VOTD: Hi, I’m A Marvel… And I’m A DC: Wolverine Vs. Watchmen By Peter Sciretta/March 5, 2009 12:00 am EST Ever since Apple began airing those Mac vs. PC ads, people on the YouTubes have been making parodies. One of the Mac vs. PC parodies we’ve been tracking over the last 2 years (has it really been that long? Yes, it has) is the Marvel vs. DC spots that someone created using action figures....
VOTD: Jon Favreau Gives Tony Hawk A Tour Of Stan Winston Studios By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 16, 2008 12:00 am EST Favreau gives Tony Hawk a Tour of Stan Winston Studios The Pitch: While filming an episode of Iconoclasts, Jon Favreau gave skateboard legend Tony Hawk a tour of Stan Winston Studios. Watch More Cool Videos Here! Video of the Day is a daily feature of /Film showcasing geekarific video creations. Have a video we should be feature on VOTD?...
X-Men Origins: Wolverine TV Spot 2 -“Brothers” By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2009 9:26 pm EST
16 New Photos: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix By Peter Sciretta/April 23, 2007 9:00 pm EST In anticipation of the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie trailer which will be released Tuesday on Yahoo!, Warner Bros has released 16 high resolution photos from said trailer. If you’re not yet excited for the next Potter, than all you’ll need to see is the Voldermort photos below....
American Pie Presents: The Book Of Love Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 26, 2009 9:29 am EST Yup, Universal is releasing yet another direct-to-DVD American Pie sequel/spin-off. And yes, the jokes have gotten progressively less funny. This time around, the story focuses on three friends at Great Falls High, who like the original group, are “determined to succeed in their mission of manhood and score with the ladies of their dreams....
Bill Nighy Starring In Neil Gaiman’s Silent Film Shoot Location And Time Revealed By Brendon Connelly/Sept. 4, 2009 11:52 am EST That short silent film which Neil Gaiman is currently in the midst of directing, and as reported on earlier, is to start shooting this Sunday. From the info now available, we know that it’s going to be called Statuesque, will star Bill Nighy and Amanda Palmer, pop star and Gaiman’s girlfriend, and is one of a series of films commissioned by Rupert Murdoch’s UK based Sky TV, each to mark one of the twelve days of Christmas....
Capeshooters Screenwriters Also Working On Brett Ratner’s Youngblood By Peter Sciretta/May 13, 2009 1:05 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Liefeld says that the movie will be in the same tone as Iron Man, and rated a hard-PG-13. The film will tell the story of Shaft and Chapel, the bow-wielding marksman and gun-toting former soldier who have to put aside their differences to save the Youngblood program, a high-profile super-team sanctioned and overseen by the United States Government....
Cool Stuff: Star Trek Limited Edition Replica Gift Set By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2009 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The replica weighs over a pound. The set will be released on November 17th 2009 and is available for preorder for $90.99 (the 3-disc +digital copy special edition is available for around $26.49 by itself). It comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by QMx and ILM’s Roger Guyett, and is expected to feature some other bonus materials....
David Fincher And Charlize Theron At Work On New HBO Show By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2010 9:36 am EST So take the word that he and Charlize Theron are developing Mind Hunter, an HBO series based on the John Douglas and Mark Olshaker book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, with a basic ‘wait and see’ attitude. Remember that Fincher is also working as producer on an adaptation of the UK mini-series House of Cards....
Eli Roth To Shoot Transformers/Cloverfield Scale Movie This Fall By Brendon Connelly/April 15, 2009 3:31 pm EST “I’m almost done with my new script,” says Eli Roth to MTV. “Yippee” says Brendon to the dog and an episode of Desperate Housewives which is only on by accident. According to a new interview with the director, he’s planning to shoot n $80 million actioner this fall and then, in the immediate three weeks following, bash out a feature length version of Thanksgiving for $5 million....
