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Night Of The Living Dead Gets A 3D CGI Remake/Origin Story By Devindra Hardawar/Sept. 15, 2009 10:05 pm EST Now this was a remake I didn’t see coming. THR’s Heat Vision blog is reporting that George Romero’s zombie classic, Night of the Living Dead, is going to be remade into a 3D CGI film by first-time director Zebediah de Soto. The project, titled Night of the Living Dead: Origins, will have no involvement from Romero (though that may not be a bad thing these days)....

Nightmare On Elm Street Remake Plot Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2009 1:09 pm EST LatinoReview have published a video script review for Wesley Strick’s script for Platinum Dunes remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Here are some of the core plot details that I learned from the report: After being burned alive by a mob of angry parents, a pre-school gardener/caretaker named Freddy returns for revenge against the children, now 18 years old, that accused him of sexual abuse....

Saturday Box Office: Forbidden Kingdom Headed For $20.5M, Sarah Marshall Manages Only $17M By Steve Mason/April 20, 2008 12:01 am EST The weekend belongs to the inspired pairing of martial arts superstars Jackie Chan and Jet Li in Forbidden Kingdom (Lionsgate). The PG-13-rated family-friendly fable, received a 5% Saturday bounce for a $7.92M 2nd day. That should nudge the solidly-reviewed wide release to a $20.5M opening weekend. That would make it Chan’s all-time best non-Rush Hour opening, Jet Li’s all-time best non-Lethal Weapon opening and the 7th-best martial arts opening ever in the US....

SAW 4 Movie Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2007 2:03 pm EST Lionsgate has revealed the first teaser poster for Darren Lynn Bousman’s SAW IV. Check it out above via MovieWeb. The fourth film in the series stars Tobin Bell (Jigsaw returns!), Angus Macfadyen, Shawnee Smith, Lyriq Bent, Scott Patterson and Justin Louis. SAW IV hits theaters on October 26th 2007, just in time for Halloween. SAW 4 Movie Poster Revealed...

Scott Pilgrim Video Blog #2: First Day Of Principal Photography By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2009 3:46 pm EST Edgar Wright has released a new video blog showing the first day of principal photography on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Wright talks about why he directs the start of a scene with “Go!” instead of “Action!” Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Cera and the other cast members talk about the start of filming....

Sicko Sells Out, Weinstein Expands Release By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2007 4:45 pm EST More Sicko News (yes, it’s the week of release, so expect this to be the final ramp up): As we previously reported, Michael Moore’s film premiered this weekend on one screen at an New York City Upper West Side AMC/Lowes theater. The good news is that the film sold out ALL of its shows, and made $70,000....

Six New Photos: The A-Team Movie By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2010 6:52 pm EST Based on the 1980’s television series, The A-Team movie will follow a group of Iraq War veterans (changed from Vietnam) who are trying to clear their name with the U.S. military. They were arrested for committing a crime for which they were framed, and break out of a maximum-security stockade to clear their name . The original series, which ran from 1983-87, starred George Peppard, Mr....

Sundance Movie Review: The Yellow Handkerchief By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 19, 2008 2:13 pm EST The Yellow Handkerchief follows a 15-year-old Louisiana girl, a ex-con, and an awkward annoying young eccentric kid with a blue convertible go on a road trip to, well, nowhere. Just like the film. The whole story is pointless and contrived. How three perfect strangers ended up in a car together is fully explained but not the least bit believable....

Taylor Lautner Can’t Be Stopped: May Topline A Vision Quest Remake By Russ Fischer/Dec. 22, 2009 11:26 am EST I hope Twilight fans are happy with the fast-growing monster that is Taylor Lautner. He’s got two big movies in the works already (Max Steel and Cancun) and now he may star in a remake of the Matthew Modine coming of age film Vision Quest. This one would be comically appropriate, at least, as it would have Lautner as a kid who gets entangled with a slightly older woman while trying to prep for a wrestling match....

Terminator 4 Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 19, 2007 2:39 am EST Our friend Devin at CHUD has a bunch of new details about the upcoming fourth Terminator film, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Most of the information below will probably be revealed in the trailers and pre-release advertising, and is not all to spoilerish. But if you want to be kept in the dark, stop reading now. Here are the main details:...

