VOTD: Padme By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 10, 2008 12:00 am EST Padme The Pitch: I know we’ve seen enough Juno parodies, but Padme won the best fan-created Star Wars short film of 2008, an award selected by George lucas himself. “A timeless space drama and a snarky indie comedy have sex in a chair and give this video up for adoption.” Watch the video after the jump. Watch More Cool Videos Here!...
Watchmen Graffiti Or Underground Street Marketing? By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2009 6:22 pm EST The words “Who Watches The Watchmen?” have begun to appear spray-painted on walls around New York City. There is no evidence that Warner Bros is paying underground street marketing teams to tag the catchphrase around the city. It is possible that renegade vandals are to blame, but I would find that hard to believe that they just decided to start tagging the city with this text the same week of the film’s release....
Will Smith Confirms Hancock Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2008 9:02 pm EST Did you enjoy Hancock? Too bad, Will Smith says a sequel is “definitely” happening, telling JoBlo that there are a lot of unexplored characters in the Hancock universe that would be ripe for a sequel. I’m actually one of the few who liked Hancock, or at least the first half of it. But I have absolutely no interest in a sequel....
Anna Faris Cast In Private Benjamin Remake By Russ Fischer/March 31, 2010 7:05 am EST Big week for Anna Faris. We’ve just been covering What’s Your Number?, an R-rated comedy starring the actress, and now she’s tapped, more or less, as the new Goldie Hawn. Faris will star in the remake of Private Benjamin, in which a spoiled woman joins the Army after her husband dies on their wedding night. Big difference between the original film and the remake, though: in 1980, when Private Benjamin was originally made, we weren’t at war....
Bos Office: Cloverfield Down 10% On Saturday, Headed For $49M By Steve Mason/Jan. 20, 2008 1:03 pm EST It’s no surprise that Cloverfield suffered a 10% drop from its meteoric $16.25M Friday. In fact, many were expecting a steeper drop. My Early Saturday Estimate is that the J.J. Abrams-produced monster flick scared up $15.07M, which is the all-time 2nd-best single box office day for a January release topped only by its opening day number....
Box Office: Fool’s Gold $22.6M 3-Day; Paris Hilton’s Hottie $76 PTA By Steve Mason/Feb. 9, 2008 12:58 pm EST For McConnaughey, Fool’s Gold will likely mark his all-time 3rd best opening weekend. ALL-TIME TOP 5 MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY OPENINGS Failure to Launch – $24.1M opening How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days – $23.7M opening Fool’s Gold – $22.65M opening (estimate) Contact – $20.5M opening U-571 – $19.5M opening Meanwhile, it’s the all-time 2nd best opening of Hudson’s career....
Chris Pontius Cast In Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere By Hunter Stephenson/May 20, 2009 10:53 am EST Yes, Party Boy. In a bit of casting news already earning groans from snobs and wooo’s from slobs, Jackass’s Chris Pontius will co-star in Sofia Coppola’s ode to Hollywood’s storied Chateau Marmont hotel, Somewhere. Pontius will play “Sammy” in the 2010 flick, best friend to the main character, a “hard living actor,” to be played by Stephen Dorff, of S....
Clip From Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are…But Is It Real? By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 16, 2008 7:18 pm EST I was just about to go drown myself in Pabst and orange juice when a tipster sent me an email with the words “Hunter, What Do You Think?” and a link to the following vid. I can’t believe what I just watched. It appears to be a clip from Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, and while the visual effects for the Wild Thing’s face are off, as is the voice work (think Showbiz Pizza: The Movie), this would go along with the reasons we’ve heard for the film being pushed back to 2009....
Cloverfield/1-18-08 Photo #6 Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2007 2:00 am EST The Cloverfield/1-18-08 viral campaign started with a bang. But recently we’ve heard nothing from the JJ Abrams produced monster flick, until now. A sixth photo has now been discovered on the 1-18-08.com viral website. The photo pictures a japanese chef displaying some kind of food dish on a pan. If you play around with the photo with your mouse, you can flip it over to reveal this:...
Comic-Con: New Zombieland Red Band Trailer And Footage Debut By Russ Fischer/July 26, 2009 11:00 am EST Sometimes the Hall H presentations really have their moments. I’d mostly avoided the brief Zombieland footage that had been released so far; it’s one of those films I just wanted to see all at once. But damn, the red-band trailer that premiered in the big hall today was fantastic, full of slo-mo zombie kills (this is a great way to use speed ramping) and some great humor from Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson....
Cool Stuff: CHANGE Into A Truck Art Print By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2009 6:00 am EST Tim Doyle has created the inevitable Obama parody featuring Optimus Prime. A limited edition of 70 prints, this 3-color silkscreened art print is signed and numbered, measures 18x24, and is available for sale on Nakatomi for $30. A glow-in-the-dark variant is also available, limited to 10 prints.Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff?...
Cool Stuff: Family Portraits For The Lost Boys, There Will Be Blood, The Jerk, And Mr. Kill Screen By Hunter Stephenson/July 29, 2009 8:47 am EST We’ve posted about works displayed at Los Angeles’ Gallery 1988 in the past. Today we’re featuring new pieces by artist Kirk Demarais, whose movie-family-portraits in colored pencil have become an internet sensation of sorts. Perhaps his most famous work in the series is The Torrance Family from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, a piece guaranteed to bat around the halls of tumblr for years to come....
Cool Stuff: Garden Jawa By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2009 2:26 pm EST I live in San Francisco, so I don’t have a backyard or frontyard even, never mind a garden. But if I did have a garden, I would definitely own a Garden Jawa. LucasFilm is exclusively producing a small number of these to be available on StarWarsShop. It is now available for preorder for $34.99. Measuring close to a foot tall and crafted in durable all-weather resin, the Garden Jawa protects your tomatoes, zucchini, and daffodils from the dark side, armed with a garden tool bandolier, a garden hose, and a thumbs-up attitude....
Cool Stuff: Indiana Jones Desk Accessory Set By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2008 5:00 am EST This has to be one of the geekiest desk accessory set ever created, but I want it. Gentle Giant ltd will be releasing an Indiana Jones Desk Accessory set in Summer 2008. The set includes a golden fertility idol pen holder, an Ark of the Convenant business card holder and a Holy Grail paperclip holder. The Idol and Grail will retail for #35 each, and the Ark will put you back $40....
Cool Stuff: Juno Etch-A-Sketch By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 2, 2008 11:38 pm EST “That ain’t no etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can’t be un-did, homeskillet.” – Rainn Wilson as Rollo in Juno Los Angeles-based Etch-a-sketch artist (who knew there was such a thing) Elliot Sharron recently saw Juno (“The best movie of 2007!”) and sketched this picture of Michael Cera and Ellen Page from Jason Reitman’s film. Elliot blogs about his magic screen creations on Etch-A-Sketchist....
Corey Feldman Tells Corey Haim About The Lost Boys Sequel By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2007 2:05 am EST If you didn’t know, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman have a new reality television show on A&E. You must watch this video clip which features Corey Haim hitting rock bottom when he hears from Feldman that there is a Lost Boys direct to dvd sequel and he wasn’t asked to be a part of the cast....
Exclusive: Toy Story 3 Hamm Character Poster By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 9, 2009 1:39 am EST Disney will release the movie trailer for Pixar’s Toy Story 3 online on Monday October 12th 9:00am pacific time, and to celebrate they are releasing a series of new character banners. Disney has given /Film an exclusive look at the character banner for Hamm, who you might remember is voiced by John Ratzenberger. Check out the full poster after the jump, along with a preview of the Rex character banner....
Hobbit Round Up - How Will The Two Films Be Divided, Will They Bridge To Lord Of The Rings, And Who Is Going To Play Bilbo? By Brendon Connelly/June 5, 2009 4:20 pm EST In order to publicize The Strain, his new vampire novel written by with Chuck Hogan, Guillermo del Toro has been doing an awful lot of interviews. The best, perhaps, have been with MTV, at least in terms of the off-topic news they’ve managed to squeeze out of the fella....
Jemaine Clement And Sacha Baron Cohen Wanted For Men In Black 3? By Brendon Connelly/March 9, 2010 11:26 am EST Sacha Baron Cohen and Jemaine Clement are competing for a role in Men in Black 3. This according to Bloody Disgusting. While they don’t know who the character is, the do have a name and that name is Yaz. To me, it sounds like an alien and not an agent, partly because it’s a full name and not a letter, partly because Cohen and Clement just scream extra-terrestrial to me....
Lenny Kravitz And Hugh Jackman Join Selma, Lee Daniels’ Next Film; De Niro Confirmed By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2010 9:09 am EST The cast for Lee Daniels’ next film, Selma, is really starting to shape up. A while back there was rumor that Robert De Niro would be on board as Alabama governor George Wallace, and that news was confirmed by Movieline. Daniels now also has Hugh Jackman in the cast (announced last week) and, seemingly, Lenny Kravitz, who did good work in Precious....
