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Incredible Behind The Scenes Photos From ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 30, 2011 7:00 am EST Love it or hate it, Transformers: Dark of the Moon was a colossal hit. Michael Bay’s third film featuring the Hasbro toys has grossed about $350 million in America and $750 million internationally for a gross of well over one billion dollars. That number will only continue to grow as the film is now back on IMAX screens....

Is ‘Skyfall’ The Name Of The Twenty-Third James Bond Film? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2011 2:28 pm EST We’re still mired in the Bond 23 guessing game as the shoot date of the movie approaches. We know that Sam Mendes is directing Daniel Craig and a few other returning cast members in the movie, and that it will shoot partially in India and Istanbul. The title of the movie has been a mystery and still is — that’s why we’ve just called it Bond 23 for some time — but now there are reports that suggest the film could be titled Skyfall....

James Wan’s ‘Insidious’ To Release On April 1, 2011 By Russ Fischer/Dec. 29, 2010 5:01 pm EST Briefly: In the wake of the debut of Saw, creator James Wan has worked on additional films (Dead Silence and Death Sentence) but neither has become anything like the phenomenon that was spawned by Saw. But his new film, Insidious, reunites him with Saw co-creator Leigh Whannell, and did quite well in the Midnight Madness program at TIFF last September....

Josh Zetumer Hired To Script ‘RoboCop’ Reboot By Russ Fischer/March 10, 2011 7:15 pm EST And the RoboCop reboot takes one more ED-209 sized step forward. MGM has hired Josh Zetumer to write the new version of the film that Elite Squad director Jose Padilha will helm for the studio. The two will reportedly ‘collaborate closely,’ which is to be expected. This is another high profile gig for Josh Zetumer, who has been part of a lot of big development deals — he wrote a draft of Dune, a fourth Bourne movie and a black list script called Infiltrator — but hasn’t yet had a film produced with his name on it....

Korean-Flavored Remake Of John Woo’s ‘The Killer’ Moves Forward By Russ Fischer/Jan. 31, 2011 3:00 pm EST There has long been talk of a remake of John Woo’s standard-setting 1989 action film The Killer. The movie was one of the pictures that focused international attention on both the director and his star Chow Yun-Fat, and it had great influence on action movies that followed. It’s a film that I can vividly remember seeing for the first time, even twenty years later....

Kurtzman & Orci Discuss Khan And Klingon Possibilities For Star Trek Sequel By Adam Quigley/Sept. 13, 2010 6:00 am EST Co-writer Damon Lindelof and producer Bryan Burk have already weighed in on the Star Trek sequel, and now co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, as well as expected director (at the very least producer) J.J. Abrams, are sharing what they have to say about it. Should we be expecting Khan or Klingons in the sequel?...

Liam Neeson May Leave ‘Taken 2’ [UPDATED] By Russ Fischer/March 16, 2011 6:57 pm EST UPDATE: Moments after publishing this, I saw that Deadline had updated the source story completely changing it. In the original piece below I suspected that the first story published at Deadline was a way to push forward a deal between Liam Neeson and the producers of Taken 2. Whether or not that was the intent, such a thing is now happening....

LOL: Derrick Comedy’s “Thomas Jefferson” By Peter Sciretta/May 25, 2010 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Machete Gets Sept 3 Release Date By Russ Fischer/April 17, 2010 12:00 pm EST But for a film like Machete, which is really a niche film that needs to find a broad audience, it could work. The cast could attract people who aren’t pre-sold by the idea of an action/exploitation film that follows Danny Trejo as a badass Mexican out to mess with The Man. Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez and Lindsay Lohan are all appearing; that’s a weird lineup, if nothing else....

More Marvel Concept Art: Chris Hemsworth As Thor By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2010 9:14 pm EST Just hours ago a set of images leaked that seemed to be artist renderings of Chris Evans in character as Captain America. Now there’s a second set, in very much the same style, rendering Chris Hemsworth as he might look in Thor. These are either exceptional fakes, or a significant leak out of Marvel. And while we haven’t yet seen any official photos of Chris Evans in costume against which to compare the Cap concept art, we’ve got one official image of Hemsworth to suggest that these might be the real thing....

