‘Bill & Ted 3’ Script Is Finished By Angie Han/April 25, 2011 9:00 am EST A year ago, Keanu Reeves said in an interview that he was “trying” to get a third Bill & Ted film made, and we weren’t sure if he was joking. In retrospect, I’m not sure why we were doubtful — it seems like every other popular film from the ’80s and ’90s is getting a reboot, remake, or sequel, so why not Bill & Ted?...
‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Director Kimberly Peirce To Remake Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 4, 2012 2:00 pm EST Kimberly Peirce has been hired to direct a remake Stephen King’s Carrie. Peirce made her name with the 1999 indie film Boys Don’t Cry which featured an Oscar-winning performance from Hilary Swank. Peirce was voted one of Hollywood’s upcoming best new talents, but the filmmaker has yet to deliver a worthy follow-up, helming the 2008 war film Stop-Loss and an episode of The L Word....
‘Chronicle’s’ Josh Trank Could Direct ‘Spider-Man’ Spin-Off Movie ‘Venom’ By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2012 5:27 pm EST Before Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 was released, the one thing fans were most excited about was we’d finally get to see Venom on the big screen. The character is arguably the most popular of Spider-Man’s villains and to potentially see his origins and battles with the web-slinger was unbelievably exciting. After the film was released, though, the sparse use of the character was listed as one of the its biggest disappointments....
‘Hostel Part III’ Teaser Trailer: Direct-To-DVD Torture That Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas By Germain Lussier/Oct. 17, 2011 4:00 pm EST The filthy rich spend exorbitant amounts of money to torture and murder innocent victims. Not only is the premise of the Hostel movies clever and evil, it’s also a not-so-subtle social commentary on haves and have-nots. In the first two films of the series, both directed by Eli Roth, that commentary had a European setting....
‘Predators’ And ‘Kontroll’ Director Nimrod Antal Helming Metallica’s 3D Feature Film By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2012 9:00 am EST The career of Nimrod Antal seemed to fall all too quickly into the classic pattern of how not to go from making a festival favorite foreign film to working for US studios. His debut, Kontroll, was generally great if marked by a couple unformed ideas. His next two films, Vacancy and Armored, were better than the packaging suggested, but still not terribly memorable outside the confines of being studio genre exercises....
‘Sparkle’ Trailer: The First Look At Whitney Huston’s Final Film Appearance By Russ Fischer/April 2, 2012 1:00 pm EST Sparkle remakes the 1976 film of the same name that was a fictionalized story of a Motown girl group inspired by the Supremes. But the reason most people will be paying attention to the film now is that it features the final screen appearance of the late Whitney Huston. The singer plays mom to three sisters (Jordin Sparks, Carmen Ejogo and Tika Sumpter) who take to the stage to make their fortune as singers....
‘Total Recall’ Lead Offered To Colin Farrell By Russ Fischer/Nov. 13, 2010 3:00 pm EST The ‘offer’ story is one of the more useless developments in the movie news business. Because offers go out all the time, and the reason we don’t hear about most of them is that they’re meaningless as news. The offer is part of the process of getting a film made, but until it actually turns into an actor making a deal with a part it isn’t really news....
‘Twilight Zone’ And ‘Where’s Waldo?’ Get New Screenwriters By Angie Han/Dec. 1, 2011 1:30 pm EST Two projects based on world-famous properties you probably loved growing up are inching just a little bit closer to the big screen. MGM has tapped Todd Berger to adapt Martin Handford’s children’s book series Where’s Waldo? into a feature, while over at Warner Bros., Invictus and Sherlock Holmes writer Anthony Peckham has entered talks to do a rewrite of Matt Reeves’ The Twilight Zone....
17 Minute Behind The Scenes Featurette On ‘The Walking Dead’ By Germain Lussier/Oct. 12, 2010 12:00 pm EST If you were already excited for the brand new AMC show The Walking Dead, then this 17 minutes behind the scenes featurette might make your head explode. The show, executive produced by Frank Darabont, is based on a comic book series by Robert Kirkman about how a group of humans survive after a zombie apocalypse....
AMC’s ‘The Killing’ Has Been Renewed For A Second Season By Peter Sciretta/June 13, 2011 2:00 pm EST I am so very happy to report that AMC has officially renewed their dramatic mystery television series The Killing for a second season. Deadline has confirmed. I have yet to begin watching Game of Thrones, so until I do, I will say this is the best show I’m currently watching. The two-hour premiere drew 4....
