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Zack Snyder Talks Watchmen Director’s Cut By Adam Quigley/July 26, 2008 9:53 am EST It was already announced that there would be an animated Black Freighter movie being released around the time when Watchmen hits cinemas, but apparently the extent of its involvement in the Watchmen mythology won’t end there. Snyder made mention that they’ve also filmed the transitions featured in the graphic novel that take the main storyline into the Freighter comic....

Zombie Roundup - All The Undead News It’s Fit To Print By Brendon Connelly/June 8, 2009 10:00 pm EST The Zombie movie onslaught doesn’t seem to abating at all, with reel after reel of the living dead set to unspool in the coming months. There’s white zombies, black zombies, Spanish zombies, yellow zombies, there’s hot zombies, cold zombies, there’s wet zombies, there’s smelly zombies… and whatever else Mr. Marin said about lady parts in From Dusk Til Dawn....

A Visual Guide To Box Office Receipts By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2008 7:56 pm EST /Film reader Corsin sent me a link to this cool New York Times article where they have graphed out the ebb and flow of Box Office Receipts 1986 to 2007 after adjusted for inflation. I’ve taken a snapshot of the 2007 portion of the graph, which you can see above. Click to enlarge. It’s cool to play around with, but I’m not sure what exactly there is to take away from it....

Bad Ass Ninja Assassin Fight Choreography Video By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 2009 11:34 pm EST /Film reader Christopher M scored this bad ass fight choreography/stunt training video showing some of the work of 87 Eleven (the stunt team that worked on 300, Watchmen, Matrix and Bourne films) on The Wachowski Brothers-produced, James McTeigue-directed Ninja Assassin. Check it out after the jump. The film stars stars Korean pop star Rain (Speed Racer) as Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world....

Bunker 77 Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 10, 2008 1:14 pm EST The stepson of Clark Gable and heir to a Hawaiian sugar empire, Bunker Spreckels inherited a multi-million dollar fortune in his mid 20s and, to the ire of his family, blew it on Hollywood nights, cars, art films, drugs, nunchucks and surfing the beaches of the world. Shortly after, he overdosed and joined the 27 club. A pretty cool coffee table book came out last year featuring a lush array of photos and a lengthy interview before his death, but reading it, I couldn’t help imagining a feature film on the guy....

Christopher Nolan Wants To Go Full-IMAX; Outlining Dark Knight Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2008 9:52 pm EST Christopher Nolan has wanted to shoot a film with IMAX for quite some time. In 2006, he shot some of The Prestige using IMAX cameras in an attempt to better learn the technology (the footage was just test footage). And as we all know, he shot the action scenes in The Dark Knight using IMAX cameras....

Clint Eastwood Admits Scorsese May Win First Academy Award By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2007 5:59 am EST Clint Eastwood believes that Martin Scorsese will finally claim the Academy Award he so rightfuly deserves, and beat him to the Best Director prize. Two years ago Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby beat Scorsese’s The Aviator. “He [Scorsese] probably has a good chance, there is a lot of sympathy for him, but I have no control over any of that....

Cool Stuff: Dawn Of The Dude T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2008 2:13 pm EST What if George Romero made The Big Lebowski? It would probably look something like Cloxboy’s Dawn of the Dude t-shirt from Go Ape Shirts. Available from Small to 2X Large for only $18. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff?...

Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein To Be Developed As Film Series By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2010 7:30 am EST Author Dean Koontz has penned a series of books presenting a revisionist take on Frankenstein, which places the monster in modern New Orleans and incorporates some elements from Poe and detective fiction. (Or: he’s partially penned a take, as the first book was co-written with Kevin J. Anderson and the second with Ed Gorman, though those credits don’t seem to be on current editions of the books....

Eight Watchmen Character Posters Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2008 12:23 am EST I don’t know how I missed this, but apparently Warner Bros released eight new character posters for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen at Comic Con 2008. The posters stick with the 80’s style of the original Alan Moore comic book mini-series. Head on over to Omelete to see the posters in higher resolution. Eight Watchmen Character Posters Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2008 12:23 am EST...

