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Cool Stuff: The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2008 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Scrupulously researched and written by leading authorities Stephen J. Sansweet, Pablo Hidalgo, Bob Vitas, and Daniel Wallace, each volume is filled with full color illustrations from over 30+ years of expanding Star Wars fiction — movies, television, novels, video games and much more. “The Star Wars universe, much like our own, is constantly expanding....

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 13, 2007 9:21 pm EST [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/hortonhearsawho2.flv 470 250] You can also watch the new trailer in High Definition on Apple.com. Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who hits theaters on March 14th 2007.

Dreamworks Animation Aims For Monsters Inc Meets Casper With Boo U. By Peter Sciretta/June 19, 2009 12:07 am EST Last month, DreamWorks Animation announced their plans for the next three years. The animation studio was developing three possible projects for the November 12th 2012 release date: Chris Sanders’ caveman comedy The Croods, Andrew Adamson’s adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Truckers, and a Super Secret Ghost project which asks what ghosts think about humans....

Early Buzz: Peter’s Mixed Thoughts On The Karate Kid By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2010 6:11 pm EST When it was announced that Sony would be remaking The Karate Kid with Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan as the Mr. Miyagi character, I was livid. Every once in a while on /Film we’ll preclude our headline with “Worst Idea EVER:”, which is kind of a running joke because we run 20-30 of these stories a year....

I Am Prequel? By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2008 3:56 pm EST During Comic Con, filmmaker Francis Lawrence revealed to Shock Till You Drop that he is thinking of making a prequel to the Will Smith sci-fi thriller I Am Legend. “Yes, yes, absolutely, we’re actually trying to crack that, Francis told Shock. “We’re trying to figure out some ideas for it.” The original film has made over $580 million worldwide, and who knows how much on home video....

Kate Hudson Joining Jennifer Garner And Maybe Jim Carrey In Butter By Brendon Connelly/March 15, 2010 5:00 pm EST British sketch comedian and lauded short film director Jim Field Smith has just seen his debut feature She’s Out of My League open to a respectable $9 million or so. Meanwhile, he’s already at work on his follow up, the Black List approved Butter. It might be a spoiler – though also, very possibly not – to reveal that Butter is structured as some kind of parallel to the 2008 Iowa Democratic Caucus that saw Hilary Clinton in competition with Barack Obama....

New Production Art: Prince Of Persia, Toy Story 3, American Dog, Wall-E, Enchanted And National Treasure 2 By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2007 5:20 am EST Thanks to the recent Disney Investor Relations release, we have new logo and production art for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Toy Story 3, Wall-E, and Ratatouille. Check it out below. As always, left click for a higher res version. Based on the hit video game series, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time follows an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world....

Raiders Of The Lost Ark: The Adaptation Coming To Cinemas? By Brendon Connelly/March 23, 2009 11:13 am EST Before Be Kind Rewind, before Son of Rambow, there was… three kids remaking Raiders of the Lost Ark, just for the heck of it. It took them seven summers and they grew up during the long shoot, but they saw the job through and, personally, I prefer their film to the original (though, before you jump down my throat, I can see that the original is superior in most respects)....

Religulous Clip: Bill Maher In A Burka Store By Peter Sciretta/July 29, 2008 12:46 pm EST Lionsgate has released a new clip from Larry Charles’ upcoming documentary Religulous, which follows Bill Maher takes on the current state of world religion. In this new clip Maher takes a tour of a burka store. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/Religulousburka.flv 460 346] Religulous hits theaters on October 3rd 2008. Religulous Clip: Bill Maher In A Burka Store...

The Best Film Of 2007 That You Haven’t Seen Finally Gets A Release! By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2008 11:26 am EST The best movie of 2007 that you haven’t seen is finally going to get a theatrical release. The Go-Getter premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival up against Son of Rambow, and most of the big movie buyers missed it. The Playlist has confirmed that the film will see its first official release from Peach Arch Entertainment (the same guys who are distributing Chapter 27) in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto on June 6th 2008....

