Michael Bay To Direct Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2007 8:29 pm EST Michael Bay (Transformers) will re-team with producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Bad Boys, The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon) to direct the big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, according to IESB. Could this mean that we will finally get a half-way descent video game movie adaptation?...
Must Watch: Movie Trailer For The Indonesian Martial Arts Film Merantau By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2009 2:38 pm EST I wasn’t planning on doing any work over the weekend, but then I received an email from our friends at Twitch telling us to check out the official trailer for Merantau, the first Indonesian martial arts film to be produced in almost a quarter of a century. Todd Brown thinks this film “has a fighting chance of being the next Ong Bak”, and after watching the trailer, I have to agree....
Nationwide Sneak Preview Of 3:10 To Yuma On September 2nd By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 27, 2007 1:46 pm EST Lionsgate is so sure people will like 3:10 to Yuma, that they have decided to run a nationwide sneak preview on September 2nd 2007. We are pleased to announce the SNEAK PEAK of 3:10 to Yuma, the new film from director James Mangold (WALK THE LINE), starring Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Gretchen Mol and legendary Western star, Peter Fonda....
Nominees Asked To Prepare Two Speeches For The 2010 Academy Awards By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 15, 2010 5:32 pm EST One of the most uninteresting parts of the Academy Awards are the boring speeches filled with “thank yous” to agents and producers. This year’s producers of the Academy Awards, Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic, want to avoid these kind of speeches, and thus have asked this year’s Academy Award nominees to prepare not one, but two speeches....
Open Season 2 Goes Direct To DVD By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 6, 2007 9:50 pm EST Bad News: Sony has decided to greenlight a sequel to last year’s computer animated film Open Season.Good News: Open Season 2 is scheduled to go direct to DVD in 2009. While we at /Film do not condone the direct-to-DVD sequel, we find it less painful when it’s a movie/franchise we don’t feel personal attachment to. Since John Lasseter has convinced Disney that the direct-to-DVD sequel is hurtful to the studio and franchise’s legacy, there is now a void to fill on crappy second rate animated sequels....
Outlander Book Series Coming To The Big Screen By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2008 11:26 pm EST Essential Pictures is developing a potential franchise of films based on Outlander, a series of six fantasy novels by Diana Gabaldon. Not to be confused with the potentially bad ass Alien / Viking movie of the same name, which seems to have gotten the shaft from The Weinstein Co.Braveheart scribe Randall Wallace penned the script, which has already been sent out to potential directors....
Revisiting Dark City By SlashFilm Staff/March 10, 2009 11:18 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 couple weeks the filmmaker has agreed to become a guest blogger on /Film. Proyas will be blogging a couple times a week, talking about his inspirations, the state of sci-fi cinema, Dark City, and his upcoming film Knowing....
Rumor Watch: James McAvoy As Bilbo Baggins In The Hobbit? By Peter Sciretta/May 29, 2008 5:07 am EST Rumor has it that James McAvoy will play Bilbo Baggins in Guillermo del Toro’s The Hobbit. A source tells British newspaper the Daily Express: “A number of names have been doing the rounds, including Daniel Radcliffe and Jack Black, but James (MCAvoy) is the one the film’s bosses really want. They’re expected to have talks soon so hopefully it could be confirmed in the not too distant future....
Sam Worthington Likely As McG’s Nemo, Updates On Terminator 5 By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 7, 2009 12:30 pm EST McG has been hyping the upcoming TV series Human Target on the TCA press tour and by the by discussing his plans for another Terminator and also his 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea adaptation. Previously, McG had suggested he had Will Smith in mind for the role of Captain Nemo. Of course, Nemo is an Indian in the books, and Smith is not so it was clear that McG was willing to take some liberties....
Spider-Man 3 Has Biggest Opening Day Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2007 9:59 am EST As we suspected yesterday, Sony is reporting that Spider-Man 3 took in $59 million in its opening day alone. This breaks the record for the biggest opening day of all time. Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest previously held the record with $55.8 million. Spider-Man 3 is also on track to overtake Dead Man’s biggest opening weekend of all time record of $135....
