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Die Hard Director John McTiernan Goes To Jail By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 24, 2007 2:44 pm EST Proving that drugged up drunk driving celebrities aren’t the only ones to appear behind bars now-a-days, Die Hard director John McTiernan was sentenced to four months in prison on Monday for lying to federal agents. McTiernan was one of seven defendants who pleaded guilty in connection with the conspiracy and racketeering case of Anthony Pellicano, who was charged with illegally wiretapping dozens of Hollywood celebrities and movie executives....

Exit Through The Gift Shop Movie Trailer: Street Artist Banksy Toys With Sundance By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2010 11:10 am EST British street artist Banksy has been creating attention-getting stenciled grafitti for years. Over the past decade, as his artistic profile has risen, Banksy’s identity has remained almost totally secret. And yet, here he is with a film in the Sundance Film Festival. Exit Through the Gift Shop is…well, we’re not yet sure exactly what it is....

Geek Deals: Buy Two Blu-Ray Movies, Get One Free By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2008 12:51 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Grindhouse: Rodriguez To Turn They Call Him Machete Into Feature Length Movie By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2007 5:01 am EST As you probably know by now, Grindhouse consists of two exploitation films, each with its own trailers for non existent b-movies. When the first trailer was unveiled, fans went crazy over a clip from the fake movie titled They Call Him Machete starring Rodriguez regular Danny Trejo. Well the response to the trailer footage was so great, that Rodriguez has decided to make the movie....

IFFBoston Interview: Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom By David Chen/April 30, 2009 5:10 am EST It’s been a long few years since Rian Johnson’s first film Brick but Johnson’s follow-up, The Brothers Bloom, is finally about to hit theaters, with a limited release in NY/LA on May 15 and expanding wider in the weeks following. My full review of The Brothers Bloom won’t be published until the 15th, but in the meantime, I can tell you that I’ve seen the film and was completely blown away....

James Cameron’s Avatar: Ten New Featurettes Revealed In “Interactive Trailer” By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2009 11:50 am EST I recommend you check it out for yourself. While I think that it is a cool step forward, I found the experience rather annoying. There doesn’t really seem to be anything really interactive about it. There is no room to explore, or discover anything beyond the few featurettes that pop up while watching the trailer....

Leonardo DiCaprio To Star In Christopher Nolan’s Inception By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2009 7:10 pm EST Leonardo DiCaprio is in final negotiations to star in Christopher Nolan’s Inception. As of right now, we know almost nothing about this film, other than that it is a contemporary sci-fi action movie set in “the architecture of the mind”, whatever that means. The plan is to begin shooting this Summer, with a July 16th 2010 release date....

Official Inception Website Launched By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2009 12:52 pm EST Warner Bros has launched the official website for Christopher Nolan’s Inception, to go along with the teaser trailer, which is attached to some prints of Inglourious Basterds. As we’ve told you before, we don’t expect the trailer to be available online until next week. The website is nothing more than an interactive spinning top, which mimics one of the shots from the teaser trailer....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2008 2:34 pm EST Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2! Movieland has the first blurry photo of Yun-Fat Chow as Master Roshi in Dragonball.Steven Spielberg is creating a new social networking site called “The Rising.” The site will be dedicated to those who have had paranormal experiences, and users users will be encouraged to share their own extraterrestrial encounters....

Rob Zombie’s Halloween Workprint Leaked Online By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 28, 2007 3:00 am EST A workprint of Rob Zombie’s Halloween has been leaked onto the internet. The copy turned up on several bit torrent websites just four days before the film’s theatrical movie premiere on Friday. Hopefully Halloween won’t suffer the same fate as Eli Roth’s Hostel: Part II which had an unfinished work-print leak online a week before its theatrical release....

Slumdog Millionaire Trailer And Release Dates By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 30, 2008 12:54 pm EST But its a hard sell. The plot synopsis sounds more corny than anything else. A movie set around Who Wants to bBe a Millionaire? But this film is not what you think it is. It’s not about the game shows, it’s about the life of a boy living in the slums of India, and the love of a lifetime....