Cool Stuff: Pulp Fiction Infographic By Peter Sciretta/May 10, 2010 12:00 pm EST /Film reader Daylan P just forwarded me a link to a cool infographic by ~dehahs breaking-down the narrative character chronology in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Check out the whole graphic, after the jump. Click on the image below to enlarge: Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff?...
Darren Lynn Bousman’s ‘11-11-11’ Trailer #2 By Germain Lussier/June 28, 2011 12:30 pm EST While the first two teaser trailers for Darren Lynn Bousman’s upcoming thriller 11-11-11 focused on the scares, this new trailer highlights the story. That story is about an author (played by Timothy Gibbs) who heads to Barcelona to reunite with his family after a tragic event. Once there, he begins to fully explore how the number “11” is consistently a piece of events in his life....
Daryl Hannah, Tom Sizemore And Thora Birch Cast In Adaptation Of Chuck Palahniuk’s ‘Snuff’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2011 5:15 pm EST Good lord, does Snuff sound horrifying. Fabien Martorell is co-writing (with Karina Wilson) and directing an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel about a faded porn star who sets up a giant gang bang in order to break the record for sexual partners in one film, and three of the men that are possible partners....
Dimension Films Picks Up Kristoffer Aaron Morgan’s ‘The Home’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 5, 2011 10:00 am EST I have just heard that Bob Weinstein and Dimension Films have acquired Kristoffer Aaron Morgan’s H.P. Lovecraftian horror film The Home. I’m happy to hear that Dimension Films wants to release an original movie again. The Home seems like a film they would have invested in back in the mid-1990’s. It seems like now-a-days, they’re concentrating mostly on sequels, remakes and un-funny parody movies....
Dwayne Johnson Negotiating To Star In Sequel To ‘Journey To The Center Of The Earth’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2010 11:43 pm EST We’ve known for a long time that a sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth is in the offing. Josh Hutcherson, who co-starred with Brendan Fraser in the first film, is definitely back for more. But Fraser will be a no-show for take two. Now Dwayne Johnson is in negotiations to take his place as co-star of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island....
Eric Powell And David Fincher Say ‘The Goon’ Adaptation Is Not Dead, Paul Giamatti Apologizes For Sparking Rumors By Angie Han/Jan. 27, 2012 9:29 am EST Earlier this week, we reported on the apparent demise of the David Fincher-produced adaptation of Eric Powell’s The Goon after star Paul Giamatti commented that the picture had run out of money. However, it now seems we were a bit too quick to give up on the long-gestating project....
Has Adam Shankman Quit Bob: The Musical To Beat Sam Mendes To Oz Job? By Brendon Connelly/May 2, 2010 5:43 pm EST We’ve already discussed that Sam Mendes and Adam Shankman were frontrunners to direct Oz the Great and Powerful, an origin story for the Wonderful Wizard that looks set to star Robert Downey Jr. as the titular warlock. Now, it’s looking like Shankman is taking his campaign for the job into the public arena....
Is This Our First Look At Guillermo Del Toro’s Hatbox Ghost From ‘Haunted Mansion’? By Peter Sciretta/March 22, 2012 12:00 pm EST Update: Disney blogger InsideTheMagic informs us that: “That sculpt has been around for years. It has nothing to do with the film. It was inspired by HBG but isn’t related to del Toro. Here’s a commercially-available version of that sculpt. Nothing new. (Still cool though…)” Original post follows....
Jeffrey Dean Morgan To Star In ‘The Courier’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 5:05 pm EST Briefly: Hany Abu-Assad, whose very good film Paradise Now was released in 2005, finally has a new feature gearing up to shoot. The Courier is an action film scripted by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt, about “a courier who has taken on improbable missions and never missed a drop.“Deadline says that Jeffrey Dean Morgan is committing to the title role....
Jon Favreau Confirms Black Panther, Thor And Captain America Easter Eggs In Iron Man 2 By Adam Quigley/Sept. 20, 2010 6:00 pm EST Since the day Iron Man 2 opened, fan speculation has run rampant over the cleverly integrated easter eggs that snuck their way into the film. Now, some of that speculation can be put to rest as director Jon Favreau provides confirmation on what’s what in the scene featuring Tony Stark and Nick Fury discussing the Avengers Initiative, the background of which was littered with an assortment of footage, maps and images hinting at other Marvel properties....