By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 17, 2008 3:12 pm EST When the 3D animation company, Image Metrics, showed a promo video entitled The Emily Project at last month’s SIGGRAPH conference in L.A. it was only a matter of time before the buzz spilled online. As impressively demonstrated in the clip here—you see, Emily isn’t “real”—the company’s patented “Markerless” 3D facial animation technology is being touted as quicker, cheaper and altogether superior to the traditional motion-capture method used in many Hollywood films....

The Superhero Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2008 2:36 pm EST I’m not one to get excited about spoof movies. The original Scary Movie is probably the last good one. When Dimension announced that they were going to spoof the superhero film genre, I actually got excited. There in lies the potential for a great geek film. But I was brought back down to earth when I saw the film’s trailer, thanks to SHH....

Tonight In San Francisco At 8 PM: Operation Tron Will Infiltrate The Encom Press Conference By David Chen/April 2, 2010 8:54 am EST Tonight, it looks like the Tron Legacy viral is going to take things to the next level. The Flynn Lives website has announced that they are going to try to disrupt a special “Encom Press Conference” where “Alan Bradley” making an appearance. Fans of the original Tron will recognize that Encom is the fictional company behind Tron while Alan Bradley is Tron’s fictional programmer....

TR2N Will Be Released In 3D By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2008 1:04 pm EST AICN got a chance to chat briefly with TR2N director Joseph Kosinski over the weekend, who revealed that not only was the Comic Con test footage filmed in steroscopic 3D, but the final film will also be filmed and released using the latest in 3D technology. If there is one movie I want to see in 3D, it is a sequel to TRON....

Twilight Sequels New Moon And Eclipse Might Be Filmed Back-To-Back By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2008 12:47 pm EST Summit Entertainment’s big screen adaptation of Twilight just recently entered post production, but the filmmakers are already talking about the possibility of filming the sequels back to back. And for good reason. “Our vampires can’t age…if they were like 45, people would say ‘What’s up?’” laughed director Catherine Hardwicke told MTV. “[Filming them together] could be the case....

Universal Wins In Bidding War For Video Game That Hasn’t Even Been Announced Yet By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 3, 2008 1:00 am EST An update to our story from last week: Universal Studios has won the bidding war for EA’s yet-to-be-announced game based on poem “Dante’s Inferno”. [Variety] Our previous story follows. Hollywood is going crazy for video game properties, which is insane considering most video game adaptations have failed to perform at the box office (aside from Tomb Raider and Resident Evil)....

UPDATED: The Dark Knight Has Biggest Weekend In History, $155 Million. Tops Spider-Man 3. Controversy? By Hunter Stephenson/July 20, 2008 9:56 am EST UPDATE 7/20 11 a.m. PDT: ….and The Dark Knight rules all. According to Box Office Mojo, the sequel grossed $155.3 million this weekend, snatching the record for largest weekend opening away from Spider-Man 3 ($151 mil, opened on a holiday wke, no less). However, Spidey 3 still holds the record for biggest Saturday, with TDK dropping 29%, mostly due to Friday’s record-setting midnight shows....

VOTD: Spider-Man 4 Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 13, 2008 12:00 am EST Spider-Man 4 Trailer The Pitch: College Humor created a trailer for Spider-Man 4 by mashing clips from the Spider-Man trilogy with Seabiscuit. 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? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com. VOTD: Spider-Man 4 Trailer...

WALL-E Movie Trailer #2 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 17, 2007 7:21 pm EST You can download a higher quality quicktime (640x360) on IGN.com. Wall-E hits theaters on June 27th 2008.

What Did You Think Of Star Trek? By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2009 8:00 am EST JJ Abrams’ Star Trek has been released and I want to know what you thought! Leave your mini reviews in the comments below! What did you like? What did you hate? I’ll keep this comment thread sticky’d to the top of the site for the remainder of the weekend. Spoilers are open. What Did You Think Of Star Trek?...