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Edgar Wright Says Pixar Isn’t Developing Ant-Man Movie By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2009 3:02 pm EST After Disney announced that they would be acquiring Marvel Entertainment, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed during a confrence call that “Pixar boss John Lasseter talked to the Marvel guys about” the possibility of working together on a Pixar film, and “they all got excited about it. We think there’s ultimately some exciting product that come of that....

Emily Browning Takes Lead Role In Sucker Punch By Brendon Connelly/March 30, 2009 10:57 am EST EW’s Hollywood Insider tells us that Emily Browning will be taking the lead role of Baby Doll in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch from Amanda Seyfried. This news immediately struck me as I had idly considered Browning a good option for the lead in Tim Burton’s currently-in-post Alice in Wonderland sequel/subversion and Snyder has made the Alice connections in Sucker Punch clear....

Forum: Disaster Movie & Babylon A.D.: What Did You Feel? UPDATE: Place A Hex On Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer!!! By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 29, 2008 8:56 pm EST WEEKEND UPDATE: Okay. So, I just witnessed a press copy of Disaster Movie. Let’s up the ante. If you really, really want bad things to happen to Disaster Movie, and the movie’s directors/hacks, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer Water, paste the following in the comments: Necronomicon Xmortis Juno....

Geek Deal: The King Of Queens Complete Series For $94 By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2009 11:26 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Karate Kid Remake Earned Second Highest Test Screening Score In Sony History? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 15, 2010 1:30 pm EST Entertainment Weekly is reporting that The Karate Kid remake starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan just held a research screening and earned the second highest test screening score in Sony history, just under 2005’s Hitch, which coincidentally starred Jaden’s father Will Smith. Even with our well documented disdain for the project, we found the teaser trailer to be surprisingly watchable (but it might have just been the very low expectations we had set)....

Marvel Is Considering A Dr. Strange Movie By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2008 2:22 pm EST Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige told MTV News that Dr. Strange is on the short list of comic properties that they will explore after The Avengers hits the big screen. “Very much so,” Feige said. “I’d say in the next year, year and a half, as we start putting together our film slate for 2012 and 2013, I would not be shocked if we saw Dr....

Movie Playlist: Quentin Tarantino’s Top 20 Movies To Be Released Since He Became A Filmmaker By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 16, 2009 7:52 pm EST Quentin Tarantino has recorded a list of his top 20 favorite films which have been released over the last 17 years. What’s so special about the last 17 years, or the year 1992? That was the year Tarantino became a filmmaker. Films on Tarantino’s list include Battle Royale, Anything Else, Audition, Blade, Boogie Nights, Dazed & Confused, Dogville, Fight Club, Fridays, The Host, The Insider, Joint Security Area, Lost In Translation, The Matrix, Memories of Murder, Police Story 3, Shaun of the Dead, Speed, Team America, and Unbreakable....

New Sunshine Movie Trailer And Movie Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 27, 2007 2:30 pm EST Check out the new trailer and poster for Danny Boyle’s (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) 2001ish philosophical space horror/drama. [quicktime width=“320” height=“250”]http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/sunshinetrailer.mov[/quicktime] The new Sunshine trailer is cut to the same Requiem for a Dream score as the original. Told from Captain Kaneda’s point of view, the trailer shows the crew dealing with the many problems aboard the ship, while quickly approaching death....

Noah Wyle Cast In Steven Spielberg’s Alien Invasion Television Pilot By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2009 11:10 pm EST At the upfronts last month, TNT announced that they had ordered a piliot for a new sci-fi alien invasion television series executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Scirpted by Academy Award-nominated Saving Private Ryan scribe Robert Rodat, and based on an idea co-conceived with Spielberg, the series would be set six months after aliens decimated mankind....

Page 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 6, 2008 12:54 am EST Steve Carell tells MTV that he’s ready to return for an Anchorman sequel. Nina Dobrev (Degrassi: The Next Generation) has been cast in Transformers 2 for a role as a university student. [transformerslive] Universal Pictures has released a mobile phone game based on Battlestar Galactica. [Reuters] Jesse Bradford has joined the cast of Oliver Stone’s “W,” playing a college buddy of George W....

