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Sigourney Weaver Returning For Avatar 2? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2010 3:28 pm EST (Warning: possible spoilers for Avatar contained in this story) Will Sigourney Weaver reprise her role as Dr. Grace Augustine in an Avatar sequel? The question might sound stupid to anyone who has seen the movie, but remember what happens when you assume… Sigourney Weaver appeared on the TV show “Le Grand Journal.” The actress is in Paris this week to honor Harrison Ford during the Cesar Awards (the French equivalent of the Oscars)....

SXSW Movie Review: Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie By Mel Valentin/March 23, 2008 2:39 am EST Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie, a documentary directed by Jay Delaney, is, true to the title, not about Bigfoot (a.k.a. Sasquatch, a.k.a. Yeti), the mythical apelike giant that first chronicled in the 1920s in the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, and, more recently, the American Midwest. Bigfoot has appeared in stories, novels, horror films, and on television in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man....

Taylor Hackford’s Delayed Film Love Ranch Gets Summer Release Date By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2010 2:07 pm EST In 2008, Ray director Taylor Hackford made a film called Love Ranch. Starring Helen Mirren and the return of Joe Pesci, the film is based on the real story of Joe and Sally Conforte, who in 1971 founded famed brothel the Mustang Ranch. Had the film not ended up on the shelf, it would have been Pesci’s first film since 2006’s The Good Shepherd, and his first big role in a decade....

Teaser Poster For Oliver Stone’s W. By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2008 4:58 pm EST Lionsgate’s Cannes Film Festival Teaser poster for Oliver Stone’s W. gives you a very good idea of what you can expect from the upcoming George W. Bush biopic. This won’t be a dramatic retelling of W’s life! But can Human beings and fish really coexist peacefully? Official Plot Synopsis: Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W....

Transformers 2: New Autobot Revealed As Skids? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 9, 2008 2:29 pm EST Jalopnik has a few new photos from the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The big news is that the photos reveal the license plates of the Chevrolet Beat, giving us the possible identity of this new alt mode Autobot… SKIDS The name Skids has been used for four characters in the Transformers universe, so I’m not sure what, if any, characteristics, will be used on the movie autobot....

Tribeca Movie Review: Gardener Of Eden By SlashFilm Staff/April 26, 2007 5:09 am EST The following movie was reviewed at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival: Gardener of Eden World Narrative Competition 2007, U.S.A. Dir: Kevin Connolly Upon first hearing about Gardener of Eden, I was interested in seeing what such great young talents the likes of Lukas Haas and Giovanni Ribisi would bring forth to the table in this, the directorial debut from actor Kevin Connolly, known for his role in Entourage....

By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2009 5:00 am EST Stephanie Meyer, the author of Twilight, evidently writes more than just sparkly teen vampire romances. Her first ‘adult’ novel is The Host, not to be confused with the Korean monster movie released under that name in the US and other countries. The Host involves interstellar parasites that use people as hosts and remake human society into something very different. (Shades of Robert Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters there....

VOTD: Jordan Mechner’s Prince Of Persia Movie Pitch By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2009 12:28 pm EST Six years ago original Prince of Persia game designer Jordan Mechner pitched a Prince of Persia movie to execs at Disney. Now the film is finally coming close to fruition, and Mechner has posted his original pitch so we can all enjoy the initial vision for the film. Everything in this two-minute pitch trailer was taken from cutscenes and gameplay footage from UbiSoft’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the game that finally relaunched the series after the semi-failure of 1999’s Prince of Persia 3D....

Wolverine: Running Time Controversy And New Internet Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2009 7:52 pm EST Movieline ’s sources claim that “cuts had been made to the leaked workprint before the additional footage was added, which resulted in a similar running time.” I’m sure we’ll find out exactly how much different the theatrical cut is early next week.

Writer/Director Richard Kelly’s Next Script Is Set In Future Manhattan, Features Motion Capture By David Chen/July 24, 2009 12:21 pm EST [Updated to include exact quote from Kelly] I spoke with Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) this morning about his third film, The Box, which will be out in theaters in October 30. But while I was there, I couldn’t resist asking him about a cryptic Twitter message he sent out last week, saying that he’d completed his next script, and that it’d be an expensive film....

