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By Germain Lussier/Feb. 19, 2011 2:00 pm EST Deadline broke the news of this deal, which is great news for us but not necessarily for Sony. Sony had the film all set for release in December but GK Films, who is producing the adaption, felt that Thanksgiving was the best time to open the film. Sony didn’t want to open on that date because they already had a movie opening – the animated film Arthur Christmas – so they let Paramount take the reigns....

Michael Bay Says The New ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Are Aliens By Russ Fischer/March 19, 2012 9:00 am EST Michel Bay is making Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans nervous. Set aside for the moment any question about whether or not the turtles are anything people should be nervous about — if you’re going to make a movie about mutant turtles, that’s what they should be, right? But a recent statement from Bay suggests that he’s really making a movie about aliens rather than about turtles that rapidly evolve into bipedal creatures thanks to mutagenic ooze....

Movie Poster: ‘Apollo 18’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 23, 2010 6:08 pm EST You know a movie is high concept when it can be sold with a set of footprints. The Weinstein Company just released a teaser one-sheet for Apollo 18, their found footage sci-fi thriller produced by Timur Bekmambetov and directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego. Featuring the tagline “There’s a reason we’ve never gone back to the Moon,” the poster features an astronaut footprint next to an alien footprint, simply and effectively telling the whole story....

Movie Trailer: A New Look At Studio Ghibli’s ‘The Borrower Arrietty’ By Russ Fischer/July 2, 2010 5:46 pm EST Studio Ghibli, the wonderful animation studio that has produced many wonders directed by Hayao Miyazaki, is close to releasing a new film version of Mary Norton’s fantasy novel The Borrowers. We’ve seen two brief teasers for the film, The Borrower Arrietty, and now there’s a third. The quality here is far better than the previous two clips, and while the text and narration is entirely in Japanese, the animation looks lovely....

Movie Trailer: Shanghai By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2010 3:09 pm EST You’d think an epic WWII espionage thriller set in Shanghai, starring John Cusack and directed by Mikael “1408” Håfström would be an easy sell. But maybe not, if it’s really just a trip to dullsville. Shanghai was pushed around on the Weinstein Company schedule for a while last year before being pushed off indefinitely. We’ve seen stills for the film, but now there’s an international trailer....

Rosmund Pike Will Help Tom Cruise Solve The Mystery Of ‘One Shot’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2011 9:48 am EST Briefly: Last week we got wind of a small group of actresses who were under consideration to play the lead female role opposite Tom Cruise in Christopher McQuarrie’s adaptation of the Lee Child novel One Shot. On the list was Rosamund Pike (An Education, Clash of the Titans 2) who is now in talks to play defense attorney Helen Rodin, who is drawn into the case of a man accused of five sniper shooting deaths in a midwestern downtown plaza....

Scorsese Begins Filming ‘Hugo Cabret,’ Adds Jude Law, Ray Winstone And More By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2010 1:01 pm EST We’ve known for a while that Martin Scorsese was about to commence principal photography on his adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which will be shot as his first 3D film. The primary cast has also been known for a while: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz....

Slipups And Pratfalls Abound In ‘The Artist’ Blooper Reel By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2012 2:30 pm EST There is a very good chance that The Artist will soon be crowned Best Picture. If nothing else, you’re going to hear more and more about the silent Cannes fave in the weeks leading up to the Oscars. We’ve seen a featurette that talked about the creation of the film, which is set in 1927 as silent films are giving way to talkies, and features an actor (Jean Dujardin) who isn’t quite able to keep up with the shift....

Sony/MGM Distribution Deal Could Give New Life To ‘The Cabin In The Woods’ And ‘Red Dawn’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2011 6:30 pm EST We’ve known in the past 24 hours that Sony and MGM were working on a deal that would allow Sony to again distribute James Bond, and that would also carry forward as a real partnership between the studios. Now we have more details, and some of them are quite good....

Sony Wants ‘Social Network’ Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin To Pen The Steve Jobs Biopic By Angie Han/Oct. 25, 2011 7:00 am EST Aaron Sorkin may not have deemed himself worthy of writing a Pixar movie, but perhaps he’ll find himself up for the task of writing about the man who asked him to do so. Sony is reportedly trying to get the Social Network writer on board to pen the biopic of former Apple CEO and Pixar exec Steve Jobs, who passed away earlier this month of cancer....

