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Updated Slumdog Millionaire Release Date Schedule By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2008 2:15 pm EST NOW PLAYING Baltimore Boston Chicago Dallas/Ft. Worth Denver Los Angeles Minneapolis New York Phoenix Philadelphia San Diego San Francisco Seattle Toronto Vancouver Washington D.C. Opening Friday, Dec. 5th Atlanta Detroit Indianapolis More after the jump. Opening Friday, Dec. 12th Albany Albuqerque Ann Arbor Austin Boca Raton/W. Palm Beach Charlotte Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton Hartford/New Haven Honolulu...

VOTD: Gaga In Wonderland By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2010 10:00 am EST When Wonderland is threatened by a pop-music hating Queen Of Hearts, pop music sensation Lady Gaga returns to her homeland to kick some evil ass… but mainly dance, sing, and weird it up. Watch Black20’s epic mashup of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and the music videos of Lady Gaga, embedded after the jump. VOTD: Gaga In Wonderland...

We Fun Atlanta Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 11, 2009 3:14 pm EST Note: This trailer contains use of profanity. The home of [adult swim], lots of rappers, and /Film’s Russ Fischer, Atlanta is also the beloved homebase for many a young and crazy rock band. In recent years, hard-living and hard-playing acts like The Black Lips, Deerhunter, The Coathangers, and Mastodon have arrived in pop-culture as uncompromising torchbearers for Atlanta’s music scene....

AFI’s Top 10 Movies Of 2008; Boston Critics Name WALL-E And SlumDog Best Picture By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2008 2:38 pm EST The American Film Institute has packed their Top 10 films of the year. Like any AFI list, the films are all over the map from indies to big Hollywood blockbusters, and I find myself a little bit angry after reading through the selections (although, not as much as I usually am)....

Avatar Sets New Apple Trailer Record, Toys And Video Game Trailer Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2009 2:00 am EST But is it enough? How many people attended the Avatar Day screenings? 100,000? 200,000? And it seems logical to me that anyone who would make the trip to their nearest IMAX theatre to see 15 minutes of footage, were already going to buy tickets already. Will the positive word of mouth pay off?...

Bollywood Is Remaking Back To The Future By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 31, 2008 12:50 pm EST Is Bollywood remaking Back to the Future? RealBollywoodNews is reporting that Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai have been cast in Action Replay (yeah, horrible title…), a film which will be unofficially based on the popular 1985 Robert Zemeckis film Back to the Future. BTTF.com was able to contact Future producer/screenwriter Bob Gale who denied any knowledge of the production....

Cool Stuff: DIY Bronze Boba Fett Pez Dispenser By Hunter Stephenson/April 3, 2008 4:51 pm EST Flickr user Switthoft created this very alien, bronze Boba Fett Pez Dispenser by slaughtering a few Pez Simbas from The Lion King. The Circle of Life says “why not?“In the process, a “battle scar” was implemented, showing Pez guts. Let’s hope George Lucas doesn’t find out his address. More hot Pez action after the jump!...

David A. Goodman Scripting Hong Kong Phooey Live-Action Film And A Remake Of Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe By Brendon Connelly/July 12, 2009 5:30 pm EST The most comforting element of Goodman’s CV is that he has written for Futurama but, sadly, the rest of his rap sheet actually seems quite disconcerting to me, from The Golden Girls to Team Knight Rider. Even if Futurama proves he does have it in him, penning a Hong Kong Phooey movie for producer Brett Ratner will probably be enough to seal his fate in the eyes of many....

First Look: Fast And Furious By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2008 1:51 am EST USA Today has a first look at Fast and Furious, the fourth film in The Fast and the Furious series. The new film brings back the three leads of the first film: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Michelle Rodriguez. And for some reason that fact excites me, just a little. The series gets a lot of flack, as well it should, but I’ve always enjoyed the first film on a purely popcorn level....

First Look: Ryan Reynolds In Buried By Russ Fischer/Aug. 18, 2009 1:45 pm EST I’m fascinated by the in-production indie Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds, as evidenced by the fact that I keep writing about it. Now Twitch presents a pair of stills from the film showing a bit of what we can expect to see when Reynolds wakes up buried alive in a shallow grave in Iraq. Buried is an adventurous project based on a script by Chris Sparling, directed by Rodrigo Cortes....

