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Judd Apatow, Owen Wilson And Harold Ramis Team Up For Year One By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2007 2:02 am EST Coming off the hugely successful opening weekend for Knocked Up, Judd Apatow (the new Hollywood comedy golden boy) has announced that he will produce a Harold Ramis (yes, Egon from Transformers) comedy. Year One will star Jack Black and Michael Cera (Superbad). Owen Wilson is attached as executive producer (what that means exactly, we don’t know)....

Keanu Reeves Talks Environmental Message, Gort In The Day The Earth Stood Still By Hunter Stephenson/March 22, 2008 1:11 pm EST Due in December, nothing substantial or even trivial has leaked from 20th Century Fox’s big budget remake of sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves, John Cleese, Jennifer Connelly and Kathy Bates. Reeves, who will next be seen in Aprils’s LAPD actioner Street Kings and plays the alien Klaatu in the holiday tent pole, talked to MTV about the enigmatic project and how it will differ from the 1951 original....

Mike De Luca To Remake Angel Heart By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 1, 2008 10:39 am EST With Mickey Rourke driving for an Oscar with The Wrestler, his titillating ’80s filmography is now on the remake menu. Unlike The Pope of Greenwich Village and 9 1/2 Weeks, 1987’s Angel Heart was a middling effort best known for giving Bill Cosby a heart murmur. Producer Mike De Luca (Ghost Rider, Blade II) and co....

By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2009 11:21 pm EST Jon Turteltaub is best known as the director of the National Treasure films and the upcoming live action movie The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. So you can understand why I was a little shocked at first to learn that Turteltaub has signed on to direct Greenpeace, the story of the origin of the controversial conservation organization. It gets even better… According to Variety, West Wing/The Social Network scribe Aaron Sorkin is in early talks to write the screenplay....

Official Tron 2 Trailer To Premeire At 2009 San Diego Comic Con By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2009 4:22 pm EST Can’t wait to see more footage from Tron 2.0 (or TR2N… we’re still not sure the correct title)? Barry Levine revealed at the Radical Studios panel at New York Comic Con this weekend that Joseph Kosinski will return to San Diego Comic Con International this year with the film’s first official trailer....

Release Date Change: Disney Moves Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2007 6:12 pm EST Our Disney sources have confirmed with us that Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End has been moved up for a Thursday night release. The film was originally scheduled to hit theaters on Friday, May 25th (on Midnight in select market theaters) but will now be released one night earlier. Screenings will begin at 8:00pm on May 24th....

She’s Out Of My League Movie Trailer: Jay Baruchel Experiments With Unfunny Comedy By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2010 9:00 pm EST I like Jay Baruchel. Not based on any deep assessment of his work, but more on the fact that I suspect he’s more versatile than his more routine roles make him appear. He’s got a bit of an edge, and while he’s twitchy, he’s also earnest in a way that I can appreciate....

Sony Buys Pitch For inFAMOUS Video Game Adaptation By Russ Fischer/July 29, 2009 9:36 am EST Sony Pictures and Sony Computer Entertainment of America are working out a deal to produce a film based on the recent PlayStation 3 exclusive game inFAMOUS, and THR reports that writer Sheldon Turner’s (The Longest Yard, Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air) pitch to adapt the game has been bought by the studio. The game follows Cole McGrath, a bike messenger who is gifted with extraordinary electrical powers when he is caught at the epicenter of a bomb blast that destroys much of his hometown Empire City....

Speed Racer Looks Like A Video Game By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2007 8:42 pm EST I made a comment earlier about how Speed Racer doesn’t look like a “live-action cartoon” but instead, a “live-action video game”. And I’ve already gotten a bunch of emails and seen a bunch of forum comments saying that the action sequences look like video game cut scenes. /Film Reader Mark G sent me this screenshot from a Nintendo 64 video game called Extreme G, which looks very similar to one of the race sequences from Speed Racer....

SXSW Movie Review: Bananaz By Mel Valentin/March 14, 2008 1:22 am EST Bananaz, Ceri Levy’s behind-the-scenes/tour documentary centered on Gorillaz, the virtual band created by Damon Albarn, lead singer and songwriter for the Brit-pop band, Blur, and Jamie Hewlett, the co-creator of Tank Girl, is, alas, the kind of insular, for-fans-only documentary that means a limited theatrical run, if any, and a somewhat appreciative audience on DVD for completists of Gorillaz-centered merchandise or material....

