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LOL: Cesar Romero As The Joker In The Dark Knight By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2008 4:06 am EST What if Cesar Romero reprised his role as The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight? DialBforBlog.com will be presenting two weeks of 1966 retro Dark Knight parodies. Did I mention how much I love the old 1966 Batman movie? “It could be any one of them… But which one? Which ones? Pretty fishy what happened to me on that ladder… You mean where there’s a fish there could be a penguin?...

Matt Damon To Star In Robert F Kennedy Biopic His Life By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2010 10:34 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ross burst into Hollywood as the screenwriter and co-producer of Big. He also wrote Mr. Baseball, Dave and Lassie before making his feature directorial debut with Pleasentville. He has since wrote and directed Seabiscuit and the animated film The Tale of Despereaux....

Michelle Trachtenberg And Jim Norton Join A Couple Of Dicks By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2009 7:00 pm EST Kevin Smith’s buddy cop comedy A Couple of Dicks has been filming in and around New York City for a month now, but a few more names have been added to the cast list. Last night we told you that Jason Lee would be filming a small part in the film, and tonight Variety confirms our earlier report and adds one more name to the list: Michelle Trachtenberg, best known as Dawn Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl....

Neveldine/Taylor Leave Jonah Hex Over Creative Differences By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2008 1:34 am EST I’ll be perfectly honest, the only reason I was ever interested in Warner Bros’ big screen adaptation of Jonah Hex, was the involvement of filmmakers Neveldine/Taylor, the insane directing team behind Crank. Variety reports that Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have decided to leave the project because of “creative differences” with the movie studio over the direction of the comic book adaptation....

Oliver Stone To Direct Wall Street 2, Michael Douglas And Shia LaBeouf In Talks To Star By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2009 2:32 pm EST According to Latino Review , the film is set nearly two decades after the first film, with Gekko, having spent 14-years in prison for insider trading and security fraud, now making the lecture circuit as a published financial author. He mentors a young trader named Jacob (likely the character LaBeouf is playing) in hopes to reconnect with his daughter Winnie, Jacob’s wife....

Re-Animator Remake Coming In 3D By Brendon Connelly/March 1, 2009 10:23 am EST The next attempt to resurrect the Re-Animator line of undead misadventures will reportedly be a 3D remake of the original film. Shock Till You Drop tell us this rehash will come courtesy of producer Ray Haboush and Brian Yuzna, director of the Re-Animator sequels and producer of the first entry, which I take to mean that Stuart Gordon most likely won’t be involved....

Robocop Screenwriter Says Darren Aronofsky Is Still Attached By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2010 9:06 am EST We’ve heard a lot of back and forth about MGM’s proposed Robocop remake, most of which is has to do with whether Darren Aronofsky, the director originally hired to tackle the film, is still part of the project. The last official word, in late summer ‘09, was that Aronosky was still part of the project, but since then there has been a lot of rumor that he has walked away....

Rumor: Indiana Jones And Raiders Of The Found Ark? By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2007 9:56 am EST AICN reports a new huge Indiana Jones 4 rumor, which if true, might be a great way to wrap up the series. See, the idea is to go back to the beginning. We know that Marion Ravenwood is in it. We also know that she had a kid with Indy (Shia?). And now we learn that John Hurt could be playing Abner Ravenwood....

Sequel Talk: Pineapple Express, Hulk 3, Sex And The City 2, Bad Boys 3 By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2008 12:45 am EST Hollywood loves sequels, and the readers of movie blogs love to hear the early talk of them (even if it never develops into anything). So lets take a look at the recent sequel gossip going around the interwebs. Seth Rogen and James Franco are already talking about the possibility of the first comedy sequel produced by Judd Apatow – Pineapple Express 2?...

Speed Racer Movie Poster In 3D By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2007 12:52 pm EST The movie poster for Speed Racer is in 3D. No seriously. Our friends at FirstShowing found a new lenticular Speed Racer poster at his local multiplex. The helmet under Speed’s arms pops out at you, and the background is also in 3D. Check out the poster after the jump. We hope to have a better photo of this poster soon enough (but it seems like one of those things that you have to see in person)....

