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Stephen Chow Producing Animated Sequel To CJ7 By Brendon Connelly/June 9, 2009 1:00 pm EST Since Sam Raimi and Quentin Tarantino sky-rocketed Stephen Chow’s US reputation with their effusive praise of Shaolin Soccer, you’ll probably find that the least well received picture in Chow’s ouevre has been the sci-fi family film CJ7. Personally though, I absolutely love it, and this is in spite of its sometimes woeful CG work and the occasionally confusing slapstick non-sequiturs (see also: Drag Me to Hell)....

Sundance Movie Review: Big Fan By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 19, 2009 10:47 pm EST Former Onion editor turned screenwriter Robert D. Siegel goes from The Wrestler to making his directorial debut with Big Fan, a dramedy about a hardcore New York Giants fan played by /Film favorite Patton Oswalt. Paul Aufiero is a parking lot attendant who lives and breathes everything Giants. He spends his free time scripting intense rants against rival teams which he calls into the local Sports Dog radio show....

Super Cool Cast For Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 19, 2008 12:44 pm EST It’s like one of those dreams where everyone is laughing crazily at a neverending dinner table. An awesome ensemble cast has filled out for 2010’s Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, a 3D animated film based on the bestselling children’s book by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett: Anna Faris (yes, in a gentler type of mouthy-role) and Bill Hader will voice the lead characters....

The Fake Movies In Judd Apatow’s Funny People By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2009 11:17 am EST In Funny People, Adam Sandler’s character George Simmons is a successful stand-up comic turned comedy star who has appeared in many shitty but successful movies. Judd Apatow was forced to create some of the character’s earlier big screen hits. Some of the films are just mentioned or hinted at, others appear as posters or whatnot in the background of Sandler’s house....

The Go-Getter Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 22, 2008 12:53 pm EST One of my favorite films of 2007 was never released. You see, The Go-Getter premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival up against Son of Rambow, and most of the big movie buyers missed it. But finally Peach Arch Entertainment will be releasing the movie in limited theaters on June 6th 2008. Check out the film’s official movie trailer below, and tell me what you think in the comments....

This Week In DVD: Zack And Miri Make A Porno, Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Madagascar 2, And More By Adam Quigley/Feb. 3, 2009 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Compared to Apatow-directed/produced relationship comedies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, you can’t exactly say Zack and Miri Make a Porno is breaking new ground with its combination of raunchy R-rated humor with a more sincere, emotional romance at the center of it all....

Tobey Maguire Negotiating For The Role Of Bilbo Baggins? Nope By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 14, 2009 12:07 pm EST Update: Magurie’s publicist has flat out denied the rumor to Movieline. Time for me to be glad I’ve got all those shares in Big Salt Co. again because another utterly astonishing casting rumour has come our way and I recommend it’s only taken with heavy seasoning. So, tell me… how do you feel about Tobey Maguire as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit?...

Transformers 2 In Summer 2009!? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2007 9:07 pm EST Update #1: Paramount Pictures has apparently set June 29th 2009 as the official release date for Transformers 2, according to BoxOfficeMojo. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay have signed with DreamWorks to make Transformers 2, which will hit theaters in Summer 2009. However, Michael Bay wrote last week on his blog that he might be “jump ship” to make a pre-strike movie....

Transformers Release Date Moved Up To July 3rd By Peter Sciretta/May 31, 2007 8:28 pm EST Anyway, this move is more bad news for Live Free or Die Hard, which was set to open on June 27th, just one week before Transformers is to be unleashed. Now the Die Hard sequel will have one less day of lead time. And this also can’t be good news for Pixar’s Ratatouille (which, from what I hear – is already the worst tracking Pixar movie yet) and Michael Moore’s Sicko which opens up just days before on June 29th....

Video Blog: 2009 Summer Movie Preview - Part 1 By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2009 2:20 pm EST Steve from Collider is a good friend of mine. At least a few times a week we talk about upcoming movies, TV shows, what gossip each of us have heard, and anything else we might find exciting. Since a number of our conversations cover things you also might find interesting, we’ve decided to start recording certain conversations as video blogs....

By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2009 12:00 am EST Since the beginning of cinema, Hollywood has been producing films with numbers in the titles. CollegeHumor has decided to compile a video of all the different movie titles in chronological order, 50 movies in 30 seconds. Or as CH puts it, “More fun than actually watching any of these movies.”

VOTD: LOST: Sydney Airport In Real Time, 24-Style By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2010 12:00 am EST Last week we featured a video of Lost’s Ocean 815 crash in 24-style real time, complete with split screen. Pyram1dhead, the guy who created the original video, has returned with a follow-up, a prequel of sorts, combining clips from eight episodes, showing what happened to all the characters at the airport before they boarded the plane....

Weinstein Company Shuts Down Halloween 3D. Halloween 2 Set For Re-Release. By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 29, 2009 7:08 pm EST Per the next sequel, as Zombie stated even before the August release of H2, he had no plans to develop and direct a second sequel in his polarizing update of Michael Myers. Making things a bit confusing from the get-go then, was the public announcement of Halloween 3 (-D) almost immediately after H2 opened....

X-Files 2 Trailer Leaks Online By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2008 11:18 am EST It appears that someone at WonderCon leaked footage from X-Files 2 on to YouTube. I know it sucks for con attendees, but the studios should just put all this footage officially online the Monday following the convention. The movie studios appear to be fine with thousands of people seeing this footage, so why not show a couple hundred thousand more?...

28 Weeks Later International Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2007 2:31 am EST

Angels & Demons Teaser Poster? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 2, 2008 6:19 pm EST The Icelandic film site, Topp5.is claims to have scored an exclusive look at the teaser poster for Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons. I have been unable to confirm it’s authenticity, and I am skeptical due to the lack of official studio logos on the bottom, and the logo has the words Angels and Demons side by side, where most of the licensing expo materials have had the two words stacked on top of one another....

Box Office: Spider-Man 3 Earns $622 Million In First 10 Days By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2007 11:38 am EST The fanboy community are pretty down on the new Spidey film. Most comic book fans predicted that the so-called bad word of mouth would cause a huge drop in the second week box office numbers. While there was a drop, it was nothing more than industry insiders had expected. Spider-Man 3 took in another $60 million domestically (4,252 theaters), for a worldwide total of 145....

Cool Stuff: 25th Anniversary Return Of The Jedi Villain-Style Poster By Peter Sciretta/May 25, 2008 3:27 pm EST It’s the 25th Anniversary of Star Wars – Return of the Jedi. To celebrate, Matt Busch, Lucasfilm, The 501st Great Lakes Garrison, and Paul Michael Kane have teamed up to produce this beautiful poster commemorating all of the villains from Return of the Jedi. The best part is, all of the proceeds will go to the National Lymphoma Society in honor of Jay Shimko, Great Lakes 501st member TK-130, who is actually a lymphoma survivor....

Could Jack The Giant Killer Mean Bryan Singer Is Not Available To Direct X-Men: First Class? By Russ Fischer/March 22, 2010 8:37 am EST

Dark Knight Ticket Sales Eight Times As Much As Spider-Man 3 By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2008 1:44 pm EST WOW. Fandango is reporting that dozens of showtimes for The Dark Knight are already sold out for the midnight screenings on Thursday night/Friday morning, July 17th. That’s right, even with a full three weeks before the film hits, screenings have begun to sell out. A few theaters have begun to add 3:00am showtimes on Friday morning to help meet the consumer demand....