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Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ Prequel Reportedly Titled ‘Paradise,’ Filming Not Delayed By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2010 2:30 pm EST But more important, a report says that the first film is called Paradise, and that cast sought by Ridley Scott includes Michael Fassbender and Michelle Yeoh. More info on the character details and plot of the film are also after the break. And note that there are possible spoilers in the info that follows....

Sequel Bits: Taken 2, Before Midnight, Kick-Ass 2, Fast And Furious 6, Machete Kills By Germain Lussier/Aug. 30, 2012 2:17 pm EST Yesterday, we wrote about the rumor that Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater were in Greece making the sequel to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, rumored to be called Before Midnight. That’s partially true. In an interview with MTV Hawke came clean about the film, confirming that he is in Greece with Linklater on the topic of this film, but not necessarily to shoot it....

Six New Images From ‘John Carter’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 25, 2011 4:39 pm EST Here comes the next wave of marketing for Disney’s John Carter, adapted from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel A Princess of Mars and directed by Pixar’s Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E) with Taylor Kitsch in the title role. Kitsch plays a captain in the civil war Confederacy who is transported to Mars (called Barsoom by the planet’s inhabitants) where he is embroiled in a conflict between warring societies....

Universal Will Release Luc Besson’s Thriller Starring Angelina Jolie By Russ Fischer/Dec. 12, 2011 3:30 pm EST Briefly: We heard very recently that Luc Besson might make new live-action thriller, possibly with some sci-fi aspect, and that Angelina Jolie is in talks to star. We still don’t know many details about the movie, and in fact Jolie isn’t even 100% locked. But now Universal has picked up a controlling distribution interest in the project, which should give it a lot more momentum....

VOTD: James Franco Seeks Oscar Hosting Advice From Judd Apatow By Germain Lussier/Feb. 18, 2011 4:00 pm EST The Oscars are just over a week away. I know this because there are already huge bleachers on Hollywood Boulevard and because James Franco, who is hosting the event with Anne Hathaway, is seeking advice from his friends. Funny or Die posted a video that played at the Producer’s Guild Awards a few weeks back of Franco having a Skype conversation with producer/writer/director Judd Apatow, who hosted that event....

Zack Snyder Says His Superman And The ‘Justice League’ Superman Are Different By Russ Fischer/March 30, 2011 2:29 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A few years back when George Miller was developing a Justice League film he cast it with actors that had no ties to other DC comics movies. Granted, there were fewer DC movies then, but that Justice League wouldn’t have featured Brandon Routh as Superman or Christian Bale as Batman....

‘50/50’ Trailer #2 Plays Up The Comedy By Germain Lussier/Aug. 11, 2011 7:00 pm EST If you were wondering how a film about cancer could get played for laughs, and the first trailer for 50/50 didn’t quite hammer it home, this new one will. Directed by Jonathan Levine’s 50/50 stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the story of a young man diagnosed with cancer at 27 and given a 50/50 chance of survival....

/Film Interview: Wes Anderson Talks About ‘Moonrise Kingdom’s’ Themes, End Credits, His Dark Next Movie, Fan Art And More By Germain Lussier/June 7, 2012 5:00 pm EST In my opinion Moonrise Kingdom, which is now playing in select cities and will continue to expand throughout June, marks a change for Anderson and speaking with the talented director, I asked him about it. He didn’t quite agree. We also spoke about how his next movie will “not be family friendly,” the genesis of Moonrise’s glorious end credits, if he looks back at his old movies, feels added pressure being so revered and the art galleries that have taken to commemmorateing his work....

‘Hatchet II’ Pulled From U.S. And Canadian Theaters By Germain Lussier/Oct. 5, 2010 1:00 pm EST If you follow a lot of film fans on Twitter, you might have seen a photo in your stream urging you to “Support Unrated Horror.” It was made to promote Adam Green’s horror sequel Hatchet II starring Kane Hodder, which was released unrated on October 1 after the MPAA refused to give it an R rating....

‘J. Edgar’ Trailer: Clint Eastwood And Leonardo DiCaprio Chronicle America’s Most Infamous Lawman By Russ Fischer/Sept. 19, 2011 5:40 pm EST Clint Eastwood and Warner Bros. decided to skip this fall’s festival circuit with the biopic J. Edgar. While a good many of the other major fall studio releases have been seen and reviewed in the past three weeks via Telluride, Venice and TIFF, we’ve seen nothing from this biography of America’s most powerful lawman, the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J....

