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Walmart To Launch Exclusive “Disc-To-Digital” Service Next Month By Angie Han/March 13, 2012 4:30 pm EST Cloud-based “digital locker” UltraViolet got off to a rather underwhelming start last fall, but it’s now about to get a huge boost from one of the country’s biggest retailers. Walmart has just joined the industrywide initiative, and is now set to debut a new in-store service that will convert DVDs and Blu-rays to digital files at the rate of $2 a pop....

What Is The Wachowskis’ ‘Jupiter Rising’? By Russ Fischer/June 27, 2011 3:18 pm EST What is Jupiter Rising? The Wachowskis have had a few different films in development over the last few years, notably the ‘gay Iraq War romance’ CN-9 / Cobalt Neural 9, and Hood, the terrible-sounding, we hope it will never happen ‘urban’ version of Robin Hood potentially starring Will Smith. The siblings seemed to settle on making an adaptation of David Mitchell’s post-modern novel Cloud Atlas with Tom Tykwer as co-writer and co-director....

Will Forte And Bruce Dern Confirmed For Alexander Payne’s ‘Nebraska’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2012 5:00 pm EST Paramount has finally given the go-ahead to Alexander Payne to shoot Nebraska, the father/son road trip movie he has been working to cast and get into production since the release of The Descendants. While his last film was a relatively audience-friendly affair — for Payne at least — that had obvious appeal thanks to the presence of George Clooney, Nebraska is a slightly tougher sell, at least to the people who make financial decisions at studios....

‘A Buddy Story’ Trailer: A Super-Indie Road Movie With ‘Mad Men’ Star Elisabeth Moss By Russ Fischer/April 23, 2012 10:00 am EST On Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss’s character Peggy Olson is one of the key ingredients to the show’s recreation of the 1960s. She makes mistakes, as all the characters do, but is a key part of the show’s conscience, and a manifestation of progressiveness. It is a character that could so easily have just been a walking symbol, but Moss gives Peggy real life; a simple shot of her perceptive, weighted gaze is enough to pass judgement on other characters, even as Peggy is sometimes tempted to join in the shenanigans....

/Film Interview: JJ Abrams Talks ‘Super 8’, Bad Robot, Lens Flares, LOST, Spielberg And The Mystery Box By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2011 1:39 pm EST Peter Sciretta: Hey JJ.JJ Abrams: Hey, how’s it going?Peter: Good. Loved Super 8.JJ: Thanks, man.Peter: Your film focuses on a son and a father trying to recover from the death of their mother/wife. Spielberg drew the story of ET from divorce. I was wondering where this story sort of came from....

/Film Quoted In New TV Spot For Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 21, 2010 4:30 pm EST Over the years /Film has been quoted on a lot of movie posters, advertisements and dvd boxes, sometimes for films which I liked bu didn’t love (it’s easy to take a sentence out of context or take a positive sentence from a not so glowing review). But I’m really proud that we’ve now been quoted in the marketing for two of my favorite films of the year so far, The Social Network (a tv spot we never posted on the site before) and 127 Hours....

‘Happythankyoumoreplease’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/Jan. 12, 2011 3:30 pm EST Winner of the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Happythankyoumoreplease ( or “Happy Thank You More Please” for people who like spaces in their titles), was scheduled to come out this summer. It didn’t – obviously – but finally, the funny, poignant and contemporary story of how a missing boy changes the lives of a bunch of struggling New Yorkers will be released this March....

‘Raging Bull II’ Is Shooting Now By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2012 3:30 pm EST What can I say? This one is happening, just as we feared it would. Martin Guigui (who?) is directing a hybrid prequel/sequel to Martin Scorsese’s landmark 1980 boxing film Raging Bull. This one, Raging Bull II, was co-written by Guigui and Rustam Branaman, and stars William Forsythe as the older Jake LaMotta, and Mojean Aria playing the younger version of LaMotta for scenes that take place before Scorsese’s film....

‘The Details’ Trailer - Sundance Dark Comedy With Tobey Maguire And Elizabeth Banks By Germain Lussier/Sept. 21, 2012 2:30 pm EST The Details is a dark comedy about a snowball of suburban drama set off by worm-hungry raccoons. Written and directed by Jacob Aaron Estes (Mean Creek), the incredible cast includes Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Kerry Washington and Dennis Haysbert. It premiered at Sundance 2011 to solid reviews (/Film included) and was quickly picked up by The Weinstein Company....

‘The Muppets’ Teaser - It’s Not Easy Being Green By Angie Han/June 16, 2011 9:15 am EST Between the “Green with Envy” and “The Fuzzy Pack” teasers, Disney’s obviously been having a lot of fun with their marketing of the upcoming The Muppets movie. A just-released trailer continues that trend with an adorable and timely Green Lantern parody. I wasn’t expecting to see the Muppets take on Hal Jordan, but in retrospect, all that “green” makes it a totally obvious combination, doesn’t it?...

