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‘The Hangover: Part II’ – What Did You Think? By David Chen/May 27, 2011 6:00 pm EST Todd Phillips’ The Hangover really came out of nowhere, featuring no big-name stars and a plot that seemed recycled from Dude Where’s My Car? Nonetheless, something about this hapless band of roofie’d child men resonated with audiences, allowing “The Wolf Pack” to scare up over $450 million in worldwide grosses.The Hangover: Part II, which hits theaters today, is Warner Bros....

‘Tower Heist’ Will Be Released On Demand Three Weeks After Theatrical Release For $59.99 By Germain Lussier/Oct. 5, 2011 4:30 pm EST It’s oddly fitting that a movie about robbery is now poised to rob theatrical exhibitors of their box office dollars. In the most bold experiment of Premium On Demand yet, Universal will experimentally release Brett Ratner’s Tower Heist, starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, on demand to two targeted markets a mere three weeks after its release on November 4 at a reported cost of $59....

Andrew Adamson Producing Comic Book Adaptation ‘Beasts Of Burden’ By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2011 4:00 pm EST The old indie comic nerd in me is pretty happy to see an Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson book being optioned and developed for a feature film. The source material is Beasts of Burden, and the plan is for Reel FX, a company started by ex-ILM and Walden Media execs, to produce a CGI animated film, with Andrew Adamson producing....

Cannes Review: Fabrice Gobert’s Lights Out (Simon Werner A Disparu…) By Peter Sciretta/May 22, 2010 12:00 pm EST What many critics suspected has turned out to be true: this year’s line-up at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival has been disappointing. Many have complained that the films as a whole have been overlong, dark, depressing, and lacking hope. I would tend to agree with most of these criticisms. After a week of searching, I was finally able to find a film that is much more “my speed” than the rest of the selections....

Casting Bits: Leslie Bibb And Rob Corddry In ‘Hell Baby’, Clark Duke In ‘A.C.O.D.’, Amy Landecker In ‘Lucky Dog’ By Angie Han/March 21, 2012 5:00 am EST Rob Corddry and Leslie Bibb may seem like an unlikely couple, but they’ll be united in the fight against a demonic child in Hell Baby. Scripted and directed by Night at the Museum writers Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, the comedy centers around a pregnant woman and her husband (Bibb and Corddry) who move into a dilapidated haunted house in New Orleans....

Casting Bits: Orlando Bloom And Imogen Poots In ‘The Laureate;’ Matt Lucas In ‘Small Apartments;’ Dane DeHaan In ‘Wettest County In The World’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 28, 2011 8:42 am EST Orlando Bloom continues his return to the screen after being absent for most of the past four years. He shot a role in Paul WS Anderson’s The Three Musketeers and will reprise his career-originating role of Legolas in The Hobbit....

Comic Con: Drive Angry Footage Description And Video Blog By Russ Fischer/July 23, 2010 3:29 pm EST After seeing concept art and a couple of still shots from Patrick Lussier’s Drive Angry, I started to wonder if the film might be the sort of action film that few filmmakers seem to get right these days — a dirty, slightly weird, possibly quite violent revenge story. (We see a lot of revenge stories, but few that are acutally decent....

D.J. Caruso Sets Up Coming-Of-Age Indie ‘The Goats,’ With Val Kilmer By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2011 3:00 pm EST The Goats is not a story about Val Kilmer’s coming of age, sadly. It could, however, be part of the evolution of Eagle Eye and I Am Number Four director D.J. Caruso. The director has meandered from well-liked cult film The Salton Sea to youth-Hitchcock thriller Disturbia to the big budget schlock of Eagle Eye and I Am Number Four....

Darren Aronofsky Offered Wolverine 2? By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 5, 2010 7:29 pm EST A month later Aronofsky’s name was added to the Superman director shortlist. But we all know how that turned out — Warner Bros signed Zack Snyder to direct the Man of Steel film. Previously:

Derek Cianfrance Talks About ‘The Place Beyond The Pines,’ His “Epic” Reunion With Ryan Gosling By Russ Fischer/Feb. 4, 2011 5:30 pm EST Blue Valentine director and star Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling could very well make another movie together this year. We first heard about The Place Beyond the Pines last year, when Mr. Cianfrance said that it was inspired by Jack London, and would be a film about “fathers and guns....

