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Barry Levinson Will Direct Timothy McVeigh Bombing Movie ‘O.K.C.’ By Russ Fischer/March 3, 2011 9:00 am EST Barry Levinson has worked steadily for the last few years on films that weren’t exactly high-profile smashes (Man of the Year, What Just Happened) but scored big with the Jack Kevorkian film You Don’t Know Jack for HBO. He is finishing up the enviro-horror film The Bay right now. And the director now has a follow-up film set....

Brendan Fraser Starring In ‘William Tell 3D’ And Historical Drama ‘Four Kings’ By Russ Fischer/May 6, 2011 6:00 pm EST If it feels like Brendan Fraser is suddenly everywhere, that’s because he is. After being relatively low-profile for a couple years he is about to be in several films: he’s shooting the Belfast-based heist comedy Whole Lotta Sole right now, will soon shoot Gimme Shelter (playing against type as a less than accepting father) and now has two new roles....

Colin Firth Won’t Torment Josh Brolin In ‘Oldboy’ By Russ Fischer/Dec. 8, 2011 4:30 pm EST I think this is pretty disappointing. Spike Lee and Mandate Pictures are prepping a new version of Oldboy for an early 2012 shoot, and the film needs a new villain. Well, ‘villain’ is perhaps the wrong term. Regardless, Colin Firth had been offered one of the major roles in the film, and it wasn’t the ‘hero....

By Germain Lussier/Jan. 6, 2011 4:00 pm EST In the past, if you wanted to make some art based on your favorite filmmaker, you’d have to make the art, print it out, find the filmmaker’s representative’s address, go to the post office, and ship it. Then, you’d hope and pray to get some kind of acknowledgment. Today, though, things are so much easier. Just put some art online and the person it’s about is bound to find it themselves....

First Look: Joseph Kahn’s ‘Detention’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 26, 2010 4:19 pm EST io9 got the images and info. Here’s the basic idea: Detention has been called “Back To The Future meets Scream, with a hefty dose of John Hughes teen movies.” That’s easy enough to throw out there, and it’s kind of obvious nerd bait. One thing you love, plus one thing that was once good and one movie icon = great, right?...

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ Will Be Converted To 3D By Germain Lussier/Sept. 12, 2012 12:18 pm EST Guillermo Del Toro didn’t want it, but he’s not signing the checks. Warner Bros. has announced that Pacific Rim, the director’s big budget robots vs. monsters sci-fi action adventure scheduled for release July 12, will be converted to 3D. It’ll also be released in 2D. Read more after the jump. Variety first wrote about the conversion, which they say was a corporate decision and not a creative one....

High Resolution Photo: Chris Evans As ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ [Updated] By Germain Lussier/Jan. 14, 2011 2:12 pm EST Update: We have added a very high resolution clean non-scanned version of the photo after the jump. In the new issue of Entertainment Weekly that hits newsstand Friday, there will be brand new photo of Chris Evans in the full Captain America costume (finally including the wings) from Captain America: The First Avenger....

Iron Man 2’s Deleted Alernate Opening By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 23, 2010 11:11 am EST Many of you probably noticed that Iron Man 2 was missing a sequence that was prominent in the trailers: a moment on an aircraft where Pepper kisses Iron Man’s helmet before throwing it off board and Tony dives to retrieve it as he makes his entrance into Stark Expo. Director Jon Favreau has said that the sequence was removed because he wanted to give Robert Downey Jr a big entrance, and the reveal of Stark on stage after landing worked better without the opening bit of comedy....

LOL: Green Lantern Hostess Glo Balls By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2010 7:00 am EST DC Comics have teamed up with Hostess to produce a series of superhero-branded snake cakes: Green Lantern GLO Balls and The Flash Cakes. Photos after the jump. Would you eat Glo Balls or Flash Cakes? Photos by Rickey Purdin, found via ComicsAlliance. LOL: Green Lantern Hostess Glo Balls By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 20, 2010 7:00 am EST...

Martin Scorsese Gives Up On Film For Digital; ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ Will Be Digital 2D By Germain Lussier/June 27, 2012 5:00 pm EST Another one bites the dust. Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese will shoot his next film, The Wolf of Wall Street, digitally, according to his long time editor Thelma Schoonmaker. His last film, Hugo, was also shot digitally but since it was in 3D, that made sense. The Wolf of Wall Street will be 2D, though, and Schoonmaker believes the decision marks Scorsese’s choice to officially abandon film for digital....

