Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours To Have Over An Hour of No Dialogue [-->full article]
Sat, 07 Nov 2009
A couple days ago it was reported that Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) had found his next film project, 127 Hours, a story of Aron Ralston, the mountain climber who amputated his own arm to free himself after being trapped by a boulder for nearly five days. Indiewire had a chance to talk to the filmmaker at the BAFRA Brittania Awards, and Boyle confirmed that Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy has not yet started the screenplay, which will be based on Bo...

Interview: Adam Goldberg on His New Film (Untitled), Static Art World Culture, and Kicking the Bucket [-->full article]
Sat, 07 Nov 2009
When it comes to a working actor who humorously perfects the modern guy as a hip scepter for perpetual thought and frazzled irritation, Adam Goldberg holds the key to today's conflicted kingdom. Like his characters dating back to a break out role in Dazed and Confused and on to an ace performance in 2007's 2 Days in Paris (a rare romantic comedy that is meaningful and tolerable), part of Goldberg's charm seems channeled via friendly reluctance. He continues to mine such neurotic territory...

The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 74 - Interpreting Donnie Darko, Responding to S. Darko, and the Southland Tales Saga (GUEST: Richard Kelly, Director of The Box) [-->full article]
Sat, 07 Nov 2009
In this special episode of the /Filmcast: After Dark, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley chat with writer/director Richard Kelly about his reaction to S. Darko, and about the necessity of reading the graphic novel prequel to Southland Tales. They also discuss everything you ever wanted to know about Donnie Darko but were afraid to ask. Richard's newest film, The Box, is out in theaters today. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voice...

Page 3 [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
Vulture have been given a preview of Tim Burton's MoMA retrospective exhibition. Two of their 33 gallery images are above. Page 3 is the eccentric little brother of Page 2 and compiles even more stories which, for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. There’s a whole heap of different items after the break - video clips, posters, pictures, odd snippets of news. Below is the poster for Tom Ford's directorial debut A Single Man. Take a good look at Colin Firth her...

John Cusack Wants a Role in the Preacher Movie, Idris Elba Fancies a Part in 100 Bullets [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
John Cusack says "I don't know if there are any more superheroes left", but he knows as well as we do that there's plenty more, cape-free comic books ripe for big screen adaptation, and that a great number of them seem fit to make for rather good movies. One project in particular has caught his eye, and that's the movie adaptation of Preacher that Sam Mendes is still attached to and that John August has been screenwriting. Meanwhile, Idris Elba - The Wire's Stringer Bell and Roque in The ...

This Week In Trailers: Mammoth, The White Ribbon, Love The Beast, Love, Starsuckers [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of adv...

Avatar: New TV Spot, Coke Commercial and Japanese Trailer [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
During the World Series a new ad spot for Avatar popped up on television, and I think if this had been the first thing people saw for the film they would have been all over it. Because this is a spot cut to look like an ad for Terminator 2 or Aliens. It's all killer, no filler -- power suits, alien beasts, combat, angry men and plenty of big blue cats, but none of their feelings. Check it out after the break. This comes on the heels of a report that says the full-length theatrical trailer...

Early Buzz: Is Kick-Ass The Best Superhero Movie Ever Made? Trailer Coming Soon [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
Lionsgate held a round of test screenings in the last couple days for Matthew Vaughn's big screen adaptation of the Mark Millar comic book series Kick-Ass. I'm not quite sure why they are testing the film, as I know the studio knows they have a great movie on their hands. Also, I heard about screenings in both Los Angeles and London. Lionsgate released a batch of character teaser posters, launched the film's official website iamkick-ass.com, and the trailer will be online on Sunday November...

Eminem to Star in Multiple Roles in 3D Anthology Horror Movie Shady Talez [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
Nationwide, Juggalos are already boycotting in parking lots, in addition to breeding. Eminem, the 37-year-old adolescent rapper, will follow up his $116 million grossing fictionalized biopic, 8 Mile, from 2002 with a 3D anthology horror movie horrifically entitled Shady Talez. The project has kicked around for a while, and is now part of a synergy package that includes a same-named four-issue comic book series due 2010 from Marvel Icons. The above image comes from that. Slim Shady will prod...

It Had To Happen: Aliens Versus Ninjas [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
For years, Japan has had an amazing scene where low-budget genre films can flourish. Lately it seems to be exploding, as films like Tokyo Gore Police, Machine Girl and the upcoming RoboGeisha push the form into pure absurd balls-out bliss. These go way beyond the level of craziness in films like Wild Zero and Versus, and those films were already pretty nuts to begin with. The current wave of movies don't make any particular sense, and they're often not even good in the traditional meaning of...

Bait, Written by Bret Easton Ellis, is a Tale of Revenge, With Sharks [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has a couple of projects in the works. One is his co-writing deal with Gus Van Sant, where the pair will chronicle the lives and odd, tragic suicides of artist/filmmaker couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. The other project is another writing gig that we haven't known much about. But many things become clear during the American Film Market, where indie pics are shopped for financing and distribution. The latest Ellis script is a revenge tale th...

Interview: Jon Ronson, the Author of The Men Who Stare at Goats [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
While journalist and documentarian Jon Ronson is currently undergoing a metamorphosis into a screenwriter, the first film to bear his name is not from one of his own scripts but has been fictionalized, and rather heavily so, from his non-fiction book The Men Who Stare at Goats by Newcastle scribe Peter Straughan. What Ronson set down on paper as a darkly comic and increasingly scary investigation into the American military’s more fanciful, or eventually insane, experimentation and research...

Trivia: Wil Wheaton Voiced Romulans in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
What If I told you that Wil Wheaton appears in JJ Abrams' Star Trek? You'd probably say that you didn't believe me. Heck, we saw the movie, twice even, and didn't see or hear a not-so-young anymore Wesley Crusher at all, not even in the corner of the screen. Or at least we thought that was the case. It had remained a highly guarded secret until this week when Wheaton blogged about his experience providing his voice for the Trek reboot: "Back in the old days, before Twitter exploded into th...

VOTD: Ghostbusters 2 Slimer Suit/Puppet Test Footage [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
As you probably know by now, I love the fly-on-the-wall making of documentaries which over the last decade have almost completely been replaced by generic making-of featurettes. A video has appeared on YouTube showing the Ghostbusters 2 effects team and Robin Navlyt (who wore the Slimer suit in the film) testing out the Slimer wearable puppet’s ability to emote. While this isn't a making of documentary, it does give you a fly on the wall perspective of what it was like to design and work o...

/Film UK - Sherlock Holmes, Sasha Grey, Bunny & the Bull, Wild Things Art and More [-->full article]
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday – GMT, of course – I’ll be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the film comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already played in the US, other times it will be films that won’t make it to the US for a good while yet, and from time to time you’ll read about films that will never mak...