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By Russ Fischer/April 10, 2012 1:00 pm EST Update from editor Peter Sciretta: Deadline has learned that F. Gary Gray has withdrawn from consideration and is now in negotiations to instead direct the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton for New Line Cinema. Last week Disney announced a April 4th, 2014 release date for the a sequel. There’s something that really appeals to me about the idea of the Welcome to Collinwood directors taking on the Captain America sequel for Marvel Studios....

Watch Five Minutes Of Guy Pearce’s Life-Saving Efforts In ‘Lockout’ By Russ Fischer/March 19, 2012 10:00 am EST The movie Lockout, in which Guy Pearce plays a Snake Plissken-like character charged with rescuing a bigwig’s daughter (Maggie Grace) from a satellite prison, came almost out of nowhere last year. We knew the film was coming together, but then the first clips of footage suggested that it aspires to be more fun, cheeky and Escape From New York-like than we’d expected....

Zack Snyder Promises ‘Physical’ Superman By Germain Lussier/Feb. 11, 2011 5:00 am EST One of the main complains fans had with Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns was that Superman wasn’t a bad ass. He used his powers, of course, but the Man of Steel wasn’t exactly one for physical confrontation. That’s sure to be different in Zack Snyder’s reboot of the Superman franchise produced by Christopher Nolan. Snyder talked to SFX and explained why he decided to take the film and promised that the crux of this movie hinges on Superman being physical....

‘30 Minutes Or Less’ Collar Bomb Heist Gets True-Life Dramatic Treatment By Germain Lussier/Aug. 29, 2012 5:13 pm EST In Ruben Fleischer’s 2011 comedy 30 Minutes or Less, Jesse Eisenberg played a pizza delivery boy forced to rob a bank when two men strapped a bomb to him. The idea came from a real-life event that took place in Erie, PA in 2003, as detailed in Wired Magazine. Unlike that film, though, the actual situation was much more complicated, dire and interesting....

‘Best Worst Movie’ Filmmakers Need Your Homemade Haunted Houses By Germain Lussier/Aug. 18, 2011 4:30 pm EST Most communities have a creepy house that scares the neighborhood kids. What those communities usually don’t have is a normal house which, on Halloween, is transformed into an equally exciting haunted house. Homemade haunted houses are true labors of love and the filmmakers behind Best Worst Movie are looking for the biggest and best to feature in an Untitled Homemade Haunted House Feature Documentary....

‘Electric City’ Trailer: Tom Hanks Is Animated In An Oppressive Future By Russ Fischer/July 2, 2012 3:30 pm EST It’s a good day for Yahoo and Tom Hanks to debut some footage from their new animated collaboration, Electric City, because there isn’t a lot of other stuff out there to take attention away from the new animated show. Created by and starring Hanks, and executive produced by Gary Goetzman and Amitabh Jhunjhunwala, and co-starring Jeanne Tripplehorn, Holland Taylor, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Antoon, Chris Parnell, and Paul Scheer, the show seems to draw a bit from Brazil, a bit from The Matrix, and probably from another half-dozen well-liked sci-fi staples as well....

/Film Wants You To See ‘Attack The Block’ On July 4th In Los Angeles By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2011 2:00 pm EST Since the film’s premiere at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival, you’ve been hearing some incredible hype for the Edgar Wright-produced Joe Cornish-directed sci-fi action film Attack the Block. Inner City vs. Outer Space. About a teen gang in South London defending their block from an alien invasion. Don’t believe the hype — the movie is actually even better than what you’ve heard....

‘Ghostbusters 3’ Rumored To Begin Production In May 2011 By Russ Fischer/Nov. 1, 2010 10:43 pm EST Briefly: The headline is really all there is to the rumor, as Production Weekly has said via tweet that the outlet hears Sony “is planning to put Ivan Reitman’s “Ghostbusters 3” into production in May 2011.” If accurate, this would represent the end of a couple years of speculation about the film. As far as we know, Ghostbusters 3 would still be based upon a script by The Office and Year One writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, perhaps with rewrites from Dan Aykroyd....

‘King Of Kong’ Director Seth Gordon, ‘Just Go With It’ Scribe Tim Dowling Sign On For Video Game-Inspired ‘Pixels’ By Angie Han/July 17, 2012 11:00 am EST It’s been a while since we’ve gotten a real update on the video game-inspired Pixels, but it’s moving ahead slowly but surely. While no director has been announced at this time, King of Kong helmer Seth Gordon’s signed on to executive produce and possibly direct, and while no star has been locked in at this point, Adam Sandler is eyeing it as a potential star vehicle....

