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International Movie Trailer: Todd Phillips’ Due Date By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2010 8:47 pm EST Warner Bros has released a new international movie trailer for Hangover director Todd Phillips’ next comedy Due Date. The film stars Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr in a buddy-comedy story which has been described as kinda Hangover meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The screenplay by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland (with rewrites by Adam Sztykiel) has Galifianakis as a wannabe actor who becomes the companion to an expectant father / businessman (Downey) as they dash cross-country to (hopefully) arrive in time for the childbirth....

Kristen Stewart In Talks For ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2011 7:15 pm EST Briefly: Universal and Rupert Sanders appear to be one step closer to choosing their new Snow White. Mr. Sanders is close to directing Snow White and the Hunstman, based on a script by Evan Dougherty, with Viggo Mortensen looking as if he’s basically set to be the Hunstman, and Charlize Theron looking more and more like a lock for the wicked queen that tasks the Hunstman with killing Snow White....

LOL: Movie Theater Recap By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2010 8:00 am EST College Humor has a new video parodying the annoying pre-show entertainment advertisements in movie theaters and the equally annoying moviegoers who seem to ruin every single Friday night movie screening. “Sometimes the best pre-movie entertainment doesn’t take place on the screen.” Watch the video now, embedded after the jump. LOL: Movie Theater Recap By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2010 8:00 am EST...

LOL: The Fantastic Mr. Star Fox By Peter Sciretta/March 10, 2011 7:00 am EST

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ Teaser Poster By Russ Fischer/July 12, 2011 9:30 am EST Martin Scorsese has taken his first plunge into both family filmmaking and 3D with Hugo, which adapts the Brian Selznick book The Invention of Hugo Cabret with Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz in the lead roles. We’ve got a look at the first teaser poster for the film, in advance of the upcoming trailer release. Appropriately for something arriving the same week as the final Harry Potter film, there’s a serious Potter influence here....

Neil LaBute Reteams With Aaron Eckhart In ‘The Geography Of Hope’ By Germain Lussier/May 6, 2011 4:00 pm EST Neil LaBute’s career has taken him to some crazy places. He started off with the visceral and brutal In the Company of Men and followed that up with more films sharing the same dark humor, honestly and venom. At some point though, things changed and he became more of a mainstream director with films like Lakeview Terrace and the abysmal The Wicker Man and Death at a Funeral remakes....

New Posters: Character One-Sheets For ‘Never Let Me Go’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2010 5:25 pm EST [IMP Awards] In his highly acclaimed novel NEVER LET ME GO, Kazuo Ishiguro (THE REMAINS OF THE DAY) created a remarkable story of love, loss and hidden truths. In it he posed the fundamental question: What makes us human? Now director Mark Romanek (ONE HOUR PHOTO), writer Alex Garland and DNA Films bring Ishiguro’s hauntingly poignant and emotional story to the screen....

Page 2: Psycho, Labyrinth, Star Wars, Back To The Future, Harry Potter, Breaking Bad, Community, Futurama, UP, Real Steel By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 31, 2012 8:00 am EST Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Roger Ebert’s TED Talk: “Remaking My Voice” By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2011 2:30 pm EST Earlier this year, Pulitzer prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert gave a TED Talk presentation entitled “Remaking My Voice”. When film critic Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw to cancer, he lost the ability to eat and speak. But he did not lose his voice. In a moving talk from TED2011, Ebert and his wife, Chaz, with friends Dean Ornish and John Hunter, come together to tell his remarkable story....

Steve Carell May Play ‘We Built This City’ Songwriter Dennis Lambert By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2010 2:24 pm EST This article requires a bit of backstory. Dennis Lambert is the subject of a 2008 documentary Of All the Things, which told his backstory as a songwriter (‘Rhinestone Cowboy,’ Nightshift,’ ‘We Built This City’) and singer whose one album, awkwardly titled Bags and Things, bombed in the US but became massively popular in the Philippines....

The Last Airbender - What Did You Think? By David Chen/July 2, 2010 8:26 pm EST As you may have noticed from reading /Film recently, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender is opening this weekend. You may have read Devindra’s scathing review, or watched his excellent interview with Shyamalan himself. You may have also seen that The Last Airbender is this year’s worst reviewed film. Many of you have taken the opportunity to air your views on the film, but in case you haven’t yet, now’s your chance....

