Discuss: Is Matt Damon The New Harrison Ford? Shia LaBeouf… The New Bruce Willis? By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2009 5:00 am EST How about Clint Eastwood? or Bill Murray? or Robert De Niro? Who is our generation’s Mark Hamil? My vote is for Keanu Reeves! Discuss: I would love to hear some of your comparisons, complete with plausible explanations.
F*cking Enchanted: The F-Word In A PG Movie? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2007 12:18 am EST Have you ever heard the F-word used in a Disney movie? How about Disney’s latest family film, Enchanted? Watch the clip below, it happens when the bus driver exits the bus. Listen closely. Someone with a new york accent appears to shout the F-word. I assure you, this is not something we edited into the film clip....
First 10 Minutes From All The Boys Love Mandy Lane Now Online By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 27, 2008 8:21 pm EST Well, it came and it gave without takin’, and two years later we’re still waiting for All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, the highly regarded teen slasher from director Jonathan Levine. You’ve seen his name around because Levine followed up Mandy with The Wackness, one of the most buzzed-about films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival....
Guy Ritchie Partly Confirms Moriarty Rumors By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 19, 2009 2:41 pm EST Since I read the script for Sherlock Holmes, I’ve known that Moriarty would be making a late-in-the-game appearance. He’s only got a small number of lines and not a great deal to do, but it’s still an event not unlike The Joker stepping out of the shadows near the end of a Batman story. His appearance is definitely connected with the big maguffin that drives the story forwards, though I don’t think it would be safe to say he’s a key player....
Heavy Metal Isn’t Dead; David Fincher Still Flogging A Revamp Of The Animated Anthology With James Cameron By Russ Fischer/March 12, 2010 10:08 am EST A new version of Heavy Metal, the 1981 animated anthology film with stories based on the comics magazine Heavy Metal (originally Metal Hurlant in France), has been batted around for the last couple years. At various points a whole laundry list of directors have been ‘confirmed’ to helm segments: David Fincher, James Cameron, Guillermo del Toro, Zack Snyder, Rob Zombie, Gore Verbinski, Mark Osborne and probably more that we’ve forgotten....
LOL: What If Michael Bay Wrote The Dark Knight? By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2008 12:06 am EST What if Michael Bay had written The Dark Knight? Spill.com has “found” pages from this fictional spec screenplay which was “ultimately rejected by Warner Bros.” Here are a couple of the highlights I personally love: Read the whole thing on Spill.com. LOL: What If Michael Bay Wrote The Dark Knight? By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2008 12:06 am EST...
Mandate Pictures Options Diablo Cody’s Young Adult - “It’s Pretty Serious And F**ked Up” By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2010 3:31 am EST Mandate Pictures is producing Diablo Cody’s next project, an original screenplay titled Young Adult that Cody wrote last year. The trades are touting the project as Diablo reteaming with “the team behind Juno”, but we should clarify: that just means Mandate, and doesn’t include director Jason Reitman. No director is yet attached, but Mandate is fast tracking the project so expect someone to be announced soon....
Michael Moore’s Next Film To Take On Homophobia? By Peter Sciretta/July 11, 2007 5:20 pm EST Michael Moore has tackled Downsizing, School Shootings, the culture of fear, The Iraq War, President Bush, and most recently – the American healthcare system. What’s next for the controversial documentary filmmaker? Homophobia. That’s right, Moore has revealed that homophobia and the anti-gay Christian right movement might be the topic of his next documentary. “I think it’s a very ripe subject for someone like me to make a movie about....
Natalie Portman Joins Danny McBride In David Gordon Green’s Your Highness By Hunter Stephenson/June 1, 2009 11:51 am EST In July, director David Gordon Green begins shooting Your Highness in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Inspired by herb-friendly ’80s fantasies like Krull, Yor, and The Dark Crystal, the R-rated adventure-com centers on Danny McBride as a regal fuck-up who’s forced to save his kingdom and his brother’s fiancé. James Franco recently signed on—Pineapple Express reunion, natch—to play the feted, charming brother....
