Alan Moore Is NOT Watching The Watchman By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2008 6:38 pm EST Watchmen has surprised even the harshest of critics so far. Even original artist Dave Gibbons has praised the film’s production for it’s accuracy and amazing detail that Zack Snyder is putting into the big screen adaptation. So what about creator Alan Moore, who has been extremely vocal in the past against the adaptations of his comics?...
Breaking: Batman Retires By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2008 2:16 pm EST USA Today has a first look at Batman #681, due out November 26th, which concludes Grant Morrison’s Batman R.I.P storyline, where Bruce Wayne decides to retire from crime fighting after being shaken by a secret from his past. Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Beowulf) is penning a two-issue tribute to the character titled Whatever Happend to the Caped Crusader, starting with issue #686 (due in February)....
Cool Stuff: Goonies Puma Sneakers By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2008 4:00 am EST Puma is releasing a limited edition Goonies themed sneaker called The Goonies Disc Blaze. The sneakers feature original artwork of the famous One Eyed Willie treasure map, in addition to the Goonies logo Goonies film logos on heel, sockliner and midsole and a silhouet of the Goonies and Sloth watching the pirate ship go down. I’m not too hip, but apparently the Disc Blaze closure system means no shoe laces to tie – You just twist....
Cool Stuff: Juno Tic Tac DVD/CD Box Set By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2008 12:05 am EST /Film reader Daniel C sends along this photo of the upcoming Juno limited edition DVD/CD set which is being released in Australia. Not only does that DVD come in Limited Edition Tic Tac Box Packaging, but it comes with a Free Big Box of Orange Tic Tacs. Also included is a bonus Juno’s Mix CD featuring five songs from the movie soundtrack....
Edge Of Darkness Movie Trailer And Poster By Russ Fischer/Oct. 15, 2009 5:41 am EST Warner Bros. has released the trailer for Edge of Darkness, featuring Mel Gibson’s first starring role since 2002. Martin Campbell (Goldeneye, Casino Royale) directs the movie, which is a remake of the very highly regarded UK mini-series from 1985 that Campbell also directed. Sadly, the trailer mostly looks like a routine potboiler, but it has a few moments that shine through....
First Look: Rotten Tomatoes iPhone App By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2008 4:00 am EST Peter Boctor has created a free Rotten Tomatoes Application for the Apple iPhone called Tomatoes, which is now available on the Apple App Store. Tomatoes lets you quickly search for any movie using Rotten Tomatoes, without having to load the full webpage. “Tomatoes is an iPhone and iPod Touch application that makes it easy and fast to search RottenTomatoes....
Get Smart: Five New TV Spots By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2008 2:41 am EST Warner Bros has released five new television spots for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Get Smart. I grew up on a steady diet of Nick at Nite: Get Smart, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Mr. Ed. The Mel Brooks created spy comedy series was always my favorite of the bunch, so understandably I’ve been excited about for this movie since day one....
Grindhouse: Interview With Josh Brolin & Marley Shelton By Peter Sciretta/March 27, 2007 6:54 am EST On March 25th, we had the opportunity to talk with most of the stars of Grindhouse. We will be posting the interviews leading up until the film’s release on April 6th 2007. First up, we sat down with Josh Brolin (The Goonies, Hallow Man) and Marley Shelton (Pleasentville, Sin City) to talk about their dysfunctional doctor/nurse relationship in Robert Rodriguez’ Planet Terror....
Guillermo Del Toro Doesn’t Rule Out BioShock Movie By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2008 2:55 pm EST Just to give you an update, Guillermo del Toro is not yet officially attached to The Hobbit. Recently the director provided this update on his message board: “There has been a lot of movement. And for the last few weeks there has been a lot of creative / cast / crew / visual talks and agreements and we have witnessed great progress in areas,” said del Toro....
Hancock Has Received An R-Rating Twice From The MPAA By Hunter Stephenson/May 6, 2008 9:37 am EST [crude caption censored] Back in April, we discussed whether Entertainment Weekly’s prediction that Will Smith’s Hancock would be the third highest grossing film of Summer ‘08 and the top superhero movie (discounting Indiana Jones), was accurate. On Slashfilm, interest in the big budget satire seems to be running far behind The Dark Knight, Iron Man and, arguably, The Incredible Hulk, so it’ll be interesting to see whether it reaches the teetering-on-$300 million grosses of I Am Legend....
