Comic Con: Push Footage Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 24, 2008 4:27 pm EST Summit Entertainment revealed the first footage from their upcoming thriller Push. The clip played like the opening credit sequence of a film, showing us images and close-ups but no actual scenes (of at least as far as I could tell). The segment was cut over Clint Mansell’s Fountain soundtrack which probably made it feel cooler than it actually was....
Cool Stuff: Hal 9000 Magnet By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2008 6:00 am EST Sometimes it’s the simple things that make us smile. I found this HAL 9000 refrigerator magnet which is being sold on eBay. Badge Bytch is selling it for £3.50, which translates to about $7 American, plus who knows how much shipping. And who wouldn’t want to a Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer? Now if only it had a motion activated sound-clip which would greet you with random sound-bytes from the film like “I’m Afraid I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave....
Cool Stuff: Planet Of The Apes: 40-Year Evolution Blu-Ray Set By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2008 4:00 am EST Bonus features include: 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: Scott Campbell And Dave Chung Artwork By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2008 12:35 am EST You might remember Gallery 1988: LA as the art gallery who held the I am 8-bit (video game), Crazy4Cult (Movie), and Stan Lee themed art exhibitions. Their next exhibition begins on May 20th and is called “One to Grow On”. The highlights include movie related artwork from Scott Campbell (“Friends with E.T.”) and Dave Chung (Gremlins)....
Cool Stuff: Todd Slater’s Evil Dead 2 Poster By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2008 6:00 am EST As you’ve probably heard, The Alamo Drafthouse is having a Horror movie series, and Mondotees has commisioned artists to create limited edition posters for some of the films in the series. Earlier this month we showcased some of the other posters in the series: The Shining, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Lost Boys....
Eliza Dushku, Movie Producer, Casts Her Brother As Robert Mapplethorpe By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 19, 2009 4:27 pm EST Let’s get the Dollhouse plug out of the way on line one. Watch it. Support it. Thanks for listening, I’m here all week, try the veal. Eliza Dushku, star of the upcoming Joss Whedon TV show Dollhouse (there I go again) is producing a biopic of artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Her genius casting for the lead role is her brother Nate, who she claims has an uncanny likeness to the perennially controversial photographer....
Fantastic Fest Review: Toy Story 3D Double Feature By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2009 10:06 am EST Disney presented a sneak preview of Pixar’s Toy Story / Toy Story 2 3D double feature at Fantastic Fest, which offered me a pleasant break from all the indie genre films on the schedule. I’m sure most, if not all, of you have already seen these animated classics, at least once. So there isn’t much to point out about these movies which hasn’t already been said....
First Photos: The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2009 1:06 pm EST The Helm of the Dawn Treader Ben Barnes as King Caspian and Skandar Keynes as Edmund Pevensie Georgie Henley as Lucy Pevensie This time around – Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb – find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world....
Green Lantern And Sucker Punch Moved To 2011 By Peter Sciretta/May 7, 2009 2:04 am EST Also, the studio has decided to push back the release of Zack Snyder’s next film Sucker Punch, the R-rated action fantasy film which suffered a series of casting changes “coincidentally” after Watchmen failed to impress at the box office. Warner Bros had previously announced a October 8th 2010 release date, but the film is now aiming to hit theaters on March 25th 2011, a week after Gore Verbinski’s animated action adventure Rango hits....
Guy Ritchie’s Revolver Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2007 1:58 am EST Guy Ritchie was a cult phenomenon. He rocketed onto the scene with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and soon after created Snatch, which is on the top 10 list of most 20-something film fanatics. But the filmmaker’s career took a nose drive shortly after marrying Madonna (coincidence? I think not). Ritchie is back with a new gangster film starring Ray Liotta, Jason Statham, Vincent Pastore, Andre ‘Andre 3000’ Benjamin and Terence Maynard....