‘Fright Night’ - What Did You Think? By David Chen/Aug. 19, 2011 6:00 pm EST Fright Night, a remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 film, hits theaters today, promising a few laughs, some solid scares, and a fantastic villainous performance by Colin Farrell, as the unthreatening-sounding Jerry the Vampire. I’ve been a fan of director Craig Gillespie’s work (his Lars and the Real Girl was a touching story on family bonds, and I’ve heard great things about United States of Tara), so I was curious to see if he could pull of a genre remake successfully....

‘Larry Crowne’ Trailer #2 By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2011 2:06 pm EST Larry Crowne, the second film in which Tom Hanks worked behind the camera as director, is one that I’ve mostly passed over in the last few months. It stars Hanks as a guy who loses his job and goes to community college as part of an attempt to rebuild his future. He makes new friends, joins a scooter gang, and falls for one of his teachers, played by Julia Roberts....

‘ParaNorman’ UK Trailer: A Zombie Attack For The Whole Family By Russ Fischer/Dec. 12, 2011 3:00 pm EST From the very first announcement of ParaNorman, the new family horror feature from Coraline animation studio LAIKA, the film has seemed like a promising new prospect. The story, animation with stop-motion, is about a young boy who can see the dead and must protect his town from a zombie invasion. The first teaser trailer for the movie didn’t dim expectations at all....

‘The Girl’ Teaser: Toby Jones May Convince As Alfred Hitchcock By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2012 2:38 pm EST Well, it’s a short tease, but here’s our first look at footage from The Girl, which is the first of two films dramatizing the career of Alfred Hitchcock. This one features Toby Jones as Hitch and Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren, the model he chose to be the “new Grace Kelly,” beginning with her debut role in The Birds....

‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’ Trailer – Ghostly Monkeys, Lusty Catfish And A Dying Old Man By Angie Han/Feb. 20, 2011 9:00 pm EST One of the most intriguing films to come out of last year’s Cannes Film Festival was Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (aka Joe). Its Palme d’Or win seemed to catch most people by surprise, even though Weerasethakul’s won awards at Cannes before (2002 Un Certain Regard for Blissfully Yours, 2004 Jury Prize for Tropical Malady) and even though Uncle Boonmee got mostly very positive reviews....

Actress Sues IMDb For Revealing Her Real Age By Angie Han/Oct. 18, 2011 2:30 pm EST “In the entertainment industry, youth is king,” says the complaint. “If one is perceived to be ‘over-the-hill,’ i.e., approaching 40, it is nearly impossible for an up-and-coming actress, such as the Plaintiff, to get work as she is thought to have less of an ‘upside,’ therefore, casting directors, producers, directors, agents/managers, etc. do not give her the same opportunities, regardless of her appearance or talent....

Ang Lee To Finally Make ‘The Life Of Pi’…in 3D? By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2010 11:21 am EST The Life of Pi, which depicts a boy, Pi, stranded on a boat with a tiger, hyena, zebra and orangutan for 227 days after a shipwreck, was optioned years ago but has long been stranded in development hell. The simple fact of those characters on screen together is only part of why the movie has taken so long to develop — there are also story aspects that deal with religion, culture and truth....

Ben Hibon, Director Of ‘Harry Potter’ Animated Sequence, To Helm ‘Pan’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 22, 2010 2:30 pm EST One of the most striking and surprising aspects of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I was the third-act animated sequence that explains the backstory of the Deathly Hallows. It’s a stylish and appropriately ominous piece of film. Now the director of that sequence, Ben Hibon, is set to direct a “fantasy action thriller” reworking of Peter Pan called, appropriately, Pan....

Buried Reshoots? By Peter Sciretta/April 19, 2010 4:00 pm EST Bloody Disgusting is reporting that Lionsgate is scheduling some “additional photography” for the Ryan Reynolds one-man thriller Buried. You might remember that the independent film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical and audience acclaim, sparking a multi-studio bidding war. While they don’t know exactly what they are adding to the film, they do say that the additional photography “will add a bit of story to the “exterior” sequences....