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Watchmen Character Photos - What Do You Think? By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2008 11:08 pm EST Watchmen comes out exactly one year from today, and to celebrate Zack Snyder has released the first batch of character photos from the film. I’m not quite sold on the costuming, but I guess its a fair contemporary adaptation of the comic book characters. Night Owl looks like a complete rip-off of Christopher Nolan’s Batman (yes, I know the character bears certain similarities to Batman in the comic, but why not make him look more unique like the comic version?...

Which Hollywood Director Just Bought Hulk Hogan’s House? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 28, 2007 3:52 pm EST Which big Hollywood director just bought Hulk Hogan’s Miami Beach house for $19 million? Hogan bought the home for $12 million in April 2006. A fat $7 million profit? Not Bad. But the question is what Hollywood director has that type of Cash. Answer after the jump. Hints: Was rejected by USC’s film school. He is a very close friend of writer/director George Lucas from whom he often seeks advice....

Why Hollywood Can’t Make A Grand Theft Auto Movie By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2008 8:57 pm EST

500 Days Of Summer Video Clips By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2009 3:54 pm EST In the first clip, Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) talks about how his failure in architectural design lead to a job writing greeting cards and we learn Summer’s (Zooey Deschanel) shocking college nickname. And the next clip features a conversation where Summer compares her relationship with Tom to Sid and Nancy. Before you watch the clips, you might want to know what the film is about....

By Devindra Hardawar/Feb. 1, 2010 12:25 am EST It’s only been a few months since the release of Ricky Gervais’ The Invention of Lying, so I was surprised to learn that his next feature, Cemetery Junction, is gearing up for an April 2010 UK release. We featured a teaser for the film back in July, as well as some comments from Gervais in September. Now we have our longest glimpse at the film yet with a full trailer....

Christoph Waltz From Inglourious Basterds Cast As Green Hornet Villain? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 14, 2009 9:41 am EST Lets see how many people change their tune on Michel Gondry and Seth Rogen’s The Green Hornet now. The film has been talked down quite a bit in some circles — every time we run an article on the movie the same string of comments pops up about how Rogen shouldn’t be playing a superhero, how there’s no interest in the film, etc....

Cool Stuff: E.T. “Calling Home” T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 28, 2009 5:00 am EST Threadless has decided to reprint one of my favorite E.T. t-shirts (yes, I have a couple E.T. t-shirts). Actually, it’s probably one of my favorite t-shirt designs, period. My old shirt was actually so worn out that I actually snapped up a new one. “Calling Home” is a design created by Glenn Jones, before he went big time and created his own t-shirt site Glennz tees....

Daft Punk Scoring The New Tron By Brendon Connelly/March 4, 2009 1:50 pm EST The confirmation comes from Upcoming Film Scores and the Disney folk they checked it out with: Daft Punk have signed on to write the score to Joseph Kosinski’s new Tron movie – Tron, Tron 2.0, Tr2n, 2ron or whatever the heck it ends up being called. May I suggest Trons? Jeez. It’s gonna get a bad name no matter what....

Dragon Ball Z In Mexico By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 7, 2007 1:47 am EST 20th Century Fox’s big screen live-action adaptation of Dragon Ball Z is set to begin filming in Durango, Mexico. According to Mexican newspaper El Norte, filming will take place in many different locations in Durango, including Mexiquillo Forest, Marley Ranch, Hacienda la Providencia, La Joya Ranch, Laguna Seca de Santiaguillo and a forum from a Convention Center in the Culture Institute....

Evan Almighty Movie Trailer To Premiere During The Office By Peter Sciretta/March 27, 2007 9:48 am EST The trailer for Universal Pictures’ Bruce Almighty sequel, Evan Almighty, will premiere during NBC’s Night at the Office three hour marathon event. The Night at the Office event will air on March 29th from 8:00-11:00pm eastern (7:00pm-10:00pm central). Steve Carell, reprises his role as the polished, preening newscaster Evan Baxter, the next one anointed by God to accomplish a holy mission....

