Josh Brolin Might Not Be Jonah Hex By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 9, 2008 10:40 pm EST Last month the Jeff Wells reported that Josh Brolin was in talks to star in Neveldine/Taylor’s big screen adaptation of Jonah Hex. Apparently it isn’t a done deal yet. We hoped to talk to Brolin about the film while he was in town for the premiere of Milk, but our roundtable interview was instantly transformed into a press conference, and the opportunity disappeared....
Lonely Hearts Movie Poster, Movie Trailer And Stills By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2007 11:18 am EST Todd Robinson’s Lonely Hearts premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival to a good response, and hasn’t been heard from since. But now the movie will get a limited bow on April 13th 2007, and we have all the new marketing materials. The film stars John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto (before the weight gain), and Salma Hayek....
Michael Bay And Shia LaBeouf To Judge On The Lot By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2007 1:11 am EST
More Details On Rambo 5: The Savage Hunt. Creature Feature Based On The Sci-Fi Book Hunter By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 6, 2009 8:55 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The recent announcement that Rambo V: The Savage Hunt would venture into sci-fi received a surprisingly large and middling response from readers last Friday. More than a year ago, I speculated that the film might take on a similar vein to Predator, and based on a new, official plot synopsis over at AICN, that seems on the money....
Ninja Assassin Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2008 1:32 pm EST Warner Bros has released new details on The Wachowski Brothers-produced Ninja Assassin. As you probably already know, Ninja Assassin is directed by James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) from a screenplay by Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski. The film stars stars Korean pop star Rain (Speed Racer) as Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. “Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth....
Pixar’s Cars 2 NOT Pushed Back To December 2011 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 10, 2010 1:59 am EST Update: Disney says that the ComingSoon report is false and that the film will come out in Summer 2011 as originally scheduled. The Walt Disney Company revealed during their first quarter earnings call yesterday that Pixar’s Cars 2 has been pushed back to a December 2011 release. This si the third release date change for the Cars sequel....
Race To Witch Mountain Logo And Teaser Site Launched By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2008 1:53 pm EST Disney has launched an official teaser website for the reboot of Race to Witch Mountain. Our friend Mike was really surprised at the footage that premiered at Comic Con. I decided to skip the panel and apparently missed out, which is a shame since I loved the original Witch Mountain movies as a kid....
Robert Rodriguez Getting Ready To Go Back To The Future, Twice By Brendon Connelly/June 8, 2009 4:00 pm EST Robert Rodriguez is about to go back to the future – or, to borrow the spin from the Grindhouse publicity, go “back to back” to the future. Quite obviously, he’s not preparing a remake of Robert Zemeckis’ unparalleled time travel trilogy but instead, prepping a pair of future-bound movies of his own....
SAW 4: U.S. Movie Poster And Gruesome New Production Photo By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 15, 2007 12:38 pm EST Last month we published the international poster for SAW 4. The poster has now been Americanized. What does that mean? Bigger and more in your face. Above you will see the original international poster left, and the new U.S. poster right. Click on either image to enlarge. The official SAW website has also revealed a new image from the film....
Sexman Reviews Semi-Pro By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2008 12:35 pm EST After surviving Rambo, going head to head with Hayden Christensen, our favorite 12-year-old movie reviewer has returned to give a glowing review to Will Ferell’s Semi-Pro. Watch it now after the jump. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/sexmansemipro.flv 320 240] Sexman Reviews Semi-Pro By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2008 12:35 pm EST After surviving Rambo, going head to head with Hayden Christensen, our favorite 12-year-old movie reviewer has returned to give a glowing review to Will Ferell’s Semi-Pro....
Shawn Levy To Direct Robotic Boxing Movie Real Steel By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2009 11:00 pm EST The film tells the story of a father and his estranged teenage son who enter the world of robotic boxing. You see, in the future, human boxing has been outlawed, replaced with sports combat between human-trained heavy steel robots. The concept is something we’ve never seen before, and in the right hands, could be a good Summer tentpole film....
Shia LaBeouf’s Next Film To Be Dark Fields For Director Neil Burger By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 19, 2008 6:21 pm EST Director Neil Burger (The Illusionist) has confirmed to Coming Soon that he’ll begin shooting Dark Fields in NYC with Shia LaBeouf this winter, making it the next film for the actor after Transformers 2. The project sounds pretty cool and seems to be flying under the radar, so if you’re curious, let us point you to our report from April, in which we referred to it as Adderall: The Movie....
Son Of Rambow In April 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2007 3:26 pm EST Son of Rambow was probably the biggest hit of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, sparking a record bidding war, which ended with Paramount Vantage taking home the goods. The film was originally set to hit theaters on July 20th 2007, but was pushed back to an unknown 2008 date without reason. Many people speculated that the studio might have wanted to release the film closer to the release of Sylvester Stallone’s John Rambo....
Terry Gilliam Has His New Don Quixote; And The Winner Is… By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2009 12:29 pm EST Terry Gilliam’s film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has had such a troubled birth that it has become the stuff of cinema legend. The project, once the subject of the great documentary Lost in La Mancha, was famously beset by natural disasters and an incapacitated lead actor when Gilliam originally tried to shoot it in 2000....
Transformers: Revenge Of Stan Bush’s “The Touch” By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2009 9:28 pm EST Stan Bush’s 1986 song “The Touch” which was featured in the soundtrack for Transformers: The Movie, and later covered by Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights, is making a comeback thanks to the upcoming release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. According to Bush, “The Touch” will be featured on several of the toys for the new film and might even be featured in the movie itself....
VOTD: Why Buying Wolverine’s Mutant Powers Might Be A Bad Idea By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2009 9:56 pm EST If you could buy Mutant Powers, which powers would you choose? Greg and Lou have saved up for years to buy the powers of Wolverine. Problem is, Wolverine actually has two different mutant powers, and Greg and Lou have only saved up enough money for one ability. Watch the video below, and stick with it, it gets good about a minute and a half in....
/Film’s Writer Search Is Over By David Chen/May 11, 2009 10:14 am EST A few weeks ago, we published a job posting for a news writing position at /Film. The response we received exceeded our wildest expectations: We received over 200 applications for 1 single position! Many of you wrote about your love for /Film, your love of film in general, and your desire to write. We read every single one of your applications and we’re extremely grateful for your enthusiasm....
“Hi, I’m A Marvel.” “…and I’m A DC.” By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2007 7:26 pm EST There are far too many Mac vs. PC advertisement parodies on the internet, but we’ve actually found one that is quite funny. Some random guy named Mike took the low budget approach (don’t let that fact scare you away) and used two action figures in front of a white sheet of paper. The resulting videos use Superman as the straight-man-like spokesperson for DC Comics, a once striving comic book company with promising film properties....
50 Cent Replaces Forest Whitaker In The Expendables? By Peter Sciretta/March 19, 2009 10:21 am EST AICN has a bit of bad news. Apparently, Forest Whitaker has dropped out of Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables due to a scheduling conflict, and has been replaced with… 50 Cent?! I mean, there had to be some better choices, right? Replacing an Academy Award-winning actor with the guy best known for Get Rich or Die Tryin’ doesn’t seem like a lateral move to me....
Cool Stuff: Pixar’s Luxo Jr In Live Action By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 23, 2007 5:35 am EST Pixar’s mascot, the lovable desk lamp known as Luxo Jr. Has been brought to life by the Mllamp Project, an experiment for simulating emotions with putting minimal intelligence into everyday things. The viewer can easily go into with recognizing human gestures through a anropomorph character. The interaction between the pair of Mllamps associated with human behavior can be recognised as emotions in lamps....
