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Gore Verbinski To Direct The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty? By Peter Sciretta/June 29, 2010 3:30 pm EST The film is to be based on James Thurber’s 1939 short story and the 1947 film version starring Danny Kaye about “a guy whose extensive heroic daydreams are an escape from his humdrum life.” The project has been in development for years with a long list of writers which has included Babaloo Mandel & Lowell Ganz, Chuck Russell, Peter Tolan, Zach Helm, Richard LaGravanese, Jay Kogen, David Reynolds and Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant, and directors Steven Spielberg, Mark Waters and Chuck Russell developing the project to direct at various points and Jim Carrey, Owen Wilson and MIke Myers have been attached to star....

Kevin Smith’s Comic Shop Reality Show To Air On AMC By Germain Lussier/June 6, 2011 1:15 pm EST Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and now Kevin Smith. The soon-to-be retired filmmaker is making sure that, after his final film Hit Somebody, he’ll have plenty of alternative media to keep himself busy. He’s already got his own Internet radio station, S.I.R., and he’s developing a reality TV show that will take place at his personal comic book shop, Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash in Red Bank, NJ....

Kung Fu Panda Screenwriters Hired For Karate Kid Sequel By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 26, 2010 9:31 pm EST Shortly after The Karate Kid was released in theaters, earning $56 million opening weekend (well surpassing expectations), it was announced that they were going to begin development on a sequel. Columbia Pictures executives have been meeting with screenwriters to pitch their ideas on a sequel. Tonight HeatVision is reporting that screenwriters Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reif, who wrote Kung Fu Panda for Dreamworks Animation, have been tapped to pen the follow-up....

Lionsgate Releases Official Info About Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ‘The Last Stand’ By Germain Lussier/July 12, 2011 7:06 pm EST Several months ago, we were among the first to report that Arnold Schwarzenegger was very interested in starring in The Last Stand, an original action movie set up at Lionsgate with Kim Ji-Woon (I Saw The Devil) attached to direct. He eventually decided against it, opting instead for the small character piece Cry Macho, but then some major personal issues stopped all projects in their tracks....

LOL: The Oregon Trail Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2010 9:00 am EST “In 1864, a family embarks on an impossible journey into the untamed American West. " What if Hollywood produced a feature film adaptation of the classic educational computer game, The Oregon Trail? You don’t have to imagine — Watch the trailer now, embedded after the jump. LOL: The Oregon Trail Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 2, 2010 9:00 am EST...

Movie Trailer: Love And Other Drugs, With Jake Gyllenhaal And Anne Hathaway By Russ Fischer/Aug. 13, 2010 5:08 pm EST Love and Other Drugs is a romantic comedy, which of late is a genre that tends to be unremarkable. And it is co-written and directed by Ed Zwick who, sadly, tends to make movies that are also unremarkable. That’s not two strikes, but it’s close. (For me.) But the film is also a kind of Brokeback Mountain reunion, as it puts Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway back in the same cast....

Page 2: E.T., Mad Men, Hobbit, Natalie Portman, Oliver Stone, Psycho, Newsies, Beetlejuice, Transformers, Exorcist, Charles Bronson, Brave, Arthur C. Clarke, Drive, Breaking Bad By Peter Sciretta/April 3, 2012 8:00 am EST What Are Mad Men Critics Saying About Fat Betty? Hector Pahaut created a poster for (500) Days of Summer. Hero Complex has an interview with David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the writer-producers of HBO’s Game of Thrones.Mad Men Prompts a New Parody Account on TwitterPerri Nemiroff lists Cast Reunions that Should and Shouldn’t HappenDoes The Hobbit’s Logo Show Us What Smaug Will Look Like?...

By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2012 8:00 am EST The Rise of UltraViolet, VUDU and Why That Digital Copy Sticker Matters Bruce White “Scott Pilgrim” velvet painting. Forget Controversy: Why ‘My Little Pony’ and Brony Fever Should Be Celebrated Video: Disneyland’s Talking Trash CanWhere You Can See the Best Movies Of All Time Right NowUK Quad poster for Looper. Movie Ticket Prices Reach All-Time High in Q2 of 2012 Watch a Deleted Bridesmaids Scene From GleeTotal Recall: 2012 vs 1990 vs… 1966...

POTD: ‘Primer’ Director Shane Carruth On The Set Of Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2011 6:11 pm EST If you’re a fan of Shane Carruth’s one and only and wonderful movie Primer, this photo should put a spring in your step. If you’ve never seen Primer, I suggest checking it out, then looping back here to this post to begin again. So this is Shane Carruth, aka the writer, director and star of Primer, on the set of Rian Johnson’s new film Looper....

