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Spider-Man 3 Box Office: “Tracking To Beat All Expectations” By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2007 2:28 pm EST MovieTickets.com report tickets to Spider-Man 3 are selling at three times the rate of Spider-Man 2. Fandango.com is also reporting that tickets to the new movie are selling four times faster than Spidey 2. Original estimates had the third film in line to make $101 million for it’s opening weekend (May 4-6), but now the movie is “tracking to beat all expectations....

Sundance Movie Review/Video Blog: Taika Waititi’s Boy By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 24, 2010 2:11 pm EST Taika Waititi’s Boy is another film that I had high expectations for. Waititi’s indie comedy Eagle vs. Shark (which featured a pre-Conchords Jemaine Clement) was one of my favorite films from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival (I was even quoted on the international DVD cover). That film had been criticized for being too quirky in the wake of Napoleon Dynamite....

The Boat That Rocked Three Minute Clip By Brendon Connelly/March 5, 2009 12:05 pm EST In my day job as a teacher of film (and, I must admit, other media – when I have to) I’m privy to some nice mail outs from the British Film Education council. Today brought me a DVD Rom carrying a series of classroom exercises built around Richard Curtis’ upcoming The Boat That Rocked. Amongst the fully entertaining and interesting video material contained upon the shiny disc, I found a nice and juicy three minute clip from the film....

The King Of Kong Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2007 2:08 pm EST Picturehouse has released the theatrical movie trailer for The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (poster). I, like many of you, grew up during the last few years of the so called Arcade revolution. Kids flocked to the local bowling alley or video arcade to play the latest and greatest video game machines. At Sundance we saw a great film on this era, and more specifically, the champions of this era, called Chasing Ghosts....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (Season 4), And More By Adam Quigley/Sept. 15, 2009 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Please don’t take the commentary on the movies and TV shows too seriously, as they’re meant not to be reviews but rather previews that include the general thoughts and ramblings of a twice-committed DVD addict....

Video: Judd Apatow Joins Will Farrell’s FunnyOrDie By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2007 11:14 am EST Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, 40-Year-Old-Virgin) will join Will Ferrell and Adam McKay as a contributor and investor to the Web site FunnyOrDie.com. You may recall, the site exploded onto the scene wit a viral video titled “The Landlord” which featured a two-year-old girl landlord (played by McKay’s daughter, Pearl) who yells and swears at her tenant (played by Farrell) and is finally appeased by an offer of beer....

VOTD: Bored To Death Pilot Episode By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2009 12:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. HBO has premiered the first full episode of the new television series Bored to Death online almost a week before the televised premiere. For those of you who haven’t heard of the show, Death is being billed as “A Noir-otic Comedy”. Jason Schwartzman stars as Jonathan Ames (well, not the real Jonathan Ames, although he is a writer on the show), an alcoholic noir-fiction-obsessed writer who impulsively decides to become an unlicensed private detective....

VOTD: Simon Pegg And Edgar Wright Promote Hot Fuzz In Japan By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2008 12:00 am EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/hotfuzzjapan.flv 460 364] Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright Promote Hot Fuzz in JapanThe Pitch: Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright record some idents for Japanese TV. Hilarious!Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail....

Watchmen Ending Tested Highly With Fans Of The Book By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 10, 2008 12:17 am EST Leaks from a test screening last month left hard core fans upset that the ending of the Watchmen movie adaptation was different than the one Alan Moore had written in the comic books. Zack Snyder finally responds to the online criticism on Dark Horizons. Start of Possible Spoilers “The squid was not in the movie when I got the script, the squid was never in any draft that I saw....

3D Movie Preview In 3D: Toy Story, Up, Alpha And Omega By Brendon Connelly/March 22, 2009 10:36 am EST NOTE: I’ll just go over this one more time before we begin. The current polarised lens, digital 3D system is superb; anaglyph systems don’t work one tenth as well. Bear that in mind as I share with you some anaglyphic 3D stills from films that will on release come in the digital fashion....

6 More SXSW Movie Trailers By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 13, 2008 2:40 pm EST Rainbow Around the Sun Director/writer: Kevin Ely. Starring: Matthew Alvin Brown, Jamie Buxton, Doug Van Liew, Brian Stockton. A rock musical about the healing power of creativity. Matthew Alvin Brown stars as Zachary Blasto, a hard-drinking, talented songwriter and performer who envisions madcap musical fantasies in order to avoid dealing with the downward spiral of his personal life....