By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2009 10:23 pm EST Based on the book Derby Girl by Shauna Cross, the film stars Ellen Page as Bliss, “an indie-rock loving misfit” who finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin Texas. Marcia Gay Harden plays Bliss’ disapproving mother, Jimmy Falon plays a cheesy hungover announcer named Hot Tub Johnny, while Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Zoe Bell and Eve play roller-derby stars....

Guy Ritchie’s Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels On Hulu By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2008 5:38 pm EST US Readers can now watch Guy Ritchie’s debut film Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels for FREE on Hulu. Enjoy. Here is a bit of trivia from IMDb: Lock Stock is the film debut of both Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones (who was famously released from prison on the first day of filming)....

Inglourious Basterds Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2009 11:49 am EST Most of you were probably impatient like myself and watched the shaky-cam bootleg Entertainment Tonight version of the Inglourious Basterds teaser trailer. But you haven’t seen War, until you’ve seen it through the eyes… of Quentin Tarantino. That’s right, the full trailer has been released on Yahoo. No more having to listen to that annoying E.T. announcer do voice over while Nazis are being killed on screen....

James Cameron Developing Futuristic Sci-Fi Action Film By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2009 8:30 am EST James Cameron wasn’t mentioned in the initial The Hollywood Reporter announcement, which included the following plot details: “Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it is known to be an epic science fiction adventure in the vein of The Seven Samurai involving a group of aliens and humans with various abilities who are brought together to save Earth....

Jason Segel And John Michael Higgins Cast In Bad Teacher By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2010 6:47 pm EST Jason Segel and John Michael Higgins are in talks to co-star in Jake Kasdan’s Bad Teacher. The comedy stars Cameron Diaz as Elizabeth Halsey, a foul-mouthed, conniving seventh-grade teacher who is dumped by her sugar daddy, and begins to woo the school’s model teacher, and starts a bitter rivalry with his girlfriend, her squeaky-clean colleague Amy Squirrel (played by Lucy Punch)....

Kate Winslet Is Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 14, 2009 5:42 am EST [Safe] and Far From Heaven director Todd Haynes is moving to television for his next project, a mini-series adaptation of James M. Cain’s classic noir novel Mildred Pierce. He’s given Kate Winslet the nod to take the title role, a woman struggling to survive the depression and protect her daughter amidst a complex set of betrayals and even murder....

Liam Neeson And Ralph Fiennes Cast In Clash Of The Titans By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2009 10:06 pm EST Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes have been cast in Louis Leterrier’s Clash of the Titans. Neeson will play Zeus, king of the gods, a character played by Laurence Oliver in the 1981 film. Sam Worthington is already on board to play his son, Perseus. Fiennes is in talks to play Hades, the ruler of the underworld who is on a mission to overtake Zeus....

Messages Deleted Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2009 1:13 pm EST If you didn’t already know, the guy who wrote Phone Booth, also wrote the 2004 thriller Cellular. It looks like screenwriter Larry Cohen has one final movie to file in his unofficial telephone-focused trilogy, a C-rate thriller titled Messages Deleted starring Matthew Lillard and Deborah Kara Unger. Deleted is the feature debut of Rob Cowan, the producer of such films like The Net, Life as a House, Righteous Kill and the upcoming horror remake The Crazies....

Movie Review: Shooter Is Harmless Fun By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2007 12:01 am EST Based on Stephen Hunter’s novel “Point of Impact,” Shooter follows an ace marksman, formerly of the CIA, who has become a mountain recluse after the loss of his partner on a peace-keeping mission. Bob Lee Swagger is approached by government officials to help prevent the assassination of the current United States President. They’ve intercepted a report that someone was going attempt to kill the President with a sniper gun from a mile away....

NSFW: Not Quite Hollywood Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/June 23, 2008 6:36 pm EST History books say that Australia was founded by criminals, crabs and derelicts, so why shouldn’t the land’s cinema reflect such ribald and humble beginnings? The new documentary, Not Quite Hollywood, takes a look at ’70s/’80s “Ozploitation” (what a sweet word) from the eyes of endless players (Jamie Lee Curtis, George Miller, George Lazenby) and admirers—yeah, you just knew that Quentin Tarantino would be available to tell you how it be and how it used to be....