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New Up Trailer Finally Introduces Us To Dug, The Talking Dog By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2009 12:43 pm EST Disney has released a new trailer for Pixar’s Up which finally shows us the talking dog. Yes, a talking dog… One of the surprises in Pixar’s recent presentation of the first 45-minutes of Up was the addition of a gigantic rainbow colored bird and more specifically the addition of a pack of dogs who wear collars that allow them to speak like humans....

Political Reactions To Avatar: From Thoughtful To Insanely Comic By Russ Fischer/Dec. 30, 2009 8:00 am EST There is almost no circumstance under which I would dispense the ridiculous “just turn your brain off” advice with respect to enjoying a movie. As Devin Faraci at CHUD recently discussed, the process of thinking about a film typically gives me far more lasting enjoyment than the act of watching it. The films I can’t think about are the ones that seem dull and pointless....

Religulous Follows In The Steps Of Michael Moore’s Sicko By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 13, 2007 2:23 pm EST Lionsgate Films has finally set an official release date for Religulous, Larry Charles’ follow-up to Borat. Bill Maher hosts this documentary which takes on the the current state of religion. I saw a bunch of footage from this film at Toronto this year, and the festival-goers packed in a huge auditorium were laughing out loud throughout....

Robert Redford Thriller The Company You Keep Amongst Winning Slate At Voltage Pictures By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 5, 2009 9:14 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I’ve already told you about Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem – and more than once – but the status of several more films from Voltage Pictures upcoming slate has now come to light. Voltage are a sales and financing company, and they’re now out in Berlin to drum up interest for their projects at the EFM – European Film Market....

Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2009 12:51 pm EST Disney has released the official poster for Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of A Christmas Carol on Yahoo. The film is being produced by Disney, and like Zemeckis last couple films, was shot completely using performance capture, and will be distributed in 3D. Jim Carrey plays not only Ebenezer Scrooge, but also the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come....

Scenes From The LEGO Zombie Apocalypse By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 7, 2008 1:45 pm EST Over 25 participants took part in Zombie Apocafest 2008 at BrickCon 2008 in Seattle, WA. Below are some of the scenes from the great zombie apocalypse in LEGO land. You can check out all 63 photos on Flickr.com. Scenes From The LEGO Zombie Apocalypse By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 7, 2008 1:45 pm EST Over 25 participants took part in Zombie Apocafest 2008 at BrickCon 2008 in Seattle, WA....

Sigourney Weaver Clears Up Bill-Murray-As-Ghost Rumors, Hints At Ghostbusters 3 Storyline By David Chen/Dec. 18, 2009 5:00 am EST Sigourney Weaver has been doing a lot of press for Avatar, so naturally lots of film journalists are hammering her for news about her potential involvement in Ghostbuster 3. Just last week, she mentioned that Bill Murray might be returning to the film as a ghost. Recently, MTV caught up with Weaver in London to try and clear things up....

Sneak Peek: GI Joe Super Bowl Teaser By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2009 12:03 am EST Paramount Pictures premiered a 10 second preview of the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Super Bowl commercial during Friday’s Entertainment Tonight. I know it’s just ten seconds, but it’s an impressive ten seconds. It’s easy to make something that flies by with fast cuts look good, I can’t wait to actually see some of this at normal speed....

Stand-Up Comedian Cameos In Judd Apatow’s Funny People By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2008 2:18 pm EST It’s beginning to look like Judd Apatow is trying to fill his new Adam Sandler dramedy Funny People with an all-star list of stand-up comedian cameos playing themselves. Dave Attell appeared on the Howard Stern Show today, and revealed that he filmed a scene for Funny People with Sarah Silverman and Norm MacDonald. Andy Dick has also filmed a cameo as himself...

The Big Tease: 35 Seconds Of Terminator Salvation By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2008 12:10 pm EST Entertainment Tonight will premiere a new trailer for Terminator Salvation next Tuesday December 9th. But right now you can watch a preview of some of that footage below. I have to admit, the shot of the giant Terminator at the end of the video (screenshot above) is pretty damn awesome. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/terminatorsalvationetpreview.flv 460 258] Discuss: Leave your thoughts in the comments below....

The Darjeeling Limited Soundtrack By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2007 12:17 pm EST Pop Candy have gotten their hands on a sample of the track list for the soundtrack to The Darjeeling Limited. One of the highlights of Wes Anderson’s films is without a doubt, the soundtrack. So you might want to fire up your iTunes and create your own Darjeeling mix in preparation. The Rolling Stones’ Play With Fire The Kinks’ This Time Tomorrow The Kinks’ Strangers The Kinks’ Powerman Joe Dassin’s Champs Elysees Peter Sarstedt’s Where Do You Go to (My Lovely) Debussy’s Clair De Lune Beethoven’s Symphony No....

