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New Trailer For Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2008 3:03 am EST Official Plot Synopsis: Joss Whedon, creator of groundbreaking cult favorites “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Firefly,” returns to television and reunites with fellow “Buffy” alumna Eliza Dushku for a thrilling new drama, DOLLHOUSE. ECHO (Dushku) is an “Active,” a member of a highly illegal and underground group who have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas....

POTD: Burger King’s Horror-Themed Late Night Advertisements By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2010 8:00 am EST Dubai-based advertising agency Tonic were asked to communicate that Burger King stays open until the wee hours of the morning, and the resulting advertising features some of horror’s favorite villains. Thomas and Kris came up with the following campaign showing the villains of the night that we know all to well, enjoying their favourite meal after a umm night out....

Scott Pilgrim Video Blog #1: Welcome To The Stunt Stage By Peter Sciretta/April 10, 2009 1:34 pm EST Edgar Wright has posted the first of a series of weekly video blogs for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World on the film’s official website. The video was recorded on the stunt stage, and we get to see a lot of stunt action, sword fighting, and even some footage of the bands rehearsing. Watch it after the jump....

Seth Rogen’s With Cancer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 10, 2008 12:10 am EST Seth Rogen will produce I’m With Cancer, an autobiographical based on the experienced of Will Reiser, a producer on HBO’s Da Ali G Show and VH1’s Best Week Ever. Reiser’s spec script tells the story of a 25-year-old who learns he has the disease. Rogen will not however play the lead, but will instead have a supporting role in the film....

The Buzz: Michael Jackson’s This Is It! By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2009 9:47 pm EST Sony released the Michael Jackson concert documentary This Is It tonight in theaters. Even movie critics and press were kept in the dark until nationwide press screenings on Tuesday night. So what is the early verdict? Lets take a look at the early buzz in the Buzz Report. We Are Movie Geeks: “This movie is definitely a film for the fans, and everyone in the theater proved that with all of the claps after each song....

Timur Bekmambetov To Direct Casebook Of Victor Frankenstein? By Peter Sciretta/March 29, 2010 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Update: The project is not based on a pitch by Auburn. Vespa Pictures and its principles Jeff Vespa and Ilene Staple optioned the book, attached Auburn to adapt it for the screen, and then partnered with Timur to produce the film side-by-side. All three will take producer credits....

Tom Hanks Won’t Star In Spielberg’s Harvey; Who Will? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2009 11:30 am EST When Steven Spielberg set a new version of Harvey as his next film, speculation quickly turned to the possible star of the movie. Since Spielberg has worked closely with Tom Hanks, a man said in many respects to be the modern Jimmy Stewart, who starred in the original film version of Harvey, naturally his name came up....

Transformers 1.5 On IMAX In September By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 17, 2007 5:28 pm EST Transformers is coming back to the big screen, and it will be bigger, longer and uncut. According to ComingSoon, Michael Bay’s big screen adaptation will premiere at IMAX theaters on September 21st with extra footage not included in the conventional theatrical release. I always wondered why the film wasn’t released on IMAX in the first place. It seems like the IMAX format is the perfect medium to show a film with big F*cking robots....

Video Blog Review: Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 8, 2008 12:29 am EST Tonight I attended the North American premiere of Darren Aronofsky’s new film The Wrestler. I plan on writing a full review tomorrow, but for right now check out this quick video blog review. I am joined by Indie movie expert Eric Lavallee of IOnCinema.com and Alex Billington from FirstShowing.net. If you can’t tell, I absolutely loved the film....

VOTD: Frame 137 Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2010 1:06 am EST This is a 1 minute teaser trailer for Judd L. Tilyard’s upcoming short film Frame 137. The film is a sci-fi action piece based on the work of James O’Barr creator of the Crow, and made with his permission. The comic first appeared in Dark Horse Presents, and was expanded by Judd Tilyard into a short film in 2009 after several years of development....

Warner Bros To Release 35-Film Clint Eastwood DVD Box Set By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2009 9:47 pm EST Warner Home Video will be releasing an ultimate 35-film Clint Eastwood retrospective touted as the largest* ever DVD box set featuring a single artist. Clint Eastwood: 35 Films, 35 Years at Warner Bros. will feature 19-discs containing 34 Warner Bros films that the star either headlined and/or directed. The 35th “film” included is Eastwood Factor, a feature documentary film by critic/historian Richard Schickel....

