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Streaming Bits: Netflix Passes On Terra Nova But Could Save The River, Google Play Launches Movie Rentals, HBO Go Launches On XBox Live (But Not If You Have Comcast Or Time Warner) By Germain Lussier/March 28, 2012 10:00 am EST Next on their plate is ABC’s The River, another serialized genre show that isn’t doing that well on its network. Terra Nova had higher ratings but was also more expensive to produce....

The National Film Registry Adds ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ And 24 More To The Library Of Congress By Russ Fischer/Dec. 28, 2010 10:00 am EST Since 1989 the National Film Registry has preserved films in the Library of Congress that are determined to be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” This year’s crop of additions has been announced and it’s a pretty varied group that seems to recognize lasting value of ’new’ classics (The Exorcist, Grey Gardens, All the Presidents Men) and some of the achievements of people who passed this year (Airplane!...

Trailer: Philip Kaufman’s ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ Starring Nicole Kidman And Clive Owen By Peter Sciretta/April 18, 2012 11:00 am EST HBO Films’ Hemingway & Gellhorn is already a realistic contender for next year’s Emmys and it hasn’t even aired yet. The made-for-television movie is directed by Philip Kaufman, the guy who wrote/directed The Right Stuff, The Wanderers and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and served as a writer on Raiders of the Lost Ark....

Two New Images From ‘The Hangover Part II’ Raise More Questions By Germain Lussier/Jan. 17, 2011 2:30 pm EST As a rule, I do my best to avoid comedy marketing. Trailers, stills, clip reels, all they do is ruin the best jokes in a movie and make the experience of watching the film less rewarding. With that warning, two new images from the highly-anticipated Todd Phillips sequel The Hangover Part II , have surfaced featuring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zack Galifianakis in Thailand....

VOTD: ‘Nuka Break,’ A Fan Film Based On Video Game Series ‘Fallout’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 27, 2011 3:00 pm EST I’m surprised we haven’t seen a lot of fan films based on the Fallout video game series since it was revived a couple years back by publisher Bethesda Softworks. Fallout 3 and the many expansions that followed are set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland around Washington, DC (with the exception of the Las Vegas-set Fallout New Vegas) and the violent, weird, mutated denizens of the landscape are the sort of thing budding filmmakers might have a great time making in their spare time....

VOTD: Every Arnold Schwarzenegger Scream Ever By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2010 1:00 pm EST FilmDrunk has put together a video which compiles every Arnold Schwarzenegger scream/shout/grunt from every movie Arnold Schwarzenegger was ever featured in. The resulting video is seven and a half minutes in length and can be viewed right now after the jump. VOTD: Every Arnold Schwarzenegger Scream Ever By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 19, 2010 1:00 pm EST FilmDrunk has put together a video which compiles every Arnold Schwarzenegger scream/shout/grunt from every movie Arnold Schwarzenegger was ever featured in....

Warner Bros. Picks Up Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze Film; Joaquin Phoenix Attached By Germain Lussier/July 13, 2011 12:44 pm EST After “quitting” acting in a big, public way, Joaquin Phoenix is navigating an impressive comeback. He’s currently shooting Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master and now he’s also attached to star in the latest collaboration between screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze. The film, an untitled political satire, is being financed by Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures and Warner Bros....

Watch A Girl Disintegrate Before Your Very Eyes In ‘The Darkest Hour’ Motion Poster By Angie Han/Sept. 15, 2011 6:00 am EST Probably the most intriguing aspect of the Timur Bekmambetov-produced alien invasion flick The Darkest Hour is the film’s unique take on aliens. Unlike your typical movie ET, these otherwordly baddies take the form of “lethal wave energy” that renders them invisible, and therefore extra dangerous, most of the time....

Watch A Scene From Studio Ghibli’s Abandoned ‘Little Nemo In Dreamland’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 18, 2011 12:00 pm EST Many of us have seen, or at least have heard of, the 1989 animated film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (seen above). Based on the groundbreaking comic strip by Winsor McCay, it centers on a young boy and the wild adventures he has in his dreams. Long before its release, the film went through years of development hell and, at one point, was actually being developed by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli....

Watch The First Post-Credits Scene From ‘The Avengers’ By Russ Fischer/July 31, 2012 10:30 am EST Marvel is starting to get the word out on the home release of The Avengers, and the associated Marvel Cinematic Universe box set. To promote the film the company has released the first post-credit scene from the film, which means you can now gaze at the first appearance of the next big Marvel bad guy as many times as you’d like....

