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Page 2: Star Trek, Incredibles, Lost In Space, Star Wars, Obama, James Bond, Back To The Future, Fifth Element, Community, Game Of Thrones, By Peter Sciretta/April 20, 2012 8:00 am EST Constantin Picks Up Movie Rights to New Fantasy Series From Cassandra Clare and Holly Black Lost In Space Robot CakeM Night’s After Earth starring Will Smith, will film in the Redwoods State Park, California April 23 – May 5Sideshow Collectibles has opened the pre-order for their Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark Diorama....

By Russ Fischer/April 1, 2011 6:45 pm EST Last month Universal agreed to finance and distribute Memphis, a film about Martin Luther King with Paul Greengrass writing and directing and Scott Rudin producing. The film was ideally going to hit right in time for the MLK holiday in 2012. Now Universal has dropped the project. What happened? There are competing theories. Deadline reports that the official line from Universal is scheduling, and a lack of faith that it could be ready in ten months....

Paul Thomas Anderson Plans To Shoot Scientology Film ‘The Master’ In August 2010 By Peter Sciretta/July 15, 2010 10:00 am EST Anderson quickly cast Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role, and Jeremy Renner (Hurt Locker) had been eyeing the role of Freddie, the young man who becomes the Master’s lieutenant before having second thoughts about the organization. Reese Witherspoon was in line to play Mary-Sue, wife of the title character (Hoffman) who “acts as his caretaker and vigilant lieutenant....

POTD: Vanity Fair’s 2011 Hollywood Issue Cover By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 2, 2011 7:00 pm EST Vanity Fair have released the cover photo for their 2011 Hollywood Issue. The cover features Oscar co-hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco (also a best-actor nominee), along with Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal. The two inside panels feature 11 more stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Jennifer Lawrence, Noomi Rapace,, Anthony Mackie, Olivia Wilde, Mila Kunis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Garrett Hedlund, and Robert Duvall....

Release Date Shuffle: ‘The Raven’, ‘House At The End Of The Street’, ‘Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World’ [Updated] By Angie Han/Jan. 24, 2012 2:00 pm EST There’s plenty to look forward to in spring 2012, but as we head slowly (oh, ever so slowly) toward the warmer months, two films have been pushed back to other seasons while one has landed on a different spring date. After the jump, get updates on new release dates for Relativity’s The Raven and House at the End of the Street, as well as Focus Features’ Seeking a Friend for the End of the World....

Robert Pattinson Replaces Colin Farrell In David Cronenberg’s ‘Cosmopolis’ By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2011 3:49 pm EST Let’s look at the different career paths of the two major male stars from Twilight. Taylor Lautner is doing what seems to be boilerplate action/tentpole stuff: Abduction and possibly Stretch bloody Armstrong. Robert Pattinson, meanwhile, is going a little more high-minded, co-starring with Cristoph Waltz in Water For Elephants and now taking over for Colin Farrell in David Cronenberg’s adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel Cosmopolis....

Steven Soderbergh Explains His Work On ‘The Hunger Games’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 2, 2011 9:00 am EST Earlier this month, the seemingly odd news broke that Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh was directing the second unit on Gary Ross’ film The Hunger Games. At the time, Russ wrote: This might seem strange at first, but Steven Soderbergh and Gary Ross have a friendship that goes back some years, and The Hunger Games production designer Phil Messina is also a frequent Soderbergh collaborator....

Sundance 2011: ‘Mad Bastards’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 28, 2010 3:00 pm EST Writer/director Brendan Fletcher debut feature film Mad Bastards is set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The Australian film follows the story of “TJ’s quest to find the son he’s never known.” The journey takes him “across the remote and stunning Kimberley landscape.” Here is the official plot synopsis: TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13-year-old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too....

Sundance 2011: ‘The Interrupters’ Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 13, 2011 2:00 pm EST One of the high profile documentaries set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival is Steve James’ The Interrupters. You might not recognize James by name, but he is the filmmaker responsible for the documentary classic Hoop Dreams. The movie takes a focus on the violence in Chicago, particularly a recent brutal beating of a Chicago Public School student caught on videotape....

Susan Sarandon In Talks To Co-Star With The Rock In ‘Snitch’ By Russ Fischer/Sept. 27, 2011 3:30 pm EST Susan Sarandon is currently shooting (or about to shoot) Cloud Atlas, her second film with Andy and Lana Wachowski, but after that she’ll likely appear in a film called Snitch, which already has Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson set to star. The film is an action thriller loosely based on a true story about the response a father has when his son is given a very harsh drug-related prison sentence....

