Prep & Landing Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2009 12:48 pm EST Although we’ve never featured it on the site, this trailer for Disney’s computer animated Christmas special Prep & Landing has been floating around for a few weeks now, and it looks like a half-decent television production. Prep & Landing tells the never-before-told tale of an elite unit of Elves known as Prep & Landing, who prepare the world for Santa’s visit....
Slashfilm Muxtape: The Bigger, Badder Sequel By Hunter Stephenson/May 26, 2008 9:14 am EST CLICK HERE TO HEAR SLASHFILM’s MUXTAPE: THE BIGGER, BADDER SEQUEL Discuss: Like it or hate it? Any requests for the third mux? It’s going to be bloated and have at least three villains (mall rappers) and four love interests (winehouse). For the sake of archiving/downloading, we’ve included the current tracklisting and the tracklisting from our first Muxtape after the jump…...
Sony Sets The Lords Day As Clancy-Esque Thriller With Franchise Potential By Russ Fischer/July 29, 2009 1:47 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The key, as THR points out, is Harry Jones, a Member of Parliament who is also a former military officer. He’s the guy who has to stop the terrorists and in doing so uncovers a (insert dramatic music here) global conspiracy. The trade says the studio is eyeing this as the potential first chapter in a character-based franchise....
Steve Wiebe Recaptures Donkey Kong (Jr) World Record By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2010 1:04 am EST Steve Wiebe, noted Donkey Kong competitor and star of the 2007 documentary The King of Kong, recaptured his title as the Donkey Kong Junior World Record Holder. Billy Mitchell still remains the world record holder for regular Donkey Kong. Here is the update from Twin Galaxies: On behalf of Twin Galaxies, I’d like to congratulate Steve Wiebe of Redmond, WA for re-claiming the WR on Donkey Kong Junior!...
The Alan Moore And Neil Gaiman $80 Million Marvelman Movie That Never Was By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 10, 2009 8:00 pm EST Digging deep behind the scenes of the recent purchase by Marvel of the character Marvelman (aka Miracleman) from Mick Anglo and Emotiv Records, Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool has discovered an aborted $80 million Marvelman movie, based upon the Alan Moore run of the comics and – if it all went to plan – co-scripted by Neil Gaiman and an unnamed “A-list screenplay writer”....
The Brothers Bloom Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/April 7, 2009 12:08 pm EST Summit Entertainment has released “Trailer #2” for The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed indie high school noir film Brick. I use quotation marks around “Trailer #2” because the movie trailer is not much different from the original trailer that was released in July before the film got pushed back. The revised trailer includes some new title cards, including “From the Writer/Director of Brick”....
The First 18 Minutes Of FlashForward By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 18, 2009 11:00 am EST For those of you who aren’t paying attention to the barrage or recent advertising and promotion, ABC will begin airing a new television series called FlashForward on September 24th at 8pm. Based on the 1999 novel by Robert J. Sawyer, the story involves a global event which causes everyone to simultaneously experience, for two minutes and seventeen seconds, his or her life six months in the future....
The Future World Of Disney’s Meet The Robinsons By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2007 1:15 pm EST And we have yet another Meet The Robinsons featurette, take a trip to the future where frogs can sing, buildings can self-assemble and bubbles are the main form of transportation. I’m not sure the future will look anything like Disney’s new vision, but it should. [flv:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/robinsonsfuture.flv 450 350] Meet the Robinsons hits theaters on Friday March 30th 2007....
The Secret Of Kells Trailer: Refresh Yourself On The Surprise Oscar Nominee By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2010 9:52 am EST In November, when the twenty films submitted for the Best Animated Film Oscar were submitted, we noted a couple of titles that might have been unfamiliar to readers. One of them was The Secret of Kells, which we introduced as “an interesting hand-drawn film about a ninth-century boy who rebels against his guardian’s orders and helps to illuminate a famous Irish manuscript....
Tony Gilroy Rewrote Red Dawn By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2009 2:30 pm EST Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passamore penned the original draft of the remake of Red Dawn, originally written and directed by John Milius. But Latino Review reports that Tony Gilroy, Bourne writer and writer/director of Michael Clayton and Duplicity, has been brought on to rewrite the script. That report says his draft has already been turned in, and AICN follows up with a note that Ellsworth has already been tasked with tweaking Gilroy’s work....
