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VOTD: 10 Chick Flick Cliches You Won’t Find In He’s Just Not That Into You By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2009 12:00 am EST Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper and Justin Long count down 10 Chick Flick Cliches you won’t find in Warner Bros’ new romantic comedy He’s Just Not That Into You. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/10chickflick.flv 470 264] VOTD: 10 Chick Flick Cliches You Won’t Find In He’s Just Not That Into You By Peter Sciretta/Jan....

Whiteout Trailer Revealed At Comic-Con By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2007 12:11 pm EST Joel Silver was at Comic-Con to premiere the first trailer for the big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Whiteout. The clip began by showing Antarctica. A helicopter flies by some snow filled mountains. “The most isolated land mass on the planet.” “No official government, No official population, because when the winter comes the sky turns black and stays that way for 6 months at a time....

Will Smith On Cocaine By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2007 12:41 pm EST Academy Award nominated actor Will Smith is in negotiations to play a convicted cocaine dealer who discovered a passion for cooking in prison and turns his life around to become a top chef. Columbia Pictures bought the film rights to Las Vegas chef Jeff Henderson’s memoir Cooked. Henderson faced an uphill battle, convincing Los Angeles area restaurant owners that he would be a trustworthy and worthwhile addition to their kitchen teams upon his release from prison....

Wolverine Trailer Leaked Online By Peter Sciretta/July 27, 2008 11:33 pm EST

Y: The Last Man Movie Update By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2007 5:30 am EST The best series in Comic Books today is Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man. A big screen adaptation has been in the works since early 2006. It’s currently set-up at New Line Cinema. Has the project fallen into development hell? Let’s get an update. “It’s not in development hell. It’s in development heck,” Vaughan said at the New York Comic Con....

A Behind The Scenes Look At Platinum Dunes’ A Nightmare On Elm Street By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2010 1:21 pm EST Final Destination just hit DVD, and bundled on the disc is a short behind the scenes preview of the upcoming remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, from Platinum Dunes. The clip shows off some new footage, including the creation of Freddy Krueger’s knives, and has a few quick interview clips with Jackie Earle Haley, who plays this incarnation of the horror icon....

Box Office Tracking: Semi-Pro Aims For A Slam-Dunk With $42M-$45M By Steve Mason/Feb. 29, 2008 12:41 am EST UN-AIDED AWARENESS Semi-Pro â€" 8% Blades of Glory â€" 5% TOTAL AWARE Blades of Glory â€" 75% Semi-Pro â€" 73% DEFINITE INTEREST Semi-Pro â€" 40% Blades of Glory â€" 38% FIRST CHOICE Semi-Pro â€" 23% Blades of Glory â€" 13% This review-proof hoops spoof is especially strong with males. 35% of Males Under 25 name Semi-Pro as their First Choice this weekend as opposed to the 16% score grabbed by Blades last March....

Capcom Plans More Crappy Video Game Movie Adaptations By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2008 1:30 pm EST Japanese-based video game developer/publisher Capcom has revealed it plans to make a new batch of horrible video game movie adaptations. Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto says he hopes his company will revitalize video game movies just as Marvel has revitalized comic book movies. “We are in the process of working out contracts for several offers we received at the Cannes Film Festival last week and hope to make an announcement soon,” Tsujimoto told Bloomberg....

CG Arnold Schwarzenegger Featured In New Terminator Salvation TV Spot By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2009 11:21 am EST Warner Bros has released a new television spot for Terminator Salvation which actually promotes Arnold Schwarzenegger’s CG appearance in the film. I thought that Arnold requested that WB not promote the movie with his image, since he only appears in the film for a short scene. Watch the tv spot after the jump....

Columbia Is Definitely Rolling Forward With Ghost Rider 2; Daredevil And Silver Surfer Projects Confirmed By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2009 1:05 pm EST David Goyer is currently in talks to write the story and then oversee another writer’s screenplay, but his spokesperson says that Goyer hasn’t actually signed on at this point. Variety does report that the current plan is to base Ghost Rider 2 on a Goyer script written some time ago....

