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By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2011 5:04 pm EST I’m really shocked that it took this long for the film to be picked up. While the movie was shot on a microbudget with no stars, I believe it is filled with franchise and viral marketing possibilities (it is the first part of a planned trilogy, seriously…). I still think they need to change the horrible title. I’m very happy to see the film end up at Searchlight, as it is a good fit for the company....

Joel Schumacher Directing ‘The Hive’ By Russ Fischer/April 25, 2011 1:00 pm EST It’s been a rough few years for Joel Schumacher — rougher than most for the director who is often lambasted for his Batman films, regardless of the fact that he’s made a couple of solid pictures since then. He bombed with the Jim Carrey film The Number 23 in 2007, then saw Blood Creek dumped in dollar theaters, and Twelve was critically savaged as one of the worst films of 2010....

Kevin Smith Podcasts The Teaser Trailer For ‘Red State’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2010 11:00 am EST Kevin Smith has premiered the teaser for his film Red State, but not in any traditional manner. The filmmaker showed a rough version of the teaser to an audience of twenty people at his Smodcastle in LA. But the semi-private showing was recorded and released as a podcast, through which you can hear the audio of the teaser and quite a few comments from the director about making the movie....

Legendary Action Producer Joel Silver Out At Warner Bros. By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2012 1:00 pm EST Joel Silver’s producing resume reads like a laundry list of the best (or at least biggest) action films of the past three decades: Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, 48 Hours, Predator, Demolition Man, The Matrix, Sherlock Holmes and on and on. Many of those, especially over the past twenty years, were at Warner Bros. where his Silver Pictures had a lucrative producing deal and spot on the lot....

LOL: Bad Lip Reading’s Version Of ‘Twilight’ Improves On The Dialogue By Angie Han/Sept. 6, 2012 5:00 am EST Those in the anti-Twilight camp can come up with a million and one reasons to hate the series in about five sconds, but even those who don’t out-and-out loathe it have to groan at some of the franchise’s more painfully overwritten dialogue. I remember going to see the first film with a friend who lived for girly, romantic movies, and even she couldn’t help but laugh at Robert Pattinson’s mortified reading of “And so the lion fell in love with the lamb....

LOL: Damon Lindeloff Explains Inception Ending By Peter Sciretta/July 20, 2010 7:00 am EST Judging by the online discussions I’ve read over the weekend, I’m starting to feel like I’m the only person who not only understood Christopher Nolan’s Inception, but thought it was pretty straight-forward. Yes, even the ending. For those of you confused about the film, and more specifically, the film’s ending, I bring you this: Who better to explain the film’s ending than Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof?...

LOL: Hustler To Release Avatar 3D Porn By Peter Sciretta/June 18, 2010 12:00 pm EST Hustler has just wrapped production on what they are calling the highest-budget movie production to date, a XXX parody of James Cameron’s Avatar. Titled This Ain’t Avatar XXX, the video will be released in 3D and feature porn stars in blue Na’vi make-up getting it on. If you want to see what the DVD/Blu-ray cover will look like, hit the jump....

Matthew Vaughn Signed To Direct ‘X-Men: First Class’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/Jan. 30, 2012 10:00 am EST Deadline has the news about Vaughn in a larger piece about Fox’s plans for 2012. We still don’t know what story the sequel will tell, but there are hopes that Kinberg’s script will flesh out one idea spoken by Vaughn last year: In related news: sorry, Kick-Ass fans, but this means that Vaughn is even less likely to make that sequel....

Movie Trailer: ‘Ice,’ Starring Stephen Moyer And Sam Neill By Russ Fischer/Oct. 28, 2010 7:00 pm EST I didn’t know anything about the film Ice before today — it is an adaptation of James Follett’s environmental apocalypse thriller. Think The Day After Tomorrow, without all the Roland Emmerich bombast. There’s a trailer for Ice after the break, during which you might ask, “well, actually, could we have a little more bombast?...

Movie Trailer: The Splat Pack By Peter Sciretta/July 12, 2010 9:00 am EST WYRD Studios is releasing a documentary titled The Splat Pack, directed by Mark Henry and Frank H. Woodward. The movie takes “a look back at the first decade of 21st Century horror films and the filmmakers that re-energized the genre.” The documentary features new interviews with Alexandre Aja (High Tension), Darren Lynn Bousman (the Saw series), Adam Green (Hatchet), Alan Jones, Harry Knowles, Greg McLean (Wolf Creek), Neil Marshall (The Descent), Greg Nicotero, Eli Roth (Hostel), Staci Layne Wilson and more....