Help Save Assassination Of A High School President From Going Direct To DVD By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2009 8:27 pm EST Why should you care about this movie? Here is what some other people have said about the film: Many people have drawn comparisons between this film and Rian Johnson’s indie masterpiece Brick, and it would be hard not to. As I wrote in my original Sundance review “Assassination is not a copy of Brick, in fact, it was written before Brick....
How To Lose Friends & Alienate People Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2007 3:55 am EST Based on the bestselling memoir by Toby Young, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People follows a disillusioned British intellectual named Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York City based Sharps magazine, and he soon becomes the talk of the town....
IFC Buys Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me By Russ Fischer/Jan. 30, 2010 3:17 pm EST Despite a level of violence that has proved controversial within the context of the Sundance Film Festival, IFC Films has purchased Michael Winterbottom’s new film The Killer Inside Me, and will distribute the film within the United States. (Check out David’s review of the film.) No release date has been set for the film, though in the company’s press release about the deal IFC Entertainment President Jonathan Sehring said, “We are incredibly excited to be working with Michael and Andrew Eaton again and we look forward to bringing this film to America via our theatrical and video-on-demand platforms....
Notorious Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 24, 2008 5:34 am EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/notorious2.flv 470 200] Official Plot Synopsis: Notorious tells the story of the life of rapper Christopher Wallace a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G. The film stars multiple award winner Angela Bassett as Christopher’s mother Voletta Wallace, Derek Luke as Sean Combs, Anthony Mackie as Tupac Shakur and introducing Jamal Woolard as The Notorious B.I.G. After the overwhelming response to a year long aggressive and active worldwide search, Jamal Woolard, a Brooklyn native, was selected to portray the infamous rapper....
One Hour Interview With Paul Thomas Anderson And Daniel Day-Lewis By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 26, 2007 12:09 am EST Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis did an extensive 56-minute interview with Charlie Rose about There Will Be Blood. Watch it below. One Hour Interview With Paul Thomas Anderson And Daniel Day-Lewis By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 26, 2007 12:09 am EST Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis did an extensive 56-minute interview with Charlie Rose about There Will Be Blood....
Public Enemies Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2009 12:19 pm EST Universal Pictures has released the movie trailer for Michael Mann’s Public Enemies, the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Johnny Depp)—the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public. Depp vs....
Red-Band Horror: Bloody Trailers For Survival Of The Dead And [REC] 2 By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2010 9:48 am EST Yesterday I riled a few people up with a conversation about red-band trailers. (You guys like them; we get it.) Today we’ll flip to the other side of the coin, as IGN has new bloody and restricted clips for George Romero’s Survival of the Dead and a UK trailer for [REC] 2....
Rights To Fincher’s Torso In Limbo By David Chen/Jan. 23, 2009 5:43 am EST David Fincher has a thing for serial killers. Se7en, Zodiac, and you could even argue Dwight Yoakam’s character in Panic Room: each of these films have focused on unhinged human beings who had no compunctions about killing many, many people. One of Fincher’s next projects was going to be an adaptation of Torso, a graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko....
SAW 4 Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/July 25, 2007 11:52 am EST Lionsgate has released a new international movie poster for SAW IV. The poster depicts Tobin Bell’s (who plays Jigsaw in the film series) head in a supermarket produce scale. So yes, Jigsaw is dead. The previously released official plot synopsis is below. Click on the poster image to the right to enlarge. Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead....
Submarino Movie Trailer: New One From Thomas Vinterberg, The Unheralded Hero Of Dogme95 By Russ Fischer/Jan. 25, 2010 11:46 am EST Outside of Europe, Lars Von Trier got all the attention for Dogme 95, the film ‘movement’ that set down a set of naturalistic rules for directors. But the co-creator of Dogme 95 and director of the first film made under the resulting manifesto was Thomas Vinterberg. His film Festen (The Celebration) is a low-key tour de force, a portrait of family breakdown that toes a nearly undefinable line between satire and tragedy....
