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New Photos: Jim Carrey Is Harry Potter In Yes Man By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2008 9:00 am EST I found a few new photos for the new Jim Carrey comedy Yes Man. More photos after the jump. Carrey stars as Carl Allen, a man who signs up for a self-help program based on one simple principle: say yes to everything and anything. At first, unleashing the power of “yes” transforms Carl’s life in amazing and unexpected ways, but he soon discovers that opening up his life to endless possibilities can have its drawbacks....

Punisher: War Zone Photos By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2008 2:13 pm EST A couple new photos from Lexi Alexander’s Punisher: War Zone have shown up online. The film stars Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, who faces his most deadly foe yet: Jigsaw. I’ve also included the previously released photos below. As always, click to enlarge. Yup, looks pretty shitty. Punisher: War Zone hits theaters on December 5th 2008....

Saoirse Ronan In Talks For Teen Killing-Machine Movie Hanna By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 7, 2010 9:30 am EST Some people probably saw this coming when Joe Wright signed on to direct, but I have to admit that I didn’t. Atonement’s Saoirse Ronan is now in negotiations to take the title role in Wright’s upcoming action-thriller Hanna. The film is a kind of Nikita-meets-Leon, Kick-Ass-meets-Bourne mash-up about a 14 year old girl who has finely honed killing skills....

Sony To Adapt Sci-Fi Novel The Electric Church By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2010 2:03 pm EST I’m always curious to see what happens when a studio looks to prose sci-fi to establish a new film series. That’s what Sony is doing by hiring screenwriter Trevor Sands to write a film based on The Electric Church, the first in a series of novels by Jeff Somers. The novels are near-future techno-thrillers, with the first book described by Publishers Weekly as packed “with enough gunplay and explosions to satisfy a Hollywood producer....

Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are To Be Entirely Reshot?! By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 20, 2008 2:50 pm EST Sabotage!?! There’s incredibly weird, and increasingly depressing, buzz coming off Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, and now Chud reports that execs at Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are considering reshooting the entire $75 million friggin’ movie! This news, of course, comes on top of the rather cool test footage that leaked last weekend, and the rather subdued statement Jonze released yesterday concerning the early footage....

Star Trek: Sulu, Scotty, McCoy And Chekov Revealed! By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 9, 2008 11:37 pm EST Four new character posters from JJ Abrams’ Star Trek have been revealed at VegasCon 08. TrekMovie was able to take a photo of the four posters, which like the Comic Con posters, combine to form the Star Trek delta emblem. Clockwise we have John Cho as Sulu, Simon Pegg as Scotty, Anton Yelchin as Chekov and Karl Urban as McCoy....

Teaser Trailer: Roland Emmerich’s 2012 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2008 8:42 pm EST Sony has just premiered the teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich’s epic disaster movie 2012. It’s not nearly as good as the Superbowl teaser for Emmerich’s Independence Day, but it does build to a cool “oh my god” moment. I’ll be completely honest, Emmerich hasn’t made a great movie in the last decade. What’s the chances that this movie will be any better than say 10,000 BC?...

The /Filmcast Gets Activated Tonight At 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST By David Chen/Sept. 29, 2008 4:26 pm EST Tune in tonight to Slashfilm’s live page tonight at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST and hear us chat with fearless leader Peter Sciretta about his recent adventures in the film world. We’ll also be going through massive amounts of film news that broke this week, and reviewing DJ Caruso’s Eagle Eye....

The First Five Minutes Of The Boondock Saints II: All Saint’s Day By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2009 5:30 pm EST Apparition has released the opening sequence, the first five minutes, of The Boondock Saints II: All Saint’s Day on IGN. The sequence basically explains why the Saints must return from hiding. What else? A montage set to “badass music” featuring the Saints cutting off their hair/beards and taking showers (yes, I’m serious), an obvious black and white flashback to the original film (couldn’t they have re-filmed the scene from a security camera angle for the news cast instead?...

The Road Pushed Back To Thanksgiving By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2009 8:27 am EST .

