VOTD: The Muppets’ Skateboarding Dog Viral Video By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2009 12:00 am EST The Muppets respond to the famous viral video of the skateboarding dog. Rizzo to rat attempts to film Rowlf doing his own skateboarding tricks. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail....
Watchmen Website Gets Updated With Comedian Info By David Chen/Nov. 4, 2008 6:49 pm EST Warner Bros.’ official Watchmen website has been updated with profile information for The Comedian, AKA Edward Morgan Blake (who will be played by actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan). You can read up on the character’s background as well as snag a wallpaper or buddy icon. The slick, flash-heavy site promises similar character pages on Dr. Manhattan, Nite Owl II, Ozymandias, Rorschach, and Silk Spectre II in the days ahead....
Will Smith Confirms Chicago 7 Talks With Spielberg, New Ending For I Am Legend By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 16, 2008 12:07 pm EST Earlier this week, Jeff Daniels and Colin Hanks were pegged for roles in Steven Spielberg’s Chicago 7, which seems to have bypassed both Lincoln and Interstellar as the director’s next project. There are also reports that Sacha Baron Cohen is not a lock for 7’s lead role, that of ’60s rabble rouser Abbie Hoffman....
Battlestar Galactica Invades The United Nations By Devindra Hardawar/March 14, 2009 8:10 pm EST Battlestar Galactica is so frakking good, it’s being discussed at the U.N. Sort of. A Galactica retrospective and discussion panel will be held at the United Nations in New York on March 17. Executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick will be attending, along with stars Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell. They’ll be discussing some of the various themes of the show including “human rights, children and armed conflict, terrorism, human rights and reconciliation and dialogue among civilizations and faith”, and will be joined by U....
Cloverfield Movie Trailer #2 In High Definition By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2007 11:01 am EST You’ve watched the crappy bootleg version on YouTube, now watch the high quality official Cloverfield movie trailer. It’s a lion alive! It’s now online, watch it aftr the jump. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/cloverfieldhd.flv 470 248] You can watch the new trailer in High definition on Apple.com. Empire has the UK version. Cloverfield will hit theaters on 1-18-08. Cloverfield Movie Trailer #2 In High Definition...
Dark Knight Crew Member Killed In Car Accident By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 25, 2007 5:22 pm EST A Dark Knight special effects technician died during a “dummy film run” or a car stunt. But don’t worry (yes, that’s sarcasm), Warner Bros says that none of the cast was involved in the accident. Media reports said the vehicle was following a Batmobile stunt car when the 4x4 vehicle crashed into a tree....
Do You Have The Courage For This New International Prince Of Persia Poster? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2009 12:00 pm EST Planetadisney has a new international poster for Walt Disney Pictures big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I really don’t like this poster at all, and especially the obnoxiously loud tagline “COURAGE”. Meanwhile, videogamemaker Ubisoft is reporting a $109 million loss on $232 million in sales during the first half of its fiscal year due to a lack of major titles, according to Variety....
Don’t Expect A James Cameron Hiroshima Film Soon, As Publication Of The Source Book Is Halted By Russ Fischer/March 1, 2010 11:50 am EST There was some news recently that James Cameron might be producing or even potentially directing a film about Hiroshima. He’d optioned a book called The Last Train From Hiroshima, by Charles Pellegrino, a friend of the director. Now publication of the book is being halted, because publisher Henry Holt and Company “was not able to answer” questions about the veracity of some of Pellegrino’s facts....
Four New Photos From Valkyrie, New Trailer On Thursday By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2008 2:34 pm EST United Artists has provided /Film with four new production photos from Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie. Apparently, a new trailer will premiere tomorrow night around 8:00pm PT, so check back then. As always, click on the stills to enlarge. Official Plot Synopsis: In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action....
Hybrid Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie In Development By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2008 9:16 am EST Yes, the Kevin Eastman report was inaccurate, but it appears there was some truth behind the rumors after all. TMNT co-creator Peter Laird confirmed to MTV that he has had “several meetings with very interested people” for a live-action / hybrid Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. Like Alvin and the Chipmunks or Scooby-Doo, the idea of a hybrid movie is to shoot the film with live action humans on practical locations....
