TRON 2: The Story Behind The Comic Con Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2008 11:11 am EST The biggest shocker at Comic Con was the premiere of a 3-minute trailer for Tron 2. The reason why it was such a shocker is that, as far as anyone knew, the film hadn’t even gone into production. But the trailer featured a fantastic completed lightcycle chase. So how did it come to be?...
VOTD: The Black Hole By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2009 10:00 pm EST Here is a short film that I missed this past May when it was part of the Cannes Short Film Corner. Philip Sansom & Olly Williamsaka Diamond Dogs have shot music videos and a couple commercials. The Black Hole is a two and a half minute short film about a “sleep deprived office worker who finds a Black Hole whilst photocopying late one night Suddenly the possibilities seem endless....
Wedding Daze Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2007 10:49 am EST Isla Fisher is everywhere these days, while Jason Biggs seems to be nowhere. Seems like a perfect idea to team the two up in a romantic comedy, or not. Most people will remember Fisher as the obsessed virgin in Wedding Crashers. She is also engaged to Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat). Yesterday we posted the trailer for Hot Rod, and today we have Wedding Daze....
William Monahan And Martin Scorsese Hook Up For The Long Play By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 27, 2007 6:19 am EST Martin Scorsese has at least six projects in development (that we know about). We took an in-depth look at those films last week (you can read that report here). Well add another film to that list. The Departed 2 has been put on hold, at least for now. Academy Award winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) is set to rewrite the script for The Long Play for Scorsese....
A Live /Film Q&A With Director Jason Reitman: Tonight At 8:45 PM EST / 5:45 PM PST By David Chen/Dec. 10, 2009 9:00 am EST In the past few years, wunderkind director Jason Reitman has emerged as one of the most exciting people in Hollywood. His newest film, Up In The Air (out in limited release now and expanding wider each week) is one of my favorite films of the year and is already winning awards and Oscar buzz....
Burn After Reading International Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2008 1:25 pm EST Focus Features have released an international teaser trailer for The Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading on MSN. This is a perfect example of a fast cut, no nonsense teaser trailer which gets it right. And you have to love Brad Pitt’s “Appearances can be Deceptive” line. Classic. And why isn’t JK Simmons getting a topline credit? He’s all over the trailers....
Casting Notes: Katie Holmes Replaces Liv Tyler; Morgan Freeman Does Comedy By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2009 8:27 am EST Here are your casting notes for the morning before Page 2 hits. Katie Holmes is on an upswing and Morgan Freeman gets into comedy. I’d love to see him do a lot more comedy, so long as it’s not along the lines of Bruce Almighty, and hopefully this new R-rated project would do the trick....
Chimpanzee Gone Wild On Speed Racer Set By Peter Sciretta/July 2, 2007 12:17 pm EST As you probably know, while most of the sets might be computer generated, Speed Racer’s pet chimpanzee Chim-Chim is being played by an actual real monkey in the Wachowski Brothers big screen adaptation. There are now allegations that the chimp was beaten after biting one of the human actors. PETA is pissed: “We are in receipt of information that may upset you,” PETA wrote to producer Joel Silver....
Clips From Sympathy For Delicious, Mark Ruffalo’s Directorial Debut By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2010 12:03 pm EST The end of this week is like a race to keep up with the flood of trailers and clips coming out of Sundance. On deck now is nine minutes of Sympathy for Delicious. It is the first film directed by actor Mark Ruffalo, written by and starring Christopher Thornton, who plays “a newly paralyzed DJ [who] gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing....
Cool Stuff: I Gotta Believe! - The Scott Pilgrim Rap Recap By Devindra Hardawar/April 1, 2010 12:25 pm EST I know we’re a bit late on reporting this, but after listening to Adam WarRock’s excellent Scott Pilgrim rap recap, I just had to share it with you all. The song recaps the first five volumes of Scott Pilgrim in five minutes with some awesomely geeky rhymes. It also recently got some love from director Edgar Wright and Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, so you know its nerd-approved....
