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Relativity To Make Voltron By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2008 9:54 pm EST The live-action project was in development since 2004. Interest skyrocketed after the box office success of Michael Bay’s Transformers. He-Man scribe Justin Marks penned the screenplay which is being described as “a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico” which follows “five ragtag survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth’s invaders....

Robert De Niro, Jude Law, Matthias Schweighöfer And… Stan Lee Cast In Thor? By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 18, 2009 5:39 am EST Apparently originating in a German GQ interview with Matthias Schweighöfer is some of the more surprising casting news in recent weeks. Not only did Schweighöfer allegedly reveal that he’s in the running for a role in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor, he also reportedly announced that Robert De Niro and Jude Law have roles in the movie....

Steve Pink To Direct Werewolves Of Reseda: “Hangover Meets… Teen Wolf?” By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2010 7:13 pm EST Accepted/Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink is attached to direct Werewolves of Reseda, and ensemble wish-fulfillment R-rated comedy (ala The Hangover) with a horror twist. According to the tracking boards, the screenplay by Brian Frank tells the story of a group of guys who gradually turn into werewolves, which somehow benefits their suburban family lives....

The Muppets: Pulp Fiction By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2007 6:41 pm EST Sometimes I lay in my bed at night, unable to sleep, asking myself: “What if Jim Henson made Pulp Fiction?” Well, I can now we have the answer, because 416Film has created just that. The Muppets can now be seen in this new movie trailer mash-up of Tarantino’s classic. Check it out after the jump. [flv:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/pulpmupets.flv 450 255]...

Twelve Movie Trailer: Joel Schumacher Is Back With…Something By Russ Fischer/April 5, 2010 10:40 am EST It’s a great day for bad trailers. We had the Step Up 3-D trailer earlier today, and now here’s a clip showing off Joel Schumacher’s Twelve, a film that didn’t actually set audiences on fire at Sundance. (Here’s Peter’s review.) And yet it did get a quick distro deal, from movie newbie Hanover House. Now there’s a trailer that is long, rambling, and possibly NSFW (thanks to a little sex reference)....

VOTD: Spike Jonze’s Everyone Poops By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2009 12:00 am EST Spike Jonze, fresh off directing Where The Wild Things Are has decided to adapt another popular 10-page children’s book into a feature film. Watch the trailer for “Everyone Poops” after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Jared N for the tip. VOTD: Spike Jonze’s Everyone Poops By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2009 12:00 am EST Spike Jonze, fresh off directing Where The Wild Things Are has decided to adapt another popular 10-page children’s book into a feature film....

Watchmen: Running Time, New Trailer And Sequel Denial By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2008 8:58 pm EST Twenty-five minutes of Watchmen was screened for select press in Los Angeles today. I couldn’t make the trip (I’m taking a break from traveling for a while), but our friends at FirstShowing were in attendance. Here are some of the news highlights: The current running time is 2 hours and 43 minutes, and Zack Snyder doesn’t expect it to get much shorter....

Watchmen Movie Trailer #3 - What Do You Think? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 13, 2008 6:13 pm EST Warner Bros has released a new movie trailer for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen which presents a much better look at the film’s plot (ie, it is much more than the music video montage teaser trailer). This is the same trailer that will be attached to Quantum of Solace this weekend. I know that many of you won’t be able to resist waiting to see it on the big screen....

Watchmen Woes To Be Settled At 3.30pm Today? By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 15, 2009 10:42 am EST Interesting stuff. So, around about 8.30pm tonight my time, as I’m settling down to watch a bit of Masterchef and enjoy some Vegan jerk-something with rice end peas, the final chapter of the Watchmen legal woes might just be beginning. What a perfect bedtime story for geeky nippers across the land. All I know for sure is that after this hullaballo, Larry Gordon’s world is going to be turned upside down....

WTF?! IndieWire’s Top 100 Movies Of 2007 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2007 4:06 pm EST IndieWire polled “106 leading North American film critics,” and they came up with the Top 100 Movies of 2007. Here is the top twenty films: There Will Be Blood Zodiac No Country for Old Men Syndromes and a Century Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days I’m Not There The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford...

