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Marvel To Launch Writers Program By Peter Sciretta/March 27, 2009 2:40 am EST Rumor has it that Marvel Entertainment hopes to hire more than a half dozen film writers for a in-house writers program, to work and develop ideas for future comic book film projects. It sounds like they’re trying to develop lesser known comic properties to the big screen. According to Nikki Finke , applicants are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement and a 70-page 1-year non-negotiable contract before they are even allowed to come in for a meeting....

Michael Moore’s Sicko: Video Clips, Movie Posters And More By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2007 8:06 pm EST We also have the first publicly released video clips from the new film below. The first clip shows Moore at a British hospital. The second clip features a man who had two fingers chopped off in an accident, and how much medical care costs. Check it out after the jump. “People say I’m the propagandist, but I’m the one voice marching against the lies that are put on the American public,” he said during a conversation held at AmPav....

Mickey Rourke To Play True Life Mafia Assassin In The Ice Man. What’s The Precedent For This Film? By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 24, 2009 12:46 pm EST Hey kids, maybe if you murder a couple hundred people for the mob, Mickey Rourke will star in your life story, too. Stay in school. Last month, we wrote about the beef had by true crime writer and biographer, Philip Carlo, with actor/model Channing Tatum portraying Richard “The Ice Man” Kuklinksi in a feature film based on his book The Ice Man....

Movie Trailer For Woody Allen’s Whatever Works By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2009 10:13 am EST Sony Pictures Classics has released the official movie trailer for Woody Allen’s latest comedy Whatever Works. The film stars Larry David as an eccentric New Yorker who abandons his upper class life to lead a more bohemian existence. He meets a young girl from the south, played by Evan Rachel Wood, and her family and no two people seem to get along in the entanglements that follow....

New Hellboy 2 TV Spots By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2008 1:24 am EST Universal has begun airing two new television spots for Hellboy II: The Golden Army. The first one acts kind of like a primer, explaining the origins of the character. The second tv spot is more traditional. Check them both out below.   New Hellboy 2 TV Spots By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2008 1:24 am EST Universal has begun airing two new television spots for Hellboy II: The Golden Army....

New Twilight Footage From Heroes By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2008 9:50 pm EST Summit Entertainment premiered new footage from Twilight during Monday night’s Heroes. In related news, the autograph signing in San Francisco actually happened as scheduled, despite the mini riot that occurred earlier in the day. New Twilight Footage From Heroes By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2008 9:50 pm EST Summit Entertainment premiered new footage from Twilight during Monday night’s Heroes....

Photo: Where The Wild Things Are Model From Jim Henson’s Creature Shop By Peter Sciretta/April 7, 2008 11:13 am EST /Film reader Nate P stumbled upon this photo on Kanye West’s blog, who was apparently at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. Looks like a design for Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. I wonder what is going on what that production? Anyone have any new word? E-Mail me....

Retro Pop Culture Smell, I Hated Witch Mountain, And Andy Flickman To Direct Monster Attack Network By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2009 8:49 pm EST Over the weekend I went and saw Race to Witch Mountain, mostly due to the fact that, as a kid, I was a fan of the original 1975 film. Also, I’ve always found Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson amusing, even despite some of the really crappy movies he’s done over the years....

Scott Derrickson To Remake The Day The Earth Stood Still By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2007 10:49 am EST The Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson has been hired to helm The Day the Earth Stood Still remake at Fox. Our friends at FirstShowing report that Derrickson is currently prepping one of the longest shoots in Canadian history. The Vancouver shoot will run all the way to November. All of this according to the Hollywood North Report and IESB....

Sean Bean Starring In Period Adventure Film Black Death By Russ Fischer/June 4, 2009 10:32 am EST Photos have surfaced of Black Death, starring Sean Bean and Carice van Houten. The project isn’t totally new — it is shooting now, as evidenced by the photos — but has gone more or less unreported. Christopher Smith is directing the story, which features Bean as a knight named Ulric who is scouring the bubonic plague-ravaged countryside for Langiva, a woman who conjures the dead back to life....

