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By Germain Lussier/Feb. 19, 2011 11:45 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ladies and gentleman, there are some real, honest to God problems with the movie business. That’s pretty obvious from the huge void of original content that’s being released by Hollywood in the coming months, including a record breaking 27 sequels in 2011 alone. And while we all know this problem exists, the genesis of how and why it’s happening, and a possible solution, are concepts few of us have the wealth of knowledge and experience to fathom....

New Poster: ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ By Russ Fischer/April 29, 2011 11:58 am EST Yesterday the first full-length trailer dropped for Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Now the poster is here, and it packs everything into the frame: Optimus, destruction, a space ship, Shia, and the film’s new leading lady. I don’t think there’s much more to say other than that you can see the whole thing after the break....

Page 2: Dawn Of The Dead, Back To The Future, Stan Lee, Star Wars, David Fincher, Silence Of The Lambs, Chuck, Rise Of The Apes, Locke & Key, Dexter By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2011 11:30 am EST NBC has renewed Chuck for a fifth season. Will Smith’s Men in Black III trailer, nicknamed “The Heat”, costs $9,000-a-week, is 1,150 square feet complete with “a lounge, a movie room, office space for 30 people, a full-service kitchen, a master bedroom, an all-granite bathroom, marble floors, and matched-grain Italian cherrywood cabinetry....

Paramount Will Adapt DC Comics’ ‘The Mighty’ Into Film By Germain Lussier/June 2, 2011 11:30 am EST While older generations are used to the notion of the superhero as an infallible force with unlimited strength and only the capacity for good, we know better. Modern superheros are often flawed, human and, in some cases, not heroes at all. Sometimes, they’re actually the bad guy. Paramount has just acquired the rights to adapt one of those genre-bending, superhero stories: The Mighty....

The ‘Sandman’ TV Series May Not Be Dead Just Yet By Russ Fischer/March 15, 2011 6:30 pm EST This will either be great news or a disappointing report, depending upon what sort of fan you are of Neil Gaiman’s landmark comic book series Sandman. Do you want to see the stories adapted into a new medium, or not? Last year we heard that Warner Bros. TV was developing a TV series based on the comic, with Supernatural’s Erik Kripke a top choice to lead the project....

The First Ten Minutes Of ‘Easy A’ Are Online By Russ Fischer/Sept. 14, 2010 6:26 pm EST In preparation for the film’s imminent opening, Sony and Screen Gems have put the first ten minutes of Will Gluck’s high school comedy Easy A online. The movie stars Emma Stone as Olive, a girl who sorta accidentally gets a reputation, and features Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Thomas Haden Church, Cam Gigandet, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm MacDowell, Aly Michalka and Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson as Stone’s parents, who steal every scene they’re in....

VOTD: Dan Brown’s “Your Lucky Day” By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 24, 2010 6:00 am EST OneCoolThingADay has found a pretty cool short film titled Your Lucky Day directed by newcomerDan Brown (not the author) and featuring Rider Strong (Boy Meets World, Cabin Fever). The fifteen minute short tells the story of an elderly man who discovers he’s won $156 million in the lottery. A megaball drawing sends a convenience store spiraling out of control....

Woody Allen Will Return To The U.S. For His Next Film By Angie Han/April 13, 2012 3:30 pm EST Having spent the last several years gallivanting across Europe with some admittedly wonderful results (Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Midnight in Paris), Woody Allen is finally preparing to return Stateside. At this week’s world premiere of his latest film, To Rome With Love, Allen announced that he would be shooting his next movie in the U....

‘Bangkok Revenge’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2012 11:15 am EST The setup of the film Bangkok Revenge is classic action fantasy: a young boy sees his family murdered, then instead of getting on with his life spends years training as a fighter in order to take revenge on those responsible. I’m sure he feels a lot better at the end of the movie, too. Or he might, if he hadn’t survived a bullet to the head, a lasting effect of which was the deadening of all emotional capacity....

‘Candyland’ Writers Elaborate On The Idea Of Building A Sweet New Fantasy World By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2011 5:30 pm EST Is there a movie in development that has been more reviled than Candyland? OK, there probably is. But still, the idea of turning a basically plotless board game laden with sweets into a movie has generated jokes aplenty. The writers are Glenn Berger and Jonathan Aibel, who also scripted two Alvin and the Chimpmunks films (the third is in post now) and two Kung-Fu Panda movies....