Zack Snyder’s Guardians Of Ga’Hoole: Lord Of The Rings In Scope? By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2008 7:20 pm EST Producer Donald De Line talked to Collider about Zack Snyder’s animated children’s film Guardians of Ga’Hoole, an adaptation of the 14 book bestselling kids series by author Kathryn Lasky and illustrator Richard Cowdry (the film is based on the first three books in the series). De Line described the tone of the film as more “Harry Potter” “than Happy Feet....

Argghh! The Sounds Of Twilight Top Billboard By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2008 1:48 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As if we didn’t already expect this was going to happen… The soundtrack to Twilight made its debut at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200, beating out AC/DC. With Juno and Mamma Mia, this is the third soundtrack to hit #1 on the album charts this year....

Box Office: Inglourious Basterds Takes $65.1 Million Worldwide By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2009 7:07 pm EST The Weinstein Co have pulled out a win, just when they needed it. Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds won this weekend at the box office, taking in an estimated $37.6 million domestically and $27.5 million internationally for a worldwide weekend total of $65.1 million. That is enough to top Kill Bill: Volume 2 as Tarantino’s highest box office opening to date....

Casting: Jim Sturgess As Spider-Man? Evan Rachel Wood As Mary Jane? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 21, 2007 4:39 am EST Earlier this year Julie Taymor (The Lion King) announced plans to direct a Broadway musical based on Spider-Man. With Across The Universe now behind her, the casting process is upcoming. Taymor told The Daily Mail that she hopes to reteam with her Across The Universe cast for the stage project. Apparently Taymor would like to cast Jim Sturgess as Peter Parker aka Spider-Man and Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane Watson....

Casting SAW IV: Justin Louis And Lyriq Bent By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2007 1:05 pm EST Justin Louis and Lyriq Bent have been cast in SAW IV. Director Darren Lynn Bousman confirmed the casting to BD and JoBlo: “I am so stoked – one reason I love this franchise is most everyone has come back on the crew. Same Costume team – same props team – same production designer – DP – AD’s – basically everyone… At this point it’s like one big dysfunctional family… That holds true with the cast....

Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant Optioned? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2008 9:57 pm EST Chuck Palahniuk’s official website has word that the Fight Club/Choke author’s last book Rant, might have been optioned for a big screen movie adaptation. We’re not sure what studio made the purchase, and we really don’t have any more information. I’ve been calling sources for the last few days and have come up short. But before you get too excited, I must remind you that all of Chuck’s books have been optioned, but so far only two movies have been greenlit....

Did Bill Murray Film A Zombie Cameo In Zombieland? By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2009 12:27 am EST ShockTillYouDrop has learned that Bill Murray filmed a cameo for Ruben Fleischer’s horror comedy Zombieland. According to the anonymous source, Murray donned full zombie make-up to make a shot appearance. Murray was in Georgia working on the film Get Low while Zombieland was in production. Zombieland star Woody Harrelson was spotted hanging out with Murray at some local Atlanta spots, so it’s very possible....

Early Buzz: The First Official Reviews For Pixar’s Up By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2009 6:22 pm EST Tomorrow, Pixar’s Up will be not only the first animated film but also the first 3D movie to open the Cannes Film Festival. Reviews are already flowing in. I saw the movie last week, and it is spectacular. But don’t take my word for it, here is a look at the early buzz:...

Edgar Wright Wants To Make Baby Driver Next By Brendon Connelly/July 12, 2009 2:30 pm EST While Edgar Wright continues to shoot, vlog and photoblog his way through Scott Pilgrim Versus the World, we in the geekosphere are getting slightly ahead of ourselves. Just what, we desperately want to know, will his next picture be? Will it be Ant-Man, the one Marvel movie so far announced that I can muster genuine giddy excitement for?...

Eli Roth Offers Slight Update On Endangered Species By Russ Fischer/Dec. 7, 2009 10:00 am EST When he joined Quentin Tarantino and the cast of Inglourious Basterds at Cannes in May, Eli Roth announced the title of his next feature: Endangered Species. We’ve since learned that the film was jointly inspired by Cloverfield and Transformers, and that, very much in the vein of those two films, it’ll be a big city-destruction film....