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VOTD: If Hollywood Directors Made Campaign Ads: Part 2 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 31, 2008 12:00 am EST If Hollywood Directors Made Campaign Ads: Part 2 The Pitch: Last week in VOTD, we featured a video titled If Hollywood Directors Made Campaign Ads, which shows what political campaign attack ads would look like if they were directed by the likes of John Woo, Kevin Smith, and Wes Anderson. The Landline and Chris Mann have gone back and recorded another batch, this time featuring the faux talents of Diablo Cody/Jason Reitman, David Lynch and M....

VOTD: Poultrygeist NSFW Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 11, 2008 12:00 am EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/poultrygeist.flv 350 262] Poultrygeist NSFW Movie Trailer by Troma The Pitch: Troma and Lloyd Kaufman, the creator of The Toxic Avenger, presents a NSFW Trailer for Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD?...

VOTD: Quentin Tarantino On Charlie Rose By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2009 3:45 pm EST Quentin Tarantino recorded an hour long interview with Charlie Rose last week to promote Inglourious Basterds. Readers of the site know that I love long form interviews with good filmmakers. You can download the WMV video file of the interview right now by clicking here. The streaming version on Google Video doesn’t appear to be working yet (but I’ve also included that after the jump)....

Wesley Snipes Teaming Up With Abel Ferrara Once Again For Game Of Death By Devindra Hardawar/Oct. 8, 2009 7:40 am EST Things haven’t been so great for Wesley Snipes post-Blade 3. He appeared in a string of direct-to-video action movies, ran into a bit of tiff with the federal government, and pretty much seemed to fall of the radar. Now it looks like Snipes’ luck could be changing for the better: He has a role in Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming Brooklyn’s Finest, and today we’ve learned that he’s reteaming with Abel Ferrara (who directed Snipes in King of New York) for a new action thriller, Game of Death....

/Film Returns From Toronto By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2007 2:10 pm EST I have returned from Canada! This means that the usual 10+ news updates a day will resume beginning tonight/tomorrow. But this doesn’t mean that the Toronto International Film Festival coverage has ended. I was able to see 29 movies at the festival, but due to my hectic schedule, I was unable to review them all (or even half of them)....

Black Lightning Teaser Trailer: Timur Bekmambetov’s Response To Transformers And Batman? By Hunter Stephenson/March 12, 2009 2:57 pm EST Set for release this December, Black Lightning seems to be flying under (above?) the radar. Wanted and Nightwatch director, Timur Bekmambetov, is serving as producer on the superhero film and evidently has declared it the “Russian response to Transformers and Batman.” It’s going to take more than a teaser (available after the jump) that looks like a nifty Crispin Porter Cadillac commercial to convince us, but color Slashfilm intrigued....

Box Office: Vantage Point Surprises w/$7.5M Friday, Headed For $22.4M By Steve Mason/Feb. 23, 2008 2:11 am EST Vantage Point has overcome soft industry tracking (I forecasted just $16M in my Weekend Tracking column) and taken advantage of a weekend with no serious competition to absolutely swamp the field. In fact, the 2nd place movie during Oscar weekend will likely be holdover The Spiderwick Chronicles (Paramount) with an estimated $13M. That’s almost a full $10M behind the weekend’s #1 movie....

Comic-Con: Voices Of Clancy Brown And Paul Giamatti In The Goon; No Director Announced By Russ Fischer/July 24, 2009 7:12 pm EST OK, being 100% honest, the panel for The Goon, based on Eric Powell’s comics (he’s also scripting) and produced by David Fincher, may be the best panel I’ve ever seen at Comic Con. It was pure, ridiculous, hilarious performance art. Sitting at the panel, where character creator Eric Powell called up the head of Blur Studios to show off some footage for the animated film, it was difficult to tell what, exactly, was going on....

Cool Stuff: Batman Gets A Parking Ticket T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 16, 2009 6:00 am EST Now that Batman is a fugitive, the Gotham City Police have decided that they aren’t going to let The Dark Knight get away with parking whereever he pleases. UK artist Rubyred’s new t-shirt shows what happens when a crime fighting super hero with an armour plated, rocket propelled Batmobile, finds out the hard way that he’s not above the law....

David Goyer To Direct Magneto Movie By Peter Sciretta/April 26, 2007 4:43 pm EST Blade series helmer David Goyer has signed on to direct the X-Men spinoff film Magneto, for 20th Century Fox. Goyer will develop the 2004 screenplay written by Sheldon Turner. The script included Professor X, a soldier in the Allied Forces who helps liberate Nazi concentration camps who meets Magneto after the war. They find a bond with their mutant powers, but their moral differences drive them apart....

Ed Helms To Star In Cedar Rapids By Russ Fischer/July 17, 2009 10:30 am EST The film sounds very much like an Alexander Payne version of The Office. Helms is " a sad-sack insurance agent who goes to an industry convention to try to save the jobs of his colleagues." Phil Johnston wrote the script, working on it with Helms, for whom the character was written. THR further adds “The story centers on a wholesome and naive small-town Wisconsin man (Helms), who, when his role model dies, must represent his company at a regional insurance conference in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big-town experience....

First Look: Pixar’s Presto By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2008 3:16 am EST Presto, the directorial debut of Pixar’s Annie Award-winning supervising animator Doug Sweetland is set to premiere in front of WALL-E. The five minute short computer animated film follows Presto DiGiotagione, a turn-of-the-century magician, who is famous for an astounding hat trick. Presto’s apprentice rabbit, Alec, however, is dissatisfied as he shares none of Presto’s wild success. While Presto is out eating lavish dinner, Alec is left behind, locked in a birdcage with a carrot torturously out of reach....

Geek Deal: SAW 1-4 For $29; Buy 2 Blu-Ray Movies Get 1 Free By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2008 2:16 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Ending LEAKED Online By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2007 8:00 pm EST The ending of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows appears to have been leaked online days before the planned release laster this week. Various sources are reporting that the book concludes with an epilogue that takes place nineteen years later and lasts nine pages (photo are available on some websites). If you don’t want to know who lives and dies, than don’t search for the information....

How To Train Your Dragon Concept Art By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2008 11:44 am EST The Character Design Blog has new photos of early concept art on Dreamworks Animation’s How To Train Your Dragon. Based on the 2003 children’s novel by British author Cressida Cowell, the story follows the adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the teenage son of a Viking chieftain, who must capture a dragon for a rite of passage....

How Would Shia LaBeouf’s Amputated Pinky Affect Transformers 2? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2008 2:57 pm EST Star is reporting that Shia LaBeouf called Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen producers yesterday, to inform them that he may need to amputate one of his injured fingers. Shia injured his hand in a West Hollywood car accident on July 27th. I’m hearing that LaBeouf’s injury has caused a lot of havoc on the production....

Jon Favreau Talks Neanderthals By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 9, 2008 3:13 pm EST From Iron Man to early man, Jon Favreau’s next directorial project is a fantastic leap in subject matter comparable to the 2001 bone toss. Fav tells MTV that he’s revving up to start on Neanderthals, an ambitious-sounding motion-capture animated film parked at Sony Pictures that will not borrow its visual cues from Robert Zemeckis’ lifelike mo-cap flicks Beowulf and The Polar Express....

Joseph Kosinski To Direct TRON Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 11, 2007 10:05 am EST Last week we reported hat TRON director Steven Lisberger is finally set to make his return to the big screen after a 19 year absence with a film co-authored by Jessica Chobot titled The Soul Code. We told you that for years Lisberger has trying to get a TRON sequel off the ground. Well it now looks like a sequel will happen, but without Lisberger attached to write or direct....

Kevin Costner Will Direct And Star In A Little War Of Our Own By Russ Fischer/Feb. 12, 2010 10:03 am EST I can see why people grimace when the phrase “Kevin Costner directs” appears. There’s Waterworld and The Postman and, yeah, those movies are trials. (Waterworld, Costner’s uncredited/contested effort, is actually a really entertaining trial when approached in the right light, but still.) They’re also notable for being not at all the sort of vanity actor-turned-director project that you might expect....

Legion Red Band Trailer, Exclusive Photos And Director Quotes By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2009 11:39 am EST Today we’ve got a bounty of info on the upcoming Sony action/horror film Legion, starring Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid and Adrianne Palicki, written and directed by Scott Stewart, founder of acclaimed effects company The Orphanage. We’ve got two exclusive new stills, and I spoke to Stewart last night to get some backstory on the movie....