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Matthew Goode In Talks For Park Chan-Wook’s ‘Stoker’ By Germain Lussier/June 8, 2011 7:10 pm EST Newly-minted Oscar-winner Colin Firth following up The King’s Speech with a genre vampire movie always seemed like a stretch. Now, it turns out it was. But King George’s loss is Ozymandias’s gain as Matthew Goode, best known for playing the rich, evil member of the Watchmen, is now in talks to star in Stoker, the English-language debut of director Park Chan-wook....

Netflix Drops Qwikster Plan By Angie Han/Oct. 10, 2011 6:30 am EST Less than a month after Netflix unveiled a new plan to split off its DVD-by-mail service into a separate service called Qwikster comes news that the company has now reversed that very unpopular decision. In a blog post this morning, CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings announced that the company would be dropping the Qwikster idea entirely, and that DVD-by-mail would remain part of Netflix along with the streaming service....

New ‘Django Unchained’ Stills Feature Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, And Quentin Tarantino By Angie Han/May 28, 2012 2:00 pm EST If you weren’t lucky enough to be at Cannes when the first footage of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained hit, you’ll have to wait until Prometheus’ June 8 opening to check out the teaser. But we do have a peek at some new images from Tarantino’s “Southern-fried spaghetti Western” right now....

New ‘Ender’s Game’ Photos Show Ender’s Room And His Monitor By Germain Lussier/April 18, 2012 4:30 pm EST We all have our dream movies. Movies based on things we loved earlier in life that we never thought would see the light of day. The Avengers, out in a few weeks, is a big one. 2000’s X-Men is another, and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is probably the granddaddy of them all....

New Posters: ‘The Raven,’ ‘Haywire,’ ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ And More By Russ Fischer/July 22, 2011 5:00 am EST Quite a lot of new posters showed up on the internets during the first official day of Comic Con today, and there are a few good ones. The teaser poster for The Amazing Spider-Man isn’t high-res, sadly, and it basically repurposes a shot of Spidey’s back that we saw via EW last week....

Philip K. Dick’s ‘Now Wait For Last Year’ Optioned By Angie Han/Dec. 6, 2011 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Published in 1966, Dick’s novel unfolds in a future in which Earth has teamed up with the ‘Starmen, an alien race from planet Lilistar, in a war against another extraterrestial species known as the Reegs. An organ transplant doctor named Dr. Eric Sweetscent gets caught up in interstellar politics as he treats one of his patients, the elected leader of Earth....

Pixar’s ‘Dia De Los Muertos’ Film Focuses On Family By Germain Lussier/Aug. 3, 2012 2:30 pm EST Very little is known about Pixar’s upcoming film centered on the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos. Originally, all we were told is it would be helmed by Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich and be released in, or after, 2015. Next, the director revealed the film would explore the Mexican culture’s unique, celebratory view of death....

Possible Cast For Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Includes Reese Witherspoon, Amanda Seyfried, Emma Stone By Russ Fischer/June 1, 2010 10:04 am EST Despite the fact that Universal passed on financing the picture, Paul Thomas Anderson is still working on his next film The Master, about a man who creates a ‘faith-based organization’ that mushrooms into an empire in the ’50s. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jeremy Renner are on board, and now Anderson is working to cast some of the major female roles....

By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2010 2:59 pm EST A few years back, Roman Polanski and Robert Harris spent a lot of time developing Pompeii, which would have seen Polanski directing a script by both men based on Harris’ historical novel about the days leading to the ancient volcanic disaster. That film fell apart when the Screen Actors Guild threatened to strike — either because of possibility of the strike or other internal pressures or, most likely, a combination of both....

Sequel Bits: Disney Considering ‘Muppets’ TV Series, Plus: ‘Cloudy 2’, ‘Bill & Ted 3’, ‘Super Troopers 2’ By Angie Han/March 12, 2012 2:30 pm EST This edition of Sequel Bits is all about the third-greatest gift, laughter. After the jump: Alex Winter talks about the Bill & Ted 3 script Cloudy 2 gets a holiday release date Jay Chandrasekhar wants to move on Super Troopers 2 Disney considers ways to expand the Muppets franchise...

