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New Posters: Benjamin Button, The Wrestler, Earth Stood Still And Quantum Of Solace By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2008 2:43 am EST I just got home from seeing Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (yes again… what a wonderful film) and noticed the new posters for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button hanging in the lobby of the Sundance Kabuki theater in San Francisco. I snapped some photos with my iPhone (hence the low light artifacting)....

Photos: Watchmen’s New York City Backlot Set By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2007 2:20 pm EST Look closely at the photo above. It’s a vintage photo of New York City, right? Nope! It’s a photo from the Vancouver, BC-based New York City backlot set of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. Snyder was kind enough to drop by the Watchmen website with some photos and fun facts about this amazing set. I’m extremely impressed with the production design of this backlot....

R-Rated “Red Band” Trailers Return To Regal Movie Theaters By Hunter Stephenson/March 17, 2008 8:44 am EST “I’m back. [belch!]” Oh yes, to be bathed in ketchup-colored red by an R-rated movie trailer inside a cinema. It’s been nearly a decade since the largest theater chain in North America, Regal Entertainment Group, showed its last restricted movie trailer but times are a changing. Regal will reintroduce the kid hating trailers before R-rated and NC17-rated films, with other exhibitors expected to follow suit....

Set Photos: Zombieland Invades Hollywood By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2009 10:36 pm EST Zombieland has officially finished filming today with a scene shot at Hollywood’s famous Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Director Ruben Fleischer posted a couple photos on his blog. More after the jump. “Zombieland is officially done shooting. We finished up today with some serious LA landmarks – Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Beverly Drive, and the 4th Street Bridge. All in all a good day....

Simon Pegg And Nick Frost Say Hello From The Set Of Paul By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2009 5:10 pm EST The website for Paul, the film written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and directed by Adventureland’s Greg Mottola, has gone live. Whatispaul.com already has a handful of image galleries with on-set photos and a couple of video blogs featuring Pegg, Frost and co-stars Kristin Wiig and Joe Lo Truglio....

The Limits Of Control Movie Poster By Hunter Stephenson/March 11, 2009 4:02 pm EST The stylish trailer for The Limits of Control, the latest directorial effort from silverfox indie kingpin Jim Jarmusch, premiered last week to great reception. Today brings the official one-sheet and its retro, Euro-sploitation design is just as appealing; in fact it might even get you laid. Co-starring Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Gael Garcia Bernal, the film follows a mysterious criminal type (Isaach De Bankolé in the lead) “completing a job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged....

The Rock-Afire Explosion Movie Trailer (Accurately Fun/Creepy!) By Hunter Stephenson/July 4, 2008 3:42 pm EST We’ll take this sentence to offer the ongoing meme for Showbiz Pizza’s house band an extended welcome and a thanks for making so many parents’ divorces and kids’ birthday parties that much more awkward, wacky and bipolar. This forthcoming documentary shines a light on the magic inner workings and fandom of The Rock-afire Explosion, the animatronic musical act and variety show that was a loud staple at Showbiz Pizza franchises in the ’80s....

The Wrestler Release Date Schedule By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2008 9:15 pm EST Wednesday, December 17th Los Angeles New York Friday, December 26th Boston Chicago San Francisco Washington, D.C. Friday, January 9th Austin Dallas/Ft. Worth Denver Detroit Hartford/New Haven Minneapolis Philadelphia Phoenix San Diego Seattle More after the jump. Friday, January 16th Albany Albuquerque Atlanta Baltimore Boca Raton/West Palm Beach Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas...

Video: Behind The Scenes Of The Golden Compass By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2007 1:29 am EST HisDarkMaterials.org has posted a new behind the scenes package for The Golden Compass (Movie Trailer, Poster). The five minute video is not a traditional EPK featurette, but instead a compilation of behind the scenes footage and film clips. They show a bunch of comparisons between green screen and final effects footage. I’m really starting to get pumped for this movie....

