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‘Dragonslayer’ Trailer: Skateboarding And Anarchy In A Punk Rock Doc By Russ Fischer/Aug. 24, 2011 10:00 am EST The voiceover in this trailer for Dragonslayer, the documentary that won Best Documentary and Best Cinematography awards at SXSW, is your standard “screw the government” claptrap. Avoid corporations, don’t do anything that will contribute taxes, rely only on yourself. That last tenet is pretty good, but the speech as a whole comes off as absurdly naive....

‘Heathers’ To Be Reborn As TV Series By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2012 2:00 pm EST And so we have a Heathers TV show in development at Bravo, based on the 1988 cult fave film that helped launch the careers of Christian Slater and Shannon Doherty, and cemented the popularity (har!) of Wynona Ryder. Slater plays a James Dean wannabe whose messed-up home life has led to a certain sociopathic nature; he and Ryder meet in high school, fall for each other, and proceed to kill off all the popular kids....

‘Magic Mike’ Trailer: Channing Tatum Knows How To Work It By Russ Fischer/April 18, 2012 5:30 pm EST When Steven Soderbergh announced that he would make a film based on experiences Channing Tatum had in his youth as a male stripper, there was some collective eye-rolling and giggling. But Tatum’s image has changed a lot in the last few months thanks to 21 Jump Street. We knew the guy had beefcake dance moves (thanks to Step Up) and that he could act (Stop Loss), but films like Dear John kept many from really taking to him....

‘Monsters’ Director Gareth Edwards Talks ‘Godzilla’ Reboot By Germain Lussier/Feb. 2, 2011 2:30 pm EST Gareth Edwards’ first monster movie, Monsters, hit Blu-ray this week and while promoting the release, the conversation obviously veered toward his plans for Legendary Pictures’ reboot of Godzilla, which he’s set to direct. Edwards obviously can’t say much in the way of specifics, but assures fans that the franchise will be handled with respect. Read his quotes after the jump....

‘Party Down’ Fans: Get Your Hopes Up For A Possible Movie By Russ Fischer/June 28, 2011 12:00 pm EST We hate when great comedy shows are killed off prematurely, and love when the possibility arises that they might rise from the grave to take over movie screens. The idea of an Arrested Development movie is something that has generated a surplus of questions and speculation, and that project seems to be slowly (slowly) crawling towards the light....

‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/Dec. 13, 2010 1:14 pm EST Disney has released the first trailer for the fourth movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, On Stranger Tides. It announces new director Rob Marshall and new characters played by Ian McShane and Penelope Cruz, and uses the series’ ringing score to great effect. Watch it after the break. Yahoo has the US version of the teaser in HD....

‘The Magic Life’ Trailer: Lose Your Illusions By Russ Fischer/Aug. 17, 2012 3:00 pm EST There are some entertainment disciplines that have fallen slightly out of favor, thanks to new distractions. Puppeteers and magicians don’t get the attention they once did, unless they’re part of Jim Henson’s crew or have a wild gimmick. But practitioners of fading arts keep going forward, even though they face a more difficult path now than ever....

‘The Raid’ Remake Gains A Writer As The Sequel Moves Forward By Russ Fischer/Feb. 3, 2012 5:00 pm EST Last night we talked about plans for two films to follow The Raid, that being Gareth Evans’ attention-getting Indonesian action film that has been kicking the asses of audiences up and down the festival circuit. The film follows the efforts of an elite police task force charged with cleaning out a building in Jakarta controlled by a drug lord, who runs it as sort of a safe house for criminals....

‘Top Gun’ Being Converted To 3D By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2011 9:30 am EST Briefly: Paramount is in the first stages of converting Tony Scott’s iconic 1986 film Top Gun to 3D. Four minutes have been converted so far — mostly featuring one of the film’s big aerial combat sequences — and screened today at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam. The company behind the conversion, Legend3D, is pushing its tech in the hopes that more catalog titles will be converted....

Casting Bits: Aaron Eckhart In ‘The Drummer’, Tom Savini In ‘Django Unchained’ By Angie Han/Oct. 17, 2011 9:30 am EST Aaron Eckhart has landed the lead role in Randy Miller’s The Drummer, a biopic of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson. The indie picture follows the last six years of Wilson’s life, leading up to his death in 1983 at the age of 39. In addition to starring, Eckhart will also serve as executive producer and record his own versions of Wilson’s 1977 solo album Pacific Ocean Blue....

Family Guy Creator Seth MacFarlane To Direct, Co-Star And Voice $65 Million R-Rated Comedy ‘Ted’ By Russ Fischer/April 13, 2010 7:58 am EST Deadline has basic info about the film, but not much more than I just gave you there — it is planned as a live-action and CGI hybrid, and MacFarlane will voice the teddy bear and co-star. (I’m assuming that co-star means that we’ll also see MacFarlane playing a human character, not just voicing the bear....

First Look: Rooney Mara As Lisbeth Salander In ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 7, 2010 8:04 am EST Well, it’s not quite a perfect first look, as these photos of Rooney Mara only show her partway through the transformation into the tatted and pierced Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Apparently snapped while the actress was doing motorcycle training for the role, these pics at least give you the basic idea of the new version of the character....

First Look: The New ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ On Nickelodeon By Angie Han/March 9, 2011 11:30 am EST Yes, that’s right — there’s another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series in the works, over at Nickelodeon. As you may recall, the cable network purchased the rights to the turtles from Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment for $60 million back in 2009. Rumors at the time suggested that Nickelodeon was planning a new CG-animated series and a feature film for their recently acquired brand, and today we got our first look at the new show....

By Russ Fischer/July 30, 2010 1:18 pm EST 127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued....

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Gore Verbinski In Talks To Direct The Lone Ranger? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 27, 2010 6:16 pm EST Many of you might be wondering what Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy director Gore Verbinski has planned next. He is wrapping up production on the computer animated film Rango, and it doesn’t look like the Bioshock movie adaptation is going to happen. Word has it that Verbinski might again reteam with Johnny Depp on a big screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger....

Hints About Two New Studio Ghibli Projects Revealed By Germain Lussier/Feb. 14, 2012 7:00 am EST This weekend marks the release of the first new Studio Ghibli film on U.S. screens since 2009. It’s called The Secret World of Arriety and besides being a very sweet, enjoyable film, the title is also a great way to describe the world of Ghibli itself. Everything about their productions is shrouded in secrecy. Then, one day, as if by magic, a lovely movie appears, beautifully animated for the world to see....

Hugh Jackman Speaks About Moving Forward With ‘The Wolverine’ By Russ Fischer/March 29, 2011 5:00 pm EST So what happens now that the film doesn’t have a director and a planned shoot in Japan is an uncertain possibility thanks to the devastation of earthquakes and tsunamis? We still don’t know, but Hugh Jackman sounds very cautiously optimistic. Speaking to ComingSoon at CinemaCon, Hugh Jackman said, Sparse statement, and parse it as you will, but given the fact that the script relies heavily upon Japan as a setting and the terrible situations there will prevent shooting for some time, it sounds like a boilerplate response....

John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman And More Voice Disney’s Video Game-Inspired ‘Wreck-It Ralph,’ Formerly ‘Reboot Ralph’ By Russ Fischer/June 13, 2011 9:30 am EST Reboot Ralph has been an unknown quantity on Disney’s slate for the past year. Announced in 2010 as a May 2013 release, the film was bumped up to November 2 2012 earlier this year. But all we really knew was the title, and the fact that it was a reworked version of an old Disney project called Joe Jump, which was about “an outdated video game character who’s been left behind by the march of technology....