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Red Band Movie Trailer: Faster By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2010 9:00 pm EST CBS Films has released a new Red Band movie trailer from their upcoming action film Faster. The George Tillman Jr.-directed revenge thriller stars Dwayne Johnson as “an ex-con pursued by cops and killers as he sets out to avenge his brother’s death.” Looks like your typical revenge action thriller, but I enjoy The Rock when it isn’t a kid’s film and I’ll see anything that has Clint Mansell’s score....

Rumor: Blake Lively Offered Lead In ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’ By Angie Han/Sept. 23, 2011 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While it’s probably best to take the story with a grain of salt at this point, it sounds plausible enough. I’m kinda hoping that it is accurate and that Lively does sign on, if only so the project can start coming together already....

Rumor: Rosamund Pike As Emma Frost In X-Men: First Class? By Peter Sciretta/June 8, 2010 8:03 pm EST Could Pride & Prejudice/Surrogates star Rosamund Pike possibly be in line to play young Emma Frost in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class? Forces of Geek sources spotted Pike around Lucinda Syson’s offices (the casting director who has worked with First Class director Matthew Vaughn on Kick-Ass and Stardust) carrying a copy of the X-Men: Origins Emma Frost comic book....

This Week In Trailers: Wild Horse, Wild Ride, Flamenco, Flamenco, Man For A Day, Thunderstruck, Far Out Isn’t Far Enough By Christopher Stipp/Aug. 10, 2012 3:00 pm EST The only time when you hear or see movies about horses it’ll either appear on the Hallmark Channel or Animal Planet. However, with last year’s Buck there was a shot that was sent across the bow in that movies about equines could be thrilling....

VOTD: Nick Pitera’s “One Man Disney Movie” By Peter Sciretta/March 23, 2011 7:00 am EST Pixar modeling artist Nick Pitera (who you might remember from the popular Whole New World duet video which went viral in 2007) returns with a “One Man Disney Movie”, in which Nick sings a musical medley as every Disney character ever. Watch it now embedded after the jump. VOTD: Nick Pitera’s “One Man Disney Movie”...

Watch The Full Pilot Episode Of ‘Lone Star’ Creator Kyle Killen’s Split-Reality Drama ‘Awake’, Starring Jason Isaacs By Angie Han/Feb. 18, 2012 9:00 am EST Created by Kyle Killen (of the critically adored but amazingly short-lived Lone Star), the drama stars Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy from the Harry Potter series) as a police detective who survives a devastating car accident to find that his life has been split into two realities....

‘Captain America’ Director Joe Johnston Signs For Thriller ‘Not Safe For Work’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 2, 2012 9:00 am EST Captain America: The First Avenger director Joe Johnston got a nice career boost thanks to the success of his WWII superhero movie, but surprisingly Johnston isn’t moving right back into the big movie arena with his next project. He’s just signed to direct a ‘micro-budget’ thriller called Not Safe For Work, which is produced by Blumhouse Pictures, which has a first-look deal with Universal....

By Germain Lussier/Jan. 4, 2011 12:00 pm EST Come this March, there’s going to be a lot of Alex Pardee on screen during Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. The artist not only contributed artwork for the genre bending trip through a mental institution, but his drawings are the basis for much of the marketing campaign. We’ve already seen the finished posters that Pardee did of all the characters from the film and now we’ve got images of his original, hand-drawn sketches of those posters....

‘The Avengers’ TV Spots Feature A Verbal Conflict Between Stark And Loki, Show Off Loki’s Army By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2012 12:00 pm EST A couple new TV spots have hit for The Avengers, and while TV spots aren’t often much to look at, these two offer slightly different variations on a smirking conversation between Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) in which the relative virtues of each man’s fighting force are enumerated....

Andy Serkis Goes Simian Again: Cast As Caesar In Planet Of The Apes Prequel By Russ Fischer/June 29, 2010 2:09 pm EST A few things have changed, with a new script by Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa, but Caesar is still in the story with a primary role. And now he’ll be played by an actor with great simian experience: Andy Serkis. Chris Petrikin, Fox’s VP of Corporate Communications, tweeted earlier today:...