Un Prophete Trailer #1: Finally, A Domestic Look At The Festival Favorite By Russ Fischer/Dec. 13, 2009 9:00 pm EST Opening a trailer with a quote comparing the advertised film to The Godfather could be considered the greatest act of hubris in the movie advertising world. Perhaps it’s OK when the film in question is Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet (Un Prophete), which won the Grand Prix at Cannes this past May, and has been called the favorite film of that festival (not just by the quote shown in the trailer) despite Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon taking the top prize....

Video: Eli Roth Interviews Josh Brolin By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 12, 2007 3:33 am EST Director Eli Roth (Hostel, Thanksgiving) and actor Josh Brolin (Goonies, No Country For Old Men) sat down and had a conversation and MySpace shot it for their video interview feature Artists on Artists. Josh Brolin tells the story of how he got Robert Rodriguez to shoot his audition tape for No Country, while Quentin Tarantino directed. Roth talks about his experience meeting Joel Cohan, and unleashing fanboy praise upon him....

VOTD: 100 Years Of Special Effects By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2009 12:00 am EST In celebration of the new advances in visual effects advances with James Cameron’s Avatar, College Humor has created a video montage showing us how VFX has progressed over the past Century. The video, titled, 100 Years of Special Effects, is embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Dave E for the tip. VOTD: 100 Years Of Special Effects...

VOTD: Kuky Returns Trailer By Russ Fischer/March 19, 2010 8:46 am EST We’ve seen some great animation in the recent past, but damn. The Czech film Kuky Returns looks like a wonderful blend of Spike Jonze, Jan Svankmajer, the Muppets and probably a couple others. (Such as the video game Little Big Planet, even.) But despite all those influences at play, it also looks very much like its own thing. Watch the fantastic trailer after the break....

VOTD: Zero Trooper-F By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 4, 2009 10:00 pm EST Eric Raymond Lim’s short film Zero Trooper-F is now officially online. As a genius inventor and scientist, Bryan Abrams is the brain behind the super sentai hero, Zero Trooper-F’s brawn. Byran is loved and adored by his family, his co-workers, and the greater area of Greenside City. However, it’s not a feeling he reciprocates. Bryan’s overwhelming feeling of unfulfilled desire comes to a breaking point at the worst time possible, during a giant monster attack....

Will The Flaming Lips Be In The New Where The Wild Things Are Trailer? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2009 12:00 am EST Don’t be surprised if you hear a Flaming Lips song in the new trailer for Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. Apparently Lips head Wayne Coyne was asked if Warner Bros could use one of the band’s songs in the next trailer. Jonze is considering using either “Do You Realise” or “The yeah yeah yeah song”....

Wolverine Vs. Swine Flu By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2009 12:31 pm EST The flu virus crisis will likely hurt Wolverine’s box office in the country as Mexican government has asked residents to stay home. Schools and businesses have been shut down, including the nation’s top movie theater chains. Cinepolis, Cinemex, Cinemas Lumiere and Cinemark. The remaining theater chains are expected to follow suit. [Variety]

Aaron Sorkin Writes The Trail Of The Chicago 7 For Steven Spielberg By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2007 12:19 pm EST I like many people I’ve met was a huge fan of Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Apparently none of us have Nielsen boxes, and the show has been canceled. Sorkin is still very busy in Hollywood, and has signed a deal to write three films for DreamWorks. The first film will be The Trail of the Chicago 7, a drama that Steven Spielberg hopes to one day direct....

Cool Stuff: Daniel Danger’s Amelie Poster Set By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2008 4:00 am EST The Alamo Drafthouse is screening Amelie with a specially paired feast on September 16th and 23rd. Daniel Danger has created a set of two connected posters for the event, which riff on the film’s motif of torn photos. Mondotees is selling the 2 print set, which are 18x24 each and feature 6 color printing by DnL for $50....

Cool Stuff: Heath Ledger Joker T-Shirts By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2008 4:24 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You’ve seen The Dark Knight… You loved Heath Ledger’s performance… Now buy the t-shirt… Believe it or not, Warner Bros and DC didn’t hold back on the Heath Ledger merchandising. Below you will find 20 of the best Heath Ledger/Joker t-shirts available. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm....