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New Star Trek Featurette Shows Nothing New By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2009 12:15 am EST Esurance has added a short Star Trek featurette featuring director JJ Abrams, producer Damon Lindelof, stars Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, and Zachary Quinto, and writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci talking about reinventing Trek. Unfourtunately the featurette features no new footage from the actual film, and only a few blink-and-you-missed-it seconds of behind the scenes filming....

Objectified Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2009 12:30 am EST I never thought I’d be so interested to see a documentary about the design of objects, but the trailer for Objectified has me sucked in. And what better trailer to post on the morning of MacWorld, a computer convention of a company which has made a business on it’s minimalistic design. In fact, you see a glimpse of Jonathan Ive, the genius designer behind the iPod, iPhone, iMac and Macbook Pro, in the later moments of the trailer....

Release Date And Info On Banksy’s Film Exit Through The Gift Shop By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2010 8:05 am EST One of the closest things to a sensation at Sundance this year was Exit Through the Gift Shop, the film that is a documentary both by and about the reclusive and anonymous British graffiti artist Banksy. Now the film is getting an interesting release strategy that will have it in three cinemas on April 19 and expanding to more thereafter....

Remember D.E.B.S? Ready For A Sequel Comic Book Series? By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 14, 2009 8:00 pm EST Now Robinson is talking about how she might bring her D.E.B.S back to life, and she’s been inspired by another action woman. “I’ve been so inspired by the Buffy Season 8 comic books, I’m looking into doing the sequel as a comic.” Add to this Rob Thomas’ rumoured Veronica Mars funnybooks and we’ll have a veritable avalanche of smart, savvy ladies up to all sorts of adventures on the newsracks....

Rumor: Iron Man And The Incredible Hulk Comic Book Movie Crossovers By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 4, 2007 7:55 am EST I hate to publish rumors, especially with the recent spell of inaccurate information spreading its way across the interwebs, but this is just too good not to comment on. When I was a kid, I was big into comic books. And I was a sucker for comic book crossovers, where one superhero would team-up or fight another superhero in a special comic book release....

Set Photos: Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 5, 2007 6:33 am EST Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold best-selling novel The Lovely Bones is preparing to shoot in the MacDade Mall in Ridley Township, Pennsylvania. The production is transforming the location into a 1970’s shopping mall for the project. J.M. (Janetjunkie1) was able to snap a few photos of the recreations of the 70’s era mall stores. 15 more photos after the jump....

Sherlock Holmes Sequel In Development, Brad Pitt In Discussions To Play Moriarty? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2009 3:23 pm EST Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of Sherlock Holmes won’t hit the big screen until Christmas, but Warner Bros is already developing a sequel. According to Risky Business, Kieran and Michele Mulroney have been hired to pen a draft for a continuation. The brother screenwriting team wrote the imaginary Superhero coming-of-middle-age dramedy Paper Man which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the dumped DC Comics live-action film Justice League: Mortal....

Spike Jonze To Direct New Weezer Video By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2008 1:41 am EST As you probably know, before directing Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze was a music video director. In 1994 and 1995, Jonze directed some of the most memorable music videos of all time. It has been six years since Jonze last collaborated with Weezer on Island in the Sun, and now comes word via the Dallas Observer that Jonze is tentatively set to direct the band’s next video “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived”....

The Dark Knight Beats Star Wars: Clone Wars And A New Hope By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2008 4:37 pm EST As expected, The Dark Knight was dethroned at the Box Office this weekend, after five weeks on top. Tropic Thunder won the weekend with an estimated $26 million ($37 million 5-day total). But here is where the unexpected thing happened – The Dark Knight beat Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which was projected to take the #2 spot on the weekend charts....

This Week In DVD: The Forbidden Kingdom, Baby Mama, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, The Big Lebowski (10th AE), And More By Adam Quigley/Sept. 9, 2008 1:37 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This may just be one of the most profane, crass, disgusting, and downright twisted shows to ever air on television. Those are just a few of its praise-worthy traits. It’s also gut-achingly hilarious....

