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By Germain Lussier/Jan. 12, 2011 5:00 am EST Continuing their Universal Monsters series that began last year with Bride of Frankenstein and The Wolf Man, Mondo’s 2011 poster slate begins with the most famous monster of them all: Dracula. Timed with the 80 (!) year anniversary of Tod Browning’s 1931 film starring Bela Lugosi, Mondo has commissioned Vania Zouravliov and Aaron Horkey to collaborate on two beautiful posters. Both editions go on sale at a random time Wednesday January 12 by following @MondoNews....

Four New ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Banners Highlight The Film’s Massive Scale By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2012 11:00 am EST There’s one word to accurately describe the four new banners that have just been released for The Dark Knight Rises. That word is “woah.” People certainly didn’t have that reaction for the latest poster, and though most fans liked the character posters more, these banners raise the stakes. They represent our best look yet at the massive scope and size of Christopher Nolan’s latest....

Harrison Ford Up For Jackie Robinson Film ‘42’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 8, 2011 4:00 pm EST Robert Redford? Nope. Jack Nicholson? Nope. Now Harrison Ford is Legendary Pictures’ target to play the leading role of Branch Rickey, the Los Angeles Dodgers executive credited with signing Jackie Robinson and breaking baseball’s color barrier, in the film 42, written and directed by Brian Helgeland. Ford has yet to sign but, according to reports, the role is his if he wants it....

Harvey Weinstein Thinks More ‘Scream’ Films Are Possible By Germain Lussier/May 17, 2011 1:30 pm EST In retrospect, over a decade removed from its previous installment and plagued with lukewarm reviews, maybe it’s not that big a surprise Scream 4 was a box office bomb. The first three films each made around $100 million but Scream 4, released 11 years after the third film, has so far grossed under $40 million....

Hitchcock Biopics Collide: Sienna Miller And Toby Jones Join ‘The Girl;’ Helen Mirren Eyes ‘Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2011 9:00 am EST Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil) is directing this one, the subject of which should be pretty evident from the title, and THR says that this deal is still in early stages, but the film hopes to shoot in April....

Is Warner Bros. Tracking Piracy In Hopes Of Turning Pirates Into Consumers? By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2010 1:00 pm EST There are few issues in media more contentious than piracy. End users want everything for free, and because it is often possible to get quite a lot for free, a lot of justification goes on to defend the practice. Content owners become incensed when they see revenue streams closed off, and respond with outrageous lawsuits and protective practices that are frustrating to pirates and paying customers alike....

Josh Holloway Joins Fourth ‘Mission: Impossible’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2010 1:00 pm EST We’re not trying to overwhelm you with bits and bites about the production of the fourth Mission: Impossible film; it just happens today that there have been a couple new pieces of info that were spaced just far enough apart. In addition to the report of the film shooting soon in Dubai, we know now that Josh Holloway will be part of the cast, as a member of the Impossible Mission Force, which also counts Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner as members....

Lee Daniels Lines Up ‘The Butler’; Will It Edge Out ‘Selma’? By Russ Fischer/July 30, 2010 12:03 pm EST Precious director Lee Daniels has assembled quite a cast for civil rights film Selma, but the film is still looking for financing, and now the director has made a deal with Sony to rewrite and direct The Butler, based on the story of Eugene Allen, who was a servant in the White House through eight presidencies....

Mondo Releasing Posters For ‘The Exorcist’ And ‘The Cabin In The Woods’ By Germain Lussier/April 6, 2012 6:00 am EST If there’s a genre that the guys at Mondo love to make posters for, it’s horror movies. And one film they’d never made a poster for, until today that is, was one of the greatest horror movies of all time: William Friedken’s The Exorcist. Then, just to mix an old classic with one in the making, they’ve also revealed a poster for Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods....

Movie Purgatory By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 25, 2010 6:00 am EST From time to time, we like to point out articles in other publications and websites which might be of interest to the /Film readers. This weekend the Los Angeles Times published an article titled “Hollywood’s little secret: movie purgatory” which uses the recently released Case 39 (the supernatural horror film starring Renée Zellweger and Bradley Cooper which was shot in 2006) to talk about the growing Hollywood practice of shelved movies....

