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Will They Make A Halloween Sequel? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2007 3:15 am EST Rob Zombie has signed a two picture deal with Dimension Films, Halloween has already broken the Labor Day weekend record (aiming to take $32 million) ,well over the film’s estimated $15 million budget (despite god awful reviews from both fans and critics). But the question now becomes, will they make a sequel (And if so, will it be called Halloween 2, Halloween 10, or something else?...

Will Thomas Pynchon’s New Novel Inherent Vice Spawn His First Big Film Adaptation? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2009 9:30 pm EST I haven’t yet bought, Pynchon’s new Inherent Vice (I’ve been re-reading the unrelated Vineland in preparation) so I’ve been avoiding most of the reviews and commentary. But The Playlist noticed an interesting line in the Wall Street Journal’s piece about the novel: “The Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles is handling film rights....

34 Minute Q&A With Hostel: Part II Director Eli Roth By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2007 11:08 am EST Last week I went to a screening of Hostel: Part II (which I really enjoyed). Eli Roth was in attendance and did a question and answer session following the screening. It was the first time Hostel 2 was screened for the public, so Roth was relieved to see that the audience loved the film....

A Green Light For Green Lantern By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2010 8:40 am EST There wasn’t any doubt that Warner Bros.’ Green Lantern would be going forward, but the film now has an official greenlight, says visual effects supervisor Karen Goulekas. “Green Lantern got the official green light today,” Goulekas announced on her blog. “And not a second too soon – only 10 weeks out from shooting!” While plenty of work has been done on the film, the green light allows money to really flow out to the production, so Goulekas and her crew now have two and a half months to get things together for a film that may include up to 1300 effects shots....

Across The Universe: The Next Cult Sensation? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2007 5:20 pm EST Across the Universe was plagued with bad behind the scenes controversy. The film premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, but was not screened for national press before the film’s nationwide release. And when the film hit, the critics called the film a “cliched love story.” My friend Jen Yamato at Rotten Tomatoes loved the film, and recommended it highly at TIFF....

Bad Ideas: Wild Hogs 2 By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2007 11:14 am EST I don’t understand how so many people are duped into paying for a movie like Wild Hogs. Every month a new stinker hits theaters, and it makes tons of money. Wild Hogs made nearly $38 million in it’s first weekend. How? Anyway, I just got word that director Walt Becker is considering a possible sequel. How can this happen?...

Book To Movie: Is Confessions Of A Shopaholic The Next Devil Wears Prada? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2007 12:01 pm EST Every-time I’m a Borders or Barnes and Nobles, I run into Sophie Kinsella’s bestselling book Confessions of a Shopaholic. I’m a guy, and the book seems to be targeted for the opposite sex, so I’ve never actually picked it up or skimmed through the pages. The last time I went to the book store, I actually made a bet with myself that I would run into the book....

Box Office: Land Of The Lost Disappoints, Up And The Hangover Battle It Out For #1 By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2009 9:31 pm EST Steve Mason has checked in with the Friday night box office estimates. Pixar’s Up might end up winning the weekend, adding another $13.5 Million on Friday for an estimated $45 Million 3-Day. The Hangover took in an estimated $17 Million on Friday, headed for #2 for the weekend with $44 Million....

Brendon’s Watchmen Video Review And Interviews From The Premiere By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 23, 2009 7:06 pm EST The World Premiere of Watchmen took place a few hours ago in London’s West End and I was lucky enough to be there, on the yellow carpet, camera in hand and with Lying in the Gutters’ Rich Johnston just to the side of me, taking pictures and asking odd questions. My video coverage of the premiere is below the break, as well my video review and more on the night’s happenings....

Bryan Singer’s WWII Movie Gets A Title By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2007 9:14 am EST Last week we learned that Tom Cruise would star in Bryan Singer’s World War II drama (you know, the one that absolutely won’t push back Superman Returns 2). Well now the untitled drama has a name. According to The Guardian, the codename (or tentative title) of the project is Valkyrie, named after the Richard Wagner opera....

Casting: Karl Urban And Maggie Q In Priest; Tommy Lee Jones And Samuel L. Jackson In Cormac McCarthy Adaptation By Russ Fischer/Aug. 22, 2009 9:00 am EST Before you rush out to Inglourious Basterds and/or Avatar footage, chew on a couple of quick casting bites for you at the end of this Friday. First, Priest, the film by Scott Stewart starring Paul Bettany, has a villain, Karl Urban, and a new heroine, Maggie Q....

