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Cool Stuff: Tara McPherson’s Limited Edition ‘Young Adult’ Pop-Up Screening Art By Russ Fischer/Oct. 24, 2011 5:30 pm EST Paramount Pictures is running unannounced pop-up screenings of Jason Reitman’s new film Young Adult in cities around North America. As a special bonus, Reitman and Paramount enlisted the curatorial services of Los Angeles’ famous pop culture art gallery Gallery1988 to pick the artists and produce limited edition pieces of art for the surprise screenings....

Curtis Hanson And Clark Gregg To Make Film About A Fake Cop By Russ Fischer/April 16, 2010 9:48 am EST The film rights to his story have been kicking around Hollywood since then, and now director Curtis Hanson and screenwriter Clark Gregg are possibly bringing it to the screen. Davis, Spilo and Klawans optioned this story in 2008, and at the time seemed to be aiming for it to be made as a comedy, according to a Variety article from the time....

Darren Aronofsky On How/Why He Became A Filmmaker By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 10, 2010 3:00 pm EST Darren Aronofsky gives an insightful interview to our friends at MakingOf about how he got into filmmaking, created his first film, submitted movies to film festivals before the wonders of the internet, and the importance of originality and creating a story that comes from within. Watch the video embedded after the jump. Darren Aronofsky On How/Why He Became A Filmmaker...

DreamWorks Animation To Make Live-Action/CG Hybrid Film ‘Imaginary Enemies’? By Adam Quigley/Aug. 20, 2010 1:00 pm EST It may have taken a few years, but DreamWorks Animation has finally started to step up its game, even nearing (or arguably equaling) Pixar quality with films like Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon. But it will probably be some time yet before they maintain any consistency in that output, assuming (perhaps naively) that they ever do....

By Russ Fischer/April 26, 2010 11:54 pm EST Ellis has a couple of movies in the pipeline, and now his upcoming novel Imperial Bedrooms may become a film as well. The LA Times reports that at a Q&A during last weekend’s LAT Festival of Books, Ellis talked about his work in Hollywood, speaking in part about Imperial Bedrooms, his novel which will be published later this year, and which continues the story of Clay from Less Than Zero....

Geek Deal: Shaun Of The Dead On Blu-Ray For Only $10.99, On DVD For $5.49 By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 2, 2011 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Infographic: 120 Sci-Fi Events On A Real-World Timeline By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2010 6:00 pm EST Blastr has compiled a fun infographic compiling 120 sci-fi events from fiction, television and movies, and placed them chronologically on a real-world timeline. Click this link to see the full infographic now. Infographic: 120 Sci-Fi Events On A Real-World Timeline By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2010 6:00 pm EST Blastr has compiled a fun infographic compiling 120 sci-fi events from fiction, television and movies, and placed them chronologically on a real-world timeline....

James McTeigue Directing ‘Message From The King’ By Russ Fischer/July 20, 2011 1:00 pm EST Briefly: James McTeigue came up working for the Wachowskis and worked in their shadow to some extent while directing V For Vendetta and Ninja Assassin. But in the past couple years he has started to forge his own path. First he shot the literary thriller The Raven, starring John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe, and has that film in post-production now....

Joe Carnahan Interested In Directing Preacher By Russ Fischer/June 8, 2010 12:11 am EST A-Team director Joe Carnahan is doing the press rounds, as his film opens this week, and naturally the subject of past project developments and hopes for the future have both come up. The attention-getting thing is that Carnahan has expressed a desire to take over the film based on Vertigo’s Preacher comic book series, to which Sam Mendes was briefly attached before he sided with James Bond....

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 20, 2011 7:44 pm EST 24 ended a long run on television last year, but for the past few months there has been persistent word that the characters might hit the big screen in a 24 movie. Last we heard, however, the script by Billy Ray had been rejected, leaving us uncertain about whether the movie was dead or not. Kiefer Sutherland certainly doesn’t think it is dead, however....

Kurt Russell And Sacha Baron Cohen Exit ‘Django Unchained’ By Angie Han/May 10, 2012 7:30 am EST Following last month’s news that Joseph Gordon-Levitt had left Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, two more of his would-be co-stars confirmed their own departures earlier this week. Kurt Russell and Sacha Baron Cohen will no longer be appearing in the film, which is currently shooting for a December release. It’s disappointing for sure, but at least the remaining cast — which includes Jamie Foxx, Christopher Waltz, and Leonardo DiCaprio — still looks pretty damn great....