Idiocy: Teenager Tries To Swede Fight Club, Forgets Camera By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2009 1:02 pm EST Oh, here it comes: more talk of impressionable youth being ideologically dominated by a strong-arm film. This time it could be Fight Club, which according to the New York Times is the inspiration for the bombing of an Upper East Side Starbucks in New York City back in May. A 17-year old kid was arrested this week, with a copy of the Fight Club DVD actually on his person (does he carry the disc like a bible?...
Lego Batman Video Game Announced By Peter Sciretta/March 27, 2007 5:26 am EST We usually don’t report on video games based on movie properties, but this one caught out eye. Variety reports that Warner Bros and LEGO have signed a deal to make a LEGO Batman video game. Anyone who has played the LEGO Star Wars games will understand why this is so exciting. We can’t wait to drive into a building in the batmobile, shattering it into little lego pieces....
No Borat Sequel For Cohen By Peter Sciretta/July 23, 2007 12:54 am EST Our friends at Collider asked Hot Rod star and Sacha Baron Cohen’s fiancé Isla Fisher if a Borat sequel would ever happen. This is what she said: Not at this stage. Much as I would love to see the yellow thong out again (the room erupts in laughter) and the handlebar mustache. And while we won’t see Borat’s face on the big screen anytime soon, Cohen is currently filming a sequel of sorts without the reporter from Kazakhstan....
Question: Which Videogames Are The Most Cinematic? By David Chen/June 12, 2009 3:40 am EST If you’ve been following coverage from last week’s Electronics Entertainment Expo, you’ll know that a bunch of impressive footage debuted there. One of the most anticipated games of recent memory is Heavy Rain, which is being developed for the Playstation 3 by Quantic Dream (screenshot above). Heavy Rain has been in development since 2006 and has been the subject of much hype by its developers, who at one point claimed that the game would successfully cross the uncanny valley....
Sean Bean And Dougray Scott Cast In Irvine Welsh’s The Magnificent Eleven By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2010 11:13 am EST You might remember that, last May, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh was announced as the director of The Magnificent Eleven, a modern remake of The Magnificent Seven that centers around a group of UK footballers (i.e. soccer players, which I pray doesn’t really require explanation) who rally around a Tandoori restaurant. We still don’t know that much about the picture, but at last there are some actors to associate with it: Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and Robert Vaughn have all been cast....
The Babysitters Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2008 2:44 am EST When I screened The Babysitters at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, I came out of the screening wondering how any studio would market this film. You see, the film deals with an underage call-girl service. Here is a clip from my TIFF Review: “The Babysitters is a dark indie comedy about a teenager babysitter who turns her business into a call-girl service for married guys....
VOTD: Star Wars Gangsta Rap Chronicles By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2009 9:00 am EST BentTV, the guys who created the original Star Wars Rap viral video, have created a sequel of sorts: Star Wars Gangsta Rap Chronicles. MCs Vader, Skywalker, Palpatine and Trooper are back with another edition of the hit animated series Star Wars Gangsta Rap. With surprise appearances from Leia, Lando, and all your favorite flow from a galaxy far, far away....
Warner Bros. Launches Red2Blu Program, Offers Blu-Ray Copies Of HD-DVDs You Own (For A Small Fee) By David Chen/April 22, 2009 1:07 pm EST Tell me if this describes you: When Toshiba and Sony were going at each other during the great format war of HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray, you placed your bets on HD-DVD, the cheaper, more sensible option. Then, you watched in horror as the tides shifted and Blu-Ray won the day....
World War Z And My Fair Lady: Who’s On And Who’s Off? By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 30, 2009 4:30 pm EST It’s nothing like the merry-go-round of screenwriters but it does sometimes seem that pretty much all studio pictures go through a few directors on their way to the screen. Very often a director will board a project, wrestle with it for months, if not years, then depart. Other times, a whole list of directors will have passed pretty much as soon as they close the script and a project can find some time to find somebody willing to commit....
/Film Featured In Vanity Fair’s BlogOpticon By Peter Sciretta/June 12, 2008 11:30 pm EST Vanity Fair has named /Film one of the “most influential or amusing blogs” on the internet. We have been included on VF’s Blogopticon, a chart which includes the top 75 blogs on the interwebs. Vanity Fair says that /Film is “the place to go for Hollywood news if you’d rather not shell out $300 for Variety”. And more flattering, they say “Cinematical is to /Film, what Hollywood Reporter is to Variety....
