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First Look: Green Lantern’s Power Battery By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 18, 2010 7:00 am EST Blake Lively, who plays love interest Carol Ferris in the upcoming big screen adaptation of Green Lantern, was on hand to present the 2010 Spike Scream award for “Most Anticipated Movie” to co-star Ryan Reynolds.But the fake award on the television award show isn’t what’s important here. Ryan accepted the award in front of a gigantic recreation of the movie version of Green Lantern’s Power Battery, the lantern-shaped device that intergalactic spacecops carry to recharge their super powers (photo via JustJared)....

First Look: Toby Jones As Alfred Hitchcock In ‘The Girl’ By Russ Fischer/March 20, 2012 12:00 pm EST Toby Jones is going to get a bit of good screen time this weekend as Claudius Templesmith in The Hunger Games. (Well, sadly, only a little bit of good screen time.) But we’ve got a new pic of Jones in one of his next projects: The Girl, a BBC TV movie written by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days), and directed by Julian Jarrold (Red Riding: 1974)....

James Cameron And Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Latest Collaboration: Politics By Germain Lussier/Oct. 28, 2010 5:30 pm EST On Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Facebook page Tuesday, he teased a brand new collaboration with the director who helped make him a star: James Cameron. With the current California governor’s term about ready to end, fanboy imaginations ran wild. True Lies 2? Terminator 4? Or possibly a role for Schwarzenegger in Cameron’s next two projects: Avatar 2 and 3?...

Jamie Blackley Cast In ‘300: The Battle Of Artemisia’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2012 7:00 am EST Briefly: The cast is shaping up for Noam Murro’s prequel to the unexpected blockbuster hit 300. The film, 300: The Battle of Artemisia, is scripted by Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel Xerxes, and we’ve had a couple major cast announcements in the past few weeks: Sullivan Stapleton is playing Greek warlord Themosticles; Rodrigo Santoro is returning to play the Persian leader Xerxes; and Eva Green will be the title character Artemisia....

John C. Reilly Joins Roman Polanski’s ‘God Of Carnage’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2010 3:15 pm EST The last time we checked in on God of Carnage, the adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s award-winning play to be directed by Roman Polanski, there were new cast additions and one minor casting mystery. The additions were Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz, who were all set to play three of the play’s four major characters....

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Triple Frontier’ Pushed To Fall 2011; Plans To Shoot A Smaller Feature First By Russ Fischer/Dec. 6, 2010 8:30 am EST Even before The Hurt Locker swept the late ‘09 / early ‘10 awards season, culminating with Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay wins, director Karthryn Bigelow and her co-producer and writer Mark Boal began work on another film. That picture, Triple Frontier (also briefly called Sleeping Dogs), has generated interest from major players like Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp....

Lisa Lampanelli Cast In David Chase’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Coming-Of-Age Movie By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 1, 2011 1:30 pm EST While appearing on the Howard Stern Show on Sirius/XM Satalite Radio, comedian Lisa Lampanelli revealed that she had been cast in Sopranos creator David Chase’s highly anticipated feature film project. The story has been kept under wraps, but Lampanelli gives us an interesting bit of info: she will be playing David Chase’s mother in the movie, because she believes this is a movie about Chase’s teenage years (I’m assuming that it might be inspired by his experiences, much like Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous)....

Logan’s Run Is Being “Devised And Shot” In 3D By Peter Sciretta/June 2, 2010 1:00 pm EST Silver says he would also like to shoot his in development adaptation of Lobo in 3D as well. Yeah, well isn’t that true of every movie in production these days? But much like Tron Legacy, Logan’s Run seems like a natural choice for a 3D presentation. “I’d like to make ‘Logan’s Run’ [in 3-D],” he said....

Mans Marlind And Bjorn Stein Set To Direct Fourth ‘Underworld’ Film By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2010 5:00 pm EST Who? You may not know the names Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein if you’re not (a) Swedish or (b) in the UK. The pair have made, among other things, the Swedish thriller Storm (2005), and the thriller Shelter (2009) with Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, which has hit territories including the UK and Japan, but not the US....

Movie Poster Round-Up: Resident Evil: Afterlife, Gulliver’s Travels, The Expendables, Entourage, Splice, The Hole And More By Peter Sciretta/June 1, 2010 3:00 pm EST It’s been a little while since our last movie poster round-up, so now is the time to check out all the new one-sheets that have hit your local multiplex and the interwebs. Posters include: the Jack Black fantasy comedy Gulliver’s Travels, the 3D video game sequel Resident Evil: Afterlife, a banner for The Expendables, the documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, the UK quad poster for Todd Solondz’ Life During Wartime, the Seventh Season of HBO’s Entourage, a Russian poster for Splice and an Italian poster for Joe Dante’s The Hole....

