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Aronofsky’s Noah To Become Graphic Novel Before Film? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 11, 2008 1:42 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When Darren Aronofsky was 13-years-old, he won a United Nations poetry competition at his Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn school for a poem about the end of the world as seen through the eyes of Noah. And so started Aronofsky’s obsession with the biblical figure. In September we talked to Aronofsky about his idea for a film based on Noah:...

Aykroyd On Ghostbusters 3 By David Chen/Sept. 3, 2008 6:57 pm EST In a recent interview with EOnline, Dan Aykroyd was asked about the status of Ghostbusters 3. Aykroyd responded: Well, y’know, two sharp young writers are purported to be writing the sequel, the third movie now. If I could interest Seth [Rogen] and Judd [Apatow] to be part of it, that would be an absolute dream. Given Aykroyd’s relationship with the franchise, it’s nearly impossible that he wouldn’t know for certain exactly what is going on with the script, so it’s quite plausible that a script is currently in the works as he says....

Box Office: Watchmen Down 24% Saturday; Is Word-Of-Mouth “Killing The Masks?” By Steve Mason/March 8, 2009 1:13 pm EST Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Alan Moore’s densely written graphic novel tumbled 24% from Friday to Saturday. Granted, midnight shows took a lot of steam out of the movie, but that’s a pretty significant fall given that the Males 25 Plus demo – a key one for this film – were not likely part of the Thursday fanboy crowd and, despite the current unemployment rate, were working on Friday....

Casting Notes: Two Gigs For Viola Davis; Gerard Butler Does Shakespeare With Fiennes; Chow Yun Fat Does Action/Comedy By Russ Fischer/Oct. 22, 2009 9:44 am EST Here’s a batch of casting news to tide you over until the next Page 2. Viola Davis, always a great actress and whose appearance in Doubt nearly owns the entire film, has taken two roles. One is in It’s Kind of a Funny Story, where she’ll work with…Zach Galifianakis?...

Chris Pine CONFIRMED As Kirk In Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2007 12:27 pm EST Chris Pine has dropped out of playing Junior Stemmons in Joe Carnahan’s White Jazz, which means he’s 100% confirmed to play Kirk in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. I know, I know, we already had a Carnahan story earlier today, but this is some breaking news as Pine was undecided when the news broke a couple days back that he was Abrams final choice for the role of Kirk....

Cool Stuff: AXN Brazil’s Lost Promotional Poster By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 25, 2010 8:00 am EST AXN Brazil has released this awesome, highly-detailed promotional poster for the final season of LOST. Check out the full uncropped poster after the jump. Click on the image to enlarge. Image found via silost Cool Stuff: AXN Brazil’s Lost Promotional Poster By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 25, 2010 8:00 am EST AXN Brazil has released this awesome, highly-detailed promotional poster for the final season of LOST....

District B14 By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2008 8:02 pm EST A sequel to the 2004 French parkour action film District B13 is set to begin production in July. Written by Luc Besson, and directed by Patrick Alessandrin (Mean Spirit, August 15th), the sequel will be titled Banlieue 14 (or District B14 in the states). No plot details have been released, we only know that an open casting call for parkour practitioners has been put out on the official blog....

Early Buzz: Benjamin Button - IndieWire Is Unimpressed, Variety Predicts Fincher’s First Academy Nomination By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2008 3:00 am EST IndieWire’s Eugene Hernandez has seen David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and admits “that Benjamin Button is, on first viewing, hardly a lock for best picture,” but that “the attention that will justifiably be paid to its considerable technological achievements could sweep it into the higher profile categories....

Friday Box Office: Madagascar 2 Grabs $17M, Possible $58M Three-Day By Steve Mason/Nov. 8, 2008 1:52 am EST Reviews are solid (59% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), the playing field is wide open for 2 weeks with only Quantum of Solace (Sony) opening next Friday, and Mad 2 is decidedly multicultural, which means that, not only will this sequel be just as big overseas as its 2005 predecessor, but it also feels just right for a country that has just elected Barack Obama as President....

GeekBomb: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Edition! By Kevin Kelly/Feb. 24, 2009 4:25 pm EST You might have noticed a suspicious absence of GeekBombs on the site lately. That’s mainly because the last one I was working on blew up in my face, scarring half of my visage and leaving me with a marred silver dollar that I now use to make decisions with, and the flips just haven’t been falling the right way lately....

