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VOTD: The Original Tron Gets Modernized Fan-Created Trailer By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2010 10:17 am EST There’s a real art to cutting a good trailer. While the basics have remained the same over the years, some aspects of that art have changed greatly in the past two decades. Watch the original trailer for Tron, for example, and you’ll see a good tease for the film and the story, but one that is very much locked into the pulse of technology and storytelling common at the time....

Worst Idea Ever: Jaden Smith Confirmed For Karate Kid Remake By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2008 9:58 pm EST Last year there was a crazy rumor began to circulate that Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith would star in a remake of The Karate Kid, with Stephen Chow attached to direct and take over the role of Mr. Myiagi. Sounded horrible then. Still sounds horrible now. And it turns out the crazy rumor wasn’t so crazy....

Analyst Declares Sundance’s Youtube Streaming Inititative A Flop By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 26, 2010 2:08 pm EST Last week Devindra told us about a new initiative to democratise the Sundance experience just a little. In a pioneering move to undercut the elite access of Utah-bound schmoozers and carousers, 2009 and 2010 selections The Cove, One Too Many Mornings, Homewrecker, Children of Invention, and Bass Ackwards were each made available on YouTube for rental....

Angela Bassett And Gattlin Griffith Join Green Lantern By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2010 10:42 pm EST Today it has been revealed that Angela Bassett and Gattlin Griffith have joined the cast of Martin Campbell’s big screen adaptation of DC Comics’ Green Lantern. Oscar-nominated actress Bassett (Malcolm X, Boyz n the Hood, What’s Love Got to Do with It) will play Dr. Amanda Waller, a former congressional aide and government agent who in the comics was often placed in charge of the Suicide Squad, a semi-secret government-run group of former super villains working in return for amnesty....

Can The Weinstein Co Stop People From Downloading SiCKO? By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2007 12:00 pm EST We were one of the first people to report last week that Michael Moore’s Sicko had been leaked to the internet. We debated for over an hour to post the information as it could do more bad than good. But the more we looked into the situation, the more weight the story had. This was the second film distributed by Lionsgate this month to get “leaked” online....

Cool Stuff: Pixar Animated Desk Accessory Toy By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2008 4:00 am EST Thinkway Toys manufactures this really cool interactive motion activated Pixar Aniamtion Studios desk accessory toy. Luxo Jr comes to life and hops around just like in the opening animation on Pixar’s movies. It has motion activated or remote control settings, in addition to the button on the accessory itself. Check out the video below of it in action....

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Remake Gets Pink; Rachel McAdams In Sherlock; Kumar Directors Do Us Part By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 25, 2008 12:46 am EST MGM has hired Steve Pink (Accepted) to write and direct a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The original 1988 Frank Oz film starred Steve Martin and Michael Caine as two con men who find that their town isn’t big enough for the two of them. They agree to a “loser leaves” bet....

First Viral Site For J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek Appears By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 22, 2008 11:36 pm EST Onto Bad Robot’s viral marketing treadmill step millions of Star Trek fans today, as a site called NCC-1701.com can be discovered by clicking a red dot that appears near the “Under Construction” label on the December revamp’s official site. The screen-shot below is what you can expect to find after noodling with the reception bars to four surveillance-type cameras apparently set up in the U....

By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2009 9:16 am EST To recap: Black Swan stars Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Vincent Cassel and Barbara Hershey. Portman is Nina, a veteran ballerina who finds herself locked in to a competitive showdown with a rival dancer named Lilly (Kunis) “with the stakes and twists increasing as the dancers approach a big performance.” Mark Heyman, co-producer of The Wrestler, has done a rewrite of the original script by John McLaughlin....

Higher Resolution: Zack And Miri Banned Poster By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2008 10:07 pm EST Because you asked for it, here is the “Banned in the USA” Canadian poster for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Higher Resolution: Zack And Miri Banned Poster By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2008 10:07 pm EST Because you asked for it, here is the “Banned in the USA” Canadian poster for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno....

