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Casting Notes: Christina Ricci In Bel Ami; Maggie Grace And Salma Hayek In Faster; Kat Dennings In Daydream Nation By Russ Fischer/Jan. 8, 2010 3:27 pm EST It’s been slow on the casting front since late December, when Hollywood pretty much shut down for the holidays. Now that everyone is back to work things are picking up slowly. Christina Ricci has joined the cast of Bel Ami, which already stars Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman....

Concept Art From Tim Burton’s Unfilmed Superman Film By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 18, 2009 4:00 pm EST That chap Superman sure keeps making the news but doesn’t seem to be making many movies lately, does he? The latest appearance from Jor-El Kal-El on the /Film radar is with two previously unreleased paintings Tim Burton made when planning a rather unorthodox Superman picture back in the 90s. This was the film that was going to see Nicolas Cage as Superman and the reworking of which upset Kevin Smith’s sensibilities so much....

Cool Stuff: Palpatine And Voldermort For President By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2008 4:50 am EST General Oddity is selling Palpatine-Cheney merchandise on CafePress. “Re-elect Palpatine and his right-hand man Dick Cheney to the head of the Galactic Empire!” I’ve been very disappointed with CafePress’ t-shirts in the past, but the bumper sticker is pretty cool, and maybe worth a few bucks. Meanwhile, Goats.com is selling Republicans for Voldermort merchanise, including t-shirts, bumper stickers, Hoodies, Messenger Bags and Tote Bags....

First Look: Leonard Nimoy As Old Spock In JJ Abrams’ Star Trek By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2008 10:42 am EST AICN has an exclusive slightly remixed version of the Star Trek trailer. The huge difference is the addition of Leonard Nimoy as Old Spock, making his first big screen appearance as the character since 1991. How very epic! You can watch the three second clip below, but head on over to AICN to see the reedited trailer in High Definition with a couple little changes....

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix International Movie Trailer Is Now Online By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2007 11:49 am EST We told you it was coming. The new International movie trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is now online. You can watch the trailer at AOL’s UK site in windows media format or in embedded flash format after the jump. [flv:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/pottertrailer.flv 440 330] In the fifth film/book, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) must defend himself and Hogwarts, from the fear-mongering restrictions of the wizarding government, and the newly-assigned Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Dolores Umbridge....

Heckler Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2007 6:29 am EST Part of my job involves criticizing movies and movie stars. I sometimes wonder if they people I criticize read the stuff I write, and if so, how they react. But the object of this exercise is not to piss someone off, but instead to offer a strong opinion. But sometimes, offering a strong opinion can result in hurt feelings....

Listen To The Awful Avatar Theme Song By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2009 11:26 am EST Last month, it was revealed that James Cameron’s Avatar would have a closing credits theme song titled ‘I See You’, performed by multiple Grammy® Award-nominated singer Leona Lewis — an obvious attempt to replicate the success of Titanic’s Celine Dion theme “My Heart Will Go On”. I’ve been labeled an Avatar “apologist”, but I can’t defend this song....

Mandalay Acquires Rights To Full Metal Panic Movie By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2009 9:01 pm EST Our friends at FirstShowing report that Mandalay have picked up the rights to develop a big-screen live action adaptation of the version of the Japanese manga/anime series Full Metal Panic. I haven’t heard of the series before tonight, but apparently it tells the story of a member of the covert anti-terrorist mercenary group who is tasked with protecting a Japanese high school girl with mystical powers....

Movie Review: 300 By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2007 5:33 am EST Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City), 300 loosely depicts the Battle of Thermopylae where Leonidas I (Gerard Butler) and three hundred Spartans took on Persian King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his massive army of one million soldiers. Zack Snyder, the director of the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead, creates visually orgasmic landscapes out of Frank Miller’s two page spreads....

New Release Dates: Son Of Rambow And Southland Tales By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 18, 2007 12:31 pm EST I’ve said before that Son of Rambow is one of the best movies of the year (read my review here). I feel like I’ve been saying this a lot lately about a bunch of movies, but as the year winds down, you start to gain perspective over the previous year. But to be honest with you, Son of Rambow isn’t actually one of the best films of 2007....

