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VOTD: The Onion’s Historic Blockbuster Store Tour By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2008 12:00 am EST Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past by The Onion The Pitch: The Blockbuster Video Living Museum offers tourists a glimpse of how Americans rented movies before the advent of services like Netflix and iTunes.Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD?...

Addictive TV’s Slumdog Millionaire Remix By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2009 1:46 pm EST It’s a slow news day, so I’m brining you whatever interesting content we can dig up. Impressed by Addictive TV’s remix work for the major Hollywood studios, Slumdog Millionaire’s producers and director Danny Boyle asked the team to create an alternative web trailer for “Slumdog Millionaire”, by sampling sounds and images from the film and producing something entirely new made from only those audiovisual samples....

Bruno Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2009 11:34 am EST Universal has released the first movie trailer for Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow-up to Borat. And guess what, it’s an international red band movie trailer. I’m at ShoWest and on the run, so don’t have much time to write up my first impressions, but thought I’d pass along this trailer before I have to run off. Watch the trailer after the jump and leave your thoughts in the comments below....

Casting News: Sarah Palin Lookalike Needed In Los Angeles By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 2, 2008 4:06 pm EST Hey readers, a “major adult studio” is in need of a Sarah Palin lookalike in the L.A. area to star in a new skin flick. A title and plot for the flick were not revealed. Maybe you can suggest some below? The pay is not bad—$2,000-$3,000 for 10 days of work—and apparently no knowledge is needed in the areas of foreign relations and policies, geography, newspaper-citing, and witch craft....

Contest: Dynamite Warrior And Yo-Yo Girl Cop On DVD By Peter Sciretta/July 25, 2007 12:55 am EST Dynamite Warrior and Yo-Yo Girl Cop hit DVD store shelves on July 24th, and we have a copy of each for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On August 1st we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....

Contest: Until Death On DVD By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2007 12:42 am EST Until Death hits DVD store shelves on April 24th, and we have a copy for one lucky /Film reader. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On April 25th we will e-mail the winner with the best answer. More information on the release can be found after the jump....

Cool Stuff: Evolution Of The AT-AT T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2008 4:00 am EST Ever wondered what the AT- AT would look like over the course of several million years of evolution? Me neither. However, James Lillis has done a detailed evolutionary biological projection just in case, and has released the results in t-shirt form. Available in 21 different colors for $25.94 on RedBubble.com. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm....

Cool Stuff: The Dialogue Series - “Like Inside The Actors Studio For Screenwriters” By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2010 2:00 pm EST Last month I received an e-mail from a friend informing me about a screenwriter-focused interview series called The Dialogue. The 70-90 minute long-form interview series features interviews conducted/hosted by Mike De Luca (former president of production at DreamWorks Pictures and New Line Cinema, where he produced American History X, Magnolia, Boogie Nights) and Jay Fernandez, and feauring interviews with some of the most interesting screenwriters today, including:...

Frank Darabont Talks Fahrenheit 451 By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2009 9:02 pm EST Frank Darabont has wanted to film Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 for quite a long time. He’s talked about it a lot more recently as the project he wants to do next. Now he tells SciFiWire that it’s basically at the make or break point, and it all comes down to one thing: casting. “Fahrenheit is the thing I’m trying to get up next, which is casting-dependent, so it’s one of those,” Darabont said....

Happy Birthday: /Film Turns Two By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2007 12:26 am EST On August 23rd 2005, slashfilm.com launched with a posting by Zach Lawrence, chronicling his Top 10 Movies of All Time. 5,631 posts later, /Film has become one of the premiere movie news sites on the internet. It’s been a crazy two years. We’ve been to Sundance, Comic-Con, Tribeca, and next month we’ll be going to Toronto. (not to bore you, you can read more about /Film’s History elsewhere)...

How To Train Your Dragon: “Dragon Training” Featurettes By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2010 6:00 am EST Dreamworks Animation has released a bunch of viral featurettes for How to Train Your Dragon, showing lessons that can be learned while training the different species of dragons from the film. The animation and creature/set design in these videos don’t impress me at all. For me some of the footage approaches would I might expect from a next generation video game....

IMDB Finally Releases An iPhone Application By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 9, 2009 11:16 pm EST It’s always seemed strange to me that such a useful website like IMDB can be so completely clueless when it comes to mobile devices. IMDB has no mobile viewing option, so smartphone users need to navigate through the large version of the site to perform a simple search. Couple that with the fact that they’ve ignored mobile applications for so long, and it’s almost as if they think mobile computing is just a passing fad....

James Cameron Is The First Director To Have Two $1 Billion Films: Avatar Passes $1 Billion Worldwide In Just 17 Days By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2010 12:33 pm EST Cameron’s sci-fi epic made an estimated $68.3 million in the States during it’s third weekend out, destroying the previous record of $45 million set by Spider-Man 3. Looks like this baby has legs. If that wasn’t enough, Avatar is also setting records in Janaury: This weekend’s box office total of $68....

Karyn Kusama To Direct Diablo Cody’s Jennifer’s Body By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2008 4:09 pm EST Jennifer’s Body begins shooting in March 2008. No release date has been announced.

Movie Review: Ocean’s 13 By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2007 9:13 am EST Ocean’s Eleven was a fun, slick, stylized star-filled popcorn vegas bank heist flick. Even my father enjoyed the film (although he said he liked the original Sinatra film better). And truth be told, it’s hard to put this many charismatic actors on the screen and not incite magic. The sequel failed in almost every way. Sure, the stars were back, but gone was the stylized crazy story that made the first film so much fun....

New Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer International Banner By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2007 1:35 pm EST This new outside banner for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer has been posted on the international website for the film. The Torch/Silver Surfer battle/chase sequence seems to be what everyone who has seen the trailer is most taken with. If you ask me, they should also promote the film with this banner in the states....

New Hitman Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2007 10:10 am EST In June, we posted the teaser trailer the big screen adaptation of the hit video game Hitman. I complained that it failed to impress me, and got almost 70 comments in agreement. The new trailer, which can be seen after the jump, impresses me a little more. The cinematography looks pretty impressive, but not much else. I thought the whole point in the game was to be sneaky, and remain quiet and undetected?...

Photos: Behind The Scenes Of Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2007 1:37 pm EST Warner Bros sent over some new Behind the Scenes photos from Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix. Check them out below. As always, you can click on the photos to see a higher resolution image.  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will hit theaters on July 13th 2007....

Retro Movie Trailer: Steven Speilberg’s Jaws By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2007 9:07 pm EST We’ve decided to introduce a new feature here on /Film where we open the vault and bring back some of the great (and even not so great) movie trailers from the past. We have decided to start with one of our favorites, the trailer for the film that made you afraid to go into the water, Steven Speilberg’s Jaws....

Roman Polanski Given Bail In Switzerland By Russ Fischer/Nov. 25, 2009 1:20 pm EST It’s only been a couple weeks since we reported on the slow-boiling case of former fugitive director Roman Polanski, but there’s a bit of significant news today. After he has stewed in jail for almost two months (doesn’t seem like much, after having decades of freedom) Swiss courts have finally granted bail to Polanski. $4.5m is what will see him transferred from jail to house arrest in his Swiss chalet....