New Hellboy 2 Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/May 16, 2008 12:04 am EST Universal has released a sweet new poster for Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army. You gotta love the tagline “Believe it or Not, He’s the Good Guy” and billing del Toro as “the Visionary Director of Pan’s Labyrinth”, which is both expected and cool. Check out the high resolution version of the new one-sheet over on ComingSoon....
Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 7, 2008 2:24 pm EST Someone retrofitted a 1981 DeLorean into a fully working electric car. But what’s the point if you already have Mr. Fusion? [gizmodo] Cinematical has a look at the final Twilight poster. Is it just me, or do they all look the same? Roy Disney will be making an appearance this weekend at the Mill Valley Film Festival in San Rafael, CA to promote his new documentary, Morning Light and after the screening will participate in a Q&A session with fellow producer Leslie DeMeuse....
Poll: Which Movie Will Win Best Picture At The 2007 Academy Awards? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2007 7:54 pm EST Okay, so we’ve never run a poll before, and we’re unsure how many of you will participate. But we want to know what movie the /Film readers believe will win Best Picture at the 2007 Academy Awards. Please choose below: We will post the results on Oscar Sunday. Also if you want, write a comment below on why your movie should win....
Release Dates: Pirates 4, Spider-Man 4, Shrek 4, Harry Potter 7, James Bond 23, Green Hornet By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2007 11:48 am EST Variety has an interesting article on the scheduling of the upcoming summer tentpoles for the next three years. The article claims that Sony Pictures will announce a Summer 2010 release date for the 23rd James Bond film. The next Bond film, tentatively titled Bond 22, will go into production later this year aiming for a November 7th 2008 release....
Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood Superbowl Ad/Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2010 2:00 pm EST Universal Pictures has released the upcoming Superbowl television spot/trailer for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood on Yahoo. Watch it now, embedded after the jump. In 13th century England, Robin Hood (Russell Crowe) and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power....
Russell Crowe Pursuing More Master & Commander? By Russ Fischer/July 17, 2009 12:12 pm EST Brief synopsis: Ashore between cruises, Captain Jack Aubrey is persuaded to sink some money into an investment scheme. Soon this innocent decision enmeshes him in various criminal and even treasonous enterprises, which threaten to destroy his entire career. Bad luck? A deliberate plot?
Sexman Reviews Jumper By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2008 3:38 pm EST Last month we posted a video of a 12-year-old named “Sexman”, who recorded a hilarious review of Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo. Th commenters on /Film demanded more, and Sexman has returned! This time Sexman takes on Doug Lineman’s Jumper, calling it “terrible as hell”, “terribly written” and saying that Hayden Christensen is the “shittiest actor I’ve ever known”. Watch the video below....
Sherlock Holmes Tops Avatar At Record Setting Christmas Day Box Office By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 26, 2009 1:04 pm EST Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes edged out James Cameron’s Avatar to win Christmas Day at the box office, $24.9 million to $23.6 million. Avatar is currently tracking to smash $200 million in just 10 days of release (on Sunday) and should hit $250 million by Wednesday (in only 13 days of release)....
Shield Writer To Pen Fourth Underworld Film By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2009 7:15 am EST What would it take to get you really excited for the fourth Underworld film? I’m not sure anything would do the trick for me (I wasn’t excited for the second and third by any means) but putting a really good writer on the job would help. Seeing that a writer from The Shield would be writing the picture gave me a little boost of interest....
Sony Buys A Script Called Supermax, Similar To But Different From WB’s Green Arrow Movie Super Max By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2009 10:14 am EST Oh, this is going to get confusing really fast. Over the past couple years, David Goyer and Justin Marks wrote drafts of a script called Super Max (or Supermax, as it is sometimes called, and more recently Green Arrow: Escape from Super Max) about the DC hero Green Arrow being trapped in a super-maximum security prison for super villains....
