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See The Official Release Of The Comic Con Trailer For ‘The Walking Dead’; Series Premieres On Halloween By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2010 9:16 am EST AMC has officially released the same trailer for The Walking Dead that was shown this past July at Comic Con, and we’ve got it after the break. Yep, we posted the Comic-Con trailer for the Frank Darabont-direct pilot of The Walking Dead once before, but that was a taped bootleg....

Seven Dwarfs Cast Announced For Relativity’s ‘Snow White’ By Russ Fischer/May 25, 2011 4:30 pm EST Relativity is moving forward quickly with the film formerly called The Brothers Grimm: Snow White. The title has been ditched (it’s just Untitled Snow White Film for now) but Tarsem is still directing Lily Collins as Snow White, Armie Hammer as the Prince and Julia Roberts as the Queen. Nathan Lane will be “the Queen’s hapless and bungling servant, Brighton....

Trivia: Slyvester Stallone Auditioned For Han Solo; Edgar Wright Was Offered Drag Me To Hell, The Green Hornet, The Crazies And Failure To Launch By Russ Fischer/Aug. 7, 2010 1:01 pm EST There are a couple of small pieces of trivia that cropped up this week, none really worth a headline of their own, but entertaining enough that I’ve crammed a couple together here. One comes from the deep history of Sylvester Stallone, who talks about an audition he once had in front of George Lucas....

Tyler Perry Beats Out Steven Spielberg And Jerry Bruckheimer To Top Forbes List Of Highest Paid Men In Entertainment By Angie Han/Sept. 15, 2011 5:00 am EST Hey, remember when I shared with you that list of Hollywood’s highest paid actors and how depressing that was? Well, it turns out Leonardo DiCaprio’s $77 million is small potatoes compared to the incomes of some other, even more powerful players. Forbes has just released its list of the highest paid men in entertainment, and multi-hyphenate Tyler Perry has come out as the top earner with $130 freaking million....

Video Clip: The Last Airbender By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2010 8:00 am EST Another clip to premiere during the MTV Movie Awards was for M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. The one minute clip is a showcase of some of the film’s more action-packed special effects-filled moments. Watch it right now, embedded after the jump. Video Clip: The Last Airbender By Peter Sciretta/June 7, 2010 8:00 am EST Another clip to premiere during the MTV Movie Awards was for M Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender....

‘Adjustment Bureau’ Director George Nolfi To Helm ‘Black Swan’ Writer’s Social Media Thriller ‘XOXO’ By Angie Han/Aug. 28, 2012 5:00 am EST Heyman is a relative newcomer to Hollywood, but a very buzzy one thanks to a splashy screenwriting debut with Black Swan. He’s been associated with a couple of different movies since then, including potential projects with Aronofsky and Marc Webb, but none of them have panned out yet. [Variety]

‘Day & Night’ Producer Talks Upcoming Pixar Shorts By Germain Lussier/Feb. 1, 2011 5:00 pm EST Pixar movies are great on their own, so the fact that each begins with equally exciting short is merely icing on the cake. The Pixar shorts are legendary, award-winning and nowadays, almost as anticipated as the features themselves. Rumor has it that Cars 2 will have a Toy Story themed short called Hawaii, starring Barbie and Ken, in front of it, but what about the Pixar films coming out in subsequent years?...

‘Identity Thief’ Trailer: Melissa McCarthy Goes Toe To Toe With Jason Bateman By Germain Lussier/Sept. 26, 2012 5:05 pm EST When Bridesmaids hit last summer, Melissa McCarthy was the hottest comedic actress in town. She had her pick of funny leading lady roles and when the smoke cleared, she picked Identify Thief. In the film, directed by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses, The King of Kong), McCarthy play as a criminal who ends up in a battle of wills, and wallets, with the white collar man whose identity she steals, played by Jason Bateman....

‘Skyfall’ Trailer: Bond, Resurrected By Russ Fischer/July 31, 2012 7:21 am EST Here’s the new trailer for the latest James Bond film, Skyfall. Recently an IMAX-exclusive trailer went up in front of some IMAX presentations of The Dark Knight Rises, and yesterday we had a brief online tease of this new look at the movie. This trailer gives you just about everything you could want — more plot, a good look at Javier Bardem as the villain, an introduction to Ben Whishaw’s Q, and a sense that Sam Mendes might just have knocked this one out of the park....

‘Source Code’ Trailer #2 By Russ Fischer/Feb. 23, 2011 12:00 pm EST Summit Entertainment has released a second domestic trailer for Moon director Duncan Jones’ second film Source Code, which premieres at SXSW on March 11. Check out the new trailer after the break. Source Code stars Jake Gyllenhall as a soldier who is part of an experimental program to ferret out the origin of a terrorist attack on a train....

