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Pixar’s WALL-E Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 27, 2007 6:07 am EST Jim Hill’s source says that Andrew Stanton’s (Finding Nemo) new movie will “shock people. Both for its choice of source material as well as its style of storytelling.” Let’s take a look at the first act. In the not to distant future, Earth has become so toxic that man was forced to abandon the planet. Year 2700, the remaining human society lives aboard a massive spaceship called Axiom that circles overhead, waiting for the day that the planet once again becomes inhabitable....

Polanski’s The Ghost Writer Gets A Limited February Release; Director Asks To Be Sentenced In Absentia By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2010 10:17 pm EST As Roman Polanski has been under house arrest in Switzerland, his new film The Ghost Writer is in the final stages of completion and has been picked up for distribution in the United States by Summit Entertainment. Today the company said it would give the film a limited release on February 19, with expansion plans to follow on March 5 and March 19....

Rain To Star In Enter The Dragon Remake, Awaken The Dragon? By Devindra Hardawar/Aug. 5, 2009 8:28 am EST Update: There’s currently some debate as to whether Rain is up for the Bruce Lee role, or the villain role of the film. While it would honestly make more sense to have Rain take up Lee’s mantle instead of an “established American actor”, I can’t say for certain since the source article isn’t entirely clear....

Rob Marshall’s Nine Movie Trailer #3 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2009 2:48 pm EST The Weinstein Co have released a third movie trailer for Rob Marshall’s new musical Nine. Rob Marshall, who directed Chicago – winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture, returns to the big screen with another classic Broadway production. The musical tells the story of world famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he prepares his latest picture and balances the numerous women in his life including his wife (Marion Cotillard), a producer, a mistress (Penelope Cruz), a film star muse (Nicole Kidman), an American fashion journalist (Kate Hudson), the whore from his youth (Fergie), his confidant and costume designer (Judi Dench), and his deceased mother (Sophia Loren)....

Sam Raimi To Direct The Shadow? Plus, Details On The Script By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 29, 2010 3:12 pm EST Until somebody actually comes out and makes an official announcement, I’m sure there’s going to be countless rumours about Sam Raimi’s choice of next film. Here’s today’s. We already knew that Sam Raimi was producing the new feature film version of The Shadow. Apparently, he’s now keen to take up the director’s reigns too....

Sci-Fi Serial Machine Man Getting Tooled Up For The Big Screen By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 5, 2009 5:05 am EST One of the many ‘wisdoms’ about Hollywood that I’m not sure is true at all is that the evil and greed-driven studios will want every picture to close on a happy ending, irrespective of what’s appropriate. Mandalay Pictures seem not to mind, however (or at least not mind forcing a changed ending) as they have snapped up the movie rights to Max Barry’s Machine Man even though they have no idea how the story ends....

This Week In DVD: Street Fighter, 12 Rounds, Entourage, Eastbound & Down, And More By Adam Quigley/June 30, 2009 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. EXCLUSIVE DEAL:What? Free $5 GiftCard when you buy both Eastbound & Down (Season 1) and Entourage (Season 5) on DVD.Where? Best Buy.THE IT CROWD (SEASON 2) There are certain comforts we have in life; small things we’ve come to accept that help dictate the choices we make....

Vanessa Hudgens Dead @ 17, Mike Dougherty Scripting Her Demise And Resurrection By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 17, 2009 1:09 pm EST I reckon there was some credibility to the claims that Vanessa Hudgens auditioned for New Moon and I fear she only received the knockback when a disclaimer about her casting went public, the poor thing. All’s well that end’s well, however, and it seems like she’s now on the list for something a whole lot more interesting....

VOTD: Na’Vi Photoshop Timelapse By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 8, 2010 12:00 am EST Now you’ve got your Na’Vi make-up on (and you look beautiful, I have to say) let’s make sure your passport photo is up to date too. Below the break you can see a Photoshop timelapse video in which Peter Ammentorp Lund makes over an image of himself in the likeness of James Cameron’s cat folk from Avatar. The video is probably too fast moving to be useful as any kind of tutorial for Photoshop users who are inexperienced enough to not work out how to achieve the effect themselves, but I guess that’s not the point....

Warner Brothers Gears Up For Their Next Fantasy Franchise With Beautiful Creatures By Devindra Hardawar/Nov. 30, 2009 11:50 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. From the description alone, Beautiful Creatures appears to be mixing successful elements from Harry Potter (magic and mystery) and Twilight (star-crossed lovers). This thing will do gangbusters I tells ya. Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations....

