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From Paris With Love Movie Trailer By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 16, 2009 4:25 pm EST I think the Europacorp action factory, which has produced everything from the original Taxi and its sequels through to the District 13 films, and typically with a script at least co-written by Luc Besson, is pretty dependable in delivering nice, solid b-movie style action shenanigans. Hopefully From Paris With Love will be no different. Besson is here credited as a co-writer alongside Adi Hasak, previously credited with George P....

Gamer Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2009 12:26 pm EST Lionsgate has premiered the official U.S. trailer for Gamer on XBox Live (is this the first movie to ever premiere a trailer on a video game console? Possibly) The trailer has found its way online. Gamer (previously titled Game) is the new film from Crank madmen, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The story takes us to the sci-fi future world where prisoners do battle in a real life video game....

How Many Shadows? Producer Michael Uslan Suggests There Might Be A Bunch By Brendon Connelly/Jan. 21, 2009 1:29 pm EST It’s been sometime since we heard anything about the new The Shadow film. Way back in December 2006, Sam Raimi and Michael Uslan came onboard as producers and Siavash Farahani was appointed to write the screenplay. It was said that several other Street and Smith properties were being optioned, almost as part of a set – these would include Doc Savage and The Avenger, possibly even The Whisperer and The Skipper, and it was sometimes suggested that characters from each would all appear in a single movie....

James Cameron’s Avatar Continues To Break IMAX Box Office Records By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 28, 2009 10:11 pm EST Read the full press release after the jump. James Cameron’s Avatar Continues to Shatter IMAX Box Office Records IMAX Release Races to $39 million Worldwide in Ten Days The IMAX international release posted an estimated total of approximately $3.6 million from 70 IMAX screens during the weekend, with the IMAX network in Poland and Japan posting record openings....

Marvel’s Starting Offer For Mickey Rourke As Iron Man Villain: $250,000 By David Chen/Jan. 21, 2009 7:50 am EST A few weeks ago, the internet was rampant with speculation about Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell’s roles in Iron Man 2. Conflicting reports from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter made people ask who was playing who, and wonder whether Rourke would in fact be playing Crimson Dynamo in the sequel. You can check out our original post on the subject here, and be sure to check out some good analysis by CHUD and MTV too....

Matthew Vaughn Reteams With Mark Millar For American Jesus By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2009 8:09 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The comic started as a miniseries titled “Chosen”, and eventually evolved into a trilogy of miniseries retitled “American Jesus”. The second volume, subtitled “The Resurrection”, is due out this Fall. The story follows a twelve-year-old boy who suddenly discovers he’s returned as Jesus Christ....

New Photo: Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince By Peter Sciretta/March 19, 2008 4:12 pm EST Enock Carvalho from the Harry Potter Brazilian fansite oclumencia.com.br sent over this new photo from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The photo which comes from the new issue of Nick Magazine, shows Harry (Dan Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson), and Ron (Rupert Grint) sitting in the Gryffindor Common Room. I know, not very revealing… As always, click to enlarge....

New Transformers Theme Song Revealed By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2007 10:40 am EST The theme song for Michael Bay’s Transformers was exposed on the Sector 7 viral game site. The theme is a riff off the classic “Transformers – more than meets the eye” song which was used in the cartoon and toy television ads. Listen to it below. It’s a little too techno-rock/nu-metal for me, but what do I know?...

Richard Kelly’s The Box Movie Trailer By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2009 5:59 pm EST The first trailer for Richard Kelly’s new film The Box has appeared, and it appropriately tries to push a few buttons. The film stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple with an increasingly desperate need for money. A box mysteriously appears on their doorstep, followed by Frank Langella, who presents an offer: push the button on the box and someone unknown to them will die, and they’ll be given a payment of one million dollars....

Saturday Box Office: Iron Man Targets $52M Second Weekend; Speed Racer Heads For Disappointing $18.7M Opening By Peter Sciretta/May 11, 2008 12:45 am EST The Saturday Box Office estimates are in over at Fantasy Moguls, and Paramount’s Iron Man is beating it’s second weekend expectations, adding an estimated $21.72M on Saturday, which should result in a $52M 3-day ($163.66M cume). Speed Racer is doing even worse than expected, heading for a very disappointing $18....

