Paper-thin rechargeable video player to be inserted into upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly Magazine

According to a report on CNET, CBS will include a super-thin video player in the September 18th print edition of Entertainment Weekly mailed to subscribers in the Los Angeles and New York areas. It will play video clips advertising the new shows NCIS: Los Angeles, Accidentally on Purpose, The Good Wife and Three Rivers, and ….

Film Racing Tour coming to Brooklyn with over $40,000 in cash and prizes

The 2009 Film Racing Tour will be coming to Brooklyn, New York on Friday, October 16, 2009. Filmmakers will be challenged to create an original short film in just 24 hours, starting at 10PM on Friday the 16th to 10PM on Saturday the 17th. All of the completed films will premiere on the big screen ….

The Waterboy Blu-ray review

Originally released in 1998, the Frank Coraci (he also directed Sandler’s cult classic The Wedding Singer and the more recent Click) film Waterboy, is one of Adam Sandler’s best classic comedy efforts. The Touchstone film was finally released to the Blu-ray format for the first time on August 4th, from Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

The Twilight Saga gets its own official ‘Con’

Summit Entertainment and Creation Entertainment today announced a partnership to produce a series of Official Twilight Fan Conventions over the next three years. The success of both the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer and the feature film adaptation of the first book has created a worldwide following of passionate fans who are eagerly awaiting the ….

Robert Redford to direct historical crime drama The Conspirator

Robert Redford is developing and will direct a film titled The Conspirator, a historical crime drama about Mary Suratt, according to THR. Suratt was one of the conspirators convicted of plotting President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. James Solomon (The Bronx is Burning) wrote the script. According to official history, widow and boarding house owner Mary Suratt ….

Hurt Locker star headed to The Adjustment Bureau

Anthony Mackie, who most recently appeared in The Hurt Locker, has been cast in Universal Pictures’ sci-fi thriller The Adjustment Bureau, which Matt Damon and Emily Blunt are currently attached to star, according to Variety. George Nolfi, who’s making his directorial debut, will helm the movie from his own script, and produce alongside Chris Moore ….

Win a signed prop from the set of Rob Zombie’s Halloween II

Rob and Sheri Moon Zombie will be making an appearance at the Planet Hollywood in Times Square tomorrow at 12:45pm, to donate Michael Myers’ knife from Halloween II. To celebrate the events, producers of the horror film are running a twitter contest and will be giving away a Rob Zombie signed skull (pictured), that comes ….

New images from Thomas Jane’s directorial debut Dark Country

Thomas Jane makes his directorial debut with the horror Dark Country, which follows the story of two honeymooners (Jane and Lauren German) rescue a mysterious car crash survivor in the Las Vegas desert. But their decision to save the man becomes increasingly regrettable when he turns on them, forcing the newlyweds to do the unthinkable. ….

Photos from the set of Robert Rodriguez’ star-filled grindhouse thriller Machete

BloodyDisgusting first got wind of these on-set photos from the now-filming Machete, which is lensing in Austin, Texas with Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey. Machete revolves around the namesake former Federale and undercover day-laborer, who’s hired by ….

Midnight, Mass. comic being adapted into weekly NBC series

NBC has picked up a live-action series adaptation for John Rozum’s comic book series Midnight, Mass., which is published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint. That’s according to a report by THR. Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts will write and produce the project for Warner Bros. television, which revolves around Adam and Julia Kadmons, a sophisticated, ….