Optioned Stories: Jon Stewart Buys A Journalist’s Tale; Don Murphy Takes Cory Doctorow’s Latest Novel By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2010 12:43 pm EST Jon Stewart is more than a sharp comic and (unexpectedly) a reliable voice for news analysis. He has worked as an actor, and is now making a foray back into producing. Stewart has optioned the rights to the life story of journalist Maziar Bahari, who was arrested in 2009 during the Iranian election protests....

Resident Evil: Afterlife Teaser Trailer By David Chen/April 3, 2010 6:13 pm EST Last night, Wonder Con got a chance to see the world premiere of the Resident Evil: Afterlife teaser trailer. Today, that trailer has hit the internet. View it after the break, and feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below. The trailer has several big surprises. Well, actually, one big surprise that it keeps hurling at you over and over again....

Rosario Dawson’s Descent Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2007 9:03 pm EST When we talked to Rosario Dawson a couple months ago at the Grindhouse junket, she was very excited about her first effort as a producer: I went to Strasburg with Hayden Christensen, Scarlett Johansson, and I’m in these classes and that’s how I met Talia Lugacy, wearing her long curly hair and big Stanley Kubrick t-shirt. She was very very serious, and walked into the DGA at ten years old to try to get her card....

Rumor Killer: The Incredibles 2 By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2007 6:11 pm EST This weekend we noticed that out of no where we started getting a lot of hits from the search engines looking for information on The Incredibles 2. We did a quick google search to see what the heck was going on and discovered that we’re the number one result on Google for the search term “The Incredibles 2”, hence all the people looking to us for information....

Several News Bits Under One Vague Headline - Don’t Miss Out, Come On In, The Water’s Lovely By Brendon Connelly/March 9, 2009 10:19 am EST To give you some kind of idea what kind of stories have been making news in the last twelve hours or so, here’s a sample from The Hollywood Reporter: Dreamworks has acquired an untitled college-set comedy script by newcomer scribe Chris McCoy. And that’s all they can tell us about the film, really....

Sundance Movie Review: Hesher By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 23, 2010 2:40 pm EST In 2008, I discovered a wonderful short film titled I Love Sarah Jane by commercial and music video director Spencer Susser. I loved it so much, I even featured it on /Film (you can watch it here — and if you haven’t yet, you really need to). The short was a very different kind of zombie film, nothing like you’ve ever seen before — in the same way Let The Right One In was a different kind of vampire film than you’ve ever seen before....

SXSW Movie Trailer: Sorry, Thanks By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 3, 2009 4:59 pm EST In our continuing series to preview some of the little indies (or what some people would call “real independent films”) that will be playing at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival, I give you the trailer for mumblecore producer (Mutual Appreciation, Nights and Weekends) Dia Sokol’s feature directorial debut Sorry, Thanks. As someone who lives in San Francisco, it’s always great to see some low budget films coming out of the bay area....

Toy Story 3 Trailer Attached To Up? By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2009 11:17 am EST At ShoWest, Disney announced that the first time audiences would be able to see the Toy Story 3 trailer in 3D would be attached to the October two-week limited engagement double feature 3D rerelease of Toy Story 1 and 2. Well it appears plans might have changed. I know that they recently screened a teaser trailer at NAB and at the Internal Pixar wrap party for Up....

VOTD: MUTO - A Wall-Painted Animation By Hunter Stephenson/May 13, 2008 12:00 am EST MUTO A Wall-Painted Animation by BLUThe Pitch: VOTW, or at least the video you’ll be hearing about for the rest of the week. In perfect time to counter another boring interwebs ousting of street artist Banksy yesterday, Blu has created a jaw-dropping animation where street art comes alive (and then dies) that was made in Buenos Aires and southwest Germany....

VOTD: Star Wars - A New Halo By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2008 12:00 am EST Star Wars – A New Halo by: Kung Fu Grip The Pitch: What would happen if in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, the incompetent Stormtroopers were replaced by Spartans from Halo? Gruesome deaths that’s what! Thanks to /Film reader Benny for the tip. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....