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‘Prometheus’ Reports Include Minor New Casting And Rumored Alien Descriptions By Russ Fischer/April 21, 2011 3:00 pm EST Ridley Scott has been shooting Prometheus, his new film that is maybe or maybe not an Alien prequel — for a short time at the fabled Pinewood Studios. Security must be relatively tight because we’ve seen almost no spy pics since the shoot began, and the trickle of rumors about the film has been cut off as well....

‘Spider-Man’ Producer Announces ‘Metal Gear Solid’ Movie By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 30, 2012 1:05 am EST Sony has officially announced that they will be bringing Konami’s hit videogame franchise Metal Gear Solid to the big screen. Deja Vu? Yes, I did write this exact story in February 2007, but producer Michael De Luca never got it off the ground. This time the announcement was made to video game fans attending the Metal Gear Anniversary event in Tokyo....

‘Taken 2’ International Trailer: Liam Neeson Turns The Title Into A Tagline By Russ Fischer/June 21, 2012 9:00 am EST “Your mother is going to be Taken.” Gotta capitalize the ’t’ in that last word, as Liam Neeson gives his daughter (Maggie Grace) a one-line reason for this movie to exist. The Neeson of Taken is back, and his very particular set of skills has returned as well. You’ve probably heard of the original film, which cemented Neeson as an ass-kicker for the current generation of b-movie fans....

‘The Artist’ Star Jean Dujardin Joining Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ By Angie Han/June 14, 2012 12:30 pm EST Hugo director Martin Scorsese and The Artist star Jean Dujardin were probably rooting against each other at this year’s Oscars, when both of their films were up for Best Picture. But they could find themselves on the same side for the 2014 ceremonies. The French actor has just entered talks for The Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese’s adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s memoir about living it up as a hard-partying broker in the ’80s....

‘The Avengers’ Fan-Made Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2011 6:00 am EST Now that footage from Captain America: The First Avenger has been released, fans have begun to assemble (pun intended) their own movie trailer cuts for Marvel’s upcoming superhero team-up film The Avengers. New York City-based Yoko Higuchi has created the first fan-made trailer, a cut which incorporates footage from both Iron Man movies, The Incredible Hulk, the Thor and Captain America trailers/tv spots....

‘The Goonies’ Sequel Doubtful, But A Musical Is In The Works By Germain Lussier/Oct. 29, 2010 1:11 pm EST With all the 25th anniversary Back to the Future hoopla recently, one film that has been grossly overshadowed is The Goonies. The classic Richard Donner directed, Steven Spielberg produced adventure story is also celebrating its silver anniversary in 2010 with a brand new Blu-ray release on November 2. To commemorate the occasion, Warner Brothers held a special anniversary event on their lot in Burbank, CA and stars Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Jonathan Ke Quan, Robert Davi, Lupe Ontiveros, Joe Pantoliano as well as casting director Mike Fenton and Donner were on hand to discuss the film....

‘Twice Born’ Trailer: Penelope Cruz And Emile Hirsch Star In A Tale Of Motherhood And War By Germain Lussier/Sept. 5, 2012 2:58 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Thanks to Yahoo Movies for the trailer. In this haunting and sophisticated novel, Mazzantini masterfully probes the startling emotional territory of what makes a family-particularly what makes a mother. As the fate of Sarajevo converges with Gemma’s all-consuming desire to have a child we see how far she is driven, in a stunning revelation that is both heartbreaking and cathartic....

2010 Razzie Nominations Announced By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2011 10:56 am EST I’ll admit that I don’t have much appreciation for the Razzies. Nominating a film like Vampires Suck as worst of 2010 is accurate, but not all that interesting. Of course Vampires Suck is terrible. I’d rather just forget it, rather than give it a nomination for anything. And without the irony factor of Sandra Bullock being nominated for a Razzie and an Oscar in the span of 24 hours, this particular aspect of the awards race doesn’t have much zing....

AMC And Regal Pact To Acquire And Release Films By Russ Fischer/Feb. 11, 2011 10:00 am EST Is this the first stage of the return of the old studio system? Once upon a time studios didn’t just make films; they also distributed them in their own theaters. There’s a reason some cities still have old Paramount and RKO theaters kicking around. But that system died (and, in part, was killed off by a 1948 Supreme Court consent decree) leaving a fairly distinct separation between studios and exhibitors that has lasted for decades....