First Look: The Cast Of The Last Airbender By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2008 4:17 am EST Entertainment Weekly reports that M. Night Shyamalan has found the cast for The Last Airbender, the live-action adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon anime-inspired series Avatar. Karate star Noah Ringer (discovered in a Texas open casting call) will play Aang, the Avatar (the spirit of the planet manifested in human form), the last surviving Airbender and a monk of the Air Nomads, a race of people with the unique ability to manipulate the air around them....

In Defense Of Brett Ratner’s Guitar Hero Commercial By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2008 3:49 pm EST —- Hey buddy,Just in comment to your post about the Ratner spot, I wanted to play devil’s advocate (as you now know I love to do First of all, commercial directors never come up with the concept for the commercial (though it’s possible Ratner’s link to the GH game may mean he DID have something to do with it…....

Indiana Jones 4 - What Did You Think?? By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2008 3:00 am EST You’ve waited 19 years (wait, has it really been that long?) and the moment we’ve all been waiting for is finally here – Indiana Jones is back on the big screen and you saw the movie! So what next? It’s time to tell us about your experience! Vote in the poll below which I’m running in conjunction with FilmSchoolRejects, and please leave your thoughts in the comment area....

Inglourious Basterds Movie Review: Ambitious, Exciting, Awkward and…Soulful? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 21, 2009 1:00 pm EST The climax of Inglourious Basterds has the most terrifying image ever to appear in a Quentin Tarantino film. It is a movie vision of hell and an inversion of Holocaust ovens, flames consuming the wicked as a laughing ghostly beauty swirls in smoke. Though some of Basterds feels rushed and slightly below Tarantino’s ‘matter of fact’ visual standards — Kill Bill aside, his films aren’t known for visual splendor — that one vision is almost justification enough for the entire film....

Lost Showrunners Damon Lindelof And Carlton Cuse Recommend DVDs By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2010 9:25 am EST Lost showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse appeared on NPR to offer their DVD recommendations to Steve Inskeep. You can listen to the seven minute broadcast segement here, or listen to the entire extended 26-minute interview by clicking here. Lost Showrunners Damon Lindelof And Carlton Cuse Recommend DVDs By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2010 9:25 am EST...

Movie Trailer: Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2009 5:34 pm EST Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience. Set in the weeks leading up to the 2008 presidential election, the film tells the story of five days in the life of Chelsea (adult film star Sasha Grey in her mainstream film debut), an ultra high-end Manhattan call girl who offers more than sex to her clients, but companionship and conversation – “the girlfriend experience....

Nanotechnology: Five Reasons Why G.I. Joe Could Actually Be Cool By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2008 6:52 pm EST Lately, there has been a lot of hate directed towards Paramount’s live-action GI Joe film. As you probably know, a huge batch of unfinished unpolished character photos leaked onto the web last week which were deemed disappointing, especially after the official photo releases of Scarlet and Snake Eyes. So I thought I’d take a look at five cool nanotechnology elements we hear might be in the upcoming movie which are sure to get you a little excited....

Neveldine/Taylor’s Game: Italian Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2009 12:33 pm EST An Italian movie trailer for Game has shown up online. The new movie from Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor – the madmen that brought us Crank takes us to the sci-fi future world where prisoners do battle in a real life video game. The trailer looks pretty insane, gritty action mixed with sci-fi futuristic tech overlays. And the sci-fi concept is the kind of impossible crazy that could lend it self to a kick ass action flick....

New Screenwriter Hired For Barbarella By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 7, 2009 9:39 am EST The trades have caught up with Robert Luketic’s appointment as director of the new Barbarella, with The Hollywood Reporter also naming Joe Gazzam as the screenwriter of the upcoming do-over. When Robert Rodriguez was in charge, the film was set up at Universal but now, producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis are “between deals” and will look for a new home base once the script is workable....

Not A Word. By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2007 12:25 pm EST This morning’s industry/trade papers include an advertisement signed by 425 big name screenwriters who are promising not to write a word until the strike is settled. Click the image above to enlarge and see some of the names on the list. A couple days ago the television writers released a similar advertisement titled “Pencils Down Means Pencils Down.” Click the image below to read that....