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‘Avatar’ Producer Jon Landau Says Sequel Isn’t Likely To Make 2014 Release Date By Russ Fischer/April 4, 2012 9:00 am EST Indeed, at a Titanic 3D screening early this year, Cameron’s long-time producer Jon Landau said that the first Avatar sequel is likely four years away. Now, in a new interview promoting Titanic 3D, he offers a little more about the Avatar sequel, saying that 2014 doesn’t look likely, but that things are underway....

/Film Exclusive: ‘Citizen Kane,’ ‘Gone With The Wind’ And ‘The Big Sleep’ Get Posters In San Francisco By Germain Lussier/Aug. 3, 2012 1:30 pm EST It hasn’t been the best week for Charles Foster Kane, as he lost the top spot on the Sight and Sound list of All-Time Best Films. But he’ll travel to San Francisco for screenings at the great Castro Theater. As a bonus, three artists have reinterpreted his film, the all-time great Citizen Kane, in poster form....

‘John Carter’ Concept Art Reveals More Of Andrew Stanton’s Mars By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 23, 2011 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Thanks to Barsoomia for uncovering the images: The Art of John Carter: A Visual Journey is being published in hardcover on February 8th 2012, 160 pages in length in full color.

By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2012 4:30 pm EST Red, the 2010 film that starred Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich as aging black-ops agents, seemed like the sort of film that might just fade away. Directed by Robert Schewntke, who went on to direct R.I.P.D., the movie was neither bad nor particularly compelling — if it lived up to the promise of its cast and concept, it did so only somewhat....

‘The Conspiracy’ Trailer: “Which One Of Us Is Really Crazy?” By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2012 2:00 pm EST I don’t know much about the film The Conspiracy at this point, other than the fact that it is playing at Fantastic Fest. That implies a few things about the film that features a documentary crew that is covering the theories of one seeming conspiracy crackpot. But that “crackpots” disappears, the crew starts to think there might be more to the theories than they’d initially imagined....

‘The Grandmasters’ Teaser Trailer: Wong Kar Wai Returns With His Own Yip Man Bio By Russ Fischer/July 19, 2011 9:19 am EST Here’s the first real trailer for Wong Kar Wai’s martial arts biopic The Grandmasters. It’s a hell of a thing, with Tony Leung as the literal white hat hero facing down a courtyard full of adversaries as rain falls and water splashes in super slo-mo. It looks a bit like Wong Kar Wai shooting the ‘burly brawl’ from the second Matrix film....

Breaking News: Steve Jobs Resigns As CEO Of Apple By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 24, 2011 3:44 pm EST Steve Jobs has announced his resignation as CEO of Apple. This might not necessarily movie or television news per se, but Steve Jobs served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios, is Disney’s largest individual shareholder (with approximately 7% of the shares) and became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006....

Casting Bits: J.K. Simmons In ‘Contraband;’ Michelle Rodriguez In ‘The Home;’ Robin McLeavy In ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter;’ By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2011 6:00 pm EST Mark Wahlberg is starring in Contraband right now — the film is a remake of the well-regarded thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam, with Baltasar Kormakur, an actor in the original, directing the new version. The film follows a one-time smuggler (Wahlberg) who has taken a straight job as a security guard, but gets pulled back into illegal activity....

First Look: Emma Watson In ‘The Perks Of Being A Wallflower’ By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2011 3:34 pm EST There was a moment where it looked like Emma Watson might not do much acting at all after the Harry Potter series ended, but she quickly shot a small part in My Week With Marilyn (now in post-production) and then took a role in the film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, opposite Logan Lerman....

Huge Image Gallery For Quentin Vs. Coens Art Show; Open April 7-9 In NY By Germain Lussier/April 7, 2011 10:30 am EST For three days only, New York fans of Quentin Tarantino and The Coen Brothers are going to be in art heaven. The Spoke Art Quentin vs. Coens art show opens at the Bold Hype Gallery in New York from this Thursday-Saturday only and is even more epic than we originally reported....

Jason Segel And Kermit The Frog Beg Amy Adams To Star In ‘The Muppets’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 16, 2011 12:30 pm EST As the magnificent movie The Muppets gets ready for release on November 23, one of the best behind-the-scenes stories centers on writer, producer and star Jason Segel creating a video with Kermit the Frog asking Oscar-nominee Amy Adams to play the female lead in the movie. When /Film talked to Amy on set, she spoke about the video:...

