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Transformers Release Date Change? New Trailer Shows NOTHING Says Bay By Peter Sciretta/May 18, 2007 10:34 am EST Transformers director Michael Bay is trying to get Dreamworks/Paramount to release Transformers one day early. “The studio kind of sort of is thinking about which might mean “no”. If you spread the word on the Net – everywhere – they might listen,” wrote Bay. “The 3rd everyone is off from work, I say ‘what the fk’ play the movie – ‘give’em giant fking robots early’!...

Two Riddick Sequels Still In The Works By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2008 2:10 pm EST Vin Diesel revealed to MTV that screenwriter David Twowy is writing the scripts for two Riddick sequels. And for Diesel, the question isn’t if another Riddick movie will go into production it is if they will attempt to “shoot the two chapters at the same time” ala Lord of the Rings or The Matrix sequels. Diesel has been talking up a third Riddick film for some time now....

Video: Optimus Prime Tries To Order A Whopper By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2007 1:07 pm EST Burger King has a new Transformers television advertisement that features Optimus Prime (lips and all) trying to order food through a Burger King Drive-through window. Check out the video after the jump. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kckakj8sH8I[/youtube] Video: Optimus Prime Tries To Order A Whopper By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2007 1:07 pm EST Burger King has a new Transformers television advertisement that features Optimus Prime (lips and all) trying to order food through a Burger King Drive-through window....

VOTD: Indiana Jones Shot First! By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2008 12:00 am EST Indy Shot First by MBelinkie The Pitch: Greedo shooting first was only the beginning… In the upcoming Raiders of the Lost Ark Special Edition that doesn’t exist, George Lucas has changed this classic scene so that Indy isn’t the one who shoots first. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....

VOTD: Jason Eisener’s The Number To Heaven By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2009 12:00 am EST Every year at Fantastic Fest, they ask that filmmakers submit a short intro bumpers, many of which play before the festival movie screenings. It’s actually, a mini short film festival in itself, as the best bumpers are actually presented with Awards. We’ve featured filmmaker Jason Eisener on the site a few times in the past. You might recognize him as the guy who made Hobo With A Shotgun (which will soon become a feature length film) and the awesome award-winning horror short Treevenge....

Will Watchmen Be Delayed? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2008 9:35 am EST I’m not a lawyer, so I won’t pretend to be one. All I know about this case is what I’ve read in various newspaper reports and from what I could understand from the court filing. Ad looking over all the publicly released claims has me worried. The fanboy attitude is to attack Fox, but it looks to me like Warner Bros might be at fault....

WonderCon: Forgetting Sarah Marshall; Kristen Bell Talks Veronica Mars Movie By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2008 7:14 pm EST Director Nicholas Stoller, star and writer Jason Segel, producer Shauna Robertson, and stars Kristen Bell, Russell Brand, Jack McBrayer and Mila Kunis were at WonderCon to promote Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Judd Apatow was expected to be there but couldn’t make it because he’s sick. The cast had great comic chemistry on stage, and had the audience laughing throughout....

Airbender Set Pics Appear - From Philadelphia And Greenland By Brendon Connelly/April 2, 2009 3:44 pm EST M. Night Shyamalan, cast and crew have rolled up in Reading, Pennsylvania to film some scenes for The Last Airbender. The principal location appears to be the Pagoda atop Penn Mountain, probably the most appropriate piece of architecture in Shyamalan’s beloved home state for the Eastern-ised aesthetic of the original cartoons, and apparently now the movie adaptation....

Beetlejuice In Transformers 2? By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2008 10:09 pm EST Lester “Beetlejuice” Green has supposedly been spotted on the Princeton set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Many people know the little man with the even smaller head as one of the members of the Wack Pack on the Howard Stern Show. And anyone who reads the site knows I’m a huge Stern fan from wayyyy back (he gets me through my blogging day)....

Cloverfield DVD Exclusives By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2008 5:47 am EST Cloverfield hits DVD store shelves next week (April 22nd), but before you buy you should know that four retail stores are offering different exclusives with the DVD purchase. Suncoast & FYE will have a limited edition swank steel book collectible packaging (pictured above). Best Buy will offer a Bonus Disc entitled “TJ Miller’s Video Diary,” containing almost 30 minutes of exclusive behind-the-scenes footage with “Hud” (pictured above)....

Contest: The Prestige On DVD By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2007 1:20 am EST The Prestige 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 February 28th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....

Cool Stuff: Defaced Presidents By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2008 2:12 am EST TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 17, § 333 of the United States Code reads: “Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both....

Cool Stuff: Fan Created TRON Legacy Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2009 12:00 am EST This movie poster for TRON Legacy is not an official release from Walt Disney Pictures. The poster was designed by artist James White, who has worked for such clients as Toyota, Armada Skis, VH1 Latin America and MTV. In his own words: Here is my own Tron Legacy movie poster. I had a ball creating this and referencing as many elements from the new trailer that I could....

Cool Stuff: LEGO Iron Man By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2007 3:43 am EST Brickshelf user Arvo created Iron Man out of LEGOs. Click on the image above to enlarge. If only Marvel would make a deal with LEGO so that we could spend $150 to buy the blocks and build this creation… I guess we could always figure it out ourselves without directions. But that would probably involve creativity and work…...

Daryl Hannah Says There’s Going To Be A Third Kill Bill, And That She’s Going To Be In It By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 3, 2010 10:41 am EST There’s been even more gossip about a projected third Kill Bill film from Quentin Tarantino than about his long-delayed Whole Bloody Affair recut of the first two parts. The latest loose-lipped culprit to go sowing wild rumours is Daryl Hannah. Hannah was speaking to UK TV channel Film 24 about her role in Raoul Ruiz’ A Closed Book when they got her on the topic of Tarantino’s Bride movies....

Death Race Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2008 1:32 am EST Shock has a first look at the new Death Race movie poster which is now in theaters. Something about it just screams “shitty movie”. I’m surprised they didn’t try to play up the imagery of the custom killer cars instead of the generic floating heads.Jason Statham leads the cast of an action-thriller set in the post-industrial wasteland of tomorrow, with the world’s most brutal sporting event as its backdrop....

First Look: Zombieland By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2009 5:10 pm EST Sony has premiered four photos from Ruben Fleischer’s zombie buddy comedy Zombieland on AICN. Jesse Eisenberg plays Columbus, a teenage who has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other....

First Teaser Photo: Jackie Earle Haley As Freddy Krueger In A Nightmare On Elm Street By Peter Sciretta/July 22, 2009 9:00 am EST Warner Bros has released the first teaser image of Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger in Platinum Dunes’ remake/re-imagining of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Unfortunately much of Freddy’s face is hidden in shadow. You will notice that Jackie’s body is a bit smaller than Robert Englund, who played Freddy in the original Wes Craven film....

Geek Deal: Thriller Four-Packs $25 On DVD, $40 On Blu-Ray By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2009 11:26 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

H2 Retitled Halloween II? New Featurette On YouTube By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2009 9:23 pm EST Dimension Films has released a behind the scenes featurette for H2 on YouTube. The video explains that Rob Zombie’s Halloween sequel is unlike anything you have seen before in the series, and is a lot more realistic. If that’s a good thing or not, I’m not quite sure. I wasn’t really a fan of Zombie’s remake....