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Four More Join Judd Apatow’s ‘Knocked Up’ Spin-Off By Germain Lussier/June 7, 2011 7:30 pm EST It’s no secret that Judd Apatow likes to cast people over and over again in his movies. Large chunks of The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Funny People all feature the same actors, not to mention those populating the many films he’s produced too. His currently-untitled next directorial feature, rumored to be called This Is Forty, goes one step further, casting Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann as the exact same characters they played in Knocked Up....

Infographic: The Geek Zodiac Calendar By Germain Lussier/May 3, 2011 12:00 pm EST Numerous cultures and religions throughout the span of history have lived their lives based on a zodiac calendar. Established because of the measurable and cyclical movement of the constellations in the sky at different points throughout the year, peoples assign varied names to a rotating number of time periods, either by the year or month. Some are named after animals, others the stars themselves....

JJ Abrams’ Super 8 Gets A Release Date By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2010 2:00 pm EST The Steven Spielberg-produced J.J. Abrams-directed Super 8, which is shooting right now in West Virginia, has finally been given an official release date. Paramount Pictures will release the Amblin Entertainment/Bad Robot produced movie on… June 10th 2011 This is the same date as Universal’s Fast and the Furious sequel Fast Five and the Warner Bros romantic comedy Something Borrowed starring John Krasinski/Kate Hudson, a week following the release of Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, and a week prior to the release of Warner Bros’ big screen adaptation of the DC Comics property Green Lantern....

M. Night Shyamalan’s Next Project Revealed: ‘One Thousand A.E.’ Starring Jaden Smith By David Chen/Oct. 20, 2010 9:19 pm EST Say what you will about director M. Night Shyamalan, but the man knows how to stay busy and keep putting himself out there. Even though his last film, The Last Airbender, was destroyed by film critics everywhere, it went onto gross over $300 million worldwide, fueling speculation about a possible sequel....

Movie Trailer: ‘Barney’s Version’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2010 2:00 pm EST Sony Pictures Classics have released the movie trailer for Barney’s Version,an independent drama which premiered at the Venice/Toronto film festivals in September to mostly positive reviews. Based on Mordecai Richler’s prize-winning comic novel, the film stars Paul Giamatti as Barney Panofsky, a “hard-drinking, cigar-smoking, foulmouthed 65-year old hockey fanatic and television producer” who “reflects on his life’s successes and (numerous) gaffes and failures as the final chapters of his own existence come sharply into focus....

Promo Teaser Poster: David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis By Peter Sciretta/May 14, 2010 8:10 am EST A few days back it was announced at Cannes that David Cronenberg has cast Colin Farrell and Marion Cotillard for his upcoming adaptation of Cosmopolis. While making my morning rounds at the Cannes Film Festival this morning, I came across an early promo teaser poster for Cronenberg’s film. See the full art, after the jump. Cronenberg has adapted the novel himself....

Richard Branson To Acquire Christopher Columbus Movie With McG Attached To Direct By Germain Lussier/Oct. 17, 2010 9:11 pm EST Lately, the man dead set on selling space to millionaire tourists, Virgin Atlantic billionaire Richard Branson, has been getting into the movie business and he currently has his sites set on Columbus, a script by T.S. Nowlin. The 300-esque retelling of the Christopher Columbus story has McG attached to produce and direct and Branson is reportedly close to acquiring the script for his Virgin Produced film company, a joint venture with Relativity Media....

Ricky Gervais Will Voice Spy Dog In ‘Spy Kids: All The Time In The World’ By Germain Lussier/May 6, 2011 12:30 pm EST “Not only am I lending my voice to Spy Kids, but they can keep it. I’m sick of it.” That’s what Ricky Gervais had to say when it was announced he’d be voicing an “outrageous robot spy dog” named Argonaut in Robert Rodriguez’s fourth installment in the Spy Kids series, Spy Kids: All The Time In the World....

Sony Classics Gives ‘The Raid’ A New Trailer… And A New Subtitle By Russ Fischer/Feb. 23, 2012 11:00 am EST It is great that Sony Pictures Classics is releasing festival action fave The Raid, and doing so without making us wait a couple years. (You know The Weinstein Company would hold this one until 2015 or something similarly ridiculous.) So I can’t even give too much thought to the fact that the company has slightly retitled the movie....