The Dark Knight Includes Dedication To Heath Ledger By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2008 3:19 pm EST As expected, Warner Bros’ The Dark Knight includes a dedication to the late Heath Ledger in the credits. The text will read: “In memory of our friends Heath Ledger & Conway Wickliffe” For those of you who don’t know, Wickliffe is the special-effects technician who was killed last September in a stunt-car accident on the set of the Batman sequel....

The Flash Gets Handed To Hack Director Shawn Levy By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2007 5:55 am EST Whedon is off Wonder Woman, and now David Goyer has announced his departure from The Flash. With an ending comes a new beginning Shawn Levy has stepped on board to direct The Flash. Warner Bros/DC have made the worst move they could have possibly made (outside hiring Uwe Boll). Shawn Levy isn’t a natural choice for the film....

Time Loop Sci-Fi War Film All You Need Is Kill Coming Soon By Brendon Connelly/April 6, 2010 4:45 am EST Dante Harper’s film CV is a varied one: editing a documentary about Static-X; directing and acting in the surrealist black comedy The Delicate Art of the Rifle; a small mountain of production manager credits, very often on DVD supplements; a little role in The Onion Movie; scripting an adaptation of Charles Burns’ Black Hole....

VOTD: Channing Tatum And Charlyne Yi Cinemash Dirty Dancing By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2009 7:07 pm EST Mean Magazine has created a new series of online short films called CineMash, which lets celebrity talent mash up their favorite scenes from classic movies. In past weeks we’ve posted Sid and Nancy starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and directed by Marc Webb (the director of 500 Days of Summer), Cheech & Chong enter the computer world of Tron to settle a heated debate about the price of cannabis, and the cult action flick Point Break starring Reno 911’s Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant and Human Giant’s Aziz Ansari and Rob Huebel....

Watch The Missing Ending From The Golden Compass By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2007 3:03 pm EST One of the big complaints about The Golden Compass, was the abrupt ending. Fans of the novel complained that the last few chapters of the book had not been included. And people that never read the book series could sense that something was missing. Truth is, they were actually filmed more scenes, but they were cut due to running-time....

Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors Movie Poster By Hunter Stephenson/June 19, 2008 5:02 pm EST

Be Kind Rewind: Rush Hour 2 Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2007 8:09 am EST Yesterday we showed you a “Sweded Trailer” for the classic film Ghostbusters, from the parody of the movie within the movie of Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind. Today we bring you Jack Black and Mos Def’s Rush Hour 2. Can’t be worse than Brett Ratner’s film, can it? [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/bekindrush.flv 470 376] Jack Black stars in Be Kind Rewind, a one-of-a-kind comedy from the mind of writer/director Michel Gondry (Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)....

Ben Stiller In Talks To Helm The Trial Of The Chicago 7 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 23, 2008 1:19 am EST What if I told you that Steven Spielberg had dropped out of directing an important historical film, only to have Ben Stiller replace him in the director’s chair? Yes, Ben Stiller the comedy actor. The film is The Trial of the Chicago 7, which tells the story of the riots at the 1968 Democratic convention....

Box Office Tracking: Bedtime Stories Could Be The Biggest Christmas Day Opening Of All-Time By Steve Mason/Dec. 24, 2008 2:55 pm EST In the final pre-Christmas industry tracking, the three movies that appear ready to pop big are Bedtime Stories (Disney), Fox’s Marley & Me and Best Picture front-runner The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount), but the big winner will clearly be Sandler with his family-friendly fantasy/comedy. Early reviews for Bedtime Stories are decidedly bad (15% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), but it makes absolutely no difference....

Drew Struzan Does Hellboy 2 By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2008 1:26 pm EST CHUD has learned that Guillermo del Toro has commissioned legendary poster artist Drew Struzan to create a poster for Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The duo collaborated for the first film, but the geniuses at the Sony Pictures marketing department thought it would be better to copy the style of Fox’s successful X-Men franchise. Check out Struzan’s unused original art for Hellboy below....