Google Releases 2008 Zeitgeist Rankings By David Chen/Dec. 10, 2008 12:31 pm EST Google recently released their 2008 Zeitgeist rankings, an amalgamation of billions of search queries that may or may not collectively define what captured the world’s spirit this year. From their “Top of Mind” section, they have a listing of “Fond Farewells,” those that passed away who were most searched for and many of whom are names we recognize:...

Hollywood Studios Lose Bid For Terminator Franchise Rights By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2010 9:50 pm EST The Terminator movie rights went up for auction today, and Sony Pictures and Lionsgate were bidding frantically back and fourth from 3:00pm to 8:00pm tonight. But as the dust cleared, neither movie studio came out the winner. Halcyon accepted a $29.5 million bid from a Santa Barbara-based hedge fund Pacificor, the debtholder which pushed the company into bankruptcy....

IMDB Hacked? The Dark Knight Now Worst Movie Of All Time?! By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2008 11:53 pm EST It appears that IMDb might have been Hacked. /Film reader Andrew M sends along word that The Dark Knight is now ranked both #1 on the Top 250 and #1 on the Bottom 100 of all time (note: the screenshot above is from my IMDb pro account, as the standard IMDb display of this information is rather messed up....

Indiana Jones And The Two Hour And Twenty-Something Minute Sequel By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2008 1:29 am EST Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is locked, and the final running time is around 140-something minutes. That’s right, Indiana Jones 4 is almost two and a half hours long!? Previous installments ran 115, 118, 127 minutes respectively (and in order from Raiders to Last Crusade). So it appears that a bump in running time makes sense mathematically, but does an action movie sequel really need to be that long?...

Jake Gyllenhaal Up For Lead In Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time? Orlando Bloom Is Not. By Hunter Stephenson/April 8, 2008 4:43 pm EST “Keep deleting my comments about laser cats Slashfilm. Keep deleting ’em.” Can I just say that I could not stomach the marketing for another movie, let alone a trilogy’s worth, where Orlando Bloommassages a meticulously groomed goatee while having a sword fight? Gracias. Thankfully, Latino Review reports via numerous anonymous sources that an offer has gone out to Jake Gyllenhaal for the lead in Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer’s summer 2009 golden egg Prince of Persia: Sands of Time....

Javier Bardem In Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Biutiful By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 23, 2008 12:59 am EST Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men) will star in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s (21 Grams, Babel) Biutiful, which begins shooting in Barcelona next week. Inarritu wrote the script himself, his first stand alone effort after much-publicized break-up with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. According to Variety, Spanish-language film is about “a man embroiled in shady dealings who is confronted by a childhood friend, now a policeman....

John Lithgow Joins Dexter, 24 Casts Two More By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2009 10:59 am EST Entertainment Weekly is reporting that John Lithgow is joining the Season 4 cast of Dexter and The Hollywood Reporter has word that Jennifer Westfeldt and John Boyd have joined the cast of the eigth season of Fox’s 24.Full details after the jump. In Dexter, Lithgow would be playing Walter Simmons, (possible spoilers ahead – highlight the invisotext to reveal) an unassuming suburbanite serial killer named Trinity Killer (because he always kills in threes) who relocates to Miami....

Juno Deleted Scene: Cafe Triste By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2008 11:08 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It should be noted that the color timing and audio was never finalized, which is typical of most deleted scenes released on DVD. Enjoy. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/junocafetriste.flv 460 266]

Moviegoer Stabbed In The Throat After Complaining About Cellphone User During Shutter Island Screening By David Chen/March 10, 2010 5:14 am EST As /Filmcast listeners know, I’m a strong advocate for courteous movie watching. No talking, no cell phone usage whatsoever, no doing anything else obnoxious. In fact, I was just reading Linda Holmes’ piece this morning, “The Shusher and the Shushed: Why It Matters When You Talk During Movies,” and getting heartened that other people in the world share this point of view....

Namor The Sub-Mariner Movie Still In The Works By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 12, 2009 12:37 pm EST Prince Namor The Sub-Mariner is one of the Marvel characters to still have their movie rights held under option to a movie studio, in this case Universal, and not be part of the ‘crossover club’ sheltering under the Marvel Pictures roof. That disqualifies him from appearing in the Avengers film in any way, of course, but the ongoing appetite for Marvel movies means Universal have been keeping their Namor picture in development....