Will Hayao Miyazaki Appear At Comic-Con? By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2009 6:05 pm EST When I first heard that Legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki would be making a very rare trip to North America, to my neck of the woods – the bay area, to appear, accept a prize, premiere his new film and participate in a Q & A on July 25th, I screamed out loud. It wasn’t a scream of joy, like it should have been… it was a scream of annoyance....
9 More Photos From Transformers 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2009 10:08 pm EST As Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen approaches, Paramount has released a final batch of production photos. Paramount held their first American press screening tonight, and so far I’ve been hearing extremely mixed reactions – some people loved it, while others hated it. It will be interesting to see the official reviews as they begin rolling in early next week....
Box Office: Vantage Point With $9.7M Saturday & Headed For $23M+ By Steve Mason/Feb. 24, 2008 2:09 am EST The Spiderwick Chronicles (Paramount), was up over 100% from Friday, and the family fantasy film delivered a $6.18M Saturday. That puts the $100M-budgeted franchise-wannabe on target for a $13.3M 2nd weekend and a new cume of $44.2M by Monday morning. Fox’s Jumper leapt to $5.66M on its 2nd Saturday, and it’ll finish #3 for the weekend with a likely $12....
Cake Flushing With Hot Fuzz Star Nick Frost By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2007 1:10 am EST You really know it’s a slow news day when you see us posting videos of someone flushing cakes down a toilet. And I kid you not, we have not one but two videos of Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead star Nick Frost flushing his birthday cakes down a hotel toilet while on the Hot Fuzz American press tour....
Charlie Wilson’s War Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2007 12:54 pm EST Universal has released a new trailer for Charlie Wilson’s War, which is directed by Mike Nichols (Closer, The Graduate, The Birdcage) and stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Om Puri, Jud Tylor and Nazanin Boniadi. Based on George Crile’s book about the CIA’s largest and most successful covert CIA operation, War follows a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson’s (Hanks) who teamed with a rogue CIA operative (Hoffman), to manipulate Congress, the CIA and a other foreign governments in order to assist the Afghan rebels in their fight against the Soviets in the 1980s....
Contest: Death Of A President On DVD By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2007 12:35 am EST Death of a President will hit DVD store shelves on April 3rd, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On April 9th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....
Cool Stuff: Eric Tan’s WALL-E, Incredibles And Ratatouille Poster Art By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2008 12:23 am EST I’m a huge fan of Eric Tan’s retro styled art. In past editions of Cool Stuff we’ve featured Tan’s Raiders of the Lost Ark poster and a limited edition X-Men print he made for a Stan Lee art exhibition, both of which I own. Tan has worked with Pixar creating some great art which you may have seen some of his designs in various products such as apparel, trading cards, giclee prints, etc....
Cool Stuff: Tyler Stout’s Robocop Poster By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 19, 2008 1:00 pm EST Cool Stuff is a daily weekday feature on /Film. For the most part, we stick to the one a day rule, but every once in a while something comes along that forces us to break that rule. In most cases, I would just hold the item until the next day, or in this case, because its Friday, it would be held off until Monday....
Darth Vader Is Carved Into The National Cathedral By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2009 4:00 am EST For me, that’s the best part about reading a Dan Brown novel, is learning trivial bits of information on places and history. No one really reads Brown’s books for his “master storytelling”, do they? His latest book, The Lost Symbol came out while I was at the Toronto International Film Festival, and I haven’t really had a chance to read it, but friend and Rejects editor Cole Abaius is working his way through it and mentioned last night on Twitter an amazing geek fact about the National Cathedral....
Dave McKean Adds A Movie Of Cages To His To Do List By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 22, 2009 6:15 am EST There’s only one Dave McKean feature film out there in the world so far, and that’s Mirrormask. Doesn’t seem right that such an auspicious debut wouldn’t have been followed up more rapidly, or even very regularly. I feel hard done by. I reported earlier in the year on McKean’s continuing attempts to get ass-kicking kitty picture Varjak Paw off of the ground....
By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2010 2:33 pm EST Hey, remember Moneyball? How could you not? The film meant to be directed by Steven Soderbergh, which was famously shut down at the eleventh hour by Sony chief Amy Pascal, is still going forward. Bennett Miller is directing from a new script by Aaron Sorkin. Original star Brad Pitt remains part of the equation (which seems miraculous) but his co-star has changed. No longer will Demetri Martin play the young statistician that helps Oakland A’s manager make baseball history....
Diablo Cody Penning A New Spin On The Taming Of The Shrew By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 15, 2009 3:40 pm EST How long have I been here at /Film, remind me? About 25 hours I think, and already I’m onto my second Diablo Cody story. Dangerous stuff for a man once told by his wife that he “isn’t allowed” to get a crush on the Juno scribe. This one comes from a mildly confusing Variety report on Mr....
EW’s Highest Grossing Movies Of The Summer? By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2008 8:31 pm EST In Entertainment Weekly’s Summer Movie Preview issue, the EW staff compiled a prediction of the Top 10 Highest Grossing Movies of the Summer. Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (355.9 million) The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (310.8 million) Hancock (280.4 million) Wall-E (280.3 million) Iron Man (267.7 million) The Dark Knight (255....
First Official Look: Kevin Smith’s Zack And Miri Make A Porno By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2008 11:27 am EST With less than two weeks left on principal photography, the first photo from Kevin Smith’s new comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno has hit the interwebs. The film stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as broke friends who decide to make a porn video to pay off their debts. “In the process, they uncover romantic feelings for each other....
Iron Man: Shaun Toub Is Mandarin? By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2007 8:51 pm EST Last month we reported that Shaun Toub had been cast in Iron Man. We’ve just been sent an exclusive but unconfirmed tip by an insider that Toub will play Gene Kahn aka Mandarin. On July 22, 2006, Iron Man director Jon Favreau announced at Comic-Con that the Mandarin would be the main villain in the film....
Joe Johnston To Direct The Wolf Man By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2008 10:37 pm EST Last week after Mark Romanek quit the $85 million remake of The Wolf Man, names began to drop over possible replacements. Brett Ratner? Ick! John Landis? How strange! Cloverfield’s Matt Reeves? Really?? And now comes word that Joe Johnston has come aboard the project to save the day. And while some are giving Johnston a hero starring credit in this story (yes, he was the guy who designed Boba Fett and won an FX oscar for Raiders of the Lost Ark), am I the only one to remember that this is also the guy who made the horrendous third Jurassic Park film?...
Juno Movie Sountrack By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2007 2:10 pm EST So what songs are on the Juno soundtrack? Here is a complete listing so that you can build your own playlist in anticipation of the film’s theatrical release in December. I spoke to director Jason Reitman this weekend and he said that Ellen Page had a lot to do with the sound of the film. Screenwriter Diablo Cody added: " I love the music....
Kellan Lutz Cast As Poseidon In War Of The Gods By Russ Fischer/March 22, 2010 8:51 pm EST Not long ago, Twilight’s Kellan Lutz was rumored to be one of the prime contenders for the role of Conan the Barbarian in the upcoming film by director Marcus Nispel. Though Lutz didn’t get the role (it went to Jason Momoa) that was perhaps an indicator that we’ll be seeing more of the actor in action-oriented films beyond Twilight....
Must Watch: American Teen Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2008 2:48 pm EST I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… American Teen is my favorite film of 2008 so far. Jason Reitman was raving about it at Sundance, and two sold out screenings later, I finally got to see it. I’ve seen the movie twice now, and even skipped out on a movie I really wanted to see at South by Southwest just to see this again....
New Avatar Featurette By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2009 10:57 am EST
