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Box Office: Enchanted Easily Wins Weekend With $17.1M By Steve Mason/Dec. 2, 2007 5:30 am EST It appears that Beowulf (Dreamworks/Paramount), the Robert Zemeckis-directed Digital 3D motion capture animation epic, will finish 2nd for the weekend, despite trailing Sony holdover This Christmas on Saturday. The surprise hit that features an all-African American cast got a huge 61% Saturday bump of 61%, and it grabbed an estimated $3.86M to Beowulf’s $3.48M. Sunday, however, should tilt toward the Dreamworks Digital 3D and IMAX 3D spectacle, knocking This Christmas into 3rd place for the 3-day....

Box Office Tracking: Mall Cop To Unseat Clint Eastwood? By Steve Mason/Jan. 14, 2009 12:30 am EST Just the fact that 78-year old Eastwood is in the conversation is a stunning upset. The industry expected a mid-teens expansion last weekend for what could be Clint’s final acting performance, and instead, the super-charged Torino tapped into a much larger audience to the tune of almost $30M. As expected, the movie played well with the 50+ crowd (40% of its audience last weekend), but 25% of ticket buyers were under the age of 25....

Cloverfield: Title Revealed, Set Photos, The Origin Of Slusho Video And More By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2007 2:14 am EST Update: We have removed the set photos until we can get verification from Paramount if they are copyrighted. Everyone continues to talk about the movie currently code-named Cloverfield (the top secret JJ Abrams produced monster flick). We’re not the only ones getting tired of referring to the movie by a codename....

Crank 2 Will Be A SEQUEL By Peter Sciretta/April 29, 2007 6:06 am EST Crank writer/directors Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine revealed to John over at TMB, that there will be another Crank movie. The big catch: it will be a SEQUEL! “There will be a sequel to Crank yes. Prepare to Crank again. And you know the “is it a sequel or prequel” question… IT’S A SEQUEL. We’re not selling out and going prequel....

David Cronenberg In Talks To Direct The Matarese Circle Starring Denzel Washington By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 7, 2008 5:49 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Yeah yeah, we all wanted another killer gaping orifice movie. Celebrated director David Cronenberg is in talks to helm The Matarese Circle, a global conspiracy thriller based on the 1979 book by the late author Robert Ludlum (the Bourne franchise). Denzel Washington is already attached to play one of the leads in the MGM production, with an adapted screenplay to be written by the duo Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (3:10 to Yuma, Wanted, Wanted 2, CTK)....

Dragonball Moves To 2009 By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2008 12:36 am EST art by Pending-Destruction

Final Pathology Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2008 1:00 pm EST Lakeshore has released a new/updated green band movie trailer for Pathology, following the disappearance of the leaked red band a couple weeks back. Written by the madmen behind Crank, Pathology follows a group of medical students devise a deadly game: to see which one of them can commit the perfect murder. I got a chance to see this film a couple weeks ago, but am under a press embargo preventing my review....

Geek Deal: Full House Complete Series Collection For $79 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 7, 2009 11:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

George Clooney As Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan? By Russ Fischer/July 6, 2009 11:30 am EST This is what I get for skimming. First thing this morning I looked over the first page of Kim Masters’ story at The Daily Beast about George Clooney’s production company moving to Sony, but I didn’t read the whole thing. And Anne Thompson noticed, on the second page, an assertion that Clooney is interested in helping Paramount revive the Jack Ryan character seen in The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and The Sum of All Fears....

Harold Ramis Updates On Ghostbusters 3 By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 8, 2008 9:07 am EST Harold Ramis sent a casual email to the Chicago Tribune over the weekend per confirmation of Ghostbusters 3. He clarified that Bill Murray, who has expressed much hesitation about a second sequel in the past—even preferring to do voice work on a once proposed animated sequel—is game… “yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg....

Human Torch Chris Evans Says Fantastic Four 3 Will Probably Not Happen By Hunter Stephenson/March 21, 2008 7:50 pm EST Gotta love how the four actors who make up the Fantastic Four all treat a (non-) proposed Fantastic Four 3 sequel like a huge pile of lowbrow dishes in the sink. Actor Chris Evans, who plays Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch in the cornball Marvel franchise, follows up recent “whatever”-like comments from co-stars Michael Chiklis (The Thing) and Jessica Alba (The Invisible Mind Woman) with a similar cricket-call to MTV…...

