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Universal Wants Marc Webb To Remake Jesus Christ Superstar By Russ Fischer/July 31, 2009 9:53 am EST Last year, Mama Mia! did well for Universal, so according to the RiskyBiz Blog the studio is looking to find musical harmony again with a revamp of Jesus Christ Superstar. They’re talking to the director who has recently made a splash with (500) Days of Summer, Marc Webb. The blog speculates on “a modern, hipstery take,” which makes me shudder....

VOTD: Acting With James Franco Episode 3: Scene Work By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2008 4:39 am EST Acting with James Franco Episode 3: Scene Workby FunnyOrDieThe Pitch: In previous Video Of The Days, we’ve featured FunnyOrDie’s continuing series “Acting with James Franco”. In Acting with James Franco Episode 3: Scene Work, James Franco and his brother Dave do a scene from “Rebel Without a Cause.” Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....

/Film Gets A New Blogger - Director Alex Proyas By SlashFilm Staff/March 4, 2009 1:47 am EST Editor’s Note: You probably know Alex Proyas as the director of films like The Crow, Dark City, Garage Days, I Robot and Knowing, but for the next few weeks the filmmaker has agreed to become a guest blogger on /Film. Proyas will be blogging a couple times a week, talking about his inspirations, the state of sci-fi cinema, Dark City, and his upcoming film Knowing....

300 Backlash By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2007 5:15 am EST 300 is breaking monthly box office records, but not everyone is down with the Sparta. Let’s take a look at the negative backlash to Zack Snyder’s film: While the 18-29 internet audience on IMDB are loving the film (8.3 rating), Movie critics are less loving: 154 Reviews at Rotten Tomatoes with the average rating of 62% borders of Rotten/Fresh. The movie is now getting a 53% rating at Metacritic, which is in the “Mixed of average” range....

A-Team Movie Trailer By David Chen/Jan. 8, 2010 11:59 pm EST A high-quality version of the A-Team trailer has finally hit the internet. Hit the jump for the trailer. Let us know what you think in the comments. Things I like about this trailer: Sharlto Copley, showing his face in an American blockbuster and proving he has even more range than just Wikus Van De Merwe. Liam Nesson, continuing his descent into complete badass by taking on the role of Col....

Bangkok Dangerous Clip Shows Silly Amputation, Nic Cage By Hunter Stephenson/June 20, 2008 11:47 am EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/bangcockclip1.flv 470 344] With this new NSFGrandma clip from the Bangkok Dangerous remake, Nic Cage has come down with a serious case of next levs. His amazing hat inexplicably disappears halfway through, cue amazing hairline. We can only hope that the entire movie is plagued with such conundrums/magic. Moreover, the Pang Twins (The Eye trilogy) have apparently remade their own film into a videogame that plays like an incorrigible 6-year-old tapping jump, shoot and kick with a hammer....

Big In Japan Stuff: Puma’s Japanese Monster Pack By Hunter Stephenson/Dec. 24, 2008 6:00 am EST Puma has released a limited-edition series of sneakers entitled, Japanese Monster Pack, as an unofficial tribute to Japanese monster movies like Godzilla that were released by Toho back in the day. Each signature shoe lists the “Skills” and “Attributes” of the monster on the inner tongues, while the outer materials are textured after the respective Rampage-ers’ armor and skin....

Brandon Routh Dismisses Justice League, Man Of Steel Shooting In Early 2009? By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2008 2:46 am EST If it was up to Superman Returns title star Brandon Routh, Warner Bros would have kept the Justice League movie in a jar for a few more years. Routh, who admits that he was never approached by the studio to be part of the now defunct JLA feature film tells Collider that the timing was off....

Cool Stuff: Robocop Poster Set By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2008 6:00 am EST The Alamo Drafthouse is having a screening of Robocop, and Tim Doyle created a Robocop OCP file portrait poster set. The set comes in a Cut set of 5 12x12 portraits (available on Mondotees for $30) or you can get the Uncut sheet that includes a 6th image of… Robocop on a Unicorn. How cool is that? I wish that poster were available individually....

Does This Photo Prove That Jason Schwartzman Is In Scott Pilgrim? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 18, 2009 11:58 am EST Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was included in Jason Schwartzman’s upcoming screen credits buried somewhere in a Variety article last week. The film mention was quickly removed from the website with no correction notice included. Rumor had it that Schwartzman might be playing the ultimate 7th evil boyfriend, Gideon Gordon Graves in the film....

