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Holy Rollers Trailer: Jesse Eisenberg Deals Drugs And Drama By Russ Fischer/April 8, 2010 6:57 pm EST One of the many Sundance debuts this year was Holy Rollers, from first-time feature director Kevin Asch. It features Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Ari Graynor and Q-Tip in the seemingly unlikely story of a young man (Eisenberg) who is drawn by a neighbor (Bartha) into a scheme to smuggle ecstasy into the US. Now there’s a trailer for the picture, which First Independent Features will release in May....

Hugh Grant Says He Plays Six “Incredibly Evil” Characters In ‘Cloud Atlas’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 15, 2012 11:00 am EST And this is part of why I positioned Cloud Atlas, written and directed by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, as my second most-anticipated film of 2012. Let’s run through the basics again, for those who are just joining in: One film. Two parallel film units with three directors shooting six interconnected stories....

Jon Favreau Explains His Decision To Not Direct ‘Iron Man 3’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 14, 2010 7:03 pm EST Tuesday’s most polarizing piece of news was the fact that Jon Favreau would not be directing Iron Man 3. On his Twitter, Favreau said “It’s true, I’m directing Magic Kingdom, not Iron Man 3. I’ve had a great run with Marvel and wish them the best.” But Twitter can only say so much....

Justin Lin Attached To Direct ‘Lone Wolf And Cub’ By Russ Fischer/March 27, 2012 3:30 pm EST Kazuo Koike’s long-running manga series Lone Wolf and Cub, which follows Ogami Itto, a ronin who travels the Japanese countryside carrying his toddler son Daigoro in a weapon-laden baby carriage, is a perennially-popular piece of comic book storytelling. In the ’70s it generated a famous six-film series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama, with several of the films produced by his brother Shintaro Katsu (Zatoichi) and directed by Kenji Misumi....

Kung Fu Panda Sequel Casts Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michelle Yeoh, And Victor Garber By Russ Fischer/May 25, 2010 6:18 pm EST What a strange cast! Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, the sequel to the 2008 DreamWorks animated adventure film, has just added three actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michelle Yeoh, and Victor Garber. The idea of Yeoh and Van Damme being in the film is entertaining, but when it will be only as voice actors?...

Lee Daniels Developing ‘Anna In The Tropics’ As Directorial Possibility By Russ Fischer/Dec. 14, 2010 11:30 am EST Well, it’s better than remaking Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria. Lee Daniels is still riding a wave of influence inexplicably generated by Precious, and he continues to accrue possible directorial projects. While it appears that he’ll make The Butler next, with Civil Rights project Selma falling by the wayside, the filmmaker is signing on for other films to make down the road....

Lost Director Jack Bender In Line To Direct New Jack Ryan Movie, ‘Moscow’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 2, 2010 1:30 pm EST For the past couple months, a shortlist has been going around of possible directors for Moscow, Paramount’s new film / reboot of the film series featuring Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character. (Chris Pine stars as Ryan this time out.) The names were generally all big: Sam Raimi, Gore Verbinski, Timur Bekmambetov and Kevin MacDonald, for example....

Movie Trailer #2: ‘The Tourist’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2010 7:40 pm EST Columbia Pictures has released a second movie trailer for Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Tourist, starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp and co-stars Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell and Timothy Dalton. The first trailer was released a few years back, and Russ called it “entertaining in a fluff sort of way.” Watch the new trailer after the jump. And please leave your thoughts in the comments below....

Movie Trailer #2: Saw 3D By Adam Quigley/Sept. 10, 2010 6:00 am EST A teaser trailer showed brief snippets of some of the traps that have been given the 3D treatment in this seventh and final entry into the Saw series, and now Lionsgate has provided a better look. Check out the full trailer for Saw 3D after the break. Yahoo! Movies has the trailer, which you can find below. I stopped watching the Saw films once they decided to keep them going after the third (supposedly final) entry, but this trailer still managed to pique my interest for about 30 seconds....

Movie Trailer: Little Fockers By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2010 5:15 pm EST Not much to say here — Little Fockers is the third film in the unlikely series spawned by Meet the Parents. The upside is that, based on this trailer, the movie seems to be slightly less about the children of Ben Stiller’s character than you might guess. The downside is that, based on this trailer, the movie looks like another couple hours of watching Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro make antagonistic eyes at one another....

