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By Hunter Stephenson/March 18, 2010 1:30 pm EST Our Cali pals at Freshjive sent over two shirts to /Film from their 2010 Spring Collection featuring stark, eye piercing portraits of Harry Dean Stanton and Dennis Hopper. Spring is in the air and we look forward to rocking the proverbial shit out of these $26 tees watching random airings of Meatballs—which sure, starred neither actor—with take-out margaritas and the windows open. Like all of Freshjive’s new product, the shirts are not branded and are available for purchase at their online storefront....

Cool Stuff: Real Life Iron Man In The Making Builds Wrist-Mounted Flamethrower By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 5, 2009 12:00 pm EST Everett Bradford is, for all intents and purposes, a real-life Tony Stark/Iron Man in the making. I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few years we see him flying around the sky fighting supervillains with his self-made robotic suit. He recently demonstrated his “Prometheus Device”, which is a hand-mounted appliance that shoots real fire, in a flame-thrower like blast, into the air....

Crazy Eddie: The Movie By Peter Sciretta/March 10, 2009 8:23 pm EST I’m probably aging myself a bit by saying this, but as a kid I use to love these wacky television commercials for a electronic store chain called Crazy Eddie. The commercials featured this frenetic insane screaming sweating guy who would end every commercial with the slogan “Crazy Eddie, his prices are IN-SAAAAAAAANNNE!!!” The whole thing was so very “1980’s”....

David R. Ellis Goes From Snakes On A Plane To Humpty Dumpty 3D By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2009 2:23 pm EST Snakes on a Plane director David R. Ellis still has a career. After all, the internet cult movie idea turned box office flop wasn’t his idea. Ellis has been hired by former New Line Cinema executive Mark Ordesky to direct Humpty Dumpty. No, that’s not a typo, and no, this is not a new adaptation of the famous nursery rhyme (although it wouldn’t surprise me if Hollywood’s next target after toys and board games is nursery rhymes)....

First Look: Philip Seymour Hoffman And Catherine Keener In Synecdoche, New York By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2008 2:13 am EST You might recognize Charlie Kaufman as the screenwriter of some of the strangest films in the last decade: Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. Now the Academy Award-winning writer makes his directorial debut with Synecdoche, New York.Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a theater director named Caden, who ambitiously attempts to put on a play by creating a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse after finding out something is wrong with him on a trip to the dentist....

Geek Deal: Free Comic Book Day On May 2nd 2009 By Peter Sciretta/May 1, 2009 4:00 am EST This Saturday, May 2, comic book stores throughout the country will participate in Free Comic Book Day. Different shops have policies on how many free comics you can receive, but you will receive at least one free comic if you enter a participating shop location. To find a participating comic book store near you, use the Store Locator on FreeComicBookDay....

Jack Black To Play “Gulliver” In New “Travels” By David Chen/Nov. 5, 2008 4:25 pm EST Travels has been made into many films (several of them animated) over the years. Most recently, Ted Danson took up Gulliver duties in the 1996 NBC Miniseries. I was really fond of this series, as I thought it struck a great balance between the fantastic and the serious (not to mention the inventive framing of the story using Gulliver’s trial)....

Jude Law Is Dr. Watson In Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 19, 2008 9:53 am EST Jude Law is in negotiations to play Dr. John H Watson in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. Law seems like an extremely obvious choice. Watson appeared in 52 of the 56 original short stories and all four novels, as a friend, assistant and biographer of the great detective. Robert Downey Jr is already on board to play Sherlock, and Mark Strong is on board to play the villain Blackwood....

Kevin Smith Will Review The Dark Knight LIVE On The /Filmcast, Monday Night At 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST By David Chen/July 17, 2008 1:43 pm EST Remember a few weeks ago when Kevin Smith saw The Dark Knight with Slashfilm editor Peter Sciretta? As much of a geekgasm as that was, there was only so much that us normal geeks could relate, seeing as how most of us had not seen The Dark Knight, nor have we ever had the opportunity to speak with Kevin Smith....