Kristen Wiig Starring In Dark Comedy ‘Imogene’ From ‘American Splendor’ Directors By Russ Fischer/July 12, 2011 3:58 pm EST Kristen Wiig is on the verge of being able to shoot a film she’s been wanting to make for the past couple years. Imogene, written by Michelle Morgan and to be directed by Shari Springer Bergman and Robert Pulcini (American Splendor, Cinema Verite), . The project isn’t new, with reports of it having surfaced last summer and earlier this year, but now thanks to the success of Bridesmaids it is looking like a go....

Michael Bay Adds Tony Shalhoub And Supermodel Bar Paly To ‘Pain And Gain’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 29, 2012 10:30 am EST Before Michael Bay makes the fourth Transformers movie, he’ll get to film a story that he’s had in his sights for quite some time. Pain and Gain is a fictional account of a true story in which a group of ‘roided Miami bodybuilders attempt to execute a plan to kidnap a businessman, but find things going very wrong....

New Concept Art Continues To Tease The Return Of ‘Riddick’ By Russ Fischer/July 19, 2011 3:44 pm EST The teasing little updates on David Twohy and Vin Diesel’s third movie featuring the sci-fi antihero Riddick are certainly coming along with greater frequency. Does that mean the movie is any closer to getting made? Not so far as we know, but for those interested it is certainly the best piece of concept art to date....

Streaming Bits: Sony Considering Launching Internet TV Service, Netflix Releases Redesigned Tablet App, UltraViolet Off To A Rocky Start By Angie Han/Nov. 16, 2011 4:00 pm EST After the jump: However, Sony’s success is far from certain. For one thing, the company intends to license smaller bundles of channels than cable operators currently do, so media companies may be wary of undercutting their existing partnerships. For another, plenty of media companies have connections to the cable industry, and thus have a vested interest in keeping cable and satellite TV alive....

Superhero Bits: The Avengers 2, The Dark Knight Rises, Lego Batman, Arrow, Iron Man, Spider-Man By Germain Lussier/Aug. 17, 2012 11:30 am EST Where is there a clue that Vin Diesel wants to star in The Avengers 2? How is it possible to create Batman and The Joker in Lego, in the same piece? Which two characters make up the look of Bane? Why is Iron Man fighting drunk with Spider-Man and how can you make your own Bat Symbol?...

The ‘Looper’ UK Poster Is Slightly Ominous By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2012 9:30 am EST Because I’ve tried to avoid footage of Looper as much as possible in order to preserve the surprise of the film — something that will prove next to impossible to continue over the next few months, I’m sure — a new poster is just the thing to chew on. This UK poster for Rian Johnson’s third feature film calls back to the set photo we saw so many months ago, seen above, as it shows the rather crude-looking time travel device that helps power the film’s plot....

VOTD: Steven Spielberg Cameos In SNL’s ‘Laser Cats’ By Russ Fischer/April 16, 2012 6:30 am EST Saturday Night Live was partially revived as a cultural force thanks to the Digital Shorts created by The Lonely Island team of Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg. In the several years since ‘Lazy Sunday’ was one of the first mainstream web video hits, we’ve seen dozens of Digital Shorts come and go....

Which Poster For Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Twixt’ Do You Prefer? By Germain Lussier/July 27, 2011 5:30 pm EST If you’ve been following our San Diego Comic-Con coverage, you know what one the best received panels of the whole event was Francis Ford Coppola presenting his new 3D horror film Twixt, starring Elle Fanning and Val Kilmer. It wasn’t exactly the film itself that really was exciting, though it looked fine, but rather the interactive, live element that Coppola hopes to bring to it....

‘Arrested Development’ Creator Mitchell Hurwitz Developing Remake Of Lars Von Trier’s ‘The Boss Of It All’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 23, 2011 7:00 am EST Looks like development on that rumored Arrested Development movie will be pushed back once again. Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator of the classic canceled comedy, has just signed on to direct The Boss of It All, an American remake of a 2007 film of the same name by controversial director Lars von Trier....