Martin Scorsese On Why Vampires Are Better Than Zombies By Angie Han/April 9, 2012 11:00 am EST With The Twilight Saga dominating at the box office and The Walking Dead leading TV ratings, we can argue ’til the cows come home about the relative merits and failings of each type of paranormal creature. But for one iconic filmmaker, at least, there’s no question. “I happen to like vampires more than zombies,” Martin Scorsese revealed in a recent interview....

NBC Picks Up David E. Kelley’s ‘Wonder Woman’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 22, 2011 7:14 am EST Briefly: Last night the new leadership of NBC kicked things off by picking up, among a couple other projects, a pilot for a musical drama produced by Steven Spielberg. As expected, the network is making more moves and one of them is grabbing the new Wonder Woman show being developed by David E. Kelley. Ironically the network, under prior leadership, was one of the last to pass on Wonder Woman not long ago....

New Photos Of James McAvoy And Toby Kebbell In Robert Redford’s The Conspirator By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2010 9:00 pm EST In August of last year, we heard that Robert Redford was going to, in some measure, beat Steven Spielberg to the punch with a film about Lincoln. But Redford’s film, The Conspirator, isn’t quite about Lincoln himself — it is about Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), one of the accused members of a conspiracy to assassinate the President and, in the wake of the case, the first woman executed by the US government....

Red-Band Trailer And Poster For ‘I Melt With You’, Sundance’s Most Divisive Film By Angie Han/Sept. 30, 2011 7:00 am EST There are films I want to watch because they’re universally beloved, others I want to watch out of a morbid curiosity because they’re widely reviled, and then, occasionally, there are those that pique my curiosity because they seem to be a little bit of both. Perhaps the most divisive film out of this year’s Sundance was Mark Pellington’s I Melt With You, a dramatic thriller about four longtime male friends (Rob Lowe, Tom Jane, Jeremy Piven, and Christian McKay) suffering from midlife crises who escape together for debauched gatherings....

Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Midnight’ Has Finished Shooting In Greece; See The First Image By Angie Han/Sept. 5, 2012 11:58 am EST Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, and Richard Linklater have been terribly wishy-washy about the second Before Sunrise sequel over the past year. Hawke was the first to let slip that something was in the works, but the trio immediately backpedaled by insisting that nothing was set in stone. Then we got word that shooting would start this summer, but none of the three said a peep as June and July went by....

Ron Perlman Talks About ‘Conan The Barbarian,’ ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ And ‘Hellboy 3’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2011 7:00 pm EST As Season of the Witch limps towards theaters, the cast and crew are out doing the press rounds. Among them is Ron Perlman, the actor who has been a frequent presence in movies by Guillermo del Toro and who has already shot a part in Conan the Barbarian....

Russell Crowe To Direct Rather Than Star In Bill Hicks Biopic By Russ Fischer/July 23, 2012 9:00 am EST It took his death in 1994 to make people really realize that Bill Hicks was among the decade’s most unique voices in social criticism. Ostensibly a stand-up comic, Hicks was a fierce critic of marketing and advertising (“you do a commercial, you’re off the artistic roll call forever”), and of pop culture trends....

Spike Lee’s Version Of ‘Oldboy’ May Be A Remake In The Vein Of ‘The Departed’ By Russ Fischer/July 12, 2011 10:30 am EST After being thought dead for quite some time, the new English-language version of Oldboy is really happening under the direction of Spike Lee. His hire was confirmed yesterday via a press release, and the language of the release made the project, which is based on a script by Mark Protosevich, sound as if it is more a direct remake of the Park Chan-wook film than an adaptation of the original Japanese manga that inspired the movie....

Telluride Festival Primary Lineup Announced: New Cronenberg, Payne, Herzog Films Playing By Russ Fischer/Sept. 1, 2011 12:15 pm EST The Telluride Film Festival, a presentation of the National Film Preserve which takes place beginning tomorrow, Friday Sept 2 and runs through Monday Sept 5, is an unusual beast as far as film festivals go. The core film lineup is not announced until the day before the festival begins, so attendees have to commit to the fest without knowing any of the movies that will definitely play....