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Kick-Ass Set Videos Reveal Costumed Superheroes By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2008 12:01 pm EST A bunch of new Kick-Ass set videos have popped up on YouTube, giving us our first real look at the characters dressed in superhero gear. The scene involved Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) and the Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) riding along in Mist’s custom red sports car through Downtown Toronto (near the Toronto Eaton Centre) at night. I’ve included the most interesting/revealing video of the bunch below....

Kick-Ass Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2009 5:52 pm EST Lionsgate has officially released the first teaser trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s big screen adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book Kick-Ass. For those of you who haven’t been following this project, the film was produced independently and the first footage won over the thousands of people packed into Hall H at Comic-Con. The story is essentially about an average teenager named Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero....

Medellin Movie Trailer Released By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2007 7:24 pm EST I recently became addicted to the HBO hit series Entourage. One of Vincent Chase’s (the main character on the show) dream projects is a Pablo Escobar epic biopic. The film within the show is going to the Cannes Film Festival, and HBO has released a faux theatrical movie trailer for Medellin. HBO has also created a nice teaser website for the fake film, which can be viewed at MedellinTheFilm....

Rambo Has Critics And Moviegoers At War; So What Did You Think? By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 27, 2008 4:09 pm EST We all know that movie critics and fans of genre fare get along together like a giant serpent and Conan the Barbarian, but the maddening tug-o-war currently raging over Rambo’s merits is ridiculous. Consider: On IMDB, the Sylvester Stallone sequel has a fantastic user-rating of 8.5/10 based on more than 4,000 votes....

Ridley Scott’s Forever War To Be In Avatar-Inspired 3D By Brendon Connelly/March 26, 2009 12:44 pm EST Which is better, Alien or Aliens? Well, I can answer that one for you – it’s Alien. But Aliens is rather special too. Just not, you know, most-important-film-of-the-70s special. There is now a new chapter in the give and take between Ridley Scott and James Cameron, however. The BFI here in good ol’ Blighty (that’s what the B stands for) had a Blade Runner day at the weekend and while I didn’t go along myself – shame on me – a good handful of reporters were handy....

Rumor Killer: Joss Whedon To Direct Sailor Moon? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2007 5:27 am EST But is it true? I wouldn’t bet on it. The following e-mail came through to our tip e-mail: Also Exclusive Casting News! Whedon now free to do Sailor Moon Live Action Movie? About a year ago, rumors said that Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) was attached to direct the live action version of the popular anime “Sailor Moon” after doing Wonder Woman....

Semi-Pro Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2007 3:50 pm EST New Line has released a new Red Band (read: R-Rated or uncensored) movie trailer for Will Ferrell’s upcoming comedy Semi-Pro, and it actually makes the movie look funny (unlike every piece of advertising that has come before it). Walk Hard suffered from the same problem. Most people were turned off by the film’s advertising. The Red Band trailer was funny but very few people saw it, and even fewer bought a ticket to Dewey Cox this weekend, which is a shame....

By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2009 1:28 pm EST Final Destination 4, which has been given the more-confusing-than-clever title The Final Destination, now has a movie trailer. The first movie was built around an airplane crash, the second movie revolved around a highway accident, the third movie involved a deadly roller coaster ride, and now the fourth movie takes us to a Nascar track where the race becomes deadly. Yes, it is just as stupid as it sounds....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: Inglourious Basterds, The Hangover, And More By Adam Quigley/Dec. 15, 2009 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. “You know somethin’? I think this might just be my masterpiece.” That’s a mighty audacious claim that Tarantino not-so-subtly injects in Inglourious Basterds, his self-proclaimed World War II spaghetti western, but he earns the hell out of it. The film plays like a masterfully calibrated collection of short films, with each lengthy, deliberately paced scene—usually featuring nothing more than a number of characters sitting around a table talking—building up with excruciating intensity until finally reaching a breaking point, resulting in a delirious climax that repeatedly left me an exhausted mess....

VOTD: Luxo Jr. Makes A Porno By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2008 12:00 am EST Luxo Jr. Makes a Porno The Pitch: Mark J Grundy’s computer animated short film Pixar Piss Take spoofs the Pixar short that started it all, Luxo Jr. The official logline states “The little lamp discovers there’s more to life than just chasing balls!!” Possible NSFW, definitely not for children. Enjoy. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations....

