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Cinematon, The World’s Longest Film At 150 Hours, To Screen In France By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2009 8:47 am EST Got six days to spare? Then you might be able to stick around for the entire public screening of Cinematon, a film by Gerard Courant, when it unspools in Avignon later this month. The project has been running for 30 years, and represents Courant’s original intent — to document the lives and thoughts of his artistic friends — taken to an interesting extreme....

Contest: Harsh Times On DVD By Peter Sciretta/March 14, 2007 1:54 am EST Harsh Times hit DVD storeshelves on March 13th, and we have a copy for two lucky /Film readers. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should win. On March 20th we will e-mail the winners with the best answers. More information on the release can be found after the jump....

Cool Stuff: A Map Of Marvel’s Manhattan By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 11, 2008 10:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I once saw this television special called Marvel Super Heroes’ Guide To New York City, which was a basic travelogue using the famous locations featured in the Marvel Comics universe. I’ve always loved visiting locations from famous films, but this tv special took it to a new extreme – the famous locations of fictional events which were drawn in the pages of comic books....

Cool Stuff: Ghost Chaser T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/March 18, 2009 11:10 pm EST A couple weeks back, we featured a t-shirt in Cool Stuff that pictured an 8-bit Ecto-1 chasing after the Ghosts from Pac Man. BustedTees has introduced a Pac Man/Ghostbusters mash-up of their own. “Ghost Catcher” imagines what would happen if Pac Man had the technology to hunt supernatural beings. “He’s smarter than Egon, funnier than Venkman, and almost yellower than Ray....

Dark Knight Teaser At Comic-Con/The Simpsons Movie? By Peter Sciretta/July 14, 2007 12:04 pm EST Rumor has it that Warner Bros will premiere a teaser movie trailer for the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight at the 10:30am Warner Bros Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, according to SHH. The trailer would then be attached to The Simpsons Movie which hits theaters on July 27th. This sounds likely but I have my doubts....

Darren Aronofsky On Robocop, Nicolas Cage, Vince McMahon, Dave Chappelle And THAT Scene In Requiem By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2008 4:31 pm EST The filmmaker was also making some strange/vague comments about the project at The Wrestler junket last week. Other blogs have already begun to speculate that Darren is either off the project, or it just isn’t going to happen anymore. It’s a little to early to jump to conclusions....

David Fincher Explains Why He Wants To Direct Keanu Reeves By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 19, 2008 12:24 pm EST Last month we told you that David Fincher had signed on to direct Keanu Reeves in a movie about a Chef. We since discovered that The Untitled Chef Project is a screenplay by Steven Knight, the screenwriter behind Dirty Pretty Things, Amazing Grace, Eastern Promises, and Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Dennis Lehane adaptation Shutter Island....

Frost/Nixon Movie Trailer And Photos By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 22, 2008 4:40 pm EST Universal has released the official American trailer for Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. We also have some production photos and an official plot synopsis below. Based on a play of the same name, the film tells the story of the series of infamous post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella)....

GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 1, 2009 11:35 am EST Paramount Pictures has released a new movie trailer for Stephen Sommer’s GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. If you thought the Superbowl teaser looked ridiculous, get ready for more silly action effects and horribly written, cheesy dialogue. I will admit, some of the action looks fun (yet still stupid), especially the car chase sequence. And I’m really interested to see Snake Eyes battle Storm Shadow....

Inception Movie Teaser Trailer By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2009 7:58 am EST The teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Inception was released in some theaters with Inglourious Basterds last Friday, and the one-minute clip is now online thanks to Yahoo. Your mind is the scene of the crime, after the jump. We’ve been talking about the film based on the logline “a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind” for quite a while, and we have the rumored plot that says “Inception is about entering peoples’ minds/dreams....

Iron Man Cast Photo Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2007 1:17 am EST This new Iron Man cast photo has hit the web courtesy of CS. The photo above shows (left to right) Terrence Howard as Jim Rhodes, Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia ‘Pepper’ Potts, Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, and Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane aka Iron Monger. Jon Favreau’s big screen adaptation hits theaters on May 2nd 2008....