Summit Greenlights Twilight Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 22, 2008 11:38 am EST After the exceptional opening day performance of Twilight, Summit Entertainment has officially greenlit that the sequel, New Moon. The film will be moving forward into production, but no production start or release dates have yet been announced. Read the full press release after the jump. Summit Entertainment Announces TWILIGHT Sequel – NEW MOON LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22 — Summit Entertainment announced today that the studio is officially moving forward with the production of NEW MOON, the second installment of its filmed franchise TWILIGHT, the action-packed, modern day vampire love story....

The Crow Revamp Has A Script. Also: “Not A Remake” By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 21, 2009 8:29 am EST We’ve known that Blade director, Stephen Norrington, was scribing a theatrical remake of 1994’s The Crow for almost a year now by following all the milky Goth tears. And now, according to an unidentified source via Mania, Norrington has finally submitted his script to Relativity Media (The Wolf Man, A Serious Man), where it has been “very well received....

The Invasion Movie Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 3, 2007 11:17 am EST Cinematical has posted the new theatrical movie poster for The Invasion. We were once excited to see this Invasion of the Bodysnatchers remake, with rumors that the film had been almost entirely rewritten by The Wachowski Brothers. But then the film’s trailer scared us off. It was so bad that we stopped even caring about the release. But as it turns out, the July 4th extended holiday weekend is not conducive for news....

The Pixar Story Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2008 7:37 pm EST I’m a huge Pixar fanatic, if you couldn’t tell from our extensive coverage to their upcoming film WALL-E. A few months ago we featured the book To Infinity and Beyond! The Story of Pixar Animation Studios in our Cool Stuff feature. But what many people don’t know is the book is actually based on interviews and research by Leslie Iwerks, who has compiled everything into an 87 minute documentary....

Tony Stark Appears In New Incredible Hulk TV Spot By Hunter Stephenson/June 8, 2008 1:27 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/hulkironman.flv 470 204] A new TV spot for The Incredible Hulk features Tony Stark/Robert Downey Jr. Yes, we all knew that he was set to appear in the film, but it’s somewhat surprising to see Stark placed front and center here before we even gleam the movie’s logo, the Hulk or star Edward Norton....

TV News: V Shut Down, Brandon Routh On Chuck, Summer Glau In Dollhouse By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 27, 2009 2:00 pm EST There is a bunch of television news going on today, so I thought I’d put together a little round up. After the jump, I have information on ABC’s V being shut down, Brandon Routh joining Chuck, and confirmation and information of Summer Glau in Dollhouse. The Wrap is reporting that ABC’s alien invasion series V is taking a two-week creative hiatus....

Universal Gets Inglorious Bastards By Peter Sciretta/July 29, 2008 1:05 pm EST Breaking News: Universal Pictures have partnered with The Weinstein Co to produce Quentin Tarantino’s World War II film Inglorious Bastards. Oh, and there was a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Southern California… According to Variety, Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein met with five studios last week, and ended up choosing Universal over Paramount. Seems like a bad decision to me since a film like this needs a strong marketing team behind it, something neither the Weinstein’s or Universal seems to have....

VOTD: Hi, I’m A Marvel… And I’m A DC - Iron Man And Batman By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2008 12:30 am EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/marvelvsdcbatiron.flv 360 272] Hi, I’m a Marvel… and I’m a DC – Iron Man and Batman created by ItsJustSomeRandomGuy The Pitch: Last year one of the popular viral videos was a parody of the then popular “Hi, I’m a Mac… and I’m a PC” commercials featuring Marvel and DC action figures (watch that short here)....

VOTD: Pixar’s Studio Stories By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2010 12:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of my favorite new features of the new Blu-ray releases of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 is a series of bonus features called “Studio Stories”. The short films feature animated reenactments of interesting or funny stories that took place during the making of the two films. From the original Pixar animation building which had toys sticking out of the ceiling, to what happened when Toy Story 2 got accidently deleted, to John Lasseter’s crappy car, to an Art Director who quits the company every year on April 1st....