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DreamWorks Animation Buys Rights To Oni Press Comic ‘Maintenance’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 17, 2010 5:30 pm EST DreamWorks Animation has a huge slate planned for the next few years, with the new film Me and My Shadow and sequels to Magadascar, Kung-Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon. Now the company has picked up the rights to the Oni Press comic Maintenance, which was put into turnaround by Warner Bros, where it was once being developed for McG....

Ed Zwick To Direct ‘American Assassin’ By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2011 10:30 am EST There was a point two years ago when CBS Films put into motion the first adaptation of one of Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp novels. Consent to Kill was going to be the subject of the adaptation, with Antoine Fuqua directing and actors like Matthew Fox, Gerard Butler and Colin Farrell as possible accomplices. That stalled, and perhaps for the better, as it turns out....

Happy Madison And Sony Developing Feature Based On Short Film ‘Pixels: Retro Gamers’ By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2010 3:58 pm EST Just a month ago we featured the short Pixels: Retro Gamers, which depicted a bunch of classic gaming characters and icons attacking New York City. Patrick Jean’s short had a lot of style and no shortage of technique. But the idea was a pretty self-contained one. A short featuring attacking game icons is great, but how about a feature, where there would also be the neccessity for character and story?...

Jon Bon Jovi, Seth Meyers And Til Schweiger Join ‘New Year’s Eve’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 25, 2011 9:30 am EST The multi-thread romcom New Year’s Eve (a sorta spin-off from last year’s Valentine’s Day) has quite the cast. So far Robert De Niro, Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vergara, Jessica Biel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Halle Berry, Zac Efron, Lea Michele and more are all set to get paid for doing a couple weeks of work on the film....

Kevin Smith To Auction Off Askewniverse Props As Part Of ‘Red State’ Tour By Angie Han/Feb. 25, 2011 4:00 pm EST Love Kevin Smith? Have money to burn? Well, what are you doing April 10? Auction house Propworx announced yesterday that it would be partnering with Smith for Kevin Smith Sells Out: The Official Askewniverse Garage Sale, a sale of hundreds of props and collectibles from Smith’s various film and comic projects....

Movie Trailer: ‘Hereafter,’ The New Film From Director Clint Eastwood By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2010 4:31 pm EST Is this a Clint Eastwood movie or one by M. Night Shyamalan? OK, I’m kidding, and now that I’ve completely stacked the deck against Hereafter by even mentioning that name I guess I should backtrack. Clint Eastwood has called Hereafter his ‘chick flick.’ It features Matt Damon as a retired/reluctant psychic who brings together a boy (twins Frankie and George McLaren) who lost his brother and a woman (Cécile De France) who nearly died in the 2004....

New ‘TRON Legacy’ Poster Reveals Jeff Bridges As Clu 2.0; Plus 5 International Banners By Germain Lussier/Nov. 2, 2010 10:11 am EST The film is still six weeks away from release but we can already guess at the legacy of TRON: Legacy. That legacy will probably be Clu 2.0, the avatar of a younger Kevin Flynn, which represents one of the first starring characters with a photo-real CGI human face in live-action....

Pixar’s ‘Presto’ Director Doug Sweetland To Make Feature Debut With ‘The Familiars’ By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 4, 2010 12:06 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A student of CalArts, Sweetland decided to leave school in his final year to join Pixar to become an animator on their first feature film Toy Story. He has since severed as animator on A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc and Finding Nemo....

Six High Resolution Photos: ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 9, 2010 12:30 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures has released six high resolution official production photos from the next installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (two of which were released in low res earlier today). See the production photos now after the jump. Previously: Official Plot Synopsis:...

Video Bits: James Horner’s Karate Kid Score, Four Minutes Of The A-Team, Despicable Me Minions Flash Mob At The Grove By Peter Sciretta/June 10, 2010 4:00 pm EST After the jump you can find a few videos I was hoping to run today on the site, including: A featurette taking us into composer James Horner’s recording of the score for The Karate Kid. Four minutes of The A-Team The Minions from Despicable Me invade LA’s The Grove, an interested marketing experiment with a studio-sponsored flash mob Watch all three clips, after the jump....

