Doesn’t Sound Good: 24 Shuts Down Production By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 5, 2008 10:56 pm EST Not so great news for 24 fans. EW is reporting that production of the new season of 24 will shut down for more than two weeks so that the series writers can “reshape the upcoming season’s creative direction”. Howard Gordon admits that they “just couldn’t get this direction to work,” so they “found another one” and “wound up retooling it....
Eli Roth To Produce The Other Woman By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2010 9:00 pm EST Meanwhile, horror writer/director/producer Eli Roth will reteam with StudioCanal and Strike Entertainment to produce a psychological thriller titled The Other Woman. The film will be directed by Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland, who are currently writing the screenplay. Botko and Gurland also wrote The Last Exorcism (previously known as Cotton), which they had originally planned to direct....
First Look: Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2007 1:28 pm EST Warner Bros has released the first production photo from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. More of the same, nothing shocking or unexpected. Check it out after the jump. Click on the image to enlarge. Director: David YatesWriter: Steve KlovesCast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Jim Broadbent, Jessie Cave, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Frank Dillane, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch, Helen McCrory, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Natalia Tena, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Julie Walters, David Thewlis, Bonnie WrightPlot Synopsis: Fantasy Adventure....
First Look: Woody Allen’s Whatever Works By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2008 12:01 pm EST VOIR has the first production photos from Woody Allen’s new film Whatever Works. The movie stars Larry David as a highly eccentric character who runs into a girl from the South named Melodie, played by Evan Rachel Wood. The two of them, joined by Melodie’s Mother and Father, “get into a series of highly improbable, far out, romantic entanglements....
Geek Deal: Ultimate Bond DVD Set For $89 Or Bond Blu-Ray Six-Pack For $64 By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2009 12:11 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The James Bond Blu-Ray Collection Six-Pack for $64.95, 64% off the MSRP of $179.96. The set includes Dr. No, Die Another Day, Live and Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love, and Thunderball.
High Res Photos: Disney’s The Princess And The Frog By Peter Sciretta/June 9, 2009 11:07 pm EST Walt Disney Animation Studios has released a batch of new images from The Princess and the Frog. This is Disney’s return to hand-drawn animation, a new take on E.D. Baker’s novel The Frog Princess (which was actually the original title of the film). If you haven’t seen the theatrical trailer, check that out here....
Incredibles Helmer Brad Bird In Talks To Direct Mission: Impossible 4 By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2010 5:17 pm EST When it was first announced that JJ Abrams and Tom Cruise were reteaming to co-produce a fourth Mission Impossible film, a lot of factors were unknown. Would it be a reboot, a spinoff? Would Tom Cruise return as Ethan Hunt? Would JJ Abrams also direct? In October we got a couple answers, as Paramount Pictures signed Tom Cruise to reprise his role as Ethan Hunt in M:I-IV....
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Cast In Christopher Nolan’s Inception By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2009 9:22 pm EST Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been cast in Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi action film Inception, taking the role which James Franco was originally signed to play. Franco was forced to bow out due to scheduling issues. Levitt is an incredibly talented actor, and I’m happy to see him cast in a Nolan film.Leonardo DiCaprio plays the lead, a CEO-type, Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose, Public Enemies) is his wife, Ellen Page (Juno) is a young college grad student and DiCaprio’s sidekick, and Levitt plays an associate working for DiCaprio....
Kurt Wimmer To Write And Possibly Direct Metal Gear Solid Movie? By Hunter Stephenson/March 15, 2008 10:51 am EST Coming Soon had a chance to speak with producer Michael De Luca (21, Ghost Rider) and he passed along news that a Metal Gear Solid movie, based off the long-running hit espionage video game franchise, is once again going ahead. The project has been in the very early stages for sometime (see eerily similar Slashfilm post from Feb ‘07), and faced a set back from the writer’s strike....
LOL: Lost Season Five Bloopers By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2009 11:30 am EST The blooper reel for the fifth season of LOST is now online. The DVD/Blu-ray set hit stores this week. Watch the three minute outtake reel embedded after the jump. LOL: Lost Season Five Bloopers By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2009 11:30 am EST The blooper reel for the fifth season of LOST is now online. The DVD/Blu-ray set hit stores this week....
