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The Thing Prequel Begins Shooting In March By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 3, 2010 8:50 pm EST Production Weekly is reporting that Universal Pictures’ prequel to John Carpenter’s cult classic thriller The Thing, will begin shooing in Toronto this March, and will continue until June. The screenplay, which was written by Ronald D. Moore, and rewritten by Eric Heisserer, tells the story of a shape-shifting alien terrorizes researchers at a Norwegian Antarctic facility....

Update: Hogwarts Not Destroyed By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2010 11:42 am EST Over the weekend, news began to spread of a fire that broke out on the set of the latest Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, destroying a set from the wizarding school of Hogwarts. I have just returned to my London hotel from the very same set, at Leavesden Studios in Watford, UK — and while I’m not allowed to tell you anything about my visit until a much later date, the unit publicist issued a statement to clarify what had happened....

Video: Animatronic WALL-E Spotted In Philadelphia By Peter Sciretta/May 29, 2008 1:30 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/wallephilly.flv 400 226] Disney’s life-size fully animatronic WALL-E (which was spotted in LA last month) has now made an appearance at the Philadelphia Science Museum. /Film Reader Peetah sent over the following: The audio-animatronic Wall-E is apparently making the rounds to science museums and he did a stopover here in Philadelphia yesterday (publicity around these events is oddly absent there’s nothing on the web to my knowledge, although I did find out the next stop was the Newseum in Washington DC)....

Warner Bros Says “No More Female Lead Characters”?! By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 7, 2007 11:04 pm EST Update: Warner Bros Denies Comments Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new rule that “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead”, according to DeadlineHollywood. Apparently, Robinov won’t even look at a script with a female lead. And why has Robinov come around to this new way (Neanderthal, so rather old way) of thinking?...

Watchmen Comic Con Footage Now On iTunes By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2008 11:48 am EST Warner Bros has finally the Watchmen footage that was previewed at Comic Con in July. Actually, it appears to be a slightly modified version of the original footage, but who cares about technicalities. To watch the clip, click on the following link to be transfered to the Apple iTunes download page (Some International readers will have t wait until someone uploads the footage to YouTube or Vimeo)....

William Monahan To Direct The Art Of The Heist By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2009 1:25 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The official book description follows: From New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the Smithsonian Institution in D.C., to Boston’s Museum of Fine Art, to dozens of regional museums throughout the United States, no museum was off-limits to leg­endary art thief Myles Connor. He has used every technique in the book, from breaking and entering, to cat burglary, to false identities and elaborate con jobs....

9 Minutes Of John Woo’s Red Cliff By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2008 2:08 am EST Over the weekend a 9-minute Cannes promo reel for John Woo’s Red Cliff showed up online. The 4-hour 2-episode $80 million epic adaptation of The Battle of Red Cliffs is the biggest budget Chinese film ever to be greenlit. Red Cliff stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Lin Chi-ling and Zhao Wei....

An Inglourious Basterds Prequel Is More Likely Than We Thought By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2009 12:48 pm EST A couple months ago, Quentin Tarantino told the New York Times that he had a half-written prequel to Inglourious Basterds that he’d like to make if the first does well. This didn’t come as much of a surprise; if there’s one thing Tarantino likes to do, it’s mention follow-up projects to whatever he’s currently promoting....

Blair Witch Remake Is Probably Not What It Seems By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 23, 2009 12:50 pm EST A casting notice for a film called The Blair Witch Remake would seem to suggest, obviously enough, that The Blair Witch Project is being remade, but a close look at the circumstances raises a few questions. The characters listed are Dennis Hither, Michael Adams, Donald Walker and Allison James as opposed to Heather Donahue, Josh Leonard and Mike Williams....

