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Cool Stuff: The Dark Knight Collectable Busts By Hunter Stephenson/March 12, 2008 6:01 pm EST MTV has dibbs on several first images of DC Comics collectibles for The Dark Knight, including Joker figurines and busts (nice Heath Ledger likeness, nice camo tie), Batman figurines/statues and grappling launcher and batarang prop replicas. More photos after the jump, click to make them pop. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff?...

Cool Stuff: The Mona Leia By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2008 1:09 am EST Jim Hance created this wonderful parody of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting The Mona Lisa using Princess Leia from George Lucas’ Star Wars. The paining recently sold on ETSY, and unfortunately Jim has promised to never duplicate the design or make prints. The Mona Leia is hand painted with acrylics on canvas board, and framed in a Gold painted wooden frame with gray accents....

Cool Stuff: Tyler Stout’s The Big Lebowski Poster By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2009 12:42 pm EST We’ve been writing about artist Tyler Stout since we first discovered his “Remember the Alamo” poster at the Alamo Drafthouse. The Austin based artist frequently provides kick ass posters for the Alamo’s special events, most of which we have featured on /Film: Robocop , The Road Warrior , Spaced , Hellride , Big Trouble in Little China, The Lost Boys, The Warriors , The Thing, and Blade Runner....

Cool Stuff: Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket Criterion Collection By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2008 1:00 pm EST On November 25th 2008, Criterion will finally be releasing a Director-Approved Double-Dic Special Edition of Wes Anderson’s first feature film Bottle Rocket. If you haven’t seen Bottle Rocket, than you are really missing out. It is Anderson before he too eccentric to tell a totally relatable story. And don’t get me wrong, I love Anderson’s work....

Criterion Adds Thirty-Five Films To Stream Via Netflix By Russ Fischer/Dec. 21, 2009 10:00 pm EST For years, the Criterion Collection has been around to provide one of the best film educations a casual viewer can receive. Just by checking out any chunk of the now-massive collection, you’ll be exposed to an incredible array of films that cover every spectrum of entertaining and artistic filmmaking. And now it just got a whole lot more accessible, as Criterion has added thirty-five more films to stream via the Netflix ‘Watch Instantly’ service....

Dedication Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2007 3:32 pm EST The Weinstein Co has released the theatrical movie poster for Dedication, the new romantic comedy starring Mandy Moore and Billy Crudup. I heard some descent buzz for the film at Sundance, where Weinstein and First Look purchased the film for $4 million. The movie follows a misogynistic children’s book author (Crudup) who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator (Moore) instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend (Tom Wilkinson)....

Disney’s Enchanted Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 22, 2007 10:56 am EST Enchanted is one of those movies that we’ve been anxiously awaiting, but shouldn’t be publicly admitting. The new Disney film features the classic Disney animated princess who gets thrown into a live action New York City. We’ve also fallen in love with Amy Adams (who was just incredible in Junebug). Here is the story pitch: In an animated fairy tale world, a young girl meets and falls in love with the handsome prince of her dreams....

FCC Reviewing Golden Globes After Indecency Complaints By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2009 9:31 pm EST The FCC is reviewing NBC’s telecast of The Golden Globes due to multiple complaints from viewers claiming that portions violated public indecency rules. The biggest moment of contention happened when The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky “flipped the bird” at Best Actor winner Mickey Rourke. The moment came across to moment as playful jabbing between a director and his star actor....

Fletch Author Gregory Mcdonald Dead At 71 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2008 9:17 pm EST Gregory Mcdonald died on Sunday at age 71 in Pulaski, Tennessee. Mcdonald is best known as the best-selling author of the Fletch book series, which was later adapted into a feature film series starring Chevy Chase. Mcdonald’s Running Scared and The Brave were also adapted for the big screen. Mcdonald had 26 published books and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award twice....

