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Early Reviews Of Alex Cox’s Repo Man Quasi-Sequel Repo Chick (An Anti-Golf Farce?) By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 9, 2009 9:07 am EST Last night at the Venice Film Festival, the spiritual sequel to writer/director Alex Cox’s punk rock, sci-fi cult classic Repo Man, Repo Chick, premiered. Co-produced by David Lynch, the film has loomed with some hesitation in the minds of fans as an oddity, because it was shot almost entirely on green screen using RED cameras and an indie budget....

Ellen Page, Alia Shawkat And Sean Tillmann Writing HBO Series Stitch N’Bitch By Russ Fischer/Oct. 8, 2009 7:31 am EST Oh, I can already see the responses to this one in my head. Ellen Page, Alia Shawkat and Sean Tillmann (the latter is AKA Har Mar Superstar) are writing and exec-producing a new show for HBO called Stitch N’Bitch. We don’t know much about the project so far, but the trade write-ups indicate that it centers around a creature found inscrutable and frightening by much of the film blogging community: HIPSTERS....

Gay-Friendly Bruno Reshoots Rumored By Brendon Connelly/June 17, 2009 7:09 am EST According to a new report at The Wrap, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno was reshot to appease the “Hollywood gay community.” Frankly, if this is true, I’m a little disappointed in the filmmakers for bowing to this pressure. Furthermore, I think it reflects very badly on this community if they are incensed by the movie. There’s absolutely no way that Bruno isn’t, wasn’t, and hasn’t always been a very passionately pro-homosexuality, anti-homophobia piece....

Geek Deal: Burn Notice Seasons 1 & 2 For $40 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 17, 2009 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Geek Deals: Stargate SG-1 Set For $100; National Lampoon’s Ultimate Vacation Collection For $17 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2008 4:19 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Previous (Still Valid) Geek Deals You can buy the first two seasons of Heroes on DVD for $49.99, 50% off the $100 MSRP or you can buy the first two seasons on Blu-ray for $90.99, 46% off the $170 MSRP....

George Miller Casting: Teresa Palmer In Mad Max 4: Fury Road, Matt Damon And Brad Pitt In Happy Feet 2 By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 15, 2010 8:00 pm EST It seems like it was only earlier today that I was writing about George Miller and his Mad Max sequel… oh waitaminute, it was only… et cetera, et cetera. According to (!) Jay Baruchel, Teresa Palmer has the prize part of “main chick” in Mad Max 4: Fury Road – so, move over Charlize, at least into the position of “not so main chick”....

Guy Ritchie Attached To Direct Sgt. Rock For Joel Silver By Hunter Stephenson/May 12, 2008 4:27 pm EST Fresh off working with Guy Ritchie on Rocknrolla (due this October), mega-producer Joel Silver says he’s tapped the British director/major Madonna fan to see through his long gestating comic book adaptation of Sgt. Rock. AICN got the succinct scoop… Moriarty: But you do that with properties. You stick by them, like SGT. ROCK....

Jennifer’s Body Green Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2009 11:21 am EST Earlier this week you watched the red band trailer for for Jennifer’s Body, now check out the PG-Rated Green Band trailer which was just released online. Written by Academy Award winner Diablo Cody and directed by Karyn Kusama, the film tells the story of a small-town high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) who is possessed by a hungry demon and begins eating boys....

Kyle Newman To Direct Emo Boy By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2008 10:23 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. According to THR, the project is being described as being in the tone of “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Harold and Maude” and “Zoolander.” Emo music is also expected to be a main component of the film. I very much enjoyed Fanboys, but Newman’s style is rather obvious and on the nose, and this project seems like it needs to be a bit more subtle and sarcastic in its intentions....

Lou Romano’s Incredibles Concept Art By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 2, 2008 12:52 pm EST There is nothing I love more than early concept art. To be able to see what a film could have been, or maybe was originally intended to become (for example, Ralph McQuarrie’s art of Luke Starkiller, complete with the crazy air respirator mask). Lou Romano, a member of the art department at Pixar Studios, has uploaded a bunch of his early concept art for Brad Bird’s The Incredibles....