Prince Of Persia Featurette: “Behind The Scenes: Dastan” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2009 3:10 pm EST Disney has released a new two-and-a-half-minute behind the scenes featurette for the live-action big screen adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The featurette focuses on Jake Gyllenhaal’s character Dastan, and showcases off the film’s parkour-style action and the special effects magic of the dagger of time. Watch it now, embedded after the jump....

Question: How Has The PG-13 Rating Changed Over The Years (If At All)? By David Chen/June 17, 2009 5:23 am EST It seems almost quaint today but the PG-13 rating was actually conceived in 1984 at the suggestion of Steven Spielberg: His Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was deemed just a tad too graphic/violent for kids, but not so bad as to warrant an R rating. Since then, the PG-13 branding, which indicates that “Some Material May Be Inappropriate for Children Under 13,” has had a bit of a bumpy road....

Recount Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 8, 2008 6:07 pm EST Last month we brought you the teaser trailer for Recount, HBO Films’ retelling of the behind-the-scenes happenings during the 2000 presidential election and the scandal that resulted. /Film reader Linton sent us the full length trailer for the upcoming film. Written by 33-year old actor turned screenwriter Danny Strong, Recount was the top film on the 2007 Black List, an annual poll of 150 development executives and high-level assistants which ranks the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywood....

Rob Marshall Sounds Uncertain About Pirates 4, Script Not Yet Written By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2009 7:59 am EST Rob Marshall is out stumping for Nine, which means that he’s going to be fielding a lot of questions about the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film. Subtitled On Stranger Tides, the film has been announced by Disney, and in mid-November Marshall said he was doing the film. Now, it sounds like he’s not so certain....

Rumor Killed: Jake Gyllenhaal Is NOT Captain Marvel By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2007 5:48 am EST One of the big rumors circulating the interweb this week was that Jake Gyllenhaal is being cast as Captain Marvel in the big screen adaptation of DC Comic’s Shazam! “I’ll be sure to let the studio, producers, and director know,” says Shazam! screenwriter John August. “But the thing is, he’s not considering. I can pretty much assure you he’s never heard of the project....

Rumor Killer: Paris Hilton NOT In Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 20, 2008 1:06 am EST Could Paris Hilton have a role in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes? UK Gossip magazines (we can’t find the initial source) are reporting that Hilton spoke to the director when she visited his London pub The Punchbowl. Hilton was quoted as saying: “I had a few words with Guy. He could be offering me a role in his new ‘Sherlock Holmes’ movie....

Several New Clips For Solomon Kane, Plus Behind The Scenes Footage By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 29, 2009 4:00 pm EST I’ve been looking forward to Michael J. Bassett’s Solomon Kane ever since we caught some glimpses of the sword and sorcery film back at Comic-Con. The film stars James Purefoy (Rome) as the titular Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian) character, and also includes Pete Postlethwaite and Max von Sydow among its cast....

The Foot Clan Confirmed For Live-Action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Movie By Peter Sciretta/July 9, 2009 10:46 am EST In April, it was announced that Mirage Studios would be making a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action movie with initial discussions involve using “hybrid” ninja turtles. Co-creator Peter Laird said early on that the plan is to do a “Batman Begins-style” reboot, retelling the Turtles’ origin story. But when discussion came to the storyline and villain, Laird seemed more excited about involving some of the characters not explored in the film, like Baxter Stockman and the robotic mousers, than revisiting The Foot Clan....

The Kite Runner Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2007 1:32 pm EST Our friend Alex at RT has posted the movie poster for Paramount’s big screen adaptation of The Kite Runner. Based on the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, Finding Neverland and Monster’s Ball helmer Mark Foster directs this story of a man who returns to his native Afghanistan, which is under Taliban rule, to right a long-standing wrong and rescue the son of a childhood friend....

The Losers Bumped Back To Summer 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 11, 2010 12:23 pm EST Box Office is reporting that Warner Bros has decided to bump Sylvain White’s comic book adaptation The Losers from its previously announced release date of April 9th to June 4th 2010. It is assumed that the new Summer release was to give Warner Bros’ other release Clash of the Titans more breathing room. Clash had been recently pushed back to an April 2nd release due to a last-minute decision to do a post-production 3D conversion....