Twilight Producer Speculates On Fall Shoot And CGI Baby For Breaking Dawn, Says Chris Weitz Unlikely To Direct By Russ Fischer/Jan. 11, 2010 1:00 pm EST I’ve got to say, perhaps the best thing about Summit’s relentless commitment to making Twilight films is that the whole process is going to rush us towards an adaptation of the utterly crazy finale Breaking Dawn in record time. That means two things. One, we’ll get to see the utterly crazy Breaking Dawn on screen, and that’ll hopefully be good for some fun....

Universal Secures Exclusive Rights For Jason Bourne’s Future By David Chen/Nov. 23, 2008 11:20 am EST Recently, Variety reported that Universal Pictures has aquired the exclusive rights to Jason Bourne character and has inked a first-look deal for other Ludlum novels. This new deal “paves the way” for future Bourne installments. The fourth Bourne film is currently scheduled to be released in summer 2010, with Paul Greengrass directing Matt Damon as Bourne, with a script by George Nolfi....

Video: First Four Minutes Of The Kingdom By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2007 2:22 am EST Peter Berg’s The Kingdom is front and back-loaded with some incredible action. The middle hour is, well, you’ll have to wait for my review tomorrow. Universal Pictures has put the first four minutes of the film online for you to enjoy. I really think they should have included the first 10 or 15 minutes instead. The first four minutes consists of a nicely designed introduction, and nothing more....

VOTD: Hayden Panettiere For John McCain By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 15, 2008 12:00 am EST Hayden Panettiere For John McCain The Pitch: Heroes star Hayden Panettiere shows her support for John McCain. “Hi, I’m Hayden Panettiere, and I’m hot enough that I know I have your attention for at least 30 seconds. There are three things I think all citizens should do: Smoke cigarettes, vote for John McCain, and don’t wear a seat belt....

VOTD: Second Skin - Documentary About Gamers Addicted To MMORPGs By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2009 10:28 pm EST Over 50 million people around the world live in these online worlds, and Second Skin takes a look at a few of the characters in this space, running the gamut from a couple who met online in WOW and will be meeting for the first time ever in the real world, to a young man who’s addiction to WOW drove him to move into a boarding house as part of a 12-step online gamers self help group called Online Gamers Anonymous....

Will Russell Brand Join Pirates Of The Caribbean 4? By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2009 10:59 pm EST Last year it was rumored that Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) was in talks to play Captain Jack Sparrow’s (ie Johnny Depp) brother in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie. We didn’t pick up the story at the time because it seemed dubious, especially since the source was one of those UK gossip newspapers....

Witch Mountain Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2007 2:05 pm EST Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson revealed some new details for the upcoming re-imagining of Escape to Witch Mountain. Titled Witch Mountain, The Rock reteams with The Game Plan director Andy Fickman. “It’s going to be a great badass action comedy. That’s why they call it a re-imagining and not a remake because they are going to completely amp things up in a major way,” The Rock revealed to /Film during the Southland Tales Junket....

X-Men: First Class Is A Prequel, NOT A Spin-Off By Peter Sciretta/April 15, 2009 12:04 am EST “So it’s young Scott, young Jean, young Beast and that’ll be really fun,” Donner said. “I think (the plan) is to follow some of the characters into their own stories, and weave them back into the X-Men world. And hopefully First Class will become its own franchise and we can follow them as they grow up....

12 Minutes With James Cameron By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 14, 2008 11:38 pm EST James Cameron was interviewed by George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC’s The Hour. Over the course of twelve minutes, Cameron talks about his pre-filmmaking past, why he doesn’t have a star on the walk of fame, the computer animated character design in Terminator 2, the upcoming hybrid 3D sci-fi action film Avatar, Breaking into the editing room of Piranha II, being a passionate and intense director, creating tough female characters, and the anxiety of winning Oscars....

A Card Trick From The Brothers Bloom By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2009 12:22 pm EST Summit Entertainment has released a new clip from Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom. The clip shows one of the many wonderful sequences in the film. Rachel Weisz explains to Adrien Brody why she became a shut in, through the help of a magic trick. Any screenwriter knows that exposition is the hardest thing to write in an interesting way....