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The Winning Season Added To Sundance 2009 Line-Up By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 29, 2008 2:04 pm EST It’s not unusual for last minute selections to be added to the Sundance Film Festival line-up in the weeks leading up to the Park City Festival. Last year it was Hamlet 2, and this year it is screenwriter turned director James C. Strouse’s second feature film The Winning Season (note: this news has been rumored elsewhere, but this is the first time Sundance has officially confirmed the report)....

Watchmen Video Journal: Props By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2008 1:31 am EST Warner Bros has released the 9th video journal for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. This one focuses on the amazingly detailed prop design for the film. You can watch the video embedded below or in High Definition on WarnerBros.com. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/watchmenjournal9.flv 470 264] Watchmen is scheduled to hit theaters nationwide on March 6th, 2009. Watchmen Video Journal: Props By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 8, 2008 1:31 am EST...

Week In Review By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 10, 2008 8:52 pm EST Sequels/Remakes/Adaptations The Plot for Captain America Has been revealed Guillermo del Toro explains who his Frankenstein adaptation will be different: It’s not the traditional creation/origin story Rumor has it that Paul Andrew Williams might direct 28 Months Later The new Watchmen video journal shows The Making of Dr. Manhattan TR2N will be released in Digital Disney 3D. Also, Jeff Bridges talks about the tech of the sequel Steve Carell will return for Get Smart 2 Screenwriter Travis Wright clears up the Blade Runner 2 rumors Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonam Carter have been cast in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland Columbus Short confirms that Lethal Weapon 5 is on the fast track The Daily Mail claims that Johnny Depp will be paid $56 million upfront for Pirates of the Caribbean 4 David Goyer says that all The Dark Knight rumors are B....

A Better Look At The New Freddy Krueger By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2009 5:00 pm EST Ever since Platinum Dunes released a teaser image for their remake A Nightmare on Elm Street was released, horror fans have been trying to get a better glimpse of Jackie Earle Haley in the burn-victim make-up. The teaser trailer offered a bit more, as did some of the toys (although they were more cartoonish in appearance)....

Adam Brody And Seann William Scott Join Kevin Smith’s A Couple Of Dicks By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2009 1:00 am EST Adam Brody and Seann William Scott have joined the cast of Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks. The R-Rated buddy cop comedy stars Tracy Mogan and Bruce Willis as two veteran LAPD detectives who attempt to track down a stolen, mint-condition, 1952 baseball card, get tangled with a sports memorabilia-obsessed gangster and rescue a Mexican beauty who might hold the key to millions in laundered drug money....

Cabin In The Woods Casting Announcements By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2009 8:52 pm EST Kristen Connolly (Revolutionary Road), Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek), Anna Hutchison (Underbelly), Fran Kranz (Dollhouse) and Jesse Williams (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2) have been cast in the Joss Whedon-scripted, Drew Goddard directed horror thriller Cabin in the Woods. They will join the previously announced cast of Richard Jenkins (The Visitor) and Bradley Whitford (Bottle Shock)....

Cool Stuff: Alex Pardee’s Trick ‘R Treat Limited Edition Art Print By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 30, 2009 2:00 pm EST It is no secret that I LOVED screenwriter Michael Dougherty’s directorial debut Trick ‘r Treat (you can watch our video blog review here). Earlier this month Gallery 1988 released a super limited edition t-shirt, designed by Alex Pardee, depicting Sam, one of the main, and scariest, characters from the film. You might remember that we featured this limited edition t-shirt in a previous edition of cool stuff....

Escape From New York Prequel? By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2007 1:10 am EST Last week we reported that New Line Cinema had won rights to remake Escape From New York with 300 star Gerard Butler attached to star. John Carpenter believes the new movie might actually be a PREQUEL. “I don’t know that it’s a remake,” Carpenter told SuicideGirls.com. “I think it’s a lot about Snake before he gets to New York....

First Look: Eagle Eye By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2008 1:36 pm EST Dreamworks has released a first official look at Eagle Eye. Directed by Disturbia helmer D.J. Caruso, from a story by Steven Spielberg, Eagle Eye follows a young slacker (played by Shia LaBeouf) and a single mom (Michelle Monaghan) get tangled up in a terrorist cell plotting a political assassination. The film also stars Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thorton, Ethan Embry and Michael Chiklis....

First Look: The Ruins By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2007 11:06 pm EST “The book of the summer. . . . No quietly building, Ruth Rendell-style suspense here; Smith intends to scare the bejabbers out of you, and succeeds. There are no chapters and no cutaways-The Ruins is your basic long scream of horror. It does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches in 1975. . . . It works well enough, I think, to be the book most people will be talking about this summer....