LOL: The Many Faces Of Rainn Wilson In Entertainment Weekly By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2008 6:08 pm EST In this weeks issue of Entertainment Weekly, Office star Rainn Wilson (The Rocker) did a photoshoot as Xena: Warrior Princess, MacGyver, Pauile Walnuts from The Sopranos and Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Check out the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly for the full photos. EW.com has a video from the Xena photoshoot....
Mad Men And Buffy Writer Assigned To Pen Fright Night Remake By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2009 10:00 pm EST Back in January of this year, the world outside may have been cold and barren and gripped by the dead of winter, but my heart was warm. Because reports came that the proposed Screen Gems remake of Fright Night had died a quiet death. But everyone knows what happens in stories about monsters and the undead: the Big Bad is never really dead the first time....
Mickey Rourke Is Participating In WWE’s Wrestlemania? By David Chen/Jan. 26, 2009 9:53 am EST Last night at the SAG Awards, Mickey Rourke was on the red carpet when he revealed to Access Hollywood that he may be wrestling for WWE’s Wrestlemania 25, which will be held in Houston, TX on April 5: The boys from the WWE called me and asked me to do it…I said, ‘I want to.’ I’m talking with [Wrestler] Rowdy Roddy Piper about it....
New Transformers 2 Details Revealed At Hasbro Licensing Summit By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 24, 2008 12:20 am EST Since the crack crap reporting team at Entertainment Tonight wasn’t able to get any new details after spending a whole day on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I thought I’d pass along the news which was revealed at the Hasbro Licensing Summit in Malaysia this week. The Chevy Corvette Centennial concept car (seen in the photo above) is actually the alt mode for Sideswipe....
Producers Guild Of America Nominations: Up Gets A Nod, As Do Avatar, Star Trek, And District 9 By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2010 6:47 am EST One of the last two serious barometers for the potential Oscar race is the nomination list for the Best Picture award, aka the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, bestowed by the Producers Guild of America. Ten films are nominated this year, and the shortlist is actually a bit surprising....
Rant: First Look At A Vampire In The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 21, 2008 8:59 pm EST We here at Slashfilm have been pressing Warner Bros. to release The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe theatrically for some time. Tonight, the first image of a vampire from the film has surfaced at STYD, and I’m a little iffed. While the images of Corey Feldman’s return as Edgar Frog show promise, as did the recent announcement that Corey Haim will definitely be in the film, this image screams direct-to-DVD to me....
Richard Kelly’s The Box In September 2009?! By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2008 12:33 pm EST Richard Kelly’s new film The Box finished shooting four plus months ago, and the first test screening is supposedly later this week. So we can probably expect to see the movie in theaters in October, November or December, right? Wrong. According to Collider, Warner Bros is planning a 2009 release for the Donnie Darko director’s ney’s w sci-fi film....
Terminator 4 To Open In May 2009 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2008 2:02 am EST Warner Bros has announced that McG’s Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins will hit theaters on May 22nd 2009. This means that Terminator 4, which begins production in New Mexico for two months on May 5th, will go head to head with Fox’s Ben Stiller family comedy sequel Night at the Museum II: Escape From the Smithsonian....
Three Year Old Reviews Star Wars By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2008 1:29 am EST /Film Reader Django sent us this hilarious video of his friend’s three year old little daughter explaining Star Wars. Check it out. Hopefully she’ll follow-up this up with a review of Empire Strikes Back. I can’t wait. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/3yearoldstarwars.flv 320 240] Discuss: Should George Lucas hire this kid to write Episode VII? via: Fistofblog Three Year Old Reviews Star Wars...
VOTD: Nobody Watches The Watchmen By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2009 9:00 pm EST Somebody is picking off those responsible for the big screen adaptation of Watchmen. Rorschach follows the trail to Watchmen creator Alan Moore. Watch the Funnyordie short Nobody Watches the Watchmen after the jump. VOTD: Nobody Watches The Watchmen By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2009 9:00 pm EST Somebody is picking off those responsible for the big screen adaptation of Watchmen....
