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Cool Stuff: Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy Movie Posters By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2008 6:30 am EST The Alamo Drafthouse is bringing their Rolling Roadshow tour to Spain to pay tribute to one of the most influential film series of the modern age, Sergio Leone’s “dollars” trilogy: Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Quentin Tarantino will be in attendance at the screenings and will introduce one of the films....

Dan Bradley To Direct Red Dawn Remake, Carl Ellsworth To Write By Hunter Stephenson/July 9, 2008 9:20 am EST Look at C. Thomas Howell in the yearbook photo above. Today’s teens need to aim higher. Emptying today’s “post-9/11” quota is screenwriter Carl Ellsworth (Disturbia, Y: The Last Man adaptation) who will pen the remake of 1984’s Red Dawn, the beloved Russian invasion teen patriot movie that inspired Toy Soldiers and many a neighborhood ground warz....

Did The Expendables Break Sylvester Stallone’s Neck? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2010 8:28 am EST What’s a hairline fracture when the entertainment of millions is at stake? Action movies are meant to look like boiling cauldrons of testosterone, but they’re not always quite like that behind the scenes. Sylvester Stallone claims that his film The Expendables was the real deal through and through, to the point where he’s now got a brand-new metal plate in his neck....

Eagle Eye Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2008 9:01 pm EST DreamWorks has released a new movie poster for Eagle Eye, too bad it’s not nearly as interesting as the two released movie trailers. I really have a feeling that this film will be a lot of fun. The new one sheet is somewhat reminiscent of the poster for Enemy of the State (seen also below), which is ironic since the trailer also shows shades of the Will Smith action thriller....

Evan Daugherty Has The Power Of Grayskull By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2009 7:52 pm EST Warner Bros has hired Evan Daugherty to pen a new draft of Grayskull, Silver Pictures’ live-action big screen adaptation of Mattel’s Masters of the Universe. Evan’s script Shrapnel was selected as one of the Grand Prize winners of the 2008 Script Pimp Screenwriting Competition. The screenplay, a psychological thriller about two mortal enemies who square off in a hunting trip to the death, is making its rounds among A-list talent after it landed on The 2008 Blacklist as one of the “most popular” unproduced scripts of the year....

Extract Review: As Soft-Spoken As Its Creator, And Uncomfortably Hilarious By Russ Fischer/Sept. 4, 2009 1:26 pm EST For Extract, Judge reverses the comic hierarchy that defined Office Space. Instead of following the antics of disgruntled employees, he sympathizes with a quietly fraying boss. But as in the earlier comedy, this film warmly characterizes both sides of the labor argument, even when it casts those involved as morons and self-absorbed fools....

First Photos From Resident Evil: Afterlife By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2010 7:00 pm EST ScreenGems has released the first photos from Paul W.S. Anderson’s video game movie sequel Resident Evil: Afterlife on MySpace. Hit the jump to check them out. Official Plot Synopsis: Screen Gems and Constantin Film present Resident Evil: Afterlife, the next installment in the widely successful “Resident Evil” film franchise has begun production in Toronto, Canada. The fourth film was shot and will be released in 3-D, is a first in the “Resident Evil” film franchise....

Friday Box Office: 30 Days Of Night Headed For Only $13.8M By Steve Mason/Oct. 20, 2007 2:18 pm EST 30 Days of Night, a vampire movie from Hard Candy director David Slade, managed to generate only $5.3M on Friday, and it will settle for a weekend take of about $13.8M, well below recent horror releases Halloween 2007 and Resident Evil: Extinction. Meanwhile, holdovers Why Did I Get Married? (Lionsgate), The Game Plan (Buena Vista) and Michael Clayton (Warner Bros) will likely finish 2, 3 and 4 for the weekend....

Galactic Empire Invades San Francisco By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2008 2:42 pm EST Has Darth Vader’s Galactic Empire invaded San Francisco, or is it just Imperial Fleet Week in the Bay Area? Great work by MHorn! Let’s hope that George Lucas doesn’t get any ideas to shoot the Star Wars Universe Cloverfield-style. Galactic Empire Invades San Francisco By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2008 2:42 pm EST Has Darth Vader’s Galactic Empire invaded San Francisco, or is it just Imperial Fleet Week in the Bay Area?...

Indiana Jones 4: Production Designer Says Film Is Mostly CGI-Free By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2008 3:07 pm EST Even though some fans have criticized the teaser trailer for featuring more computer generated effects than most had expected, production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas assures io9 that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be mostly CGI-Free. “There really wasn’t much CGI. We built all the sets… We built all of the [moving stone staircases, converging stone pillars and other pieces] so it was very nice....

