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Summit And Timur Bekmambetov Team Up For The Last Witch Hunter By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2010 1:44 pm EST I suppose it isn’t a big surprise given his genre leanings and the performance of Wanted, but Timur Bekmambetov is turning into one of those producer/directors that has a score of projects in development at once. Recently he’s been tied to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with Tim Burton, he may still be doing Wanted 2, and there’s that Moby Dick movie still vaguely on the horizon with Universal....

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen - What Did You Think? By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2009 11:45 pm EST Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was released in theaters on Tuesday at Midnight. We should have an official review on the site in the next 24 hours. But as always, I would love to hear the diehards who made the trip to the theater on opening day to weigh in. What did you think of the sequel?...

Tron Legacy Movie Trailer By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2010 11:30 pm EST The trailer for Tron Legacy has appeared online via a viral puzzle campaign that jumps off from the multi-city scavenger hunt launched a couple weeks ago. You can check out the Flynn Lives viral site if you like, but for those who just want the very pretty computerized goods, you can skip right to the good stuff, after the break....

VOTD: Denis Leary Reviews Denis Leary Movies By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2008 10:44 pm EST Denis Leary is funny and deprecating while he reviews every movie listed on his IMDb filmography including Operation Dumbo Drop, Who’s The Man (or why he gets through the airport faster), Demolition Man (or why Wesley Snipes is insane), and The Ref (or how Ted Demme said “Fuck You” to Disney). Thanks to /Film reader Rory M for the tip....

Warren Ellis’ Red And Ocean Headed To The Big Screen By Peter Sciretta/June 12, 2008 3:37 am EST Comic Book writer Warren Ellis is finally headed to the big screen. Summit Entertainment (Twilight) announced this morning, a big screen adaptation of Ellis’ Red, about a former black-ops CIA agent who is forced out of retirement when a high-tech assassin shows up to kill him. The comic, first published as a three-issue mini-series by WildStorm (a division of DC Comics) in 2003, is being adapted for the screen by brothers Erich and Jon Hoeber, who also wrote the adaptations of Whiteout and Alice....

Who Will Be Moving From Music Biopics To Del Toro’s The Hobbit? By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 21, 2009 7:46 pm EST Two of the only three members of The Hobbit’s cast that I think we can so far bank on (the third being Ian McKellen) are set to make appearances in two separate music biopics before hand. Firstly, Andy Serkis is to play Ian Dury in a film of the Blockhead’s life....

World War 2 Horror Comic Night And Fog Optioned For A Movie By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 22, 2009 4:39 pm EST I’m not sure I’m totally comfortable with a comic book about fantastical monsters from the midst of WW2 being called Night and Fog, the same name as Alain Resnais’ shocking, often very hard to swallow documentary about the real atrocities of that war. All the same, that’s the name the comic book had and now it’s coming to our cinemas, I’m sure it will be the name of the new movie too....

Aaron Sorkin To Write The Challenge With Clooney As Producer And Star By David Chen/Feb. 3, 2009 7:50 am EST According to Variety, Aaron Sorkin has been tapped to write Warner Brothers’ The Challenge, a courtroom drama based on the Supreme Court case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. George Clooney and Grant Heslov will produce, with Clooney possibly playing a role as Navy lawyer Charles Swift. Salim Ahmed Hamdan was a Yemeni driver who worked for Osama Bin Laden....

Akiva Goldsman To Direct Returning Cast In Paranormal Activity 2? By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2010 8:34 am EST UPDATE: Deadline says that Goldsman is onboard as executive producer, not director. The site says he’s helping shape the story in advance of the May shoot date. Original article follows. The creation of Paranormal Activity 2 has been a fairly odd process. Paramount had hired Saw VI director Kevin Geutert to helm the film on a fairly short schedule, then Lionsgate exercised a clause in his contract to call him back to make the latest (and perhaps last) film in the Saw series....

Another Amityville Horror Remake? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2009 2:47 pm EST BloodyDisgusting is reporting that the Weinstein Co and Dimension Films are planning to remake The Amityville Horror… yes… again. The Platinum Dunes’ remake of the 1979 cult favorite grossed over $108 million worldwide in 2005, and is still somewhat fresh in audiences minds. Why launch into another remake, so soon? It seems to me that the Weinstein’s are desperate to push some franchise sequels/remakes back to the big screen....

