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Universal Drops ‘Tower Heist’ Early VOD Experiment In Response To Theater Boycotts By Angie Han/Oct. 12, 2011 12:00 pm EST Last week, Universal Pictures revealed that it would be releasing the Brett Ratner comedy Tower Heist on VOD for $59.99 just three weeks after its November 4 opening in Atlanta and Portland, Oregon. The move immediately sparked outcry from exhibitors across the country — Cinemark, the U.S.’s third-largest theater chain, quickly announced that it would not be showing Tower Heist in any of its 3,800 theaters, and several smaller chains including Galaxy Theatres, Regency Theatres, and Emagine Theatres followed suit this week....

‘Back To The Future’ Returning To Theaters For Two Nights In October By Russ Fischer/Sept. 28, 2010 6:00 am EST There’s a chance that many of our readers weren’t able to see Back to the Future upon the film’s original release in 1985, in which case you’ll be happy to know that the AMC theater chain will be showing a digitally remastered presentation of the film in late October, to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary....

‘The Ledge’ Trailer: Charlie Hunnam Needs To Walk Off His Problems By Russ Fischer/May 3, 2011 6:30 am EST Sundance entry The Ledge, in which Terrence Howard plays a detective who is trying to talk Charlie Hunnam out of killing himself, has always seemed like one of those movies. A known but not terribly high-powered cast; a big setup; and a story that seems to uncomfortably weave a discussion about religion into the narrative....

Aaron Eckhart Will Also Be President, For Antoine Fuqua’s ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ By Angie Han/June 25, 2012 5:00 am EST In the real world, becoming the President of the United States requires years, if not decades, of fundraising and touring and giving speeches and trying to keep your private life squeaky clean (or at least super, super secretive). But in Hollywood, they apparently just hand out presidencies like candy. Charlie Sheen ascended to the highest office in the land earlier this week, joining Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, while Jamie Foxx landed a similar gig in Roland Emmerich’s White House Down a few weeks ago....

By Angie Han/Feb. 17, 2011 12:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The latest book to get the Hollywood treatment is Amanda Hocking’s Trylle Trilogy. Hocking announced on her site yesterday that her books had been optioned for a film, to be adapted by District 9 co-writer Terri Tatchell. I haven’t read Hocking’s novel, but it seems to be a paranormal YA fantasy that’s not about vampires, sparkling or otherwise....

Anne Hathaway Is Catwoman, Tom Hardy Is Bane In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 19, 2011 9:38 am EST The speculation can end about one of the two big female roles in Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film. Anne Hathaway has been cast as Selina Kyle, whose alter ego is Catwoman, in The Dark Knight Rises. Additionally, we know the villain role Tom Hardy will play: Bane. Hit the jump for the press release....

By Angie Han/Jan. 4, 2012 6:00 am EST The script for Inferno, also by Wilder, is based on Lovelace’s 1980 memoir Ordeal. Matt Dillon, Paz de la Huerta, Sasha Gray, and Harold Perrineau also star. Production is scheduled to begin early next month in Louisiana. If you’re wondering what the actual Reems looks like, here’s a photo: [Variety] In other “competing biopic” news, Patricia Arquette has signed to play Jeff Buckley’s mother Mary Guibert in Jake Scott’s untitled film about the late musician....

Casting Bits: Nicole Kidman Options ‘The Family Fang’, Olivia Wilde, Jessica Biel, Judy Greer, Etc. Shortlisted For ‘Burt Wonderstone’, Shiloh Fernandez Joins ‘The East’ By Angie Han/Oct. 28, 2011 4:00 pm EST Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films and Olympus Films have teamed up to acquire the movie rights for Kevin Wilson’s bestselling book The Family Fang, which they plan to develop as a starring vehicle for Kidman. The two companies previously collaborated on Rabbit Hole, for which Kidman received a Best Actress Oscar nomination....

Casting Notes: Daniel Dae Kim In Deathgames; Marisa Tomei In The Lincoln Lawyer; Matt Damon Possibly In Tender Is The Night By Russ Fischer/April 21, 2010 4:36 am EST As we recently mentioned, the story is about a man (Lutz) who is kidnapped by a bizarre mastermind (Jackson) and forced to fight in a modern gladiatorial arena that broadcasts combat online. Kim will play a prisoner who is “an artist who happens to be a master of kendo, a skill that comes in handy when he competes for his life and his wife’s....

Check Out The Racy International Poster And Violent Red-Band TV Spot For ‘The Sitter’ By Angie Han/Sept. 20, 2011 3:00 pm EST If the new slimmed down, Serious Actor version of Jonah Hill confounds you, don’t fret — The Sitter sees Hill returning to the familiar role of pudgy funnyman as Noah Jaybird, a layabout who gets roped into babysitting a trio of bratty kids. Described as cross between Adventures in Babysitting and Superbad, David Gordon Green’s comedy follows Noah and his charges as they embark on a wild night, crossing paths with a pair of psychotic dealers (Sam Rockwell and J....