Lost Season Five Cast Photo By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2008 5:57 pm EST /Film reader Aaron K sent me this new cast promo photo for the Fifth Season of LOST. Lost Season Five Cast Photo By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 3, 2008 5:57 pm EST /Film reader Aaron K sent me this new cast promo photo for the Fifth Season of LOST.
By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 27, 2009 1:37 pm EST Here’s a serious case of believe it when you see it (and bear in mind, the Grindhouse Blu-Rays need marketing right about now). According to “rumblings around town”, given a public voice by Bloody Disgusting, the Weinsteins are putting some serious welly behind Robert Rodriguez’ Machete. Originally showcased as a faux trailer from the double bill version of Grindhouse, and then a high point of the Planet Terror DVD, Machete would be expanded to feature length from the 30 minutes worth already in existence....
New Dark Knight Movie Poster: “Welcome To A World Without Rules” By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2008 7:08 pm EST /Film reader escobar sent us a link to a new Dark Knight viral website which promises a new Joker-related game in “Four days.” Or at least that’s what we think is going on. I’m sure this will all lead to the new movie trailer for The Dark Knight. Anyway, if you click on the joker card nailed to the wall with a knife on the new “It’s All Part of The Plan” webpage, we get a look at a new poster for The Dark Knight which features Batman standing in front of a burning building, the Bat symbol set on fire with the tagline “Welcome to a World Without Rules....
New Meet The Robinsons Video Clip: Get That Boy By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2007 4:19 am EST And Disney day continues here on /Film with a new video clip from Meet the Robinsons. In the new clip titled Get That Boy, watch as Lewis outsmarts Tiny the Dinosaur, whose brain is obviously not as big as his bite, and neither are his arms! Check it out after the jump. [flv:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/meettherobinsons.flv 450 250] Meet the Robinsons hits theaters in Disney Digital 3D on Friday, March 30th 2007....
Richard Linklater Talks Before Sunrise/Sunset, And Ponders A Third Film By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 25, 2009 12:49 am EST The prospect of Richard Linklater making a third film in the Before Sunrise/ Before Sunset series is terrifying to me. The first film was a perfect piece of twenty-something romance, and through some sort of miracle, Linklater was able to craft a superior second film that sees the characters ten years later in very different places in their lives....
Ridley Scott’s Gucci Gathers Steam; Angles For DiCaprio And Jolie By Russ Fischer/Oct. 20, 2009 6:01 pm EST It’s been a while since we’ve heard much about Ridley Scott’s potential Gucci film, which would follow Maurizio Gucci, grandson of company founder Guccio Gucci, who was gunned down in Milan just before designer Tom Ford’s first collection for the label debuted. The project was announced in trades in December 2007 and has been bumped now and then....
Sherlock Holmes Character Posters By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2009 7:31 am EST Warner Bros has premiered two character posters for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. The posters feature Robert Downey Jr as Holmes and Jude Law as Watson, and the taglines: “Nothing Escapes Him” and “Crime Will Pay”. Maybe they shoulda said “Not Your Father’s Sherlock Holmes”… oh wait, another film already took that slogan this summer. Check out both posters after the jump....
Shrek 4 And Shrek 5 Announced By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2007 9:56 am EST Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg has announced that there will be a Shrek 4 (2010) and Shrek 5, but THAT IS IT! “It’s a finite story, has been from the beginning and I think that’s part of its integrity, part of its strength, that we’re not thinking this up as we go,” he told The Age. “Ultimately we will come back to understand how Shrek arrived in that swamp....
The Gremlins Are Back! By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2008 12:46 pm EST The Gremlins have returned! No, Gremlins 3 hasn’t been given the greenlight. Although, I’m sure some Hollywood executive is sitting at his desk reading this thinking “Now, there’s an idea!” In this new advertisement for BT’s tech support services, the critters from the 1980s film Gremlins do their best to scupper a late night in the office for Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones....
The Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit Rollercoaster By Peter Sciretta/March 19, 2008 4:30 pm EST Universal Studios Orlando has announced that they will be building The Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit Rollercoaster, a new high-tech roller-coaster ride which will hold the title of the tallest coaster in Central Florida and one of the fastest in the state. Rockit will rise 167 feet into the air, then corkscrew downwards, twisting eight times, making a quick trip outside of the theme park and over the heads of people walking through the nearby Universal CityWalk shopping center....
