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French ‘Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol’ Trailer Leaks By Russ Fischer/June 26, 2011 10:28 am EST We’re looking forward to seeing footage from the fourth Mission: Impossible movie, mostly because it marks the live-action debut of animation director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille). The trailer will arrive with prints of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and will also premiere online in HD tomorrow at 7:30pm EST. But right now you can see the trailer via a French bootleg....

Gary Ross Will Not Direct ‘Catching Fire;’ For Real This Time By Germain Lussier/April 11, 2012 9:00 am EST Before The Hunger Games was released, I spoke with Gary Ross on numerous occasions and each time he seemed extremely confident he’d be back to direct the sequel, Catching Fire. He’d hand selected the screenwriter, had thoughts about casting and Lionsgate even set a release date. Then his film blew up into an gargantuan success and rumors began swirling Ross wasn’t going to come back....

Idris Elba, Sean Harris And Kate Dickie Added To Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 25, 2011 12:00 pm EST It’s good to have a little actual news to report about Ridley Scott’s Prometheus after a week of rumors about whether or not we’ll see certain elements from Alien showing up in the film. The latest word is that three cast members have been added to work alongside Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender: Idris Elba, Sean Harris and Kate Dickie are all onboard....

Joel Edgerton And Jessica Chastain Sign On For Double Feature ‘The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby’ By Angie Han/Feb. 3, 2012 10:00 am EST Filmgoers will be seeing a lot of rising stars Joel Edgerton and Jessica Chastain in the coming months, and it seems the two rising stars will be quite a bit of each other as well. Edgerton and Chastain are already set to co-star in Kathryn Bigelow’s untitled Osama bin Laden thriller, and they’ve now signed on to work on two more films together, called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers....

Julia Stiles To Join Dexter By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2010 8:52 pm EST Entertainment Weekly has learned that Showtime is in talks with Julia Stiles (The Bourne Series, 10 Things I Hate About You) to join the upcoming fifth season of Dexter (my favorite show on television by default, now that Lost and 24 have finished). Michael Ausiello has no idea what role Stiles may play in the series, but states it is “a major, top-secret role” and she definitely won’t be playing the big bad villain of next season....

Legendary Pictures Launches Legendary Comics With Bob Schreck As Editor In Chief By Russ Fischer/Nov. 3, 2010 3:35 pm EST The line between some movies and comic books is getting more blurry. Disney is using Marvel comics to promote Tron, and Marvel plans comics set the the Marvel Movie Universe. DC Entertainment seems poised to bring the DC comics and movie universes closer together, too. Other comics companies seem to exist solely to create comics that will be raw fodder for film....

Marc Webb Attached To Direct ‘The Only Living Boy In New York’ By Angie Han/Aug. 15, 2012 1:30 pm EST As Marc Webb continues to ponder whether or not he wants to return to The Amazing Spider-Man for another go-round, another possible follow-up has popped up on the horizon. Webb is reportedly attached to direct the coming-of-age tale The Only Living Boy in New York, written by Rock of Ages scribe Allan Loeb....

Martin Scorsese Finds Another Project: The Love Affair Between Elizabeth Taylor And Richard Burton By Russ Fischer/June 2, 2011 6:00 am EST When Elizabeth Taylor passed away in March, I assumed that a bidding war would erupt over some of the key stories in her life. As it happened, pursuit of one of those tales took a couple months, and now Paramount has ended up with the rights. I’m talking specifically about the passionate affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which has been part of classic Hollywood legend for decades after blossoming on the set of Cleopatra in the early ’60s and extending through two marriages into 1976....

Milla Jovovich And Paul W.S. Anderson In, Sienna Guillory Out For ‘Resident Evil: Retribution’ By Angie Han/Aug. 10, 2011 9:00 am EST We already knew a fifth Resident Evil film was on the way, so now comes the totally unsurprising news that Milla Jovovich and Paul W.S. Anderson are set to return to the franchise once again. Jovovich, who’s starred in all four previous installments, will be reprising her role as protagonist Alice in Resident Evil: Retribution....

Movie Trailer: ‘Paranormal Activity 2’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 1, 2010 12:45 pm EST In June we saw the first teaser for Paranormal Activity 2, which opens on October 22. But that mostly traded on the cache of the first film, which did shockingly well for Paramount. (Thanks in part to a very smart marketing campaign.) Now there’s a full trailer for the sequel, which introduces the new family that falls victim to a haunting....

