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Kevin Smith Discusses Why Cop Out Replaced A Couple of Dicks
1 hour ago
We just recently covered the first trailer for Kevin Smith's latest film, Cop Out --- a film whose original title, A Couple of Dicks, was gathering similar controversy to Smith's previous Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Fans pushed hard for Smith to stick with the title since it was announced, but we always knew that the studio could change their minds at any point. We even knew about the safer placeholder title, A Couple of Cops, which was to serve as a last resort if they couldn't sell the film with otherwise. But instead of that bland filler title, we got the ironic Cop Out. And now we finally know how, exactly, Smith decided on the title. Speaking to the EW Hollywood Insider blog, Smith said that Warner Brothers ran the title by the big three television networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS, and the response wasn't exactly what they wanted. »
- Devindra Hardawar
Toy Story 3: High Definition Clip and 29 High Resolution Photos
1 hour ago
Earlier this week, Disney aired a short clip from Pixar's upcoming film Toy Story 3, and we shared a low quality version online. Disney has just sent us links to the High Definition digital file of the clip, which you will find linked/embedded after the jump. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to. And if you have seen the clip: trust me, you haven't really seen anything until you've watched the clip it in high def. Along with the clip, I've included a gallery of 29 high resolution screen-captures -- many of which would make for good computer desktop wallpaper. If you're a Pixar fanatic like me, then you will certainly appreciate all the small little details. For example, look at the pencil markings on the door in the picture above. And it seems like Pixar has really outdone themselves with Andy's room, which since the last time »
- Peter Sciretta
/Filmcast Ep. 81 - Avatar (Guest: Dan Trachtenberg from the Totally Rad Show)
6 hours ago
This week, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley have some harsh words for Rob Marshall's Nine, discuss the greatness of Terminator 2 on Blu-Ray, praise the works of David Cronenberg, and try to muster some excitement for Ridley Scott's rendition of Robin Hood. Special guest Dan Trachtenberg joins us from The Totally Rad Show. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(At)gmail(Dot)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us next Monday at 9 Pm Est / 6 Pm Pst at Slashfilm's live page as we review Sherlock Holmes and Up in the Air. Download or Play Now in your Browser: [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/slashfilmcast/Slashfilmcastep81.mp3] Subscribe to the /Filmcast: Shownotes Introduction (00:34) Dan Trachtenberg from the Totally Rad Show What We've Been Watching David Chen (04:12): Nine Dan (17:09): Terminator 2 (Blu-ray), An Education Devindra (29:40): 25th Hour Adam (36:25): Naked Lunch News Discussion (43:28) Brittany Murphy »
- David Chen
Kevin Smith’s Cop Out Movie Trailer: These Guys Really Are a Couple of Dicks
6 hours ago
This week, there will be no news, only trailers! Kevin Smith has always written his own movies, until now. When he signed on to direct A Couple of Dicks, for Warner Bros., eventually retitled Cop Out, the project was an interesting move, if nothing else. Could Smith work purely as a director for hire and channel the energy of Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan into something that might resemble a film he'd make on his own? The just-released trailer isn't making much of an argument for 'yes'. Check it out after the break. This is one unfunny trailer. The "smarter than Batman" line got a giggle, and...yeah. That's about it. Though not generally a fan of Smith's I liked Zack and Miri and was hoping this might end up being a turning point for the director. But what I see here looks like a bad in-character 30 Rock sketch where »
- Russ Fischer
Have Disney Canned Their Philip K. Dick Adaptation, King of the Elves?
