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Todd McFarlane’s Oz To The Big Screen By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 22, 2007 11:48 am EST Well apparently Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Pictures have acquired the idea from Todd McFarlane. The revisionist take on L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz will be titled “OZ”. A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olsen is set to write the script, which he claims will be more of a sequel than a remake. The toys are PG-13, if not R-Rated, and the film project will be toned down....

Versus Director Ryuhei Kitamura Does Body Horror By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2009 11:30 am EST Shock Till You Drop has some fun news: Ryuhei Kitamura, who made a name for himself with the fun low-budget Japanese film Versus and recently directed Midnight Meat Train, is directing a film called Teratoma. The writers are Jim Agnew and Sean Keller, who penned Dario Argento’s upcoming Giallo. (And that gives me pause, since the early Giallo reviews haven’t been wildly positive....

VOTD: Dr. Horrible Appears On The Emmys By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2009 8:45 pm EST Neil Patrick Harris appeared on the Emmys in character as Dr. Horrible (from Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog), touting the power of the internet as the future of entertainment. Nathan Fillion makes an appearance as Captain Hammer, in defense of television, and the video also features brief cameos from Felicia Day and Simon Helberg....

Werner Herzog’s My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done Movie Trailer By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2009 10:30 pm EST Oh, I’ve been waiting for this one. Werner Herzog has recently completed not one film (Bad Lieutenant) but two, the second being the David Lynch-produced My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. Both are going to show up at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. And now My Son has a trailer that is…well, just watch this sucker, after the break....

WTF: Channing Tatum Wants Nicolas Refn To Direct A Male Stripper Movie? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 19, 2010 1:22 pm EST This is probably eighty-five percent off the cuff talk, but it’s a slow news week, so here’s a head-scratching laugh courtesy of Channing Tatum. When he was young, the actor spent a year as a male stripper, and says the experience gave him enough material to come up with a movie about a guy who sheds his skivvies for singles....

WTF: Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist…the Video Game? By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2009 11:38 pm EST Antichrist, the new movie from Lars Von Trier, was perhaps the most talked-about movie at Cannes this year. It continues to make headlines as it slowly winds towards theatres outside the Croisette and Scandanavian countries. And now, evidently, it is going to spawn a video game. A post on the video game message board NeoGAF led to some wild Googling, which turns up a Politiken....

WTF: The Jonas Brothers To Star In Farrelly Brothers Farting Dog Movie?! By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2008 12:40 am EST What happened to the Farrelly Brothers? I use to be such a huge fan of the brother-directing team behind Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary and Kingpin, but they haven’t turned out a really good film in at least 8 years (Osmosis Jones, Shallow Hal, Stuck on You, Fever Pitch, The Heartbreak Kid)....

8 New Transformers Video Clips By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2007 9:09 pm EST Paramount/Dreamworks has sent us 8 new video clips from Michael Bay’s Transformers. Get excited and check them out below. Below The Sand: Skorponok attacks a bunch of soldiers in the desert. [flv:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/transformers_belowthesand.flv 450 190] Captain Lennox (Josh Duhamel) tries to find a credit card while in the heat of battle. [flv:http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/transformers_creditcard.flv 450 190] Sam ‘Spike’ Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and Mikaela (Megan Fox)’s first reaction to Bumblebee: “It’s probably Japanese....

A Bull Durham Sequel? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 14, 2008 2:31 pm EST After 20 years, development has kinda/sorta begun on a Bull Durham sequel. Despite the fact that Tim Robins has insisted (as recently as last month) that he “doesn’t like sequels” and “doesn’t want to do sequels”, Robins was actually the one who came up with the idea. Writer/director Ron Shelton explained at the 20th anniversary commemoration at the Baseball Hall of Fame that they “used to say ‘You can’t do a sequel 20 years later....

