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Used Guys Refit Looking Very Good By Brendon Connelly/May 5, 2009 12:36 am EST Originally, Used Guys was set up to star Jim Carrey and Ben Stiller as a pair of past-their-prime clones in a world where ’natural’ men are extinct. Upstaged by newer models with better listening and bedroom skills, they get returned and from their embark upon a quest to find the mythical paradise they call Mantopia. Cue male bonding and a sci-fi slanted spin on remasculation wish fulfillment....

Videos: Who Is Joseph Kosinski? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2007 2:35 am EST Okay so Logan’s Run has finally found a director, but who the hell is Joseph Kosinski anyway? Well for starters, he hasn’t directed a feature film. So why don’t we check out some of his commercial work after the jump. You will be amazed. Saab Blackbird Commercial TRS-80 – Nike Promo X-Box – Starry Night (Halo 3 Commercial) X-Box – Gears of War (Mad World) Mezzo “LEAP”...

VOTD: Pencil Face By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2008 1:37 am EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/pencilface.flv 470 262] Pencil Face by SCADThe Pitch: Created by the students of Savannah College of Art and Design, this Harold and the Purple Crayon-inspired short film has a Donnie Darkoish tone. Check out a behind the scenes video on the making of this short film here. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....

Analysis: Third Photo Revealed On Cloverfield Website By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2007 9:52 pm EST A third photo (seen above) was added to the 1-18-08.com Cloverfield viral website today. All of the photos thus far have featured time codes. Let’s first take a look at the previous photos and analyze the clues. The original photo showed a close-up of two wide eyed fearful young women at 12:36 am. Some people speculated that the two women were actually the same actress....

Casting Watchmen: Matthew Goode, Patrick Wilson, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup And Jackie Earle Haley By Peter Sciretta/July 22, 2007 11:31 pm EST Later this week at the San Diego Comic-Con, Zack Snyder is expected to reveal the cast for his upcoming big screen adaptation of the classic Alan Moore graphic novel Watchmen. But as we near our Wednesday afternoon flight to San Diego, actors names have started to leak onto the interwebs....

Edward James Olmos Joins The Green Hornet By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 9, 2009 10:51 pm EST HollywoodSnitch has learned that Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica) has a role in Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet. Not much is revealed other than this slim quote from Olmos: “I’m on my way to do ‘The Green Hornet,’” Olmos said. “It’ll be a lot of fun with Seth [Rogen], Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz.” There’s no word yet on which role he will play....

First Look: Disney’s Bolt By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 27, 2007 3:08 pm EST Disney has sent us a first look at their upcoming non-Pixar 3D computer animated film Bolt (previously titled “American Dog”). Click on the image above for a super duper high resolution look. Not as impressive as a Pixar screenshot, but if you really start to appreciate this photo while looking at the high resolution version. Look at the blades of grass or the texture on Bolt’s leash....

First Look: Leaves Of Grass By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2009 11:08 am EST The first production photos from Leaves of Grass have premiered on the Toronto Film Festival website. The firlm is written, directed and produced by Tim Blake Nelson, starring Edward Norton as Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League classics professor, who “returns to rural Oklahoma to bury his dangerously brilliant identical twin brother, only to discover that the brother he believes to have been murdered has lured him home to involve him in a doomed plot against a local drug lord....

First Look: The Cast Of GI Joe By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2008 10:25 am EST Last month Paramount released photos of Snake Eyes, earlier this week they released our first look at Scarlett, and now [Link Removed] has apparently gotten an exclusive first look at the cast of Stephen Sommers’ GI Joe: Channing Tatum as Duke, Karolina Korkova as Cover Girl, Marlon Wayans as Ripcord, Byung-hun Lee as Storm Shadow, Sienna Miller as The Baroness, and Dennis Quaid as Hawk....

Greg Berlanti To Direct The Flash? By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 25, 2010 2:09 pm EST Everwood and Eli Stone writer Greg Berlanti has been named as the front running contender to direct Warner Bros. long awaited The Flash movie. It seems they’ve been keen to hand him one of their heroes for a while now, as he was signed to direct Green Lantern for a while before Martin Campbell came along....