Empire Magazine’s 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2008 2:40 pm EST Empire Magazine has just published their 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, the result of “the biggest movie poll of all time. The films were chosen by readers, a panel of Hollywood insiders (including Quentin Tarantino, Sam Mendes, Mike Leigh, Guillermo Del Toro, Pedro Almodovar and Cameron Crowe), and I was somehow included in their sample of 50 “key film critics”....
Fast Five Goes To Brazil By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2010 9:18 pm EST Last month Universal Pictures announced that a fifth film in the Fast and the Furious franchise would be going into production titled Fast Five. The studio had inked deals with all the key players, including stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, director Justin Lin, screenwriter Chris Morgan (Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Wanted), and producer Neal Moritz to return to the franchise....
Geek Deals: The Shield Season Six For $16; 67% Off Boston Acoustics Speaker System; Twilight Saga For $35 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2008 12:49 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Barnes and Noble is selling the Twilight Saga Hardcover Collection for $58. If you use the coupon code H4D4U8B when using a Mastercard, the end total will be $35 with free shipping included. If you’re a Barnes and Noble member, use coupon code V7E3F7F to save 40% off your membership discount price ($52....
Harold Ramis Talks Ghostbusters 3 By Peter Sciretta/March 27, 2009 11:35 pm EST MTV was able to get Harold Ramis to talk about the next Ghostbusters movie, which is currently in the development/scripting stage with The Office/Year One scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky working on the script. Ramis has yet to receive a first draft in hand but claims that he has been consulting with the screenwriting duo, along with Dan Aykroyd, Ivan Reitman (who helmed the original film)....
Harry Potter: JK Rowling Reveals Dumbledore Was Gay By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 19, 2007 9:21 pm EST I’ve read all of the Harry Potter novels (although, I’ve yet to finish the last one) and have seen all the Harry Potter films, yet the sexual preference of one of the main characters is a shocking twist that I nor Hardcore Harry Potter fanatics ever expected. JK Rowling revealed at a book reading in front of over 2,000 fans at Carnegie Hall in New York that the headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Albus Dumbledore, is actually gay....
Joel Schumacher Eyes Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2007 5:45 am EST First Joss Whedon dropped off Wonder Woman, then it was announced that David Goyer walked away from The Flash so that Big Liar director Shawn Levy could come aboard (destroying any hope of a descent movie), and now the guy who brought us Batman and Robin wants to direct Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. Please say it isn’t so....
Kevin Smith’s Money Shots - Episode 1 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 7, 2008 1:25 pm EST [flv:http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/trailers/moneyshots1.flv 460 276]Kevin Smith has released the first episode of his behind the scenes web series “Money Shots” which documents the making of Zack and Miri Make a Porno. The first episode which premiered on Quick Stop Entertainment, is more of an introduction/preview, than anything else. But you get an idea of some of the crazy stuff that we might see in upcoming episodes....
Land Of The Lost Super Bowl Ad Features Bad Blue Screen Removal By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 31, 2009 5:53 pm EST Universal has released the Super Bowl advertisement for Land of the Lost. I’m impressed with some of the visuals, but the jokes and plot seem overwhelmingly generic. And I know that the footage in this teaser television spot is probably unfinished, but how bad does the blue screen removal around Will Ferrell’s head in the screen capture above look?...
Leonardo DiCaprio To Star In The Deep Blue Goodbye By Hunter Stephenson/Sept. 29, 2009 1:52 am EST In what could be the first film in a noirish franchise for 20th Century Fox, Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star as Travis McGee, a fictional Floridian gumshoe who lives on a houseboat, in The Deep Blue Goodbye. The film is an adaptation of the popular 1964 novel—nearly identical in title—by late pulp-fiction author John D....
Making And Selling Dead Wood: Truly Independent Filmmaking By Brendon Connelly/April 12, 2009 12:56 pm EST If you’re interested in independent filmmaking, perhaps even hoping to get your own film made and sold to a distributor, then this post is likely to be of interest to you – particularly the video that comes after the break. Dead Wood is slightly unusual for being an almost zero-budget horror film, but particularly odd for having three co-credited directors....