Studios Considering Plan To Delay Rental Releases For Blu-Ray And DVD? By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 26, 2009 3:00 pm EST Presented with the option of buying a film on disc or just renting it, it practically goes without saying that springing to purchase a a film sight unseen must happen far less regularly than just plumping for a hire. This situation will also be exacerbated by Netflix-style postal services and VOD. It isn’t any wonder, then, that the studios are considering a plan that would give sell-through discs a window of their own, a protected chance to tempt consumers into a more profitable course of consumerism....
Terry Gilliam To Return To The Man Who Killed Don Quixote By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2009 6:07 pm EST If you’ve never seen Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s documentary Lost in La Mancha, you should add it to your list (or Netflix queque) right now. The film chronicles the making of a movie that was never actually completed, Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Over the years, Gilliam has made numerous attempts to bring the story to the big screen, and all of them have failed....
The Hobbit Movie Gets 2009 Release Date By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2007 9:21 pm EST Despite his public falling out with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, New Line chairman Robert Shaye still plans to release The Hobbit in 2009. As we all now know, Jackson sued New Line regarding The Fellowship of the Ring payment inaccuracies. The King Kong director has refused to work with the company as long as the lawsuit and money is withstanding....
The Simpsons Movie International Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2007 12:07 pm EST Our friends at FilmIck pointed us to this new movie trailer for The Simpsons Movie. Sure, it’s an international Taiwanese trailer, but don’t let that stop you because the whole thing is in English. Just ignore those pesky subtitles on the bottom of the screen because this new advertisement features a bunch of new footage. Check it out on Yahoo!...
This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Monsters Vs. Aliens, Away We Go, The Girlfriend Experience, And More By Adam Quigley/Sept. 29, 2009 12:10 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While just about every other sitcom today is either suffering from total creative bankruptcy or striving as hard as possible to steer away from the accepted sitcom format, How I Met Your Mother somehow manages to retain the style of the latter while not at all being subjected to the former....
Tolkien Estate Sues New Line, Fate Of Hobbit Films In Jeopardy By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 11, 2008 6:44 pm EST Residents of Middle-Earth should pop some Advil, as already-troubled New Line Cinema has been sued by the Tolkien estate, which seeks $150 million plus in damages in the mega-lawsuit. Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy did over $6 billion in world-wide receipts, but the estate claims that not a drop of gross profit participation has come its way....
Transformers 2: The Fallen And Wheelie Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2009 12:13 pm EST As more of the tie-in toy images get released for the upcoming Transformers sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, we are starting to see more and more robots revealed TF08 has gotten their hands on The Fallen, the title character in the film, a decepticon, who is hellbent on getting revenge. You’ll notice the head looks exactly like the one pictured on the teaser poster....
/Film Adds New Blogger: Brendon Connelly By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2009 10:37 am EST I’ve always believed that one of the things that makes /Film different than most other movie websites and blogs on the internet is that we have a smaller staff, and the content is a little bit more personal. And that’s one of the reasons I’ve always been hesitant about hiring new writers. I’ve also been unwilling to bring someone aboard the team that didn’t have an extensive knowledge of film....
Astro Boy Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2008 12:15 pm EST Summit Entertainment has released the first teaser trailer for Astro Boy. It looks like it could be cool, but then again, so did IMAGI’s TMNT, and that film ended up being a focused more towards young audiences than everyone was expecting. Check out the trailer after the jump. Leave your thoughts in the comments below! Official Plot Synopsis: Astro Boy was created by the “god of manga”, Japan’s Osamu Tezuka, in the early 1950s....
Christopher Eccleston To Play John Lennon By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2009 3:00 pm EST While Nowhere Boy, the account of John Lennon’s teen years, is drawing tepid to good reviews after a recent London festival debut, I’m still seeing voices of dissent and disinterest aimed at the film, which stars Aaron Johnson as the young Lennon. I’m curious to see how the same people will react to Naked Lennon, an upcoming BBC Four production written by Robert Jones that has just cast Christopher Eccleston as Lennon circa ‘67-‘71....
