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Cool Stuff: Darth Vader’s Self Maintenance T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2008 6:00 am EST We’ve featured some of Glennz t-shirt designs in past editions of cool stuff (for example, the Ghostbusting mini-vac). Glennz latest design, titled Self Maintenance, features a figure who looks like Darth Vader, cleaning his shiny helmet. Available for $15.95. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff?...

Cool Stuff: General Grievous Life-Size Bust By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2008 1:28 am EST Sideshow Collectables is taking pre-orders for a life-size bust of General Grievous. Mounted on a Star Wars inspired display base which includes a ‘General Grievous’ nameplate, this Life-size Bust is both hand crafted and hand painted. Available for preorder for $499.99, estimated to ship in the fourth quarter of 2008. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm....

Cool Stuff: Graffiti Star Wars AT-AT By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2008 12:00 am EST Suckadelic’s Hasbro Star Wars AT-AT was customized by professional Graffiti artists EASE and JK5. All tags are written in the Aurebesh language, a fictional letter system created for the in-world use for the 6 Star Wars films. The largest tag on the side of the vehicle spells the word REBEL. Click on the iamge above to see all the wonderful detail....

District 9 Movie Trailer Will Be Online This Thursday By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2009 3:06 am EST The movie trailer for the Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, the super secret sci-fi project produced by Peter Jackson, will be attached to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Apple will be premiering the trailer online sometime during Thursday afternoon. But if you have the chance to see this thing on the big screen, you might want to resist watching it for the few extra hours....

Early Buzz: Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro Is “Unsatisfying” By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2009 5:13 pm EST Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro has premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to a mixed to lukewarm response. It seems like most critics aren’t too impressed with Coppola’s first original screenplay since 1974’s The Conversation. Here is a quick round-up of the early festival buzz:Variety: “Tetro is still a work of modest ambition and appeal.” … “Coppola’s gradual lifting of the dramatic lid over the course of more than two hours frankly feels old-fashioned and labored....

Ed McMahon Has Died At Age 86 By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2009 8:03 am EST Ed McMahon, best known as the loyal Tonight Show sidekick of Johnny Carson and the host of Star Search, has died early Tuesday morning at age 86. McMahon has supporting roles in several movies, including the 1977 version of Fun With Dick And Jane, Full Moon High, Just Write, and most recently appeared in Jelly. McMahon has been suffering though a “multitude of health problems the last few months,” and died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center surrounded by his wife, Pam, and other family members....

First Look: Watchmen Video Game By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2008 12:55 am EST Tiscali Games has the first screenshots from the Watchmen video game, Watchmen: The End is Nigh. Developed by Deadline Games (Total Overdose), the episodic game will follow Rorschach and Night Owl in 1972. Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment will be releasing the game for download for the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The first game is expected in March 2009, around the time of the film’s theatrical release....

Friday Box Office: Tyler Perry’s Married Headed For $25M+; Clayton & We Own The Night Battle For 3rd By Steve Mason/Oct. 13, 2007 12:35 pm EST The 38-year-old actor/writer/director established himself as an auteur and a box office sensation back in 1995 with Diary of a Mad Black Woman, which opened with a $21.9M weekend and went on to generate $50.6M domestic. Then came the even more successful Madea’s Family Reunion with a $30M opening and a $63....

Jack Black Goes To A Renaissance Fair By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2007 5:52 pm EST I always thought that Renaissance Fairs would be a perfect setting for a comedy. People all dressed up presenting to be in the past – the concept itself is even funny. ScreenDaily reports that Jack Black has been cast in the upcoming romantic comedy Ye Olde Times, a film which is about two Ren competing Fairs....

Joe Carnahan Reviews Early Sin City 2 Footage By Peter Sciretta/May 1, 2007 11:54 am EST Smokin’ Aces director Joe Carnahan has seen the early teaser trailer for Sin City 2. If it’s anything like the first movie, than Robert has done a couple full green screen tests using real actors. He might even have a full scene shot and edited. “Robert Rodriguez stopped by the office yesterday and showed me what may become the teaser for ‘SIN CITY 2’ and HOLY SH*T is it something....

Judge Won’t Dismiss Fox’s Watchmen Lawsuit By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2008 1:56 pm EST So what does this mean for the future of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen?

Lost Season 6 Promotional Photos By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2009 11:00 pm EST Press release: A 2008 recipient of the prestigious Peabody Award, and awarded the 2005 Emmy and 2006 Golden Globe for Best Drama Series, “Lost” returns for its final season of action-packed mystery and adventure — that will continue to bring out the very best and the very worst in the people who are lost. Oceanic Air flight 815 tore apart in mid-air and crashed on a Pacific island, leaving 48 passengers alive and stranded on a remote island in the South Pacific....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2009 8:26 am EST Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 26 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. Vodkaster has created a cinematographic subway map out of the IMDB’s Top 250....

Paramount To Adapt The Agnes Quill Graphic Novel By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 30, 2008 12:56 am EST Thor Freudenthal (Hotel For Dogs) will direct a big screen adaptation of Dave Roman’s graphic novel Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery for Paramount. The 136-page, black-and white trade paperback collects all of the Agnes Quill stories, which is illustrated by Jason Ho, Jen Wang, Jeff Zornow, and Eisner-nominee Raina Telgemeier. The official plot synopsis from the book follows:...

Paranormal Activity’s Demand It Campaign - The Future Of Small Film Distribution? By Devindra Hardawar/Sept. 17, 2009 10:23 am EST Paramount is currently gearing up to release the low-budget horror film Paranormal Activity on Sept. 25th in a few select cities. In addition to the typical marketing campaign, they’re also doing something quite innovative to figure out where to open the film next: They’re asking fans. They’ve started an Eventful page for the film, and are asking fans to demand screenings in their area....

Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page And Liv Tyler Cast In James Gunn’s Real-World Superhero Story By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 11, 2009 4:30 am EST Twitter snoops and the /Film faithful may recall that James Gunn and Rainn Wilson have been out on the town, shopping around their superhero project. The first deals seem to have been brokered now and the big announcements have hit: the film will be called Super and is also set to star Liv Tyler and Ellen Page....

Telluride Video Blog Reaction: Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 5, 2009 6:21 pm EST I just got out of the special sneak preview premiere screening of Jason Reitman’s third feature film Up in the Air, at the 36th Telluride Film Festival. In short, I loved it and it beat my expectations, which is saying a lot. My written review will be up later tonight, but right now you can check out this reaction/review video blog I recorded “up in the air” on the gondola with Eric Vespe (Quint of Ain’t It Cool News), and the usual video blog guest star Alex from FirstShowing....

Trailer: Steven Spielberg’s The Pacific Miniseries By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2009 9:47 pm EST Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and from the creators of “Band of Brothers”, The Pacific is a a 10-part HBO mini-series which tells the intertwined stories of three Marines, Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda), during America’s battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II....

Trailer For Lost Boys: The Tribe Premieres Tomorrow! By Hunter Stephenson/March 11, 2008 4:42 pm EST Accompanying the trailer will be a new interview , I did just last week talking more in depth about the film. As MTV was such a huge part of the success of the original film it is only fitting that they would be on the front lines of the sequels release." The trailer will be available to own for yourself when it is released on 5 million copies of the Wil Smith film I am Legend, which ships nation wide next Tuesday....

2008 Academy Awards Were The Least Watched In Recorded History By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2008 4:35 pm EST Nielsen is reporting that the 80th annual Academy Awards telecast was the least watched in history (or at least since 1974 when they started tracking the event). This was pretty much expected, as most of the films and contendors were art-house level favorites, and not mainstream efforts like Titanic or Lord of the Rings....