Dreamworks To Release Monsters Vs Aliens In Digital 3D By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2007 1:24 am EST Dreamworks Animation announced yesterday plans to make a series of 3D computer animated films. First up will be Monsters vs Aliens, which starts production in spring and is aiming for a May 22nd 2009 release. Digital 3D seems to be the hot new thing in Hollywood. RealD just inked a deal to expand it’s Digital 3-D experience to an additional 200 screens (AMC, Regal, Cinemark, and more)....

First Look: Ben Kingsley In Prince Of Persia And High Resolution US Poster By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2009 11:51 pm EST Disney has sent us the US Poster Art for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which is essentially the same as the UK one-sheet which was posted yesterday morning. Check out the super high resolution photo after the jump. ComingSoon has a first look at Ben Kingsley as Nizam (seen above), a villainous nobleman who wants to possess the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that can reverse time....

Ghostbusters 3 To Begin Shooting Fall 2009? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2009 3:38 am EST Last we heard, Office scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitski were hard at work trying to pen a new Ghostbusters movie. We haven’t really heard much about the project since last year when those details were revealed, and we just assumed that they couldn’t make the script work. Well it appears that the project is still moving forward and according to Dan Aykroyd, who appeared in Boston this weekend for the opening of a new House of Blues, they “hope to be in production by late fall 2009”....

Gremlins 3 Not In Development, Goonies Sequel Still Looking For A Story By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2010 1:00 pm EST A couple weeks back it was rumored that a third Gremlins film was in the very early stages of development, and that it was being created with 3-D in mind. If that is true, someone forgot to tell executive producer Steven Spielberg and screenwriter (now director) Chris Columbus. i09 cornered Columbus on the red carpet last night, and he admitted that he saw Spielberg a few days earlier, asked him about the rumors, and discovered that the project had not been mentioned to him either....

Harold & Kumar 2 Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2007 8:25 am EST Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle wasn’t just a stoner comedy, it was laced with smart undertones which touched on social/racial stereotypes. The sequel, Harold & Kumar 2: Escape from Guantanamo Bay looks to be very similar in both tone and humor. And if the title wasn’t a give-away, this one seems to get a little bit more political....

HBO’s Eastbound And Down Renewed For Second Season! By Hunter Stephenson/April 8, 2009 11:47 am EST I just returned from the set of H2 (Halloween 2) and am running off adrenaline, craft services coffee, and an iPod of Brian Jonestown Massacre and MF Doom. And also, a little bit of anger. Let me just say that Twitter has become a HUGE problem on movie sets, and that I do not grasp why it is necessary for some sites, however cool, to Tweet every effing detail of what they are seeing in real time....

Join /Film On Facebook! By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2009 12:00 am EST You may have noticed that we’ve recently created a new /Film fan page on Facebook, and closed down the old Facebook group. So If you haven’t already, please fan us now on the new page and show your support for /Film! Thanks, Peter Sciretta FB.init(“bdf7ed94226d993d67b68b1877ee6e8d”); // –> /Film on Facebook Join /Film On Facebook! By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2009 12:00 am EST...

Kevin Smith Finishes Red State Screenplay By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 29, 2007 7:00 pm EST Kevin Smith has finished the first draft for his upcoming horror film, Red State. Not only is it done, but it’s the shortest script Smith has ever written, and contains the least amount of dialogue. “Not to say there’s no dialogue; just that there’s about half as much as I normally write,” Smith revealed on his website viewaskew....

By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2010 12:07 pm EST Update: A representative from DreamWorks tells us that the short film “was not commissioned by Steven”.Michael Koerbel’s 3-minute short film “Head On” has been making the Internet rounds today. Koerbel, a third year graduate student at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, claims that the project was commissioned by Steven Spielberg. While I’m unable to verify that claim (Koerbel also commented that Spielberg picked the music, which has me skeptical), it is a cute little short....

Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2009 7:33 pm EST Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has finally announced the title of his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story. I have to admit, I like it a lot more than the previously proposed “Save The CEOs”, which came from the clever and nontraditional teaser trailer Moore released in June. Others had speculated that the doc would be titled “Bailout,” which I also liked....