Jonah Hill Sells Spec Script Adventurer’s Handbook By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 12, 2009 4:04 pm EST Entertainment Weekly have the only information so far available on Jonah Hill and Max Winkler’s big payday and the spec script that won them their golden deal. According to their piece, Hill and Winkler (yes, yes, he’s Henry’s son, not the deceased Polish mayor) have reportedly just sold a spec script called Adventurer’s Club for a seven figure sum and after hooking the attention of “multiple studios”....

Lee Unkrich Announces Kristen Schaal And Blake Clark Cast In Toy Story 3; Toy Story 3D Double Feature To Stay In Theaters By David Chen/Oct. 12, 2009 4:14 pm EST (Above: A sliver of one more Toy Story 3 character poster, this one from over at MSNBC) The Toy Story 3 media blitz continues! More and more, it seems that filmmakers are taking to Twitter to make major announcements, or just to share some cool stuff about the movies they’re working on....

Lemony Snicket Sequel Could Be Stop-Motion Animated? By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2009 10:38 am EST Last month we learned that there is still hope for another Lemony Snicket movie. Director Brad Silberling said that he “would love nothing more” than to direct another Snicket film, and admitted that he is “in constant touch” with a screenwriter about the possibility. One thing we didn’t touch on was Silberling’s statement that the movie sequel “may take a wildly different form....

Lemony Snicket Sequel Is Still Possible By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2009 9:34 am EST When the big screen adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfourtunate Events was released in 2004, the plan was to produce more films based on the best selling children’s book series. But the film was not as successful as the studios had hoped, only becoming profitable on DVD. CineFools talked with Land of the Lost director Brad Silberling, who says there is still hope for a sequel....

Marc Webb May Direct Remake Of Just Another Love Story By David Chen/Sept. 30, 2009 5:29 am EST News hit the trades last night that Marc Webb, director of this summer’s sleeper hit 500 Days of Summer, is in negotiations to direct a remake of Ole Bornedal’s Danish film, Just Another Love Story for Mandate pictures. Recently, Webb has also been in talks to direct a remake of Jesus Christ Superstar for Universal....

Michael Bay Vs. McG By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 12, 2009 9:59 pm EST Last week, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen director Michael Bay took a shot at McG in a note on his official online website: “We’ve seen the great year end movies, and watched the upcoming clips of the upcoming summer fare. We’ve seen certain movies coming out even try to duplicate Transformer size robots in their ads. Please, come on....

Michael Moore’s New Film To Explore The Global Economic Meltdown By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2009 11:53 am EST Overture Films and Paramount Vantage will release Michael Moore’s next documentary, which is yet-to-be-titled, on October 2nd 2009 — the same week that Moore’s feature debut Roger & Me made its U.S. Premiere 20 years ago. And this new film comes full circle, with Moore returning to the issue that began his career: “the disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the lives of Americans and citizens of the world....

Question Of The Day: Why Are There So Few Female Filmmakers? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2010 10:00 am EST The Guardian published an article over the weekend, asking the question “Why are there so few female filmmakers?“It’s something that most film writers/bloggers have wondered for a while now. And it has come up again just in time for the Academy Awards, where many believe that Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow will have a fighting chance to become the first female director to take home an Oscar....

Rick Astley Writing A Movie Musical By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 30, 2009 10:22 am EST Do you know what Rickrolling is? There are some great explanations online – here, here and here, for example. It ’s been such an internet phenomenon you’re probably as familiar with it as you are ROFLcopters and LOLcats, All Your Base and Chocolate Rain. Basically, Rickrolling is the act of getting somebody to click on a link only for them find not what they had been promised, but the video to Rick Astley’s 80s hit Never Gonna Give You Up....

Shrek Director Heads To Fountain City By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2010 8:57 pm EST Lightstream Pictures has preemptively acquired and will co-finance Shrek franchise director-writer-producer Andrew Adamson’s live-action fantasy adventure film Fountain City. The project is based on an original idea by screenwriter Joby Harold (Awake, Ronin). Harold is writing the script, which Adamson will direct. Storyline details are being kept under wraps, but Variety reports that the project is budgeted at more than $100 million....