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/Film Has Arrived At Sundance Film Festival 2010 By David Chen/Jan. 20, 2010 3:56 pm EST Yesterday, I arrived in Park City, Utah for my very first Sundance Film Festival. I’ve only been to one film festival before in my life, but I don’t think anything can possibly prepare me for the two weeks ahead. There’s a ton of great movies that we at /Film plan to bring you coverage of, and we’ll be doing it through every conceivable form of media possible....

300 Super Special Edition DVD Gift Set By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2007 12:21 pm EST We didn’t fall in love with Zack Snyder’s 300 like everyone else, and kind of feel left out on that hole phenomena. Our friends at MadAboutMovies have posted some photos of the upcoming 300 2-disc gift box set. I can certainly appreciate a well made DVD release. Apparently this might be only available in Canada (although it looks too good not to get a US release)....

500 Days Of Summer Release Schedule By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2009 12:55 pm EST Friday, July 17th • Boston • Chicago • Dallas/Ft. Worth • Los Angeles • San Diego • New York • San Francisco • Seattle • Toronto • Washington, D.C. Friday, July 24th • Atlanta • Austin • Baltimore • Cleveland • Denver • Detroit • Houston • Indianapolis • Madison • Milwaukee • Minneapolis • Montreal...

9 Photos From Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince By Peter Sciretta/July 3, 2008 1:31 pm EST USA Today released a new batch of photos from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Warner Bros has sent us high resolution versions of the photos, which you can check out below. As always, click to enlarge. The article also hints that the upcoming films might stray a little from the books. The idea presented is that the book series is already complete, and everyone (even many of those who didn’t read the final book) already knows how everything ends....

Cool Stuff: Alien 3 Fetal Queen Maquette By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2008 6:00 am EST Sideshow Collectibles is taking preorders for a limited edition Fetal Queen Maquette from Alien3. This limited edition Maquette is an exact reproduction of the original created by Amalgamated Dynamics Inc (ADI), which also appears on the Alien3 poster and film cover artwork. The Fetal Queen Maquette is cast in high-quality polystone, hand-finished and hand-painted to exacting standards, then individually hand-numbered....

Cool Stuff: Seven More Awesome Pieces Of Art From Crazy4Cult 3D By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2009 9:00 am EST As you probably know by now, Gallery 1988 will be holding their third annual pop culture art show Crazy4Cult 3D from July 16th to August 8th in Los Angeles. Over the past couple weeks we’ve featured a couple of the fantastic art that will be on display at the show, including Jeff Boyes’ take on Luc Besson’s 1994 film The Professional, Jim Horwat’s Back to the Future Tribute, Tom Whalen’s Army of Darkness, Dave Perillo’s Goonies board game, Keith Noordzy’s Al of the Dead and Daniel Rizzolo’s Pee-Wee Herman-inspired “I’m a Loner, a Rebal”, Tom Whalen’s UHF poster and epic art parodying 19 cult film references by Dan Lydersen....

Disney’s Enchanted Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2007 1:19 pm EST Cinematical has gotten a first look at the poster art for Disney’s half animated / live-action crossover Enchanted (movie trailer). Sure, we did post some of the early poster art back in March, and the official poster isn’t too far off from the conceptual art. You can click on the image to the right to enlarge. In an animated fairy tale world, a young girl meets and falls in love with the handsome prince of her dreams....

Guy Pearce Joins Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2009 9:01 am EST Guy Pearce has joined the Miramax remake of the classic 1973 television movie Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, scripted by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Troy Nixey. Bailee Madison has also signed on to play his daughter. They’ll be joining Katie Holmes, who was cast a couple of months ago. In the original telefilm, John Hutton and Kim Darby played Alex and Sally Farnham, who inherit a mansion from Sally’s grandmother....

Heroes: Origins Earns Some Geek-Cred: Hires Eli Roth & Michael Dougherty By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2007 1:36 pm EST It looks like Heroes is trying to collect some interesting writer/directors for the new spin-off series Heroes: Origins. Kevin Smith has already signed on to write/direct an episode. News circulated through the tabloid papers this past week that Quentin Tarantino was asked to pen and direct an episode (but he turned it down because he had never watched the series)....

