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Casting Bits: Carrie-Anne Moss & Malcolm McDowell In ‘Silent Hill;’ Addison Timlin In ‘Odd Thomas;’ Thandie Newton In Tyler Perry’s ‘Good Deeds’ By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2011 8:00 pm EST The Silent Hill sequel, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, is shooting right now in Toronto, and keeps adding cast members as it does. Director Michael J. Bassett (Solomon Kane) already had Adelaide Clemens and Kit Harington starring, with Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean and Deborah Kara Unger reprising their Silent Hill roles in some unknown capacity....

Colin Firth Offered The Lead Antagonist Role In Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2011 12:27 pm EST Spike Lee is busy putting together a new version of Oldboy, based on a script by Mark Protosevich that draws from Park Chan-wook’s South Korean film of the same name as well as the manga that inspired it, with some new material thrown in as well.Josh Brolin is said to be set for the title role: a guy who is kidnapped off the street and kept in a strange hotel-like prison for fifteen years....

Comedy Posters: ‘The Dictator’, ‘Rock Of Ages’, ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’, ‘Neighborhood Watch’ By Angie Han/April 20, 2012 11:00 am EST [via EW, First Showing, Thompson on Hollywood, Collider] The new Dictator poster is really just a variation on the old Dictator poster, but it’s also perfectly appropriate for the character. Most tourists are content with simply visiting some of New York’s busiest tourist spots, but Sacha Baron Cohen’s Middle Eastern tyrant Admiral General Aladeen feels the need to blanket all 843 square acres of Central Park with his fearsome visage....

Comic-Con: Watch The Avengers Assemble By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2010 7:00 am EST On Saturday afternoon, Marvel Entertainment announced the line-up of their upcoming superhero team-up film The Avengers, on the stage in Hall H at Comic Con. You can read Russ’ full recap here. But a recap can’t accurately convey the atmosphere and electricity that was in the air as The Avengers assembled live on stage infront of a packed crowd of over 6,000 comic book geeks....

Dreamworks Moves Forward With WikiLeaks Movie Plans By Russ Fischer/March 2, 2011 4:30 pm EST Sometimes it looks as if producing films is little more than a big-budget game of keeping up with the Jonses. When everyone else on the block has a Snow White film, you can’t be stuck without at least a shadowy piece of faerie fantasy skewed towards the 18-24 demographic, right? How embarrassing to admit you can’t afford dark fantasy....

Eddie Murphy Is Brett Ratner’s Choice To Host The Oscars By David Chen/Sept. 4, 2011 6:18 am EST I’ll admit to feeling some degree of surprise when I first heard that director Brett Ratner would be co-producing the upcoming 84th Academy Awards, but at the same time, Ratner’s career has always been one of surprising success. For instance, using only a modicum of skill, Ratner was able to turn out three Rush Hour films, which went on to gross almost $1 billion worldwide....

Ewan McGregor Joins Chris Cooper And Dianne Wiest In Noah Baumbach’s HBO Pilot ‘The Corrections’ By Angie Han/Nov. 22, 2011 1:30 pm EST Hollywood’s had a long history with botched adaptations of beloved novels, but from here it looks like fans of Jonathan Franzen’s acclaimed book The Corrections have nothing to worry about. After years of attempting to bring the story to the big screen, producer Scott Rudin eventually turned to HBO — and things have been shaping up nicely from there....

First Glimpses Revealed Of Steven Spielberg And Peter Jackson’s ‘Tintin’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 30, 2010 5:26 pm EST The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn doesn’t see release until over a year from now — on December 23, 2011 to be exact. But the live-action footage upon which the mocap animated film will be based was directed by Steven Spielberg a year ago, with Jamie Bell playing the title character....

First Look: Vin Diesel And Dwayne Johnson In ‘Fast Five’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 13, 2010 9:00 am EST Here’s your first look at Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson in Fast Five. Justin Lin returns to direct this installment, after making the last two films in the series. See a larger version of the photo after the break. The image comes from USA Today, which also features an amusing quote from the director:...

First Look: Vince Vaughn In Ron Howard’s ‘The Dilemma’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 21, 2010 1:51 pm EST Briefly: The image above is the first look at Ron Howard’s new comedy The Dilemma, which stars Vince Vaughn as a guy who discovers that the wife (Winona Ryder) of his best friend (Kevin James) is cheating on him with a guy played by Channing Tatum. (And, to clear up confusion, The Dilemma was once called What You Don’t Know, and Cheaters before that....