7 hours ago
There's absolutely no official confirmation of this yet, but several rumours and a clear change to an official website suggest that Disney have ditched their long in the works adaptation of Philip K. Dick's short story, King of the Elves. The film was being directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker. When I was out at the animation studios in Burbank earlier this month there was a lot of great-looking Elves artwork dotted about the place. What looked like CG tests for the elf characters showed a great deal of detail and texture, more akin to something like Avatar than a more stylised Pixar picture. As the only images I saw of human characters were sketches or hand drawn concept art I'm not sure what the ultimate aesthetic plan actually added up to. Interesting note: you can see from the storyboard sketch above that this would have been another »
- Brendon Connelly
Sundance Photo Preview: High school
10 hours ago
John Stalberg's feature directorial debut High school will premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the Park City at Midnight category. Many people are comparing the film to The Wackness, another pot dramedy that played Sundance a couple years back. Michael Chiklis plays a smarmy high school principal who suddenly institutes a zero-tolerance crusade, introducing mandatory drug tests for all students. Failure of which will result in immediate expulsion. Matt Bush plays a straight-arrow valedictorian named Henry Burke who normally would have nothing to worry about, except he just tried marijuana for the very first time. I'll let the Sundance description take over: With his college scholarship hanging in the balance, Burke begrudgingly teams up with charismatic pothead Travis Breaux to do the only thing they can think of to neutralize this threat—get the entire student body stoned. In his debut feature, director/cowriter John Stalberg Jr. percolates »
- Peter Sciretta
Rumor: Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, Terminator 2 and Star Wars Going 3D?
10 hours ago
We've heard rumors before that George Lucas is working up a 3D version of the original Star Wars films, and those rumors are back again. This time, though, they've brought some friends - new rumors of Terminator 2 getting dimensionalised, and a claim that Ridley Scott is "breathing down the neck of executives at Universal to get them to approve making a 3D version of his new $200 million epic, Robin Hood". Studio Canal owns the rights to Terminator 2 and it's reportedly their plan to have a re-release in 3D. Is that good idea? Well, maybe. It all depends on two factors, I believe: how hungry the exhibitors are for 3D material, and how quickly home 3D systems are adopted. If there's a 3D T2 but nowhere to screen it, because everybody is still 'flat' at home and the 3D screens are filled with new pictures, then it won't matter »
- Brendon Connelly
Battle: Los Angeles Set Photos
11 hours ago
A batch of photos from the Louisiana set of Jonathan Liebesman's Battle: Los Angeles have been discovered online. The photo features Aaron Eckhart as a Marine staff sergeant, and was taken on base in Camp Horno in the 53 area of Camp Pendleton on December 17th 2009 by Jonathan Hoffon. For those of you who don't know, Battle: La is an alien invasion story, which is presented as an intense real-time war movie from the perspective of a group of Marines. It has been described by some as "Blackhawk Down" meets "Independence Day". See more from these photos after the jump. The photo below was taken by manwithscaryspouse (via io9), who said that the "Mushroom cloud of fire" was caused by a bus explosion. The sequence was shot in Shrevesport, La (the other L.A.) in September, before production switched to "more pyrotechnics in Baton Rouge neighborhoods in October, including areas »
- Peter Sciretta
New Alice in Wonderland Images Give a Good Look at the Creatures
11 hours ago
The first teaser for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland left me scratching my head a little. That may have partly down to incomplete effects, but some of it was down to the unexpected aesthetic. By the time the next trailers rolled around, however, the images and I were ready to meet in the middle. After the break are a series of big, big pictures that showcase the White Rabbit, the March Hare, the Dormouse and the Cheshire Cat, and a smaller one of the Caterpillar. Looking at these new hi-res images of itchy critters, I'm properly on side with the picture. There's a richness to the images, and a consistency. Burton's tastes are evolving slowly, I think. I see similarities between this film and the sea-side fantasies in Sweeney Todd, likely influenced in part by Dariusz Wolski, Burton's cinematographer on just these two films. There's a crushed and textured, »
- Brendon Connelly
Repo Men Red Band Trailer and Poster: This Ain’t Alex Cox’s Vision of the Repo Life
12 hours ago
