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Warner Bros. Rumored To Be Searching For ‘Man Of Steel’ Sequel Writers By Germain Lussier/Nov. 15, 2011 4:30 pm EST As Zack Snyder is hard at work once again making us believe a man can fly, rumor has it Warner Bros. is already flying towards a follow up. Man of Steel, Snyder’s Superman reboot starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon and Russell Crowe is still filming in Vancouver aimed at a June 14, 2013 release date....

Weinstein’s Developing ‘Finding Neverland,’ ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ And Others For Broadway By Germain Lussier/March 30, 2011 3:00 pm EST Has Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark taught us nothing? Sure, the show making money (for now) but one would think all of the negative reactions would make producers wary of adapting popular properties that need extensive wire work for the stage. Not Bob and Harvey Weinstein. The New York Observer reports the pair are actively developing musicals based upon Finding Neverland, Chocolat, Cinema Paradiso and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon....

‘Attack The Block’ Red-Band Trailer Gives You Reason To Believe By Russ Fischer/June 16, 2011 6:00 am EST The second round of US promo screenings for Joe Cornish’s tremendously entertaining ‘kids versus aliens’ movie Attack the Block took place tonight, and timed accordingly there is also a new red-band trailer for the movie. In the film, a small group of foul-mouthed South London council flat hooligans run afoul of alien beasts that rain from the sky....

‘Attack The Block’ Trailer: “You’d Be Better Off Calling The Ghostbusters, Luv” By Russ Fischer/March 3, 2011 9:30 am EST We’re going to see a lot of alien attacks onscreen this year. One of the standouts could be Attack the Block from Joe Cornish, which shows what happens when beasties from outer space make their Earth landing near a South London council estate — i.e. the projects. There is some reason to expect good stuff here, as Joe Cornish is a long-time associate of Edgar Wright and was the director’s writing partner on the screenplays for Tintin and Ant Man....

‘Dumb And Dumber’ Sequel Gets A Title, Farrelly Brothers Offer Update By Germain Lussier/Sept. 26, 2012 1:00 pm EST They may be dumb but they’re not stupid. Nearly 20 years after its release, the 1994 hit Dumb and Dumber still remains a fan favorite. Quotes are regularaly thrown around, scenes referenced and a no-brainer sequel has long been discussed. Earlier this year, it seemed like the Farrelly Brothers were getting closer than ever, but then Jim Carrey dropped out of the film....

‘The Avengers 2’ Release Date Officially Set; Will Likely Have Subtitle By Germain Lussier/Aug. 16, 2012 10:30 am EST Briefly: As everyone surmised, The Avengers 2 will now officially open May 1, 2015. Written and directed by Joss Whedon, the film will likely return the current members of the team (Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner) and incorporate characters and storylines from Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and maybe even Ant-Man....

‘Thor’ Trailer #2 By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2011 4:01 pm EST Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures have released a second trailer for Thor. We’ve seen one trailer which was built from the same footage run last year at Comic Con, and then a Super Bowl commercial which rehashed that first trailer in a brief 30 seconds. This trailer is centered as much around Natalie Portman (she’s an Oscar nominee, remember) as it is around Chris Hemsworth, and even opens up with a pretty good joke....

‘Walking Dead’ Producer Gale Ann Hurd Developing CIA Series Based On Jeffrey Archer’s ‘Eleventh Commandment’ By Angie Han/Sept. 19, 2011 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Hurd already has plenty of experience developing action-oriented properties under her belt. In addition to The Walking Dead, her credits include the Terminator franchise, Aliens, and the recent Punisher and Hulk movies. She’s currently working on the pirate drama Port Royal, with Graham King’s (The Departed) GK-TV....

Alex Proyas Signs To Direct 3D Action Film ‘Paradise Lost’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 16, 2010 11:00 am EST The director of Dark City is ready to take a trip to the darkest city: Hell. Alex Proyas, who also directed I, Robot and Knowing, has signed on to direct Paradise Lost, a film based on the epic 17th century poem by John Milton. It’ll be produced by Legendary Pictures who has a production and financing deal with Warner Brothers....

Bill Murray And Angela Lansbury Check In At Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ By Angie Han/Sept. 25, 2012 3:30 pm EST Like most filmmakers, Wes Anderson has a few stars he likes to return to time and time again. But no one’s logged more time in Anderson’s genteel, impeccably art-directed universe than Bill Murray, who’s starred all but one (Bottle Rocket) of Anderson’s seven features to date. It should come as no surprise, then, that the pair are set to reunite once again, for Anderson’s upcoming The Grand Budapest Hotel....

