Three New Photos From Repo The Genetic Opera

Three New Photos From Repo! The Genetic Opera By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2008 4:20 pm EST DVDForum.at has posted three new photos from Darren Lynn Bousman’s upcoming horror musical REPO! The Genetic Opera. Head on over to the site for higher resolution versions. Three New Photos From Repo! The Genetic Opera By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2008 4:20 pm EST DVDForum.at has posted three new photos from Darren Lynn Bousman’s upcoming horror musical REPO!...

December 21, 2022 · 1 min · 86 words · Terry Sabo

Time Crimes To Be Remade By United Artists

By Hunter Stephenson/Jan. 19, 2008 1:09 pm EST “…and it’s really that easy.” Chances are you haven’t yet seen the Spanish science-fiction film, Time Crimes (aka Timecrimes; Los Cronocrimenes), but if you check out the early reviews, prepare to flip on your monitor’s praise-wipers. Tom Cruise’s United Artists just purchased the remake rights, marking the studio’s first deal since cutting a deal with the WGA. Writer-Producer Steve Zallian (American Gangster) will produce the film....

December 21, 2022 · 3 min · 443 words · Jason Gurke

Tune In Tonight At 10 Pm Est 7 Pm Pst For The Filmcast Live

Tune In Tonight At 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST For The /Filmcast Live By David Chen/June 30, 2008 8:08 am EST Tune in tonight to Slashfilm’s live page at 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST to hear us broadcast the /Filmcast live! Tonight we’ll be discussing the week’s worth of film news and reviewing Wanted and Wall-E. I can’t say or know what our guest lineup will be, but I assure you that it promises to be dazzling....

December 21, 2022 · 2 min · 234 words · Sheila Martinez

Uwe Boll Challenges Michael Bay To Death Match

Uwe Boll Challenges Michael Bay To Death Match By Peter Sciretta/April 25, 2008 2:19 pm EST Hack video game movie director Uwe Boll has had enough of AWESOME Hollywood action director Michael Bay’s disrespect, and has challenged to the Transformers director to a 12-round boxing match to settle it all. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/bollvsbay.flv 368 208] “Michael Bay responded to my note about him in a very insulting way for me. He said that he doesn’t care about me and this was very insulting because I care about him and I think that with the money he has for his movies, he sucks big time....

December 21, 2022 · 4 min · 769 words · Kathleen Ferris

Watch This Now Carl Erik Rinsch S The Gift

Watch This Now: Carl Erik Rinsch’s The Gift By Peter Sciretta/April 7, 2010 7:35 pm EST Watch the short film embedded after the jump. Click Here to watch the short in High Definition on YouTube. I’ve watched this short like five times now and I’m amazed at how Rinsch has seemlessly blended computer generated worlds and characters with live-action. And I love how Rinsch used the project dialogue “It’s a unicorn, Never seen one up close before” to build a powerful macguffin that we never actually ever see, which becomes the impetus for this futuristic chase between the Russian police and a robot....

December 21, 2022 · 2 min · 299 words · David Albrecht

Box Office Overtakes Dvd Blu Ray Sales For First Time Since 2002

Box Office Overtakes DVD/Blu-Ray Sales For First Time Since 2002 By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2010 8:00 am EST Reuters is reporting that for the first time since 2002, consumers in the United States spent more to see movies theatrically than purchasing films on Blu-ray and DVD. According to the figures from Adams Media Research, U.S. consumers spent an estimated $8.73 billion for movies on DVDs and Blu-Ray, a drop of 13 percent from the year before....

December 20, 2022 · 4 min · 641 words · Deborah Shock

Casting Notes George Lopez Is Speedy Gonzales Anjelica Huston And Philip Baker Hall In I M With Cancer

Casting Notes: George Lopez Is Speedy Gonzales; Anjelica Huston And Philip Baker Hall In I’m With Cancer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2010 8:29 am EST Consider this a courtesy report on the fact that New Line is making a film based on the Warner Bros. cartoon character Speedy Gonzales, with George Lopez providing the voice of the character. Because, like the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies, the Garfield films, et al, this one is a movie purely for the kids....

December 20, 2022 · 5 min · 920 words · Eddie Marx

Cloverfield 1 18 08 Sources Say The Monster S Are Not Raptor Like

Cloverfield/1-18-08: Sources Say The Monster(s) Are NOT Raptor-Like By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 21, 2007 2:47 pm EST Last week DreadCentral reported a rumor from an e-mail spy that claimed to know the identity of the Cloverfield / 1-18-08 / Overnight monster(s). According to “Mr. Slusho”, much of the movie will revolve around the characters fleeing for their lives, not from the big one stomping the city, but from the “raptor-like” smaller versions hunting them down....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 446 words · Sabrina England

Final Pathology Movie Poster

Final Pathology Movie Poster By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2008 6:05 pm EST MGM and Lakeshore have released the final theatrical one-sheet for Pathology. It’s much better than the teaser poster that was released at comic Con. Written by Mark Neveldine/Brian Taylor, the madmen behind Crank, and directed by Marc Schoelermann, Pathology follows a group of medical residents studying pathology who devise a deadly game: to see which one of them can commit the perfect murder....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 223 words · Dana Elliott

