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Sam Raimi Talks Spider-Man 4 Villains By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2007 11:41 am EST For someone who was so unsure about returning to direct Spider-Man 4, that doesn’t stop Sam Raimi from talking about the possibilities. The Evil Dead director told MTV that he’s already started brainstorming about possible villains for part 4. “I would love to see Electro, Vulture, maybe the Sinister Six as a team,” he said. Let’s just hope that he doesn’t include them all, because the last film was stuffy enough with three bad guys....

Screenwriting Teacher/Author Blake Snyder Passes Away By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2009 10:10 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Blake Snyder passed away Tuesday morning from cardiac arrest. Many of you probably have no idea who Snyder was, which is all the more reason to remember him. Snyder is probably best known to the masses as the screenwriter of Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot and Blank Check....

Seth Rogen: Pool Cleaning Clone Of Jesus? By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 20, 2009 8:15 am EST Alexandre Aja is slowly, cautiously orbiting a big screen version of The Gospel According to Jimmy. Please don’t be confusing this with any offcuts or offal from the Belushi family – instead, it originated as a satirical novel by Didier van Cauwelaert. Here is Aja’s own explanation of the book’s plot: “You have to imagine, a few years from now, the Republicans want to get back in the White House, and the only thing that they find is like an old cloning project … to clone Jesus from a blood cell on the Shroud of Turin....

South Park Takes On Watchmen And The Dark Knight By Peter Sciretta/March 19, 2009 12:12 pm EST Last night’s episode of South Park took aim at Watchmen, The Dark Knight, The Spirit and the new trend in Hollywood to produce darker superhero movies. Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns even makes a cameo. Watch a clip above or the full episode on SouthParkStudios.com. South Park Takes On Watchmen And The Dark Knight...

The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto Teaser Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 13, 2009 9:14 am EST Rob Zombie’s $10 million, hard-R animated film, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, is headed straight-to-DVD next month via Anchor Bay. Zombie previously discussed the politics involved and the theatrical set-backs with /Film; outfitted with a voice-cast that includes Paul Giamatti (as villain Dr. Satan), Rosario Dawson, Brian Posehn, and Danny Trejo, we remain as bewildered over the prolonged release limbo as he was....

The TJ Hooker Movie Is Moving Forward By Brendon Connelly/July 6, 2009 4:58 am EST Stay with this story for the frightening clue that the TJ Hooker movie is actually going to star William Shatner. It’s worth it for the shudder factor. Variety have named Chuck Russell as the director out in the lead for the TJ Hooker gig. The screenplay is being written by Brent Maddock and SS Wilson, who previously took up pens for Tremors, Short Circuit and Ghost Dad....

The Writers Strike’s Impact On JJ Abrams’ Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 23, 2007 2:23 am EST Screenwriter John August has been doing an incredible job blogging about the WGA strike, and his encounters on the picket line. In one of his latest blog entries, August talks about a conversation he has on day 10 of the strike, meeting and chatting with Damon Lindelof and J.J. Abrams. The Star Trek director expressed his frustrations of being in production on a movie during the strike, and what problems it creates....

Video: Michael Moore Holds A Funeral At An HMO By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2007 12:02 pm EST In my review for Michael Moore’s latest film Sicko, I referenced a segment from Moore’s short lived television show The Awful Truth. The segment featured a father who was being denied an operation by his HMO which could/would save his life. Moore confronted the HMO company Humana with the case, and when they didn’t respond, they held a public funeral for Chris in front of the HMO’s offices....

Which “Big Director” Was Interested In Directing Mark Millar’s Superman? By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2009 11:30 am EST You might remember that comic book writer Mark Millar had been talking about his pitch for an 8-hour Lord of the Rings-style epic trilogy of Superman films. He even claimed that he was working with an unnamed big director on a pitch for the studio. But a couple months ago, Millar gave up on the pursuit, at least for the moment....

10 New High Resolution Photos From Iron Man 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2010 12:00 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released 10 new photos from Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2. A couple of these photos were posted last week, but I thought I’d give you the whole batch. Hit the jump, click on the images to see the stills in high resolution. 10 New High Resolution Photos From Iron Man 2...

