Kevin Smith Discusses Next Projects Reveals Movie Set In Space

Kevin Smith Discusses Next Projects, Reveals Movie Set In Space By David Chen/July 25, 2008 10:34 pm EST Those of you who have seen An Evening with Kevin Smith know that he has openly admitted his lack of interest in develop a specific visual style. Further corroboration of this came from the fate of the Green Hornet film project, whose script Smith worked on but never ended up making. According to Cinematical, Smith has never been a braggart about his capabilities as an action director; his own description of a Green Hornet film directed by himself was as follows:...

December 23, 2022 · 5 min · 948 words · Diana Velasco

Kristen Stewart S Joan Jett Look For The Runaways

Kristen Stewart’s Joan Jett Look For The Runaways By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2009 2:26 pm EST Twilight star Kristen Stewart hasn’t yet started shooting music video director Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways, but she’s already transformed her hair to look more like famous rock’n’roller Joan Jett. The film is a biopic of the first successful all-girl hard rock band The Runaways (hence the title), which fell apart after four years due to management and money disputes....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 254 words · Angie Harris

Marc Forster To Direct World War Z

Marc Forster To Direct World War Z By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 13, 2008 11:01 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Changeling scribe J Michael Straczynski penned the screenplay, which AICN once called “a horror epic, a serious, sober-minded adult picture”, potentially “a genre-defining piece of work” with Best Picture potential (really?!). The basic premise of the book is that it is an oral history of the zombie war, compiled by an unnamed government employee....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 345 words · David Sanchez

Movie Trailer Four Lions

Movie Trailer: Four Lions By Brendon Connelly/March 17, 2010 9:00 am EST So, what do you reckon? Is this the film Uwe Boll really wanted Postal to be (wink wink)? Four Lions opens across the UK on May 7th. Fingers crossed for international dates soon.

December 23, 2022 · 1 min · 45 words · Dwight Putman

Photos Sneak Peek At New Harry Potter Trailer

Photos: Sneak Peek At New Harry Potter Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2009 1:17 pm EST The trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is scheduled to be online at 9:00pm est. E! Online posted the trailer early, but it was quickly removed. Update: The trailer is now online, click here to watch it. Earlier today, Warner Bros distributed the trailer screencaptures in the header of this article to various websites: MSN, Cinematical , MySpace , IMDb , IGN , Mugglenet & Leaky Cauldron....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 250 words · Mary Diaz

Sequel Talk At Scream Awards

Sequel Talk At Scream Awards By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2007 2:58 pm EST Spike TV’s Scream Awards took place this weekend (the show airs on television on October 23rd at 10:00pm) and a few industry folk showed their faces and talked about some possible upcoming movie sequels. Our friends at Bloody Disgusting have full coverage, but here is a rundown of the cool tidbits: Edgar Wright says that if they make a Hot Fuzz sequel the title will probably be Hot Fuzz 2: Pigs in the City....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 536 words · Kristal Jennings

Six New Avatar Tv Spots

Six New Avatar TV Spots By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 30, 2009 5:46 pm EST Beyond Imagination 1.5 minute (family friendly) spot: Greatest Adventure: Greatest Adventure 2: Survival: New Life: From James Cameron:

December 23, 2022 · 1 min · 31 words · Jamie Hussey

Six New Watchmen Character Posters

Six New Watchmen Character Posters By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2008 12:02 am EST Warner Bros has released six new character posters for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. The line-up includes: The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Silk Spectre II (Malin Akerman), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) and Nite Owl II (Patrick Wilson). I have updated the story with super high resolution versions (2326px x 3601px, 2+mb) of the six character banners....

December 23, 2022 · 1 min · 162 words · Anna Skinner

Stephen Colbert Teams Up With Spider Man

Stephen Colbert Teams Up With Spider-Man By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 28, 2008 8:56 pm EST As you might have heard, Stephen Colbert is running for president of the United States within the Marvel Comics Universe. You may have seen the political advertising in the background of some of your favorite comic books. Well now Marvel has a first look at Colbert’s 8-page crossover story in Amazing Spider-man #573. As much as I love Colbert, I hope to God that this storyline doesn’t get adapted into Spider-Man 4....

December 23, 2022 · 1 min · 172 words · Valerie Stahl

Tekken Movie Trailer

TEKKEN Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2010 1:12 am EST The movie trailer for the big screen adaptation of Namco’s popular fighting video game Tekken is now online. Directed by Dwight H. Little, the guy responsible for crappy bargain bin titles such as Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid and Marked for Death, which starred Steven Seagal, and from a screenplay written by Alan McElroy, the guy behind The Marine, Wrong Turn, and Halloween 4....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 493 words · Ellen Carter

The Best And Worst Reviewed Movies Of 2007 So Far

The Best And Worst Reviewed Movies Of 2007 (So Far) By Peter Sciretta/July 17, 2007 12:34 pm EST Rotten Tomatoes have published their Mid-Year Report, which features a list of the best and worst reviewed movies of the first six months of 2007. You can see the top ten of each below. Best Reviewed Movies “Ratatouille” “Away From Her” “Once” “Knocked Up” “Hot Fuzz” “Sicko” “The Host” “Zodiac” “Waitress” “The Lookout” Worst Reviewed Movies “Because I Said So” “The Number 23” “Premonition” “The Reaping” “Norbit” “Perfect Stranger” “Happily N’Ever After” “Are We Done Yet?...

