Indiana Jones And The Estimated $151 Million Five-Day Opening By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2008 2:16 am EST The Sunday Box Office estimates are in and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has taken in an estimated $126.3 Million. Steve Mason is predicting that Crystal Skull will be the All-Time #2 Memorial Day Opening and the All-Time #5 Five-Day Opening in movie history. Indy is projected to add another $21....
Iron Man Movie Trailer To Be Adapted Into Feature-Length Film By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2008 8:11 pm EST The Onion has broke some huge news. Apparently, Paramount has announced plans to adapt last Summer’s most popular movie trailer, Iron Man, into a feature length movie. Watch the report below.Discuss: Do you think Iron Man can maintain the entertainment value displayed in the movie trailer when adapted to a feature-length film?...
Lethal Weapon 5 Waits On Mel Gibson’s Approval By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 26, 2008 1:25 am EST In August it was revealed that Shane Black was working on a screenplay for Lethal Weapon 5. When news hit earlier this week that Black had signed on to direct Cold Warrior for Universal, we assumed that the momentum for a new Lethal Weapon film had died. Entertainment Weekly reveals that producer Joel Silver is waiting on series star Mel Gibson’s approval of Black’s treatment for the fifth film....
By Russ Fischer/Oct. 12, 2009 11:01 am EST It’s only within the last few years that the real identity of novelist and comic book writer Joe Hill has been revealed. He’s Stephen King’s son, though for years Hill concealed that fact (his full name is Joseph Hillstrom King) in order to make his own fortune. Good for him, and now that he’s established to some extent and the truth is out, hopefully his family name only helps....
By Russ Fischer/June 27, 2009 3:38 pm EST Here’s what we know: according to Variety, Dreamworks is working to preemptively buy the rights to I Am Number Four, the first novel in a projected six-book sci-fi series, eyeing Michael Bay to produce and possibly direct. The unpublished novel is being shopped around with the two authors represented by a single pseudonym. But the interest level rose when reports surfaced that one of the writers is James Frey, who rose to fame, then infamy, as the author of the partly fictional ‘memoir’ A Million Little Pieces....
Michael Sheen Returns To Vampire Land For Twilight By Brendon Connelly/April 12, 2009 11:17 am EST Michael Sheen played Lucian, leader of the Lycans in not one, not two but three Underworld films – two of which I can personally identify as being particularly tedious, the third of which I’m passively avoiding. Now he’s set to switch sides and head up the Vampires as Aro, boss of the fangsters in New Moon, Chris Weitz’s Twilight sequel....
Movie Poster For Neveldine/Taylor’s Gamer By Brendon Connelly/May 8, 2009 2:55 am EST Once upon a time this film was simply called Game, which sounded too much like The Game. Then in it became Citizen Game, too close perhaps to Citizen Kane (ahem) but now it has been retitled again and, hopefully, for the last time. Neveldine/Taylor’s next action adventure smash ’em up is now going to be called Gamer. Unless, of course, somebody decides that title sounds too much like Gamers or Gamerz, those twin terrors of post-Clerks RPG nerd dramedy....
Mr. Brooks Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2007 5:49 am EST Kevin Costner is a serial killer and Dane Cook is a bad comedian photographer who captures a murder in progress. The movie is Mr. Brooks, and the movie trailer is after the jump. Click here to watch the Trailer at Apple.com. Mr. Brooks is a family man with a secret. His devious alter ego Marshall (William Hurt) loves murder and convinces Mr....
Olivia Wilde And Beau Garrett In TR2N By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2008 10:55 pm EST Turistas stars Olivia Wilde (House, The O.C.) and Beau Garrett (Rise of the Silver Surfer, Made of Honor) have been cast in Disney’s Tron sequel TR2N, which is being directed by commercial turned film director Joseph Kosinski. I am worried about Disney’s initial casting announcements. I’m pretty sure that the stars of Turistas are not the stars geeks were hoping for....
Sundance Trailer And Photo Preview: Space Tourists By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 28, 2009 12:00 pm EST Space Tourists is one of 12 films selected from 782 international documentary submissions for this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. An age-old dream of man is to leave our planet as a normal person and travel into outer space. For 20 million dollars, the American Anousheh Ansari was able to fulfill this childhood dream....
