Spider-Man 3: Why Is Peter Parker Crying? By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2007 4:44 am EST Yahoo Movies has a new 60 second Spider-Man 3 spot. The image of Peter Parker crying, seen above, is featured near the end of the advertiement. So my question is: Why is Peter crying? Did someone die? Spider-Man 3: Why Is Peter Parker Crying? By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2007 4:44 am EST Yahoo Movies has a new 60 second Spider-Man 3 spot....
Teaser Trailer: Hotel Hell Vacation, A “Short Film”/Commercial Reuniting Chevy Chase And Beverly D’Angelo As The Griswolds By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2010 6:04 pm EST Back in November, we told you that Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo would be reprising their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold from the National Lampoon’s Vacation movies, but not for another big screen sequel (not yet, at least…). The Griswolds reunited instead for an advertising campaign to be launched during the 2010 Superbowl....
The Boat That Rocked Goes To Focus, Gets Shorter Cut By Russ Fischer/June 26, 2009 5:44 pm EST The Boat That Rocked, the latest directorial effort from Richard Curtis (Love, Actually) never looked like a stone cold comedy classic, but it has such a fun cast (Nick Frost, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans) that it should have been a good time, at least. But reviews overseas, where the film has already been in release, have been fairly bad....
The Final Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2009 4:34 pm EST Warner Bros has officially released the third and likely final trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. You may have noticed that a low res version of the trailer leaked earlier today thanks to E! Online. But now the higher resolution trailer is now available, as well as HD viewing options. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… is it just me or is every new trailer more epic than the last?...
Tribeca Movie Review: A Story Of People In War & Peace By SlashFilm Staff/April 30, 2007 6:37 am EST The following movie was reviewed at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. A Story of People in War & Peace World Documentary Competition 2006, Armenia Dir: Vardan Hovhannisyan In 1994 a truce was arrived at between Armenia and neighboring Azerbaijan, ending a bloody confrontation that had swept both nations after the fall of the Soviet Union....
TV Tidbits: Gattaca Series Will Be A Police Procedural, ABC Eying Charlies Angels And Goes Crazy With New Sitcom, New Caprica Poster By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 12, 2009 11:12 pm EST Let’s start with the most interesting TV news tonight: MTV got to sit down with Gil Grant (24, NCIS:LA), writer of the upcoming Gattaca television series, and managed to get some fascinating info from him. If you were wondering how Andrew Niccol’s film would be adapted to TV, I have two words for you: Police procedural....
By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2008 2:50 pm EST Update: Despite the reports from the film industry trade papers, Steven Spielberg is still scheduled to helm the first Tintin movie. Both Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg’s camps insist that the rumor is inaccurate. The rumor started when a spokesman for Herge Studios’ claimed that Peter Jackson would be directing the first Tintin movie instead of Steven Spielberg. The Hollywood Reporter published a story earlier today, which was quickly removed from their website....
Video Footage: Mickey Rourke In Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2008 10:28 pm EST This weekend they shot footage for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler at an independent pro-wrestling show (Combat Zone Wrestling) show at the infamous ECW Arena in South Philadelphia. They filmed Mickey Rourke as down and out wrestling legend Randy “The Ram” Robinson enter the ring to Sweet Child of Mine by Guns ‘N Roses (a song which was written into the script)....
WTF: Sci-Fi Channel Renamed “SyFy”? By Peter Sciretta/March 16, 2009 10:24 am EST NBC Universal has announced that after 16 years, they are renaming the Sci-Fi Channel… “SyFy”. So technically is you read the name out loud, it sounds the same, but on your television screen, it looks really odd. According to the press release: “Syfy — unlike the generic entertainment category “sci-fi” – firmly establishes a uniquely ownable trademark that is portable across all non-linear digital platforms and beyond, from Hulu to iTunes....
Alien Photos From Stephen Chow’s CJ7 By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 15, 2008 10:10 pm EST Last November’s trailer for director Stephen Chow’s $20 million extraterrestrial critter film CJ7 succeeded in drawing comparisons to E.T., and smartly kept its titularcritter tucked inside a UFO while a hyperactive kid acted a fool. Today, JoBlo got a hold of the first alien “pet” pics from the subtitled kids’ film set for release on March 8 in North America....