Scream 4 Is Not A Remake, But The First Chapter Of A New Trilogy By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2009 1:37 pm EST Last week it was reported that Courtney Cox Arquette and David Arquette have been approached about reprising their roles as Gale Weathers and Dwight “Dewey” Riley for a fourth Scream movie. It was originally rumored that the film would be a complete reboot, but with returning characters, it seems more like a proper sequel....

Shoot And Edit A Movie On The iPhone By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 28, 2009 4:00 am EST Your iPhone 3g might allow you to shoot video, but unless you’re a one-shot Scorsese, you still need iMovie to create a presentable phone shot film… But a new app has been released which might change everything. ReelDirector gives users the ability to stitch videos together, add titles, transitions and other effects. Watch a video demonstration after the jump to see the app and all of its powers....

The Wrestler Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 20, 2008 4:19 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/thewrestlertrailer.flv 470 196] Official Plot Synopsis: Back in the late ’80s, Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, twenty years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any real relationships, Randy lives for the thrill of the show and the adoration of his fans....

VOTD: How JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Should Have Ended By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2010 12:00 am EST We’ve posted a few videos from the guys at How It Should Have Ended in past editions of VOTD (Video of the Day). Their latest episode takes an animated look at how JJ Abrams’ Star Trek should have ended. Watch it now, after the jump. VOTD: How JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Should Have Ended...

VOTD: Web Site Story By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2009 7:44 pm EST College Humor has done it again, this time with a parody of West Side Story which takes on the story of the modern world of online dating. Twitter, Facebook, eVite and even Pandora, it is all covered in song . Web Side Story might be the best web musical since (LOL)Cats, or at least since Dr. Horrible. Watch the video after the jump....

Which Path Will Orci, Kurtzman And Lindelof Choose For Star Trek 2? By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2009 9:02 pm EST In a previous video blog, we discussed the possibilities for the future of the Star Trek film franchise. One thing both Steve and I agreed on was that we’d like to see something completely new and different in the sequel, and not just a remake or reinvention of past storylines or events from the films/tv shows....

Why Did Ryan Gosling Leave Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 23, 2007 12:17 pm EST Yesterday we reported that Mark Wahlberg had replaced Ryan Gosling in Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of The Lovely Bones, just hours before the movie began production. The full details of why the last minute change was made, had not been revealed, until now. According to the Los Angeles Times, Gosling’s weight gain was too much for the Lord of the Rings director....

Will “Crowd-Sourced” Be The Next Big Indie Film Buzzword? By Russ Fischer/July 15, 2009 4:23 pm EST The term ‘crowd sourcing’ has been around for a few years, but it has been mostly applied to technology (software coding and testing, for example) and then new versions of news media and things like Wikipedia. But we’re starting to see some high-profile crowd-sourced work applied to movies, and the potential is interesting. When web tools like Facebook and Twitter can easily unite budding content creators with access to high-quality cameras and post-production suites, why not put all that distributed power to work making a film?...

27 New Bee Movie Photos By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2007 2:05 pm EST Paramount/Dreamworks just sent us a new batch of photos from Jerry Seinfeld’s upcoming computer animated film Bee Movie. I caught a sneak preview of footage from the film last month, and was surprised at how much I enjoyed myself. I’m usually a very harsh critic of the DreamWorks computer animated films (If only everyone could be like Pixar), but this one actually has more than a few interesting aspects (you can read our previous report at this link)....

Box Office: What Recession? Biggest President’s Day Weekend In Hollywood History By Steve Mason/Feb. 13, 2009 11:51 pm EST TOP GROSSING PRESIDENT’S WEEKENDS FOR HOLLYWOOD combined gross of top 12 films - 2009 – $195M (estimated) 2007 – $167.8M 2008 – $141.1M 2003 – $141M 2005 – $137.1M Director Marcus Nispel (2003’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake) and the Platinum Dunes production company have gotten the all-new Friday the Thirteenth off to a spectacular $20M opening day....