Theatrical Re-Releases: ‘E.T.’ Hits The Big Screen For One Night, And ‘Twilight’ Fans Get A Marathon By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2012 2:41 pm EST While VHS and DVD really hurt the theatrical re-release business for quite a while, in recent years there has been a resurgence of films going back to the big screen, if only for very limited runs. The latest rereleases coming up this fall are a very brief — one night only!...

TIFF Movie Review: Max Winkler’s Ceremony By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2010 7:00 am EST The 27-year old USC film school graduate and son of television actor Henry Winkler (Fonzie on Happy Days) is probably best known as the director of the popular Clark and Michael web series which starred Michael Cera and Clark Duke. In 2005, he co-wrote and co-directed a short film titled The King of Central Park, which screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, Malibu International Film Festival and Santa Barbara International Film Festival....

VOTD: The Santa Clause (Pedophile Version) By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 24, 2010 1:00 pm EST A viral video going around the web today is a fan edit movie trailer for The Santa Clause which turns the Tim Allen Christmas family film into a story about a creepy pedophile who abducts children dressed as Santa Claus. VOTD: The Santa Clause (Pedophile Version) By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 24, 2010 1:00 pm EST A viral video going around the web today is a fan edit movie trailer for The Santa Clause which turns the Tim Allen Christmas family film into a story about a creepy pedophile who abducts children dressed as Santa Claus....

Walt Disney’s 50 Animated Motion Pictures By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 24, 2010 1:00 pm EST Walt Disney Animation Studios has released a short two-minute video celebrating the release of their latest film, by counting down the 49 animated features produced over the past seven decades — from 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to 2010’s Tangled. The video is set to the song “Dreams” by Brandi Carlile. Watch the video now embedded after the jump....

Watch This: Action Clip Of Donnie Yen In ‘Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen’ By Germain Lussier/April 20, 2011 4:30 pm EST If you were on the fence about whether or not to see Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, watching the clip below will cost you 12 bucks. Opening limited this weekend, the epic Hong Kong action film starring the legendary Donnie Yen is about a thought-to-be-dead World War I hero who assumes another’s identity and ends up becoming a masked vigilante....

Will There Be A ‘Tron 3’? By Russ Fischer/April 6, 2011 2:00 pm EST Tron Legacy hit DVD and Blu-ray this week, and Disney had a few members of the cast and crew out at WonderCon last weekend to encourage people to take a dip in this leg of the Tron revenue stream. Through all the interviews that resulted, there is the looming question of another Tron sequel. No one answered the question definitively, though there were a lot of statements that started with “Well, if we make another one…”...

‘Detachment’ Trailer And Poster: Adrien Brody And Tony Kaye Go To School By Russ Fischer/Jan. 17, 2012 3:00 pm EST Tony Kaye got a reputation for being hard-headed during the production of American History X, and though he released the incendiary abortion documentary Lake of Fire in 2006, the years since American History X haven’t been easy for the director when it comes to narrative films. His movie Black Water Transit has been on the shelf for years now, and Kaye seemed like he might be a permanent resident of director jail....

‘Gran Torino’ Writer Nick Schenk Rewriting ‘RoboCop’ Remake By Russ Fischer/Feb. 1, 2012 11:30 am EST Briefly: The remake of RoboCop is a bit like the character RoboCop is at the end of his first movie: it just…keeps…going. The bankruptcy of MGM stopped Darren Aronofsky’s version, but it didn’t stop the remake overall. Now Elite Squad director Jose Padilha is set to direct, and furthermore, RoboCop has a new writer to follow up on the work done by Josh Zetumer....

‘Life In A Day’ Trailer By Germain Lussier/April 21, 2011 5:33 pm EST Last summer, people from around the world filmed themselves going through their daily lives and put the videos on YouTube. Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, State of Play) and producers Tony and Ridley Scott then went ahead and made a movie out of those videos, editing them together to show a snap shot of the world on one single day....

‘The Barrens’ Trailer: The Jersey Devil Strikes From Within By Russ Fischer/Aug. 21, 2012 3:19 pm EST Darren Lynn Bousman made his entry into horror fame with several entries in the Saw series (Saw II-IV) and then went on to direct films such as the feature version of Repo! The Genetic Opera, the remake of Mother’s Day, and 11-11-11. Now he has taken on a classic bit of weird American lore: the story of the Jersey Devil, supposedly a Satanic beast, or even the personification of the Devil, that roams New Jersey....