Is Ronald D. Moore’s Virtuality Going To Series After All? By Brendon Connelly/May 29, 2009 11:55 am EST Reading all of that, it seems to me that only the pilot has risen and that any subsequent series is still laying cold and vaguely green under a thin cotton sheet. Got a difference of opinion? Better at unpicking the ambiguities of Drexler’s text? Set me right in the comments section. The Virtuality pilot was directed by Peter Berg and appears to have been very well liked by most of those who have seen it....

Jack Black To Produce New Cryptozoology Animated Film By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 6, 2009 11:22 pm EST I’m beginning to think of Jack Black more as a cartoon character than an actual live person. I blame Kung Fu Panda, Ice Age, and that I keep mistakenly thinking he’s been in one of the Shrek films at some point. Coupled with the fact that I’ve forced myself to forget the comedic failure Year One, Black could very well be made of bits and bytes for all I know....

Neil LaBute Adapting Novel The Burnt Orange Heresy By Russ Fischer/Aug. 19, 2009 9:26 am EST I’ve always enjoyed LaBute’s films, but he’s had a couple of clunkers in a row. Technically clunkers, at least, as both The Wicker Man and Lakeview Terrace are pretty damned entertaining, even if they’re not always entertaining in the ways intented. There’s no cast or studio set yet for this picture, but I’m always ready to see another film dive into Willeford’s unsettling sun-drenched crime stories....

New Clip And Buzz For The Men Who Stare At Goats By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2009 11:43 am EST Grant Heslov’s war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats premiered recently in Venice and will soon be playing the Toronto International Film Festival. Positive reviews are coming in, and the underlying impression is that if you were hoping for a kooky, madcap comedy based on the trailer, that’s more or less exactly what you’ll get....

Peter Laird Wants Baxter Stockman And Mousers In Live Action TMNT Movie By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2009 3:27 pm EST Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter Laird confirms to MTV that the current idea for the just announced live-action TMNT reboot is to do it “Batman Begins-style”, retelling the Turtles’ origin story. The film would probably include Shredder, April O’Neil and Casey Jones, but might even include other characters from the Turtles universe....

Race To Witch Mountain Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2008 1:05 pm EST Disney has released the first trailer for Race to Witch Mountain. It’s easy to immediately discount any kids film (outside of the Pixar-animated movies), but I actually think Witch Mountain looks like disposable fun. Kinda like the kid flicks from the 1980’s. And that might just be the echos of my fond childhood memories of Escape to Witch Mountain, a film this is based on....

Reader Forum: What Did You Think Of Wall-E? Pixar’s Best Film? By Hunter Stephenson/June 27, 2008 11:27 am EST For many months, you’ve read about Wall-E, the latest attempt at cinematic greatness from Pixar, here on Slashfilm. Like a diamond-studded chariot, the big day has arrived. Is this Pixar’s best film? Is it a masterpiece? Was the hype justified? Does it deserve a nom for Best Picture as many critics feel (97% positive on Rotten Tomatoes)?...

See Ten Seconds Of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2010 9:11 am EST It’s a teaser for a trailer! The real trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will be online tomorrow in advance of the theatrical premiere Friday, where it will be attached to the Robert Pattinson film Remember Me. In the meantime, you can now see ten seconds from Eclipse. Here we get a truncated bit of dialogue that sets up, or more properly reiterates, the core conflict at the heart of this romance: does mopey Bella (Kristen Stewart) choose Edward (Pattinson) or Jacob (Taylor Lautner)?...

Set Pictures/Video And More Details On Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go By Brendon Connelly/April 24, 2009 3:57 pm EST Mark Romanek is currently on location in the UK town of Clevedon, North Somerset, filming his melancholy sci-fi mystery Never Let Me Go with Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and just about every other great British actor currently in their 20s. In case you do not yet know, it was adapted by Alex Garland – who previously scripted 28 Days Later and a draft of the proposed Halo film – from a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro....