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Rumor: Noah Baumbach Adapting Jonathan Franzen’s ‘The Corrections’ For HBO By Angie Han/Sept. 5, 2011 10:00 am EST Whenever an existing property gets optioned for a new show or series, fans are left to hold their breaths and hope that the adaptation does the source material justice. If rumors of Noah Baumbach signing on for a TV adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s award-winning The Corrections is true, I’m guessing Franzen’s fans have nothing to worry about....

Sam Raimi’s Producer Says ‘Evil Dead’ Reboot Still Lives By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2011 1:30 pm EST As long as Sam Raimi continues to work, there will be talk of another Evil Dead film, whether a third sequel or a reboot of the series entirely. The director never quite lets the idea die, and while doing early promotion for Drag Me to Hell he said he wanted to work on a new script with his brother Ivan Raimi....

Studios May Delay Netflix/Redbox Movie Rentals Even Longer; Offer Fewer Watch Instantly Choices On Netflix By David Chen/Nov. 3, 2010 1:14 pm EST At Blu-Con yesterday, a diverse crowd of industry professionals gathered to discuss the future of the movie business. Despite a few prominent successes at the box office this year, the industry is in a state of financial turmoil, with DVD sales cratering, Blu-Ray sales not compensating, and the rise of rental companies like Netflix and Redbox, offering consumers a way to see a movie for cheap....

The 2012 Slashfilm/Totally Rad Show Summer Movie Wager By Peter Sciretta/May 2, 2012 11:30 am EST Its that time of year again — our friends at the Totally Rad Show have thrown down the gauntlet, and once again challenged /Film to compete with them in their annual Summer Movie Wager. I’m once again in the hot seat giving my predictions next to TRS hosts Dan Trachtenberg, Alex Albrecht, and Jeff Cannata, while /Film’s Germain Lussier has filled out his own write-in predictions included after the jump....

The Thing Writer Eric Heisserer To Pen Final Destination 5 By Russ Fischer/April 26, 2010 7:08 am EST I hope that today we’re not writing about sequels no one really wants, but so far we’ve had Ghost Rider 2 and now Final Destination 5, which Warner Bros. head Alan Horn mentioned at ShoWest. Yet someone wants these movies. Take The Final Destination. No one expected it to be a critical success, but despite not having any particularly positive word of mouth, the film made $66m domestic, not bad, and an insane $115 worldwide....

VOTD: ‘Back To The Future’ Invades ‘Grand Theft Auto’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 30, 2012 9:01 am EST Marty McFly hops in his Delorean, shoots up a bunch of people, maybe robs a bank and sets off down the street. The cops are on his tail. He drops his foot on the accelerator, gets up to 88 mph and jumps through time. See ya later coppers. That’s obviously not a plot from any kind of officially licensed Back to the Future story, just a possible reality in this insane custom modification of Grand Theft Auto IV for PC....

VOTD: ‘True Grit’s’ Hailee Steinfeld Has Blingatude For K-Mart By Germain Lussier/Jan. 5, 2011 11:00 am EST Hailee Steinfeld’s performance in the Coen Brothers’ True Grit has a great chance of nabbing her an Oscar nomination. She, unfortunately, didn’t get a well-deserved CLIO for her performance in this commercial for “Blingatude” at K-Mart. It seems that even a 14-year-old on the brink of international stardom isn’t immune from their past. Check out the video after the jump....

VOTD: Michael Bay Pimps ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ Limited Edition Blu-Ray By Germain Lussier/Jan. 12, 2012 9:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This video is from Bay’s Vimeo page. Check it out. Michael Bay Showcases Transformers Blu-ray Limited Edition from Michael Bay Dot Com on Vimeo. The limited edition set costs $111.99, which is pretty steep for what appears to be the same three, bonus feature filled, editions you can buy individually for $30 bucks each or whatever....

‘Akira’ Casting Call Reveals A Few Changes From The Original By Angie Han/Nov. 30, 2011 11:30 am EST With any remake, one of the biggest questions is how closely it’ll hew to the source material. In the case of Jaume Collet-Serra’s live-action, English-language Akira, we already know that the action has been moved from neo-Tokyo to neo-Manhattan, and that Warner Bros. has tapped the Caucasian, late-20s Garrett Hedlund to star as Kaneda, originally written as a Japanese teenager....

‘The Social Network’ Producers Re-Team For NASA Heist Film ‘Sex On The Moon’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 18, 2011 11:09 pm EST Here’s one of those stories of outrageous theft that sounds too great to be true. Except that it is true, and full of all the things that make for a great narrative: hope, dreams, criminal activity, and pieces of the moon. The Social Network producers Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti are coming together again to do a new project with Ben Mezrich....

