandy Collora’s first original feature film. Shot with the RED camera system in Mexico over the course of 18 days on a shoestring budget, the sci-fi film tells the story of a team of special forces commandos who must recapture an escaped alien prisoner after the military transport ship carrying it crashes on a desolate and hostile planet....

Taken Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2008 3:03 pm EST I’m talking about the new french triller from District B13 director Pierre Morel, based on a script co-written by Robert Mark Kamen (The Transporter) and Luc Besson (The Professional). Liam Neeson stars as a father who goes on a manhunt after his daughter is kidnapped in Paris. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/taken.flv 470 198]

The Dark Knight Returns To Theaters On January 23rd 2009 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2008 9:46 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Official press release after the jump. “THE DARK KNIGHT” RETURNS TO THE BIG SCREEN ON JANUARY 23RD THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED HIT WILL BE RE-RELEASED IN THEATRES AND IMAX. BURBANK, CA, December 4, 2008 – Warner Bros. Pictures is bringing “The Dark Knight” back for a return engagement in theatres and IMAX on January 23, 2009, giving audiences one more chance to see the film on the big screen....

The Mist Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 19, 2007 1:48 pm EST Dimension Films has released a second movie trailer for Frank Darabont’s big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist. One of our readers saw a test screening of the film last week. Here is what Sean said about the film: “It was pretty good, not as good as you would think. The story left a lot of loose ends and the plot was predictable....

This Week In DVD: Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, War Inc., Mongol, And More By Adam Quigley/Oct. 14, 2008 11:44 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Planned to be the first in a trilogy about Genghis Khan’s life (with Mongol focusing on his younger years), this film was nominated in 2007 for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The movie has received mostly rave reviews (currently holding an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes), and though I haven’t seen it yet, I’m definitely looking forward to doing so as it’s been said to very gracefully combine family drama and romance with epic battle sequences and mass carnage....

Video: Hot Fuzz Director Edgar Wright Interviews SuperBad Stars By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2007 5:42 pm EST Our interview with the stars of SuperBad will go live tomorrow, but while you’re waiting I highly recommend checking out this YouTube video interview with the SuperBad crew. YouTube interview? Boring, right? Nope. Not when it’s being conducted by Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright. Edgar asks some great questions like “How does it feel now that your [career has] peaked?...

Watch Connected, A Sci-Fi Western Short Film By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2010 10:36 am EST A couple months ago I mentioned the Danish short sci-fi western Connected. That was when a very cool poster was released for the film. Now the whole thing is online, and you can see what happens when two people are forced to rely upon one another to survive in a blasted landscape.Connected is only sort of a western, but it does have a nice reversal of expectations, and it primarily concerns greed as it takes control in some sort of wasteland....

Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O Handling SDTRK To Spike Jonze’s Wild Things By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 17, 2008 3:24 pm EST Expectations for Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are have cooled off a bit ever since the film was pushed back to 2009 due to purported issues with the titular creatures’ elaborate special effects. Audience reviews from surprisingly early test screenings described the $80 million film as unapologetically melancholic, beautifully strange, and very “adult....

A Look At Diablo Cody’s Projects In Development By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 5, 2007 5:07 pm EST The United States of Tara: Steven Spielberg handpicked Cody to write the pilot for a comedy idea he had about a woman who struggles to find a balance between her dissociative identity disorder and raising a dysfunctional family. Cody conceived the story, and pitched it to him over the phone at the Universal lot, and has yet to meet the famous director in person....

Aaron Eckhart’s Harvey Dent/Two Face Performances In The Dark Knight Revealed? By Hunter Stephenson/March 7, 2008 5:17 pm EST Before you head out this Friday to wrap your hands around a cold brewsky, try wrapping your head around the following description of Aaron Eckhart’s performance(s) as Harvery Dent and Two Face in July’s The Dark Knight. Over at CHUD, Jeremy Smith spills all he knows about what Christopher Nolan has in store for us....

Casting Notes: Danny Huston In Robin Hood, Jason Statham In Blitz By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2009 10:50 am EST Here’s a couple of short casting bites. First up, according to THR Danny Huston has joined the cast of Ridley Scott’s still-untitled Robin Hood picture, which is currently shooting in England. The awesome Huston — well, maybe not so awesome in Wolverine, but just check him out in The Proposition — is stepping in as Richard the Lionhearted....

Chloe Moretz And Asa Butterfield Join Scorsese’s The Invention Of Hugo Cabret By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2010 7:39 am EST Just yesterday we heard that Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret was looking to add Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley to the cast. Now it looks like the two lead child actors have been chosen, as well. Asa Butterfield will play the titular Hugo Cabret, and Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass) will play “an eccentric, bookish girl” who comes into Hugo’s life as he navigates the Parisian train station where he lives....

Comic-Con: TRON Legacy Has An ’80s Flashback Sequence By Russ Fischer/July 24, 2009 5:30 am EST Here’s the central irony of Comic Con: because of the absurd Hall H admittance policies and the vagaries of scheduling, I didn’t get to see the new TRON Legacy footage. But I did interview the director, Joseph Kosinski. The full transcript of that interview will be posted shortly, but I did want to share a quick tidbit that fans of Steven Lisberger’s original 1982 film might like....

Cool Stuff: Indiana Jones Shop By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2008 5:54 am EST LucasFilm launched the Indiana Jones Shop on April 1st, which sucks because my pocket is now a couple hundred dollars lighter. The online store features a couple items we’ve featured on previous editions of Cool Stuff like the Indiana Jones Mighty Muggs and the Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark ArtFX Statue (both seen below). The new store also features a bunch of cool exclusives like a bronze plated Indy on Horse Statue for $249....

Cool Stuff: Suit-Able Star Wars T-Shirts By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 3, 2007 11:30 pm EST Do you remember those ugly tuxedo-screenprinted t-shirts? Urban Outfitters is now offering a new line of Star Wars-themed t-shirts using the same idea. The geek-o-rific shorts come in four flavors: Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Chewbaca and R2D2. I’m sure the $28 price tag has something to do with the Lucasfilm licensing. Correction: Turn s out that Urban Outfitters is just expensive....

Cool Stuff: Ultimate WALL-E Animated Programmable Robot By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2008 3:43 pm EST Ever since I saw the first teaser trailer for the new Pixar film, I’ve been anxiously awaiting the day when Disney releases a WALL-E that can run around my apartment and scare my cat. Last week we showed you the first released photos of WALL-E action figures from the UK ToyFair. The action figures shown last week were a first step (and will likely invade my desk space upon their release) but I’ve been waiting for something more heavy duty....

Hundreds Of Extras March On Castro For Gus Van Sant’s Milk By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2008 10:53 pm EST Tonight Gus Van Sant shot with hundreds of extras in front of the newly-renovated Castro movie theater (looking more beautiful than it did in the 1970’s) for the new Sean Penn movie Milk. Click on the photo to enlarge. There will be a bring-your-own-Candle-light March on Friday Night, February 8th, but only those who have signed up should attend....