New Images: A Much Better Look At Kevin Bacon And The Cast Of ‘X-Men: First Class’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 19, 2011 3:35 pm EST So yesterday we saw a leaked version of an image that artlessly photoshopped the lead characters of Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class into a hero lineup. We’ve now got a much higher-resolution version of that image, along with a couple of new looks at the cast in costume....

New Line Drops Option For ‘Escape From New York’ Remake By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2011 4:59 pm EST New Line has been trying to remake John Carpenter’s Escape From New York for years. Directors like Len Wiseman, Brett Ratner and Breck Eisner have all been attached to direct, and the rumor mill has occasionally churned with possible actors to play the character Snake Plisskin, originally played by Kurt Russell. But those plans are now dead, as New Line and Warner Bros....

New Olivia Wilde TRON: Legacy Banner By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2010 5:03 pm EST There’s a new character banner for Tron Legacy showing some in-detail art of Olivia Wilde as Quorra, the ‘woman’ who helps Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) find his way through the film’s computerized world. Not that there’s been any lack of Tron marketing materials, but at this point, why not throw one more your way? (Completists will note this is much the same as the character’s Comic Con banner....

Paul Giamatti Joining ‘The Hangover Part II’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2010 3:00 pm EST Briefly: We just saw the new trailer for Barney’s Version, starring Paul Giamatti, and now there’s word that he’s going to fly to Thailand to join the cast of The Hangover Part II under the direction of Todd Phillips. Great news as far as I’m concerned, as Mr. Giamatti can be a low-key comic wonder. We don’t have any information about what he might be playing in the film, but he can hold his own against whatever is thrown his way....

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 13, 2012 2:00 pm EST Bleeding Cool presents a video clip of Liefeld speaking at Amazing Arizona Comic Con last weekend where he said, Liefeld isn’t quite at Mark Millar levels of inflated self-promotion, but he hasn’t historically been a guy whose words I’d always take at face value. But why throw this info out if it has no basis in fact? And studios do shoot test footage for films like Deadpool, so this wouldn’t be out of the ordinary....

Rob Marshall To Direct Johnny Depp In ‘The Thin Man’ Remake By Germain Lussier/May 9, 2011 1:00 pm EST Johnny Depp must have really enjoyed his time with director Rob Marshall while making Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides because the two will now, officially, team up to remake the 1934 film The Thin Man. Depp had been developing the project for sometime and it was previously rumored that he wanted Marshall on board....

Sharlto Copley Is The Villain In Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’ By Russ Fischer/May 1, 2012 3:30 pm EST Spike Lee’s new version of Oldboy, based both on the excellent South Korean film by Chan-wook Park and the manga that inspired it, has taken some time to come together. Josh Brolin has been attached for some time to play a man kidnapped off the street one night, only to find himself held in a strange hotel-like prison… for fifteen years....

Superhero Bits: Tons Of Avengers, Nathan Fillion, Spider-Man, Batman, Green Lantern By Germain Lussier/Feb. 29, 2012 12:30 pm EST El Mayimbe on Twitter linked to this Film School Rejects story from last month of an Avengers fan poster by themadbutcher. He feels it’s better than the official one released yesterday. Agree? (My apologies if I’ve already posted this. I know it’s old, but felt it was more topical now.)Entertainment Weekly spoke to all the members of The Avengers with the release of the poster, and trailer, and got some great quotes from them....

The Toronto Film Festival’s Essential 100 Movies By Germain Lussier/Dec. 22, 2010 11:00 am EST That’s why the Toronto International Film Festival came up with their Essential 100 movies. Created by merging lists made by Toronto Film Festival supporters along with another made by their programmers, these are supposed to be the 100 essential movies every cinephile must see. And it starts off with a bang as Citizen Kane has been toppled....

Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Jessica Chastain And More Get Tough In ‘Lawless’ Character Posters By Angie Han/May 18, 2012 4:00 pm EST I don’t necessarily love this current trend of churning out character posters for every single actor in an ensemble cast, but when the line-up is as good as this one, I can’t complain. Seven new character posters have dropped for John Hillcoat’s Prohibition-era thriller Lawless, showing stars Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, and Mia Wasikowska each trying their best to give off a tough-guy (or girl) glower....