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 6, 2010 2:47 pm EST Casting woes continue for Alfonso Cuarón’s film Gravity. The movie, co-scripted by the director’s son Jonas, requires a strong female lead to anchor a story about a space-bound engineer who has to make her way back to an international space station in the wake of a catastrophe. Angelina Jolie was offered the part, twice, and passed twice, and Natalie Portman was recently said to be in negotiations....

New ‘Dark Knight Rises’ International TV Spot And Costume Close-Ups By Germain Lussier/July 5, 2012 12:00 pm EST In a new 60-second international TV spot for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce Wayne tells Alfred, “The city needs me.” Bruce, we need you too. As the highly anticipated film draws ever closer, I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels the days getting longer as my movie-related thoughts all center on July 20 and the release of the movie....

Non-Superhero Comic Bits: ‘Lions, Tigers And Bears’ Gets Writers, ‘The Nye Incidents’ Back On Track, ‘Penny Arcade’ Strip Optioned By Angie Han/June 8, 2011 7:00 am EST Way back in 2009, we reported on a couple of comic book adaptations in development: Lions, Tigers and Bears, about a boy whose stuffed animals come to life; and The Nye Incidents, based on a Devil’s Due comic about an alien abductee serial killer....

POTD: 116 Cinematic Talents Celebrate 100 Years Of Paramount By Angie Han/June 12, 2012 10:00 am EST Paramount’s been having a lot of fun celebrating its 100th birthday, unveiling a sleek new logo and a stylish poster designed by DKNG. Their latest stunt is pulling together 116 of their best and brightest talents from the past century — from Alejandro González Iñárritu to Zoe Saldana — for a massive class photo....

Real Life Sci-Fi: Check Out This Functional Hoverbike By Germain Lussier/Aug. 21, 2012 10:40 am EST Unfortunately, in the year 2012 humans are still firmly planted on the ground. Cars have tires, sneakers have treads, and the only way to travel in the air is a very expensive ticket. Hoverboards are nowhere to be found and flying cars are still mostly science fiction. An amalgamation of the two, though? It’s closer than you think....

By Russ Fischer/June 3, 2010 11:38 am EST The Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor gay love story slash prison break film I Love You, Phillip Morris just can’t catch a break in the US. Or, it hasn’t been able to catch a break in the past year since being picked up well after Sundance by Consolidated Pictures Group. Now a judge in California has issued a preliminary injunction to prevent Consolidated from releasing the film....

Richard Kelly’s Next Movie Is The Incredible True Story ‘Amicus’ Starring Nicolas Cage By Germain Lussier/Sept. 27, 2012 6:00 am EST With one movie, 2001’s Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly immediately announced himself as a filmmaker to watch. Since then he’s only directed two films, neither of which managed to reach the heights of his debut, but each are almost unfathomably ambitious. His next film was thought to be Corpus Christi but it seems that’s now hit the back burner in favor of something much more interesting....

Rob Lowe Cast In Mark Pellington’s ‘I Melt With You’ By Russ Fischer/July 19, 2010 7:13 pm EST Mark Pellington is putting together a not-so-obvious cast for his upcoming small-budget thriller, I Melt With You. The director already has Jeremy Piven and Thomas Jane, which left two big roles to cast. Now one of them has been filled by Rob Lowe.Deadline says “Lowe will play a doctor struggling with deep personal loss and a growing drug addiction....

Russell Brand Replacing Jim Carrey In Larry Charles’ ‘Pierre Pierre’ By Angie Han/July 31, 2012 9:00 am EST Now the other half of that original team, Carrey, has walked away as well. Stepping into the lead role instead will be Russell Brand, who’s recently been juggling feature roles with his FX talk show Brand X. More details after the jump. Now the question is whether this new incarnation of the project will actually come together, or whether whatever problems plagued the last version will block this one as well....

Sandra Bullock Is WB’s Latest Rumored Lead Choice For Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2010 1:07 pm EST With the choice of lead role for Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Castaway in space’ film Gravity hinging to a great degree on a bankability index, it’s something of a surprise that Sandra Bullock’s name didn’t come up as a serious first-pick choice until now. With Warner Bros. reportedly nervous about the idea of an $80m sci-fi film in which one actress is the only person on screen for much of the time, turning to Bullock seems like a no-brainer....