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‘Thinner’ And ‘Langoliers’ Helmer To Adapt And Direct Stephen King’s ‘The Ten O’Clock People’ By Angie Han/June 6, 2012 12:00 pm EST Thinner and The Langoliers helmer Tom Holland is heading back to the Stephen King well one more time. Holland has signed on to adapt and direct The Ten O’Clock People, a picture based on King’s short story of the same name. The new project marks a return to feature filmmaking for Holland, who took a decade-long hiatus after 1996’s Thinner and has stuck mainly to short films and television ever since....

‘Twixt’ Trailer: The Increasingly Strange Dreams Of Francis Ford Coppola By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2011 11:45 am EST Watching this trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s new film, Twixt, you might have a difficult time understanding why the film was given a rapturous reception not long ago at Comic Con. This teaser, complete with Tom Waits voiceover, introduces Val Kilmer as a failing writer and Bruce Dern as a weirdo small-town sheriff, as well as the dream-characters V (Elle Fanning) and Edgar Allan Poe (Ben Chaplin)....

Amanda Plummer Latest To Join ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ By Germain Lussier/July 17, 2012 10:00 am EST Both Pumpkin and Honey Bunny would be very happy today as Amanda Plummer has been cast in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The Tony Award winning, Pulp Fiction actress will play the role of Wiress (aka Nuts) in Francis Lawrence’s sequel to The Hunger Games, which also stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Jena Malone and others....

Cool Stuff: El Boba T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/May 19, 2010 1:02 am EST What if Boba Fett wasn’t an intergalactic bounty hunter in Star Wars, but instead was a Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler? Captain RibMan’s design titled El Boba is now available on Tee Fury. Of course, the design is only $9 but also only available today, and today only. So jump on it now… or never. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm....

Denzel Washington Negotiating Antagonist Role In ‘Safe House’ By Russ Fischer/July 7, 2010 5:18 pm EST Denzel Washington can make a hell of a bad guy, and he’s now negotiating a new role where he’d play the antagonist — a lethal prisoner, in fact — in a buzzed-about script called Safe House.David Guggenheim’s story was snagged by Universal in a bidding war, and has Snabba Cash director Daniel Espinosa set to helm....

Donald Glover Campaigns For Spider-Man Audition By Peter Sciretta/May 30, 2010 5:52 pm EST Derrick Comedy member and star of NBC’s Community Donald Glover has started a campaign on twitter to get an audition for the role of Peter Parker in Marc Webb’s 3D Spider-Man Reboot. The comic actor is encouraging fans/followers to retweet the hash tag #donald4spiderman. At the exact moment I’m publishing this article on Sunday night, the #donald4spiderman tag is popping up on over 100 new tweets every 60 seconds....

George Lucas Ready To Retire From Blockbuster Filmmaking By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2012 1:00 pm EST Set aside for a moment the fact that every film Lucas has made in the last 13 years has been personal — the Star Wars prequels were done by him, his way, with his money, and the upcoming Red Tails is the product of more than twenty years of interest in the Tuskegee Airmen — and what starts to emerge is the idea that Lucas is tired of being second-guessed, criticized and scrutinized....

Ghostbusters 3 To Feature Peter Venkman’s Love Child? Rick Moranis To Come Out Of Retirement? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2010 3:08 pm EST Back in December 2008, Sigourney Weaver suggested that her character Dana Barrett’s baby Oscar should be one of the new Ghostbusters in the in development Ghostbusters 3. At the time, I thought that the addition of Dana’s offspring (and Peter’s potential step-son?) would be an interesting way to tie together the new team with the old....

Haywire Trailer & Comic-Con Panel: Soderbergh Does Female Bourne By Devindra Hardawar/July 22, 2011 5:28 pm EST While we’re all very excited for Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, the prolific director has also had an action spy film, Haywire (formerly known as Knockout), sitting in the wings for a while. Today at Comic-Con, Soderbergh hit the stage to premiere the film’s trailer and chat with MMA fighter Gina Carano, the star and inspiration of the film....

In Case You Were Still Wondering, Aaron Eckhart Is Not In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2010 10:30 am EST The news routine on The Dark Knight Rises has lately been more about what isn’t in the movie than what is. For example, there was the recent ridiculous rumor about Heath Ledger’s Joker returning via outtakes and CGI, which director Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas quickly shot down....