The /Filmcast Interview - Rich Moore By David Chen/Aug. 23, 2008 7:50 am EST The /Filmcast Interviews are a series of interviews with movie stars, directors, and other key figures from the film industry. In this episode, David speaks with partner and animation director of Rough Draft Studios, Rich Moore, about the history of Futurama, the upcoming Bender’s Game, and his next project, Sit Down, Shut Up, with Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz....
TIFF Video Blog Reactions: Defendor And Capitalism: A Love Story By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2009 7:00 am EST The Toronto Film Festival came to a close on Saturday, and I’m currently in Austin Texas awaiting Fantastic Fest. That said, we still have a bunch of TIFF coverage left to post. I thought I’d begin with this video blog recorded a few days ago with Alex from FirstShowing and myself, reviewing the superhero dramedy Defendor (starring Woody Harrelson and Kat Dennings) and the anticipated new Michael Moore documentary Capitalism: A Love Story....
VES Awards: Avatar And Up Win Almost Everything By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2010 10:55 pm EST James Cameron’s Avatar and Pixar’s Up took home almost all the awards at the Visual Effects Society honors. Avatar took home six, while Up took home three. The only nominated category Avatar didn’t win was Compositing in a Feature Film — sadly, that was the only category that Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 won. Full award results after the jump....
Video Footage: Behind The Scenes Of Richard Kelly’s The Box By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2008 3:36 pm EST This Week at NASA has some cool (possibly spoilerish) behind the scenes set footage from Richard Kelly’s The Box. Kelly shot on location at Langley for the last week of filming. Watch the footage in the player below. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/theboxnasa.flv 456 344] “In the footage you will see brief glimpses of some of the (very large) sets constructed for the film in the large-scale wind tunnel, which has never been used in a motion-picture… until now!...
VOTD: Back To The Future: The Musical By Peter Sciretta/May 9, 2008 12:00 am EST [flv:http://slashfilmmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/bttfmusical.flv 400 276] Back to The Future: The Musical created by GoldentuskThe Pitch: What if one man attempted to tell the story of Back to the Future through music? From the same guy who brought us Indiana Jones: The Musical, comes Back to the Future: The Musical.Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....
VOTD: Classic Captain Kirk Responds To Star Trek Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2008 12:00 am EST TV Trequer went back in time (or is it forwards in time?) and showed William Shatner-era Captain Kirk the new trailer for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek reboot. Here is Kirk’s response. Thanks to /Film reader MosesMonster for the tip. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....
VOTD: John Lasseter Answers Pixar/Disney Fan Questions By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2009 12:00 am EST At San Diego Comic-Con, Disney announced that they would begin reaching out to fans through social networking, and asked fans to submit questions for John Lasseter to answer. At the time, I assumed that it would be that bland corporate presence page that every company puts up. I mean, what do you expect from Disney? I was wrong....
VOTD: Where The Wild Things Are Cast/Crew Play Practical Joke On Spike Jonze By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2010 11:00 pm EST This video from documentary filmmaker Lance Bangs shows the cast and crew of Where The Wild Things Are playing a practical joke on director Spike Jonze. They decided to hide the filmmaker’s Vespa scooter, and covered him with yogurt and rice after he realized it was hoisted into the rafters of the sound stage....
Zack Snyder To Make Video Games For EA By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2008 1:28 am EST Watchmen director Zack Snyder has signed a deal to develop three original games for Electronic Arts. Snyder will work with EA’s Los Angeles studio in Playa Vista. According to Variety, EA will own the intellectual properties, with the option for Snyder’s Cruel & Unusual Films banner to produce film adaptations using the properties. This isn’t the first filmmaker EA has inked a contract with....
Cool Stuff: Bonaroo T-Shirts - Free Shipping For /Film Readers! By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2008 1:17 am EST Our friends at Bonaroo have offered /Film Readers a special discount code. All you need to do is enter the code “slashfilm73” in the comments when you place your order. This code can be used for one week by our American readers only and Bonaroo will refund you the shipping charges which amount to around $10 American....
