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There Will Be Sneak Preview Screenings By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2007 4:25 pm EST One of the best movies of the year is, without a doubt, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. No question – this film is a modern cinematic masterpiece. Blood hits theaters in New York City and Los Angeles on December 26th, and will expand during January. Not willing to wait that long? Paul Thomas Anderson has a special Christmas Gift for film fanatics around the country....

Tim Burton In A 3D Wonderland By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 16, 2007 7:26 pm EST Last month we reported a rumor that Tim Burton would be making a stop motion animated feature length remake of his infamous short Frankenweenie. Well the news is now official, and it gets even better – it will be in 3D! And there is even better news, before he begins production on Frankenweenie, Burton will directing a re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland which will also be in 3D!...

Tom Cruise Vs. Adolf Hitler By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2007 11:49 pm EST Tom Cruise will star in the just announced Bryan Singer-directed World War II drama. Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner acquired rights to produce the film last week for the new United Artists. The Usual Suspects screenwriter Chris McQuarrie wrote the script with Nathan Alexander. Singer was able to fit this movie in before production of the Superman Returns sequel begins in March 2008....

Tweet In Klingon By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2009 7:06 pm EST Have you ever wanted to send out tweets on Twitter in another language? TwitLan lets you translate your tweets in 81 different languages. But that’s… boring. How about a website that allows you to tweet using a fictional foreign or intergalactic language? TweetInKlingon.com allows you to send messages on Twitter, translated into the same language as the famous reoccurring Star Trek villains....

Twitter Update By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2009 12:30 am EST Since our original posting on March 6th, we’ve added over 20 new names to our listing of all the screenwriters, directors and actors/actresses on Twitter. The additions include: Donald Glover, Roger Avary, David Hewlett, Kate Hewlett, Brea Grant, Mark Romanek, David Wain, Jon Hurwitz, Joe Lynch, David Bruckner, James Moran, Michael Stephenson, Sean Flanery, Aubrey Plaza, Rian Johnson, Faizon Love, David Blue, James Kyson Lee, Jonathan King, Aziz Ansari, John Cleese, and Danny Masterson....

Update: Senator Nabs All The Boys Love Mandy Lane By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2007 11:13 am EST Just to follow up on our story from Friday about All The Boys Love Mandy Lane being delayed, we now know more. Apparently Marco Weber’s Senator Entertainment, Inc., a production and finance company based in Berlin and Los Angeles, has bought the film and will distribute it domestically. Dimension will handle the home video distribution according to HE....

VOTD: Batman Vs The Dark Knight Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2008 12:00 am EST Batman vs The Dark Knight Trailer created by College HumorThe Pitch: Why So Similar? The Dark Knight is a remake of Tim Burton’s Batman, didn’tcha know?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.com. VOTD: Batman Vs The Dark Knight Trailer...

We Warned You: The Twilight Invasion Has Begun By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2008 2:49 am EST Oh no, It has begun… Twilight is on the cover of Entertainment Weekly! via: Anne Thompson We Warned You: The Twilight Invasion Has Begun By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2008 2:49 am EST Oh no, It has begun… Twilight is on the cover of Entertainment Weekly! via: Anne Thompson via: Anne Thompson

Yogi Bear Hybrid Movie By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 1, 2008 10:38 pm EST When we look back at history, Scooby Doo and Alvin and the Chipmunks will be blamed for creating a whole new genre of horrible family films. Warner Bros is developing a live-action/animated hybrid big screen adaptation of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon Yogi Bear. Surf’s Up co-writer/director Ash Brannon has signed on to direct the project, which will be scripted by Tooth Fairy/Surviving Christmas scribes Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia....

Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch To Feature Song And Dance Numbers? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 14, 2009 9:30 pm EST I’m wildly curious to see what’s going on in Sucker Punch. Zack Snyder’s follow-up to Watchmen features a wild cast (Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone and Abbie Cornish, with Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Scott Glenn and Oscar Isaac) with the first five names as a group of girls locked in an unsavory mental institution, from which they escape through fantasy....

