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VOTD: The Asylum’s Speed Racer Knock Off Street Racer By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2008 12:00 am EST [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/streetracer.flv 470 192] Street Racer created by The AsylumThe Pitch: The Asylum, a direct-to-dvd production company responsible for producing cheap knock-offs of the latest big budget Hollywood movies (termed “Knockbusters) takes on Speed Racer with a movie that looks more like a film from The Fast and the Furious series. The Asylum’s past titles include: Transmorphers, Snakes on a Train, I Am Omega, Da Vinci Treasure, Temple of the Skulls, HG Wells’ War of the Worlds, AVH: Alien vs....

Wolverine Reshoots Are Go With Gavin Hood At The Helm By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 16, 2009 12:19 pm EST I, however, am a bit more hopeful. I think these reshoots may allow Hood to craft the film he wanted originally, as well as to add that extra polish that X3 was sorely lacking. The initial Comic-con footage for the film looked like a cheesy 80s action film, but the full trailer showed a more epic scope and better realized action....

247 Minute Cut Of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill In November By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2007 2:05 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Digital Bits also reports that “Grindhouse Presents Death Proof” is listed as a September 18th street date. No word on Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, although we would assume they would be released at the same time to minimize advertising costs. We also assume that this release will be a bare-bones single disc version, with a big hunking special edition of each film coming next year....

7 Minutes Of Harold Ramis Talking Ghostbusters 3 By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2009 11:53 am EST For months and months we’ve been reading snippets from interviews with the original Ghostbusters cast and crew talking about Ghostbusters 3, which is in development. But our friends at MakingOf have director Harold Ramis (who played Egon in the original films) talking about the possibility of making a third film for almost seven minutes. He talks about how the effects might be transformed in this new computer generated world, making it look low-tech, the unproduced draft of Ghostbusters in Hell script, and how the project is developing, and the danger of making sequels....

Avatar: New TV Spot, Coke Commercial And Japanese Trailer By Russ Fischer/Nov. 6, 2009 12:00 pm EST This comes on the heels of a report that says the full-length theatrical trailer boosted Avatar’s online views by 418%. Which is a confusing number, as reported by Variety, that doesn’t really tell us much about whether more people really know more about the film now. But it does suggest that the whole Avatar Day thing was really a big waste of money, which a lot of us had already suspected, having attended half-full ‘screenings’....

Behind The Scenes Of Coraline By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2008 12:11 am EST Rotten Tomatoes got their hands on a behind the scenes featurette for Henry Selick’s big screen 3D adaptation of Coraline. Based on Neil Gaiman’s short children’s novel of the same name, Coraline is a young bored girl who discovers that bricked-up wall behind a door in her house leads to another dimension, where she has a different mother, and different father....

Catching The Sundance Bug And Stan Lee Interview By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2008 11:29 pm EST Hello again everyone, I’ve returned from Park City, but I’ve unfortunately caught the flu (which most people in Utah were referring to as “The Sundance Bug”). I know at least seven other people who caught this thing while working at Sundance, and one of my good friends, Frosty, even ended up flying home early. I hope this thing will be over with in a 24-48 hours, but right now I’m feeling pretty crappy....

Damon And Affleck’s First Film For Warner Bros. Could Be About NY Yankees Sex Scandal By Russ Fischer/Feb. 19, 2010 8:57 am EST I wonder how Yankees fans might feel about a couple of die-hard Red Sox fans working on a film about two ’70s NY Yankees players. And then I wonder how Boston would react to those same two hometown guys donning pinstripes. Ben Affleck is now attached to direct and possibly star in The Trade, a film about the scandal that broke open in 1973 when two Yankees players revealed that they’d swapped wives....

Danny McBride To Star In Jody Hill’s L.A.P.I. By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 4, 2010 7:00 pm EST What’s intriguing is that unlike their previous collaborations The Foot Fist Way, HBO’s Eastbound & Down, and Observe & Report, the idea and pitch for L.A.P.I. originates outside the crew’s creative circle, from screenwriter team Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan. The duo have two other buzzing projects in development: a comedy entitled Comic Con (one of two scripts by these guys on the 2009 Black List) and a remake of Brewster’s Millions....