Joss Whedon On The Avengers: “I Would Like To Put These Actors In A Room And Just Make Glengarry Glen Ross” By Adam Quigley/Sept. 27, 2010 2:20 pm EST Leave it to writer/director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) to put my mind at ease, and gracefully lull me back to anticipation. Whether it’s describing script alterations he made on Captain America: The First Avenger, discussing the casting of Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner (in place of Edward Norton), or detailing the creative process of making The Avengers, he always seems to know just the thing to say to remind me that Marvel hired the right guy for the job....

New Movie Trailer And High Res Images: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 By Adam Quigley/Sept. 22, 2010 5:17 pm EST The final chapter of the Harry Potter saga is upon us, and Warner Bros. has already unveiled a trailer chock full of quick-cut epic imagery to promote the dual-movie event. Now, the studio has released another trailer for Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—this time providing a much better look at the film—and a whole slew of gorgeous high resolution images to go along with it....

Page 2: Ghostbusters, Edgar Wright, Breaking Bad, Up, Looper, Misery, Star Wars, Willy Wonka, Skyfall, Star Trek, Person Of Interest By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2012 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? 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 48 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Peter Jackson’s ‘Hobbit’ Trilogy Will Conclude July 18, 2014; Second Film Gets New Title By Germain Lussier/Aug. 31, 2012 4:50 pm EST Peter Jackson’s newly announced third film in his trilogy of films adapting The Hobbit will be released July 18, 2014 and it’ll be called The Hobbit: There And Back Again. That was originally the title of the second film, but that’s now been re-titled The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug....

Time Warner Cable Throws Legal Monkeywrench Into U.S. Copyright Group’s Lawsuit Plans By David Chen/May 16, 2010 12:42 pm EST It’s a classic, time-honored way of ruthlessly extracting money from people that want your product, used by the RIAA back in its golden years. But it turns out, Time Warner Cable isn’t too happy with the plan. According to court filing (written up in detail by Ars Technica), Time Warner Cable (TWC) has better things to do with their time than to match names with IP Addresses....

Trailer Bits: ‘Men In Black III’ Trailer Debuts 12/12, ‘Prometheus’ Trailer Rated 14A In Canada, ‘Rock Of Ages’ Trailer To Premiere With ‘Sherlock Holmes’ By Angie Han/Dec. 9, 2011 9:00 am EST Despite the fact that the word “trailer” is used four times in the title of the post, we don’t have any actual trailers for you here — just some quick bits of information about trailers. That’s almost as good, right?...

Two Clips And A Poster For The Marvel Short Film ‘Item 47;’ Plus Marvel Cinematic Universe Box Set Art By Germain Lussier/July 16, 2012 4:30 pm EST Shawarma wasn’t the only post-script to the climactic battle in The Avengers. A couple found a discarded alien gun and went on a crime spree too, with S.H.I.E.L.D in hot pursuit. That’s the story you’ll see in Item 47, a Marvel one-shot short film starring Jesse Bradford and Lizzie Caplan as the couple and Maximiliano Hernández and Titus Welliver as the S....

Warner Bros. Greenlights ‘Akira’ Remake; Shooting Starts Early 2012, Garrett Hedlund Frontrunner For Kaneda By Germain Lussier/Oct. 19, 2011 7:33 pm EST After a long and rumor-filled development hell, one of the most celebrated animated films of all time, Akira, has officially been greenlit for a live action remake. Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown, House of Wax) will helm the newly-budgeted $90 million movie about the leader of a biker gang whose best friend is infected with an unstoppable power....

Watch ‘Dirty Laundry,’ Thomas Jane’s Unofficial ‘The Punisher’ Short Film By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2012 8:00 am EST We know that Marvel recently got the rights to The Punisher back in rather quiet fashion, and it looks like Thomas Jane wants to play the character again. Or he is playing the character once more, only on his own terms. Gotta wonder if there’s some hope that Marvel will look to him once more to play the gun-toting street vigilante Frank Castle....

‘Fight For Your Right – Revisited’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/April 7, 2011 2:30 pm EST Boasting one of the most star-studded casts ever to grace a short film, Fight For Your Right – Revisited had its world premiere at Sundance in January. Directed by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, it follows the rap legends after their classic ’80s music video Fight For Your Right and stars Elijah Wood, Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, Jack Black, John C....