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The International Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 12, 2008 9:36 pm EST Columbia Pictures has released the trailer for The International. Clive Owen stars as Interpol Agent Louis Salinger, who with the help of Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are on a mission to “bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks.” “Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Observe And Report, 30 Rock (Season 3), And More By Adam Quigley/Sept. 22, 2009 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s understandable that Observe and Report would polarize audiences. That the film even received financing remains surprising to me. Generally, studios wouldn’t dare greenlight a film as uncompromising as this without the promise of Oscar nominations down the line....

TIFF Movie Review: Alan Ball’s Nothing Is Private By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 13, 2007 3:39 pm EST Alan Ball’s feature directorial debut is more Six Feet Under than American Beauty in tone, and more of the latter in story. There are more than a few structural similarities to Beauty, including the typical but still wonderful Thomas Newman score, an older man who becomes sexually infatuated with a young girl, and a series of fantasy sequences (minus the rose pedals)....

Vinnie & Mario Trailer: Pusher Director Nicolas Refn Has ANOTHER New Movie? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 18, 2009 9:12 am EST Or does he? I honestly don’t know if this is real. I have no idea what it is, though it appears to be a trailer for a darkly comedic gangster film from director Nicolas Winding Refn. We’ve heard nothing about this until now. But here’s some footage with David Proval from The Sopranos, John Capodice (the actor who is basically a walking incarnation of Jersey), and a decidedly grindhouse-style trailer narration....

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Teaser Trailer And Poster By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2010 10:06 am EST Here we see Gekko (Michael Douglas) getting out of jail in a scene that’s missing only Frank Oz and a used rubber to be a spot-on homage to The Blues Brothers. Gekko looks in wonder or disappointment at the world around him, spouting off cliches like “Someone reminded me I once said ‘greed is good....

By David Chen/Jan. 8, 2009 5:28 pm EST Until now, most of the speculation about Warner’s legal/philosophical/emotional position on this issue has been exactly that: Speculation. However, earlier today, Drew McWeeny (previously Moriarty from AICN) posted up an open letter written by Lloyd Levin, one of Watchmen’s producers. Levin’s letter is striking both for its candor and its detailed description about the trials and tribulations that went into making of the film:...

Weekend Weirdness: We Catch Up With Best Worst Movie Director Michael Stephenson. New Trailer, New Showings, New Snacks By Hunter Stephenson/March 28, 2010 8:21 pm EST Since I last spoke with director Michael Stephenson for Slash, his documentary Best Worst Movie has continued to slime the world and gently ooze into the mainstream. Witnessing the steady expansion of buzz for the film—which sees Stephenson embrace his childhood role and cult status in the nonpareil B-movie of our generation, Troll 2, while seeking out his former cast mates—has been a lesson in DIY spirit and Drafthouse-lead modern geek networking....

Welcome To Sundance By Sundance Spy/Jan. 17, 2007 9:42 am EST We’ve arrived in Park City Utah for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Please pardon the lack of updates, we will have tons of reviews and news once the festival kicks off. Stay with us. Welcome To Sundance By Sundance Spy/Jan. 17, 2007 9:42 am EST We’ve arrived in Park City Utah for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Please pardon the lack of updates, we will have tons of reviews and news once the festival kicks off....

You Must See This Movie: Let The Right One In By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2008 7:36 pm EST Rarely does a film transcend its genre in the way that Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In does. Based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, this must see Swedish coming of age vampire film is about a twelve year old boy who befriends a girl in the apartment next to him....

/Film Featured In Attack Of The Show’s Best Movie Blogs By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2009 5:37 pm EST G4’s Attack of the Show aired a segment on today’s show called The Best Movie Blogs. /Film was one of three sites featured, alongside The Movie Blog and Chud. Video after the jump. I want to thank the producers of Attack of the Show for including us. I really appreciate it as I’ve been watching the show for what seems like a decade (I just looked it up and it has in fact been a decade… I’m getting old)....

30 New Stardust Photos By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2007 12:39 am EST The official website for Matthew Vaughn’s big screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust is now online. With that, we bring you 33 new production stills from the film. Check them out after the jump. As always, left click for higher resolution photos. Last week we posted the unofficial trailer, which didn’t impress me. Stardust is about a young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of Victoria (Sienna Miller), the beautiful but cold object of his desire, by going on a quest to retrieve a fallen star....

70 High Resolution Photos From Tron Legacy By Peter Sciretta/March 8, 2010 11:30 pm EST How awesome was the movie trailer for Tron: Legacy? I know I’ve watched it at least five times now, and that doesn’t count the two times I saw it in 3D at the Tron Trailer Premiere Event a week ago. But even then, I haven’t seen everything. Especially in the world of Tron, the quick cuts and fast action blast across the screen....

Arrested Development Movie Moving Forward. No, Really. For Real. By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2009 8:19 am EST THR reports the sky-rending news that Mitch Hurwitz has begun work on a script with series co-exec producer James Vallely. This is notable, I guess, because THR reports that Hurwitz has said he wouldn’t start a script unless the entire cast was in place to return for the film. Michael Cera had been reported as the holdout for some time, but maybe (Maeby?...

By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 24, 2008 9:49 pm EST

Bumblebee Speaks In New Transformers TV Spot By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2007 9:45 am EST A new Transformers television advertisement found it’s way online, and features a bunch of new footage and if you listen very carefully, you can even hear Bumblebee speak for the first time ever. Check out the new tv spot after the jump. [myspace]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2032682957[/myspace] Bumblebee Speaks In New Transformers TV Spot By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2007 9:45 am EST...

Casting Breakdown: Marcus Nispel’s Conan By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2009 9:16 pm EST CONAN Feature Film SAG Executive Producers: Trevor Short, Danny Dimbort, Boaz Davidson, Fredrik Malmberg Producers: Avi Lerner, Joe Gatta, George Furla, Henry Winterstern, John Baldecchi Production Companies: Millennium Films / Lionsgate / Paradox Entertainment Director: Marcus Nispel Writers: Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, based on the writings of Robert E. Howard Casting: Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee...

Dexter Season 4 Promo: “Under Pressure” By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2009 8:35 pm EST The only show on television that I enjoy almost as much as Lost is Dexter. Season 4 premieres on September 27th 2009, and Showtime has been airing a new promo using the classic Queen song “Under Pressure” which focuses on the new problems that Dexter will be facing at home. Thanks to BigScreenSmallScreen for reminding me to post it....

DreamWorks Buys How To Survive A Robot Uprising Author’s Robopocalypse By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 3, 2009 11:06 pm EST DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday have acquired, in a pre-emptive deal, the rights to Daniel H. Wilson’s unpublished manuscript, Robopocalypse. The story “explores the fate of the human race following a robot uprising.” The film project is being fast tracked and the book is tentatively being scheduled for a 2011 publication. No writer, director or actors have yet been attached....

Eva Mendes In Frank Miller’s The Spirit By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 22, 2007 2:08 am EST Eva Mendes has been cast in Frank Miller’s (Sin City, 300) big screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit. Last week it was announced that Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) was in final negotiations to star as the femme fatale in the film. Mendes will play Sand Saref, the only woman who could break the Spirit’s heart....

First Five Minutes Of Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 2, 2008 5:30 pm EST Miramax has released the first five minutes of Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness on Yahoo. I have yet to see the film, but I’ve heard mixed things. The cinematography and sound design is said to by the film’s strength, and you will see and hear that in this clip. The opening certainly seems compelling in every way that M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening wasn’t....