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Sundance Movie Review: Sunshine Cleaning By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 19, 2008 7:23 pm EST From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine comes a dark dramedy starring Amy Adams (Enchanted, Junebug), Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada), and Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine). Rose’s son is expelled from school after licking his teacher’s leg, and in order to raise the tuition for private school, the high school cheerleader turned 30-something-year-old maid (Adams) stumbles upon the idea of starting up a lucrative Crime Scene Clean-up business with her screw-up sister Norah (Blunt), who is still living in her father’s (Arkin) house....

The Shrine Teaser Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 9, 2009 4:29 am EST When I first saw the poster for The Shrine, a new serious-toned feature about the occult, it quickly earned a mental note. The poster’s ominous imagery (as seen bel0w) perfectly tapped the exploration of a foreign-born religio-horror without giving anything away. And though I later discovered that the film is set in a fictional village in Poland, I couldn’t shake the notion that it was tapping into a similar fear of ancient practices as expressed in Song of Kali, the popular Calcutta-set horror novel that creeps me out more than a year later....

TIFF Review: Deadgirl By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2008 10:52 am EST Deadgirl tells the story who two friends, Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) and JT (Noah Segan), who skip High School and break into a local abandoned mental hospital. In the boiler room they find a dead woman strapped to a gurney and covered in plastic. But it turns out that the dead girl is alive, and JT wants to turn the naked zombie into their personal sex slave....

Tobey Maguire To Bring Robotech To The Big Screen By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 6, 2007 10:36 pm EST Warner Bros has picked up the rights to bring the classic anime series Robotech to the big screen. Tobey Maguire is producing the film, with plans to star. Robotech refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or mecha (many of which were capable of transforming into vehicles) to fight three successive extraterrestrial invasions....

Video Interview: Up Director Pete Docter And Producer Jonas Rivera By David Chen/Feb. 13, 2009 8:00 am EST Last weekend while Devindra and I were at the New York Comic-Con, we had the opportunity to speak with director Pete Docter (Monsters Inc.) and producer Jonas Rivera about Pixar’s new film, Up. Both have had a long and storied history at Pixar, and we were grateful to be able to speak with them about their inspirations for making the film, as well as their take on the direction that Pixar (and the industry) is headed....

28 Days Of Movies By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 28, 2008 10:42 am EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/peterstarttrip.flv 300 226] /Film editor Peter Sciretta is about to embark on a 28 day trip that will span three film festivals – Telluride, Toronto, and Fantastic Fest. This is the first of a series of video and photo blogs that will be filed over the course of the trip. Don’t worry, /Film news coverage will not come to a grinding halt....

9/11 Killed The Forrest Gump Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2008 5:40 pm EST I just got off the phone with Academy Award winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Interview coming soon) and during my conversation about his latest film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I had the opportunity to ask him about the long in development Forrest Gump sequel Gump & Co. Roth admitted that he hasn’t been asked about the project in a long time....

Benjamin Button Olympic TV Spot And Early Buzz By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 18, 2008 11:36 am EST A new television spot for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button aired during the Olympics on Sunday night. A crappy version has shown up online and is embedded below. I’m excited to see this movie, but I’ve been hearing all sorts of troubling things coming out of the post production of the project. Most movie journalists are afraid to report on what is going on behid the scenes, because it’s very gossipy....

Captivity Movie Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2007 2:23 pm EST Update: If you’re looking for the BANNED Captivity Billboard Photo, click here. What happened to Elisha Cuthbert’s career? She had a good part in one of the best series on television (24, at least in the first season – cougars aside). She left to pursue a movie career and has since starred in nothing but crap. We have a glimpse at the poster for her new movie Captivity....

Casting Notes: Ray Winstone In Night Flower; Leo Howard Is Young Conan; Five Voices For Monster In Paris By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2010 8:41 am EST Ray Winstone is currently starring in 44 Inch Chest, which was written by Sexy Beast writers Louis Mellis and David Scinto. Mellis and Scinto have since stopped working together, and Scinto is now poised to make the jump to director. As leading man in his debut Night Flower, he’s tapped a reliable presence: Ray Winstone....

Ghost Rider Super Bowl TV Advertisement By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2007 5:44 am EST More Super Bowl advertisements have hit the web, including Ghost Rider. Directed by Mark Steven Johnson, Ghost Rider stars Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott, Donal Logue and Peter Fonda. Based on the Marvel comic book,comes the story of a superstar motorcycle stunt rider named Johnny Blaze, who makes a deal with the devil to protect the ones he loved most: his father and his childhood sweetheart, Roxanne....

