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VOTD: Diablo Cody’s Red Band Trailer Episode 103 - Jason Bateman By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2010 4:00 pm EST A couple weeks ago we told you that Academy Award Winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno) had launched a new internet interview show titled “Red Band Trailer”, “the world’s first talk show conducted in an an airstream trailer.” Her first two guests were actor Adam Brody (The O.C., Thank You For Smoking, Jennifer’s Body and the upcoming Scream 4) and Chelsea Handler (Chelsea Lately, In Motherhood, and the upcoming film Hop)....

Will Smith’s Vampire Bible Story ‘The Redemption Of Cain’ Gets Green Light By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2012 9:47 am EST Will Smith’s possible directorial debut has taken one step forward, as Sony Pictures gives the green light to The Redemption of Cain. The script, by Caleeb Pinkett (brother of Jada), puts a vampiric twist on Cain and Abel’s Biblical tale of sibling rivalry. Because why check off just one hot Hollywood trend when you can knock out two for the same price?...

‘21 Jump Street’ Extended Red-Band Trailer - High School Sure Has Changed By Angie Han/March 6, 2012 12:00 pm EST With just ten days left until the release of 21 Jump Street, the marketing folks are ramping up their efforts with an extended red-band trailer that clocks in at nearly five minutes. Some of it is stuff we’ve already seen in the previous trailers, but there’s a good amount of new stuff as well, including trippy, drug-induced hallucinations and Channing Tatum miming a lightsaber fight with his teen nerd crew....

‘Bullet To The Head’ UK Trailer: So Sly Battled An Axe Murderer By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2012 2:30 pm EST Here’s a new look at Walter Hill’s graphic novel adaptation Bullet to the Head, starring Sylvester Stallone as a hit man who teams with a cop from Washington DC (Sung Kang) to take down the guy who killed each of their partners. The first US trailer we saw was… well, let’s just go with “dated,” for now....

‘Kick-Ass 2’ Is Not Currently In Development By Peter Sciretta/March 28, 2011 9:00 am EST Don’t listen to anything Mark Millar says and don’t believe everything you read on IMDb: Screenwriter Jane Goldman confirmed to Absolute Radio that Kick-Ass 2 is not happening, at least not at the moment. She says its not in active development, and all the creative forces behind the first film are busy elsewhere. They’d love to make a sequel and “maybe the moment will be right one day, hopefully....

‘Piranha 3DD’ Red-Band Trailer: Not Actually All That Nasty By Russ Fischer/March 19, 2012 12:00 pm EST You knew this was coming. Did you think the first trailer for Piranha 3DD exhibited far too much good taste? (Unlikely, but you never know.) If so, this red-band version… actually will probably leave you thinking the same thing. It is more or less the same trailer, with perhaps a bit more blood and quite a few added naked people....

‘Prometheus’ Photo Shows Noomi Rapace, Space Jockeys By Angie Han/Jan. 16, 2012 7:45 am EST Director Ridley Scott, writers Damon Lindelof and Jon Spaihts, and the rest of the cast and crew have been careful to keep Prometheus plot details under very tight wraps, so that with just a few months to go until its release, there’s still a big fat question mark over a lot of the film. One thing we do know, however, is that the space jockey from Alien will somehow be involved — and now we have visual confirmation in the form of a still from the movie....

‘Sin Nombre’ Director Will Make ‘True Detective’ Series For HBO, With Woody Harrelson And Matthew McConaughey By Russ Fischer/May 1, 2012 10:00 am EST Cary Fukunaga impressed us with his first two features, Sin Nombre and his version of Jane Eyre, and he has been looking at interesting follow-up projects that include a Civil War heist film, and a sci-fi thriller for Universal. But it looks like his next project will be an eight-episode ’event series’ called True Detective, starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey as a pair of cops on a seventeen-year hunt for a Louisiana serial killer....

‘The Silent House’ Theatrical Trailer; Comes On Demand May 11 By Germain Lussier/April 20, 2011 3:14 pm EST Ever since Cannes 2010, we’ve been telling you about a 79-minute, one shot Uruguayan horror film called The Silent House. Peter wrote a positive review from the festival, we posted an early trailer and even covered the American remake when it premiered at Sundance this year. All the while, there was no set date when American audiences would get to see this scary and impressive technical achievement....

