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Paul Bettany And Jennifer Connelly To Star In Film Based On Darwin’s Life By David Chen/Sept. 4, 2008 1:12 pm EST Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly are set to star in Creation, a film based on the life of On the Origin of Species author Charles Darwin. Bettany will play Darwin and Connelly will play his wife and cousin, Emma; the film will explore the relationship between the two as Darwin’s beliefs began to cause friction with Emma’s Anglicanism....

ShoWest Standees: Toy Story 3, A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Karate Kid, And Kick-Ass By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2010 4:00 am EST At ShoWest, there are a lot of standees fr upcoming movies on display, some of which have not ever been seen before, and others that were made specifically for the show. I’ve included a small collection of photos of some of the standees I found more interesting, or had not yet been featured online....

Slingers Sizzle Reel: A Massively Stylish ’60s Heist Movie, In Space, On TV By Russ Fischer/Dec. 4, 2009 2:05 pm EST I’m sure someone else has thought of setting a 1960’s style heist story in the ’60s of the future — the 2260s, say — but I’m not sure anyone has done it with this much raw style. What we’ve got here is the sizzle reel for a proposed TV show called Slingers, the pilot for which hopes to shoot next year....

Speed Racer To Be G-Rated? By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2007 12:09 pm EST Okay, we knew when The Wachowski Brothers were interested in make a family film, but we didn’t expect this. According to producer Joel Silver, the big screen adaptation of Speed Racer is being targeted for a G-Rating! How can they have any exciting car sequences at that level? Doesn’t intense action fall under PG? How can a car chase sequence be exciting without the threat of injury or violence?...

Spike Jonze-Directed Softbank Commercial Starring Brad Pitt By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2009 11:59 am EST Spike Jonze has directed a new commercial for the Japanese company Softbank, starring Brad Pitt as the personal assistant of a Sumo wrestler. From what I recall, the spot was shot in the Sirius/XM building in New York City. The tv advertisement won’t be airing in America, but you can watch the international television spot embedded after the jump....

The Looking Glass War Concept Art By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 20, 2009 9:07 am EST After concept work on Battlefield Earth, Red Planet, two Star Wars prequels and The Astronauts Wife, poor old Stephan Martiniere sure could use a break. Okay, that’s not entirely fair – he also got to contribue to I, Robot which ended up being quite a clever film, at least in terms of it’s imagery. One of his assignments appears to be character designs for a film of The Looking Glass War, the Frank Beddor Alice in Wonderland spin off that Charles Roven is currently shepherding towards the big screen....

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Destroys Harry Potter And Dark Knight At Midnight Box Office By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2009 1:00 pm EST Summit Entertainment has announced that The Twilight Saga: New Moon has broken box office records, earning over $26.27 million in midnight screenings from 3,514 theaters. This destroys the $22.2 million midnight record held by Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince, and the previous second place, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight, which earned $18....

The Wackness Official Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 9, 2008 1:52 pm EST Sony Pictures Classics has released a new trailer for one of my favorite films of the year – The Wackness. They’re calling it the “official trailer”, and I actually like it much more than the the previously released teasers. It plays equal attention the relationships between Peck, Thirlby, and Kingsley, the 1990’s nostalgia, and the incredible soundtrack. I could have done without the Mary-Kate Olsen button at the end, but I understand she might be a selling point....

TRON 2 Plot Confirmed By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2009 9:49 am EST Walt Disney Studios has finally revealed a short plot synopsis for Joseph Kosinski’s sequel to Tron, a film almost 30 years in the making. TRON (title not final) (In Disney Digital 3D™)TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years....

Video Blog: Summer Movie Preview Part 2 - June 2009 By Peter Sciretta/March 24, 2009 9:29 pm EST Steve from Collider is a good friend of mine. At least a few times a week we talk about upcoming movies, TV shows, what gossip each of us have heard, and anything else we might find exciting. Since a number of our conversations cover things you also might find interesting, we’ve decided to start recording certain conversations as video blogs....

