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New Photos: Sigourney In Avatar, Viking Actioner Valhalla Rising, Jennifer’s Body And Whiteout By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2009 12:19 pm EST A whole ton of new photos have showed up on the web today, thanks in part to the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. But before I get to those, perhaps the most notable stills are scanned from Empire’s Avatar cover story. They show, among other things, Sigourney Weaver’s avatar. We saw her in the Comic Con and Avatar Day footage, but if you missed those exhibitions, this is your first chance to see a blue alien that looks a whole lot like Dana Barrett....

New Star Trek Photo; Las Vegas Star Trek Experience To Reopen By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 26, 2009 3:18 pm EST The latest issue of Total Film Magazine is being released in four collectible Star Trek covers. The new photo above of Kirk and Spock coming face to face with Nero on the Bridge’s video screen. Check out the photo and covers in higher resolution on TotalFilm.com. Also, SciFi Wire confirmed today that a contract has been signed with Paramount to reopen the Star Trek The Experience exhibit in Las Vegas on May 8th (to coincide with the release of J....

Photos From The Abandoned Soundstage Of HBO’s The Wire By David Chen/Jan. 6, 2009 10:38 am EST Casual readers of /Film will know that we’re all big fans of David Simon’s HBO series The Wire. In fact, Slashfilm editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta recently admitted that after months of disgracefully leaving The Wire on his DVD shelf, he finally gave season 1 a spin (his reaction? “Why did I not watch this sooner?...

Recession Watch: The Orphanage Is Gone By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 4, 2009 10:35 pm EST With the recession in full effect, everyday I get emails from friends who have been layed off. It’s tought, but what is even tougher is when companies go out of business. When you think about visual effects, you probably think of Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) or Digital Domain, but truth is there a bunch of smaller companies that do work on a lot of the films you see in theaters....

Sneak Preview: Spider-Man 3 One-Minute Video Clip By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2007 10:27 am EST Can’t wait for that new one minute Spider-Man 3 sneak preview clip which is set to debut on Monday night’s episode of Heroes? Sneak a peak below. Entertainment Weekly ran a 20 second sneak preview of the one-minute Spider-Man review (I know, this is getting a bit ridiculous). The clip shows part of the Green Goblin / Spider-Man fight....

Sony Announces Stage 6 Films By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 8, 2007 9:15 pm EST Sony Pictures have officially announced the launch of Stage 6 Films, a label that will acquire and produce lower budget films ($1 million-$10 million budget range) for theatrical and direct-to-DVD release. Direct-to-DVD releases are all the rage now-a-days. Disney and Universal (the American Pie series) innovated a business of using and abusing proven franchises in lower budget home video prequels/sequels....

Tenacious D Have Written A Song For New Heavy Metal Movie By Russ Fischer/June 22, 2009 3:00 pm EST Buried in a video interview with MTV, Jack Black mentions that he and Kyle Gass, aka Tenacious D, have written a song for the new Heavy Metal movie. Which doesn’t mean that we’ll ever hear it, because the project could be perennially stuck in development hell, but the very idea of having a song in the film by the ‘D is great....

The /Filmcast Gets Political Tonight At 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST By David Chen/Oct. 20, 2008 5:51 pm EST Join us tonight at 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST at Slashfilm’s Live page, where we’ll run down the week’s worth of entertainment news and review Oliver Stone’s W. with Devin Faraci from CHUD. We’ll also be discussing Dear Zachary, one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries of the year....

The Dark Knight Back On IMAX In January By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2008 8:05 pm EST Remember when I predicted that Warner Bros would rerelease The Dark Knight in theaters? Well it’s happening sooner than you might expect. According to Reuters, the studio planning a January 2009 IMAX rerelease, as an award season reminder. It is “uncertain” if the film will also be redistributed on conventional screens, but I don’t see why not....

The Hurt Locker’s Kathryn Bigelow And Mark Boal Re-Team For Triple Frontier By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2009 10:10 am EST Kathryn Bigelow went six years between her last feature directorial effort (K19: The Widowmaker) and this year’s incredible effort The Hurt Locker. But the wait won’t be nearly as long for her next film. According to Variety, Bigelow and her Hurt Locker witer Mark Boal have been signed by Paramount to make action-adventure film Triple Frontier, “a high-stakes ensemble project....

