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Ironclad Movie Trailer By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 13, 2010 12:00 pm EST After the break lurks the first trailer for Ironclad, comprising un-polished footage from only the first 2 weeks of shooting and originating as a Cinematical exclusive. You can also see a BBC video report from the set that, while considerably less intense and graphic shows just as much mud and medieval might. Jonathan English’s film stars Paul Giamatti as big, bad King John and Jason Flemyng, William Moseley and Robert Carlyle as some of the good guys, with Kate Mara as one of the good gals....

LOL: George Lucas And Steven Spielberg Rape Indiana Jones On South Park By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 9, 2008 2:37 am EST On last night’s South Park, Stan went to see Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull only to find George Lucas and Steven Spielberg raping Indiana Jones (literally). Check it out after the jump. LOL: George Lucas And Steven Spielberg Rape Indiana Jones On South Park By Peter Sciretta/Oct....

Lost: The Final Season To Premiere In February By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2009 3:33 pm EST ABC has announced today that the sixth and final season of Lost will premiere on Tuesday, February 2nd 2010 with a special " all-night event." Basically, the night will kick-off at 8:00pm et with a one-hour recap special, followed at 9:00pm et with a two-hour premiere. More details after the jump. The series will then air in its regular time period, on Tuesday nights from 9:00-10:00pm et beginning the following week, February 9th 2010....

Movie Trailer And Poster: Nicholas Cage’s Bangkok Dangerous Remake By Hunter Stephenson/March 28, 2008 1:31 pm EST Editor’s Update: We’ve updated this story with the film’s official movie trailer. A poster and movie trailer for the Pang Brothers’ August remake of their ‘99 Thai crime thriller, Bangkok Dangerous, starring Nicholas Cage has hit the Web. Really, is this the best poster a designer could envision with a title like that? Cage, who at one point was also attached to a U....

New Iron Man Photo By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 9, 2007 10:07 am EST Our good friends at AdvancedIron (the best source for Iron Man news on the internet) have posted this very cool new promo image of Irom Man posing. According to AI, the pose is from a cover by Adi Granov from Iron Man vol. 3. I have no idea what that means, but I trust they know what they’re talking about....

Predators Featurette: Spotlight On Royce By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2010 9:43 pm EST Here is the official character description from the site: Predators hits theaters on July 7th 2010. “PREDATORS, a bold new chapter in the Predator universe, shot under the creative auspices of Robert Rodriguez, stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet… as prey....

Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Featurette: “Creating An Epic” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 19, 2010 7:00 am EST Walt Disney Pictures has released a new featurette for the big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Titled “Creating an Epic”, the three-minute video takes a look at the huge locations with grueling conditions, large set creations, large cast of extras, enormous scope, and “amazing” visual effects....

Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol International Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2009 2:36 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released an international (Italian) movie trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol. Disney had previously released some footage from the film, but this is the first trailer. I’m sure this trailer is a lot more impressive when viewed in 3D. Also, I should warn you the recording is very dark and in Italian....

Scorsese To Direct De Niro In I Heard You Paint Houses By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2008 10:03 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Zallian’s writing credits also include Gangs of New York, American Gangster, Cape Fear, Hannibal, A Civil Action, Mission: Impossible, Clear and Present Danger, and Searching for Boby Fischer. Official Book Description: HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES is a fascinating account of a dark side of American history....

Slow News Day: Spider-Man 4 To Shoot In Michigan? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2009 10:49 am EST An article in the Oakland Press quotes director Sam Raimi as saying that he wants to shoot some of Spider-Man 4 in… Michigan? “I’ll be looking at Michigan for our second-unit photography on the new ‘Spider-Man’ film,” Raimi confirmed, which probably means big wide location shots. But Hollywood will only go to Michigan if they can’t get the look needed for the scenes cheaper anywhere else....

Slumdog Scribe To Write Leap Year By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2009 10:19 pm EST Simon Beaufoy, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire, has been hired to write Leap Year for Spyglass Entertainment. Shopgirl director Anand Tucker is set to helm the romantic comedy which stars Amy Adams as a woman who comes up with an idea to travel to Dublin to propose to a man on February 29th, when according to Irish tradition, men must say yes....