Spider-Man Saves Autistic Boy In Thailand By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2009 7:36 pm EST A Bangkok fireman dressed as Spider-Man rescued an eight-year-old boy who had climbed on to a third-floor window ledge. The autistic boy began crying and climbed out of a classroom window during his first day at the special needs school. When the teachers attempts to persuade the kid to come back inside failed, they called the fire station....
Two And A Half Hours With Charlie Kaufman By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2008 8:39 pm EST WiReD Magazine has been blogging the process of their profile on screenwriter turned director Charlie Kaufman. Not only is it amazing to see how much work goes into one of these WiReD cover stories (we’re talking about months and months of work for one story) but the interactions with Kaufman are insanely interesting. I caught Kaufman’s directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York, last week and I’m still not sure what to make of it....
Two New Juno Video Clips By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2007 10:38 pm EST A couple months ago we posted four video clips from Jason Reitman’s Juno (“Best Movie Of The Year…” “…This year’s Little Miss Sunshine”). We now have two new clips from the film, which hits theaters in New York and Los Angeles on December 5th, and the rest of the country in the coming weeks. Watch the videos after the jump....
Video Game Review: Buzz! The Hollywood Quiz By Jon Christensen/May 11, 2008 7:25 pm EST With the success of the movie board game Scene It? and it’s exclusive video game on Xbox 360, it was only a matter of time when we’d see a copycat game on another system. Well, thanks to Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) and it’s hit trivial “Buzz!” games we now have “Buzz! The Hollywood Quiz” for the Playstation 2....
VOTD: Nacho Vigalondo’s Choque By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2008 12:00 am EST Choque directed by Nacho Vigalondo The Pitch: “The follies of youth are lost on the old.” Written, directed and starring Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes) as a man driven over the edge at an arcade. I saw this film as part of a short film retrospective at Fantastic Fest 2008. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....
WALL-E Awarded Best Picture By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2008 3:04 pm EST The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named Pixar’s WALL-E as the Best Picture of the Year. This is the first time in the 33-year history of the LAFCA that an animated film has won the top prize. Disney has been pushing the film for both Best Animated feature and Best Picture for the upcoming Academy Awards and Golden Globes....
What Is JJ Abrams’ Next Mystery Project? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 14, 2009 6:55 pm EST Mad speculation time. We’ve known that Paramount would be making new Star Trek and Mission: Impossible movies at some point, and that JJ Abrams, director of the last installment in each franchise, would likely be involved as producer, though possibly not as director. We also knew that the studio had picked up a couple of other options for Abrams to produce and possibly direct....
Wolfman Reshoots Say “Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad” By Brendon Connelly/July 9, 2009 9:34 pm EST I reported back in May that a new action scene was being filmed for Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman. According to new information from Baz Bamigboye at The Daily Mail, there have been six weeks of reshoots in total, and part of the purpose in the fix-up was the present a new design of Wolfman....
Your Regularly Scheduled /Filmcast Will Be Broadcast TUESDAY Night, 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST By David Chen/July 28, 2008 6:00 am EST Just a reminder that this week’s /Filmcast will not be broadcast on Monday night as usual, but will instead be broadcast on TUESDAY night at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST on Slashfilm’s live page. The interim time will be useed by Adam and Dave to recover from the body-brutalizing experience that was covering Comic-Con....
Zombieland’s Ruben Fleischer May Direct Danny McBride In 30 Minutes Or Less By Russ Fischer/March 19, 2010 2:15 pm EST Ever since Zombieland was a massive break-out hit, there has been a lot of talk about what director Ruben Fleischer will do next. A 3D sequel is in the cards, but he’s been slow to take on any of the many films that have come his way. Now there are reports that say he could well end up directing a comedy called 30 Minutes or Less, which is being developed as a star vehicle for Danny McBride....