First Look At ‘Source Code’ From Duncan Jones; UK Release Set For March 11, 2011 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 3, 2010 3:36 pm EST The first image from Source Code, the new film from Moon director Duncan Jones, has appeared online. It’s not a staggeringly exciting photo, but it does show Jake Gyllenhaal in character and dual-wielding a gun and cell phone. What’s really going on there? No idea. We know the actor plays a soldier who is brought into a government program designed to investigate terrorism; Gyllenhaal’s consciousness is placed into the body of a civilian who experienced a terrorist bombing, and he must live through repetitions of the event to find out who was responsible....

Has Shrek Forever After Been Renamed Shrek: The Final Chapter? By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2010 7:16 pm EST The new Shrek sequel is titled Shrek Forever After, but recent in theater advertising and television marketing for the film sports a different title: Shrek: The Final Chapter. In fact, even the official website for the movie, Shrek.com, even features the “The Final Chapter” title, but no mention of “Shrek Forever After”....

Hoping For Oscars, ‘127 Hours’ Gets 600 Screen Expansion Next Week By Germain Lussier/Jan. 21, 2011 9:59 am EST The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of the expansion, and likens the move to what Searchlight did 2006 for The Last King of Scotland. That movie had only made $3.7 million when Forrest Whitaker was nominated for Best Actor and was only playing on four screens. It then expanded from 4 to 497 screens right after the nominations and ended up earning $17....

Karl Urban May Be The New Judge Dredd By Russ Fischer/July 21, 2010 11:30 pm EST So the word — the very advance word, mind you — is that this new movie version of Judge Dredd might not suck. Pete Travis (Vantage Point) is directing from a script by Alex Garland (Sunshine) and that’s enough of a pedigree, combined with the basic Judge Dredd backstory, to get me interested. Now there’s word that Dredd could be played by Karl Urban, who isn’t a huge marquee name, but got audience attention in Star Trek and will be in Red and Priest....

Leonardo DiCaprio Circling Todd Field’s Western ‘The Creed Of Violence’ By Angie Han/Aug. 1, 2011 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Discuss: Which role would you rather see Leo in? Teran’s cinematic fifth novel portrays the 1910 Mexican revolution via the gun sights of an unlikely duo: Rawbone, a hardened smalltime assassin, and John Lourdes, a Bureau of Investigation agent. The two are thrown together when Rawbone is caught smuggling munitions from Texas into Mexico and Rawbone’s lawyer arranges a deal: immunity in exchange for Rawbone sharing his criminal intel....

Lily Collins Joins ‘The Evil Dead’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Jan. 4, 2012 3:00 pm EST The first actual cast member for the remake of Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead has been announced: Lily Collins, she of the starring role in Tarsem’s Hallmark Channel-looking Snow White film Mirror, Mirror. From what we know of this new version of Raimi’s story, it seems like Collins will be playing one of the most prominent characters, probably even the lead role....

More Photos Of LucasFilm’s Sandcrawler-Like Singapore Office Design [Gallery] By Russ Fischer/Sept. 6, 2011 6:00 am EST Back in an April edition of Page 2, Pete posted an image of the proposed design for LucasFilm’s new Singapore office. The concept drawing was notable for the very distinct resemblance the building would bear to the design of the Sandcrawler seen in Star Wars. From the angle shown in the image, the LucasFilm office looks just like a giant Jawa transport sculpted from glass and steel....

New ‘X-Men: First Class’ International Trailer Has Great New Footage By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2011 4:09 pm EST We’ve already seen one new trailer for X-Men: First Class today, so why not make it two? An international version of today’s trailer has also hit the web, with a very different cut, and it has some great new material. So far, there is nothing I’ve seen in motion for the film that looks bad at all, but I’d call this trailer the best one yet....

Sequel Bits: Die Hard 5, Prometheus, Tintin 2, Thor 2, Scott Pilgrim 2, Ironclad 2 By Germain Lussier/May 15, 2012 3:00 pm EST Though Bruce Willis is busy shooting the fifth Die Hard film, A Good Day To Die Hard directed by John Moore, the film is still casting a few roles. One will be played by Amaury Nolasco, best known for his roles in Prison Break and Transformers. Another will be Megalyn Echikunwoke, currently seen on House of Lies....

Sony Classics Grabs Polanski’s ‘Carnage;’ His Follow-Up Could Be ‘True Crime’ By Russ Fischer/April 9, 2011 3:00 pm EST The past couple years have seen Roman Polanski embroiled once more in decades-old controversy, but he is continuing to do the work of making movies. His most recent project, Carnage, has just been picked up for released by Sony Pictures Classics. And now he is reportedly considering a new film called True Crime, which tells of a very unusual murder case in Poland....