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2010 4:51 pm EST Before Dave McKean made his mark on the comics world, one of the more unusual and striking artists on the mainstream comics scene was Bill Sienkiewicz. His choppy lines, painted interludes and collage-derived layout sense came to an early head in Elektra: Assassin, which remains one of the must-reads of the mid-’80s Marvel catalog. Now you can see how the artist’s style works with Dexter and his Dark Passenger, thanks to the Dark Echo series of webisodes, which are now online....

VOTD: Examining The Gayness Of Nightmare On Elm Street 2 By Peter Sciretta/June 22, 2010 3:00 am EST An 8-minute clip from the documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, takes a look at the unintentional “gayness” of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. Watch the clip now, embedded after the jump. Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy is now available on DVD. via: NYMag VOTD: Examining The Gayness Of Nightmare On Elm Street 2...

Warner Brothers Acquires Zack Galifianakis And Will Ferrell Political Comedy By Germain Lussier/Dec. 6, 2010 9:30 am EST Friday we let you know there a pitch circling Hollywood for a film project, directed by Jay Roach, that would feature Zack Galifianakis and Will Ferrell as political rivals in a comedy timed for release near the 2012 Presidential Election. Well, it only took 24 hours or so for a studio to scoop it up....

Watch 30 Seconds Of JJ Abrams’ ‘Super 8’ By Peter Sciretta/May 16, 2011 2:30 pm EST Paramount Pictures has released the first clip for the Steven Spielberg-produced JJ Abrams-directed 1980’s Amblin film homage Super 8. The 30-second video isn’t an actual clip from the movie, and certainly isn’t a trailer or tv spot. It can be best described as an edited package showing the kids preparing to shoot their Super 8 zombie movie before the big train crash....

‘Captain America’ Super Bowl Commercial By Russ Fischer/Feb. 6, 2011 5:05 pm EST Here’s the Super Bowl commercial for Captain America: The First Avenger, which also happens to be the first footage from the film that has been shown to the public at large. And you know what? It looks terrific. Check out the 30 second spot after the break. I love the way this looks. It’s a little bit pulpy, even a touch camp, but in general it looks just like Captain America....

‘Everybody Has A Plan’ Trailer: A Double Dose Of Viggo Mortensen By Russ Fischer/Sept. 11, 2012 2:15 pm EST The Argentine thriller Everybody Has a Plan has an unlikely but very welcome star in Viggo Mortensen, who seems to act his way through the picture with a reasonable accent to his Spanish dialogue. Actually, he acts his way through it twice, as Mortensen plays twin brothers whose lives intersect and entwine in an unusual way....

‘Gladiator’ And ‘Hugo’ Screenwriter John Logan To Write ‘Jersey Boys’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 11, 2012 10:00 am EST Late late year, the rights to one of Broadway’s biggest hits went up on the auction block. Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons was coveted by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox. They all lost out. GK Films paid over seven figures for the musical and after a year without any movement, they’ve finally hired a screenwriter....

By Germain Lussier/Aug. 30, 2011 4:00 pm EST Ever since Ron Moore chose to end his successful reboot of Battlestar Galactica he’s been doing his best to get another series on television. He had ocean and magic shows, The McCulloch and 17th Precinct, set up at NBC and a remake of Wild Wild West in development at CBS. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like any of them are going to make it to network....

‘Paranormal Activity 3’ Teaser Trailer By Germain Lussier/July 21, 2011 11:30 am EST When the first Paranormal Activity was released in 2009, no one could have imagined what a second film, let alone a third film, would hold. It seemed like such a focused scary story. But embedded in Oren Peli’s taught, terrifying film was the back story of a girl named Katie who had been terrorized for years by an unspeakable evil....

‘The Sessions’ Review – 2013 Oscar Contender With John Hawkes, Helen Hunt & William H. Macy By Germain Lussier/Oct. 19, 2012 7:00 pm EST With 2011 being a rare exception, a Sundance award winner is almost always in the thick of awards season. And while the 2012 Sundance Film Festival has yet to bestow its awards, let alone premiere all the films, I feel confident in saying Ben Lewin’s The Sessions will likely be in the mix for awards here and possibly next year at the Oscars....