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Cool Stuff: Mike Mitchell’s Big Lewbowski Tribute “The Dude Invitational” If you’re a regular reader of /Film, then you know thatGallery1988 in Los Angeleshosts some of the coolest pop culture-focused art shows in the universe. We’ve featured a lot of art from their Crazy4Cult shows in past editions of Cool Stuff. Their latest show, The Greatest Moments in Sports History, is sports related. And while it contains some cool artwork from some of the artists we’ve grown to love and support, it isn’t necessarily /Film material....

District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp’s Next Sci-Fi Movie Gets The Greenlight Media Rights Capital has committed to fundDistrict 9filmmakerNeill Blomkamp’s next film, an untitled science fiction movie which will be set on another planet. MRC committed to the new project after hearing Blomkamp’s pitch. Details are thin right now, but Blomkamp tellsBFDealMemothat the project will “hopefully be commercial”: “Hopefully, this will be a bit unique, very much a reflection of me....

Early Movie Review: David Fincher’s The Social Network Before my film festival trip began, I was lucky enough to be invited to a sneak preview ofDavid Fincher’s latest filmThe Social Network. I’ve been embargoed not to talk about the screening… until now. The cut we saw was not the final version, as a few sequences still required color correction and the music wasn’t completely finished. But the movie was in the final cut stages, and had just undergone MPAA cuts, clocking in at just over two hours in length (which, yes, is short for a Fincher film)....

Interview: Never Let Me Go Director Mark Romanek [Part 2] After the Telluride Film Festival premiere of his latest film, I had the opportunity to sit down and interview directorMark Romanekfor a long-form interview. It was a collaboration between Alex fromFirstShowingand myself, which explains how we were able to get so much time with the filmmaker. Mark Romanek is one of the best music video directors to come out of the 1990’s....

John Singleton Schedules A Directorial Layover Not long ago we heard thatJohn Singletonwould be infull-on director for hire modeas head of the Taylor Lautner action thrillerAbduction. Everybody’s got to eat, right? And if Lautner really is going to be as huge as studio execs believe, that could buy a hell of a banquet for Singleton. Now Singleton has a follow-up project set: another action thriller calledLayover, which includes a group of villains that anyone who has flown in the past few years can be ready to hate: corrupt TSA agents....

Paul Giamatti, Meryl Streep, Sacha Baron Cohen And Reese Witherspoon Cast In Alexander Payne’s Downsizing? [Update:We have now heard from Meryl Streep’s publicist, Leslee Dart, about this rumor. Referring to the Streep part of this casting news, Dart writes that “there is absolutely no truth to this.” -David] Jeff Wellsappears to receive an unholy amount of gossip and tip-offs from his readers. The latest one he’s believed enough to publish is a casting notice for the previously unknown picture,Downsizing....

This Week In DVD & Blu-Ray: 2012, Where The Wild Things Are, Ponyo, And More We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s.WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE With his adaptation of the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are, co-writer/director Spike Jonze took the $100 million budget he was given by the studio to make an accessible family film, and used it to make a heartrending arthouse film for adults....

Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland Gets IMAX 3D Release Disney also announced today thatTim Burton’sAlice in Wonderlandwill also be released in IMAX 3D on July 30, 2025. Read the full press release after the jump. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and IMAX Corporation today announced that Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice, will be released to IMAX® theaters simultaneously with the film’s wide release on June 05, 2025....

Video Interview With Moon Director Duncan Jones Following after the break is a nice, meaty interview withDuncan Jones, conducted in his ‘bijou’ office in central London. Despite it being quite an unorthodox request, he agreed to meet me there, let me set up the camera and chat casually to him for around an hour about whatever took my fancy,Moon-related or otherwise. One of the things I’m not able to show you in the video is the full shelf of scripts that Duncan has been sent as potential projects and there’s no way I could name any of them – well, okay, one of them, because a script for his likely-to-be-next film,Mutewas on the shelf too – but I will tell you, any of these films would be blessed to get Duncan on board....