Box Office Tracking: Can Zack And Miri Top HSM3? Probably Not By Steve Mason/Oct. 28, 2008 11:53 pm EST I spoke to an exec at a competing studio today, and they suggested that High School Musical 3 is a little like Sex and the City, the estrogen-fueled May release from Warner Bros.. Carrie Bradshaw and friends started their meteoric run with a $57M 3-day, but it generated 46% of that business on opening day....

Casting Notes: Paul Dano In For Ellen; Gerard Butler In Machine Gun Preacher; Carey Mulligan For My Fair Lady? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 18, 2010 12:39 pm EST After last week’s flurry of great big casting stories, we’re going to start small today. Paul Dano will appear in For Ellen, from director So Young Kim, who last made In Between Days. Dano will be “a struggling indie rocker who, after nearly wrecking his car during an overnight long-distance drive, arrives in a small Midwestern town to deal with his impending divorce....

Comic Con: Summer Glau And Alexis Denisof To Appear In Season 2 Of Dollhouse? By Adam Quigley/July 24, 2009 9:15 pm EST Despite being mostly tight-lipped when it came to revealing many of the story developments of the second season of Dollhouse, Joss Whedon did hint at it having “a couple of other faces you recognize.” As time wore on though, so did his penchant for secrecy. Whedon dropped two names: Alexis Denisof and Summer Glau....

Comment On /Film Using Your Facebook Account By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2009 10:33 pm EST Last month, Intense Debate added a couple new features to the /Film comment system: the ability to leave instant video comments, embed polls, embed YouTube videos and smiley support. Over the weekend, another new feature has been added – you can now comment using Facebook connect. What this means is that you can now comment on the site using your Facebook account....

Cool Stuff: Dutch Southern’s True Romance T-Shirt “You’re So Cool” By Peter Sciretta/April 7, 2010 1:00 pm EST Our friends at Dutch Southern have released a new t-shirt tribute to the Quentin Tarantino-written Tony Scott-directed film True Romance. It’s called “You’re So Cool” and was designed by Joshua Kemble. The design is printed on a royal blue American Apparel tee using 7 inks. Check out the full t-shirt design, complete with legend, after the jump....

Cool Stuff: Jaws 5 - Jaws In Space T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 30, 2008 6:00 am EST When Hollywood makes too many sequels in a horror series, you eventually get the over the top installment like Jason X, where Jason goes to space. Thankfully the Jaws series never got that far, and only produced three really bad sequels (some might argue that Jaws 2 really wasn’t THAT bad, and compared to Jaws 3-D and Jaws: The Revenge, you might be right)....

Cool Stuff: Serenity Scaled Ship Prop Replica By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2009 3:00 pm EST Sideshow Collectibles have teamed with Quantum Mechanix to produce a Serenity – ‘The Big Damn Replica’ Scaled Prop Replica. The titular ship of Joss Whedon’s sci-fi western television series/movie has existed only in digital form only – until now. More than three years in the making, Serenity – The Big Damn Replica, has been painstakingly crafted to be absolutely screen-accurate in every aspect....

Cool Stuff: Star Wars Last Supper Mosaic By Peter Sciretta/March 8, 2008 6:00 am EST To give you an idea of how detailed this mosaic is, click on the image below. More photos below… 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.

Coolest Transformers Tie-In: Optimash Prime By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2007 1:46 pm EST I remember when they first came out with Darth Tader, the Star Wars characterized version of Mr. Potato Head. It was one of the hardest to find toys of that Christmas season. Hasbro has since followed up with an R2-D2 (Artoo-Potatoo), a Storm Trooper (Spud Trooper) and a very lame Spider-Man (Spider Spud). Well now the toy company is releasing, possibly the coolest Transformers toy tie in of all time – Optimash Prime....

Details And Covers For Toy Story 1 & 2 On Blu-Ray And The Art Of Toy Story 3 Book… Plus A Tiny Dumbo Tidbit By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 13, 2009 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After the break, a list of all known special features on the discs – which includes some Toy Story 3 material – an also a first look at the Art of Toy Story 3 book....