W. B-Roll Footage By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2008 7:50 pm EST Access Hollywood has a four minute behind the scenes look at Oliver Stone’s W. If you ever had a doubt that Josh Brolin wouldn’t be able to do George W, watch Brolin’s delivery of the speech early on in this clip. It’s amazing. Definitely a lot better than the professional George W. Bush impersonator that was in Harold and Kumar 2....
After The Soul Train Movie, What TV Show Will Be Left To Adapt? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2009 8:19 am EST I expect the cries of rage to sound any moment now. How can they treat Soul Train this way?!? (Ok, I don’t really expect cries of rage.) Variety reports that Warner Bros. has hired Malcolm Spellman to write a film based on the immortal ’70s and early ’80s television dance show Soul Train....
August Rush Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2007 5:22 pm EST August Rush is a tough sell. I’m not sure many of the /Film readers will be interested in seeing such a film, but that won’t stop you from being dragged on a Friday date-night to your local multiplex. From the director of Disco Pigs and the writer of Escape from New York comes the story of August Rush, an infant orphaned by circumstance....
Clash Of The Titans Remake Director Announced By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 13, 2007 9:53 pm EST The list of the directors rumored to be involved with the remake of Clash of the Titans has included Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City). The screenplay was penned by screenwriting legend Lawrence Kasdan, you know, the guy who wrote Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark. And finally tonight, Warner Bros has announced the big name director attached to the project:...
Cool Stuff: Jared Stumpenhorst’s Lost-Inspired T-Shirt “922044:16” By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2010 8:00 pm EST It’s Tuesday again — LOST day to many of you /Film readers. And today’s t-shirt of the day over at TeeFury is another Lost-inspired design. Artist Jared Stumpenhorst created the MSLED (Make Something LOST Every Day) project, which is a 365 project on Flickr. His Lost-inspired design 922044:16 is available in Slate tee for Men, and Turquoise tees for Women....
Cool Stuff: Star Wars Hoth LEGO Diorama By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2008 6:00 am EST Mark Borlase created a 5 foot by 10 foot Star Wars Hoth diorama using LEGO. The display took over 4 years and $3000 to create, and consists of over 55,000 pieces, 50 real LED lights and a remote controled mechanism which deploys troops from the AT-ATs. All the lights are controlled by 1-9v train regulator and the doors are controlled by a second 9v regulator....
Crazy Heart Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2009 5:00 am EST Searchlight has now released the first trailer for the film, which you can watch embedded after the jump. The story is drawing strong comparisons to Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, and after watching the trailer, you will definitely see why. As always, I’d love to hear what you think — leave your thoughts in the comments below! Four-time Academy Award® nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film CRAZY HEART from writer-director Scott Cooper....
Daniel Myrick’s Believers Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2007 2:34 pm EST I remember when The Blair Witch Project exploded onto the scene in the late 90’s, Hollywood was abuzz calling the Blair Witch filmmakers the future of Hollywood. While Blair Witch is likely responsible for the internet viral marketing ideas that we see today, the filmmakers have faded into obscurity. And it’s not for a lack of trying, both Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez have working hard to turn out, something, anything, that will latch on and find a following, without much luck....
Domino’s Pizza Presents New Dark Knight Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2008 12:45 am EST Warner Bros has released yet another new trailer for The Dark Knight, on a cross promotional website created by Dominos Pizza. First The Mummy 3, and now The Dark Knight? What’s up with the recent explosion in pizza promotions? The trailer is actually pretty good (unlike Dominos Pizza). The new trailer intercuts The Joker’s monologue (a pretty intense and cool moment from the film) over the usual clips from the movie....
Early Buzz: Pixar’s UP By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2008 8:11 pm EST Monday night Disney held a test screening for Pixar’s upcoming film Up in Portland, OR. They screened a rough-cut of the film which included a mix of storyboards, rough and finished animation. The music was temp, but all the voiceover was complete. This seems to be a regular tradition for the animation powerhouse as the Emeryville based animation studio held their first test screening of Wall-E in Portland on October 29th of last year....
