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Steven Spielberg To Develop Unpublished Michael Crichton Pirate Movie By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2009 7:42 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. USA Today reports that Spielberg has hired David Koepp, screenwriter of Jurassic Park, to write a big screen adaptation of Crichton’s Pirate Latitudes. Spielberg plans to produce the film, and is considering directing. Steven has apparently always wanted to direct his own pirate film, and this might be his chance....

The Sequel You’ve Been Waiting For: White Chicks 2! By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2009 8:35 am EST OK, strictly speaking, I don’t know if a sequel to White Chicks is actually the worst idea of the day, because I’ve never seen White Chicks. And, if things go well, I may never. (Which is a closed-minded attitude I rarely take, but life’s too short, and there are too many other good movies, to see White Chicks....

The Year Of Getting To Know Us Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 30, 2007 11:03 pm EST Patrick Sisam’s The Year of Getting to Know Us premieres at Sundance, but an early trailer (with a different title – Rocket) has popped up online. Jimmy Falon stars in what Sundance describes as a “darkly comic exploration of the classic dysfunctional-family dynamic” and “a quirky exploration of how the people in our lives make us who we are....

Tons Of Details Emerge For Peter Berg’s Battleship By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 1, 2009 11:19 pm EST After the reveal that the main villains in Peter Berg’s upcoming Battleship (can we even call it an adaptation?) will be aliens, the little enthusiasm I had for the project was almost entirely replaced by increased trepidation. It’s tough enough to accept the fact that we’re seeing a board game brought to life, but throwing aliens into the mix seemed a bit much....

Tune In Tonight At 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST For /Filmcast Live By David Chen/June 9, 2008 7:43 am EST Tune in tonight to Slashfilm’s Live page at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST to hear us broadcast the /Filmcast live. With Peter gone for a press screening, we’ll be joined by special guest bloggers Mike Sonders from GreatWhiteSnark and Angie J. Han from Bitch Happy to discuss the past week in movie news and to review Dreamworks’ latest, Kung Fu Panda....

VOTD: “I’ll Be Back” The Terminator Love Song By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2009 9:24 pm EST We somehow missed this music video when it was released last week. Mark Lee had the idea of doing a schmaltzy Terminator love song, in the style of “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” or “Everything I Do (I Do It For You).” Watch the video and read the lyrics after the jump. Lyrics: I’m sleeping alone on this cold concrete floor Another sad night in this sad robot war On Judgment Day man and machine did collide But even though billions of people have died Somewhere out there tonight You’re hugging your rifle so tight I’ll find you, somehow, someway In the rubble that once was L....

Warner Bros. Looking To Rehash The Fugitive By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 17, 2009 12:36 pm EST First of all, I don’t want to say “reboot”. It doesn’t sit easily with me, not even when we’re talking about a remake of a TV to film adaptation (if that description even fits). Production Weekly reports via theur Twitter feed that Warner Bros. are looking make another The Fugitive film. There’s no more information in their 140 characters, but the basics are all there....

/Film Listed On MovieMaker Magazine’s 50 Best Blogs For Moviemakers By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 25, 2010 1:37 am EST At the Sundance Film Festival official headquarters, they have a table filled with movie-related magazines and tradepapers, many of which you’ve never heard of. When I got back to the Blogger Condo tonight, a copy of MovieMaker Magazine was on the table with a note to look at their list of the 50 Best Blogs....

A Magic Box From The Makers Of Coraline By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 23, 2008 8:14 pm EST Over the weekend I received a mysterious package from Portland Oregon. Turns out it was from the animators and puppeteers behind the upcoming film Coraline, the first stop-animated film shot in 3D. Based on Gaiman’s short children’s novel of the same name, Coraline is a young bored girl who discovers that bricked-up wall behind a door in her house leads to another dimension, where she has a different mother, and different father....

Across The Universe Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2007 1:18 pm EST We’ve been looking forward to Across The Universe ever since we heard the words “Beatles” and “musical” used in the same sentence. The movie trailer looks amazing. Who cares what Roth says, we have faith in Academy Award nominated director Julie Taymor (Frida, Titus). Check out the new theatrical poster to the right. Click on the photo to enlarge....

