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10,000 BC Teaser Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/July 11, 2007 11:57 am EST From the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow comes an epic film set back in 10,000 BC. The story follows a member of a primitive tribe during the dawn of man. 21-year-old mammoth hunter D’Leh (Steven Strait) travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from extinction. D’Leh, leading an army, uncovers a lost civilization in pursuit of a warlord who kidnapped his love, Evolet (Camilla Belle)....

75 Photos: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2007 2:12 am EST Warner Bros has released a final batch of new Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix production photos. Below we have put together a collection of all the Phoenix photos, 75 in all, that have been released thus far. Some are old, some are brand spanking new, and some are even behind the scenes set photos....

American Babylon A.D. Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2008 1:41 pm EST You can also watch the trailer in High Definition on IGN. Babylon A.D. will hit theaters on August 29th 2008.

Angels & Demons Sneak Peek By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2009 1:34 pm EST Sony has released a new Sneak Peek video for Angels & Demons which features the beautiful score by Hans Zimmer. The quick interview introduction is followed by a montage of clips from the film set to Zimmer’s score. If MTV had a channel where they ran music videos for movie score tracks, it would probably look something like this....

Casting Notes: New Talent For Drive Angry 3D, Bad Teacher And The Descendants By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2010 10:29 am EST Good news for Drive Angry 3D, the new film from Patrick Lussier that already starred Nicolas Cage and, one would presume, a lot of cars: William Fichtner and Amber Heard are both joining the cast. The appeal of both should go without saying; too bad All the Boys Love Mandy Lane hasn’t had a proper US release, so most of you will have to think of Heard’s zombie appearance in Zombieland and her largely un-clothed work in the utterly awful The Informers....

Cool Stuff: Cantina Band T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/April 25, 2008 12:17 am EST In my experience, Star Wars geeks usually like to play Rock Band and Guitar Hero. That’s why Think Geek’s new Cantina Band t-shirt makes perfect sense. It’s a charcoal grey, 100% cotton t-shirt, with a print in black of the silhouette of the band with the words “Cantina Band” outlined in white underneath. Available in sizes S to XXXL from $14....

Disney Pushes WALL-E For Best Picture Nomination By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2008 1:03 am EST This week Disney will launch a campaign to get WALL-E nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, an award never won by an animated film. Only one animated film has ever had the honor to be nominated in the Best Picture category, Disney’s 1991 film Beauty and the Beast. The Academy launched a Best Animated feature category in 2001, which has complicated matters for end of the year Award campaigns....

First Look: Sweeney Todd By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2007 3:46 pm EST Comic-Con teaser poster aside, this is our first look at Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd. I don’t know where exactly this production photo came from (someone just told me that it might be from Panavision?), but I’m sure more are probably on the way. I really dig the black white and brown color palette being used here (and in the teaser poster)....

Friday Box Office: Game Plan To Edge Kingdom; Lee’s Lust, Caution Huge! By Steve Mason/Sept. 29, 2007 1:46 am EST A “Disney-fied” Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has beaten Universal’s big budget Middle East-set action-thriller The Kingdom for a weekend box office win.The Game Plan (Buena Vista) generated $5.7M on its opening day, and the family movie will likely score an estimated $19.38M after kids flood America’s multiplexes on Saturday and Sunday....

Harry Brown Trailer Proves Michael Caine’s Still Got It By Devindra Hardawar/Sept. 19, 2009 11:05 pm EST Clint Eastwood take note: This is what your old-man vigilante film should have looked like. The first trailer for Harry Brown hit the web a couple days ago, and it’s instantly landed the film on my must watch list. The feature directorial effort from Daniel Barber, the film concerns Michael Caine’s retired ex-marine character who goes all Death Wish on some local thugs after they kill his friend....

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Ending Leaked/Hacked? By Peter Sciretta/June 20, 2007 4:44 pm EST It’s probably unlikely, but that won’t stop us from reporting the rumor which is beginning to sweep the internets. A hacker named Gabriel claims to have hacked into the computers of Bloomsbury, the publishing house that distributes the Harry Potter books. The hacker claims to have used a browser exploit to gain access to the final Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows....

