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John Hillcoat May Follow ‘Wettest County’ With Megan Ellison-Financed Police Drama ‘Triple Nine’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 7, 2012 7:00 am EST In 2010, after the original incarnation of John Hillcoat’s The Wettest County had collapsed, the director was eyeing the Black List script Triple Nine, with Shia LaBeouf attached to star. The Matt Cooke script sounds like a taut cop/heist thriller, and as such a slight departure for Hillcoat — it would be a more overtly modern film, if nothing else, than The Proposition or The Road, the movies for which he is best known....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt And Marion Cotillard’s ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Roles Revealed By Germain Lussier/April 19, 2011 10:59 am EST Warner Brothers has just released a press release confirming what we already knew: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard are in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. The big news, though, is that we now finally have confirmations of each actor’s role. Gordon-Levitt will play “John Blake, a Gotham City beat cop assigned to special duty under the command of Commissioner Gordon” and Cotillard is “Miranda Tate, a Wayne Enterprises board member eager to help a still-grieving Bruce Wayne resume his father’s philanthropic endeavors for Gotham....

Lionsgate Buys ‘Black Swan’ Writer Mark Heyman’s ‘XOXO’ By Angie Han/Oct. 26, 2011 4:00 pm EST It’s been months since Black Swan co-writer Mark Heyman began shopping his upscale thriller XOXO, but the project has finally found a home at Lionsgate. After months of negotiation, the studio has just finalized a deal to acquire Heyman’s spec script, described as “Fatal Attraction for the digital age.” As previously reported, Darren Aronofsky and Michael London (Sideways) are set to produce, along with Kelly Mullen....

Netflix Bits: Netflix Supports Amendment To Video Privacy Protection Act, Verizon Considering Buying Netflix?, Netflix Close To Finalizing Deal For Eli Roth’s ‘Hemlock Grove’ By Angie Han/Dec. 13, 2011 6:00 am EST Netflix’s shares may have dropped over the past several months, but as a news topic, the company is as popular as ever. After the jump: Netflix supports a bill that would allow it to share your video rental and streaming choices with your friends Rumor has it Verizon may be looking to buy Netflix Netflix takes yet another step into original programming with Eli Roth’s Hemlock Grove....

Producer’s Guild Award Nominations Announced By Russ Fischer/Jan. 4, 2011 8:51 am EST Two big guild award nomination sets are being announced today, the first being those from the Producers Guild of America, with the Writers Guild nods to come not long from now. The PGA nominations are widely seen as an indicator of what we can expect in the Best Picture Oscar race — ten films get the Producer’s Guild nod, and if they don’t exactly mirror the ten pictures nominated for Oscar, the Oscar list isn’t likely to deviate much....

Robert Pattinson Attached To Play Lawrence Of Arabia For Werner Herzog By Russ Fischer/Aug. 14, 2012 2:30 pm EST Can Robert Pattinson fill the shoes of Peter O’Toole? More important, can he match the defining Lawrence of Arabia when it comes to humanity and gravitas? You may recall that Werner Herzog has been prepping a film called Queen of the Desert, in which Naomi Watts is set to play English writer, explorer, and archaeologist Gertrude Stein....

Robert Rodriguez Talks Difference Between Predators Trailer And Film By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2010 12:31 am EST Those of you who saw Predators over the weekend probably noticed a difference in one significant shot that was a centerpiece of the trailer. The shot appears in the film, albeit in noticeably altered form. Evidently there were a few who’ve been irritated by the difference (really?) and fortunately, someone got producer Robert Rodriguez to talk about it....

Ryan Murphy Of ‘Glee’ Is Top Choice To Direct Willow Smith In ‘Annie’ By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2011 5:30 pm EST Thanks to the wild popularity of Glee, Ryan Murphy has become a first choice for any film musical. We’ve heard his name bandied about as a choice for a Rocky Horror Picture Show remake and the film version of Wicked. And now he is evidently the top choice to direct the new version of Annie that Sony is prepping as a vehicle for Willow Smith....

See A Clip From Pixar’s New Short ‘La Luna’ By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2011 9:15 am EST We’ve showed you an image, logo and poster for the new Pixar short La Luna, which premiered at the Annecy festival this week. Now here’s a clip from the Enrico Casarosa-directed short about a young boy who, one night, is introduced to the family business. Check it out below. Looks like a gorgeous piece of work....

Short Stories: Batman 3 To Hit New Orleans? Avatar Sequels Could Be Shot Back-To-Back? Noah Baumbach Did Rewrites For ‘Madagascar 3’ By Russ Fischer/Aug. 9, 2010 2:30 pm EST It’s like a miniature Page 2 right here (that’ll return as fall hits and smaller stories start to fly) with three short stories and/or rumors on a very slow news day. (Welcome to August, where in a lot of places it is just hot enough that no one wants to do much, even if it involves making deals....

