Seven Pounds Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2008 12:02 am EST Last month we posted a trailer for the upcoming Will Smith drama Seven Pounds, only to have it quickly removed by Columbia Pictures hours later. The trailer is back, with a couple editing tweeks. We’ve also transfered the comments from the previous posting. Will Smith plays an IRS agent with a secret who will change the lives of seven strangers....
Spike Lee’s Miracle At St. Anna Movie Poster By Hunter Stephenson/June 9, 2008 1:36 pm EST Let’s get this out of the way. Both sides of the ongoing press war between Spike “Not a Plantation 2008” Lee and Clint “Shut Your Face” Eastwood are pretty weak and entertaining. A poster for Lee’s $45 million World War II film, Miracle at St. Anna, opening this September, has surfaced at Cinematical. The tagline, “World War II had its heroes and its miracles” goes along with the poster’s generic feel, but it’s just a teaser....
Superman’s Future By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2008 1:19 am EST You’ve probably heard by now that a federal judge decided last week that Time Warner is no longer the sole proprietor of Superman. The court has ruled that the heirs of Jerome Siegel (of Siegel and Shuster) are entitled to a share of the US copyright to the character. The quick backstory goes like this: Siegel and Shuster sold the rights to Superman 70 years ago to Detective Comics for only $130....
The Dark Knight Is The Third Biggest Film Of All Time; Smokes Pineapple Express By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2008 9:49 pm EST Many people predicted that it wouldn’t happen, but The Dark Knight won its fourth straight weekend, taking in $26 million, compared to Pineapple Express’ estimated $22.5 million. The last film to accomplish this feat was 2003’s Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. In less than a month, the Batman Begins sequel has grossed $441....
The Great Pineapple Express “Shark-Kitten T-Shirt” Controversy! By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 6, 2008 8:52 pm EST PineappleGate 2008 Update: The NY Daily News confronted James Franco about the growing t-shirt controversy and he continues to deny it, reiterating that David Gordon Green “came up with his own design” and calling PineappleGate “ridiculous.” At this time, no one involved with the film has contacted WOWCH for free popcorn. For the sake of trivia amongst future generations of stoned college students, here we go....
The Other Guys Motion Poster By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2010 5:00 pm EST Sony has released a funny motion poster for the upcoming Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg-starrer Adam McKay-directed action/comedy The Other Guys. Since we’ve yet to see a trailer for this film, it is definitely worth checking out. I first saw this last week on display at ShoWest in Las Vegas, but it now makes its official online debut on Yahoo....
Video Footage: Jackass 2.5 Secretly In Production By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 5, 2007 6:34 pm EST When Jackass: Number Two was released theatrically, Johnny Knoxville was telling selected press that they still had plans to shoot more footage. “There’s some stuff I’m still wanting to shoot, and we might shoot in November. It’s not for a three, it’s just because it’s something I really want to do, and I said I was gonna do it, and then I could not not do it....
A New Package From Gotham City By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2008 1:16 pm EST FED EX drops packages at the /Film offices everyday, but we rarely receive a package from Gotham City. See what was inside the package, as The Dark Knight viral campaign continues. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/batmanviralfedex.flv 460 338] You can read the letter that was included in the package below. The tinyurl leads to a password protected forum called NYCTICEIUS UNDERGROUND....
Alex Winter To Remake The Gate In 3D! By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 11, 2009 12:22 pm EST A few years ago, rumblings started in regards to a remake of the 1987 floor-bursting creature feature The Gate. According to Production Weekly’s reliable Twitter, it’s now moving forward with director/un-Ted, Alex Winter, at the helm and will satiate today’s masses with devilish imps in glorious 3D. With no real evidence whatsoever, Devin at CHUD suggests that original star, Stephen Dorff, is free to reprise his role....
Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors Movie Trailer And Video Clip By Hunter Stephenson/June 12, 2008 12:49 pm EST Word has gotten around that the teaser trailer for Mirrors received a big laughing ovation at yesterday’s press screening for The Happening. And while the teaser definitely clings to the exhausted tropes of countless sub-par Korean horror remaks starring various Buffies (the film is a loose remake of 2003’s Into the Mirrors), I’m interested to see it....
