Update: Brad Bird’s 1906 By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2008 10:12 am EST /Film Reader PixarSpy sent over an interesting update on Brad Bird’s live action feature debut adaptation of James Dalessandro’s 1906. As you may already know, the film follows a young man who discovers a series of secrets and lies that left San Francisco highly vulnerable to the fires that engulfed the city in the aftermath of the historical 1906 earthquake....
Update: George Miller Still Attached To Justice League By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 2, 2008 9:10 pm EST Update: Apparently Dark Horizon’s scooper was inaccurate. George Miller is still officially attached to a Justice League movie (which doesn’t necessarily mean that Warner Bros is going to make one any time soon) and did not appear on a Sydney morning show earlier this week.While making an appearance on a Sydney morning show, director George Miller has confirmed that he is no longer involved with Warner Bros’ Justice League movie in any capacity....
UPDATED: Quentin Tarantino Shopping Inglorious Bastards To Studios. Brad Pitt In Talks To Star. Plus, Slashfilm Debate! By Hunter Stephenson/July 8, 2008 3:10 pm EST UPDATED 07/09/08: QT is still keeping his sights on an opening at Cannes next May!!!! Inglorious Bastards begins shooting in October. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Weinsteins are co-producing the film and looking to team with another studio due to the film’s “accelerated production schedule....
Yogi Bear Finds His Ranger Smith: Tom Carvanagh By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2009 8:00 pm EST Last month when I posted the last casting update for the hybrid live-action/computer animated feature based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Yogi Bear, I wondered if Park Ranger Smith would be included in the film, as he had yet to be mentioned. Variety now has word that Tom Carvanagh (Ed) has joined the cast, and will be playing Ranger Smith....
/Film Nominated For 2008 Bloggie Award By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 28, 2008 12:00 am EST This post has been reposted for our Monday morning visitors. Just a couple weeks ago /Film was named the reader’s favorite entertainment blog by Performancing.com. I’ve just been informed that /Film is one of the nominees for the big one, the Eighth Annual Weblog Awards, or as they’re better known as The Bloggies. We’re one of the five nominees for Best Entertainment Blog of 2007....
BDSF: Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2008 10:00 am EST This week in Big Directors Small Films, we take a look at one of Tim Burton’s first films, Frankenweenie. As you may recall, Burton will in fact be making a stop motion animated feature length remake of this infamous short after he completes Alice in Wonderland. I also understand that many of you might have already seen this short film (which is unusual of this weekly blog feature) but Disney decided to put the entire 29 minute short film on the web as part of their Halloween celebration....
Box Office Tracking: Jonas Brothers Should Easily Win Weekend With Possible $30M By Steve Mason/Feb. 25, 2009 10:00 pm EST The precise number of 3-D screens is difficult to pinpoint. Last month, Lionsgate confirmed 1,033 Digital 3-D runs for the remake of My Bloody Valentine, and although I have not been able to confirm a hard number for Coraline (Focus), it was probably close to 1,100. Now, as the expensive $100K per screen digital conversion creeps along for exhibitors, Jonas Brothers could reach 1,200 3-D screens....
Carts Of Darkness, A Cool Documentary, Is Online By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 9, 2009 9:02 pm EST Carts of Darkness, a 59-minute documentary on homeless guys in Canada who get their thrills by gunning stolen shopping carts down steep hills (and gunning plenty of beers), is online for our viewing pleasure. Directed in high def by Murray Siple, the film offers a window into this fringe microcosm set deep within the beautiful landscapes of Vancouver, with tunes by rock groups Black Mountain and Ladyhawk....
Cool Stuff: Dubai Building $1 Billion Robotic Jurassic Park By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2007 6:06 pm EST The idea of Jurassic Park has always intrigued me. After taking the splash on the theme park ride at Universal Studios in Hollywood, I often wondered why a whole theme park couldn’t be created around this idea. And now it is finally happening. A new $1.1 billion Jurassic theme park called Restless Planet, is being built in Dubai....
