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The Last Airbender And Green Hornet Were Planned And Shot For 3D? By Brendon Connelly/April 23, 2010 7:12 am EST If you’ve seen the hideous monstrosity that is Clash of the Titans, replete with its horrendous and eye-torturing attempts at 3D imagery, you probably don’t have much love at all for post-production dimensionalisation. I’ve seen the online reaction to two upconvert projects that have been announced in just the last 24 hours, Michel Gondry’s Green Hornet film and M....

Tron Legacy Viral: New Package From Flynn Lives And ArcadeAid V2 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 22, 2010 11:10 am EST It has been a while since we’ve gotten anything from the Tron Legacy viral. A new package addressed from the Flynn Lives organization arrived at /Film HQ this morning containing some kind of plastic beard art-created creature, the word OUT running with human arms and legs (as seen above). I’m not sure what this could possibly mean....

TV Bits: ‘Party Down’, ‘Game Of Thrones’, Christopher Guest, Chris O’Dowd By Angie Han/Aug. 17, 2012 3:16 pm EST Today’s TV Bits is short but very sweet. After the jump: Game of Thrones finally finds its King Beyond the Wall, The Party Down movie is still on the way, aiming for a 2013 start, and HBO picks up a Christopher Guest and Chris O’Dowd comedy Guest and co-executive producer Jim Piddock will also act on the series, though it’s unclear at this point how big their roles are....

Update: Sony Denies Report That Logan Lerman Is Spider-Man By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2010 6:00 pm EST Update: Mike Fleming has gotten comment from Sony, who “were very definitive in denying the story, and were sure that Lerman was 100% not going to be Spidey and that he is not on the list of candidates being seriously considered.” So we now know who isn’t going to play Spider-Man — Logan Lerman....

VOTD: More Tron Legacy-Inspired Short Films By Peter Sciretta/July 8, 2010 3:00 am EST Earlier this week, we posted Kiel Figgins’ short computer animated Tron Homage: Disc Battle, which quickly spread around the interwebs. Apparently the video was a submission in CG Society’s TRON Tribute contest. The challenge was to “recreate the LOOK of the world of TRON.“After the jump we have a look at another enry from the contest, as well as another tribute created for the Dallas MAvericks....

Watch A Short Interview With ‘True Grit’ Newcomer Hailee Steinfeld By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2010 2:30 pm EST Judging from the trailers, True Grit, the Joel and Ethan Coen take on the novel by Charles Portis, has a great many pleasures in store. The appeal of the film should be evident: the Coen Brothers working with a crack team of actors (Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and more) is one highlight, and seeing a true Coen Bros....

Watch The New ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Trailer As A Small, Silent GIF By Germain Lussier/April 30, 2012 5:01 pm EST UPDATE: The final trailer is now officially online. Watch it here. Monday morning, Warner Bros. launched a new viral campaign for Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated July 20 release, The Dark Knight Rises. Fans were urged to go to different locations to find a specific piece of graffiti which would then unlock frames from the new trailer, confirmed to be playing with The Avengers this weekend....

Watch The Trailer And Listen To The Soundtrack For Amusingly Titled Sundance 2012 Selection ‘I Am Not A Hipster’ By Angie Han/Dec. 5, 2011 9:00 am EST Written and directed by first-time feature helmer Destin Daniel Cretton, I Am Not a Hipster follows characters in the indie art and music scene. Appropriately enough, given the material, the movie also features a melancholy indie rock soundtrack by the Canines, with several of their tracks from the movie already available for streaming or downloading....

‘Looper’ Sneak Peek #3: Transforming Joseph Gordon Levitt Into A Young Bruce Willis By Peter Sciretta/April 11, 2012 12:30 pm EST Last week we premiered the poster for Rian Johnson’s next film Looper. This week Sony will be launching teaser vignette pieces featuring Joseph Gordon Levitt and filmmaker Rian Johnson talking about the film, cut to behind the scenes footage and a few glimpses of the trailer which will hit on Thursday, April 12th....

By Germain Lussier/Sept. 15, 2011 4:15 pm EST In Duncan Jones’s sci-fi thriller Source Code, the “source code” itself is a technology that can send a living person back in time to relive the last 8 minutes of another person’s life. In that time, the user can attempt to find clues as to how or why the person they’re inhabiting died. The film uses this conceit to solve a terrorist attack and stop potential ones but you’d have to think, if this technology really existed, there would be millions of possible applications....

‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Trailer: After Many Trials, Peter Jackson Returns To Middle-Earth By Russ Fischer/Dec. 20, 2011 9:30 pm EST Ten years ago this week The Fellowship of the Ring was released. Peter Jackson’s first Tolkien adaption silenced a great many naysayers who said J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels could never be properly translated to film. It also fostered a mainstream interest in fantasy movies that continues a decade later....

‘The Wackness’ Director Jonathan Levine To Direct ‘Legend’ By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2011 7:39 pm EST No, the guy who directed The Wackness and All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is not remaking the Ridley Scott movie starring Tom Cruise and a unicorn. Too bad about that. He is, however, working with Twilight producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey to adapt Marie Lu’s novel Legend to film. This is one of those cases where the book hasn’t even been published yet — it doesn’t hit until November, so the film is based in part on the presumptive development of a large fanbase....

By Russ Fischer/May 15, 2012 4:30 pm EST Tomorrow is the upfront party/presentation for Adult Swim, and the company is unveiling a serious development slate. For fans of animation, weird high-concept shows and other esoterica, there might be a lot to dig into in the new set of projects being developed by the Williams Street gang. But there are two worth highlighting for our regular readers. One is an animated series based on the Harold & Kumar movies....

Anne Thompson’s Hans Zimmer Interviews By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 11, 2010 7:00 am EST If you’ve been reading /Film for a while now, then you know I love long form interviews. The normal 10-minute junket interview doesn’t allow for much exploration, and sadly that is becoming the norm now-a-days. I always try to highlight the better long form interviews available online (be it a film festival discussion, Charlie Rose, or what not)....

Casting Bits: Rashida Jones And Andy Samberg In ‘Celeste And Jesse,’ Dwayne Johnson In ‘Snitch’ By Angie Han/March 25, 2011 6:00 am EST Since the beginning of his career, Dwayne Johnson has rotated between action roles, comedy roles, and family roles. His latest project will fall solidly into the “action” part of his resume. Johnson has signed on to star in Snitch, directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Felon). The script was written by Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road), with a rewrite by Waugh....

Cool Stuff: Oz Wars T-Shirt By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 27, 2010 8:00 am EST TeeFury’s t-shirt of the day is a Star Wars/Wizard of Oz mash-up designed by Denism79 and titled “Oz Wars”. You might remember that last week it was announced that Mike Johnson (co-director of the 2005 film Corpse Bride) had signed on to direct the CG/Stop-Motion hybrid feature film Oz Wars. For the story I used an image that re-imagined the Wizard of Oz characters as members of the Rebel Alliance....

David Goyer Developing ‘100 Bullets’ For Showtime By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2011 4:31 pm EST If given the opportunity to take lethal, consequence-free, revenge on someone who did you wrong, would you do it? That’s the question that kicks off the award winning DC/Vertigo comic book 100 Bullets, a dark, pulpy series written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Eduardo Risso. The series, which ran for 100 issues from 1999-2009, has long been rumored for a live action adaptation and now it’s finally happening....

First Concept Art From Tarsem’s ‘Snow White’ By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2011 4:00 pm EST Relativity has set Tarsem Singh’s untitled Snow White film in motion, with the production beginning photography this week. The film stars Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, Armie Hammer and Nathan Lane, and at this past week’s licensing expo, Relativity unveiled some production art for the film. Now one big piece of art has graced the pages of a print edition of THR....

First Look: ‘Taken 2’ By Peter Sciretta/May 17, 2012 10:30 am EST Neeson explains to EW the beginning of Taken 2: Read the full interview on EW.com. “The action is supposed to take place about a year or a year and a half after the first story. It’s a very clever sequel with the usual thrills and spills, but the ante is upped quite a bit in this one.” … “I’ve taken a job over in Istanbul looking after a sheik who is there, and afterward I discover that my wife’s going through a very bad time with her new husband....

Geek Deal: Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection For $51 By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 19, 2010 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As with all of the Gold Box Deals, the price will be gone when the clock strikes midnight – so buy now! More information on what is included in the set, after the jump. Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble With Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Torn Curtain (1966), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972), Family Plot (1976)...