‘J. Edgar’ Update: Ed Westwick In, Charlize Theron Out, Possibly Moving To ‘Alien Prequel?’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 10, 2011 8:00 pm EST But as the Oscar-winning director loses one actor, he gains another. Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick has signed to play a “major supporting role” in the film as an FBI agent who is tasked with writing Hoover’s memoir. Read more about all of this after the jump. According to Vulture, the news of Theron playing Helen Gandy in J....

‘One For The Money’ Trailer: Katherine Heigl Gets Fired, Becomes A Bounty Hunter By Russ Fischer/Sept. 26, 2011 10:00 am EST I think it’s fair to say that Katherine Heigl has an image problem. Films like Killers and Life as We Know It haven’t done much to balance the idea of Heigl as ice queen, but maybe adopting a Jersey accent will do the trick. Providing the assist is Heigl’s former Grey’s Anatomy director Julie Anne Robinson, who sat in the director’s chair for this particular effort....

‘The Devil’s Double’ Trailer By Russ Fischer/April 26, 2011 10:07 am EST I always have high hopes for Lee Tamahori — coming out of the gate with a film as powerful as Once Were Warriors earns a lot of patience — but I’m almost always disappointed. Is that going to be the case with his latest film, The Devil’s Double, a lurid-looking potboiler based on a true story in which Dominic Cooper plays both Uday Hussein and the man coerced into being his safety double?...

‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2’ VMA Trailer: Rally The Clans, Prepare For Battle By Russ Fischer/Sept. 6, 2012 10:26 pm EST The publicists that be kept Kristen Stewart off the stage at MTV’s VMA ceremony tonight when some of the Twilight cast assembled to present a new 90-second trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. So the most awkward part of the Twilight portion of the evening was just the effects in the trailer, and that’s not such a big deal....

‘Transformers 4 And 5’ May Shoot Back-To-Back, Jason Statham Could Star By Germain Lussier/Oct. 17, 2011 5:30 pm EST Our box office dollars asked for it and now Paramount is hoping to deliver a double dose. Earlier today, news broke that Hasbro is keen on getting director Michael Bay back behind the camera to shoot a fourth Transformers film. Variety is now reporting the plan is much bigger than that. They’re actually considering filming a fourth and fifth film simultaneously – much as Warner Bros....

‘Twilight’ Author Stephenie Meyer Options Lois Duncan’s ‘Down A Dark Hall’ By Angie Han/April 19, 2012 3:30 pm EST Even as The Twilight Saga heads into its final installment, author Stephenie Meyer’s Hollywood career is just getting started. Last summer, Meyer signed on to produce the romantic comedy Austenland, her first foray into the world of movies not based on her own books. And now Meyer’s taking another step in that direction, as she and Megan Hibbert option the novel Down a Dark Hall from YA writer Lois Duncan....

‘Upside Down’ Trailer: A Wild Sci-Fi Romance To Kick Off The New Year By Russ Fischer/Jan. 2, 2012 3:30 pm EST You may not remember the first time we reported on the sci-fi romance Upside Down, because it was over two years ago, in fall 2009. The film stars Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess as lovers of a sort. They inhabit two different worlds, visualized in the film as inverted images of one another, and where the world ‘up top’ is far more well to do than the one ‘down below....

Aardman Animation’s ‘Arthur Christmas’ New Teaser And Poster By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2011 1:00 pm EST New animation from Aardman Animation (Wallace & Gromit) is like a gift, so the company is (appropriately) making a Christmas film called, er, Arthur Christmas. We’ve seen one brief, cheeky teaser trailer, and now there is a second just as cheeky teaser to put you in mind of the November release. It’s good stuff; check it out along with a new poster for the film, after the break....

Akiva Goldsman Looking To Tom Hiddleston, Benjamin Walker And Russell Crowe For ‘Winter’s Tale’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 7, 2011 2:00 pm EST Akiva Goldsman is still working towards the realization of his first effort as a feature film director. For quite some time, the writer/producer has wanted to bring to the screen an adaptation of Mark Helprin’s novel Winter’s Tale. In February Warner Bros. agreed to make the film, though at the time it looked like the project was going to have to wait until after the shoot for the first feature in the Dark Tower series, which Goldsman is writing and producing....

Avi Arad Developing Pac-Man Movie? By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2010 10:17 pm EST Producer Avi Arad has will be on hand at Namco’s 30th birthday for Pac-Man on June 15th (during E3) “to make an announcement about the worldwide premiere of his newest Pac-Man project.” Of couse, “Pac-Man project” doesn’t necessarily mean big screen movie, but what else could it be? Arad is a Hollywood producer — that’s what he does....