Movie Trailer: A Tense, Somewhat NSFW Look At ‘Red White & Blue’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2010 1:30 pm EST We just saw the nifty, Saul Bass-ish poster for the Fantastic Fest presentation of Red White & Blue, which is one of the four festival films that IFC Midnight is bringing to VOD this week alongside their FF showings. Now there’s a trailer for the film, and seeing the footage on display here makes the poster look like a very soft sell....

Must Watch: Kees Van Dijkhuizen’s Cinema 2010 By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 21, 2010 10:17 am EST It’s the follow-up to the successful Cinema 2009, which obtained almost a million views on YouTube. 60,000 film fanatics used it to reflect on their year of film on New Years Eve. It was also screened in front of over 300 directors, producers and distributors in Amsterdam. Cinema 2010 perfects what 2009 accomplished; a personal, stylish and extensive summary of a year in film....

New Iron Man 2 Clip: Tony Stark And Justin Hammer By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2010 12:22 pm EST MSN/Sky Movies has premiered a new 40 second clip from Iron Man 2 featuring Tony Stark’s interaction with Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell). Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is also featured and Leslie Bibb, reprising her role as Christine Everhart from the original film, makes a cameo. Gotta love Pepper’s “spread” dig at Everhart. Watch the clip now, embedded after the jump....

Oscar Isaac Cast Alongside Viggo Mortensen In Thriller From ‘Drive’ Screenwriter By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2012 4:30 pm EST The work of Patricia Highsmith has been good to kickstart a solid movie or two. Maybe you’ve heard of some of them: The Talented Mr. Ripley; The American Friend; Cry of the Owl; and a little one called Strangers on a Train. And even though some of her work has also lead to less impressive efforts, I’m always interested to see where a Highsmith movie goes....

Paranormal Activity 2 Teaser Trailer On Eclipse By Peter Sciretta/June 25, 2010 10:00 am EST Shock Till You Drop has learned that the first teaser trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 will be attached to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which hits theaters next week — on Wednesday, June 30th 2010.Tod ‘Kip’ Williams (The Door in the Floor) is directing the movie, and shooting began recently. The script is by Michael Perry. Oren Peli is producing; Akiva Goldsman is executive producer....

Post-Credits ‘Avengers’ Sequence For ‘Captain America’ Confirmed, Details Revealed By Angie Han/July 17, 2011 9:00 pm EST It’s become common for Marvel to include post-credits scenes in its films, particularly in movies connected to next year’s The Avengers. So it probably won’t come as a surprise that Captain America: The First Avenger, the last Marvel film leading up to The Avengers, will include a special sequence after its credits as well....

Roger Ebert’s Top 20 Movies Of 2011 By Angie Han/Dec. 20, 2011 9:30 am EST With just days to go until the end of 2011 (Where did the year go???), legendary film critic Roger Ebert has announced his top 20 movies of the year. Just as you’d expect from Ebert, his list runs the gamut from mainstream blockbusters to more obscure foreign or arthouse projects — with enough in the latter category to offer up some useful suggestions for your Netflix queue....

Spielberg’s New Show ‘Terra Nova’ Won’t Appear At Comic Con After All By Russ Fischer/July 14, 2010 5:35 am EST Without footage, the panel would have to be built on revelations about the story and ‘ongoing mythology’ of the show, which the writers don’t want to cough up. EW relates that producer David Fury says “If we talk about the more interesting aspects of the show now, we’re afraid we’ll ruin the surprise for the audience....

Steve Carell In Early Talks For Lisa Cholodenko’s ‘Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’ By Angie Han/April 10, 2012 5:00 am EST Oh Steve Carell, what aren’t you in talks for these days? Having recently wrapped Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Hope Springs, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone — and attached himself to Despicable Me 2, Foxcatcher, Lunatics, The Dogs of Babel, Conviction, and Magic Kingdom for Sale — SOLD!...

Warner Bros. Buys ‘Dinosaurs Attack Los Angeles’ Pitch From Break Media By Germain Lussier/May 1, 2012 11:00 am EST “It’s like Battle: Los Angeles, but with dinosaurs.” “Imagine the last act of The Lost World, but for an hour and a half.” These are just some of the sentences that might have been uttered in pitch meetings for Warner Bros. latest acquisition: a high concept film about “a rapidly evolving species of dinosaurs who attack modern Los Angeles....