Knowing New Photo New Trailer In Theaters This Weekend

Knowing: New Photo; New Trailer In Theaters This Weekend By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2008 10:00 pm EST Summit Entertainment has sent us a new still from Alex Proyas’ upcoming sci-fi thriller Knowing. A new movie trailer for the film will be in theaters this weekend, presumably attached to The Day The Earth Stood Still. Official Plot Synopsis: Academy Award® Winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in KNOWING, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future—and sets out to prevent them from coming true....

January 15, 2023 · 5 min · 906 words · Eugene Reiner

Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon Construction Time Lapse Video

LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon Construction Time Lapse Video By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2007 3:08 pm EST Earlier this week we told you about the biggest LEGO set ever released, the Star Wars Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon, which is now shipping. The set costs $499, has 5,000 pieces and comes with a heavy ring-binded instruction manual. We wondered how long it would take to put this sucker together, and now the good folks at Gizmodo have given us an answer....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 250 words · Sharyn Johnson

My Influences

My Influences By SlashFilm Staff/March 12, 2009 2:00 am EST Editor’s Note: You probably know Alex Proyas as the director of films like The Crow, Dark City, Garage Days, I Robot and Knowing, but for the next week and a half the filmmaker has agreed to become a guest blogger on /Film. I asked Alex to blog about some of his influences, and you can now read the resulting blog post below....

January 15, 2023 · 8 min · 1500 words · David Robertson

New Indiana Jones 4 Video Diary Reuniting The Family

New Indiana Jones 4 Video Diary: Reuniting The Family By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2007 11:48 am EST IndianaJones.com has been updated with a new video diary “Reuniting The Family”. Director Steven Spielberg, Producers George Lucas, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy, and star Harrison Ford talk about coming back for a fourth film. It seems like most of the interviews were done before production. The package is cut to clips from the first three films....

January 15, 2023 · 1 min · 198 words · Emily Saldana

New York Comic Con Surrogates Trailer

New York Comic Con: Surrogates Trailer By Devindra Hardawar/Feb. 7, 2009 1:36 pm EST Shortly after the Up panel at the New York Comic Con today, we received a look at the trailer for Jonathon Mostow’s upcoming live action adaptation of The Surrogates starring Bruce Willis. The film tells the tale of a future where people can transplant their minds into robotic bodies with ease and experience the world without any consequences....

January 15, 2023 · 5 min · 994 words · Peter Jackson

Step Brothers Red Band Clip

Step Brothers Red Band Clip By Hunter Stephenson/July 21, 2008 2:19 pm EST “You’re going to take your two weeks paid vacation and your five sick days to start off?” One thing The Dark Knight was lacking was f-bombs. Enter Will Ferrell, who is getting slammed in our comments section as of late, and John C. Reilly, playing a manchild named Dale, in next weekend’s cuss-fest Step Brothers. The film is tracking in line with Ferrell’s R-rated wipeout Semi-Pro, but early WOM on this film amongst people who know the funny is strong....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 269 words · Patty Pfaff

The Best Movie Posters Of 2007

The Best Movie Posters Of 2007 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2008 5:45 am EST My good friend Alex at FirstShowing.net, published his top 10 favorite movie posters of the year, and I was shocked at some of the badly executed photoshop designs that topped his list. I thought I could bring a whole new batch of posters to the table, so below you can find my top 20 movie posters of 2007....

January 15, 2023 · 3 min · 512 words · Herbert Cecil

Tonight At 10 Pm Est 7 Pm Pst The Return Of Dan Trachtenberg

Tonight At 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST: The Return Of Dan Trachtenberg By David Chen/Sept. 22, 2008 11:59 am EST Join us tonight on the /Filmcast as we review the Neil Labute’s latest surprisingly-not-bad film Lakeview Terrace with video podcast rock star Dan Trachtenberg from The Totally Rad show. We’ll be broadcasting live at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST at Slashfilm’s live page. As always, feel free to direct any questions/comments/etc....

January 15, 2023 · 1 min · 168 words · Lois Ruffo

Ufc Fighter Rampage Jackson Is The A Team S New B A Baracus

UFC Fighter Rampage Jackson Is The A-Team’s New B.A. Baracus By Russ Fischer/Sept. 7, 2009 4:36 pm EST More MMA fighters are invading your action movies. We just had the report that female fighter Gina Carano would be starring in Steven Soderbergh’s next film. Now there is a credible report that former UFC champ Rampage Jackson, tagged for the role over a year ago, has arrived in Vancouver, where he’ll spend the next six weeks sporting a mohawk and gold chains as The A-Team’s resident malcontent mechanic B....

January 15, 2023 · 5 min · 1057 words · Bruce Snow

Warner Bros Stealing Hype From Kick Ass For Clash Of The Titans With Google Adwords Trickery

Warner Bros. Stealing Hype From Kick-Ass For Clash Of The Titans With Google Adwords Trickery By Brendon Connelly/March 18, 2010 12:30 pm EST Here’s a piece of marketing for Clash of the Titans that is at least commendably sneaky. Go to the UK version of Google. Search Kick-Ass. What do you get? In the main results, just what you’d expect to: IMDB, the official site and so on… but over in the sidebar of sponsored advertising?...