‘X-Men First Class’ Theatrical Trailer By Germain Lussier/April 27, 2011 10:27 am EST Thanks to Yahoo Movies for the trailer. So do you like this as much as the teaser trailer? My first impression is that the action, oddly enough, is much more believable and interesting than the mentor stuff. In this trailer, Charles and Erik mentoring a bunch of young kids almost feels like a whole other movie. I’ll be very curious to see how Vaughn manages to balance action and character development, most of which probably hinges on the performances of the young actors....

A Few More Details About Lost Epilogue By Peter Sciretta/June 28, 2010 11:00 am EST We’ve been trying to uncover more details about the bonus 12-14 minute Lost epilogue which will be included in the series blu-ray/dvd release. The epilogue is supposed to answer some of the leftover questions from the series finale. Here are the updates: The epilogue is actually only 11-minutes in length. The title of the epilogue is “The New Man in Charge” G4 says the epilogue will “shine some light on the period after Hurley became the Island’s protector and Ben assumed the role of his number two....

Alan Tudyk Announced For ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Cast; Skrillex Scoring Some Scenes [Comic-Con 2012] By Germain Lussier/July 12, 2012 4:30 pm EST Briefly: Disney’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2012 just let out and we’ll have reactions to all the films Oz the Great and Powerful, The Lone Ranger, and more a little later this evening. Two pieces of news broke out of the Wreck-It Ralph section though. First up, Firefly fan-favorite actor Alan Tudyk has been announced as the voice of King Candy, likely an important character in the game Sugar Rush....

Andrew Stanton Offers ‘John Carter Of Mars’ Update By Germain Lussier/Jan. 31, 2011 7:00 pm EST The actors who play the characters in John Carter of Mars have long since left the Red Planet but Oscar-winning director Andrew Stanton is still hard at work. The Disney/Pixar sci-fi action film based on the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs is scheduled for release March 12, 2012 and Stanton recently gave a few updates as to what we can expect the film to look like, how much more work has to be done and more....

Arclight Cinemas Expands Outside Los Angeles; Coming To San Diego Late 2012 By Germain Lussier/Sept. 8, 2011 12:30 pm EST Being bi-coastal has allowed me to visit the best movie theaters America has to offer and, in those travels, my two favorite chains are the Alamo Drafthouse and Arclight Cinemas. The Alamo has amazing repertory programming, expansive in-theater dining and Mondo, among other things. If it wasn’t for the fact that I’m rarely in their home state of Texas, it would be numero uno....

Carl Erik Rinsch To Direct Logan’s Run By Peter Sciretta/May 26, 2010 12:11 pm EST In April, we posted Rinsch’s short film The Gift, the futuristic action thriller tells the story of a robotic manservant who must go on the run from the Russian police. The short quickly spread around the internet (if you haven’t watch it yet, click here). In my original posting I commented that “I really wish we could see more of this world, and I’m excited to see what Rinsch might be able to do with a feature project....

Christian Slater And Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Added To Cast Of Sylvester Stallone/Walter Hill Action Movie By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2011 5:48 pm EST The film formerly called Headshot just got a shot of Slater. Christian Slater, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Holt McCallany have all joined the cast of the now-untitled movie that Walter Hill will direct based upon the graphic novel Bullet to the Head. In addition, we’ve got confirmation that Sung Kang (Fast Five) will play the sidekick role to Sylvester Stallone — i....

Christopher Nolan Talks About Possible ‘Inception’ Video Game By Russ Fischer/Sept. 21, 2010 11:50 am EST One vaguely disappointing aspect of Christopher Nolan’s film Inception was that, despite a lengthy video-game inspired training sequence in which Leonardo DiCaprio teaches Ellen Page how to physically manipulate a dream world, there isn’t much of that large-scale manipulation in the scenes that follow. (There’s a lot of flying about, yes, but not so much of the street-bending stuff....

Comic-Con Teaser Trailer: Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides By Peter Sciretta/July 25, 2010 7:00 pm EST As one of the added surprises at the tail end of Comic-Con’s Tron: Legacy panel, Walt Disney Pictures premiered a Comic-Con exclusive 3D teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The footage basically features Johnny Depp in costume, reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow, talking about his next adventure....

Cool Stuff: Crazy 4 Cult 5 Preview #4; Over 20 New Images By Germain Lussier/July 8, 2011 10:00 am EST Nope. Not even three previews could come close to showcasing all the awesome stuff that’ll be at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles Friday night (yes, tonight) as Crazy 4 Cult 5: I’m Too Old For This Sh*t finally opens to the world. The show features work from over 100 artists interpreting a wide variety of cult films and, in this final (and biggest yet) preview for the show you’ll see Max Dalton’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail inspired piece, Fight Club through the eyes of Joshua Budich, Brandon Schaefer’s take on The Evil Dead and other art based on movies like Being John Malkovich, Buffalo 66, The Karate Kid, Mulholland Dr....