VOTD: Harry Potter Vs. Voldemort Rap Battle By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2009 9:00 pm EST A Harry Potter musical is inevitable. But what about a Harry Potter rap battle? Indy Mogul brings us a rap battle between “the chosen one” Harry Potter and the evil dark lord Voldemort. And the best part is that it ends just like it would in the real Potter-verse. Watch the whole clip after the jump....

Angels & Demons Video Clip #1: “Fellas, You Called Me” By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2009 10:56 am EST Sony Pictures has released a video clip from Ron Howard’s Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons. Robert Langdon, played again by Tom Hanks, attempts to convince the Vatican to let him in to the achieves in order to stop the Illuminati. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/angelsanddemonsclip1.flv 470 200] Watch the clip in High Definition on Apple....

Big Fan Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2009 3:37 pm EST One of the most anticipated films of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival was Big Fan, the feature directorial debut of Robert Siegel, screenwriter of Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler and former editor of The Onion . The film was met to mixed reviews, not because its a bad movie, but because most everyone I talked to walked into the screening expecting something else entirely....

Brad Bird To Direct A Live Action Film (1906?) By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 21, 2007 4:50 am EST Brad Bird has revealed that his next film will be live action. The Academy Award winning director of The Incredibles and The Iron Giant has plans to make a live-action feature film. Our sources say it could be the long rumored 1906. Based on the novel by James Dalessandro, which is a fictionalized account of the famous 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco....

Cool Stuff: Alien And This Is Spinal Tap Posters By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2009 12:00 am EST The Alamo Drafthouse has upcoming screenings of Alien and This is Spinal Tap, which means they’ve commissioned some artists to create some cool limited edition poster prints. The ALIEN poster by Australian artist Ken Taylor shows a batch of Alien eggs. Hand numbered and printed on 24"x36" paper at D&L Screen Printing, available for $30 on Mondo Tees....

Doug Liman To Direct Attica By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2010 5:04 pm EST Doug Liman (Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and the upcoming Valerie Plame spy drama Fair Game) will direct Attica, an insider’s view of the 1971 four-day Attica state prison rebellion from a screenplay written by Geoffrey Fletcher, the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of Precious. It is definitely a powerful subject, which is deserving of a big screen adaptation....

Family Guy Movie Coming Soon? By Brendon Connelly/May 5, 2009 7:00 pm EST So here’s McFarlane on the Family Guy movie: Inevitable, really, I suppose. There have been feature length Family Guy DVDs before, but to the best of my knowledge they were effectively multiple episodes stitched together, as with the Futurama releases of the last twelve months or so. Personally, I’m with Cartoon Brew’s Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi on the subject of Family Guy and Seth McFarlane’s other TV shows – basically, that they’re utterly dreadful and that culture would be better served by broadcasting white noise in their place – but I do know they have their fans....

Geek Deal: Blade Runner 5-Disc Blu-Ray For $14 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2010 2:00 pm EST Deep Discount is selling the 5-Disc Blu-Ray Complete Collector’s Edition of Blade Runner for only $13.99 (with free shipping), $26 off the $40 suggested retail price. Geek Deal: Blade Runner 5-Disc Blu-Ray For $14 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2010 2:00 pm EST Deep Discount is selling the 5-Disc Blu-Ray Complete Collector’s Edition of Blade Runner for only $13....

Is Pixar Working On A Movie About A Boy And His Dinosaur? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 27, 2009 11:00 am EST Could Pixar be working on a film about a boy and his dinosaur? If you take a look behind Pixar sculptor Greg Dykstra, you will notice concept drawings and photos on his office wall showing a dinosaur and a boy. Could this be a design for an upcoming Pixar feature or short film?...

Jason Segel And Ed Helms Join Duplass Brothers’ Stoner Comedy Jeff Who Lives At Home By Peter Sciretta/March 11, 2010 12:03 am EST The film has been described as a Sword in the Stone-style quest movie about a stoner’s search for some wood glue. The story takes place over the course of one day, and follows two brothers, “one a loser who lives at home” (Segel) and the other “more together but overbearing” (Helms)....