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Lionsgate Stays In The Jennifer Lawrence Business, Has Actress In Talks For Gossip Columnist Memoir Adaptation By Russ Fischer/April 23, 2012 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Now Lionsgate, the studio which just enjoyed The Hunger Games being number one at the box office for a month straight, has Lawrence in talk for a film that will see her playing an oddly similar character....

LOL: No One Likes M Night Shyamalan By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 9, 2010 12:00 pm EST The world seems to have gotten tired of M Night Shyamalan’s films and the filmmaker does not understand why. College Humor has created a faux movie trailer for a Charlie Kaufman-esque film starring M Night as himself, trying to figure out the big twist t the end of his career. What could it be? Watch the trailer after the jump....

Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks Joins Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’ By Adam Quigley/Sept. 9, 2010 7:00 am EST Drive is shaping up to be one of my most anticipated movies of the coming years, and most of that anticipation is based strictly on the casting. The actor line-up so far includes Ryan Gosling in the lead role, Carey Mulligan (An Education) as a potential love interest, Albert Brooks as the antagonist, and Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston in an unknown role....

Magnet Picks Up ‘The Troll Hunter’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 18, 2010 2:30 pm EST The trailer for André Ovredal’s film The Troll Hunter got a great reception when we ran it not long ago. The film was a hit at Fantastic Fest and has done well at other festivals as well. Not difficult to imagine why, if the feature follows through on the promise of the trailer. Now Magnolia’s genre arm Magnet will release the film, after picking up worldwide rights to the picture....

Next Addition To ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter:’ Jimmi Simpson By Germain Lussier/Feb. 25, 2011 3:15 pm EST Seems like Timur Bekmambetov has just about filled all of his leads for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The 3D adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel featuring the 16th President as a deadly vampire killer stars Benjamin Walker as Honest Abe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as his wife Mary Todd, Anthony Mackie as Secretary of State William Seward, Dominic Cooper as vampire-killing mentor Henry Sturges and now he’s cast Jimmi Simpson as Josh Speed, Lincoln’s friend and personal assistant....

Paul Reubens Says Pee-Wee Herman Film Will Be Based On All-New Script By Russ Fischer/July 1, 2010 12:14 pm EST When news broke last night that Judd Apatow is producing a new Pee-wee Herman film to be written by Paul Reubens and Paul Rust, I speculated that this might be one of the two Pee-wee scripts Reubens has talked up over the past few years. But comments from someone who saw a recent Reubens Q&A suggested that this is an all-new, third script....

Peter Tolan’s ‘Baywatch’ Movie Script Is “Not Based On The Show In Any Way” By Angie Han/Sept. 16, 2011 1:30 pm EST The last time we reported on the Baywatch movie, Russ wrote that he hoped it would “just dry up and go away.” For a while, it seemed he’d gotten his wish, as the project didn’t seem to be making much progress. But it’s back now, with a script newly rewritten by Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan....

Plot Details On Oft-Rumored ‘Eastern Promises’ Sequel By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2012 1:00 pm EST For the last couple years there have been rumors of a possible sequel to Eastern Promises, the film from David Cronenberg that starred Viggo Mortensen and Vincent Cassel as members of the Russian mafia in London. While early reports today suggested that David Cronenberg won’t direct, despite the fact that he was talking of doing so for some time....

Red-Band Trailer For David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Playing Overseas; US Version Next Week By Russ Fischer/May 25, 2011 10:32 am EST I’m not a big fan of reporting on the imminent arrival of a trailer, but I’m curious enough about David Fincher’s new version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo that I’ll make an exception. Deadline reports that Sony has released a red-band trailer in Europe this week, which will be playing only in theaters there....

Robert Zemeckis Won’t Direct A ‘Wizard Of Oz’ Remake For Warner Bros. By Russ Fischer/Nov. 18, 2010 6:00 am EST Whew. The last thing fans of Robert Zemeckis want is to see him wasting time remaking The Wizard of Oz. That was a reported project just a day ago — and the report was that the studio wanted Mr. Zemeckis for the film, not that he had signed for it — but EW has a statement from his representative saying that the director will not be taking on the project....

