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POTD: ‘Cosmopolis’ Star Robert Pattinson Recreates Classic David Cronenberg Films By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2012 9:30 am EST Now that Twilight is almost over, Robert Pattinson is on the verge of being able to move on to the next phase of his career — presumably one in which he won’t be tied to a franchise he evidently despises. David Cronenberg’s new film Cosmopolis could end up being the anti-Twilight, and Pattinson is embracing chances to promote it....

Promo Images: Naomi Watts As Marilyn Monroe In Blonde; Spielberg’s New Show Terra Nova By Russ Fischer/May 17, 2010 12:26 pm EST Now there’s already what appears to be the first image of Watts as Monroe, snapped at Cannes. Best guess is this is a photoshop comp based on a test photo of Watts in character. I’d still say Watts is too skinny to convincingly play Monroe, but this shows she has the attitude, and she can always do a little Raging Bull diet to push herself a little closer to the right build....

Sam Worthington Attached To Space War Pitch At Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/June 7, 2011 5:00 am EST Briefly: Sam Worthington may have been in one of the biggest films of all time, but his presence has been reduced on movie screens in the months since Avatar’s release. (And re-release.) He had two films, The Debt and Last Night, that were delayed by the Miramax shutdown, and are just seeing release this year....

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Magic Mike’ Adds Adam Rodriguez And Wendi McLendon-Covey By Russ Fischer/Sept. 8, 2011 1:30 pm EST Briefly: Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike is going to shoot soon, with Alex Pettyfer playing a male exotic dancer under the hustling tutelage of Channing Tatum, whose real-life dancing experience informed the script. Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, Joe Mangianello, Cody Horn, Riley Keough and Olivia Munn co-star, but the project isn’t done adding actors....

Sucker Punch Photo Reveals Dragon/Airplane Dogfight By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2010 6:00 pm EST Zack Snyder’s production company Cruel and Unusual Films has released a new photo from the filmmaker’s next film Sucker Punch. The production photo features a dragon dogfighting with a military airplane. Check it out in higher resolution, after the jump. Official Plot Synopsis: “Sucker Punch” is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality....

Video Blog: Reviews Of ‘Revolution,’ ‘Arrow,’ ‘666 Park Ave.,’ ‘Cult’ And ‘The Following’ [Comic-Con 2012] By Germain Lussier/July 12, 2012 2:00 pm EST On preview night at San Diego Comic-Con you can choose to do one of two things. Either you walk the floor and search for exclusive toys and cool booths, or you pack into Ballroom 20 and watch a bunch of highly anticipated television pilots. Fortunately, we at /Film have Hermione Granger time-turners and were able to do both....

/Film Boston - Splice Q&A With Director Vincenzo Natali By David Chen/June 6, 2010 8:32 am EST Lots of cool film-related stuff happens in Boston, Massachusetts and not that many people are here to document it, preserve it and spread the word about it. Special screenings, Q&As, panel discussions — we have them all, and frequently too. /Film Boston aims to be a bi-weekly column that will bring you audio and video content from film-related events around the Boston area....

‘Independence Day’ Sequels Get Rumored Titles, 3D Conversions, Different Tones By Germain Lussier/Sept. 11, 2012 3:30 pm EST With director Roland Emmerich currently filming White House Down, there’s not a lot of working going on with the sequels to Independence Day. Producer Dean Devlin has gone on record saying he and Emmerich have cracked the idea for the films and continue to work on them, but it’s not a daily thing....

‘Red’ Director Robert Schwentke To Direct ‘The Lobotomist’ Pilot For HBO By Russ Fischer/Nov. 28, 2011 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Fischer/Kalogridis/DiCaprio trio were interested enough that they optioned the book and brought it to HBO as possible fodder for a series. Now a drama is in the works, called The Lobotomist, and Robert Schwentke (Red, The Astronaut’s Wife, R.I.P.D.) will direct the pilot from a script by Daniel Thomsen....

‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2’ Theatrical Trailer By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2012 5:30 am EST Even though it only runs about 75 seconds long, the theatrical trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 packs in more intriguing images than the first four movies combined. Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) are finally married and now that they’ve also had a child, the lovers who could never be will become the parents who’ll fight for anything to save their child....