Bryan Singer Considering X-Men: First Class, Jack The Giant Killer And Excalibur By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 21, 2009 2:00 am EST A possible return to the X-Verse, an adaptation of a folk tale or another cinematic pass at… er… a folk saga. Why all of these Bryan Singer projects at once? Who knows, but I’m definitely not complaining. After some wrangling, Warner Bros. and Legendary have secured the rights to remake John Boorman’s Excalibur with Singer linked as producer and possible director....

Cool Stuff: R2D2 Trash Can By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2007 3:58 am EST ThinkGeek.com has an R2D2 Trash Can which might make throwing away trash cool again (at least for a few minutes, wait, was throwing away trash ever cool?). But at a list price of $149.99 (or ThinkGeek’s discounted price of $99.99), I’m not quite sure if it’s worth the investment. Apparently the product is imported from Japan, which might explain the price....

ET Visits The Set Of Transformers 2 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 23, 2008 10:33 pm EST If you wanted to gouge your eyes out while watching Mary Hart talk over a movie trailer premiere on Entertainment Tonight, then you’re going to try to kill yourself trying to sit through Entertainment Tonight’s visit to the set of Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen. ET uncovers the “secrets” behind the script, like how the lead actors have been working out for their roles, and how Shia and Megan haven’t hooked up outside of the set....

First Look: Rachel Nichols As Scarlett In GI Joe By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2008 3:19 pm EST Paramount released the first photo on JoBlo of Rachel Nichols (Charlie Wilson’s War, Alias) in costume as Scarlett O’Hara in Stephen Sommers’ live-action adaptation of GI Joe. Ranked Master Sergeant, red-headed Scarlett is the first female character in the GI Joe action figure line. Her weapon of choice is the crossbow (pictured in the promo photo), and her specialty is counter intelligence....

Geek Deal: The West Wing Complete Series Collection For $121 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2009 5:01 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Goonies Sequel Is Dead; Broadway Musical Moving Forward? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2008 7:43 pm EST Richard Donner confirms that a Goonies sequel is once again dead. The last script attempt involved a new group of kids, as the daughters and sons of the original Goonies gang, going off on a new adventure. Most of the original cast members have expressed interest during interviews, in returning for a second film, if it were to happen....

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Movie Trailer - What Do You Think? By Peter Sciretta/July 29, 2008 5:10 pm EST The trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has hit the interwebs. It looks like we’re in for a very different Harry Potter movie than we’re use to. Dark and ominous, the trailer focuses on the origin story of Tom Riddle, who grows up to become Lord Voldermort. Tell me what you think in the comments below!...

Is This A Powersuit From James Cameron’s Avatar? By Brendon Connelly/May 25, 2009 1:23 pm EST Marketsaw, the number one Avatar obsessives to hold a blogspot account in all of this world, have posted an image of what to my eye appears to be a Powersuit from James Cameron’s upcoming epic. You can see part of the picture up above and the whole thing is below the break. Jim at Marketsaw was asking for somebody to comment and name the image, so I thought I’d oblige....

James Cameron Talks Avatar At E3; Video Game Screenshots Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2009 5:18 pm EST Update: We’ve added video of the presentation from G4tv after the jump.James Cameron made an appearance at UBISOFT’s E3 press conference, talking about his upcoming film Avatar and the video game which has been developed alongside the movie. Not many hard facts were revealed, but here is a round up of what we learned:...

Mark Wahlberg Cast In M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2007 12:11 pm EST The Happening follows a family who must survive a natural global environmental crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity. Mother Nature is sick of our polluting ways and has decided that we must go. An invisible neurotoxin is admitted into the air which causes people to become suicidal. Wahlberg will play a father of the family on the run....

Movie Review: Resident Evil: Extinction SUCKS By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2007 12:58 pm EST Resident Evil: Extinction is no good! Do not see it! Have I seen the movie? Nope. Sony won’t let me, or any other reviewer, screen the film. Even though they are having nationwide screenings on Thursday, I have been told by ScreenGems that media is BANNED from attending said screening. It’s really too bad, because the whole mad max premise had promise....