Paramount And Bad Robot Teaming For Nazi-Hunting Thriller ‘Wunderkind’ By Angie Han/June 12, 2012 9:30 am EST The relationship between Paramount and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot has proven to be a fruitful one over the years, resulting in such successes as Cloverfield, Star Trek, Super 8, and the last two Mission: Impossible movies, and the companies aren’t planning to part ways any time soon. Earlier this year, Bad Robot renewed its first-look deal with Paramount through the end of 2015, and they’re making the most of it....

Paul Greengrass To Direct ‘Travis McGee’? By Russ Fischer/April 25, 2011 4:43 pm EST Paul Greengrass has a pretty interesting career — he tends to flip between overtly social/political films and more pulpy material, but even his action films have a level of political awareness. Lately he’s had some trouble getting a movie made at all, with Universal passing on his MLK film Memphis, and the King estate reportedly not so much in love with the script....

Saoirse Ronan And James Gandolfini In ‘Teenage Hitgirls’ Movie ‘Violet & Daisy’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2010 9:35 am EST If you read that Saoirse Ronan is going to star in a film about a teenage killer, you might immediately flash back to news about Hanna, the film directed by Joe Wright in which Ronan plays a 14-year old trained by her father to be a killing machine. That film is dated for 2011, and we haven’t seen a trailer or much more than a photo....

Steven Spielberg Would Like Michael Bay To Do More ‘Transformers;’ Has Genre Locked For ‘Indiana Jones 5,’ Expands On ‘Crystal Skull’ Criticism By Germain Lussier/Dec. 2, 2011 3:00 pm EST Thanks to Entertainment Weekly for these quotes which are from their current issue. We’ll start with Transformers for reasons that will become obvious later. The question was asked if Spielberg thought there would be another Michael Bay Transformers movie to which he said:...

Superhero Bits: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Iron Man 3, Mark Millar, The Avengers, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, Kick-Ass 2 By Germain Lussier/Sept. 28, 2012 1:30 pm EST The Daily What posted this very cool, and VERY LARGE, infographic comparing Marvel and DC box offices. This is just the top, head to the link to see more. Thanks to Fancy Dress Costumes for the hard work.On Location Vacations is looking for extras to appear in Kick-Ass 2....

Theme Park Bits: Eli Roth To Launch Goretorium, Disney Readies The Legend Of Captain Jack Sparrow, Universal Studios Pushes Into Moscow By Angie Han/May 1, 2012 4:00 pm EST The filmmaker who brought us Hostel is now, ironically enough, getting into the tourism game himself. Eli Roth’s Goretorium, a haunted house, is scheduled to open September 27 at the corner of the Strip (a.k.a. Las Vegas Boulevard) and Harmon Avenue in Las Vegas....

Universal Or Disney Considering Lord Of The Rings Theme Park? By Adam Quigley/Aug. 12, 2010 2:00 pm EST Pictured above: The welcoming, family-friendly sights of Mordor. Middle-earth wouldn’t be the first place I’d think of to fashion a theme park around, but that’s not stopping Universal Studios from considering the idea. They must be having a lot of success with their recently opened Wizarding World of Harry Potter, because they’re now trying to test the waters with a potential Lord of the Rings attraction, gauging reactions through email surveys....

VOTD: ‘The Candy Shop,’ An Allegorical Short About Child Sex Trafficking By Angie Han/April 8, 2011 5:00 am EST Here’s a really depressing fact for you: Atlanta is the number one city in the U.S. for child sex trafficking, and, according to the nonprofit organization Street Grace, the #10 city worldwide. Up to 7,200 men in Georgia buy sex with a minor each month, from girls as young as 10 or 11....

VOTD: Pure, A Rockin’ High-Testosterone Action Movie Montage By Russ Fischer/June 7, 2010 12:00 am EST Over the past few years we’ve seen a lot of montages, re-edits and remixes based on footage from popular movies, and popular action movies in particular. But none is quite like Pure, which is almost brutal in the way it slices every bit of extraneous material away from the skeleton of the action movie. I might’ve watched this a dozen times over the weekend, and it is too good not to share....

‘Brave’ Teaser Poster By Russ Fischer/June 22, 2011 12:04 pm EST This might not be Pixar’s best week, with Cars 2 premiering to generally unfavorable reviews. (Germain was more charitable to it than others, but still said “it places near the bottom of [Pixar’s] impressive list.”) But with Cars 2 comes a teaser trailer for Brave, the film the studio will release next June. That teaser may not appear online for a bit, but a teaser poster has been spotted in the wild for Brave as well, and you can see it in full after the fold....