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Tron 2 Viral Begins: Is Flynn’s Arcade In San Diego? By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2009 9:50 am EST I was awoken this early morning by the Fedex woman. I was supposed to be up anyways, getting ready for Comic-Con, went to bed later than planned last night. Needless to say, I was kinda grumpy. And the fact that I’ll be away from home for a week meant that if I didn’t answer the door, I would have to visit the Fedex warehouse downtown to get the package when I retuned home....

VOTD: The Muppets Take Over The Today Show By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2008 12:00 am EST The Muppets Take Over The Today Show The Pitch: If The Muppets hosted the Today Show, I’d probably watch it everyday. Unfortunately, I slept through the one time that The Muppets took over the Today Show. MSNBC has put some of the moments from that show online. In the first clip, above, The Muppets whatnots invaded and took over the NBC morning show....

Watchmen Featurette: “Girls Kick Ass” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2008 1:50 am EST Myspace has a new Watchmen featurette titled “Girls Kick Ass” which takes a look at the girls of Watchmen, or more specificly: Malin Akerman (Laurie Juspeczyk/Silk Spectre II) and Carla Gugino (Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre). We get to see some of the mother/daughter sequences in Jupiter’s Florida home, and more importantly – Akerman’s fight scene in the jail....

Watchmen Outpacing 300 In Ticket Sales By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2009 1:14 pm EST MovieTickets.com just issued a press release claiming that Watchmen is outpacing 300 in advance ticket sales at 4-to-1 right now. But 300 sold more than 80 percent of its advance tickets on the Wednesday and Thursday prior to its release, so it’s too early for Zack Snyder and crew to celebrate. Also interesting is that IMAX ticket sales currently account for one-third of all ticket sales for Watchmen....

Whip It Featurette By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 4, 2009 5:30 am EST I actually want to see this film, for a variety of reasons which I’ve listed previously on the site , but listening to Barrymore discuss the empowerment theme of the movie, “Be Your Own Hero”, almost makes me not want to see it. I’m not sure why I’m so turned off by the discussion of that theme. It might be because it’s so obvious, and the trailer and footage I’ve seen thus far looks far more subtle than Barrymore’s pitch....

WWE Refuses To Stop Making Crappy Movies By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2008 1:23 pm EST Production begins on February 25th in New Orleans. Good luck with that. Let’s hope that the 133th round is direct to dvd. source: Variety

By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2009 8:48 pm EST The two studios will split production and P&A costs, which are expected to cost around $140 million, about $60 million less than Prince Caspian. The last film had the tenth biggest box office gross of 2008 with over $419 million worldwide, but barely eeked out a profit theatrically (P&A and exhibition feeds account for more than half the gross, and the film cost over $200 million to produce)

Aaron Eckhart And Richard Jenkins Join Johnny Depp In The Rum Diary By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 10, 2009 2:11 pm EST Keep an eye on this one. Aaron Eckhart and Richard Jenkins have joined the cast of The Rum Diary, which will see Johnny Depp playing a doppelganger of the late Hunter S. Thompson for the second time. Eckhart will play a wealthy rival to Depp’s boozy journalist, with both men seeking the pleasantries of a beach floozie to be played by Amber Heard (The Informers, nudity)....

Brett Ratner Defends Rush Hour 3 With Story Of His First Gay Blow-Job? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2007 1:04 pm EST Apparently there is a scene in Rush Hour 3 where Chris Tucker has an angry homophobic reaction (played for laughs) to a transsexual who removes her wig after a “sexual interaction”. I haven’t seen the movie so I may be getting this wrong as the contents of the scene are not completely spelled out....

Contest: Gamebox 1.0 On DVD By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2007 12:32 am EST Gamebox 1.0 will hit DVD store shelves on April 10th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On April 15th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....

Cool Stuff: Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2009 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The ambitious 20-disc Blu-ray™ Hi-Def set and a 25-disc standard DVD set contains every episode of television’s most original, thought-provoking series, together with extensive bonus materials delving deep into the richly imagined world of the hit SCI FI Channel original show. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm....

David Fincher’s Nike Fate Commercial By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2008 1:28 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/fincherfate.flv 470 234] Have you sen David Fincher’s latest? No, not Benjamin Button… I’m talking about the Nike commercial he directed. “Fate” tells the life-long journey of pro football players LaDainian Tomlinson and Troy Polamalu as their destinies collide in an NFL football game. Based on a concept by Wieden & Kennedy, the portland-based advertising agency behind some of Nike’s best campaigns (including Bo Knows, Spike Lee’s Mars Blackmon Air Jordan ads, Charles Barkley’s I Am Not a Role Model ad), the Bruce CVampbell Old Spice “Experience is Everything” ads, and Coke’s The Coke Side of Life campaign....

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 12, 2009 6:59 am EST Variety reports on the pre-preemptive pitch buy by Fox. It’s a real life-story tale, starting with “his near death as an infant to his adoption into the Egyptian royal family, his defiance of the Pharaoh and deliverance of the Hebrews from enslavement.” And with ‘defiance of the Pharaoh’ you should actually be thinking plagues — massive, gruesome, deadly plagues.Adam Cooper and Bill Collage are the writers, and while this could be just a big update of The Ten Commandments with modern effects (i....

Frank Marshall Producing Remake Of Canadian Hit Comedy Fathers And Guns By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 10, 2009 11:35 pm EST Legendary producing couple Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy have set their sights on remaking this summer’s French-Canadian hit, Fathers and Guns (released as De Pere en flic). The plot concerns a father and son, both cops, who seemingly hate each other. Of course, they get assigned to work an investigation at a group therapy camp for fathers and sons—hilarity ensues....

Gemini Man Rejuvenated, Curtis Hanson In Talks To Direct By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 13, 2009 11:48 am EST After umpteen script drafts and more how-low-an-you-go in Hollywood Limbo than is decent, it seems like Gemini Man is finally getting set in the traps and could be sprinting to the big screen soon. According to Variety, Curtis Hanson is negotiating to take the director’s chair and will be working from David Benioff’s latest iteration of the screenplay....

Green Lantern Casting Call Reveals Supporting Characters By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 17, 2009 3:11 pm EST I love a good casting notice, meaning those that give away hitherto secrets of plot or dramatis personae. While we know that a Green Lantern picture is currently in preproduction, with Ryan Reynolds locked in to take the lead role, we didn’t know which other characters we could expect. I’ll put the info after the break, in case you are particularly sensitive to even the mildest of spoiling, but now we know at least which DC-universe villain – or villains?...

How Much Do You Want To Know About Inception? Plot Details Are Leaking Out By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2009 10:43 am EST OK, the title should clue you in, but there are spoilers to follow for Christopher Nolan’s Inception. It’s mostly first act stuff, and I expect a lot of these details are things you’ll be given by official marketing soon enough. But a few of the things might actually be spoilers....

Ice Age 3: New Photo, Official Poster, And Horton Hears A Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2008 7:39 pm EST The first teaser trailer for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is attached to Horton Hears a Who, which hit theaters today. While I’m not a big fan of the Ice Age series, the teaser trailers have always entertained me. Probably because they remind me of the old Looney Toons or Disney shorts....

New Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 14, 2008 12:24 pm EST Warner Bros has released a new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Is it just me, or do the trailers for the Potter series seem to get more and more epic with each new film that is released? Even the title cue has an extremely epic take on John William’s original Potter theme....

New International Poster For Inglourious Basterds By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2009 10:55 pm EST Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds already has a handful of great domestic one-sheets, but now it has an international (Italian, to be exact) poster that is strives to keep with the images used to sell movies that inspired Tarantino to make his new war picture. Premiered on BadTaste.it, the image combines character portraits with a smear of blood, and continues to suggest that this is just a big fun Tarantino war movie....