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‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Writer/Producer Marti Noxon Working On Pixar Feature By Russ Fischer/Oct. 22, 2012 2:00 pm EST Marti Noxon is best known for her work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she wrote a couple dozen episodes and quickly rose through the producer ranks, to the point where she was the showrunner for the show’s last two seasons. She’s worked on other shows as well: Mad Men, Grey’s Anatomy, Angel, and Glee among them....

By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2011 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The amazing thing here might just be that we’re reporting on a long-gestating project with Brad Pitt attached, and the news is not that he has moved on. But that would be a massive blow, as World War Z is shooting now, and will continue to roll cameras through the summer. Given that it is a big event movie with Brad Pitt in the lead, finding a couple actors to fill out these two roles shouldn’t take long....

‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Concept Art Discovered At Disney’s Hollywood Studios By Germain Lussier/Aug. 23, 2012 2:14 pm EST If you’re reading this story, you’re probably interested in Disney’s upcoming video game-inspired film Wreck-It Ralph. And you should be. The film, directed by Rich Moore, follows a video game bad guy named Ralph (John C. Reilly) who leaves his home game, Fix-It Felix Jr., and ventures out into the arcade to try and prove himself as a hero....

Armie Hammer Offers A Few Insights Into Clint Eastwood’s ‘J. Edgar’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 7, 2011 4:30 pm EST Clint Eastwood will soon be shooting J. Edgar, with Leonardo DiCaprio starring as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and Armie Hammer (The Social Network) as his right hand man and rumored lover, Clyde Tolson. We haven’t known a great deal about the film, but now Mr. Hammer has talked a bit about the film, letting us know a bit of what we can expect to see....

Casting: Olivia Wilde Joins Spike Jonze’s Latest, Brenton Thwaites Boards ‘Maleficent’ By Angie Han/May 31, 2012 5:00 am EST We’ve already got the villainess (Angelina Jolie), the young princess (Elle Fanning), her father (Sharlto Copley), and the three fairies (Imelda Staunton, Lesley Manville, and Juno Temple), and now, at long last, we have the prince. Young Aussie actor Brenton Thwaites has just boarded Robert Stromberg’s Maleficent, a Sleeping Beauty retelling seen from the perspective of its big bad....

Charles McDougall Signs To Direct Steve Carell In ‘Burt Wonderstone’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 24, 2011 3:30 pm EST Steve Carell has a bunch of possible projects in the works, and earlier this week he became attached to produce and star in an adaptation of the novel The Dogs of Babel. It looked then like that would definitely be his next film after his departure from The Office. And it still might be....

Cool Stuff: Real Life Lightsaber? By Peter Sciretta/June 14, 2010 5:00 pm EST I knew it was only a matter of time before science would allow for the invention of a real life Star Wars lightsaber. Of course, we aren’t quite there, but we’re getting close. Wicked Lasers took the direct blue laser diode components and made the world’s first 445nm direct blue diode laser, the Arctic — the world’s most portable laser....

By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2010 7:57 pm EST Production Weekly had a lot of late-breaking casting info at the end of this past week. Among the brief missives was a note that Tron Legacy star Garret Hedlund is in talks to play Dean Moriarty in an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road, to be directed by Walter Salles. A film version of Kerouac’s novel has been in the works for years, after Francis Ford Coppola optioned it in the late ’70s....

Hugh Jackman Is Very Excited For ‘The Wolverine’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2011 11:30 am EST After the debacle that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, from the online leak to terrible reviews and more, it’s pretty easy to understand why Hugh Jackman is so excited about The Wolverine. He’s reuniting with his Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky, he’s got a script by Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie and that script is based on a tight, focused, critically acclaimed Wolverine story by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller....

Hunter Parrish, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth And Others Up For Major Roles In ‘The Hunger Games’ By Angie Han/March 25, 2011 7:30 pm EST Now that Jennifer Lawrence has officially been cast in the lead role of Katniss Everdeen, it’s time to fill in some of the other major parts for The Hunger Games. Casting has begun in earnest for the roles of Peeta Mellark, a fellow Hunger Games competitor who has feelings for Katniss, and Gale Hawthorne, Katniss’ best friend from home....

Iron Man Screenwriters Hired To Write ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 20, 2010 12:29 am EST Paramount Pictures have finally announced screenwriters for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie which has been in development Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes. HeatVision has learned that Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway have been hired to write the new movie adaptation. The screenwriting duo also has credits on Punisher: War Zone, and in development versions of Highlander and Buck Rogers....