VOTD: 4-Minute Iron Man 2 Extended Fan Edit Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 11, 2010 10:41 pm EST Marvel has released two movie trailers for Iron Man 2 thus far (first on here, second one here). Our friend Vic from screenrant decided to edit the footage from both trailers into an extended trailer that runs almost four minutes in length. The result is surprisingly pretty cool (but obviously, the collective footage nothing we haven’t seen before)....

VOTD: Ben Stiller And Jonah Hill Try To Crash The NBC Gates By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2009 10:30 pm EST Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill try to crash the NBC gates to promote the new Night at the Museum sequel, but they aren’t on the list. Watch the videos after the jump. VOTD: Ben Stiller And Jonah Hill Try To Crash The NBC Gates By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2009 10:30 pm EST...

Y: The Last Man Trilogy? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2008 4:26 pm EST We’ve been following the development of a movie adaptation of Pia Guerra and Brian K. Vaughan’s comic book series Y: The Last Man for a while now. The Vertigo branded comic book series is the best I’ve ever read. Eagle Eye and Disturbia helmer D.J. Caruso has been attached to the project for a while now, and now tells USA Today that it might become a trilogy of films:...

Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch Aiming For March 2011 Release By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 20, 2009 12:30 pm EST Editor’s Update: Zack Snyder just confirmed to Collider most of our previous story, saying that he plans to begin filming in Fall 2009, aiming for a March 2011 release (300 was released on March 9th 2007, Watchmen hits on March 6th 2009, so I’m guessing the release date for Sucker Punch could be March 11th 2011....

Boogeyman Writers Hired To Remake Poltergeist?! By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2008 8:21 pm EST I have some bad news. Not only is MGM remaking Poltergeist, but they have hired Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, the team behind the modern horror classic (sarcasm) Boogeyman to write the screenplay. Tobe Hooper’s 1982 film was co-written, produced and highly supervised by Steven Spielberg, and told the story of a family’s haunted home which had been built over an Indian burial ground....

Case 39 Trailer Finally Leaks By Brendon Connelly/April 25, 2009 12:11 pm EST It has now been almost three years since Case 39 went into production. That’s some delay and seeing as the best information we have on a release date simply indicates a vague 2010 (I’m told that you shouldn’t believe the September ‘09 you will see in some places) I’m surprised to see a trailer online at all but one has turned up unofficially within the last hour on YouTube....

Doomsday Street Marketing In Hollywood By Hunter Stephenson/March 7, 2008 2:32 pm EST Have any Slashfilm readers in Hollywood seen the following costumed street team promoting Neil Marshall’s Doomsday near Franklin and Highland? I’m not sure if this stunt would even grab my attention in L.A., because so many people in L.A. dress this ridiculously. In the book The Game such loud “fashion” is even referred to as “peacocking” I think....

Exclusive: Up In The Air Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2009 5:53 am EST The biggest hit of the Telluride Film Festival was the surprise premiere of Jason Reitman’s adaptation of Up in the Air. For those of you who missed it, you can read my glowing review here. George Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham, “a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams....

First Look: Adam Sandler In You Don’t Mess With The Zohan By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2007 4:02 am EST JoBlo has posted the first photo of Adam Sandler in his new comedy You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, which is directed by Dennis Dugan. Dugan was once a great comedy director, having directed some of Sandler’s better films (Big Daddy, Happy Gilmore). Recently however, Dugan has turned out more than a couple bombs: Chuck & Larry, The Benchwarmers, National Security, Saving Silverman, Beverly Hills Ninja, Brain Donors and Problem Child....

First Look: Channing Tatum And Terrence Howard In Dito Montiel’s Fighting By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2009 3:23 pm EST Rouge Pictures has released the first two photos from Dito Montiel’s follow-up to A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints – an action drama set in the world of underground street fighting. Fighting stars Channing Tatum as a small-town boy Shawn MacArthur, who has come to New York City with nothing. “Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard) sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting....

First Look: Taylor Kitsch As Gambit In Wolverine By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 28, 2008 11:33 pm EST Empire Magazine has the first official photo of Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch as Gambit in Gavin Hood’s Wolverine. Attendees at Comic Con were lucky to see an early preview of the film which featured Gambit in action. I still think Lost star Josh Halloway would have been a better fit for the character....