Best-Selling Book ‘Moonwalking With Einstein’ Set For Big Screen Adaptation By Germain Lussier/March 16, 2011 2:15 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In a news release, Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures said the following: Added producer Matt Tolmach, who is currently producing The Amazing Spider-Man for the studio: We recently saw The Weinstein Company champion a film that took an nontraditional topic – speech therapy – and, through the sports movie mold, became a Best Picture winning film with The King’s Speech....

Casey Affleck And Andrew Dominik Shooting New Crime Picture In January; Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe Film Delayed? By Russ Fischer/Sept. 18, 2010 3:32 pm EST Earlier this week a single line in a New York Times piece got my hopes up, by saying that Casey Affleck would soon work again with director Andrew Dominik. That would be a re-teaming of two of the primaries from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford....

Casting Bits: Sofia Vergara In ‘The Three Stooges;’ Penélope Cruz In Woody Allen’s Next; Rob Riggle In ‘21 Jump St;’ Jay Baruchel In ‘Cosmopolis’ By Russ Fischer/April 7, 2011 1:00 pm EST The latest addition to the cast roster of The Three Stooges is Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara, who is now in talks to play a femme fatale. (THR describes her as “a devious woman who pretends to be the wife of a dying man and tells the Stooges she’ll pay them a handsome sum if they kill the man in his sleep....

Casting Notes: Kate Mara & Treat Williams For ‘Blackbird;’ Actress Shortlist For Yankees Wife-Swapping Film ‘The Trade’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 25, 2011 5:30 pm EST Last time we heard about the film Blackbird, it was called Kin. That was when Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde were cast as “two desperate sibling fugitives (Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde) on the run who subsequently collide with the holiday homecoming of a troubled ex-boxer (Charlie Hunnam)....

Chart: The Rise & Fall Of 3D By Peter Sciretta/July 21, 2010 8:00 am EST The Wrap has published a long article on 3D’s future in Hollywood which includes a nice chart designed by Daniel Frankel which chronicles the drop of opening weekend box office revenue that came from 3D movie tickets. On the surface this graph seems pretty damming, but I’m not sure I completely buy the story it tells....

Christopher Eccleston Will Target Asgard In ‘Thor: The Dark World’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 1, 2012 6:37 pm EST Briefly: There isn’t a lot of info at this point, but it looks like Thor: The Dark World has a new bad guy to replace the departed Mads Mikkelsen. Christopher Eccleston, known for his films with Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave, 28 Days Later) and his stint as the ninth Doctor on Doctor Who, is in final talks to play the film’s new baddie....

Cool Stuff: The Goonies 25th Anniversary Collection Details/Cover Art Revealed By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2010 5:00 pm EST WARNER HOME VIDEO CELEBRATES THE GOONIES 25TH ANNIVERSARY ON NOVEMBER 2, 2010 WITH THE DEBUT OF THE GOONIES 25TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR’S EDITION ON BLU-RAY DISC TM AND DVD ASTORIA, Ore., – The Goonies R Good Enuff! Relive the wild adventure when The Goonies 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition debuts on Blu-rayTM and DVD November 2, 2010....

Everyone Looks Deadly Serious In New ‘Hunger Games’ Character Posters By Angie Han/Oct. 27, 2011 1:00 pm EST Given Lionsgate’s tendency to trickle out The Hunger Games info one tiny bit at a time, you could be forgiven for rolling your eyes at yet another round of news on Gary Ross’ dystopian teen epic. But happily, today’s offering is one of the most interesting things we’ve seen come out of the marketing team in a while....

Exclusive ‘Super 8’ TV Spot By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2011 2:45 pm EST Paramount is dropping little grains of new Super 8 footage today via two TV spots. One appeared this morning on Yahoo, but the other is our own exclusive. Ours is better (I mean, I would say that, but still…) because it nicely distills the basic setup of the story. If you’ve been wary of knowing too much about the film, it’s a great way to get the gist very quickly without feeling like you’ve seen too much....

Green Lantern Trailer Attached To Harry Potter By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 8, 2010 10:57 am EST Briefly: Chief Creative Officer Geoff John has announced at New York Comic-Con that the movie trailer for Green Lantern will premiere attached to Warner Bros’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, which hits theaters (in 2D only, as we learned moments ago) on November 19th 2010. Many fans were hoping that Warner Bros would release a teaser trailer at the Con this weekend, but it looks like we may have to wait until November to see our first video glimpse of Ryan Reynolds in action as Green Lantern....