TIFF Review: Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2008 4:02 pm EST Some might say that The Wrestler is a departure from director Darren Aronofsky, while many others may look at it as an evolution. One thing is for sure, it’s very different, and certainly more mature than the filmmaker’s previous work. I’d love to compare it to Paul Thomas Anderson’s transition from films like Boogie Nights and Magnolia to There Will Be Blood....
Tribeca Movie Review: A Walk Into The Sea: Danny Williams And The Warhol Factory By SlashFilm Staff/April 30, 2007 11:59 am EST The following movie was screened at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory World Documentary Competition 2006, U.S.A Dir: Esther B. Robinson The infamous and enigmatic Any Warhol accrued many a hanger-on during his career, and most notably, during the Factory Years....
VOTD: A Short Love Story In Stop Motion By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2008 11:55 pm EST A Short Love Story In Stop Motion The Pitch: This is a segment of Carlos Lascano’s beautiful Stop Motion and 2D animated film A Short Love Story In Stop Motion. Carlos shot the film with a Nikon D70s and Sony HVR V1, captured with a Blackmagic Intensity Card, and edited using Adobe Photoshop, After effects CS3, Final Cut and iStop Motion on an Mac Pro from Apple....
VOTD: Star Wars Grindhouse: Don’t Go In The Endor Woods By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 8, 2009 12:01 am EST Star Wars Grindhouse: Don’t Go In The Endor Woods won the 2008 Star Wars Fan Film Award for best parody. " Ewoks – they’re cute and they’re cuddly, but boy can they be sick little bastards." Check it out after the jump. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....
Warner Bros. Getting Back Into The Animation Game With Peacock Film Pitch From Winsberg And Corson By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 26, 2009 5:33 am EST Screenwriters Austin Winsberg and Heath Corson are in final negotiations to sell their pitch for a new animated movie about a Peacock to Warner Bros. While there’s not really anything else known about the project (we don’t even know if it will be a CG movie, though I’d be amazed if it isn’t), the fact that Warners are getting back into feature animation at all is noteworthy enough....
Andrew Stanton Talks John Carter Of Mars By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2008 12:36 pm EST Earlier this week I got to fulfill my geek dreams, and drive through the Pixar gate in Emeryville to interview WALL-E/Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton on the Pixar campus. That interview will be posted in it’s entirety next week, but I wanted to share with you my discussion with Stanton over his upcoming adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars....
Artie Lange Quits The Howard Stern Show By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2008 7:09 pm EST Just a heads up, this is another non movie related post. I spend 70+ hours a week Blogging the Reel World, during which time I listen to 25+ hours of The Howard Stern Show on Siruis Satellite Radio. Like millions of others, it helps me get through the daily grind. I turned on the show this afternoon, and was shocked to hear a repeat from April 7th....
Box Office: Fool’s Gold With $9.4M Saturday; Roscoe Jenkins Surges By Steve Mason/Feb. 10, 2008 2:22 am EST The Martin Lawrence comedy vehicle Roscoe Jenkins, got a terrific 55% Saturday bump for a better-than-expected $7.67M Saturday. I’m revising my Friday 3-day estimate of $14.1M to a stronger $16.68M opening weekend, but it’s still only the all-time 8th-best opening in Lawrence’s career. Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds (Disney) appears to be running out of gas....
Box Office: Semi-Pro Up Only 10% Sat For $6.1M; Ferrell’s Flop Headed For Only $15.1M! By Steve Mason/March 2, 2008 2:58 pm EST Vantage Point (Sony) had a very strong Saturday, up 64%, to finish in a virtual dead-heat for the daily crown with a likely $6.09M. The assassination thriller will wrap up the weekend with a very solid $13.58M and a new 10-day cme of $41.5M. The family fantasy film The Spiderwick Chronicles (Paramount) received a massive 125% bounce on its 3rd Saturday with $4....