Early Buzz: Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox By Peter Sciretta/March 30, 2009 3:41 pm EST As always, let me remind all of you that the film shown was an early test screening cut, which can be, and most times is, vastly different than the completed cut of the movie. The following mini-test screening review was posted by anonymous on absolutepunk.net . The following test screening review was posted on RLMukForum.com.
First Look: Dakota Fanning In The Runaways By Hunter Stephenson/July 3, 2009 9:43 am EST Right now, geeks are having difficulty formulating their conflicted emotions about pics of a 15-year-old Dakota Fanning on the set of The Runaways, the 2010 girl-punker biopic. At times like this, I think the guttural proclamation, “Um, that’s racist like a robot!” will suffice. But yeah, Just Jared via Chud has posted a bevy of publicity-stunt pics of Fanning, as jail-bait lead-singer Cherie Currie, tangling around with Kristen Stewart, as leather-clad guitarist Joan Jett....
First Look: Kevin Costner In Swing Vote By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2008 1:56 am EST In a remarkable turn-of-events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man’s vote. Swing Vote stars Kevin Costner as Bud Johnson, a working-class single father who has the ultimate decision to elect the next President of the United States. Disney chairman Dick Cook called Swing Vote, “a timely and heartfelt story that is sure to touch and entertain moviegoers in the same way that some of the classic films by Frank Capra have done in the past....
First Look: Richard Kelly’s The Box By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2008 5:10 pm EST A mysterious stranger shows up on the doorstep of a desperate married couple’s (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) home with a mysterious box. If they press the button inside the box, they’ll instantly get the money to save their ailing son, but in exchange, someone, somewhere in the world will die. But the temptation to save their dying son becomes too much, and Norma (Diaz) pushes the dreaded button and a gun shot goes off somewhere nearby....
First Look: Silk Spectre And Ozymandias Watchmen Action Figures By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2008 11:57 am EST A couple days ago, we got our first look at Rorschach and Nite Owl, two of the Watchmen Action figures from DC Direct. The other two figures have now been unveiled at the New York Comic-Con. ActionFigureInsider brings us the above photo of the action figure prototypes for Silk Spectre and Ozymandias. Just as Night Owl’s costume looked cooler in action figure form, Ozymandias’s costume seems even more lame....
Gerard Butler Cast In Untouchables Prequel By Peter Sciretta/May 17, 2007 11:44 am EST 300 star Gerard Butler has signed on to join Nicolas Cage in the Brian De Palma prequel to The Untouchables. Variety reports that Butler made a brief appearance at the Cannes Film Festival to announce the news and say how “unbelievable” the script was. Last week it was announced that Nicolas Cage will play a young Al Capone....
Greg Motolla Discusses The CGI Character At The Heart Of His R-Rated Simon Pegg Comedy By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 19, 2009 1:00 am EST Greg Motolla’s Adventureland is to premiere at Sundance, but I’m going to mention it only briefly. Peter’s got all of that Sundance stuff sewn up very nicely – indeed, just a couple of days back he posted a new clip from the film. Instead, let’s us now get on the topic of Mottola’s next film, Paul....
High Resolution Photos: Josh Brolin As George W. Bush In Oliver Stone’s W. By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2008 6:12 pm EST The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has the first photos of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks as George and Laura Bush from Oliver Stone’s upcoming film W. Problem is, when we posted the photos last week no one had a high resolution scan of the two photos. Click on the photo above and below for higher resolution versions....
Human Giant Invades The /Filmcast, Tonight At 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST By David Chen/Aug. 25, 2008 1:01 pm EST Tune in tonight to Slashfilm’s Live page at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST to hear us broadcast the /Filmcast live with Paul Scheer from MTV’s Human Giant! (Check out Paul’s IMDB page and Wikipedia page for a list of his other accolades.) Paul will be joining us to help us review Paul W....
John August On Why Writers Get Residuals By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2007 7:19 pm EST John August (Go, The Nines) is not only the most successful underrated screenwriter working not working in Hollywood today, but he’s also a damn good blogger. Each of the posts that I’ve written about the writers strike has resulted in some interesting comment discussions. And one argument that gets brought up each and every time without fail is: “Writers don’t need residuals, they get paid enough already....