By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 24, 2010 5:34 pm EST For those of you who haven’t been following the project, the film tells the story of a private contractor who is kidnapped in Iraq and buried alive. He has 90 minutes of air left until he dies, and has access to only a phone and a lighter. The entire movie takes place in the coffin, with Reynolds providing the only on screen performance....

Lost Boys 2 Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2008 3:49 pm EST Okay, I understand that most of you, including Hunter, are not happy with the movie trailer for The Lost Boys direct-to-dvd sequel, Lost Boys: The Tribe. But I think that everyone’s expectations were just so unreasonable high. Many people forget that this project began as nothing more than a direct-to-dvd movie without any returning stars. I also think that many fans are blinded by the nostalgia of the original film....

More Behind The Scenes Of Oliver Stone’s W. By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2008 11:28 am EST Access Hollywood has another behind-the-scenes feature on Oliver Stone’s W. They are on the set for a scene where George Bush practices an emergency water landing before the now infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech. I have yet to read the script, but I find it interesting that they would choose to include a little moment like in this story....

New Star Trek Movie Trailer - What Do You Think? By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2009 10:37 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released the new trailer for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. We get to learn about James Kirk’s father, and the film’s real story — how he becomes the captain of the Enterprise. I’m not sure about you guys, but when I watched this trailer when they premiered it at WonderCon, you could feel the geek excitement as Pine sits down in the captains chair for the first time....

Release Date Change: Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix By Peter Sciretta/May 29, 2007 2:16 pm EST What is wrong with the calendars in Hollywood? Are they numbered incorrectly? This Summer must hold the record for the most release changes in the history of cinema. It seems like all the big studio marketing departments can’t decide on a date, and when they do, they bump it up a night or couple days forward....

Roman Polanski Planning Next Picture, Adapted From Yasmina Reza’s God Of Carnage By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 22, 2010 3:40 pm EST Despite being under house arrest in Switzerland, Roman Polanski is planning to segue directly from completing The Ghost Writer to mounting a big screen version of God of Carnage. Yasmina Reza’s black comedy won the best play gong at the Tony Awards last year. The show relates the heated arguments of two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other in a playground incident....

See Pixar’s Cars In 3D On December 12th 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2008 1:03 pm EST No, John Lasseter’s Cars is not being re-released in 3D on December 12th, but you will be able to go to your local multiplex and see Pixar’s first short film in Digital Disney 3D. The Cars Toons short Tokyo Mater will be attached to Disney’s Bolt as the film enters its fourth week of release....

Seth Gordon Wanted To Enter Grayskull; Compares Next Project To Bottle Rocket By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2008 12:34 pm EST Many people were surprised when King of Kong director Seth Gordon signed on to direct Four Christmases, the Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon romantic comedy which comes out this Wednesday. I think everyone expected Gordon would either work within the world of documentaries or work in the realm of geek-focused films. Gordon revealed on last night’s The /Filmcast After Dark that he was gunning for the new He-Man live-action movie....

Slumdog Millionaire On November 12th 2008 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2008 12:34 pm EST

Star Trek Website Now Live By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 16, 2008 11:17 pm EST Paramount has launched the official teaser site for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. Right now the site doesn’t have much more than a cool silver Trek badge logo, and the ability to register for updates. There is also an option which is “coming soon” called join the webmaster program. I assume that Cloverfield has convinced Abrams and the studio that sites like CloverfieldClues can be very valuable in helping to promote a film release....

Steven Soderbergh And Terence Stamp Looking To Sequelize The Limey By Brendon Connelly/July 12, 2009 6:00 pm EST E! workhorse and acclaimed journalist Jules Asner was the guest on the current episode of the Adam Carolla podcast. Amongst discussion of her work, the mysteries of the modeling industry, the unpleasantness of Brooke Burke and lots of other non-/Film business, conversation does eventually come to Steven Soderbergh, Jules’ husband. If you drop in at 19 minutes and 30 seconds or so, you can hear the talk on Soderbergh begin with Carolla’s attack on Ocean’s 13 and Asner’s brief defense....