Dominic Monaghan And Freddy Rodriguez Cast In Fortuna By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 8, 2008 1:28 am EST Move over Middle East-based War films, it seems like a wave of economic crisis movies and television shows are on the way. Last week we wrote about an upcoming HBO series called Americatown, which follows groups of Americans who immigrate to other countries in a future where the United States has collapsed. Today it was announced that Dominic Monaghan (Lost) and Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under) have been cast in a horror thriller which sounds a bit like The Island meets Children of Men....

Early Buzz And Video Clip: Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 5, 2008 10:45 pm EST Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler appears to be a big hit at the 65th Venice Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter claims that the film created “a buzz that had been absent for most of the festival.” Anne Thompson reports that the film is hoping to land a distributor which could “ramp up a release before year’s end so that [Mickey] Rourke can qualify for Oscar consideration” making a December release very likely....

Fan Art: Ryan Reynolds As The Green Lantern By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2009 10:26 am EST Casino Royale director Martin Campbell is set to helm the project based on a screenplay by Greg Berlanti (Everwood, Eli Stone), Marc Guggenheim (Law & Order, Eli Stone) and Michael Green (Smallville, Heroes). The Green Lantern character was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell in All-American Comics #16, published in July 1940....

Ghostbusters 3 Round-Up - Including First Line Of Dialogue? By Brendon Connelly/June 8, 2009 12:24 pm EST Interest in Ghostbusting is at fever pitch, and the imminent launch of the original Ghostbusters film on Blu-Ray and the tie-in videogames must have something to do with it. All the same, genuine interest in the franchise is as high as any time in the last 20 years, at least, and stories revolving around the upcoming third installment are piling up thick and fast....

By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2010 10:00 am EST I always find Infographics to be fun, which probably explains why we feature them a lot on /Film. OnlineMBA has created an Infographic which focuses on the Film Industry by the numbers, showing that even in a recession, Hollywood remains strong in the world of entertainment. Check out the full infographic, after the jump. Via: Online MBA Via: Online MBA

Iron Man 2: Eliza Dushku Wants To Be The Black Widow By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 12, 2009 2:09 pm EST If there isn’t an online petition, I’m sure one will be created any minute now. And later when Dushku was leaving the studio, she told Howard to “call Favreau” and put in a good word fr her. Thanks to /Film reader Christopher M for the tip. “Maybe we could all tell them....

JJ Abrams Finally Speaks Up About Cloverfield Or NOT By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2007 3:32 pm EST Update: When we originally found this quote from JJ Abrams on Jeff Wells’ Hollywood Elsewhere website, the tenses were in first person (“he” was “I”), as if they were directly quoted from Abrams. Shortly after we posted the story, Wells changed his story from “Producer JJ Abrams” to “A guy in the pipeline of producer J....

John Krasinski Is The Top Choice For Captain America? By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2010 12:07 pm EST Why hasn’t he been offered the role? Why hasn’t it yet been announced? According to Fox’s source, the producers are having Krasinski read with multiple actresses up for the female leads, to ensure chemistry. According to the source, “They want to lock down the role and then they will narrow down everyone else.” When Krasinski was revealed on the short list a few weeks ago, fans were not happy with the choice, calling him too small and unmuscular for the role of the scientifically engineered super soldier....

Movie Review: Balls Of Fury By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 29, 2007 5:06 pm EST If you ask the movie studio, Balls of Fury was a huge Comic Con sensation. Rogue Pictures announced that they had decided to move the release date of Balls of Fury up because of the incredible response they received at the convention. While I was covering the con, I talked to hundreds of people, yet didn’t hear one positive thing about the flick....

Must Watch: Pixar’s Wall-E Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2007 7:57 pm EST The trailer for Pixar’s 2008 movie Wall-E is attached to Ratatouille. But you don’t have to wait until June 29th to see it. Check it out after the jump. Official plot synopsis: The year is 2700. WALL•E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for....

New Wall-E Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2007 12:43 pm EST The official movie trailer for Pixar/Disney’s Wall-E hit the web today. Update: We originally had a french version embedded, but Disney has decided to release the English/U.S. version of the trailer a day early, and you can now watch that version below. Check out the new WALL-E trailer after the jump, followed by a new official plot synopsis. [flv:http://media2....