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Japanese Battleship trailer does the impossible and makes this movie even cheesier

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:00:00 PST

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The international Japanese trailer for Peter Berg's big wet Transformers picture, Battleship, is out and it's got twice the zingers and "uh oh big robot" looks. Could this movie possibly be any more ridiculous than Michael Bay's Transformers franchise? Yes. Yes it could, here's the evidence. More »

Disappointing lack of people screaming "You Sank My Battleship" in new Battleship trailer

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:39:10 PST

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Not gonna lie — we really expected a montage of people screaming "You sank my battleship" over and over in the new Battleship trailer. But instead we got a lot of Transformers "brehbrebre" noise-making robots, with reptile eyes. Sigh. More »

Tons More Details About Battleship's board-game-loving aliens

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:18:52 PDT

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Hasbro's Battleship movie may be an early contender for the silliest movie of 2012 — and the first trailer seems to have provoked near-universal hilarity — but everybody involved seems to be taking it pretty seriously, at least. More »

Paramount gives up on the Dune remake

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:30:00 PDT

We've been waiting for news on Hollywood's Dune reboot, ever since director Peter Berg left the project. Sadly, there's more bad news. Paramount is surrendering the rights to Dune. Basically, the new Dune is dead. More »

Another director quits Dune, as time runs out on for the project

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 06:40:00 PST

Pierre Morel (Taken) has reportedly quit as director of Frank Herbert's Dune, which Peter Berg was also on board to direct at one point. And unless Paramount can get the film up and running by spring, they'll lose the rights. More »

Sandworms and Fremen caves: concept art for the Dune movie that never was

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:00:00 PDT

2000 A.D.'s Jock created some amazing concept art for Peter Berg's Dune movie before Berg left the project. Now he's posted some of it on his site, giving us a tantalizing glimpse of an Arrakis that never reach our screens. More »

Vampire Eric joins Peter Berg’s Battleship

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:00:00 PDT

Alexander Skarsgard has traded vampire yahtzee for Battleship, by joining Peter Berg's epic alien-war film. We've seen him, fly, bite and bang Estonian strippers — now we will watch him fight alien invaders from the sky! More »

Taylor Kitsch To Sink Peter Berg's Battleship

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:00:00 PDT

Taylor Kitsch is slowly becoming science fiction's next movie hero. Not only is he starring in John Carter of Mars, but he just landed the lead role in Peter Berg's epic Hasbro board game-inspired Battleship movie. More »

Peter Berg's Battleship Aliens Won't Assault Us In 3-D, But Taylor Lautner Will

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:30:00 PST

Perhaps the latest news that 3-D will injure your brain put a stop to Battleship 3D production. But don't worry, Stretch Armstrong will be reaching right into your wallet for those 3-D ticket prices. [MTV] More »

Dune Remake Gets A Hotshot New Director

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:07:56 PST

We thought the epic undertaking of a Dune remake was all but finished, when Hancock director Peter Berg left to go make his alien-focused Battleship film. But the remake lives on, with a new director who might actually be better. More »

Epic Alien Battleship Movie Leaks The Details On The New E.T.

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:30:00 PST

The Battleship movie just went from ho-hum board game to a Roland Emmerich/Michael Bay-esque epic battle between humans and aliens. And the details about our other-worldly foe are pouring out. More »

Charlize Returns To Torture Us All In Hancock 2, Shoves Dune Back

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:22:19 PDT

The next Hancock, presumably called Hancock 2: We're Sorry, is moving forward with the announcement that Charlize Theron is coming along for the ride. This most likely means director Peter Berg's Dune will be pushed back another two years. [MTV] More »

Dune Details Too Epic To Start Filming Just Yet

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:00:48 PDT

Director Peter Berg has been filling the world in on his highly anticipated Dune adaptation. What's he got planned for his take on the movie is, he explains, something more "muscular" than Lynch's former film translation. More »

Improv And Transcendence In Ronald D. Moore's Virtuality

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:30:00 PDT

Ronald D. Moore's TV movie Virtuality is a deep-space odyssey, a fake reality TV show, and, yes, a virtual-reality nightmare. But it's also an intense theater piece, full of improv. We talked to stars Siena Guillory and Clea DuVall. Spoilers! More »

Fox Will Be Home Of Paranoia And Virtual Unreality Next Spring

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:17:00 PDT

Fox has picked up J.J. Abrams' X-Files-esque show Fringe and Joss Whedon's amnesiac-puppets-in-dystopia show Dollhouse for January 2009. And now Fox is taking more of an interest in Ron Moore's new astronauts-in-virtual-reality-show Virtuality, based on the reports that Peter Berg (Hancock, Dune) may direct the pilot and produce the show. Click through for more details on Virtuality and Fringe. More »

Hancock And Superhero Movie Will Bring The Pain

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:30:34 PDT

Two new movies will make make fun of superheroes this year, but neither one will actually have anything interesting to say about the eminently mockable genre, judging from the latest info. David Zucker's Superhero Movie will stick to sight-gags about well-known characters and serve up dumb innuendo, judging from this new clip. Meanwhile, Hancock, starring Will Smith, has the makings of the next Catwoman, judging from the plot summaries that have leaked out of early screenings. More »

Make the New Dune More Like "Lawrence of Arabia"

Annalee Newitz — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:03:45 PDT

Now that we've all reconciled ourselves sourly to the idea that Peter "The Kingdom" Berg will be directing a big-budget remake of Dune, it's time to talk about what the Dune movie really should be: a generation-spanning epic about war, full of vast, dramatic landscapes ala The Searchers or Lawrence of Arabia. Nobody adapting Dune for the screen (big or small) seems to understand that the book isn't so much about spaceships and giant worms as it is about landscape. We've got some suggestions for Berg before he starts filming. More »

Dune Remake Will Be Budget-Killer

charliejane — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:00:23 PST

A new Dune movie will be "big big big," says director Peter Berg (The Kingdom.) The David Lynch version was dandy, but "that interpretation has left the door wide open for a remake," Berg says. If it wasn't for the writers' strike, he'd be working on his version of the Frank Herbert mega-novel right now. [MTV Movies Blog]. Spoilers for Sarah Michelle Gellar's next project, Cloverfield, and AVP-R after the jump. More »