TV Trailer: ‘Touch,’ Kiefer Sutherland’s New Drama From ‘Heroes’ Creator Tim Kring By Germain Lussier/Oct. 7, 2011 10:30 am EST Thanks to Entertainment Weekly for this trailer. Check it out. Second, it’ll have to live up to the hype. When you set up serialized mysteries, you always face the demon of expectations. Expectations are rarely met on the small screen (think Twin Peaks, Lost, X-Files, etc.) and even Heroes, Kring’s claim to fame, started strong and then got super crazy and uninteresting, losing focus in a big way....

Update: Ed Helms Has Not Been Approached To Star In ‘Vacation’ Remake By Germain Lussier/March 12, 2012 2:00 pm EST Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: Apparently this report has been confirmed false. Ed Helms tells The Playlist that while he is a big fan of the Chevy Chase classic Vacation, he doesn’t know where the rumors originated (Perez Hilton…) and has yet to be approached for the project: “I have no idea where that bubbled up....

Vince Vaughn To Star In Universal’s ‘Rockford Files’ Movie By Germain Lussier/April 17, 2012 1:30 pm EST Producers have been unsuccessfully trying to get The Rockford Files back on television for several years and, at each turn, the show has been shot down. Of course the next logical step is to ignore that and make it into a movie! Universal has signed Rounders screenwriters David Levien and Brian Koppelman to write a big screen version of the Seventies TV series that starred James Garner as a former con turned down and dirty detective....

Warner Bros. Buys Dan Fogelman Pitch; Tom Cruise Attached To Play PR-Damaged Politician By Russ Fischer/April 22, 2011 9:30 am EST Briefly: Are Tom Cruise and writer Dan Fogelman teaming for Jerry Maguire 2? Not quite, but they star and the Cars/Crazy, Stupid, Love writer have a project brewing that sounds like it might be in a similar vein. Dan Fogelman has just sold a pitch to Warner Bros. that has Cruise attached to play a politician whose reputation is destroyed, so he goes back to his hometown to pull himself together....

Watch: Han Solo Is The Driver In ‘Star Wars’ And ‘Drive’ Mash-Up By Russ Fischer/Aug. 26, 2011 11:46 am EST Dammit, I thought I was immune to Star Wars. The prequels, endless spin-off products and constant tinkering with the films has, sadly, bled me dry of interest in anything related to the famous Lucas franchise. Or so I thought. Then I watched the video below, which cuts footage from many of the Star Wars films against the audio from the trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s upcoming film Drive....

/Film LA: Huge Stanley Kubrick Retrospective, Plus Screenings Of Cinerama Dome Originals By Germain Lussier/Aug. 17, 2012 1:45 pm EST Big movies, literal ones, are coming to Los Angeles. From September 28th to October 4th, the Cinearama Dome at Arclight Hollywood is planning on playing a slew of the original films that played the Dome in 1963, in massive three strip Cinerama projection. Among the titles are How The West Was Won, This Is Cinerama and The Wonderful World of The Brothers Grimm....

/Film Writer Germain Lussier To Appear On Sirius XM Radio Monday By Germain Lussier/Nov. 29, 2010 6:00 am EST /Film’s newest writer Germain Lussier (that’s me) will be appearing live on Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s The Ron and Fez Show at approximately 1:30 p.m. EST, 10:30 a.m. PST, Monday November 29 to discuss all things movies. Ron and Fez appear with Opie and Anthony, Kevin Smith and Sam & Dave on The Virus, which XM subscribers can find on channel 202 and Sirius subscribers with the Best of XM package can find on channel 197....

‘Human Target’ Writer/Producers Hired To Script ‘Y: The Last Man’ By Russ Fischer/March 14, 2012 6:48 pm EST There was every reason to figure we’d never see a film version of the comic series Y: The Last Man, created by Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra. New Line has been developing the project for years, with script work put in by Carl Ellsworth, Jeff Vintar, and Vaughn, and D.J. Caruso once attached to direct....

‘Looper’ International Trailer: Living The Good Life, Until The Trigger Is Pulled By Russ Fischer/Aug. 14, 2012 1:30 pm EST Earlier today we got a look at the promo site for Rian Johnson’s third feature film Looper, and a big part of that promotion focuses on the gadgets, vehicles and gear that the loopers — future assassins — use. Now there is a great new international trailer that shows some of that gear in action....

‘Man Of Steel’ Teaser Trailers - Superman Is Back On The Big Screen By Germain Lussier/July 21, 2012 11:11 am EST Not only does this weekend see the return of Batman to cinemas worldwide, it also sees the return of Superman in the form of two teaser trailers for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. The highly anticipated reboot, written by David Goyer and produced by Christopher Nolan, stars Henry Cavill as Clark Kent, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Michael Shannon as Zod, Kevin Costner as Pa Kent, Russell Crowe as Jor El and many more....