Will Smith Goes For Broke With Flowers For Algernon By Russ Fischer/Nov. 10, 2009 8:53 am EST Now that the Smith / Spielberg version of Oldboy has reportedly died a well-deserved death (it’s like there’s a real version of The Box out there and some lucky Park Chan-Wook fan pushed the button — do something good with your million bucks, buddy, you earned it!) Will Smith will have to look for other ways to bridge the gap between mainstream success like I Am Legend and the critical praise one suspects he really desires....

By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2007 12:45 pm EST Tuesday morning at ShowEast in Orlando, DreamWorks Animation’s Jeffrey Katzenberg told an audience full of theater owners that there is expected to be 12 to 18 full 3D movies by 2010. FirstShowing reports that Katzenberg said that movie theaters can expect there to be “5, 6 or 7 ‘Super-A’ titles” in full 3D, with 2 to 3 being from DreamWorks, in 2009. And in 2010 that number would increase 2 to 3 times, bumping the total up to around 12 to 18 respectively....

Already Musical Backbeat To Become A Musical By Brendon Connelly/March 1, 2009 1:07 am EST According to a little Tweet from David Poland, Softley is today casting Backbeat: The Musical. He wasn’t sure if anybody knew about the project, but I can’t find any big scale discussion anywhere. So far, I don’t know for sure if this will be a musical film or a musical stage show, but I’m banking on it a film – Softley being a film director, after all – and if Poland replies to my query, or I find the answer elsewhere, I’ll update this post....

Box Office: HSM3 Down 10% On Saturday, $42M Projected; Saw V Tops $30M By Steve Mason/Oct. 26, 2008 2:08 pm EST Some of my regular sources said the HSM3 would drop on Saturday because it was fueled by teens. More of them expected to see a Saturday increase because many tweens would need Mom to take them to see the movie Saturday. On Friday night, I used the latter model and projected $55M....

Casting Notes: Haggis Hires Neeson; A Shield Star Fights Predators; The Elder Skarsgard In Thor By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2009 7:48 am EST It’s Monday morning, so the casting news is just starting for the week, but we’ve already got brief tidbits about a couple of marriages between talent and movies that you may (or may not) be excited to see. Since he made Taken into a genuine hit, Liam Neeson has owned more cred than ever....

Columbia Wins Rights For Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy, With Roland Emmerich Directing By David Chen/Jan. 16, 2009 2:02 pm EST While many of Asimov’s books take place in the Foundation universe, the main Foundation storyline centers around a mathematician named Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian who is able to predict large-scale events using scientific principles. When Seldon foresees the downfall of the Galactic Empire, which will precipitate a dark age lasting 30,000 years, he establishes two human oases (“Foundations”) in an effort to preserve human knowledge....

Confirmed: Slusho.jp Is A Cloverfield Viral Website By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2007 11:59 pm EST Update #2: Watch Five Minutes of Cloverfield Right NOW! Update: One of our reliable studio sources/spies has confirmed that this website is a part of the viral marketing campaign. We can now confirm that the Slusho.jp site is a part of the Cloverfield viral marketing campaign. I just spent the last half an hour watching and re-watching the Cloverfield trailer when I realized that the guy (Mike Vogul) who appears 52 seconds into the trailer is wearing a Slusho brand t-shirt....

Cool Marketing: Star Wars Lightsaber Bus Shelter Ads By Peter Sciretta/March 26, 2008 9:42 pm EST On Monday we featured some cool billboard advertisments for the Star Wars saga on SpikeTv. Someone needs to give the marketing department behind this campaign a raise, especially after seeing this incredibly cool bus-shelter advertisement. AMNY snapped this photo on 34th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. The advertisement doesn’t look nearly as cool during the daytime....

Dolph Lundgren Scares Off Armed Burglars By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2009 2:55 pm EST We usually don’t report on the real life going-ons of actors, but I found this story to be somewhat amusing. Masked burglers broke into a home near Marbella, Spain, where they tied up and terrorized the woman of the house. But when the attackers noticed a family photo featuring 80’s action star Dolph Lundgren in one of the bedrooms, they decided to make a run for it....