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Yoda Concept Art By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2008 1:09 pm EST StarWars.com has a look at the concept artwork for Yoda for the upcoming computer animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie/television series. Click on the photo above to enlarge. Some of the detailed notes are pretty interesting. Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Yoda Concept Art By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2008 1:09 pm EST...

SyFy Looking For The Next Great Space Opera By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2009 12:45 pm EST It’s going to take me a while to get used to SyFy, the terrible new name for the SciFi Channel, but while I’m wrangling with that very small adjustment the heads of the network are up to a bigger task: looking for the replacement for Battlestar Galactica and Farscape. Quite a task, since Farscape was the core geek magnet, while Battlestar broke out into the mainstream....

The Dark Knight Video Game In The Works! By Peter Sciretta/July 23, 2008 9:38 am EST And you thought they forgot? /Gamer has news that Warner Bros is working to release a video game based on The Dark Knight. Apparently, Gary Oldman, who plays Lt. James Gordon in the film, revealed to G4 that the game will be hit stores around the same time as the DVD/Blu-ray release of the movie....

The End Of The World Begins: Cyberdyne Develops Robotic Suit By Peter Sciretta/May 22, 2009 11:28 am EST Did you know that Cyberdyne is a real robotics company? Have they developed a robotic suit that will likely evolve into self-aware robots, Judgment Day and the end of the world as we know it? Cyberdyne, which takes its name from the fictional company responsible for creating the supercomputer Skynet within the Terminator films, is developing a Hybrid Assistive Limb (or HAL… get it?...

This Week In DVD: The Dark Knight, Lost (Season 4), Horton Hears A Who, And More By Adam Quigley/Dec. 9, 2008 12:01 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Please don’t take the commentary on the movies and TV shows too seriously, as they’re meant not to be reviews but rather previews that include the general thoughts and ramblings of a twice-committed DVD addict. The categories represent solely the author’s intentions towards the DVDs at hand, and are in no way meant to be a reflection on what he thinks other people should rent or buy....

VOTD: Animatronic Remy From Pixar’s Ratatouille By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2008 12:00 am EST Animatronic Remy The Rat The Pitch: This life-size animatronic Remy the rat from Pixar’s Ratatouille is used to attract guests to enter a restaurant in Disneyland Paris’ Disney Studios park. Check out another video after the jump. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD?...

VOTD: Miranda July On How To Make A Button By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2009 12:00 am EST Me, You, and Everyone We Know writer/director/star Miranda July attempts to show us how buttons are made, but not really. Be warned, if you haven’t seen her feature films or shorts, it’s likely you won’t understand the humor or get the joke. Video after the jump. VOTD: Miranda July On How To Make A Button...

Why The Number 23 Is So Mysterious By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2007 5:45 am EST So what’s the deal with the Number 23? The Joel Schumacher film starring Jim Carrey hits theaters at the end of the month. In the movie Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) finds a book that seems to be based on his life. While reading the book, he comes across details of a murder that hasn’t YET happened; and as a consequence, he becomes obsessed with the number 23 and its ambiguous involvement with the murder....

57 Movies In 123 Hours By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 9, 2008 3:39 pm EST Last month we told you about the Netflix World Movie Watching Championships. The event began on October 2nd at 10:30am, and lasted until a new Guinness World Record, for most consecutive hours spent watching movies, was set five days later on October 7th. Movie lovers Suresh Joachim and Claudia Wavra emerged as the winners of the Netflix Popcorn Bowl event after 123 hours and 10 minutes of continuous movie watching....

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2010 10:18 am EST Antoine Fuqua is interesting proof that, with the right combination of ingredients, a director can really surprise you. Most of his catalog isn’t particularly impressive (Bait, King Arthur, Shooter) but then there’s Training Day. While we wait to see if Fuqua and his Training Day star Ethan Hawke can do a little alchemy again in Brooklyn’s Finest (have to say, doesn’t look like it) the director is lining up other work....