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Ben Kingsley Joins Sacha Baron Cohen In ‘The Dictator’ By Adam Quigley/April 29, 2011 9:00 am EST Not counting his Ali G Show creations and the trio of feature efforts that followed, Sacha Baron Cohen’s winning presence has been put to use in only two films thus far, first in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and not long after in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. That’s going to be changing in the next couple of years though, as he adds two more films to his roster — the appreciably shorter-titled Hugo Cabret (directed by Martin Scorsese) and The Dictator....

Blade Runner Screenwriter Working On Ridley Scott’s Forever War By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 4, 2010 11:00 am EST Here is what Haldeman wrote on his website: The Forever War screenplay [Somebody wrote into sff.net offering to write a screenplay for THE FOREVER WAR. . . ] 860, Tue 03 Aug 2010 01:29:43p Andrew, anybody can write a script for any book, especially THE FOREVER WAR, but it might not be a productive use of one’s time....

Cool Stuff: GhostButters T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2010 5:00 am EST Today’s T-Shirt on TeeFury is a Ghostbusters-inspired parody design titled “Ghostbutters” created by DKalderon. Here are some words from the artist: I always had curiosity about what was behind the ghost, it wasn’t until they released the GB2 movie that I found that the ghost had feet, anyhow, I thought it would be fun to draw the ghost with one of those pajamas with open rears (like the one that Marty McFly was wearing in Back to the Future III)....

Demi Moore Exits ‘Lovelace’, Javier Bardem Drops ‘Despicable Me 2’ By Angie Han/Jan. 25, 2012 11:00 am EST There’s been a very steady stream of casting updates lately, thanks in a large part to the Sundance Film Festival, but today we have news of two roles that didn’t quite work out as planned. Demi Moore, who was slated to play Gloria Steinem in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s porn biopic Lovelace, has since pulled out of the project, while Javier Bardem has dropped out of negotiations to voice the villain of Universal’s Despicable Me 2....

Details On Bret Easton Ellis-Penned L.A. Noir ‘The Canyons’ Surface As Casting Begins For Summer Shoot By Angie Han/March 7, 2012 9:30 am EST As the Paul Schrader-directed, Bret Easton Ellis-penned “L.A. noir micro budget” film approaches its summer start date, fresh details have been revealed about the story, cast of characters, and release plan. Titled The Canyons, the “psycho-sexual thriller” will center around a circle of young and glamorous but deeply messed-up Angelenos....

First Look: Robert Pattinson And Sarah Gadon In David Cronenberg’s ‘Cosmopolis’ By Russ Fischer/May 26, 2011 3:22 pm EST We haven’t yet seen a trailer for David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method, but now here’s the first still from his next new film, an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel Cosmopolis. Principal photography started on the movie this week, and so here’s the first look at Robert Pattinson and Sarah Gadon as husband and estranged wife Eric and Elise....

George Romero Has Ideas For Two More ‘Dead’ Films, Possibly To Be Shot Back To Back By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2010 9:21 am EST Though he took a long break for a number of different reasons, since his return to zombie movies with Land of the Dead in 2005, George Romero has been steadily expanding his ‘Dead’ universe. Now he’s saying he’s got ideas for two more …Dead films in him, possibly to be shot back to back, and which might round out his overall zombie story into two sets of four films....

Helen Hunt And Moon Bloodgood Join John Hawkes In ‘The Surrogate’ By Russ Fischer/April 28, 2011 12:30 pm EST The title The Surrogate, to me, immediately calls up impressions of a horror film or thriller, but the movie that has had John Hawkes attached is something else entirely. An emotional thriller, perhaps. The Surrogate is based on a true story and will feature the actor as “Mark O’Brien, a paraplegic polio victim who lived most of his life in an iron lung, paralyzed from the neck down....

John Singleton Schedules A Directorial Layover By Russ Fischer/April 30, 2010 3:27 pm EST Not long ago we heard that John Singleton would be in full-on director for hire mode as head of the Taylor Lautner action thriller Abduction. Everybody’s got to eat, right? And if Lautner really is going to be as huge as studio execs believe, that could buy a hell of a banquet for Singleton. Now Singleton has a follow-up project set: another action thriller called Layover, which includes a group of villains that anyone who has flown in the past few years can be ready to hate: corrupt TSA agents....

Keanu Reeves Describes Samurai Film ‘47 Ronin’ A Quasi-Western About “Revenge And Impossible Love” By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2011 12:00 pm EST Rinsch tells MTV: Screenwriter Morgan has previously described the plot as follows: It’s in 3D. It’s kind of a western. I call it a story of revenge and impossible love. The samurai become ronin, outcast, and decide to enact revenge on the person who is responsible for the death of their lord....

