Trivia: There Will Be Blood Oil Made Out Of Milkshake By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2008 12:17 am EST Now that “I Drink Your Milkshake” has exploded into a cult phenomenon, we bring you this interesting There Will Be Blood factoid: According to cinematographer Robert Elswit, the oil used on screen in the movie was actually created using the same industrial material used by McDonald’s to thicken their milkshakes. How funny is that?...
Tron Legacy Viral: Flynn Lives Zero Hour Countdown Launched… Will A New Trailer Be Revealed On February 24th? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2010 1:29 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures’ viral marketing campaign for Tron: Legacy is gearing up once again, with a new website and countdown clock unlocked. Will a new trailer be revealed on February 24th? Details after the jump. For those of you who don’t remember, in July I received a package which included two arcade coinds that read “FLYNN’s ARCADE....
Valkyrie Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2008 7:05 pm EST The bad buzz for Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie has been building over the last few months. additional photography, added with a complete release date shift to February (after Awards Season), resulted in the release of negativity in Hollywood. It also doesn’t help that Crusie’s last film Lions For Lambs bombed. But so far everything I’ve seen about this film has been very impressive....
VOTD: Boba Fett’s Mandalorian Dance By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2008 12:00 am EST Boba Fett Does the Mandalorian Dance The Pitch: Partick Boivin created this stop motion animated short with everyone’s favorite bounty hunter showing off his dance moves. Thanks to /Film reader Jack Q for the tip. 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?...
VOTD: SpikeTV’s Boba Fett And Tusken Raider Commercials By Peter Sciretta/July 25, 2008 12:00 am EST Boba Fett and Tusken Raider Commercials by SpikeTV The Pitch: Today we bring you two videos for the price of one. Boba Fett teaches us “If a guy looks dangerous, he probably is.” And below, the Tusken Raiders teach us “When challenged, there is strength in numbers.” Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....
Wolverine And The X-Men Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2008 12:02 am EST One thing is for sure, Marvel is on a roll – The new X-Men animated series doesn’t look half bad. Check out the new trailer below. Wolverine and the X-Men begins as an explosive event shatters the lives of the X-Men and takes away their mentor, Professor X. The beaten heroes, including Beast, Storm, Cyclops and Nightcrawler, walk away from it all but then they are given a rare glimpse into the future, where they see a world in utter ruin…ruled by giant destructive robots....
WonderCon: The Princess And The Frog And The Future Of 2D Animation At Disney By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2009 1:02 am EST Not much going on at WonderCon today. The big event seemed to be a small panel on Walt Disney Animation’s Art of 2D Visual Effects. A bunch of the movie writers from all the movie sites were crammed into the front rows of the small conference room in hopes of seeing the first footage of The Princess and the Frog, Disney’s return to 2D hand-drawn animation....
Aliens, Another Reason To Get Excited For Battleship By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 8, 2009 10:10 pm EST I was trying to remain positive about this upcoming Battleship movie because I think director Peter Berg has the potential to be great, but he’s making it really hard for me right now. Latino Review got the scoop a few days ago that the big bad in Battleship won’t be Nazis, reverse vampires, or ominous looking pegs....
AMC Orders Six Episodes Of Walking Dead, Jonny Lee Miller Expected To Star By Brendon Connelly/March 29, 2010 3:00 pm EST AMC have today officially announced their order of a six-episode first season of The Walking Dead, adapted from Robert Kirkman’s comic book series. Frank Darabont is writing and directing, at the very least for the pilot episode, and that’s recommendation enough for me. The series is set to premiere during AMC’s annual marathon of horror and thriller programming, which they’re now calling Fearfest....
Box Office: Enchanted #1 On Wednesday; Hitman Holds Off This Christmas By Steve Mason/Nov. 22, 2007 2:50 pm EST Happy Thanksgiving to all. I’ve put together some rough Wednesday estimates since nobody (Show Biz Data, Box Office Mojo) has posted yet. I have slightly less confidence than usual, but these should be very solid and credible when studios finally do report. I’ll have additional analysis and projections for the 5-day before the end of the day....
