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Ben Affleck And Matt Damon Write Second Screenplay By Peter Sciretta/July 5, 2007 1:41 pm EST Good News: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are hard at work on their next screenplay. As you may remember, the Boston boys broke onto the mainstream scene with Good Will Hunting (one of my all time favorite films). Hunting won the boys an Academy Award for best original screenplau, although not without controversy.US Magazine reports thatDamon and Affleck “have spent two weeks getting their creative juices flowing in a $13,000-a-week house in Kauai, Hawaii....

Brian Blessed Cast As Odin In Thor By Brendon Connelly/June 2, 2009 7:00 am EST According to Rich Johnston’s new site Bleeding Cool, Brian Blessed has been cast as Odin, All-Father of Valhalla in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor. Frankly, I’m very happy with this news. The only way I could be happier is if somebody could get me confirmation that Blessed would record a commentary track for the film – the one he did for Flash Gordon is a real favorite in my household....

By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2008 12:23 am EST No, seriously… Not only can you watch Ice Age on /Film, but Lionsgate, Fox, and Universal have launched a new website hulu.com where you can watch 75 feature length films online. Sure, they have limited commercial interruption, but it’s legal and free. Some of the movies you can even stream in 480p. But it just has a bunch of crappy movies right? Okay, for the most part, the quality of the film selections is not that great, but some of the better choices include: Hulu also offers full-length feature films like The Usual Suspects, Ice Age, Three Amigos!...

Contest: Tutankhamun And The Golden Age Of The Pharaohs By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2007 1:46 am EST Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs hit DVD store shelves on July 10th, 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 August 9th we will e-mail the winners with the best answers. More information on the release can be found after the jump....

Cool Marketing: Spike TV’s Star Wars Advertisements By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2008 1:38 pm EST Just found this absolutely brilliant Spike TV Star Wars Advertisement featuring Darth Vader (apparently Spike TV will be airing the Star Wars saga starting April 4th). I’ve updated this story below with official photos of the other two advertisements featuring Chewbacca and Darth Maul. via: scaryideas, StarWars.com Cool Marketing: Spike TV’s Star Wars Advertisements By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2008 1:38 pm EST...

Cool Stuff: Blade Runner Anime By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2009 6:00 am EST 35-year-old Atlanta artist Mark Brooks (self portrait to the right) wanted to know what Blade Runner would have looked like if it were an anime, so he created this piece just for fun. Drawn in ink on bristol board, the background was done in pencil, and the whole piece was colored on a computer in Photoshop 5.5....

Cool Stuff: LOST-Themed Polar Beer T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 5, 2009 9:32 pm EST Teefury has an awesome LOST-themed t-shirt as today’s t-shirt of the day. Ian Leino’s scratchboard style Polar Beer t-shirt design features the logo for a fictional beer of the same name, with a couple clever taglines “a CONSTANT favorite”, “From the ARTIC to the ISLAND” and “Down The HATCH”. And of course there are the more obvious references, including the necklace around the bear’s neck and the dharma logo....

Cool Stuff: X-Wing And Millenium Falcon Made From Paris Metro Tix By Hunter Stephenson/March 11, 2009 3:00 am EST There’s nothing like turning the detritus of public transportation into an unmistakable warcraft symbolizing galactic sovereignty. A few years ago, a Parisian geek going by Hubert posted exquisite step-by-step instructions for turning metro cards into an X-Wing (above) or Han Solo’s Millienium Falcon (below, complete with show-offy display stand; k, you’re the badass of badasses)....

Cronenberg And Mortenson Reteaming For Eastern Promises Sequel By Brendon Connelly/March 30, 2009 2:55 pm EST MTV have had a chat with David Cronenberg and gotten the good stuff on his plans for an Eastern Promises sequel. You may recall the end of the first film, or you may not – to reveal it here would be a spoiler, so I’ve tucked it under the crease with – but you probably weren’t expecting a sequel either way....

DVD Review: Hatchet By Elaine Mak/Dec. 21, 2007 12:03 am EST Hatchet, directed by Adam Green, is a disturbingly funny horror film about a group of tourists in New Orleans who end up on a haunted swamp tour. After their weird tour guide sinks their wimpy boat in gator infested waters, they are forced to wander the woods in search of civilization. In the dark and rainy forest, the tourists encounter Victor Crowley, a vengeful deformed maniac who calls the swamp home, setting out to kill anyone who dares venture on his land....

