Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever Trailer #1 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 9, 2009 12:48 pm EST I was not a fan of Cabin Fever, but I got a lot more interested in the sequel after seeing House of the Devil, which was directed by Cabin Fever 2’s helmer Ti West. I can see why some people didn’t like House of the Devil — it’s slow and moody more than anything else — but I can’t agree with them....
Clooney To Direct Hamdan V. Rumsfeld Film, Matt Damon To Star? By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 21, 2009 7:18 am EST New news positions George Clooney as the director of Hamdan v Rumsfeld and Matt Damon in the starring role of navy lawyer Charles Swift. The film will be a dramatization of the court case in which the supreme court found in favor of Swift and his client Hamdan and held that military commissions to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay lacked “the power to proceed because its structures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the four Geneva Conventions signed in 1949....
Conan Being Fast-Tracked, R-Rated. New Script From Outlander Guys By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 13, 2008 11:10 am EST Rumblings of a new Conan movie have been ongoing for two years now, and today Lionsgate announced a fresh pair of screenwriters for its $100 million, R-rated tent pole. Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain will rework the former script. The duo previously wrote Outlander, the vikings-versus-alien movie currently growing moss over at The Weinstein Co....
Confirmed: Chris Evans Is Captain America By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2010 2:10 pm EST The casting search for Steve Rogers aka the title role in The First Avenger: Captain America has finally come to the end. Marvel Studios and director Joe Johnston have hired Chris Evans for the role. A few weeks ago a short list was leaked, containing the actors that Joe Johnston was considering for Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, in The First Avenger: Captain America....
Cool Stuff: Iron Man MacBook Pro Decal By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2010 2:00 pm EST Gizmodo discovered this very cool yet unofficial Iron Man MacBook Pro decal which moviemagicman is selling on Etsy. I love how the Apple logo glows through his chest, replacing the arc reactor that we’re use to.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: Japan’s Ultimate Matrix Blu-Ray Gift Set By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2008 6:00 am EST Why is everything so much cooler in Japan? Warner Bros is releasing a Japan exclsuive Ultimate Matrix DVD giftset which includes a scale model of Nebuchadnezzar by Hot Toys. The model will house four Blu-ray discs and three bonus DVDs. The MSRP is 39,800 Yen, or about $380 US. Each of the three Matrix films come on their own Blu-ray discs, with the forth Blu-ray disc containing all nine of the Animatrix episodes in high definition....
Cool Stuff: Life Size Indiana Jones LEGO Statue By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2008 1:53 pm EST Found on Flickr, this life size Indiana Jones LEGO statue is on display at Toy Fair 08, which is happening right now in New York City. We’ve found a few more photos of the creation over at Gizmodo, check them out after the jump. Â 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: Vulcan Death Grip T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 14, 2008 1:19 am EST Junk Food has a new line of retro Star Trek t-shirts. My favorite is this Vulcan Death Grip tee which features Spock using the move on Captain Kirk. Accoridng to Wikipedia,the Vulcan Death Grip was mentioned in an episode titled “The Enterprise Incident” where Spock pretends to use it on Captain Kirk in order to complete a mission....
Disturbia Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2007 6:10 am EST We’ve been excited for quite some time about a movie almost nobody has heard of – Disturbia. Having enjoyed the chain of Shakespeare teen movie adaptations, I’ve always believed that Hitchcock was the next logical step. Well now a trailer has finally hit the web, and I’m kind of worried. Click here to check out the Trailer. Disturbia is a contemporary teen thriller remade from Hitchcock’s classic Rear Window....
Eli Roth’s Trailer Trash By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2007 1:45 am EST When I saw Grindhouse, I wondered out loud to some friends: “Why don’t they just make an entire movie of just fake trailers.” People told me it wouldn’t work. One friend said you need a narrative story and nobody would sit in a theater for 30 episodic trailer clips. Well it looks like Eli Roth had the same idea, and has found the solution....