Steve Zaillian Rewriting ‘TimeCrimes’ Remake For DreamWorks By Russ Fischer/Jan. 18, 2011 4:30 pm EST Three years ago the Spanish sci-fi time-travel film TimeCrimes became a hit at Sundance, but by that point the film already had a following. In fact, it was almost exactly three years ago to the day that we heard United Artists would back a remake of the film with Steve Zaillian producing. Sadly, the revived United Artists, tied to MGM, didn’t fare so well....

VOTD: ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ As An Indie Film By Angie Han/March 14, 2011 11:00 am EST I know genre-switched trailers have sort of been done to death, but every once in a while a good one comes along that makes me laugh. Today, it’s a trailer for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off — done up to look like an indie film. Watch it after the jump. [via Buzzfeed] Who knew Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Garden State had so much in common?...

VOTD: Miss Piggy Interviews On The BAFTA 2012 Red Carpet By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 14, 2012 12:30 pm EST The Muppets star Miss Piggy went on the red carpet to interview all the celebrities and award contenters at the 2012 British Academy Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards. The resulting 8-minute video features off-the-cuff exchanges with Jon Hamm, Chris Dowd, Jessica Chastain, James Corden, Michael Fassbender, Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, Adam Deacon, Daniel Radcliffe, Tate Taylor, Octavia Spencer, Tom Hiddleston, Viola Davis, Jonah Hill, and more....

Vote For /Film In The 2011 Bloggies By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 19, 2011 2:42 pm EST Good News: /Film was apparently nominated for one of the best entertainment blogs of the year in the eleventh annual weblog awards — the 2011 Bloggies! How cool is that?Bad News: Tomorrow is the last day of voting. Nominees were announced on February 1st 2011, but we somehow didn’t find out about this until just now (crazy, huh?...

Watch The First Five Minutes Of ‘Source Code’ By Germain Lussier/March 15, 2011 6:00 am EST Duncan Jones, the man who made Moon (as his Twitter name states) is back with his sophomore film, Source Code. The mind-bending sci-fi film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Colter Stevens, a military captain who somehow finds himself inside the body of another man for the final eight minutes of his life. In that time, he has to find out who blew up a train full of passengers before the bomber strikes again....

/Film LA: Disney Running One-Week Oscar-Qualifying Run Of Indian Animated Movie ‘Arjun: The Warrior Prince’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 3, 2012 3:30 pm EST Los Angeles Disney fans get a special treat beginning Monday night. Disney has taken the late slot at their flagship El Capitan Theater on Hollywood Boulevard and will screen their recently acquired Indian animated film Arjun: The Warrior Prince for a one-week only, Oscar-qualifying run. It’ll play at 9:20 p....

‘Man Of Steel’ Will Be In IMAX 3D; New Plot Description Revealed By Germain Lussier/July 9, 2012 1:30 pm EST UPDATE: Variety is reporting the IMAX blog post this article was based on was premature and a decision along these lines has yet to be made. The last two times director Zack Snyder walked into San Diego Comic-Con, he brought the house down with impressive presentations for 300 and Watchmen. Saturday, he returns with the Warner Bros....

Adult Swim Officially Announces ‘Black Dynamite’ Animated Series By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2011 3:00 pm EST Briefly: Ever since Black Dynamite hit in 2009, there have been plans for a spin-off animated series featuring the continued adventures of the former Fed and irrepressible ladykiller avenger Black Dynamite. Now Adult Swim has officially picked up the series, which is directed by Carl Jones (The Boondocks), animated by Titmouse and will feature the voices of the film’s actors Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, Kym Whitley and Byron Minns....

Albert Brooks In Talks To Join Judd Apatow’s New Film By Germain Lussier/March 16, 2011 9:23 pm EST Brooks is a comedy legend who got his start helping to usher in a whole new age of stand up comedy in the 1970s. However, as time would tell, much of his passion was in the world of film, both in front and behind the camera. Lorne Michaels famously asked Brooks to direct some very subtle and hilarious films for Saturday Night Live in the early years and, by the late 70s, he was a full on filmmaker....

Casting Bits: John Cusack And Johnny Knoxville In ‘Carnaval’, Katherine LaNasa In ‘Dog Fight’ And ‘The Frozen Ground’, Vanessa Redgrave, Melanie Laurent In ‘Night Train To Lisbon’ By Angie Han/Oct. 19, 2011 6:00 pm EST John Cusack and Johnny Knoxville are set to star in Carnaval, a comedy directed by Josh Stern. Cusack will play a sports scout who tavels to Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval in order to sign a soccer star, while Knoxville has been cast as Cusack’s musician best friend who tags along....