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The Last Song Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2009 6:00 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released the trailer for The Last Song, an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ forthcoming novel, starring Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear and Kelly Preston. THE LAST SONG is set in a small Southern beach town where an estranged father (GREG KINNEAR) gets a chance to spend the summer with his reluctant teenaged daughter (MILEY CYRUS), who’d rather be home in New York....

Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland Gets IMAX 3D Release By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2009 12:57 pm EST Disney also announced today that Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland will also be released in IMAX 3D on March 5, 2010. Read the full press release after the jump. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and IMAX Corporation today announced that Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice, will be released to IMAX® theaters simultaneously with the film’s wide release on March 5, 2010....

Tron: Legacy Team To Remake Disney’s The Black Hole By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2009 8:51 pm EST Disney is developing a reinvention of the 1979 sci-fi film The Black Hole, with Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski and producer Sean Bailey on board, along with Clash of the Titans scribe Travis Beacham working on the screenplay. Kosinski might direct if he can find time in his schedule, with his planned sci-fi epic Oblivion and further possible Tron sequels....

Undead Update: Mila Kunis And Emma Stone By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 16, 2009 11:00 am EST Two entirely different starlet/zombie updates in one for you. Firstly, Variety are reporting that Emma Stone is in her final negotiations to appear alongside Woody Harrelson in Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland. Stone is the B&W one in the image above, in case you didn’t know. Stone’s first film was Superbad, and since then she’s gone on to be one of the best things in both The House Bunny and The Rocker....

Valentine’s Day Gets A Sequel: New Years Eve By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2010 4:00 am EST File this story in the “I wish I were joking” pile: Gary Marshall’s ensemble romantic comedy Valentine’s Day doesn’t even open until Friday but Hollywood is already planning a sequel. According to Finke, the film’s producers have hired screenwriter Katherine Fugate write another holiday-themed film as a follow-up titled New Years Eve. The sequel/spin-off will feature some of the Los Angeles-based cast/characters from Valentine’s Day, in a new setting – New York City, over the course of 24 hours surrounding the new year....

Wanted Featurette Will Actually Make You Excited To See The Movie By Peter Sciretta/May 17, 2008 6:09 pm EST Empire has posted a very cool featurette for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Mark Millar’s Wanted. The behind-the-scenes look might actually make you excited to the the film. Intercuting panels from the comic book with sequences from the film, the cast and crew from the film explain why this movie might actually be worth looking forward to....

Warner Bros. And Peter Segal Doing Jonny Quest? Supermax Now Titled Green Arrow By Hunter Stephenson/June 3, 2008 8:20 am EST IESB speculates that director Peter Segal, currently attached to helm a Shazam feature for Warner Bros., might also be the man who brings the studio’s planned tentpole, Jonny Quest, to the world as well for Summer ‘09. Apparently the script by Dan Mazeau is quite strong and in better shooting condition than Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam....

By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2009 10:46 am EST /Film has been named one of the “100 Essential Websites” of 2009 by The Guardian, one of the UK’s top daily newspapers. /Film is one of only four movie related websites to make the list, alongside IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and the AOL-run movie blog Cinematical. The Guardian lists /Film as a website “to see before heading for the latest blockbuster at your local multiplex....

Contest: Crazy On DVD By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2007 1:34 am EST Crazy hit DVD store shelves on February 20th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On March 4th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump. Director: Jean-Marc Vallée MPAA Rating: Not Rated Running Time: 129 minutes Language: French Synopsis: Growing up has never been so complicated!...

Cool Stuff: “Say Tweet Again” T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 9, 2009 8:00 pm EST This awesome parody of that famous scene involving Samuel L Jackson from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction takes on society and the media’s obsession with the popular microblogging website Twitter. Available from headline shirts for $24, sized small to XXXL. Check out a zoomed in version of the t-shirt design after the jump. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm....

Cool Stuff: Dirty Minded Decepticon T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2009 12:00 pm EST Humans think about sex. Animals think about it. Even big giant robots like those seen in Transformers think about it. Joshua Winship Carpenter’s T-shirt design “Lonely Robot Dirty Mind” depicts this exact situation. Available on a Navy American Apparel tee sized Extra Small to XXXL for $18 on Threadless.com. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm....

Cool Stuff: Steve Schofield’s The Land Of The Free By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 4, 2008 6:00 am EST Schofield writes in his work statement: “My practice is concerned with exploring the fascination that the British public has with American popular culture and the sub-cultural world of fandom. In the images, I have shown people in their own homes and environments wearing costumes that they would be dressed in to attend events with other like-minded individuals....

Dennis Hopper To Star In Speed 3? By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2007 5:13 pm EST Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do? So there you have it. No word on if Speed helmer Jan de Bont will return for the third film....

Did A Background Extra Expose Himself In Teen Wolf? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2008 12:49 am EST As far as we can tell, the actor wearing the red sweater is actually an actress, and therefor couldn’t be “exposing himself”. Urban myth busted. Yes, she does appear to be caught with her fly down, and it somehow made it into the final cut of the film. I’m wondering if anyone actually knows the true story behind this situation....

Donnie Darko Sequel Goes Direct To DVD By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2009 11:13 pm EST Do you remember S. Darko, the Donnie Darko spin-off film we wrote about a while back? You know, the one which follows Donnie’s sister and features no involvement from the original director Richard Kelly? Yeah, that one. The good news is that the film will not play theatrically and will instead go direct-to-dvd on April 28th from MGM’s home entertainment....

Early Buzz: The First Reader Reviews Of The Princess And The Frog And Terminator Salvation By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2009 2:47 am EST Gandalf The Grey over on AICN says that he went in with low expectations but “actually came out of the cinema quite uplifted and hopeful.” He admits that the film “isn’t as convincingly done as the Batman reboot” but its “a good beginning for this storyline.” He called Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “brief” cameo “a cool moment”, and mentioned Danny Elfman’s score was “too loud and big for the movie....

Extended Clip: Disney’s Bolt By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2008 11:02 pm EST Disney has released a three and a half minute extended scene from Bolt. This same clip was one of the scenes shown at Comic Con. Disney storyboard artist Mark Walton voices Rhino the hamster, which many are already predicting to be the surprise star of the film. Extended Clip: Disney’s Bolt By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2008 11:02 pm EST...

First Look: Scarlett Johansson And Samuel L. Jackson In The Spirit [High Res] By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2008 7:09 am EST Last week set photos from Frank Miller’s big screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit leaked online, leaving some fans disappointed. Update: Today Lionsgate has released two new production High Resolution photos, both of which desperately scream “See, the movie looks like Sin City, I swear it really does, don’t look at those other unauthorized unfinished photos!...

Kevin Feige On Thor Costume Screentest, Says Film Will Redefine The Comic Book Genre By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 2010 12:00 pm EST Kenneth Branagh’s big screen adaptation of Marvel Comics’ Thor is scheduled to begin filming later this month, and we can’t wait to see what this film will look like. Marvel Entertainment President Kevin Feige gives us a mini-preview, sharing his reaction to a recent costume screentest in a Marvel....

Kiefer Sutherland Talks Lost Boys Prequel, Tells The Tribe To FO By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 13, 2008 2:12 pm EST With the risk of sounding like a broken record, Slashfilm feels that Lost Boys: The Tribe was a lost cause. Even some of the people who worked and starred in the direct-to-DVD afterthought seem to agree. But it leaves open the question: do you reverse the damage done and attempt a real sequel—as rumored—or do you let the original speak for itself?...