Keanu Reeves Talks Bill And Ted’s 3, Remake Of Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure By Hunter Stephenson/April 2, 2008 11:45 am EST “Closer to 50!” Remember when we reported last week that Keanu Reeves flicked his hand dismissively at the notion of all sequels? Well, we lied. Actually, the Internets lied. Sort of. Reeves talked to MTV about a second sequel to his amazing Bill and Ted’s filmography following 1991’s Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, and said he remains stoked on headbanging in a phone booth with co-star Alex Winter aka Bill S....

Lost Season Six Spanish TV Promo: The Chessboard By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2009 7:31 pm EST As you’ve probably noticed by now, ABC’s promos for the sixth and final season of Lost have been entirely composed of old clips, featuring no clips from the new season. The reason for this is that Damon Lindelof and Carton Cuse have said that they are trying to keep the last season of the sci-fi drama as unspoiled as possible....

New Avatar Production Photo And Concept Art By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2009 4:57 am EST With all the reports coming out of Comic-Con, many people might have missed a piece of concept art which was on display at the Acme Archives booth. I snapped a photo with my iPhone, so please excuse the poor quality (the lighting and reflection…etc). Check out the concept art photo after the jump.

Orci & Kurtzman To Produce Stephen King’s Son Joe Hill’s Locke & Key By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2010 3:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Latino Review has learned that the project has moved over to DreamWorks, where Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are developing a big screen adaptation as part of their producing deal with the studio. No word on if they will lend a hand in the screenplay adaptation....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2009 3:50 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Latino Review spotted a new movie theater standee for Terminator Salvation, which features all the main stars of the film in the same pose. Old School Tattoo in Bellingham, Washington inked this tattoo (right), which combines a bit of the style of Salvador Dalí’s “Elephants” with a Star Wars AT-AT Walker....

Rumor: Robert Rodriguez To Producer Predator Reboot? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2009 11:49 am EST

Rumor: Tom Cruise To Voice Animated Villain In Shrek 4? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2008 12:27 am EST Cinemablend is reporting that Tom Cruise is being considered to voice one of the villain characters in Dreamworks Animation’s Shrek Goes Fourth. Cuise is doing everything he can to restore his name. First his hilarious cameo in Tropic Thunder, then news that he’s working with Sam Raimi on a superhero adaptation and now this....

San Francisco Sarah Marshall Backlash Is Hilarious By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2008 1:59 pm EST A couple weeks ago I wrote about Universal’s genius viral marketing campaign for the upcoming Judd Apatow-produced comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which had taken over San Francisco. Signs on buses, bus shelters and billboards with cryptic messages that read “I hate You Sarah Marshall”, “My Mom Always Hated You Sarah Marshall” and “You Don’t Look Fat in Those Jeans Sarah Marshall”, lead those who notice to the viral in movie site I hatesarahmarshall....

Seth Rogen To Star In Jody Hill’s Observe And Report By Hunter Stephenson/March 5, 2008 8:15 pm EST With his 2008 slate nicely stocked with cheeba and T&A (The Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri Make a Porno) gruffy, young superstar Seth Rogen looks to keep the debauchery rollin’ into ‘09. He’s set to star in the mall cop comedy Observe and Report, to be written and directed by Jody Hill, the latest to join Judd Apatow’s smoked out dugout and hot off the indie-com The Fist Foot Way....

Shrek The Third Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2007 5:45 am EST I must admit, I’ve never been a huge fan of the Shrek films. I saw the second one when I was overtired and laughed so hard I almost lost my voice. I later watched the film again and didn’t laugh once. Anyway, Summer 2007 is going to be Sequel-mania, and Shrek 3 is part of that. The trailer for Shrek the Third can be found right after the jump....

Sneak Peak: Neil Gaiman’s Coraline By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2007 2:12 pm EST Neil Gaiman has released a sneak peek at some early, not-quite-final footage from Coraline. Based on Gaiman’s short children’s novel of the same name, Coraline is a young bored girl who discovers that bricked-up wall behind a door in her house leads to another dimension, where she has a different mother, and different father. A stop-motion film produced in stereoscopic 3-D from director Henry Selick, the guy behind The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Monkeybone....