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Evan Rachel Wood Exits Spider-Man Broadway Production; Kathryn Bigelow Passed On Directing The Film Reboot By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2010 8:03 am EST I can’t stop chuckling about Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. That’s the Broadway musical version of the character that has gone way over budget ($50m+) and features music from Bono and The Edge. Granted, I have a great love for the show’s director, Julie Taymor, and perhaps she can pull this one out of the fire, but the whole enterprise seems like a fatally flawed attempt to shoehorn a character into the wrong environment....

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off House For Sale By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2009 7:08 pm EST Would you like to own a piece of cinematic history? I’m not talking about a small prop or piece or wardrobe…. but a location. Cameron’s house from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is now on the market, for only $2.3 million. Designed by A. James Speyer and David Haid, the Ben Rose Home features two steel and glass buildings cantilevered over a ravine, offering “incredible vistas of the surrounding woods....

Friday Box Office: SAW IV w/$14M Friday And $33.3 For Weekend; Carell’s DAN Headed For $11.9M By Steve Mason/Oct. 27, 2007 10:26 am EST by Steve Mason Despite tracking that suggested a certain “Jigsaw fatigue,” Saw IV (Lionsgate) has opened to an estimated $14M Friday, which should carry it to within striking distance of the biggest opening weekend of the franchise. 1994’s original Saw was a surprise hit with an $18....

Get Your Porn ID From Zack And Miri By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 9, 2008 5:14 pm EST The Weinstein Co has launched a pretty cool new website for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Makes a Ponro at ZackAndMiriStarID.com. The site has some of the standard options like the green band and red band trailers, but is surprisingly clickable, with all kinds of fun animations. The centerpiece is the Get Your Porn I....

Inglorious Basterds Trailer Premieres On E.T. By David Chen/Feb. 10, 2009 6:19 pm EST Precisely how uncontrollable is the hype for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds? Well, it’s at least gotten a bunch of self-respecting geeks to tune into Entertainment Tonight for the first time ever/in ages, a remarkable feat by any measure. As we mentioned yesterday, footage from the teaser of Basterds debuted this evening on E.T. and you can find a low-quality bootleg version after the jump....

Kate Mara And Amber Tamblyn Join Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2010 10:44 pm EST

Lawrence Kasdan’s Robotech? By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2008 1:24 am EST According to CHUD’s sources, screenwriting legend Lawrence Kasdan is writing the big screen live-action adaptation of Robotech. For those of you who don’t know, Kasdan is the guy who wrote Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark. What we do know for sure, Warner Bros and Maguire Entertainment are developing the project as a starring vehicle for Tobey Maguire....

Let The Right One In Red Band Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2008 11:12 pm EST Rotten Tomatoes has a new trailer for Let The Right One In, the Swedish vampire coming of age film which is receiving a lot of buzz on the film festival circuit. The new trailer is red band, so you get an uncensored look at some of the bloodier moments in the film. the trailer is a bit misleading because the film is more of a relationship story than a horror film....

Michael Bay Says Post Production 3D Upconversion “Looks Like Fake 3D” By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2010 6:40 pm EST At last year’s theatrical exhibitors ShoWest convention, Michael Bay voiced the following unpopular statement in front of a room full of theater owners: “I think [3d] might be a gimmick.” But after Avatar changed the game, Paramount began pushing the director to produce Transformers 3 in 3D. Bay even showed signs of budging....

Michael Bay Wants To See A War Between Transformers And Terminators By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 30, 2009 12:28 pm EST Could we see Optimus Prime take on many futuristic robots of the Terminator franchise? I doubt it, but Michael Bay seems to think its a good idea. “I would love to see my robots take on Terminators,” writes Bay on his online message board, after admitting that he’s “excited to see Terminator [Salvation]” and “really loves this whole franchise”, especially “the work of Bale....