Jackass 3.5 Headed To Theaters? By Adam Quigley/Oct. 19, 2010 6:49 am EST Jackass 3-D rocked box office expectations this past weekend by nearly equaling the total grosses of each of the past two Jackass films within three days of its release, and in typical Hollywood fashion, Paramount is looking at other means to capitalize on their investment. Jackass figurehead Johnny Knoxville already announced plans of a Jackass 3.5 release, which was set to hit the web and DVD a month or so after Jackass 3-D’s theatrical run, but now it looks as though Paramount wants to take the left-over footage from the gang’s 3-D outing and repackage it for a theatrical release all its own....

Mel Gibson’s Viking Movie Is Not Dead By Russ Fischer/Jan. 31, 2012 5:00 pm EST We just got a look at Get the Gringo, an action film that Mel Gibson co-wrote, financed and starred in. But fans undeterred by the actors offscreen actions might still be hoping for an update on another movie that was announced right around the same time Gibson started work on Get the Gringo. That other project was a Viking epic, and a film for which Gibson said he wanted to work partially in a bygone version of the Norse language....

Minor Accident During Production Of ‘The Hobbit’ Injures Two By Germain Lussier/May 24, 2011 12:30 pm EST If someone tells you Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit is blowing up, they might mean it literally. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, via the New York Times, an explosion occurred Tuesday in one of the production workshops of the fantasy prequel, resulting in minor injuries to two people. The fire department was on the scene at Stone Street Studios in Wellington, New Zealand, where production is taking place, and the two people were taken to the hospital....

Page 2: Back To The Future, Tintin, Mars Attacks, Gatchaman, Firefly, Star Wars, Forbidden Planet, Home Alone, Labyrinth, Totoro, Jaws, Big Lebowski By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: “The Adventures of Doc and Einy” Tintin/Back to the Future mash-up t-shirt. Vanity Fair explains Why Mad Men Almost Didn’t Return for a New SeasonPlush DeLorean Time Machine.IO9 wonders if Game of Thrones season two live up to season one?...

Page 2: Star Wars, WALL-E, Lone Ranger, Game Of Thrones, Pulp Fiction, Misery, Big Lebowski, Harry Potter, Matrix, Miyazaki, Breaking Bad, Wes Anderson, Tron, Steven Spielberg By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 3, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Pod Racer Stroller How Cinephiles Are Failing Cinema (via)Temple of Gloom: Why is the second Indiana Jones movie so dark? You Look Like EVE From Wall-E: A Glowing Cockroach 7 Performers Who Made Us Change Our Minds This Year…Damn ThemWe Need To Reboot The MPAAJerry Bruckheimer announced that The Lone Ranger filming is “almost a wrap"What Happened to Sports Movies for Kids?...

Paul Haggis Adds Mila Kunis, James Franco, Casey Affleck To ‘Third Person’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 22, 2012 11:01 am EST Briefly: Paul Haggis is looking to follow his thriller The Next Three Days with a drama called Third Person, and he is assembling an impressive cast for the film. Offers are out to Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde (both of whom had small roles in The Next Three Days) and now Haggis says the production is also in talks with Mila Kunis, Casey Affleck, James Franco and Moran Atias to fill out the rest of the film’s major roles....

POTD: Jackass, The Modern Day 3D Stooges By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2010 7:00 am EST Vanity Fair has an article on Jackass 3D titled “The 3-D Stooges”, asserting that Johnny Knoxville, Steve O., and Bam Margera are a modern day version of The Three Stooges. They even did a photoshop to illustrate the point. Read the full article on VanityFair.com. View more from the photoshoot in one of those annoying slideshows....

Prepare Yourself For ‘Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: The Movie’ By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2011 6:00 pm EST Macy’s has already made a mark on film culture thanks to movies like Miracle on 34th Street, and draws millions of viewers every Thanksgiving Day for a parade in which giant inflatable characters are towed through the canyons of New York City streets. Additionally, there is a commercially thriving subgenre of films in which inanimate objects come to life in comedic and vaguely threatening ways....

Steven Spielberg Near A Deal To Shoot “Gritty” Moses Biopic ‘Gods And Kings’ In 2013 By Russ Fischer/Jan. 25, 2012 11:40 pm EST Steven Spielberg and Warner Bros. have been doing a slow dance towards one another over the last couple months. The film potentially bringing the two parties together has been the Moses biopic Gods and Kings, which may turn out ot be a lot more like Saving Private Ryan than we would have previously expected....