‘Van Helsing’ Reboot Will Be “Grounded In Reality,” Says Producer Alex Kurtzman By Angie Han/June 27, 2012 10:30 am EST Universal’s last attempt to bring vampire hunter extraordinaire Van Helsing to the big screen resulted in the ridiculous mess that was 2004’s Van Helsing, but the studio’s gearing up for another try. Tom Cruise has been attached to star in a new version of the film for a few years now, and its producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have started talking up the differences between their Van Helsing and previous Van Helsings....

Bret Easton Ellis Writing L.A.-Set Noir For Paul Schrader, Wants Porn Star James Deen For Lead By Angie Han/Jan. 23, 2012 2:00 pm EST Normally, if a Hollywood screenwriter named a porn star as his top choice to lead a mainstream film, it would come as a bit of a surprise, but when the scribe in question is Bret Easton Ellis, it just makes so much sense. The controversial writer has tweeted that he’s currently working on a “L....

Casting Notes: Emma Bell In ‘Final Destination 5’; Ted Danson In ‘Everybody Loves Whales’; Jon Hamm In ‘Friends With Kids’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2010 5:04 am EST We’ve been getting a lot of casting info about Final Destination 5, which James Cameron protege Steven Quale is soon directing. Emma Bell from Frozen and The Walking Dead is signing on as the female lead. She’ll join P.J. Byrne, Tony Todd, David Koechner, Meghan Ory, Nicholas D’Agosto, Ellen Wroe, Arlen Escarpeta and Miles Fisher when the film shoots in Vancouver later this month....

Cool Stuff: DIY Floating ‘Star Wars’ Training Remote By Germain Lussier/Nov. 15, 2010 3:30 pm EST Luke Skywalker fought one. So did a bunch of Jedi Younglings. And though Master Replicas did create a really nice prop replica, now, for only a fraction of the cost, you can build your very own Star Wars Jedi Training Remote. The best part is, unlike the Master Replicas one, yours can actually float. Check out the do-it-yourself video, as well some history on the device, seen in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones as well as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, after the jump....

Cool Stuff: Hot Toys Iron Man 2 1/6th Scale Mark IV Collectible Figure By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2010 6:00 am EST Hot Toys has released photos of the Iron Man 2: 1/6th scale Mark IV Limited Edition Collectible Figurine, part of their Movie Masterpiece Series. More details and photos available after the jump. Hot Toys is proud to present the 1/6th scale Mark IV Limited Edition Collectible Figurine from the Iron Man 2 movie....

David Mandel To Write ‘Fletch’ By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2011 11:30 am EST The backstory of a new Fletch movie goes back at least ten years, to when Universal and Kevin Smith started talking about adapting the novel Fletch Won as a sequel/prequel to Fletch (‘85) and Fletch Lives (‘89). The project moved to Miramax, but Kevin Smith eventually moved on. Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence was going to make the movie, and at one point it looked like Zach Braff might step in as a young Fletch....

Disneyland Hotel Union Launches Anti-‘Toy Story 3’ Oscar Campaign By Germain Lussier/Dec. 17, 2010 1:30 pm EST Disney’s desire to see Toy Story 3 not only be nominated, but win the Oscar for Best Picture is no secret. They’ve been mounting a very aggressive and inventive ad campaign alerting Oscar voters to the film’s incredible reviews and the fact that there are precedents for underdogs, animated films and sequels to receive such accolades....

Edgar Wright Sorta Launches His First Comic Book: ‘The Random Adventures Of Brandon Generator’ By Germain Lussier/April 13, 2012 4:00 pm EST While fans patiently wait for Edgar Wright to get back behind the camera after Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, the filmmaker has been busy getting into a new medium: comic books. But not paper and ink comic books, Wright has written an online motion comic that he and his co-creators are urging the fans to help them finish....

First Official Look: Michel Gondry’s ‘Mood Indigo’ By Angie Han/June 11, 2012 6:00 am EST In the past few years, Michel Gondry seems to have fallen away somewhat from the playful dreaminess that characterized his earlier work like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, and Be Kind Rewind. Last year’s The Green Hornet looked more or less like the studio superhero flick that it was, and his upcoming drama The We and the I seems to have an almost documentary-ish feel to it....

First Photos Of Creature FX From ‘The Thing’? [Updated] By Angie Han/Aug. 22, 2011 2:00 pm EST Update: While we were unable to confirm or debunk these ourselves, but Shock Till You Drop reports that “a sculptor on the show says [the photos] are not legit.” Original story and photos follow below. As with any monster movie, one of the big questions surrounding The Thing, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 movie of the same title, is what the creature will actually look like....

Five ‘Hunger Games’ District Seals Revealed By Angie Han/Oct. 5, 2011 9:30 am EST It’s been relatively quiet on the Hunger Games front recently, so Lionsgate has just unveiled five new images to remind you that the film is still coming. And, oh yeah, while we’re on the subject, they’re also reminding us to go register at the website and Like the movie on Facebook. Each of the five images features a seal representing one of twelve Districts, which in the story comprise the dystopian future nation of Panem....