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/Film Is Looking For A Comment Moderator By David Chen/Jan. 4, 2010 12:58 pm EST Longtime /Film stalwarts might have already noticed, but the amount of comments on the site is quickly reaching critical mass. On the one hand, it’s amazing that the site is growing so quickly, and bringing some fantastic conversations along with it. On the other hand, we can’t possibly comb through the wealth of comments to ensure that spammers/trolls are deleted and banned....

Across The Hall By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2008 9:38 pm EST A couple years ago Alex Merkin made a short film called Across the Hall, which ran the film festival circuit. Entourage’s Adrian Grenier starred, and festival-goers compared the Merkin short to a modern day Hitchcock flim. On February 6th Merkin will go into production on an expanded feature length version of the film noir thriller starring Mike Vogel (Cloverfield), Brittany Murphy and Danny Pino (Cold Case)....

Avatar + Shrek = Shrevatar? By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2010 1:33 pm EST What would the offspring of Shrek and a Na’vi from Avatar look like? Latvia-based graphic artist Alexander Bickov created this mash-up he titled Shrevatar. You can download high resolution computer desktop wallpaper featuring the image on moinid.com. Avatar + Shrek = Shrevatar? By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2010 1:33 pm EST What would the offspring of Shrek and a Na’vi from Avatar look like?...

Cool Stuff: Highly Detailed WALL-E Wooden Sculpture By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 16, 2008 6:00 am EST Created by Hertfordshire, United Kingdom-based sculptors and CNC/rapid-prototyping masters Morpheus, this wooden WALL-E sculpture is a limited edition of one. Commissioned by Disney as a gift for Pixar/Disney chief creative officer John Lasseter. Look at the extreme detailing in the photo below. 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: Steampunk R2-D2 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 23, 2008 9:00 am EST Crabfu Steamworks has created this very cool Steampunk version of R2D2 named R2-S2. What is Steampunk you say? According to wikipedia, Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used-usually the 19th century. The stories are often set in Victorian era England-but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H....

Diablo Cody To Live Twitter Her TV Show By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 31, 2008 12:58 am EST digg_url = ‘http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/31/diablo-cody-to-live-twitter-her-tv-show/'; // –> Some television show creators (or what they call show runners) have provided commentary on various episodes on DVD. Others like Battlestar Galactica’s Ronald Moore, have gone a step further and released a weekly audio commentary in podcast form (just as Kevin Smith has provided a commentary that fans were able to listen to while his film was still in theaters)....

Diora Baird Auditions For Thor By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 18, 2009 2:45 pm EST Devin Faraci is, apparently, a keen subscriber of Diora Baird’s tweets. Over at Chud he is making his case for why they make such worthwhile reading. “Funny, smart and raunchy” he says. I’m glad he’s paying attention, however, as he’s now seen a little shiny glimmer of movie news tucked away. Here’s a tweet from Ms. Baird:...

Dodge’s Fantasticar Car Advertisement By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2007 12:40 pm EST Dodge created a mock car commercial for the Fantastic Four’s Fantasticar. MMM claims the as is now running in theaters (you know, those pesky ads before the trailers). I personally think this advertisement is very cool, but you have to admit – it sure blurs the line between a real advertisement and a movie promotion. How many people do you think might not even realize that it’s a Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer movie promotion?...

Dustin Hoffman Toplines David Milch And Michael Mann’s HBO Series, Luck By Russ Fischer/March 2, 2010 11:50 am EST Is HBO back? The answer seems to be “oh, my, yes!” In the past few months the once-dominant dramatic voice of cable has put new shows in development with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Todd Haynes, Jonathan Demme, David Fincher and more. (Like that Spielberg guy, whose Band of Brothers follow-up The Pacific looks insane....

First Look: Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 29, 2008 2:47 am EST But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost....

Gary Ross To Write/Direct Venom Movie By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 7, 2009 1:31 pm EST Sony has been developing a Marvel Comics spin-off of the Spider-Man villain Venom for some time now, but I never actually believed it would happen. Screenwriting team Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese had written two drafts on the character before moving on to Zombieland. And before Wernick/Reese, the company had previously commissioned Jacob Estes (Mean Creek) to pen a take....

Huey Lewis’ Pineapple Express Theme Song By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2008 1:59 pm EST The rumors are true. Seth Rogen was able to convince Huey Lewis to record a title theme song for the upcoming Judd Apatow stoner comedy Pineapple Express. “It is called Pineapple Express, cleverly,” director David Gordon Green told movieweb. “Our only input was, we told him we wanted it to sound like his 80s work that we loved so much....

Indiana Jones 5 Really Isn’t That Close By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2009 11:00 am EST Earlier this week most of us gave a collective groan when Shia LaBeouf mentioned that Steven Spielberg had cracked the story for a fifth Indiana Jones film. So how far off is it, really? Empire’s headline today (“Indy 5 Is A Go!”) might lead you to think sooner rather than later, but that may not be the case....

J.D. Salinger Reviews/Pans Indiana Jones By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2008 1:03 pm EST Yes, legendary Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger is still alive, and no, he hasn’t seen a super exclsuive screening of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull… Our friends at FilmDrunk have discovered something interesting in a letter written in 1981 by Salinger, which is now up for sale on eBay. Salinger might be one of the great writers of all time, but in this letter, he proves he would have been a horrible movie critic:...

Juno: Soundtrack Tops Charts, Now In Stores, Screenplay Available Online For FREE By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 9, 2008 1:26 pm EST The Soundtrack went on sale in stores this week, but has been available digitally on iTunes since December 11th. The Playlist reports that Juno has already reached number one on SoundScan’s Digital Album sales charts.

Letters To Juliet Movie Trailer: This Time, You Really Have Seen The Whole Movie By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2009 9:25 am EST The common trailer complaint is that they always give too much of the movie away. Which is funny, because that’s actually not the case nearly as often as you’d think, and after being able to compare many movies and their trailers, I would have long ago hoped that people would realize the truth of it....

Lost Season 5 Premieres On January 21st By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 8, 2008 4:55 pm EST Lost will return on Wednesday, January 21st 2009. According to THR, ABC is scheduling a two hour fifth season premiere, which will be preceded by a one-hour clip show. I’m not sure of the origins of the new Lost Season 5 poster seen above, so I’m not sure its real (the inclusion of some key characters lead us to believe otherwise), but I found it on the Daily What via Paul Scheer....

Peter Berg Says Charlize Theron And Will Smith Are Confirmed For Hancock 2 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2009 9:57 am EST Not long ago we heard that a sequel to Hancock, the goofy, sometime fun, sometimes just dumb superhero flick starring Will Smith, was almost certainly a go. Questions lingered, however, primarily with respect to the cast. Would Will Smith return? What about Charlize Theron? According to director Peter Berg, the answer to both questions is yes....

Sean Penn Backs Out Of Three Stooges And Cartel By Russ Fischer/June 16, 2009 10:00 pm EST Did the notion of Sean Penn playing Larry in a new Three Stooges movie directed by the Farrelly Brothers seem too crazy/good/ridiculous/awful to be true? Now it is, as THR reports Penn has pulled out of both that movie and Cartel, the film in which he would have played a man out to protect his son after Mexican drug cartels kill his wife....

Seth Rogen Thinks Ghostbusters 3 Is “A Terrible Idea” By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2008 2:15 am EST Seth Rogen tells Collider that despite internet rumors, he has not yet been contacted about being part of Ghostbusters 3. Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky are currently working on the screenplay. The writing duo last worked on Year One, a film directed by Harold Ramis, an original Ghostbuster who also played Rogen’s father in Knocked Up....