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Director Larry Charles Says NC-17 Motley Crüe Film, The Dirt, Isn’t Happening. Also, New HBO Series With Kanye West. By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 2, 2008 5:41 pm EST The Motley Crüe biopic, The Dirt, is one of those long-fabled projects, complete with dream casting (Chris Walken as Ozzie!) befitting Inglorious Bastards circa 1999, that may never see the darkness of a theater. Borat and Religulous director, Larry Charles, has been attached to helm for some time and tells Coming Soon that his NC-17 vision is probably too nihilistic for Hollywood....

Disney’s Return To 2D Animation - The Princess And The Frog Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2008 12:32 am EST Disney has released a teaser trailer for their upcoming 2D animated film, The Princess and the Frog. The film promises to return to the Broadway-style musical in the likes of the successful Disney films. I want to root for traditional animation, but this film doesn’t look like it even comes close to the standards set with Walt Disney’s classics....

Eli Roth’s Trailer Trash On August 22nd 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 12, 2007 1:22 pm EST So many people loved Eli Roth’s fake trailer Thanksgiving (which was of course attached to Grindhouse, which you didn’t see because, well, who did… but for the record, I saw it 3 times in the theater), that Roth announced that he wanted to doa full movie of fake trailers called Trailer Trash. And today, Roth has confirmed to our friends at Bloody-Disgusting that MGM will be released the movie in theaters on August 22nd 2008....

First Look: Couples Retreat By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 19, 2008 12:51 pm EST USA Today has a first look at the cast of Peter Billingsley’s directorial debut, Couples Retreat. Based on an idea by Vince Vaughn, and scripted by Jon Favreau, the PG-13 (ick!) comedy stars Favs, Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Faizon Love, Kristen Bell, Kristin Davis, Kali Hawk, and Malin Akerman. Jean Reno and John Michael Higgins co-star as the resort’s mastermind and the therapist....

Geek Deals: Doctor Who For $32, Pixar’s Up, Cars And Monsters Inc On Blu-Ray For $36 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 13, 2009 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Jackie Earle Haley Tapped For Sinestro In Green Lantern, Superman To Cameo By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 17, 2009 4:32 am EST Probably the most disappointing thing about Green Lantern is that the protracted and delayed production is going to ensure, without any doubt, that director Martin Campbell can’t be in charge of the next Bond film and turn that franchise round again (for the third time). It’s not all bad news, though....

Kick Ass Red Band Hit Girl Trailer By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 21, 2009 5:52 pm EST After the character posters for Kick-Ass come the character trailers, and it’s a case of Last In, First Out as Hit Girl becomes the star of the opening effort. It’s of immediate interest that this is a Red Band trailer, complete with extreme profanity and explicit acts of violence, both of which are being doled out by a little girl....

Marvel To Release Stan Lee Action Figure By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2007 11:53 am EST We’ve been waiting for this to happen. 84-Year-Old superhero creator Stan Lee is finally being made into an action figure. Lee is responsible for Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk and many others. Lee has also made cameo appearances in most of the Marvel film adaptations. He also played himself in a mentor-like supporting role in Kevin Smith’s Mallrats....

Mother News: Bong Joon-Ho’s Film Gets Distro, Rebecca De Mornay Joins Horror Cast By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2009 3:50 pm EST Because there’s a lot of other stuff coming down the wire toady, I’m going to unceremoniously squish together two pieces of news here that are only tangentially related by title. First, the Bong Joon-ho film Mother that played so well at Cannes and will soon be hitting TIFF now has distribution in the US....

Movie Trailer: John Woo’s Red Cliff 2 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 14, 2008 1:38 pm EST Twitch has the first trailer for the second a part of John Woo’s massive epic period war film Red Cliff, based on the The Battle of Red Cliffs in 208 AD. Looks pretty intense. The most expensive film in Chinese film history. The first part broke box office records in China. Movie Trailer: John Woo’s Red Cliff 2...

