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Box Office Tracking: Speed Racer May Struggle To $35M Opening By Steve Mason/April 30, 2008 3:13 am EST Warner Bros and the Wachowski Brothers may need to call for a tow truck. Speed Racer, the big budget adaptation of the popular late 60’s anime cartoon classic, remains in the “slow lane” according to the most recent industry tracking. Studio sources are attempting to explain away the bad tracking by saying that family films never score particularly well in advance audience surveys, but there’s something fundamentally wrong in the numbers that have been described to me....

By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2007 7:20 pm EST But does “John Q Public” want to see Bruce jumping on airplanes and running from big explosions when he’s 60 years old? I’m not quite sure people want to see a 52 year old John McClane. Heck I do, but may-be I’m in the minority?

Cool Stuff: Alien3 Queen Facehugger Maquette By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 9, 2009 6:00 am EST Sideshow Collectibles has partnerd with Amalgamated Dynamics Inc (ADI) for the new Queen Facehugger Life Size Maquette from Alien3. Each piece is an exact, full-scale reproduction of the original maquette created by ADI. The Maquette stands approximately 26 inches tall and is about 20 inches wide. The Queen Life Size Maquette is cast in high-quality polystone and fiberglass, hand-finished and hand-painted to exacting standards, then individually hand-numbered....

Cool Stuff: Color-Coded Criminals T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/March 20, 2008 5:28 am EST Mr. Purple’s Threadless t-shirt design Color-Coded Criminals is a Crayola-styled take on the infamous scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. And now is the time to buy anything on Threadless, because they are running a Spring Cleaning Sale until March 23rd, with most t-shirts (including this one) going for only $9 (40% off the normal price). Definitely worth checking out....

Cool Stuff: DJ-Ing Marvel Superhero T-Shirts By Peter Sciretta/April 17, 2008 11:26 am EST DMC World is selling Technics shirts, featuring DJ-ing versions of Marvel’s greatest superheroes. The only bad news is that these shirts sell for £25.00, which converts to almost $50 American. Ouch. The t-shirts are part of a limited edition series which are each issue numbered. via: Gizmodo Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff?...

Cool Stuff: I Drink Your Milkshake T-Shirts By Peter Sciretta/April 8, 2008 2:12 am EST It seems like everyone and their mother has a “I Drink Your Milkshake” T-shirt now-a-days. Here are some of the cooler designs I’ve come across. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. Cool Stuff: I Drink Your Milkshake T-Shirts...

Coraline Director Henry Selick Leaves Laika By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2009 6:07 pm EST I really want Laika to be the next Pixar. I know that is such a bold statement to make, especially after only one movie. But I feel like the animation studio possesses all the ingredients. Their first feature film, the groundbreaking 3D stop-motion animated film Coraline, was not only critically acclaimed, but also a financial success. The 3D stop-motion animation company has already built up some powerful brand recognition in the world of animation....

DiCaprio’s Company Moves Forward With New Twilight Zone Movie By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2009 9:23 am EST The original five-season show The Twilight Zone (‘59-‘64) has been reborn in multiple incarnations: two additional television series, in 1985 and 2002, multiple book anthologies and comic books, and a disastrous movie released in 1983. (Not to mention a pretty amazing pinball machine, which is where the article’s image originated.) Now, according to Variety, Leonardo DiCaprio’s company Appian Way is moving forward with a new Twilight Zone film, and has just hired a writer: Rand Ravich, writer/director of The Astronaut’s Wife, producer of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind....

Dreamworks To Release Shrek 4 In May 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 1, 2007 6:30 pm EST Dreamworks Animation and Paramount have officially announced that they will release Shrek 4 on May 10th 2010, according to Variety. Earlier this year, Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg has announced that there will be a Shrek 4 and Shrek 5, but THAT IS IT! “It’s a finite story, has been from the beginning and I think that’s part of its integrity, part of its strength, that we’re not thinking this up as we go,” he told The Age....

