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Sequel Bits: Snow White And The Huntsman 2, The Lorax 2, The Human Centipede 3, Waiting To Exhale 2 By Peter Sciretta/April 9, 2012 3:30 pm EST Today we bring a bunch of new sequel news bits including: Waiting to Exhale 2 Could Still Happen Without Whitney Houston Universal is developing ideas for a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman … but without Snow White? The studio has no plans for The Lorax 2 but definitely more Dr....

Sony Suspends Roland Emmerich’s ‘Singularity’, Brings Ray Kurzweil On Board To Help With Script By Angie Han/Nov. 10, 2011 3:30 pm EST Perhaps working on Anonymous, a film about the “real” writer behind William Shakespeare’s works, has inspired a renewed respect for language in director Roland Emmerich. Or, more likely, maybe that picture’s poor box office performance has given Emmerich and his studio a case of nerves. Whatever the case, Sony has put the brakes on Singularity, the $175 million sci-fi epic that Emmerich has lined up as his next project....

By Russ Fischer/July 28, 2010 2:39 pm EST Briefly: That’s not a typo in the title. Raised by Wolfs is a comedy pitch that DreamWorks picked up, and Steve Carell is now attached to star in and produce the film that Les Firestein concocted. That’s about all the detail we’ve got right now, though THR says that the spelling of the title is related to the name of the character Carell is slated to play....

Teaser Trailer: Uwe Boll’s Auschwitz By David Chen/Sept. 8, 2010 12:16 pm EST Wow, this is troubling. The above screencap is from a teaser trailer for an upcoming Uwe Boll film entitled Auschwitz. In it, Uwe Boll plays a German officer guarding an Auschwitz gas chamber. Hit the jump to see the entire teaser for the film, but please note that it is strictly NSFW. A site called Ninja Dixon (via Twitch) purports to have a quote from Boll describing his vision for the film:...

Tim Blake Nelson Signed For More ‘Hulk’ Films, Wants To Continue Playing The Leader By Russ Fischer/Oct. 27, 2010 1:30 pm EST It’s way too early to get overly interested in the idea of further Hulk movies. Until The Avengers is done, we don’t know if Marvel and Universal have any further plans for standalone films. But while we know for certain that we’ll never see Spider-Man’s Dylan Baker live out the second half of his character arc, there’s at least a slight chance that we could see Tim Blake Nelson from The Incredible Hulk turn out to be the mutated, villainous Leader....

By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2010 8:49 am EST One of my favorite shorts in the past few years is Sean Dunne’s The Archive, about Paul Mawhinney, the man who amassed the world’s largest collection of vinyl records. Now Dunne is back with a slightly longer, equally good character portrait: The Bowler, which documents the life of bowling hustler Rocky Salemmo. Here’s Dunne’s recap of the film: Meet Rocky Salemmo. He’s a ramblin’ gamblin’ man....

Where’s WALL-E? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2011 9:00 am EST Richard Sargent has created an illustration featuring 180 robots from movies, tv and pop culture. The Where’s Waldo-like game asks you to find Pixar’s WALL-E. Can you spot him? Click on the image to enlarge! Answer after the jump. Answer: Hopewell Studios is holding a competition to win a signed poster print of Richard’s ‘Where’s WALL-E?’ art print. How many robots can you identify?...

‘Battlestar Galactica’ Producer Ron Moore Sells New Series To NBC; Sets Up ‘Wild Wild West’ Reboot At CBS By Germain Lussier/Nov. 10, 2010 2:00 pm EST With his Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica recently canceled in favor of a more action packed spin-off, Ron Moore – the brain child behind the successful 2004 re-imagining of Galactica – now finds himself showless. Or does he? It seems Moore might be leaving space in favor of both the seven seas and the Old West....

‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Featurette Reveals The Creation Of The Film’s Roaming Monsters By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2012 5:00 pm EST The most striking film of the summer is Benh Zeitlin’s first feature Beasts of the Southern Wild. The movie follows a young girl, Hushpuppy, as her patched-together coastal world starts to crumble. Her father falls prey to a sickness, and her home is destroyed, as giant horned boars, called Aurochs, are freed from icy prisons before rampaging towards Hushpuppy in a charge of… well, that’s the part I’ll leave to the film....