Cool Stuff: CG Steampunk Star Wars By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2008 6:00 am EST The CG Society challenged its members to create computer models of Steampunk versions of classic Star Wars characters, creatures and vehicles. Looking at all this cool art makes you wonder why George Lucas spent millions on The Clone Wars animated series and not something more artistic like this. Check out more designs over on the CGSociety forums....

Cool Stuff: Lacuna Inc T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/July 22, 2008 4:00 am EST LastExitToNowhere has a new t-shirt inspired by Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. The t-shirt features Lacuna Inc, the fictional company which erases undesired memories in the film.Each T-shirt is screen printed by hand using vintage-style print on a royal blue short sleeve crew neck T-shirt. 100% Ultra Cotton Preshrunk. Available for £17.50 ($27.70USD) + postage....

Cool Stuff: No One Wants To Play Sega With Harrison Ford By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2008 3:01 am EST Brandon Bird created this oil painting titled “No One Wants to Play Sega With Harrison Ford” on a 36" x 12" canvas for the I am 8-bit art show. You might be wondering how this is movie related, but with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on the horizon, it isn’t hard to see a connection between the new film and Ford with an uninterested new generation sitting in the corner....

Exclusive: 8 New Photos From Pixar’s WALL-E By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2008 7:00 am EST Disney has provided /Film with Eight Exclusive images from Pixar’s WALL-E. You might recognize some of these images, as a couple leaked onto the interwebs last month in a low res. As always, click to enlarge. Official Plot Synopsis: What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? Academy Award®-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton (“Finding Nemo”) and the inventive storytellers and technical geniuses at Pixar Animation Studios (“The Incredibles,” “Cars,” “Ratatouille”) transport moviegoers to a galaxy not so very far away for a new computer-animated cosmic comedy about a determined robot named WALL•E....

Exclusive: Mad Magazine’s Avatar Parody By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2010 7:00 am EST MAD Magazine has given us an exclusive look at Sergio Aragones’ “A MAD Look At Avatar” parody comic strip from the next issue (#503), which goes on sale March 23rd. Sergio has been working with the magazine nearly since it’s inception – if you’ve ever read MAD, you’ll recognize his work. Check out the whole strip, after the jump....

First Look: Michael Moore’s Captain Mike Across America By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 28, 2007 6:04 pm EST Michael Moore’s new film Captain Mike Across America will premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Bad title, I know – I voted for Michael Moore’s Slacker Uprising Tour. “Captain Mike” seems like a really bad marketing idea to me, but what do I know? You can see the first image from the film above....

James Cameron Has No Agenda, Orthodox Church Proves Their Ignorance By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2007 1:56 am EST Greece’s powerful Orthodox Church on Thursday condemned the James Cameron produced documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus. “We express our sorrow over the historical ignorance, lack of scientific base and evidence of this case, whose purpose is to strike at … what constitutes our faith,” the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece said in a statement....

Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2008 11:47 pm EST A trailer for Joss Whedon’s 36-minute three-part SCi-Fi internet musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog has hit the interwebs. Neil Patrick Harris stars as the title character, a low-rent supervillain who’s trying to impress the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to (Felicia Day of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), defeat his nemesis, superhero Captain Hammer (played by Firefly’s Nathan Fillion) and gain entry into the Evil League of Evil....

Lionsgate Gets Conan By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 11, 2008 2:27 am EST Nu Image/Millennium Films has inked a deal with Lionsgate for the North American distribution rights for a new film series based on the Robert E. Howard-created character Conan the Barbarian. The new film will be written by Sahara scribes Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer. So if you had any hope for this new action fantasy epic, go rent A Sound of Thunder (or better yet, don’t)....

Michelle Rodriguez Returns To Lost By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2008 12:55 pm EST Entertainment Weekly has discovered that Michelle Rodriguez will reprise her role as Ana Lucia in one episode of the upcoming season of Lost. The last time we saw the character, she was (spoiler warning) shot to death, which means one of three things: Anna Lucia will return from the dead as a zombie on the Lost island Anna Lucia will be featured in a flash back Hurley or one of the other Oceanic 6 will see her in a hallucination I’m betting on #3, possibly #2, but with a show like Lost, you can’t discount #1, however unlikely it may be....