Neil Gaiman Continues His Warm Up For Feature Directing With Another Short Film By Brendon Connelly/Aug. 17, 2009 9:00 pm EST Courtesy of his wonderful blog, as readable as it is popular and probably the most popular individual’s blog in the world, Neil Gaiman is currently in London in pre-production of a silent short film for British TV. This will be his second outing as director after the wonderful A Short Film About John Bolton, a documentary (ahem) about the famed comic artist and his uncommonly powerful paintings of vampires....

New Wolverine Poster And Promo Photos By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2009 10:43 pm EST IMPAwards has a lame new French poster for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Also, XMenFilms has three new promo photos. Head on over to the respective websites to see the photos in higher resolution. New Wolverine Poster And Promo Photos By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2009 10:43 pm EST IMPAwards has a lame new French poster for X-Men Origins: Wolverine....

Pineapple Express Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2008 1:00 pm EST Last month, the red band movie trailer for Pineapple Express leaked on to the interwebs. Columbia Pictures has been working overtime to get an official greenband movie trailer out, which will likely be attached to Drillbit Taylor and Forgetting Sarah Marshall next month. The new trailer is not as great as the red band trailer, but more than funny enough....

Question Of The Week: What Videogame Would Make A Good Movie Adaptation? By David Chen/Dec. 6, 2008 9:11 am EST The Question of the Week is a (hopefully) weekly question for slashfilm.com readers that emerges from a discussion on the /Filmcast: After Dark. Feel free to post your answers to the question in the comments below. The best answers will be read on the air each week. And this week, for our inaugural question, the best answer will win a free copy of Takashi Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django in a steelbook case....

Reader Poll: School Of Rock 2 By Hunter Stephenson/June 25, 2008 6:40 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Last night, the Slashfilm staff got together via Second Life to brain storm strategy for something really trivial. Screenwriter, comedian and all around decent guy, Mike White, was kind enough to alert the online press that he had completed the script to School of Rock 2. Our dilemma: What could Slashfilm offer Jack Black and Mike White in order for them NOT to make this totally unneeded sequel aka “Jack Black teaches a spiky-haired kid wearing snowboard goggles on his forehead how to ‘play the skins, dude!...

Robert Downey Jr. Back For Less Than Zero 2? Brett Easton Ellis Suggests So By Brendon Connelly/April 14, 2009 10:19 am EST The idea comes from Brett Easton Ellis who is now finishing up said sequel, in novel form. He tells MTV that such a film “would be a great idea”. The original Less than Zero revolves around Clay Easton, played in the picture by Andrew McCarthy, while Downey played his close-at-hand compadre in all manner of substance abuse and abandon....

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Trailer And Photos By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2007 1:54 pm EST Last week we told you about the Robot Chicken: Star Wars special. You remember, right? 30 minutes, stop-motion animated, Lucas approved, Seth Green directed, featuring the voices of George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Conan O’Brien, Seth MacFarlane, Robert Smigel, Malcolm McDowell, Hulk Hogan, James Van Der Beek, Donald Faison, Abraham Benrubi, Breckin Meyer and Joey Fatone....

Role Models Red Band Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2008 9:28 am EST Universal has released a Red Band Movie Trailer for Role Models, the upcoming Paul Rudd/Seann William Scott comedy. My internet connection is not cooperating, so I’m unable to share my thoughts. So please tell me what you think in the comments below! Official Plot Synopsis: Danny and Wheeler, two salesmen who trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender....

Sneak Preview Of Disney’s Bolt By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2008 1:54 am EST Movie Surfers has a short look at Disney’s upcoming computer animated film Bolt. Miley Cyrus gives us a sneak preview at her character and in production footage from the upcoming film. Rumor has it that the first trailer for Bolt will be attached to Pixar’s WALL-E, which hits theaters on June 27th. For super-dog Bolt (voiced by John Travolta), every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue – at least until the cameras stop rolling....

Sunshine Cleaning Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 3, 2008 1:13 pm EST What happened to Sunshine Cleaning? The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but was met with some disappointment when attendees realized that it wasn’t the next Little Miss Sunshine. A fair comparison considering much of the pre-festival buzz came from the fact that it was produced by the same guys, has “Sunshine” in the title and even features a couple of the same cast members, including Academy Award winner Alan Arkin....