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‘Thor’ Composer Patrick Doyle Will Score Pixar’s ‘Brave’ By Germain Lussier/July 6, 2011 2:09 pm EST Pixar fans hoping that Michael Giacchino would just forever be the in-house composer are going to be a tad disappointed today. It’s been revealed that Patrick Doyle, the composer who did Thor and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, will be scoring next summer’s Pixar film, Brave. However, don’t fret just yet. Doyle is Scottish, much like the voice actors and characters in the film, and he’s aiming to bring some of the country’s native flavor to the music....

AFI Fest Reaction And Video Blog: David O. Russell’s ‘The Fighter’ By Germain Lussier/Nov. 10, 2010 8:00 am EST After years in development, David O. Russell’s The Fighter had its world premiere Tuesday night at the AFI Fest in Hollywood, CA. On hand to introduce the film was producer and star Mark Wahlberg who plays Micky Ward, a down on his luck Irish boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts whose family – including older brother and former boxer Dickie Eklund (Christian Bale) – holds him back every chance they get....

Best Song Nominees Won’t Perform At This Year’s Oscars By Angie Han/Feb. 7, 2012 10:00 am EST It’s been a rough awards season for the Oscars’ Best Original Song contenders. Not only did the complicated new rules lead to just two out of thirty-nine eligible songs getting nominated, we’re now learning that the songs that did get acknowledged — “Real in Rio” from Rio and “Man or Muppet” from The Muppets — will play a smaller role than usual at this year’s ceremony....

Brett Ratner Will Film ‘Tower Heist’ With Ben Stiller In November By Russ Fischer/Aug. 23, 2010 2:30 pm EST This is basically an incremental update on Tower Heist, which we’ve known for a while would likely be the new film from director Brett Ratner. The script and cast were reconfigured a while ago from the original conception (at one point described as a “black Ocean’s Eleven”) and Ben Stiller has been attached to star....

Casting Bits: Amy Poehler In ‘A.C.O.D.’, Kathleen Rose Perkins And Sarah Colonna In Diablo Cody Project By Angie Han/March 8, 2012 2:00 pm EST Amy Poehler and Adam Scott have shown such fantastic chemistry in NBC’s Parks & Recreation that the pair are gearing up to work together again. This time, however, they won’t be romancing each other — far from it. Poehler has entered talks to join Scott in A....

Casting Bits: Zoe Saldana May Join Christian Bale In ‘Out Of The Furnace;’ Rufus Sewell & Anne Heche In ‘The Occult;’ Julianna Margulies In ‘Stand Up Guys’ By Russ Fischer/March 6, 2012 6:30 am EST The latest actor to join Christian Bale in Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace is likely to be Zoe Saldana. She’s in early talks for the film that Cooper is rewriting (based on Brad Ingelsby’s The Low Dweller script) and will direct as his follow-up to Crazy Heart....

Craig Gillespie The New Frontrunner To Direct ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’? By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2011 6:45 pm EST Briefly: The story of the film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies takes one more twist. David O. Russell was once directing, and his script is still reportedly the basis for the film. After he left as director, Mike White came on and then left as well....

Damon Lindelof Returning To TV Tom Perotta Adaptation ‘The Leftovers’ For HBO By Angie Han/June 28, 2012 4:40 pm EST Since Lost went off the air in 2010, Damon Lindelof’s been keeping busy with one high-profile big-screen project after another: Cowboys & Aliens, Prometheus, Star Trek 2, World War Z, Brad Bird’s upcoming 1952. But he apparently hasn’t left the small screen behind entirely. Lindelof is now headed to HBO to develop a new drama titled The Leftovers....

David O. Russell Wants To Write ‘The Fighter’ Sequel By Germain Lussier/March 22, 2011 11:00 am EST Last week the producer/star of The Fighter, Mark Wahlberg, said he was in the “early stages” of figuring out how to make a sequel to that film, continuing the story of “Irish” Micky Ward. While Wahlberg himself been training in anticipation of the film happening, and believed that everyone would come back to work on a sequel, he was sure to reiterate that nothing was set in stone....