Friday Box Office: Ferrell Flops! Semi-Pro Dribbles To Disappointing $14.3M Weekend By Steve Mason/March 1, 2008 3:19 am EST ALL-TIME TOP 10 WILL FERRELL LIVE ACTION OPENINGS Talladega Nights – $47M Blades of Glory – $33M Elf – $31.1M Anchorman – $28.4M Kicking & Screaming – $20.15M Bewitched – $20.13M Old School – $17.4M Zoolander – $15.5M Semi-Pro – $14.3M (estimate) Stranger Than Fiction – $13.4M The failure of Semi-Pro puts an exclamation point at the end of a long losing streak for New Line that has resulted in Time Warner’s decision this week to fold it into Warner Bros....

Geek Deal: Terminator 3 Blu-Ray For $7.49 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 2010 1:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Geek Deals: 50% Off Blu-Ray Movies; After Christmas DVD Sale By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 26, 2008 1:11 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. $37.49 – Band of Brothers $24.99 – Mad Men Season One $34.99 Each – The Sopranos Season 6 Part 1 and Part 2 $49.99 – LOST Season 4 40% Off the New Criterion Blu-ray movies – Bottle Rocket, The Third Man, Chungking Express and The Man Who Fell To Earth...

Golden Globes Expands Animated Features To Five Nominations By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2009 6:26 pm EST The Hollywood Foreign Press Association have announced that they will expand this year’s number of Golden Globe nominations for Best Animated Feature from three to five. The amended rule now reads: Eligible films must be feature-length (70 minutes or longer) with no more than 25% live action. If less than eight animated films qualify, the award will not be given, in which case the films would be eligible for Best Picture....

Green Lantern Aims For Spring 2009 Shoot By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 29, 2008 1:49 pm EST Our friends at FirstShowing caught up with producer Donald De Line, who revealed that a new draft of The Green Lantern has been turned in, and while nothing is “confirmed” they’re “gearing up to start shooting early spring.” I have to admit that while I’ve read comics over the years, Lantern isn’t one of them. I’ve never found the character to be that interesting, but have a lot of friends who disagree....

Indiana Jones 4 River Car Chase Photo By Peter Sciretta/March 6, 2008 7:51 pm EST Entertainment Weekly has yet another photo from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Indy (Harrison Ford), Mutt (Shia LaBeouf), and Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) race against a group of Russian soldiers through the Peruvian rain forest. EW has a super-gimmicky feature where you can use a virtual magnifying glass to enlarge part of the image....

Inkheart Sequels Likely Forthcoming By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 15, 2009 11:48 am EST Let’s make no bones about it: I absolutely loved Inkheart. The single stand out element was Roger Pratt’s cinematography, which is just about unbelievable in places, though it was definitely a well written, well directed and brilliantly cast film. Like or lump Brendan Fraser, he was in the mind of Cornelia Funke when she wrote the source novel and therefore it’s hardly surprising he fits the role well, and Helen Mirrren, Andy Serkis and particularly Jim Broadbent all absolutely nail the tone and flavour required for this kind of fantasy....

John Hughes And The Origins Of National Lampoon’s Vacation By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 12, 2008 1:38 pm EST In the new issue of Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola’s slept-on literary magazine, John Hughes has written an elegant and amusing foreword to his short story, “Vacation ‘58,’ which became the classic road-trip comedy National Lampoon’s Vacation. It’s a whirlwind tale, with Hollywood quietly snapping up the rights, and Hughes, to his amazement, finding himself adapting the screenplay, suddenly outfitted with the sine quibus non of show biz....

John Moore To Direct Final Orbit By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2010 9:13 pm EST John Moore will direct a big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Final Orbit, produced by Gale Anne Hurd (Terminator series, Aliens, The Incredible Hulk). Moore was an Irish commercial director who became a feature filmmaker with Behind Enemy Lines, Flight of the Phoenix, The Omen, and most recently Max Payne. The graphic novel, which was originally slated for release by Platinum Studios Comics in early 2009, still is unavailable....

LOL: Snakes On A Plane - The Television Edit By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2009 9:00 am EST As you probably know, many films have been redubbed and reedited to be television safe for network and cable broadcast. In my opinion, the TBS version of Dumb and Dumber is almost unwatchable. /Film reader Mikey S sent over this 22-second screencapture of FX’s airing of the scene from Snakes on a Plane where Samuel L Jackson gets tired with the mother F—king Snakes on the Mother F—ing plane....