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Pirates 4, Cars 2 And Mars Needs Moms To Be Released In IMAX 3D By Peter Sciretta/June 23, 2010 11:47 am EST IMAX and Walt Disney Pictures announced today that the Robert Zemeckis-produced Mars Needs Moms starring Seth Green and Joan Cusack, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Pixar’s Cars 2, will all be released in IMAX 3D (in addition to the traditional 2D and 3D releases). Mars Needs Moms is not much of a surprise considering the movie is using the performance capture technologies of Zemeckis’ previous animated films, all of which have been released in IMAX 3D....

POTD: The Many Faces Of Gary Oldman By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 3, 2010 12:00 pm EST Artist Derek Eads has created an wonderful minimalistic infographic showing the many faces of actor Gary Oldman. No word on if prints will be made available, but if they are they will likely be on Eads’ screened shop. via: TDW POTD: The Many Faces Of Gary Oldman By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 3, 2010 12:00 pm EST...

Ray Wise Joins The Cast Of ‘X-Men: First Class’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 30, 2010 1:48 pm EST Briefly: Ray Wise is one of the more imposing actors around. Though he sometimes gets cast in middling fare, the man retains a powerful sense of presence and is always a welcome sight. Twin Peaks and RoboCop fans will never forget him, but there are a great many entertaining performances in his long career....

Roland Emmerich To Direct ‘Cloverfield’-Style Alien Invasion Movie, ‘The Zone’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2010 5:29 pm EST Here are two things that don’t naturally go together: Roland Emmerich and low-budget. Add in ‘secret’ and that’s three. Given the sort of films he generally directs, the idea of Roland Emmerich making a low-key film is about as plausible as Tim Burton developing a movie without Johnny Depp. But these things are coming together as Mr....

Roman Polanski Preps ‘God Of Carnage’ To Shoot Next Year By Russ Fischer/July 16, 2010 2:30 pm EST I imagine we’ll never again be able to post a Roman Polanski-related story without setting off a comment discussion about whether or not the end of his 2009-2010 arrest represents a strange miscarriage of justice. That’s appropriate, but this story isn’t about Polanski being set free by the Swiss, but of him going back to work....

Sam Claflin Officially Cast As Finnick Odair In ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 22, 2012 9:23 am EST The biggest piece of casting in the sequel to The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, has finally been officially confirmed. Sam Claflin, recently seen in Snow White and the Huntsman, will play Finnick Odair, the cocky, famous, good-looking former winner of the Games who not only forms a rocky alliance with Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), but quickly grows into a much more important role....

Sequel Casting: Joe Mazzello In ‘G.I. Joe 2;’ Joan Allen & Albert Finney In Talks For ‘The Bourne Legacy’ By Russ Fischer/July 26, 2011 5:02 pm EST Sequel news! Jon M. Chu is assembling the cast for G.I. Joe 2: Cobra Strikes like a kid lining up action figure purchases after Comic Con. (Too labored? Sorry. I’m trying to work out of that SDCC mentality.) He’s got Channing Tatum, Ray Park and Lee Byun-hun returning from the first film, and Dwayne Johnson, Ray Stevenson, Elodie Yung, Adrianne Palicki, Stephen Martines, D....

Seven New ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 1’ Banners By Germain Lussier/Oct. 7, 2010 8:00 am EST The beginning of the end is just over a month away and Warner Brothers just tweeted seven brand new character banners from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, which hits theaters on November 19th. Each banner features an expressive, shadowy close up of several of the main characters including our heroes Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley along with the Death Eaters Lord Voldemort, Fenrir Greyback, Bellatrix Lestrange and Severeus Snape....

Sheldon Turner Hired To Write ‘Big Tuna’ For Michael Mann By Russ Fischer/Dec. 7, 2010 11:05 am EST Another project that was recently discussed as a possible next feature for Michael Mann is Big Tuna, which is a gangster picture about Chicago mobsters Tony “Big Tuna” Accardo and Sam Giancana. And now Up in the Air screenwriter Sheldon Turner has been hired to script it. Back to Big Tuna, though, which Mr....

Sneak Preview: ‘Toy Story Land’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2010 9:00 am EST Disney is constructing Toy Story-themed lands in the Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong resorts. Pixar gives us a behind the scenes preview of these new theme park additions on the Toy Story 3 DVD/Blu-ray. Why is it that France and China get a Toy Story Land while California is stuck with A Bug’s Life Land and Cars Land?...