Illegal Aliens Movie Trailer Starring Anna Nicole Smith By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2007 5:50 am EST With Anna Nicole Smith’s passing, we thought a look at her latest movie is in order. [quicktime width=“480” height=“375”]http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/illegalaliens.mov[/quicktime] “Nobody sticks a missile in Lucy’s butt and gets away with it!” screams Smith. The Pitch: “You thought they were from another planet… you were right! “Charlie’s Angels” goes sci-fi, with a touch of “Men in Black” thrown in for good measure, when three aliens morph into super-hot babes and arrive to protect the earth from the intergalactic forces of evil....

Is The Screenwriter Of Slumdog Millionaire Writing Wolverine 2? By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2009 8:18 am EST Update: Alex from FirstShowing contacted Fox, and the studio claims the story isn’t true. I received an interesting e-mail yesterday from a /Film reader named Adam B claiming that Wolverine 2 was in development, and Slumdog Millionaire screenwriter Simon Beaufoy was penning the script. alright guys, im currently working at the bradford international film festival in the UK, and tonight we had simon beaufoy, screenwriter of slumdog millionaire doing a screentalk....

Leonardo DiCaprio To Star In Cocaine Cowboys Remake With Mark Wahlberg? By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 28, 2008 2:35 am EST Do we really need more coke overdoses in Hollywood? According to Page Six, Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to star opposite Mark Wahlberg in a live-action remake of the quite awesome documentary Cocaine Cowboys. DiCaprio would star as Mickey Munday, a hick-type airplane pilot with an attitude and an insatiable appetite for the drug trade....

LOL: The Indiana Jones “Nuke The Fridge” Action Figure By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 22, 2009 8:39 pm EST LucasFilm has teamed with Sideshow Collectibles to release a special edition 12 inch Indiana Jones figure that comes complete with a refrigerator made from polystone and metal. That’s right, the figure and fridge recreate the infamous opening sequence from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which even spawned an internet slang word (“nuke the fridge”)....

LOL: Will The Dark Knight Cast Celebrate Like Zoolander After Oscar Win? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2008 3:03 am EST Our friends at The Playlist found this animated mash-up on the forums. I found it too funny not to post. LOL: Will The Dark Knight Cast Celebrate Like Zoolander After Oscar Win? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 17, 2008 3:03 am EST Our friends at The Playlist found this animated mash-up on the forums....

LOST TV Spot #10: “Once Upon A Time…” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2009 11:30 pm EST ABC has released yet another 1 minute trailer for the sixth and final season of LOST. We’ve seen a lot of promos for this upcoming season, none of which contain any new footage (something mandated by the series producers, in order to avoid spoilers). This time around ABC edited the television advertisement in the form of a bedtime story....

M Night Shyamalan Talks The Last Airbender By Peter Sciretta/June 9, 2008 11:58 pm EST M Night Shyamalan has been doing limited press to promote his new film The Happening, and has been talking about his big screen adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon Anime-influenced animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. When the hostile Fire Nation threatens to enslave the Water, Earth, and Air Nations, a reluctant and irresponsible twelve-year-old named Aang, who must forgo his selfish wandering to learn to master his latent powers and face his destiny as the Avatar, the Chosen One who can restore the world order....

Mike Judge’s Extract By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2008 8:34 pm EST Judge’s third live-action feature film Extract will explore “what it’s like to be the boss when everything seems to be shifting around you.” Jason Bateman has signed on to star, Judge’s new shingle Ternion Prods. will produce, while Miramax has come aboard to distribute the film in the U.S. Not much else is known, we’ll update you when more information is available....

Movie Theater Chain Experiments With Recession Specials By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2009 1:27 pm EST The Carpetbagger reports that some movie theaters have begun experimenting with “Recession Specials” in an effort to get people into the theaters during the week. Carmike Cinemas, which operates 2,276 screens in 36 states, is offering 16-ounce sodas and 46-ounce popcorns for $1 each on Tuesdays to try to lure the masses. As you probably know, exhibitors make most of their money off concessions, especially in the first week of release....