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Box Office: Watchmen Plummets 71%! The Rock Leads Race To Witch Mountain To $25M Opening By Steve Mason/March 13, 2009 10:37 pm EST Meanwhile last weekend’s winner Watchmen staggered to a second Friday of only $5.2M or so, and I am projecting only $15.75M for the 3-day. That marks a 71% drop. Anything over $20M would have been acceptable, but the bottom has fallen out of this movie, and it will now struggle to reach $100M domestic....

Casting Notes: Liv Tyler And Patrick Wilson In The Ledge; Liam Hemsworth In Arabian Nights; Anna Faris And Chris Evans In What’s Your Number? By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2010 8:42 am EST Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson will feature in The Ledge, a “suspense thriller” (as opposed to non-suspenseful thrillers) that will mark the feature debut of writer/director Matthew Chapman.Terrence Howard and Charlie Hunnam co-star in the film about “a man (Hunnam) standing on a high-rise ledge who insists he must jump by noon as the policeman below (Howard) tries to manage the situation....

Chris Nolan Says Superheroes Don’t Exist In The Nolanverse By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 31, 2008 12:27 am EST The Los Angeles Times has posted the final part of their interview with Christopher Nolan, who took the time to speak out about the crossover potentials of the Nolanverse and the DC Comics universe: “I don’t think our Batman, our Gotham, lends itself to that kind of cross-fertilization. It goes back to one of the first things we wrangled with when we first started putting the story together: Is this a world in which comic books already exist?...

Comic-Con Preview Photos: Iron Man 2, Alice In Wonderland, Zombieland, Kick-Ass By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2009 10:38 pm EST Entertainment Weekly has published their preview of some of the movies which will be present at next week’s San Diego Comic-Con International. The photo above from Iron Man 2 shows Tony Stark in a racing suit. The blood on his face leads us to believe this has been an altercation or accident at the race track....

Cool Stuff: Bar Trekkin’ T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 23, 2008 6:00 am EST Our friends at Go Ape Shirts have a new Star Trek themed t-shirt by Ralph Webb. “Bar Trekkin’ is available in sizes Small to XXL for $18. It’s probably the only piece of Star Trek fashion which won’t have everyone making fun of you behind your back (because non-geeks can be cruel sometimes…) Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm....

Daniel Day Lewis And Paul Dano Talk There Will Be Blood By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 19, 2007 1:19 am EST Paramount Vantage has provided us with video interviews with the stars of one of the best films of 2007 – Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Watch below as Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano talk about this new film classic. It’s amazing how much different Daniel is from the characters he creates....

Death Race Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2008 2:43 pm EST Universal has released the first movie trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race remake starring Jason Statham. The prisoners who participate in death race have access to explosives and big guns which they incorporate into their cars in this anything goes race for freedom, but they don’t try to use them to escape? Seems to defy logic. But then again, when did we ever expect a Paul W....

Denzel Washington Coming Back To Unstoppable And Remaking A Bittersweet Life? By Brendon Connelly/July 22, 2009 11:50 pm EST The first piece is this: Variety are reporting that Denzel Washington, having just formally declined a role in Tony Scott’s Unstoppable, is now again circling the role. And the second is more interesting: a rather wild story at Twitch, which cites no source, indicates that Denzel Washington will be taking the lead in a US remake of the South Korean thriller A Bittersweet Life....

Eagle Eye Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2008 1:05 pm EST I’m not sure if you’ve heard this yet, but Steven Spielberg had this idea which is the basis for Shia LaBeouf’s next film. NO, I’m not talking about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (that was clearly George’s idea). I’m talking about Eagle Eye, the first original story Hollywood has seen from Spielberg since 1985’s The Goonies....

Exclusive: Kick-Ass Footage To Premiere At Comic-Con; New Photo Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2009 12:14 pm EST San Diego Comic-Con International will be announcing the full panel line up for this year’s convention next week, but we’re able to reveal that the first footage from Matthew Vaughn’s big screen adaptation of Kick-Ass will premiere at the convention. The panel will take place on Thursday, July 23 towards the end of the day....