First Look James Cameron Directing Avatar

First Look: James Cameron Directing Avatar By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2008 12:22 pm EST The Los Angeles Times has a first look behind the scenes photo of James Cameron directing Sam Worthington in his big budget sci-fi 3D film Avatar. Look at the incredible performance capture and 3D rig, both of which were probably created for this film, just off camera. And if you look where Cameron is pointing, you will see one of the alien creatures from the movie projected onto the set using a new state of the art holographic projector thinggy....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 248 words · Rita Brower

First Look Vega In Street Fighter The Legend Of Chun Li

First Look: Vega In Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 5, 2009 5:32 pm EST /Film reader Christopher M sent over two new photos from Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, ne of which gives us our first real look at Black Eyed Peas ’ singer Taboo as Vega (Balrog in Japan), who you might remember from the Street Fighter video games. See the full photo after the jump, along with a second photo featuring Moon Bloodgood (Terminator Salvation) as Maya, getting ready for action....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 440 words · Virginia Watt

Francis Lawrence To Direct Marco Polo Adventure Movie

Francis Lawrence To Direct Marco Polo Adventure Movie By Russ Fischer/March 3, 2010 11:23 pm EST The story of Marco Polo has been brought to the screen before and will probably be adapted many times in the future. The next film about the explorer could be directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) as Warner Bros. has attached the director to a project based on a pitch by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, who will write a script based on Polo’s adventures....

December 20, 2022 · 7 min · 1364 words · Rebecca Buster

Friday Box Office Jumper 8 2M Step Up 2 6 2M Spiderwick 4 7M

Friday Box Office: Jumper $8.2M; Step-Up 2 $6.2M; Spiderwick $4.7M By Steve Mason/Feb. 16, 2008 5:21 am EST The Spiderwick Chronicles (Paramount), the well-reviewed family fantasy movie at over 3,800 locations, has recovered from a disappointing Thursday, collecting an estimated $4.75M on Friday. Directed by Mark Waters (Freaky Friday, Mean Girls), and checking in with a reported budget of $100M+, Spiderwick will have banked $25.35M or so by Monday night. That’s well short of the $28....

December 20, 2022 · 4 min · 658 words · Mamie Akers

Geek Deal Planet Of The Apes Blu Ray Collection For 58

Geek Deal: Planet Of The Apes Blu-Ray Collection For $58 By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2009 11:22 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Special Features: NEW Science of the Apes BONUSVIEW – Scientists, anthropologists and sociologists discuss the facts and fiction of the first film NEW “Beyond the Forbidden Zone” Adventure Game NEW “A Public Service Announcement From ANSA” in HD – A mission report from the agency regarding their brave astronauts...

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 381 words · Myrtle Hard

Geek Deal Up To 64 Off Wb Superhero Dvds

Geek Deal: Up To 64% Off WB Superhero DVDs By Peter Sciretta/July 10, 2008 4:27 pm EST Deep Discount DVD is celebrating the release of The Dark Knight by offering up to 64% off of select Superhero titles from Warner Bros. For example you van pick up Batman Begins for $7.20, all of the original Superman movies for $7.20, Superman Returns for $5.99, V For Vendetta for $7.20, The Ultimate Matrix Collection for $30....

December 20, 2022 · 1 min · 170 words · Earl Harkness

Hellboy 2 Teaser Trailer

Hellboy 2 Teaser Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2007 1:44 pm EST Universal has released the teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Watch it now below. Official Plot Synopsis: After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 581 words · Christian Cranker

Jay Leno Jokes About Cancellation Rumors

Jay Leno Jokes About Cancellation Rumors By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 7, 2010 6:18 pm EST

December 20, 2022 · 1 min · 14 words · Marian Rowe

Lol Jabba The Hut Cat

LOL: Jabba The Hut Cat By Peter Sciretta/April 2, 2010 1:00 pm EST So I was in a car driving back from a great dinner at San Tung’s Chinese Food in San Francisco when Great White Snark looked over at me from behind the wheel and said, in all seriousness, “So I got this big scoop today about a jabba the hutt cat photo today!” I thought it was hilarious that Mike refered to a LOL Cat photo someone e-mailed him as “a big scoop” (for the record, in retrospect he did as well)....

December 20, 2022 · 2 min · 262 words · Juan Pursley

Natalie Portman Joins Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Richard Kelly Producing

Natalie Portman Joins Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, Richard Kelly Producing By Devindra Hardawar/Dec. 11, 2009 12:12 am EST We’ve seen Natalie Portman in period pieces before, but I bet she’s never had to fight off hordes of undead at the same time. Portman is set to star and produce Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an adaptation of the uber-popular Seth Grahame-Smith novel that mashed up zombies with Jane Austen’s original text....

December 20, 2022 · 4 min · 788 words · Cynthia Waldo

National Treasure Book Of Secrets Movie Trailer

National Treasure: Book Of Secrets Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2007 5:38 pm EST The National Treasure: Book of Secrets trailer which Disney premiered at Comic-Con 2007 is now available online. As we previously reported, the new trailer reveals a lot more about the plot of the film: A missing page from John Wilkes Booth’s diary reveals that treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage)’s great grandfather might have actually been the one responsible for Lincoln’s assassination....

December 20, 2022 · 3 min · 503 words · James Davis