Indiana Jones And The Staff Of Kings Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 27, 2009 2:24 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/indystaffvideogame.flv 470 264] LucasArts has released the trailer for Indiana Jones and The Staff of Kings video game. Unfortunately it is only being released for the Nintendo Wii, and not the more graphic intensive console systems like Xbox 360, which the game was originally announced for. Staff of Kings still looks good, some might joke that it looks better than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....

John Hillcoat’s Next Courting Amy Adams For Female Lead, Retitled The Promised Land? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2009 5:40 pm EST I’ve been keenly eyeing news on John Hillcoat’s potential adaptation of The Wettest County in the World, scripted by Nick Cave based on the novel by Matt Bondurant. There’s been significant maybe/hopefully casting news for the film so far, but not much more. Hillcoat seems to have Shia LaBeouf and Ryan Gosling interested and/or attached, and there was word that other actors, like Scarlett Johansson and Michael Shannon, were interested....

Justin Theroux Gets His First Studio Directing Gig By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2009 12:28 pm EST Fresh off his screenwriting gig on Iron Man 2, Variety announces that Justin Theroux has landed his second gig as director, and first for a major studio. In 2007 Theroux directed the indie Dedication, about “about a misanthropic children’s book author who tries to find love with a sweet-natured illustrator”. Now he’ll helm a film called Chief Ron for Universal, based on the story of Chief Ron Roberts, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed chap who claimed Native American ancestry in a bid to open an east coast casino....

Knight & Day Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 19, 2009 6:00 pm EST I snapped this photo of the movie poster for the new Tom Cruise action-comedy Knight & Day outside of the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin Texas. Directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line / 3:10 to Yuma / Girl, Interrupted), the film centers on a fugitive couple (played by Cruise and Cameron Diaz) on a “glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem....

Live Free Or Die Hard To Be Cut For PG-13 Rating?! By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2007 2:54 pm EST Die Hard, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, and Die Hard with a Vengeance have only a few things in common. Bruce Willis, John McClane, and the action packed R-Rating. But it now appears that Live Free or Die Hard might be going the PG-13 route, thanks to studio pressure. According to AICN, Willis was initionally disappointed that Live Free or Die Hard would likely be cut to get a PG-13 Rating....

Mark Millar Teases Sam Raimi And Guy Ritchie As Possible Directors For Nemesis Movie By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 13, 2010 10:17 am EST Mark Millar’s Nemesis is an upcoming comic series that, apparently, I shouldn’t really describe with the phrase “What if Bruce Wayne was the Joker?” because the DC legal people really don’t like it. That was Millar’s great pitch in an interview back in December, and it immediately created a huge surge of interest in not only the comics but their inevitable big-screen adaptation....

Movie Trailer: Duncan Jones’ Moon By David Chen/April 9, 2009 5:05 pm EST I’ve always had a soft spot for sci-fi thrillers, so when I first heard about Duncan Jones’ Moon, I was immediately intrigued. The film tells the story of Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) who is sent on a three-year one-man mission to the moon to mine Helium-3, which has become Earth’s primary source of energy in the future. As his stint there is winding up, a freak accident and its ensuing events threaten to change everything....

New Iron Man Photo And Fan Film By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 9, 2008 12:23 am EST Paramount has released a new photo from Jon Favreau’s Iron Man, featuring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, testing the armor’s gauntlet mechanism (or so we assume). Click on the photo above to enlarge. Our friends at Screenrant have an exclusive look at a Iron Man fan film created by David Guivant. Designed as a spec opening title sequence for a fictional television series called The Invincible Iron Man....

New Photos: Friday The 13th’s Jason And Harry Potter By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2008 7:05 pm EST Entertainment Weekly offers this first look at Jason Voorhees (albeit, a wide shot) from the Michael Bay produced Friday the 13th reboot. Apparently Chelsea’s (Willa Ford) decision to water-ski in Crystal Lake was a bad one. EW also has a new photo of Harry Potter and Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent) from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince....

New Posters: Land Of The Lost & Fast And Furious By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2008 12:11 pm EST Universal has premiered a movie poster for their big screen take of Land of the Lost and the sequel Fast and Furious. Click on the images above to see the large versions on Cinematical and MTV. The Land of the Lost poster looks silly and CG’d, which goes right alongside my expectations of the film....