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By David Chen/March 27, 2010 4:41 pm EST According to Ted Gagliano, president of postproduction at Fox, “No studio has ever faced what we faced on this…Jim wanted the best, most immersive experience possible. So he pushed us to have a multiple-version inventory that would give each theater the best experience it could possibly deliver for that given theater.” Here are some of the facts: Check out the feature for more details....

Hot Tub Time Machine Trailer This Week By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2009 12:05 pm EST I just found out from MGM, that the brand new trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine (starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke and Chevy Chase) will be online this Thursday, December 17th 2009. This means that the trailer will be in theaters this weekend, and will be attached theatrically to Sherlock Holmes. I’ve heard nothing but good buzz about this comedy....

Iron Man Becomes Best Selling Blu-Ray Of All Time In Just 48 Hours By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2008 1:36 pm EST Iron Man director Jon Favreau announced on Thursday’s Howard Stern Show that the Blu-ray edition of Iron Man has already outsold every other blu-ray disc release to date. That’s a pretty impressive accomplishment for only two days on store shelves. Of course, no official numbers have been released to back up Favreau’s claim, but we’ll trust his word for now… It’s believable, and besides, when has he let us down in the past?...

Jason Lee Joins Kevin Smith’s A Couple Of Dicks By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2009 10:17 pm EST Kevin Smith will be re-teaming with Mallrats star Jason Lee once again. According to /Film reader Drake Rivera, Smith announced on Kevin Pollack’s Live Show on Sunday afternoon that Lee would have a role in his new buddy cop comedy A Couple of Dicks. According to the report, Smith said that Lee would shoot for a couple of days, but didn’t reveal which role the My Name is Earl star would play....

New Flash Gordon Film Intense, Gritty, Real; Creature From The Black Lagoon ‘PG-13 Scary’ By Brendon Connelly/April 14, 2009 10:42 am EST Breck Eisner is currently hard at work on his remake of George Romero’s The Crazies. Seems like a tough gig – the original film really is something very special and it will be pretty hard to compete with it. Eisner’s obviously happy to tackle remakes, however because both of his potential next projects have seen the silver screen before....

New Live-Action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie In 2011 By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2009 7:41 pm EST Wow, I feel old. Tomorrow is the 25th birthday of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. To celebrate, a 25th Anniversary “Shell-ebration” is schedules in association with the Tribeca Film Festival. The World Financial Center Plaza will be transformed into a drive-in pizza party screening of the 1990 live-action film complete with glow-in-the-dark manhole covers, a turtle-green colored Empire State Building, an all-new Party Wagon replica, and an appearance by the turles themselves....

New Release Dates: Black Snake Moan, The Eye And Balls Of Fury By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2007 5:33 am EST Black Snake Moan has been moved back a week while Balls of Fury has been pushed back five months. Let’s take a look at why. Craig Brewer’s Black Snake Moan starring Christina Ricci and Samuel L Jackson WAS [February 23rd, 2007]: The Number 23, Reno 911!: Miami, The Astronaut Farmer, Amazing Grace, Gray Matters, The Abandoned, Starter for Ten (limited), Glastonbury (limited)NOW [March 2nd 2007]: Zodiac, Wild Hogs, Full of It, Two Weeks (limited)...

New Watchmen Website: The New Frontiersman By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 8, 2009 1:07 am EST I just got word that a Watchmen viral website has launched – TheNewFrontiersman.net. In the Watchmen comics, Rorschach is obsessed with conspiracy theories, and gets much of his information from a far right-wing magazine called the New Frontiersman. There is no content on the site right now. But I hear that the seal will break early next week, and there will be a fair bit of content on the site leading up to the release of the film (whever that will happen), including photos, documents and video....

Rumor Killer: JJ Abrams Kicked Off Star Trek? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2007 7:17 pm EST We received a rumor a couple days back that JJ Abrams had been removed from the Star Trek prequel/revamp film. We chose not to run the story as the source was less than credible. Now it seems like every movie news site on the web has grabbed a hold of this rumor. So the question remains: is it true?...

Rumor Killer: The Wachowski Brothers NOT Offered Superman Reboot By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2009 5:49 pm EST Remember that report that showed up on AICN last week claiming that The Wachowski Brothers had been offered a reboot of Superman? Sorry to get you guys all excited but I have just gotten confirmation from two independent sources that the report was completely false. I don’t know if an interview with James McTeigue actually aired on RTL1 or not (I’m guessing not) but The Wachowski Brothers have definitely never had any talks with DC or Warner Bros to helm a Superman film....

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Movie Poster; New Photos; Trailer To Premiere Thursday Night By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2008 11:43 pm EST LucasFilm has released the theatrical one-sheet for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Apparently the first movie trailer will premiere on Cartoon Network, TNT, TBS, CNN, and Boomerang at 7:58pm in all U.S. time zones on Thursday, May 8th. The poster and trailer will be in theaters this Friday, attached to prints of Speed Racer....

Steven Spielberg And Will Smith’s Old Boy Is No More By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 9, 2009 11:58 pm EST Could it be? Have our prayer’s been answered? Latino Review is reporting that Steven Spielberg’s Old Boy starring Will Smith is dead in the water. Apparently Dreamworks and original Korean production studio Mandate were working together to get the rights to the manga, but the two couldn’t reach an agreement, and Dreamworks simply walked away....

Steven Spielberg’s Oldboy Is NOT A Remake By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 21, 2008 12:11 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. That’s right, Spielberg’s film will be based on the Japanese manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Read the official book synopsis below: “We’re looking at that right now. Not the film though, it’s the original source material,” Smith told FSR. “There’s the original comics of ‘Oldboy’ that they made the first film from....

The Sims Movie Explained By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2008 11:52 pm EST When I heard they were making a big screen adaptation of Will Wright’s The Sims, I wondered how they planned on creating a narrative out of a game which has no narrative. In the game you basically are god and control human characters, and create their home/world. Turns out the film adaptation will be more about you playing the game then the game itself....

Todd Lincoln To Direct The Apparition By Peter Sciretta/May 9, 2009 12:58 pm EST Todd Lincoln has signed on to will write and direct The Apparition for Joel Silver’s genre label Dark Castle Entertainment. Details about the project are being kept under wraps, but the story is said to be based on true events and involve a haunted house. Lincoln’s short films Honey Pot and Xavier played to acclaim at film festicals, gaining the attention of a Los Angeles commercial and music video production company called Public Works....

Tribeca Movie Review: Invisibles By SlashFilm Staff/May 1, 2007 10:15 am EST The following movie was screened at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. InvisiblesSpotlight Narrative 2007, Spain Dir: Wim Wenders, Isabel Coixet, Fernando León de Aranoa, Javier Corcuera, Mariano Barroso The Doctors Without Borders organization sponsored this five-piece documentary on atrocities being committed and inflicted upon the underrepresented and poverty stricken around the world. These five filmmakers each create a heartbreaking vision of the state of affairs currently seen throughout towns and villages destroyed by war, famine, disease, and chaos....

TRON Sweded By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2008 10:05 pm EST Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind might have not taken off at the box office, but it definitely spawned a movement of online sweded short films. I’ve seen a lot of said sweded trailer. Some of them are funny, some of them creative, a lot of them are bad (hey, thats what you get in the YouTube generation where everyone has a video camera)....

VOTD: Back To The Future Rap Song By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2009 12:00 am EST Futuristic Sex Robotz has written a rap song about the classic 80s film Back to the Future. Watch the music video now, embedded after the jump. The header image was created by Koomspot VOTD: Back To The Future Rap Song By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2009 12:00 am EST Futuristic Sex Robotz has written a rap song about the classic 80s film Back to the Future....

VOTD: Pixar Intro Parody By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2009 7:57 am EST College Humor has released a parody of the Pixar opening studio logo intro sequence. What happens after Luxo Jr jumps on top of, and kills the innocent I in the Pixar logo? You can finally find out, after the jump. VOTD: Pixar Intro Parody By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2009 7:57 am EST College Humor has released a parody of the Pixar opening studio logo intro sequence....

What We Know About The Inevitable Sequel To The Hangover By Russ Fischer/June 12, 2009 1:23 pm EST Put aside, for a moment, the notion that a comedy like The Hangover really doesn’t need a sequel. The movie has performed spectacularly well, and will likely earn $200m this summer, wo sequel plans that Warner Brothers laid months ago are very likely going to come to fruition. Which means that director Todd Phillips and stars Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms and Bradley Cooper are already fielding questions about it....