/Film Exclusive: Tom Whalen And Dave Perillo Tackle 80s Movies As Travel Posters By Germain Lussier/Sept. 24, 2012 7:00 am EST Much like the old school VH1 TV show, Gallery 1988 is having the best week ever. Their Melrose location currently has the amazing Return of the Great Showdowns exhibit on the walls and this coming Friday, September 28, their Venice location opens an insanely clever and cool exhibit by popular pop artists Tom Whalen and Dave Perillo....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Helmer Brian Kirk In Talks To Direct ‘Thor 2’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 4, 2011 4:50 pm EST Briefly: Marvel Studios is taking the next step in putting a Thor sequel into production; the studio is now in talks with Brian Kirk to direct the film that will follow on from Kenneth Branagh’s first chapter. Variety has the news, saying that Brian Kirk’s TV experience with large ensemble casts (Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Dexter and Luck) was a contributing factor in Marvel’s decision to hire him....

‘Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall’ Will Begin Production In 2011? By David Chen/May 5, 2010 6:29 am EST CLiNT is a new monthly anthology magazine that Millar is spearheading. “I’ve worked on everything from Spider-Man comics to the Iron Man movie for Marvel in New York,” Millar said in the release, “but what really excites me is the gap I see in the UK market at the moment. There are absolutely no comic-books aimed at 16-30 year old guys and I think CLiNT has potential to make an enormous impact, bringing a new type of magazine to a new generation....

‘On The Road’ Trailer: Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, And Kristen Stewart Are The Mad Ones By Angie Han/Aug. 31, 2012 2:08 pm EST We’ve already seen a couple of trailers for Walter Salles’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s Beat classic On the Road, but the latest to hit may be the most arresting one yet. Thanks to sharp editing and a relentless pounding drumbeat, it does a fairly good job of capturing the heady exuberance of being young and carefree, hopped up on drugs, and in pursuit of the next awesome thing....

‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ - What Did You Think? By David Chen/May 21, 2011 5:50 am EST Try to recall, if you will, the atmosphere when Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl burst onto the scene in 2003. Films based on Disney land rides weren’t being released in theaters every other week yet, Gore Verbinski’s biggest claim to fame was The Ring, and the world had yet to be introduced to Captain Jack Sparrow, a delightful side-character in the film from the twisted mind of Johnny Depp....

Aardman Animation Making Live-Action/CGI ‘Raving Rabbids’ TV Show By Adam Quigley/Sept. 24, 2010 7:00 am EST Even if you’ve never played any of the video games from the Raving Rabbids series, there’s a good chance that you’ve caught some of the wacky antics that can be expected from them during a commercial break or two. The series is a spin-off of the Rayman line of games, and is based around a species of mischievous, maniacal rodents that serve as the antagonists of the franchise....

Brian Kirk In Talks To Direct ‘The Osterman Weekend’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 29, 2012 5:00 am EST The other way to write the headline for this story would be “Game of Thrones Director to Remake Sam Peckinpah Film.” But even the most ardent Peckinpah fan — and I’m pretty damn ardent — isn’t going to yell very loud to claim Peckinpah’s adaptation of the novel by Robert Ludlum as one of the director’s fairer works....

Cameron Crowe Wants Scarlett Johansson For ‘We Bought A Zoo’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 1, 2010 8:53 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. All of the ladies on the list sound like interesting choices opposite Matt Damon, who is set to star as Benjamin Mee, a widowed father who buys a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Looking for a fresh new start, Mee and his children hope to refurbish the zoo and run it as a family business....

Casting Bits: Michael Fassbender In Brendan Gleeson’s ‘At Swim-Two Birds’, Isabelle Huppert In Hong Sang-Soo Mystery Project, Two More For ‘Roswell FM’ By Angie Han/July 11, 2011 6:00 am EST The ubiquitous Michael Fassbender will be joining fellow Irishmen Gabriel Byrne, Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy and Domhnall Gleeson in Brendan Gleeson’s directorial debut, a big-screen adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s classic novel At Swim-Two-Birds. The project has been a long time in the works — Gleeson initially acquired the book rights seven years ago — but it seems to finally be picking up steam thanks to some new financers....

Christopher Nolan Unlikely To Make Major Audio Changes To ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 20, 2011 12:00 pm EST There have been two basic reactions to the first few minutes of The Dark Knight Rises. The first is “holy crap, that was awesome!” and the second is “…but what the hell was Bane saying?” Christopher Nolan decided to use a mouth-covering mask for Tom Hardy’s villain character, whose strength comes from an inhalable drug, and while the mask looks ominous it has the effect of really muffling the character’s speech....