Cool Stuff: Jedi EcoSaber T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2008 4:00 am EST RubyRed’s Jedi EcoSaber T-shirt shows a picture of a low-energy lightsabler. “Save the planet or save the universe, your choice.” Available for $26.53. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. Cool Stuff: Jedi EcoSaber T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Sept....
Danny Boyle Eying Paranormal Activity’s Katie Featherston For 127 Hours? By Devindra Hardawar/Jan. 29, 2010 12:28 am EST It appears that a week ago, Paranormal Activity star Katie Featherston auditioned for Danny Boyle, who is currently in pre-production for 127 Hours. Boyle plans to start filming in early March, which leads me to think that he may be interested in Featherstone’s improv drama talent for the film. We know that Boyle is aiming for realism with the film, which tells the tale of mountain climber Aron Ralston — who amputated his own arm after being trapped under a boulder for five days....
Do You Believe That Shatner Isn’t In Star Trek? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2008 1:39 am EST In the new issue of Star Trek Magazine, both William Shatner and director JJ Abrams once again insist that the Shat has no part in the upcoming Star Trek reboot. Here is a quote from Shatner, courtesy of Trekmovie: “I have no connection with the film whatsoever. It’s the strangest thing. Even my dear friend Leonard [Nimoy] won’t tell me what it’s about....
First Avatar Reactions By Russ Fischer/Dec. 10, 2009 1:39 pm EST But some UK outlets don’t care as much about the embargo, and there is already a full-fledged review in The Sun and some useful comments in The Guardian. The Sun’s ‘review’ is typical for the paper — thin and shallow. But it is quite exuberant. “The final battle scene is 20 minutes long and absolutely mind-blowing,” the paper says. “It is overwhelming, and that is because you are emotionally tied up in the characters and the story....
First Look: Justin Chatwin As Goku In Dragonball By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2008 6:25 pm EST DBlive has posted what appears to be the first possibly official photo of Justin Chatwin as Goku from 20th Century Fox’s upcoming DragonBall live-action movie. The scan was said to be taken from the Japanese magazine Shonen Jump #24. Updated with a higher quality image. As always, click to enlarge. via: DBthemovie First Look: Justin Chatwin As Goku In Dragonball...
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Guillermo Del Toro Talks Vampire Novels, Slaughterhouse-Five, And The Future Of Storytelling By Devindra Hardawar/May 24, 2009 2:33 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Guillermo del Toro is a busy man. Not only is he facing what must be insane amounts of pressure to make The Hobbit duo of films live up to Peter Jackson’s epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, he’s also stepping up to adapt Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter-House Five, starting a series of vampire novels (The Strain, co-written with author Chuck Hogan), and, oh yes—at some point, he wants to help spearhead the convergence of multiple entertainment mediums into an interactive, hybrid storytelling model....
HBO Greenlights Enlightened, From School Of Rock Writer Mike White By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2009 8:50 am EST About a month ago, we told you that Columbia had picked up a spec script by Mike White, actor and writer on School of Rock and Freaks and Geeks. Now, with White also appearing soon in Zombieland (you can see him briefly in the trailer), comes more good news for the guy: HBO has greenlit the pilot for his show Enlightened....
Honest To Blog: Juno Is The Most Successful Indie Film In Six Years; DVD Details By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 19, 2008 10:00 pm EST Now one could argue that Juno isn’t a independent movie because it was produced by a mini major movie studio. One could also argue that the film was made for next to nothing ($7.5 million) and was distributed in a platform release which depended on word of mouth....
James Gray To Direct Brad Pitt In The Lost City Of Z By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 10, 2008 3:25 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Gray tells Variety that it is “a story that will be told with an epic scale, with a main character who is larger than life.” Pitt would, of course, play the British explorer who is listed as one of the inspirations for Indiana Jones....