Casting Bits: Jai Courtney Boards ‘One Shot’, Hugh Jackman Wants To Do ‘Glee’, ‘Highlander’ Star Clancy Brown Joins Untitled Ramin Bahrani Project By Angie Han/Sept. 30, 2011 1:30 pm EST The cast of Christopher McQuarrie’s One Shot has been filling up at lightning speed over the past month. Robert Duvall, Alexia Fast, Richard Jenkins, and David Oyelowo have all boarded the project within the last few weeks, and now comes news that Spartacus: Blood and Sand star Jai Courtney has signed on as well....

Chris Vance And Andrea Osvart Lead Cast Of ‘The Transporter’ TV Series By Russ Fischer/May 21, 2011 8:00 am EST Briefly: Cinemax’s TV version of The Transporter took a big step this week when the two leads were cast. Chris Vance, perhaps best known in the states for roles on Prison Break, Dexter and Burn Notice, is the new ‘professional transporter’ Frank Martin, played in three big-screen outings by Jason Statham....

Cool Stuff: Concert Posters For Fictional Bands By Germain Lussier/Oct. 25, 2010 1:00 pm EST While fictional bands like Spinal Tap get all the love, others like The Beets, Jesse and the Rippers, Drive Shaft and Dr. Funke’s 100% Natural Good Time Family Band Solution are regularly shunned. That’s probably because Spinal Tap actually performs while the others are composed of actors or animations in well known television series, but that doesn’t mean fans can’t subtly celebrate their love of Doug, Full House, Lost or even Arrested Development with these clever concert posters by Fernando Reza....

Does Disappointing Summer Box Office Have Studios Considering (Gasp!) Original Material? By Russ Fischer/June 15, 2010 11:21 am EST Box office returns are off this summer. Attendance is down 13% from last year, and even with 3D inflation pumping up a few films, overall revenue is off 7.5%. (And those numbers will probably get worse for June, thanks to the World Cup.) So studio execs, who would like to keep their jobs, are starting to get uneasy....

Felicity Jones To Star In Warren Beatty’s Howard Hughes Film By Germain Lussier/Nov. 15, 2011 6:00 am EST While most people are just now discovering the wonder that is Felicity Jones, I was lucky enough to be on the bandwagon a few months early. As a huge Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant fan, I went out of my way to see their tiny period comedy, and feature directorial debut, Cemetery Junction....

Fourth ‘Mission: Impossible’ Finds A Villain In ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Star Michael Nyqvist By Adam Quigley/Sept. 24, 2010 1:18 pm EST Tom Cruise already has his team of new and returning operatives set for the next as-of-yet-untitled Mission: Impossible movie—Jeremy Renner is his right-hand man, Paula Patton is a young female operate (can we expect a romantic entanglement of some kind? Probably), and Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg are returning to their former roles—but what good is a team of secret agents without an ambiguously European bad guy for them to take down?...

Gallery: ‘WALL-E’s’ Pal M-O Gets The Family Portrait Treatment By Germain Lussier/May 28, 2012 6:00 am EST Then at last weekend’s Hero Complex Film Festival (read the full recap here) Stanton told the above story and said he’d send out the images for the world to see. He has and they’re awesome, as you can see above. If you’re a Pixar fan, this gallery is insane. Check it out below....

Jennifer Lawrence To Star In ‘Savages’ For Oliver Stone By Germain Lussier/Feb. 10, 2011 7:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Deadline broke the news of this project which is being independently produced, though several studios are rumored to be interested in acquiring it. And why wouldn’t they be? Stone is a proven commodity, Lawrence is a rising star and Oscar-nominee with at least three big movies coming out this year (X-Men: First Class, The Beaver and Like Crazy) and no matter who Stone gets to play the two male roles, they’re sure to be marketable....

Jeph Loeb Reveals Scant Details About Plans For Marvel’s Television Future By Russ Fischer/July 5, 2010 10:41 am EST Marvel Studios recently announced the formation of a television entertainment division, and named comics writer and TV producer Joseph ‘Jeph’ Loeb as the EVP in charge of television production. Now Loeb is talking, in very vague terms, about his plans for the division. While he stops very far short of naming any specific ideas, his comments give a general idea of what we can expect to see from Marvel Television....

Jonathan Demme To Write And Direct Adaptation Of Stephen King’s Upcoming ‘11/22/63’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 11, 2011 5:36 pm EST The film and TV adaptation of Stephen King’s long novel series The Dark Tower may have stalled, but other King projects are moving full speed ahead. We just heard that Harry Potter screenwriter and director Steve Kloves and David Yates would team up to adapt the author’s giant tome The Stand, and now Jonathan Demme is getting in on the King action....