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Jon Favreau Confirms ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Super Bowl Commercial By Germain Lussier/Jan. 12, 2011 7:00 am EST It’s that time of year again: The NFL Playoffs. And for movie fans that means one thing: Super Bowl Commercials. We recently speculated that X-Men: First Class could show some footage during the big game, which takes place on February 6, but we now have our first confirmation: Cowboys and Aliens. On Twitter late Tuesday night, director Jon Favreau confirmed he’s working on the spot right now....

LionsGate Will Run Scenic Tours To ‘The Cabin In The Woods’ By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2011 6:15 pm EST When MGM’s financial standing temporarily went to the great balance sheet in the sky, the two biggest projects that were left standing like children in a Charles Dickens novel were the Red Dawn remake and The Cabin in the Woods, a reportedly smart horror film directed by Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard and co-written and produced by Joss Whedon....

Movie Trailer: Space Battleship Yamato By Russ Fischer/June 28, 2010 2:25 pm EST Japanese director Takashi Yamazaki (Returner, the Always films) has been working for a while on Space Battleship Yamato, aka the live-action remake of the anime that was released as Star Blazers in the US. We saw a teaser trailer in January that suggested a great deal about how the film would look, even as it declined to reveal too much about the film’s effects....

New Poster: ‘The King’s Speech’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 2, 2010 3:24 pm EST Which of the posters above would drive you to see Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter in the well-liked historical drama The King’s Speech? The one on the left is the miserable hack job that was tossed out by the Weinstein Company like an entry for a Hallmark Movie Channel parody contest on SomethingAwful. The image led director Tom Hooper to comment “that poster will be replaced very quickly with a very good poster…I hate it…It’s a train smash....

Nicolas Winding Refn Would Love To Direct Wonder Woman By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2010 7:13 pm EST Whoa. Color me psyched. Regular readers know that a few of us here at /Film are big fans of Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, thanks to films like the Pusher series and Bronson. Refn has made small, non-studio pictures so far, though the upcoming Drive, with Ryan Gosling, brings him closer to the studio fold....

Rachel McAdams And Noomi Rapace To Star In Brian De Palma’s ‘Passion’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 16, 2011 6:30 am EST It’s a good time to get a little bit of Brian De Palma news out there. With Mission: Impossible talk flying left and right, some people are giving De Palma’s ‘96 franchise kickstart another look and realizing “hey, this ain’t half bad.” Granted, of the five movies he’s made since that film, only one (Femme Fatale) stands as a picture I want to go back to, but I’m hopeful for the future....

Robert De Niro Says Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ Still Happening By Russ Fischer/March 7, 2011 10:45 am EST At a press conference promoting his appearance in Limitless, Robert De Niro said that The Irishman is still on the boards: I’m hoping it happens. We’re really working towards making it happen… Yeah, I mean I’d never say it if I never fully [meant it, if we weren’t] committed and stuff. Yeah, I’m planning on it, absolutely....

Taylor Lautner Gets A New Movie: Bike Messenger Parkour Action Flick ‘Tracers’ By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2012 3:00 pm EST The Twilight series will be over later this year, and while Kristen Stewart has successfully moved towards both indies and big-budget fare, and Robert Pattinson has begun to cultivate an art-house career, third Twilight star Taylor Lautner hasn’t been quite as successful. He starred in Abduction and has Grown-Ups 2 coming up, but a couple other big-ticket movies planned for the young actor have vaporized before getting the green light....

Teaser Trailer: ‘Arthur Christmas,’ From Aardman Animation By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2010 11:49 am EST Aardman Animation is moving into 3D CGI holiday fare with Arthur Christmas, which stars James McAvoy as the title character in a story “which at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child’s question: ‘So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?’ The answer: Santa’s exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole....

Tim Burton Going Back To Mai, The Psychic Girl? By Russ Fischer/May 18, 2010 8:17 pm EST If you were haunting US comic shops in the mid to late ’80s, you probably remember Manga gaining new exposure through the translation and publication of a few key titles. One was Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, and another key step in Manga’s stroll towards the mainstream was Mai, the Psychic Girl. The story of a teen schoolgirl with strong psychic powers, Mai attracted the attention of Hollywood, and a film was put into development with Tim Burton slated to direct....

