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G.I. Joe First Look: Breaker, Viper, Cobra Comander And Zartan By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2009 10:10 pm EST The first batch of official identification card photos for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra have made their way onto the interwebs. A bunch of previously unseen characters are featured. I have put together the image above which features the four new characters. From left to right, Saïd Taghmaoui as Joe communications specialist Breaker, the Cobra Viper (a ground soldier, which is essentially the Cobra version of the Stormtrooper), third up is Joseph Gordon-Levitt as The Doctor (aka Cobra Commander), and fourth is Arnold Vosloo who plays Zartan, a master of disguise....

High Resolution Video: Bonecrusher Vs. Optimus Prime From Transformers By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2007 7:12 pm EST Last night, Michael Bay posted a clip of the epic freeway battle between Bonecrusher and Optimus Prime. But the big budget action director uploaded the video to YouTube. As much as we thought it was totally awesome, we wished we had a higher resolution version without all the GooTube artifacting. We weren’t alone. And Michael Bay has delivered a brand new high resolution version of the video, which can be seen after the jump....

IMDb’s 18th Birthday By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2008 1:59 am EST As inaccurate as it can be at times, I don’t know what I would do without IMDB.com. I can barely remember back to the days before I learned about the movie database. You would be forced to visit the local video rental store, or call your movie-trivia-obsessed friend (I think everyone use to have one of these guys) if you wanted to know who starred in a certain film from years past....

JJ Abrams Top Secret Cloverfield Movie Trailer Attached To Transformers By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2007 1:47 pm EST We saw a screening of Transformers last night, but we weren’t lucky enough to see what people are now referring to as the trailer to JJ Abrams Top Secret Movie titled Cloverfield. Our friends at FirstShowing were lucky enough to be at a screening that showed the trailer. Everyone who has seen it so far are calling it one of the coolest trailers ever....

Juno Crosses $100 Million Dollar Mark By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2008 2:26 pm EST FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES “JUNO” CROSSES $100 MILLION DOLLAR MARK “This is an astonishing feat for us and the film has surpassed all our expectations. When you have a quality film of this caliber made by amazingly talented filmmakers and actors who truly believe and support a project, you can only succeed,” said Rice. “We knew this film had cross over potential and it has resonated with audiences all across the country....

Lost Boys: The Tribe Movie Trailer (What Have They Done?!!?) By Hunter Stephenson/March 12, 2008 10:33 am EST Dear director P.J. Pesce and screenwriter Hans Rodionoff, please never cross my path in life. And please do a Spitzer. Lost Boys: The Tribe (formerly Lost Boys 2: The Tribe) will (and should definitely) go straight to DVD in July. Buy a copy, attach it to a skateboard and run over it with your grandfather’s Jeep....

Movie Review: The Longshots By Zach Lawrence/Aug. 24, 2008 4:01 pm EST There’s not much to say about the Longshots as a movie as a whole. It is that same “underdogs and group of misfits” facing insurmountable odds and rising to the challenge in a winning montage and overcoming adversity. Now that’s where the “Old Hat” writing ends and the mythology begins. Based on the true story of Jasmine Plumber, and very somberly played by Keke Palmer of the wonderful film “Akeelah and the Bee”....

Movie Trailer: New York, I Love You By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2008 12:25 pm EST From the producers of Paris, je t’aime, comes New York, I Love You, another anthology of 12-short films, this time focusing on the stories of love in New York’s five boroughs. Directed by Allen Hughes, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Brett Ratner, Fatih Akin, Scarlett Johansson, Ivan Attal, Natalie Portman, Shunji Iwai, Jiang Wen, and Andrei Zvyagintsev....

Nicholas Hoult And Teresa Palmer Confirmed For Mad Max: Fury Road; Film Is A Sequel Rather Than Prequel? By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2010 2:33 pm EST Just over a week ago word leaked out that Teresa Palmer might be in George Miller’s upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road. That wasn’t a huge surprise, as Miller had cast Palmer as Talia Ghul in his aborted Justice League movie. Now we’ve got confirmation that Palmer is in fact part of the Mad Max cast, along with another rumored actor, Nicholas Hoult....