First Look: James Cameron’s AVATAR Aliens Look Like….Thundercats? By Hunter Stephenson/July 11, 2008 12:55 pm EST Cheetara is pissed! The image on the upper left is from a staff T-shirt given to an AVATAR crew member by actor Sam Worthington. This is apparently the first look at the alien race called Na’vi in James Cameron’s 2009 3D Movie (that Will Eat the World). In the film, Na’vi live on a planet called Pandora and they’re described as a “humanoid race with its own rich language and culture....

Full Length District 9 Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2009 11:16 am EST The full trailer for Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 has been released on Yahoo. The new trailer gives you a much better look at the actual story of the film and how the doc-style cinematography will by employed. I really love how the South African setting adds to the realism of aliens living on Earth. Watch the trailer embedded after the jump, and please tell me what you think in the comments below....

High Resolution Star Trek Character Posters 2.0 By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 12, 2008 1:13 am EST Paramount has updated the official Star Trek website with high resolution versions of the new Star Trek character posters featuring John Cho as Sulu, Simon Pegg as Scotty, Anton Yelchin as Chekov and Karl Urban as McCoy. I’ve stiched the images together for a super high resolution version of the four posters combined. Click on the below image to enlarge....

IFC Buys Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2010 7:15 am EST I’m certain that within the next week, as Sundance 2010 goes down in Park City, UT, at least a handful of new ‘must-see’ films will crop up for this year. In the meantime, one of the year’s big films for me is from last year — Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void. (Which actually gets a US premiere this week at Sundance....

Jason Momoa Is The New Conan The Barbarian By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2010 6:24 pm EST Recently we heard that Nu Image/Millennium and Lionsgate were looking at three actors as possible options to be the new Conan the Barbarian in the film to be directed by Marcus Nispel. There was Jason Momoa, from Stargate: Atlantis; Kellan Lutz from Twilight; and a third, then-unnamed actor who turned out to be Jared Padalecki....

Kevin Smith Remembers George Carlin By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2008 2:52 pm EST In our obituary post last night, I mentioned how my favorite big screen performance of Carlin’s was in Kevin Smith’s Jersey Girl. Smith was a filmmaker who used Carlin in his films when available. Watching his few appearances, I’m shocked that his career in film never blew up. Smith takes a look back at the great comedy legend in a guest column for Newsweek:...

Kung Fu Panda Director To Helm We3 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2008 2:19 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Stevenson has also been rumored to be attached to Joel Silver’s He-Man film, so it looks like he’s trying to find a project in the live-action realm that might benefit from his computer animation background. I wouldn’t expect We3 to go into production any time soon as the project was set up at New Line, but is currently looking for a new home....

Lost Season 5 Sneak Peeks; Don’t Expect To See Jack And Kate On The Big Screen By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2009 12:51 pm EST For years now, there have been rumors and speculation about a possible LOST movie which would cap the end of the series. Series co-creator Damon Lindelof assures fans that while a Lost movie is possible, the sixth season finale will ultimately end the story of the group of characters we have been following....

Michael Bay Television Advertisement Cameo By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2008 4:59 pm EST To continue with our unplanned /Film’s Video Extravaganza themed day of blog postings, below you can watch a new television advertisement which features a cameo by Mr. Transformers/Armageddon – Michael Bay. Watch the television ad below. Michael Bay Television Advertisement Cameo By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2008 4:59 pm EST To continue with our unplanned /Film’s Video Extravaganza themed day of blog postings, below you can watch a new television advertisement which features a cameo by Mr....

Movie Trailer: Bunny And The Bull By Brendon Connelly/Oct. 17, 2009 5:11 am EST While we were previously privy to a clip from Paul King’s Bunny and the Bull, the full trailer for the film has now been launched, and you can see it embedded below the break. This is the first film from the director of The Mighty Boosh and features several alumni of that show in the cast, including hipster heartthrobs Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding....

New Captivity Billboard: “Captivity Was Here” By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2007 6:25 am EST We’re in Los Angeles for the Grindhouse junket. I noticed something interesting on my way to my hotel. The offensive Captivity billboards have been removed. But that’s not that interesting. We already knew that was going to happen. This is the interesting part: The billboards were replaced with an all-white background with the following words scribbled across “Captivity Was Here”....