Clint Eastwood To Score Grace Is Gone By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 8, 2007 12:27 pm EST A great movie has just gotten even better. Clint Eastwood has agreed to composing a new musical score for James C. Strouse’s Grace is Gone. According to The Envelope [via: HE], Clint Eastwood was so taken by the film which premiered at Sundance 2007, and was quickly snapped up by The Weinstein Co. Many people were calling it the best movie of this year’s festival....
Cool Stuff: Lightsaber Desk Lamps By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2008 12:18 pm EST I’ve always wondered why LucasFilm have never released a display quality lightsaber which you could use as a lamp. All of the Master Replicas Force FX blades use internal batteries so that you can swordplay with your friends. Thats fun but I’ve always wanted a lightsaber that I could mount to a wall as a source of light....
Don’t You Forget About Me Finds Distributor By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2009 12:01 am EST Last week after we learned about the death of iconic 1980’s teen movie writer/director John Hughes, we learned about a documentary film which had been in production for the last three years. Don’t You Forget About Me is an independently funded Canadian documentary about four filmmakers who went in search of John Hughes who disappeared from the public eye in 1991....
Dreamworks Acquires The Escort: “Dutch Meets Role Models Meets Planes, Trains, And Automobiles” By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2010 11:23 pm EST Dreamworks has acquired television writer/producer Justin Adler’s spec screenplay The Escort, a R-rated unlikely buddy road-trip comedy which has been described as Dutch meets Role Models meets Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Tom McNulty (The Rocker, Date Night) is producing. The story follows a dysfunctional womanizing flight escort who is forced to travel with a 14-year old spoiled rich wise-ass kid after their plane is grounded due to engine trouble....
First Look: Scarlett Johansson As Black Widow In Iron Man 2 By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2009 9:03 am EST Last night we posted some super blurry photos from Entertainment Tonight, but we finally have clearer versions from the source. Friday’s issue of Entertainment Weekly is a full-on Comic Con preview and features our first look at Scarlett Johansson as Russian superspy Natasha Romanoff (aka the Black Widow) from Iron Man 2....
First Look: The Book Of Eli By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2009 12:08 am EST Warner Bros has released the first photo from The Hughes Brothers adaptation of The Book of Eli in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly. In this post-apocalyptic western, Denzel Washington stars as the title character, a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind....
By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2008 12:15 pm EST Even New York Post’s Lou Lumenick notes an unusual addendum to the invite which warns against blogging: “Please keep in mind that reviews cannot post (online blogs included) or run until opening day, June 13th.” Is M Night really afraid of blogs? Is that why no one other than invited press is allowed to screen the film? It should be noted that even though we are technically a blog, we always hold our reviews of a film until opening day (unless otherwise approved by a national publicist)....
Gore Verbinski To Direct BioShock Movie By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2008 9:31 pm EST Universal Pictures has signed Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy helmer Gore Verbinski to direct and produce an adaptation of the popular video game BioShock. Aviator screenwriter John Logan is in talks to pen the script. Logan’s filmography also includes Any Given Sunday, Gladiator, The Last Samurai and Sweeney Todd. Take-Two Interactive is getting a multimillion-dollar advance against gross points on the film....
If Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Were Real By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 10, 2008 9:30 am EST I’ve always wondered what a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle might look like if they existed in the real world (yes, I think about a lot of weird things…). Thankfully, someone who is much more creative and crafty than myself also had the same thought, and decided to bring it to reality. AlexCF created a fine detail small statue of Leonardo based off the original red-headband comics....
Iron Man: 2 Minute Video Clip And 29 New Photos By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2008 1:47 pm EST Nickelodeon has aired a new two minute clip from Iron Man. This is one of the clips shown at WonderCon, with Tony Stark testing out the thrusters for the first time. Watch it below and tell me what you think in the comments. We also have 29 new photos from the film after the jump....
Iron Man 2 Movie Poster: War Machine Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2009 3:11 pm EST Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment have premiered the first official movie poster for Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 on Yahoo. A poster usually means that a trailer isn’t far off. The new poster plays off the number 2 and features Iron Man back-to-back with War Machine. Favreau previously hinted on his twitter account that we might see the first trailer for Iron Man 2 attached to Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, which hits theaters on Christmas Day....
