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Cool Stuff: Olly Moss’ Saul Bass-Inspired LOST Poster By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2009 3:00 pm EST The DamonCarltonAndAPolarBear.com Lost-Inspired art viral is still going strong. A mysterious flyer told participants were told to go to Johnny Cupcakes on Newbury Street in Boston. The first eight people at the store that said “Horace sent me” were given laser engraved wooden Dharma skate decks, which look super awesome (photos after the jump). The store also had a bunch of other cool easter eggs from the show scattered around....

Cool Stuff: Star Wars Zombies By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2008 5:24 am EST “The Dead Will Walk In A Galaxy Far Far Away. When there’s no room on the deathstar, the dead will walk on Endor and eat some spicy ewoks, prefer Brains.” We have Marvel Zombies, and now Zombie Star Wars. There is a Star Wars tribute photo contest going on at WiReD, featuring the cool zombified photo above. Nine more Star Wars Zombie photos after the jump, thanks to nerdcore....

David Fincher’s Zodiac Director’s Cut In 2008 By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2007 9:06 pm EST Zodiac will hit DVD store shelves on July 24th, but you might want to consider holding off on that purchase. Aside from the fact that the studio is releasing the film bare-bones (aka next to no extra features), there is now something new to consider. Apparently David Fincher’s Zodiac: 2-Disc Director’s Cut will be arriving in 2008....

Grindhouse Sells Only 14 Tickets Per Screening In Second Weekend By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2007 12:57 am EST Last week Grindhouse failed at the Box Office, this week the movie officially BOMBED. According to the Friday numbers, the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double feature dropped a whopping 74% from last week. The film will probably make $4 million in its second weekend, again less than half of the studio and independent estimates....

Guillermo Del Toro Confirms Hugo Weaving For The Hobbit… And Much More By Brendon Connelly/June 11, 2009 8:34 am EST One of BBC radio presenter Simon Mayo’s guests this week was Guillermo del Toro, and luckily for Guillermo, he came by on a Tuesday when Mayo’s oft-addled movie-reviewing sidekick Mark Kermode would be out of the way. While they were there to primarily discuss Del Toro’s vampire novel The Strain, Mayo did have a poke and probe into many of Guillermo’s upcoming movies, not least of all The Hobbit....

Hot Tub Time Machine Red-Band Trailer: This Time, It’s NSFW By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2010 2:51 pm EST There were a couple of big questions raised by the first trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine. Not “how do these guys get back in time?” (Duh. They use a hot tub time machine.) More important stuff like: “is Clark Duke really meant to be the same age as John Cusack?” And does one of the guys get it on with Gregg’s character’s mom?...

Jason Statham Wants To Be Daredevil, Frank Miller Approves By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2008 9:58 am EST Death Race and Crank star Jason Statham wants to be in a big screen reboot of the popular Marvel character Daredevil. But Statham doesn’t want to play the baddie Bullseye, he wants to take over as the blind man behind the red mask – Daredevil, who was played by Ben Affleck in Mark Steven Johnson’s 2003 film....

Moneyball Steps Back Up To The Plate; Now Pitching: Aaron Sorkin By Russ Fischer/July 9, 2009 2:00 pm EST Just the other day I said we probably wouldn’t run any more Moneyball news for a while, and that turned out to be a big fat lie. Because THR is reporting that Aaron Sorkin (who created the show Sports Night, remember) has signed on to rewrite the film for Sony. Steven Soderbergh no longer has anything to do with the project, and a potential director is yet to be announced....

Must Watch: Six Video Clips From The Wackness By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2008 9:54 pm EST I had the chance to interview The Wackness writer/director Jonathan Levine and star Josh Peck over the weekend, after having seen the film for a fourth time. The Wackness is one of my favorite movies of the year so far, and if you read the site daily than you know I’ve been pushing the hell out of it....