New Ocean’s 13 Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 30, 2007 12:35 pm EST Ocean’s Eleven was such a fun movie. And Ocean’s Twelve was the exact opposite. Judging from the new trailer for Ocean’s Thirteen, Soderbergh has rediscovered the series roots. But don’t take my word for it: [flv:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/oceans13.flv 450 335] And check out the new trailer in HD at Yahoo! Movies. Also check out the new production photos. Ocean’s 13 hits theaters on June 8th 2007....
Promoting Zack And Miri With Stick Figures Instead Of Seth Rogen? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2008 6:23 pm EST I spotter some bus advertising for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno which makes use of the stick figures from the theatrical poster. The reason why I bring this up is because I believe it is a mistake. Case in point, while I snapped a photo of a bus with the advertisement, a friend of mine, also a casual fan of Kevin Smith’s films looked briefly at the bus advertising before questioning why I was taking photos of stick figures....
Stephen King’s Son Goes To The Movies By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2007 6:13 am EST A couple weeks ago I was browsing through a book store with a friend when we came across Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box. The name and cover was enough to catch my eye. But not enough to get me to buy it. The independent book store had a small printed author biography that revealed Hill as Stephen King’s son....
The Incredible Hulk: More Character Art By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2008 11:42 am EST Our friends at badtaste have sent us some new character design artwork of The Hulk from The Incredible Hulk. I want to be excited for this movie, but I’m getting tired of seeing these conceptual promotional images. I don’t understand why Universal won’t just show us some footage. Sure, rumor has it that the first trailer might be attached to 10,000BC, but it’s getting far too late....
TIFF Movie Review: CleanFlix By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2009 9:48 pm EST When I first found out that a documentary about Cleanflix was playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, I immediately added it to my must-see list. I’ve always been interested and outraged at the concept of Cleanflix. For those of you who don’t know, Mormons are advised not to watch R-rated movies because the language, sex and violence will contaminate and pervert your brain....
Update: Sylvester Stallone Does NOT Plan To Follow Rambo 5 With Rocky 7 By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 24, 2009 12:55 pm EST [UPDATE: CHUD readers have debunked this story. Apparently, there’s been some mistranslation and Stallone was speaking in the past tense, referring to the last Rocky film and not any plans for more. This confusion seems to have affected every single possible English language source that I had researched.] [UPDATE 2: Stallone’s publicist (via AICN) has debunked this story definitively....
VOTD: How Terminator Should Have Ended (Back To The Future Mash-Up) By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2009 9:55 pm EST HowItShouldHaveEnded.com has created a new animated short film showing how the Terminator series “should have ended.” The result is an epic mash-up of Back to the Future and Terminator… Great Scott! Watch the video embedded after the jump. VOTD: How Terminator Should Have Ended (Back To The Future Mash-Up) By Peter Sciretta/Oct....
VOTD: The Happening Improv Experiment By Peter Sciretta/May 22, 2008 12:00 am EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/happeningimprov.flv 460 260] The Happening Improv Experiment by mrtruffle The Pitch: A flash mob/improv group (like ImprovEverywhere) organized a public re-enactment of a scene from M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening to help promote the film. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD?...
Will Uncle Ben’s Original Killer Return For Spider-Man 4? By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2009 12:20 pm EST It’s a slow news day so I thought I’d write about one of the rumors that hit over the weekend that we didn’t write about. A scooper wrote in to ComingSoon claiming that actor Michael Papajohn revealed during a Wizard World Philadelphia Q&A that he would be reprising his role as the original carjacker who killed Uncle Ben in Spider-Man 4....
Wordle: The Best Film Directors Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2008 2:52 pm EST A new website called Wordle lets you create fun little word clouds. I decided to create a word cloud using the names of some of the best directors of all time. Click the above image to enlarge. If any of you guys create any film/movie related word clouds, post the urls in the comments below!...
Yahoo’s 100 Movies To See Before You Die By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2009 7:02 pm EST Yahoo has released a list of the 100 Movies To See Before You Die. Fanboys might be angered that The Dark Knight doesn’t make the list, but I’m more angry that Star Wars is listed but not The Empire Strikes Back. Yet they included all three Lord of the Rings films as one entry. Other notable omissions include: David Fincher’s Fight Club or Se7en, Once Upon a Time in the West, North by Northwest, Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Spirited Away, and Aliens....