Short Film: Nash Edgerton’s ‘Spider’ And A Tease Of Its Sequel ‘Bear’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2012 6:30 am EST Spider, the short film by Nash Edgerton, isn’t exactly new. In fact, it’s pretty old. The IMDB lists it as 2007 but we’ve never posted it here on /Film. So, on the off chance you haven’t seen this fantastic short, now is the time. Edgerton, the brother of accomplished actor Joel Edgerton, co-wrote, starred in and directed this short before making the feature film, The Square....

The Town - What Did You Think? By David Chen/Sept. 17, 2010 8:24 pm EST Ben Affleck’s The Town opens today and brings with it some high expectations. Affleck’s first film, Gone Baby Gone, was widely regarded as an exceptionally strong directorial debut. For his sophomore effort, he returns to Boston with a bigger budget and an even more impressive roster of stars (not to mention a great trailer). Does The Town live up to its promise?...

Universal Says Goodbye To ‘Ouija’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 23, 2011 8:36 pm EST Back in May, a rumor broke on Twitter that Universal was halting pre-viz work and shutting down production on Ouija, the big budget, board game adventure film that was to be directed by McG and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Inquires to Universal at the time denied this rumor and we didn’t run the story. Turns out that was most likely the final few gasps of breath before the true ending....

Video: The Making Of Mattel’s ‘Back To The Future’ Hoverboard Replica By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2012 2:30 pm EST I know what you’re thinking and you’re right. There have been a lot of Hoverboard posts here on the site in the last few weeks. My response to that, is, can there ever be enough? The Back to the Future Part II (and Part III, spoiler alert) prop is arguably the most discussed and desired in modern movie history and the company who “made” the one in the movie is finally, actually, making it....

Video Game Series ‘Deus Ex’ May Move To The Big Screen, Thanks To CBS Films By Russ Fischer/July 10, 2012 9:00 am EST Yesterday the big news was that Michael Fassbender will star in and produce a film based on the Assassin’s Creed game series. That led to hopes that Assassin’s Creed could become the first movie based on a video game that has any merit beyond the base spectacle of recreating game situations with real actors....

Viola Davis Eyeing Political Biopic About Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, ‘Don’t Be A Menace’ Director Paris Barclay To Helm By Angie Han/March 9, 2012 12:00 pm EST Viola Davis may have lost the Oscar to Meryl Streep in one of the few upsets at this year’s ceremony, but it appears she’s taking a page out of Streep’s book for her next leading role. Davis is eyeing a role in her own political biopic, about Congresswoman Barbara Jordan....

VOTD: Six Seasons And Four Minutes Of Hurley Saying “Dude” By Peter Sciretta/May 12, 2010 8:00 pm EST Hurley from Lost sure does say “dude” a lot. Jezebel decided to edit every single “dude” from the six seasons of Lost thus far into one video montage. The clip, which lasts nearly four minutes, can be found embedded after the jump. VOTD: Six Seasons And Four Minutes Of Hurley Saying “Dude”...

Wesley Snipes To Star With Huge Collection Of Fighters In ‘Master Daddy’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2010 2:00 pm EST Wesley Snipes may have high aspirations to do his own film about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the way that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI attempted to control and/or discredit the civil rights movement. But don’t think that Mr. Snipes isn’t going to keep making regular old movies. He’s got a tax bill to pay, after all....

‘47 Ronin’ Pushed Back Yet Again, To Christmas 2013; New Dates For ‘Jurassic Park 3D’, ‘R.I.P.D.’, ‘Rush’, And More By Angie Han/Aug. 15, 2012 11:00 am EST 2013 won’t even start for another four months, and Universal’s already shaking it up. The studio just announced a slew of scheduling changes for next year, some minor and some not so minor. The most significant shift is the one for Carl Erik Rinsch’s 47 Ronin, which you may recall was originally scheduled to open this fall before Universal moved it into February 8, 2013....

‘Beautiful Creatures’ Trailer: Alden Ehrenreich And Alice Englert Aim To Be The New Edward And Bella By Angie Han/Sept. 21, 2012 11:48 am EST Speculation over which YA property would become the next Twilight has been swirling for some time now — since the first film hit theaters in 2008, really. But with the beloved vampire series finally poised to come to a close this fall, the timing is now more ripe than ever for some other pair of star-crossed paranormal teenager lovers to swoop in and take Edward and Bella’s place....