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December’s Box Office Battle: Avatar Versus Sherlock Holmes By Russ Fischer/Dec. 9, 2009 4:30 pm EST Jeff Wells is printing some tracking data that puts awareness of Sherlock Holmes above 75% in all categories, and has ‘definite interest’ in the film ranked above 40% for men and women both over and under 25. This comes just as critics in LA are starting to see the film. Some are reversing previously skeptical positions — Devin at CHUD noted over Twitter that, while he “didn’t love it like others did” he was “amazed at how true to the source material” this filmed Sherlock Holmes is....

First Look: Danny Glover As Captain Ahab In Dragon Fire: “It’s Moby Dick With Way More Excitement, Way More Action!” By Russ Fischer/Feb. 22, 2010 11:00 pm EST Earlier this month I mentioned in a brief casting note that Danny Glover had been cast in Dragon Fire, a low-budget reworking of Moby Dick that would shoot in Utah, with a white dragon standing in for the more traditional white whale. Glover is Captain Ahab, and Vinnie Jones is in the film not as Queequeg (come on, that would be funny) but as Stubb....

Friday The 13th Remake In 2009? By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2007 2:07 pm EST Variety is reporting that Michael Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes hope to release a remake of Friday the 13th in 2009. Four of the films have been released on Friday the 13th, which just seems like too big of a marketing gimmick to drop. And 2009 contains three Fridays that happen to fall on the 13th of the month: February, March, November....

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Teaser Trailer - Rule #2 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2009 12:36 pm EST Atari has released a new teaser trailer for Ghostbusters: The Video Game titled “Rule #2 (Don’t look directly into the trap!)”. Am I the only one really excited to play this game? Found on /Gamer, embedded after the jump. Ghostbusters: The Video Game will hit stores on June 16th 2009. Ghostbusters: The Video Game Teaser Trailer - Rule #2...

Guillermo Del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2008 12:50 am EST If directing a prequel adaptation to one of the biggest movie franchises in the history of film wasn’t enough, Guillermo del Toro has found yet another project to add to his already overfull plate. The Pan’s Labyrinth filmmaker will produce a remake of ABC’s 1973 television movie Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark for Dimension Films....

James Cameron’s Producer On Battle Angel Alita, The Dive And Avatar 2 By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 29, 2009 12:19 pm EST Jon Landau has collaborated with James Cameron in producing both Titanic and Avatar and, with a bit of luck and a following wind, will go on and collaborate with him further in the future. But on which projects, exactly? Talking to the French magazine Le Film, Landau has given some indication of which pictures Cameron is planning to tackle next: his long awaited manga adaptation Battle Angle Alita, underwater romance The Dive and even a sequel to Avatar....

Joe Carnahan Updates Killing Pablo/White Jazz By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2007 11:38 am EST Joe Carnahan still isn’t sure which of his two greenlit films will go into production next, but he gives us this update: “There are two actors that I’m interested in for [White Jazz]. Both are available and both are apparently keen on the script. But it’s all speculation at the point. [Killing Pablo] on the other hand, seems likes it’s about to blow and blow big....

Max Allan Collins To Write And Direct Two “Road To Perdition” Sequels By David Chen/Nov. 3, 2008 8:46 am EST After Sam Mendes’ breakout hit American Beauty, he went on to direct Road to Perdition and Jarhead, two expensive critical darlings that failed to live up to box office expectations (/Film readers will know that Mendes is currently attached to helm Preacher). In particular, Perdition, which at the time was one of Tom Hanks’ few starring roles as an ostensible “bad guy,” is regarded in some circles as a beautiful and criminally underappreciated film....

McLovin Cast In Year One By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 6, 2007 9:23 am EST Christopher Mintz-Plasse will forever be known as McLovin. In the way that Seann William Scott will probably always be referred to as Stiffler. Plasse would probably be better off changing his name officially to McLovin.Judd Apatow is trying to get Mintz-Plasse some more work in Hollywood, casting the SuperBad star in the 2009 Harold Ramis comedy Year One (no relation to the Frank Miller Batman graphic novel) starring Jack Black and Michael Cera....

New Photos From Grindhouse’s Planet Terror By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2007 2:09 pm EST Some new photos from Planet Terror, Robert Rodriguez’ zombie horror segment of the much hyped double feature have turned up online. Check out the images below (after the jump). As always, left click for higher res. The Planet Terror cast includes: Freddy Rodriguez (Poseidon, Six Feet Under), Rose McGowan, Josh Brolin (Into the Blue, Hollow Man), Naveen Andrews (Lost), Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn (Alien, The Abyss), Stacy Ferguson (of the Black Eyed Peas), Jeff Fahey (Darkhunters, Wyatt Earp), and Michael Parks (Kill Bill, From Dusk Till Dawn)....

