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Did Piracy Help X-Men Origins: Wolverine? By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 5, 2010 12:20 am EST Going a bit against the grain when it comes to piracy discussions, Reid Rosefelt over at the Speedcine blog makes an interesting case why Wolverine’s unprecedented leak may have actually helped the film. Rosefelt compares the film’s $85 million opening weekend gross against other major release openings throughout 2009, and shows that it actually doesn’t stack up too badly....

Early Buzz: Avatar: The Video Game By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2009 3:47 pm EST The first press screenings of James Cameron’s Avatar take place on Thursday, December 10th, so we won’t hear any reactions until then. But reviews for the Avatar Video Game have begun to be published, and it’s not good. The game currently has a 64% positive rating on metacritic, which equates to “mixed or average reviews”. It should be noted that while the video game takes place in the world of Pandora, and features creatures and technology seen in the movie, the storyline is different — something created just for the game....

Fanboys 2: Attack Of The Clones? By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2009 1:52 pm EST Dan Fogler tells moviehole that director Kyle Newman has an idea for a Fanboys sequel that would see the characters from the first film to go on mission to crash the set of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones in Australia. “If he could come up with the right script, and get everyone together again, I would definitely do it....

Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer TV Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2007 6:14 pm EST “Everywhere this thing goes, eight days later the planet dies.” “How do you fight something that can eat planets?” “Leave that to me!” The first television spot for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is now available for your viewing pleasure. [quicktime width=“448” height=“200”]http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/ff2tvspot.mov[/quicktime] For the most part the fiilm looks cheesier than the first (if that’s possible)....

First Look: Star Trek’s USS Enterprise By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 17, 2008 1:06 pm EST The first photo of the U.S.S. Enterprise from J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek has popped up over at Moviefone. It’s both ominous and expectedly epic in feel, which is promising, and obviously there will be more of this in the teaser attached to tomorrow’s Cloverfield. If you didn’t catch it, we recently posted a description of the teaser....

Get Smart Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 27, 2008 6:05 pm EST The new trailer for Peter Segal’s big screen adaptation of Get Smart is now online. Warner Bros premiered the trailer at WonderCon in San Frnacisco this past weekend, and the crowd seemed to love it. A few of the people I talked to had next to no interest in the film until they saw this new trailer. It’s becoming more clear that they have captured the comic tone of the original series, which was created by Mel Brooks....

Gigantor! Ghost In The Shell’s Mamoru Oshii To Direct Live Action Tetsujin 28-Go Movie By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 27, 2009 4:00 pm EST Luckily, this young lad doesn’t use the robot the way I think many kids would (you’d have to see the Twilight Zone episode It’s a Good Life for a portrayal of young ‘uns with extreme power that I might buy into more easily) and instead puts it to use fighting crime and, of course, other giant robots....

Guy Ritchie Attached To The Warren Ellis Version Of Excalibur By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2010 1:47 pm EST You may recall that, last year, Warren Ellis mentioned he was working on a treatment for an Arthurian film that may or may not be a remake of Excalibur. Now Warner Bros. has evidently attached a director to the film: Guy Ritchie, ready for more adventure after scoring a success with Sherlock Holmes....

James Cameron Meets Atomic Bomb Survivor To Research Film By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 6, 2010 2:09 pm EST Update: Sad news. Tsutomi Yamaguchi has died. A tragic reminder of how important Cameron’s promise to honour the victims of this tragic moment in history actually is. Here’s the Guardian’s report. After years and years of slaving away over Avatar – though most definitely, I think we’re agreed, not in vain – what is James Cameron doing now?...

Jody Hill’s The American Budget Shopping Network With Andrew Daly And Collette Wolfe By Hunter Stephenson/Nov. 24, 2009 10:09 am EST Viral videos have popped up this week under the guise of scratchy infomercials for something horrendously called The American Budget Shopping Network. A few readers have emailed in to ask if these are previews for the upcoming season of Eastbound & Down, which is understandable since they are hosted by Andrew Daly, aka Principle “I’ve been goin’ a little bit of crazy” Cutler, and are faux-aired from North Carolina....