Assistant Editor On Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are Says Everything Is Cool By Hunter Stephenson/April 26, 2008 11:57 am EST With all the recent damage control we’ve seen for The Incredible Hulk, it’s odd that a similarly high profile film plagued with far more incessant and foreboding rumors, Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, hasn’t received similar lip service from its studio or the talent involved. Over at The Playlist, the site’s blogger is snarkily cursing the Internet and geeks for jumping the gun and signaling “the red alert” now that the 2009 film’s assistant editor, James Haygood, has given a calm and collected update on the film’s status....

Batman’s Commissioner Gordon Is Dead By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 2009 9:16 pm EST Pat Hingle, a veteran actor known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures, has died at age 84 after a battle with blood cancer. Hingle is probably best known to the /Film community as the actor who played Commissioner James Gordon in Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. According to the AP, Hingle was diagnosed with myelodysplasia in November of 2006, and died in his Carolina Beach home late Saturday night....

Cool Stuff: Batcave Home Theater By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 24, 2007 9:22 pm EST Last month we featured a custom home theater designed to model the Enterprise NCC-1701D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. We return in December to show you the home theater set-up of a retired naturalist who thought that her cellar would be a great Batcave. That’s right, a Batcave themed home theater created by New Hampshire-based installer DC Audio Video Systems....

Cool Stuff: The Zombie Horde T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 23, 2009 12:00 pm EST Threadless has done it again, this time with a zombie themed t-shirt by Aled Lewis. Titled “The Horde”, the t-shirt shows the last stand of one living human surrounded by an epic giant horde of zombies. The artist explains his inspirations for the design: “This design is an homage to a bunch of different zombie related influences: Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of The Dead, The Evil Dead, Left 4 Dead, Resident Evil and MJ’s Thriller to name a few....

Despicable Me: Nine Photos By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2010 12:00 pm EST Universal Pictures has released nine new photos from the computer animated film Despicable Me. Check them out, after the jump. Release date: July 9, 2010Cast: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, Danny McBride, Miranda Cosgrove, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling, Jemaine Clement and Julie AndrewsDirected by: Chris Renaud & Pierre CoffinWritten by: Cinco Paul & Ken DaurioPlot Synopsis: In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn....

Director Carter Smith Talks Ending, Sequel To The Ruins And Troll By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 16, 2008 1:31 pm EST In going along with Peter’s “rant” about what constitutes a spoiler on the Internets, I’m not sure if the following quote from director Carter Smith about The Ruins is one or not. If you’ve read the book by Scott Smith, it’s definitely not, and the info should please you. But if you haven’t, you’ll know what’s in store to a certain degree this April if you see the post-college dread horror thriller set in Mexico starring Jena Malone....

Early Buzz: Esquire Calls The Road “The Most Important Movie Of The Year” By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2009 1:17 pm EST Esquire Magazine’s Tom Chiarella has posted the first review of John Hillcoat’s feature film adaption of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road, and calls it “The most important movie of the year.” Here are a couple excerpts: “The Road is no tease. It is a brilliantly directed adaptation of a beloved novel, a delicate and anachronistically loving look at the immodest and brutish end of us all....

Exclusive: 28 Months Later To Invade Russia NOT France By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2007 4:31 pm EST He wouldn’t give us any new details so we pushed slightly and were able to get this juicy tidbit: The movie will not take place in France! “I’ve got an idea for it. I didn’t think I would have, because I didn’t want to do the second one. I did do some second unit shooting for them one weekend, just to get myself out of the cutting room....

First Look: Satya Bhabha As Matthew Patel In Scott Pilgrim By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2009 4:24 pm EST Edgar Wright has posted the first photo of Satya Bhabha, who plays Matthew Patel in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. As you probably know, Scott Pilgrim is is based on the Oni Press graphic novel written by Bryan Lee O’Malley. In the film adaptation, Michael Cera plays 23-year-old Canadian slacker Scott Pilgrim, who must battle and defeat his dream girl’s, Ramona V....

First Look: The Dream Machine, From Paprika Director Satoshi Kon By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2009 2:00 pm EST I’m not much of an anime fan. Actually, I actively dislike the bulk of the anime I’ve seen. Movies by Hayao Miyazaki get my attention (there’s an argument to be made that, thanks to different sensibilities when building story and character, Miyazaki’s movies are not anime at all) and so do features by Satoshi Kon....