The Lookout Director Scott Frank Discusses Deceptive Marketing Gone Wrong By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2007 4:19 pm EST If you’ve seen the movie trailer and poster (pictured left) for The Lookout, than you’re probably expecting a dark Memento like heist movie, and you would be wrong. It’s probably the worest example of false movie advertising since Bridge To Terabithia (which promised but failed to be a Narnia fantasy world family film)....

The Outbreak - A Choose Your Own Adventure Zombie Movie By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 19, 2009 12:37 am EST When I was a kid I was fascinated with those choose your own adventure books, but every time I actually bought one I became disappointed with the lack of actual control the reader has on a story. I remember my local movie theater installing the EDGE ride system, which would occasionally feature a short film that would allow the audience members to choose the direction the characters would go with a remote built into the seats....

Three New Photos From Indiana Jones 4 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 13, 2008 10:03 am EST /Film Reader Andrea has sent us three new photos from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which appear to be published in an italian magazine. Is it just me or does that photo with Harrison Ford and the snake look a bit strange? via: repubblica Three New Photos From Indiana Jones 4...

Tron Legacy: New Image And Poster By Russ Fischer/Dec. 9, 2009 8:50 am EST We were just sent along what looks to be the first official still and poster for Disney’s upcoming Tron Legacy. Check them out, and read the official synopsis, after the break. HeyUGuys in the UK got these images from Disney, but the poster is the domestic US one. They don’t show off too much, but the poster design is great, and very much in line with the Comic Con teaser clip....

Update On DJ Caruso’s Y: The Last Man With Shia LaBeouf By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 15, 2008 2:46 pm EST We’ve known for a while that D.J. Caruso’s first film in a planned Y: The Last Man trilogy was aiming for 2010, and he’s given a new update to UGO. The director of Disturbia and Eagle Eye confirms that the script by Carl Ellsworth (Disturbia, Red Eye) was turned in last week to Warner Bros....

VOTD: Miranda July’s The Hallway By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2009 11:43 pm EST Me, You, and Everyone We Know writer/director/star Miranda July created a 125 foot hallway art installation for the 2008 International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Yokohama, Japan. The Hallway is a meditation the expectations, hopes and realities of life. If you haven’t seen any of July’s prior art work or films, be warned, Miranda’s work is an acquired taste....

Wanted Trailer To Premiere Next Week By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2007 1:19 pm EST SuperHeroHype has learned that the first movie trailer for Wanted will premiere next week in front of Universal’s American Gangster. I would normally predict that the trailer will be released online before the release, but Universal may hold off on an online premiere of the trailer until after Gangster’s opening weekend. We reported a couple days ago that an Academy Award screener copy of Gangster had leaked on to bit torrent....

Weinsteins Going Back To Former Halloween Director For Halloween 3D? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2009 11:48 am EST Yesterday a tipster started letterbombing the inboxes of horror editors with an unconfirmed bit of news about a director for Halloween 3D, essentially replacing Rob Zombie, who’ll be moving on to The Blob and hopefully Tyrannosaurus Rex. The news isn’t even ’news’ yet, as it remains speculative. But it’s an interesting idea, as the director is someone who has experience with the Halloween fanchise already, and has also had a hand in both 3D and another long-running horror series....

A Christmas Carol Trailer And Premiere News By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 13, 2009 8:21 am EST The online teaser trailer for Robert Zemeckis and Jim Carrey’s new 3D, performance captured movie of A Christmas Carol has finally, finally gone live. We’ve had in-cinema chances to see a shorter trailer for this film for a couple of months now, and there’s even been a lesser-spotted TV ad hopping around of late but, for some reason that I’ll probably never agree with, even if I can fathom it out, there’s not been an official trailer released on the internet until now....

Bill Murray Replaces Toby Kebbell In Passion Play By Russ Fischer/Jan. 15, 2010 8:21 am EST Glazer, incidentally, was also the writer of Murray’s new holiday classic Scrooged. [via Production Weekly]