Marvel’s Next Short Film ‘Item 47’ Stars Lizzy Caplan As An Opportunistic Criminal By Russ Fischer/July 3, 2012 9:00 am EST The “short films” that Marvel Studios has made to decorate the bonus feature lineups on DVDs for Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger have relied upon SHIELD Agent Coulson, played by Clark Gregg. But that storyline culminates in The Avengers, and it’s time for Marvel to switch things up a bit....

Marvel’s Runaways To Begin Filming In January 2011? By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2010 6:00 pm EST Production Weekly is reporting that Marvel Studios will begin production on the big screen adaptation to Brian K Vaughan’s Runaways in January 2011, with production scheduled until July 2011. A few months back it was reported that British screenwriter Drew Pearce was hired to write the adaptation, with Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist helmer Peter Sollett signed to helm the project....

Morgan Freeman Will Lead A Resistance Force In Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Oblivion,’ Starring Tom Cruise By Russ Fischer/Feb. 9, 2012 11:30 am EST Joseph Kosinski is set to follow Tron Legacy with an original sci-fi idea that he hatched as a proof of concept graphic novel a couple years ago. The film is Oblivion (which has also been called Horizons, and said to be untitled as well) and was originally housed at Disney before the studio cut it loose....

Movie Trailer: The Complete, Restored Metropolis By Russ Fischer/April 27, 2010 1:33 pm EST One of the big movie events of this year was the premiere of a restored version of Metropolis at the Berlin Film Festival. The outdoor screening drew large crowds despite cold and snow, and was watched via webcast by many film fans who couldn’t make the fest. (Despite the fact that you could barely see the film in the webcast....

Nope, There Won’t Be An Extended Cut Of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ On Blu-Ray And DVD By Russ Fischer/Sept. 12, 2012 10:03 am EST We’re so surprised to learn that the director who doesn’t do directors or extended cuts is continuing to not do directors or extended cuts for the disc release of his latest film. While rumors recently flew that Christopher Nolan would reinstate up to 30 minutes to the home release of The Dark Knight Rises, turns out they’re just not true....

Plot Of New ‘Toy Story’ Short Leaked By Russ Fischer/Jan. 3, 2011 12:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Pixar Blog has the info, which goes like this: Vague reports have pegged the short as being related to Hawaii, but it looks like the characters might not actually end up on the islands. Guess we didn’t really expect a great new landscape to be rendered for this short, but for the fans that just want to see the characters’ stories continue after the events of Toy Story 3, it probably won’t matter....

Robert Rodriguez-Directed Music Video Starring Kat Dennings By Peter Sciretta/May 4, 2010 12:30 pm EST Sin City/Planet Terror/From Dusk Till Dawn helmer Robert Rodriguez recently directed a music video for fellow Austin-based musician Bob Schneider’s “40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet),” the first single off Schneider’s latest album “Lovely Creatures.” The video stars Kat Dennings, who is probably best known from Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and her small role in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, but she previously worked with Robert on his family film Shorts....

Rowan Joffe Writing HBO’s WikiLeaks Movie By Russ Fischer/June 10, 2011 7:00 am EST Remember a few months ago, when WikiLeaks seemed like it would be the topic of a dozen different movies? Some of those may actually happen, and one, the HBO and BBC co-production that seeks to chronicle the story of Julian Assange’s organization, just got some new contributors. Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall are now exec producers, and Rowan Joffe (The American, 28 Weeks Later) is writing the script....

Transformers 3 Logo Officially Released By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 31, 2010 9:00 am EST Last week we got our first peek at the logo for Michael Bay’s Transformers 3 , officially titled Transformers: Dark of the Moon, in a blurry screencapture from Entertainment Tonight’s set visit. Paramount Pictures have launched a placeholder website which gives us a better, higher resolution, at the film’s logo. Yes, that is the dark side of the moon reflected in the film’s title....

TV Trailer: ‘The River,’ From ‘Paranormal Activity’ Creator Oren Peli By Russ Fischer/May 20, 2011 12:30 pm EST The faux-documentary/‘found footage’ aesthetic that Oren Peli has cultivated is put to good use here — I like it applied to TV rather than a movie. Granted, the trailer shows a lot of tricks that will be familiar to anyone who has seen one of the Paranormal Activity films, or any of the many similar movies that exist....