Movie Trailer: Vanishing On 7th Street By Russ Fischer/Aug. 18, 2010 8:11 am EST Brad Anderson’s new film Vanishing on 7th Street was just added to the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival, and now we’ve got a trailer for the horror / suspense film that stars Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, John Leguizamo and Jacob Latimore. STYD has the trailer, and there are definitely elements of Brad Anderson’s earlier film Session 9 in this one — the tunnel with the lights stands out, for example....

New Photo From ‘Your Highness’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 20, 2010 11:00 am EST Here’s a new image from David Gordon Green’s Your Highness, which shows off the core cast of Natalie Portman, Danny McBride, James Franco and Zooey Deschanel. The ‘all audiences’ trailer for the film will hit tomorrow (we’ve seen a red band trailer already) so consider this a little advance look. USA Today has the image, but doesn’t offer too much info that will be new to those who’ve been following the film’s development....

Page 2: Breaking Bad, Community, Vacation, Point Break, Star Trek, Will Ferrell & Zach Galifianakis, The Shining, Prometheus, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Zoolander By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 7, 2012 8:00 am EST What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more....

Page 2: Goonies, Arrested Development, Stanley Kubrick, Star Wars, Trey Parker, Harry Potter, Prometheus, The Neverending Story, Steve Martin, Community, Aaron Sorkin By Peter Sciretta/June 26, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Goonies street art 5 Pixar movies we just can’t love. The Chewbacca Glass Pipe Back to the Future co-writer Bob Gale’s restoration of the “A” Delorean Time Machine from Back to the Future will be housed and on display at “a new indoors facility at Universal Studios Hollywood”....

Snoop Dogg To Star As Musician/Pimp In Blues Biopic, Family Man In Don Reo Sitcom By Angie Han/Sept. 16, 2011 1:00 pm EST Superstar rapper Snoop Dogg looks to be beefing up his acting resume with two very different new roles. The first is The Legend of Fillmore Slim, a biopic of the blues musician and erstwhile pimp; the second, an untitled family sitcom by Blossom creator Don Reo in which Snoop Dogg will play the father....

Toy Story 3 Becomes Highest Grossing Animated Movie Of All Time By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 13, 2010 4:00 pm EST Earlier this week, Toy Story 3 surpassed Finding Nemo to become the highest grossing film in Pixar history. Today Lee Unkrich’s sequel has passed another major milestone, becoming the highest grossing animated film of all time. The film has grossed more than $920 million worldwide, surpassing DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek 2 ($919.8 million worldwide) for the title....

VOTD: Stop Motion ‘Toy Story’ Space Adventure By Germain Lussier/Sept. 2, 2011 5:00 pm EST The Pixar movies have spawned a multi-billion dollar merchandising bonanza. And as kids know, in toy form these characters aren’t limited to playing their specific roles from the movies. Want some of the Cars to have different paint jobs and guns? That can happen. Want the Monsters Inc. monsters to be cuddly and cute instead of scary?...

WTF: Billionaire Rumored To Be Planning Real-Life Jurassic Park With Dino DNA By Angie Han/Aug. 3, 2012 6:00 am EST Clive Palmer wouldn’t be the first person to wish he could live in a James Cameron or Steven Spielberg flick long after the credits roll. As a billionaire businessman, however, he may be one of the few with the funds to actually make that dream a reality. The noted eccentric revealed earlier this year that he was working on a replica of the RMS Titanic, to set sail in 2016 as a floating casino, and now rumor has it he’s got his sights set on a real-life Jurassic Park....

‘Attack The Block’ Gets U.S. Release Date - July 29 By Germain Lussier/June 10, 2011 3:18 pm EST Rejoice, Blockheads! After months and months of hearing nothing but positive things about Attack the Block, Joe Cornish’s alien invasion nostalgia action film, (sounds like something else, no?) Screen Gems is finally releasing it in the United States on July 29. It’ll be a platform release, however, so expect to see it hit screens outside of New York and Los Angeles sometime in August....

‘Brotherhood Of The Wolf’ Director To Make ‘Beauty And The Beast’ Starring Vincent Cassel And Lea Seydoux By Russ Fischer/Feb. 10, 2012 9:00 am EST Just over ten years ago, French director Christophe Gans got a lot of attention for helping raise global awareness of Monica Bellucci when he cast her in his movie The Brotherhood of the Wolf, inspired by centuries-old stories of beasts raiding the French countryside. He has only made one film since: Silent Hill, which received a much more chilly reception than did Brotherhood....