Warner Bros Offering Academy Screeners On Blu-Ray By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 26, 2008 1:39 pm EST Warner Bros will be making history by becoming the first movie studio to send Academy members an award screener on blu-ray disc. The studio has sent out a mailer to members giving them the option to choose Blu-ray. Apparently director Christopher Nolan was partly responsible for the change, urging the studio to release The Dark Knight in the higher quality format....

Watch This: Skhizein, An Incredible Animated Short Film By David Chen/Dec. 24, 2009 6:25 pm EST I was browsing Reddit this morning when I came across the following description for the short film Skhizein: After being struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91 centimeters from himself. That description didn’t make much sense to me, but, finding myself incredibly intrigued, I watched the 13-minute short and was completely blown away....

1408 Runs From Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix By Peter Sciretta/May 9, 2007 1:08 pm EST Earlier today we reported that The Weinstein Co/Lionsgate had decided to release Michael Moore’s Sicko up against Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille and Live Free or Die Hard. A bad release date if there ever was one. Now The Weinstein’s Dimension Films is finally making a smart move. They have moved the John Cusack Stephen King adaptation 1408 (photos, movie trailer) up from it’s original release date of July 13th 2007, to June 22nd....

Akiva Schaffer Confirmed To Direct Jonah Hill’s The Adventurer’s Handbook By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2009 1:14 pm EST Update: Apparently the Los Angeles Times screwed up and Nicholas Stoller is not involved with this project. The Playlist confirms that Akiva Schaffer is attached as the director of this project. Back in February, it was reported that Jonah Hill and his friend/writing partner Max Winkler (yes, Henry Winkler’s son) sold a spec screenplay called The Adventurer’s Handbook (originally titled Adventurer’s Club) for a seven figure deal to Universal, and that Lonely Island/SNL Digital Shorts director Akiva Schaffer was in talks to direct....

BIll Nighy Joins Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2009 2:00 pm EST Every other major British actor seems to have a part in the Harry Potter series, so why not Bill Nighy? The actor tells The Independent that he’s just nabbed a part in the final film(s) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Who’s he going to play? Speculation and possible spoilers run rampant after the jump....

Cool Stuff: Rorschach Obama Parody T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2009 10:00 pm EST Today’s t-shirt on the tee-a-day website TeeFury is a Watchmen parody takes the Rorschach character and gives him the Shepard Fairey treatment, capping it off with the single word “WATCH”. The T-shirt will be available all day on Thursday, November 19th 2009 for only $9 plus shipping. But like all Teefury shirts, after the clock strikes midnight, the t-shirt will never be available again....

Cool Stuff: The Anatomy Of The AT-AT T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2009 8:00 am EST Last Summer we featured a t-shirt which showed the evolution of the AT-AT. Now RubyRed has a t-shirt which shows you the Anatomy of the AT-AT. “Since the Dark Side started using genetically modified walkers, they found many had to visit the Imperial Veterinary Clinic of Osteology suffering with acute pain in their hip joints....

By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2010 8:00 pm EST More information: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory poster is #6 in the Red Vic series. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com.

Danny Elfman To Score Terminator Salvation By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 9, 2009 3:05 pm EST One thing you have to admit about McG is that he has hired all the right people and has been saying all the right things. When it comes to the score for Terminator Salvation, it is no different. Danny Elfman has confirmed to MTV that he will be composing the music for McG’s Terminator film. Elman says that the classic Terminator theme song by composer Brad Fiedel has not been included in the film yet, but admits that “if it comes up and it seems appropriate, we will [use it]”....

Disney ‘Accidentally’ Removes Closed-Captioning From Up Rental DVDs; Promises To Rectify Screwup By Russ Fischer/Nov. 25, 2009 10:57 am EST So consumers were upset to find that, in a marketing or cost-cutting move that definitely backfired, Disney removed all subtitles and captions from the bare-bones rental release of Up. A small outcry built last week, which culminated in posts at The Consumerist and comments by Marlee Matlin and other disabled rights activists....