Orphanage Writer And Director To Reteam For Visually “Unique” Second Film By Brendon Connelly/May 15, 2009 2:40 pm EST Variety have reported on the reteaming of Juan Antonio Bayona and Sergio Sanchez, the director and screenwriter of The Orphanage. They don’t have many concrete details on this new collaboration at this stage but still succeed in making the film seem incredibly exciting. There’s my bias showing. One of the producers is quoted as saying the film will be a “powerful story, based on true facts, which poses large technical challenges”....

Polanski’s The Ghost Gets Tom Wilkinson And Jim Belushi, Starts Shooting In Two Weeks By David Chen/Jan. 22, 2009 3:53 pm EST In perhaps the most bizarre casting combination announcement ever, we’ve now learned that Roman Polanski’s The Ghost has added Tom Wilkinson and Jim Belushi to its cast (Never did I think those two people’s names would ever be used in one sentence in conjunction with a film). The two join Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, Kim Cattrall and Olivia Williams....

Run, Fat Boy, Run Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2007 6:29 am EST Did you know that former Friends star David Schwimmer directed a feature film? But not just any movie, a film featuring Hot Fuzz star Simon Pegg. In Run, Fat Boy, Run, Penn plays Dennis, a chunky, clueless guy leaves his fiancée on their wedding day only to discover, some 10 years later, that she is his one true love....

Sam Raimi Teases Morbius As Villain For Spider-Man 4 By Brendon Connelly/May 22, 2009 5:16 pm EST CHUD have been lucky enough to receive a clip of Sam Raimi talking to FearNET about the villain for his fourth Spider-Man film. While Raimi’s reaction isn’t so plain and simple that we can take it as a 100% guarantee of the character they have in waiting in the wings it does make one player a clear front runner....

Sam Worthington Is Dan Dare, Pilot Of The Future By Brendon Connelly/March 11, 2010 3:26 pm EST It looks like Sam Worthington is going to have another block to bust and another tentpole to erect because he’s the first talent to be tapped for a new, big-screen take on Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future. If you don’t know Dan Dare, then I expect you simply aren’t English. He’s as famous over here as Tintin is, at the very least, but is probably even less well known in the US than that Belgian boy reporter....

Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret To Be 3D? Then He’ll Make Silence And Perhaps A New Gangster Film With De Niro By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2010 6:23 pm EST OK, obviously the big crazy Martin Scorsese news today is that Lars von Trier challenged him to make a new Taxi Driver, but following the gameplan set forth in The Five Obstructions. (In that film, Von Trier challenged Jorgen Leth to remake his own film The Perfect Human five different times, each with a different ‘obstruction’ or directive....

Star Trek Teaser Trailer Description By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2008 5:12 pm EST Someone has posted the description of the JJ Abrams Star Trek teaser trailer over on the HollywoodChicago message boards, and I have confirmed through multiple sources that this is legit. If you don’t want to know, don’t read any further: Paramount logo. Bad Robot logo. Black, suddenly some sparks (very saturated, Michael Bay looking cinematography) We hear an old NASA radio countdown: “30 sec and counting....

Superman Vs. Spider-Man Film Announced By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2008 11:27 pm EST As you’ve already heard, a monumental decision was passed by the court earlier this week. Time Warner lost the Superman copyright rights to the heirs of Jerome Siegel. We speculated that this could put the Bryan Singer-helmed Superman sequel The Man of Steel and the already troubled Justice League of America in jeopardy… And it has. Apparently Joanne Siegel, Mr....

Teaser Trailer And Behind-The-Scenes Footage For Luc Besson’s Adele Blanc-Sec By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 21, 2009 4:50 am EST Right near the top of my 2010 most-anticipated list is Luc Besson’s Adele Blanc-Sec, a film I previously described as a “little bit Indiana Jones, a little bit Tintin and a little bit Hellboy”. Our first look at the film came via a teaser poster, then there were some gorgeous stills unveiled and now there’s a wonderful trailer....

The /Filmcast Interview: Alex Kurtzman And Roberto Orci By David Chen/Sept. 24, 2008 1:31 pm EST Have any questions, comments, or suggestions? Want to be interviewed on the /Filmcast? Feel free to e-mail us at slashfilmcast@gmail.com. You can also call and leave a voicemail at (781) 583-1993. Join us on Monday night at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST as we review Eagle Eye, live on the /Filmcast. Download or Play Now:...