Movie Poster Round-Up: Megamind, Buried, Eclipse, Predators, Eat Pray Love, Sex And The City 2, Get Him To The Greek By Peter Sciretta/May 21, 2010 9:30 am EST A bunch of new movie posters have been released over the last week. One sheets include a quad poster for Get Him to the Greek, Megamind, international poster for Sex and the City 2, international posters for Predators, a motion poster for Buried, four new one-sheets for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Eat Pray Love....

New ‘Captain America’ Photos By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 22, 2011 5:00 pm EST Marvel Entertainment has released a new batch of photos from Joe Johnston’s big screen adaptation of Captain America: The First Avenger. Some of these photos have appeared in magazines (which may have appeared scanned online), but others are completely new. All of them are high resolution. Hit the jump to see all seven of the new photos right now....

New Screenwriter Hired For Futuristic ‘Robin Hood’ At WB; Is The Wachowski’s Similar ‘Hood’ Dead? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2011 2:30 pm EST Briefly: One of the bigger laughs we had last year came via the announcement that the Wachowskis were attached to write and direct Hood, an urban retelling of the Robin Hood story. (With Will Smith attached to star.) The project didn’t exactly make waves, and rather fell off the radar as the Wachowskis moved into developing Cloud Atlas with Tom Tykwer; they’ll shoot that film later this year....

Nicholas Stoller To Direct Zac Efron And Seth Rogen In ‘Townies’ By Germain Lussier/May 22, 2012 5:30 am EST An obnoxious, loud frat boy played Zac Efron will butt heads with a neighborhood family man played by Seth Rogen in an upcoming comedy called Townies. Nicholas Stoller, who directed The Five Year Engagement, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and co-wrote The Muppets, is in talks to direct. Universal bought the pitch by Andrew Cohen and Brendan O’Brien last summer....

Noah Baumbach Out, ‘Crazy Heart’ Director Scott Cooper In For ‘Emperor’s Children’ By Angie Han/Oct. 12, 2011 10:00 am EST It’s tough to think of a director more suited to adapt Claire Messud’s acclaimed “disenchanted upper class New Yorkers” novel than Noah Baumbach, so it’s a bummer to hear that the filmmaker has now pulled out of the project. On the plus side, his replacement sounds like an interesting, if not quite as obvious, choice — Scott Cooper, who made his directorial debut with 2009’s Crazy Heart and hasn’t helmed another picture since....

Paramount Realizes Oscars Are Huge Commercial For Eddie Murphy, Moves ‘A Thousand Words’ To March 2012 By Russ Fischer/Sept. 16, 2011 4:52 pm EST This spring we heard that the long-shelved Eddie Murphy dramedy A Thousand Words would finally see release in January 2012. Shot in 2008 under the direction of Brian Robbins (Norbit, Meet Dave), the film has Eddie Murphy playing a guy with only 1000 words left to speak before he dies....

Sam Riley Will Play Christopher Marlowe In ‘A Dead Man In Deptford’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 13, 2010 1:15 pm EST Since he emerged as a possible new leading man in Anton Corbijn’s 2007 Ian Curtis biopic Control, Sam Riley has taken his time fulfilling that early promise. He’s finally about to hit screens with a couple of new roles in Brighton Rock and 13, and he’s now shooting the decades-in-development adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road....

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 21, 2011 11:00 am EST Briefly: Here’s the lineage of About Last Night…: in 1974 David Mamet published the play Sexual Perversity in Chicago. In 1986 Ed Zwick directed a film that adapted the play with a much more approachable title (About Last Night…) and a pretty but effective cast that included Rob Lowe and Demi Moore. Then, in 2010, we heard that Screen Gems might put a new version of About Last Night… into development....

Sean Bean Is The King In Tarsem’s ‘Snow White’ By Germain Lussier/July 15, 2011 6:04 pm EST Sean Bean has made a career of being around royalty in epic fantasy. He was the heir to the Steward of Gondor in The Lord of the Rings, he played the hand of the King in Game of Thrones and now, finally, he’s getting his own kingdom. He’s about to be cast as Snow White’s father, the King, in Tarsem Singh’s Snow White....

Shocker: Oscar Voters Mostly Old, White, Male By Angie Han/Feb. 20, 2012 2:30 pm EST That Oscar voters are predominantly old, white, and male isn’t terribly surprising. Academy demographics are often cited as one of the reasons Oscar tends to favor, say, something like The King’s Speech over The Social Network, and it seems like each awards season sees an onslaught of stories about Hollywood’s diversity problem. But some recently released statistics have shed some light on just how skewed the voting population really is....