Ghostbusters 3 To Feature “Lots Of Cadets, Boys And Girls” By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2009 12:22 am EST What we know so far: Office scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky are writing a screenplay for Ghostbusters 3, which will bring most of the original cast members back in a mentor capacity, and introduce a whole new generation of Ghostbusters. Harold Ramis insists that “everybody” from the film’s original cast will return, but some, like Sigourney Weaver are still hesitant about returning....

Happy Feet 2 In Production? Babe 3, Mad Max 4 And Justice League In Pre Production? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2008 1:14 pm EST Last we head, a big screen adaptation of Justice League might not be as dead as we first believed. /Film reader Alex Litel stumbled across the website for Dr. D Studios, a Australian-based “digital media company” formed by Omnilab Media Group and filmmaker George Miller. The website not only lists Happy Feet 2 as being “In Production” and Babe 3, Fury Road and Justice League of America being in “Pre-Production”....

James Cameron Has Found Jesus Christ, Literally By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 24, 2007 7:28 pm EST Titanic and Terminator director James Cameron has found Jesus Christ. And his son, we’re not kidding. The director claims that he has scientific proof that Jesus Christ was never resurrected. At a New York press conference on Monday, Cameron will reveal three coffins, supposedly those of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother Mary and Mary Magdalene. While filming his new documentary with Simcha Jacobovici, they supposedly discovered the burial cave where Jesus and his family were buried near Jerusalem....

James Vanderbilt To Write Spider-Man 5 And 6 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2009 8:41 pm EST Last month Sam Raimi hired Gary Ross to rewrite Rabbit Hole playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s draft of Spider-Man 4, original draft penned by James Vanderbilt. Tonight it has been revealed that Sony has hired another screenwriter to take on the webbed Marvel superhero. But not for the fourth film… Sony has hired Vanderbilt to pen the next two films in the Spider-Man franchise, Spider-Man 5 and Spider-Man 6....

John Goodman And Susan Sarandon Join Jack Kevorkian Biopic By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2009 12:09 pm EST Back in May there was news that Al Pacino might star in You Don’t Know Jack, Barry Levinson’s biopic of controversial ‘Doctor Death’ Jack Kevorkian. (As Peter reported on Page 2.) Not only is Pacino in the picture, but Susan Sarandon and John Goodman have also joined, according to THR. The film, scripted by Adam Mazer, is a loose adaptation of the book Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr....

LOL: Ask A Ninja Reviews Ninja Assassin By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2009 10:00 am EST Ask a Ninja doesn’t review movies, or at least not normally. But when a film like Ninja Assassin comes along, the Ninja becomes a movie critic. What did the Ninja think of James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin? Watch the video now embedded after the jump. Kinda reminds me of the last time Ask A Ninja went Hollywood and interviewed Will Ferrell and Jon Heder for Blades of Glory: Thanks to /film reader movieboy for the tip....

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura Talks GI Joe By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2008 1:22 am EST Collider has an extensive interview with G.I. Joe producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. I’ve included a few of the newsworthy tidbits below: The film will be rated PG-13 and will feature bloodless violence. Defending the choice of director Stephen Sommers: “He’s just… his enthusiasm, his excitement, his sense of adventure, his embracing of the mythology, his understanding of the characters....

Mickey Rourke And Jason Statham In 13 Tzameti Remake By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2008 10:55 pm EST What if I told you that Mickey Rourke would be teaming up with Jason Statham for a crime thriller? Sounds like a great idea, right? What if I told you that the movie in question is the American remake of the award-winning French crime thriller 13 Tzameti? Sounds even better… Now yould your excitement be squashed if I told you that Rourke and Statham will be joined by rapper turned actor 50 Cent (Get Rich or Die Tryin’)?...

No Surprises Here: Jason Segel Starring In Muppet Movie By Brendon Connelly/March 16, 2010 6:28 am EST Loud and proud Muppets fan Jason Segel has not only written the fluffy ones’ upcoming movie, but as The Hollywood Reporter unsurprisingly reveal in their Heat Vision blog, he’s signed on to play the lead role. According to their piece, the plot is under wraps but… er… I’ve read two different drafts of the screenplay, so it isn’t that secret....