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New Images And Video Interviews: Brad Anderson’s ‘Vanishing On 7th Street’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2010 8:09 pm EST We’ve seen images from Brad Anderson’s new film Vanishing on 7th Street, and knew that it stars Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo. But we haven’t known much about the film. Now there’s a little set of behind the scenes interviews that give a few tiny details away, as well as a new poster and some other materials, including clips of much of the film’s score, by Lucas Vidal....

POTD: Bill Murray In Ghostbusters Gear At 2010 Scream Awards By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2010 3:06 pm EST To accept the award for “Best Horror Movie” at the 2010 Scream Awards, Bill Murray appeared wearing a full Ghostbusters outfit, which even included a proton pack. The award show was held Saturday in Los Angeles, and will air on Spike TV on October 19th at 9pm. Check out the full photo, after the jump....

Rumors: Christoph Waltz For Spider-Man Villain; Did Marvel Push Jon Favreau Away From The Avengers? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2010 4:09 pm EST It’s a slow Friday at the end of a pretty insubstantial news week, which makes it rumor time. We still don’t know what character will act as the bad guy in Sony’s new version of Spider-Man (persistent scuttlebutt says it’s the Lizard) and we don’t know who’ll be hired to play the character....

Sam Rockwell To Star In Sweet Baby Jesus? By Russ Fischer/May 24, 2010 10:28 am EST Sam Rockwell is considering a role in an indie comedy called Sweet Baby Jesus, in which he would join the unlikely trio of Bette Midler, Kim Cattrall and pop star Pixie Lott in a story that is a literal comic retelling of the Christian Nativity.Deadline reports Rockwell’s interest, saying that he’d play Joe, “a guy who finds himself accompanying his pregnant teenage girlfriend to Bethlehem, Maryland....

Samuel Bayer Refused To Convert A Nightmare On Elm Street To 3D By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2010 7:01 pm EST While a lot of filmmakers are jumping at the opportunity to convert their films into 3D, Samuel Bayer, the director of Platinum Dunes’ remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, fought against the idea. When New Line initiated several conversations about converting “A Nightmare on Elm Street” to 3-D, “we pushed back,” says director Samuel Bayer....

Sundance Adds Four More Films To 2012 Slate, Including ‘John Dies At The End’ And ‘This Must Be The Place’ By Angie Han/Dec. 19, 2011 4:30 pm EST We’ve already had the chance to ooh and ahh over most of the Sundance Film Festival 2012 slate earlier this month, but with weeks to go until the festival four latecomers have just been announced. There are a few last-minute additions every year; last year’s included Miranda July’s The Future, while 2010’s included Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right....

By Angie Han/Oct. 26, 2011 12:30 pm EST As Goyer himself points out, his background in superhero tales make him an ideal choice to adapt a tale about the “near-mythic figure.” “After working with characters like Batman and Superman, it made a strange kind of sense for me to dive into the facts and legends swirling around his origins.” he said in a press release. Starz exec Carmi Zlotnik adds, “If modern day has Tony Stark, the Renaissance had da Vinci....

Warner Bros. Brings ‘Justice League’ Back To Life, ‘Gangster Squad’ Writer Scripting By Russ Fischer/June 5, 2012 7:13 pm EST It’s almost comical to think that, five or six years ago, Warner Bros. and DC were thinking of making a cheap-ish Justice League film. Sure, it might have been directed by George “Mad Max” Miller, and was set to feature some good actors, such as a then-unknown Armie Hammer as Bruce Wayne and Batman....

By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2010 11:20 pm EST We know that the movie is an homage to Spielberg’s 1970’s/1980’s Amblin films, like Close Encounters of a Third Kind and E.T. Could it be that the teaser trailer for Super 8 was inspired by Spielberg’s first experience at a movie theater? /Film reader Jack F. from Dallas pointed me to an interview with Spielberg from a couple years ago. Fast forward to the 6:45 mark:...

Worst Idea Ever: Kristen Stewart Rumored To Replace Angelina Jolie In Wanted 2? By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2010 12:57 pm EST Not so long ago we learned that Angelina Jolie left Wanted 2 to peruse other projects, basically dumping the movie in development heck. Now E! Online is reporting that director Timur Bekmambetov has met at least once with Twilight star Kristen Stewart to replace Jolie in the comic book sequel....

‘American Reunion’ Trailer Teases A Hookup Between The Series’ Oldest Characters By Russ Fischer/Nov. 1, 2011 8:00 am EST The debut red-band teaser for American Reunion, which brings together all the original characters from American Pie, was all about sex — or the fact that, even as adults, some of the former kids still aren’t getting off the way they want to. This all ages trailer is all about partying, as the Pie guys (and girls) get back together after a few years to enjoy their high school reunion....

‘Antiviral’ Trailer: Brandon Cronenberg’s Creepy, Churning Debut Feature By Russ Fischer/Aug. 9, 2012 8:30 am EST Brandon Cronenberg is the son of director David Cronenberg (The Fly, Dead Ringers, the upcoming Cosmopolis) and it looks like the younger Cronenberg’s first feature continues some of his father’s “body horror” interests in earnest. Antiviral looks at the cultural obsession with celebrity, using some of the elder Cronenberg’s early go-to ideas (boundary-pushing clinics; biological expressions of desire and ideology) for a story that looks, from a distance at least, like a fairly timeless freakiest....

‘Buried’ Screenwriter Chris Sparling Lobbies For Academy Award Nomination, Possibly Violating Academy Rules By David Chen/Dec. 30, 2010 1:12 pm EST I’ll be honest: If you asked me to name the best original screenplays of 2010, Chris Sparling’s script for Rodrigo Cortés’ Buried would probably not be on the list. Some critics would probably agree with me, but that hasn’t stopped Sparling from lobbying members of the Academy for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination....

‘Captain America 2’ Screenwriters Want ’40s Scenes, Sharon Carter And The Falcon By Russ Fischer/Aug. 25, 2011 2:30 pm EST Captain America: The First Avenger is one of the most successful films of the summer, and a better Captain America movie than I think many people expected to see. The film will get a semi-sequel in the form of The Avengers, which next year will show what happens when Cap is integrated into the modern world after being accidentally frozen and assumed dead during World War II....

‘Norman’ Trailer – ‘Easy A’ Star Dan Byrd Is A Teenage Misfit, Again By Angie Han/Oct. 5, 2011 6:00 am EST Aw, poor Dan Byrd. The kid who had such a tough time getting through high school in Easy A is having teenage misfit woes all over again in Norman, the second feature by director Jonathan Segal. Byrd stars as the title character, who’s just lost his mother to a car accident and whose father (Richard Jenkins) is dying of cancer....

‘Our Idiot Brother’ Trailer #2 By Germain Lussier/June 14, 2011 3:00 pm EST The title Our Idiot Brother is just about the perfect description of this movie. Paul Rudd stars at Ned, a nice but naive man who, despite his best intentions, continually causes problems for his very different and more traditional sisters played by Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer. Written and directed by Jesse Peretz, the comedy sold for big bucks at Sundance and played pretty uniformly for the /Film team....

‘Spider-Man’ Began Shooting On Monday; Cinematographer Praises New RED Epic Series Cameras By Russ Fischer/Dec. 7, 2010 3:45 pm EST Expect to see some set photos soon — it’s virtually impossible to keep a set fully locked down in this era — but for now you can read the bulk of Mr. Scwartzman’s comments after the break. This post appeared on the RED user forums. (via ComingSoon) A summation of his comments might be “the RED Epic is awesome!...

‘Taken 2’ May Have Two Evils: Rade Sherbedgia And The Plot By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2011 11:15 am EST But the real news is that, along with that casting announcement, trades have revealed the plot of the film. It isn’t quite what I expected. According to one account, Taken 2 sounds like a full reversal of the original film. I suspect there’s some exaggeration there, but it still isn’t sounding great....

‘The Avengers’ Will Be On Blu-Ray September 25, With New Short And Copious Extra Footage By Russ Fischer/May 18, 2012 4:30 pm EST Some of you might remember that a few weeks back, one interview with Joss Whedon gave up some details on his first cut of The Avengers, mentioning the amount that was trimmed from the film, with promises for an eventual DVD release. His first rough cut ran almost three hours — and don’t get delusions of some ideal director’s cut here, as it was likely never intended to be screened at that length — with a good half hour trimmed before the film was pounded into final shape....

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ IMAX Preview Will Show Only On 70mm IMAX Screens By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2011 5:00 am EST We’ve got additional confirmation that six minutes from The Dark Knight Rises will be shown in front of Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol when that film opens on December 16, as /Film revealed last week. But there’s a catch. You’ll have to head to a ‘real’ IMAX screen to see the footage, as it will only be shown in theaters properly equipped with 70mm IMAX projectors....