Knocked Up Is The Best Reviewed Movie Of 2007 (So Far) By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2007 6:23 pm EST I haven’t met a person who didn’t like Knocked Up. Even the critics love it. The film is currently the best reviewed Hollywood movie of 2007. And by Hollywood movie I mean wide release. And no, I’m not just talking about comedies. It’s the best reviewed wide release PERIOD. At the time of this posting, Rotten Tomatoes had counted almost 130 reviews, giving the film an insanely popular 92% fresh rating....

Little Fockers Revealed; Raven-Symone To Babysit? By Peter Sciretta/May 1, 2009 2:10 am EST A casting notice has leaked out for Little Fockers, the next movie in the Meet the Parents/Fockers series. As expected, the third film will introduce Gaylord and Pam Fockers as parents, and now we have some details on the Focker offspring: Henry and Ashley are the five year old son and daughter twins of the characters played by Ben Stiller and Teri Polo in the film....

LOL: Pixar Vs. Dreamworks By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2009 2:23 am EST What is the difference between two computer animation studios? Gagnon II produced this visual diagram showing the difference between the Pixar and DreamWorks Animation creative process. Check out the comic strip after the jump. Thanks to /Film’s own David Chen for the tip. Image found on poe-news.com . LOL: Pixar Vs. Dreamworks By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2009 2:23 am EST...

Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Blu-Ray Details, Cover Art And Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2009 2:39 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Am I the only one disappointed that the Blu-ray set is only going to include the theatrical versions? I thought one of the selling points of Blu-ray was the advanced branching options which would allow us to fit both theatrical and directors cut features on one disc in high definition....

Louis C.K. Gets Another Shot At Television By Russ Fischer/Aug. 7, 2009 12:00 pm EST Variety reports that comedian Louis C.K. has quietly shot a pilot for FX. Provisionally titled Louie, the trade says the show is based on Louis C.K.’s current life as a divorced father of two. Actors play his ex-wife, kids and friends, and episodes in the show would be built from both stand-up routines and sketches. The show sounds a lot like Lucky Louie, C....

Louis Leterrier Dreams Of Epic Avengers Quadrilogy, Released Over One Summer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 9, 2009 4:41 pm EST The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier recently told the Los Angeles Times his dream of collaborating on one part of a quadrilogy of Avengers films for Marvel, which would be released over the course of one Summer: “To work with Joe Johnston and [“Thor” director] Kenneth Branagh and Jon Favreau and make like a triptych....

Movie Review: The Kite Runner By Elaine Mak/Dec. 14, 2007 1:34 pm EST The following movie review is from /Film correspondent Elaine Mak. The Kite Runner, directed by Marc Forster, follows the story of two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, as they are torn apart after Amir witnesses the rape of Hassan. This film, based on the best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, begins in Kabul, Afghanistan, with the country on the verge of war....

New Terminators Look Retro In Terminator 4 By Peter Sciretta/May 15, 2008 7:46 pm EST Character designer Miles Teves explained how the new Terminator 4 will go back to the future in the design of the new Terminators.  “I did all kinds of work on the new sort of Terminator… uh, I can’t describe without being in breach of contract… But there is a new endo-skelleton-type super Terminator that in a way is actually cruder than any of the ones from any of the other films,” explains Teves on the Fanboy Confidential podcast....

Paramount To Distribute Paranormal Activity Follow-Up Area 51 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 29, 2009 1:00 pm EST Paramount Pictures has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Area 51, reteaming with filmmaker Oren Peli for his follow-up to the low budget haunted house “found footage” indie Paranormal Activity. Peli shot the film, another found-video thriller, last month in Utah with three virtually unknown actors - Reid Warner, Darrin Bragg and Ben Rovner. The film was shot for just under $5 million, and Paramount made a high-seven figure commitment....