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Cool Stuff: It’s What’s On The Inside That Counts T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 11, 2008 6:00 am EST Dutch Southern’s “It’s What’s On The Inside That Counts” t-shirt features twelve and a half of the most sweet souled freaks to ever grace the silver screen (including Sloth, Mel Gibson without a face, Swamp Thing, Quasimodo, Jerry, Aughra, Elephant Man, Edward Scissorhands, Thing, Rocky Dennis, Rell the Cyclops, and Darkman). Available in sizes small to XXXL, screen printed on American Apparel cream tees for $17....

Fast & Furious Super Bowl Ad By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2009 6:06 pm EST Universal has also released a new television spot for Fast & Furious, the fourth film in the Fast and the Furious series. While the last film focused on the art of drifting, it appears, at least from this commercial, that the fourth film is about cars and trucks insanely flipping over each other. Watch the tv spot after the jump....

First Look: Nicolas Cage In Kick-Ass; Millar Talks Day 1 And 2 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2008 11:12 am EST Production on Kick-Ass has begun and Mark Millar has written a blog about the first two days of filming. Here are a couple excerpts: “This is already about 350 times better than I could ever have expected.” “I lucked out with Wanted and Timur and James and Angelina. But nothing– I mean nothing– can prepare you for Nic and Chloe as Big Daddy and Hit-Girl....

Five Innovations In James Cameron’s Avatar By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2008 4:55 pm EST Lets take a look at five of the many technological innovations that James Cameron employed in his upcoming sci-fi epic 3D film Avatar. Performance Capture Workflow: A lot of the film was captured using a performance capture technique similar to that of which Robert Zemeckis filmed Beowulf. So Cameron developed a virtual camera which will allow his to point it at his actors and see them as their computer generated characters in real time....

Gina Carano To Star In Knockout, Soderbergh’s Spy Adventure By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 6, 2009 3:18 pm EST The mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano is to make her big screen starring debut in Steven Soderbergh’s Knockout, a spy drama he’s comparing to James Bond but also sounds to me a little like Luc Besson’s Nikita. Described by producer Ryan Kavanaugh as “mainstream action film with universal appeal for a reasonable budget” this picture sounds like heaven on a slice of warm toast....

Henry Gibson Dead At 73 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 16, 2009 7:17 pm EST Actor Henry Gibson died of cancer at the age of 73, a week before his 74th Birthday. While you might not recognize his name, you will almost certainly recognize Gibson’s face from one of his many screen credits from the last 45 years. Gibson got his break in the 1963 Jerry Lewis comedy The Nutty Professor, but received his first major role as a three year stint as part of the cast of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In....

Iron Man Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2007 7:42 am EST Paramount have finally released the teaser trailer for Jon Favreau’s Iron Man. It’s essentially the same exact thing that was shown at Comic Con 2007. Check it out after the jump. Tell me what you think. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/ironman.flv 470 194] You can also watch the trailer in high definition at Apple.com. Iron Man Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2007 7:42 am EST...

John Hughes To Get Special Oscar Tribute By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2010 1:55 pm EST At awards shows, the death of a filmmaker is usually confined in the video montage celebrating all the big names in the film community that had died during the previous year. But the 2010 Academy Awards will feature a separate and special tribute to screenwriter/director John Hughes. Oscar hosts Steve Martin (Planes Trains & Automobiles) and Alec Baldwin (She’s Having A Baby) both had worked with Hughes in the 1980’s....

King Of Kong Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2007 12:46 pm EST One of the documentaries we really dug at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Chasing Ghosts, about the masters of Pac-Man. It was a great trip back to the arcade era of the 1970’s and 1980’s. Well, Picturehouse has picked up a similar documentary (which even includes some of the same characters), which New Line has already purchased the rights to adapt into a feature film....

Land Of The Lost Photo: Sleestak And Will Ferrell By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 27, 2008 3:04 pm EST The following image gives us the first close-up of the Sleestak named Enik from next summer’s $100 million incarnation of Land of the Lost starring Will Ferrell and Danny McBride. The Sleestaks are a horned reptilian-insectoid species that inhabit the alternate world stumbled upon by Ferrell’s paleontologist and friends. In the original source material, Enik is a more evolved, pessimistic outcast of the Sleestaks that wears clothing and speaks....

