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Pixar To Open New Animation Studio In Vancouver By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2009 2:50 am EST Disney has announced that Pixar Animation will build a 20,000 square-foot animation studio in Vancouver, British Columbia. The studio is currently scouting locations in the city for the new facility, which will employ 75 to 100 people. The purpose of the Canada-based studio is to produce computer animated short films, which usually run anywhere from three to six minutes in length, and take 6 to 8 months to produce....

Renewed Interest In Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2007 11:01 pm EST Chuck Palahniuk is my favorite author. You can probably tell by the extensive coverage I’ve given the various movie adaptations in development. Most of you will know Chuck as the author of Fight Club. Invisible Monsters was published after that success in 1999. Following the success of Swimming Out to Holly, a short film that played at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, newcomer Jesse Peyronel was able to get the attention of Chuck with a screenplay adaptation of Invisible Monsters....

Robert Downey Jr. In Talks For Alfonso Cuarón’s 3D Space Thriller Gravity By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2010 10:25 pm EST A couple weeks back it was reported that Angelina Jolie pulled out of Wanted 2 to pursue another film: Alfonso Cuarón’s space thriller titled Gravity.A few days later a conflicting report suggested that Jolie would not be starring in Gravity after all, but instead be part of the Bret Easton Ellis-scripted The Golden Suicides....

Rosario Dawson’s Gemini Division Is Now Online By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2008 12:46 pm EST The first two episodes (or is it webisodes) of Rosario Dawson’s new web series, Gemini Division, are now online. It’s amazing what a talented/professional actress brings to the table. I have yet to really get involved with a web series the way I have television shows, partly because the quality of product is just so much lower....

Samuel L. Jackson Cast In Frank Miller’s The Spirit By Peter Sciretta/May 17, 2007 11:50 pm EST Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to star as a mysterious super-villain named The Octopus in Frank Miller’s big screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit. The story will focus an ambitious young cop named Denny Colt, who is murdered in the line of duty and is mysteriously reborn as the masked man known as the Spirit....

See Kevin Smith Play Carnegie Hall By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2009 11:27 pm EST A famous venerable legend tells the story of a New Yorker who is approached in the street near Carnegie Hall, and asked, “Pardon me sir, but how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” He replies, “Practice, practice, practice.” Writer/Filmmaker/Entertainer Kevin Smith has announced that he will be doing one of his live events, An Evening With Kevin Smith, in New York City at the famous legendary Carnegie Hall....

Steven Soderbergh Puts Off Liberace In Favor Of Contagion, A Viral Outbreak Thriller By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2010 9:03 am EST Steven Soderbergh is putting off his Liberace biopic in favor of something with a little more heat and conventional appeal. Instead of Liberace, this fall Soderbergh will now shoot a script called Contagion by his The Informant! writer Scott Z. Burns. Said to be “an action-thriller about the outbreak of a deadly virus,” the script reportedly is constructed in a style much like that of Traffic....

The Dark Knight: Two New Videos By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2008 9:25 pm EST /Film reader Dave found a new IMAX featurette over on Comcast.net. It includes a bunch of never before seen footage, including: a Pre-Two-Face Harvey Dent flipping his coin, Batman talking to the Joker in the integration room, a cool little moment where Bruce Wayne enters all bruised and Alfred says “Know your limits Master Wayne” and Bruce responds “Batman has no Limits”, and more....

The Road Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2009 11:52 am EST Dimension Films has finally released a movie trailer for John Hillcoat’s feature film adaption of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road. Earlier this week Esquire Magazine published a review of the film, calling it “The Most Important Film of The Year.” The film tells the story of a man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit McPhee.) traveling through a desperate, post-apocalyptic world....

Transformers 2 And Avatar In Philadelphia? By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2008 11:10 am EST Has Transformers 2 begun location scouting? It is revealed in an article in Mainline Today that Michael Bay’s big budget sequel has applied for tax incentives to shoot in and around Philadelphia starting in June. M Night Shyamalan’s big screen live action adaptation Avatar has also applied for the same incentives. Transformers 2 And Avatar In Philadelphia?...