Bryan Singer-Produced Web Series ‘H+’ Now Playing Online By Russ Fischer/Aug. 10, 2012 10:30 am EST The web series H+. from Warner Bros. producer Bryan Singer, and director Stewart Hendler, has been in the works since 2008, and is finally starting to show up online. The show is built on a dual layer premise: first, that a technological implant called H+ allows humans to have 24/7 built-in biological access to the internet, and second, and a virus sweeps users of H+, killing millions in seconds....

Cool Stuff: New Mondo Posters For ‘Hellboy’ And ‘Hellboy II’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 26, 2011 11:00 am EST Here are the next two installments in Mondo’s first ‘director series,’ which is spotlighting the films of Guillermo Del Toro. All his films except for Mimic will get a unique poster from the boutique outlet. (Aw, poor Mimic.) The Blade II image has already been released and sold out. These two go on sale Friday....

Don Cheadle And Bruce Greenwood Join Denzel Washington In ‘Flight’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2011 4:30 pm EST Now Bruce Greenwood and Don Cheadle have been reported as part of the cast, too. Moviehole reports the addition of the two actors, but doesn’t offer their roles. We know that Kelly Reilly is also in the cast, playing “Nicole Devlin, a drug addict who is at rock bottom when she meets Whip,” with the latter character being Denzel’s role....

First Look: ‘The Knights Of Badassdom’ By Germain Lussier/July 16, 2011 2:30 pm EST The Amazing Spider-Man isn’t the only big Hall H movie that the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly blows the door off. They’ve also got your first look at The Knights of Badassdom, which will also be wooing audiences in the biggest room at San Diego Comic-Con next week. From the looks of these first images, it shouldn’t have much of a problem....

First Official Image Of Matt Damon In Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Elysium’ By Russ Fischer/July 4, 2012 10:23 am EST With the exception of a few set photos, Neill Blomkamp shot his District 9 follow-up Elysium in almost total secrecy. We have seen a couple images of Matt Damon, with his head shaved, wearing what seemed to be prison clothes, but that’s just about it for pictures from the film. Now, just before Comic Con begins, a few films that have maintained a low profile over the past year or two are being glimpsed, and so here’s the first real photo from Blomkamp’s movie....

First Pics And Clips: Werner Herzog’s Prison Documentary ‘Into The Abyss’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2011 3:22 pm EST Warning: this isn’t going to be quite the ideal easygoing Friday afternoon post. But when new info arrives on the latest documentary from Werner Herzog we’ve got to run with it, even if the subject matter is pretty dire. Specifically, Into the Abyss is a film about several death row inmates in the Texas prison system: three men convicted of murder, including one man who killed his girlfriend and her two mentally handicapped sons, and a woman convicted of kidnapping and murder....

Geek Deals: Dogma Blu-Ray For $7.99, The New World Extended Cut Blu-Ray For $10.49, And More By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2011 12:04 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

George Orwell’s Landmark ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ Being Adapted To Film Once More By Russ Fischer/March 22, 2012 11:00 am EST I’m crediting — or blaming — The Hunger Games for this one. Gary Ross’ film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins best-seller has undeniable reflections of George Orwell’s nightmarish vision of totalitarian information control and thought suppression, and now, just hours before that film is released to the public, we have news of a new film version of his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, often simply called 1984....

Is ‘RoboCop’ Reboot Director Jose Padilha Fighting For Every Idea He Wants In The Film? By Russ Fischer/Aug. 27, 2012 10:24 am EST There has been a lot of talk about reboots of well-loved ’80s/’90s sci-fi lately, thanks to Total Recall, the news about Videodrome, and the development of a new RoboCop, to be directed by Elite Squad helmer Jose Padilha. The general consensus is that a director with little studio experience is brought in to make a reboot like RoboCop not only because of his skillset, but because a relative inexperience with the studio system means it is easier for the studio to get what it wants out of a reboot....

James Bond Joins Facebook And Twitter; ‘Bond 23’ Details Tomorrow By Russ Fischer/Nov. 2, 2011 4:50 pm EST Briefly: We will know a lot of real, reliable details about Bond 23 within the next twelve hours. Today James Bond joined Facebook, and tomorrow morning the spy even gets his own Twitter account. (Username @007, naturally.) Use of social media may not be the best way to go about investigating global criminal acts (no “@Blofeld is one Persian away from crazy cat lady,” please) but it is one of the best ways to deliver info about a new movie....