Casting Notes: Eric Bana Joins Joe Wright’s Hanna, Ed Helms Joins Will Ferrell’s Daddy’s Home By Russ Fischer/Feb. 5, 2010 4:03 pm EST Atonement director Joe Wright is assembling the key cast for his teen assassin film Hanna, which already has Saoirse Ronan as the female lead. Now the movie that Brendon called “a kind of Nikita-meets-Leon, Kick-Ass-meets-Bourne mash-up” has a male lead: Eric Bana will play (I’m assuming) Hanna’s father, who has spent most of the girl’s fourteen years training her to be a killer....

Casting Notes: Robin Williams In Wedding Banned, Maggie Grace In Wichita By Russ Fischer/Aug. 28, 2009 11:00 am EST For those who’ve wondered what happened to Page 2, it isn’t gone. The last couple weeks have just been so slow that there isn’t enough to fill up a Page 2 post. (It’s the end of the summer; expect news to pick up in a couple weeks as the festival season kicks in....

Changing The World: Documentary The Cove Seemingly Helped Stop Illegal Dolphin Hunting By Russ Fischer/Sept. 2, 2009 7:00 pm EST For any documentarian who makes a film about an injustice there can’t be much greater end result than seeing change take place in the real world once the film is released. This summer’s doc The Cove, by Louie Psihoyos, peered into Taiji, a small Japanese village where thousands of dolphins are slaughtered each year....

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys’ Terminator Factory Diorama By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2009 6:00 am EST When I was on set for Terminator Salvation, I was in the factory why Skynet produces Terminators on an assembly line (set report to come later). Hot Toys has announced that they will be releasing a Terminator Salvation Terminator Factory Diorama in April. This diorama captures T700 in the assembly line at the Terminator factory. It’s true to 1/6th scale and approximately stands 15 inches / 40 cm tall, featuring T700 light up eyes and light up button on manufacturing machine....

Domestic Trailer For Mother, From Host Director Bong Joon-Ho By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 26, 2010 12:26 am EST The more we see from Bong Joon-ho’s (The Host, Memories of Murder) upcoming film Mother, the more I’m reminded of just how much of a tremendous talent he is. We ran an English-subtitled international trailer for the film over the summer, and now we have the first official domestic trailer. There’s some footage that we haven’t seen before, but mostly it’s just great to finally get a glimpse of this film in HD....

Exclusive Clip From The Red Riding Trilogy, Britain’s Ambitious Serial Killer Epic By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 3, 2010 10:12 pm EST Our stateside readers who dig serial killer procedural-thrillers in the vein of Zodiac and Silence of the Lambs should make a blood-scrawled note of Britain’s Red Riding Trilogy. This Friday, the epic triptych begins a one week run at IFC Center in New York City, complete with two intermissions and a free popcorn (caution to the hemoglobin phobes, the elderly, and flatulent )....

First Look: Saw 4 By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2007 3:32 am EST Lionsgate has released the first official photo from SAW 4, which can be seen after the jump. I’m not quite sure what is going on in this trap, but there does appear to be a timer on the wall counting down to something. I would guess that the numbers are minutes, which means there is about an hour and a half left....

Golden Globes Speeches: Christopher Nolan, Mickey Rourke, Tina Fey And Tracy Morgan By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 11, 2009 8:41 pm EST digg_url = ‘http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/11/golden-globes-speeches-christopher-nolan-and-mickey-rourke/'; // –> We have found some of the highlight speeches from tonight’s Golden Globe Awards. After the jump you will find Tracy Morgan and Tina Fey’s hilarious 30 Rock acceptance speeches, Christopher Nolan’s acceptance speech for Heath Ledger’s Dark Knight best performance win, and Mickey Rourke’s Best Dramatic Actor speech where The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky flips Mickey “the bird”....

Halloween 3D Has A Writer/Director. Writer Of Children Of The Corn Remake Announced. By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 7, 2009 11:28 am EST With the Weinstein Company skating on financial ice, even with Inglourious Basterds breaking $100m domestic, the Brothers Weinstein are once again placing their bets on horror. As they should: their success has long been tied to the genre in addition to Oscar pics. Now that Rob Zombie is finished retooling the Halloween franchise—his sequel dropped by 70+ percent this weekend—Dimension and Bob Weinstein have announced a new writer/director for the next unrelated installment: Halloween 3D....