Indiana Jones 4 Theater Display By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 28, 2007 1:54 pm EST JoBlo spotted this new theater display for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Looks a lot like the comic con exclusive teaser poster. Click on the image above to enlarge. Indiana Jones 4 Theater Display By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 28, 2007 1:54 pm EST JoBlo spotted this new theater display for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....

Indiana Jones And The Mystery Of The Blues By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2008 5:14 pm EST Okay, so you’ve just watched the new teaser trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull… But did you know that Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was not the last time we saw Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones… Let’s take a look back at a piece of history filed directly next to the Star Wars Holiday Special in the folder of cinematic atrocities we wish we could forget....

Iron Man DVD Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2008 1:38 am EST Paramount has just announced the details for the September 30th DVD/Blu-ray release of Iron Man. The film will be released in a single disc, 2-Disc Ultimate Edition and Blu-Ray Ultimate Edition. Since no one reading this cares about the stupid standard one disc release, let me tell you about the Ultimate Edition and Blu-Ray Disc releases. The 2-Disc Ultimate Edition will contain 11 deleted scenes (Convoy Ambush, Craps Table with Tony & Rhodey, Tony & Rhodey on Stark Jet and Military Ceremony, Rhodey Saves Iron Man on Freeway, Rooftop Battle, Obadiah Addresses Scientists, Pepper Discovers Tony as Iron Man, Tony Begins Mark II, Dubai Party, Tony Comes Home, Rhodey and General Gabriel), 15 featurettes (“The Journey Begins”, “The Suit that Makes The Iron Man”, “Walk of Destruction”, “Grounded In Reality”, “Beneath the Armor”, “It’s All In The Details”, “A Good Story, Well Told”, “Origins”, “Friends & Foe”, “The Definitive Iron Man”, “Demon in a Bottle”, “Extremis and Beyond”, “Ultimate Iron Man”, “Wired: The Visual Effects of Iron Man”, “The Actor’s Process”), The Iron Man: Armored Adventures Trailer, Robert Downey Jr....

Karate Kid Remake Plot Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2009 12:32 am EST Moviehole has learned some new details about the Will Smith-produced reimagining of The Karate Kid. The film’s plot is broadly the same as the original 1984 film, but with many little differences. The Daniel Larusso character, played by Jaden Smith, has been renamed Dre (I kid you not) and is a skateboarding video game buff. With the fear of layoffs looming over her U....

Keira Knightley And Joe Wright Reteaming For My Fair Lady Remake By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 25, 2009 8:00 am EST Keira Knightley has been informally linked to a remake of My Fair Lady for some time now. It was always something of a no brainer to see her as the most likely candidate, and I suspect some of the previous stories were nothing more than guess work based more upon her cheekbones than any inside information....

LOL: Follow Fake Michael Bay On Twitter By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2008 5:28 pm EST FAKE Michael Bay has joined Twitter. Here are some of his twittering highlights:Shia is crying less today.Fine, I’ll use your stupid IMAX cameras.Went to the bathroom and took a giant dump. A dump of excellence.God I’m Awesome.Boom. That’s it. That’s all you need to know.Got stuck looking in the mirror again. Just a half hour this time....

Lost Season 5 Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 22, 2008 8:35 pm EST A trailer for the fifth season of LOST has been found online. The first half of the trailer is pretty much a recap of the fourth season. If it isn’t completely obvious, don’t watch the trailer or read the comments if you haven’t seen the last season of the show. This is my favorite show on television. The Constant is probably one of my favorite episodes of television ever....

Michel Gondry To Make Animated Feature Film With Son By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2007 11:04 am EST Our friends at MTV broke some interesting news yesterday, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director has announced his next project – an animated film that he is co-directing with his son. “It’s going to be quite amazing,” Gondry told MTV. “We’re translating our relationship into a futuristic story with a dictator and a rebel....

Movie Trailer Mash-Up: Good Will Hunted By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2007 5:40 am EST Everyone loves the movie trailer mash-ups. I came across one today for Good Will Hunting titled Good Will Hunted, about a man who stumbles upon a government secret and is targeted by a hit-man. Sounds a little far fetched, but Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s original script had a some-what similar plot. Good Will Hunted is actually very well done....

New Angels & Demons Video Clip: Hunt Them Down By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2009 5:53 pm EST Sony Pictures has released a new video clip from Ron Howard’s adaptation of Angels & Demons on IGN. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) explains why the Illuminati were driven underground by the Catholic church and have grown to become a huge threat. I do find it odd that Sony would release a clip of Hanks relaying exposition, as that was a common complaint from The Da Vinci Code....