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Cool Stuff: Tyler Stout’s Inglourious Basterds Poster By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2009 11:05 pm EST We’ve been writing about artist Tyler Stout since I first found his “Remember the Alamo” poster at the Alamo Drafthouse. The Austin based artist frequently provides kick ass posters for the Alamo’s special events, most of which we have featured on /Film: Robocop , The Road Warrior , Spaced , Hellride , Big Trouble in Little China, The Lost Boys, The Warriors , The Thing, Blade Runner, Total Recall and The Big Lebowski....

Danny Trejo Cast In Predators By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 27, 2009 10:50 am EST Firm details on producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal’s Predators are pretty thin on the ground. We know that Alex Litvak has been writing the script and that much of the film is going to be shot on Rodriguez’ Troublemaker lot with some location shooting likely to take place in Hawaii, but besides the much discussed and seemingly impossible cameo role from Arnold Schwarzenegger there hasn’t even been much talk of any possible cast members....

Emile Hirsch Cast In The Wachowski Brothers’ Speed Racer By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2007 11:02 pm EST Lords of Dogtown star Emile Hirsch is in final stalks to star in the Wachowski brothers’ big screen live action adaptation of Speed Racer. Hirsch would play Speed Racer, an eighteen-year-old who aspires to become a race car driver, but his father, automotive engineer “Pops” disapproves. Speed with the help of the amazing Mach 5 race car, embarks on a series of fantastic adventures that pit him and his friends against Skull Duggery, Snake Oiler, Mr....

HBO Buys Into Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce Mini-Series Starring Kate Winslet By Russ Fischer/Feb. 12, 2010 2:12 pm EST This is really just confirmation of a story that broke last August: director Todd Haynes is adapting the classic James M. Cain novel Mildred Pierce into a television mini series starring Kate Winslet. That’s the old news. The new stuff, which confirms speculation from last summer, is that HBO has bought into the project and will broadcast the eventual result, which Haynes will begin shooting in April....

Jay Leno To Return To The Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien Out By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2010 1:30 pm EST Update: THR’s NBC sources are denying the claim, but TMZ has been on top of the good intel on the late night fiasco over the past weeks — so for right now, we don’t know who to believe.TMZ is now reporting that NBC has signed Jay Leno to a new contract that will give him a 1 hour late night talk show from 11:35pm to 12:35 under the title The Tonight Show....

Jonah Hill’s SNL Digital Short “Andy’s Dad”! Johah Went For It!!! By Hunter Stephenson/March 17, 2008 11:09 am EST This is the second Saturday Night Live digital short I’ve posted on Slashfilm, but at the risk of “Andy Samberg man-crush, much?” accusations, it’s worth it. Jonah Hill, who hosted last weekend, absolutely slays here as his semi-self, as does SNL writer/actor James Downey as “Andy’s Dad.” Serious yuks. And Bill Hader nearly steals the bit in seconds....

Jumper: Photos And Information Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2007 2:20 pm EST A genetic anomaly allows a young man (Hayden Christensen) to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between ‘Jumpers’ and those who have sworn to kill them (Samuel L Jackson). Rachel Bilson plays David’s childhood friend and also his crush....

Matthew Vaughn In Talks To Direct Thor Movie By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2007 2:32 pm EST Last year Marvel head Avi Arad announced that a Thor movie was in the works. “We’re in the scripting stage right now,” Arad said. An article in the LA Times claims that Layer Cake director Matthew Vaughn is in negotiations to direct the film based on a Mark Protosevich screenplay. If this is true, than the project if further along than everyone expected....

Pet AT-AT By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2009 12:56 pm EST Superpunch has discovered a Flickr account where a photographer has taken a bunch of photos with a toy Star Wars AT-AT positioned as a family’s new pet. I thought it was kinda cute in a LOLcats meets Star Wars kinda way. Maybe in the future we’ll have robot dogs that look like AT-ATs. Nah, probably not. Pet AT-AT By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2009 12:56 pm EST...

