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Behind The Scenes Footage: ‘Scream 4’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 23, 2010 5:30 am EST Entertainment Tonight has run another of the show’s patented breathless behind the scenes first looks, this time for Scream 4. The clip is online and shows that, yep, it’s a Scream movie. The footage primarily shows a lot of running around a large suburban house, with the masked Ghostface chasing potential victims. It’s for franchise fans only, but if you’ve been hungry for Ghostface in action, this is the first look....

Black Friday Weekend Deals By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2011 12:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Box Set Deals: Blu-rays Deals: DVD Deals: Note: We use affiliate links when available. The very small percentage we could receive per sale through these links adds up and helps us pay the technology costs that keep this site afloat and allow us to employ the talented staff of writers who provide the content that you read day to day....

Bryan Lee O’Malley’s ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Band Sketches By Germain Lussier/Sept. 20, 2010 10:00 am EST Though it’s probably not playing in a theater near you anymore, many of us can agree that Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is still near and dear to our hearts. The Blu-ray release can’t come soon enough so we can pour over every frame and see all the wonderful things that director Edgar Wright placed there for fans to find....

Casting Bits: Mary Elizabeth Winstead In ‘A.C.O.D.’, Mila Kunis In ‘Hell & Back’, Taissa Farmiga In ‘Bling Ring’ By Angie Han/March 2, 2012 5:00 am EST The cast of Stuart Zicherman’s A.C.O.D. just keeps getting better. Mary Elizabeth Winstead has just joined Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, and Jane Lynch in the comedy, which centers around around thirtysomething Carter (Scott). When his younger brother gets engaged, Carter must try and keep the peace between his long-divorced parents lest they ruin the wedding....

Cool Stuff: 1979 ILM “Night Crew” T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2010 3:00 pm EST If you worked at Industrial Light & Magic in 1979 as part of the night crew, then you probably had this Empire Strikes Back crew t-shirt. As part of the 30th anniversary celebration, LucasFilm has reprduced the tee and is selling it online on StarWars.com in sizes Small to XXL for $23.99. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm....

Disney Films Coming Soon To YouTube By Germain Lussier/Nov. 23, 2011 3:30 pm EST Variety broke the news of this deal. It doesn’t say when the agreement goes into effect, just that “hundreds of titles from Disney, DreamWorks and Pixar, including Alice in Wonderland, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Cars 2” will be included. A mention on Google’s YouTube blog says titles will start appearing immediately. Mentioning those three movies specifically begs the question, will there be any good movies released?...

Geek Deal: Star Wars Blu-Ray Trilogy Sets For $39.99 Each By Peter Sciretta/July 31, 2011 10:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Here’s the full press release about the set announced today, May 4, as in “May the 4th be with you.” o Audio Commentary with George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Ben Burtt, Rob Coleman, John Knoll, Dennis Muren and Scott Squires o Audio Commentary from Archival Interviews with Cast and Crew...

Keven Zegers, Christopher Egan And Anthony Mackie In The Running For ‘Mission: Impossible 4’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2010 8:23 pm EST Paramount Pictures and director Brad Bird are going to begin testing actors to star alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 4. The Wrap is reporting that Keven Zegers (Frozen), Christopher Egan (Resident Evil: Extinction) and Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker) are in contention for roles in the new film....

Michael Mann Finds ‘Gold’ By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2011 7:30 pm EST Michael Mann’s last feature, Public Enemies, hit theaters almost two years ago. He’s got the HBO drama Luck coming up soon, but thanks in part to the demands of that show, has been slow in settling on a new feature project. Possible films have included medieval battle film Agincourt, the gangster film Big Tuna and a biopic of photographer Robert Capa, which has had Gemma Arterton and Andrew Garfield attached....

Movie Trailer: Tony Scott’s Unstoppable By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2010 10:46 pm EST The film stars Chris Pine, Denzel Washington, and Rosario Dawson in a story scripted by Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard, Deception, Race to Witch Mountain) loosely inspired by true events. The film tells the story of an experienced engineer (Washington) who finds himself teaming up with a young conductor (Pine) in a race against time, with a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals....

