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Cool Stuff: Futurama Meets X-Men By Peter Sciretta/June 11, 2010 10:00 am EST GottaBeCarl has created an awesome image re-imagining all of the characters of Futurama in the X-Men universe. Carl explains: A friend of mine suggested one day that it would be cool to see the characters of Futurama as X-Men and so I drew him Fry as Cyclops. For some reason I couldn’t just stop there…and what came of it was a pretty extensive illustration with some of the most obscure characters from both the X-Men and Futurama universes....

David O. Russell Won’t Make ‘Pride And Prejudice And Zombies’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 5, 2010 2:04 pm EST This might come as more of a confirmation of something we’d suspected than anything else, but David O. Russell, who’ll have The Fighter in theaters soon, will no longer adapt the novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for the screen. Instead, he’ll make Old St. Louis, starring Vince Vaughn. Vulture says that scheduling conflicts were the problem; Natalie Portman couldn’t start Pride and Prejudice and Zombies when Russell had intended to start, he’s moved on to Old St....

Diablo Cody Rewriting ‘Evil Dead’ Remake By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2011 3:35 pm EST Yesterday when I wrote about the fact that Federico ‘Fede’ Alvarez is directing the remake of The Evil Dead, our tweet of the article was quickly retweeted by Diablo Cody, with a little note: “Go Fede!” I thought that was slightly unusual, but was in the middle of a bunch of other stuff and didn’t think about it for more than a few seconds....

Director Of UK Show ‘Misfits’ To Helm ‘Monsters: The Dark Continent’ By Russ Fischer/June 18, 2012 10:00 am EST When Gareth Edwards released his low-budget sci-fi/romance picture Monsters in 2010, it made a lot of waves and gained the young director many fans in very short order. Star Scoot McNairy rode the film to roles in some great-looking projects (Argo, Killing Them Softly) and Edwards became the director of Legendary Pictures’ new take on Godzilla....

Edgar Wright Has A New Script That’s “Kind Of Like A Musical” By Angie Han/Dec. 21, 2011 3:30 pm EST Edgar Wright’s been keeping very busy over the past couple of years, what with exec producing Attack the Block and Sightseers, programming for the New Beverly Cinema, writing The Adventures of Tintin, and whatnot. But none of those quite qualify as a follow-up to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and we’re still waiting to hear what his next big endeavor will be....

Fantastic Video Game Documentary ‘Indie Game: The Movie’ Will Be Released May 18 By Germain Lussier/April 30, 2012 2:30 pm EST One of the year’s best documentaries has just been awarded a release date, and thankfully it is right around the corner. Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky’s Indie Game: The Movie will open in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix on May 18, then expand to Seattle, Miami and across Canada in the following weeks....

First Look: Disney’s Video Game-Inspired ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 6, 2012 2:30 pm EST Last year Disney announced the video game-inspired film Wreck-It Ralph, which is the new incarnation of a project called Reboot Ralph that the studio was toying with for a couple years. Starring John C. Reilly as the voice of Ralph, the film follows the title character, an 8-bit video game Bad Guy who dreams of being a hero....

First Look: Jonah Hill And Channing Tatum In ‘21 Jump Street,’ Plus ‘Blackbird’ With Eric Bana And Olivia WIlde By Germain Lussier/May 19, 2011 4:30 pm EST The current issue of Entertainment Weekly (you know, the one with Jennifer Lawrence on the cover and on the inside) doesn’t only have the first look at The Hunger Games, it also has the first look at 21 Jump Street starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum and Blackbird with Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde and Charlie Hunnan....

First Trailer For J.J. Abrams ‘Super 8’ To Show Before ‘Red Riding Hood’ And ‘Battle: LA’ This Weekend? By Angie Han/March 8, 2011 8:30 am EST Last month, fans noticed an interesting detail in the Super Bowl TV spot for J.J. Abrams’ Super 8: a film frame showing the date 03/11/11. We speculated at the time that March 11 would be the release date for the first Super 8 trailer, especially as Abrams had previously announced that we could expect to see the trailer around March....

Infographic: Connecting The Actors In Coen Brothers Movies By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 24, 2011 9:00 am EST UK graphic artist Tom Muller has created an awesome infographic connecting the dots of reoccurring actors in the movies of Coen Bothers. Hit the jump to see the graphic. Head over to HelloMuller to see the full infographic in high resolution. Infographic: Connecting The Actors In Coen Brothers Movies By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 24, 2011 9:00 am EST...

