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Hellboy Appears In New DirecTV Commercial By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2009 12:49 am EST DirecTV hired Hellboy to promote their new online DVR feature. The television commercials began airing over the weekend. Thanks to Nick for the tip. Hellboy Appears In New DirecTV Commercial By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2009 12:49 am EST DirecTV hired Hellboy to promote their new online DVR feature. The television commercials began airing over the weekend. Thanks to Nick for the tip....

James Cameron Updates Battle Angel Alita Status By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 15, 2009 12:32 am EST James Cameron has been talking about potentially remaking the manga Battle Angel Alita for some time now, but it’s always seemed like a distant reality. Now Cameron is hinting that the tech he’s developed for Avatar will be instrumental in Alita, and that the film may actually be closer than we thought. Dare we get our hopes up?...

James McAvoy To Star In Seth Rogen’s Other Cancer Comedy By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2009 9:30 pm EST James McAvoy has signed on to star in I’m With Cancer, an autobiographical story based on the experiences of Will Reiser, a producer on HBO’s Da Ali G Show and VH1’s Best Week Ever. Reiser’s spec script tells the story of a 25-year-old who learns he has the disease. Seth Rogen is producing and will co-star in the yet-to-be-titled film....

Jenna Jameson And Robert Englund’s Zombie Strippers Gets Theatrical Release By Hunter Stephenson/March 31, 2008 4:27 pm EST When applicable, IMDB should include an “Actress: Theatrical” entry for porn stars. Sony Pictures has enthusiastically announced that Jenna Jameson (Private Parts) will once again be sliding down America’s luxurious cineplex flagpole, this time in the grindhouse-y Zombie Strippers alongside Robert Englund. On April 18th, the direct-to-DVD flick will play in numerous select American cities and we have the [insert porn pun] listing below....

Judd Apatow Says Critics Are Always Right, Even If They’re Not By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2007 5:41 am EST I’ve admired Judd Apatow’s work even since Heavyweights in 1995. I’ve followed his career from The Cable Guy (which I loved) to the short lived Freaks and Geeks television show, which Apatow wrote and produced. Sure, Celtic Pride was really, really, REALLY BAD. And that’s coming from a Bostonian who had friends in the movie....

LOL: Dark Knight Inspires Joker Billboard Vandalism By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2008 11:43 pm EST Looks like The Joker is running free in upstate New York. /Film reader Rob H came across this vandalized real estate billboard on Route 9 in Saratoga Springs, NY. Next thing you know, watch dog groups are going to be calling for a ban of the film, claiming it is a bad influence on the youth of America....

Marvel Studios Announces Release Dates For Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America By Hunter Stephenson/May 5, 2008 9:23 am EST An umbrella won’t help. Hot off the $100 million opening of Iron Man (nice job Steve!), the ever powerful Marvel Studios opened its war chest up today, revealing the company’s in-house feature roll out through 2011. Here’s what it looks like… 2010 April 30th: Iron Man 2 June 4th: Thor (directed by Matthew Vaughn) 2011 May 6th: The First Avenger: Captain America July (day N/A): The Avengers So, two Avengers films in 2011, eh?...

Michael Caine Finds Out This Week If He’s In Nolan’s Inception By Brendon Connelly/April 7, 2009 12:51 pm EST MTV have been speaking to Sir Michael Caine and the conversation came around, with fanboy-driven inevitability, to Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi engima Inception. It seems that MTV asked Caine if he had a part in the movie, and back came the reply: I think there might be a part for me. I think so too....

Michael Madsen Says Sin City 2 Might Not Happen By Peter Sciretta/May 29, 2007 11:50 am EST Update: Frank Miller says Sin City 2 DELAYED, but Not DEAD Michael Madsen has never been one to keep quiet. I’m pretty sure the actor is the one who is single handily responsible for most of the Inglorious Bastards over the past few years. Well now Madsen has told Premiere that he Sin City 2 might have been canned due to Grindhouse’s poor box office performance....

New Iron Man Photos And… Movie Trailer? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2008 12:00 am EST Tony Stark, the “playboy” billionaire. ScreenRant has four new photos from Jon Favreau’s Iron Man. Check them out below (and above). Earlier today, Marvel reported that a new Iron Man movie trailer would debut during LOST. Many fans watched tonight’s episode, but were left disappointed when no trailer premiered. Some website’s speculated that maybe Marvel meant next week’s episode....

