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Jim Jarmusch Is Making A Vampire Film With Tilda Swinton, Michael Fassbender And Mia Wasikowska By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2011 8:23 am EST The glut of vampire movies has left me almost totally disinterested in seeing even one more story that re-purposes the old folklore. But not ’totally disinterested,’ because hearing that a filmmaker like Jim Jarmusch is making a vampire movie is something that made me perk up quite a bit....

John Goodman Cast In The Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 31, 2011 5:00 pm EST Reading the comments on the piece that ran this weekend, I guess a lot of people aren’t happy with the fact that Justin Timberlake is likely to be cast in Joel and Ethan Coen’s new film, Inside Llewyn Davis. I don’t really get that — the Coens have shown almost purely impeccable taste in casting throughout their career, and I’m not going to start questioning them now....

John Hawkes To Star In ‘Jackie Brown’ Prequel ‘Switch’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2012 5:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Both De Niro and Jackson were hilarious playing Ordell and Louis in Jackie Brown and it should be interesting to compare and contrast how Hawkes and bey interpret the same characters. Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara hit it off in prison, where they were both doing time for grand theft auto....

Mickey Rourke Out Of ‘Seven Psychopaths,’ Disparages Director Martin McDonagh By Russ Fischer/Nov. 8, 2011 1:00 pm EST So now Martin McDonagh’s new movie only has six psychopaths. The director of In Bruges excited a few of us months back when it was revealed that he’d finally be making a new movie, and that Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken and Mickey Rourke were on board. The picture, Seven Psychopaths, is one that McDonagh talked about a few times years ago when promoting In Bruges, and the fact that it is finally moving forward is reason to celebrate....

Movie Ticket Prices Hit $20 Mark By David Chen/May 21, 2010 9:43 am EST Only a couple months have passed since theater exhibitors decided to jack up the price on movie tickets in response to the popularity of 3D films. Today, with Shrek Forever After about to hit screens in IMAX 3D, prices are rising again, some as high as $20. According to The Wall Street Journal, several theaters in New York City will charge $20 for an adult ticket to IMAX 3D showings of the fourth Shrek film, including the AMC Kips Bay, the AMC Loews Lincoln Square, and the AMC Empire on 42nd Street (pictured above)....

Olivia Wilde Joins Andrew Niccol’s Next…As Justin Timberlake’s Mother By Russ Fischer/Oct. 4, 2010 6:00 am EST How unusual will Andrew Niccol’s new sci-fi film be? How about this: the picture, formerly called I’m.mortal and now untitled for the time being, not only boasts Vincent Kartheiser as the father of Amanda Seyfried, but now has Olivia Wilde playing the mother of Justin Timberlake. What’s going on here? We’ve run a bit of info on the film, but the key component is that the story has a Logan’s Run-like setup: people age until they hit 25, at which point they need to ‘buy’ more time to continue to age....

Photos: Harry Potter Tribute Art Exhibition At Gallery Nucleus By Germain Lussier/July 8, 2011 7:00 am EST Whether you care to admit it or not, Harry Potter means something special to all of us. Maybe you’re a huge fan who can recall each time you bought a new book, saw a new movie, or discussed the series with a friend. Then there are the converts who, at some point, had the series recommended to them and subsequently devoured the franchise with rabid vigor....

Release Dates: ‘Independence Day’ 3D Re-Release, ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes,’ ‘X-Men First Class 2’ Coming Summer 2014, ‘Robopocalypse’ Pushed And More By Germain Lussier/May 31, 2012 1:30 pm EST Lots to digest here. We’ve got it after the jump. The three biggest pieces of news are the 3D conversion of Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day and the dating of sequels to two of 2011’s surprise hits, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and X-Men First Class....

Ron Howard Signed To Direct Sorta-Superhero Film ‘364’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2011 1:00 pm EST David Guggenheim wrote Safe House for Universal — the film with Ryan Reynolds as an CIA agent transporting dangerous criminal Denzel Washington to a new safe house. Evidently that project, directed by Daniel Espinosa, went well, as Universal has bought into a Guggenheim pitch called 364. The writer brought it to Imagine Entertainment, and it already has Ron Howard attached to direct....

Script Deals: John Scott 3’s Teenage Zombie Spec ‘Maggie’ Back On The Market, Paramount Acquires Cop Thriller ‘L.A. Rex’ By Angie Han/April 12, 2011 9:00 am EST It was reported a few weeks back that Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov was set to produce John Scott 3’s teen zombie spec script Maggie, with title sequence designer Henry Hobson directing. Apparently, that’s not quite the case. Bekmambetov never actually closed the deal, and Maggie is now back on the market....

Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Ted’ Moves Up Into Vacant ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Slot June 29 By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2012 5:00 am EST Release schedules are so tight these days that if a studio sees a glimmer of light, they take it. Right after Paramount moved their huge action sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation out of its June 29 slot, Universal went ahead and pushed Seth McFarlane’s R-rated comedy Ted ahead two weeks into the void....

Sigourney Weaver Drops Plot Hints For ‘Avatar 2’ And ‘Ghostbusters 3’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 18, 2011 10:00 am EST John Singleton’s Taylor Lautner film Abduction opens next week and one of his co-stars, Sigourney Weaver, has been doing the interview rounds. Being as she was the female lead in the first two Ghostbusters films, and Ghostbusters 3 is always a topic of geek discussion, the legendary Aliens star is being bombarded with questions about the potential sequel....

Sundance Hit ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Set For June Limited Release By Angie Han/Feb. 22, 2012 8:00 am EST As for cinephiles abroad, while we don’t have all the details on international releases of the film just yet, there’s some good news for Spanish folks. Arthouse Golem Distribucion has just picked up all Spanish distribution rights to Beasts, in a deal with Toronto-based sales company eOne Films International. [Sources: Box Office Mojo Twitter, Variety]

There Will Still Be Another ‘Percy Jackson’ Movie, And Thor Freudenthal Will Direct By Russ Fischer/June 17, 2011 9:00 am EST We don’t know if the series will have staying power enough to adapt all five books in the first Percy Jackson novel series, much less the emerging sequel series, the second book of which will be published this year. But Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood) were hired to write a sequel earlier this year, and now Thor Freudenthal (Hotel For Dogs, Diary of a Wimpy Kid) has been hired to direct, taking over where Chris Columbus left off with the first film....

Twitter Speculation: Edgar Wright And Joss Whedon, Ant-Man And The Avengers By Peter Sciretta/April 16, 2010 12:13 pm EST There isn’t much to this story, just the screen capture included above. It is of a tweet from Edgar Wright, director of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the upcoming film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, that reads: I just met Joss Whedon for the first time. Speculation commence!...

VOTD: Sam Raimi’s Original ‘Spider-Man’ Trilogy In Six Minutes By Angie Han/July 6, 2012 2:30 pm EST Comic book adaptations may be a cinema staple these days, but when Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man opened a decade ago, Hollywood still wasn’t entirely sure about this whole superhero movie thing. In fact, it was in part thanks to the critical and commercial success of that movie that we’re in the middle of a costumed-hero glut at the moment....

Zach Galifianakis Books New Comedy With DreamWorks; Grills Steve Carell On ‘Between Two Ferns’ By Russ Fischer/July 29, 2010 10:30 am EST Everyone want to be in the Zach Galifianakis business these days. He’s in the DreamWorks film Dinner for Schmucks, which opens this week, and now the studio has bought a new pitch that is being set up as a starring vehicle for the comedian. Reply All will be written by Phil Johnston; he also wrote Cedar Rapids, the Ed Helms comedy that just finished shooting....

‘ATM’ Trailer: Two Guys, A Girl And A Killer By Russ Fischer/Jan. 6, 2012 10:30 am EST The first trailer has just been released, and while it doesn’t look like anything truly outstanding, ATM does look like the sort of movie I’d watch just to see where the story goes. Check it out below. So how do you get an hour or so worth of material out of three people trapped in that little room?...

‘Ghostbusters’ Gets ‘Inception’ Soundtrack By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 6, 2011 1:00 pm EST YouTube user Rothejfunk decided to create a modern-style trailer for Ivan Reitman’s classic sci-fi comedy Ghostbusters. The trailer uses Zack Hemsey’s “Mind Heist” score from the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception… And why not? It seems like every other Hollywood action movie is trying to copy this piece of music for their trailer releases (see Thor). The trailer re-edit is so good that Gizmodo speculates that “maybe we need Christopher Nolan to reboot Ghostbusters?...

‘Project X’ Review: A Music Video For High School Debauchery By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2012 2:00 pm EST Project X is Rated R for “crude and sexual content throughout, nudity, drugs, drinking, pervasive language, reckless behavior and mayhem – all involving teens.” And that’s not the half of it. Produced by Todd Phillips (The Hangover), Project X is a found footage music video for high school debauchery. It portrays an unattainable, highly illegal and completely insane portrait of what we’ve all only dreamt high school could be....