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Cameron Crowe Joins Twitter, Tweets ‘We Bought A Zoo’ Images By Germain Lussier/May 3, 2011 1:30 pm EST Crowe’s twitter name is @CameronCrowe and we obviously suggest you follow him. Here are the photo’s he’s tweeted so far. Clockwise from the top left, these are Crowe’s descriptions of each photo from his official site. We heard a few small nuggets of information about Crowe’s latest film when Crowe’s site The Uncool visited the set of We Bought a Zoo, which is still scheduled for release December 23, but other than that, things have been pretty quiet....

Casting Bits: Alan Arkin In ‘Argo;’ James Badge Dale In ‘World War Z;’ Elodie Yung In ‘G.I. Joe 2’ By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2011 7:00 pm EST Ben Affleck bailed on acting in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby in order to direct his third film, a picture called Argo. (Good choice!) The film is from a Chris Terrio script that follows a true-life story about a CIA effort to pull diplomats out of Tehran in 1979....

Chan-Wook Park’s English-Language Debut ‘Stoker’ Gets Spring Release Date By Angie Han/July 17, 2012 3:30 pm EST Briefly: The mere fact that Stoker marks the English-language debut of Oldboy helmer Chan-wook Park would’ve been reason enough to get excited about the film. But toss in the star-studded cast (Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowskia, and Matthew Goode) and a Clint Mansell score, and our anticipation levels are going off the charts. Now, helpfully, we finally know exactly when the wait will pay off....

Chris Sanders And Dean DeBlois Have Parallel Sequels Planned For How To Train Your Dragon By Brendon Connelly/April 28, 2010 4:13 am EST The inevitable news of a How to Train Your Dragon sequel broke yesterday, courtesy of a Dreamworks conference call and press release. We learned that the film would be made for cinemas, released in 2013 and… actually, that was it. But what more information about this proposed follow-up is actually out there?...

Concept Art From Disney Animation’s ‘Tick Tock Tale’ And Pixar’s Abandoned ‘Newt’ By Angie Han/March 21, 2011 5:00 pm EST We’ve got lots of beautiful concept art for you on this Monday evening from two separate projects: Walt Disney Animation’s upcoming short Tick Tock Tale, and Pixar’s canceled feature Newt. I’ve been looking forward to Tick Tock Tale since we got our first look at some clips and images, so I’m finding the concept art interesting to look at....

Cool Stuff: The Darjeeling Limited Criterion Collection Cover Art By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 11, 2010 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Many people don’t know this but with the Criterion Collection release of Bottle Rocket, the cover and menu art was created by Ian Dingman. A lot of people confuse the two artists as their artwork looks very much in the same style. This probably also explains why Wes has employed Dingman to create the cover artwork for his future home video releases when his own brother became unavailable....

Cool Stuff: Z-A Geek Alphabet T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2010 10:00 am EST Threadless has a new tee from Jaco Haasbroek called Z-A, which is basically a backwards graphical representation of the alphabet using geek characters for each letter. Do you know them all? The shirt is available on Silver Fine Jersey Tee for only $18, sizes small to XXL. Cool Stuff: Z-A Geek Alphabet T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2010 10:00 am EST...

First Look: Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Ted’ And Genndy Tartakovsky’s ‘Hotel Transylvania’ By Angie Han/March 13, 2012 3:30 pm EST Two small-screen animation heavyweights will be making their first forays into feature filmmaking this year, though the projects couldn’t sound more different. This summer will see the premiere of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s rather insane-sounding R-rated comedy Ted, while Genndy Tartovsky (Samurai Jack) will follow this fall with the more family-friendly animation Hotel Transylvania....

Geek Deal: Archer Season 1 On DVD For $9.99 By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2011 8:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

LOL: 1980’s Hollywood Agent Voicemails By Germain Lussier/June 6, 2011 5:00 am EST When most of us think of a Hollywood agent, the image of Entourage’s Ari Gold comes to mind. A fast-talking, smarmy, foul mouthed big shot. Warren Klein was not that. Once named one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time Magazine (in 1986) Klein was a huge Hollywood agent who represented many of the big stars of the Eighties: C....