Doug Liman To Direct A Film About Famous Bodyguard Two-Gun Cohen By Germain Lussier/March 21, 2011 12:30 pm EST Morris Abraham Cohen, regularly referred to as, Two-Gun Cohen, was a British man who traveled to China in the 1920s and became not only the main bodyguard to imperial leader Sun Yat-Sen but also trained his armies in combat. He eventually fought in a war against Japan and even became a British intelligence officer....

Jack Ryan Reboot Crawling Through Development; Chris Pine Likely To Be Seen First In ‘Star Trek 2’ By Russ Fischer/March 28, 2011 6:46 pm EST After the success of Star Trek, Paramount decided to enter the Chris Pine business in a serious way. The company set the actor to star in Star Trek 2 and tapped him for the reboot of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character, who had previously been played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck....

James Cameron Says ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ Is “Epically Scaled Horror” Along The Lines Of Aliens By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2010 9:56 am EST There’s a script review floating around of one draft of Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbin’s script for At the Mountains of Madness. Because, based on my understanding, it isn’t reviewing a more recent draft, I’m not going to make too much of it. But the review was useful for pointing out a few statements that producer James Cameron recently made about the film, where, among other things, he claims that it could be a film on the scale of something like Aliens....

Kate Winslet Says Sam Mendes Is Still Directing ‘Bond 23’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 3, 2010 9:06 am EST As MGM pulls out of the financial trouble that has plagued the studio for more than a year, one of the big questions is ‘what about Bond?’ The twenty-third James Bond film, so far called by the elegant title Bond 23, was in development with Peter Morgan scripting and Sam Mendes ‘consulting’ — really planning to direct — and then EON Productions pulled the plug because MGM had no money to go forward....

Louis C.K. Broke Even With Downloadable Show ‘Live At The Beacon Theater’ In Twelve Hours By Russ Fischer/Dec. 14, 2011 11:02 am EST I don’t need to restate my appreciation for Louis C.K. today; I went pretty much all-out two days ago when first talking about the promo push the comic is doing for his new self-released stand-up special Live at the Beacon Theater. He wrote, directed, edited and released the special himself, offering it up to stream or download for a price of $5 on his own website....

Michael Shannon To Play ‘Superman’ Villain? By Russ Fischer/March 24, 2011 2:56 pm EST Earlier today there was a rumor that Edgar Ramirez is being eyed for the villain role in Zack Snyder’s new Superman. But now Deadline has some info that might be contradictory: the site says that “there’s interest” in Michael Shannon to play the film’s bad guy. This is just days after Zack Snyder said that Viggo Mortensen is definitely not cast in the film....

Movie Poster: ‘The Beaver’ Starring Mel Gibson By Germain Lussier/Nov. 3, 2010 5:30 pm EST Usually when the first poster for a movie is revealed, it means the film is coming soon. That unfortunately might not be the case for director Jodie Foster’s The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson from a script by Kyle Killen. The script was number one on the 2008 Black List and is about a man who finds a beaver puppet in the garbage and decides to communicate only using the beaver....

Naomi Watts Joins Clint Eastwood’s ‘J. Edgar’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 26, 2011 10:30 am EST After a couple months of speculation that Charlize Theron would join the cast of Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar as Helen Gandy, the longtime secretary to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio), the actress finally moved on. But there is a replacement: Naomi Watts will play the part instead. Now the cast for J. Edgar is pretty much set....

Noomi Rapace And Ben Kingsley Joining ‘The Last Voyage Of Demeter’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 13, 2010 5:14 pm EST It’s been a while since we had any substantial news on The Last Voyage of Demeter. The film expands upon one particular section of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, in which Dracula is transported to England via the ship Demeter. The ship arrives in London with all aboard apparently dead. Interesting story to base a film upon — we know how it ends, or think we do....

Release News: Green Hornet Goes IMAX 3D, Last Airbender And Priest Get New Dates By Peter Sciretta/June 16, 2010 12:00 pm EST We have a few release updates for upcoming movies: Sony Pictures has announced that The Green Hornet will also be released in IMAX 3D, simultaneously with the 2D and 3D release of the movie on January 14th 2010. [thr] Paramount Pictures has moved M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender from Friday July 2nd to Thursday July 1st....