World’s Greatest Dad Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2009 10:09 am EST With Father’s Day coming up this weekend, Magnolia Pictures has taken the opportunity to release a red band movie trailer for Bob Goldthwait’s World’s Greatest Dad. I had the wonderful opportunity to catch this film at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and by the time I left the theater, I was hurting from laughing so much....

Would You Pay For A Hulu Subscription? By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2009 5:00 am EST News Corp.’s new chief digital officer Jonathan Miller commented at an Internet Week event last night that he believes at least some of the television shows and movies on Hulu will be available only to paid subscribers. While he admits that it isn’t likely to happen tomorrow, he says that “it seems to me that over time that could be a logical thing....

2008 MTV Movie Awards Winners By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2008 7:48 pm EST Here is a listing of the winners from tonight’s 2008 MTV Movie Awards. I would comment but I’m not sure anyone really takes this award show seriously. I mean, “Best Movie of the Summer So Far”? Seriously! Best Movie: TransformersBest Male Performance: Will Smith in I Am LegendBreakthrough Performance: Zac Efron in Hairspray Best Female Performance: Ellen Page in Juno Best Comedic Performance: Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Best Fight: Sean Faris and Cam Gigandet in Never Back DownBest Villain: Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetBest Kiss: Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman in Step Up 2 The StreetsBest Summer Movie So Far: Iron Man Tom Cruise presented Adam Sandler with the MTV Generation Award...

2008 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2008 8:41 pm EST The 2008 Sundance Film Festival comes to a close tomorrow, and the award winners have just been announced. Here are the major winners from this year’s festival: Alfred P Sloan Memorial Prize: Sleep Dealer American Cinema: Grand Jury Dramatic: Frozen River Dramatic Audience Award: The Wackness Dramatic Screenwriting Award: Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera, David RikerDramatic Directing Award: Lance Hammer, BallastDramatic Special Jury Prize for “the Spirit of Independent Cinema”: Chusy Haney-Jardine for Anywhere, USADramatic Special Jury Prize for “Work by an Ensemble Cast”: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald and Brad Henke for ChokeDramatic Cinematography Award: Ballast, Lol CrawleyDocumentary Grand Jury Prize: Trouble the Water...

By Hunter Stephenson/Oct. 15, 2009 6:36 am EST It wasn’t specified whether Hill would voice the rich kid. As with Peter Bagge’s The Bradleys from Crank Yankers’ Matthew Lawton, my first impression is that Hill’s profane and dick-addled mind would fire more synapses at HBO, [adult swim], FX, or Showtime. However, with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg recently shortening their bucket list by writing an ep of The Simpsons, and Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane making insane fat stacks on a Microsoft-level (literally and figuratively), the network’s appeal is obvious....

Attack Of The ’80s Sex Romps: My Tutor Being Remade By Hunter Stephenson/June 13, 2008 11:57 am EST If you care to witness a superb ’80s montage of hot girls working out in zany leotards in a movie co-starring Crispin Glover being whipped by a dominatirix, rent My Tutor (not the forthcoming remake). According to the trades, the cult classic/cheesy sex romp from 1983 is being reimagined by Mark A. Altman, the producer of D....

Back To The Future Sequel Rumors Squashed By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2008 4:14 pm EST Not that anyone was expecting the answer to change, but Back to the Future co-writer and producer Bob Gale has again put sequel/remake rumors to rest. “Let me answer one question before anyone asks it, which is, ‘Is there ever be a Back To The Future Part IV…No,” Gale told the crowd of the 5th Annual Celebration Exotic Car Festival....

Book Of Blood Red Band Trailer: Clive Barker Can’t Catch A Break By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2009 2:08 pm EST Clive Barker keeps getting screwed of late, especially when it comes to film adaptations of his short works. First there was Midnight Meat Train, which Lionsgate dumped in dollar theatres like a deformed baby into a dumpster, and now the perfectly reasonable looking Book of Blood is going straight to DVD....

Burn After Reading Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 29, 2008 4:33 pm EST Focus Features has released a red band movie trailer for Burn After Reading. Written and directed by The Coen Brothers, this new dark-spy comedy stars Academy Award nominee John Malkovich as an ousted CIA official, whose memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) intent on exploiting their find....

Cloverfield/1-18-08: Possible Plot Spoilers By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2007 10:29 am EST AintItCool has a new scoop on the JJ Abrams produced monster flick code-named Cloverfield/1-18-08. An e-mail tipper named DJ confirms that the teaser trailer footage is actually in the film, but in a more unabridged fashion. He talks about a new scene which may be used for a second movie trailer (or may-be not) where “several traumatized survivors, moving through a very dark corridor there’s slight cold blue illumination from halogen emergency lighting, a girl in the group is badly beaten up she’s bleeding and looks very sickly....