Nick Nolte Joins ‘Gangster Squad’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 29, 2011 11:30 am EST Briefly: Here’s one more reason to be excited about Ruben Fleischer’s upcoming ’40s-set LA ‘cops vs. mobsters’ story Gangster Squad. Nick Nolte is taking a role in the film; he’ll be Bill Parker, “the new chief of police in Los Angeles,” and a Chief who isn’t in the pocket of big-time LA gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). The character is a WWII vet and the guy who gives the gangster squad its mandate to bust Cohen and other organized crime goons....

Paramount Looks To ‘The Town’ Writer For New ‘Top Gun 2’ Approach By Russ Fischer/March 1, 2012 9:30 am EST For a little while now, we’ve known that Paramount, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and potentially director Tony Scott want to make a sequel of some sort to Scott’s mid-’80s Tom Cruise blockbuster Top Gun. Last year Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz, writers who contributed to X-Men: First Class, were tapped to craft the new Top Gun script....

Sony Will Sneak Peek Parts Of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ In Select Cities On February 6 By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2012 4:50 pm EST Earlier today we talked about some of the story aspects in Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man that play into the ‘untold story’ that Sony is promising from the film. I assumed we’d have to wait a while longer before learning more about the story, but that might not be the case....

Stanley Tucci Cast In ‘The Hunger Games’ By Germain Lussier/May 9, 2011 12:00 pm EST Stanley Tucci will get a chance to channel his inner Ryan Seacrest as he’s been cast to play Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games. Flickerman is a popular, charismatic interviewer who speaks to the child Tributes on national television before they attempt to kill one another. He’s famous for radically changing his appearance, always seeking out the positive and looking younger than his age....

Trent Reznor Clarifies ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Rumors, Talks ‘Dragon Tattoo’ And Oscar By Peter Sciretta/March 7, 2011 12:30 pm EST Here is what Reznor said on the NIN Forums: What a surreal week, capping of an equally surreal few months! Thank you all for the support and kind words throughout. I need to once again point out the reason that score worked so well was David Fincher. We were simply executing his vision and it was an honor and an eduction working with him....

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 26, 2010 10:56 pm EST Deadline says that Thriller has Jeremy Garelick (The Hangover) attached to write and Kenny Ortega attached to direct. The site says the story is based in " the song’s folklore, involving Vincent Price and the town he grew up in." Lest anyone needs a reminder, there’s already a great Thriller film. It is fourteen minutes long, directed by John Landis, and is among the best music videos ever made....

‘7500’ Teaser - Ghosts Haunt Jason Stackhouse In The Friendly Skies By Angie Han/Jan. 31, 2012 11:00 am EST Statistically speaking, flying is actually one of the safest ways to travel — you’re much, much more likely to die in a car accident, for example — but you wouldn’t know it from the number of movies that involve horrible things happening aboard an airplane. The latest of these is 7500, a paranormal thriller from The Grudge helmer Takashi Shimizu....

‘Mansome’ Trailer - Jason Bateman And Will Arnett Go On A Spa Date For Morgan Spurlock By Angie Han/April 23, 2012 5:00 am EST Those new episodes of Arrested Development won’t be hitting Netflix til sometime next year, but in the meantime you can content yourself with watching Will Arnett and Jason Bateman enjoy an epic spa day that’d be worthy of Lucille Bluth. Titled Mansome, the new documentary by Morgan Spurlock sees Arnett, Bateman, and other paragons of masculinity exploring the eternal question of what makes a man a man, through the prism of modern-day male grooming rituals from beard maintenance to back waxing to posh mani-pedis....

‘Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/March 18, 2011 11:30 am EST One of our favorite films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Morgan Spurlock’s super-meta advertising documentary that, at the time, was simply called The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. The official title is now Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold and it’s scheduled for release on April 22. A fantastic trailer for the film has just premiered and you can check it out below....

‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Trailer: Bradley Cooper And Jennifer Lawrence Have Some Mental Issues To Work Out By Russ Fischer/June 28, 2012 11:00 am EST Jennifer Lawrence exploded as a great new talent thanks to Winter’s Bone, and some of her major roles that followed (such as X-Men: First Class, and The Hunger Games) had her playing a variation on the young girl who steps up to adult responsibility in a big way....