Superhero Bits: Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man 3, Dredd, Man Of Steel, Black Panther, Damon Lindelof By Germain Lussier/June 7, 2012 12:00 pm EST Want to see some new footage both in front and behind the camera from The Amazing Spider-Man? Which companies will be making Man of Steel merchandise? Is Damon Lindelof getting his dream to write a Batman story? How does Gwyneth Paltrow look on the set of Iron Man 3?...

Superhero Bits: Iron Man, Man Of Steel, Chris Evans, Clark Gregg, Batman: Arkham City By Germain Lussier/Sept. 16, 2011 11:00 am EST A visibly exhausted Chris Evans talked to MTV about Stan Lee’s cameo in The Avengers. No spoilers here, just very tired comments about the awesomeness that is Lee. This blows my mind. It’s a 3D rendering of a Young Tony Stark by Brazilian artist Fabricio Campos, posted on Cool Vibe....

The Best Found Footage/Mock-Doc Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen By Jordan Hoffman/Feb. 2, 2012 9:31 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After film school I worked in the development offices of a New York-based production company for a few years, then did some solid Web 1.0 work at About.com. Then I made two independent films, both of which are good, neither of which made me any money....

The David O. Russell Script Will Not Be Used As ‘Uncharted’ Moves Forward By Russ Fischer/May 27, 2011 9:27 am EST Yesterday when I wrote about David O. Russell leaving Sony’s Uncharted, I mused about the possibility of the eventual film hewing much closer to the original games than his script had planned. That script was only tangentially related to the game, as it featured a family that is “a force to be reckoned with in the world of international art and antiquities … [a family] that deals with heads of state and heads of museums and metes out justice,” with the game’s hero, Nathan Drake, being one family member....

The JustifiedCast S3E08 - Watching The Detectives (GUEST: Joanna Robinson From Pajiba) By David Chen/March 8, 2012 8:53 pm EST Dave Chen chats with Joanna Robinson from Pajiba about this season’s eighth episode, “Watching the Detectives.” Just what type of ship is the S.S. Quarles anyway, and who will it take down in its whirlpool? Tune in to find out. E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at justifiedcast@gmail....

Trailer: AMC’s New Television Series Rubicon By Peter Sciretta/June 9, 2010 11:03 am EST AMC Television has released the first trailer for their new conspiracy theory series Rubicon. Let me first remind you that Rubicon is the third series AMC has ordered, and their track record so far is amazing: Mad Men and Breaking Bad. It looks to me like AMC might have another hit on their hands, and something very different than their other two series....

VOTD: Guess The Movie Studio Jingle By Germain Lussier/Aug. 17, 2012 2:12 pm EST Unless you pay a few extra dollars, chances are you spend a good amount of time in the theater before your movie starts. And if you go to the movies a lot, maybe you’ve made a game of this. Personally, I know I try to guess the movie trailer as quickly as possible and figure out the film’s production company before the text shows up....

Breakout Sundance Star Elizabeth Olsen Cast In ‘Buried’ Director’s ‘Red Lights’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2011 7:00 am EST One of the films getting the best notes so far at Sundance 2011 is the drama/thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene. It’s the breakout feature for actress Elizabeth Olsen (yes, younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley) who has now been cast in her next picture. She’ll appear opposite Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro and Cillian Murphy in Red Lights, from Buried director Rodrigo Cortes....

Bret Easton Ellis Won’t Adapt ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’, But ‘Cars 2’, ‘The Killing’, Or ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Scribes Might By Angie Han/Aug. 7, 2012 3:30 pm EST Plenty of high-profile actors and filmmakers have devoted time to deflecting Fifty Shades of Grey movie rumors in recent months, but one industry figure who’s made no secret of his burning desire to bring the S&M novel to life is Bret Easton Ellis....

Casey Affleck Admits Joaquin Phoenix Documentary Was Fake By David Chen/Sept. 16, 2010 2:31 pm EST Well, that was fun while it lasted. After months of speculation, actor/director Casey Affleck has finally come out and confirmed what many have suspected for a long time: the Joaquin Phoenix documentary, I’m Still Here, is fake, and not much more than one long, elaborate performance. The NYTimes has the story, and gives a few tantalizing quotes from an interview with Affleck....

By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2010 1:00 pm EST Clint Mansell is one of my favorite film composers working today, and has been since hearing his first work on Darren Aronofsky’s Pi. His incredible score for Requiem for a Dream has been re-purposed in countless trailers and commercials over the years. He has continued to work on Aronofsky’s projects over the years and his Tchaikovsky-inspired score for Black Swan is nothing less than brilliant....