Jonah Hill Has Already Finished His Movie With The Duplass Brothers By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2009 11:15 am EST The film’s tone is in the vein of The Puffy Chair and (to a lesser extent, since there’s no horror angle) Baghead, meaning a mixture of drama and comedy with an emphasis on relationships and family. Mark Duplass explained to MTV that Tomei’s character is totally out of Reilly’s league (yeah, you think?...
LOL: Team Edward (James Olmos) T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2009 9:00 am EST Earlier this week in Page 2 we featured a Twilight gag web comic strip from Hijinks Ensue which featured a funny gag with a Team Edward t-shirt. The comic went viral and received so much attention that they actually decided to produce the Team Edward James Olmos t-shirt. So if you want to support the actor who played Admiral William Adama in Battlestar Galactica , you can now buy the t-shirt....
LOL: Terminator Salvation Halloween Costumes By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2009 3:18 pm EST CostumeCraze is selling these totally ridiculous looking Terminator Salvation Halloween costumes. I remember when I was younger and T2: Judgement Day came out, Toys R Us use to sell this cool make-up package which included prosthetics that allowed you to make it look like half your face was ripped off ala Arnold in the movie. I remember that was the hottest Halloween costume of the year, and it looked friggin cool....
Matt Damon Turned Down Captain Kirk Role In JJ Abrams’ Star Trek? By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2009 2:33 pm EST Update: /Film reader Miguel P points out that Damon has denied this in previous interviews (see youtube ), so who’s telling the full truth? When the Star Trek reboot was first announced, rumor had it that Matt Damon was going to play Captain Kirk. That never came to pass, but apparently there is a bit of truth to it....
Mike O’Hearn In Talks For Conan; Auditioning For Captain America? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2008 10:27 am EST /Film reader Tony P sends along word that Mike O’Hearn, otherwise known as “Titan” on NBC’s American Gladiators, was on the Todd n’ Tyler radio show (in Omaha) this morning making some pretty big claims about his upcoming Hollywood plans. He claims that he has a meeting at 11:00am this morning to be the lead in Lionsgate’s upcoming reboot of Conan....
Movie Review: Next By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2007 6:30 am EST “Here’s the thing about the future. Every time you look at it, it changes… And that changes everything else.” I’m predisposed to enjoy stupid sci-fi movies, usually more based on the ideas then the resulting execution. Next is based on Philip K. Dick’s The Golden Man. And as you know, this is not the first time Dick’s stories have been raped for big screen cinema....
New Cloverfield Movie Trailer Leaked Online By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 15, 2007 3:45 am EST “People are going to want to know, how it all went down…” The new movie trailer for the JJ Abrams produced monster movie Cloverfield (yes, that is now the official title) will be attached to Beowulf this weekend, but fans have already leaked a copy onto the internet. I’m not going to link to the pirated handheld video camera copy (to think, a handheld video camera taped trailer of a movie which was filmed with handheld video cameras… my brain hurts) but I’ve already seen it on multiple video sharing sites and message boards....
Reno 911!: Miami Movie Review By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2007 2:31 am EST Improvisational comedy has always annoyed me (I liked Borat, but who didn’t?). Unlike other forms of comedy, the moments in between the laughs are squiggle in you seat bad. When it doesn’t work, it REALLY doesn’t work. I’ve never tried watching Reno 911! on tv, nor did I ever have the urge to. So I’m probably the worst audience for a feature film spin-off movie....
Sam Worthington To Replace Tom Cruise In The Tourist By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2009 8:45 am EST The fallout from Tom Cruise’s decision to star in James Mangold’s Witchita continues. Among the projects Cruise had been circling for a while was The Tourist, a remake of the 2005 French film Anthony Zimmer that will be directed by Bharat Nalluri. Charlize Theron has been in the cast since last year; now according to Variety Sam Worthington will join her as an American tourist who is set up to draw out a Keyser Soze-like criminal mastermind....
Saturday Box Office: Bourne Adds $25.97M; Simpsons Plummets By Steve Mason/Aug. 5, 2007 10:50 am EST The Bourne Ultimatum got a 6% 2nd-day bump in ticket sales as the Paul Greengrass/Matt Damon thriller grabbed an estimated $25.97M on Saturday. A conservative 20% Sunday drop will nudge Ultimatum past $70M for an estimated $71.25M. 5 suspect when the actuals come in on Monday, my Friday night target of $72M will be right on....
