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Sundance: Trade Movie Review By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 24, 2007 7:10 am EST Based on Peter Landesman’s 2004 New York Times Magazine cover story, Trade promised to be a Traffic-like expose on the sinister world where young virginal children are kidnapped and sold as sex slaves. In the last couple years there have been quite a few fictional films based on non-fiction ideas. Films like Fast Food Nation were adapted into fictional films because a documentary would be hard or impossible to create....

Sundance Photo Preview: Buried By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 31, 2009 3:00 pm EST Rodrigo Cortes’ Buried will premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the Park City at Midnight category, one of eight films selected from over 3724 titles from all over the world. I’ve been following this project since it was announced. For those of you who don’t know, the story is about a U.S. contractor working in Iraq who awakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin....

Sundance Photo Preview: Joel Schumacher’s Twelve By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2009 12:00 pm EST As Sundance Twentyten approaches, we’ll be posting mini-previews with photos from some of the films we’re looking forward to over the next month and a half. Last week we posted the first photos from Hesher, I Love Sarah Jane director Spencer Susser’s Feature Debut. Today I bring you the first photos from Joel Schumacher’s Twelve, which is screening as the Closing Night Film in the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section....

By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2007 2:42 pm EST SuperBad had a super weekend at the box office. But people didn’t show up to buy tickets, they laughed and loved it. Here is a look at the critical and moviegoer response coming out of opening weekend: Almost 7,000 users on the Internet Movie Database rated the movie an 8.8 out of 10, which puts the film on the Top 250 Movies of All Time list at #78....

TV Tidbits: Bob Saget’s Strange Days, Alternative Star Trek Pilot Coming, Lost Season 6 Poster, And More! By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 17, 2009 9:20 pm EST We’ve got a bunch of TV news tonight: It appears that Bob Saget is coming back to television with an unscripted travel show entitled “Bob Saget’s Strange Days”. Perhaps tired of just being the disembodied voice of grown-up Ted on How I Met Your Mother, and looking for something different after his failed sitcom Surviving Suburbia, the series will find Saget exploring off-beat portions of American society....

VOTD: Lingerie Lightsaber Fight By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2009 11:45 pm EST This mock commercial written and directed by Adam Green, who also directed the 2006 horror film Hatchet, was just an excuse to get two beautiful women (Rileah Vanderbilt and Clare Grant) fighting with lightsabers in their underwear. I’m surprised that no one had come up with this idea sooner (especially with the abundance of Star Wars-inspired fan films out there)....

William H. Macy’s Directorial Debut Will Be With Milla Jovovich In “Keep Coming Back” By David Chen/Nov. 7, 2008 10:50 pm EST Throughout movie history, dozens of film greats have made the jump from in front of the camera to behind the camera. Most recently, we’ve seen Ben Affleck and George Clooney produce some strong work, displaying insane amounts of potential for their future directorial careers. With his luminous acting resume, it seems like William H....

WTF: Fireproof Made Over $6.5 Million This Weekend? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2008 5:51 pm EST The big surprise this weekend at the box office was a small budget ($500,000) limited release called Fireproof, which made over $6.5 million on only 839 screens. The film beat Spike Lee’s latest – Miracle at St. Anna! So how evangelical actor Kirk Cameron’s firefighter faith-based film become the year’s second highest grossing opening weekend released on lass than 1,000 screens (Hannah Montana’s 3D concert film is #1)....

Zack And Miri Make An Unfortunate Trip Through The MPAA By David Chen/July 26, 2008 2:40 am EST At tonight’s Kevin Smith Comic Con panel, Smith spoke publicly about the ratings trouble plaguing his new film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno. For those who are unfamiliar, the film chronicles a pair of friends’ attempt at making a porno film in order to squash some financial woes, and how their relationship develops in the process....

Australia Moves To Thanksgiving By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 28, 2008 12:12 am EST

Brett Ratner To Ruin Escape From New York Remake? Gears Of War Shelved? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 4, 2007 11:47 am EST AintItCool is reporting a rumor that Brett Ratner might be replacing Len Wiseman to direct New Line’s big screen remake of Escape From New York. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a huge fan of Wiseman (Underworld), but no one can argue that he knows how direct action and has a great sense of production design (something that could have benefited this remake)....

Captain EO Returns To Disneyland On February 23rd 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 19, 2010 1:55 pm EST Disney Parks has confirmed that the Francis Ford Coppola-directed/George Lucas-produced Michael Jackson sci-fi action 3D musical short film Captain EO will return to Disneyland’s Tomorrowland beginning on Tuesday, February 23rd 2010. As a tribute to the magic, music and messages of “Captain EO,” the 3-D musical adventure is returning to the Tomorrowland theater in which it debuted....

Children Of Men: The Television Series By Peter Sciretta/March 27, 2008 2:09 pm EST Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men was one of my top 10 movies of 2006. When I saw the movie I was so enamored with this post-apocalyptic world where women have become infertile, and no one had been born in the last 16 years. Basically it’s a world where everyone is living in knowledge that they are the last generation on earth....

Cinematic Pumpkin Carvings By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2007 10:10 pm EST Tomorrow is Halloween. To help celebrate we have collected the 75 best movie related pumpkin carving photos (we could find) on the internet. Check them out below. Continued in Part 2 Cinematic Pumpkin Carvings By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2007 10:10 pm EST Tomorrow is Halloween. To help celebrate we have collected the 75 best movie related pumpkin carving photos (we could find) on the internet....

Eddie Murphy To Play Richard Pryor In Bill Condon’s Biopic By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 26, 2009 1:46 pm EST There’s one particular story about Pryor that I’d absolutely love to see in the film, though it sadly doesn’t seem entirely likely… let me tell you the tale now, anyway… After Richard Pryor had given himself third degree burns all over by misadventure, and while he was still fresh from the hospital and riddled with stitches and scars, he took a booking to appear on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson....

Geek Deal: SNL The Complete Seasons 1-4 On DVD For $26 Each By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 1, 2009 11:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Geek Deal: Tales From The Crypt Seasons 1-7 For $99 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 30, 2009 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Disclosure: We use affiliate links, when available, for some of the Cool Stuff and Geek Deals featured on the site. Based on the legendary and gruesome EC Comics from publisher William Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, the super natural, gore and humor and always had a twist ending of sorts....

Guillermo Del Toro Brings Stop-Motion “Pinocchio” To Life By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 16, 2008 3:15 pm EST Earlier this week, Blood Disgusting scored the exclusive news that Guillermo del Toro is working on a stop-motion version of Pinnochio together with artist Gris Grimly. Variety elaborated on the news, revealing that the film will be co-directed by Grimly and Adam Parrish King, with del Toro producing and co-writing the screenplay. In typical del Toro fashion, this is not your average child-friendly Pinocchio tale....

Hot Tub Time Machine Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 16, 2009 12:24 pm EST MGM has released the official movie trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine, a new sci-fi comedy starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Lizzy Caplan, Crispin Glover and Chevy Chase. The film follows a group of best friends who’ve become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who can’t find the party; Nick’s (Craig Robinson) wife controls his every move; and video game-obsessed Jacob (Clark Duke) won’t leave his basement....

IMAX Considering 3 Month Run For James Cameron’s Avatar By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2009 7:00 pm EST What are Hollywood’s expectations for James Cameron’s Avatar? We haven’t even seen a trailer, or even a photo, but many are already touting a “revolution.” With the director of the highest grossing film of all time behind it, everyone is hoping for big. As you know, Avatar is set to hit IMAX theaters in 3D, day and date with the theatrical release....