Indiana Jones 4 Movie Reviews By Peter Sciretta/May 18, 2008 11:07 pm EST “I can say that if you liked the other Indiana Jones movies, you will like this one, and that if you did not, there is no talking to you. And I can also say that a critic trying to place it into a heirarchy with the others would probably keep a straight face while recommending the second pound of sausage....

Indiana Jones And The Cannes Film Festival? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2008 4:20 pm EST

International GI Joe Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2009 9:33 am EST Empire has a first look at the international poster for Stephen Sommer’s GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. The poster separates Joe and Cobra, and features the same “trying too hard to look cool” look of the previous character posters. Head on over to Empire to see the poster in higher resolution. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra will hit theaters on August 7th 2009....

Leatherheads Super Bowl Advertisment By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2008 5:00 pm EST You can watch the new Leatherheads television spot which premieres during tonight’s Super Bowl, below. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/leatherheadssuperbowl.flv 460 218] Official Plot Synopsis: Oscar® winners George Clooney and Renée Zellweger match wits in Leatherheads, a quick-witted romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America’s nascent pro-football league in 1925. Clooney plays Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero who is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums....

Marley And Me Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2008 4:34 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/mrleyandmeteaser.flv 470 200] The official book cover description follows: The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world....

Mel Gibson Joins Shane Black’s Cold Warrior By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 28, 2010 12:36 am EST Something tells me that Edge of Darkness is going to do quite well at the box office, and remind us that Mel Gibson is still a viable leading man. We haven’t seem him in a lead role since Signs (and I wasn’t a huge fan of his roles leading up to that), and Darkness looks like it may reawaken the Mad Max we’ve missed for so long....

New Dark Knight Video Clip: Enter Two-Face! By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2008 6:36 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/tdkhero.flv 470 264] /Film Reader Dave sent over news that a new clip from The Dark Knight is now available on the Joker viral site WhySoSerious.com. The new clip gives us our first real glimpse/tease of Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face. Watch the clip below (or in High Definition on the WhySoSerious site) and tell me what you think in the comments!...

Nu Image Meeting With Slew Of Directors For Conan Reboot, Including Brett Ratner By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 19, 2008 9:49 pm EST Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank, Crank 2, Crank 3/3D, Game, Jonah Hex) At Slashfilm: In Crank We Trust (a lot). With their debut feature, the duo hit the ground running with so much batty confidence and aggression that we’ll support any genre fare they wish to assault with a bullet-time rig or a gazillion consumer-grade cameras and a mulleted Corey Haim....

Rumor: Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, Terminator 2 And Star Wars Going 3D? By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 23, 2009 3:00 pm EST We’ve heard rumors before that George Lucas is working up a 3D version of the original Star Wars films, and those rumors are back again. This time, though, they’ve brought some friends – new rumors of Terminator 2 getting dimensionalised, and a claim that Ridley Scott is “breathing down the neck of executives at Universal to get them to approve making a 3D version of his new $200 million epic, Robin Hood”....

Sam Mendes Teaming With Christopher Hampton For Netherland By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 26, 2009 11:40 am EST This story reminds me of something funny I saw Sam Mendes say on TV once, but we’ll have to build up to that, I’m afraid. It seems that Sam Mendes has recruited screenwriter, and sometime director, Christopher Hampton to adapt Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland into a script for him. The rights to the novel are held by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo films and they have spent much of this year pursuing Mendes for the director’s chair and then helping him set the project up....

Season Of The Witch Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2009 5:57 pm EST Lionsgate has released a special 30-second Halloween teaser trailer for Dominic Sena’s supernatural thriller Season of the Witch on IGN. The film stars Nicolas Cage as a 14th century Crusader who returns with his comrade (Ron Perlman) to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. “A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch (Claire Foy) to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence....