New Star Trek TV Spot By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2009 5:25 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released a new tv spot for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek, featuring a little bit of new footage I haven’t seen before. Watch it after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/startrektv3.flv 470 200] You can watch the new trailer in 1080p High Definition by clicking this link. Star Trek hits theaters on May 8th 2009....
Nim’s Island Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 19, 2007 3:34 am EST The movie trailer for Nim’s Island, the new family adventure comedy from Fox-Walden, is now online. Based on the popular novel by Wendy Orr and Kerry Millard, about a young girl named Nim (Abigail Breslin) who lives on an isolated island with her scientist father. When the father goes missing, Nim requests the help of a reclusive author (Jodie Foster) of the novel she’s reading....
Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2009 12:54 am EST The Star Trek comic book prequel, Countdown, is coming to the iPhone. [tuaw ] WeAreMovieGeeks created a quasi-mashup trailer with Watchmen and Where the Wild Things Are.Fred Durst is going to direct a horror movie titled Psycho Killer, written by Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en), about a serial killer on a mission for Satan. [Bloody-D] The 82nd Annual Academy Awards has been moved back a week for 2010: Sunday, March 7, 2010....
Robert Zemeckis And Bob Hoskins Still Planning A Roger Rabbit Sequel? By Brendon Connelly/July 22, 2009 11:48 pm EST Harry Knowles has today published a telephone interview with Robert Zemeckis at Aint it Cool. For the most part they talk about A Christmas Carol, detailing the shape the film is in today and how it is going to showcase advances in performance capture technology and so on, but the chatter comes around, with seeming inevitability, to one of Zemckis’ past projects....
Smallville Scribes Hired To Ruin Live-Action Robotech Movie By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2008 10:57 pm EST Warner Bros has hired new screenwriters for their big screen live-action adaptation of Robotech. Smallville scribes Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have come on board to rewrite Lawrence Kasdan’s previous draft. This is not good news. Gough and Millar were the team behind The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Herbie Fully Loaded, Made Men, Showtime, and the Shanghai Noon franchise (you remember, the Jackie Chan/Owen Wilson western comedy films?...
Sylvester Stallone And Arnold Schwarzenegger To Star In Incredible Love. Meow. By Hunter Stephenson/June 22, 2008 4:37 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Hey Life: why? After millions of lunch room dream movie arguments in the ’80s; after spiders launched webs inside their Planet Hollywoods, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are finally teaming up on screen! It’s inglorious, bastards. The Times Online reports that they’ll co-star in the highest profile Bollywood flick to date, Incredible Love, the story of an Indian stuntman who can’t find true romance in the States (aw)....
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 12, 2008 3:47 am EST The American teaser trailer for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has finally shown up online on Trailer Addict. The trailer received huge buzz when it premiered attached to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last month. Check it out, after the jump. The official plot synopsis: “I was born under unusual circumstances....
The Mummy 3: Curse Of The Dragon By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2007 5:56 am EST Universal has announced the title for the third film in The Mummy series. The Mummy 3: Curse Of The Dragon will hit theaters on July 11th 2008. Previously Reported: Rob Cohen (xXx) is directing, and Brendan Fraser returns as Rick O’Connell. Rachel Weisz has decided to sit this one out. The film will take place in ancient China and will move forward to a post-World War II setting....
VOTD: How Many Spider-Men Can Fit Inside Jamba Juice? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2008 12:00 am EST How Many Spider-Mans Can Fit Inside Jamba Juice? The Pitch: In this 2007 clip, David Letterman asks the question: “How many people dressed as Spider-Man can fit inside Jamba Juice.” Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD?...
WALL-E Tradeshow Promo Video By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2007 11:03 pm EST If you’re not yet excited for Pixar’s next film Wall-E, check out this new tradeshow promotional video. Director Andrew Stanton explains some of the plot, and we get our first look (outside of Comic-Con) of the female robot Eve and the human star-liner. Warning: the promo video does have some plot spoilers, but not anything that wasn’t already revealed in San Diego (you can read our report here)....
WTF: Stephen King Is Planning A Sequel To The Shining?! By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2009 3:52 pm EST Stephen King has been letting a lot of juicy news tidbits slip while making book tour appearances. His latest admission is almost unbelievable. While appearing at Toronto’s Canon Theatre, King dropped the bombshell during his on stage interview with director David Cronenberg that he began working on a sequel to The Shining last summer....
50 Star Trek Photos By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2008 1:35 am EST You’ve seen the new Star Trek movie trailer. I know I’ve watched it probably 30 times over the past weekend. So much is going on in-between the fast action cuts that it is very easy to miss something. Did you catch Kirk firing off his phaser? Did you get a good look at that huge lobster looking creature? How about Captain Christopher Pike in command?...
An Education Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2009 3:00 pm EST Sony Pictures Classics has released a trailer for An Education, a film which was subject to one of the few intense bidding wars at this year’s Sundance. Jenny is a top A-level student who has hopes of attending university at Oxford in the early 1960’s, but she meets a charismatic older man (Peter Sarsgaard) who offers an exciting alternative of seeing and experiencing life....
Be An Extra In The Fighter By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2009 7:32 pm EST Want to be an Extra in David O Russell’s The Fighter? Want to see Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale fight it out in a boxing ring? Do you live near Lowell Massachusetts? Details after the jump. The Fighter is shooting three days of boxing scenes in Lowell MA on July 14th, 15th and 16th. Paramount Pictures is looking for unpaid extras to fill the stands for these scenes....
Beauty And The Beast 3D On Hold, 2011 Release Seems Likely By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 20, 2010 7:11 am EST Initially scheduled to hit cinemas this February was Disney’s 3D rerelease of Beauty and the Beast. As the months went on and we heard nothing new, and there was definitely no trailer released or official announcements made, it began to seem like the film had just slipped off the sheet completely. A real shame, because the demo sequences previewed last March were very well received indeed....
Burnout Goes Back To The Future… Kinda By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 7, 2008 2:51 pm EST Great Scott! /Gamer has learned that the Burnout Paradise video game will soon have downloadable content, including this Back to the Future Delorean look-a-like flying car. Burnout Goes Back To The Future… Kinda By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 7, 2008 2:51 pm EST Great Scott! /Gamer has learned that the Burnout Paradise video game will soon have downloadable content, including this Back to the Future Delorean look-a-like flying car....
Casting Notes: Michael Fassbender Fires A Single Shot; William H. Macy And More In Dirty Girl; Goth Icon Peter Murphy Cameos In Twilight 3 By Russ Fischer/Nov. 5, 2009 9:50 am EST It’s casting notes time again! First up, Michael Fassbender, the British film critic lieutenant from Inglourious Basterds, has been cast in the thriller A Single Shot, working under director David Jacobson. He’s appearing alongside a great cast: William H....
Comic-Con Interview: Lee Unkrich, Director Of Toy Story 3 By David Chen/July 25, 2009 10:00 am EST At San Diego Comic-Con 2009 yesterday, we got a couple more details about Toy Story 3, which will be directed by Pixar veteran Lee Unkrich (Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc.). I had the opportunity to sit down with Lee yesterday and talk about his new film, as well as Pixar’s approach to sequels, and whatever happened to that version of Toy Story 3 that Disney was making without Pixar’s blessing....
Cool Stuff: Scott Campbell’s Crazy4Cult 2 Poster By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2008 1:37 am EST Gallery 1988 has released another poster for the second annual pop-culture art show Crazy4Cult. This one is by Scott Campbell, who you might remember from the One To Grow On show (we featured his crazy E.T. themed art on Cool Stuff). He’s also the guy responsible for that cool arcade drawing in The King of Kong DVD....
Fanmade Cloverfield Movie Posters By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2007 2:14 pm EST A bunch of fanmade fake posters for the JJ Abrams produced monster movie code-named Cloverfield have been floating around the web. Some blogs are claiming that the posters are real. They aren’t. So you might be wondering why I’ve decided to post them anyway. I thought some of them show some cool conceptual imagery. It just makes you wonder what the real marketing guys in Hollywood might be able to come up with....
