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Tom Hanks Producing Indie Ensemble Drama Based Around JFK Assassination By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2012 10:00 am EST Tom Hanks has had his brush with John F. Kennedy thanks to Forrest Gump, but hasn’t just about everyone had a brush with JFK at this point? Oliver Stone’s film may be one of the most notable movies to tackle the President and his assassination, but there is no shortage of films that take the life and death of John F....

Tom Hardy Talks About Bane In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 21, 2011 5:15 pm EST One of the big casting surprises of the year came early on, when it was announced that Tom Hardy would play Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. The character is known to hard-core fans as a smart, cunning adversary to Batman, but many see Bane only as a drug-fed musclebound gorilla in a Luchador mask....

Tron Evolution E3 Trailer By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2010 2:00 pm EST Disney Interactive/Propaganda Games have released a new trailer for the Tron Legacy tie-in video game Tron Evolution at E3. The game will be available for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the PC, with portable versions on Nintendo DS and PSP, and a multiplayer version, Tron: Evolution Battle Grids for the Wii. The cinematic footage almost looks as cool as the movie....

Universal Possibly Interested In Justin Lin Directing New ‘Terminator’ Film By Germain Lussier/Feb. 15, 2011 5:30 pm EST After last year’s intense bidding war over the rights, plus the recent announcement that Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting back into acting, Deadline is now reporting that Hollywood is once again seriously interested in the Terminator franchise. Leading the charge, apparently, is Universal who would reportedly like to pair Fast Five director Justin Lin and screenwriter Chris Morgan with the world first created by James Cameron....

Val Kilmer Goes Back To The West In ‘The First Ride Of Wyatt Earp’ By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2011 8:30 am EST Val Kilmer has been part of the Wyatt Earp story once before, playing Doc Holliday in Tombstone. (“I’m your huckleberry” should be a line etched into the brain of any western fan.) Now he’s going back to the classic tale, and this time he’s playing Wyatt Earp, in the indie western The First Ride of Wyatt Earp....

Valiant Comics Character ‘Bloodshot’ To Get His Own Movie By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2012 4:00 pm EST Comic book fans of the Nineties surely remember Valiant Comics. At the height of the comic book craze, titles such as Harbinger, X-O Manowar, Solar: Man of the Atom and others were huge sellers and highly collectible. Briefly, anyway. Today you can get those books for a song and a dance. Valiant’s popularity rose and fell before the movie industry was quite aware of what they had on those printed pages....

VOTD: ‘Angry Birds’ Through The Eyes Of Guy Ritchie By Germain Lussier/Dec. 8, 2011 5:00 am EST Thanks to Machinima for the video. And here’s the description from the YouTube page: These so-called “American birds” aren’t just going to sit back, and let someone else get all the glory and gold. They’re smart. They’re sexy. And now, these birds are angry. Jason and Tommy are tasked with delivering the Queen Mum’s famed Fabergé egg collection to a museum in Philadelphia....

By Russ Fischer/March 1, 2011 7:00 am EST We’ve posted a handful of videos from Australian movie/music remix artist Pogo in the past. He has drawn from Disney (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) and Pixar (Up) as well as from Terminator 2 and other films to create stuttering but airy songs built out of sounds, music and dialogue culled from each movie. The Lord of the Rings is his latest giant pool of raw material, and the rough video edit for the song ‘Murmurs of Middle-Earth’ is after the break....

VOTD: Rian Johnson Dressed Up As Arclight Employee, Introduces ‘Looper’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 28, 2012 10:49 am EST Hopefully after the release of the excellent film Looper, writer/director Rian Johnson will enter the elite group of filmmakers that film fans recognize on the street. That, obviously, has not happened yet. Thursday night, Johnson posed as an usher at Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood, CA and introduced the midnight screening of his film....

Zach Galifianakis In Talks For ‘R.I.P.D.’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2011 12:00 am EST Over the past year we’ve seen Ryan Reynolds take one superhero identity thanks to Green Lantern, but he’s kept a couple of sideline comic book properties as possible follow-ups for the DC picture. One is Deadpool, at Fox, and the other is R.I.P.D., an adaptation of a Dark Horse comic that Red director Robert Schwentke is attached to direct....

‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel Could Leak From The Pen Of ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’ Author By Russ Fischer/Sept. 6, 2011 11:13 am EST Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, has just made a deal with Warner Bros. He and his KatzSmith partner David Katzenberg have a two-year first-look deal with WB, and the project they plan to launch out of the gate is reportedly a sequel to the 1988 Tim Burton film Beetlejuice....

‘Cloud Atlas’ Concept Art Shows The Corporate-Run Future Version Of Korea By Russ Fischer/Dec. 27, 2011 2:13 pm EST We’ve talked a lot about Cloud Atlas, which sees Tom Tykwer teaming up with Andy and Lana Wachowski to head up parallel film units each shooting three tales adapted from David Mitchell’s novel. The cast is great (Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw, Susan Sarandon, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Bae Doona) and we’ve gone over and over about how the actors are playing multiple roles, genders and races....

‘Janie Jones’ Trailer: Abigail Breslin Likely Steals The Show By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2011 5:00 pm EST Well, I hope if an old girlfriend dropped the daughter I never knew I had in my lap, I could at least have the pleasure of discovering she was named after one of the best early songs by The Clash. Janie Jones is both a TIFF 2010 film and the name of the young woman — the daughter of which rocker Alessandro Nivola was unaware — played by Abigail Breslin in the film....

‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ Opens Big; Milla Jovovich Says A Fifth Film Is Definite By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2010 4:00 am EST Briefly: With studio box office estimates putting the weekend haul for Resident Evil: Afterlife at $27.7m domestic and a total of $73m worldwide, it’s no surprise that there’s already a promise of a fifth film in the series. “This new Resident Evil is the first one to ever open at number one worldwide....

‘Step Up Revolution’ Trailer: Dance Like Your Economy Depends On It! By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2012 9:00 am EST “Enough with performance art. It’s time for protest art.” I bet we won’t see anything funnier today than the Step Up Revolution trailer. This thing is pure gold. Every two years a new Step Up film is conceived in a mirrored studio deep in a secret bunker; it’s like a dance cocoon....

A Cast Of Kings S2E01 - The North Remembers By David Chen/April 2, 2012 8:28 pm EST Game of Thrones is back! Joanna and Dave discuss the second season premiere, which picks off almost right where the last season left off. Does this season start with a bang or a whimper? E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at acastofkings@gmail....

Andrew Niccol Confirmed To Direct Saoirse Ronan In ‘The Host’ By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2011 2:37 pm EST There’s been a little bit of back and forth over who will sit in the director’s chair for the adaptation of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s sci-fi novel The Host. Andrew Niccol scripted and was going to direct before he ran off to do Now with Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake. Earlier this year it looked like Susanna White (the Nanny McPhee sequel) would direct instead, but when Saoirse Ronan was set to star Andrew Niccol started circling back around....

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak To Consult On Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs Film By Angie Han/May 18, 2012 1:00 pm EST Sony’s Steve Jobs biopic will be getting a little help from the man who helped make Steve Jobs himself. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Jobs back in 1976, has been hired to serve as a “tutor” on the production. No doubt he’ll be of great help to writer Aaron Sorkin, who told recently reporters “I know so little about what I am going to write....

Bradley Cooper Will Not Be Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ By Angie Han/Nov. 10, 2011 6:00 am EST George Clooney, Johnny Depp, and Matt Damon have all passed on the part, and now it appears Bradley Cooper won’t be Steven Soderbergh’s Man From U.N.C.L.E., either. The Hangover star was offered the lead role of American spy Napoleon Solo in Soderbergh’s big-screen adaptation of the ’60s series last month, but a new report says he’s now turned down the project....

Casting Bits: 50 Cent In ‘Frozen Ground’, Betsy Brandt And Kevin Nash In ‘Magic Mike’, Ashley Bell In ‘Last Exorcism 2’ And ‘Chasing Shakespeare’ By Angie Han/Sept. 23, 2011 5:00 am EST Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson hasn’t exactly blown anyone away with his acting chops, but the guy who once got shot 9 (or was it 3? Either way) times and lived to tale the tale isn’t about to get scared off by a couple of negative reviews....