Russell Crowe And Helena Bonham Carter In Talks For ‘Les Miserables’, Release Date Announced By Angie Han/Sept. 9, 2011 7:00 am EST A few interesting bits of news about Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables adaptation have surfaced today. One, it seems the project has found a couple of villains in previously rumored stars Russell Crowe and Helena Bonham Carter. And two, we finally know when, exactly, we can expect to see the finished product....

Seth Green To Launch ControlTV, Giving You Control Of The Reality Television Series By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 1, 2010 8:00 am EST With the surge in reality television programing over the last decade, I’m surprised we have yet to see anything like EDtv of to a very extreme extent, The Truman Show. Sure, we’ve been let inside the family lives of celebrities, have gone to a deserted island with a strangers trying to survive, and have numerous shows which follow the going-ons of groups of friends from Hollywood to the Jersey Shore....

Superhero Bits: X-Men First Class Shoots In Three Weeks; The Avengers To Be Shot In 3D; Edgar Wright Calls Ant-Man A “High-Tech Spy Heist Film”; Karl Urban Confirmed As Judge Dredd By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2010 8:43 am EST Got a pack of small comic book to film stories to throw out today. First, X-Men: First Class co-writer Jane Goldman says that First Class is shortly to go before cameras. At Movie Con this weekend, Goldman said “I watched a bunch of pre-viz yesterday and went home feeling so excited....

Taylor Lautner To Produce, Star In Gus Van Sant’s Next Project By Angie Han/Nov. 2, 2011 9:00 am EST For a while there, it looked like Taylor Lautner was going to make his name as a young action star, landing high-priced deals in projects like Stretch Armstrong. But after the critical and commercial disappointment of Abduction, Lautner is now exploring a different path. The Twilight star is finalizing a deal to produce and star in auteur director Gus Van Sant’s next directorial effort, a small-budget picture based on a New Yorker article that Lautner optioned....

By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2010 12:00 pm EST The Guardian has a regular feature called “The Film That Changed My Life”, which featured film directors talking about the movie that inspired their art. The latest edition features Brick/The Brothers Bloom director Rian Johnson talking about Federico Fellini’s 8½: Even though I was enamoured with film at college, I took literature classes and was reading a lot of great novels. Film and great literature seemed to feed two very different appetites for me – until I saw 8½....

Three New ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ Photos By Peter Sciretta/April 27, 2011 8:00 am EST Paramount Pictures has released a few stills from Transformers: Dark of the Moon on Apple to promote the upcoming trailer premiere. Monday they released a first look at Shockwave, Tuesday we got an image of Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), and today we get a photo of a huge nasty Decepticon space ship over a destoryed Chicago skyline....

Two Different ‘Man Of Steel’ Trailers Are Attached To ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Germain Lussier/July 20, 2012 1:23 pm EST With a midnight gross over $30 million, The Dark Knight Rises is on its way to an almost $100 million Friday. Christopher Nolan would certainly prefer you see the film in 70mm IMAX but, if you do, you won’t get the attached trailers (the film is simply too big). One of those trailers is Zack Snyder’s upcoming Superman film Man of Steel, offering the first glimpse of the film outside of San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H....

‘Crossfire Hurricane’ Documents 50 Years Of The Rolling Stones By Germain Lussier/Aug. 31, 2012 2:50 pm EST The Rolling Stones began performing in 1962. That’s a superhuman 50 straight years of rocking, rolling and though they’ve been the subjects of some of the most famous documentaries of all time, a new one will now attempt to tell their five decade long story.Crossfire Hurricane, directed by Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays In the Picture, June 17, 1994) will feature brand new historic footage from the band’s earliest days all the way through their 50th anniversary....

‘Puss In Boots’ Theatrical Trailer By Germain Lussier/June 20, 2011 4:45 pm EST Kids and cat lovers are going to find it hard to resist the new trailer for DreamWorks’ Shrek spin-off Puss In Boots. Directed by Chris Miller (Shrek the Third) and featuring the voices of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris, the film opens November 4th in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D....

By Russ Fischer/Feb. 17, 2011 8:00 am EST The Julie Taymor show Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is the most expensive Broadway production of all time, and one of the most troubled. It has been delayed multiple times, beset by injuries and subsequent investigations and union issues, and met with a scathing critical response. And yet, because reason rarely triumphs over curiosity, tickets are selling like crazy. The official opening date has been pushed back to March 15, and now in the three weeks before that date producers have reportedly hired Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to rewrite the book originally created by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger....