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Troubled Projects: Warner Brothers Pulls Out Of Masters Of The Universe; Point Break 2 Is Dead? By David Chen/Sept. 10, 2009 7:45 am EST We’ve recently received word that a couple of productions have hit some pretty major road bumps. First up, according to Variety, Warner Brothers has pulled out of the Masters of the Universe project. Universe has had a pretty troubled history all around: When a script review for Justin Marks Grayskull: Masters of the Universe script first hit the web over a year ago, there was much rejoicing....

VOTD: Jim Jarmusch Sings Neil Young’s ‘Cortez The Killer’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 17, 2009 12:00 am EST Director Jim Jarmusch loves Neil Young. The venerable singer/songwriter masterfully scored Jarmusch’s Dead Man and with the band Crazy Horse was the object of the filmmaker’s follow-up, the tour documentary Year of the Horse. Jarmusch also seems to love the New York edition of the All Tomorrows Parties music festival which, for the past couple years, has taken place in the Catskills each September....

Wednesday Box Office: Treasure Adds $11.47M; AVP=R Down 55%; There Will Be Blood Debuts w/$33K PTA! By Steve Mason/Dec. 27, 2007 12:13 pm EST The massive drop of 55% for Fox’s schlocky Alien Versus Predator: Requiem makes sense. The movie wasn’t screened for critics and fanboy zeal can only get you so far. The sequel to the 2004 original, fell from about $9.5M on Christmas Day to $4.28M on Wednesday....

Who Is In Robert Rodriguez’s Shorts By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2008 3:26 am EST Robert Rodriguez always has like five projects going at the same time. He’s been hard at work “developing” Barbarella (or trying to convince the studio to give him the money to make it with his future wife Rose McGowan in the lead) and just announced a TV show called Women In Chains (also starring Rose McGowan), which he’s pitching to various networks, but his next feature film to go into production will be… drumroll please…Shorts is a family comedy adventure that follows an 11-year-old boy who is hit in the head with a rainbow-colored rock that grants wishes to anyone who holds it....

A Must Watch Video Clip From 500 Days Of Summer: Expectation Vs. Reality By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2009 8:15 pm EST The video clip after the jump takes place after Tom and Summer reconnect after the breakup, and Tom is invited to a party at his ex-girlfriend’s house. Tom, of course, thinks this is an opportunity to rekindle their relationship, but as you might expect, expectations and reality diverge. Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber have expertly crafted a scene that I believe is so brilliant, that it makes you wonder why no one had come up with this concept prior....

AMC Wants You To See All Five Best Picture Nominated Films In One Day By Kevin Kelly/Feb. 19, 2009 5:22 pm EST Are you way behind on your movie watching? The Oscars are approaching faster than you think. In case you hadn’t realized, they’re on this Sunday. Still haven’t seen Milk, Frost/Nixon, The Reader, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, or Slumdog Millionaire? Not doing anything this Saturday? Well then, you’re in luck....

Anand Tucker To Direct Amy Adams In Leap Year By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2008 12:47 am EST Shopgirl director Anand Tucker is in talks to helm the Amy Adams romantic comedy Leap Year for Spyglass. Adams will play a woman who comes up with an idea to travel to Dublin to propose to a man on February 29th, when according to Irish tradition, men must say yes. And as would be expected in the romantic comedy genre, she comes against various difficulties along the way....

Beauty And The Beast 3D In 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2008 12:55 am EST It might seem like a strange idea to convert a 2D animated film into a 3D presentation. The original film was a major stepping stone for Disney, blending of traditional animation and computer generated imagery (most notable with audiences was the ballroom scene). But I really wonder how the scenes that don’t involve elaborate computer generated backgrounds will look in three dimensions....

Brad Bird’s 1906 Earthquake Is Getting Smaller? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2009 1:50 pm EST Last week Brad Bird revealed that he was still trying to crack the screenplay for his live-action debut 1906, which seemed baffling to us. In March 2008, our spies told us that Pixar was busy building virtual scale models of a period-era San Francisco and that Warner Bros had put a hold on all of the soundstages that were available on its Burbank lot....

Casey Affleck And Jessica Alba To Star In “The Killer Inside Me” By David Chen/Nov. 7, 2008 9:41 pm EST Michael Winterbottom will direct Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba in a film adaptation of The Killer Inside Me, the classic novel by Jim Thompson. The original book was told in first-person and chronicled the life of Lou Ford, a seemingly normal small-town sheriff who happens to be a paranoid-schizophrenic harboring murderous tendencies....

Cool Stuff: Chop Shop’s Master Control T-Shirts By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 13, 2009 6:00 am EST Disney is currently in production on a Tron sequel, 27 years after the original sci-fi film hit theaters. And you might wonder what Tron and Master Control look like today. After all, its been over a quarter of a century since we last saw them. The bad news is that they are both incredibly out of shape dog owners....

Cool Stuff: Kotobukiya’s Dark Knight Batman Vinyl Statue By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2008 1:31 pm EST Yesterday we featured a cool new ArtFX Statue of Iron Man. Today we return with another great statue from Japanese manufacturer Kotobukiya. The Dark Knight Batman Vinyl Statue stands approximately 12" tall, and sports The Dark Knight movie version of Batman’s suit. It is packaged in a 4-color window box. 1000 pieces will be available outside of Japan, Asia & Australia on the first production run of this piece....

Discussion: Has Lost Jumped The Smoke Monster? By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2009 10:41 am EST As you guys probably know, I’m a Lost fanatic. I love time travel films, Back to the Future is my favorite movie, so this season’s time travel centric storyline has been heaven for someone like me. But the last two episodes have been disappointing, and the end of last night’s episode was completely bizarre, and not in a good way....

First Look: Street Kings By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2008 11:51 am EST Here is your first look at Street Kings, which stars Keanu Reeves as Tom Ludlow, “a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him....

Forgetting A New Muppets Movie By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2008 2:27 am EST After seeing Forgetting Sarah Marshall the other night at SXSW, it was no surprise to me that Disney had hired the star/writer Jason Segel and director Nick Stoller behind Judd Apatow’s latest to develop the next Muppet movie. Segel and Stoller will write the screenplay and Stoller will direct. A major sequence in Sarah Marshall features a huge vampire love story stageplay acted out with puppets, which were created by the Henson puppeteers....

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince - What Did You Think? By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2009 9:57 pm EST Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hits theaters on Wednesday. I got a chance to see the film last night and I think its the best film since Alfanso Cuaron’s Prisoner of Azkaban, which is my favorite of the series. I absolutely loved the cinematography, specially some of the connected/stiched one-shots. The character moments were just so much fun....

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura To Produce Adaptation Of The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel - The Next Harry Potter? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 18, 2009 12:59 pm EST G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra/Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has signed a deal to produce a big screen adaptation of Michael Scott’s six-part fantasy book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. di Bonaventura tells Variety that “Michael’s fantastic series is a natural evolution from Harry Potter,” but will it come close to the popularity of the teen wizard series?...

Mark Millar Gives Up On Superman, For Now By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2009 12:10 pm EST Mark Millar has been talking about his pitch for an 8-hour epic trilogy of Superman films for w while now. He even claimed that he was working with an unnamed big director on a pitch for the studio. But now the comic book writer admits on his website that it likely won’t happen after all, or at very least, not anytime soon....

Mean Girls 2? Naked Gun 4? Road Trip 2? Grease 3? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2008 12:05 pm EST I’m sure that the downfall of modern entertainment will someday be linked to the concept of direct-to-DVD movie sequels. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for a shitty home video sequel of Wrong Turn, but when they start messing around with films that people actually care about (like Lost Boys or Wargames), that is when I begin to get angry....

More Iron Man 2 Footage (War Machine!) And Two New ‘Clues’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2009 12:30 pm EST We’re months away from Iron Man’s return to screens, and every scrap of Iron Man 2 footage is precious. Yesterday there was an Entertainment Tonight clip that teased the show’s broadcast of a chunk of footage from the film, and now there’s a second teaser clip. Both show some of the stuff we saw at Comic Con and new footage as well....