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Pride Superbowl TV Advertisement By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 7, 2007 5:30 am EST A television spot of Pride aired during the Super Bowl. The studio passed us the video to pass along to you. Starring Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac, and Kimberly Elise, Pride is based on true events. The film tells the inspiring story of Jim Ellis, a charismatic schoolteacher in the 1970’s, who changed lives forever when he founded an African-American swim team in one of Philadelphia’s roughest neighborhoods....

Quentin Tarantino And Brad Pitt To Adapt Swedish Book Trilogy? By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2009 11:43 am EST Now that Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt have Inglourious Basterds more or less behind them (Tarantino has test-screened the film in the US and is making additional edits now) will the pair work together again? Anne Thompson suggests that they might. She’s perpetuating a report found in the Times of London that Tarantino and Pitt are interested in the Millennium Trilogy, three hugely popular books by Swedish author Stieg Larsson....

Ratatouille LEAKED Online One Week Before Nationwide Release By Peter Sciretta/June 20, 2007 5:36 pm EST In future history books, 2007 will probably become known as the year that movie piracy became mainstream. Sure, Star Wars Episode III hit the bit torrent networks days before it’s release. And there was the occasional other film that found it’s way onto the web before it’s nationwide release. But for the most part pirated movies were something you would find the week after the film’s premiere....

The Shining At Timberline Lodge By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 8, 2008 12:20 am EST Fantastic Fest is holding a party at the Timberline Lodge in Oregon, the original filming location of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Check out the information below: In 1980, Stanley Kubrick came to the Timberline Lodge to film one of the all-time great horror classics, THE SHINING. In the film, Jack Nicholson slowly loses his grasp on reality and loses himself in a hallucination of a 1920s era ball....

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/April 30, 2009 5:40 pm EST Paramount Pictures has officially premiered the new trailer for Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on Yahoo. The new trailer gives us a better look at the comedy, characters, and story. And yes, the return of Megatron, a character that Michael Bay insisted only appeared in the film during a flashback sequence. And lets not forget, Devestator....

Transformers 2 Teaser Poster Unleashed By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 8, 2009 5:50 pm EST Turns out that auction on eBay was legit after all. Dreamworks has released the new teaser poster for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on Yahoo movies. I’m pretty sure the face on the poster is Jetfire, who (possible spoiler warning) appears in the new movie as a SR-71 Blackbird who was abandoned by the Decepticons, and is ressurected by the Autobots....

WALL-E: The Look And Sound Of Space; Brazilian Vignettes And UK Posters By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2008 1:33 pm EST I can’t yet begin to tell you what II thought of Pixar’s WALL-E. Unfortunately I am embargoed against telling you exactly how much I loved the film. Disney is ramping up their marketing, and has released a bunch of videos that are worth checking out. First up is a featurette called “Pixar Goes Space Age” which takes a look at the design, tone and cinematography of space in the film....

$60m Deal Sends Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles To Nickelodeon; Paramount Will Make New Feature Film For 2012 By Russ Fischer/Oct. 21, 2009 7:33 am EST When I was reading oversized black and white TMNT comics in the mid-’80s, I never would have guessed that one day the rights to those characters would be trading for sixty million dollars. But that’s what Nickelodeon just paid to pick up global TMNT rights from the Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment....

Academy Award Torrent Site? By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2007 5:09 am EST The Pirate Bay has created a new website, to host illegal versions of all the Academy Award nominated movies. The Academy must be pissed. Oscartorrents.com is a torrent site completely dedicated to Oscar contending movies. The film is set-up into the award categories. Users can download and vote on movies. “Why restrict the voting to a few bought-off jurors when the whole world can have their say?...

Ask A Ninja About The Writers Strike By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2007 7:50 pm EST The good guys at Ask a Ninja have published a special episode on the Writers Strike. If there is anyone who can put this madness into perspective, it has to be a ninja. Watch the stealth-like hilarity after the jump. Ask A Ninja About The Writers Strike By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 25, 2007 7:50 pm EST...

Babylon A.D. To Be Butchered For U.S. Release? By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 6, 2007 4:53 pm EST

Beverly Hills Chihuahua Movie Trailer By Hunter Stephenson/May 7, 2008 8:11 pm EST If you have the cojones to watch this new trailer, please quickly seek rehabilitation afterward at FAIL Dogs. A friend close to this production continues to boast maniacally that $100 million box office is a lock. Rapping dogs kill, kids. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/beverlyhillschihuahua.flv 470 200] Beverly Hills Chihuahuah, starring the voice work of Drew Barrymore and George Lopez, opens on September 26th/apocalypse....

Box Office Tracking: Indiana Jones 4 Targets $170M In First Five Days By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2008 12:19 pm EST Steve Mason is predicting that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will make $162 – $172 Million in it’s first five days of release domestically. It opens on Thursday, May 22 at Midnight (Wednesday night), so this will make for a huge opening day, which I am projecting in the $41M-$44M range (that includes Wednesday night after midnight screenings)....

Christian Bale Is Reluctantly Committed To Batman 3, With Or Without Nolan By Peter Sciretta/April 28, 2009 11:51 am EST Our friends at Total Film were able to corner Christian Bale about the prospects of a Dark Knight sequel, and the Batman star insists that “it’s got to be the right story”. When I talked with Bale last July if he would return for another one, he answered that he couldn’t “imagine doing this without Chris [Nolan],” and that he doesn’t “even want to consider” doing another film without Nolan....

By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2009 9:00 am EST Chris Appelhans has created concept art work on Monster House, City of Ember, Coraline, and Princess and the Frog. Appelhans has uploaded some of the awesome work he crafted for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, which I have included after the jump. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff?...

Cool Stuff: Star Wars Force FX Lightsaber Construction Set By Peter Sciretta/June 4, 2008 2:52 am EST I’ve always wanted to buy one of those Star Wars Force FX lightsabers, but I’ve never been able to settle on a make or model. The Star Wars Force FX Lightsaber Construction Set lets you build your own lightsaber (Over 700 possible configurations), and even change the color of the blade to whatever color you want (red, blue, or green), whenever you want....

By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2009 8:31 pm EST AfterDawn is reporting that Disney has announced plans to follow in Fox’s footsteps and release two different classes of DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs, one of which is barebones, and meant for rental consumption only. The first titles, Morning Light, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience, will hit rental store shelves (or should I say Netflix warehouses?) in June....

Eli Roth Says Hostel 3 Unlikely By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 28, 2007 11:19 pm EST Here’s a surprise, a geek director who doesn’t want to make a trilogy. Hostel director Eli Roth says he’s not interested in making a third Hostel film, for now at least. “I don’t know. Sure the answer is it depends on how Hostel: Part II does,” revealed Roth. “For right now, I don’t want to make a bad Hostel III and I don’t want to force it....

Extended Toy Story 3 Clip To Premiere This Sunday By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 18, 2009 11:50 am EST We won’t have to wait long to see the first clip from Pixar’s Toy Story 3. Disney has announced that ABC Family will be airing a special “first look” extended clip from the new Toy Story sequel during a presentation of Pixar’s The Incredibles this Sunday, December 20th at 8:30pm ET/7:30pm CT. The segment will be hosted by Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich....

HBO Considering Series Based On Trent Reznor’s Year Zero? By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 11, 2008 5:37 pm EST The dystopian future imagined by Trent Reznor is synergy-friendly. Some have argued that it’s cliche. The savvy Nine Inch Nails frontman tells the LA Times that he recently met with HBO about adapting the themes of his Year One concept album (and cultish alternate reality game) into an ambitious sci-fi series… “I just pitched it to HBO two weeks ago in L....