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Paramount To Distribute Iron Man Sequels, Thor, Captain America And Avengers By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2008 1:06 pm EST Paramount Pictures has signed a deal with Marvel Entertainment to distribute the studio’s next five self-produced film projects: Iron Man 2 (May 7, 2010) Thor (July 16, 2010) The First Avenger: Captain America (May 6, 2011) The Avengers (July 15, 2011) Iron Man 3 (Date Not Yet Announced) The deal is an extension of the original agreement for Iron Man, and includes worldwide distribution....

Pixar Monopoly? No Way! By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2007 2:23 am EST My only question is, where is Remy? If I were a kid living in the 1980’s, I would have loved a Pixar themed monopoly board game (likely due to the super advanced computer generated characters from the future) But in the new millennium, a board game seems retro. Or as Elijah Wood’s character says in Back to the Future 2: “You have to use your hands?...

Prince Of Persia Russian Poster By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2010 11:00 am EST ComingSoon has gotten their hands on the Russian Poster for Mike Newell’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Click on through to CS to see it in higher resolution. If you missed the recent movie trailer, which was released earlier this week, click here to see it now.OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME WALT DISNEY PICTURES and JERRY BRUCKHEIMER FILMS Website: Disney....

Punisher: War Zone Gets R-Rating By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 2, 2008 4:53 pm EST For a comic book film based on a Marvel character, official updates on the status of Punisher: War Zone remain few and far between. Back in August, rumors circulated that the December release from Lionsgate would be re-cut for a PG-13 rating. No word from the studio was released to confirm or deny this. Today, CHUD says the film has received an R-rating from the MPAA for “pervasive strong brutal violence, language and some drug use....

Razzie Nominations Are In; Transformers 2 And Land Of The Lost Targeted As 2009’s Worst By Russ Fischer/Feb. 1, 2010 8:37 am EST Really, the only notable thing about this batch of Razzie noms is that Sandra Bullock could be one of those rare individuals to find themselves nominated for both a Razzie and an Oscar in the same week. We’ll see if that happens tomorrow morning, when the Oscar nominations down down....

Robert Downey Jr. Is In Talks To Be The Next Vampire Lestat By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 14, 2009 5:45 pm EST After Neil Jordan’s intense and vivid Interview With the Vampire and Michael Rymer’s deathly dull Queen of the Damned, and in step with the current Twilight-fuelled vampmania, it looks that Universal is looking to reboot the cinematic incarnation of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. The first book in the series was Interview, and I’d imagine a purist-pleasing reboot would start there, though I don’t really expect that to be the case here....

Shane Black Is A Cold Warrior By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2008 9:41 pm EST It looks like Shane Black might not be directing Lethal Weapon 5 anytime soon. Variety reports that Black is signed to direct a Cold War-era spy film titled Cold Warrior for Universal. According to Wikipedia, Cold Warrior is a phrase used to describe the men and women involved in the shaping and executing of American and Soviet policy during the Cold War....

The RZA, Hans Zimmer Teamed Up To Score Vin Diesel’s Babylon A.D. By Hunter Stephenson/June 26, 2008 8:21 pm EST One is the feted composer of films like True Romance and The Dark Knight, the other is the leader of the Wu-Tang Clan and a killer composer in his own right (Ghost Dog, Kill Bill). What do they both have in common? They both made appearances on the latest Slashfilm Muxtape!...

The Weinstein Co To Make Fraggle Rock Movie By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2008 11:36 pm EST For some kids it was Sesame Street, for others it was the Smurfs, for my best friend Jon it was Nightmare on Elm Street (which explains… a lot), but for me I grew up watching Fraggle Rock. I’ve always believed that the Jim Henson created 1983 television show was vastly underrated. Meanwhile the characters have earned cred in the hipster crowd in recent years....

Tom Cruise’s Fantastic Options By Brendon Connelly/April 22, 2009 4:06 am EST Variety have published a very exciting list of every film that could, potentially, become the next film for Tom Cruise – as well as a list of the various writers and directors working on them. The focus is on the writers, as the umbrella notion here is that Cruise is calling for lotsa costly rewrites from script doctors. Curiously enough, it is later made clear in the piece that some of these writers aren’t doctoring as much as coming on to the projects as full-on writers....