Exclusive: Ben Stiller Frontrunner For Mark Romanek’s The Voices By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 19, 2010 9:22 am EST In The Hollywood Reporter’s news break on Michael R. Perry being hired to script the second Paranormal Activity picture they also mentioned that his 2009 Black Listed script The Voices has been set up at Vertigo Entertainment with Doug Davison and Roy Lee producing. This picture certainly has an interesting premise: After Jerry Hickfang accidentally kills a woman he works with at a bathroom fixtures factory, he begins taking advice from his cat and dog on how to cover his tracks and avoid trouble....
Joker Arrested For Stealing Dark Knight Swag! By Hunter Stephenson/July 28, 2008 10:15 pm EST Tonight, we can all sleep soundly. The Joker has been apprehended, and I imagine he looks a lot like Slashfilm’s resident spam commenter Jerry “Crack Corn” Butler. The above 20 year old, real name Spencer Taylor, was busted for stealing posters and memorabilia for The Dark Knight from a movie theater in Michigan. Cops arrived on the scene—no doubt wondering if this was the day—and booked the costumed goon on charges of felony larceny and malicious destruction of property....
Machine Girl Movie Trailer: “The Cult Film Of Next Year” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2007 12:53 am EST I opened up my email this weekend and was greeted by a message from Todd Brown at Twitch, who wanted me to check out the movie trailer for a Japanese movie called Machine Girl. He assured me that this might be the cult film of next year, and judging by the trailer, he might be right....
New Photo: The X Files 2 By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 17, 2008 1:40 am EST For kicks, we decided to remove the ghoulies, critters and Sloth Fratellis from this new still for July’s sequel to The X Files. Mundane offices are scary enough (we took out the ancient, macabre fax machine, too). You can question the ethics behind this censorship, but we promise that we did not touch up Moulder and Scully....
Oscar Nominated Stars That Could’ve Been By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2007 4:50 am EST One of our favorite new websites is NotStarring.com, a website that is dedicated to your favorite stars and the roles they didn’t get. Recently they put up a section dedicated to the directors and stars who turned down roles in Oscar nominated movies. We’re not sure about the accuracy, but that won’t stop us from taking a look at some of our favorites from the class that could have been 2007:...
Reminder: Tonight’s Regularly Scheduled /Filmcast Will Actually Be Tuesday At 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST By David Chen/Aug. 18, 2008 6:33 am EST The /Filmcast will be broadcast tomorrow night on Tuesday at 10 PM PST / 7 PM PST on Slashfilm’s live page. We’ll finally be doing a proper review of Tropic Thunder with Collegehumor stars Jake and Amir (Check out their short vids by going to their website)....
Roger Ebert On The Death Of The Film Critic By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2008 11:52 pm EST Pulitzer Prize winning movie critic Roger Ebert has written a passionate response to what some are calling the demise of the film critic, or what Ebert is calling “the death of an intelligent and curious, readership”. The whole thing was sparked when the Associate Press imposed a 500-word limited on movie reviews and interviews....
Screenwriter Talks Ideas For Prequel To The Thing By Russ Fischer/Aug. 7, 2009 2:00 pm EST The forthcoming prequel/remake of John Carpenter’s The Thing, one of the best sci-fi horror pictures to come out of the ’80s, has caused no small amount of consternation. Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) wrote a script which is currently being rewritten by Eric Heisserer, who also worked on a rewrite of the upcoming A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot....
Simon Beaufoy Was Approached For Wolverine 2, Writing DreamWorks Animation’s Truckers - We Have The Story Details! By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2009 8:45 pm EST Moving on, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter has finally chosen his next project, and its not a Wolverine prequel sequel. Beaufoy is working on a screenplay for DreamWorks Animation’s Truckers, which THR claims is in the early of stages of development and that no character or plot information has been revealed BUT they are wrong....
Smurfs Movie Has A Director, Feel Free To Shrug By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2009 5:01 pm EST There are a lot of things to be excited about today. The Michael Jackson media circus is winding down. A party at Comic Con will feature hilarious/awesome metal bands Gwar and 3 Inches of Blood. I’m eating some delicious homemade salsa. Oh, and the Smurfs movie has a director. Yeah, the last item doesn’t really fit....