Still Waiting… Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2009 2:33 am EST Did you know: Lionsgate made a sequel to the 2005 film Waiting…? You know, the restaurant comedy (ala Clerks) that starred Ryan Reynold, Anna Faris, and Justin Long? Well Lionsgate released a direct-to-dvd sequel this week which stars none of the aforementioned actors. Like most of these cash-grab dvd-sequels, Still Waiting… probably isn’t worth your time. The comments on the IMDb message board range from “Horrible” to “just incredibly average” to “The best part of the movie was the rap at the credits”....

The Dark Knight To Implode/Explode Four-Story Building By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 14, 2007 3:30 pm EST HollwoodChicago is reporting that Warner Bros has plans to implode a four-story building (the former Brach Candy factory site) on August 29th for the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight. The scooper reports: I have been told this will be a day shoot. A typical building implosion does not have any flames. This will be different....

Untrue Rumor: Peter Jackson Directing The Hobbit In 3D?!? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2007 3:42 pm EST Update: AICN was able to get in touch with Jackson’s camp and confirm this rumor as untrue. Jackson, as I speculated in the original story below, will also be tied in projects for the next few years. Peter is interested in 3D but absolutely nothing has settled with the Jackson/New Line feud.MarketSaw is reporting that Peter Jackson has signed on to direct an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit, split into two separate 3D films....

Video Games: Trailers For Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 And Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 14, 2009 1:14 am EST We don’t normally cover much game-related stuff here (unless it’s regarding yet another dreaded game-to-film adaptation), but we came across the following trailers for some hotly anticipated, semi-movie-related, game sequels, and figured there would be no complaints. Especially since these are some fantastic trailers for Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2....

Will Ferrell To Star In Two Face By Hunter Stephenson/July 17, 2008 9:31 am EST No director is attached, but the script was written by Vince Gilligan, who scribed Hancock but also created and writes the AMC series Breaking Bad, currently one of the radder shows on TV. Ferrell’s interest in the script goes back sometime, and we’re expecting a nice bookend to Stranger Than Fiction rather than his 50th lesson in wrestling bears/John C....

2 Minutes Of Sunshine Cleaning By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2009 9:55 pm EST ComingSoon has the first two minutes of the new indie dramedy Sunshine Cleaning, that stars Amy Adams and Emily Blunt as two sisters who get the idea to become crimescene cleaners to make some extra cash. I enjoyed this film when I caught it at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, but David Chen wasn’t as entertained. The film is already playing in New York City and Los Angeles, but expands wider on April 3rd....

Ben Stiller To Direct Black List Dramedy Help Me Spread Goodness By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2009 11:59 pm EST Ben Stiller has found a project worthy of being the possible follow-up to his 2008 action comedy hit Tropic Thunder. Mark Friedman’s dramedy Help Me Spread Goodness was one of the screenplays featured on the 2008 Black List (a Hollywood insider list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year). The script tells the story of a Chicago banker who gets duped out of his son’s college fund by an email predator, and travels to Nigeria to confront those who ripped him off....

Contest: Hot Rod Mega-Giveaway By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2007 11:19 am EST Paramount’s new comedy Hot Rod starring SNL’s Andy Samberg is set to hit theaters on July 24th, and Paramount has given us a bunch of cool goodies for you to win. We have Hot Rod t-shirts (girl and boy â€" see link), underoos (photo right), and drumroll please… an AUTOGRAPHED poster. All you need to do to enter to win is e-mail us with the subject HOT ROD....

Cool Stuff: Ghostbusters Uniform T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/May 29, 2008 12:38 pm EST Last year we wrote about the Suit-able Star Wars t-shirts, basically they were a version of those screen-printed tuxedo t-shirts, but instead of the tux, it featured the iconic uniforms of some of the classic Star Wars characters. They now have done the same thing for the Ghostbusters. The Venkman Uniform Ghostbusters t-shirt lets you look like Dr....