SAW V And VI Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2008 1:37 am EST Lionsgate has revealed new details about the future of the SAW franchise. The fifth installment, follows Hoffman (Costas Mandylor), who has been carrying Jigsaw’s (Tobin Bell) legacy, goes on a man hunt after the secret is threatened. “People escape one trap, just to get caught in another; it’s closer in feel to the original SAW as thematically it’s about teamwork....

Shoot Em Up Director Michael Davis To Remake Outland By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2009 11:21 pm EST Warner Bros has hired Shoot Em Up director Michael Davis to direct a remake of the 1981 Sean Connery sci-fi action thriller Outland. Davis has a bunch of films on his imdb page, which frankly aren’t worth listing. And yes, he is credited with writing the really horrible 1994 film adaptation of the video game Double Dragon....

The /Filmcast Interview: Stephen Tobolowsky By David Chen/Aug. 9, 2008 8:07 pm EST The /Filmcast Interviews are a series of interviews with movie stars, directors, and other key figures from the film industry. Last week after Stephen Tobolowsky reviewed The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with us on the /Filmcast, he spent an extra 40 minutes chatting with us about his past and present work, including the greatness of Groundhog Day, working with Christopher Nolan on Memento and what exactly it’s like to be an actor on the show Heroes....

The Rocker Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/May 7, 2008 12:40 pm EST [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/therocker.flv 470 252] The Rocker opens nationwide on August 1st.Discuss: What do you think of the trailer for The Rocker? Are soft-irony movies about white guys “rocking out!!!” still funny sans the already championed Anvil! The Story of Anvil?

The Saw “Where’s Billy” Game By Brendon Connelly/March 9, 2010 11:56 pm EST Here’s a little distraction for you, something to play with for a couple of idle minutes. In order to promote the DVD and BD release of Saw VI (out since January in the US, in UK stores this week), Lionsgate have whipped up a little Where’s Waldo-style picture with Jigsaw’s creepy tricycling puppet Billy hidden away amongst several Saw and Waldo characters and in jokes....

The X-Files: I Want To Believe Movie Trailer - What Do You Think? By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2008 12:37 am EST The new movie trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe is now online. What are you waiting for, watch it below and tell me what you think in the comments! [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/xfilestrailer1.flv 470 200] You can also watch The X-Files: I Want to Believe trailer in High Definition on IGN....

VOTD: Stephen Colbert Predicts The Oscars Using The DaColbert Code By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2009 12:01 am EST via: Geeks of Doom

30 Seconds Of Public Enemies By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2009 8:45 pm EST Universal released a movie poster and 19-second trailer preview for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies earlier today. The trailer will hit the web on Wednesday or Thursday, but why wait when you can see this new 30-second preview which aired during tonight’s Entertainment Tonight (yes, 11 more seconds). Check the clip out, complete with annoying ET voiceover, after the jump....

Box Office: Iron Man With $35M Friday, Headed For $91M+ Opening Weekend! By Steve Mason/May 3, 2008 12:09 am EST Paramount is on top of the world. This is the first of 4 guaranteed $100M blockbusters set for release this summer. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is 3 weeks away, followed by Kung Fu Panda on June 6, and Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder, again starring Robert Downey Jr....

Cool Stuff: Hellraiser 20th Anniversary Puzzlebox Set By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2009 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com.

Cool Stuff: James Goodridge’s Unused Inglourious Basterds Poster Art By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 7, 2009 5:00 am EST The art of painted poster art is dying. I think back to all the wonderful movies from my childhood, and every one of them was majestic. I can remember such beautiful art by Drew Struzan, Frank McCarthy, Bill Gold, Jack David, Richard Amsel, Tom Jung, Bob Peak and others. And I don’t mean to sound all, “back in my day everything was better…” but the age of photoshop and floating heads has made the art of movie posters a lot less interesting to me....