Eight New Photos: Burlesque By Peter Sciretta/June 30, 2010 3:00 pm EST Screen Gems has released the first high resolution production photo of Christina Aguilera in her live-action big screen film debut Burlesque. USA Today is calling the photo a “first look” but there have been other low res photos and set videos online in the past. Check out eight photos from the movie after the jump. I’m sure a movie trailer won’t be far behind....

By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2010 9:24 am EST Wang directed the film from a script by Ron Bass, Angela Workman and Michael Ray, which adapts Lisa See’s novel. The story, as THR describes, is a “cross-generational drama [which] explores female friendship through two relationships separated by more than a hundred years.” In other words, the tale is right in Wayne Wang’s wheelhouse, as he’s done really well in the past with films like The Joy Luck Club, before he dove into studio tripe like Maid in Manhattan and Because of Winn-Dixie....

Free Movie: Lloyd Kaufman’s ‘Direct Your Own Damn Movie!’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 14, 2011 5:00 am EST In high school, one of my most memorable reads wasn’t The Catcher in the Rye or Of Mice and Men. It was Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman’s first book Make Your Own Damn Movie. Sure the works of Salinger and Steinbeck offered their own rewards, such as literary allusion and beautiful prose, but Kaufman’s tome gave tips on how to make a man’s head explode on camera....

Gary Ross In Talks To Direct ‘The Hunger Games’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 14, 2010 4:00 am EST Gary Ross (Pleasantville, Seabiscuit) is looking like the man who’ll get the job directing The Hunger Games, a film based on the first of three novels by Suzanne Collins. The story is a sort of Running Man +/- Battle Royale, and has been the impetus for a rat race between directors as diverse as Ross, Sam Mendes, Francis Lawrence, David Slade, Andrew Adamson, Rupert Sanders, and Susanna White....

Geek Deal: Firefly Blu-Ray For $28, Everybody Loves Raymond For $80 By Peter Sciretta/May 25, 2010 5:52 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Geek Deal: Gattaca Blu-Ray For $9.99 By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2010 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Geek Deal: Pirates Of The Caribbean Four-Movie Collection (Blu-Ray + Digital Copy) For $76.49 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2011 7:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Gemma Ward And Callan McAuliffe Cast In ‘The Great Gatsby’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2011 4:00 pm EST Briefly: Baz Luhrmann has added two more to his 3D film version of The Great Gatsby. (Why is this 3D, again?) His take on the ‘great American novel’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald already features Leonardo DiCaprio as the wealthy Jay Gatsby; Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, the object of Gatsby’s unrequited love; Tobey Maguire as narrator Nick Carraway; Joel Edgerton as Daisy’s husband, old-money dillweed Tom Buchanan; Isla Fisher as Myrtle, with whom Tom is having an affair; and Jason Clarke as George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband....

Inception Updates: New Photo, Viral Video With Dream Researchers, And A Trailer For Iron Man 2 By David Chen/April 23, 2010 9:21 am EST With the release of Christopher Nolan’s Inception just a few short months away, the film’s marketing machine is starting to up its game. Just the other day, we got wind of four new photos from the film. Above, a new image that we’ve just received. After the jump, you’ll find a viral video featuring Christopher Nolan interviewing some supposed dream researchers, plus news about the next trailer....

Joe Dante To Direct Vampire/Werewolf Comedy ‘Monster Love’ By Angie Han/Feb. 14, 2011 10:00 am EST Once again, Hollywood proves it isn’t satisfied til a trend has been completely beaten into the ground… then beaten some more… then covered with two tons of dirt and had a cross-shaped headstone laid on top of it. Gremlins director Joe Dante will be helming Monster Love for Darclight, the genre arm of Arclight Films....

Joss Whedon Says ‘The Avengers’ Won’t Be “Obnoxiously 3D” By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 22, 2011 4:30 pm EST Earlier today, Walt Disney Pictures announced that they will be releasing The Avengers in Digital Disney 3D. While I pretty much wrote this off as expected, it seemed to surprise some fans. Whedon talked exclusively with JoBlo, stating that The Avengers won’t be “obnoxiously 3D.” “There’s no, ‘Oh look, we’re going to spend 20 minutes going through this tunnel because it’s in 3D!...