21 Grams On Hulu By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2008 1:06 am EST Critically acclaimed Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s second collaboration with Guillermo Arriaga, 21 Grams, is now available for free on Hulu. The film tells three stories starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Danny Huston, and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Not nearly as great as his debut feature Amores Perros, 21 Grams is still worth checking out. Leave your comments about the movie in the comments....

Aaron Eckhart Talks Two-Face By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 27, 2007 5:15 am EST Ever since it was announced that Aaron Eckhart had been cast as Harvey Dent in the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, fans have wondered if Two-Face would make an appearance. Eckhart confirmed the character’s appearance in passing while talking to MTV.com. “Batman is a complex character, and Two-Face comes a little bit from the same world,” Eckhart said....

Blu-Ray Trailer For Fantasia, Fantasia 2000 And Fantasia World By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 4, 2010 7:59 am EST Though nothing now could live up to the excitement of seeing Fantasia on it’s original release, when it was a real big event with allocated seating, a dress code, programme booklets and the first ever stereophonic sound in cinema, I’m still getting pretty sparky over the film’s imminent Blu-ray edition. Coming to Disney’s Diamond Edition collection will be not only the original Fantasia but its turn of the millennium brethren, Fantasia 2000 and something called Fantasia World which, according to the new trailer, will showcase “never-before-seen animated short films”....

Bolt Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2008 2:27 am EST Disney has released the trailer for Bolt. Does anyone else find it ironic that an Elvis Presley song is used in the trailer for a movie in which Lilo & Stitch director Chris Sanders was removed as director? I talked about the controversy behind this project last week, if you haven’t had a chance, check it out here. I’ll admit that because of the backstory, it’s hard for me to be accept Disney’s reworking of Sander’s original designs....

Brett Ratner Says Trump Heist Might Be Next By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2009 2:57 pm EST Movieline caught up with hack director Brett Ratner and was able to get “The Rat” to go on record about the many films listed on the director’s Internet Movie Database page. As suspected, most of them aren’t happening or are in early stages of development. But the film Ratner claims is the “closest to getting made” is Trump Heist....

Brooklyn’s Finest Trailer #1: Three Of The Eight Million Stories From The Naked City By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2009 12:35 am EST Antoine Fuqua reunites with his Training Day star Ethan Hawke for another cop tale, this time set in Brooklyn, NY. (Did the title give it away?) Hawke is joined by Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Wesley Snipes in this three-part story that premiered at Sundance this year. Now there’s a trailer, after the break....

BURN-E Details Revealed? By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2008 9:28 pm EST /Film reader DC claims to have more information on the upcoming WALL-E short film titled Burn-E which will be included on the DVD release. In the feature film there is a sequence where Eve and WALL-E fly around the Axiom Starliner, and enter through a door locking a poor welder bot on the outside of the ship. The bot bangs his fists against the door after he realizes that he has been locked out....

Contest: Yellow On DVD By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2007 12:20 am EST Yellow hit DVD store shelves on July 31st, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On August 7th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump. Roselyn Sanchez (Rush Hour 2, TV’s “Without a Trace”) and D....

Cool Stuff: Eric Tan’s Indiana Jones Poster By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2008 1:08 am EST I first learned of artist Eric Tan a few months ago when he created a super cool UFA German-inspired X-Men cinema poster. Tanner was responsible for some of the awesome Incredibles concept artwork. I have fallen in love his retro propaganda-style, and was able to snap up a limited edition print of the X-Men poster thanks to my friend Frosty at Collider....

David Lynch Talks About Not Directing Return Of The Jedi By Russ Fischer/Dec. 10, 2009 5:52 am EST Even the most casual Star Wars and/or David Lynch scholar knows that Lynch was offered a gig directing Return of the Jedi and turned it down. Lynch’s features at that point were Eraserhead and The Elephant Man — both incredible examples of storytelling and world building on relatively controlled budgets. One can only surmise that something along those lines is what Lucas put the job in Lynch’s path....