December 23, 2022 · 4 min · 794 words · Steven Carr

The Final Spider Man 3 Trailer On Comcast

The Final Spider-Man 3 Trailer On Comcast By Peter Sciretta/March 21, 2007 8:04 pm EST The final Spider-Man 3 trailer will debut on Comcast on Friday, March 23rd. Right now the website has an exclusive featurette on the history of the black symbiote costume. Those of you who didn’t read the comic book might want to brush up on some Spidey history. The segment is pretty indepth. And check back Friday, for the final Spider-Man 3 trailer....

December 23, 2022 · 1 min · 154 words · Ralph Harman

The Wolfman Movie Trailer 2 A Moody Modern Approach

The Wolfman Movie Trailer #2: A Moody, Modern Approach By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2009 8:29 am EST There’s a new trailer for Joe Johnston’s remake of Universal’s The Wolfman. If you didn’t like the first trailer, which really sold the film as a piece of gothic old-school horror, you’ll probably like this one a lot more. The first trailer was very much what you’d expect: here’s the legend of the wolfman, here are the characters, here’s what happens to them....

December 23, 2022 · 5 min · 901 words · Marlene Perrigan

Two Video Clips From The Wrestler

Two Video Clips From The Wrestler By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 13, 2008 8:00 am EST /Film reader Nick O. forwarded me these clips from Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. The first clip shows a scene between Mickey Rourke and Evan Rachel Wood, who play’s Randy’s estranged daughter. Rourke has been getting Best Actor Award Nomination buzz since the film premiered in Venice. [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/wrestlercrying.flv 400 166] The second clip gives you a little taste of the wrestling action....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 528 words · Thomas Bezanson

Vivendi To Release David Zucker S An American Carol

Vivendi To Release David Zucker’s An American Carol By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2008 9:10 pm EST Vivendi Entertainment picked up the U.S. rights to David Zucker’s new comedy An American Carol. Imagine for a moment, a retelling of A Christmas Carol, but instead of Ebenezer Scrooge, we have a cynical, anti-American documentary filmmaker unsubtlely named Michael Malone, who sets out on a crusade to abolish the July Fourth holiday with his film Die You American Pigs....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 443 words · Calvin Highsmith

Votd Diablo Cody And Jason Reitman Talk About Film Commenters

VOTD: Diablo Cody And Jason Reitman Talk About /Film Commenters By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 17, 2009 12:00 am EST Earlier this week I sat down with screenwriter Diablo Cody and producer Jason Reitman to talk about the upcoming teen horror film Jennifer’s Body. That interview will run later this week. But I wanted to first share a snippet from that interview, where Jason and Diablo talk about the “overwhelmingly warm response” they have gotten in the past from /Film commentors....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 226 words · Devon Dixon

Will Ferrell Talks Land Of The Lost Old School 2 Elf 2 And A Confederacy Of Dunces

Will Ferrell Talks Land Of The Lost, Old School 2, Elf 2 And A Confederacy Of Dunces By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 29, 2008 5:17 pm EST Will Ferrell’s R-rated ABA romp, Semi-Pro, opens today and is expected to do boffo business. Buzz is good, but not spectacular. Nobody’s calling the film a comedy classic, and it arguably could have been. Great source material. The actor took a time-out from picking his ‘fro to chat with AICN twice about his upcoming mega-budget sci-fi comedy Land of the Lost, as well as eulogize a few other projects....

December 23, 2022 · 7 min · 1489 words · Jeff Buzard

51 Of Teens First Hear About New Movies From The Internet

51% Of Teens First Hear About New Movies From The Internet By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 29, 2007 4:32 pm EST Our friends at FirstShowing and The Movie Blog have reported an interesting new statistic: 51% of Teens First Hear About New Movies From the Internet. Like John and Alex, I find this figure interesting because it still seems that most of the movie studios are still living in the dark ages. They believe that print publications are 1000 times more important that online media, and as a result, online journalists are not treated with the respect that we deserve....

December 22, 2022 · 5 min · 1048 words · Velma Seifert

Avatar Is Now The Top Grossing Movie Of All Time

Avatar Is Now The Top-Grossing Movie Of All Time By Russ Fischer/Jan. 26, 2010 10:00 am EST Over the course of the weekend, James Cameron’s Avatar was on track to beat Titanic’s record and become the top-grossing film of all time. The numbers have been verified, and Avatar’s worldwide gross stands at over $1.292 billion dollars, which tops Titanic’s $1.242 billion. The domestic record hasn’t yet fallen — by Sunday Avatar was still about $50m shy of Titanic’s $600....

December 22, 2022 · 3 min · 527 words · Harvey Woodard

Blind Dating Movie Trailer

Blind Dating Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 13, 2007 12:00 am EST Samuel Goldwyn Films has sent us the movie trailer for Blind Dating. So what’s the movie about? It’s a comedy about a blind guy going out on blind dates. Great idea right? Well, let’s check out the footage out after the jump. [quicktime width=“480” height=“375”]http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/blinddating.mov[/quicktime] And here’s the pitch from the studio: BLIND DATING is a hilarious comedy about Danny (Chris Pine), an intelligent, confident, handsome young man who also happens to be blind....

December 22, 2022 · 4 min · 768 words · Kenny Barker