Netflix “Watch Instantly” Hits The Xbox 360 By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 19, 2008 8:07 pm EST It’s been a long wait, but today the Xbox 360 finally gets access to Netflix’s Watch Instantly library courtesy of the “New Xbox Experience” update. To partake in the streaming video festivities you’ll need a Netflix account (the 1 disc unlimited $8.99 plan at the minimum), and an Xbox Live Gold membership. Once you’ve updated your console, you can set up the console with your Netflix account by selecting the Netflix icon in the Video Marketplace....

New Star Trek Plot Description By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2009 10:35 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Rumor Killer: Tom Cruise’s Hudson Plane Crash Film By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 21, 2009 12:04 pm EST One of the hazards of writing online about film is that you receive a lot of fraudulent leads by e-mail. On my own blogs, I’m okay with running those I can’t actually disprove myself – but always making sure they are labeled clearly as rumour. We all like a good rumour, I think, as long as we know that’s all it is....

Ryan Reynolds In Adventureland By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2007 1:11 am EST Ryan Reynolds has been cast in SuperBad director Greg Mottola’s next film Adventureland, which features The Squid and the Whale star Jesse Eisenberg as a college graduate in the summer of 1987, who was prepared to spend his vacation in Europe before starting Grad School. But when his father is laid off, he is now stuck at his home in Long Island, NY....

Spielberg Has “Cracked The Story” Of Indiana Jones 5 By Brendon Connelly/June 16, 2009 8:38 am EST The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen team are in the UK, to premiere the film and plug the mercy out if it. My own video from the London press day is coming soon, but in the meantime, the BBC have popped their own interviews online and, by the by, broken a story on the next Indiana Jones film....

Star Trek Updates: Running Time, Trailer And More By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 14, 2008 1:23 pm EST We haven’t updated Star Trek in a while, so lets get to it. During a recent online chat with The Guardian, director JJ Abrams was asked why he got involved in the film. And I think his answer says a lot about what we should expect from the final film: “It didn’t feel like a classic reboot or prequel....

Sundance Photo Preview: Blue Valentine, Starring Michelle Williams And Ryan Gosling By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 24, 2009 10:00 am EST Derek Cianfrance’s directorial debut Blue Valentine will premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as one of 16 films selected from 1,058 submissions for the dramatic competition. Written by Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis, the screenplay won the 2006 Chrysler Film Project contest, which came with $1 million of funding....

SuperBad Director Greg Mottola To Helm Adventureland By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2007 1:54 pm EST JoBlo has the exclusive news that Mottola has signed on to direct Adventureland, a period comedy film set in the 1980’s which follows a college graduate who was prepared to spend his summer in Europe before starting Grad School. But when his father is laid off, he is now stuck at his home in Long Island, NY....

The Departed’s Leonardo DiCaprio And William Monahan To Reteam For The Chaser? By Hunter Stephenson/March 7, 2008 1:58 pm EST Fresh off the news that he’ll produce and probably star in two big budget Akira flicks and the rumor that he’ll star in Cocaine Cowboys, Leonardo DiCaprio is now circling a remake of the 2008 South Korean serial killer thriller The Chaser. What’s more, according to Variety, screenwriter William Monahan, the guy responsible for a lot of the sparks in Leo’s The Departed, has been pegged by Warner Bros....

The Truth Behind Edward Norton’s Hulk Screenplay By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2007 5:14 pm EST News broke at Comic-Con 2007 that actor Edward Norton wrote the script for The Incredible Hulk. It was an announcement that virtually shocked everyone. The production had announced that X3 screenwriter Zak Penn had written a script long ago. Thankfully now the Los Angeles Times has connected the dots. The newspaper explains that Penn had been working on the script for a year before Norton even became involved....

Tobey Maguire Reviews Spider-Man 3 By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2007 10:46 am EST Following the Tokyo premiere, Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire was asked what he thought of the third film: “I don’t know, I kind of liked it,” the star replied. Kind of?? [Not so nice comment about Tobey removed]. Spider-Man 3 hits theaters in the States on May 4th. Tobey Maguire Reviews Spider-Man 3 By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2007 10:46 am EST...