The gore geeks over at Bloody Disgusting have managed to get their hands on the eight minute clip of Piranha 3D that showed off-site last week at Comic-Con and it's. . .well, it's bloody disgusting. The footage is a shaky bootleg, but the gore comes through loud and clear, as does its rampant nudity, so NSFW is an understatement. But if you like blood and boobs, in that order, this is clearly the movie for you. Take a look after the jump before the lawyers make them take it down.
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Two hours before the Comic-Con panel for Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet this weekend, I sat down with co-writer Evan Goldberg, a longtime collaborator of star Seth Rogen who was eager to show the audience what they'd brought down to San Diego. The results may have been a mixed bag -- some attendees were charmed, while others walked out of the panel in droves -- but as he told Movieline, Goldberg is more than confident they've got the goods, and when it comes to 3D (to which Hornet will be converted after the fact), he speaks with religious fervor.
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It bears mentioning that the notorious, Weinstein-shelved, fest-darling, Amber Heard-starring teen thriller All the Boys Love Mandy Lane screened secretly last weekend at Comic-Con -- and it may finally receive US distribution sooner than later. Producer Keith Calder tweeted about a "light at the end of the tunnel" for the film, while Heard herself gave a 'Con interview noting the nearly four-year wait since Mandy's TIFF '06 premiere is nearing an end. Prepare your DVD players! Alas. [STYD]
Last time Movieline spoke to Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the highly-paid screenwriters claimed their Hollywood heat could be all over soon. Clearly, that hasn't happened: After scripting some of the biggest tentpoles of the last few years, they've got the Jon Favreau-directed Cowboys And Aliens coming down the pike, starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford. What was it like to work with Indiana Jones? This past weekend at Comic-Con, I asked them to tell me all about it.
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If you were wondering why actor Joshua Jackson mounted a Pacey-Con this weekend in San Diego -- a mini celebration of his Dawson's Creek character involving fan fiction delivered via megaphone -- wonder no more, as it was for this new Funny or Die video. If you were wondering why Jackson was wearing an old shirt he apparently bought from Chandler Bing at a garage sale, keep wondering. Enjoy:
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Between the cheeky "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns" description, the ominous first image and those genre-hopping character posters, Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch is clearly striving for something. When Movieline saw footage from the 2011 film at Comic-Con it was hailed as "INSANE, in the best possible way." So, is that what the new trailer looks like?
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You might have thought that you'd seen everything Comic-Con has to offer -- from Fandango the Walking Paper Bag, to a Harry Potter stabbing, to the reemergence of Pacey Witter -- but it turns out you hadn't, unless you caught White Collar stars Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay dancing to Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" with a boy who appears to be in costume as the main character from Up.
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Nothing says villainy like a mustache -- preferably one that comes with a twirl and a damsel tied to a railroad track. While it's unclear if the villains played by Peter Sarsgaard and Mark Strong in Green Lantern will add those accessories to their facial hair, one thing is certain: In the Martin Campbell film, the bad guys have flavor savers, the good guys do not. Ahead, help Movieline figure out which supervillain wears their 'stache better.
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While superheroes like the Green Lantern and the Green Hornet ruled Comic-Con this weekend, one unlikely '90s antihero held court outside of the San Diego convention center, hoping to reintroduce himself to the world. Behold, the reemergence of Pacey Witter -- the Dawson's Creek crush object played by Joshua Jackson.
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Marvel may have brought out all its heroes for the Comic-Con panel that debuted The Avengers, but what of its villains? The previous Marvel films have had a nasty habit of offing them, but there's one upcoming baddie who's practically guaranteed to survive his film and hotly rumored to terrorize The Avengers, too: Tom Hiddleston, who stars as Loki in Thor. At Comic-Con, I asked Hiddleston about it, point blank.
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While you're still interested in what Hollywood has to offer this summer, the industry has already turned its sights toward next summer. At the end of the Tron Legacy panel at Comic-Con, Disney showed the first footage of Johnny Depp on the set of May 2011's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. (It's never too early to start hyping up the fanbase, right Marvel?) Naturally, that footage has found its way online -- click ahead to get excited.
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When you think of Comic-Con, you immediately start thinking about the geeky faithful lining up to learn more about superheroes, vampires and mythical gnomes of all flavors. So, of course, Glee is a natural fit with all that. Wait, really?
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Last time Chris Hemsworth talked to Movieline, it was the week before his second audition for Kenneth Branagh's Thor, and one of his main rivals for the part was his younger brother Liam. Chris went on to clinch the role, though Liam recovered nicely (you may know him from The Last Song or his high-profile romance with costar Miley Cyrus). Last night, I had the opportunity to ask Chris how that all played out within the Hemsworth family.
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Last year at Comic-Con, I encountered Fandango, the silent movie tickets mascot whose suffering of constant abuse from fratty San Diego types gave us the immortal saying, "Fandango my nango!" This year, Fandango brought reinforcements, and our time together ended with one of us a shriveled corpse.
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Did Movieline interview Tommy Wiseau at Comic-Con? How could we not! The enigmatic auteur behind the cult sensation The Room was there promoting his new project, an Atom.com short called The House That Drips Blood on Alex, and though Wiseau has a tendency to speak in riddles and koans (in endearing broken English), he dished a little on being an actor for hire, converting The Room into 3D, and whether he wants to do a film about Heath Ledger.
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