Darren Aronofsky In Talks To Direct Angelina Jolie In Serena By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2010 11:25 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Christopher Kyle wrote a screenplay for the project, but the script is said to require more work before both Aronofsky and Jolie would go into production. Kyle penned two movies for Kathryn Bigelow, The Weight of Water and K-19: The Widowmaker, as well as Oliver Stone’s Alexander, and a couple episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street....
Dead Silence Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2007 6:26 am EST James Wan smashed into the movie scene with the low budget horror thriller SAW. With the exception of screenplay rewrites on the series’ sequels, Wan has been mysteriously quiet – Until now. Dead Silence promises to be creepier than his previous work. The teaser trailer is now online. You can watch the new teaser trailer at the movie’s official website deadsilencemovie....
Eagle Vs. Shark Production Photos And Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2007 5:19 am EST A couple days ago, we brought you the movie trailer. Today we have a few new stills and the official plot synopsis for Miramax’s Eagle vs. Shark. I can’t say enough how much I dug this film. It’s Little Miss Sunshine meets Napoleon Dynamite. Here is the new theatrical poster: I kinda prefered the Sundance version with the sleeping bags more....
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Earns $58.4 Million In 24 Hours By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2009 9:54 am EST After breaking the all-time midnight box office record with $22.2 million on Tuesday night, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince went on to earn an estimated $58.4 million in the first 24 hours. But did it beat Transformers 2’s huge opening day? And how did it stack up against The Dark Knight?...
Is Jason Schwartzman In Scott Pilgrim? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 13, 2009 12:23 am EST Hidden away in Variety’s story on Jonah Hill’s screenplay sale is the claim that Jason Schwartzman is in Edgar Wright’s big screen adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. This definitely hasn’t been reported before, and is just mentioned in passing as part of Schwartzman’s upcoming film slate. Variety later pulled mention of Scott Pilgrim, so it might just be just a mistake on their part....
Jeffrey Tambor Claims Michael Cera Is In, Arrested Development Movie Will Happen This Year By David Chen/Jan. 29, 2009 5:17 am EST Plans for an Arrested Development film have been in motion for a while. However, according to Mitch Hurwitz, they’ve been flummoxed by actor Michael Cera, who has previously been mentioned as the lone holdout from the cast who wasn’t ready to commit. This position that was buttressed recently when Cera claimed that he was holding out for a script and that the movie was “more hypothetical than you think....
John Carpenter’s The Thing On Hulu By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 24, 2008 8:47 pm EST United States readers can now watch John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi horror classic The Thing, for free on Hulu.com. Other recent Hulu additions include: Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct, Sam Raimi’s For Love of the Game, and Troma’s The Toxic Avenger. John Carpenter’s The Thing On Hulu By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 24, 2008 8:47 pm EST United States readers can now watch John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi horror classic The Thing, for free on Hulu....
By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2010 8:41 am EST Briefly: Leaves of Grass, the film directed by Tim Blake Nelson in which Edward Norton plays twin brothers, was scheduled for a tiny opening this week courtesy of First Look Studios, run by the film’s producer Avi Lerner, who decided to release the film himself after sales didn’t happen at the Toronto Film Festival last fall. But the movie has now been bought by a different, larger distributor....
LOL: Twilight Intervention By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 23, 2009 10:17 am EST Twilight fans don’t know anything about vampires or vampire movies… So Skyler Stone decided to stage a Twilight intervention in Los Angeles. Twilight fans show up to what they think is the red carpet premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon only to discover that they are not going to be seeing Twilight, but instead will be forced into a vampire intervention....
Pathology Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 15, 2008 9:51 pm EST The Movie Blog have gotten their hands on a new red band movie trailer for the upcoming Milo Ventimiglia thriller Pathology. Written by Neveldine/Taylor, the madmen behind Crank, and directed by music video director Marc Schoelermann, Pathology follows a group of medical students who devise a deadly game: to see which one of them can commit the perfect murder....
Rain Of Madness Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2008 12:24 am EST Hearts of Darkness was a famous documentary which chronicled the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic war film Apocalypse Now.Rain of Madness is a mockumentary chronicling the fictional war movie that is the subject of the upcoming Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder. A trailer has been released online. Judging by the trailer. the concept is actually a lot better than it’s execution, but its still definitely worth checking out....