Repo Men is the film once called Reposession Mambo, which has been sitting on the shelf at Universal for a while. The movie has nothing to do with the Alex Cox classic Repo Man. Instead it tells of a near future when human life spans have been greatly extended by expensive artificial organs created by a company called The Union. When people fail to make their payments for a fancy new liver or other piece of their gut, a team of surgical operatives are sent out to reclaim The Union's property. The film follows two of these guys, played by Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. Check out the first red band trailer to see what's in store. I like Jude Law and love Forest Whitaker and Liev Schreiber, but despite the blood and guts this looks pretty routine. The actors have gone all in, no question, but there's not a »
- Russ Fischer
Cinema 2009: 1 Year, 342 Movies, 12 Months of Production, 7 Minutes
13 hours ago
Last year Kees van Dijkhuizen edited a video together of the movies of Cinema 2008, which we featured on the site. A year later he returns with a new video, Cinema 2009: 1 Year, 342 Movies, 12 Months of Production, 7 Minutes. 2009 proved that innovation is rewarded, and for that reason, I've decided no film should be left behind. I've nearly tripled the amount of footage used in 2008: A Tribute To The Movies. The thing I like most about van Dijkhuizen's videos are that he doesn't just pick the best moments from the best films of the year, but includes something from everything. You will find clips from small indies you might not have even heard from, some classic moments from this years best, alongside big action clips from brainless blockbusters like Transformers 2. The result encompasses a year in film. Watch the video now, embedded after the jump. Songs featured: 'Malabar »
- Peter Sciretta
How James Cameron Put Down a Mutiny on the Set of Aliens
15 hours ago
Rebecca Keegan's book, The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron, was recently released to coincide with the release of James Cameron's Avatar (you can read all of our Avatar coverage, including news/reviews/interviews by clicking here). I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing yet, but the few excerpts I've read are pretty fascinating. Keegan had an unprecedented amount of access to the man and dug up some pretty great film-related tidbits from his past. This week and next, I'll be relaying some of the most interesting sections of the book - stories from the fascinating career of James Cameron, with words from the man himself - culminating in a /Filmcast interview that I'll do with Keegan next week. I'd highly suggest you pick up the book yourself, as it's certainly a worthy read for any film fan. Up first, a story of from »
- David Chen
Quentin Tarantino is Writing the Basterds Prequel, But it Isn’t His Next Movie
15 hours ago
One of the great things about Inglourious Basterds getting loads of critic association awards is that Quentin Tarantino is still out talking to people, and naturally he's talking about his next possible projects. (Talking is still what Tarantino does best.) So, what does the director's 2010 calendar have in store, at least as he envisions it this week? Talk of a prequel to Inglourious Basterds continues, and in an interview with Vulture Tarantino says he's got forty pages written. Which is a start, I guess, but further comments suggest that that pages might be all he does for a while. Vulture paraphrases Tarantino saying that his next film will be something else entirely, a "smaller, less epic" film in a "different genre entirely." Not that much to go on, but Qt says that five or six months of intensive writing should be enough to polish off the script. That's a far »
- Russ Fischer
Cool Stuff: Mario Graciotti’s Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock and Pixar Poster Art
17 hours ago
/Film reader and Brazilian artist Mario Graciotti has created a few series of posters I wanted to showcase on the site. The posters showcase the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, and Pixar Animation Studios. Check out some of Graciotti's minimalistic posters, after the jump. Paul Thomas Anderson inspired posters: .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } .gallery img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Pixar-inspired Posters: Alfred Hitchcock-inspired Posters: You can view more of Mario Graciotti's art on DeviantArt. Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which »
- Peter Sciretta
Cronenberg Does The Talking Cure Next; Casts Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Christoph Waltz
19 hours ago