January 15, 2023 · 3 min · 443 words · John Brown

We Re Getting Old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Live Action Movie Was Released 20 Years Ago Today

We’re Getting Old - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Live-Action Movie Was Released 20 Years Ago Today By Peter Sciretta/March 30, 2010 9:55 pm EST I just learned that the Steve Barron-directed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action movie hit theaters exactly twenty years ago today – on March 31st 1990. I remember dragging my father to the local multiplex and waited in a line that stretched around the block to see this film on opening night....

January 15, 2023 · 1 min · 202 words · Kelly Pettus

Whiteout Comic Con Promo Trailer

Whiteout Comic-Con Promo Trailer By Brendon Connelly/June 17, 2009 10:00 am EST Update: For those who missed it, the Comic Con promo trailer is back online! At long last there’s a trailer for Whiteout, the adaptation of Greg Rucka’s Eisner Award winning comic book series. Starring Kate Beckinsale as US Marshall Carrie Stetko and featuring The Spirit’s Gabriel Macht, this is a murder mystery set in Antarctica. A mystery revolving around, as the trailer points out, the very first murder in Antarctica....

January 15, 2023 · 5 min · 991 words · Amy Githens

10 New Photos From Quentin Tarantino S Inglourious Basterds

10 New Photos From Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2009 11:32 am EST Universal Pictures International has released a batch of new photos from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourios Basterds on CineMovies (found via ThePlaylist). The new production photos take a look at some of the characters not included in the character posters we’ve been featuring over the past few weeks (as well as some of the “Basterds” we’ve seen before) and some of the location shots from the movie....

January 14, 2023 · 4 min · 824 words · Dennis Barner

2008 Sxsw Film Festival Line Up Announced

2008 SXSW Film Festival Line-Up Announced By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2008 11:36 pm EST SXSW Announces Lineup for 15th Film Festival ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall,’ ‘Shine A Light,’ ‘Stop-Loss’ Among Titles Included Austin, TX ‐ February 5, 2008 ‐ The 15th annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival is thrilled to announce the complete lineup of feature films slated to screen at the event, March 7-15, in Austin, TX. Over the course of nine days, 113 features will screen at the festival, with 64 of those having their world premieres at SXSW 2008....

January 14, 2023 · 3 min · 450 words · David Peters

Could Cloverfield 1 18 08 Be Titled Overnight

Could Cloverfield/1-18-08 Be Titled Overnight? By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2007 2:37 pm EST Malemunyon has sent us some interesting information on the possible title for the JJ Abrams’ produced top-secret monster movie code-named Cloverfield. Apparently Group One Productions, LLC, and Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer registered a trademark (#77232885) “Overnight” on July 18, 2007, for the use in “motion picture, television and music production and distribution services.” The Attorney of Record for the trademark is Lori N....

January 14, 2023 · 5 min · 875 words · Maria Hubbard

Derek Mears In Final Talks To Star As Jason Voorhees

Derek Mears In Final Talks To Star As Jason Voorhees By Hunter Stephenson/March 30, 2008 2:43 pm EST At the bottom of a lake sits a film a la Rudy or The Rookie about a guy who conquers an Everest of doubt to fulfill his lifetime dream of playing Jason Voorhees in the latest Friday the 13th film. According to Bloody Disgusting, horror fans can add one more name to the legacy behind Crystal Lake’s lumbering, hockey-masked lothario; actor Derek Mears will play Jason in the 2009 reboot from director Marcus Nispel and Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes....

January 14, 2023 · 2 min · 412 words · Ray Guel

Former Pixar Animator To Direct Jonah Hex

Former Pixar Animator To Direct Jonah Hex By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2009 10:20 pm EST Crank directors Neveldine/Taylor left Warner Bros live-action adaptation of Jonah Hex over creative differences, leaving a gaping hole in the director’s chair. So who has Warner Bros found to replace the Crank madmen behind the camera? Jimmy Hayward You might be asking yourself who Jimmy Hayward is. I know I was when I read the announcement over on THR....

January 14, 2023 · 4 min · 729 words · Frank Stone

Funny People Deleted Scene Hellboy

Funny People Deleted Scene: “Hellboy” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 23, 2009 6:00 pm EST This deleted scene from Judd Apatow’s Funny People shows us one of the scrapped conversations from the car drive from Los Angeles up to San Francisco. George (Adam Sandler) and Ira (Seth Rogen) debate about watching Hellboy and discuss ideas for possible future movie projects for George. The deleted scene is included on the DVD/Blu-ray release, which hits stores on November 24th....

January 14, 2023 · 1 min · 164 words · Angela Hill

George Clooney In Talks For Jason Reitman S Up In The Air

George Clooney In Talks For Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 27, 2008 7:22 pm EST On the other hand, Jason Reitman, who broke onto the scene with his 2005 adaptation of Thank You For Smoking, was still not a name director. Smoking, which was made for $6.5 million, grossed $24.8 million domestically, enough to be considered a big success in it’s own right. But not enough of a success that most of your friends probably still hadn’t heard of it, never mind seen it....

January 14, 2023 · 2 min · 303 words · Delores Morales

How James Cameron Put Down A Mutiny On The Set Of Aliens

How James Cameron Put Down A Mutiny On The Set Of Aliens By David Chen/Dec. 23, 2009 9:50 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Up first, a story of from the set of how the Aliens shoot almost spun wildly out of control, and what Cameron had to do to put down a crew mutiny. [Update: Several people in the comments have pointed out, correctly, that the following story was covered in the extensive Aliens DVD special features....

January 14, 2023 · 4 min · 643 words · Lana Fry