Timothy Olyphant Replaces Sharlto Copley In I Am Number Four By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2010 3:38 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Here’s the plot of the novel: The film stars Alex Pettyfer (Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, Beastly) who is set to play the lead character – Four, Teresa Palmer, who will play Number Six, Olyphant will be playing the man who “hailed from the alien world’s serving class but now is the title character’s adult guardian and mentor,” and Glee star Dianna Agron who plays a character whs initially dating a jock, but she falls for Four and he confides to her the truth of his predicament....

Tom Hanks And Tim Allen Team For Disney’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ By Germain Lussier/March 2, 2011 12:30 pm EST Deadline broke the news of this developing project, which will be produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, who produced The Fighter. Schulman previously worked in the family genre with writing gigs on Shrek, The Jungle Book II, Mulan II and on the currently Disney Channel show Jonas. Disney then confirmed it with this statement:...

VOTD: Batman Begins With Danny Elfman Score By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2010 12:00 am EST I think almost everyone loves Danny Elfman’s original Batman theme music. /Film reader Matt G passes along this video which edits Elfman’s awesome Batman score into the police chase from Batman Begins. For those of you interested to see the fusion of visuals from the Nolanverse and the music of the Burtonverse, you can watch the video embedded after the jump....

Walton Goggins Joins ‘G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2011 5:00 am EST One of the actors to really start to break from TV into consistent film acting in the past couple years is Walton Goggins. His work on The Shield lead to a handful of notable film roles. (He was fun in Predators and had a good, if brief turn in the excellent and under-seen That Evening Sun....

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‘American Reunion’ Gets Release Date By Germain Lussier/April 26, 2011 10:45 am EST Briefly: From “Pie” to “Wedding” to “Reunion,” the fourth theatrical American Pie sequel – American Reunion – now has a release date. It’ll hit theaters on April 6, 2012 and will see all the characters from the original films come back to town for their high school reunion. So far, Universal has signed Jason Biggs, Eugene Levy, Seann William Scott, Alyson Hannigan and Chris Klein to appear in the film and though several prominent names are still negotiating their deals, according to Deadline, “all of the main original cast is expected back....

‘General Orders No. 9’ Trailer: A Documentary Aimed Squarely At Terrence Malick Fans? By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2011 1:15 pm EST The teaser image for the documentary General Orders No. 9 drew me in. That pipe-smoking rabbit, looking like a representation of some new staging of Watership Down, is very evocative, even if I didn’t know immediately exactly what it was meant to be. Watching the trailer, Terrence Malick’s name came immediately to mind, even before the trailer offered up a pullquote that reinforces the similarity....

‘Hitchcock’ Teaser Poster Shows Another Side Of Anthony Hopkins As The Master Of Suspense; Film Hits November 2012 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 20, 2012 12:55 pm EST We’ve seen a good bit of footage for one of the Alfred Hitchcock movies that are in post-production right now: The Girl, which will air on HBO with Toby Jones playing Hitch during the making of The Birds. The other film is Hitchcock, from Anvil!...

‘Simpsons’ Creator Matt Groening Finally Reveals Springfield’s Real-Life Inspiration By Germain Lussier/April 10, 2012 4:00 pm EST In the two plus decades since its premiere, the true location of The Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield has never been revealed. The mystery soon developed into a running joke on the show as characters would divulge completely contrary geographic information about the town, all but cementing the fact that the Springfield of The Simpsons wasn’t a real place....

‘Take Shelter’ – Michael Shannon Foresees The End Times [Sundance Review] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 28, 2011 1:00 pm EST With each subsequent role, Michael Shannon seemingly gets better and better. His latest film, Take Shelter, features the Oscar-nominated actor as an blue-collar, Ohio father and husband who begins to develop some mental issues. Issues such as he believes there is massive impending doom on the horizon. As his premonitions become more and more vivid, his mental state begins to adversely affect his family....