Cold Souls Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2009 10:58 pm EST In the surreal comedy, Cold Souls, Paul Giamatti plays an actor named… Paul Giamatti. Stumbling upon an article in The New Yorker about a high-tech company that extracts, deep-freezes and stores people’s souls, Paul very well might have found the key to happiness for which he’s been searching. But, complications arise when he is the unfortunate victim of “soul-trafficking....

Contest: Police Story 2 On DVD By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2007 2:47 am EST Police Story 2 hit DVD store shelves on February 13th, and we have a copy of Police Story 2 for three lucky /Film readers. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should get this DVD. On February 20th we will e-mail the winners with the best answers. More information on the releases can be found after the jump....

Cool Stuff: Holographic Water Monster Invades Japan By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2008 4:03 pm EST Move over Cloverfield Monster. Godzilla beware, a new monster is running amuck in Japan. Don’t worry, it’s only one of the coolest movie promotions of recent years. Columbia TriStar created this super-cool water-hologram to promote the release of The Water Horse. The hologram illusion uses a water screen created by a exact light projected on a carefully sprayed water jet to create a giant pseudo-3-D Loch Ness “Water Horse” monster in Tokyo Bay....

Cool Stuff: Save The Clock Tower T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2008 3:19 am EST Save the Clock Tower! Mayor Wilson is sponsoring an initiative to repair that clock. We at the Hill Valley Preservation Society think it should be preserved exactly the way it is. 30 Years ago, lightning struck that clock tower, and the clock hasn’t run since… SnorgTees has joined the cause and is selling Save the Clock Tower t-shirts for only $16....

Crystal Skull Stolen In California By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2008 11:33 pm EST A large crystal skull, the real life basis for the upcoming Indiana Jones film, was stolen from a Southern California-based New Age store. The 500-year-old skull was on loan at Kindred Spirits in Claremont for about the last four months before it went missing about two weeks ago. Hundreds of crystal skulls are believed to be in existence, most of which experts dismiss as fakes made by antiquities traders in the 19th century....

Editors Blog: The Biggest Week Of The Summer, Kevin Smith, iPhone And Transformers Toys By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2007 12:53 pm EST The summer movie season is in full effect. I saw Live Free or Die Hard last night and loved it despite the many logic holes and ridiculous stunts (read my review here). Tonight I see License to Wed, which I don’t have much hope for (why does Mandy Moore keep picking the crappiest movies?...

Evan Almighty Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 30, 2007 12:21 am EST The new movie trailer for Evan Almighty is now online. I wasn’t a fan of the first one but Steve Carell can work wonders and the new trailer shows promise. [flv:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/almighty.flv 450 330] Director Tom Shadyac’s follow-up to Bruce Almighty stars Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, John Michael Higgins, Jimmy Bennett, Wanda Sykes and Jonah Hill....

Fan Reorders Inception Trailer Footage, Speculates On Plot By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 3, 2010 11:44 pm EST And here I thought that I have been watching the Inception trailers a bit too much. Filmmaker Jerome G. Villarin has watched the trailers so much that he took it upon himself to re-edit the footage into something that makes more sense. He also proceeds to speculate on the plot, characters, and their motivations. Needless to say, I think he might be on to something....

First Look: Leonardo DiCaprio In Martin Scorsese’s Ashecliffe By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2008 2:43 am EST The Boston Herald has a first look at Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s Ashecliffe. The big screen adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel Shutter Island, which tells the story of a U.S. Marshal (DiCaprio) who travels to Shutter Island, a small island in Massachusetts’ Outer Harbor, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderous patient in the Summer of 1954....

By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2010 1:59 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The book tells the story of a seventeen-year-old boy named Finn, a descendant of the original prisoners, tries to escape an elaborate futuristic prison world. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, the 17th century, but run by computers....

Human Giant Want You To Join Them To Live Twitter Crank 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2009 10:51 am EST When Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, one critic live blogged his review from his cell phone in an attempt to be first. Thankfully this form of reviewing hasn’t really caught on (although, I do recall that one of the video blogs live blogging the new Street Fighter movie)....