The Voice Of Mickey Mouse Passes Away By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2009 2:26 pm EST Wayne Allwine, best known as the voice of Mickey Mouse since 1977, passed away on Sunday night due to complications from diabetes. at age 62. Allwine’s first appearance as Mickey was voicing the animated lead-ins for The New Mickey Mouse Club in 1977, and he has provided the voice for Mickey Mouse ever since. Coincidentally, he was married to Russi Taylor, the current voice of Minnie Mouse....

Transformers 2: More Sci-Fi Than The First Film By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2008 3:37 pm EST Team XBox is reporting that Activision have formally announced development of a Transformers Movie 2 tie-in game, developed by Luxoflux (True Crime: Streets of LA, Vigilante 8).Disclaimer: A Entertainment Weekly publicist now admits the original quote was taken out of context, so we removed it from the story.

TV Buzz: Season 2 Of Breaking Bad Kicks Off Tonight! Kenny Powers Joins Twitter, Crashes BBQ… By Hunter Stephenson/March 8, 2009 3:47 pm EST Mad Men certainly deserves all of the praise thus far received in its first two seasons on AMC, but I always thought it a tad disconcerting that AMC’s Breaking Bad has purred in the background like colorful dry ice. Not only is the series as entertaining, well-produced, and agreeably shrewd with its layered characters, but creator Vince Gilligan has given a daring, nutty jolt to themes long mastered by others shows i....

VOTD: SNL Digital Short - “J*** In My Pants” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2008 12:00 am EST This week’s Saturday Night Live Digital Short featured the first single from The Lonely Island guy’s (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone) debut album Incredibad, which will be in stores February 10th 2009. The video features guest appearances by Molly Sims, Jamie Lynn Sigler, and Justin Timberlake. Our international friends can check out the clip on YouTube while it’s still available....

What Will Be On The Amityville Tapes? By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 19, 2009 1:51 pm EST Oh. A bit of a false alarm. All the interview tells us is that the film will be “the latest Amityville sequel, The Amityville Tapes” and nothing more. Digging about, though, I’ve found in old news found a piece from last September that neither named the writer or the film, yet was clearly about the same project and it didn’t take much to put two and two together....

Blu-Ray Release For Lord Of The Rings Offers Theatrical Cuts Only By Brendon Connelly/April 16, 2009 7:08 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Genuine internet hero Bill Hunt at The Digital Bits managed to confirm this unfortunate news from ‘sources close to director Peter Jackson’. To follow after the break, everything we know about this release… and about Jackson’s plans for the extended versions to hit Blu-Ray too....

Bolt Teaser Poster; A Look Back At American Dog By Peter Sciretta/June 20, 2008 10:02 pm EST I hear that the teaser trailer for Bolt will probably be attached to Pixar’s WALL-E, which hits theaters next week. Disney has just released the first theatrical teaser poster (as opposed to the teaser poster which has been on display at Disneyland) for the movie, which makes this that much more likely. But before you see the teaser trailer, lets take a look back at the project’s troubled history....

Buyers Circling Todd Stein’s Sci-Fi Short Story Tipping Point: “Blade Runner Meets District 9, Set In The Overpopulated Future” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2010 1:49 pm EST In late 2009, screenwriter Derek Haas (Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma, The A-Team) created a website called Popcorn Fiction, which he described as “a place where new popular short fiction could flourish, and Hollywood could have a new resource for cultivating great ideas.” Haas commissioned some very talented writers to pen stories for the site, including Scott Frank (Minority Report, Out of Sight, Get Shorty), Jeff Lowell (John Tucker Must Die), Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing), Les Bohem (A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child, Dante’s Peak, Daylight), Patton Oswalt, Brian Helgeland (L....

Casting Notes: Zooey Deschanel Plays Famed Groupie Pamela Des Barres; New Films For Christina Ricci And Danny Glover By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2010 3:44 pm EST Though the territory was already covered to some extent in Almost Famous, Zooey Deschanel will star in a half-hour dramedy pilot for HBO based on I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, the memoir by famous band-aide Pamela Des Barres. Famous for sleeping her way through a succession of rock and screen stars in the late ’60s and early ’70s, Des Barres chronicles her exploits and the frequent depression that followed when her interludes with famous dudes didn’t turn into anything meaningful....