Larry David’s HBO Movie Titled ‘Clear History’; Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Bill Hader, Amy Ryan, And More Set To Star By Angie Han/Sept. 14, 2012 9:00 am EST We already know what Larry David’s new film will be about (a marketing exec who misses out on a lucrative startup) and how it’ll be distributed (on HBO). Now we also know what it’ll be called and who’ll star in it. According to a new report, the movie’s now going by the name Clear History, and the cast contains a healthy mix of comedians and non-comedians....

LOL: ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Reimagined As ‘Grand Theft Auto’ In ‘The Brothers Mario’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 15, 2010 12:00 pm EST It’s such a simple idea. Nintendo’s Mario Brothers, Mario and Luigi, are Italian. They fight to save Peach from a formidable organized mob. Put two and two together and you have The Brothers Mario, a 4 plus minute trailer that takes the familiar Super Mario Bros. story and reimagines it through the violence, graphics and game play of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series....

Page 2: Captain America, Wes Anderson, Green Lantern, Inception, The Social Network, Samuel L Jackson, Lost, Scream 4, Spider-Man, X-Men By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 16, 2011 7:00 pm EST Flickr user Avanaut has been producing beautifully photographed pictures of Star Wars storm/snowtrooper Star Wars LEGO minifigs. Today’s t-shirt of the day on RIPT Apparel is a Jurassic Park/Sonic the Hedgehog mash-up. Available today only. The Carpetbagger talks to sound team Ed Novick and Richard King about the sound of Inception....

The Third ‘Riddick’ Movie Is Still Crawling Through Development By Russ Fischer/Dec. 22, 2010 2:30 pm EST Vin Diesel has been promising a third Riddick movie for some time. The film would be a new link in the chain that began with Pitch Black and continued with The Chronicles of Riddick, with a short animated film linking them. (And which spawned one surprisingly good game, Escape From Butcher Bay, and a not shabby game sequel, Assault on Dark Athena....

Tom Tykwer’s ‘3’ Trailer – Not Your Everyday Love Affair By Germain Lussier/Sept. 2, 2011 5:00 am EST In 3, a man and a woman, married for twenty years, both fall into extramarital affairs. Seems like a fairly straight forward premise to a movie. But this is Tom Tykwer, the man who directed Run Lola Run and is teaming up with the Wachowskis to make Cloud Atlas. There’s gotta be a catch....

Unexpected Sequels: ‘MacGruber 2’ Teased; ‘Hook’ Actor Developing Prequel By Russ Fischer/May 22, 2012 9:30 am EST When MacGruber, the big-screen expansion of a few small MacGyver-parodying skits from SNL, was released in 2010, the film was considered a bomb. In short order, however, the film developed a passionate following, and the cult of MacGruber continues to grow from month to month. Still, given how long it took to get the stars to align for a sequel to Anchorman — a much more popular film — it seems unlikely that we’ll ever see another MacGruber, no matter what director Jorma Taccone and star Will Forte might like, And yet they’re talking about it anyway....

Vera Farmiga And Mark Strong Cast In ‘Closer To The Moon’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 9, 2011 12:51 pm EST Briefly: Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong are going to Romania. The two have just been cast in a period story set in the country’s communist era. Closer to the Moon will feature the two actors in a politically-charged and strange-sounding tale that, given the insanity that reportedly took place in some Easern Bloc countries during the communist years, could almost be true....

VOTD: A Great Look At Practical Effects Created For ‘The Thing’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 15, 2011 10:00 am EST When The Thing was released earlier this year, there were some viewers who weren’t thrilled with the degree to which CGI was used to bring the movie’s alien creature to life. John Carpenter’s 1982 movie of the same name, for which this year’s film is a prequel, is a landmark in the use of practical effects....

By Germain Lussier/Aug. 14, 2012 3:00 pm EST YouTube user DonDraperSaysWhat has just made, quite possibly, the best remix in the history of the Internet. He took dialogue from 295 movies and edited them into Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s 1992 number 1 hit song, Baby Got Back. What else is there to say? Thanks to DonDraperSaysWhat via SlyOyster for the heads up. So many great finds, but my favorite has to be using the Full Metal Jacket clip that’s actually in the song....

VOTD: Star Wars: The Chewbacca Trilogy By Germain Lussier/June 9, 2011 3:40 pm EST Some people love Han Solo, others like Darth Vader and many obviously relate to Princess Leia or Luke Skywalker. But what about the film’s fifth lead, Chewbacca? Everyone’s favorite Wookie (sorry Tarfful) tends to get forgotten when there’s any deep conversation about the original Star Wars trilogy. That wouldn’t happen if the whole movie was about him....