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LOL: Drunk Ewoks Ruin Today Show Halloween Segment By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 30, 2009 9:43 am EST A Today Show Halloween decorating segment was interrupted by a pair of scene stealing Ewoks, who began throwing food, fighting each other, doing the moonwalk, and humping both the floor and the leg of Al Roker, who was dressed as Han Solo. I know it might sound like I’m describing a FunnyOrDie parody or something, but it actually happened on live television....

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening Slammed And New 5-Minute Video Clip By Peter Sciretta/May 16, 2008 4:28 am EST Our friends at Collider have the first reader review of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening and it’s not good at all: “The Happening is a terrible, terrible movie. I mean, it’s bad on an epic scale. It’s so bad that I can’t possibly tell you how bad it is without understating the point or making it sound like I’m picking on the film....

Mark Protosevich And Francis Lawrence Teaming For World Without Us By Brendon Connelly/April 2, 2009 10:38 am EST Alan Weisman’s original book was Time Magazine’s number-one non fiction pick for 2007, and we all know what perfect taste they have in making such lists. It deals with a simple but profound feat of imagination, exploring how Earth would “respond without the relentless pressure of human presence”. Weisman even went so far as to label Chapter 9, Polymers Are Forever, with a Read this Chapter!...

New Avatar Trailer Description And More High Resolution Photos By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 22, 2009 11:30 am EST With a new trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar hitting theaters this weekend, a batch of new high quality production photos has shown up online via SpoilerTV. Check out a couple of the photos after the jump, or click on through to see them all. And be sure to enlarge the photos to see them in high resolution....

New Bloody Photos From The Final Destination By Peter Sciretta/July 3, 2009 2:23 pm EST New photos from The Final Destination (aka Final Destination 4 3D) have been published via our friends at DVDForum. I love the image above because it shows what happens when you go see a horror movie in 3D. Stupid teenagers. That’s what you get! But seriously, For me, the Final Destination films are fun because they don’t pretend to be anything more than just a series of fun death sequences....

New Photo: Christopher Nolan’s Inception By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 17, 2010 8:09 pm EST /Film reader Keaton M points me towards the first official production photo released from Christopher Nolan’s Inception, which was found in the Los Angeles Times movie preview. Of course, with two trailers, we already have a ton of stills from the film (37 screencaptures can be seen here). The film’s logline is “a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind....

New Spider-Man 3 Footage Debuts At WonderCon By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2007 8:24 pm EST According to Sony, the video clip we saw was apparently cut “exclusively for WonderCon.” It began with a greeting from Avi Arad who apologized for not being able to make it to WonderCon. He thanked the fans for supporting the franchise. And assured fans that the third film could be the best. The actual footage began with the standard GREEN MPAA Trailer logo we’ve become accustomed to....

OFFICIAL: Shia LaBeouf Cast In Indiana Jones 4 By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2007 11:05 am EST A couple weeks back it was highly rumored that Shia LaBeouf was in negotiations to be cast as Harrison Ford’s son in Indiana Jones. George Lucas denied it. Shia told us that he hasn’t even heard from the Indiana Jones people. It turns out – He lied. “I was hoping the rumors were true, so I couldn’t be more thrilled,” said Shia....

Ratatouille Posters That Weren’t By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2007 1:00 pm EST I’ve always found the movie marketing development phase to be facinating. How many trailers must be cut before one gets the greenlight? How many movie poster designs must be created before they come up with that one poster that really works. Stephane Kardos is one of the artists that was hired to design some poster concepts. Check them out below....

Ridley Scott Reteams With Gladiator Scribe For Vampire Adaptation The Passage By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2009 5:58 pm EST The story is described as “a futuristic fable” about death row inmates transformed into vampires by a government-spawned virus. According to Variety, “terminally ill patients become healthy after they are bitten by bats in South America, and the government conducts secret tests on human subjects to see if the virus can cure illness....

Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol Banner By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 24, 2008 5:19 pm EST Disney had an exhibition of concept art, paintings, models, and props from Robert Zemeckis’ 3D performance capture adaptation of A Christmas Carol on display at the presentation earlier today. No photographs were allowed inside the exhibit, but I was able to snap off a photo outside of the first banner for the film. Click on the image above to enlarge....

Romero Reveals His Latest Plans For The Dead… And Virtual Reality By Brendon Connelly/March 1, 2009 10:34 am EST Last weekend, the Zombies Take Charlotte folk presented American Zombie, a retrospective of pictures by George Romero with an emphasis on the GAR-Z, his zombie movies. Brilliantly, the good man himself was there to hold a Q&A; sadly, I didn’t get to attend (being half a world away, and all) but I have just been sent a very fuzzy audio recording of the session by a jam-and-spoony chap who was there, and having finally fought my way through 90 minutes of swerving volume, muffled voices and sharp bursts of tinny pain whenever the audience laugh or applaud, I can offer you some key bullet points....

Rumor Killer: Steven Spielberg Is NOT Making An E.T. Sequel By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2009 1:19 pm EST Is Steven Spielberg secretly developing a sequel to E.T.? The National Enquirer is reporting that Spielberg and actress Drew Barrymore have met to discuss the project, that would supposedly show E.T. returning to Earth to rejoin the now-adult Gertie. A source told the tabloid that “Steven and Drew are being very secretive about this baby....

Scorsese Talks Sinatra, 3D And Low-Budget, Back-To-Basics Possibilities By Russ Fischer/March 11, 2010 12:44 pm EST Martin Scorsese is still promoting Shutter Island in various markets, which has led to a handful of big interviews that dive into the subject of various possible projects for the director. We know he’s working on The Invention of Hugo Cabret now, and intends to make the Jesuit drama Silence (delayed some time ago in favor of Shutter Island) afterward....

Shazam! Gets New Writers: Bill Birch And Geoff Johns By Russ Fischer/Aug. 20, 2009 8:32 am EST For a super-powered guy with lightning speed, Captain Marvel moves pretty slow. The Shazam! film, once a New Line project and now part of Warner Bros., has been inching towards the screen for several years. Get Smart’s Peter Segal remains on board as director, but there are two new contestants in the screenwriting game: Bill Birch and comics luminary Geoff Johns....

Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are Given “New” 2009 Release Date By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 5, 2008 5:08 pm EST Time to cap the day with a few beers, the robot, and a slightly promising tidbit: Warner Bros. has finally set a (final???) release date for Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are. You know, the family film based on the children’s book that has united geeks, author Maurice Sendak, hipsters and lil’ kids in a bitter internet warz against The Man and overprotective parents....

Steven Spielberg And Peter Jackson To Direct Tintin Trilogy By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2007 2:06 pm EST We don’t really want to report this, but because of the huge names involved, we have to. Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have teamed up to direct and produce three back to back feature films based on Georges Remi’s Belgian comic-strip Tintin for DreamWorks. But Why? It’s a passion project. Speilberg has been trying to get the film rights to the series for more than 25 years....

The Stunning Official Website For Mr. Nobody Launches By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 27, 2009 5:27 pm EST I’ll never forget my initial reactions to Jaco Van Dormael’s debut feature, Toto the Hero. I stumbled out of the cinema, genuinely warmed-up by what I had been watching, and wandered back to reality. Reality seemed, for a few minutes at least, rather wanting, and from that day forward I held Van Dormael’s work rather close to my heart....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: The Last House On The Left, Dexter, The Simpsons, And More By Adam Quigley/Aug. 18, 2009 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Please don’t take the commentary on the movies and TV shows too seriously, as they’re meant not to be reviews but rather previews that include the general thoughts and ramblings of a twice-committed DVD addict. The categories represent solely the author’s intentions towards the films at hand, and are in no way meant to be a reflection on what he thinks other people should rent or buy....

Trivia: Sam Rockwell Almost Played Tony Stark In Iron Man By David Chen/April 8, 2010 8:34 am EST Much of the success off 2008’s Iron Man can be attributed to the performance of Robert Downey Jr., who brought humor and charisma to the character of millionaire playboy Tony Stark. But according to Hero Complex at the LATimes, Sam Rockwell was on Jon Favreau’s short list of people to play the role....