New Moon And Transformers 3 Release Dates? By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2008 8:26 pm EST Dark Horizons is reporting that a July 29th 2011 release date for Transformers 3 has been spotted on German release schedules. While I somehow doubt that a third Transformers film has been greenlit at this point (you never know, they did just greenlight Terminator 5 while in post production), the date is probably a tentative target date....

New WALL-E Trailer With Live Action Humans? By Peter Sciretta/June 3, 2008 7:01 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/wallemeetthebots.flv 470 262] Disney has released a strange new trailer for Pixar’s WALL-E. “Meet The Bots” introduces us to the many bots we’ll meet in Andrew Stanton’s film. The strange part is that it begins as a promotional video from the Buy N Large Corporation. For a few seconds we get to see what live-action humans look like on the luxury starliner (before they became giant couch potato blobs, or course)....

Nintendo Wii To Get Netflix Streaming… In HD? By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 1, 2009 12:04 pm EST Forget all of that I’m a Mac, I’m a PC business, not to mention rivalry between Beatles and Stones or Betty and Veronica, I’ve most often been caught up in a scrap between Nintendo and their rivals. For the record, I’m very much on the side of Nintendo and love my Wii dearly. At least as far as I’m concerned then, the following is incredible news....

Original Let The Right One In Director Talks Remake By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2008 1:06 pm EST If you’ve been following /Film, you’ve heard about a little Swedish coming of age vampire film which transcends the horror genre. Let The Right One In hits theaters next month, but a English-language remake is already in thew works with Cloverfield director Matt Reeves at the helm. Tomas Alfredson, director of the original Swedish adaptation, isn’t too happy:...

Photos: Disney’s Indiana Jones Summer Of Hidden Mysteries By Peter Sciretta/May 23, 2008 1:04 pm EST Earlier this month we told you how Disneyland was planning The Indiana Jones Summer of Hidden Mysteries which included new Indy inspired events and activities throughout Adventureland. Well the Summer event has begun and MiceChat has photos. Above is our first look at “The “Secret of the Stone Tiger” show takes place in “The Oasis” (formerly Aladdin’s Oasis)....

Ray Liotta And Ray Winstone Sign On For “13” By David Chen/Nov. 5, 2008 9:38 am EST A few weeks ago, we reported that Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, and 50 Cent would be starring in the American remake of Gela Babluani’s film 13 Tzameti, entitled simply 13. The film centers around a Russian-roulette-style competition where the losers truly lose everything. Last night, Variety reported that Ray Winstone and Ray Liotta have signed on to the new film as well....

Summit Invests In More Genre Stuff: Adaptation Of Comic Book Alibi And Eli Roth-Produced Invasion By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2009 8:23 am EST Summit is best known for Twilight, but the company has put weight behind other genre-ish stuff that has, let’s say, a more masculine appeal. As recent examples, there was the semi-superhero film Push, and the Nic Cage film Knowing. Now the studio is getting behind an adaptation of the Top Cow comic series Alibi and an alien invasion film called, er, Invasion....

The Creatures And Characters Of Monsters Vs. Aliens By Peter Sciretta/July 23, 2008 3:49 am EST Dreamworks Animation has released eight promotional trading cards showcasing the creatures and characters of their upcoming 3D computer animated film Monsters vs. Aliens. I’m sure these will be available on the comic con show floor somewhere. Monsters vs. Aliens hits theaters on March 27th 2009. The Creatures And Characters Of Monsters Vs. Aliens By Peter Sciretta/July 23, 2008 3:49 am EST...

The Last Airbender Teaser Trailer Attached To Transformers 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2009 11:21 am EST Producer Frank Marshall has confirmed that the teaser trailer M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, the big screen live action adaptation of Avatar, will be attached to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which hits theaters on June 24th 2009. ’m sure the final trailer for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra will also be attached, especially considering the the movie is also a Paramount release....

The Many Piranhas Of Piranha 3D By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 17, 2009 6:59 am EST Aja’s American follow ups, The Hills Have Eyes and Mirrors, have proven to be at once underdeveloped and under appreciated, so I’m left wondering if, perhaps, the reputation of Switchblade Romance was encouraged as much by the film’s supposedly exotic nature as it was by it’s edge-of-seat efficacy. For his next trick, Aja is going ahead with his a remake of Joe Dante’s Piranha, this time in 3D....