First Look: Disney’s The Princess And The Frog By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 14, 2008 11:08 am EST Walt Disney Pictures has revealed the first official image from The Princess and the Frog. Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls) stars as Maddy, Disney’s first black princess. The Princess and the Frog is the first hand-drawn film Disney has committed to since the Pixar purchase. Watching the opening to Enchanted got me excited for a return of 2D animation....

By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2007 4:14 am EST Is the world ready for a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still? Well they better get ready. Box Office Mojo is reporting that the film will hit theaters on May 9th 2008. Our friends at FirstShowing.net have confirmed the date with Fox, so it is happening. The original 1951 Robert Wise film was considered one of the best Science Fiction films of all time (#7 on Arthur C Clarke’s List) and was debated for it’s religious symbolism and many interpretations....

How To Train Your Dragon Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2009 12:51 pm EST Dreamworks Animation has released the first movie trailer for Chris Sander’s How to Train Your Dragon. For those of you who don’t reccognize the name, Sanders directed Lilo & Stitch, and the unfinished American Dog (which was the initial development for what became Bolt). Sanders is now making a home for himself over at Dreamworks Animation, and you can certainly see the Dreamworks influence....

James Cameron Tells Peter Jackson He Would Rather Use CG Instead Of Building Titanic’s Set Today By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 22, 2009 12:50 am EST His full quote, after the break. The quote comes amid a bigger discussion of using makeup and digital effects to alter actor’s ages. And while I’m sure that it will instantly get people readying their pitchforks, I honestly can’t blame Cameron for saying it. The Titanic shoot was a harrowing ordeal, to say the least....

Kick-Ass Interviews: Matthew Vaughn And Jane Goldman By Brendon Connelly/March 31, 2010 4:32 am EST After the break you’ll find my interviews with Matthew Vaughn, director and co-writer of Kick-Ass, and Jane Goldman, his collaborator in adapting Mark Millar’s original comic books into a movie screenplay. The interviews are spoiler free, though we do talk around a few key plot points. As well as talking Kick-Ass, Matthew confirms that he’s planning another movie with Mark Millar and Jane tells us just a little about other upcoming films that she has scripted....

License To Wed Movie Poster And Production Photos By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2007 4:36 pm EST I love Mandy Moore, but what has happened to her film career as of late? She had a great run of teen films. She even elevated to some really interesting issue based comedies (Saved! and American Dreamz). Her latest effort, Because I Said So, was unwatchable. It was marketed towards the teen/college crowd, but in reality the film was for the Over-40 woman demographic....

Madoff Wistleblower’s Story To Get Hollywood Adaptation? By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2010 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. His book titled No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller, chronicles the story hits stores today. In NY Times’ Sunday Magazine, Markopolos revealed that Hollywood is very interested in turning the movie into a feature film. According to Markopolos, “All the major studios. Sony, Paramount, Tom Hanks, you name it” have contacted him about the rights to his story....

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 15, 2010 2:05 pm EST Netflix recently released data to the New York Times showing the top rentals of 2009 by various zip codes. The paper plotted a set of the rentals on maps showing twelve American metro areas. Maps of each area are shaded to represent how frequently a film was rented in that area, and the results often seem, sadly, to be as predictable as you’d expect....

New Blockbuster Advertising Slams Netflix/Redbox By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2010 6:00 pm EST /Film reader Dan A just sent over this snap of a sign he spotted outside of his local Blockbuster video store. Looks like Blockbuster is becoming more desperate — the rental company has already reinstituted late fees and is staring bankruptcy in the eye. With a downshift in DVD revenue, Hollywood believes low-cost rental services like Redbox have cost the industry over $1 billion so far....

New Casting For Gus Van Sant’s Next, Which Is No Longer Called Restless By Russ Fischer/Nov. 13, 2009 7:46 am EST Gus Van Sant’s next film, which was called Restless until recently, has been sounding very interesting. It already stars Mia Wasikowska in a “complex tale of a teenage boy and girl who share a preoccupation with mortality.” The film may not currently have a title (Restless wasn’t the best name for this movie, anyway) but it does have a lot of new cast members, a couple of which bear very familiar names....