Black Friday Week Geek Deals: Tuesday By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2009 1:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Lightning Deals:4am – 8am PST• Hellboy II: The Golden Army – $2.00• The Mummy – $3.99• The Tale of Despereaux – $5.008am – 12pm PST• Forgetting Sarah Marshall – $3.99• Fast & Furious [Blu-ray] – $9.99• Fast & Furious – $7.9910am – 2pm PST• Watchmen (Nite Owl Ship Gift Set) [Blu-ray]- $49....

Cool Stuff: The Biggest DVD Box Set Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2007 5:38 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Not including some box sets which are being sold as a collection of other box sets, the biggest and most elaborate DVD release has to be the upcoming United Artists 90th Anniversary Prestige Collection. This unprecedented collection features 90 of United Artists most acclaimed films on 110 discs, including eight Academy Award winning Best Pictures....

Despicable Me Teaser Trailer #3 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 21, 2009 4:55 pm EST In July we posted the teaser trailer for Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me. And while the computer animated film is supposedly about a trio of orphan girls cause the normally deplorable Gru to rethink his plan to steal the moon, the trailer focused on something else entirely: a world which has had famous landmarks stolen and completely replaced by giant blow-up replicas....

Dr. Evil: The Movie By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2007 12:23 pm EST I’m not a huge Austin Powers fan. I know, I’m in the minority. But the one character I always got a huge kick out of was Dr. Evil. He was a perfect parody of all the great super-villains of all time. In my opinion, he was the reason why the Austin Powers trilogy was so successful. Now word comes in from our friends at FirstShowing that a fourth Austin Powers may be in the works, and it may focus completely on Dr....

Dragonball Teaser Poster By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2008 3:45 pm EST Photo Removed at Request from Fox Update: /Film reader Jim S sent me the above photo of the American version of the teaser poster. So it appears it is real after all. The photo below has begun to circulate the message boards, claiming to be the Japanese poster for 20th Century Fox’s upcoming live action big screen adaptation of Dragonball....

Forrest Gump 2 Back In Development? By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2007 1:50 pm EST It has been thirteen years since Forrest Gump captured audiences worldwide, and now we’re hearing that the often talked about sequel is close to getting greenlit. CinemaBlend’s “absolutely reliable, unfortunately anonymous source” is claiming that the project is back in development after years of sitting on the shelf. In 2001, Eric Roth wrote a screenplay based on the Winston Groom’s 1995 follow-up novel Gump & Co....

Hollywood Writers Strike? Hire Alex Perez! By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 24, 2007 11:19 am EST What will Hollywood do if the Writers Guild strikes? Hire Alex Perez, “Helping Hollywood in its Time of Need”. I’m not sure if this is a joke or if it’s a real attempt to snag an Industry job. The sad thing is, in Hollywood, you never know. Hollywood Writers Strike? Hire Alex Perez! By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 24, 2007 11:19 am EST...

International Trailer For Sean Ellis’s “The Broken” By Devindra Hardawar/Oct. 11, 2008 2:21 pm EST Best known for the visually impressive (but overlong) Cashback, British director Sean Ellis is now trying his hand at horror with The Broken. The cast includes Lena Heady (300, The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and the always great Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under, The Visitor). Don’t ask me to decipher this plot though: On a busy street in London, Gina thinks she sees herself drive past in her own car....

Joel Silver May Revive Swamp Thing In 3D By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2009 5:17 pm EST Just last night I killed some time with the trade paperback of Alan Moore’s first issues on Swamp Thing. Despite some clunky, overwrought lines those stories remain a landmark for smart horror comics. The tone is just so perfect and nuanced despite the tidbits that fail. I’d love to see a Swamp Thing movie that worked, one that could be quiet and creepy and feel like elemental forces of the green were rumbling beneath the theater....

Liev Schreiber Wants To Play The Boxer Who Inspired Rocky By Russ Fischer/Feb. 28, 2010 9:38 pm EST Liev Schreiber is ready to fight. He’s got his eye on a biopic of Chuck “The Bayonne Bleeder” Wepner, a heavyweight boxer from New Jersey who has been said to be the inspiration behind Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky. (Let’s not have any grumbling that a Philly icon like Rocky may be based on a guy from Jersey....