‘The Thing’ Clip: Exploding Ice And An Amped-Up Alien By Russ Fischer/Sept. 7, 2011 2:00 pm EST Universal is going to release The Thing, the Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.-directed prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing, on October 14. But the film has had a fairly low profile so far, with only a few photos, a teaser poster and one teaser trailer released. Today a clip has gone online. It doesn’t show much of the creature effects, which are the chief subject of speculation amongst fans of Carpenter’s film....

‘Warrior’ Helmer Gavin O’Connor Looking To Direct ‘The Samurai’ For Warner Bros., Adapt ‘The Hustler’ For Broadway By Angie Han/Sept. 30, 2011 1:00 pm EST Despite a very positive critical reception and the considerable talents of cast members Nick Nolte, Tom Hardy, and Joel Edgerton, Gavin O’Connor’s MMA drama Warrior didn’t exactly set the box office on fire when it opened earlier this month. But the director doesn’t seem too concerned with dwelling on the commercial disappointment....

‘Xerxes’ Is Now ‘300: Battle Of Artemisia;’ Noam Murro And Jaume Collet-Serra Possible Directors By Russ Fischer/June 28, 2011 6:30 am EST The last time we heard about the 300 sequel Xerxes it wasn’t called Xerxes any longer. We didn’t have a new title then, but now we do. In order to avoid any confusion, the producers are falling back on the title of the first film and appending a subtitle....

2011 Slamdance Film Festival Line-Up Announced By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 7, 2010 5:00 pm EST For those of you who don’t know, the festival was founded in 1995 by filmmakers whose movies didn’t get into Sundance, and has since become a yearly film festival spotlighting “emerging filmmaking talent and their new work.” Slamdance touts that their festival is “programmed by filmmakers for filmmakers.” While Sundance is still the big show in Park City, big filmmakers like Christopher Nolan (Memento), Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball) and Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) are often mentioned as Slamdance discoveries....

70 Years Later, ‘Citizen Kane’ Coming To Blu-Ray By Germain Lussier/June 13, 2011 5:00 pm EST Much as previous generations believe you can tell everything about a person whether or not they love The Beatles or Elvis, you can tell a lot about a film fan depending on their opinions of Citizen Kane. The film is like a lightning rod in the movie blogosphere where you’ve either seen it and love it, respect it, hate it because it’s been built up too much or don’t even care to watch it....

By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2011 1:30 pm EST Bill Hader has a whole hell of a lot going on lately. We detailed two of his upcoming projects last night — Henchmen and Vaughn Meader — but there are more. One is The Hand Job, a film that is being spearheaded by his wife Maggie Carey. She wrote the script, which ended up on the 2009 Black List, and plans to direct with star Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation, Funny People, Scott Pilgrim) as a graduating high school girl in 1993 who wants to gather some sexual experience before going off to college....

Avatar: Theatrical Re-Release In August With Additional Footage, Sequel Will Focus On Oceans Of Pandora By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2010 3:42 pm EST Cameron also talks about why he doesn’t want to just produce movies, how the enviormental impact of Avatar might change his outlook as a creator, and how he is becoming more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live than the sci-fi we see in television/movies/books....

Black Friday Week Geek Deals [Day 3]: Star Trek, Bourne, Lady And The Tramp, Harry Potter, Princess Bride, 300, Mimic And MORE By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 23, 2011 3:31 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. New Deals: 8:30pm – 11:30pm PST 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....

Cody Cameron And Kris Pearn To Direct ‘Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/Dec. 13, 2011 2:30 pm EST Briefly: It has been quite a while since we heard anything about a sequel to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Last time we got wind of the film that Sony Animation has been developing, original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were said to be attached, and the source material was said to be the Cloudy sequel book Pickles to Pittsburgh....

Confirmed: Martin Scorsese Is Making A 3D Movie By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2010 10:00 pm EST Back in March,Academy Award-winning filmmaker and historian Martin Scorsese announced his approval of Digital 3D filmmaking, stating “We see in depth, for the most part. We go to the theater — it’s in depth. Why couldn’t a film like `Precious’ be in 3-D? It should be.” Scorsese even admitted that he’d love to make a 3D film himself....

First Look: Amanda Seyfried In ‘Red Riding Hood’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2010 1:30 pm EST UPDATE: There is a tiny bit of footage available now, too. It’s embedded below, and the footage is right towards the end of the embed clip. Original article follows. Here’s your first look at Amanda Seyfried as the title character in Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood. The scan comes from the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, which also has a few quotes from the director about her new film....