/Film’s Brendon Connelly On The Radio Explaining Those 10 Influential Films… By Brendon Connelly/April 19, 2009 1:12 pm EST After posting my article on what might just be the Ten Most Influential Films of the Last Ten Years, I was invited onto Washington DC’s WJFK radio to talk about it. The show was the BDK Movie Show (it stands for Big Daddy Kev, for those who were wondering – but I just called him Kevin) and it goes out every Friday night from 7pm til 10pm EST....

2007 Teen Choice Awards Winners By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2007 10:20 pm EST The 2007 Teen Choice Awards were held tonight in Universal City, CA and broadcast live on Fox. I’m not sure anyone outside of the 10-16 year old audience cares about who actually won. And isn’t it more of whoever shows up gets the prize? I mean, how else did Sophia Bush win three awards, one for the best comedic actress(!...

Alicia Silverstone To Reunite With Clueless Director Amy Heckerling On Vamps By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2010 1:16 am EST Screen Daily is reporting that Alicia Silverstone will reunite with Clueless director Amy Heckerling on her latest project, a vampire romantic comedy, entitled Vamps. Apparently, it will “be a modern-day tale of two young female vampires living the good life in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality....

Boomerang Rumor: Russell Crowe To Play Moriarty In Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 5, 2008 10:16 am EST Here we go. Days ago, rumors hit that Russell Crowe was set to play Watson to Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes. To which the Internet huffed, “He’s not roundy enough!” And the Internet was right, but not quite. Not a first. According to those Palin-loathing dudes at Latino Review, Crowe is in talks to play Moriarty, Holmes creepy-smart arch-nemesis....

Comic: From The Crayons Of George Lucas By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2008 1:35 am EST JollyJack’s latest Online Comic shows what happened to the script for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. See More of JollyJack’s artwork on Deviant Art. Comic: From The Crayons Of George Lucas By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2008 1:35 am EST JollyJack’s latest Online Comic shows what happened to the script for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....

D.J. Caruso Directing I Am Number Four, An Adaptation Of James Frey’s Sci-Fi Novel By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 20, 2010 12:33 am EST Director D.J. Caruso has come a long way since his days of directing television shows like VR 5, Martial Law, and most notably, The Shield. His latest feature, Eagle Eye, was such a complete mess of a film (reviewed here on the /Filmcast) that it made me dread any potential project that he was attached to for some time....

By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 14, 2008 7:02 pm EST So many years have passed without a release for the Weinstein Company’s Fanboys we’re surprised some kook hasn’t retitled it Cannedboys for his own sad amusement. Today word arrived via AICN that Judd Apatow’s producing partner Shauna Robertson is overseeing the film with possible reshoots and a major edit to the film’s plotline involving a fanboy with cancer. The story follows a group of friends who try to break in Skywalker Ranch to steal a copy of Star Wars Episode 1....

First Look: Maria Bello As The New Evelyn In The Mummy 3 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2007 4:20 am EST Rob Cohen has published a few new photos from the set of The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, including one of Maria Bello as the new Evelyn (yuck, where is Rachel!?). I wrote earlier today that I actually enjoyed the first Fast and the Furious film (a comment I’m sure to get a lot of flack for), also a Cohen project....

New Clips: 2012, Ninja Assassin And Romero’s Survival Of The Dead By Russ Fischer/Sept. 7, 2009 5:35 pm EST A few new clips slipped by us right as last week ended at the holiday weekend began. Well, two of them slipped by, and I hedged on posting the clip from Survival of the Dead at first because it’s fairly lousy, and that makes me sad. See all three (or whichever ones you choose) after the break....

New Indiana Jones Trailer Later This Week By Peter Sciretta/March 19, 2008 4:05 pm EST The second movie trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will hit the web later this week. When? We’re not exactly sure. I called a couple of my Paramount sources and couldn’t get a definite date and time. One thing we do know is that Paramount will be releasing the new trailer as a widget which can be blogged, myspaced, facebooked…etc Basically, they want this trailer to explode across the interwebs....