More Details Emerge On The Wachowskis’ Film ‘Cobalt Neural 9,’ Which Could Be A Political Firebrand By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2010 8:49 am EST The only film more secretive than J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 may be the so-called Cobalt Neural 9, which we’ve been more expansively calling the ‘Wachowski Siblings Gay Iraq War Romance.’ We’ve known only the barest details about the film, but a big new report has come to light, claiming to offer a lot more details....

Paramount Dates Michael Bay’s ‘Pain And Gain’ For April 2013 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 19, 2012 3:20 pm EST Briefly: Paramount let Michael Bay make his “little movie” Pain and Gain, based on a wild and very messed-up, violent story of bodybuilders who get into kidnapping, torture, and murder, and now the studio has set a April 26, 2013 as the release date for the picture. That puts Bay’s film up against only romcom The Big Wedding, with Robert De Niro and Susan Sarandon....

See A Few Seconds Of New ‘Prometheus’ Footage By Russ Fischer/March 12, 2012 6:00 am EST That even will be presented online via Livestream, but in the meantime you can see a bit of the new trailer below. On Saturday, March 17th at 4 p.m. PST/ 7 p.m. EST, legendary director Ridley Scott will premiere the first full trailer for one of 2012’s most anticipated films, PROMETHEUS, at the AMC Downtown Disney in Anaheim, CA....

Sequel Casting Bits: Donald Faison In ‘Kick-Ass 2’, Mary Elizabeth Winstead In ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’, Bruno Gunn In ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ By Angie Han/Aug. 8, 2012 4:00 pm EST With John Leguizamo’s Javier and the as-yet-uncast Mother Russia on board to help out the villainous Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) in Kick-Ass 2, it seems only fair that Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson) start picking up some allies as well....

VOTD: ‘Hunger Games’ Fan-Made Short Film By Germain Lussier/Nov. 18, 2010 4:00 pm EST Someone is gunning for your job, Gary Ross. Or, at least trying to do your job for you. A group of talented filmmakers from the Utah based production company MainStay Productions shot at 10 minute short dramatizing a moment from The Hunger Games, a book by Suzanne Collins which is currently being adapted into a major motion picture from Lionsgate with Gary Ross attached to direct....

VOTD: Joshua & Nathan Flynn’s Stop-Motion Short Film ‘I Am Beautiful’ By Peter Sciretta/July 28, 2010 11:50 pm EST Today’s video of the day is a very short stop motion animated short film titled I Am Beautiful. Directed by Joshua & Nathan Flynn, the animation which stars Star Trek’s Commander Worf and Cadet ‘red shirt’ Wilhelm, was created as an introduction for the ‘Best Stop Motion’ award category of the 2009 University of Glamorgan Glammies Awards....

‘A Good Day To Die Hard’ Narrows Down Search For John McClane Jr. To Four Actors By Angie Han/Nov. 4, 2011 5:30 pm EST Ever since it was revealed that the fifth installment of the Die Hard franchise, A Good Day to Die Hard, would include one new major character in the form of John McClane’s son, rumors have been circulating about who might be up for the gig. Now a new report has surfaced claiming that the studio and director John Moore are getting closer to casting the role....

‘Big Miracle’ Trailer: Drew Barrymore And John Krasinski Save Some Whales By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2011 1:30 pm EST In almost every actor’s career there comes a time to make a clean-cut family tearjerker, and it seems that time has really come for John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Tim Blake Nelson, Stephen Root and many more as they take part in Big Miracle. The film finds Krasinski as a TV journalist stuck in small-town Alaska who discovers three whales trapped in the ice off the coast....

‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Teaser Trailer By Germain Lussier/July 20, 2011 9:01 am EST Swinging into a theater near you July 3 2012, and into Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man now has a trailer. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Denis Leary and more, this is your first official, moving look at the highly anticipated 3D superhero reboot. Check it out after the jump....

All-Too Brief Teaser For Animated ‘Foosball,’ From ‘Secret In Their Eyes’ Director By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2012 12:30 pm EST We were a bit surprised — only a bit — when it was announced that Juan Jose Campanella, director of the Oscar-winning Secret in Their Eyes, would make an animated film called Metegol, or Foosball. Only a bit surprised because there was that one great sequence in Secret that takes place at a soccer match, suggesting that Campanella evidently has more than a passing interest in the sport....