Indiana Jones 4: John Hurt To Play Albert Einstein? By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2007 5:16 pm EST A /Film spy sent us a juicy casting bit for the lastest Indiana Jones adventure. The source tells us that John Hurt (who was announced this past week) will be playing the charachter of famous german theoretical physicsm, Albert Einstein. We have no way to confirm this information, but here are the facts:...
James Wan’s Death Sentence Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2007 2:35 am EST [flv:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/deathsentence.flv 450 190]
King Kong Prequel Coming By Brendon Connelly/July 28, 2009 11:00 am EST Two current projects have their roots in the work of Kong creator Merian C. Cooper. One is a long-stalled feature film originally conceived by Cooper and Ray Harryhausen, the other is a prequel to King Kong. Let’s take a look at them in turn. Variety report that War Eagles was co-developed by Cooper and Harryhausen before it was stalled by the second World War....
LOL: The Bounty Hunter Movie Poster (Boba Fett Edition) By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2010 12:00 pm EST I would actually watch this version of The Bounty Hunter… via: TDW LOL: The Bounty Hunter Movie Poster (Boba Fett Edition) By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2010 12:00 pm EST I would actually watch this version of The Bounty Hunter… via: TDW via: TDW
Matthew Vaughn’s Next Film To Be Adaptation Of Bloodshot? By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2010 1:03 pm EST UPDATE: This was predictable enough that I could have started a countdown: Mark Millar claims this is not true; he says Vaughn turned down the film months ago. Per the doubts expressed below, here’s hoping that’s the case. Original article follows. It doesn’t take a big stretch of the imagination to guess that Matthew Vaughn might make another comic book movie after Kick-Ass, and many simply figured that it would be Kick-Ass 2....
Michael Bay And Eli Roth Respond To Uwe Boll’s Comments By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2008 1:18 pm EST Here is the quick recap: Hack video game movie director Uwe Boll said he would quit filmmaking if one million people signed a petition. After we posted a story about the situation, over 125 thousand people signed the petition. Feeling the pressure, Boll released a video statement demanding that his fans start a pro-Boll petition....
Quantum Of Solace: New Photos And Set Visit Video By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2008 1:12 am EST IGN has a bunch of new photos from the next James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, mostly featuring supporting characters. Meanwhile, MySpace has a video from the Bregenz, Austria set featuring the cast and crew talking about filming there and the production as a whole. Check that out after the jump. Quantum Of Solace: New Photos And Set Visit Video...
Re-Edits: Brett Ratner Cuts Up Kites, Peter Jackson Adds More Intensity To The Lovely Bones By Russ Fischer/Nov. 20, 2009 9:01 am EST Some of the weirdest and most interesting news lately has been about action in the edit bay. We saw that a couple of world-class craftsmen had been brought in to rework The Wolfman, for one. Now there are tales of tweaks that run both ends of the crazy spectrum....
Sandy Collora’s Hunter Prey Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2009 11:06 am EST Last night when I published some new photos and the teaser poster from Sandy Collora’s Hunter Prey, I mentioned that the teaser trailer would be online this week. Well, apparently by “this week” I meant to say today. IO9 has a first look at the teaser trailer for Collora’s first original feature film. Watch the trailer after the jump, embedded thanks to QuietEarth....
Sundance: Chasing Ghosts: Beyond The Arcade Movie Review By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 22, 2007 6:35 am EST Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade is a love letter to arcade gaming, an era past and stained forever into popular geek culture. If you were part of the scene, a kid of the 80’s, or just a pop culture fanatic, Ghosts offers an entertaining look at the days of Pac Man. Filled to the brim with 1980’s pop music, Ghosts takes a look at the many eccentric characters that populated the world of competitive arcade gaming....
Teaser Trailer #2: Pixar’s Wall-E By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2007 10:37 am EST There is a new teaser trailer for Pixar’s 2008 movie Wall-E on the Ratatouille video game. JVPixar has uploaded the video to YouTube, but it’s poor quality. The video is a two minute television advertisement from the BuyNLarge corporation advertising the WALL-E unit, “working to dig you out.” In the new film the Earth becomes unlivable and from what I understand, the human population retreat to a huge space ship that hovers around the earth’s atmosphere....
Telluride Review: Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2008 10:40 am EST They say that if you give out positive energy than you should receive positive energy in return. The person who coined that phrase never met Poppy. Dressed in bright colors and wearing big earrings, Poppy has a personality that is as obnoxiously perky as her wardrobe, if not more so. Mike Leigh’s latest film is a character study focusing on a 30-year-old primary school teacher with the attitude of a child, who has to deal with a series of problems ranging from her bicycle being stolen to a problem child at school, to her pregnant/married sister who lectures her about responsibility and settling down....
The Aftermath: A Few Financial Details About The Fox/WB Watchmen Settlement By David Chen/Jan. 18, 2009 9:57 am EST All in all, for Fox, it seems the lawsuit was not a bad way to spend their time and money compared to some of the other ways they’ve been using it. The two studios released the following joint statement on Friday: After this week, it finally looks like Watchmen fans can eagerly look forward to March 6 as well....
The Buzz: Zodiac Is Absorbing, But Long By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2007 5:45 pm EST Zodiac Director: David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en)Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Chloë Sevigny, and Ed SetrakianRunning Time: 156 minutesMPAA Rating: R for some strong killings, language, drug material and brief sexual imagesBuzz Rating: 8/10 The Good: “Zodiac may be the perfect meeting of filmmaker and subject – an obsessive’s portrait of obsession that is, finally, a monument to irresolution....
The Onion: Chuck Berry Remembers Call From Enchantment Under The Sea Dance By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2008 12:27 pm EST The Onion is on a roll recently with movie related news stories. First we had news that the Iron Man Movie Trailer was to be Adapted Into a Feature-Length Film, and now news that Chuck Berry Remembers the infamous call from his Cousin About a White Kid Playing Johnny B. Goode....
This Week In DVD: Burn After Reading, Hamlet 2, Death Race, American Teen By Adam Quigley/Dec. 23, 2008 12:41 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Please don’t take the commentary on the movies and TV shows too seriously, as they’re meant not to be reviews but rather previews that include the general thoughts and ramblings of a twice-committed DVD addict. The categories represent solely the author’s intentions towards the DVDs at hand, and are in no way meant to be a reflection on what he thinks other people should rent or buy....
Thor And The Avengers Round-Up: Cameos, Costumes, Controversy And More By Brendon Connelly/March 31, 2010 4:26 am EST Thanks to those ever-dependable news-n-rumour goldmines, the premiere red carpet and good ol’ Twitter, we’ve got a tidy little pile of Thor and The Avengers business to get through. Let’s get on with it. Nugget one. Thor’s rumoured cameo in Iron Man 2 may have been confirmed. We already showed a screen capture from an online featurette that appears to show Chris Hemsworth as the mighty hammer man, holed up in a humble Earth prison....
Universal Soldier: Regeneration Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 23, 2009 12:20 pm EST Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released a trailer for the upcoming Jean-Claude Van Damme / Dolph Lundgren movie Universal Soldier: Regeneration. With stolen top-secret technology, terrorists have created a next-generation Universal Soldier – an elite fighter genetically altered into a programmable killing machine. With this “UniSol” (Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Andrei “The Pit Bull” Arlovski) leading the way, they seize the crippled Chernobyl nuclear reactor, threatening to unleash a lethal radioactive cloud....
VOTD: Iron Man Movie Trailer Sweeded Using Action Figures By Peter Sciretta/May 1, 2008 12:00 am EST [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/ironmansweeded.flv 460 344] Iron Man Sweeded with Action Figures created by COL321The Pitch: A sweeded version of the Iron Man movie trailer created using action figures.Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. VOTD: Iron Man Movie Trailer Sweeded Using Action Figures...
VOTD: WALL-E On The Simpsons By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2008 12:00 am EST Pixar’s cute little robot WALL-E made an appearance in Homer’s post-apocalyptic nightmare on this week’s episode of The Simpsons. I too, have never dreamed that the future can be scary. Thanks to /Film reader Harry F for the tip. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....