Seth Rogen To Write And Star In The Green Hornet?! By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2007 1:01 pm EST Columbia Pictures has signed Knocked Up star Seth Rogen to write and probably star in the superhero adventures of The Green Hornet, according to the LA Times. Huh? What? Neal H. Moritz is developing the project with Rogen via the producer’s Original Film company. Moritz has been chasing the rights for years having been a big fan of the ’60s television series....

Steven Seagal: Lawman Trailer (New TV Show Is Like The Foot Fist Way Meets “Sabotage”?) By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 26, 2009 11:10 am EST We have to give credit to Seagal’s agent (and Vern, of course!): with a new series and a role in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete alongside Danny Trejo, De Niro, and a Lohan, Seagal hasn’t staged a potential comeback like this since playing third-fiddle in Executive Decision. And if the top-ranked Seagalogist in the world finds the trailer simpatico, how can we argue?...

The Road Screenwriter To Adapt Butcher’s Crossing For Sam Mendes By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2009 8:44 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Here is the plot information from the original novel: In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, ?...

ThunderCats Movie Model? By Hunter Stephenson/May 13, 2008 12:34 pm EST UPDATE: A number of readers have pointed out that the above model is 1) FAKE, 2) LAME, 3) “Probably left over from Small Soldiers” and 4) Not worth talking about Like a good number of 20somethings, a ThunderCats movie makes me want to run far far away and hide from the Langolier that is booming ’80s nostalgia. Furthering my phobia, Snarfs were probably a distant ancestor of LOLCats....

Transformers On DVD: Why I Hate DVD Exclusives By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 16, 2007 12:52 pm EST Transformers hit DVD store shelves earlier today, but before you clunk down your hard earned money at your local Best Buy, you might want to know what stores offers which DVD exclusives. I used to collect DVDs religiously, and have a collection that fills two walls. I’m not saying this to brag, but to establish that I come from a DVD collecting background....

Universal Passes On PT Anderson’s Scientology Picture; Jeremy Renner Still Circling Role By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2010 11:21 am EST In December of last year Paul Thomas Anderson started to reveal plans for his next feature. The script is being called The Master (provisionally, perhaps, and that may well not be the actual or final title) and follows a man who creates a ‘faith-based organization’ that mushrooms into an empire in the ’50s....

Video: Incredible Hulk Set Explosion By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2007 10:03 pm EST My friend John over at The Movie Blog lives just minutes away from where Universal is shooting The Incredible Hulk. John was able to capture a big stunt sequence on video involving a big fireball explosion and a flaming car flying 100 feet through the air. I assume this is probably from a sequence near the end of the film where Hulk must confront Abomination (this is all speculation, as I haven’t yet read the script)....

VOTD: Tie Fighter Attack Office Reenactment By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2008 12:00 am EST Star Wars Tie Fighter Attack Office Reenactment The Pitch: A bunch of Vimeo employees reenact the famous scene from Star Wars: A New Hope in their office. 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? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail....

/Film’s Peter Sciretta Talks Cloverfield On CNBC’s On The Money By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2007 5:57 pm EST A producer from CNBC’s On The Money woke me up this morning. They were working on a news story on the “Overnight” trademark filed by JJ Abrams’ legal team, which many believe to be the final title for the top secret monster movie currently code-named Cloverfield. I told them what I knew, thinking that they might want a soundbite for tonight’s newscast....

2012 Japanese Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2009 12:01 pm EST It must be trailer week at Sony Pictures International. Yesterday they released an international trailer for Zombieland, and today they’ve released a new Japanese trailer for Roland Emmerich’s new disaster flick 2012. It might start off similar to the previously released domestic trailer, but about half way through we begin to see a lot of scenes and sequences we haven’t seen before....