‘Star Trek 2:’ Benedict Cumberbatch Is Not Gary Mitchell, Alice Eve Is Canon, Peter Weller Is Not, Trailer Timeline And More By Germain Lussier/July 16, 2012 1:00 pm EST A quick recap of this week in Star Trek 2: Karl Urban seemingly slips and says Benedict Cumberbatch is playing a character named “Gary,” likely referring to Gary Mitchell. He then says Trek 2 footage will appear online during Comic-Con. I ask him about both these things and he swears up and down he doesn’t lie or play games....

‘The Avengers’ Assemble In New Poster By Germain Lussier/Feb. 28, 2012 9:15 am EST A new trailer for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers will be out Wednesday, but first we’ve got a brand new official poster to enjoy. It features the film’s stars Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson on the streets of New York in some kind of epic battle....

A Cast Of Kings S2E02 - The Night Lands By David Chen/April 9, 2012 9:25 pm EST Joanna and Dave discuss this season’s second episode, “The Night Lands.” This week, we pay a visit to the Iron Islands. But does it go as planned? E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at acastofkings@gmail.com. You can find every episode of the show at gameofthronespodcast....

Alamo Drafthouse Named ‘Best Overall Theatrical Experience’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 19, 2010 3:00 pm EST Chuck Walton has just completed his journey of seeing 100 movies in 100 days at 100 different movie theaters across the country, in search of the perfect summer moviegoing experience. The results of his findings can be found on Fandango. Walton gave the top award, “Best Overall Theatrical Experience” to our favorite movie theater in the universe — the Alamo Drafthouse....

Andrew Dominik Writing Remake Of ‘Tell No One’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2010 10:54 am EST Tell No One has had an interesting history. From a novel by Harlan Coben, Guillaume Canet directed the 2006 film that became a European hit and an art-house success in the US. In 2009 Focus Features and Miramax picked up remake rights, but with the changes that hit Miramax in the last year, those rights now reportedly reside entirely with Focus....

Ben Affleck Replaces Christian Bale In Terrence Malick’s Next Film; Rachel Weisz Also Signs On By Russ Fischer/Aug. 12, 2010 4:40 pm EST In February a serious bomb dropped from the Terrence Malick camp: not only is the reclusive director prepping one new film (The Tree of Life) for release sometime in coming months, he’s got the cast already lined up for another picture that he’ll shoot soon. At the time, Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Olga Kurylenko and Rachel McAdams were listed as the cast for “an as yet untitled love story....

Biopic Casting Bits: Dan Aykroyd Joins Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace Movie For HBO, Matthew Modine Boards Steve Jobs Film By Angie Han/June 7, 2012 11:30 am EST With shooting already underway, Joshua Michael Stern’s Steve Jobs biopic is filling in some key supporting roles. (For clarification, this is a distinct project from the Aaron Sorkin-penned Jobs movie set up at Sony, which has yet to begin casting.) The latest addition to the cast is Matthew Modine, who’s slated to play former Apple CEO John Sculley....

Casting Notes: Anthony Hopkins In ‘Arabian Nights’; Robert De Niro In ‘The Killer Elite’; Michelle Monaghan In ‘Machine Gun Preacher’ By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2010 12:52 pm EST I was left flabbergasted by the news that Chuck Russell would be directing a new 3D version of the Arabian Nights…or, at least, he’s directing a film called Arabian Nights. It seems to bear a passing resemblance at best to the original collection of folk tales....

First Images From ‘Abducted’ Starring Taylor Lautner And ‘ATM’, From The Writer Of ‘Buried’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 5, 2010 3:30 pm EST Got to hand it to Collider: they’re scouring the American Film Market scarfing up info on a ton of new films being represented there this week. The latest two are Abducted, which is the first post-Twilight film for Taylor Lautner, and ATM, which is based on a script hatched by Chris Sparling, aka the screenwriter on Buried....

First Look: Animated ‘Batman: Year One,’ Plus Key Voice Cast Announced By Russ Fischer/April 20, 2011 10:30 am EST Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises isn’t the only new Batman film in the works. Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation are continuing their string of animated DC films with a long-awaited animated version of Batman: Year One, the seminal Batman origin story written by Frank Miller and drawn by the incomprable David Mazzucchelli in 1987....