BAFTA 2009 Award Speeches: Heath Ledger, Mickey Rourke, Danny Boyle And Slumdog Millionaire By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 8, 2009 4:59 pm EST BBC has put a bunch of the acceptance speeches from the 2009 British Academy Film Awards on YouTube. I’ve included some of the highlights after the jump. Heath Ledger wins Best Supporting Actor Mickey Rourke wins Best Actor Slumdog Millionaire wins Best Film Danny Boyle wins Best Director BAFTA 2009 Award Speeches: Heath Ledger, Mickey Rourke, Danny Boyle And Slumdog Millionaire...

Brad Bird Returns To 1906 By Peter Sciretta/March 1, 2008 12:50 pm EST After winning the Academy Award for best animated feature Ratatouille/The Incredibles director Brad Bird talked to The Hollywood Reporter about his next film, his first foray into live action, an adaptation of James Dalessandro’s 1906, about the San Francisco Earthquake: “At the time, Chinatown was coexisting with the Barbary Coast, which was like the Wild Wild West, and at the same time Nob Hill had the upper class....

Casting Search For The Coen Brothers’ True Grit By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2009 3:22 pm EST Paramount Pictures has begun an open casting search for The Coen Brothers’ next film True Grit. They have set up a website, TrueGritCasting.com, where young actresses can submit a self-filmed audition tape or find out about open casting calls in Little Rock, AR, Jackson, MI, and Oklahoma. Paramount is seeking a 12-16 year old girl for the lead role of Mattie....

Catherine Hardwicke To Direct Gothic Retelling Of Little Red Riding Hood By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2009 8:14 pm EST Catherine Hardwicke has signed on to direct The Girl With the Red Riding Hood for Appian Way and Warner Bros. The gothic reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood was announced earlier this month, with Orphan screenwriter David Leslie Johnson attached to pen the script. Not much is known about the new take, other than it will be loosely based on the famous fairy tale, is being described as a werewolf movie, and has a teenage love triangle at its center....

Cool Stuff: Benjamin Carre’s Star Wars Fan Artwork By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2008 6:00 am EST Benjamin Carre is a French professional illustrator who has done concept work for UBI Soft’s Cold Fear and Infogames Alone in the Dark. His work is usually dark, and is often sci-fi in nature. I found these wonderful pieces of Star Wars fan art on some message boards. It is important to note that while Carre is a professional, all of these were created out of fandom (ie not commissioned by Lucasfilm)....

Cool Stuff: The Cinedom In Cologne, Germany By Peter Sciretta/March 31, 2008 5:00 am EST Lately on /Film we’ve profiled a couple movie theaters as part of our Cool Stuff feature: Tha Alamo Drafthouse, the coolest movie theater EVER, and the AMC Pacific Place Cinema, the coolest looking movie theater in Hong Kong. /Film Reader Xavier Maury told us to take a look at the Cinedom in Cologne, Germany: “I lived there 7 years and it was a pleasure going there....

Definitely, Maybe International Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2007 4:03 pm EST The international movie trailer for Definitely, Maybe has hit the interwebs. I know, it’s another romantic comedy… But this one has a cast that has gotten my attention. With Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks and Isla Fisher as the three romantic leads, at least you’ll have something to look at. And with Little Miss Sunshine’s Abigail Breslin at least the little kid cute factor is turned up to 10....

Extended W. Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 26, 2008 2:43 pm EST Lionsgate has released a 2-minute long extended movie trailer for Oliver Stone’s W. The more and more I see from this film, the funnier it looks. I particularly love the way Josh Brolin shrugs about 30 seconds in. I think that shot says everything you need to know about this film. As always, share your thoughts in the comments below....

Family Guy: The Wrath Of Khan? By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2008 11:31 pm EST The Family Guy Star Wars parody Blue Harvest was a huge hit. You might have heard that they’re almost finished production on a follow-up which takes on The Empire Strikes Back. Seth MacFarlane revealed at a Television Critics Association panel that he would like to take on Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan “if Paramount would let us”....