Tooth Fairy Movie Trailer By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2009 6:56 pm EST There are those in Hollywood that will tell you the pitch process is among the most demeaning and inhuman things a writer can do. I don’t believe that. Usually. Every once in a while a trailer comes along that plays exactly like the pitch you hear in your head for the movie in question. The trailer for Tooth Fairy, which stars Dwayne Johnson as a mean old jerk of a hockey player who becomes a tooth fairy, is very much one of these....
VOTD: If Saul Bass Had Created The Openings Of Lost And Tron By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2010 11:00 pm EST If you’ve ever seen a film by Alfred Hitchcock or Stanley Kubrick, then you’re probably familiar with the title sequence designs of Saul Bass. Some of the title sequences he’s more notable openings include The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), Vertigo (1958), Anatomy of a Murder (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), Spartacus (1960), Exodus (1960), Ocean’s Eleven (1960), West Side Story (1961), It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Broadcast News (1987), Big (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991 )and Casino (1995)....
VOTD: In Search Of Stan Lee By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2008 12:00 am EST In Search of Stan Lee created by Our friends at Black20The Pitch: “One man’s multi-day journey to get a one on one interview with comic book legend Stan Lee at the 2008 New York Comic-Con.“Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD?...
VOTD: The American Akira By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 2, 2008 12:00 am EST The American Akira The Pitch: Harry Partridge has come across the initial animatics for Hollywood’s upcoming American remake of Akira. Thanks to /film reader Christopher M for the tip. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail....
Warner Bros. Eyes Amanda Seyfried For Catherine Hardwicke’s Girl With The Red Riding Hood By Russ Fischer/Feb. 18, 2010 10:06 am EST Almost a year ago Catherine Hardwicke signed with Warner Bros. and Appian Way to direct The Girl with the Red Riding Hood, a “gothic retelling” of the Little Red Riding Hood story. There hasn’t been much public movement on the film since then, but Hardwicke is still attached, and the studio now has a lead actress in mind to get the film moving: Amanda Seyfried....
Back To The Future Sweded By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 29, 2008 12:20 am EST TeamBulletTime saw Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind, and decided to create a sweded version of the Back to the Future trilogy. I thought it was cute enough to post. Check it out below. Back To The Future Sweded By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 29, 2008 12:20 am EST TeamBulletTime saw Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind, and decided to create a sweded version of the Back to the Future trilogy....
Bad Ideas: Robosapien The Movie By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2007 2:04 pm EST Have you ever seen that cute little walking robot toy while browsing the isles of your local Best Buy? Well the guy who produced Spider-Man 2 thinks the best-selling toy would make a great movie. Has Avi Arad gone mad? A feature film based on the Robosapien toy will hit the big screen in 2009. The movie will combine live-action and CGI....
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2008 1:16 pm EST According to Nikki Finke, Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet director Baz Luhrmann (we’ll pretend Australia never happened) has signed on to helm a big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve never read F. Scott’s 1922 novel or seen any of the many movie adaptations (one of which starred Robert Redford and Mia Farrow with a script by Francis Ford Coppola and another starring… Paul Rudd?...
Casting Guy Richie’s RocknRolla By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2007 5:06 pm EST When Guy Richie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) first announced RocknRolla, his return to the ensemble British Gangster movie genre, we wondered if the old (pre-Madonna) Richie had also returned. Well finally the ensemble cast has been announced: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Idris Elba. While the casting of Butler is sure to add another $10-15 million to the opening weekend box office from all the middle aged housewives who gush over the 300, I’m not impressed....
Cool Stuff: Movie Toys At Toy Fair 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2008 2:11 pm EST A ton of cool movie-related action figures were revealed at the 2008 Toy Fair in New York City this weekend. Check out some photos of the cooler toys after the jump thanks to Figures.com, ActionFigureInsider, and BloodyDisgusting. Conan The Barbarian Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles A Christmas Story BeatleJuice Trick R Treat Exorcist Labyrinth The Princess Bride...