‘Blade Runner’ Producer Says Not To Expect A New Film Before 2014; Harrison Ford Not Likely To Return By Russ Fischer/Aug. 18, 2011 2:45 pm EST The biggest news of the day — and likely the week, perhaps even the month — is that Ridley Scott has agreed to direct a film that will be either a prequel or sequel to his 1982 classic Blade Runner. Details on the project are very thin right now; besides the simple fact of Alcon Entertainment holding the rights to make the film, and Scott agreeing to direct, there are no specifics....

‘Catfish’ TV Series Features Stories With Few Happy Endings By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2012 12:00 pm EST It’s been nearly a year since we heard anything new about MTV’s “reality show” based on the documentary Catfish. (Some might question the “documentary” tag for the feature, as the veracity of its story has been in question since its Sundance premiere.) Now we’ve got some details that let us know just what we’re in for....

‘Coraline’ Director Henry Selick To Direct Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’ By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2012 7:45 am EST Briefly: Yesterday we told you two things: one, that Disney had picked up Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and would make development of a feature based on the book a priority. And two, that Henry Selick, who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas and another Neil Gaiman book adaptation, Coraline, has been consulting with Disney and Pixar talent for his latest feature....

‘Passion’ Trailer: Noomi Rapace And Rachel McAdams Get Kinky For Brian De Palma By Angie Han/Aug. 23, 2012 10:33 am EST After an uneven decade that included Redacted and The Black Dahlia, Brian De Palma is heading into the 2010s with this fall’s Passion. A remake of Alain Corneau’s Crime d’amour, the erotic thriller centers around a ruthless corporate executive named Christine (Rachel McAdams) and her bright but timid assistant Isabel (Noomi Rapace)....

‘Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney’ Trailer: Takashi Miike Adapts The Popular Courtroom Video Game Series By Russ Fischer/Nov. 7, 2011 5:15 pm EST Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is the first game in the very popular series of legal drama/thriller video games that was released as Gyakuten Saiban (Turnabout Trial) in Japan. Earlier this year we learned that wildly prolific genre-hopping director Takashi Miike has been at work on a film adaptation of the series, and just over a week ago we saw the first footage from that film....

‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace’ 3D Release Date Set By Germain Lussier/March 3, 2011 9:49 am EST Thanks to TheForce.Net for the heads up. Here’s the official announcement from StarWars.com: The most important part of that whole announcement is the final sentence: We can all agree (well, most of us) that Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is an abysmal addition to the Star Wars saga, It ruined the character of Anakin, destroyed the mystery of The Force and introduced us to Jar Jar Binks....

‘Tanner Hall’ Trailer: Rooney Mara’s Elevated Profile Revives Interest In ‘09 Toronto Entry By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2011 11:19 am EST Almost exactly two years ago, at the 2009 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, the Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini film Tanner Hall had its premiere. Set in a New England all-girls boarding school, the film was notable for being one of the first big roles for Rooney Mara....

‘The Grey’ Red-Band Trailer By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2012 12:30 pm EST Joe Carnahan’s adventure/survival film The Grey opens this week, and a new red-band trailer has shown up to promote the movie in the final days before the movie hits. You probably know most of the basic info about the movie: Liam Neeson plays one of a group of roughnecks heading back to civilization from a remote Alaskan job who has to confront a hungry and vicious pack of wolves when a plane crash strands the men in the middle of nowhere....

Angelina Jolie In Talks For Luc Besson-Directed Thriller By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2011 2:30 pm EST Luc Besson was never really very far from the director’s chair, but it has felt that way for some time, because it has been a while since he made a movie with the massive American mainstream recognizance of The Professional or The Fifth Element. Besson’s longest absence from the director’s chair was from ‘99 to ‘05, but in the past decade he has really become as well known for writing and producing mid-budget action films like The Transporter and Taken as he is for his own directorial efforts....

Anna Paquin And Kristen Bell In Scream 4? By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 25, 2010 7:00 am EST Update: Dimension Films has confirmed that Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell will appear in Scream 4. Gossip columnist Cindy Clark is reporting that Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell will film celebrity cameos in Scream 4. We have no idea if this is true, but it is possible. Remember, the opening scene victims are almost always a famous actress cameo....

Beware The Final ‘Chronicle’ Teaser Trailer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2012 5:00 am EST The low-budget ’teens with powers’ movie Chronicle opens this week, I’m finding that a lot of people still don’t know too much about it. That’s too bad, because Chronicle is a lot of fun. It is a film that explores its premise well, while also proving that it doesn’t take $150m to make a successful movie along these lines....