Michael Bay Originally Attached To Todd McFarlane’s Oz? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 5, 2007 3:46 am EST A couple weeks ago we told you that Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Pictures bought the rights to make a movie based on Todd McFarlane’s revisionist take on L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz will be titled “OZ”. Well, IGN spoke with McFarlane about the new movie project and it was revealed that Michael Bay was originally somehow attached to the project....

Midnight Run 2 Really Happening; De Niro Returning By Russ Fischer/March 5, 2010 3:05 pm EST How I wish I could say this sounds like a good idea. Not long ago, when a list of possible Robert De Niro projects was released, we got the first indications that a sequel to Midnight Run might be happening. Now the sequel really seems to be moving forward, as Universal has hired a screenwriter to come up with a script....

New Star Trek Rumor: Who Is The Captain? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 25, 2007 9:07 pm EST My friend Vic over at ScreenRant has gotten a possible scoop on JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. I’ve tried to confirm the information, but (as expected) JJ has done a good job of keeping the script under-wraps (much like that monster movie he’s producing…). Warning: Possible spoilers ahead. The new Star Trek film will focus much more on Spock than on the crew of the Enterprise....

New Surrogates Footage Hides In A Music Video By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2009 1:10 pm EST Remember the days when the best way to see early footage of a movie you might want to see was in the music video for a soundtrack single? I think my memories of Shocker (come on, it was Wes Craven before he was really terrible) are more from the Megadeth video than the actual movie....

Paranormal Activity Passes $100 Million, Becomes Highest Grossing R-Rated Thriller Of The Past Decade By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2009 10:00 pm EST Paramount has issued a press release gloating that Paranormal Activity has just passed $100 million domestically. And they should gloat, with a film that was made for only $15,000, and purchased by Paramount for either $300,000 or $350,000, depending on what report you read. You can try to figure out the multiplier on that, but any way you add it up, it’s probably the most successful investment in the company’s history....

Puss In Boots Will Feature All New Characters By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2009 12:00 am EST When DreamWorks Animation updated their 2009-2012 line-up a couple weeks back, it was revealed that the Puss in Boots spin-off movie would be an origin story. The official synopsis reads: “Swords will cross and hearts will be broken in this adventure starring one of the most beloved characters of the Shrek universe – Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas)....

Robert Downey Jr In Cowboys & Aliens By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2008 2:31 am EST Robert Downey Jr. is in negotiations to star the big screen adaptation of the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens. The project has been in development for the last ten years, even though the comic book was only released a couple years go (it was pitched for years before it was ever actually written). I haven’t read the book, but I will admit that the title alone makes it worthy of a big screen movie....

Samantha Morton, Dominic West And Polly Walker Join John Carter Of Mars By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 23, 2009 9:08 pm EST Three more actors have joined Andrew Stanton’s big screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars: Samantha Morton (In America, Control), Dominic West (300, Chicago) and Polly Walker (Patriot Games). Morton, West and Walker join Taylor Kitsch (Wolverine, Friday Night Lights), Lynn Collins (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, True Blood), and Willem Dafoe in the Walt Disney Pictures production....

Slumdog Millionaire Star Freida Pinto Cast In Tarsem’s War Of The Gods By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 23, 2010 11:40 pm EST Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto has signed on to star in Tarsem Singh’s War of the Gods, a new Greek mythology epic which will be filmed in a like 300. Relativity Media paid mid-six against seven figures for the script by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides. Sleeper Code/Machine Gun Preacher scribe Jason Keller penned the most recent draft of the script....

Sundance Photo Preview: Holy Rollers Starring Jesse Eisenberg By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2009 9:30 am EST Kevin Tyler Asch makes his feature film debut with Holy Rollers, which premieres at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as one of the 16 films which were selected from 1,058 submissions for the U.S. Dramatic competition. This crime drama stars Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland, Adventureland) as a young Hasidic man named Sam who is seduced by money, power and opportunity, and becomes an international Ecstasy smuggler....