Sundance Movie Review: Young@Heart By Elaine Mak/Jan. 18, 2008 11:10 am EST Young@Heart is a documentary about a Massachusetts Senior Citizen’s chorus that rocks out to everything from the Clash, Ramones and Sonic Youth, to Coldplay and James Brown. The film follows the chorus members and their director, Bob Cilman as they learn new songs, cope with illnesses and deaths of their close friends, and prepare for a concert performance, dubbed “Alive and Well”....
Swing Vote Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2008 11:48 am EST Touchtone Pictures (aka Disney) has released the first trailer for their upcoming Kevin Costner Summer comedy Swing Vote. The film actually has an interesting but totally unrealistic concept. Basically the events of the presidential election come down to the vote from one man. Of course the execution of the idea looks like the usual sentimental feel good Disney-level story....
SXSW Movie Trailers: Reformat The Planet, Second Skin And New Orleans Mon Amour By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2008 1:21 pm EST A few movie trailers for films playing in the 2008 South by South West Film Festival have popped up online. Check out the trailers for Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, Second Skin and New Orleans Mon Amour after the jump. Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet A feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as ChipTunes, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using old video game hardware....
Tarantino Updates His 2009 Top 8 - Plus, A Crazy Medieval Film Rumor By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 20, 2010 8:21 am EST Let’s get this daftness out of the way first: The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., is reporting that Quentin Tarantino wants to cast Helen Mirren as a foul-mouthed queen in a medieval-era project. Really, The Sun? What on earth inspired that story, I do not know....
The Book Of Genesis Gets A New Movie Adaptation…In 3D By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2010 12:58 pm EST When the utterly atrocious Alice in Wonderland made over one hundred million dollars domestic this weekend, what is the next logical story to fatten like a calf and then trot out in three glorious dimensions? The Bible, of course. One of the co-founders of Walden Media is working with Paramount to create In the Beginning, a new 3D telling of the Book of Genesis....
Toy Story 3 Teaser Premiered At NAB By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2009 6:15 pm EST The only thing that has ever been publicly shown from from Pixar’s Toy Story 3 has been a concept drawing of a college-age Andy’s messy room, which pretty much symbolizes the inciting incident that begins the film’s new journey. That is, until this weekend. Disney premiered the teaser trailer for Toy Story 3 at the National Association of Broadcasters (or NAB) show in Las Vegas....
Tribeca Movie Review: Born And Bred (Nacido Y Criado) By SlashFilm Staff/May 8, 2007 8:00 am EST The following film was screened at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Born and Bred (Nacido y Criado) World Narrative Competition 2006, Argentina Dir: Pablo Trapero When the man who has it all suddenly loses it all, his life can make such an unforeseen shift that not even he is prepared for the outcome. In Pablo Trapero’s Born and Bred, the man in this case is Santiago, played with painful resignation by Guillermo Pfening....
VOTD: The Many Bloody Deaths Of Total Recall By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2009 12:00 am EST Buttholejeah decided to edit a nearly four minute video containing all of the deaths from the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall. And yes, the video includes ALL of the deaths, even including the death of the Johnny Cab, the rat and the goldfish. Watch the video embedded after the jump. via: heatvision VOTD: The Many Bloody Deaths Of Total Recall...
VOTD: The Uncler By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2009 12:00 am EST The Uncler is Funny or Die’s parody of Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, starring Seth Morris as Uncle Sam, the down and out American mascot who needs to make a comeback and fix the economy. Alyssa Milano co-stars as his partiotic stripper friend. Written and Directed by Jake Szymanski, the same guy who filmed previously featured VOTD videos: Ron Howard’s Call To Action and Denis Leary Remembers Denis Leary Movies....
WALL-E And The Magnet By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2008 8:26 pm EST Disney has released a new WALL-E vignette and this time our favorite little robot encounters a magnet. How cute is that little guy? [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/wallemag.flv 432 240] WALL-E hits theaters on June 27th 2008. WALL-E And The Magnet By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2008 8:26 pm EST Disney has released a new WALL-E vignette and this time our favorite little robot encounters a magnet....