POTD: All Of Chewbacca’s Dialogue From Star Wars On One Giant Sticky Note By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 28, 2010 8:00 am EST Cartoonist Doug Savage was able to draw all of Chewbacca’s dialogue from Star Wars on one extra-large 12? x 12? megasticky note. Click the below image to see the whole thing in large resolution on savagechickens.com. POTD: All Of Chewbacca’s Dialogue From Star Wars On One Giant Sticky Note...

Redbox Teams With Verizon For Subscription Streaming And DVD Rental Service By Russ Fischer/Feb. 6, 2012 11:30 am EST Today Rebox announced that it has partnered with Verizon to make this streaming service a reality. The venture, which is currently unnamed, will charge customers a monthly subscription fee for which they’ll be able to take DVDs from Redbox kiosks, and access streaming catalogue film titles, with that aspect of the business powered by Verizon’s existing digital infrastructure....

Resident Evil: Afterlife Movie Trailer #2 [High Definition] By Peter Sciretta/June 21, 2010 12:00 pm EST Last week we posted a new trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife which premiered on G4TV’s Attack of the Show. The trailer was quickly pulled off of YouTube, but is now online in High Definition. If you missed it previously or would like to see it in higher res, hit the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below....

Subtitled Full Trailer For ‘Extraterrestrial,’ From ‘Timecrimes’ Director Nacho Vigalondo By Russ Fischer/Feb. 8, 2012 1:30 pm EST Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo earned an instant group of followers with his 2007 debut feature Timecrimes. The movie (which also featured Vigalondo as one of the film’s few actors) was a weird, compelling time travel movie with a murderous, guilty heart. We’ve waited years for the director’s next feature, and despite the fact that it is currently without a US distributor, I hope audiences will get a chance to see it this year....

Sundance Documentary ‘Knuckle’ To Become HBO Series By Germain Lussier/June 10, 2011 4:30 pm EST HBO acquired the rights to Knuckle at the festival and are now developing it into a new drama series. Irvine Welsh, the writer of the novel Trainspotting, has been hired to write the pilot and Jody Hill, director of Observe & Report and co-creator of Eastbound & Down, will direct. Read more after the break....

Tron Legacy Banner #7 By Peter Sciretta/July 16, 2010 3:30 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures bought the billboard located at Santa Monica/Westwood in Los Angeles for an entire year. Beginning in mid-December 2009, the studio has been updating the location with new Tron Legacy advertisements, at the rate of one every month and a half or so. And it was revealed they will keep doing so up until the release of the film in December 2010....

VOTD: Steven Spielberg Watches The Oscar Nominations In 1976 For ‘Jaws’ By Germain Lussier/March 1, 2012 7:00 am EST When we think of Steven Spielberg today, we think of a man who has done it all and then some. He’s won Oscars, made films that will last a lifetime and can pretty much can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, because he’s Steven Spielberg. But it wasn’t always like that for the man who directed Raiders of the Lost Ark, E....

Warner Bros Steals A Move From Disney, Will Pull ‘Harry Potter’ DVDs Out Of Circulation December 29 By Germain Lussier/Oct. 24, 2011 6:00 pm EST Come 2012, Harry Potter will no longer be on DVD shelves. Warner Bros. just made an announcement that as of December 29, 2011 all copies of Harry Potter movies, including the November 11 releases of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, and Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection will be taken out of circulation....

Watch 20 Minutes Of Behind The Scenes Footage From ‘The Avengers’ By Peter Sciretta/April 12, 2012 2:00 pm EST I love the process of filmmaking and seeing eye on the wall footage from the making of big films. Today Hollywood doesn’t produce many behind the scenes documentaries in this style. Studios do release reels of b-roll footage to tv outlets at junkets to cut into those 4-minute on camera interviews. Over the years we’ve posted embeds of the raw video material on the site for everyone to enjoy....

‘Answers To Nothing’ Trailer – Presenting Dane Cook, Serious Actor By Angie Han/Oct. 7, 2011 10:00 am EST There comes a moment in many a comedy star’s life when he decides it’s time to try his luck with dramatic acting. Apparently, that point is now for comedian/actor Dane Cook. Though he’s made his name with mediocre comedies like Good Luck Chuck and Employee of the Month, Cook took on a more dramatic part in 2007’s Dan in Real Life, and now he’s doing his darkest turn yet inAnswers to Nothing....

‘Carlos’ Star Édgar Ramírez Is ‘Star Trek’ Sequel Villain Front-Runner By Russ Fischer/Dec. 7, 2011 2:24 pm EST The casting for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek sequel is going strong, with Peter Weller and Alice Eve being the high-profile additions of late. Benicio Del Toro was said to have a lock on the key villain role (possibly Khan) but ended up passing on the part last week. The combination of interest in Del Toro and the rumor of Khan as villain — originally played by Ricardo Montalban — led some to wonder if Del Toro’s replacement would be another Latin actor....