Soderbergh’s Knockout Retitled Haywire, Release Possibly Set For January 2011 By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2010 11:52 am EST Steven Soderbergh’s action thriller Knockout, starring MMA fighter Gina Carano and a hell of a supporting cast, has evidently been given a new title. The picture is now called Haywire, and looks to be set for release in January 2011 by LionsGate. The Playlist collated a set of tweets (from Soderbergh’s wife Jules Asner and Rich Eisen) that talk about one of the first screenings of the film....

VOTD: Saul Bass-Inspired ‘Dexter’ Animated Opening Sequence By Russ Fischer/Sept. 22, 2011 6:00 am EST Sometimes our buttons can be relatively easy to push. Saul Bass-inspired design often does the trick, and so it goes with this unofficial alternate opening sequence for Showtime’s Dexter. There may be a few places where this sequence is a bit rough, but overall it is a solid vision for the show’s opening credits that works in most of the major visual elements of the show’s early seasons....

Walter Hill Confirmed To Direct Sylvester Stallone In ‘Headshot’ By Russ Fischer/April 12, 2011 7:37 am EST A week ago, Wayne Kramer walked away from the director’s chair for the film Headshot, in which Sylvester Stallone is slated to star. Blame creative differences; in other words, there was a staredown over material and the star won, as tends to happen. Shortly afterward Sylvester Stallone wanted Walter Hill to step into the job as director, and that is now happening....

‘Celeste & Jesse Forever’ - Rashida Jones Finally Makes Herself The Leading Lady She Deserves To Be [Sundance 2012] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 22, 2012 2:00 pm EST If at first you don’t become a leading lady, write yourself a movie. It worked for Kristen Wiig and Bridesmaids and it should work for Rashida Jones, the lovable and talented co-star of Parks and Recreations, I Love You Man, The Muppets and about a billion other things we all enjoy....

‘Green Lantern’ And ‘Harry Potter’ Are Selling More 2D Tickets Than 3D Tickets By David Chen/June 17, 2011 4:30 pm EST In yet another sign that audiences are tiring of shelling out a few extra bucks at the theater for the latest crappy studio-enforced 3D upconversion, early sales data show that 2D ticket sales are outpacing those of 3D tickets for Green Lantern and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2....

‘Kidnapped’ Trailer [Updated] By Russ Fischer/May 24, 2011 5:00 pm EST We’ve run two trailers for the home invasion film Kidnapped in the past, but it’s possible that you’ve passed over them. In the past few weeks, however, the buzz among horror enthusiasts has risen steadily in relation to the film — it seems like every time I hit a site that covers films like Kidnapped there is someone writing with gusto about their reaction to the movie....

‘Margaret’ Trailer: Kenneth Lonergan Returns, But With A Whimper By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2011 10:30 am EST Scott Rudin, the late Sydney Pollack (who also appears in the film), Martin Scorsese and his editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, have all had a hand in trying to shape and edit the film over the years, as Lonergan struggled to cut the film into what he deemed acceptable form. That endless tinkering led to lawsuits and plenty of speculation about whether the film, which also stars Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, and Jean Reno, would ever see the light of day....

‘The Avengers’ Comes Back To Theaters Labor Day Weekend By Germain Lussier/Aug. 30, 2012 10:04 am EST Briefly: Marvel’s The Avengers is currently $40 million away from being the second highest grossing domestic film of all-time. However, playing on only 142 screens last week makes it damn near impossible to reach that mark. So with a weak set of films opening wide this weekend, Disney has decided to re-release Joss Whedon’s superhero epic for one week only, August 31 through September 6....

‘The Ides Of March’ Trailer And Poster By Russ Fischer/July 27, 2011 7:43 pm EST I’ll say this for the trailer for George Clooney’s new political drama The Ides of March: by the end I had no sense that I knew exactly where the movie is going. That’s a very good thing. Adapted from Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North, the film features Ryan Gosling as a young but influential press secretary who has to manage a political scandal as he navigates the tricky waters of a Presidential primary race....

Aaron Eckhart, Sean Bean And AnnaSophia Robb Join Dark ‘Peter Pan’ Project By Germain Lussier/May 10, 2011 2:30 pm EST As two Snow White films gear up to go into production, the next big fairy tale that’ll be racing to the big screen is Peter Pan. Several competing projects, all with slightly altered takes on the classic J.M. Barrie tale, are in various stages of development and now one seems to have jumped ahead of the pack....