Universal Eyeing American Pie 4? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2008 2:01 am EST Moviehole is reporting that Universal Pictures has decided to abandon the direct-to-DVD American Pie movies because they are planning to make a fourth theatrical film which will bring back some of the leads from the previous films. It is unknown who will return, although if I had to guess, I’d say that it might be called American Marriage, and pick up with Jim and Michelle Levenstein (Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan), who might be celebrating their 10th year anniversary....

VOTD: James Cameron’s 30 Minute Interview On Charlie Rose By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2010 5:00 am EST If you’ve been reading /Film for a while, then you know how much we love long form interviews. James Cameron appeared on Charlie Rose on Wednesday, February 17th and gave a 30-minute interview. He talks a bunch about Avatar, the future of Avatar (prequels, sequels, novels), addresses the comparison to George Lucas’ Star Wars, reveals the most important thing he knows about storytelling, and about former-wife and Oscar-competitor Kathryn Bigelow....

Where Famous Quotes Came From By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 4, 2010 6:22 am EST If I’ve heard one author answer the question “Where do you get your ideas from?” with a shrug and a pained face, then I’ve heard one hundred. Faring somewhat better, however, are the screenwriters talking to The LA Times about the origins of some famous and beloved movie quotes. The paper has compiled anecdotal genesis stories for Sudden Impact’s “Go ahead… make my day”, A League of Their Own’s “There’s no crying in baseball”, Cool Hand Luke’s “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” and Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates line....

Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2008 8:39 pm EST One of my favorite films of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival is Morgan Spurlock’s follow-up to his hit 2004 documentary Super Size Me. Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden is a documentary on the epic action movie scale. A search for the most wanted man on the planet becomes a nice primer about the middle east and terrorists....

Winged Creatures Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2008 11:43 pm EST Peach Arch has released the trailer for Rowan Woods’ ensemble indie drama Winged Creatures. The film has a fantastic cast which includes Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Jackie Earle Haley, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Hudson, Dakota Fanning, and Josh Hutcherson, but the story seems a big forced and reeks of Oscar bait. It also has a kinda low-fi Crash vibe. The story follows five traumatized people as they struggle to regain their trust in the ordinary world....

Wolverine Surprises Fans At Comic Con: Trailer Features Gambit, Deadpool, Blob, And More By Adam Quigley/July 24, 2008 4:35 pm EST In an entirely unprecedented move, Hugh Jackman burst onto the scene at Comic Con after having flown straight from Australia, with filming on Wolverine literally finishing up just this past week. He announced that he just had to reveal to the real fans (without whom he claims he “wouldn’t have a career”) what the movie would be like, offering up the first ever seen trailer/footage....

WTF: Crash - The TV Series Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2008 10:13 pm EST Is it just me or does the television show adaptation of Paul Haggis’ Academy Award winning film Crash look really REALLY bad? [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/crash_trailer.flv 470 352] WTF: Crash - The TV Series Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2008 10:13 pm EST Is it just me or does the television show adaptation of Paul Haggis’ Academy Award winning film Crash look really REALLY bad?...

Yes, That Is David Lynch On “The Twitter Page” By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 23, 2009 6:29 pm EST Today, a few readers inquired about the legitimacy of David_Lynch on Twitter, and the priceless video above confirms that it is indeed him, director of Eraserhead and proud Eagle Scout. As you might expect/hope, Lynch’s frequently updated Twitter stream flows like a stilted algorithm for transcendental meditation mantras (“Don’t look at the big pile....

/Film Update: We Are Back By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2007 11:04 am EST You might be wondering what happened to the news on /Film today. Sunday we were in Los Angeles for the Grindhouse junket. We did 15 interviews, saw the movie and flew two times in the course of under 30 hours. It was a fun but exhausting experience. But we’ve gone through the “recovery coma-like sleep” and are back....

9 Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2008 8:17 pm EST 9 is a computer animated film produced by Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch), directed by former WETA Digital artist Shane Acker, and featuring the music of Danny Elfman. Based on Acker’s Academy Award-nominated 2005 film festival short (watch it on YouTube), 9 is a post-apocalyptic nightmare in which all of humanity is threatened. The official plot synopsis follows:...