Stories like this make me want to bellow like the Kool-Aid Man. At the beginning of November there was a tiny mention in an otherwise unrelated Variety article that suggested David Cronenberg was still developing The Talking Cure, a film based on Christopher Hampton's 2002 play about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Announced in 2007, this had been quickly sidelined by films like The Matarese Circle and Cosmopolis. Or so we thought. Now it appears that the film is very much happening, and will be the next project for Cronenberg. And that cast? Oh, yeah! Here's what Australian distributor Hopscotch Films announced today, on Facebook of all places: More La buys... Hopscotch will release 'The Talking Cure' directed by Cronenberg, starring Keira Knightly, Michael Fassbender, Christoph Waltz. A beautiful young woman, driven mad by her past. An ambitious doctor on a mission to succeed. An esteemed mentor with a revolutionary cure. »
- Russ Fischer
Robin Hood Posters
19 hours ago
Below the break you'll be able to see high-resolution versions of both the one sheet and quad designs for the Robin Hood poster. Combining the posters and stills with the two trailers so far released, the lesser rock-addled Us cut and the more plot-driven UK one, we're starting to get a good idea of how this picture will look and move. The common comparison is Gladiator, for obvious reasons. My favourite Robin Hood movies so far were Michael Curtiz and William Keighley's Technicolour extravaganza The Adventures of Robin Hood, a film that could barely have more stylistic distinctions from Ridley Scott's approach, and Richard Lester's Robin and Marian, which tells a completely different story. I'm hoping for a hat trick of superb Hood pictures here, each able to complement the others. So, take your pick: you can have two slightly different compositions of Mr. Russell Crowe and his bag, »
- Brendon Connelly
Kim Peek, the Man Who Inspired Rain Man, Dies at 58
23 hours ago
Though you may not know his name, Kim Peek directly inspired Dustin Hoffman's role in the Oscar-winning film Rain Man. He died from a heart attack on Saturday morning. Peek was 58, and perhaps one of the world's most famous savants. He couldn't perform basic tasks like using a light switch, but he had a seemingly bottomless memory. After meeting Peek at a convention in the early 80s, writer Barry Morrow was so taken by his abilities that he ended up writing Rain Man. The film went on to win four Oscars: Best Picture, Actor, Director, and Original Screenplay. According to Yahoo: In his later years, Peek was classified as a mega-savant who was a genius in about 15 different subjects, from history and literature and geography to numbers, sports, music and dates. But his motor skills were limited; he couldn't perform some simple tasks like dressing himself. Peek suffered from »
- Devindra Hardawar
Geek Deals: Deadwood, Star Trek, Gone With The Wind, King of Queens, Band of Brothers, Rome and $6 Flux Capacitor T-Shirt
23 December 2009 1:00 AM, PST
Tanga is selling a Back to the Future Flux Capacitor T-Shirt for only $5.99 (plus $1.99 shipping and handling). Amazon has a few last minute holiday deals: Gold Box Deal of the Day (24 hours Only): The King of Queens: The Complete Series on DVD for $89.99, 61% off the $233 msrp/ The Wire: The Complete Series for $89.99, 64% off the $250msrp Gone With The Wind (70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition) Blu-Ray Set for $39.99, 53% off the $85 list price Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray set for $59.99, 57% off the $140 msrp. Set includes: The Motion Picture / The Wrath of Khan / The Search for Spock / The Voyage Home / The Final Frontier / The Captains Summit Bonus Disc. Deadwood: The Complete Series for $74.99, 58% off the $180 msrp. Band of Brothers Blu-Ray for $37.49, 63% off the $100 msrp. Rome: The Complete Series on Blu-Ray for $64.99, 54% off »
- Peter Sciretta
Flickchart’s Top 20 Films of the Decade As Decided By Users
23 December 2009 12:52 AM, PST
I'm not nearly as in love with the social movie ranking site Flickchart as other movie fans, but I can admit that they've sort of struck gold with their concept. Not only is that movie comparison data fun to share with your friends, but it also gives the site a lot of data to explore site-wide trends as well, such as this chart showing the most-liked films of the 2000s from the site's 40,000 users. Today on their blog, Flickchart narrowed down that list, and provided some stats on what exactly makes those films the top twenty of the decade to their users. Here's Flickchart's top ten from that list (check out the rest here): 10) Wall-e 9) Memento 8) No Country for Old Men 7) The Departed 6) Kill Bill, Vol. 1 5) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 4) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 3) Batman Begins 2) The Lord of »
- Devindra Hardawar
Lost TV Spot #10: “Once Upon a Time…”
22 December 2009 11:30 PM, PST
ABC has released yet another 1 minute trailer for the sixth and final season of Lost. We've seen a lot of promos for this upcoming season, none of which contain any new footage (something mandated by the series producers, in order to avoid spoilers). This time around ABC edited the television advertisement in the form of a bedtime story. Watch the new spot now, embedded after the jump. via: sllost »
- Peter Sciretta
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