‘The Wolverine’ May Push Further Into 2012; Producer Promises Better Results From That And ‘Deadpool’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2011 6:00 am EST With X-Men: First Class hitting DVD this week, a few of the film’s participants have been making the press rounds. The most connected of them is producer Lauren Shuler Donner, who has talked about The Wolverine and Deadpool during her press contacts. The big news, such as it is, is that she says the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine is less a sequel than a related film, and that thanks to Hugh Jackman’s Les Miserables shoot and Wolverine workout schedule, it might not shoot until at least summer 2012....

Bob Hoskins Announces Retirement From Acting After Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis By Russ Fischer/Aug. 8, 2012 10:30 am EST If you saw Snow White and the Huntsman earlier this summer, you watched what might be the last film performance from the character actor and occasional leading man Bob Hoskins. The actor was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease last fall, and is now walking away from his profession to spend more time with his family....

Coming Soon: ‘Slip ‘N Slide: The Movie’! By Russ Fischer/Jan. 31, 2011 12:45 pm EST Briefly: Well, that headline may be jumping ahead a step, but the news is this: long-running toy company Wham-O now has an agent. The company just signed with ICM, the same company that has been helping Atari get movies set up at studios. THR says “ICM will now look to package Wham-O’s unique products for movies, television, music and online content in the same vein as it did with Atari....

Cool Stuff: Alfred Hitchcock Tribute Art Show At Gallery 1988 By Germain Lussier/April 11, 2012 7:00 am EST This Friday the 13th, Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles is paying homage to one of the masters of terror: Alfred Hitchcock. Their new show, Suspense and Gallows Humor: A Tribute to the All Time Greatest, opens Friday at their Venice location and will be on display through May 5. Art from several of Hitchcock’s classic films such as The Birds, Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest and many more will all on display from artists such as JC Richard, Jay Shaw, Joshua Budich, Guy Burwell, Todd Slater, Phantom City Creative, Jayson Weidel, DKNG, Fernando Reza and others....

Cool Stuff: Amity Island Boat Hire T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 13, 2010 9:48 pm EST I always love the designs at Last Exit to Nowhere, which features t-shirts featuring the logos of companies and locations featured in some of our favorite feature films. Unfortunately the company is UK based and the price conversion and shipping makes their tees very unaffordable for US based film geeks. Today’s tee design on Teefury is something I’d expect to find on Nowhere, a Jaws homage by RubyRed....

Cool Stuff: The Evolution Of The Force T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2010 11:56 pm EST Today’s t-shirt design of the day over at Ript Apparel is a Star Wars parody design titled The Evolution of the Force. Created by D4N13L, the design takes the classic evolution of man illustration and takes us to it’s obvious conclusion (a long time ago in a galaxy far far away). The t-shirt is on sale for only $10 plus shipping, and will only be available today (Thursday, October 28th 2010)....

Exclusive Poster Premiere: ‘The Human Centipede 2 [Full Sequence]’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2011 4:00 pm EST One of the most intentionally controversial movies of the year is Tom Six’s The Human Centipede 2 [Full Sequence]. Almost no one has seen the film outside of the UK Film Board, which famously refused a rating for the movie, but it premieres tonight at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. In advance of the two screenings this evening, we’ve got the debut of the creepy and more than slightly disturbing one-sheet from IFC Midnight....

Geek Deal: Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Complete Series DVD Set For Only $69.99 By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2011 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

HBO May Adapt Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’ By Russ Fischer/April 14, 2011 7:38 pm EST HBO is getting behind Game of Thrones in a big way, and the company seems to think that fantasy could be the way to go into the future. So the channel is now negotiating a deal for the rights to Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods, and the current plan is for Robert Richardson (yes, the cinematographer) and Neil Gaiman to jointly script the pilot....

Is ‘Dexter’ Headed To The Big Screen? By Angie Han/Jan. 17, 2012 2:00 pm EST November’s announcement that Showtime had renewed Dexter for two more seasons came with the hint that the eighth could be the last, but it seems at least one person involved with the show isn’t too sure. Executive producer Manny Coto says the show isn’t “really looking at an exit strategy right now,” and even floated the idea of a movie centered around America’s favorite serial killer....