New Gotham Tonight: An Interview With Harvey Dent By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2008 12:16 am EST I know that some people are turned off by The Dark Knight viral stuff, and I can understand why some would have this viewpoint as running around in an online and real world scavenger hunt for a new video clip might not be everyone’s idea of a good time. But having seen the film, let me tell you that some of the viral web stuff will expand your experience of the movie, and fill in some of the gaps not explored on the big screen....

New Images From Sylvain Chomet And Jacque Tati’s The Illusionist By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 9, 2009 6:05 am EST Creating a ’traditionally animated’ feature, which is to say a film created by drawing 2D images rather than tweaking 3D models, either physically or virtually, is most definitely a very time consuming exercise (I take issue with the term ’traditionally animated’ as I’m not sure what’s untraditional about the art of stop-motion). Unsurprising, then, that the last time I saw a new image from Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist was literally years ago....

New Study Says Men Love Romantic Movies By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2007 6:17 am EST My friends have always made fun of me because I enjoy Romantic Comedies. May-be it’s the fact that I even like the really bad teen romcoms. Truth be told I like most movies. It takes a lot for me not to enjoy a movie. I can always find something to like in even the worst films....

One Missed Call - The Worst Reviewed Movie In Over A Year By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 9, 2008 3:00 pm EST Last week I saw a press screening of One Missed Call. And by press screening, I mean a screening at 10:00pm pt the day before the film was released nationally. I’m not entirely sure why studios offer such last minute screenings, as most publications have a deadline earlier in the week....

Open Letter To Joe Nussbaum: W.T.F., Don’t Become A Hack! By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 25, 2007 10:30 am EST Remember the cute short film George Lucas in Love? It was a promising first effort. What if I told you that the guy who made that short went on to direct a few crappy pre-teen and high school films? Well it happened. Lucas in Love launched Joe Nussbaum into a career in Hollywood, and so far he’s made Sleepover, Sydney White, and a crappy direct-to-dvd American Pie sequel....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 9, 2009 5:00 am EST Copyranter found this photo of a Rio de Janeiro subway advertisement for 2012. MTV Shows Robert Zemeckis explains to MTV why he’s never directed a superhero movie: “I’m a superhero fan, although I actually have never been offered one. I’ve never really brought one to someone and said I really want to do this superhero [movie]. Obviously, I love the form, as movies really are the extension of comic books....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2009 4:00 am EST We Love You So has found some great Where The Wild Things Are graffiti mural in Los Angeles. What happens when Deadpool meets The Smurfs? [confined] AMC lists the top 14 fake movies from real movies. Artist Prudence Staite recreated a number iconic scenes from Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs using 14 different varieties of apples. So I Married an Axe Murderer is now available for free stream on Hulu....

Paranormal Activity Creators Producing Insidious, A New Film From The Saw Creators By Russ Fischer/Feb. 5, 2010 7:30 am EST Original Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell are going to film a new low-budget horror picture this summer called Insidious, with Wan directing from a script by Whannell. Making the project a bit more interesting, Oren Peli, Jason Blum and Steven Schneider, the guys behind Paranormal Activity, are producing....

Robert De Niro Cast As Vince Lombardi By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2010 12:32 pm EST Robert De Niro has signed to play legendary football coach Vince Lombardi in ESPN Films’ big screen feature Lombardi. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Munich, Benjamin Button, The Insider) penned the script. The National Football League is involved in the project, which means we probably won’ see anything controversial in the movie (steroids, alcohol)....

Sunday Box Office: Halloween Falls To $6.9M; Headed For $31.3M 4-Day; The Nines Tops PTA By Steve Mason/Sept. 3, 2007 2:04 am EST Superbad (Sony) got a 9% Sunday bump for an estimated $4.68M. The Judd Apatow-produced, Seth Rogen-written comedy will finish the long weekend with approximately $15.73M, and the R-rated hit has broken past the $90M mark. The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) enjoyed a 4% increase, while Rogue Releasing’s Balls of Fury dipped 10% on Sunday, giving Bourne a 3rd place Sunday finish....