Black Dynamite Red Band Trailer With Michael Jai White (Whoa) By Hunter Stephenson/July 9, 2008 11:10 pm EST From Spike Jonze’s “Sabotage” to PTA’s Angels Live in My Town to the full-on grindhouse wave, the ship for ironic urban ‘sploitation needs to sail already. We’ll make an exception for the new Dolemite trailer because it has laser beams, but that’s it. Let it rest. Okay, um, we might need to make another exception....
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Remake Without Joss Whedon By Peter Sciretta/May 25, 2009 9:54 pm EST Hollywood is developing a big screen reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Buffy creator Joss Whedon. Did you hear that? its the simultaneous gasp of Buffy fanboys (and fangirls) worldwide. Fran Rubel Kuzui, who directed the original 1992 movie which spawned the television series, is developing the relaunch with Vertigo Entertainment. The characters and canon created in the television series will be completely abandoned....
Comic-Con Video Blog: Thoughts On District 9 By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2009 8:00 am EST Last night I had the chance to see Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 at a special sneak preview screening at Comic-Con 2009. On the way back to the hotel after a super secret screening for Ninja Assassin (which I’m not really allowed to discuss, even though we briefly chat about it anyways), I decided to record a video blog review of D9 with Alex Billington of FirstShowing....
Cool Stuff: R2-D2 Projector And Millennium Falcon Remote Control By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2008 9:00 am EST Spotted last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is this table-top Star Wars Millennium Falcon Remote Control from Nikko (photo: GeekSugar). The remote slides out from the Falcon’s backside, and allows you to control a DVD/CD Player inside of an R2-D2 Projector (pictured below thanks to WiReD). Crave has a photo (below) which shows the multiple inputs in R2-D2’s backside....
Early Buzz: 24 Minutes Of James Cameron’s Avatar Screened By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2009 10:22 pm EST The first footage from James Cameron’s Avatar was screened to over 1,000 European Industry attendees at CinemaExpo International in Amsterdam, and some of the early buzz has begun to leak out. 24 minutes of footage was screened in all, most of which came from the first third of the film, but THR notes that “there were also glimpses from unfinished portions of later battle scenes....
First Poster And Details For Luc Besson’s Adele Blanc-Sec By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 27, 2009 4:50 am EST A little bit Indiana Jones, a little bit Tintin and a little bit Hellboy – and Euroapcorp, should you wish, you can have that tagline for your poster. Luc Besson is moving fast on his new film Les Aventures Extrodinaire d’Adele Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, but likely to be just Adele Blanc-Sec when it crosses the Atlantic)....
Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers Movie Trailer: Genius Or Garbage? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2009 10:15 am EST UPDATE: IndieWire has a (non-embeddable) one-minute clip from the film. Appropriately, it depicts trash humping. Safe to say that anyone not convinced by the trailer will be much less so after the clip. Original article follows. I thought I was familiar enough with Harmony Korine’s methods and images that I’d never really be taken aback by him again....
JJ Abrams To Produce Teen Sex Comedy By Peter Sciretta/April 25, 2008 1:12 pm EST Judd Apatow, get out of the way. Paramount Pictures has purchased a spec screenplay by Andy Richter Controls the Universe producer/scribe Jay Dyer for JJ Abrams to produce via Bad Robot. But this isn’t the typical JJ Abrams project. And by typical, I mean to say typical of the last few years which have been filled with sci-fi, spies and genre projects....
John Gulager To Helm Feast Sequels? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2007 3:11 pm EST It looks like Project Greenlight “winner” John Gulager might return two Feast sequels. I ran by Gulager while leaving The Mist panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, but didn’t have time to stop and talk. Now I wish I had. “Feast 2 and 3 are coming together, with [director John] Gulager back,” Feast co-screenwriter Marcus Dunstan told Fangoria....
LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 26, 2007 1:23 am EST The biggest and most expensive LEGO set ever has just been released, and pre-orders are starting to be unpacked in fanboy homes around the US. The Star Wars Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon costs $499, has 5,000 pieces and comes with a heavy ring-binded instruction manual. The Imperial Star Destroyer from a few years back held the record, with 2,000 less pieces and a $200 cheaper price tag....
