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Gore Verbinski Developing A Movie About A Real Life Wife And Her Husband’s Online Wife By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2008 12:24 am EST Universal and Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski have acquired the rights to a 2007 Wall Street Journal article about the real life effects of a virtual addiction. Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight has been hired to pen a screenplay based on Alexandra Alter’s article, which is titled “Is This Man Cheating on His Wife”....

Indiana Jones 4 Poster Revealed At Comic-Con By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2007 1:28 am EST I was surprised to find that Paramount are handing out Indiana Jones 4 teaser posters on the show floor of Comic-Con 2007. I grabbed one on my journey through the massively crowded and exhausting preview night. The new poster is a collage of past character paintings of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. The bottom reads Memorial Day 2008 in the classic Indy font we’ve grown to love....

Kirsten Dunst Says She’s “In” For Spider-Man 4 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 30, 2008 12:05 am EST When MTV asked Kirsten Dunst if she would be returning for Spider-Man 4, the actress responded “I’m in.” Which sounds like a done deal if you ask me. But when pressed if she officially signed on to return, the actress changed her tone, “I’m not saying anything, I know there’s rumors…” This is certainly a change in tone from last year when Dunst was expressing disinterest in returning for more sequels, insisting she wouldn’t even consider the possibility if Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire weren’t involved....

LOL: What If Lars Von Trier Directed Tourism Ads? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 23, 2010 11:14 am EST Gotta love the Onion. The paper/website is justly revered for comic ’news’ articles that satirize every aspect of popular culture. But the video feed from the Onion News Network has become just as sharp as the print output. Take this piece, which purports to be a report on a series of ads directed by Lars Von Trier for the purpose of advertising the tourist attractions of Denmark....

Michael Chabon’s Unused Script For Spider-Man 2 Goes Online (Grab It Quick) By Hunter Stephenson/April 11, 2008 10:46 am EST For those who thought my asinine TWBB rant was insanely lowbrow, here’s a bit of high brow genre fare to level out the horror. Toasted author Michael Chabon’s unused screenplay for Spider-Man 2 is now online over at McSweeney’s as a PDF. Grab it here, and do so quick because the site says it will only be up for a short duration....

New Cloverfield Video Revealed; Viral Contest Launched By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 13, 2007 4:41 pm EST Thanks to Dennis at CloverfieldClues for passing this on.

New Moon Director Chris Weitz Taking On The Gardener, Not Retiring, Bad Mouths New Line For Golden Compass By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 23, 2009 12:21 am EST With New Moon ruling the box office this weekend, director Chris Weitz must be glad to put the failure of The Golden Compass behind him. In fact, he admitted as much in Variety’s announcement of his next project, The Gardener. He didn’t hold back at all on trash talking New Line, just check out some of the quotes after the break....

New Transformers TV Spot By Peter Sciretta/May 17, 2007 12:19 am EST The following new Transformers television advertisement aired during Fox’s American Idol. It features a bunch of never before seen big f’n robot action. The new theatrical trailer is set to go online at 1:10pm eastern time today, if you’re reading this after that time – it’s probably your best bet to go watch that instead. But in the mean time, check out the new tv spot after the jump....

New Valkyrie Photos By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2008 12:47 am EST Filmz.ru has found a batch of new photos from Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie. Yes, the movie where Tom Cruise plays a Nazi Colonel who attempts to assassinate Hitler. Trust me, after the world sees Cruise’s hillarious appearance in Topic Thunder, I’m convinced everyone might forget about all the weirdness. Valkyrie is scheduled to hit theaters on February 13th 2009. New Valkyrie Photos...

One Of The Most Marketable Films Of Sundance 2009 Remains Unsold By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2009 12:46 am EST Mystery Team is a sketch comedy film which transcends the genre, features no huge stars (although, Aubrey Plaza is going to be HUGE), but has more laughs than 99% of Hollywood comedies, and a better concept to boot (you can read my full review here). At its worst, Mystery Team could easily be the next Super Troopers, and its very best, if marketed well, it has the potential to reach Napoleon Dynamite-like numbers....