LOL: John Krasinski As Captain America By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2010 4:30 pm EST The majority of comic book fans seem to be upset that John Krasinski is the top choice to play Captain America in Joe Johnson’s big screen adaptation The First Avenger: Captain America? Our friends at HijinksEnsue made a comic strip to show just how wrong (or awesome?) this potential casting might be. Check out the entire three frame comic strip below....

Manchild On Showtime By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 4, 2008 12:46 am EST Showtime is airing the pilot episode for the television show Manchild on Wednesday morning at 4:15 am. The show, which has been referred to as “a raunchy male version of Sex and the City” revolves around a group of forty-something male friends who are knee-deep in midlife crises. The show which starred Kevin Smith, James Purefoy, John Colbett and Paul Hibb was not picked up by the network, so this might be your only chance to see the pilot episode....

Quentin Tarantino Remaking Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!? By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 17, 2008 12:08 am EST Something tells me we’ll see Rambo lift up the head of a vanquished Predator before we see the following. Still, it’s perfect midnight fodder. Variety is reporting via legendary gossip columnist Liz Smith that Quentin Tarantino wants to remake Russ Meyers’ 1965 exploitation flick Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! with Britney Spears, Eva Mendes and Kim Kardashian....

SCREAM 2008: Friday The 13th And Twilight Footage By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2008 9:58 pm EST The Watchmen footage is obviously the big deal, but I’m sure some of you are looking for the Friday the 13th and Twilight footage which premiered during Spike TV’s SCREAM 2008 Award broadcast tonight. The Friday the 13th footage doesn’t impress me too much. The sequence at the end with the mask, title card, and then a few split seconds of Jason charging at the woman with a machete are definitely the money shots....

The Rock Screenwriters Adapting Time Travel Video Game Darkest Of Days By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2010 11:45 am EST The Rock/Double Jeopardy screenwriters Douglas Cook and David Weisberg are attached to write a a big screen adaptation of the first-person shooter time-travel war video game Darkest of Days. Joe Roth (Alice in Wonderland, Knight & Day) is producing and CAA is currently shopping the project to the hollywood studios. In Darkest of Days the player controls Alexander Morris, a soldier fighting in General Custer’s army during the Battle of Little Big Horn at the beginning of the game....

The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien Debut: What Did You Think? By Hunter Stephenson/June 1, 2009 9:29 pm EST The debut of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien ended just minutes ago, with Will Ferrell as the sole guest (nice entrance), music by Pearl Jam (good choice for the youngs?), and Andy Richter adding a welcome, if plentiful, laugh track. Also: myriad Choco Taco jokes. The show began with Conan—his red wave on high—introducing a pre-taped segment in which he sprinted in a suit from New York to his new HQ in L....

The Truth About Pixar’s Brave And Ronnie Del Carmen’s Short Film Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2009 2:44 am EST Last week, Up director Pete Docter made a slip mentioning a Pixar film titled “Brave” during an interview. Many people speculated that the film is the short which will be attached to Toy Story 3. Brendon guessed that it might be a remake/adaptation of The Brave Little Toaster, a film Disney/Pixar head John Lasseter was originally developing as a computer animated feature film at Disney many years ago....

This Week In DVD: Sex Drive, Futurama, And More By Adam Quigley/Feb. 24, 2009 9:03 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Sex Drive was one of the more underrated movies of 2008, as well as one of the bigger flops (it didn’t even take in half of its rather modest $19 million budget). But with the film being given the 2-Disc Special Edition treatment, it’s obvious that the studio is prepared for the film finding an audience on DVD....

Tobey Maguire Is Not Bilbo Baggins In The Hobbit. Really! By Russ Fischer/Jan. 18, 2010 9:56 pm EST Not long ago there was rumor that Tobey Maguire was high in the running for the pivotal role of Bilbo Baggins in the two Hobbit films. At the time that seemed absurd, given that he had a new Spider-Man film to worry about. Once Sony canned Spidey 4 and Maguire’s job playing Peter Parker, it was almost inevitable that the ‘Tobey as Bilbo’ rumors would start all over again....

Transformers 2 Prequel? By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2007 11:09 am EST Mark Ryan, the man who “voiced” Bumblebee (briefly) in Michael Bay’s big screen adaptation of Transformers says that a prequel may be coming. That’s right. We’ve all been talking about Transformers 2, but who knew they were planning a Transformers 1.5? SKNR asked Ryan about a potential sequel to the film and if he was going to be part of it....