Tropic Thunder On August 13th By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2008 7:05 pm EST You can now “get some” two days earlier. DreamWorks has announced that Tropic Thunder will now be released on Wednesday, August 13th 2008, up a couple days from the original announced date of August 15th. Tropic Thunder On August 13th By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2008 7:05 pm EST You can now “get some” two days earlier. DreamWorks has announced that Tropic Thunder will now be released on Wednesday, August 13th 2008, up a couple days from the original announced date of August 15th....

Two New German-Dubbed Transformers 2 Clips By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2009 11:31 am EST

VOTD: 100 Movie Spoilers In 4 Minutes By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 13, 2008 12:00 am EST 100 Movie Spoilers in 4 Minutes The Pitch: The Fine Brothers spoil 100 movies in one single take, in under 4 minutes. Where are Guieness Book of World Records people when you need them? 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?...

VOTD: Quentin Tarantino On Taxi Driver By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 14, 2009 12:00 am EST To promote Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino hosted a week of films on the British television station SkyMovies. In past weeks, we’ve featured some of the gems to come out of this appearance, including Tarantino’s listing of the top 20 movies to be released since he became a filmmaker and his review of There Will Be Blood. Today we bring you Tarantino on Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, one of the filmmaker’s top five favorite movies....

Zemeckis Wants To Use Performance Capture In Roger Rabbit Sequel, But Not For Roger… By Russ Fischer/Nov. 4, 2009 8:50 am EST With the original writers of Who Framed Roger Rabbit now at work on a potential sequel, Robert Zemeckis is starting to talk, in very guarded terms, about ideas for the film. Given that he’s become a massive proponent of performance capture technology, there have been questions (such as those raised by Brendon) about whether the original film’s blend of drawn animation and live action actors would be augmented by new tech....

Andrew Stanton Spills More On John Carter, Not Interested In Shooting In 3D By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 25, 2009 1:22 pm EST The Santa Barbara Film Festival is underway now, and amidst the screenings there is also a series of panels going on. Aint it Cool have had their man Quint on the scene, and he’s filed a report from the writers panel. Moderated by Variety’s Ann Thompson, the remainder of the panel was made up of screenwriters: Dustin Lance Black, writer of Milk; Robert Knott, writer of Appaloosa; Tom McCarthy, writer-director of The Visitor; and Andrew Stanton, co-writer and director of Wall-E....

Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother Teaser Featurette By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2009 11:13 pm EST Wildgrounds found a 30 second teaser for The Host director Bong Joon-ho’s upcoming dramatic thriller Mother. The film tells the story of a mother desperately searches for the killer that framed her son for their horrific murder. I love how the teaser posters, seen above, mirror each other. The teaser doesn’t show much, but I thought anyone who has seen The Host might be interested to see what Joon-ho was doing next....

Captain America’s Shield Spotted In Iron Man By Hunter Stephenson/May 10, 2008 11:41 am EST Middle-lower left corner Our friends at First Showing having confirmed that Captain America’s red, white and blue shield appears near the 1 hr 30 min mark in Iron Man. I looked for a better screen grab, but haven’t found one clearer than that above. The scene is the one where Pepper Potts/Gwyneth Paltrow walks in on Tony Stark/Robert Downey Jr....

Chow Yun-Fat Drops Out Of John Woo’s Red Cliff By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2007 8:05 pm EST Chow Yun-fat has dropped out of John Woo’s 4-hour $75 million adaptation of The Battle of Red Cliff (titled Red Cliff) three days into shooting, according to Variety. The producers don’t know what to do, and are doing the best they can to reschedule the production around the scenes and shots that don’t involve the leading man....

Comic-Con Interviews: Twilight Fans Waiting In Line More Than 24 Hours For New Moon Panel By David Chen/July 23, 2009 12:41 am EST Today, we witnessed the true measure of devotion: Twilight fans lining up over a day in advance to see Summit’s New Moon panel tomorrow afternoon. Despite the fact that this event is taking place at COMIC-CON (the world’s largest gathering of geeks/nerds), Star Wars fans have nothing on these guys....