International Teaser Trailer: ‘Battle: Los Angeles’ By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 12, 2010 7:30 am EST Last night, Sony released the first teaser trailer for Jonathan Liebesman’s Battle: Los Angeles. Collider has now found an international version of the trailer on Omelete. The international release is much different, more like a traditional Hollywood trailer — featuring heavy voice over, different footage, and lacks the haunting music of the domestic teaser. For those who haven’t been following the project, Battle has been described as a Black Hawk Down-style military story set in an alien invasion....

James Mangold To Direct ‘The Gunslinger’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 17, 2010 8:25 am EST Briefly: James Mangold’s last film before this year’s Knight and Day was the Western remake 3:10 to Yuma, and now he’s going back to the genre with revenge thriller The Gunslinger. Warner Bros. bought John Hlavin’s spec script in 2009, but put it into turnaround and New Regency is snapping it up, with producers set to further develop it for Mr....

LOL: Aziz Ansari Vs. 3D Movies By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2010 9:30 am EST 2010 MTV Movie Awards host/comedian Aziz Ansari opened with a rant against Hollywood’s new obsession with 3D movies and Twilight. If you missed the monologue when it aired live, you can watch it right now embedded after the jump. LOL: Aziz Ansari Vs. 3D Movies By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2010 9:30 am EST 2010 MTV Movie Awards host/comedian Aziz Ansari opened with a rant against Hollywood’s new obsession with 3D movies and Twilight....

LOL: Watch ‘Jackass’ Stars Spoof ‘Inception’ By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2011 3:30 pm EST A couple days ago we told you that the stars of Jackass has filmed four parodies of scenes from the four 2010 Best Picture nominees for the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. We even posted a behind the scenes video from the guys spoofing scenes from David Fincher’s The Social Network. Today we bring you the finished spoof video segment for Christopher Nolan’s Inception....

Mary J. Blige Set To Play Nina Simone By Russ Fischer/May 16, 2010 4:44 pm EST Variety explains that Cynthia Mort, who wrote Neil Jordan’s rather terrible The Brave One, will write and direct Nina, which for years has been a passion project for Blige. (The film was announced in 2005.) The singer probably has the pipes to impersonate Nina Simone, though I’m not sure if she can act the part....

New ‘Dark Shadows’ Image And Details From Tim Burton By Russ Fischer/Jan. 12, 2012 5:00 pm EST Remember when we saw a set photo featuring Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, and he looked like a weird supernatural Michael Jackson cosplayer? We’ve seen one big official cast photo that made him look a lot better, and now there’s a good official image of Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer. And in this one, Depp looks kind of great as the vampire Barnabas Collins....

Rooney Mara Cast As Lisbeth Salander In ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 16, 2010 9:40 am EST Well, so much for casting a total unknown as the central female character in the David Fincher adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s series of ‘Milennium’ novels. Ending a long casting search rife with rumor and speculation, Rooney Mara, of The Social Network and A Nightmare on Elm Street, has been given the part of Lisbeth Salander....

Rumors: Joe Carnahan, David Yates And James McTeigue Being Considered For ‘Fantastic Four’ Reboot? Bruce Willis Wanted To Voice The Thing? By Adam Quigley/Aug. 29, 2010 7:00 pm EST And let’s be clear: who the studio wants to helm the film is one thing; whether or not those directors want to helm the film is another. If any of these guys ended up directing the film, I’d be genuinely surprised. Based on their prior work, a Fantastic Four film just doesn’t seem like something that they’d be interested in having on their filmographies....

Sam Mendes No Longer Directing Preacher; Will John August Direct? By Russ Fischer/April 9, 2010 11:16 am EST Here’s the thing about Preacher: making it into a movie that makes any sense and retains the spirit of the original comic is going to be a hell of a task. (ahem.) Even if Kick-Ass is quite successful, the collision of sex, religion and violence that is Preacher won’t be an easy sell....

Saw/Feast Screenwriters To Adapt The Outer Limits By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2010 10:34 pm EST MGM isn’t down and out just yet, or at least that is how they would have you believe it. The studio has announced yet another project, a big screen adaptation of the 1960’s black and white sci-fi television series The Outer Limits. The anthology series, like the Twilight Zone, was known to have a plot twist at the end of most of the stories....