First Look: Bruce Willis In Surrogates By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2008 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The official plot synopsis follows: FBI agents (Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell ) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves—fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles—enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes....

Found Photo: Another Brick By Peter Sciretta/April 1, 2008 8:04 pm EST Found on Flickr. Looks like someone is either a big Pink Floyd fan or just hates the new Indiana Jones movie. Found Photo: Another Brick By Peter Sciretta/April 1, 2008 8:04 pm EST Found on Flickr. Looks like someone is either a big Pink Floyd fan or just hates the new Indiana Jones movie.

Heartless Movie Trailer: First Film From Cult Fave Philip Ridley In Nearly Fifteen Years By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2010 11:30 am EST I first ran into the work of Philip Ridley when I was about nineteen and found his first feature, 1990’s The Reflecting Skin, in a Calgary video shop. I don’t love his wild little rural coming of age tale tinged with horror, but I have to respect it for having the ambition to be something rather unique....

Iron Man 2 Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2010 11:30 pm EST Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment premiered the second movie trailer for Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 on tonight’s post-Academy Awards Jimmy Kimmel Live. The new trailer mixes a bunch of footage we’ve seen before, with extended cuts, before all hell breaks loose and all of a sudden Iron Man and War Machine are surrounded by robotic enemies and and an all out war ensures....

Lionsgate Buys Stephen Gaghan’s Action Crime Thriller By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2009 11:30 am EST Stephen Gaghan made a splash with his Oscar-winning screenplay for Traffic, then made a notable directorial effort with 2005 with the ambitious political oil drama Syriana. Despite a few deals in development, he’s been quiet in the few years since. Now Lionsgate is getting behind his next directorial project, which Gaghan is also co-writing. Variety reports that the studio has bought “an untitled action-thriller” that Gaghan is co-writing with Shannon Burke....

Lionsgate Wins Bidding War For Taylor Lautner’s Action Project Abduction: “Bourne Meets Hitchcock For The Disturbia-Crowd” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2010 5:14 pm EST After a week-long bidding war for The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Taylor Lautner’s next project — a Bourne-styled action film called Abduction, Lionsgate has come out the winner. Rumor has it that Dreamworks had come close to nabbing the project, but that was not the case....

LOL: Woolworths Stops Selling Lightsabers To Children Because They Look Like Guns By David Chen/Dec. 20, 2008 2:27 pm EST The next battlefront in the war against guns won’t be in the nation’s law books, nor will it be done through community gatherings. It will be at your local Woolworths. According to the Metro (via The Daily What), Woolworths retail stores in the UK have decided to stop selling lightsabers because they resemble guns....

Mickey Rourke Talks About Whiplash’s Iron Man 2 Suit By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2009 12:36 pm EST Empire got the chance to talk to Mickey Rourke about his role as Tony Stark’s new nemesis in the Marvel comic book sequel Iron Man 2. “I’m having the time of my life!” he enthused about joining the Iron Man franchise. “It’s been really brutal, because my Iron Man suit weighs 23lb. It’s sort of a half-suit, with half my skin showing, with lots of Russian tattoos, because [Whiplash is just] out of a Russian-zone prison....

New Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2009 12:35 pm EST It’s a new “Night” and “Museum” for Ben Stiller, who is joined by several other stars from the original film, as well as new characters from history — including Amy Adams as famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, Hank Azaria as villainous Egyptian pharaoh Kahmunrah, Christopher Guest as Russian tyrant Ivan the Terrible and Alain Chabat as Napoleon....

Oprah Says Michael Moore’s Sicko Is The One Movie You MUST SEE This Summer By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2007 2:11 am EST We just received word that Michael Moore will appear on Oprah on Tuesday June 5th where he will present, for the first time on television, scenes from his new film, Sicko." Oprah will interview Michael about the movie and the attention it’s receiving before its release. And get this — the theme of Oprah’s show is “The one film you must see this summer” Apparently, Oprah loved Michael’s film and wants to make health care for all one of her main missions this year....