Cool Stuff: 250 Walt Disney Characters Size Comparison Infographic By Peter Sciretta/May 20, 2010 3:41 pm EST In April, we posted an awesome infographic created by Chilean-based graphic designer Juan Pablo Bravo showing “100 pixar characters” with their estimated sizes. Today Bravo has posted a follow-up, featuring 250 characters from Walt Disney Animated Films. The characters are shown grouped by movies in chronological order, with their respective names in english and spanish....

Danny Boyle’s ‘Frankenstein’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Feb. 23, 2011 2:30 pm EST Danny Boyle’s stage version of Frankenstein has been doing great business in London, and will soon have performances broadcast to cinema screens on March 17 and March 24. The play stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller, who switch between the roles of Doctor Frankenstein and the Monster each night. Here’s a trailer for the production which is a bit editing heavy, as it overlays each man’s performance over the other....

Forest Whitaker Likely To Be ‘The Butler’ For Director Lee Daniels By Russ Fischer/March 7, 2012 5:30 am EST A couple years ago, Precious director Lee Daniels went back and forth on the idea of filming the life of longtime White House servant Eugene Allen for the movie The Butler, or making a civil rights drama called Selma. In the end, he made neither, choosing instead to shoot The Paperboy with Zac Efron, John Cusack, Nicole Kidman and Matthew McConaughey, based on Peter Dexter’s novel of the same name....

Geek Deals: Bones Seasons 14- For $85, The O.C.: The Complete Series For $67 By Peter Sciretta/May 3, 2010 10:45 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

George Clooney Replaces Robert Downey, Jr. In Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 16, 2010 1:41 pm EST Briefly: The cast for Alfonso Cuarón’s 3D sci-fi space film Gravity has finally come down to Earth. After months of shuffling both the male and female leads, it seems that George Clooney will star opposite Sandra Bullock, replacing Robert Downey, Jr., who dropped out not long ago. Read more after the jump.The Hollywood Reporter broke the story of Clooney coming aboard the troubled production which had seen Angelina Jolie, Natalie Portman and others attached before Bullock....

Jeremy Renner Says ‘The Bourne Legacy’ Is “More Expansive And Bigger” Than Previous Bourne Movies By Russ Fischer/Nov. 22, 2011 9:30 am EST There’s a new Bourne movie planned for release less than a year from now: Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy, which features Jeremy Renner as a new killer agent trained by the same people who put Jason Bourne (Matt Damon, who won’t be in this film) into action....

John Cusack Cast In ‘Dictablanda’ By Russ Fischer/March 8, 2011 7:30 am EST Briefly: John Cusack has been lucky enough to enjoy more than one period of career high. He had career spikes in the early ’80s and a great run from the mid ’90s to 2000. The last decade hasn’t produced a High Fidelity, but it had some solid gigs. He keeps working and even taking unexpected roles, such as playing Edgar Allan Poe in The Raven, which is in post-production now....

Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster In Talks To Join Taylor Kitsch As Navy SEALs In Peter Berg’s ‘Lone Survivor’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 29, 2012 7:30 am EST In the wake of this weekend’s successful opening of the ‘real Navy SEALs’ movie Act of Valor, expect to see other similar movies go into action. While we wait to hear that Kathryn Bigelow is actually rolling on her movie about the SEAL Team 6 hunt for Osama Bin Laden, we’ve got word of another Naval special-ops adventure....

Natalie Portman Writing Sex Comedy ‘BYO’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 12, 2010 8:30 am EST Briefly: You might have missed the fact that Natalie Portman has a sense of humor that sometimes angles towards the goofy and lowbrow. She didn’t end up in Your Highness or those SNL videos by accident. She’s been producing for some time and is now reportedly shopping a sex comedy she scripted with Laura Moses. BYO (Bring Your Own) features, according to the LA Times, " two very different twentysomething women who, after finding themselves unlucky in love, decide to throw a party to which each female attendee brings an eligible bachelor....

New Mystery ‘Star Wars’ Project Coming: ‘Star Wars 1313’ By Germain Lussier/May 7, 2012 4:30 pm EST In recent months, the best way to keep on top of what’s going down at LucasFilm has been their domain registrations. It was there we first learned of Star Wars: Identities, a new traveling museum exhibit, and now the company has registered domains for something called Star Wars 1313. What is Star Wars 1313?...

New Predators Featurette By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2010 11:45 am EST I still think it’s hilarious how they put Rodriguez front and center, and Antal only chimes in a couple times. You would think that Rodriguez directed this film himself, and Antal produced it. But it makes perfect sense — Rodriguez is a natural salesman and knows how to sell a movie. Watch the three and a half minute video, embedded after the jump....