First Look At Mel Gibson’s Beaver By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 29, 2009 8:34 am EST Pretty near the top of my most-anticipated list is Jodie Foster’s next directorial effort, The Beaver. She’s put together an interesting cast with Jennifer Lawrence, Anton Yelchin and Mel Gibson who is starring as a somewhat stressed fellow who decides to communicate only via a Beaver glove puppet that he found in the trash. The real reason I’m excited, however, is that Kyle Killen’s screenplay is brake-slammingly awesome and definitely deserved its spot atop the 2008 Black List of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood....

Frank Miller Is Looking For A New Home For Sin City 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2009 2:13 pm EST A couple weeks ago IESB reported that The Weinstein Co had waited too long and lost the rights to a Sin City sequel. We never reported the story because Entertainment Weekly was quick to debunk the reports, quoting Weinstein Co. lawyer Bert Fields as saying: “TWC’s rights to produce sequels to Sin City remain intact as they always have been....

Good News: Daddy Day Camp FAILED Miserably By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2007 3:04 am EST Daddy Day Camp opened on Wednesday in 2,184 screens, and didn’t even break $1 million. The movie made $773,706! That’s a per screen average of about $350 bucks. That’s right, for the whole day. To give you an example of how bad that is: The Bourne Ultimatum, which opened last week made over $6.7 million on Wednesday, for a per screen average of $1,840....

I Am McLovin By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2007 2:16 pm EST Want your own McLovin fake Hawaii drivers license? RopeofSilicon has created a template for you to do just that. I’m sure people who frequent the clubs and bars will love this. I Am McLovin By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2007 2:16 pm EST Want your own McLovin fake Hawaii drivers license? RopeofSilicon has created a template for you to do just that....

I Drink Your Milkshake On SNL By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2008 11:32 am EST Saturday Night Live ran a parody of There Will Be Blood last night. Daniel Plainview hosts a Food TV program called “I Drink Your Milkshake”. It looks like Milkshake has now gone mainstream. Anton from No Country for Old Men and our favorite pregnant 15-year old make appearances. Thanks to Derek for bringing us to our attention....

J.J. Abrams Spills On Star Trek 2, Mission: Impossible 4, And Fringe By Devindra Hardawar/Oct. 9, 2009 10:43 pm EST At a recent press conference held to celebrate the upcoming DVD/Blu-ray release of Star Trek, J.J. Abrams was on hand to chat about his upcoming projects. There were the requisite Star Trek 2 questions (3-D anyone?), and he also talks a bit about Mission: Impossible 4 and Fringe. Several questions focused on Leonard Nimoy’s involvement in these future projects, one of which seems particularly surprising....

Jason Segel Joins The Adventurer’s Handbook By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2009 12:51 am EST Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You Man) has joined the cast of The Adventurer’s Handbook. In February, Jonah Hill and his friend/writing partner Max Winkler (yes, Henry Winkler’s son) sold a spec screenplay, originally titled Adventurer’s Club, for a seven figure deal to Universal, with Lonely Island/SNL Digital Shorts/Hot Rod director Akiva Schaffer attached to direct....

Judd Apatow’s Funny People: The Films Of George Simmons By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2009 3:47 pm EST Click on the poster images above to enlarge. After the jump we have a few clips from some of these films, complete with hilariously bad plot outlines. MerMan (1998) When Emma (Elizabeth Banks), a spunky marine biologist, discovers a real life Merman, she promises to keep his secret if he’ll help get her a research grant....

LOL: Hack Directors Venn Diagram By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2009 10:30 am EST Something that I came across a couple weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to post on the site is this wonderful Hack Directors Venn Diagram from MadAtoms. While I don’t necessarily agree with all of the selections, or reasonings (for example, attempt at style is counter intuitive to the dictionary definition of “hack”), I do think it’s both clever and funny....

LOL: Terminator Salvation Action Figures By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2009 7:53 pm EST digg_url = ‘http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/03/lol-terminator-salvation-action-figures/'; // –> /Film reader Evan K sends over these photos of Playmates line of Terminator Salvation action figures, and boy do they look ugly. I’ve included more after the jump because they contain potential spoilers. And by saying potential spoilers, I mean that if you weren’t able to put 1 and 1 together when John Connor was yelling at Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) in the trailer, all is revealed here....