Repo Men Red Band Trailer And Poster: This Ain’t Alex Cox’s Vision Of The Repo Life By Russ Fischer/Dec. 23, 2009 1:05 pm EST Repo Men is the film once called Reposession Mambo, which has been sitting on the shelf at Universal for a while. The movie has nothing to do with the Alex Cox classic Repo Man. Instead it tells of a near future when human life spans have been greatly extended by expensive artificial organs created by a company called The Union....

Spider-Man 4 Will Happen, With Or WITHOUT Raimi, Maguire Or Dunst By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2007 5:55 am EST Sometimes I really don’t understand the internet. One of the big stories going around the web this week was Sam Raimi confirming a Spider-Man 4, 5 and 6. I really don’t understand how this is news considering Sony optioned six films way back when (when exactly I’m not sure, but I’ve found articles stating this all the way back in 2004)....

Sundance Movie Review: Baghead By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 23, 2008 4:32 pm EST People complain that Sundance has sold out. That every film in the festival features a big name movie star or a returning filmmaker. And for the most part, that might be true. But I don’t think Sundance has sold out, at least not in the film selection. I think Independent cinema has changed into an altogether different beast. And maybe in ten years the YouTube generation might penetrate and create a whole new independent revolution, but until then, it’s become what it now is....

Super Bowl Sneak Preview: Year One By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2009 5:39 pm EST Columbia Pictures has released a sneak preview of the upcoming Judd Apatow-produced biblical comedy Year One. The film stars Jack Black and Michael Cera, as a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers who are banished from their primitive village, and set off on an epic journey through the ancient world. Directed by National Lampoon’s Vacation and Groundhog Day helmer Harold Ramis, and written by Office scribes Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg (you know, the guys working on the new Ghostbusters script)....

The Buzz: Critics And Moviegoers Love Transformers By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2007 2:30 pm EST The Cream of the Crop film critics on Rotten Tomatoes have deemed Transformers fresh with a shockingly high 80% rating. The less important movie reviewers have given Michael Bay’s latest a less favorable 63% rating, which is still considered “fresh” any way you look at it. The Internet Movie Database users (over 5,500 at the time of this report) have voted the movie extremely highly at an 8....

The Buzz: Wild Hogs Is Witless And Hard To Stomach By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2007 6:26 pm EST Wild Hogs Director: Walt BeckerStarring: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray Liotta, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Durand, and M.C. GaineyRunning Time: 99 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content, and some violenceBuzz Rating: 3 out of 10 The Good: “With its clever premise and quartet of appealing comedic star turns, Wild Hogs is a step above the typical comedies rolling off the assembly lines of the major studios....

The Goonies 2? The Lost Boys 3? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2008 8:35 am EST There have been many rumors over the years, and supposedly a script that fell into development hell, but as Hollywood continues to search for my recycled ideas, The Goonies never say die. Moviehole is reporting that Warner Bros is planning a big screen theatrical tent-pole movie release. There are supposedly writers aboard the project, however we have no idea who....

The Karate Kid Gets A New Screenwriter By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2009 10:17 pm EST Earlier this month when Academy Award-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson was cast in Columbia Pictures’ reimagining of The Karate Kid, we asked you if she brought any credibility to the project. Tonight it has been revealed that a new screenwriter has been hired for the Will Smith-produced reboot. Who is the new scribe? Steven Conrad, whose credits include Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, The Weather Man, The Pursuit of Happyness and the underrated comedy The Promotion....

The Wachowski Brothers Rework The Invasion By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2007 2:41 am EST We previously reported that The Wachowski Brothers were brought in to work on some reshoot material for the upcoming BodysnatchesThe Invasion remake . Well apparently there is MUCH much more to this story. Our friends over at Collider claim that the Brothers were brought in to rewrite over 70% of the movie. Here is what happened....

Todd McFarlane In Talks To Make A New Spawn Movie By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2009 1:00 am EST It’s been a week of reboot news, and tonight is no different. Comic book artist/writer turned entrepreneur Todd McFarlane tells IESB that he’s got “five offers on the table” for a new Spawn movie, ranging from big studio to smaller scale. Todd says that he’s leaning towards the latter, which would “keep it down, keep it dark, keep it grungy”, comparing his idea to “The Departed with something moving in the shadows....