The Buzz: UK Trilogy Red Riding Kills ‘Em At Telluride By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2009 5:24 pm EST Red Riding adapts three novels by David Peace: Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty-Three. The Wikipedia description of the novels holds true for the films: “Set against a backdrop of serial murders, including the Yorkshire Ripper case, they deal with multi-layered corruption and feature several recurring characters across the four books. Though real crimes are featured the scripts are fictionalized and dramatised versions of events rather than contemporary factual accounts....

The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 17, 2007 12:40 pm EST Cinematical have posted the official movie poster for Disney’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. I wasn’t really a fan of the first film, but the footage that Disney premiered at Comic-Con has given me new hope for this sequel. It appears that they have tried to pump up the plot with more action sequences, which was one of my main complaints about the first adaptation....

The Goonies Might Be Good Enough For Broadway But Not Sequel By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2007 10:32 pm EST The Goonies are Good Enough for Broadway, Sequel Unlikely Okay, the good news comes first: Director Richard Donner is trying to turn The Goonies into the next big Broadway musical sensation. “Steven and I have discussed it, and it’s something that I’m fairly passionate about right now,” Donner told EW. I would travel to New York City to see the Truffle Shuffle on stage....

The Last Airbender: Olympics TV Spot By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2010 12:16 am EST Paramount Pictures has premiered a new television spot for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender during the Olympics on Saturday. I was somewhat impressed by the original teaser trailer which accomplished everything in one continuous (yet stitched together) shot. But the television spot which aired during the Super Bowl had me completely sold. To me that spot had all the power of the Lord of the Rings trilogy....

Transformers 2 Character CGI Concept Art By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2009 11:25 am EST Computer generated concept art renderings of the Autobots and Decepticons from Transformers: Renge of the Fallen have shown up on Flickr. Above is The Fallen. We’ve included some of the new characters after the jump. Click any of the images to enlarge. The Twins – Skidz and Mudflap Sideswipe Megatron:DevestatorRavage Transformers 2 Character CGI Concept Art...

Transformers 2 Trailer In February By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2008 12:44 pm EST Michael Bay has confirmed in a post on his message board that the trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will hit in February, either in movie theaters or attached to the Superbowl. Bay also says that theatrical teaser posters will hit shortly after the new year. The Bay-produced Friday the 13th remake hits theaters on February 13th 2009, but that seems like a really odd fit for the teaser:...

Twilight Trailer To Break Indiana Jones’ Record?! By Peter Sciretta/May 9, 2008 12:47 am EST The teaser trailer for the big screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s best selling novel Twilight was viewed over 2 million in the first three days of release on MySpace.com. Back in March, the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull broke records with 4.1 million views on the Yahoo movie site in the first week of release....

Uncensored Knocked Up Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2007 12:26 pm EST It seems like only yesterday that we posted three new posters for the new Judd Apatow movie Knocked Up (oh wait, it was two days ago). Well today an non-MPAA approved uncensored teaser trailer for the film has hit the web.* Update: We have been contacted by Universal, and they say that the new trailer is in fact the International Trailer....

VOTD: 30 Years Of Star Wars By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2009 12:01 am EST Since 1977, Todd Stanton has always been a fan of Star Wars. From his youthful days of trading cards to his adult years of DVDs, the 6 films has always been a part of his life. 30 Years of Star Wars is his documentary of a lifelong franchise some have called “this generation’s Beatles”. Come join Todd Stanton, along with many of his friends, to a galaxy far, far away and re-experience his journey of the last three decades through an amazing collection of multimedia history....

VOTD: Bruce Springsteen’s Sequel To The Wrestler - “One Thinged Guy” By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2009 12:00 am EST Bruce Springsteen has received so my praise for his song “The Wrestler” (which was created for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler) that he has decided to follow-up with a sequel titled “One Thinged Guy”. Of course, this is actually a parody created by OverthinkingIt.com. Watch the music video after the jump. VOTD: Bruce Springsteen’s Sequel To The Wrestler - “One Thinged Guy”...