American Gladiators: The Movie? By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2009 11:46 pm EST Many people believe that Hollywood, for the most part, is out of new ideas. Recently the big movie studios have been rumaging through popular board games and action figure properties for the next big blockbuster film. And now we learn that former Legendary Pictures chief marketing officer Scott Mednickis is developing an idea based on the television show American Gladiators....
Ang Lee Updates Progress On Life Of Pi By Devindra Hardawar/Oct. 29, 2009 10:32 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The story follows a young Indian boy who ends up stranded on a boat for 227 days with a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger. Something tells me they’re going to work extra hard to find the perfect child actor for this role, since he’s going to be the only human for most of its run time....
Avatar Day Ticketing Back Online, E-Mail Confirmations Delayed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2009 3:47 pm EST Some people did get through but haven’t received their confirmation emails. The Avatar twitter account assures us that confirmation emails will not arrive immediately, but may take a few hours to get to your inbox. I’ve talked to a few people who got through around 12:30/12:45 who are just now receiving their e-mail confirmations four hours later....
Bill Maher’s Religion Documentary Aims For Easter Release Date By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2007 12:42 pm EST Bill Maher revealed to Larry King that the documentary he filmed with Larry Charles (Borat) might be called “Religulous,“Â a combination of religion and ridiculous. The film follows Bill Maher’s take on the current state of world religion, which is clearly an Agnostic view. We don’t know much else, because, well – no one has seen the footage yet....
Box Office: Biggest Martin Luther King Weekend Ever By Steve Mason/Jan. 17, 2009 7:06 am EST DOMESTIC GROSS FOR TOP 12 MOVIES FOR MLK 4-DAY [followed by #1 movie for the period and 4-day gross] 2008 – $158.9M [Cloverfield - $46.1M] 2007 – $118.8M [Stomp the Yard - $25.8M] 2006 – $125.4M [Glory Road - $16.9M] 2005 – $142.7M [Coach Carter - $29.1M] 2004 – $114.2M [Along Came Polly - $114....
Chinese Spider-Man 3 Billboard By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2007 4:33 pm EST I’ve always said that anything in Asian script (Japanese/Chinese) automatically looks ten times cooler. Our friends at FilmIck have posted a photo of a Japanese Chinese Spider-Man 3 billboard, seen above, which is somewhat similar to the recent bus billboards in the states. Click on the image for a better look. Spider-Man 3 hits theaters on May 4th in the States....
Contest: MXC Season Two On DVD By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2007 12:35 am EST MXC Season Two hit DVD store shelves on April 17th, and we have a copy for four lucky /Film readers. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On April 24th we will e-mail the winners with the best answers. More information on the release can be found after the jump....
Cool Stuff: Army Of Darkness Japanese Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2008 5:00 am EST I’m a huge fan of foreign versions of movie posters. Recently I discovered this crazy Japanese Army of Darkness movie poster on PosterWire. Now if only they would make reprints of this one-sheet, then I would have Bruce Campbell soup cans framed on my wall. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff?...
Cool Stuff: Jamie Bolton’s Minimalistic Movie Posters By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2010 3:00 pm EST If you’ve been following /Film for a while, then you know that we love minimalistic movie posters. But these concept posters by graphic designer Jamie Bolton are probably the most sparse we’ve seen so far (and I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing — I’d love to hear your thoughts). After the jump, I’ve included Bolton’s posters for Star Wars, The Shining, Jurassic Park, Blade Runner, and the Back to the Future Trilogy....
Cool Stuff: Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden Sundance Marketing By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 19, 2008 9:00 am EST The buzz for Morgan Spurlock’s Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? has hit an all time high, as Sundance enters into it’s first weekend. The viral marketing in Park City has people talking. The Weinstein Co has hired a team to hand out faux milk cartons featuring a Osama MISSING advertisement at venues around the loop....