‘Toy Story 3’ Helmer Lee Unkrich Directing ‘Día De Los Muertos’ Movie For Pixar By Peter Sciretta/April 24, 2012 9:30 pm EST At the Disney presentation at CinemaCon 2012, Pixar announced a new project: Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich and producer Darla K. Anderson are working on “a wholly original Pixar Animation Studios film that delves into the vibrant holiday of Día de los Muertos.” Unkrich tweeted the following, which says that the movie takes place in the world of the Mexican holiday:...

4-Minute ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Preview Features A Potentially Classic Spidey Scene By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2012 7:36 pm EST Tonight on the season premiere of America’s Got Talent Columbia/Sony ran a 4-minute ‘super preview’ for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man. For the most part, this was the most recent trailer with a long single scene tacked on to the beginning. That said, the new scene that opens this preview is some great, classic Spidey action....

Alex Proyas To Produce And Godfather Shane Abbess’ ‘Future Perfect’ By Germain Lussier/May 27, 2011 4:30 pm EST Most of the best filmmakers got their starts when another, more experienced, filmmaker took them under their wing. Famous examples include Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth (who was also mentored to a lesser extent by David Lynch), Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp, Roger Corman and everyone and next up, Shane Abbess has Alex Proyas....

Annette Bening, Morgan Freeman To Star In Rob Reiner’s ‘The Third Act’ By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2011 4:30 pm EST Though Rob Reiner’s directorial career started with a bang, over the last decade, he’s struggled to enjoy the kind of success he had in the Eighties and early Nineties. His most recent film, Flipped, was a true, underrated return to form though and even though it bombed due to awkward marketing, lack of stars and an almost too cheery-for-words tone, the film made my top ten of 2010....

Ben Affleck To Direct ‘Replay’ For Warner Bros? By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2010 12:49 pm EST Ben Affleck impressed quite a few with his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, and his follow-up, The Town, has done quite well at the box office. So the identity of the third Ben Affleck film has become the subject of no small speculation. He was offered Tales From the Gangster Squad by Warner Bros. and passed....

Brad Pitt In Talks For Lead Role In ‘The Gray Man’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 15, 2011 3:15 pm EST But as often seems to be the scenario with Brad Pitt and certain directors, the star and filmmaker are now set to come together on another project. Pitt is in talks to star in The Gray Man, an adaptation of Mark Greaney’s assassin thriller novel. We heard earlier this year that Gray would direct the film, about a former CIA man turned assassin who has to fight through special forces teams from across Europe as he tries to save the life and family of his handler....

Casting Bits: Sam Rockwell Replaces Jeremy Renner In ‘Better Living Through Chemistry’, Justin Timberlake Goes ‘Fully Automatic’, Gregg Sulkin Joins ‘White Frog’ By Angie Han/July 19, 2011 5:00 am EST So, Jeremy Renner has finally given up one of the roughly five million roles he’s been linked to since he became Hollywood’s hottest rising star. The Playlist reports that Sam Rockwell is currently in negotiations to replace Renner as the lead in Better Living Through Chemistry, an indie drama by Geoff Moore and David Posamentier....

Casting Bits: Whitney Houston Returns To Acting With ‘Sparkle’ Remake, Brit Stars Sign Up For Dustin Hoffman’s ‘Quartet’, Ashley Greene In Modern-Day ‘Oliver Twist’ By Angie Han/Sept. 14, 2011 6:00 am EST Whitney Houston is set to return to the big screen for the first time in 15 years for Sparkle, a remake of the 1976 drama based on the real-life tale of Diana Ross and The Supremes (yes, kind of like Dreamgirls, only Sparkle came first)....

Cool Stuff: Dean Walton’s Sci-Fi Classics Poster Print Series By Germain Lussier/July 14, 2011 2:30 pm EST Dark and gritty, just like the movies they represent, Dean Walton’s sci-fi classic poster series does minimalism right. These posters for Blade Runner, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Alien, 2001 A Space Odyssey and The Terminator hearken back to Walton’s (who often goes by his art name Mr. Shabba) 2011 Oscar nominee posters, grabbing one image and infusing it with smaller ones....

Dish Network Plans To Keep Some 600 Blockbuster Stores Open By Angie Han/April 21, 2011 9:00 am EST Earlier this month, Dish Network purchased Blockbuster, Inc. to the tune of $320 million (or “$228 million in cash after adjustments for available cash and inventory”) at a bankruptcy court auction for the once-great video rental chain. Blockbuster, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 last fall with nearly $1 billion in debt, much of it to major movie studios....