Milk Sweeps 2008 San Francisco Critics Circle Awards By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2008 9:56 pm EST The San Francisco Critics Circle (which I’m sadly not a part of) has announced their 2008 Award Winners: Best Picture: MilkBest Director: Gus Van Sant, “Milk"Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, “Milk"Best Adapted Screenplay: Peter Morgan, “Frost/Nixon"Best Actor: TIE: Sean Penn, “Milk”/Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler"Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, “Happy-Go-Lucky"Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight"Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, “The Wrestler"Best Foreign Language Film: “Let the Right One In"Best Documentary: “My Winnipeg"Best Cinematography: Wally Pfister, “The Dark Knight”...

Monsters Inc Ride Coming To Disney World? By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2008 3:46 pm EST Jim Hill is reporting that Walt Disney Imagineering will be adding a new Monsters Inc attraction to Pixar Place in Walt Disney World just in time for the park’s 40th anniversary. Apparently the lie queue area will entail an elaborate recreation of the Monsters, Inc lobby, complete with Mike Wazowski’s snake-haired girlfriend Ceilia behind the reception desk....

Movie Review: The Kingdom By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2007 9:26 am EST The Kingdom is one third a great action film, and two thirds CSI: Middle Eastern Edition (if there were such a thing). The movie tries to be more complicated than its core, which is a quasi-revenge story about a team of US Government agents who are sent to investigate a terrorist bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The action is front and back-loaded, with the middle chunk consisting of semi-improv-ed funny moments with an ensemble crew of FBI special Agents trying to solve a horrendous crime while being restrained and baby-sat by Saudi authorities....

New Photos: The Mummy 3 And Indiana Jones 4 By Peter Sciretta/May 1, 2008 11:49 am EST A bunch of new photos popped up on the web today. Official Pix has started selling photos from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for $5.99. Here are a few of the new photos they are selling (beware: potential spoilers if you’re smart enough to connect the dots): Cinematical has new photos from The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor....

Nicole Kidman May Retire From Acting By David Chen/Nov. 19, 2008 8:32 pm EST At a press conference to promote her new film, Australia, Nicole Kidman revealed that she is thinking about retiring from acting: In terms of my future as an actor and stuff, I don’t know. I am in a place in my life where … I’ve had some great opportunities and I may just choose to have some more children....

Ninja Assassin Movie Review: Cutting All The Fun Out Of Martial Arts By Russ Fischer/Nov. 27, 2009 1:44 am EST Like a relic from old Hollywood, only with a lot more blood, the film exists as a would-be star-making vehicle for the Korean actor/pop star Rain, who impressed the Wachowskis and producer Joel Silver while working on Speed Racer. The biggest surprise of this film is that, with respect to their estimation of Rain’s potential, Silver and the Wachowskis weren’t out in left field....

Photos From Broken Lizard’s Slammin’ Salmon By Peter Sciretta/June 20, 2008 2:04 am EST /Film photo scooper Christopher M sent us a bunch of photos from the set of Broken Lizard’s Slammin’ Salmon. I’m not a big fan of the improvised comedy style, but i understand that a lot of /Film readers love Broken Lizard, so I’m posting the photos. The film tells the story of a former heavyweight boxing champion named Cleon “Slammin’” Salmon (Michael Clarke Duncan), who is now the owner of a Miami restaurant....

Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood Movie Trailer And Photos By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2009 10:04 pm EST Universal Pictures has released the first official movie trailer for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett Mark Strong, William Hurt. Kevin Durand, Alan Doyle, and Scott Grimes. It seems like the new Hollywood trend is to market period action films by using hard loud rock/metal music — which almost screams “this isn’t your father’s Robin Hood!...

Serial Killer Films: Tom Cruise Developing The Monster Of Florence. Matt Damon To Star In $100 Million Torso? David Fincher Off? By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 5, 2008 12:18 pm EST Tom Cruise will produce and possibly star in an adaptation of Douglas Preston’s non-fiction bestseller, The Monster of Florence, for his studio United Artists. When Preston relocated his family to Italy in 2000, he soon became aware of a nearby murder committed years ago by the region’s serial killer, the Monster of Florence....

Sundance Movie Review: Morgan Spurlock’s Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2008 6:48 pm EST Morgan Spurlock explains that if there is anything he has learned in over 30 years watching movies, it is that if the world needs saving, it’s best done by one man, and one man alone (usually Bruce or Arnold). You see, Spurlock wants to make the world safer for his soon to be born baby and embarks on a mission to find the most wanted man in the world – Osama Bin Laden....