Penelope Cruz To Lead Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2010 10:23 am EST In October of last year Lars von Trier revealed his next movie, Melancholia, a ‘psychological disaster film’ with sci-fi overtones. In true von Trier fashion he revealed little else about the movie, promising only “no more happy endings!” If you’ve seen Antichrist, or any of his other films, you know that a von Trier happy ending might just mean that one character suffers a bit less than the others....

Video: Brad Bird’s Ratatouille Presentation At WonderCon 2007 By Peter Sciretta/March 9, 2007 3:54 pm EST Last weekend weekend we reported live from Brad Bird’s Ratatouille presentation at WonderCon 2007 in San Francisco. Well now you can watch the whole thing for yourself (minus the copyright protected clips where were not filmed, but you can read out full account right here) But don’t worry, there are a ton of visual slides for your viewing pleasure....

VOTD: Ghostbusters 2 Slimer Suit/Puppet Test Footage By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2009 5:00 am EST As you probably know by now, I love the fly-on-the-wall making of documentaries which over the last decade have almost completely been replaced by generic making-of featurettes. A video has appeared on YouTube showing the Ghostbusters 2 effects team and Robin Navlyt (who wore the Slimer suit in the film) testing out the Slimer wearable puppet’s ability to emote....

VOTD: Jim Henson Predicts The Future By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2008 1:14 am EST Jim Henson Predicts The FutureThe Pitch: In this 1982 interview, Jim Henson talks about how High Definition Video is the Future of both Filmmaking and Cable Television, and how we’ll eventually have widescreen televisions in our homes. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD?...

Wanted 2 Not Happening; Angelina Jolie To Star In Alfonso Cuarón’s Space Thriller Gravity By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2010 5:47 pm EST So I have a bit of bad news for you guys: It looks as if the Wanted sequel will not be happening after all. Angelina Jolie pulled out of the project to pursue another film. That is where the good news comes in: Jolie left Wanted 2 to star in Alfonso Cuarón’s space thriller titled Gravity....

Watch One Minute Of Pixar’s New Short Film Dug’s Special Mission By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 22, 2009 5:39 pm EST I missed this last week, Disney has released one minute of Pixar’s newest short film, Dug’s Special Mission, which will be released with the Up DVD/Blu-ray on November 10th 2009. Directed by Pixar’s Story Supervisor Ronnie del Carmen, this brand new five minute short film is a prequel to Up, following “the good-hearted dog, Dug as he is sent on a series of quests by his mean canine bosses....

Watch The Oscar-Nominated Short Film Logorama By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 9, 2010 11:34 am EST One of the short films we were left raving about at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival was an animated film titled Logorama. I was convinced at the time that the short would never see the light of day due to the obvious legalities involved. But I guess since it has now been nominated for the ultimate award, the creators are no longer afraid to put it online....

Watchmen: A Visual Cast Comparison Guide By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2007 3:07 pm EST Our friends at FilmIck have posted a visual guide to the Watchmen casting. The guide compares the characters to the various actors who were supposed to play them over the years. I’m unable to connect some of these names to the directors, but most of them seem legit. Click on the image to enlarge. Watchmen is a classic graphic novel, and I’ve had a lot of pretension to a big screen adaptation....

By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2010 9:41 pm EST sources: THR

XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage Finds A New Director By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2009 12:15 am EST Is there really a demand for a second xXx sequel? Last year it was announced that Michael Ferris and John Brancato (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Net, Catwoman) were to write the screenplay for XXX: The Return of Xander Cage, the third film in the series which would re-team director Rob Cohen and actor Vin Diesel....

Year One Super Bowl Ad By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2009 4:40 pm EST I really want the Judd Apatow-produced biblical comedy Year One to be this generation’s Life of Brian, but it seems to be too low brow to achieve any level of cleverness. Overall, I’m just very disappointed with that I’ve seen thus far. I just didn’t find it funny. I haven’t started watching The Office, but I’ve always heard unbelievable praise from everyone I talk to....