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Josh Brolin To Play The Villain In Wall Street 2? By Hunter Stephenson/July 27, 2009 3:48 pm EST According to the newly minted Nikki Finke, an offer has gone out to Josh Brolin to re-team with director Oliver Stone (W.) on Wall Street 2 for the role of a conniving hedge fund manager. He’d star opposite Shia LaBeouf, playing an ambitious young trader courting the daughter of Michael Douglas’s iconic Gordon Gekko, freshly sprung from prison near decade’s end....

LOL: PVP’s “Trek On” Web Comic By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2008 1:18 pm EST /Film reader Peter R sent over today’s PVP web comic might be politically incorrect, “But C’mon, we’re all thinking it!” LOL: PVP’s “Trek On” Web Comic By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2008 1:18 pm EST /Film reader Peter R sent over today’s PVP web comic might be politically incorrect, “But C’mon, we’re all thinking it!”

Monster Squad’s Fred Dekker Writing Cliffhanger Reboot/Sequel? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 3, 2009 10:37 am EST Back in May, StudioCanal announced that they would be teaming with Neal Moritz’s Original Films to reboot Cliffhanger. At the time, not much was known about the project aside from the fact that it would be big budget and would center on a group of young climbers on “multiple cliff-face locations.” At the time, Moritz said that they were searching for a screenwriter, and hoping to begin production in 2010....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2009 12:35 am EST A ton of new stories that just didn’t make the front page of /Film, available after the jump. Production on Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice has moved into Chinatown this week to shoot some exteriors for what I can only guess is the Chinese New Year scene. [BadandUgly] A $146 million, 750,000-square-foot film and television production studio is being constructed in Allen Park, Michigan....

Studio Ghibli Announce Next Film, Plus Two More In The Works From Hayao Miyazaki Himself By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 28, 2009 3:30 pm EST After a nice ten year hiatus since he completed My Neigbours The Yamadas, Isao Takahata is back at work directing the next feature film from Studio Ghibli. Taketori Monogatari, which translates as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, will be an adaptation of the story considered to be the oldest surviving Japanese folktale....

The 500 Days Of Summer Team Want To Heist Your Heart By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 5, 2009 10:06 am EST 500 Days of Summer director Marc Webb has already completed his third collaboration with stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon Levitt (the second has already graced these pages in full). Of course, they haven’t had time to make another feature but instead, what they’ve cooked up is a music video for the She & Him track Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?...

The Ruins Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 20, 2008 10:49 pm EST Bloody Disgusting has a snapshot of the new poster for Carter Smith’s adaptation of Scott Smith’s bestselling novel The Ruins (you can watch the previously released movie trailer here). As always, we cleaned the snapshot photo up in photoshop for your viewing pleasure. I’m really digging the one-sheet. The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico , who become entangled in a brutal struggle for survival after visiting remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological dig....

The Simpsons Movie: Two New Video Clips By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2007 12:46 pm EST Moviefone has been provided with two new clips from The Simpsons Movie. The first one features the Simpson family on the lam. Marge and Bart take risky measures in a convenience store to keep from getting caught. The second clip is much shorter and shows Homer upset because he missed Access Hollywood after the residents of Springfield chase the family with torches....

VOTD: Jason Statham In Diabetes By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2009 9:51 pm EST He’s been The Transporter, had his Heart stolen in Crank 2, and now Jason Statham is about to face his biggest battle yet – Diabetes. A sweet summer blockbuster guaranteed to get your blood sugar level rising. Watch the mock trailer from College Humor after the jump. VOTD: Jason Statham In Diabetes By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2009 9:51 pm EST...

VOTD: Spoiler Alert! By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2009 9:00 pm EST When watching television there’s always two kinds of people, the “Don’t want to know” crowd and… The Spoilers. You know, that co-worker at the water cooler who doesn’t care you have last night’s episode of LOST on your tivo waiting for you after work. Bringing the concept of SWAT to the next level, this unit of soldiers will stop at nothing to stop spoilers… College Humor has a new video which shows what happens when spoilers are spilled without warning....

VOTD: Vintage Behind The Scenes Documentary For Star Trek: The Motion Picture By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2010 12:00 pm EST If you’ve been reading /Film for a while, then you know about my love for old vintage behind the scenes featurettes. Some of the ones we’ve featured in the past include The Goonies, The Making of the computer graphics for Star Wars, The Shining, and Ghostbusters II Slimer Suit/Puppet Test Footage....

Youth In Revolt Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2009 3:13 pm EST Dimension Films has released the second trailer for the big screen adaptation of C. D. Payne’s epistolary novel Youth in Revolt. Michael Cera stars in this “irreverent story about the wild adventures of a teenage boy named Nick Twisp who meets the girl of his dreams while on a family vacation and has to turn his life and the lives of all those around him upside down in order to be with her....

Ask The Readers: More Cool Stuff? By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2008 12:14 pm EST Okay, so our daily Cool Stuff feature has definitely taken off. We’ve gotten tons of great feedback, and each new post is more highly read than the last. But I’m starting to find the daily schedule rather limiting. I have a backlog of hundreds of submitted and found items to report on in future Cool Stuff postings....

Baywatch: The Movie Gets A New Writer/Director By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2009 7:41 am EST If you’re like me, you’ve hoped that the Baywatch movie would just dry up and go away. The television show, which ran an astounding ten-year run (arguably dying out just as acceptance of the internet rendered a TV show filled with slo-mo jiggling red bathing suits irrelevant) has long been considered fodder for a theatrical film....

Cool Stuff: Darth Tut T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2009 10:24 pm EST Today’s t-shirt on TeeFury is a Star Wars/Egyptian mash-up called Darth Tut. Available in Black, sizes Small to XXL for only $9 plus shipping. And remember, the t-shirt will only be available until midnight est. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff?...

Cool Stuff: Jim Horwat’s Back To The Future Tribute By Peter Sciretta/June 24, 2009 6:00 am EST Our friends at Gallery1988 have provided us with an exclusive high resolution look at Jim Horwat’s awesome tribute to Back to the Future. Horwat created the piece fot the upcoming Crazy4Cult 3D pop culture art show, which takes place from July 16th to August 8th 2009. Above is just a zoomed in section. Check out the full thing after the jump....

Danny Boyle’s Sunshine Gets Summer 2007 Release By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2007 2:08 pm EST

By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 30, 2008 5:11 pm EST On the film front, Green remains attached to a remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria, and another stoner comedy, the amazing-sounding Your Highness, with Danny McBride set to play a lazy prince who puffs ganja and fights dragons in an ode to droopy ’80s fantasies like Dragonslayer and Yor. Green will also helm an episode of McBride and Jody Hill’s Eastbound and Down for HBO—which looks to do for booger sugar, ta-tas, jet skis and the South what Billy Mitchell did for arcade games....

Donnie Darko Bunny Spotted In Southland Tales By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2007 4:10 pm EST While re-watching the trailer for Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales, I was able to spot two instances of a Donnie Darko easter egg. Frank’s Bunny head can be seen on a poster which is in the background of some scenes. Anyone have any idea what the text below the head on the poster says? Click on the image above to enlarge....

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Roth’s Grindhouse 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2007 12:14 am EST Just because Grindhouse failed to make any money at the box office doesn’t mean they won’t make a sequel. At least according to horror director Eli Roth, who still hopes to film a feature length Thanksgiving. “And it would be something I’d do in between projects. But I’m actually writing it with my friend Jeff just to have it ready,” Roth told /Film at a San Francisco screening of Hostel 2....