Damon Herriman Joins Clint Eastwood’s ‘J. Edgar’ By Germain Lussier/Dec. 23, 2010 11:30 am EST Formerly titled Hoover, Clint Eastwood’s next film J. Edgar is slowly but surely putting its cast together and the latest piece of casting might provide a peak into the story. We already know that Leonardo DiCaprio is locked and loaded to play the original FBI director and that both Charlize Theron and Armie Hammer are in talks to play two of his close confidants....

David O. Russell Adds ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ To His Crowded Plate By Russ Fischer/Feb. 22, 2011 5:45 pm EST It’s a pretty great time to be in when David O. Russell is as talked-about a director as any in Hollywood. That certainly wasn’t the case in years past, or when it was, the subject was the director’s temperament rather than his work. But since taking The Fighter he’s been looking at many new projects — at times quickly flipping from one to the next — almost as if he’s trying to weave and juke his way to a surprise ’next film’ announcement....

Guillermo Del Toro To Produce ‘Midnight Delivery’ By Adam Quigley/Sept. 25, 2010 11:34 am EST Like J.J. Abrams, Guillermo del Toro is all about creative fertilization. He’s quite selective about the films he plans to direct, but if he sees potential in a project that a budding filmmaker is trying to get off the ground, he will do all he can to make that project a reality. This was true of The Orphanage, it was true of Splice, and odds are, it’s true of Midnight Delivery as well....

Henry Cavill Was Cast As ‘Superman’ Once Before By Adam Quigley/Jan. 31, 2011 6:30 am EST Prior to Bryan Singer taking the helm on what would eventually become Superman Returns, Cavill was set to lead the JJ Abrams-scripted franchise revamp in ‘03/‘04 for Charlie’s Angels and Terminator Salvation director McG. But when McG abandoned the project, Cavill vanished along with him. Learn more after the break. Cavill has spoken openly about being cast in prior incarnations of Superman on several occasions, but for obvious reasons, it took until now for the discussions to become pertinent....

High-Res Images From Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 1, 2011 8:00 am EST Just over a week ago we saw the first real batch of photos from Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel, Prometheus. I’m anxiously awaiting the first real trailer for the film, having seen the Comic Con footage and a glimpse of the bad trailer bootleg that also surfaced last week. (It’s not worth watching, so don’t bother to seek out the bootleg if you haven’t already seen it — seriously, just wait for the real thing....

Kevin Bacon Is The Heavy In ‘R.I.P.D’ By Germain Lussier/July 29, 2011 7:00 am EST Kevin Bacon was aces as Sebastian Shaw in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men First Class and now he’s moving to another comic book series to raise a little hell. Variety reports that he’s in final negotiations to star opposite Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges in R.I.P.D., Red director Robert Schwentke’s 2013 adaptation of the Dark Horse comic about dead detectives....

By Germain Lussier/Feb. 24, 2012 2:00 pm EST Other films use their stories to push agendas and ideologies. Michael Moore’s documentaries immediately come to mind. But no matter what the filmmaker’s intention with a movie is, the great thing about film is that we can all read whatever we want into it. Thanks to Cinemablend for the clip and well-thought out context. Here’s Dobbs. No matter what your political affiliation, I think we can call agree Dobbs is stretching, especially with the Arrietty comparison....

Movie Trailer: Star Trek Documentary Trek Nation By Peter Sciretta/April 21, 2010 11:46 am EST I’ve always been fascinated with the topic of geek fandom, which is why I’m usually on the look-out for new documentaries that deal with that topic. Many of them aren’t so great. There are a few that focus on the people who waited in line for Episode One. A couple of them focus on subsets of fans, like Lord of the Rings fans or Star Wars fans....

New Photo: Simon Pegg And Andy Serkis In Burke & Hare By Russ Fischer/July 15, 2010 9:00 am EST Well, this photo of Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis in Burke & Hare is quite a bit like the few other photos we’ve seen of the duo in the movie: grim faces, deep shadows, great hats. Sure, this time there is what appears to be the legs of a corpse in the frame with them, but oh....

New Posters: High-Res ‘RoboCop’ Teaser Banner; ‘Skyfall’ UK One-Sheet; And ‘Chinese Zodiac’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2012 9:30 am EST We’ve got a few new posters to present today, and the one that might be of the most interest is a high-quality teaser banner for Jose Padilha’s RoboCop. We saw a much less detailed version of the same image over the summer, but with this one you can combine some of the detail seen here with the suit shots that appeared online over the weekend to get a better idea of how the new RoboCop will really look....