Box Office: Warner Bros Set To Win The 2008 Studio Market Share Race By Steve Mason/Nov. 10, 2008 7:00 am EST There are, however, lots of ways to look at the year’s box office. In terms of total domestic tickets sold, the crown goes to Warner Bros, but they have released 16 movies in 2008 compared to just 13 for Paramount/Dreamworks. So, I was curious, what is the average box office per movie for each of the so-called Big 6?...
Contest: Hollywoodland On DVD By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2007 3:11 am EST Hollywoodland hit DVD store shelves yesterday (February 5th), and we have a copy of this DVD for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should get this DVD. On February 15th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....
Cool Stuff: Electric Zombie’s Stay Tuff Ghostbusters T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2008 2:30 am EST Electric Zombie is selling this cool Stay Tuff t-shirt, a call back to our favorite giant Marshmallow Man, as seen in Ghostbusters. Available in white, from Small to XXL for $20. Now if only they made the same design on black tees… Thanks to /Film reader Double J for sending over the tip.Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm....
Early Review Compares The Dark Knight To Heat And Godfather 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2008 2:22 am EST The Dark Knight will screen for select press later this week (we’ll be there), but a scooper over at AICN has already gotten a sneak peak. Tim Bisley compares the movie to The Godfather Part 2 and hints that Heath Ledger’s performance might be worthy of the best supporting Oscar. Here are a couple spoiler free highlights that I found interesting:...
First Look: New Line Goes 3D With Planet 51 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 27, 2007 3:53 pm EST Hollywood is still going 3D crazy. New Line has decided to enter the new cinema revolution by acquiring Ilion Animation Studios’ $60 million computer animated feature film Planet 51, which they plan to release in 3D. Shrek scribe Joe Stillman’s screenplay tells the story of Earth astronaut Capt. Charles “Chuck” Baker, who lands on Planet 51, which is inhabited by creatures who live in fear of an alien invasion....
Interview With Once’s John Carney, Glen Hansard And Marketa Irglova By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2007 5:46 am EST On Thursday May 17th, we had the chance to speak to director John Carney and stars Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova about the new india musical Once. At Sundance this year, Once was one of the most talked about films. However we missed it at the festival. We finally caught the film before the San Francisco International Film Festival and loved it....
JJ Abrams: Star Trek Won’t Look Like A Green Screen Movie By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 25, 2008 7:54 pm EST On Friday afternoon, JJ Abrams and the cast and crew of Star Trek sat down with TrekMovie.com to field questions from the fans. Here are the informational highlights: The first movie trailer first will “hopefully be in theaters early to mid summer.” Production is scheduled to wrap the beginning of April 2008....
Law Abiding Citizen Movie Trailer By Russ Fischer/Aug. 13, 2009 1:08 pm EST The film Law Abiding Citizen, starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler (and produced by Butler’s Shingle, Evil Twins) has gone through a lot of changes. Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium) wrote the original script, which was re-written by Frank Darabont. At one point, Darabont was also set to direct. But he dropped off the project and was replaced by F Gary Gray....
Leonardo DiCaprio In Talks For Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar Hoover Biopic By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2010 12:26 pm EST Leonardo DiCaprio is eyeing the lead role in the proposed biopic of original FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The project is being written by Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black with Clint Eastwood attached to direct, and Brian Grazer on board to produce. This would be DiCaprio’s first collaboration with Eastwood. According to Deadline, DiCaprio is in “early talks” to play the role"....
Michael Bay Responds To Bruce Willis’ Comments By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2007 9:12 pm EST Yesterday we told you how Bruce Willis slammed Transformers director Michael Bay in an online Q & A. When asked about the possibility of a Bay helmed Die Hard film, Willis replied: “Bay would have ruined DH4. Few people will work with him now, and I know I will never work with him again.” He even later added that “a screaming Director does not make for a pleasant set experience,” while talking about his Armageddon experience....
